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Confessions of an Oniomaniac (a.k.a. Shopaholic)
You may think that you just need to snip your credit cards and get handcuffed/blindfolded to kick that shopping habit, but if you compulsively and unstoppably shop with the tendency to drain your bank account dry… you may have a medical condition known as Oniomania.
Oniomania has little to do with onions, and more to do with the impulse control disorder that makes you want to shop till the bank reclaims all that you have and own.
In short, Oniomania is the medical term for being a shopaholic.
Oniomaniacs may aware of the economy that's lately been swinging as violently as a pendulum in an earthquake. But when it comes to shopping, they could care less. Anecdotal accounts of patients with Oniomania tell stories of shopaholics who only swap one object of addiction for another. Got friend(s) that swap buying expensive gold jewellery with Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks (the female equivalents to a Ferrari or Lamborghini, depending on taste), or the latest gadgets for a new BluRay/ DVD collection and HDTV? Case in point.
So how do you treat Oniomania?
Well, it's tough, because not only does our materialistic world approves of this kind of behaviour, but studies say the psychological impact to be as personally damaging as a drug addiction. With credit card debts rising for people afflicted with shopaholism in this climate, it is no trivial laughing matter for the afflicted to put off dealing with this issue.
Here are 3 basic principles worth keeping in mind if you don't want to have your bank pick up your car or house from the overspending:
1. If you don't have the money, don't buy it! - Possibly the equivalent of the noose to the Oniomaniac, buying things on credit no matter how good the deal has reinforced the self-lie that "it's okay" to keep charging one's wants. Make it a habit to buy stuff ONLY when you have the cash at hand intended for that purchase.
2. Have a budget and stick to it. - Listing down what you need to pay for or buy at the start of the month would make it easier to prioritize what to spend for. With discipline in sticking to your budget, you'll be able to stop your itching hands from buying things you don't need. Click here for another resource ('total money makeover' website) for debt related help.
3. Get the hang of figuring out needs vs. wants. - When you can bravely admit to yourself which purchases are actually products of unholy wants, and squarely face and deal with buying only needs, you'll increasingly be able to say "no" to buying the wants, as well as stick to paying for and buying only the needs. When you can face the fact that you need to give up that shoe habit, you're on your first baby step to kicking Oniomania.
In conclusion: In a possession-oriented world, it's tough to kick a habit that's promoted pervasively in TV commercials, bargain deals, and internet OTO (one time offer) ads. But with discipline, a steel gut, and brutal honesty to oneself, Oniomaniacs and Shopaholics may not even need Debtors Anonymous to avoid being driven to the poorhouse. (Productive Pinoy also has some advice for budding entrepreneurs on what to make out of the 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' movie.)
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- the B.Should that read "Confessions of an Oniomaniac"?
- chrisg."couldn't care less"
- Vince V.lol, thanks anyway bob! Corrected.
- magicbeanslove the film
- Vince V.see lots of people reading the book. chick flick, no?
- the B.I'd leave my man muck on that Isla Fisher's face, perhaps that's why her skin's cleared up since Home and Away?
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Whew, another project for Anna Kendrick. Reports are that she's joined "Into the Woods", an adaptation of the Broadway musical. Obviously we know she has singing chops, which she showed off in "Pitch Perfect". She'll play Cinderella in the film that,(from Firstshowing.net): mashes-up classic fairy tales and revolves around a baker and his wife, to be played by James Corden and Emily Blunt. They attempt to lift a family curse by journeying into the woods to confront The Witch, played by Meryl Streep, who put the spell on them. Along their journey they meet classic characters including Rapunzel, Cinderella, Jack and Little Red Riding Hood. In this version, Cinderella is married to a vain prince…"
The film also stars James Corden, Emily Blunt, Johnny Depp, Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Pine and Meryl Streep. Rob Marshall ("Chicago", "Nine") is directing.
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For the first few days it was pretty dead, so I had lots of time to reorganize things, memorize prices and descriptions, and chat about current events, education, economics, etc. We also drank lots of water and set up fans because it was uncharacteristically hot (in Western Washington-speak, read 90 degrees F or above).
Wednesday and Thursday were both 10 hour days, which was indeed exhausting. I was doing a lot of smiling, even by my standards, and if I hadn't gotten enough practice before, I very quickly became an expert cashier (if you ever need one, call me up, although I'm still thinking materials chemistry is a better route than career cashier). I also really solidified those names and prices in my head... I could still name and price pretty much the entire inventory (although if you want to test that, don't wait too long because I can't be sure how long it will last). As it is I will satisfy myself with telling you that Smoke Balls were $5 buy one get one free and this mondo thing called Earth Shaker was $149.99 and I don't think we sold any of them. There were, however, multiple people who came in and spent over $500, which kind of boggles my mind.
Another interesting thing about fireworks in Washington is that, well first, we are allowed to shoot them off in specific periods of time around July 4th. However, things like bottle rockets and firecrackers are illegal. They are legal on any of the, for lack of a better term, Indian Reservations in the area though, and this creates some interesting market dynamics.
Aside from all this, life has continued as normal, as has the attic-cleaning spree. This has dug up many more gems from my childhood, a few of which I will share here.
|The 4th Grade math book that I hated with a passion because it
wanted me to write out all my long division the long way.
|90's child in the snow
|Halloween when I was 4.
I also saw the white rabbit again yesterday. This time it was sitting in somebody's yard right next to a black cat, no joke! If I were superstitious... but it's actually not that weird because there are an awful lot of black cats in the neighborhood these days. :P Lastly, I have acquired new socks, a particularly cute pair of which is pictured below; isn't my life exciting?


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I've seen a lot of portrait editing techniques and how-to's in various magazines and websites all with varying degrees of difficulty, software required and success.
So far my favourite is probably the simplest if you are looking for a sharp, HDR esque photo. You can also paint a mask on it to blend it a little more for a 'Dragan' style portrait. The tutorial for this can be found below and requires lightroom and photoshop (ideally cs5 or 6). This particular tutorial video is by ThatNikonGuy and you can check his other stuff out here.
These are at the extremes of the scale just to show what can be pulled out of an image. Note it will still cause some haloing but this can be either reduced with masking (or just tone down the luminosity layer, not every photo needs to look like this!).
Below I tried it with some posers from Fota Wildlife Park. The original images can probably be found in previous posts. I just wanted to see how non studio based shots would work with it.
Again these are both at extremes but they do work. They will start to show up messy backgrounds if you have them though (like in these shots). If I were to use this technique more I'd probably just highlight small parts of the subject with the technique as the full image definitely doesn't need it unless filling the frame or you have a black background.


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Thank you very much for the QP. It is lovely.
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Thank you so much for this Freebie. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 1 post on Oct. 31, 2009. Thanks again.
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H&N International GmbH, one of the world´s fastest growing primary layer breeding companies, announces the appointment of Centurion Poultry, Inc. as their Distributor for the marketing and sales of H&N branded egg layers in the United States.
H&N International, which has its headquarters in Germany, is a subsidiary of EW Group GmbH. The company distributes H&N layer breeding stock in 35 countries around the world. Due to the highly competitive characteristics of the H&N breeding stock - such as a persistent production rate, good livability, an excellent feed conversion rate, shell quality and optimal egg weight backed by a strong technical support team, the company has experienced a consistent growth in it´s market share over the years and has earned an excellent reputation in the layer industry. Therefore, the launch of field-proven H&N layers in the US market is considered the next logical step.
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The Nationalist Report: Interview with David Duke
October 27, 2010
Mike Conner & Mishko Novosel interview Dr. David Duke. Topics include:
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- The Tea Party, Glenn Beck, and Martin Luther King;
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Judd Lofchie & Associates, Inc. was has been in business for almost 30 years. We have sold or leased or developed millions of square feet of land, retail, and office properties! We have handled shopping centers from 5,000 to 300,000 square feet, office buildings, restaurants, and a lot of land. And we get results!
The most important factors in getting retailers and office users to look at your building is to have a solid "relationship" with them. We have been leasing and selling commercial, residential and vacant land since 1988. We know the players and can get through to them. That's half the battle! We have relationships with developers, real estate brokers, and users and know the people who will buy or lease your property!
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Martin Luther King Award from United Healthcare.
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Cambridge Centre is managed by Morguard Investments Limited, one of Canada's largest integrated real estate companies. As an organization, Morguard is committed to continually improving the environmental performance of our buildings, ensuring safe and comfortable surroundings for our occupants, and contributing to a healthy and sustainable environment in our communities. This has led to the creation of the Green Link program, designed to promote "green" practices within all Morguard buildings.
As a participant in the Green Link program, Cambridge Centre became BOMA BEST Level 3 certified in December 2013. BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) certification is a nationally recognized comprehensive environmental certification program that sets best practice standards for energy and environmental performance of existing buildings utilizing independent audits and educational assessment tools.
Cambridge Centre strives to be a community leader in its environmental initiatives. We are proud of our achievements to date which we focus our efforts on five areas:
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- Building Automation System controls lighting and building temperatures.
- Proud yearly participant in Earth Hour
- Partner in the Demand Response program to shed temporary unneeded electricity demands to lessen the burden on the power grid
- Optimizing building temperatures day and night
- Long-term program in place to replace older HVAC rooftop units with more energy efficient models
- Energy efficient hand dryers in all washrooms. Not only do they save energy, this initiative has diverted over 6,000 pounds of paper hand towel to landfill each year since 2008
- Replacement of MR-16 halogen light bulbs with LED
- Replacement of T-12 fluorescent lamp fixtures with T-8 and T-5 lamps
- Replacement of 1000 watt metal halid fixtures with LED over the ice rink
Water Conservation
- Irrigation system controllers with rain sensors to entire system
- Automatic faucet and stalls in customer washrooms
- Conversion to semi-waterless urinals
- All faucets retrofit with 0.5gpm aerators
- Toilet and faucet leak detection program
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- Received silver award through the Recycling Council of Ontario's 2013 Ontario Waste Minimization Awards
- Energy efficient hand dryers in all washrooms. This initiative has diverted over 6,000 pounds of paper hand towel to landfill each year since 2008.
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Steve Jobs put an end to the Newton project, largely because he hated the concept of using a stylus. The original Palm Pilot was a runaway hit - largely because of the use of the stylus and its handwriting recognition. Now, Palm is dead and Apple is ginormous and Samsung's going all out with the Galaxy Note. So, who was right? Well, maybe they all were.
Just as the iPad is reaching the stratosphere in usage, the stylus is making a comeback.
So, we want to know what you think. Does the stylus inhibit or amplify your touch screen experience? Let us know by taking the short survey below.


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I'm a 26 yr old stay at home mum to miss 2 and mr 9 months. I have struggled with my weight FOREVER, but the weight I was when I first started 'dieting' (73kg) I would love to be now!
On the day I had my son, I weighed in at 120kg , and have since got down to 89.4kg. Looking for lots of support, and chats, and laughs
My first question is, how do you get the cool little diet tickers? I have created one, but am having trouble posting it in my profile????


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The idea for SixStarsUK was one that was born out of frustration. Frustration at the plight of our beloved Blackpool FC and frustration that the range of merchandise sold in the club shop was so limited.
From there we decided that if we were going to do this, we would only make things that WE would wear ourselves. It isn't about just fashion. It is about producing a product that we could be proud of.
I have been a Blackpool fan as long as I can remember. I attended my first game at a 5 years old. I spent many years sitting in the Family Stand in the old West Stand with my Dad and Grandad. I have seen the highs and a great many lows. Seen the dizzying heights from the top of the Premier League and the pits of struggles at the bottom of the old Division 3.
The current predicament our club is in saddens me. So much so that I no longer attend games at Bloomfield Road. Make no mistake, this is not because I don't care. Far from it. I care too much. This is why I'm part of the #NotAPennyMore protest. THIS is why SixStarsUK exists. To provide you with quality that you deserve without feeling like you have been treated like a cash cow. WE ARE JUST LIKE YOU!
Thankfully, Blackpool have a proud history to call upon so coming up with ideas for our designs wasn't hard. We hope to bring you a range of unofficial products that will not only look good but make you remember some of the fantastic moments of our wonderful club.
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I don't know who the fuck Adrianne Palicki is, but she makes Wonder Woman look good. If this show is about her being hot and beating up bitches, I guess I'm interested. Television hasn't been doing it for me since Heroes was canceled. Fucking NBC, make up your mind. This show better last more than 2 seasons. I hope other than being hot and having huge tits, she can fight and shit. I bet you no one is going to watch this garbage. Good job, NBC. First Conan, now this.
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Pitti Uomo 2012 – Impressions, DOs and DON'Ts
The Pitti Imagine Uomo in Florence is not just one of the largest menswear trade shows in the world, but in the last decade it has more and more become an event for spectators, and a real-life catwalk where men ranging from dandesque to rugged luxury try to standout from the crowd. As you can imagine, you can find outfits of any nuance: overdone, inspirational, classic, avantgarde, rugged etc.
Once again, Tommy Ton took a number of pictures for GQ, which are excellent to outline do's and don'ts. In addition we have some pictures from Esquire's Nick Sullivan and from exclusive Firenze.
As always with such lists, it is a subjective selection of noteworthy things and my views on style or my understanding of elegance is by no means absolute but much rather classic.
Tartan Vest
Mid-grey single breasted suit with very high gorge and a loud tartan vest. In order to make it work, he chose a very subtle plain shirt and tie. Sunglasses and hair cut are not my favorite but overall well done.
Vest And Belts
Generally, it is advisable not to wear vests of any kind with belts because the belt adds another layer to the waistband, creating a gap between the trousers and the vest. Also, you will probably see the belt – like in this picture – and it simply destroys the silhouette and looks a bit sloppy.
In this case, Nick Wooster intentionally left his two bottom waistcoat buttons undone in order to show his belt. Not my style but he clearly thought about it and broke the rule intentionally.
Too Many Patterns
This chap wears a very unique double breasted chalk stripe suit with a very wide stripe. On top of that, he tries to wear a bold plaid and a paisley tie and something red in his boutonniere. Although the color palette is not overwhelming, it just looks confusing. A plain overcoat would have been preferable in my opinion.
Here is another example of too many patterns.
Tie Too Long
The gentleman in the left is rather tall compared to the person on the right, though I think his tie is just too long. You will read in many books that a tie has the ideal length if the tip touches the belt buckle. In my opinion, this rule is neither very helpful nor does it make sense because the position of the belt buckle depends on the rise. So, with high rise trousers the tie would be much shorter than with low rise pants. However, the length of the tie depends on personal preference and often fashion. In the 1930's ties were much shorter than most men wear them today. The blue tie could be a tad shorter for my taste because this person is rather short, but it is better than the one on the left.
A classic blazer in navy and light blue stripes with a very short, almost Edwardian lapel. A great revival of a classic garment!
Soft Outfit
Just the other day, we talked about hard and soft clothing. This person here wears a very soft combination with retro sunglasses and a shawl collar cardigan in green. The fit is not spot on but I think the outfit is good regardless.
The Avantgarde Shooting Jacket
This is a very fashion forward jacket that was obviously inspired by a shooting jacket. Personally, I am not sure if the leather arm pads improve the overall look of the jacket but it is certainly innovative. The combination of unbuttoned sleeve button and glasses in the breast pocket may look like nonchalant sprezzatura for some, though in my opinion it evokes quite the opposite effect: it looks like he tried too hard to look relaxed and as a consequence he is anything but that.
Lunch For 25
Picture of the Lunch For 25 at Pitti Uomo. It was organized bythe Sartorialist Scott Schumann, and was supposed to bring together 25 of his most important style characters so they could get to know each other better. In the picture, you can see Mr. Barbera, Mr. Rubinacci, Mr. Ricci, Lino From Al Bazar among others… Make sure not to miss the Lunch for 25 Video.
Matchy Matchy
This group looks like a delegation at the Olympic games – not my cup of tea.
It seems like there were quite a number of men wearing hats at Pitti Uomo this year. I doubt we will ever see as many hats as in the early 1920's but I think it is a fantastic development. The collar is only gapping because of the way Mr. Doss carries his bag – at least I hope so. In any case, it's an outstanding hat.
Tennis Sweater
What a great variation of the classic tennis sweater – I want one!
We'll continue with another series of Pitti Uomo pictures shortly, so stay tuned. What do you think about the outfits presented here? Do you disagree with me? Would you wear some of the things shown? Leave a comment below, send me an email or comment on facebook – I look forward to learning what your thoughts may be.


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An Independent Literary Publisher Since 1917
Perumal Murugan is the star of contemporary Tamil literature. He has written six novels and four collections each of short stories and poetry. His best-known novel One Part Woman won the prestigious ILF Samanvay Bhasha Samman for writing in Indian languages and, for this translation, the Translation Prize from India's National Academy of Letters.
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JRecently, I came across another photographers well written point on what you may receive when hiring a wedding photographer, so rather than rewrite it, I'm simply posting his comments for your consideration. The only thing I would add to this is that pricing also has to be comparable to your location. A small town wedding photographer simply cannot compete if they are charging the big city (Toronto, eg) price points, so you need to look and compare photographers from the same locale.
A note to add: my images provided on CD / DVD are all completely edited. You will not receive the unedited version from myself ever!
"When searching for a wedding photographer you will be presented with a complete range of prices and services. So here's the question...Are the prices of some wedding photographers too good to be true?Or, are the rest of us seen as being over priced?Because the majority of wedding photographers these days operate with digital cameras what has come about is the phenomenon many have termed "shoot and burn". It's the situation where a photographer shoots your wedding for what's seen as a bargain deal, burns a CD with all of the images and hands it over at half the price of their competitors. So that's got to be a great deal, right? Well so it seems, until you decide to get some really nice prints made and you then find out that the files need to be corrected, color balanced or worse still the exposures are too far off to produce a decent quality print. As a buyer of wedding photography, you should know that after the wedding, most professional photographers spend many hours, in front of a calibrated monitor, editing and adjusting the digital files before they go off to the lab or album company for printing. All this work is done to ensure that you get a great quality product celebrating your day. Some photographers claim they can do it in a couple of hours or so, which I know to be true with a few, but only after developing a lot of skill through experience and I might add accurate exposures. But for the majority this just is not true. The idea that you can just send those little files pretty much right off the card, to any old lab and expect to get beautiful results is based on unreality. It's important to know that making proper exposures with the digital camera is also much more demanding. In the making of a properly exposed image (that will print beautifully) there is much less latitude than in the days of film. In other words, your exposures have to be right on. It's a fact! Ask any other pro photographer who also has experience with both film and digital and they'll tell you the same thing. So while some photographers will spend the hours working on your files (naturally at a cost) those offering cheap services simply won't be, resulting in a poor product.So, when you are searching for your wedding photographer, sometimes a "Great Deal" may not be so great after all. If the price seems too good to be true, the fact is it probably is. As a smart buyer you should ask a lot of questions and look at a lot of prints and not just the price and take a look at the results. I can't tell you how many recently married couples I've talked with, that come up to me while I'm working and tell me how disappointed they were with their own wedding photos. And, it's usually because some photographer pulled the bargain "shoot and burn".Another problem that I hear about is that many couples who go for a "shoot and burn" package is that they receive their disk, they copy the images to their computer and that's where they remain. The reason being is that when couples get married these days there are just so many details in starting a life together that getting prints developed goes to the back burner.So if you really want quality memories of your wedding day look for the services of a real professional photographer who provide a full wedding package complete with prints and albums. A pro that will spend time following your wedding day to ensure that the final prints and albums you receive really will be cherished by you for years to come." ...Jeff Turnbull


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Diving with sharks represents a pinnacle for many divers. These iconic and ancient animals engender emotions in us that few other animals can rival. From encounters with whale sharks to cage dives with great white sharks, our shark diving trips take you to locations at the heart of the action.
Why our shark diving holidays are so successful
What sharks to see and where
Despite their increasingly vulnerable status, sharks are widespread throughout our oceans and have adapted to countless different habitats, providing divers with some truly exceptional experiences. As the apex predators of our oceans, great white sharks are top of many divers wishlists.
Graceful, gentle whale sharks are the largest fish in our oceans and one of the most iconic species for divers, while hammerhead sharks' unique characteristics and propensity to school in large numbers greatly appeal to many adventurous divers.
Great white shark
Great whites sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are primarily found in temperate coastal waters, although are known to roam far and wide across our seas and oceans.
These powerful predators can reach up to six metres in length and are distinguished by a pointed snout, two large sickle-shaped pectoral fins and a large triangular first dorsal fin. While recent research suggests these animals may also be social animals, they are primarily seen to be solitary or in pairs.
The finest encounters with great whites are in South Africa, the south coast of Australia and Guadalupe, off the west coast of Mexico. Find out more about our diving trips with great white sharks.
Hammerhead shark
Of the 11 species of hammerhead shark, it is schools of scalloped hammerheads (Sphyrna lewini) and the impressive great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) that provide the greatest allure for divers.
Found in tropical coastal and continental waters, the extraordinary flattened shape of their heads, known as the cephalofoil, is now believed to be linked to enhanced vision and sensory perception.
Socorro, Cocos Island, Malpelo and the Galapagos Islands form the shark corridor - an area renowned for exceptional encounters not only with large schools of hammerhead sharks, but also Galapagos and silky sharks year-round. Encounters are also possible in Tahiti, Fiji, Malaysia and the Maldives.
The incredible behaviour of great hammerheads, measuring up to five metres in length, in the shallow waters of Bimini in the Bahamas provides outstanding photo opportunities in January to March each year.
Find out more about diving trips with hammerhead sharks.
Blue shark
Blue sharks (Prionace glauca) are often referred to as the wolves of the sea due to their tendency to gather and hunt in packs. They can grow up to up to four metres in length and feed primarily on small bony fish and squid.
Part of the family of requiem sharks, they are one of the most beautiful and elegant shark species, with slender bodies, distinctive conical snouts and an indigo hue from which their name derives.
They are a prevalent species of shark in the Atlantic ocean and can be seen in the waters around the Azores islands each summer.
Tiger shark
Named after their body patterns, tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) are one of the most famous sharks in our oceans. Found in tropical waters across the globe, whether you're in the Caribbean, the Southern Pacific or South Africa, tiger sharks are always an exhilarating encounter.
Primarily a solitary hunter, these sharks are often found in the shallower regions of the tropics in all types of typography, such as reefs and wrecks. Although they mostly eat bony fish and marine mammals, tiger sharks are known to eat almost anything. including man-made objects.
The distinctive stripes across these magnificent animals allied to their impressive size makes tiger sharks one of the most highly sought after dive encounters.
Whale shark
One of the most sought after encounters by divers, the gentle, graceful whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is the largest fish in our oceans, reaching up to 18 metres in length.
Found in tropical waters, these huge, docile plankton feeders are characterised by their wide mouths, distinctive blue-grey colouring with white spots and a large, crescent-shaped tail.
Whale sharks can be encountered in many locations worldwide and tend to be solitary. At certain places and certain times, whale sharks aggregate, providing divers with superb opportunities to see them in large numbers. These aggregations are known to occur in the Galapagos between May and November, Mexico from June to September, Mozambique and the Philippines from November through to May.
Find out more about our whale shark diving holidays and locations.
Thresher shark
There aren't many creatures more beautiful and mesmerising for divers than the thresher shark. The purpose of their long, elegant tails has long been a mystery to biologists, but recent video has shown individuals stunning prey by whipping their tails.
The pelagic thresher (Alopias pelagicus) is usually a solitary animal, with the best sightings around the waters of Malapascua in the Philippines. Most often found in deeper waters, these striking animals will journey to shallower reefs for cleaning stations and to prowl the steep drop-offs around continental shelves.
Reaching up to three metres in length, thresher sharks are undoubtedly one of the most elegant animals in our oceans.


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So, if we start with the simplest possible project, a flagpole, we will see there are three things we can do to brace it so it stands: we can put guy ropes onto it (tension bracing), put poles onto it to prop it up (compression struts) or anchor it into the ground, either by heeling it in, or hammering in a stake and lashing it to the stake. These correspond to three of the forces we looked at last week: guy ropes work in tension, props work in compression, and a stake works in bending.
More complex structure, made of more than one pole, fail in a few different ways: Parallelolgraming and torsion can be solved with bracing, and joint failure can be solved by controlling lashing quality (tightness, as well as condition of the ropes used), and the breaking of spars can be prevented by maintaining equipment and using the right size spar.
You might have noticed that no matter how tightly you tie a square lashing, no matter how many turns and frapping turns you use, it is still possible to move the two poles with respect to each other, like a pair of scissors. This kind of connection, that is not perfectly stiff, is called a pin joint. If you were to make a square out of pioneering poles, with square lashings at each corner, it would collapse sideways very quickly. Engineers call this kind of collapse "parallelogram failure". If you look at a triangular frame, you will see that it is impossible for it to parallelogram, even if the joints are all pin joints. So we can make a rectangular structure stronger by adding extra members to it, to make it into a series of triangles. Engineers call this kind of structure a triangulated structure, and this is the most common way of strengthening a structure with pin joints.
Bracing can be with tension cables (ropes), in which case you need a pair of them, so that one of them is always in tension to keep the structure square, or a single compression pole: if pushed in one direction, it will work in tension, in the other direction it will work in compression.
The closer the brace is to being at the corner, the better. Looking at this series, the one on the left is the strongest brace, and the one on the right is the weakest.
If you look at structures in Scouting, and in the wider world, you will see bracing used like this all over to make the structures stable and strong.


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Info from CJ about his project
Here is my two cents thrown in to the bucket of PT2399-based delay circuits. It features aggressive low-pass filtering on the delay line to virtually eliminate the nasty artifacts that often plague PT2399 delays; and it also sports a momentary footswitch that modulates the delay time, allowing for some cool pitch-bending sounds and really funky detune effects. It can also be made to sound sort of like a lap steel (in a way).
The base of the circuit is derived from madbean's "Sea Urchin" circuit. Then cranked up the filtering and added the modulation footswitch.
More info can be read in the project PDF posted here.


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I don't want to affirm its truths: I want to debunk its half-truths and lies, and expose its propaganda. Most of all, though, I just want to stop sifting through
Warning: this is a super-loser-length blog post; the soundtrack is the final sigh of my patience, and I think it has more value as a debunking than as a light read, unless you enjoy observing me entering a world of pain.
Stating the obvious, or "genocide: Bad Thing"
Unfortunately, because of absurd, grotesque and demonstrably false accusations of genocide denial, before I begin, I must state the obvious to reassure the uninformed – and the misinformed.
I recognise and condemn the destruction of Greek Cypriot (3) cultural heritage in northern Cyprus, and the ethnic cleansing of the Greek Cypriot community from northern Cyprus.
I recognise and condemn those and other violations of the human rights of the Greek Cypriot community, e.g. rape, murder, and population displacement (e.g. c.f. the European Commission of Human Rights' (1976) report on Cyprus v. Turkey).
In my work, I documented the destruction of Greek Cypriot cultural heritage, e.g. the destruction of Greek Cypriot homes in Rizokarpaso; bizarrely, it was that documentation that elicited the accusation of encouraging genocide.
(I also documented the destruction of an Armenian Genocide mass grave in Kuru in south-eastern Turkey, and debunked its cover-up.)
Nonetheless, the recognition and condemnation of violations of human rights of Greek Cypriots does not require the denial of violations of human rights of Turkish Cypriots (4), or vice versa.
Indeed, the recognition and condemnation of violations of Greek Cypriots' human rights requires precisely the recognition and condemnation of violations of Turkish Cypriots' human rights, and vice versa: first, because human rights are the rights of all humans; and second, because denial distorts history, promotes misunderstanding and distrust, and thus prolongs conflict and injustice.
Sadly, this hearing, and the report, both dodge, downplay and/or deny destruction of Turkish Cypriot cultural heritage; and worse, they misappropriate the very evidence of that ethnic cleansing for its denial; thus, they are reduced to mere propaganda.
Witnesses, or "Apostles"
This hearing was on the day of the publication of the report. So, these testimonies were not evidence the witnesses gave to the Commission for the report, but effectively, evidence the witnesses gave for the Commission, to the public.
(I do not know whether these witnesses also gave evidence to the Commission, but certainly the Commission cited Chotzakoglou's and Jansen's publications in its report.)
The only three witnesses were: Greek archaeologist and art historian Dr. Charalampos G. Chotzakoglou; German art historian Dr. Klaus Gallas; and American journalist Michael Jansen. They were disappointing choices, but they were not surprising ones.
Greek News (2008) reported that Hellenist activists - the Coordinated Effort of Hellenes (CEH) and the International Coordinating Committee "Justice for Cyprus" (PSEKA) - 'secured' the commission on 'destruction and desecration of Greek Orthodox churches in the occupied area of Cyprus - committed to by the Commission's Chairman, Congressman Alcee Hastings'.
(Hastings was a judge convicted of perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice for bribes; he is now a Florida Democratic Congressman, and the Greek Orthodox vote is an important voting bloc in that battleground state.(5))
Charalampos Chotzakoglou
Charalampos Chotzakoglou is a professor of Byzantine art and archaeology at the Hellenic Open University (in Greece) and the Museum of Kykkos Monastery (in southern Cyprus); he has also taught at the (southern Cypriot) University of Cyprus.
In 2008, Chotzakoglou wrote and the Museum of the Holy Monastery of Kykkos published Religious Monuments in Turkish-Occupied Cyprus: Evidence and Acts of Continuous Destruction.
In the Preface the Metropolitan Bishop of Kykkos and Tylliria, Nikephoros (2008: 11), accused Turkey of 'crimes against humanity' and 'national elimination'; in the Prologue to Documentation of Atrocities, University of Cyprus Professor of Archaeology Demetrios Triantaphyllopoulos (2008: 13) accused Turkey of 'genocide'.
Chotzakoglou (2008: 49) alleged the Turkish occupation regime was 'extinguishing every single Greek trace of the occupied part of Cyprus'; but, according to the Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office's (2007: 3) numbers, 25 of 520 (4.81%) Christian buildings in northern Cyprus had been demolished (by 2007).(6)
According to the bicommunal architectural survey, Cyprus Temples, at least 11 of 115 (9.56%) mosques in southern Cyprus had been demolished. (There were 11 destroyed mosques in the 85 published (CCEAA and CCTA, 2005); furthermore, there were other mosques destroyed in northern Cyprus before the island's partition and segregation.)
So, according to Chotzakoglou's criteria, the Greek Cypriot administration was extinguishing every single Turkish Cypriot trace throughout Cyprus; Greek Cypriot paramilitaries and local nationalist extremists destroyed a greater proportion of the Islamic cultural heritage of Cyprus in a shorter period of time.
Yet despite the physical evidence accessible in southern Cyprus, and its documentation by the bicommunal architectural survey, Chotzakoglou (2008: 57) only acknowledged 'damages'. That is inaccurate, and demonstrates
[The Commission chose a specialist on Christian/Greek Cypriot cultural heritage, and used his testimony on his area of expertise - with no expert on Muslim/Turkish Cypriot cultural heritage - to make its half-truth seem professionally/academically approved. That demonstrates the hearing's untrustworthiness.]
Klaus Gallas
In 1990, art historian Klaus Gallas published an article called the Stripping of Art: Northern Cypriot Churches are Plundered in Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin. Making a general point, design journalist and critic Klaus Thomas Edelmann (1991) described Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin as 'a weekly newspaper supplement with no hard news (its slogan: "Colourful entertainment...")'.
Nevertheless, in 2002, the Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office republished his article in a glossy bilingual German-and-English edition, Where the Heavens are Plundered. In the article, Gallas inaccurately claimed '[n]o such thing [indiscriminate destruction of Turkish Cypriot cultural heritage] exists in the southern part of the Republic of Cyprus' (2002 [1990]: 6). That is untrue, and demonstrates his untrustworthiness.
Michael Jansen
In 1986, journalist Michael Jansen wrote an article about Cyprus: the Loss of a Cultural Heritage; in 2005, she wrote a book on War and Cultural Heritage: Cyprus After the 1974 Turkish Invasion; since then, she has given speeches (e.g. Jansen, 2006) and written articles promoting the Hellenist nationalist interpretation, including one 'sponsored by the government of the Republic of Cyprus' (Jansen, 2007).
As I explained in a paper on Representations of a Suppressed UNESCO Report in Histories of Cultural Heritage Destruction, Jansen reported false information about the treatment of cultural heritage, and about research into that treatment, grotesquely misrepresenting bicommunal and international sources to defend her dishonest interpretation.
Perhaps worst, in Jansen's book,
She had distorted a condemnation of pre-1974 Greek Cypriot destruction of Turkish Cypriot cultural heritage to make it sound like a condemnation of post-1974 Turkish Cypriot destruction of Greek Cypriot cultural heritage (Hardy, 2009).These witnesses were massively and shamelessly biased. The U.S. Helsinki Commission's choice to invite these witnesses to testify cannot have been an accident; it reveals a similar commitment to the Hellenist nationalist interpretation, and it does not bode well for the report.
Hearing, or "sounding off"
Abandoned buildings, or forgotten buildings
Beginning the hearing, the moderator, U.S. Helsinki Commission Deputy Chief of Staff Ronald McNamara, mentioned that, at the 1991 OSCE (7) Symposium on the Cultural Heritage,
The OSCE acknowledged the important contribution of religious faiths, institutions and organizations to the cultural heritage and committed themselves to cooperate closely with such groups regarding the preservation of the cultural heritage, paying due attention to monuments and objects of religious origin whose original communities no longer use them or no longer exist in the particular region.Yet, that is as true of Islamic cultural heritage in southern Cyprus as it is of Christian cultural heritage in northern Cyprus.
Given its particular applicability to the situation in northern Cyprus, I would repeat that last part of the text: "whose original communities no longer use them or no longer exist in the particular region."
McNamara could have said it had "particular applicability to the situation in Cyprus", but not only in northern Cyprus. That allegedly objective exclusion is the same one Greek Cypriot propaganda uses, and the inconsistency in its application is a warning.
Islamic places of worship in the South, or "always look on the bright side of life"
McNamara commented that,
In stark contrast to the situation in the North, which I recently had an opportunity to visit, scores of mosques and other Islamic places of worship are maintained by the Cypriot government in the southern part of the country.Similarly, Chotzakoglou stated that,
In total contrast [to 'the reality of the situation in the Turkish-occupied area'], the government of the Republic of Cyprus, through the Turkish Cypriot Properties Management Service and the Department of Antiquities repairs and maintains mosques and Muslim places of Worship in the government-controlled area,... allowing the free exercise of their religious services.That is true - the Greek Cypriot administration does maintain scores (twenties (20s)) of Islamic cultural heritage sites - but as observed before, Greek Cypriot nationalist extremists destroyed at least 11 of the mosques in southern Cyprus.
Again, as observed before, the proportion of southern Cyprus's mosques destroyed (about 10%) was actually twice as high as the proportion of northern Cyprus's churches destroyed (about 5%). It is understandable that McNamara didn't see the mosques that had been razed to the ground, but inexcusable that he presented Greek Cypriot propaganda as fact.
(Sadly, the optimistic assumption would be that Hellenist activists manipulated the U.S. Helsinki Commission; but its selection of Hellenist witnesses suggests the Helsinki Commission acted freely and knowingly.)
Furthermore, the Republic of Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Properties Management Service's "restoration" of Episkopi Mosque involved uncovering Christian frescoes, so according to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the building was 'hardly... suitable' for use as a mosque any more (van der Werff, 1989: 13); so perhaps the Service's work is not the best example of 'allowing [them] the free exercise of their religious services'. The same thing happened in Polis and Klavdia, and possibly elsewhere as well.
Islamic places of worship in the North, or "if life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten"
Chotzakoglou pushed the Archbishopric of Cyprus's 'repeat[ed]' offer
to fund any needed restoration of Muslim religious places in the North in addition to the funds provided by the government. A mutual reaction regarding the permission of similar restoration of the Christian monuments in the North never came.But the Republic of Cyprus has not even restored all of the mosques in the South! Politely, it is unsurprising that the Turkish Cypriot administration did not trust or accept the offer, or show good willing about restoration of Christian monuments.
(Even if it had been accepted and effected, it would still have been propaganda, designed to advertise Greek Cypriot generosity and concern with cultural heritage, and to downplay or displace talk of Greek Cypriot destruction of Turkish Cypriot cultural heritage.)
Chotzakoglou went on to say that,
Similarly, the declaration of the European parliament on September 5, 2006, on the obligation of protection and conservation of the religious heritage in the occupied area of Cyprus along with funding amounting to half-a-million euro for that purpose met again with the Turkish refusal.You don't need to read it, but just in case you want to, to know what I say is true, this is the complete Declaration of the European Parliament on the Protection and Preservation of the Religious Heritage in the Northern Part of Cyprus [5th September 2006]:
The European Parliament,It did not acknowledge the existence of conflict before 1974. It ignored destruction of Turkish Cypriot cultural heritage in southern Cyprus since 1974, and it implicitly denied destruction of Turkish Cypriot cultural heritage in northern Cyprus before 1974.
– having regard to Article 151 of the EC Treaty,
– having regard to Rule 116 of its Rules of Procedure,
A. whereas, according to Article 151 of the EC Treaty, the Community shall promote the cultural heritage of its Member States while respecting their national and regional diversity,
B. whereas since 1974 the government of the Republic of Cyprus has been unable to exercise control over the northern part of Cyprus and to ensure respect for the provisions of Article 151,
C. whereas more than 133 churches, chapels and monasteries that are located in the northern part of Cyprus and have been controlled by the Turkish army since 1974 have been desecrated, 78 churches have been converted into mosques, 28 are used as military depots and hospitals and 13 are used as stockyards, and whereas their ecclesiastical items, including more than 15 000 icons, have been illegally removed and their location remains unknown,
1. Condemns the pillage of Greek Orthodox churches and monasteries and the removal of their ecclesiastical items;
2. Calls on the Commission and the Council to take the necessary actions to ensure respect for the Treaty and the protection and restoration of the affected churches to their original Greek Orthodox status;
3. Calls on the Commission and the Council to examine this matter under the relevant chapters of the negotiations with Turkey;
4. Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories, to the Commission and the Council.
I do not know whether the European parliamentarians made the Declaration because of religious allegiance, political negotiation, or simple ignorance, but it was historically one-sided, and has become yet another tool of Hellenist propaganda.
Christian places of worship in the North, or "gilding the lily"
Discussing his Kykkos Monastery Museum survey, Chotzakoglou stated that '[a]round 500 churches and religious sites... have been willfully [sic] desecrated, pillaged, looted and destroyed'.
According to the Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office, 'around 520 churches, monasteries and chapels... were transformed or destroyed' (ROCPIO, 2007: 3); allegedly,
Mosques 125I could not think how or why they had grouped hotels with museums (rather than with hostels); but sadly, I suspect it is because, according to the second edition of Miltos Miltiadou's book on the Cyprus Question: A Brief Introduction for the Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office, '[o]ne church has been converted into a hotel' (2006: 41; PDF).
Stables, or hay warehouses [barns] 67
Museums, cultural centres, hotels 57
Hostels, restaurants, ammunition warehouses 17
Completely demolished 25
Desecrated 229
The single case doesn't sound as bad as the plural, while the use of 56 churches as museums or cultural centres doesn't sound as bad as the use of 57 churches as museums, cultural centres, or hotels.
(Indeed, Miltiadou's third edition had been revised to state only that '57 [churches] have become museums, cultural centers or hotels' (2008: 52 – emphasis added; PDF).)
I am so bored of propaganda; I no longer find it revealing, or intriguing, or even amusing. I wish they would simply state the truth; after all, it is awful.
So many churches have been desecrated, damaged or destroyed in northern Cyprus, it is depressing. The massive omissions are unnecessary, and the little twists – like the perverse gilding of the lily – are downright bizarre.
McNamara showed genuine interest but equal ignorance:
Of the 20 or so churches that I stopped into randomly in villages and so forth [in northern Cyprus], none of them were intact. Most of them were populated by pigeons, with pigeon droppings that would be unimaginable, actually, and probably quite unhealthy....The bicommunal architectural team's survey found Kantou Mosque's 'minaret... was inaccessible... because of piles of pigeon droppings'; and I found many other mosques carpeted with bird shit and bodies.
Bigmouth strikes again. Michael Jansen said that,
UNESCO, as I said earlier, suppressed the report, which was written by Jacques Dalibard. This report was 120 pages long and quite detailed.In her book, Jansen (2005: 27) stated that 'Dalibard's report... ran to one hundred pages including maps and appendices'. To be clear, that isn't a typo, and I wouldn't criticise her for a typo. At best, it is laziness. Similarly, in her book, Jansen (2005: 28) said that the censored report was five pages long, when it was nine.
.... And his report was actually kept under wraps until about two years ago.On 26th July 2009, I asked the (Greek Cypriot) Cyprus National Commission for UNESCO whether Dalibard's report was indeed available (and if Jansen's claims are accurate, the Greek Cypriot commission has the greatest vested interest in showing me Dalibard's report); but I got no reply.
UNESCO really did nothing about this situation at all....As was explained twenty years ago, in the 1989 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe report (which Jansen has read (e.g. c.f. 2005: 48-51)), 'the only way Unesco could in fact intervene is on the condition that it recognise the government in the north, which no United Nations organisation is able to do' (van der Werff, 1989: 5).
Helpfully, the Greek Cypriot position on this is very clear, because then president of the parliament of Cyprus, Alexis Galanos, wrote a letter to the European Parliament Sub-Committee on Architectural and Artistic Heritage of Cyprus, and Jansen (2005: 58) quoted him 'spell[ing it] out':
I would certainly like to believe that the Council of Europe and Assembly members would not wish to go against their own or UN resolutions by offering this recognition ['political recognition of the illegal regime'] either directly or indirectly.It is upon Greek Cypriot insistence that UNESCO – and the European Parliament Sub-Committee on Architectural and Artistic Heritage of Cyprus – have been forced to do 'nothing... at all'. It is stunning that the Greek Cypriot side have the gall to demand inaction and simultaneously to complain about it.
Then Jansen excelled herself:
I just wanted to mention that there is a Web site which one can consult. It was put up jointly by Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot engineers and architects. It's called cyprustemples.com and it has on it 505 churches and 111 mosques and Muslim sites.It doesn't: it has 505 Christian sites and 115 Islamic sites.
It gives the state of each one and what is recommended to repair it or replace it or whatever. And it is a very valuable site. It shows a lot.There are, of course, lots of photographs of them, of buildings in very bad states; there is even a photograph of a completely destroyed building: Kutrafa Mosque. Jansen's errors and misrepresentations are in equal parts remarkable and tiresome.
These people spent quite a lot of time; they have plenty of photographs. And buildings which have been completely destroyed or are in very bad states, there are, of course, no photographs of them.
But it is, as I say, a very valuable source on what exactly has gone on. It needs to be updated, but otherwise, it is a very good effort....It is incredibly insulting that Jansen so patronisingly promotes the Cyprus Civil Engineers' and Architects' Association and Chamber of Cyprus Turkish Architects' wonderful work, when she both incompetently misstates it, and lazily misrepresents it.
So, whom do these unreliable witnesses hold responsible for the destruction of Greek Cypriot cultural heritage in northern Cyprus since 1974?
Gallas judged that 'art theft in the Turkish-occupied part of the Republic of Cyprus was usually only possible when it was tolerated or happened under the watchful eye of the Turkish military' (8). Indeed, Gallas perceived 'the intention of the Turkish occupying powers: eradication of every cultural reminder of established historical structures on the island'.
Intriguingly, Klaus Gallas's translator noted that
Dr. Gallas would like to say that it is important to him to note that he's not attacking, if I may use that word, the Turkish government, but that it is important to preserve and protect the theft. He believes that nothing could take place without the supervision and eyes of the Turkish military.(I don't know what Gallas's translator meant by it being 'important to preserve and protect the theft', but anyway...)
It is interesting and encouraging that Gallas apparently distinguished between the Turkish government and the Turkish military; but it was not enough, because it did not distinguish between the Turkish state (government or military) and the Turkish deep state.
I will say one thing for Klaus Gallas: he seems to be genuinely misinformed and misled; I do not believe Klaus Gallas has knowingly misrepresented sources or history.
Unfortunately, neither Jansen or Chotzakoglou made the kind of careful and crucial distinction that Gallas did (even if Gallas's distinction was still inaccurate).
Chotzakoglou reminded the hearing:
[It was] 35 years since the Turkish invasion and occupation of Cyprus which forcibly separated Greek and Turkish Cypriots along ethnic lines and resulted in the destruction and desecration of Cyprus' religious cultural heritage in the occupied area....Greek Cypriot paramilitary-initiated violence drove half of the Turkish Cypriot community into enclaves - ghettoes - in 1963-1964. That violence encompassed the desecration, damage and destruction of secular and religious Turkish Cypriot cultural heritage across the island. Evidently, Chotzakoglou didn't remember that.
Chotzakoglou highlighted the necessary 'cooperation and involvement of the Turkish armed forces in the illicit trade [in antiquities]', because some of the plundered churches had been 'under the direct control of the Turkish military'.
Jansen agreed, and noted that 'some were looted by the soldiery soon after the north was taken over'. Discussing Turkish deep state heroin-and-antiquities smuggler Aydın Dikmen, Jansen alleged 'collusion between Dikmen and the military', and even all Turkish authorities, insofar as he was 'arrested and held by the Turkish authorities in northern Cyprus. But as a friend of mine says, his wife turned up with a big bag of money and he was out the next day'.
Bribery is not implausible for Aydın Dikmen (though I have never heard anything about his wife, and am genuinely surprised even Michael Jansen felt comfortable alleging Dikmen's wife had committed a serious crime, in public, on record; I only include her allegation as reportage).
Chotzakoglou, Jansen and Gallas have confused individuals and groups with institutions and states: for example, my local police in Stoke Newington were corrupt and criminal, but neither Hackney council nor the British state was complicit or responsible.
Jansen stated that the looting was 'not only a crime against Cyprus but a crime against humanity', that '[w]hat has happened since Turkey occupied northern Cyprus 35 years ago has been even more dramatic than what took place in Europe ['during World War II']'.
But she did not consider official Greek Cypriot responsibility for the explosion of looting between 1963 and 1974, and falsely claimed that the 'devastation is comprehensive and has taken place in a small area'.
Jansen also, equally falsely claimed that the 'cleansing of religious and historical sites began as soon as Turkish troops set foot in northern Cyprus on July 20, 1974, and continues until today', according the Turkish military a singular and complete responsibility for (if not committing, then enabling or allowing) all cultural crimes in Cyprus.
"Spontaneous" nationalist locals' violence against religious and historical sites may or may not have begun with the tit-for-tat arsons of cemeteries in Vasileia in 1955 (CO 926/184, cited in Asmussen, 2001: 225n74); but paramilitaries' systematic violence had certainly begun by the time of the EOKA attack on Morphou Mosque in 1958 (Georgiades, 2008), and the Akritas Organisation's instigated Akritas-TMT warfare from 1963/1964 onwards.
It was not simply inaccurate to say that 'Turkey is directly responsible for whatever takes place in northern Cyprus', inasmuch as it is the country in control of the territory; it was inaccurate in a complicated way. The Turkish state does have control over the territory, but it does not have control over the Turkish deep state. Likewise, the Italian state is responsible for what happens within Italy, but it is not responsible for what the mafia do within Italy.
Jansen rightly observed that
The cultural cleansing of the area could have been averted or curbed if Ankara had honored its signature on the 1954 Hague Convention for the protection of cultural heritage during war and occupation. But Turkey did not meet its commitments....The Republic of Cyprus, however, did not even sign the 1954 Hague Convention until 9th September 1964, tellingly, just four weeks after Turkish military intervention ended the Greek Cypriot paramilitaries' displacement of Turkish Cypriots and destruction of their villages and mosques.
Jansen was correct that the Republic of Turkey has had a responsibility to prevent looting and destruction in northern Cyprus since 1974; but the Republic of Cyprus had a responsibility to prevent looting and destruction across Cyprus between 1960 and 1974, and has had the same responsibility in southern Cyprus since 1974.
Jansen accurately relayed that the 1989 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) mission to Cyprus reported that 'most of the damage has occurred in the North and is the result of looting evidently linked with a highly professional international market in illegally exported art'.
In the same paragraph as the one Jansen paraphrased, PACE Senator Ymenus van der Werff (1989: 11) also reported that 'the international art market is now well aware of the existence of a well-funded market in the south for items coming from the north'; but Jansen didn't consider that important enough to mention it.
.... Turkey also collaborated in the destruction of the North's dominant Christian culture by allowing churches to collapse due to neglect or to be looted and to be used as cinemas, restaurants, store houses and goat pens....Contrarily, the Republic of Cyprus allows Turkish Cypriot homes as well as mosques to collapse due to neglect or to be looted and to be used as store houses and goat pens.
Responding to this vile propaganda has reduced me to rat-a-tat, tit-for-tat replies; but this unedifying display is all that can be done when the level of debate is so low. Better academic and ethical standards are necessary for a community conversation that can establish truth and enable reconciliation and coexistence; otherwise, these "professionals" will continue to harm even those they pretend to defend.
Postscript, or "... you're still reading!?"
I've included three final footnotes of less important but interesting asides, or revealing comments: first, about the Christian identity (and Islamic history) of Cyprus (9), second, about communal and religious freedom in Cypriot society (10); and third, about mosques' management in southern Cyprus (11).
- The United States Helsinki Commission is also known as the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
- The U.S. Law Library of Congress's report was on Cyprus: Destruction of Cultural Property in the Northern Part of Cyprus and Violations of International Law.
It analysed the cultural property law applicable to northern Cyprus, 'especially the legal consequences of the destruction and pillage of Cyprus' religious and cultural property by "TRNC [the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus]"' (USLLC, 2009: 3).
Later, I will study that report, but only for its cultural heritage claims, not for its legal ones. (I may review its legal claims too, but they are different from the historical and ethical cultural heritage claims. Especially because there are so many legal claims, I may try to study them all together.)
U.S. Helsinki Commission Deputy Chief of Staff Ronald McNamara made a summary report of the briefing, though I'm not sure of the proper name of the publication. (McNamara, R J. 2009: "Scars of 1974 invasion abound as leaders seek to reunite Cyprus". Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Reports, Volume 41, Number 7. Available at: http://www.csce.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContentRecords.ViewDetail&ContentRecord_id=462&Region_id=0&Issue_id=0&ContentType=G&ContentRecordType=G&CFID=18142340&CFTOKEN=35116856(?))
- The "Greek Cypriot" community includes Greek Cypriots, Armenian Cypriots, Latin Cypriots and Maronite Cypriots.
- The "Turkish Cypriot" community includes Turkish Cypriots, Gypsy Cypriots/Roma Cypriots and Linobambakoi Cypriots.
- Apparently, Hastings didn't agree to the Turkish Coalition of America's reactive request for a new commission on the treatment of the Turkish minority in Greece; nevertheless, Hastings has stated that he has 'support[ed] Turkish initiatives in Congress' and 'look[ed] forward to working with TCA'.
In 1996, before Hastings' time, the Helsinki Commission had held a briefing on the Turkish minority in Western Thrace; however, notably, its moderator was a Human Rights Watch researcher, and its witnesses were two ethnic Turks and two ethnic Greeks.
Worryingly, the (Hellenist) Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) presented evidence that the TCA is a Turkish deep state organization.
- More peculiarly and problematically, Chotzakoglou (2008: 28) said that the Museum of the Monastery of Kykkos recorded more than 550 Christian buildings in northern Cyprus.
- The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
- Gallas noted,
In this context, there is also a mystery concerning the export license by the so-called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus for the 6th century Golden Mosaics of the Panagia [Kanakaria] Church on the Karpas Peninsula, which was signed at the time by ['right-hand man' of Turkish Cypriot President Rauf Denktaş] Osman Orek....Similarly, in his earlier article, Gallas (2002 [1990]: 4) said that the Kanakaria Mosaics' '"TRNC" export licence.... was signed by Osman Orek.... But Orek described the document as forged'. So, Gallas was clear it was an official licence, and Orek had signed it; but the New York Times' William Honan (1989) called it 'Dikmen's "export document"' (note the quotation marks), and said that Orek had 'purportedly' signed, but had 'denied' signing.
Later on, Orek declared the documents to have been a forgery....
- Jansen noted that,
While the focus of this meeting is on the island's religious heritage, this is rooted in 12,000 years of history which came before St. Paul and St. Barnabas brought Christianity to Cyprus.She neglected to mention that an Islamic tomb was built in Cyprus less than thirty years after the birth of Islam; now it has an eighteenth-century shrine and a nineteenth-century lodge, Hala Sultan Tekke.
The tomb was built for Mohammed's wet nurse, Umm Haram, who probably died in Cyprus in 647 or 649 C.E. The Republic of Cyprus Department of Antiquities listed it as 'among the most important holy places of Islam', and medievalist Gwynneth der Parthog (1995: 222-223) judged the tomb the third most important site.
There were also 'several mosques' in Nicosia in the Seventh Century, but most were 'dismantled or destroyed' when their founding Arab conquerors left (Peterson, 1999: 58), and there were other pre-Ottoman mosques (Yıldız, 2006: 188), though none survives now. So Cyprus had a place in the early history of Islam as well as in the early history of Christianity.
- Chotzakoglou justly complained that non-Muslims in northern Cyprus 'do not have... the rights to have free religious elections, [or] ordination of priests', and Jansen claimed that 'in the government-controlled areas,... there is complete freedom of religion for everyone'.
Yet they seemed strange statements, because, according to Cypriot Maronites, there was a 'conspiracy' to appoint a Lebanese archbishop, between the Synod of Maronite Bishops in Lebanon and the Maronite Cypriots' governmental representative Antonis Hajiroussos.
The complaint seemed even stranger because the Greek Cypriot administration had rejected the Kormakitis Maronites' elected mukhtar in 2005.
- Michael Jansen 'consulted someone who is connected with the mosque in Nicosia' and asked, 'what is the situation there?'
He said there are three congregations in Cyprus in established mosques [in Nicosia, Larnaca and Limassol], which have been restored and repaired, and there is a fourth congregation in Paphos....[I have spoken with someone connected with the mosque too, and with members of the congregation as well, and I was told that Libya contributed money for the mosque(s), because Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had 'too much money'. So, very different indeed, but unsurprisingly, not at all in the way Jansen claimed.]
And most of the people who are in the congregations are people who came to Cyprus in the past decade, two decades. They are of Arab origin or Bangladeshi origin or Pakistani origin. Apparently, Turkish Cypriots don't attend the mosques. So the mosques are maintained. The government of Cyprus provides a salary for the imam and the congregations take up collections to pay the water bill, the electricity bill and for small repairs. And that is the situation on the two sides; it's quite different.
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[I corrected the tone of one line on 6th December 2010.]


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