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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- People walk through contemporary art galleries daily, liking some exhibits, disliking others, often without understanding the work. Reading reviews by noted art historians such as Sarah K. Rich, associate professor of art history, might help those who want to add some depth to their art-viewing experience. Rich's criticism and scholarship on contemporary art has made her a regular reviewer for Artforum, one of the most distinguished monthly magazines focusing on the current art scene.
Teaching at Penn State since 1999, Rich specializes in art after 1940, with particular emphasis on art from the United States and France during the 1950s and '60s. Rich started to establish her scholarly niche in contemporary art with a fall 2005 essay, "Bridging the Generation Gaps in Barnett Newman's 'Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue' Paintings," in American Art, which is published by the Smithsonian and the University of Chicago. She argued that Newman's abstract painting in the '60s responded to the work of younger artists, including Ellsworth Kelly. In order to make the comparison visually, Rich contacted Kelly for permission to use an image of his painting in her article. He was impressed with her work and invited her to write an essay about his upcoming show at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York. The result was a crossover from writing historical material about art of the past to writing a more critical text about art of the present.
According to Rich, the episode taught her a great deal about working with living artists. "You have to be both bold and diplomatic, as well as a good listener. If you follow up in the right way, such interactions with artists can put you on exciting paths professionally and intellectually."
When preparing to write a review of an artist's current work or an exhibition, Rich tries to treat each exhibition as unique, without letting previous exposure to either that artist or similar works affect what she sees (to the extent that's ever possible). She initially just walks through the exhibit without trying to interpret. "I want to remain open to the work I'm seeing, perceive what's strange or new without trying to normalize the experience with connections to things I'm already comfortable with," she explained. Only after that does she call on her extensive knowledge of both the artist and contemporary art. Finally, when writing a review, she considers the audience that will be reading it — what will give them the best summary of the show, but also what will provide them pleasure as readers.
Rich's knowledge of Ad Reinhardt proved essential when writing a recent review of the artist's exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York. Reinhardt is an artist known primarily for "Black Paintings," made in the late 1950s to the early 1960s. The paintings are 5-foot square canvases with nine squares of black, each with subtly different hues of yellow, blue, green or red that, according to the artist, should be shown in a low, twilight light. "While other aspects of Reinhardt's art were successfully showcased, the 'Black Paintings' were not. The lighting for the paintings was high and bright and cast shadows directly onto the painting, negating the artist's desired effect," noted Rich. "A casual viewer may not have known this (or known why that was important) unless they read a review. Armed with that information, they can revisit the art and see it in a 'new light.'"
Rich is passionate about educating both art patrons and her students. "To write the history of art is to try to know the object, the artist and the context within which he/she was working," said Rich. "But it is also to produce an intelligent, well-crafted argument that is well-substantiated and articulated through precise language. Writing skills are imperative for my students to master, whether they are reviewing an exhibition or writing a research-oriented article."
Rich's current book project, "Past Flat: Other Sides to American Abstraction in the Cold War" (University of California Press, spring 2015), addresses the unintended overlaps between mid-century consumer culture and the abstract painting produced by artists such as Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly and Kenneth Noland. Research for the book has been supported by Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and the College of Arts and Architecture, as well as a postdoctoral grant from the Getty Research Institute. Rich has also begun research for a second book about Jean Dubuffet's collaborations with other artists.
A native of Wisconsin, Rich received her bachelor of arts degree from Northwestern University, and master and doctor of philosophy degrees from Yale University. She has lectured at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale University, Harvard University and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, among others. She has also enthusiastically served as a speaker for the Penn State Alumni Association's Huddle with the Faculty and City Lights programs. Rich has received awards and recognition for her dedication to research, including a Resident Faculty Fellowship at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Sassari in Sardegna, Italy.
A recipient of the College of Arts and Architecture Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching, she said she is a "big advocate" for in-the-classroom teaching. "In lecture and discussion, I can better share enthusiasm and passion for my subject, and for learning in general. I want students to learn that passion for learning even more than I want them to learn about any specific work of art," she said.
According to Rich, teaching in the classroom is liberating. "For that hour and fifteen minutes, there are no outside distractions. No cell phones. No emails. I get to focus exclusively on something that I love in the presence of other people who are ready to love it too. It's total bliss."


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Most states are still months away from fresh fruit coming back into season, but if you're like me, you're pining for the sweet and tart berries of summer right now. Luckily, there's a great way to enjoy the fruits of summer without the wait. The answer, my pie loving friends, is frozen fruit.
This is probably no secret to non-urban dwellers, who have freezers that can accommodate summer's bounty and dispense doses of berry bliss on a much-needed basis, one freezer bag at a time. For those of us lacking the real estate to squirrel away fruit grown at the peak of its season, there is still the option of the grocer's freezer, stocked and ready to fill our pastries year-round.
I love using frozen berries for filling double-crusted pies. The process isn't difficult at all, in fact, it's slightly easier than using fresh (no pesky stems to contend with or washing required).
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The Kansas City Chiefs announced the hiring of two assistant coaches and that a third assistant coach who has been on the staff for six years will stay.
Al Harris has been named a defensive assistant to oversee the secondary. Harris played 15 years in the NFL and made the Pro Bowl twice. Last season, he was a coaching intern for the Miami Dolphins. He played under Chiefs coach Andy Reid and was acquired by the Green Bay Packers when current general manager John Dorsey worked there.
Mark DeLeone has been hired as a quality control assistant, having held the same job with the New York Jets last year. He has formerly worked with Temple University, the universities of Florida, New Hampshire and Iowa.
Brent Salazar, who has been a strength and conditioning assistant coach since 2007 will stay on with the Chiefs next season.


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Guinea back on track after Botswana mauling
FRANCEVILLE, Gabon (AFP) - Guinea revived their 2012 Africa Cup of Nations hopes after a record-equalling 6-1 rout of 10-man Botswana here on Saturday.
Guinea were matching the record victory margin for a Nations Cup match and are only the third team after Egypt in 1963 and Ivory Coast in 1970 to have scored six goals in a tournament match.
The Syli National, who lost their first Group D game to Mali, fired four first-half goals past debutants Botswana, who narrowly lost 1-0 to Ghana in their opening match.
Guinea, on three points, will on Wednesday take on Ghana in the final batch of Group D games in Libreville, while Mali tackle Botswana.
Guinea enjoyed more of the early play and in the 14th minute, goalkeeper Modiri Marumo was called to make the first save off a powerful shot from outside the box by Mamadou Bah.
They took the lead one minute later when Sadio Diallo finished off a low cross by the tricky Abdoul Camara from the left.
Dipsy Selolwane drew Botswana level in the 23rd minute from the penalty spot at the second attempt after Jerome Ramatlhakwana was brought down inside the box by Guinea goalkeeper Naby Yattara.
Selolwane was back after serving out a one-match suspension.
In the 27th minute, Diallo scored his second goal for Guinea when he connected with another low cross from the left by the fleet-footed Camara.
Camara made it 3-1 for Guinea in the 42nd minute when he followed up a quick free kick by Pascal Feindouno before he fired a low shot past the diving Marumo from a very tight angle.
Botswana substitute Patrick Motsepe saw red for dangerous play in first half stoppage time, when he fouled Feindouno on the edge of his goal area.
And from the resulting free kick, Ibrahima Traore, always a constant danger against The Zebras, netted Guinea's fourth goal after four minutes of additional time to worsen Botswana's problems.
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Four minutes later, Feindouno's shot crashed against the underside of the Botswana post and television replays later showed that it should have been given as a goal for Guinea.
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March 5, 2012
Magical Monday - Children's Birthday
This month has just flown. Our dog Millie just over a month ago was diagnosed with a detached retina. We took her to an emergency clinic and seen an optamologist shortly after that. They put her on pain meds and we watched it for a few weeks. One night I literally thought she was dying, mainly because she seemed in so much pain and wasn't really responding to me much. I ended up getting some more meds and took her to the vet the next day. Her eye pressure was extremely high, which a normal dog's eye pressure is usually around 10-12 and hers was 57! I ended up taking her right into emergency eye surgery which was to remove the eye. So we did that and they also found a benign tumor behind her eye which they removed as well. She just got her stitches out last Thursday and she is doing great and is glad to have that cone off. This is her new look now and we are getting use to it. It certainly doesn't seem to slow her down at all. We can't thank the wonderful vets enough that seen us through it all, there were 4 different ones totaled and I loved them all, but I truly appreciate the South side Animal Hospital that took her into emergency surgery and was waiting on my call after we visited the optamologist. They were the best! Anyway, she is doing great and I am sure she knows and feels she is deeply loved.
This past Saturday Morgan my youngest daughter went to sectionals for speech. She does a duo with another girl which is funny in content. I really did not know what speech was prior to her doing it and it was nothing like what I imagined it to be. There are lots of categories and nothing like giving a speech. It is more like acting and doing improv, but not. That is the best I can describe it. Anyway... Her and Christa took second overall in their category and their school took first place overall the schools in their sectional. It is won by a point system. So each time a child wins in their category they get points for which place they took and their school walked away with the highest points which landed them in first place over all. They are crazy talented kids and a joy to watch on the stage and off. Well, anyway here is a picture of the group that went to sectionals. They are off to State now and that is in a couple of weeks. We are lucky that it will take place close to home, which is really nice!
Morgan is the cute one left of the trophy holding her red ribbon and the girl to the left of her is her partner in the duo. These kids work a lot of hours and it looks like it is paying off. I hope they rock State!
And here is a project I just did for a friend. She wanted to give her friend some personalized wine glasses and asked if I would paint them. She wanted butterflies on them and this is what I came up with:
I actually painted eight so she will get two in each color. I loved how they turned out. I would have only did one thing differently. I did the bases with the white and black dots, but I did both glasses in each the colors with the same colored dots. I wish I would have did white dots on one pink glass and black dots on the other pink glass and so on in all the colors. This way all the glasses would have been different, but alike and and the dots would have made that difference. Not sure if that makes sense to you, but I know what I mean and oh well, next time. I love these so much I think I will have to make myself a set!
For anyone who would like to attempt this I thought it was pretty easy and it would make a lovely gift. I used only six colors and the type of paint I used was FolkArt enamel for glass and ceramics (total: about 2.00 a bottle; can buy at Wal-mart or any craft store). You bake the glasses once they are complete (follow instructions on the bottle) and that sets the paint. It is suppose to be top shelf dishwasher safe, but if it were me and someone took the time to hand paint them, I wouldn't risk the dishwasher and would hand wash them. Maybe I will try a piece of glass and run it through the dishwasher to see how it holds up. I also made my own template for the butterflies and did not buy one. I just used my butterfly punch by EK and punched a border long enough to go around the glass. It lined up a little funny so I had to cut one butterfly off and add a smaller one to the fill in where it did not line up just right. I used re positional spray adhesive and then stuck it on the clean glass. I then added the paint and took the template off immediately after painting all the colors. This works the best while the paint is still wet. Otherwise it tends to tear off some of the paint that dries to the template. Then I cleaned the sticky off with a q-tip and some alcohol and then repainted the butterflies with another coat of paint to make them more crisp. Then I went and added all the details freehand. This was a lot of fun and the first time I have ever done anything like this. It certainly won't be the last. I am seeing some lovely Christmas gifts forthcoming! Wouldn't a truffle bowl be lovely? You could always print off a design and tape it on the inside and then just paint over the design too. This could be some endless creativity and fun.
Also, I want to lift up all the communities that have been dealing with the deadly and devastating tornado's that went through. We had some in Indiana, but they were much further South and missed us. I have a bad feeling this is just the beginning of a really scary spring storm season and living in tornado alley does not thrill me. My heart goes out to all of the communities and people and especially to the ones that lost love ones. Some truly sad stories there. So, holding all of that in prayer, because we certainly can't make sense of it all.
OK.. That's if for me and thanks for lurking by. I hope you enjoyed my post today. If you have any questions regarding my painted glasses feel free to e-mail me or leave your question in the comments and I will get back to you.
So, Happy Birthday to me and to anyone else that shares my day! Make sure you stop by the Paper Cupcakes challenge blog I have left a little freebie there in celebration of my birthday!
Have a joyful day full of everday ordinary kind of blessings!
4 comments:
- Kathy Bradley said...
Oh my gosh, Nina, where do I start. First, your card, as always is adorable, as is the precious image. I think we all wanted to be a princess when we were little at one point or another!
I'm so glad you shared the picture of Millie - she is so, so sweet and adorable - and I bet she is just a love bug. I'm happy she's recovered w/out any problems.
Congratulations to your daughter, her partner and the school. Way to go kids! Good luck for State!
Finally, those glasses are beautiful - you did a beautiful job on them - they really are gorgeous and exquisite. Your friend is lucky that you are so very, very talented. I've kept your instructions - just in case I get a burt of "I think I can do it."
And, Happy Birthday to you - enjoy your wonderful day!!
- March 5, 2012 at 7:41 PM
- wannabcre8tive said...
Oh, cute, I love the black and white checkered floor. The little girl image is adorable and you have colored it beautifully.
Glad to hear that Millie is doing so well after her surgery. That is great news.
Congratulations, on Morgan's win in speech.
Glad I got to see the wine glasses you were talking about. They are beautiful
Happy Birthday.
- March 6, 2012 at 12:54 AM
- ddazzled71 said...
Hi Nina, I hope you had a wonderful birthday. Your card is gorgeous, I love the split panels and the stripes and your cute embellishments. The image is so sweet and I love how you created your tile floor too! Very sweet. I am pleased to here that Millie is recovering well, and I am sure she knows she is loved. Congrats to your daughter and her school and their achievements. I bet you are so proud, and lastly WOW those wine glasses look fabulous, I am sure your friend is just going to love them. I know I would, the colours and butterfly design are wonderful.
- March 7, 2012 at 4:34 PM
- Sonia said...
Hello Nina
Wonderful Wine Glases, love it!
OMG! poor Millie... thanks God is recovering well.
Hope you have a super wonderful birthday... Send a lot of blessing to you and your family.
Super beautiful card! LOve it!
Great JOB!
- March 14, 2012 at 9:22 AM


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On June 9, 2006, a beach in Gaza was rocked by an explosion that killed seven members of a Palestinian family. Shortly afterward, Palestinian Authority television released a horrific video showing a ten-year-old girl shrieking amidst the dead bodies on the beach, and Palestinian hospital workers and spokesmen angrily blamed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) artillery fire for the deaths -- even though no investigation had been conducted, and the Palestinian accusers had no way of knowing what caused the explosion.
The exultant declarations of an Israeli massacre were reported as fact in newspapers and television broadcasts around the world; human rights groups joined in the condemnations; and once again Israel found itself the object of international outrage over the issue of civilian casualties.
If this story and its origins fit a predictable pattern, so did Israel's reaction to the crisis: The IDF immediately ceased military activity in Gaza, and Israeli officials at the highest levels reflexively assented to the IDF's culpability and promised an investigation of the incident.
The last chapter of the story is equally familiar: It was ultimately determined that the Palestinians on the beach were not killed by the IDF. Rather, Hamas had mined the section of beach where the explosion occurred, hoping to defend their arsenal of Kassam rockets against Israeli commando missions.
Hamas, in a sloppy attempt at defending Gaza, had almost certainly killed its own citizens.
After the explosion, Hamas men combed the beach, removing shrapnel that could be used as evidence. The sensational video that captured the sympathies of credulous journalists and set off a wildfire of opprobrium turned out, upon objective evaluation, to be a mangled skein of spliced footage and puzzling anachronisms. It was, in other words, a fake. The explosion itself occurred some ten minutes after the last IDF artillery shell had been fired into the area, and the shrapnel found in the victims' bodies was not from Israeli munitions. Hamas, in a sloppy attempt at defending Gaza, had almost certainly killed its own citizens.
In the end, none of the exculpatory evidence mattered in the least: Israel had been tried and convicted in the court of world opinion in the first few days after the incident. And, as has happened so often before and since, Israeli officials had helped their enemies make their case.
The Caricature of Character
Israel has an image problem. Beginning with the 1982 Lebanon War, and accelerating rapidly after the start of the second Intifada in 2000, the Jewish state has come to be viewed in many quarters of enlightened opinion as a sinister presence on the world stage.
Founded on principles of human rights, Israel is now seen as the oppressor of another people; once considered a courageously open society in a region of tyrants, Israel today is portrayed as a brutish garrison nation; once lauded as a beacon of civil rights and democracy, Israel is called an apartheid state. Zionism itself has become an important target of this rhetorical violence. At one time considered a heroic answer to pogroms and genocide, Zionism is now blamed for granting ideological absolution for the perpetration of those very crimes. All of these caricatures aim to redefine the basic character of Zionism and the state it helped create, thus undermining both the legitimacy of the Jewish state in its current form and the moral and ideological basis for its creation.
And this re-definition has most assuredly been successful: In a 2007 BBC World Service poll, respondents in dozens of countries were asked to rank 27 nations according to their positive or negative influence on the world. Israel ranked dead last--even lower than Iran--with only 17 percent saying that they viewed Israel as a "mainly positive" influence. Among Western countries, Israel barely fared better: In Australia, Italy, the United Kingdom, France, and Greece, Israel is viewed as a "mainly negative" influence by almost two-thirds of the people, and in Germany by over three-quarters of the people. Similarly, a 2003 poll found that, among Europeans, Israel is considered the most dangerous country in the world.
In no previous era of the Jewish state's history has such a lavishly funded, mutually reinforcing international axis existed to challenge its very legitimacy.
The handmaiden of this phenomenon is what could be called, if one wishes to be polemical, the anti-Israel lobby, or, more accurately, a dominant culture of opinion shared by human rights organizations, NGOs, Middle East Studies departments and campus groups, the United Nations, "progressive" Christian organizations, and the overwhelming majority of the British and European media and cultural elite. These factions operate in a state of more or less permanent antagonism to Israel, and in no previous era of the Jewish state's history has such a lavishly funded, mutually reinforcing international axis existed to challenge its very legitimacy.
Today, in much of Europe and the UK, and in some parts of America, a caricature of Israel that once flourished only on the ideological fringes has been mainstreamed: Israel is believed to be a sadistic oppressor, a wanton slaughterer of civilians, a relentless Middle Eastern warmonger, and a grave strategic liability for the United States and the Western world.
The Press as Aggressor
The popularity of this way of thinking did not evolve naturally. It has been assiduously cultivated over the course of several decades, with the many battles waged against Israel during that time serving as important opportunities for those whose goal is the delegitimization and isolation of the Jewish state.
The death of twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Dura in the opening weeks of the second Intifada was a first salvo and a defining one. Al-Dura was killed in a Gaza crossfire between IDF troops and Palestinians who opened fire on their position. A Palestinian cameraman working for the French news station France 2 captured the firefight on film, and this video was edited by France 2 and then released, free of charge, to other media organizations, accompanied by the declaration that the IDF not only had killed al-Dura but had done so intentionally. How did France 2's reporters know this? They did not. Their claim was based on the statement of one man, the cameraman, who could not have known whose bullets actually struck al-Dura, much less whether he was intentionally targeted. Not surprisingly, al-Dura was buried before an autopsy, bullet removal, or ballistics tests could be performed.
Also not surprising was Israel's handling of the crisis. The IDF, itself having conducted only a most cursory investigation, announced that it was "probably responsible" for the killing. Amnesty International blamed Israel as well, giving an imprimatur of objectivity to the Palestinian and French accusations. Largely owing to the cinematic sensationalism of the incident, images of al-Dura's death were seized upon in the Arab world and by the European media as icons of Palestinian victimhood and Israeli cruelty, as distilled truths revealing the entire character of the Arab-Israeli conflict in a single, frozen moment.
Governments throughout the Middle East stoked the crisis by issuing postage stamps, commissioning poems and songs, and re-naming roads in al-Dura's honor. Even Osama Bin Laden recognized an opportunity to contribute to the firestorm, warning a month after the 9/11 attacks that "Bush must not forget the image of Muhammad al-Dura." Subsequent investigations have shown that the carefully edited France 2 video was wholly inconclusive, that al-Dura could not have been hit by Israeli fire, and that, like so many incidents that would follow, the galvanizing story of his death was in fact a ghoulish fabrication, intended as one more barrage in the larger war to destroy the moral standing of Israel and the IDF.
Less than two years later, Israel once again found itself the object of an Orwellian Two Minutes' Hate over another invented atrocity, this time in the West Bank city of Jenin. At the height of the Intifada, during Operation Defensive Shield, IDF forces entered a section of Jenin in order to clear it of terrorists who were responsible for sending a disproportionate number of suicide bombers into Israel. Intense house-to-house fighting ensued.
The IDF chose instead to press on with ground forces -- at the cost of the lives of twenty-three of its infantrymen -- all in order to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties.
Over fifty residences had been rigged with explosives, and while the obvious tactic would have been to follow recent examples set by other Western militaries fighting in Somalia, Bosnia, and Afghanistan and use artillery or air strikes to neutralize the threat, the IDF chose instead to press on with ground forces -- at the cost of the lives of twenty-three of its infantrymen -- all in order to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties. Fifty-two Palestinians were killed, almost all of whom were armed combatants. (For a detailed analysis of the battle, see Yagil Henkin, "Urban Warfare and the Lessons of Jenin," Azure 15, Summer 2003). But in the aftermath of the battle, none of these facts were considered by the media or the international establishment to be of the slightest relevance.
The narrative of what happened in Jenin had already been decided upon, and it demanded stories of mass slaughter and war crimes. The official Palestinian news agency declared that the "massacre of the twenty-first century" had been perpetrated. The UN envoy to the Middle East, Terje Roed-Larsen, described Jenin as "horrifying beyond belief" and concluded that "Israel has lost all moral ground in this conflict." Derrick Pounder, an Amnesty International "forensic expert," commented upon entering Jenin that "the evidence before us at the moment doesn't lead us to believe that the allegations are anything other than truthful and that therefore there are large numbers of civilian dead underneath these bulldozed and bombed ruins that we see."
In America, National Public Radio, CNN, and The Los Angeles Times breathlessly repeated stories of atrocities, and in the New York Times ex-president Jimmy Carter accused Israel of "destroying" Jenin "and other villages." In Britain, the press was the most gratuitous. "The sweet and ghastly reek of rotting human bodies is everywhere, evidence that it is a human tomb," effused Phil Reeves in the Independent. "The people say there are hundreds of corpses, entombed beneath the dust." The Daily Telegraph's David Blair reported that IDF troops had summarily executed nine men, who were stripped to their underwear, "placed against a wall and killed with single shots to the head."
In the end, the only massacre that had been committed was conducted by the UN, international aid organizations, and the international press -- a massacre of the truth that was intended, exactly as the UN envoy had so smugly declared, to destroy Israel's moral standing in its fight against the Palestinian terror offensive.
Most recently is the case of the Second Lebanon War, the fallout from which has concentrated Israeli attention on military and political failures. This self-criticism has largely ignored a third failure, namely the ease with which Israel was once again defeated in the media.
Within days of the start of the war, and without conscious coordination, Israel's enemies set about undermining Israeli self-defense: Kofi Annan announced, with no evidence whatsoever, that Israel had intentionally killed four members of UNIFIL; human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) churned out scores of reports condemning Israel's war effort, alleging war crimes, and largely ignoring Hezbollah (Kenneth Roth, the executive director of HRW, accused Israel of waging "indiscriminate warfare" and added, with no credible substantiation, that "In some instances, Israeli forces appear to have deliberately targeted civilians"); and journalists gave flood-the-zone coverage to Lebanese civilian casualties, producing false reports on the Qana bombing, doctored photographs, and news stories that were arranged and directed by Hezbollah.
In its battlefield tours for reporters, Hezbollah went so far as to fabricate ambulance drive-bys, as apparently the payoff from using these vehicles as props for the international press was preferable to using them to help wounded Lebanese.
The Israeli response to the calumnies so predictably sent its way was sometimes adept, but too often fell back on familiar and self-destructive tactics.
The Israeli response to the calumnies so predictably sent its way was sometimes adept, but too often fell back on familiar and self-destructive tactics: Gratuitous apologies and self-criticism, servility in the face of hostile journalists, and an inability to make the basic case that Lebanese civilian casualties were one of Hezbollah's central goals in the conflict, precisely because of their propaganda value. Astonishingly, after the Qana bombing Israel pledged to suspend its air campaign for 48 hours, a gesture to its enemies and allies alike that at the highest levels of government there festered a deep ambivalence about the war effort.
By the halfway point in the conflict, the narrative of the war had been skewed from one in which Israel was defending itself from attack by an Iranian-backed terrorist organization to one in which Israel was, once again, savagely killing civilians. A survey by Harvard University's Shorenstein Center found that of the 117 stories the BBC ran during the conflict, 38 percent identified Israel as the aggressor, while only 4 percent identified Hezbollah as such. As Harvard's Marvin Kalb reported in a recent study, "On the front pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, Israel was portrayed as the aggressor nearly twice as often in the headlines and exactly three times as often in the photos."
Learning from Mistakes
The pattern revealed by these events displays a disturbing record of Israeli failure, but also suggests a course of corrective action. Whether the crisis was al-Dura, Jenin, Lebanon, or the Gaza beach explosion, the Israeli response distinguished itself by the same blunders: A reflexive assumption of guilt; pre-emptive apologies, unnecessary self-criticism, promises of investigation, and suspension of military action; a weak-kneed treatment of precisely the kind of incendiary charges that require a forceful response; the assertion of innocence only after the media storm had passed; and finally, the refusal to push back rhetorically or otherwise against the individuals and organizations who have turned slandering Israel into such a disgracefully undemanding sport.
Several reforms, both conceptual and structural, are imperative. The first is in regard to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, the small group within the Israeli military that handles media relations. In wartime, its citizen soldiers are charged with the weighty responsibility of explaining Israeli military actions to the world. More than any other, the Spokesperson's Unit is in desperate need of expansion and improvement. It must become one of the most elite units in the IDF, proactive, creative, and aggressive -- in other words, a match for Israel's equally determined foes.
A branch office should be created in Jerusalem, where a large contingent of the foreign press corps is located, in order to encourage the cultivation of relationships with journalists. Its staff should be re-configured to consist of professionals who have extensive experience in the media, journalism, and public relations. Currently, the unit is composed largely of young conscripts and older reservists who, to put it bluntly, are simply out of their league. The new Spokesperson's Unit must include a task force dedicated to aggressively -- and very publicly -- debunking false and biased media coverage.
Finally, a liaison office should be created in order to coordinate media strategy and message between the IDF and the government, with the goal of crafting a unique communications strategy to complement every major military operation.
For these changes to leave their mark, the Israeli government itself must adopt a more disciplined communications process. Today, Israel has no united communications infrastructure; each government ministry and branch of the IDF offers up its own spokespeople to the press, and the result is an anarchy of statements and messages that frequently leave Israel on the defensive and appearing guilty in the face of un-refuted accusations.
On the conceptual level, Israeli strategists and spokespeople must come to understand the immense influence of symbolism, theater, and the repetition of defining anecdotes in modern warfare. This means that Israeli war planners must consider the role played by those NGOs and news organizations engaged in deliberate false reporting. These actors can no longer be conceptually grouped as third parties or neutral observers during conflicts; they are deeply implicated in the warfare itself, and as parties to a conflict their presence must be treated with the utmost seriousness.
For over a year, the IDF has been conducting air strikes in Gaza that are intended to thwart Kassam rocket fire into Israel, and because Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists intentionally operate among civilians, these strikes invariably kill bystanders and create damaging news stories. It would be extraordinarily easy for the prime minister, for example, to hold a press conference in Sderot in front of a school destroyed by Palestinian rocket fire and explain to the cameras that while Israel is striking Hamas in order to protect the lives of Israeli children, Hamas is sending its children on suicide missions to operate those very same rocket launchers. Every time thereafter that Israel strikes at terrorists in Gaza, Israeli spokespeople could hammer home the damning fact that Hamas uses children in terrorist attacks. Repeated often and forcefully enough, the average Westerner may not be inspired to like Israel, but at least he will come to understand the nature of its struggle--and the macabre reality of Palestinian "resistance."
Finally, it is long past time that Israel pushed back against the worst of the journalists, activists, and NGO employees who have made a cottage industry out of operating in the Jewish state under false pretenses. More disturbing than the fraudulent coverage of al-Dura, Jenin, Lebanon, and the Gaza beach explosion is the fact that Israel did nothing to punish those who so eagerly participated in the dissemination of propaganda. The journalists who wrote sensational fabrications of an Israeli massacre in Jenin kept their press passes, and the offices of the news organizations for which they worked remained open.
The Israeli government should make no apologies for refusing to make its country a haven for unscrupulous activists masquerading as reporters.
In the same manner, the human rights and NGO activists who provide journalists and the UN with their fig leaf of false objectivity consistently retain their work visas. In refusing to hold this rogues' gallery of repeat offenders responsible, Israel succeeds only in emboldening the ambitions of those who have made careers out of working to destroy Israel from within its own borders. Should Israel expel journalists simply on the basis of negative coverage? Absolutely not; the freedom to criticize remains the essence of democratic debate. But there is a fundamental difference between criticism and defamation, and the Israeli government should make no apologies for refusing to make its country a haven for unscrupulous activists masquerading as reporters.
At the heart of the problems of organization and discipline that are so prevalent in Israel's failure to address its image problem, there is ultimately a conceptual failure in the inability to recognize the changed nature of modern warfare. In our age of global communication and the disproportionate influence of easily manipulable photographs and video, a new theater of war has been created, one in which the battle is not fought over territory or against armies and terrorists. The battle is over images, narratives, and beliefs, and the tactics and strategies required to fight it bear little resemblance to conventional war.
The stakes for Israel are far greater than the repercussions of one particular crisis; what hangs in the balance is Israel's strategic position among democratic nations; its ability to sustain its own sense of moral clarity and national confidence against its enemies; the perseverance of Zionism as the animating ethos of the Jewish state; and the fulfillment of the central aspiration of creating a country in which Jews no longer feel intimidated by their assailants. Israel cannot change its enemies, but it must change how it fights them.


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Vegan ice cream man and pop-up restauranteur (yes, that is now a classification of restauranteur) Wheeler del Toro is teaming up with Strip T's chef Tim Maslow, formerly of Momofuku's Ssam Bar, for a new pop-up installment called Barrio, "a celebration of Afro Cuban street food."
They're being all hush-hush about the venue (guests will find out on the eve of the event) and they usually keep the invite list pretty limited, but we have two pairs of tickets to give away here. If you'd like to attend the Barrio dinner in Boston on Thursday, April 26th, just tell us about a favorite international street food dish.
Winners will be selected at random. This contest will close on Friday, April 13, at 3 p.m. The standard Serious Eats contest rules apply.
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The Old Gunwhale from The Drink Recipe
Pronounced "gun-ole," a Gunwhale is the upper edge of a ship's or boat's side. It's a perfect cocktail to come out of The Drink, a Williamsburg bar with a nautical vibe. The punch has the rich woodiness of bourbon without the tell-tale kick, so it's a little dangerous.
Get more punch recipes from The Drink and other NYC bars here »
- Yield:Serves 10, plus extra chamomile syrup
- For the chamomile syrup:
- 8 ounces water
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons dried chamomile, or 2 chamomile tea bags (be sure to use high quality chamomile)
- For the punch
- 10 ounces bourbon
- 8 ounces fresh grapefruit juice
- 6 ounces chamomile syrup
- 1 bar spoon Bittermen's spiced cranberry bitters
If using loose chamomile, place on a double thick square of cheesecloth. Secure with twine. Place the sack, or teabags, in a small saucepan with the sugar and water. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, and let cook for 3 minutes. Remove from heat and let sit until it reaches room temperature.
Combine bourbon, grapefruit juice, chamomile syrup, and bitters in a punch bowl. Add ice to the bowl and serve over additional ice.
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All of the following are from my pile of articles labeled "WEIRD."
- While most vehicle safety-control engineers work on slowing vehicles down when a risk is detected, apparently Volvo is taking a different approach for its buses when it comes to pedestrians. The safety control consists of bullying pedestrians (Twitler's new America!) by progressively honking the horn louder and louder to scare the pedestrians out of the way.
- SecondWife.com is for Muslim Polygamy Matchmaking because, according to a quote on the site (reputedly from the Quran): "then marry women of your choice, two or three, or four" probably taken out of context similar to how Christians take things out of context in the Bible. If you're not Muslim, though, you can visit Polygamy.com where, the founder says, you can make "bigger happier families." Both sites, founded by Azad Chaiwalla, have the majority of their Clients in the United States and the United Kingdom, although bigamy is illegal in both countries.
- In March 2016, a 55-year-old man in Memphis TN was killed walking on a sidewalk when a car trailer came loose and crashed into him. Apparently he was distracted by watching pornography on his phone while walking.
- A 56-year-old woman was found dead in a clothing donation drop-off box in Mount Carmel PA. The police report said she was trying to steal items from the box. It went on to say that she had driven there in her Hummer.
- In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that measles had been eliminated in the United States. By 2014, it had been resurrected with 677 cases reported. Researchers from Emory University and Johns Hopkins University were able to determine that the main reason was the intentional decision by some Americans to refuse widely available vaccinations for their children.
- According to psychologists, the rich rich (the top 1% of the top 1%) are struggling with feelings of isolation (so few rich rich); stress caused by political brouhaha over "inequality"; and insecurity, wondering if their friends are friends of theirs or friends of their money.
- Researchers at the University of Florida and Oklahoma State University found that 80% of survey respondents wanted all food labeled with the DNA content. Of course, all flora and fauna have DNA…. One comment on the research included this warning: "WARNING: Pregnant women are at very high risk of passing on DNA to their children."
- Apparently it now is okay to steal food in Italy. The country's top appeals court rules that a homeless man stealing food from a grocyer story was not guilty of crminal behavior because, according to a traditional Italian legal principle that no one is required to do the impossible, it would be impossible for the food thief to allow himself to starve.
- In July 2016 the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced plans to prevent black-footed ferrets from dying out in northeaster Montana. Their plan: Deliver by drones peanut butter M&Ms, coated with a vaccine. Apparently, before drones, delivering candy by hand was too expensive for so few ferrets. I think I see a job for me and my new drone in the near future.
- Best name for a book about birds. It should be noted that the author of the book, Olaf Danielson, likes to go birdwatching….. in the nude! The following is hidden text to put space between this picture and the following picture, something that WordPress doesn't seem to be able to do xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
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The Research Service publishes a fortnightly Brexit update, for the Assembly's External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee, on the latest government, parliament, EU and other relevant announcements and reports on Brexit. Read our latest update here.
See the Assembly website for the latest update (PDF, 104KB).
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INCREASING MINORITY ENROLLMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA POST PROPOSITION 209: UCLA'S CENTER FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE PARTNERSHIPS by Ramona Barrio-Sotillo A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Fulfillment of the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2007 Copyright 2007 Ramona Barrio-Sotillo
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|Insufficient number of minority students have been transferring to selective four year public institutions in the state of California since the passage of Proposition 209 in 1997. Proposition 209 eliminated any consideration of race and gender when considering students for admissions. This has caused an inequity in the diversity of students attending such selective universities as the University of California Berkeley and the University of California at Los Angeles. The purpose of this study is to examine one program, the Center for Community College Partnerships (CCCP), developed by UCLA with the goal of increasing the number of under-represented minority students transferring to the 4 year institutions, especially UCLA.; Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to examine the success of the program. Qualitative research consisted of interviews with 15 former student participants of the Summer Intensive Transfer Experience (SITE) program, 5 members of the CCCP staff and 5 community college partners; SITE is a component of the CCCP. Quantitative data was obtained from the Center for Community College Partnership database.; Four research questions guided the study: 1) What have been the students' perceptions of the CCCP?; 2) How successful does the staff at the CCCP perceive they have been at meeting their objectives?; 3) How have the community college partners perceived the effectiveness of the CCCP?; 4) How does participation in the CCCP/SITE program influence transfer to a four year institution?; Overall, students' experiences with the CCCP/SITE program were positive. The primary reasons why students thought the program was a success included: experiencing a sense of community, developing a support system, development of academic focus, becoming clear about transferring to a four year university and finally developing a sense of empowerment and social awareness.; Quantitative data brought important information to light on first generation student status, and transfer rates, as well as the differences in the success of targeting and recruiting recent high school graduates to the program versus students directly from the community colleges. The study also examined the universities to which the student participants most often transferred.; The findings from this study can help educators who are interested in increasing diversity on their university campuses by creating partnerships with the community colleges in their state.
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Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent and chronic diseases affecting the older people. Symptomatic OA impacts 9.6 percent of men and 18 percent of women over 60 and is expected to be the fourth-leading cause of disability by 2020.
Common arthritis symptoms – inflammation, pain, stiffness – are typically associated with degeneration of joint tissues. Attempts by the body to repair the joint can lead to calcification of the joint surface, which further impairs mobility.
Typical treatment options include anti-inflammatory medications, but long-term use of such medications has been associated with kidney damage, stomach ulcers and internal bleeding. Another class of anti-inflammatory agents, COX-2 inhibitors, reduce peptic ulceration but carry risks of heart attack and stroke because they can increase levels of the clotting factor thromboxane.
New hope for sufferers:
Fortunately, there may be new hope in how we treat conditions like osteoarthritis and prevent it from crippling our aging population.
A key feature of OA is the loss of cartilage on the bone surface and the accompanying inflammation. New research examining the factors that predispose someone to arthritis has shown that there is more to this picture than we first thought.
There is mounting evidence that vascular pathology plays a role in the initiation and progression of OA. Reduced blood flow through the small vessels in the subchondral bone at the ends of long bones can lead to bone death. And while the body is constantly building new bone, those with arthritis seem to be breaking down bone faster than they can repair it.
One thought here is that blood flow may be reduced by venous occlusion (pinching or narrowing) in the veins and development of microemboli (clots) in the subchondral vessels. In plain English: Blood flow is impaired and leads to cell death. These changes in the bone precede and are tied to the breakdown of the articular cartilage and the resulting bone-on-bone irritation.
The takeaway here is that arthritis is both an inflammatory disease and a circulatory disease, with the underlying cause being impaired circulation to the bone tissue. If we look at arthritis from this new perspective, prevention has a whole new meaning. We must both control inflammation and improve microcirculation at the same time.
Treating arthritis:
If you already have arthritis, you know that mobility is a key issue. Regular exercise, stretching and strengthening the muscles around the affected joint will all be helpful. Because sugar is pro-inflammatory, limit refined sugars and sodas.
Consider supplementing with vitamin D and calcium, and eat plenty of leafy, green vegetables. Managing blood-sugar problems is critical, as obesity and insulin resistance lead to increased inflammation and joint loading in the body. For example, losing just 10 pounds can reduce the risk of OA by up to 50 percent.
Finally, there is plenty of clinical evidence supporting acupuncture and several key herbs for addressing various aspects of the OA chain of events.
• Tumeric, ginger, celery seed and Boswellia have plenty of clinical evidence supporting their anti-inflammatory benefits.
• Willow-bark extract (a natural form of aspirin) is a nice alternative for pain management.
• Gotu kola increases collagen synthesis and maturation of collagen.
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RICHMOND, Va. - Washington Redskins general manager Bruce Allen says the team isn't considering a new nickname, adding that it's "ludicrous" to suggest the franchise is trying to upset Native Americans.
Allen told reporters Thursday that there's "nothing that we feel is offensive, and we're proud of our history."
Opposition to "Redskins" has gained momentum following last week's symposium at the Smithsonian that was heavily critical of the use of the word, citing its history as an offensive term. Local columnists and commentators have called for the team to change its name in recent days.
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Hello there, Kotaku! Welcome to another week of open threading. I hope you had as relaxing a weekend as I did.
Here, gathered from the corners of the internet, are some things to delight and entertain you. Seems like there were a lot of good trailers released today.
- The Onion has launched a gaming-centric website - And it's a lot of fun! Good luck, fellas.
- Aaron Sorkin's new HBO show looks pretty good(ish) - This might be the TV Show-Show that Studio 60 could have been. Then again, it could just be really preachy and annoying... hard to say.
- 20 amazing facts about Back to the Future - I bet John Lithgow would've been good as Doc Brown!
- "Beanie Baby Hunger Games" - Shockingly true to the books. Need I say more?
- Well hey, the Total Recall remake doesn't look...totally...awful... - Who knows if it'll be good, but still. Non-terrible, anyway.
- An awesome time-lapse of Rear Window - Woah! Great cover of Hungarian Dance #5, too. Thanks, Cara.
- Here's the Cardigans with a song I really like - "Never Recover," from First Band on the Moon, which is such a freakishly good pop album...
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Good Morning,
Futures are down slightly this morning, bonds are up, the dollar's down and gold is rising again:
We receive vehicle sales data later today, the ICSC store sales data showed a week over week drop of .6%, but a year over year gain of .6%, while the Redbook chain store sales showed a .1% improvement for the week. At 10 eastern pending home sales data is released.
We now have two new components of the DOW Industrials. Traveler's Insurance (gee, that sounds industrial), and Cisco Systems. Look for both of those firms to rise now that they are a part of the index. Again though, substitution bias influences the index. The ONLY company remaining of the original Dow 30 stocks is GE. Since GM and Citi are being removed, we should see a little more volatility in the index simply because the new stocks are alive and not flatlined near zero. CSCO rose 5.4% yesterday and pinned its upper Bollinger band.
So, how to make money at this point in time? Hopefully everyone has a portion of their portfolio in gold. I do, but my mantra is not to overdo it as that trade can reverse quickly. Me, I'm just sitting patiently waiting for a good short entry. We may be getting close, but McHugh believes that we have begun wave c up of B up and that there's an inverse H&S target of about 1,050 on the S&P. I don't like his inverse H&S, never have as it does not have a right shoulder. We simply performed a rocket shot off of 666, leveled out and created a triangle and now are rocketing up and out of the triangle… abc.
The short term stochastics are WAY overbought, and prices are ABOVE the upper bollinger. The daily stochastics are reaching overbought AGAIN.
Below is the SPX for the entire bear market... note that we made a new high for the first time, that makes this area a very important one technically (neither the DOW nor Transports have made a new significant high):
I think this is the most dangerous thing that could have happened to the markets and the economy. It's NOT healthy and is likely to end in tears. Of course timing is everything and the bulls are crowing as they always do when prices are rising. Many of the same old tired lies are being told again and people believe those lies again. That's what bear markets do.
I see that Peter Schiff is declaring victory… believing that the bonds down, dollar down play, like he forecasted, is happening now. He's claiming the ride down was the sucker move and this is the real deal! Okay Peter, bask in it while you can. Timing is everything.
Since I feel like I'm just repeating myself, I don't really have a lot to add this morning. I have a terrific Martin Armstrong article coming out later today entitled, "Is Democracy Dying? The REAL Leviathan – The Power Cleverly Hidden Behind Politicians."
Ha, ha, that's right up our alley, can't wait to read that one myself, I'd say Armstrong and I are pretty much on the same page in that regard only he's had more, unfortunate, direct experience with it.
Okay, have a great day. I know many of you feel like I do!
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Morning Update/ Market Thread 6/2
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