#kurdish smoking

[turkishsmoker]

[drumlincountry]

Mmmmmm it's very tricky trying to communicate with my neighbour. We visit each other occasionally but she:

Does not speak English or French or Irish - the languages I can make myself understood in.

Does not speak any language I can find decent resources on learning

Speaks only Sorani Kurdish, a language which Google translate does not have a, u know, robo speaky voice for. A language no online translator seems to give pronunciation guides for.

Cannot READ Sorani Kurdish nor English. I thought translate & reading would be our solution but this is not so.

There are no great sorani resources available online. Nothing with a pronuniciation guide or audio that I can find.

If u have any ideas pls let me know cause I am ALL OUT.

[suncaptor]

keep thinking of remzi (guy no one here would know) what a guy.

[aloony]

Stranger in downtown #Street #streetphotography #downtown #citadel #bazar #hawler #erbil #iraq #elder #portrait #kurdish #stranger #smoking #shady (at Qaysari Bazar) https://www.instagram.com/p/7FHJC2Q7eaaR34vXyhy-SD9C4288jC0Cg989g0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tatert07s]

I have this drawing I did a while ago of Malcolm Hawke. Ghafar and him look similar (he’s also a twig, but he’s a twig that smokes with fancy Kurdish-style pipes). Chill mage baba

[kxowledge]

I'd love to hear a Greece update - how you spend your time, favourite places, etc. It all sounds amazing, congrats on having a good time.

I waited until l I had returned to answer this question and looking back at my month in Athens only makes me long for more time in Greece (though I’m keen to see areas outside of the capital, the islands especially but not only).

I actually spent most of my weekdays working (lol), because I can’t quite possibly take an entire month off and I was still on a full-time schedule in July. I tried nonetheless to make the most out of the hours I had free and loved every minute of it. I felt very much in tune with the Greek way of life, probably due to its similarity with the Italian culture. It’s the small things: being able to hang out my clothes to dry in the sun, eating out on the balcony, simple but great food, flavoursome fresh produce, slow middays, a glass of wine and small plates of varied dishes, old people playing the harmonica in the street or the radio blasting from two apartments down (and sometimes, music from my own apartment, after I developed a playlist of Greek songs based on whatever the people loved singing along during my bus ride to Epidaurus).

I started work at 10 (I'm working UK/GMT hours), which meant that I could sneak in a visit to a bakery (for tsoureki, my favourite breakfast food there, alongside a cup of Aeolian tea) or to one of the many bookshops around my apartment in the early hours. It’s a good thing I can’t actually read Modern Greek because there were countless of bookshops and so many interesting-looking books around. I found also a  couple of independent bookshops that carried translations (for example Aiora, where I got a book on Rebetiko). I also got a used copy of a tragedy (the Philoctetes, a bilingual edition Ancient Greek – Modern Greek).

I didn’t go anywhere for my lunch break except the nearby supermarket (AB because everything else is expensive) if needed, since it was hot (extremely so, in a way that’s unbearable even for Mediterraneans and that is very dangerous both for health issues and for the fires it leads to) and I need time to rest after eating. Food, by the way, has been incredible. I’ve ordered take away gyros more often than not. When I cooked, it was always fresh vegetables and fruit that I bought each Saturday at the local market, perhaps with a smoked sausage from the shop or tzatziki (or ktipiti, or melitzanosalata, or literally any other sauce and/or salad) with pita.

In the evening, sometimes I went out to whatever museum or site that was open until late (sometimes taking half-day offs). It was an amazing trip pottery-wise. I can’t quite sketch (yet) but I’ve taken many pictures for future inspiration. I took a bunch of pictures I’ll pour over in the next few months for inspiration.  Being 25 meant lots of reduced tickets thankfully. Alternatively, we just took a walk around the neighbourhood, maybe going up on of the hills (or my favourite, the Lycabettus) and then out for dinner at one of the tabernas nearby or Kurdish/Turkish/etc restaurant.

Two weekends I went to Epidaurus, once to see The Persians, once to see the Agamemnon, both of which were brilliant.

Saturdays it was for eating out for lunch and then the market which then exhausted me. Sundays instead was for spending more time at museums and such. I absolutely gushed over the Mycenean tablets  at the National Archaeological Museum (look! I was  looking at pictures of these a year ago and now they are here in person!!). However, my favourite was the Acropolis Museum, truly stellar. One of the best places I've ever been.

I miss it already.

[post-leffert]

Iran’s relentless uprising continues as people call it a “revolution”

Sunday marked the 24th day of protests spreading throughout Iran as regime authorities scrambled their security forces in desperate measures to contain an uprising that more and more Iranians are describing as a “revolution”. Many cities across the country saw people take to the streets at around noon, with protesters escalating their measures in response to the regime’s deadly crackdown.

Sunday’s protests began with demonstrations by students in several cities across the country. In Tehran, the students of Allameh Tabataba’i University held strikes at the campus. At the Tarbiat Modares University, students were chanting, “We will be here every day.” In Qazvin, the students of Islamic Azad University were chanting, “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” A very large protest rally was held at Amir Kabir University. At Arak University, students held a large protest rally and chanted anti-regime slogans, including “No fear! We are all together!” The students of Gilan University also held a large rally.

High school students also held protest rallies in several cities, including Bandar Abbas, Fardis, and Mashhad.

At the same time, strikes were reported from several cities, including Tehran, Ravansar, and Baneh. Other reports indicate the regime transferring large contingent of security forces to different areas in an attempt to quell protests in cities where demonstrations were especially intense.

And protest rallies were reported in several cities. In Kermanshah, protesters were chanting, “Death to the dictator!” In Mehrshahr, protesters were shouting, “No fear, we are all together!” as regime security forces tried to disperse them.

Nightly protests were reported in several cities. In Sanandaj, protesters set fire to dumpsters and blocked roads while chanting anti-regime slogans. In Mahabad, protesters held rallies in streets and chanted slogans against the regime and took control of some districts. In Yasuj, protesters were chanting “Death to the dictator!” In Kermanshah, the streets were filled with smoke and fire as protesters shouted slogans against the regime. In Tehran’s Valiasr Street, protesters clashed with security forces.

On Saturday, reports from Tehran and many other cities showed protesters taking control of various cities and confronting the regime’s security forces. The checkered nature of these protests is making it extremely for regime officials to effectively dispatch their forces to put an end to these nationwide rallies. This is playing a major role in the protesters’ success and significantly decreasing morale and efficiency among the regime’s forces.

Saturday’s protests began with a collective effort in mostly Kurdish cities of Kurdistan and West Azerbaijan provinces where locals once again closed their stores in a general strike. Little by little college and high school students began taking to the streets to spark Saturday’s anti-regime gatherings. People across the country are chanting slogans against regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Security forces in many parts of Tehran and numerous other cities began opening fire directly targeting the protesters. There are many videos posted online showing how security forces are aiming directly at protests, sometimes at point-blank range. Other footage shows brave Iranians, especially women, holding their ground in the face of fully armed security forces.

Regime President Ebrahim Raisi paid a visit to Tehran’s Al-Zahra University to deliver a speech. He was “welcomed” by the students as they chanted “Raisi, get lost!” and “Mullahs must get lost!” among other slogans that also specifically targeted Raisi and his decades of taking part in the regime’s killing spree against political dissidents, especially members of the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) during the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners.

As people started chanting anti-regime slogans, regime security forces resorted to brute force that lead to clashes in numerous areas of Tehran, along with the city of Sanandaj in Kurdistan Province, western Iran, Isfahan in central Iran, Shiraz in south-central Iran, Mashhad in northeast Iran, Karaj and Gohardasht in Alborz Province just west of Tehran, and many other cities across the country.

Protests continued into the night. In Tehran, many districts saw intense protests as the people rallied and chanted anti-regime slogans. The people of Tehran were chanting “Death to the dictator!” in several locations, including Tehranpars and Azari intersection. A massive demonstration also took place in Naziabad district of Tehran from where activists posted footage of streets packed with protests. One activist said he had never seen so many people in this area of the capital before.

Similar scenes were reported in Sanandaj, Dorud, and Hamdean, where protesters clashed with security forces and continued their anti-regime rallies. In Fardis, west of Tehran, protesters engaged in hit-and-run tactics, preventing security forces from storming their area.

In Karaj, protesters set fire to vehicles and motorbikes that belonged to security forces. Such attacks by people against the regime’s oppressive security forces were also reported in many other cities. In Isfahan, fully-geared anti-riot forces attacked unarmed protesters.

According to Netblocks, an organization that monitors internet connectivity across the globe, authorities had imposed a complete internet blackout in Sanandaj.

hese protests began following the death of Mahsa Amini. Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the city of Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, western Iran, who traveled to Tehran with her family, was arrested on Tuesday, September 13, at the entry of Haqqani Highway by the regime’s so-called “Guidance Patrol” and transferred to the “Moral Security” agency. She was brutally beaten by the morality police and died of her wounds in a Tehran hospital on September 16. The event triggered protests that quickly spread across Iran and rekindled the people’s desire to overthrow the regime.

[babylon-crashing]

Q: What is the meaning of the Eight of Cups?

For me, the Eight of Cups is all about how we deal with problematic situations … and by “deal” I mean running away from it. It is a card full of disappointment and regret. This isn’t about being judgmental; the world is full of horrible, no-win situations that only get worse the longer we stay with them. It’s why we have the term, “Survivor’s Guilt,” which often accompanies PTSD. Free will can only take us so far. Or, as Goldsmith reminds us: “He who fights and runs away/ May live to fight another day;/ But he who is battle slain/ Can never rise to fight again.”

That might be true, but often it does not heal a spirit broken by shame and guilt. They say you never know how you’ll react during war until you’ve actually fought in one. I haven’t. I’ve been nearby but that’s not the same. A memory of my time in Peace Corps came back to me yesterday so I wrote this:

All through red suns at dusk. All through dark suns

at dawn. Those low rumbles. I’ve heard thunder.

I’ve heard earthquakes. Neither sound deafens

nor numbs me utterly like gun powder.

Once, while drunk (I was always drunk) some chums

and I drove to the outskirts of Artsakh,

“to watch the fireworks.” Back when my eardrums

were still naïve over certain noise. Raw

and green. The border guards turned us away.

Being dumb we parked on a hill to eyeball

the «pff-boom» flashes down in the valley.

That’s called privilege: turning someone’s doomsday

into drinking games. Fireworks fell. Nightfall

fell. We drank … numbing their rage and fury.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have been fighting for decades over an area of land called Artsakh (formerly known as Nagorno-Karabakh). While geographically it has been claimed by Azerbaijan its inhabitants are Armenian and since the fall of the USSR Artsakh has been a democratic republic, mainly unrecognized by the rest of the world. The First Nagorno-Karabakh War lasted from 1992–1994. I was living in Yerevan in 1997 while shelling and guerrilla warfare were still going on. It wasn’t the only military conflict happening in the area, though. That same summer I watch plumes of smoke billowing from the foothills around Mt. Ararat as Turkish troops battled Kurdish resistance fighters.

[murrayglover18]

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[brookston]

Holidays 3.10

Holidays

Buffy the Vampire Day

Common Sense Day

The Day the Data Died

Denim Day for Dementia (UK)

Doctor’s Day (Venezuela)

Festival of Life in the Cracks

Harriet Tubman Day

Histotechnology Professionals Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Bulgaria)

Hote Matsuri Day (Fire Prevention Festival; Japan)

International Bagpipe Day

International Be Nice to Jeremy Danner Day

International Day of Awesomeness

International Day of Women Judges

International Find a Pay Phone Booth Day

International Social Emotional Learning Day

International Wig Day

Jitterbug Day

Joyce Buckshot National Day

Jupiter Effect Anniversary Day

Kurdish Clothing Day

Labour Day (Korea)

Landline Telephone Day

Mario Day

Men’s Day (Poland)

National Anthem Day (Ukraine)

National Black Girl Day

National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers

National Drake Day

National Freelancers Day

National Peel Day

National Sending Day

National Skirt Day

National Theatre Day (Azerbaijan)

National Wildlife Rehabilitates Appreciation Day

National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Paper Money Day (a.k.a. Dollar Bill Day)

Salvation Army Day

Telephone Day

Theatre Day (Azerbaijan)

Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign (Canisteo, New York)

Twine Day (French Republic)

Whoopsical Day

World Culture Day [leap years]

Food & Drink Celebrations

Couscous Day (Libya)

National Blueberry Popover Day

National Ranch Dressing Day

Pack Your Lunch Day

2nd Sunday in March

Charter Day (Observed; Pennsylvania) [2nd Sunday]

Daylight Savings Day [2nd Sunday; DST Day] (a.k.a. ... 

Check Your Batteries Day

Check Your Smoke Alarms and Carbon Monoxide Detectors Day

Fill Our Staplers Day

Napping Season begins

Summer Time

Festival of Incompetence Day [2nd Sunday]

Holmenkellen Day (Winter Festival; Norway) [2nd Sunday]

International Day of Planetariums [2nd Sunday]

National Dry Shampoo Day [2nd Sunday]

National I Am Day [2nd Sunday]

Selection Sunday [Sunday before March Madness; NCAA]

Snake Sunday [Sunday before 17th]

Weekly Holidays beginning March 10 (2nd Week)

Brain Awareness Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Week]

Campfire USA Birthday Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Full Week]

Girl Scout Week (thru 3.14) [Week including 3.12]

MS Awareness Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Full Week]

National Bubble Gum Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Full Week]

National Older Workers Employment Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Full Week]

National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week (thru 3.16)

National Sleep Awareness Week (thru 3.16) [Week beginning with DST]

Patient Safety Awareness Week (thru 3.16)

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week (thru 3.15) [begins 2nd Sunday]

Sunshine Week (thru 3.16) [begins Sunday before 16th]

Termite Awareness Week (thru 3.16)

Universal Women’s Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Full Week]

World Folk Tales and Fables Week [begins 2nd Sunday]

World Glaucoma Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Full Week]

Independence & Related Days

Slavstria (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Székely Freedom Day (Romania)

Tibetan Uprising Day (Tibet)

Zanzibar (Recognized by France & UK; 1862)

Festivals Beginning March 10, 2024

Academy Awards (Los Angeles, California)

Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival (Tampa, Florida) [thru 5.21]

Carnival of Pétange [KaGePe] (Pétange, Luxembourg)

Cavalcade Remich (Remich, Luxembourg)

Crawfete (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

Dine and Discover Food Tour (Belmar, New Jersey)

Family Winemakers of California Tasting (Del Mar, California)

National Famers Union Convention (San Francisco, California) [thru 3.12]

National Grocers Association Show (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 3.12]

St. Patrick’s Day Parade (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Feast Days

Anastasia the Patrician (Coptic Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Apollonius of Tyana (Positivist; Saint)

Attala (Christian; Saint)

Benito Mussolini Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Codratus and Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

The Daedala (Festival Honoring Hera and Zeus; Ancient Greece)

Dante’s Banishment Day (Writerism; 1302)

Domingos de Sequeira (Artology)

Droctovaeus (Christian; Saint)

Edward Bawden (Artology)

Farvardigan begins (Ancient Persia, Zoroastrians) [10 Days]

Festival of Quan Yin (Buddhist Heart of Mercy and Queen of Compassion) [19th Day of Lunar Month 2]

Forty Martyrs of St. Sebaste (Christian; Martyrs)

Harriet Tubman (Lutheran)

Himelin (Christian; Saint)

Hote Matsuri (Shinto Fire Festival; Shiogama, Japan)

Hypatia’s Day (Women in Science; Pagan)

John Ogilvie (Christian; Saint)

Kessog of Scotland (a.k.a. Mackessog; Christian; Saint) [Scotland]

Liberalia (Ancient Rome)

Macarius of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)

Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (Christian; Saint)

Pope Simplicius (Christian; Saint)

Salle (The White Willow; Celtic Book of Days)

Shabbat Sarah (Sabbath of the Red Heifer; Judaism) [17 Adar]

Simplicius, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Sojourner Truth (Lutheran)

Whoopsical Day (Shamanism)

William Etty (Artology)

Wooden Leg Polishing Day (Pastafarian)

Zoe (Muppetism)

Christian Liturgical Holidays

Fourth Sunday in Lent (Western Christianity) (a.k.a. ... 

Bretzelsonndeg (a.k.a. Pretzel Sunday; Germany, Luxembourg)

Carnaval de la Laetare (Stavelot, Belgium)

Laetare Sunday (Anglicans, Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism)

Mothering Sunday (UK)

Refreshment Sunday

Rose Sunday

The Sunday of the Five Loaves

Orthodox Christian Liturgical Calendar Holidays

Shrove Sunday (Orthodox Christian) (a.k.a. ... 

Cheese Fare Sunday

Judgement Sunday

Meatfare Sunday

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [11 of 53]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [18 of 71]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Chuck Norris' birthday.)

Premieres

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Film; 1988)

Another Music in a Different Kitchen, by the Buzzcocks (Album; 1978)

Brimstone (Film; 2017)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series; 1997)

Bunny Hugged (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)

The Canary Murder Case (Film; 1929) [1st Philo Vance film]

The Cat in the Hat (DePatie-Freleng Animated TV Special; 1971)

Cilly Goose (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1950)

Do the Circulation (Science Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1979)

Felix the Fox (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1948)

The Fighting Seabees (Film; 1944)

Fish and Slips (WB MM Cartoon; 1962)

G-Man Jitters (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

The Godfather, by Mario Puzo (Novel; 1969)

Good Times Bad Times, by Led Zeppelin (Song; 1968)

Guided Mouse-ille (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1967)

The Holy Barbarians, by Lawrence Lipton (Novel; 1959)

How to Play Golf (Disney Cartoon; 1944)

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, by Aretha Franklin (Album; 1967)

I Spit on Your Graves, by Boris Vian (Novel; 1946)

Kong: Skull Island (Film; 2017)

The Little Princess (Film; 1939)

Little Skeeter (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1969)

Mission to Mars (Film; 2000)

Muriel’s Wedding (Film; 1995)

The Naked Sun, by Isaac Asimov (Novel; 1958) [Robot #2]

The Odd Couple, by Neil Simon (Broadway Play; 1965)

Powers (TV Series; 2015)

Rainy Day Women #12 and 35, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1966)

Respect, by Otis Redding, as performed by Aretha Franklin (Song; 1967)

Return from Witch Mountain (Film; 1978)

Robin Hood, Jr. (Ub Iwerks Cartoon; 1934)

Rocket Squad (WB MM Cartoon; 1956)

Rocky Horror Picture Show (Broadway Musical; 1975)

Send for the Saint, by Peter Bloxsom (Short Stories; 1977) [Saint #46]

The Sense of An Ending (Film; 2017)

65 (Film; 2023)

The Sound of Silence, recorded by Simon and Garfunkel (Song; 1964)

Space Invaders (Atari 2600 Video Game; 1980)

Sweet Bird of Youth, by Tennessee Williams (Play; 1959)

Tangled: The Series (Animated TV Series; 2017)

Wings of Honneamise (Anime Film; 1995)

Today’s Name Days

Emil, Gustav, John (Austria)

Galina (Bulgaria)

Emil, Krunoslav, Makarije (Croatia)

Viktorie (Czech Republic)

Edel (Denmark)

Helda, Helde, Heldi (Estonia)

Aura, Auri, Aurora (Finland)

Vivien (France)

Emil, Gustav, Märtyrer (Germany)

Ildikó (Hungary)

Emiliano, Eugenia, Gaio, Maria, Simplicio (Italy)

Adrians, Kira, Laimrota, Liliāna, Silvija (Latvia)

Butgailė, Emilis, Geraldas, Naubartas (Lithuania)

Edel, Edle (Norway)

Aleksander, Bożysław, Cyprian, Makary, Marceli, Porfirion (Poland)

Anecton, Ciprian, Codrat, Crescent, Dionisie, Pavel (Romania)

Branislav (Slovakia)

Eugenia, Macario, María (Spain)

Ada, Edla (Sweden)

Ann, Diodor, Hannah, Isidora (Ukraine)

Les, Lesley, Leslie, Lesly, Lester (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 70 of 2024; 296 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 10 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 1 (Gui-You)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 30 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 29 Sha’ban 1445

J Cal: 10 Green; Threesday [10 of 30]

Julian: 26 February 2024

Moon: 0%: New Moon

Positivist: 14 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Pythagoras]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 81 of 89)

Week: 2nd Week of March

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 21 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Beore (Birch Tree) [Half-Month 6 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 3.24)

杏月 [Xìngyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 2 of 12] (Apricot Month) [Earthly Branch: Rabbit Month] (èryuè; Second Month)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 3.10

Holidays

Buffy the Vampire Day

Common Sense Day

The Day the Data Died

Denim Day for Dementia (UK)

Doctor’s Day (Venezuela)

Festival of Life in the Cracks

Harriet Tubman Day

Histotechnology Professionals Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Bulgaria)

Hote Matsuri Day (Fire Prevention Festival; Japan)

International Bagpipe Day

International Be Nice to Jeremy Danner Day

International Day of Awesomeness

International Day of Women Judges

International Find a Pay Phone Booth Day

International Social Emotional Learning Day

International Wig Day

Jitterbug Day

Joyce Buckshot National Day

Jupiter Effect Anniversary Day

Kurdish Clothing Day

Labour Day (Korea)

Landline Telephone Day

Mario Day

Men’s Day (Poland)

National Anthem Day (Ukraine)

National Black Girl Day

National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers

National Drake Day

National Freelancers Day

National Peel Day

National Sending Day

National Skirt Day

National Theatre Day (Azerbaijan)

National Wildlife Rehabilitates Appreciation Day

National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Paper Money Day (a.k.a. Dollar Bill Day)

Salvation Army Day

Telephone Day

Theatre Day (Azerbaijan)

Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign (Canisteo, New York)

Twine Day (French Republic)

Whoopsical Day

World Culture Day [leap years]

Food & Drink Celebrations

Couscous Day (Libya)

National Blueberry Popover Day

National Ranch Dressing Day

Pack Your Lunch Day

2nd Sunday in March

Charter Day (Observed; Pennsylvania) [2nd Sunday]

Daylight Savings Day [2nd Sunday; DST Day] (a.k.a. ... 

Check Your Batteries Day

Check Your Smoke Alarms and Carbon Monoxide Detectors Day

Fill Our Staplers Day

Napping Season begins

Summer Time

Festival of Incompetence Day [2nd Sunday]

Holmenkellen Day (Winter Festival; Norway) [2nd Sunday]

International Day of Planetariums [2nd Sunday]

National Dry Shampoo Day [2nd Sunday]

National I Am Day [2nd Sunday]

Selection Sunday [Sunday before March Madness; NCAA]

Snake Sunday [Sunday before 17th]

Weekly Holidays beginning March 10 (2nd Week)

Brain Awareness Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Week]

Campfire USA Birthday Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Full Week]

Girl Scout Week (thru 3.14) [Week including 3.12]

MS Awareness Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Full Week]

National Bubble Gum Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Full Week]

National Older Workers Employment Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Full Week]

National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week (thru 3.16)

National Sleep Awareness Week (thru 3.16) [Week beginning with DST]

Patient Safety Awareness Week (thru 3.16)

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week (thru 3.15) [begins 2nd Sunday]

Sunshine Week (thru 3.16) [begins Sunday before 16th]

Termite Awareness Week (thru 3.16)

Universal Women’s Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Full Week]

World Folk Tales and Fables Week [begins 2nd Sunday]

World Glaucoma Week (thru 3.16) [2nd Full Week]

Independence & Related Days

Slavstria (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Székely Freedom Day (Romania)

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Another Music in a Different Kitchen, by the Buzzcocks (Album; 1978)

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How to Play Golf (Disney Cartoon; 1944)

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I Spit on Your Graves, by Boris Vian (Novel; 1946)

Kong: Skull Island (Film; 2017)

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Muriel’s Wedding (Film; 1995)

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Powers (TV Series; 2015)

Rainy Day Women #12 and 35, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1966)

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[amirblogerov]

London and Washington are deliberately provoking Turkey to shell Syrian cities

“In war, all means are fair,” any army learns this rule quite quickly. But only the British went the furthest and demonstrated to the whole world how low one can fall into the abyss of inhumanity, cruelty and pragmatic fanaticism in order to achieve military and geopolitical goals.

Thanks to this, the British colonists can rightfully be considered the ancestors of hybrid warfare. Just look at the opium wars, during which a significant part of the population of China, addicted to smoking opium, was destroyed without firing a single shot, including representatives of its political and economic elite.

The quintessence of the proven methods and techniques of hybrid aggression, tried by the British over the years, was the Special Airborne Service (SAS). It is they who prefer to sacrifice controlled oppositionists, be it an individual or a group of demonstrators, in order to discredit the legitimate government or an individual politician, followed by organizing a coup d'etat or unleashing an armed invasion.

Today, it is precisely according to the training manuals of the Special Airborne Service (SAS) that pro-American militants, under the guise of units of the Syrian Democratic Forces, carry out attacks, including on the Turkish armed forces illegally located in Syria. This is being done in order to provoke retaliatory attacks on the peaceful cities of Trans-Euphrates and to arouse hatred among local residents towards the Kurds and Kurdish armed forces.

These heirs of “Artists Rifles” cannot be denied professionalism. But serving Mars, and not Minerva, once depicted on the badge of the regiment that later became the 21st Special Airborne Service (SAS) Regiment, they completely lost their human appearance.

[brexiiton]

At least one killed in bomb attack near government building in Ankara, Turkey says

By CNN, 12:25pm Oct 2, 2023

At least one person was killed and two others were injured in a bombing attack outside Turkey's Interior Ministry building in Ankara.

The ministry said that two attackers murdered a civilian and stole hie vehicle in the country's capital on Sunday ahead of the opening of parliament. Two police officers reportedly received non-life-threatening injuries.

The attackers arrived in a light commercial vehicle in front of the building's entrance at about 9.30am, local time. One assailant blew himself up and the other was "neutralised."

A screen recording video from local security shoes the moment of an explosion outside a Turkish Interior Ministry building on Sunday. (Obtained by Reuters) (Reuters)

Investigators found four different types of guns, three hand grenades, one rocket launcher, and C-4 explosives at the scene.

The ministry confirmed at least on the the two attackers is a member of Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK. The second attack has yet to be identified.

The PKK, a Kurdish militant group classified as a terrorist group organisation by Turkey, the United States, and Europe, issued a statement earlier claiming responsibility for the bomb, pro-PKK newsgroup Firat News Agency reported. The group said the attack was "carried out according to plan without any obstacles."

Just hours after the fatal explosion, Turkey destroyed 20 PKK targets in northern Iraq, according to a statement released by the country's National Defence Ministry.

Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes in the Metina, Hakurk, Kandil, and Gara regions at 9pm. local time, destroying caves, bunkers, shelters and warehouses used by the PKK, the defence ministry wrote.

The attackers struck hours before Turkish MPs were set to return to work after their summer break. (Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images) (Getty images)

According to Firat News Agency, a PKK unit dubbed the "Brigade of Immortals" explicitly targeted the opening of the parliament and the ministry building, saying it is considered "a massacre and torture centre."

"Every person should know that the members of the Brigade of Immortals could have achieved a very different result with only a small change in their timing if they had wanted to," the statement attributed to PKK reads.

In the statement, the PKK's People's Defence Center Headquarters Command justified the attack due to what it called the "disregard of human rights, the inhuman practice and policy of isolation in Turkish and Kurdish jails, the use of chemical weapons against KPP guerrilla forces, ecocide in Kurdistan, and the oppression of the Kurdish people."

Security footage of the incident obtained by Reuters shows a vehicle slowing down on the street near the building's gated entrance.

The vehicle comes to a stop then the driver's side door slowly opens. One individual exits as a second emerges from the other side of the car. The second person approaches the entrance in a tactical stance, though it's unclear if the attacker is holding a firearm, while the first hides behind the car. The assailant in motion hurries quickly past what appears to be a guard tower. A large explosion then strikes.

After, through the smoke, the contours of what appears to be the first attacker move toward the gate before the 40-second clip ends.

The apparent guard tower in front of the entrance to the building was slightly damaged in the blast. Police have since cordoned off the area, and video from the scene from CNN affiliate CNN Turk appeared to show a bomb squad searching the area for other suspicious package.

Turkish security forces cordon off an area after the explosion in Ankara, (AP Photo/Ali Unal) (AP)

A bomb found on the body of the neutralised terrorist was set off after the attack in a controlled explosion, one of at least two that could be heard on television footage.

Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said that an investigation has been launched into the incident.

"These attacks will in no way hinder Turkey's fight against terrorism," Tunc said on X. "Our fight against terrorism will continue even more determinedly."

The bombing took place just hours before politicians were set to return to work after the summer break at 2pm.

In his address to legislators, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed that Turkey would continue its fight against terrorism "until the last terrorist is eliminated domestically and abroad" following Sunday's attack.

"The vile people who took aim at the peace and security of our citizens did not reach their goal and they never will," he said.

A bomb disposal expert works next to a car after the explosion in Ankara, (Yavuz Ozden/Dia Images via AP) (AP)

The PKK has been waging an insurgency against Ankara for four decades.

In recent years, Turkey has carried out a steady stream of operations against the group domestically as well as cross-border operations into Syria, where a PKK-affiliated Kurdish group controls large swaths of territory.

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＊Kurdish woman wearing traditional clothes and smoking kalyan, 1916-1918.

Via Twitter/Middle East & North Africa Visuals (+photo)

＊Geleneksel kıyafetleri giyen ve nargileyi içen Kürt kadını, 1916-1918.

Twitter/Ortadoğu ve Kuzey Afrika Görselleri aracılığıyla (+fotoğraf)

＊Jina Kurda ku cil û bergên gelêrî li xwe dike û kalyan dikişîne, 1916-1918.

Bi rêya Twitter/Rojhilata Navîn û Dîmenên Afrîkaya Bakur (+wêne)

＊民族衣装を身につけ､水タバコを吸うクルド人女性(1916-1918年)｡

Twitter/中東& 北アフリカ・ビジュアル(画像とも)

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Clan MacBeth (Arab-Greek Medicine)

Clan MacBeth, had a particular medical trade in the British Isles and France, wherein they would function as a doctor with a leather satchel, a bottle of whiskey, a buck knife, and a matchlock.

They would enforce medical codes, wherein only a woman, could be a pharmacist (an apothecary), men placing ego into the work of selling opium to smoke, to ease pain.

The philosophy of Clan MacBeth’s practice of medicine, was that any injury, could not be treated, hence seeking a doctor, was an act of accounting in fatality of force.  Anyone practicing medicine, was taken to a doctor, and any male pharmacist, was murdered, with knife and matchlock, whiskey consumed after.

At the time, it was a rare trade, bound to bloodlines like Hippocrates, Avicenna, and Verrigoes.

However, William Shakespeare, the pen alias for Ottoman highblood of London, William Wallace, combined with Longshanks’s line, desired the role to be duplicated, to make the medicine more efficient and widespread, favoring the Bruce’s style of Kurdish marijuana dealing medicine.  Elizabeth I, the first Queen of England, and the founder of the Anglican Church, upon which relied the Globe Theater’s testaments to teach Groundlings to be Gentry, a new class of Noble for merchantry (prior restricted in the Catholic Church, to families with a purchased bishop, archbishop, cardinal, or papal title in the family, held for remainder of life of descendents, repurchased into the Church at any time).

The idea, was to outmaneuver a superior base of agriculture, the Continent, using Ireland and England’s scant resources, for an advantage, art being the Ottoman system of transmitting a professional or career role, when on Ottoman performed the scribe, in their particular manner (male actors, children as crossdressers to perform female roles and then rise into ranks of “villains”, lawyers and magistrates, and “thespians”, writer assassins, to do field research).

The basis of Puck, Romeo, and MacBeth, was the doctor chosen, Puc Lascerdes, and he took up his leather handbag, his traveling satchel, and performed the research for each play, then establishing inside the Globe Theater, whose descent would be the mercantile houses of Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, and Paris, as well as the Canadian and American Colonies, eventually the whole world; the Turkish concept of conquest, fielded through art mimicking the work in question, through the death of the “Witch”, Othello, those applying fictional works derived from the already existing formulas, to produce more; the proper choice, to become a Gentry, a man or woman of status, being to comprehend, not to apply, any literature, using theory, not application, of art.

Being a member of Clan MacBeth, and having created the concept of the fatality of medicine, you owe me everything for your modern clinical system; the concept of art, making you seek a medic, to die happily, on opium, and perhaps, should you wish to practice medicine yourself and drink whiskey (particularly Arab whiskey, Jim Beam), you can see a doctor too.