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The Nerd Parent's Guide: When and how to introduce your kids to Star Wars May 7, '12 Comments [50] Posted in Daddy Sponsored By Let me start by saying I'm not a big Star Wars guy. I enjoyed the films when I was growing up (I think I saw the original (Ep. 4 ANH) in 1980 along with Empire Strikes Back in 1980) but I haven't thought much about them since. That said, I appreciate the films and I like movies in general. Watching movies with my kids (usually Pixar movies) have brought us a lot of shared joy as a family. However, Star Wars are fun and classics and we wanted to share them with our kids in a way that worked for everyone given their age and our parenting style. TL;DR Version Show Star Wars to your kids when you think they can discuss and analyze the themes appropriate. That might be 5, it might be 10. They're your kids. Don't forget you can skip parts. Show them the movie in 20 minute segments and make it a serial adventure rather than a movie. Show the films in "Machete Order" which is episodes 4,5,2,3,6. This maintains surprises while ending on a high note. Yes, episode 1 is hacked out and not shown. You can show it at the end of it all along with the Clone Wars cartoons and bill them as supplemental material. Consider Harmy's Despecialized Version fan edit or the Star Wars: Revisited fan edit. Make the films an event with crafts and discussion of mythology rather than just dumping in on their little brains. You Stayed to Read it All Version We are extremely conscious of our two boys' "screen time." They don't use the computer or play video games and they can watch TV on "show days." Show Days for us are Tues, Friday and Saturday when they can watch 20-30 minutes of TV. That adds up to about 90 minutes of screen time a week. We'd rather they dance around, dig in the dirt and play, which they do very well. The boys watch Wild Kratts, Super Hero Squad and a few other kids' shows. They are 4 and a half and 6 and a half. Lately the topic - actually more the mythology - of Star Wars has been coming up. "Daddy, who is Dark Vader? Is he a bad guy? I heard he has a Light Saver." As both boys are in school it was inevitable that this topic would come up amongst the other kids. We're not ones to give in to peer pressure but in this case the boys seemed extremely interested in the characters, and as an extension the ideas around space, distance, planets, travel and the meta-topic of good vs. evil. The wife and I were aiming to wait until they were 6 and 8 to watch Star Wars but since the interest was so high we decided to give it a try in a very structured way. Everyone's kids are different. One 10 year old might not like the aliens in the cantina while other person's 5 year old would be fascinated by how they constructed the masks and not believe they were real aliens. Our kids tend to be "makers," and as such are always constructing and deconstructing. They also understand the idea of actors and general movie making having made small films on an iPod touch so here's how we decided as parents to introduce our two boys to Star Wars. Disclaimer: Everyone's kids are different. I'm not advocating, preaching or suggesting that you should do any of this. If some of it works for you, great, if not or if you disagree, also great. This system worked for us. 4 year old on Empire Strikes Back:"Why didn't Luke use The Force to stay warm? This makes NO sense." — Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) May 6, 2012 Structure and Time First, I watched the first 1977 Star Wars to refresh my memory about the themes and general tone. We didn't want to put two hyper little people in front of effectively what is an intense two hour chase scene that they wouldn't understand. We also wanted to see if there were some scenes that we wanted to avoid all together. My favorite site for getting into extreme detail on a film's content is Kids In Mind. I use this site before the boys and I watch anything. In this case Kids In Mind has this to say about Star Wars. Smoking skeletons are seen; many people are threatened with laser guns and sometimes are actually shot (resulting in some deaths but no blood). An arm is cut off and some blood is seen. A few scuffles and attacks, and a couple of explosions. A man is strangled and a man is lifted by his throat and then his limp body is tossed across a room. This is an excellent and short summary of the three scenes that concerned me. The arm cut off in the cantina, the skeleton at Luke's house and Vader force-choking people, as well as general lasers and chaos. We decided that we'd show them the first movie (ep. 4 ANH) in 20 minute sittings. We literally sat down, watched 20 minutes at a time then stopped it. Star Wars IV: A New Hope is 125 minutes long, so about 5 or 6 sittings. It took us two weeks to watch the movie, which was just about right. We also skipped over the severed arm in the Cantina as it's the only blood shown in the first movie and kinds of stands out in a gross way. We also implied that Luke's Aunt and Uncle ran away and the smoking husk in front of the house was a droid that was caught in the fire. These two small omissions cut out 90% of the violence that we were uncomfortable with. The rest we deal with by showing the movie in chunks as well as using each segment as an opportunity to talk about interesting topics as a family. Discussion The benefits of splitting the movie up into two weeks of six segments are many. The most significant benefit given that the audience is children was time for discussion and "cool down." Little boys LOVE action. My boys were concocting crazy scenarios with good guys, bad guys and explosions long before they even knew what a television was. They are hard-wired for action, but again, two hours of action is too much for our little people. Twenty minute segments gave the boys one effectively interesting action segment and a bunch of expository dialogue. Watching "Empire Strikes Back" with the 6 year old. Han and Leia are kissing. "Oh, man, AGAIN in this movie?!?" — Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) May 6, 2012 Each time something interesting happened or something intense happened we would pause the show and say something like "wow, why did Han do that?" This would often turn into a 10 minute discussion between us - and more often between the two boys - debating the merits of one action versus another. It also allowed the kids to connect to the story more than the action. If we got the sense that they weren't understanding the movie we would just stop it and try again in 6-12 months. No joke. There's no point showing a movie to a kid if they aren't going to understand the themes. In a fast moving films it can be hard to keep track of what's happening and who is who. Stopping every 10 minutes or so for a discussion or a feigned confused parent question like "Wait, why is that guy mad at that guy? Who are they?" gives the kids a chance to absorb the content as well as good practice in explaining complex plots to adults. Watching only 20 minutes at a time also took what would have been an intense two hour explosion and turned it into a fun weekly episodic serial with the excitement of "what will happen next?" propelling the boys through the week. More discussions and analysis continued and continues even now. The boys haven talked about good and bad, when to fight and when not to. Version There's lots of versions of Star Wars as George Lucas continues to tinker with it. The Special Editions that came out in 1997 included lots of computer graphics tweaks and changes. He continued to make changes in 2004 when Star Wars was released on DVD and again when it was released on 2011 on Blu-Ray. There have been a number of "fan edits" of Star Wars but one of the highest quality and certainly the most popular is "Harmy's Despecialized Edition." This edition takes nine different sources and merges them together into an excellent fan preservation. The Despecialized HD version is a 720 AVCHD dual-sided DVD9. Nerd on: You likely know that a DVD can hold about 5 gigs and shows films at 480p (480 horizontal lines of resolution) and a Blu-Ray can hold 25 gigs (or 50 gigs when dual later) and show films at 1080p. There was another interstitial format that is used on dual layer DVDs that can hold almost 9 gigs. The AVCHD (Advanced Video Coding High Definition) format is similar to Blu-Rays (it's a derivative, effectively) and you'll find it in many Camcorders. It originally supported 720p. You can get the Star Wars Despecialized Edition HD in an AVCHD format for a Dual Layer DVD9. This is a lovely 720p fan edit that is playable on many Blu-Ray Players. I own the original DVD boxed set as well. You are required to own a legitimate copy in order to watch a fan edit and you must never pay for a fan edit. There's box art and labels you can download to put together your own copies for the home. There's a number of nice YouTube comparison clips showing your choices so you can decide if you care or not about showing a fan-edit. We watched the Harmy Edit and at least *I* appreciated the effort and attention to details. Wife watching Star Wars for the first time: "It's that 'Hans' Solo? He was in Sabrina!" — Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) April 30, 2012 Movie Ordering We all watched the movies in the order they came out which is 4,5,6 then 1,2,3. When you're showing the Star Wars movies to a new person you have the advantage to show them the movies in whatever order you like. The most popular and well respected alternate order is Machete Order from Rod Hilton. He recommends showing the movies in this order: 4 - Star Wars: A New Hope 5 - Empire Strikes Back 2 - Attack of The Clones 3 - Revenge of the Sith 6 - Return of the Jedi You'll notice there is no film #1. That's for a number of reasons, some passionate but others logical and well-reasoned. Passion: "Episode I is a failure on every possible level. The acting, writing, directing, and special effects are all atrocious, and the movie is just plain boring. Luckily, George Lucas has done everyone a favor by making the content of Episode I completely irrelevant to the rest of the series. Seriously, think about it for a minute. Name as many things as you can that happen in Episode I and actually help flesh out the story in any subsequent episode." Logic: Every character established in Episode I is either killed or removed before it ends (Darth Maul, Qui-Gon, Chancellor Valorum), unimportant (Nute Gunray, Watto), or established better in a later episode (Mace Windu, Darth Sidious). Does it ever matter that Palpatine had an apprentice before Count Dooku? Nope, Darth Maul is killed by the end of Episode I and never referenced again. You may as well just start with the assumption that Dooku was the only apprentice. Does it ever matter that Obi-Wan was being trained by Qui-Gon? Nope, Obi-Wan is well into training Anakin at the start of Episode II, Qui-Gon is completely irrelevant. Search your feelings, you know it to be true! Episode I doesn't matter at all. He goes on to explain not only that Episode #1 doesn't matter but also that the really exciting surprises like who Luke's father is and others are maintained with this order. Given that our kids are younger, we will stop the series for a while after Attack of the Clones. Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith is super dark and the most physically violent of the films. I want to wait until I feel the boys are ready to internalize that much intensity. I suspect that will be around 10 years or, perhaps older. After that we'll pick up where we left off. You should decide on your own but it's useful to be aware or reminded how dark episode 3 really is. "Why was Obi Wan the only one who clicked his seat belt in the Millennium Falcon?" - my 6 year old — Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) April 29, 2012 Conclusion We've introduced our little people to the Star Wars mythology in a slow and structured way. There's been more talking and playing in the backyard so far than actual movie watching. There's been discussions of movie making and how to make an alien mask. There's been cardboard light sabers and grappling hooks made of straws. There's been hours of discussion about character motivations, why good guys do good stuff, why bad guys do bad stuff and why Han Solo likes money and whether or not we should "mess with Yoda." Overall, my wife and I are happy with the results. I hope this post helps you and your kids jump into Star Wars. I'm off now to deal with the burning question in our household this week: "Who took Chewbacca's pants?" About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By
Introducing Workspace Reloader - A Visual Studio AddIn to save your open files across project reloads May 2, '12 Comments [27] Posted in Open Source | VS2010 Sponsored By A while back my buddy Sam Saffron (from Stack Overflow and Mini Profiler) complained to me on Skype that he was finding it very irritating that every time he updated his project outside of Visual Studio he would be prompted to "Reload Project" and would lose all his open files because Visual Studio would close them. This apparently is becoming kind of an issue at Stack Overflow. Since they use distributed source control and often have a dozen or more folks all coding inside the same project they are integrating all the time. They'll be deep into something, update their project to test it and all their open windows close. It's a weird Visual Studio behavior that I've never understood. Visual Studio saves all your open files and window positions when you close the IDE and restores them when you open your solution. But when you open a project then right click and "Unload Project" you'll lose all your windows. I've reported it as a bug and it's also been voted up at User Voice, visited as a Question at StackOverflow, and a few folks have tweeted about it (The SO guys with their thumbs on the scale, no doubt) and been bugging some folks but then I got the idea to just fix it myself. It'd be a good chance to write my first Visual Studio Add-In, see if this is even possible, and fix an irritant at the same time. DOWNLOAD: Workspace Reloader Visual Studio Add-in - "This package will reload the code files you had open when your project file was modified and unloaded then reloaded" Warranty: To be clear this is the smallest of extensions. It only listens to two events and it's only 12k so you have no reason that I know of to be afraid of it. Plus, it works on my machine so you've got that going for you. Creating a Visual Studio Extension Developing Visual Studio Extensions requires some patience. It's gotten a lot better with Visual Studio 2010 but back in the 2003-2005 days it was really hairy. There's a number of different kinds of things you can extend. You can add menus, add tool bars, commands, new templates, new kinds of designers and visualizers, as well as use just the shell to create your own IDE. I wanted to create an add-in with Zero UI. I had no need for buttons or menus, I just wanted to listen to events and act on them. I downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 SDK after reading this blog on extending Visual Studio 2010. Make sure you get the right version. I have Visual Studio 2010 SP1 so I needed the updated Visual Studio 2010 SP1 SDK. I made a new Visual Studio Package. This builds into a VSIX (which is just a ZIP file - isn't everything?). A VSIX has a manifest (which his just XML - isn't everything?) that you can edit in a GUI or as a text file. I want my VSIX package to work on Visual Studio 11 Beta as well as Visual Studio 2010 so I added to the SupportedProducts node like this. VSIXs other than templates aren't supported in Express (I keep pushing, though): <SupportedProducts> <VisualStudio Version="10.0"> <Edition>Ultimate</Edition> <Edition>Premium</Edition> <Edition>Pro</Edition> </VisualStudio> <VisualStudio Version="11.0"> <Edition>Ultimate</Edition> <Edition>Premium</Edition> <Edition>Pro</Edition> </VisualStudio></SupportedProducts> I also setup the name, version and description in this file. I need to decide when my package is going to get loaded. You can add one or more ProvideAutoLoad attributes to a Package class from the VSConstants class. A number of blogs posts say you need to hard code a GUID like this, but they are mistaken. There are constants available. [ProvideAutoLoad("{ADFC4E64-0397-11D1-9F4E-00A0C911004F}")] I can have my package automatically load in situations like these: NoSolution SolutionExists SolutionHasMultipleProjects SolutionHasSingleProject SolutionBuilding SolutionExistsAndNotBuildingAndNotDebugging SolutionOrProjectUpgrading FullScreenMode For my package, I need it loaded whenever a "Solution Exists," so I'll use this Constant (in lieu of a hard coded GUID): [ProvideAutoLoad(VSConstants.UICONTEXT.SolutionExists_string)] Next, I wanted to listen to events from the Solution like the unloading and loading of Projects. I started with the IVsSolutionsEvents interface that includes OnBefore, OnAfter and OnQuery for basically everything. Elisha has a simple listener wrapper as an answer on StackOverflow that I modified. The SolutionEventsListener uses the very useful Package.GetGlobalService to get hold of the solution. IVsSolution solution = Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(SVsSolution)) as IVsSolution;if (solution != null){ solution.AdviseSolutionEvents(this, out solutionEventsCookie);} We then sign up to hear about things that might happen to the Solution using the IVsSolutionEvents interfaces and making them look like friendly events. public event Action OnAfterOpenProject;public event Action OnQueryUnloadProject;int IVsSolutionEvents.OnAfterOpenProject(IVsHierarchy pHierarchy, int fAdded){ OnAfterOpenProject(); return VSConstants.S_OK;}int IVsSolutionEvents.OnQueryUnloadProject(IVsHierarchy pRealHierarchy, ref int pfCancel){ OnQueryUnloadProject(); return VSConstants.S_OK;} I want to hear about things just before Unload happens and then act on them After projects Open. I'll save the Document Windows. There's an interface that manages Documents and Windows for the Shell called, confusingly enough IVsUIShellDocumentWindowMgr. I save the windows just before the unload and reopen them just after the project opens. Unfortunately these are COM interfaces so I had to pass in not an IStream but an OLE.IStream so while the ReopenDocumentWindows is easy below... listener.OnQueryUnloadProject += () =>{ comStream = SaveDocumentWindowPositions(winmgr);};listener.OnAfterOpenProject += () => { int hr = winmgr.ReopenDocumentWindows(comStream); comStream = null;}; The SaveDocumentWindowPositions is more complex, but basically "make a memory stream, save the documents, and seek back to the beginning of the stream." private IStream SaveDocumentWindowPositions(IVsUIShellDocumentWindowMgr windowsMgr){ if (windowsMgr == null) { return null; } IStream stream; NativeMethods.CreateStreamOnHGlobal(IntPtr.Zero, true, out stream); if (stream == null) { return null; } int hr = windowsMgr.SaveDocumentWindowPositions(0, stream); if (hr != VSConstants.S_OK) { return null; } // Move to the beginning of the stream with all this COM fake number crap LARGE_INTEGER l = new LARGE_INTEGER(); ULARGE_INTEGER[] ul = new ULARGE_INTEGER[1]; ul[0] = new ULARGE_INTEGER(); l.QuadPart = 0; //Seek to the beginning of the stream stream.Seek(l, 0, ul); return stream;} If this does it's job you'll never know it's there. You can test it by installing Workspace Reloader, opening a project and opening a few code files. Now, edit the CSProj as a text file (maybe add a space somewhere) and save it. Visual Studio should prompt you to Reload the Project. Workspace Reloader should keep your files and windows open. I hope this helps a few people. The source is here. About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By
A world of pretty cloud drive icons - SkyDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, BitBucket and GitHub April 24, '12 Comments [16] Posted in Musings Sponsored By Today Google Drive and Windows SkyDrive came out with clients for Windows and Mac. There's also SkyDrive apps for Windows Phone, iPhone, or iPad and OneNote apps that sync to SkyDrive for Windows Phone, Android,iPhone, or iPad. I'm a paying DropBox customer myself with over 60 gigs in there. I also use BitBucket and GitHub for source code. I also like tidy and pretty icons, for folders, programs and external drives. I made custom icons for the Visual Studio Command prompt as well as Visual Studio in PowerShell. I put all these new cloud folders as well as my GitHub and BitBucket folders (these aren't custom apps, just folders where I keep my source repositories) in my favorites in Windows Explorer. I made custom .ICO icons for GitHub and BitBucket from high-res PNGs. Just right click on a Folder, click Properties, then Shortcut Change Icon to select your custom icon. Select your icon from your folder properties as shown in this screenshot: That DropBox icon isn't fitting in with my whole "Cloud Folder" aesthetic. I was going to make a custom DropBox icon by combining their icon along with the standard Windows Explorer folder icon but I double-checked the Dropbox.exe first. You never know if the designer may have left some optional or alternative views of an icon in the EXE. Plus we know that the DropBox folks pay attention to details. I can see in %APPDATA%\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe that there are other views of the main DropBox icon. Ah, that's much nicer! I put my custom icons up on SkyDrive. About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By


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Cognition Volume 115, Issue 2, Pages 343-349
By George E. Newman, Kristi L. Lockhart and Frank C. Keil
When evaluating the moral character of others, people show a strong bias to more heavily weigh behaviors at the end of an individual's life, even if those behaviors arise in light of an overwhelmingly longer duration of contradictory behavior. Across four experiments, we find that this "end-of-life" bias uniquely applies to intentional changes in behavior that immediately precede death, and appears to result from the inference that the behavioral change reflects the emergence of the individual's "true self".
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The island of Cyprus had been a British Crown Colony since 1925, but in 1960, it received its independence. The United States recognized Cyprus on August 16, 1960. In 1983, a Turkish-controlled area located on the northern section of the island declared its independence, calling itself the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Turkey has been the only country in the world to recognize the TRNC, however. Although the United States has never recognized the TRNC, it has consistently maintained its diplomatic relations with Cyprus since 1960.
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The United States recognized Cyprus on August 16, 1960, when the decision was announced in a Department of State press release.
Diplomatic relations and the American Embassy in Nicosia were established on August 16, 1960, when the American Consulate General was elevated to an embassy, with L. Douglas Heck as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim. Ambassador Fraser Wilkins presented his credentials on September 19, 1960.


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Party of Free Life of Kurdistan
Party of Free Life of Kurdistan | |
Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê | |
Leader | Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi |
Founded | 2007 |
Armed wing | East Kurdistan Defence Units (YRK) |
Women's wing | Yerjerika |
Ideology | Democratic confederalism Kurdish nationalism Democratic socialism Feminism Libertarian socialism Libertarian municipalism |
Political position | Far-left |
Religion | None (Marxist humanist) |
International affiliation | Koma Civakên Kurdistan |
The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan[1][2] (Kurdish: پارتی ژیانی ئازادی کوردستان or Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê or PJAK, also known in English as Free Life Party of Kurdistan,[3][4] Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan,[5][6][7][8] and sometimes referred to as PEJAK), is a Kurdish political and militant organisation which has waged an intermittent armed struggle since 2004 against the Iranian government to seek cultural and political rights and self-determination for Kurds in Iran.
Most experts describe PJAK as an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).[9] According to the New York Times, the PJAK shares the same leadership and logistics of the PKK militants in Turkey, as well as allegiance to its leader, Abdullah Öcalan, but unlike the PKK fights Iranian government forces rather than the Turkish government ones.[10] Both groups are members of the Group of Communities in Kurdistan (Koma Civakên Kurdistan or KCK), an umbrella group of Kurdish political and insurgent groups in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq.[11][12]
The membership of PJAK's armed wing, the YRK, is estimated to be 3,000 and come from Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and the Kurdish diaspora.[13] The group is considered a banned terrorist organisation by Iran,[14] Turkey,[15] and the United States.[16]
Policies and structure[edit]
The exact history of PJAK is widely disputed.[17] Turkey and Iran claim that PJAK is nothing more than an off-shoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).[17] According to some sources, members of the PKK founded the PJAK in 2004 as an Iranian equivalent to their leftist-nationalist insurgency against the Turkish government.[18]
According to founding members of PJAK, however, the group began in Iran around 1997 as an entirely peaceful student-based human rights movement.[17] The group was inspired by the success of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region and by the PKK's struggle in Turkey.[17] Discouraged by the failure of previous Kurdish revolts, however, PJAK's leaders initially worked only to maintain and build a Kurdish national identity and to thwart the Iranian government's attempts to re-brand Iranian Kurds as ethnic Persians or Aryans.[17] After a series of government crackdowns against Kurdish activists and intellectuals, the group's leadership moved to the safety of Iraqi Kurdistan in 1999.[17] There they settled in the area controlled by the PKK on the slopes of Mount Qandil—less than 10 miles from the Iranian border.[17] Once established at Qandil and operating under the PKK's security umbrella, PJAK adopted many of the political ideas and military strategies of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, whose theories had initially inspired PJAK's founders while still in Iran.[17] The PKK's ideological influence also transformed PJAK from a civil rights movement to a more ambitious and multi-directional independence movement, aided by the transfer of many seasoned PKK fighters of Iranian origin into PJAK.[17]
The present leader of the organisation is Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi. According to the Washington Times, half the members of PJAK are women, many of them still in their teens.[19] The group actively recruits female guerrillas and states that its "cruelest and fiercest fighters" are women drawn to the movement's "radical feminism".[20]
PJAK is a member of the Koma Civakên Kurdistan (KCK), which is an alliance of outlawed Kurdish groups and divisions led by an elected Executive Council. The KCK is in charge of a number of decisions under the movement, and often, release press statements on behalf of its members.
The PJAK also has sub-divisions:[21]
- PJAK's armed-wing - "East Kurdistan Defense Units" (Yekîneyên Parastina Rojhilatê Kurdistan, YRK);
- PJAK women's branch - "Women's Defence Forces" (Hêzên Parastina Jinê, HPJ), dedicated to serving women's interests within the group and women interests in general;
- Youth and student branch.
The PKK is also a member of KCK,[12][11] and according to the New York Times, the PJAK and PKK "appear to a large extent to be one and the same, and share the same goal: fighting campaigns to win new autonomy and rights for Kurds. The only difference is that the PJAK fights in Iran, and PKK fights in Turkey. They share leadership, logistics and allegiance to Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK leader currently imprisoned in Turkey."[10]
Like the present PKK goals in Turkey, PJAK leaders say their long-term goals are to establish an autonomous Kurdish region within the Iranian state.[22] PJAK leadership claims that the group's goals are mainly focused on replacing Iran's theocracy with a "democratic and federal government", where "self-rule is granted to all ethnic minorities of Iran, including Arabs, Azeris, and Kurds".[23]
Armed conflict and arrests[edit]
East Kurdistan Defense Units Yekîneyên Parastina Rojhilatê Kurdistan (YRK) |
Dates of operation | 2004–present |
Leader(s) | Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi |
Motives | To establish semiautonomous regional entities or Kurdish federal states in Iran, Turkey and Syria similar to the Kurdistan Regional Government,[22] and establish a democratic confederalism as theorised by Abdullah Öcalan. |
Active region(s) | Iraq, Turkey and Iran |
Ideology | Secularism, Kurdish nationalism Feminism, Democratic confederalism |
Status | Active |
Women's Defence Forces Hêzên Parastina Jinê (HPJ) |
Dates of operation | 2014–present |
Motives | To stop the wave of executions in Iran; to stop the oppression of women, the loss of culture, prostitution, slavery and injustice. |
Active region(s) | Iraq, Turkey and Iran |
Ideology | Secularism, Kurdish nationalism Feminism, Democratic confederalism |
Status | Active |
The armed wing of the PJAK, the East Kurdistan Defense Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Rojhilatê Kurdistan, YRK), is engaged in an armed conflict with the Iranian authorities since 2004.
Istanbul's Cihan News Agency claimed that over 120 members of the Iranian security forces were killed by PJAK during 2005.[24]
PJAK killed 24 members of Iranian security forces on 3 April 2006, in retaliation for the killing of 10 Kurds demonstrating in Maku by Iranian security forces.[19] On April 10, 2006, seven PJAK members were arrested in Iran, on suspicion that they had killed three Iranian security force personnel. PJAK set off a bomb on 8 May 2006 in Kermanshah, wounding five people at a government building.[25]
As early as mid-2006, the Iranian security forces have confronted PJAK guerrillas in many different occasions along the border inside Iran. Since then, the United States news channel MSNBC claims that the Iranian military has begun bombardments of Kurdish villages in Iraq along the Iranian border while claiming that their primary targets have been PJAK militants. A number of civilians have died.[26] PJAK claims its guerrillas fight inside Iran, and in August 2007, managed to destroy an Iranian military helicopter that was conducting a forward operation of bombardment by Iranian forces.[27]
On 24 April 2009, PJAK rebels attacked a police station in Kermanshah province. According to Iranian government sources, 18 policemen and 8 rebels were killed in a fierce gun battle.[28] Iran responded a week later by attacking Kurdish villages in the border area of Panjwin inside Iraq using helicopter gunships. According to Iraqi border guards officials, the area attacked by Iran was not considered a stronghold of PJAK, that appeared to have been the target of the raid. According to the ICRC, more than 800 Iraqi Kurds have been forced from their homes by the recent cross-border violence.[29]
On 16 July 2011, the Iranian army launched a major offensive against PJAK compounds in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq. According to the Revolutionary Guards dozens of rebels have been killed.[30][31] According to the state-run IRNA news agency on 26 July, PJAK militants were killed in clashes in several towns in West Azerbaijan province. Kurdish media reported that at least five Revolutionary Guards were killed.[32]
PJAK spokesperson Sherzad Kemankar announced in an interview with the Iraqi Kurdish newspapers Hawlati and Awene that the Iranian forces attacked PJAK strongholds on July 16, however PJAK succeeded in pushing back the Iranian military to their original positions and 53 Iranian soldiers were killed in the battle while PJAK lost two fighters. Sherzad Kemankar also pointed out that Iranian forces were carrying out a joint operation with Ansar al-Islam using heavy weaponry.[33] Iranian media later reported that General Abbas Asemi, one of the most senior IRGC commanders in the holy city of Qom along with at least 5 other Revolutionary Guard soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdish rebels near the Iraq border.[34]
The Iranian government blames the PJAK for sabotage attacks on gas pipelines and ambushing its troops, according to Reuters, aid agencies say shelling by the Revolutionary Guard has "killed some civilians and forced hundreds to flee their homes" in the area. The Revolutionary Guard denies the charge.[31]
On 8 August 2011, during a lull for Ramadan in the Pasdaran offensive, PJAK leader Haji Ahmadi, told an interviewer his group is prepared to negotiate with Iran and maintained that Kurdish issues need to be solved through "peaceful means". Haji Ahmadi acknowledged that in some cases compromise is inevitable and indicated that PJAK is willing to lay down its arms. He said fighting may not help Kurds secure political and cultural rights in Iran.[35] However, the Guards resumed their offensive on September 2 and rejected any ceasefire call by PJAK, saying the Kurdish rebels have no choice but to lay down arms or leave the border areas. On 19 September, Iran's ground forces commander, Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, told the Vatan-e-Emrooz newspaper his forces would finish off armed Kurdish Iraqi-based rebels in the "coming days".[36]
The rejection of ceasefire offer by PJAK led to new skirmishes between the two sides. On 2 September, after a one month lull in fighting, IRGC began a new round of ground operations against PJAK. On September 9, 2011, Iranian media reported that Brigadier General Abbas Ali Jannesari of the IRGC was killed during a battle with PJAK rebels.[37]
On 30 September 2011, Deputy Commander of the Ground Forces of Iran's IRGC, Brigadier General Abdullah Araqi announced that after the Iranian military captured the Jasosan heights, the PJAK conceded defeat and agreed to retreat one kilometer away from the Iranian border and to refrain from military activities on Iran's soil and recruitment of Iranian nationals.[38][39] According to Iranian media, 180 PJAK militias were killed and 300 wounded during the last operations seizing PJAK's headquarters in Jasosan heights in the Northwestern border regions of Iran.[40]
On 25 April 2012, Iranian media reported that four members of elite Revolutionary Guards were killed and four others were wounded during an attack by PJAK rebels near Paveh in Kermanshah province in western Iran.[41]
Alleged Turkish-Iranian cooperation[edit]
Although the PJAK operates against Iranian rather than Turkish forces, PJAK officials have advanced unverified claims that Turkey, under alleged Islamist policy shifts by the governing AKP, has begun targeting PJAK operations as well—reportedly by engaging in Iranian cooperation that would violate Turkish obligations under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.[42] In 2011, PJAK leader Rahman Haj Ahmadi, in an interview with the conservative activist Kenneth R. Timmerman, claimed that Islamist elements in the units of the Turkish military or Turkish government had deliberately aligned with Iranian forces to suppress the secular PJAK in Iran. Ahmadi alleged that the Turkish special operations, in conjunction with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), were utilizing IDF Heron drones to monitor PJAK guerrilla positions and movements.[43] Separately, the Firat News Agency also alleged that Turkish armed forces sent up to 20 tanks and 300 Special Forces troops,[44] reportedly to assist the IRGC,[43] which in a separate move had purportedly begun using Ansar al-Islam guerrillas to reclaim Iranian areas then under PJAK control.[43] Zimmerman has also alleged that the Turkish military and the IRGC maintain a joint headquarters at Urmia, Iran, at which Turkish military officials offer advice and train IRGC forces in anti-Kurdish activities.[42] The Government of Turkey has since dismissed the allegations of Turkish involvement with Iran against the PJAK.[44]
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Both the United States and PJAK have always denied any form of cooperation between themselves. Since February 2009, PJAK has even been blacklisted as a terrorist organization by the US government, freezing any assets the PJAK has under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibiting American citizens from doing business with the organization. Officials have cited PJAK's connections to the PKK as the basis for this designation—the US has proscribed the PKK as a "Foreign Terrorist Organisation" since 1997 in support of Turkey, a staunch regional ally of the US and fellow NATO member.[16] Nevertheless, Iranian media and government figures have frequently charged that PJAK is covertly supported by the United States and its allies in order to undermine Iranian state power. For example, the Iranian news agency PressTV alleged that US military officials met in Iraq with members of PJAK in early August 2011 and promised them weapons and financial aid.[45] Iranian officials have also claimed that PJAK attacks come "with the support of America and the Zionist regime".[31]
Iranian allegations have found some support from several figures in the West. On 18 April 2006, US Congressman Dennis Kucinich sent a letter to then-president George W. Bush in which he asserted that the US is likely to be supporting and coordinating with PJAK, since PJAK operates and is based in Iraqi territory under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government.[46] In November of the same year, journalist Seymour Hersh, writing in The New Yorker, supported this claim, further stating that the US military and Israel are giving the group equipment, training, and targeting information in order to create internal pressures in Iran.[47]
Hersh's claims sparked much fury in the Turkish media due to the ties between PJAK and the PKK, which has waged a decades-long armed campaign against Turkish state forces for rights and self-determination for Kurds in Turkey. Ross Wilson, the US ambassador to Turkey, quickly issued an official denial of any kind of American assistance to PJAK in an effort to quell the uproar;[48] Wilson also sent a classified cable to Washington in December 2007 (which was later released by WikiLeaks) in which he strongly urged the US government to officially blacklist PJAK.[49] In the wake of this incident, high-ranking PKK commander Cemil Bayık asserted in an interview with Agence France-Presse that while US officials had made contact with PJAK, America had provided no support whatsoever to the insurgent group. Maintaining that the PKK was the founder and only real supporter of PJAK, Bayık further stated that "if the US is interested in PJAK, then it has to be interested in the PKK as well", which would contradict the established hostility of the US toward the PKK.[48]
Hoping to take advantage of the longstanding animosity between Washington and Tehran to try and obtain international support in its fight against Iranian forces, PJAK has—without success—made some friendly gestures towards the US in the past. In a June 2006 interview with Slate, PJAK spokesman Ihsan Warya was paraphrased as stating that "PJAK really does wish it were an agent of the United States, and [is] disappointed that Washington hasn't made contact." He cited the productive alliance between the US and the Iraqi Kurdish KDP and PUK during the Iraq War as a reason why the US should also provide support to his organisation.[50] Haji Ahmadi, the leader of PJAK, visited Washington, DC in August 2007 in order to seek political and military backing from the US,[51] but only made limited contact with officials and failed to obtain any such support.[26] But in a statement released on 18 October 2008, PJAK accused the US of having passed intelligence to Turkish and Iranian forces as they conducted intensified bombing campaigns and cross-border attacks against PJAK and PKK bases in the Qandil region.[52]
See also[edit]
- ^ How to Handle the Kurds, Time, Oct. 25, 2007.
- ^ Iraq's other Kurdish rebel group, BBC, Dec. 19, 2007.
- ^ About PJAK, PJAK Official Website.
- ^ Interview with the Secretary general of PJAK, Chris Kutschera, September 2008.
- ^ Iran shells PJAK positions in Iraq, Today's Zaman, May 4, 2008.
- ^ Inevitable Iran-Turkey-Syria-Russia Alliance, Fars, No.5, 2007.
- ^ Iran shells border villages near Sulaimaniya, Radio Aswat Al-Iraq, May 2009.
- ^ http://www.pjak.com/default.asp?p=press_so&intArticle=463&lang=SO
- ^ Jane's intelligence digest: the global early-warning service, P1, Jane's Information Group, 2009
- ^ a b OPPEL Jr, RICHARD A. (October 23, 2007). "In Iraq, Conflict Simmers on a 2nd Kurdish Front". The New York Times. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^ a b Kurdish Info - The PKK and PJAK fighters of Qendil
- ^ a b "Kurdish rebels kill Turkey troops". BBC News. April 8, 2007. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^ James Calderwood. "Dreaming and fighting, the Kurdish guerillas who say 'to be free you must accept suffering'". Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ Narina, E (2010-01-30). "Kurdish prisoner executed in Iran". WashingtonTV. Archived from the original on 2013-12-25. Retrieved 2013-12-25.
- ^ "Turkey, Iran step up fights on PKK, PJAK". Hürriyet Daily News. 26 July 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ^ a b "U.S. brands anti-Iran Kurdish group terrorist". Reuters. February 4, 2009. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Brandon, James (2006-06-15). "Iran's Kurdish Threat: PJAK". http://www.jamestown.org/.
- ^ "The militant Kurds of Iran - Jane's Security News". Janes.com. Retrieved 2008-11-10.[dead link]
- ^ a b Tehran faces growing Kurdish opposition, James Brandon, The Washington Times, April 3, 2006
- ^ "Meet the Kurdish guerrillas who want to topple the Tehran regime.". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ İran karakoluna saldırıyı HRK üstlendi
- ^ a b Partlow, Joshua. "Shelling Near Iranian Border Is Forcing Iraqi Kurds to Flee". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^ "Terrorism Monitor - The Jamestown Foundation". Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ Iran Arrests 7 PKK, April 10, 2006, Cihan News Agency/zaman.com
- ^ "Defence & Security Intelligence & Analysis - IHS Jane's 360". Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ a b Trouble on the Iran-Iraq Border - Newsweek: World News - MSNBC.com
- ^ PJAK helikopter düşürdü
- ^ Death toll 26 in battle with rebels, Gulf Times, May 2009.
- ^ Iran helicopters strike Iraq Kurd villages, AFP, May 2009.
- ^ Kurd rebels kill Basij militiaman: Iran agency| AFP| 29 July 2011
- ^ a b c Iran says killed dozens in push on Kurdish rebels| Aug 17, 2011
- ^ Deaths Reported in Fighting Between Iran, Kurd Rebels| voanews.com| 26 July 2011
- ^ PJAK fighters push back Iranian army, Kurdistan Tribune, July 17, 2011.
- ^ Iran says senior security official killed, Al-Jazeera, Jul 22, 2011
- ^ PJAK Leader: We're Prepared To Negotiate With Iran| rudaw.net 08/08/2011 By ROZH AHMAD ]
- ^ Iran to finish off Kurd rebels in 'days': commander AFP, 19 September 2011
- ^ IRGC officer martyred in fight with PJAK, Tehran Times, 9 September 2011
- ^ 'PJAK surrenders, accepts Iran terms', September 30 2011
- ^ PJAK Terrorist Group Surrenders, October 1 2011
- ^ PJAK Surrenders to Iran, September 29 2011
- ^ 4 IRGC personnel killed in clash with PJAK terrorists, Mehr News Agency, April 25, 2012
- ^ a b Timmerman, Kenneth R. (16 September 2011). "The Turkey-Iran Pact". Frontpage Magazine. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
As we gazed up at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards base set atop the 12,000 foot peaks of the Qandil mountains, a PJAK guerilla told me that Iran and Turkey had established a joint military headquarters in Urmiyeh, Iran, to coordinate their military strikes against the Kurds. "The goal of the Iranians is to drive us from the border area," rebel leader Biryar Gabar told me. "They want to turn this area into a no-man's land, so they can use it to smuggle weapons and Islamist guerillas into Iraq to fight the Americans." ... During the latest round of fighting, PJAK showed off NATO-issue weapons they claimed they had taken from dead Iranian troops, including Western-made night vision goggles, GPS systems, anti-tank missiles, and BKC guns. PJAK has claimed for some time that Iran's ally Turkey has provided NATO weaponry to Iran that has been turned against the Kurds, in direct violation of the North Atlantic Treaty. ... Under the direction of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP, Turkey has increasingly dropped all pretence of remaining a friend and ally of the West. Instead, Erdogan seems intent on throwing in his lot with the Islamists in a bid to restore the Muslim caliphate Ataturk abolished in 1924.
- ^ a b c Timmerman, Kenneth R. (4 August 2011). "Iranian Dissident Leader Claims Victory, Warns US". Newsmax Corporation. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
Iran's biggest advantage was access to intelligence from Israeli-made Heron surveillance drones that Turkish Special Forces troops flew over the battlefield in coordination with Iran's Revolutionary Guards. "This limited our ability to move, but it didn't matter much since most of our positions were underground," Ahmadi told Newsmax.
- ^ a b Timmerman, Kenneth R. (28 July 2011). "Iran, Turkey Escalate Battle Against Iraq Kurds". Newsmax Corporation. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
Turkey sent 20 tanks, 300 special forces troops, and surveillance drones into Iran, eyewitnesses quoted by the Firat news agency reported. [Meanwhile] But as I found out during a visit to the area this February, the PKK camps are hours away from the area where Iran has been battling its own rebel Kurds, who belong to the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan, PJAK.
- ^ US promises PJAK financial, military aid| PressTV| 10 August 2011
- ^ Kucinich Questions The President On US Trained Insurgents In Iran: Sends Letter To President Bush, Dennis Kucinich, April 18, 2006.
- ^ Hersh, Seymour M. (November 20, 2006). "The Next Act". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2006-11-19.
- ^ a b Agence France Presse (AFP). "PKK commander says Washington 'has contact' with Kurdish rebels fighting Iran". The Daily Star Newspaper - Lebanon. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ "#07ANKARA2918". WikiLeaks. 1 September 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ^ Wood, Graeme (June 12, 2006). "Iran Bombs Iraq: Meet the Kurdish guerrillas who want to topple the Tehran regime". Microsoft. Retrieved 2006-12-02.
- ^ "Kurdish leader seeks U.S. help to topple regime". The Washingtion Times. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ "PJAK statement accuses U.S. of supporting Turkey-Iran joint military operations". Washington Post. September 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2014.


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dc.contributor.author | Kenna, Padraic | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-11T09:52:22Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2011-03-11T09:52:22Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Kenna, P. (2003). Housing rights in Ireland. In S. Leckie (Ed.), National perspectives on housing rights. (pp. 259-288). The Hague: Kluwer. | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9789041120137 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1746 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Ireland has been the world leader in house price inflation since 1996, and has reached the highest level of home ownership among the OECD countries.1 Irish government housing policy has given the market a primary role in the production and allocation of new housing. Yet, Ireland has ratified a number of international instruments and Covenants which guarantee rights to housing. There are some important dichotomies in Irish housing law and policy, which result in groups of people who are excluded from the housing market being unable to draw on the benefits of these international human rights standards and norms. Indeed, rights-based approaches are largely absent in housing at all levels, and instead discretion, partnership and consultation appear to be displacing what little language of rights which still exists. Some NGOs are trying to place housing rights on the political agenda, but there is a steep hill to climb in creating awareness of the extent and nature of rights to housing, as well as creating a coherent social movement to advance this approach. | en |
dc.format | application/pdf | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Kluwer | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | International Studies in Human Rights;78 | en |
dc.subject | Law | en |
dc.subject | Housing rights | en |
dc.title | Housing rights in Ireland. | en |
dc.type | Book chapter | en |
dc.local.publishedsource | http://www.brill.nl/product_id18342.htm | en |
dc.description.peer-reviewed | peer-reviewed | en |


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Quiver Critter good?is the quiver critter a good decoy for calling in coyotes? what do you think?
Re: Quiver Critter good?I'm not familiar with that specific decoy. But I've heard the Western Rivers Deceptor Rabbit is very good. In general, these decoys are really hit or miss. You should shop around and look online for big game hunting accessories. You are going to find a whole lot of options.
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ANAHEIM - With summer officially ending Monday, Orange County tourism leaders are expressing relief over a season that yielded better-than-expected business - with theme parks and tourist hot spots drawing strong crowds and hotels nearing capacity.
Overall, hotel occupancy is down slightly from last summer. But some had predicted a dismal summer for tourism with soaring gas prices and a weakening dollar. Those dire predictions weren't realized, tourism officials said.
Ironically, some tourism officials say, the gas prices and shaky economy may have helped bring visitors in and keep locals local.
Vacationers from Orange County and the region who might have planned long-distance car trips instead subscribed to the theory of this summer's buzz word - the "stay-cation."
"Traditionally, about 70 percent of California hotel rooms are booked by California residents," said Jeff Levy, chairman of the Orange County Tourism Council. "And with the economy the way it is, a lot of people that might have been traveling out of state couldn't afford it, so they decided to visit within the state. ⦠That was good for us."
International travelers also took advantage of the weaker dollar to snatch up relative bargains in Southern California this summer.
With the economy already on shaky ground at the start of 2008, hoteliers and operators of tourism hot spots took measures to ensure a strong summer.
Hotel officials said they reduced prices where possible, marketed within state, and turned to booking conventions and large business groups that they typically shy away from during the traditionally busy summer months.
The Anaheim Marriott, for instance, booked a series of youth dance competitions and pharmaceutical business conventions to keep rooms occupied.
The Marriott, within the resort district near Disneyland, and the nearby Anaheim Hilton are undergoing major room renovations. That also forced more of the remaining tourism business to smaller surrounding hotels, said Steve Pufpaf, director of sales and marketing for the Anaheim Marriott.
Disneyland Resorts and Knott's Berry Farm don't release attendance figures, but officials at the theme parks said they heavily marketed to a regional audience and added attractions that helped keep the parks in heavy demand over the summer.
"Vacations are typically one of the last things that families cut (from their budget)," said Suzi Brown, a spokeswoman for Disneyland Resorts. "And we have a great reputation for providing fun, family entertainment."
In Disneyland's California Adventure, a new attraction called Toy Story Mania - a ride based on the popular Pixar movie - opened to "great reviews and huge demand" in June, Brown said.
Such attractions have a reputation for bringing in new guests and bringing back repeat visitors, she added. The Finding Nemo submarine ride, which opened last summer, was still very much in demand this summer.
That resulted in good business for Disney hotels, which were 91 percent full in the second quarter of this year and, according to nearby hotel officials, experiencing occupancy rates similar to last summer. In June, Anaheim hotel occupany was down 5 percent compared to the same month last year.


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Morocco - Imilchil
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The festival held in the town of Imilchil has two purposes: livestock and finding a partner. The event is a homecoming celebration for herders who have spent the summer taking advantage of grazing grounds and there is also a matchmaking aspect to the festival. Different tribes agreed to allow their unmarried members to meet and marry freely at the tomb of Sidi Mohammed Maghani. Also called 'September romance', the occasion gives singletons the chance to sing, dance and flirt in elaborate customs meant to attract a mate. The festival is one of the biggest of its kind in Morocco and attracts thousands of visitors in this exchange of livestock and love.


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In some ways this shot reminds me of the unnatural distortions of Jenny Saville's images – but it's nowhere near as extreme, nor as disturbing – but it does share something of the desire to disrupt the classic form of the female nude. And while I like it (not least because it's a shot of my wife, and I'm biased), and I do think that it's one of the more interesting shots that I've put up recently, I'm not too sure what everyone else will make of it. My wife's comment, despite the fact that she likes this shot, is that "it isn't distorted enough, it just makes my arse look big" :-)
Oh, and if you're interested, I was interviewed by Jessyel Ty Gonzalez of DailySnap.com for a new weekly feature on his site. Thanks Jessyel :-)
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St. Ives Naturally Clear Green Tea Cleanser
139 reviews
55% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.0
Price: $$
Package Quality: 4.0
Price: $$
Active Ingredient Salicylic Acid 2% Other Ingredients: Water (Aqua, Eau), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Glycerin, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Propylene Glycol, Salicylic Acid, Disodium Laureth Sulfosuccinate, Hydroxyethyl Urea, Fragrance (Parfum), Sodium Hydroxide, Menthyl Lactate, PEG-150 Distearate, Disodium EDTA, Phenethyl Alcohol, Limonene, PPG-2 Methyl Ether, Linalool, Epilobium Angustifolium Extract, Olea Europaea (Olive) Leaf Extract, Ascorphyllum Nodosum Extract, Alteromonas Ferment Extract, Methylisothiazolinone, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Yeast Extract (Faex, Extrait De Levure), Green 5 (Ci 61570), Yellow 5 (Ci 19140), Red 4 (Ci 14700), Red 33 (Ci 17200), Blue 1 (Ci 42090).Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I have the scrub, so I thought I'd try the facewash. It works REALLY well. It's cleared up my skin and makes it look fresh, and I love the smell. You can get it now with a different type of pump that you can lock - check out CVS or the grocery store. I only gave it 4 lippies because it's a bit drying, but I have really oily skin, and it's summer, so that's working for me for now.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Sensitive, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
i have rly sensitive skin so it was a little scary using this but it did seem to reduce my redness but it makes my face a little tight but i only used it twice and it rly diminished the blackheads on my nose so im gonna stick it out and see if that tight feeling goes away
Age: 30-35
Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Brown
This is pretty nice stuff. It has 2% BHA, which I prefer in a cleanser. I like the green color and the fruity scent. Comes in a pump bottle and it's cheap. It works to a good lather and leaves my skin feeling smooth and refreshed. I don't find it at all drying but I am quite oily. I'm not sure how well it removes makeup, as I have been using this after grapeseed or mineral oil. I didn't notice any redness reducing like it claims on the bottle but it did not cause any breakouts for me. This didn't knock my socks off or anything but it's a good simple cleanser. I would repurchase if I couldn't find anything I liked better. I do however adore the scrub from this line.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
This cleanser does the job of cleansing the skin. But it also has a big downside it has sulfate. Sure you like foam lather but in the long run it dries up the skin. I will only get it when I am broke and I need a cleanser that is cheap and animal friendly. Well to be honest I will take this instead of the Neutrogena or L'oreal but is solely base on principles. Although I will admit that this cleanser works well with a loofah sponge to scrub down the face sort like I just microderm my face.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Normally, i am a fan of neutrogena products. Before using this product i used to use the neutrogena rapid clear foaming scrub. Honestly, i have been using that product for a loong time (i have bought at least 10 bottles after each use) It was pretty good, but after a long time, i realized it was making my face red and was irritating. so i bought the St. Ives Green Tea Cleaner. The smell is pretty good. It is not green tea smelling as much as it smells like fruit and i guess it has a green tea scent. Because this is a cleanser and it dosen't ave exfoliating beads, i would reccomend using a cleasing brush(rather than using a exfoliating scrub-to avoid the excessive chemicals) This has cleared up my acne and i have to say the scent actually stays on your face after cleansing. This product I think would be good for whiteheads but not cystic acne because sal/ac main job is to slough off dead skin cells and it dosen't really work for cystic acne. For the 1 or 2 cystic pimples i get occasionally, i use a benzoyl peroxide mask. The price is good compared to other facial cleansers. This one was 5.99 at my local ShopRite. Another good thing is that you can find this product almost anywhere i.e ShopRite, Walmart, Target. The packaging is OK, normally i like the snap cap, so it would be good for travel but i can't really complain based on the results this product gave me. Overall this product is good. I said i would buy this product again, however, i am planning to change my facial routines because if i use a product too often it will stop working :/. If this weren't the case i would definetly buy. And yes i recommend this! :)
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Blue
Not the best cleanser I've ever used and not the worst. It foams up quite nicely and does a good job of cleansing. My skin is normally pretty good, but for the past 3 weeks I've been breaking out more than I ever have. This didn't really seem to do anything for my acne, but it's a good morning cleanser whereas I prefer stronger stuff at night. I like the pump bottle but I wish it had a locking mechanism! My skin hasn't been any drier nor is this cleanser breaking me out like other reviews say. The smell is absolutely to die for! I'd buy it as a lotion or perfume in a heart beat!
I'm interested to try the scrub in this line.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Oily, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
this is the worst cleanser i ever used in my life. i have oily/combination skin. when i first used it.. the scent smelled good but it made my skin kinda dry. and i had to put moisturizer on top of it. few days later after continuing using this product, i start breaking out like crazy! never again buying this cleanser again! i really think that all st. ives products aren't the best for my skin type.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Blue
I love this facial cleanser, I use it twice daily, along with the Green Tea scrub every couple of days. What a huge difference these two products have made for my complexion. My once breakout prone skin is now clear, glowing and under control! Love the packaging, pretty and natural, and the scent is wonderful. Salicylic acid helps keep my oily skin under control, and pores clean. Great price for St. Ives products too! Love it!
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Black
this dried out my face like no tomorrow!!!! the first couple days were ok and it made my skin feel refreshed but after that, every morning i'd wake up with awful dry patches on my forehead and around my mouth. I stopped using it and in about 3 days the dry patches were completely gone with exfoliating and lots of moisturizer.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
I really like this product after only about three weeks of use.
First of all, it smells wonderful. If the scent came in a perfume, I'd easily buy it. It doesn't smell like green tea, but much sweeter (almost fruity/floral).
I use it with my Clarisonic as I have very oily skin. My face feels tight, my pores are reduced and my face is just so clean and smooth. It's done wonders for my pimples, and inside of big ones, I usually just get some around my nose and chin now. (And that's a huge change from what I had before I used this product).
I also really like the pump - two pumps and that's enough.
I use it at night and it's great for removing make-up.
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