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Notices by hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com), page 2
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Some websites, like The Hindu (newspaper) don't allow access from browsers with Ad blockers, but do allow access from browsers with the EFF's Privacy Badger, which blocks ads that track you. That's another reason to use this add-on, in browsers that it supports, in preference to Adblock Plus for example. PrivacyBadger doesn't support Falkon browser for example, though it does support Waterfox.
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/privacy-badger/
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I posted another article concerning Sister Aziza to our website.
On Thursday, when we honored Sister Aziza, she and her friends visited the "Violence Against Women" exhibition in the Oasis Art Gallery, accompanied by Dyana Shaloufi Rizek, who curates the museum. Among the paintings there was one of Sylvana Tsegai, a 12-year old girl originally from Eritrea, who was found murdered in November 2018. Sister Aziza and her friends were shocked to see the painting, since they had known the girl and met her the day before her death. "She was only a girl" said Sister Aziza.
Sylvana had been a member of the Kuchinate African Refugee Women’s cooperative and volunteered in preparations for the Tel Aviv demonstration on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. She helped to make the pink hats that were worn at the demonstration, at which Sister Aziza met her. The following day, she was found murdered. The suspected killer, a former partner of Sylvana’s mother, was apprehended soon after.
Sylvana was one of two teenage girls murdered within one 24 hour period, the other being a 16 year old Palestinian girl (Yara Ayoub) in the Galilee. The murders were followed by a general strike and a huge protest against gender violence. The children at our primary school learned about the events and made a protest of their own, and Samah Salaime helped to organizethe main demonstration in Tel Aviv.
The painting of Sylvana was done by artist Laila Sarah Mazer, at the request of Dyana. She based it on the photo that had appeared in all the newspapers after her death.
The exhibition, "Violence Against Women" at the Oasis Art Gallery will be extended for another month, so there is still time to see it. Stories like the one with Sister Aziza bring home to us the importance of the exhibition, and the small world shared by activists for change.
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It doesn't seem to have a Sanskrit origin. It was first noticed in English in the early 20th century, with the claim that it was from Sanskrit - oriental wisdom writings were in vogue at the time. Then someone has translated it into Sanskrit. My Indology professor used to call this sort of thing the "pizza effect". (Pizza is said to have been a drab cheap meal in Italy before Americans discovered it and turned it into a multi-million dollar food crazy, so the Italians re-discovered the value of it and got in on the act.) Same happened with yoga in India.
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good article in the Guardian on this.
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(from a friend in India)
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
lie all the varieties and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendour of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow only a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day!
SUCH IS THE SALUTATION TO THE DAWN.
Sanskrit.
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/look-to-this-day/
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Sister Aziza
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my computer is doing too many things to let me see that right now, but will have a look later. What's with all these Bettys?
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If we can't go to the sea, the sea comes to us. Many Palestinians are unable to go to the sea, and have never actually been there during their whole lives, though they live within a few kilometers of it. I thought of this the other day, when watching the first episodes of the TV series "My brilliant friend" (L'amica geniale). The two Italian girls have never seen the sea, so they skip school and try to walk to it, but don't manage to get there, so they return disappointed. Yet on their way home, there's a colossal rainstorm and they return sopping wet, so I said, "they didn't make it to the sea, but the sea came to them". And now your status reminded me of this.
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“Everybody says to me, ‘Oh, you were so ahead of your time!’ You cannot be ahead of your time. You can only be in your time. Your today is the same as everybody else’s. What you can be is rejected by your time, and I was rejected.” Artist Betty Tompkins in an interview with the Guardian . (I hadn't heard of her or her art, but like the quote.)
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/being-ahead-of-ones-time/
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"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."
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I think that Elon Musk has an uncanny resemblance to Steven Yeun in the S. Korean movie "Burning"
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Feeling out of joint with the culture or our times as I do, I find myself escaping either into the future, through the reading of science fiction, or into the past, by reading works of earlier times, especially of those authors who seem more in tune with my soul, due probably to a similar defect of character that removed them from the popular current of their own era, in a like manner that I am drawn into dominions distant from the habitual haunts of my own - solitary men and women who cared little for the approbation or disparagement of publishers, critics and contemporary mavens who often panned their creations as unreadable folderol, and whose genius was only appreciated much later and so, as anyone who has blundered upon his opus has probably guessed, happenstance I've belatedly discovered, albeit only in translation, this fellow Proust, and he's already having the most marvelous effect on my writing. Oh!
#books
Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/prosed/
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@alines@diaspora.koehn.com and I see he was also in another of Angelopoulos's films, "The Dust of Time", from 2008.
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@alines@diaspora.koehn.com the Greek film would probably be "Eternity and a Day" - I knew it had to be an Angelopoulos film, so I looked it up - but I'm not sure I've seen it. getting it now.
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@Linux Liaison :ubuntu: ...i think, but https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-search-firefox-klar-android
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@Linux Liaison :ubuntu: it's the default in ff klar
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Wow. I have written to someone I know who may be affected.
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The park itself receives between 4.5 and 6 million visitors each year.#^Grand Canyon National Park visitors 2018 | Statistic, so it might be more than "thousands" who visited the museum.
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Wow. Lucky bastard - I can't even imagine how it would be to have 16 - my Dell Vostro V130 won't accept more than 4.
hosh
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