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Greek and Roman Mosaics Umberto Pappalardo Rosario Ciardello
Greek and Roman Mosaics
Centurion Edition
By Umberto Pappalardo Rosario Ciardello
The best-illustrated survey of a spectacular ancient art, now available in an affordable edition
Mosaic has been called "painting for eternity," and it is in fact one of the few arts of antiquity to survive in something like its original condition and variety. Mosaic pavements with geometric and figural motifs first appeared in Greece at the end of the fifth century BC and subsequently spread throughout the classical world, from the palaces of emperors and kings to even relatively modest private homes. Across the Mediterranean, local workshops cultivated many distinctive regional styles, while traveling teams of Hellenistic craftsmen produced figural mosaics of stunning refinement, often modeled after famous paintings; indeed, their work constitutes one of our only records of classical Greek painting, which has been almost entirely lost.
The styles and techniques of the ancient mosaicist's art are given a concise yet authoritative exposition in the first part of this handsome volume. The second, and larger, part conducts the reader on a chronologically ordered tour of the most important centers of the art form's development, from the Macedonian capital of Pella, whose compositions in natural pebbles set a high artistic standard for mosaics at the beginning of their history, to the Basilica of San Vitale at Ravenna, whose wall and vault mosaics, with their glittering vision of a triumphant Christianity, mark the transition between antiquity and the Middle Ages. Special attention is given to Pompeii and its surroundings, where the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 preserved intact an astonishing variety of mosaics, including such ambitious figural scenes as the famous Alexander Mosaic, composed of some four million miniscule tesserae, as well as characteristically Roman pavements in black and white, and the brightly colored wall mosaics of garden grottoes.
Featuring more than 230 vibrant photographs, many newly commissioned, Greek and Roman Mosaics is the first survey of its subject to be illustrated in full color. It will be an essential visual reference for every student of classical antiquity, and a source of considerable delight for art lovers.
Zen in Japanese Culture Gavin Blair
Zen in Japanese Culture
By Gavin Blair
A visual journey through Zen's influence on Japanese life, from calligraphy to the martial arts
Formed by a convergence of the Buddha's teachings with Taoism and local tradition, Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. As a philosophy, Zen promotes a recognition of emptiness and impermanence. As an aesthetic, it is marked by striking simplicity and a reverence for space. It operates on the principle of wabi-sabi, the harmony found in all things transient and imperfect. Countless Japanese artists, artisans, and designers have engaged with the Zen tradition, their work the fruit of its wisdom.
Author Gavin Blair has spent nearly two decades as a writer and journalist in Japan. In these pages, he shows how Zen has found expression in all aspects of Japanese culture, be it the tea ceremony, origami, or bonsai. Gorgeous full-color photographs highlight the simple beauty of the Zen aesthetic, from the hanging noren curtains that adorn entrances and doorways, to the intricate craftwork of a wagasaumbrella. Together these images speak to the quiet power of Zen.
Above all, Zen is an invitation to contemplate the mind, to cultivate harmony with nature and ease through understanding. This book is for any reader who is curious about Japanese culture and the Zen tradition.
The Last Monk of the Strofades
Memories from an Unknown Greek Island
The story, in photographs, of the last caretaker of the ancient monastery on the remote, windswept Strofades islands—an architectural and historical treasure now in danger of destruction
The Strofades: two small, flat, windswept islands rising out of the Ionian Sea, known to the ancient Greeks as the home of the terrible Harpies, and to most modern Greeks simply unknown. On the larger of the two islets, Stamfani, stands a massive fortified monastery, founded as early as the thirteenth century, for centuries a refuge for honest seafarers and a target for pirates and Turkish raiders. In its heyday, this imposing compound was home to some forty farmer-monks, who kept the entire island under cultivation; by 1976, it was home to just one, Father Gregory Kladis (1937–2017), who alone tended the monastery until 2014. Today the monastery―badly damaged by an earthquake in 1997―lies empty and in danger of ruin.
This book is intended to tell the world about the Holy Monastery at Strofades, and encourage its preservation. At its core are the words of the last monk himself, Father Gregory, who guides the reader through his historic monastery―its chapels, refectory, mills, bakehouse, and living quarters―and the natural beauties of its island setting, as depicted in Robert McCabe's superb photographs. The testimonies of the boatman who brought Father Gregory his supplies, as well as the lighthouse keeper who was once his only companion on the island, lend texture and context―as do essays on the history, geology, and architecture of the Strofades, and architectural drawings that reconstruct the monastery's phases of construction.
Nobody who peruses this volume―the result of a yearslong collaboration between more than a dozen researchers and friends of the Strofades―will be able to forget the islands' last monk, or be unmoved by the plight of his monastery.
How Artists See Animals - Complete Activity Guide Colleen Carroll
How Artists See Animals - Complete Activity Guide
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My Adventures as an Illustrator Norman Rockwell Abigail Rockwell
My Adventures as an Illustrator
The Definitive Edition
By Norman Rockwell Abigail Rockwell
The life of America's most beloved artist, in his own words—back in print with restored text and drawings, new illustrations, and more
The wit, humanity, and many-sided talent of Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) are on full display in his classic autobiography. Rockwell's New York City boyhood, his apprentice days at the Art Students League, his first fateful visit to the Saturday Evening Post, his adventures abroad, his move to rural Vermont—all are recounted with a mix of sharp observation and self-deprecating humor. Throughout Rockwell invites the reader into his artistic process: he introduces his favorite models, candidly reveals his biggest flops, and documents the creation of a Post cover step by step.
This Definitive Edition restores the original 1960 text of My Adventures as an Illustrator, as well as the playful vignettes that Rockwell drew to head each chapter. Thanks to a massive image digitization effort undertaken by the Norman Rockwell Museum, it is also illustrated with more than 150 of Rockwell's paintings and drawings, many of which highlight lesser-known aspects of his work. A new introduction by the artist's granddaughter Abigail Rockwell adds reference value, as do an illustrated chronology and an annotated bibliography prepared by the staff of the Norman Rockwell Museum.
This attractive volume will be the essential source on the life of Norman Rockwell, and delightful reading for anyone who enjoys his art. Plus, its publication coincides with a major new exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum concerning the autobiographical elements in the artist's work (Norman Rockwell: Private Moments for the Masses, June 8 through October 27, 2019).
The New Father Armin A. Brott
The New Father
A Dad's Guide to The Toddler Years, 12-36 Months
The New Father series|3
The essential guide for fathers of one- and two-year-olds, completely revised and updated
Learn how to make a positive impact in these milestone years of your child's development, when he or she goes from crawling to walking, and from knowing just a few words to speaking in complete sentences. Armin Brott guides you through this crucial phase of fatherhood three months at a time, in the third volume of the New Father series trusted by millions of dads nationwide. Each chapter covers:
Your child's physical, intellectual, verbal, and emotional/social development
What you're experiencing as a father
Age-appropriate activities you and your child can enjoy together
Family matters, including your relationship with your partner, sibling relationships, and more
This new edition of The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the Toddler Years has been thoroughly updated to cover the issues dads face today, from balancing work and family to managing kids' screen time. Dads will rely on this friendly yet authoritative book—and moms will find it helpful, too.
The Seventies Ira M. Resnick
A Photographic Journey
By Ira M. Resnick
Unseen images of the personalities who defined a decade
The seventies in America were a time of social and cultural ferment, and Ira Resnick was there with his camera to capture it all. Now he is opening his archives to reveal hundreds of rare celebrity photos—many never seen since their original publication in magazines like Rolling Stone, People, and Us.
Musicians like the Rolling Stones, Stevie Nicks, and James Taylor.
Actors and directors like Sissy Spacek, Warren Beatty, and Martin Scorsese.
Comedians like Steve Martin, Gilda Radner, and Bill Murray.
Athletes like Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Politicians like Jimmy Carter, Jerry Brown, and Bella Abzug.
Resnick's dynamic shots are accompanied by personal anecdotes about his legendary subjects.
Before They Were Stars Illugi Jökulsson
Before They Were Stars
What were the world's greatest players like when they were your age?
Learn how the top soccer stars of all time grew up and conquered the sport. This exciting book follows twenty-eight of the best men's and women's players from their first childhood encounter with association football—whether at the school gym or a pickup game in a vacant lot—to their first appearance in a top-division match or their first international cap. For every one of them, it was a journey with its share of both tragedy and triumph.
Did you know that . . .
. . . as a boy, Pelé practiced with a newspaper-stuffed sock or a grapefruit, because he couldn't afford a proper football?
. . . Mia Hamm discovered the sport of soccer as a toddler in Florence, Italy, where her father, a U.S. Air Force pilot, was stationed?
. . . at age ten, Messi was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency that threatened to end his soccer career—until Barça offered to pay for his treatment?
Illustrated with rare photos of stars-to-be on and off the field, Before They Were Stars is sure to entertain and inspire any budding soccer legend.
Women's World Cup 2019 Illugi Jökulsson
Learn all about the 2019 Women's World Cup in France!
The eighth edition of the Women's World Cup begins on June 7, 2019—and it promises to be the most exciting one yet.
This book will tell you all you need to know about the
twenty-four national teams competing for the top spot, from established powerhouses like Team USA (the defending champions) and Germany (gold medalists at the 2016 Olympics) to newcomers like Chile.
It will give you the inside scoop on the top players in the tournament—like Megan Rapinoe of the USA and Marta of Brazil—and their strengths and weaknesses.
It will take you on a whirlwind tour of host country France and the World Cup venues—like the 59,000-seat Parc Olympique Lyonnais, where the semifinals and finals will be played.
And it will catch you up on the history of the Women's World Cup, from the first eight-team showdown in China in 1991 to the clash of twenty-four seasoned squads in Canada in 2015.
Women's World Cup 2019 even includes handy fill-in brackets so you can track the progress of your favorite teams in the tournament.
Pacific Legacy
Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific (2nd Edition)
By Gerald A. Meehl Rex Alan Smith Joe Foss
The classic photo book about the battlegrounds of the Pacific Theater then and now—updated with new information about the preservation and accessibility of these historic sites
Pacific Legacy offers an unprecedented record of the relics of World War II that have survived on the islands of the Pacific: American landing craft rusting on the reefs where they were stopped by enemy fire; shell-pocked Japanese fortifications; fallen aircraft overgrown by jungle; packed-coral landing strips still as good as new. These evocative color images are paired with archival photographs that show the same tropical battlegrounds as they appeared in wartime.
The text covers the entire war in the Pacific, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to Japan's surrender in Tokyo Bay. The principal battles are recounted hour-by-hour, drawing heavily on firsthand accounts. This vivid narrative helps the reader visualize what it was really like to be at war in the Pacific, doggedly island-hopping to victory.
Mykonos Robert A. McCabe
Portrait of a Vanished Era
By Robert A. McCabe
Experience the unspoiled beauty and traditional culture of this legendary Greek island, as it was in the late 1950s
There are hundreds of Greek islands. Why did Mykonos become, in just a few decades, one of the world's top vacation spots? Part of the answer can be found in these remarkable images, which show the natural beauty and traditional island culture that initially attracted artists, writers, and celebrities like Jackie Kennedy.
These photographs, taken in 1955 and 1957—many for National Geographic—re-create a daylong visit to Mykonos in the days before cars, running water, and electricity. We disembark in the Old Harbor and wander the picturesque streets of Chora (the main town), watching the townspeople at their daily tasks. We visit St. Panteleimon Monastery on a festival day, and take a caïque (a traditional wooden boat) to see the ruins on the neighboring island of Delos.
Every photograph is reproduced as a full-page tritone of surpassing quality, and accompanied by a detailed caption. This book will fascinate modern-day visitors to Mykonos, as well as those who trace their roots to the Greek islands.
Wristwatch Annual 2019 Peter Braun Marton Radkai
Wristwatch Annual 2019
The Catalog of Producers, Prices, Models, and Specifications
By Peter Braun Marton Radkai
Complete information on over 1,400 models from 130 international brands—the essential guide for the collector of fine mechanical watches.
With Wristwatch Annual, collectors have at hand a wealth of information on the latest offerings from today's most important watch producers, from Swiss mainstays like Rolex and Patek Philippe to the maverick independent brands springing up across Europe and the U.S. The book is arranged alphabetically by producer, and the movement, functions, case, band, price, and variations of each pictured watch are fully described.
This year's edition, like its predecessors, will feature a variety of additional articles on independent watchmaking, key personalities in the watch world, and the technical aspects of horology. An illustrated glossary and a primer on watch care help acclimate the reader to the world of fine timepieces.
Peter Braun is editor-in-chief of the renowned German wristwatch magazine Armbanduhren.
Marton Radkai, an independent journalist, has edited the English-language edition of Wristwatch Annual since 2011.
Literary Chickens Beth Moon
Literary Chickens
From the best-selling photographer of Ancient Trees, an arresting collection of black-and-white chicken portraits paired with quotations from classic literature.
Fierce, funny, and flamboyant, fifty-two heritage-breed chickens assess the camera with a keen gaze. By focusing on the faces of her avian subjects, Beth Moon reveals them to us not just as beautiful and exotic creatures, but as individuals in their own right.
Moon's intimate portraits capture a startling range of emotions and personalities, underscored by excerpts from literature. A martial Spanish White Face is flanked by a passage from Beowulf; a fantastical Buff-Laced Polish, by a line from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; and a refined Blue Polish, by a character sketch from Swann's Way.
Essays by chicken keeper and best-selling author Melissa Caughey and cultural critic Collier Brown shed additional light on this fresh and remarkable body of work, which will appeal to animal lovers and literature buffs alike.
Beth Moon, a New York–based photographer, has gained international recognition for her large-scale, richly toned platinum-palladium prints. Her other books include Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time and Ancient Skies, Ancient Trees.
Painting the Dream Daniel Bergez
Painting the Dream
From the Biblical Dream to Surrealism
By Daniel Bergez
The first-ever history of the representation of dreams in Western painting, illustrated with works by more than 130 artist.
Organized by period, from the Middle Ages to the present, this engaging book shows how the idea of the dream, andits depictions, have shifted throughout history, from th e biblical dream—a communication from God—to the deeply personal dream, the lighthearted fantasy, the nightmare.
Sometimes these ideas have existed simultaneously: thus we have, only a few years apart, Raphael's limpid High Renaissance composition of Jacob dreaming his Ladder; Albrecht Dürer's watercolor of a mysterious deluge that he saw in his own slumbers; and Hieronymus Bosch's nightmarish hellscapes.
More recently, movements such as Symbolism and Surrealism have taken the dream as a primary source of inspiration, even conflating dreaming and the creative process itself. This rich vein of visionary art runs from Gustave Moreau and Odilon Redon, through De Chirico and Dalí, down to the present—demonstrating, as Bergez reminds us, that Morpheus was a god of form as well as of dreams.
Daniel Bergez is a scholar, curator, and critic whose work focuses on the relationship between painting and literature. His monograph on Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian won the Prix Bernier of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Mix-A-Mutt Sara Ball
Mix-A-Mutt
By Sara Ball
Flip and Flop Books
Flip and flop heads, tails, and bodies to make 1,000 crazy canines!
From the best-selling illustrator of Flip-o-saurus and Flip- o-storic comes another book with charming artwork and die-cut pages for mix-and-match fun—this time with
dogs! Mix-a-Mutt lets you create wacky combinations often different breeds, including both popular pets like the Labrador Retriever and show dogs like the shaggy Komondor and the wrinkly Shar-Pei.
Each flap features a fun fact about the pictured breed, and inside the front cover is a chart showing the relative size of the dogs featured, from the Yorkshire Terrier to the Great Dane.
Sara Ball is a prolific illustrator of children's books, including Abbeville's Flip-o-saurus and Flip-o-storic.
The Art of Tarot Christina Olsen
The Art of Tarot
By Christina Olsen
A palm-sized visual history of tarot cards, from hand- painted Renaissance decks to the creations of modern artists like Salvador Dali.
Originally used by northern Italian aristocrats in complex games resembling bridge, tarot cards became more popular with the spread of printing in the sixteenth century and were eventually used by Freemasons, fortune-tellers, and mystics to reveal hidden truths about the past, present, and future. More recently, artists have used the imagery and potency of tarot as a springboard for creativity.
As a path to revelation or simply as a pastime, tarot is fascinating. A carefully curated selection of decks from the past six centuries—showing the chief turning points in their development—make this little book an indispensable guide to the history of tarot.
Christina Olsen, an art historian and museum director, wrote her PhD thesis on the history of tarot cards.
Women Who Write are Dangerous Stefan Bollmann
Women Who Write are Dangerous
A sequel to the best-selling Women Who Read Are Dangerous, presenting portraits and profiles of fearless women writers past and present.
Writing has not always been considered a suitable career for women. Indeed, it was once common for women authors to adopt a masculine pseudonym in order to be taken seriously. And even today, some women writers still struggle to obtain the same recognition that is given to their male counterparts. Nevertheless, women throughout the ages have overcome these obstacles to create literature of enduring importance.
This attractive book brings together paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs of some fifty outstanding women authors, from Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and George Sand to Dorothy Parker, Simone de Beauvoir, and Toni Morrison. Each image is accompanied by an engaging commentary on the writer depicted, discussing the highlights of her career and the major themes of her work. Full of insight and inspiration, this is the perfect gift for any woman who writes.
Stefan Bollmann is the author of several books, including the best-selling Women Who Read Are Dangerous.
Francine Prose, prolific novelist and essayist, is past president of the PEN America Center.


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It's Felony Friday and this week the TTPD is looking for Steven Spruel, Mr. Spruel is being sought in connection with Forgery.
He cashed a check for a rather hefty amount of cash at a bank earlier this month. Everything looked to be on the up and up to the bank. However, as it turns out, the check was one of several that had been stolen from a local business the day before. Unfortunately, Spruell managed to cash the check before the business realized that some of their checks were missing, had a chance to report it to their bank, and froze their account.
If you know where to find Steve Spruel, please contact the Texarkana Texas Police Department at 903-798-3116 or Texarkana Area Crime Stoppers at 903-793-STOP.


Here's a Google Hangout with some Google spokesmen addressing privacy and security. I'm posting this because I've had a couple conversations about this topic recently. The upshot, I think, is that Google Apps is pretty secure & private for students.
Now that I've had a little while to collect my thoughts, I thought it would be interesting to distill what I learned from teaching a six-week unit on computer science to sixth graders. I should start out by saying that I did this under ideal circumstances – I made my own curriculum (okay, a mixed blessing), I had a small class (the class was divided into two 30 minute sessions with 10 students in each!), and most importantly, I had an experienced and talented teacher with me in the classroom at all times. I also had an exceptional group of kids to teach – they were motivated and well behaved almost the entire time.
My first lesson: there are not a lot of great resources for teaching computer science at this level. I spent a great deal of time over the summer planning for this class. I could find no lesson plan for a a full class, and only a few usable sources for lessons. I did find many that were out of date, or that covered skills I was uninterested in (e.g. specific software for word-processing and spreadsheets). That said, there were a few resources that were great, and I could use as a starting point for my own lesson. Computer Science Unplugged was one site I drew from on multiple occasions.
My second lesson: the kids were seldom at the level I thought they would be at. In my original plan, I scheduled a "boot camp," when the students would get their new logins and get some training with some basic tools such as Google Apps. I thought this would take much longer than it did – they students were very fast to learn the new tools. I planned to spend a week on digital citizenship issues. The students were behind the level I expected here, though. Almost none of the sixth graders were using social media, which completely torpedoed many of my examples. I axed a great deal of this lesson, and plan on introducing it in a later grade.
My third lesson: any time I could get something physical in the students' hands, their interest immediately shot up. This was no surprise – all the teachers I talked to just nodded when I mentioned it. This did nudge me to change a number of my plans on the fly. For example, to practice decoding decimal numbers to binary, I brought in dice. The students rolled, then converted. They loved the exercise, as opposed to the worksheet I might have otherwise used. I also had an exercise where the students acted as routers, and passed a message cut into paper "packets" to a teacher "computer" in the rear of the room. The students ate it up, and wanted to do it again the next day.
My fourth lesson: I didn't spend enough time on hardware. The students were surprising unfamiliar with computers, in spite of carrying one around with them every day. I hurried a bit through this lesson because I was worried about running out of time. In retrospect, and particularly after seeing the exam results, the students did not grasp some of the specifics as well as I would have liked. If I get the chance to do this again, I will probably try to create some simulations using students as computer components, or something like that. I'd also like them to have to build a computer. I did have them look inside and identify the parts, but it's just not the same.Had I spent more time on this unit, I might also have covered troubleshooting in more depth, which would definitely been useful.
Fifth: computer science doesn't have to be about programming. I didn't cover it at all, in fact, because I couldn't find a way to introduce it that I was comfortable with. I think it's very important, and I will definitely find a way to expose the kids to programming down the road.
Overall, I thought the class went very well. I had good feedback from the students, many of whom were disappointed to learn it was over after six weeks. I also had great feedback from a couple parents, who described their children teaching them about binary numbers. I can definitely improve the class in the future, although I think any class I design will have to be flexible. I suspect each group will have a very different dynamic – I know many sixth grade classes, for example, will already be very involved in social media, which will necessitate a more in-depth digital citizenship unit and may enable other communication modes.
I also think I could move some units, such as cryptography, into other places. Some of these might integrate well with lessons in history, language, or art. I'm looking forward to finding ways to sneak into other classrooms for quick lessons! And, I'd really like to find some good game-based education to use, such as Nova Labs' Cybersecurity Lab game.
A great interview with Apple's VP for Education, John Couch, on the future we need in education.
Also, a shout out to Mark Gerl for telling me about it.


So we recorded two episodes a month ago, just before I left for my trip to Poland. We banked two so that we could release them while I was gone and hopefully bridge the gap between our next record so we can stop being such party poopers and keeping our listeners waiting so long.
Well that plan didn't work. Unfortunately, FRED's dear leader Ken was bogged down with work and couldn't get the episode posted until last night, where he released them in a double whammy for your ear holes.
This is me both explaining and apologizing for the delay so you know that we didn't mean it and are trying to be better.
Here are the descriptions as Brian wrote them a month ago (can you spot the glaring error?).
CABIN FEVER #113: Lisa Loeb (I Missed You) - Aaron and pHitzy start off trying to make a proper episode, but get sidetracked early on this week as they recall their mutual crush on a particular pocket-sized songstress. Lots of bad singing and pining ensues. You have been warned.
CABIN FEVER #114: The Lost Hour - After last week's episode our cabin boys went off on a mini 90s nostalgia odyssey, as is their wont. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on your point of view) the nonsense was recorded, and since Aaron is away watching football and drinking his bodyweight in cider over in Poland, you get this in lieu of a proper episode. You're welcome/We're sorry.


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Le Palazzo dei Banchi est un palais de la ville de Bologne situé sur la Piazza Maggiore aux côtés de la basilique San Petronio et datant des .

Historique
La construction du Palazzo dei Banchi a commencé en 1412, mais l'achèvement de la façade et du porticato, par Jacques Barozzio (dit Vignole ), remonte à 1565-1568. C'est de là que part le portique le plus célèbre de la ville, le Pavaglione, qui relie le Piazza Maggiore au Palais de l'Archiginnasio, l'ancien et premier siège de l'Université de Bologne.

Galerie de photos

Banchi
Patrimoine du XVe siècle
Patrimoine du XVIe siècle

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The warm weather has finally arrived! As a result, you've probably "lightened up" by shedding your outerwear and sweatshirts for the season, it's also time to shed the excess accumulation from your car and car trunk.
Because they spend so much time in their cars, many of my clients inadvertently use their vehicles as an extra storage area/dumping ground. School papers, old newspapers, food wrappers, empty soda cans, and shopping bags end up randomly tossed around.
Take advantage of the warm weather and spend an hour outside, emptying out the accumulation in your car. Grab a trash bag and toss all the food wrappers, papers, and other unwanted items. Gather all of the winter car items (kitty litter, snow scrapers, gloves, de-icer, etc.) and store them in a labeled bin in your garage. Collect all of your reusable canvas tote bags and fold them flat, with the handles tucked into the bag; store all the bags inside one bigger bag. This will help organize the car, and make it easy to grab a single bag of bags as you're walking into the grocery store. If you have young kids and keep toys, coloring books, or other items in the car to keep them occupied on long drives, consider corralling the supplies into an over the seat storage holder or a plastic tote. It will make it easy to access, and prevent them from rolling around in the car.
Utilize zippered pouches to organize storage in the console by the driver's seat; perhaps one for pens; another for coupons; a third for tissues, wet wipes and cosmetics. Milk crates or plastic bins are great to group and organize items in your trunk, and prevent them from rolling around. Keep some clear zipper-top bags in the car in case you need to pack up wet or dirty items (think spilled drinks, muddy soccer field).
Keep a trash bag on the floor of the back seat or hanging from the dash. Be sure to empty it several times each week.
Equip your car glove compartment for an emergency. Consider keeping an old, fully-charged, cell phone in the glove compartment. Even if you no longer maintain phone service on the old phone, it can still be used in an emergency to call 911. (Your current cell phone may go flying under the seat, and may not be accessible, in the event of a crash.) A small bottle of water can be useful to remove the chemical powder that sprays when an airbag deploys. If your cell phone does not take pictures, a disposable camera is necessary for taking pictures at the scene of an accident. A small flashlight can be helpful if you don't have an app on your phone. Be sure to keep a pair of jumper cables and a well-stocked first aid kit in the trunk.
At the end of the summer, be sure to restock your trunk with winter emergency items. Again, a milk crate or bin is great for storing these items.
After you've gotten everything organized, run over to the car wash to make everything sparkle. Then roll down the windows, or crank up the air, and go for a nice drive.


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La Teudat Zehut (in ebraico תעודת זהות, in arabo بطاقة هوية, biţāqat huwīya) è il documento d'identità israeliano obbligatorio, previsto dal 1982.

Ogni residente che abbia sedici anni o più deve essere sempre munito di una carta d'identità e presentarla sotto richiesta di un alto funzionario di polizia, un capo del Comune, un'Autorità Regionale, un poliziotto o un membro delle forze armate in servizio.

Diritto e prassi comune
Non portare la carta d'identità o farne un uso improprio comportano reato e una multa di 5000 vecchi sicli israeliani. Tuttavia, la legge vieta specificatamente di iniziare le procedure legali nel caso in cui l'autore del reato abbia contattato le autorità competenti entro cinque giorni e si sia identificato correttamente; nella realtà, quindi, raramente il trasgressore viene costretto a pagare. La carta d'identità è necessaria inoltre per esercitare alcuni diritti civili. Fino a poco tempo fa era l'unico documento valido per votare nelle elezioni nazionali, ma dal 2005 la legge permette anche di usare una patente di guida o un passaporto. Quando non è specificatamente richiesto dalla legge, possono essere usati anche altri documenti di identificazione. In Israele, infine, l'accesso a molti edifici o aree custodite richiede la presentazione della carta d'identità.

Le carte d'identità sono rilasciate dal Ministero degli Interni Israeliano attraverso uffici sparsi in tutto il paese, non hanno data di scadenza e possono essere usate finché restano intatte.

Contenuto del documento
La scheda è laminata e contenuta in uno dei comparti interni del suo coperchio di plastica, e include le seguenti informazioni personali:
Numero d'identificazione
Nome completo
Filiazione
Data di nascita (per gli ebrei anche data ebraica)
Luogo di nascita
Etnia (solo nelle carte emesse prima del 2005, ma la data ebraica continua a differenziare gli ebrei)
Sesso
Luogo e data di rilascio (per gli ebrei anche data ebraica)
Foto (a colori)

C'è anche un'appendice separata, un foglio piegato contenuto nell'altro comparto interno che elenca i seguenti dati:
Indirizzo attuale
Indirizzo precedente
Nomi precedenti (se applicabile)
Cittadinanza (il portatore può essere un residente permanente con cittadinanza straniera)
Nome, data di nascita e numero d'identificazione di coniugi e figli (se applicabile)
Timbro del seggio elettorale (è stato abolito nel 1992 in modo da far votare anche chi è sprovvisto dell'appendice)

Altri progetti

Diritto israeliano
Israele


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What the Media Isn't Reporting About PTSD in SOF Personnel (Part 2)
by Judson Kauffman Mar 5, 2013
Matt Friedman, the director of the National Center for PTSD, explained at the 2003 conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that the SOF soldiers in the Fort Bragg study demonstrated a higher capacity to mobilize the neuropeptide Y molecule and sustain it for longer periods of time. Furthermore, the level of neuropeptide Y their bloodstream returned to normal levels within twenty-four hours, whereas conventional soldiers still showed decreased levels.
According to Friedman, the capacity to mobilize neuropeptide Y is correlated to a lower likelihood of developing PTSD. He believes that neuropeptide Y may offer the key to primary prevention of PTSD, if a means of artificially elevating it could be discovered. Although the work has been going on for several years, researchers are still uncertain whether the SOF members' enhanced capacity to endure trauma was genetic or had been acquired through Special Forces training.
A broader and more focused study conducted in 2012 by researchers in the Department of Psychological Medicine in Sri Lanka[ii] compared the mental health problems of SOF personnel with conventional forces who had been engaged in combat for at least one year. Exposure to traumatic events and problems with family life were identified as risk factors. The outcome measures were common mental disorder, fatigue, multiple physical symptoms and hazardous alcohol use.The researchers found that while overall exposure to potentially traumatic events was high in both groups, the SOF personnel experienced significantly more traumatic events during their tours than conventional forces.
In spite of this, Special Forces personnel exhibited significantly fewer common mental disorders, fatigue or poor general health than regular forces. Prevalence of PTSD was only 1.9% in the Special Forces and 2.9% among the conventional forces. So, even with more exposure to trauma, the SOF members still had lower rates of PTSD. The researchers suggested that better training, comradeship, and unit cohesion protected Special Forces personnel from negative mental health outcomes of combat.
I also looked at studies of PTSD in civilian populations. PTSD rates in studies of civilian populations vary, and depend on the background and experiences of the cohorts these studies. However, civilian populations tend to have only slightly lower rates of PTSD than do military personnel who have served one or more combat tours. Incidents such as car accidents, losing a loved one, assaults, or simply prolonged periods of elevated stress are all common causes of PTSD amongst the non-military populations.
A study conducted in 1991[iii] examined PTSD rates among non-military urban youth in Detroit, a sample with an above-average exposure to traumatic events. Within the sample, 39% had been exposed to traumatic events, and among those exposed, 23.6% reported symptoms of PTSD. A 1993 study of PTSD[iv] rates among civilian American women found that lifetime prevalence of PTSD was 9.4% among women who were not victims of crime, and 25.8% among women who had been victims of crime. These studies are congruent with reporting from the National Center for PTSD, which says that about 8% of the overall population will experience PTSD at some point in their lives.[v]
Generally speaking, available literature on the subject tends to support the hypothesis that Special Operations Forces have a higher resilience to combat stress. It is interesting that biochemical markers associated with stress control and reduction have been found to be higher and sustained for longer periods of time in SOF personnel than in conventional soldiers; this discovery demands more attention. It is possible that this could be a result of the extended and more rigorous training SOF personnel are given. A number of studies[vi] have shown that prolonged exercise cause the body to exhibit elevated levels of pain-killing neurochemicals, so it is safe to assume that a similar mechanism may be at work in SOF training. Perhaps extended exposure to rigorous, but controlled, environments, allows trainees to develop elevated levels of stress-reducing neurochemicals.
My own experience, along with the available research on the subject, indeed leads me to believe and assert that SOF personnel do have higher resilience to combat stress and are less likely to exhibit PTSD symptoms than conventional soldiers. Furthermore, my research suggests that PTSD levels in the military overall are very near the averages of civilian rates of PTSD. At any rate, it is clear that more research needs to be done and less assumptions need to be made anytime a person who served in the military does something violent. If the reasons for this phenomenon are discovered, we may be able to use that knowledge to reduce PTSD in combat personnel throughout the Armed Forces as a whole.
–Jud Kauffman
About the author: Jud Kauffman served in the U.S. Navy for 8 years, first as an intelligence analyst and later as a Navy SEAL deploying multiple times throughout the Middle East on hundreds of combat missions. He later served as the National Program Manager for the Naval Special Operations Mentor Program, selecting and mentoring potential civilian SEAL, EOD, SWCC, and Diver candidates. He helped cofound The Great American Mud Run and Talosorion Security. In 2012, he founded ExBellum.com, a website aimed at connecting Special Operations veterans with civilian employers.
ExBellum.com is an exclusive online network of special operations personnel, both active and separated, designed to connect the community with employers and with each other.
[i] Battacharya, Shaoni. 2003. Molecular secret of Special Forces toughness. New Scientist.
[ii] Hanwella R, de Silva V.2012. Mental health of Special Forces deployed in battle. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 47(8): 1343-51.
[iii] Breslau N et al. 1991. Traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder in an urban population of young adults. JAMA Psychiatry (Archives of General Psychiatry) 48(3):216-222.
[iv] Resnick H et al. 1993. Prevalence of civilian trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in a representative national sample of women. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 61(6):984-991.
[v] Vorenberg, Sue. 2012. Civilians also suffer from PTSD. The Columbian (Vancouver, WA).
[vi] Kotlyn K.F. 2000. Analgesia following exercise: a review. Sports Medicine 29(2): 85-89.
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The Dukes have yearned for this chance for half of a decade.
They shared the NEC title in 2011, but watched Albany go on to represent the conference in the FCS playoffs against then-Big South member Stony Brook.
Duquesne matched Sacred Heart's first-place record in 2013, but the Pioneers' head-to-head victory over the Dukes meant Jerry Schmitt's team would again miss out on the automatic bid to the national tournament.
There is no monopoly on the Northeast Conference's five major individual football awards. In fact, it is quite the opposite.
The Northeast Conference unveiled its 2015 football honorees via twitter on Wednesday morning.
Each of the five major awards went to members of different NEC programs.
Duquesne topped Saint Francis in a winner-take-all NEC regular season finale and will play for a national championship as a result.
The Dukes are headed to the Division I FCS playoffs for the first time in school history and there has been plenty of talk on twitter about their remarkable run.
Dukes r NEC champs!!! Congrats 2 all Dukes, and thx 2 all former Dukes, alums and fans for outstanding support today!


Courtesy of ANZ comes this simple yet effective chart that shows current market pricing for the outlook for Australian interest rates.
Following the release of the June monetary policy statement earlier this afternoon, something that conveyed no explicit easing bias indicating that rates were likely to be reduced in the near-term, financial markets have pushed the expected timing of when the next rate cut will be delivered.
Based on overnight index swap (OIS) pricing, a gauge on market expectations as to where the RBA cash rate will sit in the future, markets are now not fully priced for a further 25 basis point rate cut until early next year.
Nearer-term, the odds of a rate cut in August have also shifted, falling from above 60% earlier today to around 40% at present.
Despite the diminished view from markets, ANZ retain the view that the RBA is still likely to cut rates again in August.
"The lack of an explicit easing bias makes an August rate cut a much closer call than we had previously thought," said Felicity Emmett, head of Australian economics at ANZ.


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Q: Fragment loaded in bottom navigation view becoming null on orientation change In my activity, I have a bottom navigation view with 5 items. On each item click in bottom navigation view, I am loading a fragment. Suppose I am on the 3rd item and I am changing the orientation, then activity was recreated and it showed up 1st item as selected. This I avoided by giving the following code in my activity.
override fun onSaveInstanceState(outState: Bundle) {
    super.onSaveInstanceState(outState)
    outState.clear()
    outState.putInt("tabSelected", bottomNav.selectedItemId)
}

override fun onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState: Bundle) {
    super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState)
    bottomNav.selectedItemId = savedInstanceState.getInt("tabSelected")
}

By giving the above code, I managed to show 3rd  item as selected. But the issue here is the fragment is getting recreated and my savedInstanceState is always null in that fragment. I have given
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
    retainInstance = true
}

in my fragment.
How can I save all the content of my fragment in this case?
UPDATE: I don't see any fragments in my supportFragmentManager although I have given retainInstance = true

A: Make sure to write below line in manifest file for your activity in which you are loading fragment.
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize|screenLayout|keyboardHidden"

A: Have you tried adding the .addToBackStack(null) method to the transaction manager right when you replace the fragment with a new one. this should save the state of the fragments before you call commit to the savedinstancestate. if you do .addToBackStack(String tag) you can even call up the backstack of specific fragments.
here is some documentation
I think if you want to retain configurations in the fragments themselves you can also read up on setRetainInstance(true) here and here this method will avoid your fragment being recreated on device orientation but if you do thos you might need to override the methods onActivityCreated, onAttach and onDetach in your fragment and tell them how to draw your fragment instead of doing it in onCreateView as you are probably doing now.

A: bottomNav.selectedItemId = savedInstanceState.getInt("tabSelected")

This line reselects the item in the bottom navigation but it also triggers the menu action. It could be that the menu listener just replaces the existing fragment with a new instance.
The existing fragment should still be there with non-null savedINstanceState after device rotation


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The New Zermatt
Bloomberg Businessweek|October 14, 2019
Backed by Egyptian billionaire Samih Sawiris, Switzerland's Andermatt is a new skiers' paradise that's been around for years.
The first time Egyptian real estate mogul Samih Sawiris took a helicopter ride over the sleepy Swiss ski village of Andermatt, 14 years ago, he was struck by its remote wildness. The resort was only a 90-minute drive from Zurich, yet it felt like a secret hidden in the mountains of Uri, arguably the rugged country's least discovered canton.
What the silver-haired chairman of Orascom Development Holding AG must have also seen was a blank slate. The appeal of European ski resorts, unlike that of their purpose-built American counterparts, is their sense of history. Think skiing into farming villages steeped in tradition, where the slopes and hotels and restaurants have been attracting winter tourists for—in some cases—well over a century.
Andermatt offered exactly the opposite. This was a resort that, after two boom-and-bust cycles, felt virtually empty, a veritable ghost town notched high up in a secluded pocket of the Alps. History hadn't been kind to the valley. First the Gotthard Tunnel rerouted the railway tourists who'd once stopped here during the belle epoque. Then the Swiss military, who'd made Andermatt a big base of operations, pulled out in the 1990s, leaving the resort a husk of its former self. All that remained was a picturesque main street flanked by timber chalets and old hotels and a few antiquated lifts ferrying skiers to the tops of the towering mountains that encircle the town. No-frills free-riders came for the plentiful powder and off-piste faces lining the Gemsstock, the highest lift-serviced peak in the area, but they didn't do much for the local economy when it came to spending money in town.
To Sawiris—whose holdings include El Gouna, an Egyptian resort town along the Red Sea with some 20,000 residents—the underdeveloped resort's lack of infrastructure marked its appeal.
"Mr. Sawiris doesn't only create tourism destinations, he creates towns," says Stefan Kern, a spokesman for Andermatt Swiss Alps AG, the company Sawiris founded to transform Andermatt from a down-on-its-luck Alpine hamlet into a destination resort capable of rivalling Zermatt, St. Moritz, and Verbier.
In 2007, Sawiris proposed an audacious three-pronged resuscitation plan, one that would see more than $1 billion go toward an opulent luxury hotel and 18-hole Scottish style golf course, a revamped and expanded ski area, and an ambitious development of holiday apartments and private chalets. To succeed at that third component—the one most critical to his bottom line—Sawiris had to find a way around a Swiss law that restricted foreigners from purchasing second homes. He did just that, getting the government to grant Andermatt an exemption as a special economic development zone. Once the town voted in favor of his plan, almost unanimously, Sawiris was off and running.
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AECOM Awarded Program Management Contract for San Diego Gas & Electric's Strategic Program
November 18, 2022 - Gulf Oil & Gas
AECOM, the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, announced today that it has been selected to provide program management for San Diego Gas & Electric's (SDG&E) Strategic Undergrounding Program that aims to reduce wildfire risk and improve electric safety and reliability during extreme weather conditions by burying power lines in key locations. In this role, AECOM will provide project management services in support of SDG&E's wildfire mitigation and public safety power shutoff risk reduction efforts.
"We are pleased to help SDG&E achieve its goals of increasing public safety and grid resiliency, particularly as it relates to reducing the number and impact of public safety power shutoffs for customers," said Drew Jeter, chief executive of AECOM's global Program Management business. "We understand the essential need for investments in technology and energy infrastructure to mitigate impacts of climate change and the threat of wildfires, which is now year-round. SDG&E is already an industry leader in wildfire resiliency and we're proud to be a part of providing innovative solutions, grounded in technical acumen and scientific principles, to support this essential work for the community."
AECOM will be accelerating the pace and scope of the undergrounding program, helping to minimize community disruption and improve efficiencies by implementing sustainable solutions and innovative approaches to pre-construction and construction activities, leveraging our global experience with energy companies.
"We are honored to play a part in expanding the Strategic Undergrounding Program's ability to convert hundreds of miles of overhead electric lines over the next decade and to assist SDG&E with its long-term goals and program management challenges," said Frank Sweet, chief executive of AECOM's global Environment business. "We look forward to seeing the continued profound impact this program will have in bettering the community and environment in San Diego for generations to come."
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Confirmed season ending surgery.
86WardsWay Well-Known Member
I feel terrible for him. I wasn't a big fan of his tik tok stuff but the guy did bring it every game.
Get well soon JUJU.
86WardsWay, Oct 11, 2021
troybellringer55 Well-Known Member
May be the last we see of JuJu in a Steelers uniform. But, with 15 catches for 129 through 4 football games, not sure how many will line up for his services.
He could be back maybe.
troybellringer55, Oct 11, 2021
Really need Claypool, Johnson, and Washington to stop having nagging stuff.
I think Cody White can play a bit, also they have Sims on the practice squad and he's played a bit with WFT
Maybe we sign a Free Agent, and I see guys like John Brown and a few others you have heard of still out there available.
TuRnDoWnForWaTT Well-Known Member
Very sorry that this has happened to JuJu. My relationship with him on here has been love-hate. JuJu seems like a great kid, and has been a good Steeler(for the most part). Sincerely wish him well on his recovery. I hope he comes back strong and has a great career, even if it's not here.
TuRnDoWnForWaTT, Oct 11, 2021
What's somewhat sad is that if Ben hits him 2 seconds earlier the two guys outside have sealed the inside lane and Juju has a huge lane to run in. He throws a little shuffle and the guy that tackles him has to choose what lane to cover. Catching it where he did left him just the option to go between the two. Not blaming anyone here just that the timing was slightly off and a big gain turned into an injured player
Dude it was a hand off.
Not Judging You man, but this is why I don't take what some say about Ben seriously. Saying You are not blaming anyone, but Saying if it was away 2 seconds sooner, and Yet it was a hand off.
Well what can I say.
I expect this from Maddog78, or a few others, but not You.
Not Judging You man, but this is why I don't take what some say about Ben seriously. Saying You are not blaming anyone, but Saying if it way 2 seconds sooner, and Yet it was a hand off.
Yeah I messed up. Owned up to it too.
Damn you're right. I thought it was a fake to Harris and quick screen to Juju. I should have watched the clip rather than basing my response on the crappie feed I had on yesterday and my even crappier recollection.
I think I was confusing it with one of the quick hits to Claypool.
Oh....I see that Now. Sorry My Friend.
I answered as soon as I read it....
Animus Well-Known Member
Such an unfortunate injury for him. I just hope that he has a speedy recovery.
Animus, Oct 11, 2021
No problem I've done that before too.
hmmmmm Well-Known Member
That's kinda a cheap shot. Coming into a year where the salary cap was reduced with the Steelers up against it keeping a player who may not be able to go for 6 months isn't an option. Framing his release as some sort of unsupported bad front office move is disingenuous at best.
No I think it was pretty cut and dry. He suffered from a lingering injury all last season that surgery didn't fix. He waited until camp to give it time to heal naturally and it still wasn't right. He was opting for another procedure that would place him on the shelf for most if not all of the season. If it was a typical year where teams weren't up against a reduced cap I think he would still be on the team. As it was you can't keep a guy who has a significant cap hit on the shelf for a year. Nothing nefarious just the sucky reality of the game today.
I could not agree more. I do understand wanting to let stuff heal naturally but it's also annoying when guys that get paid millions suddenly don't want to heal naturally when the season is about to start. Although his situation could have been different but you do see that way too much
hmmmmm, Oct 11, 2021
FootballAnalyst98 said: ↑
He's likely coming back.
I hope you are right, I have my doubts.
FootballAnalyst98 Well-Known Member
He's not going to get offered anymore than he did last offseason. Pitt is likely his best option.
FootballAnalyst98, Oct 11, 2021
Denver had like 12 guys on their injury report. Cincy and the Raiders were missing guys, too. It's part of the game.
Steeler fans seem to think it only affects the Steelers.
Denver, Raiders and Cincy lost.
Injuries matter, some losses are worse than others. If Ray Ray goes down, who cares, Bush going down is a major blow.
wow. i said this when it happened, because we just went through this. on vacation we were at the beach on day 3 at sierra key in sarasota fla. my two sons were horsing around in the gulf ( a couple of 320 lb. boys) and i saw the youngest coming out of the water holding the arm across his body and i told my dad, he dislocated his shoulder. sure enough, off to the hospital we went because i couldn't pop it back in. he did it good this time. third time he has done this. hasn't happened in about 5-6 years. so we packed up everything and spent the next 5 hours in the emergency ward. they both lift and work out daily so i thought this thing is getting stronger but.......... not evidently. anywho... i saw juju and said he dislocated that shoulder. the funny thing was as we were in the exam room another guy came in with a shoulder dislocation as well and the dr's were saying we have a two fer in here now. this sucks for juju. my son didn't have labrum tear like juju. all x-rays were negative on that thank goodness.
Da Stellars Well-Known Member
Time for the young bucs to step up... DJ, Claypool, and Washington can be dangerous, but they got to want it. Ain't no more half-steppin. No more drops.
Da Stellars, Oct 11, 2021
He'll sign a one-year prove it deal somewhere. I'm guessing it will be somewhere where they think of him as more than a slot receiver, or where they have a QB who can get him the ball more downfield.
Maybe if ARod comes to Pittsburgh.
Jujubean Well-Known Member
Haven't been impressed with JuJu last couple years but it might be more of what he is asked of in this BS offense. Regardless sucks to see one of our boys get popped and injured like that. You could tell he was in bad shape immediately.
James Washington time to shine now or never for him.
Jujubean, Oct 11, 2021
Bush is really looking fragile and bordering on a big time miss for us moving up to snag him. Guy can't stay on the field.
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It is a shame for certain.
He is still young so there is still time. That said, time is running out for him. Hope he can put it all together this season for the team will have a big decision to make in 2022 should he not be able to.


With plenty of sunshine and calm seas on Friday, 7 June, and Monday, 9 June, we had the pleasure to dive once again with whale sharks during our Phi Phi Island cruise. On the Friday we saw an approximately five-meter long specimen at Ko Doc Mai. Ko Doc Mai is well known for Seahorses and Ghospipefishes. Therefore the excitement was very high to encounter a whale shark in good visibility of about 15 meters.
On Monday we spotted a second whale shark in similar size at Ko Bida Nai.
Back on board our instructors Bee, Nicky, and Vicky smiled brighter than the sun. It's difficult to decide which was the highlight of the trips: the two whale sharks or the beautiful smiles?


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KAL-007
The U.S. media treatment of the destruction of the civilian airliner Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, effectively blamed on the East Ukraine "separatists" and especially Putin and Russia, follows a long-established pattern of rapid and indignant acceptance of politically serviceable official claims, despite a long record of official deception on such matters. When we contrast this with the media's handling of cases where the U.S. or Israel have shot down civilian planes, the contrast and double standard are dramatic and even grotesque.
When THEY Do It
KAL-007. My old favorite is the Soviet shooting down of Korean airliner KAL-007 on August 31, 1983. This was a period in which the Reagan administration was in the midst of a major arms buildup and associated assailing of the "evil empire." As with the assassination attempt on the Pope in 1981, this event was welcomed as an outstanding propaganda opportunity, and administration denunciations of the Soviet Union were fast and furious. The plane was far off course and flying over Soviet space and near Soviet naval facilities, and it failed to respond to radio challenges from a Soviet fighter plane. A good case has been made that it was on a military mission as well as transporting civilian passengers (P.Q. Mann, "Reassessing the Sakhalin Incident," Defense Attache, June 1994; David Pearson, "K.A.L. 007," the Nation, August 25, 1984). The Reagan administration claimed that the Soviets had deliberately shot down a civilian airliner, although it was known from the radio message intercepts—edited for the media to sustain the propaganda lie—that the Soviets had not identified it as a civilian aircraft.
The media got on this propaganda bandwagon with enthusiasm, denouncing the Soviets as "barbarians" and engaging in "cold-blooded murder." The New York Times had 147 news items on the shootdown in September 1983 alone, covering 2,789 column inches, and for 10 consecutive days it ran a special section of the newspaper devoted to the case. This "savage act" of the Soviet Union as James Reston pointed out, "garnered it the hatred of the civilized world" (NYT, September 4, 1983). The Times editorialized on September 2, "That there is no conceivable excuse for any nation shooting down a harmless airliner."
This propaganda campaign was a great success for the United States, as the Soviet Union was widely vilified and suffered some temporary harassment at airports around the globe. As reporter Bernard Gwertzman noted in a year-later retrospective, U.S. officials "assert that worldwide criticism of the Soviet handling of the crisis has strengthened the United States in its dealings with Moscow" (NYT, August 31, 1984). As the evidence grew that KAL-007 had been on a spy mission, and as the Reagan administration itself quietly acknowleged that the Soviet pilot had not known that this was a civilian airliner, this fresh evidence was either ignored, kept at a very low-key, or dismissed as unproven or Soviet propaganda. It didn't interfere at all with this propaganda triumph. Gwertzman needed to make no qualifications as he noted so complacently the success of the official and media campaign against barbarism.
On January 18, 1988, the New York Times published an editorial titled "The Lie That Wasn't Shot Down." In it the editors acknowledged that the Reagan administration knew within hours of the shootdown that the Soviets had not recognized 007 as a civilian plane and that the Administration had "misled the American people and the world." But the paper itself was an integral part of that lie-program, as it rushed into furious denunciations and massive coverage without the slightest scepticism or investigative effort. It took the paper five years to admit that it had been a gullible agent of propaganda and it also admitted that it hadn't done the research leading to this conclusion. Over the five year period, the paper had downplayed or ignored a stream of investigative efforts to seek out the truth on this subject, the editors preferring to leave the lie that they had so aggressively and intensively disseminated to be corrected by others.
Pan-AM 103
Pan Am-103. The Times and its mainstream colleagues did a similarly poor journalistic but fine propaganda job in dealing with the December 1988 bombing and crash of Pan Am-103 at Lockerbie, Scotland, with 270 casualties. It was immediately suspected that Iran had been behind this bombing, and a case was soon developed charging the Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC) acting as an agent for Iran. This was believed to be a response to the U.S. shooting down of Iranian Air Flight 655, a civilian airliner, with 290 deaths, in July 1988, just five and a half months before Locker- bie. The case for the PFLP-GC and Iranian connection was accepted and duly disseminated by the media. But only a year or so later, geopolitical changes caused the U.S. and Britain to want to placate Syria, the home of PFLP, and Iran, influential in Lebanon, to get them to help oppose Iraq and free hostages in Lebanon. In short order, the case against the PFLP (and indirectly, Iran) was set aside and the general-service villains Muammar Qaddafi and Libya were brought into play as the bombing agents.
The political opportunism in this shift failed to alert the mainstream media, who fell into line on the new target as thoroughly as they had the old (where a much better case had been developed). Libya was pressed to cough up two of its citizens who were accused of carrying out the attack and when it refused to do so the "international community" imposed costly sanctions on Libya until it finally gave way and agreed to allow them to be tried under Scottish law by Scottish judges in Camp Zeist in the Netherlands. The trial judges found one of the two Libyans guilty, although they acknowledged that all of the evidence was "circumstantial."
There were many indications that it was tampered with from the very beginning as the CIA and FBI were on the scene at Lockerbie within two hours of the crash and virtually took over management from the Scottish authorities (for a good account, see John Ashton and Ian Ferguson, Cover-Up of Convenience: The Hidden Scandal of Lockerbie). The decision was a shocker to experts like Scottish law professor Robert Black and UN observer Hans Kochler, both of whom found it "incomprehsible" (Kochler) and "the most disgraceful miscarriage of justice in Scotland for a hundred years" (Black, in Scotsman, November 1, 2005). There was an appeal, and a June 2007 decision by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission spelled out six separate grounds on which the 2001 decision may have been erroneous. But before a new trial could be held, the prisoner Ali Al-Megrahi was granted a medical release and returned to Libya.
The mainstream media failed to note the oddity that only one of the alleged partners in the crime was found guilty, which suggested that the Scottish judges, under heavy political pressure and with the media having taken guilt as a given, decided that they must throw at least one bone to the dogs as a necessary political gesture. The media, while acknowledging with the judges the purely circumstantial nature of the case, had failed to call attention to a remarkable number of violations of rules of evidence and courtroom procedure, that appalled Black, Kochler and apparently the Scottish Review Committee. At no time did any of the 15 Times editorials on the Pan Am 103 shootdown and Libyan connection express the slightest reservation about the process or substance of the charges against the Libyans. The media were indignant at the medical pardon of Al-Megrahi, but just as they ignored the substance of the Review Board's decision and analysis, so they ignored the possibility that the release was in good measure to avoid the consequences of that review. But the two Libyans who were tried—especially Al-Megrahi, and Libya via multi-year sanctions and a successful portrayal of Kaddafi and Libya as terrorists—took substantial hits. At the same time the West boosted its image of being a campaigner for justice and global law and order, despite the fact that, in this case, its leaders seriously abused the nominal principles of justice on the basis of which they supposedly brought this case.
When WE Do It
Iran Air Flight 655. This Iranian civilian airliner was shot down in July 1988 by order of the commander of the USS Vincennes, on duty in the Persian Gulf as part of U.S. support for Saddam Hussein in his war of aggression against Iran. Unlike 007, Flight 655 was not off course and posed no threat to the U.S. attacker. The New York Times, which had had an editorial entitled "Murder" in connection with the 007 shootdown and had asserted back in 1983 that, "There is no conceivable excuse for any nation shooting down a harmless airliner," predictably found one for the 655 case: "the incident must still be seen not as a crime [let alone "murder"] but as a blunder, and a tragedy." Neither the UN Security Council nor International Civil Aviation Organization condemned the United States for this action, although both had done so as regards the Soviet Union in the case of KAL 007. Of course, the Security Council took severe action against Libya in regard to Pan Am 103. There was no punishment whatsoever meted out to Captain Will Rogers (reputedly nick- named Rambo), who got a "hero's welcome" on his return to San Diego five months after the shootdown (Robert Reinhold, "Crew of Cruiser That Downed Iranian Airliner Gets a Warm Homecoming," NYT, October 25, 1988), and was subsequently awarded a Legion of Merit award for "exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service."
The Iranians were naturally angry at this reception and treatment of the man responsible for killing 290 Iranian civilians and were possibly a bit resentful at the workings of the system of international justice as it impacted them. Polls indicated that the warm greeting Rogers received in San Diego was not an aberration—the public was pleased with his accomplishment.
This reflected the fact that media coverage of the 655 shootdown had focused on official claims about the reason for the deadly act, not the plight of the victims and the grief of their families—which was the heavy and continuing focus of attention in both the 007 and Pan Am 103 cases. The alleged suffering of Captain Rogers got more attention than that of the 290 victims and their families. We are back to the contrast between "worthy" and "unworthy" victims and the "useful purpose" of the focus of attention, as seen by the U.S. establishment and media.
Israel Shoots Down a Libyan Airliner
Libyan airliner
On February 21, 1973, Libyan civilian airliner, Flight 114, got off course in a sandstorm, entered Israeli airspace over the Sinai Peninsula, and was shot down by Israeli fighter planes, with 108 lives lost. Israel was condemned by the International Civil Aviation Organization and censured by the United States, but, although it had knowingly shot down a civilian airliner, no penalties were imposed, no recriminations were directed at Israel. It was not accused of murder, a slaughter, a heinous crime, or barbarism—words applied to the Soviets in 1983. Israeli leader Golda Meier was welcomed to Washington within a week of the incident without the intrusion of any embarrassing questions from media or politicos.
The New York Times had 25 articles on this shootdown (versus 147 for 007), and no special section of the paper devoted to the case. Most interesting was their editorial on the incident, which asserted that "No useful purpose is served by an acrimonious debate over the assignment of blame for the downing of a Libyan airliner in the Sinai peninsula last week" (March 1, 1973).
But just as intensive coverage and debate served a useful purpose in the 007 case, helping demonize the "evil empire," so minimal coverage and the avoidance of debate served the interests of U.S. ally Israel. We have here an open admission of a double standard and politicized journalism.
Russia and Its Ukrainian Clients May Have Shot Down an Airliner
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
The shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine on July 17, 2014 was a propaganda windfall for the U.S. war party and its Ukrainian client, as it fed nicely into the ongoing demonization of Putin and an allegedly aggressive Russia and could justify harsher policies toward Russia, more military aid to the Kiev regime and support for its pacification war. The analogy with the 007 case is strong, as the use of the shootdown in 2014 to advance the aims of the war party is similar to that of the Reaganites in confronting the "evil empire" in 1983.
An important difference in the two cases is that in 1983 the identification of the party that did the shooting down was clear, although Reaganites chose to lie about the Soviet motive to score their points, whereas with Flight 17 who shot the plane down is uncertain at the time of writing (August 2). Obama and Kerry rushed to blame the East Ukraine "separatists" for the action, along with Russia, for allegedly supplying them with missiles. Russia was also blamed for not calling off the separatists and for underwriting their resistance.
Obama and Kerry quickly asserted separatist-Russian guilt in the shootdown, claiming solid evidence, which they have not produced for public examination. The Russians have denied separatist and their own responsibility and have submitted evidence to the UN and a public showing that Flight 17 veered off course and was being followed by a Ukrainian Air Force fighter plane that wound up within 3 to 5 kilometers of the Malaysian plane (see letter dated July 22 from the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General. One can actually watch this on a 29-minute video at the RT website). Russian Lieutenant-General A.V. Kartapolov asks: "Why was a military aircraft flying in a civilian aviation airway at almost the same time and the same altitude as a civilian passenger aircraft? We would like to have this question answered." The Russians have repeatedly called for an international investigation of the facts of the case, while urging that the United States make its evidence available for inspection.
It is not clear at this point who shot the plane down, but it is clear that the separatists and Russians had no incentive to do this, so that if they were responsible it would have been a sad error and politically very costly to them. The Kiev government, on the other hand, did have an incentive to do this if it could be attributed to the separatists and Russia, and it has been so attributed even though the evidence on guilt has not been clear. As with 007 and Lockerbie, U.S. propaganda power is such that lies can be made to fly (007) and villains can be chosen and altered according to political convenience (Lockerbie, from Iran to Libya), so with Flight 17 huge propaganda points have been scored before the facts are clear. This propaganda triumph has rested heavily on media cooperation, and media propaganda service in this instance has easily equaled that in the 007 and Lockerbie cases. One key point of propaganda service is the general acceptance of the Obama-Kerry claim of separatist-Russian responsibility for the shootdown. As with 007, no questions are asked and the truth of the Kerry assertion that the evidence is definitive is accepted without insisting on seeing that evidence, despite Kerry's notable recent record of false statements. (On these false statements, and more, see Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Steering Committee, "Obama Should Release Ukraine Evidence," ConsortiumNews.com, July 29, 2014.) Another remarkable feature of media coverage is their acceptance of the Obama/Kerry assumption that the ultimate responsibility for anything unpleasant going on in Eastern Ukraine is Putin and his policy—his support of the "separatists" and his failure to call them off and to accept and even support Kiev's pacification effort.
The Times had an editorial, "Vladimir Putin Can Stop This War" (July 18), which epitomizes this one-sidedness. The United States could even more easily stop this war by insisting that its Kiev client and proxy cease its offensive in the East and negotiate a settlement with the "separatists." This is not discussible in the Times and mainstream media more generally.
For the media, the United States has a right to actively aid the Kiev government, rather far from U.S. borders; but Russia has no right to aid nearby separatists in what is a combination civil war and U.S. proxy war against Russia. Russia is allegedly managing and "orchestrating" the separatist actions in East Ukraine (Sabrina Tavernise, "Orchestrated Conflict," NYT, June 15, 2014); the United States never "orchestrates" conflicts, it is just an outsider helping the legitimate government of Ukraine to achieve stability and fend off that foreign aggressor. These are institutionalized truths in a beautifully working, if somewhat crude, propaganda system.
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