Category Archives: Viva!

eSports are real sports. It’s time for the Olympic video games | Tauriq Moosa | Opinion | The Guardian – “and we need Olympic Chess, Go, Checkers, hula hoops, skateboarding, Horseshoes, Corn Hole, Kickball… not!”

We expect these people to perform great feats of physicality better than the rest of us. That is why so many are scornful of the notion that competitive video gaming, or eSports as it’s come to be known, should stand alongside other Olympic sports. But this requires rethinking.

Source: eSports are real sports. It’s time for the Olympic video games | Tauriq Moosa | Opinion | The Guardian

The U.S.-North Korean war of words – where will it end? Editorial Board Roundtable | cleveland.com

What are America’s best options in the face of accelerating North Korean missile and nuclear capability? Is America readying a first strike? Our editorial board roundtable takes up these questions and looks for readers’ thoughts in the comments.

Me: I ask you to speak for calm and diplomacy and a shut down of bully boy bravado from us and the Koreans. Bullies care more about themselves than the thousand or perhaps millions of innocents who could die because they miscalculated.

Source: The U.S.-North Korean war of words – where will it end? Editorial Board Roundtable | cleveland.com

Demolishing souls

Damn!

نادية حرحش

I started my day this morning seeing my father’s garage in the photos on Facebook in one of the pages that bring about the news of the neighborhood.
Of course, there was no surprise. We live in a situation where we wake up to news of close people jailed or injured or killed. Demolitions are just another daily practice of an occupation.
I found myself calling my father, and I just wanted to know that he was okay. He has been battling against the demolition order for years now, firmly believing that they cannot demolish it, for two simple reasons, that he bought this land more than thirty years ago with the two rooms with no cement ceiling there , and he was using it more as his office to receive the taxi drivers and fix his cars . And he insists: ” I WILL NEVER DEMOLISH MY PROPERTY WITH…

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IRIN | Occupied labour: The treadmill of Palestinian work in Israel

All told, these checkpoints are a heavy burden for the workers: several thousand Palestinians push through here every morning – so many that a team of 70 volunteer “herders” must keep the masses in order.“I leave my house at 3am so I can cross the checkpoint on time,” said Ahmed, a construction worker outside the crossing.Each day, he travels from Tubas, on the other side of the West Bank, and makes a long but short journey to Tel Aviv: four hours just to get 60 kilometres as the crow flies. After a rough day of burning tar on building sites, he is back in bed around 8pm, to wake up at 2am when the treadmill spins on. “I only see my children asleep,” he said.

Source: IRIN | Occupied labour: The treadmill of Palestinian work in Israel

Alaska trip to attend hepatitis B meeting a first for NT Indigenous health workers – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A group of Indigenous health workers from Galiwinku prepare to head to Alaska to share their stories and hepatitis B treatment methods.

Source: Alaska trip to attend hepatitis B meeting a first for NT Indigenous health workers – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

An Encore for the Native Americans Who Shook Up Rock ’n’ Roll – The New York Times

 

“I thought we’d never have that chance again, to make a film that could really cross over. But as it turns out, music is even more powerful than comedy.”Throughout, the film reveals how Native American rhythms and stylings became a part of the larger tapestry of American music. In one scene, the poet and musician Joy Harjo (“Crazy Brave”) explains how the call and response of Muscogee music influenced the evolution of jazz and blues; in another, the singer-songwriter Pura Fe connects the blues guitar and vocal inflections of Charley Patton, who was probably of Choctaw ancestry, with traditional Indian music.

Butler County mom of heroin addict: I once was against Narcan too

“There was a time I would have looked at a heroin addict and said ‘you piece of crap get your life together,’ but God has a way of showing you things.”She said Hunter’s addiction “has changed my whole outlook because I know that it’s a disease and then I have had to fight for him and I know that there are people out there that don’t have anybody to fight for them.” “Family and friends, even my own mother, have said I should just cut him off and let him die. But I could never do that as a mother — I will always fight for my children and I couldn’t just let him go and cut him off,” Turco said.

Source: Butler County mom of heroin addict: I once was against Narcan too

Angelina Jolie defends child-casting ‘game’ for Cambodia film | Film | The Guardian “Shame news” blows it with false takedown over a scene in the film and not what was shame claimed

“I am upset that a pretend exercise in an improvisation, from an actual scene in the film, has been written about as if it was a real scenario. The suggestion that real money was taken from a child during an audition is false and upsetting. I would be outraged myself if this had happened. The point of this film is to bring attention to the horrors children face in war, and to help fight to protect them,” she added.Panh added that the scene relates to “a real episode from the life of Loung Ung” and underlined that those auditioning were aware that the exercise was not real. “The children were not tricked or entrapped, as some have suggested. They understood very well that this was acting, and make believe,” he said.First They Killed My Father will be shown at the Toronto international film festival, and is expected to be released on Netflix later this year.

Source: Angelina Jolie defends child-casting ‘game’ for Cambodia film | Film | The Guardian