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September 25, 2017 / Vasiliki / 0 Comments
WITH AN ABRACADABRA AND HEY PRESTO, DATELINE LONDON BBC'S CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAM MAKES ROJAVA, THE YPG, THE YPJ, THE SDF AND THE SDC AND THEIR ALLIES DISAPPEAR INTO A VACUUM.
By Stephen Becker
Original post can be found on Leeds Friends of Rojava facebook page.
Dateline London has a strap line 'Foreign correspondents based in London give an outsider's view of events in the UK' but recently the program asked outsiders to discuss Trump, Burma and Syria. It turned out to be a shoddy affair with none of the outsiders having any real idea of the concrete situation in the Middle East. It obscured more than it elucidated.
Simon Leys demonstrated that the BBC obviously did not run to an accurate briefing before he took to the air. After a piece where he referred to the situation in Burma as 'bordering on genocide', the anchor of Dateline London 'turned to a subject which has dropped out of the headlines', Syria and Iraq. Referring to this 'important on-going story' or 'saga', the temporally challenged Leys categorised the 'fightback' against the movement which calls itself the Islamic State as 'going on for more than a year'.
He stated that the Governments of Iraq and Syria were both claiming to have wrested territory from ISIS, before turning to the studio guests to provide expert commentary. In his opening remarks, Leys had asked 'How's the fight really going?'.
Nesrine Malik, a Sudanese journalist, Vincent Magombe, Director of the African Journalists Network and Bronwen Maddox of the think-tank the Institute for Government, have no track record in reporting the Middle East. The fourth journo was Michael Goldfarb. He covered the Iraq War as an independent reporter in Iraqi Kurdistan. You would have thought he would have known a modicum about Syria or Iraq but he too demonstrated an incoherent and sketchy understanding of the current situation.
Leys indicated that ISIS is losing territory and the Governments of Syria and Iraq are reclaiming it. He turns to Malik. 'Nesrine. Its a process you've been watching closely for many months now. How do we know whether its working and at what price is this war being waged?'
Ms Malik informed us among other things that ISIS had lost two big cities in Syria and Iraq. Mosul was one. 'Raqqa is under siege at the moment' she said, and with considerable but non-specific insight announced that there was to be an 'upcoming huge battle in a town in Iraq', the name of which she did not divulge.
She had two points to make. The first was that the end of the Daesh flagship capital meant 'a vacuum is being created now that ISIS has gone' ,
Picture from http://kurdishquestion.com/article/3920-ypg-and-ypj-revolutionists-or-pawns-of-the-empire
Shaun interjected to emphatically agree that 'Vacuums are dangerous things'.
The second strange point was a bemusing non-sequitor that 'most of these Hinterlands are so ungovernable that ISIS leaving a city or a town does not mean that pockets of them don't exist'. She had spoken about atrocities that ISIS continued to inflict, despite the fact that they were facing defeat.
Nesrine Malik was unafraid of enunciating even sloppier statements. She then went back to a second second point. The new second point – really probably the third point – was that 'There are now three parties. The US, America and Arab League sort of soldiers' (sic) causing casualties.
Whilst accepting that she probably didn't mean to confuse the US and Americans as separate entities, there really is no excuse for the reference to 'Arab League sort of soldiers'. It was an excruciating moment.
A cursory examination of the role of the Arab League demonstrates its marginal importance and real impotence as an organisation, since it in fact has no military capacity.
The Arab League suspended Syrian membership in 2011 because of Assad's killing of demonstrators, and its Peace initiatives floundered the same year. Its monitoring mission in Syria was described as a 'farce' and was suspended in 2012. The Egypt Summit in 2015 agreed in principle that the AL form a military force but to date that has not materialised. In March this year, the AL could do little more than lamely 'urge Arab Governments to do more to resolve the conflict in Syria'.
So there never have been and are currently no Arab League forces in Syria because Arab League troops are only a figment in Ms Malik's imagination and as an entity, were hesitantly plucked out of thin air, as she struggled to identify just who the chief fighting forces in Syria actually were.
It was just a straightforward exposure of ignorance. More rigour, and less blather please Ms Malik.
Later on in the program Bronwen Maddox agreed. 'There is this vacuum'.
Shaun turns to Goldfarb . 'This raises the question, Michael, what the strategy is?'
Michael was not sure if there was a strategy. At the military level he noted that there is the 'degradation of ISIS' and 'at the other end we have…of what we used to call the chaos of the great powers. Russia's involved. America's involved. Turkey which is a NATO ally. This week it was announced they are buying Russian high-tech computers and military equipment. So whose…Where is the organisation at the top. No organisation at the top and at the bottom, there are people, who are, I mean the fighting goes on there as before, except that ISIS is being pushed out and it's just bleeding away into other places and can as Nesrine mentioned it can jump on any pilgrimage site in the Shia heart of Iraq, if it wants to, but can it rule anything, can it make inroads anywhere, can it send forth, they're claiming this idiot bombing yesterday in London…' and at that point Shaun Leys excitedly jumps in to continue a point about ISIS claiming responsibility for bombings which is then echoed by Maddox.
Nobody seemed to have noticed that Michael was blathering and had just gone off-piste. Left for another 30 seconds, he would have been analysing pension plans.
Maddox having joined in with the off-piste party went back to the problem of 'the vacuum', and whether the Shia crescent from Iran to Lebanon will be established. She says that 'there's a bit more space for that kind of thing' (my emphasis). Does 'that kind of thing' inspire confidence and imply any erudition?
Vincent Magombe, having pointed out the mess following the invasion of Iraq and Libya asks, 'Have you heard anybody, whether the UN, America or Britain or others, talking about what they're planning for Syria for after? After mentioning the invasion of Iraq as the cause of the chaos in the region, Vincent wants to know what the post ISIS plan is.
Malik comes back with, 'The problems with a country like Iraq and Syria is that Kurds, Shiites, Sunni, Pershmarga and all these disparate groups, and in Syria as well…with all the different tribes, ethnicities and minorities, Alawites etc, have all been pushed under the surface by long standing dictators and that's how we got into the situation in the first place. We didn't get into this situation because America invaded Iraq. We got in this situation because Saddam Hussein has inflicted an artificial uniformity on Iraq for decades as Bashar Assad is doing now'.
Buried inside is an exoneration of the US. However, the point of a suppressed polyethnicity is valid.
And they continue in this fashion until Vincent says, 'the bottom line is about democracy'…'and if the foundation are to do with the lack of democracy…look at the Russians. While I condemn the West in their approaches…The Russians as well. Let's have this Syrian man. He has to be there. But he's not a democrat. In the first place that's why his people were trying to agitate for some rights. So unless we try and ask these people…we won't get that answer. It's a mess'.
And so, the concluding 'it's a mess', not only applies to the situation in Syria and Iraq, it also summed up the studio conversation. Other points were made by the four experts but the short transcripts indicate the incoherence of thought, the knight's move thinking, the pitiful state of analysis and dreary arguments, bluffing and hazy evasiveness. All of these pointing to lack of grasp of the subject at hand.
The most obvious and glaring omission made in the program was the complete failure to mention the establishment of the Federation of Northern Syria formerly known as Rojava, the fight by the forces of the YPG and YPJ against the Caliphate, and the establishment of the Syrian Democratic Forces and Syrian Democratic Council. These political and military organisation, have combined all the ethnic minorities of the region in a remarkable and tenacious fight against ISIS, whilst creating Confederal stateless grass roots democracies throughout eastern Syria.
The participants in Deadline London either through ignorance or deliberate omission, magicked this momentous political movement into the vacuum.
It is to be acknowledged that the current conflict in the Middle East is complex and thus it was shameful for the BBC not to have assembled real experts, of which there are a considerable number. Commentator who have an in-depth understanding of what actually is going on in Iraq and Syria. Instead they assembled people with a wafer-thin comprehension.
Before going back to 'the vacuum', it is perhaps looking at some of the more illustrious statements made by the panel and add some brief comments.
ISIS is indeed losing ground and its military capacity is being degraded. In 2014, Daesh exploded across Iraq and Syria thanks to the disintegration of the Iraqi Army before a tiny handful of ISIS fighters. Assad aided this by releasing imprisoned Salafists from his gaols. The Caliphate spread quickly into northern Syria and reached the Turkish border before meeting their match in the Kurdish population of Rojava. The forces of Rojava, made up of Kurds and other ethnic minorities and with support of US air power began the fightback three years ago. Not 'just over a year ago'. The major force in the fight against ISIS were the militias of the YPG and YPJ of Rojava. They clawed back territory from the Caliphate whilst Assad was crushing the democratic uprising against his sectarian and despotic rule. And then the forces of the SDF were responsible for chasing ISIS and displace them from Taqba and now Raqqa and Deir ez Zor provinces. And this was done despite the assistance of Turkey for Daesh. Only of late has Assad aided by the Iranian PMU militias, Hezbollah and Russian firepower been able to make advances against Daesh and in doing so is re-establishing his dictatorship over the Syrian people.
When Michael Goldfarb was asked the nonsensical question of what the strategy was, he might have asked Shaun, 'Whose strategy?'. This would have made more sense than his answer.
There are in fact numerous strategies in play depending on the protagonist. The problem is that the strategies are at once conflicting and sometimes tactically contingent and are placed within a complex geopolitics.
To name but a few of the strategies.
America wants an end to ISIS whose spread was a result of its stratospheric and catastrophic failure in invading Iraq. Assad wants the whole of Syria back. Russia's support of Syria seeks to halt the erosion of its geopolitical influence. Turkey wants to continue its genocidal policy towards the Kurds and says it will not tolerate the continued existence of Rojava. The Gulf states want Assad out. The KRG which is in the pocket of Turkey seeks an independent state. Iraq, Turkey, Iran and the US oppose a Kurdish secession from Iraq while Russia remains silent on the issue. The Syrian Kurds and the Syrian National Council seek a non-separatist Confederal solution.
And to answer Vincent's 'Have you heard anybody, whether the UN, America or Britain or others, talking about what they're planning for Syria for after? It was not apparent if he knew about the peace initiatives.
There have been initiatives from the Great Powers to broker a peace. As the various forces battle on the ground, the Geneva and Astana Peace Initiatives are proving to be ineffective. Virtually every player in the Syrian Civil War political and ideological spectrum, whether they have set foot in the country or not have been invited. The Rojavan Kurds, however, have not been asked to either and the SNC, though invited, will not take a seat if the PYD/Northern Democratic Federation is excluded. Rojava and the SDC/SDF have never been afforded political recognition by the US despite their military collaboration and the gigantic sacrifice of the Kurds and their allies. Thus there is a political impasse.
The conflicting strategies, the peace initiative quagmired and no obvious timescale to the complete eradication of Daesh makes for post ISIS planning impossible for most of the sides.
An Endgame of sorts might be approaching in Syria. The Russian/Assad bloc has found second wind. The American/SDF forces who are close to defeating ISIS have taken Raqqa. The two sides now face one another across the Euphrates river. There have already been clashes and warnings issued on either side. The emboldened Assad regime has recently announced its intention to spread its military campaign to include the encircled regime-held enclave in Al-Hassakah. This is a confounding factor. The truth of the stated threat will only be known if it really does materialise in October. It would represent the first regime action to threaten Rojava. It would bring Russia and the US into direct conflict and could force a negotiation.
Picture from: http://kurdishquestion.com/article/3623-syrian-democratic-forces-12km-from-uniting-kobane-and-afrin-cantons-commander
A prediction is doubly difficult because of the rapidly changing situation and unexpected turns in events. There are players also who have yet to play their hand. There are recently developing events that have yet to unfold.
Finally, the question of the 'vacuum' needs to be examined.
The protagonists brought up the question of democracy, colonial legacy, ungovernability but out of ignorance or omission could not see the elephant in the room – the unspeakable truth of the success and promise of Democratic Federalism in Syria.
Following the First World War, the imperialistic division of territory between Britain and France, sanctified by the Sykes-Picott Agreement, the adjustments enshrined in the Cairo Conference and Treaty of Lausanne, created the modern Middle East. Artificially lumping peoples together into multi-ethnic states ruled by despotic central authorities, accepting genocidal policy and suppressing diversity, expunging the language and culture of minorities to established a bleak norm. These mores were accepted by the post-colonial regimes and formed the basis of racist homogenising policies, discriminatory behaviour and cycles of resistance and repression.
During the course of the Damascus Spring in 2011, Kurdish region of Northern Syria, led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) embarked upon a Third Way. The Assad regime, was opposed by a popular grass roots democratic movement throughout the country, and central government had lost credibility and was just clinging to power.
The conventional description of a political vacuum refers to the loss of centralised political and state power within a geographical area. Implied within this definition is the idea that it is a bad thing, and there are indeed many negative historical examples.
Within the context of Syria, however, the power vacuum allowed the flourishing of a sensational democratic movement throughout the country. Assad was out and in came widespread political debate in local councils, citizens initiatives, a flourishing independent press, radio stations, artistic expression, women's movements and resistance to the repression of the Ba'ath Party. So this vacuum allowed a progressive democratic movement to explode. The response to the fledgling democracy was brutality. In response to the Assad-regime's repression there followed the phases of militarisation of the conflict, the arming of the Salafists, the spread of ISIS, the entry of the world and regional 'players'. And, tragically, the crushing of a huge progressive movement that had flourished within the vacuum.
The Kurdish Third Way envisaged a different solution. They did not side with either the current regime or an opposition which waived democratic and liberationist principles. The PYD envisioned a decentralised federal structure for Syria and put forward the guiding principle of Democratic Confederalism and Democratic Autonomy as a strategy.
Once again, exploiting the vacuum, left by the retreat of the Ba'athists, the people of Rojava built a polyethnic, direct grassroots democracy which championed women's rights and respected people's of all creeds. The popular militias of the People's Protection Units and the Women's Protection Units launched a formidable counter-offensive against the invasion of Daesh and have been the most effective and successful combatants against it.
Rojava declared its de facto autonomy in 2012. It is not officially recognized as a political entity by the government of Syria or any international state or organization. Not even the United States. Within the Syrian opposition, there are attitudes ranging from suspicion to out-and-out hostility up to and including military attacks on its territory.
Nesrine Malik clearly asserted that in the wake of the defeat of ISIS there is nothing to replace it in these 'ungovernable' areas. She klaxoned her ignorance and there were no correctives from anyone else in the studio.
Rojava had spectacular local successes. Rojava had clearly proved that Kurds, Arabs Syriac-Assyrian, Armenians, Circassians, Chechen and Turkmen can co-habit. It has made plain that religions can be respected without sectarianism. It is showing that ordinary people can administer their lives without resort to a dirigist state. And the revolutionary process has demonstrated the leading role that women have taken in forging this new polity.
From the original three Cantons of Jazira, Kobane and Afrin, there has been a gradual accretion of Confederal Democracy throughout northern and eastern Syria. The Manbij and Shabba regions have joined the Rojava experiment, as have the Yazidis.
As the Syrian Democratic Forces chased ISIS from its territories, the Caliphate was replaced by local self-governing communities facilitated by the efforts of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC).
The SDC has been in active discussion and dialogue for years with sympathetic political organisation, community and tribal leaders, women's organisation, youth groups and the population of villages and town. The SDC political initiatives and the promulgation of the principles of autonomy and confederalism has been successful in bringing rationality and peace to the region formerly under the control of the Salifist Caliphate.
Weeks and months of work went into shaping the post-Isis administration in various towns and localities to ensure everyone was on board. As an example, discussions have been taking place over the future complexion of Raqqa for the past nine months now. Malik was oblivious to this monumental work.
Everywhere the SDF has routed ISIS, there has been the immediate seamless implementation of self-governing civil administrations. The ungovernable are governing themselves. The vacuum is non-existent and in the wake of ISIS has come a flask full to the brim of Democratic Confederalism. It was unfortunate that none of the experts had even a rudimentary grasp of this process.
Being invited onto a current affairs program to just wing it and showing no evidence of even having boned up on the subject is a poor do. The BBC obviously thought it was acceptable to ask these amateurs to the table instead of real experts with real knowledge. Why did we have to suffer a stumbling wafer thin comprehension of the legacy of historical events, current events and an adolescent understanding of the actualities on the ground? Why didn't Shaun Ley do some background? Why was the role of the forces of Rojava and the SDF studiously ignored?
The bottom line is that you have to agree with the panel that there was a vacuum. But it was not in Syria. The vacuum was actually in the Dateline Studio. It's unfortunate that we have to suffer 'this sort of thing'
Recently the Henry Jackson Society has seen fit to publish a report claiming that foreign fighters joining the YPG/J have actually joined the PKK. My blood has been boiling ever since, because of the amount of inaccuracies it contained.
I wrote to the society pointing out the errors they had made with regards to my son Kosta. They never had the decency to respond. The sad thing is that they are supposedly a think tank that influences government policy If they have made so many errors with regards to my son what other ones are there and how far can they actually be trusted? I'd like to think that the government has more sense than to believe anything that comes out of this society however my confidence is zero. Wasn't the pretext for the war with Iraq based on a dissertation? Just goes to show, huh? It appears that this society is currently under investigation by the charity commission and has no transparency as to funding. Makes you think…
This is exactly how fake news is propagated.
Here is what they said about Kosta. (The full report is available here: http://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/3053-PYD-Foreign-Fighter-Project-1.pdf)
KONSTANDINOS ERIK SCURFIELD
Codename: Heval Kemal
Date joined YPG: December 2014
Date of death: 2 March 2015
Place of origin: Barnsley, Britain
Occupation: Military
Kurdish descent: No
Military background: Yes
Prior militant ties: None known
Konstandinos Scurfield, often known as "Kosta", had been artistically inclined in high school, and expressed a desire to be an actor. At 20 years old, he changed direction and volunteered for national service in Greece – something made possible by his Greek background. Scurfield served six months, mostly consisting of sentry duty. After returning to the UK, he joined the Royal Marines and excelled as a battlefield medic. Scurfield's mother says her son told her on Christmas Day 2013 that he was going to "go to Syria and help" because "the Kurds are dying and our government's doing nothing". Scurfield resigned from the British military in September 2014, got in contact with a YPG recruiter through the Facebook page for the Lions of Rojava unit, flew to northern Iraq, where the PKK retains its headquarters in the Qandil Mountains, and was soon in battle in Sinjar. According to a man known as Macer Gifford, a British YPG operative (profiled in Section 3.3), Scurfield "had no time for people who didn't believe in the cause", and became agitated about foreign fighters who came to Syria and did not heed the instructions of the YPG. Scurfield was killed in an IS ambush near Tel Hamis, a key town from which the YPG had expelled IS on 27 February 2015. Pro-PYD/YPG activists in Britain relayed confirmation from Jordan Matson (profiled in THE FORGOTTEN FOREIGN FIGHTERS: THE PKK IN SYRIA
Here is my response.
I am writing to you with grave concerns about a recent report posted on your website titled: 'The Forgotten Foreign Fighters: The PKK in Syria', published on your website on the 18th of August.
In this report there is a profile of my deceased son Erik K Scurfield. I am sorry to have to inform you there appears to be an absence of academic rigor in the research done by the author, leading to errors that can only highlight a lack of professionalism in your Society.
The author states that Kosta left the British military in September. This is an error. He actually left the British military quite a bit after that. A bit of real research will soon establish exactly when.
The author states that Kosta landed in Sulaymaniya airport and uses this to make a massive, unevidenced inference that he must therefore have joined the proscribed terrorist organisation PKK. The author seems to have based this on the fact that Sulaymaniya airport is in 'close' proximity to the Qandil mountains which is where the PKK is based. If one is to accept this argument (that proximity to a place means he must have therefore joined the faction that is based there), then it stands to reason that he joined the Kurdish PUK based in Sulaymaniya, or the KRG Peshmerga based in Erbil which is closer to Sulaymaniya than the Qandil mountains. Since this is very weak argument based on the sort of illogical leap that one wouldn't even expect to find in GCSE essay, I am surprised to find that a so-called reputable think tank could countenance it. It is quite clear to even the meanest intelligence that the Qandil mountains are over 100kms away from Sulaymaniya and as this map of ISIS positions shows, in 2014 when Kosta joined the YPG, travelling through Northern Kurdistan was likely the only safe, and prudent, way into Northern Syria. It is not evidence of an ideological and military link to the PKK.
The author of this report then also infers that the use of the word 'cause' that Kosta allegedly used, indicates a link to the PKK. I'd like to point out that 1) there is no evidence that my son used this word at all, 2) that it is actually third hand information – (someone said that someone said that someone said) and that a sound academic researcher should, at the very least, have tried to contact the original speaker (Macer Gifford) in order to ascertain the truth behind the statement. Reading the report as written by Mr Matt Blake, (cited by the author in the bibliography), will soon show that the 'cause' referred to by Macer Gifford is the fight against ISIS terrorism. Even without that, how can any report purport to be serious when it relies on hearsay? Finally, there is clear evidence, spoken by my son, recorded in his own voice and available widely in the public domain that his sole motivation for going out to Syria was to fight ISIS. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAKP2EAMA-g where it is clear he was joining to fight ISIS. It would take some extreme mental gymnastics to allege otherwise.
The author states that the PKK and the YPG are the same organisation. He doesn't pose this as a theory and provide arguments, which would be a sounder academic approach, instead he states it as if it is a fact.
I would like to point out that currently British law does not support this. Under the current status quo, the PKK is proscribed and the YPG is not. These two organisations have different names, exist in different countries and are fighting different battles. The YPG itself, and its political arm the PYD, clearly state that they are not part of the PKK and have distanced themselves from it in the past.
YPJ fighters. (Photo taken from http://kurdishquestion.com/article/3966-modern-feminism-why-we-should-learn-from-kurdish-women)
My son was very careful, researched the YPG thoroughly, and was actually thoroughly investigated, in turn, by the British military and the Scottish anti-terror police before he went to Syria. To claim that my son joined the PKK is to impugn not only his memory but also the investigative abilities of both these organisations. Stating that something is a fact does not make it so, as so many politicians have recently found to their dismay, however let's imagine, for a moment, that this is correct and that the two organsiations are one and the same. Given the sacrifices, the lives lost, the ground support that the YPG have given to the coalition and the wonderful progress made by the YPG in the fight against the terrorist caliphate cult of ISIS, it would seem to indicate a pretty good case for the de-listing of the PKK. Instead the author suggests the criminalisation of the young people who have gone over there to support democratic values, gender equality and the right of human beings to live free of oppression.
It disturbs me that a reputable organisation should endorse a report that contains errors, misdirection, and badly evidenced and argued points, and as a result is contributing to the spread of fake news. I am further disappointed that the researcher seems to have forgotten a basic tenet of research and that is the importance of primary source material. He has made no attempt to contact any of the relatives of the deceased men he mentions, or speak to the people he accuses to get a balanced, unbiased viewpoint, and seems to have indulged in a sort of spurious cut and paste academia that is shameful. What I also find nauseating and rather disgusting is the author has put these fighters and, more importantly, their families at risk from ISIS. It is true that ISIS could do its own internet research and find out the information, but the author has provided a handy directory of names and other information that makes it all just that bit easier for them.
I look forward to hearing from you soon about the action you're proposing to take to amend the errors and misrepresentations in the section about my son. If you choose to leave this factually erroneous report on your website then please respect my right to reply and post this letter- in its entirety, with no amendments, where it can be seen in conjunction with the report.
An apology would also be nice.
Vasiliki Scurfield.
Since they haven't even had the decency to respond…
Criminalising Kurdish Communities
September 1, 2017 / Vasiliki / 0 Comments
On the 30th August Scottish police raided the homes of innocent Kurdish civilians. This is part of a growing tendency of Britain to criminalise these people and their supporters.
The local Kurdish Community penned the following letter:
As of Wednesday 30th August 2017, the police has carried out raids to the homes of various Kurdish community members. Later, a forced entry was used to raid the Kurdish community centre in Edinburgh.
Kurdish community centre is a place where the Kurdish community gather to share their language, culture and traditions. We hold Kurdish language classes, folklore dance classes and English language classes. Our community refer to the centre as our "common home". It is where we can peacefully and freely embrace our identity and pass our culture onto our children. Having come to Scotland as Kurdish refugees many years ago, we have now integrated into the Scottish society here. Our children are growing up half Kurdish, half Scottish and they are, just like all other youth in Scotland, the future of this country. We have formed many relationships with communities, organisations and charities. We have been welcomed here with positive attitudes and to this day both the Scottish government and the people of Scotland have made us feel at home. We left difficult days of persecution and discrimination back home and came to Scotland with a vision of peace, unity and hope.
However – since the Turkish Consulate has been established in Edinburgh, they have put in every effort and energy to intimidate our community by criminalising both us and our centre. This is the second time we are being labelled, targeted and questioned by the police. We therefore believe the police are under the pressure and influence of the Turkish consulate who are bringing the intimidation tactics of the Turkish Government to Scotland.This is an open form of racism. It is against our most basic human rights. We are a migrant community
With Scotland moving closer to independence why can they not support the same for the Kurdish people?
and have already suffered many years of injustice.
We no longer want to face policies of denial and discrimination. Our community are now very disheartened but also very determined to stand firm against this undeserved treatment.
Kurdish community centre
The thing that breaks my heart about all this is that the Scottish people have experienced years of oppression and they should know what it feels like. Why aren't they standing up for the Kurdish minorities and why aren't they standing up against the fascism of the Turkish State? If you want to show support for Kurdish people please tweet to your MPs, write to the Scottish Parliament, and you can also join the Kurdish Solidarity Campaign.
Remembering 7/7
July 7, 2015 / Vasiliki / 0 Comments
Today we remember the victims of 7/7.
How do you find words to describe the atrocity? The indiscriminate killing? The inhumanity? The trauma and terror? How do you get through the loss without getting caught up in negativity and hatred?
You rise above the evil as much as possible. You focus on the moving stories of light and hope that come out of the darkness. Stories of survival and humanity, of bravery, compassion and of sheer heroism.
You don't let evil win. You lose fear and you act. You stand up and shout out against extremism, against inaction.
The evil we face now may not be quite the same as it was then – it has mutated, becoming better organised, harder to pin down and more pervasive. It has become even more barbaric if that is possible and is responsible for the wholesale slaughter of civilians right across Syria and Iraq. Spare a thought for the brave men and women in Northern Syria and Iraq battling against this terrorism every day and for the many victims who are at the mercy of an invading militia made up of citizens from all over the world, including Britain.
For as long as this caliphate cult flourishes everything that underpins our society is at risk. Our lives are at risk.
It makes me feel even more driven to make a difference, and hopefully see the end of ISIS and other forms of harmful extremism. Join me in any way you can. Write to your MPS, sign the petition, ask your MPs to table a question in Parliament. Make sure you understand what's going on in Northern Syria and see if you can get your MPs to acknowledge the efforts of the YPG and YPJ. (Northern Syrian Kurds- they are already acknowledging the Iraqi Kurds and supporting them). Push our governments to provide the YPG and YPJ with the help they need.
For letter templates and the petition scroll down to previous posts, or look in the side bar.
Don't be cowed. Shout out so that the victims are not forgotten and evil is defeated- it's the very least we can do because if ISIS wins in Northern Syria the consequences do not bear thinking about..


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Subatomic – The King's Artists project explores the connection between art and astrophysics
Nathan J. Northern	Posted on December 20, 2021
Written by Samantha Seto, PhD candidate in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Student Digital Content Coordinator, King's Culture
My recent experience with Subatomic, a performance resulting from the first phase of the King's Artist's collaboration between composer Christo Squier and astrophysicist Dr Teppei Katori, provides insight into an exciting project addressing this important question.
King's Artist in Residence Christo Squier is working with Dr. Teppei Katori, Experimental Particle Physicist and Reader in the Physics Department of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering on a project on the subatomic world of cosmic rays . The project combines scientific research with artistic performances to analyze and visualize these high-energy particles coming from space. Specifically, Christo and Teppei explore an intelligence-based response to cosmic rays through musical performance, composition, sonication, and computer visualization.
We still don't know much about cosmic rays, where they come from and how they reach this type of energy and their study is very important to humanity. So, it is really special for musicians to react to live cosmic ray data, in other words, to what the universe is giving in real time. – Teppei Katori, experimental particle physicist and reader at King's
The first phase of the collaboration culminated with the first iteration of Subatomic, a 'part experience, part lecture, part new music suite' performance that took place at the Britten Pears Arts Festival of New at Snape Maltings, where Christo finished. one week residence.
In my role as student digital coordinator, I had the chance to watch the performance in the online version of the festival. The beautiful music performed by Christo, Teppei and an ensemble of instrumentalists expressed the duality between music and the cosmos and underscored the new hope of scientific discovery derived from a project that combines art and physics.
The subatomic performance focuses on the audiovisual demonstration of cosmic rays, high energy particles, which are projected by galaxy supernovae and other astrophysical phenomena in the universe. The musical compositions were constructed using scientific data from the Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory, located inside a mountain in rural Japan. Creative technologist Chris Ball, working alongside Christo and Teppei, has found a way to convert that data into sound. While some musical pieces were constructed using pre-recorded data, others were improvised with data extracted live during the performance. Additionally, a device called a "Cosmic Watch" detected cosmic rays and generated signals that ultimately dictated the colors and brightness in the concert hall.
It absolutely blew me away that we were pulling live data from this multi-Nobel Prize winning experiment, hidden in a mountain in Japan, on my computer, using music software to create musical chords. – Christo Squier, composer & multidisciplinary artist
Christo and Teppei are now preparing for the performance of the next phase of Subatomic. In the future, their goal is to create a virtual environment based on the interior of a cosmic ray detector, which will transmute data into immersive audiovisual experiences creating the feeling of a "cosmic call response". Through the visual art and performance project that would involve an installation processing real-time data, they hope to spark curiosity about the fascinating subject of astrophysics, particle physics and related research at King's College London. . To follow Christo and Teppei on Twitter for future updates on their project.
It is really difficult for artists to improvise with live data because you cannot know when cosmic rays will be detected. But then, it is amazing to feel that your performance is the response to what the universe is giving you. – Teppei Katori, experimental particle physicist and reader at King's
Christo and Teppei's project is part of the King's Artists 2021 cohort exploring the theme of "intelligence". Out of eleven new collaborative R&D projects across four faculties at King's College London, six have been selected to receive additional funding to further develop their projects.
Discover other King's Artists projects from the 2021 "Intelligence" cohort:
King's Artists offers artists the opportunity to reside in the faculties of the university and aims to support residencies that foster collaboration with students and staff from all disciplines to embrace creativity and take risks, developing new ideas and creative results.
King's has a long history of welcoming and collaborating with artists in its faculties and in its wide range of research areas, bringing together nearly 60 artist residencies who have linked academic research to art through a range of media including painting, printing, literature, theater, music, performance, installation, photography, video, textiles, waxing, ceramics and fashion. Many artists and academics have presented the work and research developed at King's during residencies on national and international platforms.
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On the 1997 Albanian Rebellion
By The Red Phoenix on January 23, 2011 • ( 0 )
In light of the recent unrest in Albania, we release this analysis of the events in Albania in 1997 and the forces leading up to that revolution for the reader's benefit.
For the recent events, click here for an article from Al-Jazeera English. Video below.
After the death of Enver Hoxha and the rise of Ramiz Alia, and later Sali Berisha, the Albanian Party of Labor and the socialist society that once existed within the borders of Albania began to break down. However, this did not bring positive change, as some elements of Albanian society had hoped. Consequently, the Albanian economy had come to a standstill, two-thirds of Albanian workers had lost their retirement, and eighty percent of schools in the rural areas of the tiny Balkan country were closed. The blood feud, which had been institutionalized through the Code of Leke, forced as many as 1,600 families to retreat into hiding. With today's rampant anti-communism as portrayed in the mainstream world media, we will examine exactly what happened in Albania and why, and who was behind said measures. 1992 marked the official end of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania. The economy was liberalized, based on a series of "get rich quick" Ponzi schemes and fraudulent pyramid investment. The total loss of funds amounted to 1.2 billion dollars, leaving working people and their families with their entire life savings wiped out completely, overnight.
"The pyramid scheme phenomenon in Albania is important because its scale relative to the size of the economy was unprecedented, and because the political and social consequences of the collapse of the pyramid schemes were profound. At their peak, the nominal value of the pyramid schemes' liabilities amounted to almost half of the country's GDP. Many Albanians—about two-thirds of the population—invested in them. When the schemes collapsed, there was uncontained rioting, the government fell, and the country descended into anarchy and a near civil war in which some 2,000 people were killed" (1).
The new capitalist bourgeoisie class in Albania that had found its way into the government was able to take such predatory advantage of the Albanian people with ease, since "the vast majority of [formerly socialist Albania's] population was unfamiliar with market institutions and practices" (1).
By March 13, all major population centers were engulfed in demonstrations, and foreign countries began to evacuate their citizens from Albania. May 26, 1996 was a major spark in the upsurge of popular discontent, following rigged elections, involving both the Democratic Party, and the reformed "Socialist" party. As a result, police and government buildings were fire bombed. "In the three months of protests, the Albanian economy suffered a heavy blow as unemployment and inflation sharply rose, while the gross domestic product and the value of the currency fell" (2). On January 24, 1997, thousands of Albanians took to the streets in the southern city of Lushnje. Protestors stole over 500,000 rifles and other arms from government depots. Foreign Minister Shehu was attacked by protesters.
On January 26, thousands of protesters gathered in Tirana and once again clashed with the riot police. By this time, protests and riots have spread throughout the entire country, with government buildings and police departments continuously being attacked and set on fire. On March 1st, Prime Minster Aleksander Meksi resigned. President and candidate of the capitalist Democratic Party, Sali Berisha replied to the violence by declaring a state of emergency and placing the whole country under the control of the army, the police and the secret service (SHIK). However, he did not get the guns back that were now in the hands of working people. It is estimated that 10,000 Albanians had fled their country, taking refuge in Italy. While widespread protests and demonstrations take place in the North of Albania, the South becomes a central place of organizing for the Communist Party of Albania (PKSH). According to an article appearing in the Turkish publication, Emek, on April 1st, 1997:
"Within the Rebellion Committee in Vlora the influence of the people and that of the Communist Party of Albania is very great. In meetings that take place twice daily, thousand of people discuss further ways of proceeding. On one thing they appear to be adamant: 'We will not lay down our weapons.'"
Revolutionary Democracy reports that, "In Vlora, control remained firmly in the hands of the Rebellion Committee. There was neither chaos nor looting nor arbitrary shooting" (3).
Rebellion Committees were established all over the south of Albania, organized and built from the ground up. Officials who partook in the administration of these Committees were chosen directly by the people and anyone who wished to take part in the administration could offer to do so. The people reserved the right of recall to anyone who did not fulfill their obligations.
According the previously-mentioned edition of Emek, a member of the Central Committee of the PKSH said that, "The resistance of the Albanian people against fascism in 1944 was declared to have been a civil war in which allegedly much blood was spilled between brothers." To the outrage of the PKSH and the Albanian people, the liberation of the Albanian people from German and Italian fascism, which cost the lives of 28,000 partisans, was no longer a national commemoration. The newly-installed capitalist government had taken extraordinary measures to convince the world that Albania's population would be more than happy to erase all acknowledgment of socialism and Enver Hoxha from its history.
On April 10, 1997, The Communist Party of Germany's publication, Roter Morgen, issued a statement warning that detailed talks between Albania's Prime Minister and his Italian colleagues could lead up to a foreign military intervention in the name of restoring order throughout the country. As a response, the Communist Party of Albania issued the statement "Hands off Albania!" which was then immediately endorsed by many communist parties. A NATO joint operation and military intervention in Albania, dubbed "Operation Alba," was authorized by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1101 under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter. This was done at the request of the besieged President Sali Berisha. The troop count was as follows: Italy 2,500, France 1,000, Greece 700, Turkey 500, Spain 500, and Romania 400.
"According to an article in the New Worker dated the July 4, 1997, upon the replacement of Sali Berisha by Fatos Nano he, 'reassured the European Union that he will continue to support the market economy and the restoration of capitalism in Albania.' In the same issue of New Worker, the writers added, 'The Albanian Communist Party which led the revolt, remains loyal to Albania's revolutionary traditions.' And as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Albania puts it: "This uprising will bring our people numerous experiences and self-assurance. A people that lived for decades under socialism and places great importance on independence will not put up with everything" (3).
Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha
Members of the Communist Party of Albania were spreading the word internationally of what was going on and how events escalated into the collapse of the people's power in Albania. In an interview with Laver Stroka, conducted on September 8, 2001, he describes to the interviewer the role of Ramiz Alia in the earlier counter-revolution:
"In 1985, after the death of Enver Hoxha, Ramiz Alia was chosen as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour with just a one vote majority. With great difficulty, after this time, to sweeten the alternatives to the communists and to the people he began a process which in time was to have bad consequences. At first he began to speak every day of Enver Hoxha — not to promote the life and work of Enver Hoxha (because the people knew what Enver Hoxha stood for) — but to firmly associate himself with Enver in order to create support for his future actions. During this time, he erected many statues of Enver Hoxha, in Korca, Tirana, and other cities and also named various organisations, places and enterprises after him. After this, he began to undertake certain actions. Every weekend there was a requirement to do 'voluntary' work and yet during the week there was little work to do because of the liberalising of the organisation of work. Despite this, voluntary work still had to be done all day on Sunday. So, Ramiz Alia became unpopular and had little authority. In 1990, he wrote a book and began to give interviews to People's Voice where he said, 'I have begun this process and taken it step by step in order not to create contradictions and clashes between the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces'. I tell this story to illustrate clearly that Ramiz Alia has been an enemy of the Party of Labour, and was not a follower of Enver Hoxha, but rather the enemy of both the Party and of Enver Hoxha." "Ramiz Alia is viewed by the people as a revisionist. During the gatherings where the people rose up against the vandalism of the counter-revolutionary forces in Tirana — when the statue of Enver Hoxha was pulled down — thousands and thousands of people thought that Ramiz Alia had betrayed them. This was the perspective of the people as far as Ramiz Alia was concerned." (4).
It becomes clear that the counter-revolution in Albania was not exactly taken lightly by a good amount of the population. As has been shown above, many workers decided to take action and arm themselves in order to fight for the re-establishment of socialism in Albania. Even today, the communists in Albania work to defend the legacy of Enver Hoxha, as well as the progress and social gains that had been accomplished during his time as General Secretary of the Albanian Party of Labor.
References, Further Reading:
1) http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.htm
2) http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/albania.htm
3) http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv4n1/albania.htm
4) http://ml-review.ca/aml/AllianceIssues/ALLIANCE48InterviewsCPA(UNITED).html
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• Please do not contact the surgery nor the hospital to seek a vaccine, we will contact you when the NHS has instructed us to
• With the current rapid increase in Covid-19 cases it is even more important to
o wash your hands
o wear a face mask as advised
o keep 2 metres apart
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Nashville Attorney Is Finalist for Nashville Film Festival Award
by Staff Blogger | April 21st, 2014
Some believe the hit television program, Nashville, is the extent of Nashville's involvement in the film industry, but the truth is quite the contrary. The city has hosted the Nashville Film Festival since 1969 and, each year, awards are given to the best independent film entries from the state.
What's so exciting about this year's event for the Nashville personal injury lawyers at Ponce Law is that one of our own is a finalist for a Tennessee filmmakers' award. The festival screening of Best Part Productions and attorney Trey McClarnon III's short film, Bear With Me, was selected as one of the four best movies entered into the festival by a Tennessee filmmaker. This means the film will now be shown at an outdoor screening at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23, at Walk of Fame Park near the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.
There, awards for the best film will be given at the conclusion of the final movie.
The event is free and family-friendly, so break out the blankets or lawn chairs and come down to the park to support local artists! To stay up to date on other local activities the attorneys at Michael D. Ponce & Associates are taking part in, feel free to check our social media outlets and the community news section of our website.


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Platinum and diamond set wristwatch. Circa 1920
Model: Art Deco
Reference: N/A
Calibre: EWC
Movement: Manual
Material: Platinum
Features/complications: Hinged lugs, diamond set deployant buckle and diamond cabochon crown
Dial: Off-white dial with outer minute track featuring black printed Breguet style Arabic numeral hour markers and blued steel Breguet moon hands
Bracelet/strap: Silk Moiré strap
Accessories: Deployant buckle
Web reference: 8513
Essay: The Art Deco period was one of the first truly worldwide movements of fashion in the arts, which reached its peak during the 1920's and 1930's. It had its roots in Paris just before the First World War. It took its name from Arts Décoratifs, an international Exhibition of Modern Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925.
Art Deco was a stylistic about turn to the Art Nouveau movement which preceded it. Gone were the soft, curved shapes and lines and in came straight lines and the bold geometric forms influenced by cubism and the desire to be modern. Parisian jeweller Louis Cartier played an important role in popularising the Art Deco mode in his jewellery and watches.


This cross-sectional study explored the relationships among family ritual meaning, cohesion, conflict, and health-related quality of life (both specific to chronic health condi- tions and in general), and the emotional and behavioral problems reported by youths with asthma. Participants included 149 Portuguese children and adolescents between the ages of 8 and 18 who had been diagnosed with asthma and attended outpatient services at three public hospitals. The results showed that stronger family ritual meaning predicted a more positive family environment (i.e., higher cohesion levels and lower conflict levels), better health-related quality of life, and fewer emotional and behavior problems in youths. Fur- thermore, family cohesion and conflict mediated the links between family ritual meaning and health-related quality of life, and emotional and behavioral problems. These results did not change after controlling for participant age, gender, and asthma severity. The find- ings of this study suggest that family ritual meaning contributes to the adaptation of youths with asthma via its positive association with the family environment. The implica- tions for multicontextual interventions with families are briefly discussed with regard to the positive role of family rituals and of their potential as a modifiable factor in families with increased health challenges.
A presença da família em sala de emergência pediátrica: crenças dos pais e dos profissionais de saúde; Family presence in emergency room pediatric beliefs of parents and health professionals.
Although reproductive health advocates consider family planning programs the intervention of choice to reduce fertility, there remains a great deal of skepticism among economists as to their effectiveness, despite little rigorous evidence to support either position. This study explores the effects of family planning in Ethiopia using a novel set of instruments to control for potential non-random program placement. The instruments are based on ordinal rankings of area characteristics, motivated by competition between areas for resources. Access to family planning is found to reduce completed fertility by more than one child among women without education. No effect is found among women with some formal schooling, suggesting that family planning and formal education act as substitutes, at least in this low-income, low-growth setting. This provides support to the notion that increasing access to family planning can provide an important, complementary entry point to kick-start the process of fertility reduction.
This study highlights the impact the lack of a formal succession process can have on potential successors, and on family and nonfamily managers.
Schermer, T.; Akkermans, R.; Crockett, A.; Montfort, M.; Grootens-Stekelenburg, J.; Stout, J.; Pieters, W.
Fonte: Annals of Family Medicine, Inc. Publicador: Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
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NJ is almost the worst state to start a new business in, study says
By: NJBIZ STAFF
The good news is things could be worse when it comes to starting a business in New Jersey, you could be starting one in Rhode Island – the only state to rank lower in a new study evaluating the best, and worst, places to establish a new venture.
New Jersey came in at No. 49 on personal-finance website WalletHub's 2019's Best & Worst States to Start a Business list, released Monday.
No. 1 on the list was Texas, which scored a total 61.05 points – compared with the Garden State's score of 36.42.
In a detailed breakout of the rankings, the Garden State did not perform much better.
New Jersey also placed 49th, besting only Maryland, on cost of labor. The WalletHub study found a 74-times difference among states with the lowest and highest costs. Mississippi, Arkansas and West Virginia led the category in the No. 1, 2 and 3 spots, respectively.
New Jersey ranked 45th on office-space affordability; 42nd on cost of living; 36th on variety of industries and 33rd on average growth in the number of small businesses.
The state's highest rankings came for the length of an average work week (No. 27) and available human capital (No. 16).
Scores were based upon three indicators: business environment, access to resources and business costs and evaluated using 26 metrics, according to WalletHub.
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Two Inmates Escape from Franklin County Jail
By Roger Murphy | February 22, 2019 | Filed under: News
RUSSELLVILLE-On Friday, February 22 The Franklin County Sheriff's Office issued a press release concerning the escape of two inmates. These inmates escaped on Thursday, February 21 from the Franklin County Jail"
"Around 10:30 P.M. on Thursday, February 21, 2019, two inmates escaped from the Franklin County Jail after entering a plumbing access to reach the roof. At the time of the escape, Corrections Officers were dealing with a fight within the jail that is believed to have been a diversion for the escape.
The escapees are Richie Oneal Landers and Andy John Hanson. Landers was in jail on Probation Violation with original charge of a drug offense. Hanson was also in jail on Probation Violation with original charge of burglary. Both had been sentenced for the Probation Revocations and were waiting transfer to prison.
Richie Landers: Last known address: 2460 Hwy 172, Hodges, AL 35571 DOB: 6/30/1973 Age: 45 White/Male, Brown Hair, Blue Eyes, 5'10"
Andy Hanson: Last known address: 1725 Co Rd 47, Winfield, AL 35594 DOB: 12/11/1991 Age: 27 White/Male, Black Hair, Blue Eyes, 5'6"
If you have any information on the whereabouts of these two, please contact the Franklin County Sheriff's Office at 256-332-8820."


Introducing.. Cosmetic Cupcake Nails - Sydney nail art!
Hello ladies! I've been away from the blog for a while oops but I have a pretty good excuse ;) I've taken the plunge and I am launching my own little Sydney nail art business - Cosmetic Cupcake Nails! I'm absolutely crapping myself but here goes nothing!
I was approached by the team at The Finders Keepers Markets a while ago to get involved in the markets that they're curating for the upcoming St Jerome's Laneway Festival in Sydney and Melbourne this February. Ever since teaching my first nail art class with Work-Shop last year, it's cemented my love for nail art and wanting to share it with everyone! I've long admired the work of amazing nail artists like The Illustrated Nail, WAH nails, Sophy Robson, Trophy Wife Nail Art and I Scream Nails (just to name a few!) and of course dreamt of doing nails for a living just like them. The offer from The Finders Keepers team gave me the kick to finally take the leap this year and take baby steps towards making my dream a reality.
If you haven't heard of The Finders Keeper markets before, they're twice yearly markets held around Australia that showcase the work of up and coming designers and artists. I'm so excited to announce that I'll be alongside some amazing Sydney designers at Laneway Festival Sydney on Sunday 2nd February 2014. I'll be offering express nail art manis - so plain polish and 2 accent nails - with a selection of about 10 designs (I'm still a bit undecided what I'll do oops!). I'll also be selling some hand painted false nail sets too! Make sure to check out all the details on The Finders Keepers blog for the full lineup of designers who'll be there. If you're going to the festival I hope you'll stop by my stall to get your nails done!!
Thanks to my friend Bek for being my guinea pig and hand model!
I won't be working from a permanent space yet so I'll be freelancing and be available on a "pop up" sort of basis for parties, hens, events, nail art workshops or even if you have a few friends that want manis done something can always be organised ;) It's all still extremely new and daunting and I'm fitting it around work but we all have to start somewhere right?!
I don't have much yet but please do show me some love and follow me on Instagram, Facebook and also check out my site!
Hello ladies! It is absolutely STINKING hot in Sydney at the moment - up to 38° in some parts of Sydney! So what better time to do some tropical fruit nail art! You know how much I love my fruit manicures ;) I decided on pineapples because this is the perfect weather for it and because I wanted to try out the cute design from Trophy Wife Nail Art. I seriously love Chelsea Bagan's work!
I used 2 coats of China Glaze Tart-y for the Party from the Avant Garden collection as a base for all nails. I then used Colour Theory Pineapple Express to freehand the body of the pineapple - the shade is SO well named I think! I used Kiss nail art striper in black to outline the pineapple and add the helixes and finished it off by using essence colour & go in the green & the grunge for the crown.
I haven't been able to polish my nails lately because my eczema has flared up really badly making removing polish a nightmare. You can see in the above pic I have a bad patch on my ring finger and my skin is just so dry and yuck X( It's just taking forever to clear up even though I've been hitting it with everything!! Doh!
I hope you guys are all doing well! What do you think of this fruity mani? Thanks for looking as always!
I'm a bit of a cuticle product fanatic so I'm always on the lookout for new products to try. I love trying balms, oils, butters.. you name it. So how could I resist when I discovered this ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY BEAUTIFUL limited edition Anna Sui nail care oil when I was in Hong Kong last year?! Ok ok I admit I'm biased though because I adore anything and everything Anna Sui especially when it comes to her nail products.
The oil is housed in the beautiful signature Anna Sui dress shaped bottle which is very easy to hold and use considering the shape. The oil contains three tiers in purple, light pink and a bright pink - my favourite colours and just so girlie! It smells like roses as her other products do but I found it quite subtle compared to the other liquid based products I've tried from her makeup range.
The brush is flat and square - which for a polish I would most likely find a bit difficult to use and to get a clean finish but for a cuticle oil it's not a problem.
To use it, you need to give it a gentle shake to mix the 3 layers which forms a milky lavender shade. The formula is absolutely fantastic - it's wonderfully moisturising, non-sticky and most importantly very fast absorbing. When the sales assistant tried it out on me I was so surprised at how smooth the oil felt and how quickly it absorbed leaving my fingers feeling and smelling lovely and rose-y. A little goes a very long way and you only need a small swipe to hydrate your entire cuticle. The formula is silicone based and contains plant-derived squalene and smooth oil to lock in moisture and hydrate.
Overall: I am absolutely head over heels in love with the Anna Sui nail care oil. It smells amazing, absorbs quickly and is just so so beautiful! I can't recommend it enough and it's a must buy if you come across it. It's a bit on the pricier side at about $18Aus but a little goes a long way and it's Anna Sui. Enough said!
Details: I purchased my bottle from the Anna Sui stand at LCX in Harbour City in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong for $130HK (so about $18Aus). I found it available online from Urban Outfitters and beauty.com for $16US and YesStyle.com for $22US.
What are your favourite nail treatment products? Any recommendations?


Mia Fieldes must be one of the best praise and worship songwriters in the world today. She attends Hillsong Church in Sydney and has penned down a lot of great songs like 'Saviour King', 'Always', 'All For Love' and many more. Although she has been writing a lot of songs for Hillsong, she rarely sings on their albums. However, this year she has released a solo album titled 'There's A Reason'.
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Ranveer Singh who is known to be exuberant and full of life all the time, is being heavily targeted by trolls on social media quite often now. We mean trolls have been a commonplace, but when there's nothing substantial or concrete enough to mock someone, then we should just let that person be.
The recent instance of Ranveer Singh being an easy troll-target has raised several anxious questions in our mind. Why again? What for? So, Ranveer who is known to be a diehard romantic was recently spotted with wifey Deepika Padukone outside Soho House, Juhu. As the couple exited the place, paparazzi went clickety-click on them and Ranveer being his gentleman self, dusted off Deepika's jeans and gave her a peck. All this happened in front of the shutterbugs and the video went viral.
This was totally unnecessary. Ranveer Singh is synonymous for being this energetic soul. Right from his funky, bold outfits to his harkatein on movie sets, he is known to be this high-on-energy guy. We have also seen his romantic side for Deepika time and again. So, we don't think there's anything novel or unacceptable when he decides to do a sweet gesture for his wife.
We think it's high-time the trollers focused on pertinent issues plaguing the society rather than focus on what Ranveer Singh is up to and troll him for no fault of his. Yes, criticism is a part and parcel of life, but only when it's absolutely needed. Not when a newly married couple is just engaging in a cute PDA moment that's neither obscene nor harmful for public consumption. That's all!


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Q: boost::gil::resize_view seg fault when creating iterator over view I am having some problems related to using boost::gil library when I try to resize an image view. I would like to access the pixels content of a image view after resizing it. However, I always obtain a segmentation fault when doing this.
Here is my code:
boost::gil::rgb8_image_t rgb_image;

//Try to convert image file to raw binary data
try {
    boost::gil::read_and_convert_image("/tmp/image.jpg", rgb_image, boost::gil::jpeg_tag());
} catch (...) {
    return;
}

boost::gil::rgb8_view_t rgb_view;
boost::gil::rgb8_image_t rgb_image_resize(150, 200);
boost::gil::resize_view(boost::gil::const_view(rgb_image), boost::gil::view(rgb_image_resize), boost::gil::bilinear_sampler());
rgb_view = boost::gil::view(rgb_image_resize);

for (std::uint32_t i = 0; i < 150; i++) {
    boost::gil::rgb8_view_t::x_iterator it_image = rgb_view.row_begin(i);
    for (size_t width = 0; width < 200; width++) {
        if (it_image->at_c_dynamic(0) * 0.299 + it_image->at_c_dynamic(1) * 0.114 + it_image->at_c_dynamic(2) * 0.587 < 80) {//color filter. Trying to execute this line gives me a seg fault
            //do something
        } else { //white pixel
            //do something
        }
        it_image++;
    }
}

Could you please indicate me what is my problem? If I delete the resize_view function and create the view directly from the rgb_image, it works perfectly.

A: The line rgb_view.row_begin(i); gives you X-navigation iterator of i-th row which you can use to iterate over the i-th row pixels.
But, you increment this iterator it_image++; in the nested loop, that is 150 * 200 times, what makes it go far beyond the end of the last pixel of the i-th row.
Here is example that shows one of possible ways to achieve the correct iteration:
#include <boost/gil.hpp>
#include <boost/gil/extension/io/jpeg.hpp>
#include <boost/gil/extension/numeric/resample.hpp>
#include <boost/gil/extension/numeric/sampler.hpp>

int main()
{
    namespace bg = boost::gil;

    bg::rgb8_image_t rgb_image;
    bg::read_and_convert_image("/tmp/example/test.jpg", rgb_image, bg::jpeg_tag());
    bg::rgb8_image_t rgb_image_resize(68, 49); // rgb_image is 136x98
    bg::resize_view(bg::const_view(rgb_image), bg::view(rgb_image_resize), bg::bilinear_sampler());
    auto rgb_view = bg::view(rgb_image_resize);

    for (int y = 0; y < rgb_view.height(); ++y)
    {
        bg::rgb8_view_t::x_iterator it_row = rgb_view.row_begin(y);
        for (int x = 0; x < rgb_view.width(); ++x)
        {
            auto p = it_row[x];
            if (p.at_c_dynamic(0) * 0.299 + p.at_c_dynamic(1) * 0.114 + p.at_c_dynamic(2) * 0.587 < 80)
                ; //do something
            else
                ; //do something
        }
    }
}

For more options, check the Boost.GIL tutorial with example computing the image gradient.
NOTE: The I/O extensions have been entirely rewritten in Boost.GIL released in Boost 1.68. The example above is based on GIL from Boost 1.68.

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