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Art Critic Robert Hughes Demystifies Modern Art in The Shock of the New
in Art, Television | April 17th, 2012 1 Comment
With the aid of YouTube, you can watch an episode of Robert Hughes' documentary series The Shock of the New each week, just as it first aired on the BBC and PBS in 1980. But I defy you to watch "The Mechanical Paradise," the first of its eight installments, and not plow through the rest in a day. Hughes, a prolific art critic who has written books on everything from Francisco Goya to America's culture of complaint to the city of Barcelona to the history of his native Australia, has also hosted television programs about everything from Caravaggio to Utopian architecture to the Mona Lisa. The Shock of the New, a project which found expression as a book as well as these broadcasts, takes on the ambitious task of tracing the progress of modernism through visual art. But the roots of the movement run deeper into history, and so this first episode begins at the base of the Eiffel Tower, a monument to the accelerating scientific and technological progress of the late nineteenth century that would so disrupt the aesthetics of the twentieth.
As a reader of art criticism, I've long trusted Hughes' writing on these subjects more than I do anyone else's. Clear, bold, concrete, and always, in a bluntly stealthy way, more nuanced than it seems, Hughes' textual persona stands against what, in his autobiography, he calls the "airy-fairy, metaphor-ridden kind of pseudo-poetry" that he sees as having flooded the field. As a guide through the history of artistic modernism, he proves as no-nonsense yet dryly entertaining on film as he is on the page. Whether turning our attention toward special details of Braque and Picasso's canvasses or zipping around in a 1900s roadster, Hughes presents with the assurance of authority but not its intellectual overreach, pulling you along to Fernand Léger, the Futurists, and Marcel Duchamp. And as a viewer of television documentaries, I've long trusted the late seventies and early eighties as the form's golden age. In this episode and beyond, The Shock of the New showcases what the productions of that era did best: a moody electronic score, archival clips creatively used, and extended sequences that give us time to really look. (Voiceover work by Judi Dench and Martin Jarvis doesn't lose this chapter any points, either.)
The Shock of the New consists of the following episodes: "The Mechanical Paradise," "The Powers That Be," "The Landscape of Pleasure," "Trouble in Utopia," "The Threshold of Liberty," "The View From the Edge," "Culture as Nature," "The Future That Was"
You can watch them on YouTube.
The Guggenheim Puts 65 Modern Art Books Online
Power of Art: Renaissance to Modern
John Waters: The Point of Contemporary Art
Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall.
Interesting to rediscover this series after a while and notice the absolute absence of any female artists. Not to mention ethnic and other minorities. Informative but also VERY dated.


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Explosion of high-brow string/SUGRA books
Many prominent theoretical physicists have written books – or textbooks – on string/M-theory that were recently released or that will be released within a month or two (or three). You may click at the titles in the amazon.com widgets to see more details.
Luis E. Ibáñez and Angel M. Uranga began to sell their book String Theory and Particle Physics: An Introduction to String Phenomenology just two weeks ago. I have already mentioned it. Be sure that the authors are among those who have the credentials to talk about the construction or isolation of realistic models or vacua in string theory, i.e. about string phenomenology.
It's very far from being the only new book about a similar topic.
At the end of May, four editors (Andrea Cappelli et al.) will release their 550-page book The Birth of String Theory on string theory from a historical perspective. You may learn string theory kind of chronologically, with various twists and turns and ignorance that people had to go through since the late 1960s. While the book is meant to be technical, some readers may appreciate the historian's point of view.
Dan Freedman of MIT, a pioneer of supergravity who is still very active, a former co-author of a paper we wrote a decade ago, and a bicyclist who exploited his leg muscles (whose power exceeded mine by 80%) to show me the historical and other places around the Greater Boston on our bike trips, finally wrote a review of Supergravity: that's his title. Antoine Van Proeyen is a co-author. I plan to dedicate a few blog entries in the near future to supergravity. It's a very technical topic and the details are annoyingly boring but they just mask some amazing beauty behind all of this. I haven't seen the book but I have no reason to doubt that Dan is a right guy who could write a book about this pet topic of his life. The book should be out at the end of April; you may pre-order it.
Oops, a guest has pointed out that none of my Amazon searches has been able to find a book by very interesting authors. Basic Concepts of String Theory (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) written by Ralph Blumenhagen, Dieter Lüst, and Stefan Theisen will be released at the end of June 2012. It seems to be a textbook centered around conformal field theory as a description of perturbative strings, both closed and open (attached to D-branes). Aside from the world sheet perspective, there is also a spacetime discussion of these theories which not only discusses compactifications but doesn't omit fluxes in these compactifications, something that may have been absent in older string theory textbooks. At the end of each chapter, we should be recommended some references. You may pre-order it now if you don't care that it's the only book in the list that hasn't published the cover image yet.
Peter West (not to be confused with Wess or Bagger) already wrote some introductions to supersymmetry and supergravity two decades ago. He is arriving with a new volume, Introduction to Strings and Branes, at the end of June. You may pre-order the book today. As a modern book, this one should contain lots of explanations of dualities and brane dynamics, not only a mandatory account of perturbative string theory. However, it also dedicates a lot of space to string field theory, Kač-Moody algebras, Clifford algebras and spinors, and supergravity; some of these topics are omitted in most stringy textbooks.
At the end of May, Marco Baumgartl, Ilka Brunner (whom I know from Rutgers), and Michael Haack will play the role of editors of a newly released book Strings and Fundamental Physics. When I say that they're editors, it means that they haven't written the bulk of the book themselves. Instead, they picked some leading experts who can present topics pedagogically. So while the book probably won't cover the whole landscape of stringy ideas, it will do nothing else in the case of subdisciplines such as topological string theory, AdS/CFT and holography (including its applications to hydrodynamics, among others), and even a seemingly obscure topic such as "doubled field theory". It is addressed to graduate students.
In January, Koji Hashi-Motl ;-) whom I know from Harvard began to sell D-Brane: Superstrings and New Perspective of Our World. You may see that the title makes D-branes the main players of the story. He begins with the roads that lead from point-like particles to the more general strings and branes. An important second chapter is all about solitons (things like magnetic monopoles and their generalizations) and their general physical properties. He has everything to need the diverse dimensions of solitons and their implications e.g. for the braneworlds. At some point, he inevitably gets to D-branes, an important class of branes, their dynamics, and their application black hole physics, Matrix Theory, and many other issues. It looks pretty cool.
Four months ago, another prominent theorist Luis Alvarez-Gaumé teamed up with Miguel A. Vázquez-Mozo and they authored An Invitation to Quantum Field Theory. There are of course many quantum field theory textbooks on the market and I have praised many of them. But I do like the organization of this new book, too. Maybe more so than the organization of many other books. They start with a chapter explaining why quantum fields are needed at all; what's wrong with ordinary quantum mechanical theories for particles that are just "made a bit more relativistic". In the next chapter, the Casimir effect is covered, too. The rest of the book covers naturally "clumped" topics such as path integrals, representations of the Lorentz group, Lagrangians for scalars, spinors, gauge fields, Feynman rules, the Standard Model, Noether's theorem, the God (BEH) mechanism, renormalization, anomalies (a topic in which the first author is a true heavyweight), origin of mass, discrete symmetries, effective field theory, naturalness, special topics (including particle production and SUSY). Appendices cover notation, conventions, and units; and a crash course on group theory.
In January 2012, a somewhat more elementary and less stringy book by Ulrich Ellwanger, From the Universe to the Elementary Particles: A First Introduction to Cosmology and the Fundamental Interactions (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics), came to the bookstores. It covers relativity, the evolution of the Universe, classical fields, electrodynamics, strong interactions, weak interactions, neutrino oscillations, colliders, symmetries, the Standard Model, a short treatment of quantum corrections and renormalization, and an equally short review of physics beyond the Standard Model (GUT, SUSY, extra dimensions, strings). There are exercises including solutions in the book.
In December 2011, a 2009 book composed of 7 medium-size introduction was re-released. Surveys in Differential Geometry, Vol. 16 (2011): Geometry of special holonomy and related topics contains material which heavily depends on algebraic geometry, special holonomy manifolds, and many things that you would consider similar to Calabi-Yau manifolds. And yes, Shing-Tung Yau is one of the editors.
Just a link for another book: Lectures on Quantum Gravity by Andres Gomberoff and Donald Marolf – about things such as black hole thermodynamics and Hawking radiation – was first released in 2005 but printed again in December 2011. Similarly, December 2011 produced new copies of the 2009 book Introduction to Conformal Field Theory: With Applications to String Theory (Lecture Notes in Physics) by Ralph Blumenhagen and Erik Plauschinn. It presents conformal field theories, current algebras, minimal models, Gepner models, superconformal field theories, orbifold CFTs, Verlinde formula, spectral flow, boundary CFT, and other things.
With Rodolfo Gambini's and Jorge Pullin's A First Course in Loop Quantum Gravity playing the role of an exception that confirms the rule, all of these books contains some beautiful stuff, and while I have no doubts that negatively misinterpreted and downright wrong statements and sociologically and egotistically motivated hateful conspiracy theories by low-brow populist crackpots and human trash such as Shwolin and Shmoit have been much more attractive for average readers than pretty equations, I am confident that many readers will be made very happy and enriched by the books above.
See also some not-so-new string theory textbooks.

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Jacob Henriques de Castro Sarmento (6 May 1690 in Bragança, Portugal – 14 September 1762 in London) was a Portuguese estrangeirado, physician, naturalist, poet and Deist.

Life
At the age of seventeen he entered the University of Évora to study philosophy, and later studied medicine at Coimbra, receiving his baccalaureate in 1717. In order to escape the persecutions of the Portuguese Inquisition, Henrique — so-called as a Marrano — went into voluntary exile in London in 1720. There he continued his studies in medicine, physics, and chemistry, and passed his examinations in the theory and practice of medicine. He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1730, in recognition of his having introduced a new medicine for curing fevers. Castro Sarmento married Elizabeth, a non-Jew and converted to Anglicanism, although he was not baptized.

Career
Learning about quinine in London, Castro Sarmento developed a medicine known as Água de Inglaterra, which became popular in Portugal where malaria was still widespread in the southern part of the country. In 1731 he elaborated a plan for a botanical garden in Coimbra. Castro Sarmento corresponded with many scholars, among others with Prof. João Mendes Sachetti Barbosa of Lisbon, who reported to him the terrible earthquake that destroyed the capital of Portugal in 1755, and with the Jesuit Buenaventura Suárez, who communicated to him his astronomical observations made in Jesuit reduction of Paraguay. He was a strong proponent of Newtonianism and made efforts to integrate it with Jewish theology. He published Theorica verdadeira das marés, conforme à philosophia do incomparavel cavalhero Isaac Newton (Treatise on the true theory of tides, according to the philosophy of the incomparable gentleman Isaac Newton), the first book in Portuguese to advocate Newton ideas (London, 1737).

Literary Activity
The literary activity of Castro Sarmento began with a treatise on vaccination, Dissertatio in Novam, Tutam, ac Utilem Methodum Inoculationis seu Transplantationis Variolorum (London, 1721; German translation, Hamburg, 1722; Supplement, London, 1731; anonymously, Leyden). Other works are: Historia Medica Physico-Hist.-Mechanica, part i, London, 1731; part ii, London 1735; Syderohydrologia ó Discurso das Aguas Mineraes Espadañas ou Chalibeadas, London, 1736, identical with Da Uso, e Abuso das Minhas Agoas da Inglaterra, London, 1756; and a Portuguese translation of the treatise of the surgeon Samuel Sharp: Surgical Operations, with Plates and Descriptions of the Instruments Used (London, 1744).

In recognition of his services to medicine the University of Aberdeen awarded him a medical degree in July 1739. Castro Sarmento was also a poet and a preacher. He published Exemplar de Penitencia, Dividido en Tres Discursos Para ó dia Santo de Kipur (London, 1724); "Sermão Funebre as Memorias do . . . Haham Morenu a R. e Doutor David Neto" (London, 1728); and in Spanish, Extraordinaria Providencia Que el Gran Dios de Ysrael Uso con su Escogido Pueblo en Tiempo de su Mayor Afflicion por Medio de Mordehay y Ester Contra los Protervos Intentos del Tyrano Aman, Deducida de la Sagrada Escritura en el Sequinte Romance (London, 1728).

Notes

Bibliography
Kayserling, Meyer, Biblioteca Española-Portugueza-Judaica, p. 37
—, in Monatsschrift, vii. 393 et seq., viii. 161 et seq.
Landau. Geschichte der jüdischen Ärzte, p. 135 (who follows the inaccurate information of Carmoly)
Catalogue of Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, p. 49

1692 births
1762 deaths
People from Bragança, Portugal
University of Évora alumni
University of Coimbra alumni
Portuguese Anglicans
18th-century Sephardi Jews
18th-century Portuguese physicians
18th-century Jewish physicians of Portugal
18th-century Portuguese people
Portuguese Jews
Fellows of the Royal Society

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I watched the weather forecast for two days, praying for no rain for this session! Now, the sun didn't grace us with its presence, but it didn't rain, so we we went for it! Took a long walk around the old buildings in Danville, stopped for an ice cream break, and got a lot of amazing shots! Had fun hanging out with this amazing couple....can't wait for their October wedding!


In a gruesome incident, four members of a Dalit family were burnt alive by assailants in Nawalgarh town in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan.
The victims -- husband, wife and two children -- were sleeping in their house when the assailants poured kerosene and set them on fire, the police reported.
The police were informed about the fire in the wee hours of the morning. On reaching the site an assistant police inspector found the burnt bodies of a woman, Parvati (30), and her two daughters aged four months, and seven years respectively. Her husband Hariram Balai had some signs of life and was rushed to hospital, where he succumbed to burn injuries later.
Personal animosity is stated to be the cause of the killings. The police said Hariram's family was involved in five court cases with members of his own caste. The hearing in one of the cases took place on Monday.
The police has registered a case under sections 302 and 307 of the Indian Penal Code and arrested three persons in this connection.
The arrested persons were reportedly named by Hariram in his dying declaration to the police. Those arrested included a city councilor belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party who is a kerosene dealer.
A team of forensic experts has been rushed to Nawalgarh from Jaipur for Investigation, while the bodies of the victims have been cremated after post-mortem.
The district collector A C Bhatt has sanctioned Rs 20,000 to the family of the victims from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund.


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namespace Spaark\CompositeUtils\Test\Factory;

use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Factory\Reflection\ReflectionCompositeFactory;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Test\Model\TestEntity;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Test\Model\InheritedEntity;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Model\Reflection\ReflectionComposite;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Model\Reflection\ReflectionProperty;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Model\Reflection\Type\StringType;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Model\Reflection\Type\ObjectType;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Model\Reflection\Type\BooleanType;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Model\Reflection\Type\MixedType;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Factory\EntityCache;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Model\Collection\Map\HashMap;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Model\Collection\Map\OrderedMap;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Model\Collection\ListCollection\FixedList;
use Spaark\CompositeUtils\Service\RawPropertyAccessor;

/**
 *
 */
class ReflectionFactoryTest extends TestCase
{
    protected $reflect;

    private $properties =
    [
        /* name, type, nullable, readable, writeable */
        ['prop1', StringType::class, false, true, true, true, true, false],
        ['prop2', StringType::class, true, true, false, false, false, true],
        ['prop3', ObjectType::class, false, false, true, true, false, false],
        ['prop4', BooleanType::class, false, false, false, true, false, true],
        ['prop5', ObjectType::class, false, false, false, false, false, false]
    ];

    private $parameters =
    [
        [0, 'a'],
        [1, 'b']
    ];

    public function testComposite(string $classname = TestEntity::class)
    {
        $reflect = ReflectionCompositeFactory::fromClassName
        (
            $classname
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        ->build();

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        (
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        $this->assertAttributeEquals
        (
            $classname, 'classname', $reflect
        );

        return $reflect;
    }

    /**
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     */
    public function testMethods(ReflectionComposite $reflect)
    {
        $this->assertTrue($reflect->methods->containsKey('methodName'));

        $method = $reflect->methods['methodName'];
        $this->assertAttributeCount
        (
            count($this->parameters),
            'parameters',
            $method
        );

        return $method->parameters;
    }

    /**
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     * @dataProvider parameterProvider
     */
    public function testParameter
    (
        int $index,
        string $name,
        FixedList $list
    )
    {
        $param = $list[$index];
        $this->assertSame($name, $param->name);
    }

    /**
     * @depends testComposite
     */
    public function testProperties(ReflectionComposite $reflect)
    {
        $properties = (new RawPropertyAccessor($reflect))
            ->getRawValue('properties');

        $this->assertInstanceOf(HashMap::class, $properties);
        $this->assertEquals
        (
            count($this->properties),
            $properties->size()
        );

        return $properties;
    }

    /**
     * @depends testProperties
     * @dataProvider propertiesProvider
     */
    public function testProperty
    (
        string $name,
        string $type,
        bool $nullable,
        bool $readable,
        bool $writable,
        bool $passedToConstructor,
        bool $requiredInConstructor,
        bool $builtInConstructor,
        HashMap $properties
    )
    {
        $this->assertTrue($properties->containsKey($name));
        $property = $properties[$name];
        $this->assertInstanceOf(ReflectionProperty::class, $property);

        $this->assertInstanceOf($type, $property->type);
        $this->assertSame($nullable, $property->type->nullable);

        $this->assertSame($readable, $property->readable);
        $this->assertSame($writable, $property->writable);
    }

    /**
     * @depends testProperties
     * @depends testProperty
     * @dataProvider objectPropertiesProvider
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    public function testObjectProperty
    (
        string $property,
        string $classname,
        HashMap $properties
    )
    {
        $this->assertEquals
        (
            $classname,
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        );
    }

    /**
     * @depends testComposite
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    public function testConstructorItems(ReflectionComposite $reflect)
    {
        $this->assertEquals(1, $reflect->requiredProperties->size());
        $this->assertTrue($reflect->requiredProperties->contains
        (
            $reflect->properties['prop1']
        ));

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        $this->assertTrue($reflect->optionalProperties->contains
        (
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        ));
        $this->assertTrue($reflect->optionalProperties->contains
        (
            $reflect->properties['prop4']
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        $this->assertEquals(1, $reflect->builtProperties->size());
        $this->assertTrue($reflect->builtProperties->contains
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    {
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    {
        return $this->parameters;
    }

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    {
        return $this->properties;
    }

    public function objectPropertiesProvider()
    {
        return
        [
            ['prop3', HashMap::class],
            ['prop5', TestEntity::class]
        ];
    }
}

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Prasad to Receive Bernard Lown Award for Excellence in Teaching
Sashank Prasad
A third-year medical student who felt apprehensive about starting clinical rotations said he was instantly reassured when he met BWH neurologist Sashank Prasad, MD.
"He was extremely kind and immediately welcomed me onto the team," wrote the student in a nomination letter.
On May 11, Prasad will be awarded the 2015 Bernard Lown Award for Excellence in Teaching during the Daniel D. Federman Teaching Awards celebration at Harvard Medical School.
The award was established in 2009 to celebrate physicians who are outstanding clinical leaders and recognize the significant role that education plays in BWH's mission.
Bernard Lown, MD, for whom the award is named, is a renowned senior physician at BWH, professor emeritus at Harvard School of Public Health and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. He has devoted more than 50 years to the practice of medicine and has transformed the practice of cardiology. Lown continues to inspire physicians, educators and students today.
Prasad has been a member of BWH's Department of Neurology since 2010. In July, he will assume the roles of chief of the Division of Neuro-Ophthalmology and associate program director for the Harvard BWH/MGH Neurology Residency Program. He received nominations for the Lown Award from residents and students, all of whom highlighted his teaching abilities and drive to help others achieve their own goals.
"Dr. Prasad is known among residents as a gifted clinician and teacher," wrote one nominator. "He is a source of wisdom and helpful insight. Simply observing his style of practice is a lesson in professionalism, humanism and intellectual command."
Another nomination letter detailed Prasad's patience and love of teaching the next generation of clinicians: "I've had the privilege of working closely with and learning from Dr. Sashank Prasad, and I can say, without hesitation or reservation, that he is one of the most inspirational, dedicated mentors I've interacted with to date."
Prasad completed his medical training at the University of Pennsylvania, including fellowships in neuro-ophthalmology and cognitive neurology.
He says he's extremely grateful to be the recipient of this year's Lown Award.
"It is a real honor and privilege to be part of a community where clinicians and students at all levels are dedicated to the common goal of clinical excellence," he said. "I am extremely fortunate to have so many gifted clinician-educators among my role models at the Brigham. I believe that teaching is among our most important missions."


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A Tiny Twofer LITE
Split CD featuring three brand new songs each by LITE and Funanori, a collaboration between Kaori Tsuchida (The Go! Team) and Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Stooges).
LITE follow their stunning debut album Filmlets with three new compositions including the live favourite "Tomorrow".
Funanori is a collaboration between Kaori Tsuchida (The Go! Team) and Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Stooges). Based around the sanshin, a traditional Okinawan three-stringed instrument, often likened to a banjo. Its haunting tone pervades the three tracks on their debut release where funk rhythms and Beefheart-esque complexity collide. Featuring guest appearances from drummer Stephen Perkins of Jane's Addiction and Porno For Pyros and saxophonist Chris Watling of The Grandsons.
Cover artwork by Raymond Pettibon.


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September 5, 2014 by authorjodiwoody@yahoo.com
Book Review for "Sheba"- Christian Fiction
The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen
Howard Books
Her name is legend. Her story, the epic of nations. The Queen of Sheba. A powerful new novel of love, power, and the questions at the heart of existence by the author of the award-winning "brilliant" (Library Journal) and "masterful" (Publishers Weekly) Iscariot.
There is the story you know: A foreign queen, journeying north with a caravan of riches to pay tribute to a king favored by the One God. The tale of a queen conquered by a king and god both before returning to her own land laden with gifts.
That is the tale you were meant to believe.
Which means most of it is a lie.
The truth is far more than even the storytellers could conjure. The riches more priceless. The secrets more corrosive. The love and betrayal more passionate and devastating.
Across the Red Sea, the pillars of the great oval temple once bore my name: Bilqis, Daughter of the Moon. Here, to the west, the porticoes knew another: Makeda, Woman of Fire. To the Israelites, I was queen of the spice lands, which they called Sheba.
In the tenth century BC, the new Queen of Sheba has inherited her father's throne and all its riches at great personal cost. Her realm stretches west across the Red Sea into land wealthy in gold, frankincense, and spices. But now new alliances to the North threaten the trade routes that are the lifeblood of her nation. Solomon, the brash new king of Israel famous for his wealth and wisdom, will not be denied the tribute of the world—or of Sheba's queen. With tensions ready to erupt within her own borders and the future of her nation at stake, the one woman who can match wits with Solomon undertakes the journey of a lifetime in a daring bid to test and win the king. But neither ruler has anticipated the clash of agendas, gods, and passion that threatens to ignite—and ruin—them both. An explosive retelling of the legendary king and queen and the nations that shaped history.
What early readers are saying about The Legend of Sheba:
"An epic masterpiece."
-Michael Napoliello, Radar Pictures
"Another winner from Lee."
"Tosca Lee has outdone herself with Legend of Sheba."
-Best-selling author Erin Healy
About Tosca Lee
"One of the most gifted novelists writing today."?—Steven James, best-selling author.
Tosca Lee is the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of Iscariot; Demon: A Memoir; Havah: The Story of Eve, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times best-seller Ted Dekker (Forbidden, Mortal and Sovereign). Her highly anticipated seventh novel, The Legend of Sheba, releases September 9, 2014.
Tosca received her B.A. in English and International Relations from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts with studies at Oxford University. She is a lifelong world adventure traveler and makes her home in the Midwest. To learn more about Tosca, visit www.toscalee.com.
Interview With Tosca
On The Legend of Sheba:
•	You are known for your meticulous research. How did researching Legend of Sheba differ from your other books?
After a year and a half of hard research for Iscariot, I thought research for Sheba would be much easier. Not so! It is much harder to fill in the historical record of 1000 years earlier than the time of Christ due to the dearth of archaeological progress in history-rich and troubled Yemen, natural phenomena such as the encroaching sands of the desert, and a lack of historical records recording any queen in the Southern Arabian region.
•	What do we actually know about the Queen of Sheba?
We know something about the Sabaean (the Israelite Sheba = ancient Arabian Saba) people: that they had a capital in Marib, a sovereign "federator" who united the kingdoms of Saba, an elegant and evolving script, a sophisticated dam near the capital that turned Marib's dusty fields into oases, and that there is great evidence of Sabaean settlement in the area of Ethiopia near what would become Aksum. We know the Sabaeans of the 10th Century BC worshipped the moon god, Almaqah, though experts do not agree whether this was a male or female deity. We know that in terms of the ancient world, they were quite rich due in large part to their cultivation of frankincense in the southeastern region, and that they had an extensive and evolving trade network that extended as far north as Damascus, as far east as India, and as far west across the Red Sea as Ethiopia and the continent beyond.
•	What do we actually know about King Solomon—I understand that the academic opinion varies quite a lot from the biblical account.
Again, we know more about the region, people, language, culture and ethnic history of the Israelites than anything, archaeologically-speaking, of the king himself. It would be such a help if something were unearthed from the City of David or the Temple Mount that could be linked to Solomon's temple or directly to Solomon himself! There was an item—a small ivory pomegranate that was once thought to top the scepter of a priest of this time period, with an inscription indicating so… but this was later ruled to be a forgery, though the carved pomegranate did date to the correct (early to mid-900s BC) time period. I say more about this question in the Author's Notes of Legend of Sheba.
•	The queen is a very minor character in the scope of the biblical narrative, but you assert that her famous visit to King Solomon is vitally important in the scope of Old Testament history. Why?
For two reasons. If the story of the United Monarchy (the kingdom of David and his son/successor, Solomon) is not true, then the bedrock of three major world religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) collapses into fiction, and the claim of Jews to the land of Israel with it. Perhaps the authors of 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles knew that, because they took the opportunity to basically say, "Hey, this queen from the ends of the earth, that famous Queen of Sheba, came and brought tribute to our king, and blessed him and our god and said 'All that I heard was true, and I never even heard the half of it!'" This is fascinating. It begs the question: what was it that was so great about this female sovereign—in a time when the world was ruled by men—and a pagan, no less… what was it about her that was so outstanding that her endorsement of Solomon, his riches, wisdom, and god, held so much weight as to be included in the Old Testament narrative? Who was this woman who matched wits with the wisest man in the world—whose throne was so secure that she could leave it and make the 1400 mile journey of half a year to visit this king… before making the long trek back? Well, this must be a woman worth knowing something about.
•	I understand you created a special bonus for your readers with Legend of Sheba. Can you tell us more about that?
Ismeni—a free eBook short story prequel to The Legend of Sheba—will be available August 26. This is the story of Sheba's mother, and sheds some light on the man who would become the queen of Sheba's right-hand councilor. It's about 34 pages long, and also includes a preview of the Prologue and first chapter of The Legend of Sheba.
Links to Download FREE:
Amazon: http://bit.ly/IsmeniPrelude
Simon & Schuster: http://bit.ly/LegendofShebaPrequel
On writing:
•	You recently won the 2014 Gold Medallion for fiction—what people may not know is this is the only award given each year by the ECPA for Christian fiction across all genres. And yet you're known for your controversial points of view and pushing limits of the category. What is it about your books that you believe resonates so much with Christian readers?
I think it's that I'm willing to go there and get gritty. To admit that halfway through the writing of Iscariot, I realized I was no longer writing his story… but my own. Havah is also my story. They all are. And we're not that different, you and I. I like writing about these maligned characters because even though we may not want to, we can often identify with them far more readily than the good guys, who seem so untouchable. We all feel let down at some point by the way God fails to adhere to our agendas for Him. We all have moments when we think, "if you knew me—really knew me—you would not love me." We all fail with the best of intentions, and we all want to be embraced exactly as we are. We are all as capable of darkness as we are of light—and often the darkness is far more tangible. The stuff in the Bible isn't sterile—far from it. It's gory, violent, sexual, and messy. But so is life. I want to be honest about fearand compromise as I am about hope, beauty and redemption.
•	You've also co-authored the Books of Mortals series with Ted Dekker. Aside from the obvious, how does co-writing differ from writing solo?
It takes twice as much time. You have to spend a lot of time talking, planning, plotting, and going over what you've done. When you write solo, there is no need for consensus, and for making sure you are sharing the same vision of character, plot, and resolution. But writing solo is also scarier; you don't have the safety net of a partner to catch your writing foibles, pick up the slack where you are not as strong, and to get you out of bed and into the chair each day. They both have their pros and cons.
•	You get approached by a lot of writers early in the process of trying to get published. What is your best advice for writers and for those hoping to pursue a career in writing?
Finish the work first. Far too many people write to me asking how to get an agent/editor/publishing deal and they haven't even finished a novel or built up a body of work to sell. Finish the novel, and start another. And another, even after you approach agents or start to self-publish. Agents, in particular, want to know what else you have to offer and if you can produce on schedule. If you haven't completed at least one sellable book, you are not ready to approach the industry. Finish the work.And please don't send filesto an author you don't know personally to ask for his/her opinion of your writing. Many authors teach, edit or offer critiques as a business to support themselves. Sending them something out of the blue for their opinion presumptuously asks them to work for free.
On life:
•	It's probably no surprise that you used to be a freelance writer. But you've also been an online gamer, a pageant queen—were first-runner up to Mrs. United States—a model and a leadership consultant to Fortune 500 Companies with the Gallup Organization. How have each of these seeming disparate experiences informed your experience as a best-selling author?
Online gaming, when I was doing it—before avatars and the time of EverQuest, even—was solely text-based. We're talking about the early 90s, during the time of dial-up modems when online gaming boiled down to collaborative story-telling. I spent nine years writing about imaginary characters online. I don't know how many words or pages that amounted to (hundreds and hundreds), but I assert often that everything I learned about characterization happened from role-playing in text and writing online—from slipping into the skin of characters I could only portray with words. The pageant thing, the modeling thing, gave me invaluable training in media. The year I was Mrs. Nebraska (1996) was when I started public speaking. Suddenly, I had a platform, and people assumed I had something to say. Well, I did, and that led to me going to work for Gallup. Working as a consultant, my primary job was as a speaker and teacher. This, too, has proved invaluable when it comes to speaking on writing and to the media. I'm very comfortable in front of an audience of 20 or 1000.
•	Where can readers meet you in person?
I have several events coming up—my schedule is posted and always being updated at toscalee.com.
•	What do you do when you're not writing?
I spend time with my family, hang out with friends I neglected on deadline, travel, go out to eat, and clean out my closets.
•	What are one or two things that your readers don't know about you?
I danced semi-professionally as a classical ballerina in my teens. I also used to be a concert pianist. I have the greatest fans in the world, am terrible at math, can't work if my house is messy, and am a crack shot with a deer rifle.
•	What are you working on next?
I'm taking a break from biblical historicals. My next two books will be something different. And then I'll delve back into the biblical world again.
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My Review: I am a fan of Tosca Lee, so when I was offered a free copy of "Sheba" in exchange for an honest review, I jumped on it. I loved the book. Tosca Lee has a great writing style. It is very hard to write in the first person, and she does a fine job. Sheba, through fiction, and much documented fact, tells the rest of the story of the famous queens visit to King Solomon. I loved the romance, the politics and the different aspects of the times they lived in. I highly recommend reading. I feel it is appropriate for high school age and up. I give it 5 stars!
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July 16, 2013 by authorjodiwoody@yahoo.com
Consider Solomon
Solomon was given the royal title of King. He wasn't his father, King David's, firstborn son. He was the son of Bathsheba. David and Bathsheba committed adultery while she was married to Uriah the Hittite. David had him murdered in battle and married Solomon's mother. David and Bathsheba conceived a son in their sin. After the man of God corrects David and he repents, the child dies. Then along comes Solomon.
David's desire was to build a house for God. But due to his "bloody hands" and because he was a "man of war", God couldn't allow it. In his place, Solomon spent seven years with literally hundreds of thousands of men to build the temple, using the finest stones, lumber and precious metals. If you read I Kings and II Chronicles you can see the splendor. David designed it. Solomon built it.
When Solomon was to become King, God asked him to ask for whatever he wanted. As a new young King, with big shoes to fill, he asked for wisdom to rule the people. God was so pleased that He gave him the wisdom as well as riches and honor. In all time, Solomon was the wisest and richest man ever to live. A great beginning.
So what happened after his coronation and the building of the temple that takes us to Ecclesiastes 1:1-11, Where he exclaims "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the teacher. "Utterly Meaningless! Everything is meaningless."
I believe chapter 11 of I Kings explains the heart of the matter."Solomon loved many foreign women." It's not just that he married them, when it was forbidden by God, "You must not intermarry with them, because they surly will turn your hearts after their Gods." No, the real issue was his heart. He "held fast to them in love." And sure enough, "as Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to God, as the heart of David, his father had been" (verses 1-5). He ended up following other gods, including Molech who demanded they sacrifice their children by fire.
It's pretty simple, really. God knows what is best for us. When we listen, things are good. When we don't things aren't so good. Sure bad things happen to all of us; after all we live in a fallen world that is under Satan's control. But do you want to face them alone, or go through them with God on your side. It's kind of a no-brainer.
What do you love more than God? Who do you love more than God? You might not have 700 wives and 300 mistresses but what takes your attention away from Him? What comes first? Whatever it is, you better get your priorities straightened out. Otherwise you'll end up like Solomon screaming, "Meaningless! Meaningless!" We've all been there, hind-sight and all of that, thinking "that was a waste". Solomon went from dedicating the temple where God showed up in such a way, physically, that the priests couldn't even stand in his presence, to building places of worship for false gods, and he was the wisest man ever…
I like to think that I am pretty smart. I like to think that I have a pretty good relationship with God. But if Solomon in all of his wisdom and glory could fall so far…
Priorities. We all love our families, our Churches, our hobbies, interests, some of us our jobs, etc. But we need to love God best, or as my granddaughter used to say "the most-est". Now, we don't do that by "working" ourselves up like an actress getting ready to film the big love scene. Instead it's something we work at, and work towards. Build a relationship that nothing else can replace or compare to. Choose God, first and foremost.
By the way, Solomon recognized his error and set his priorities straight, but how much time was wasted? What kind of example did he set for his son's who were destined to rule? Read the rest of Kings and Chronicles. Things didn't work out too well for his descendants, most of whom "did evil in the sight of the Lord". What example do you want to leave?
Tagged faith, future, God, honor, hope, I kings, II Chronicles, King David, King Solomon, love, priorities, scripture, Solomon, temple, trials, wives, worship


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More than 60 people, both online and in living color, packed a Southern New Hampshire meeting room and online chat room recently to increase their coding literacy by making BB-8 dodge storm troopers and Elsa twirl about on a frozen lake.
At their head was Dr. Gwen Britton, executive director of online STEM programs at SNHU, who was hosting Hour of Code for the second year. In the room were close to 40 academic advisors. Another 22 participated in the event online. "They're learning what it's like to write a piece of code and what that means," Britton said. "They're trying to manipulate whatever's on the screen to do whatever (the program) is asking."
Tens of millions of people in more than 180 countries have participated in the events put on by Hour of Code and Computer Science Education Week Advisory and Review committees. The goal is to introduce computer and coding literacy to as many people as possible in an accessible and easy-to-learn manner. The Hour of Code program does that by turning coding into a game.
On Dec. 8, the middle of Computer Science Education Week, the SNHU participants chose between three game-ified coding activities that included Star Wars- and Frozen-themed exercises. There was also a Java coding option for people who already had experience writing code. Using a mouse, participants chose blocks of text with instructions such as "Turn Right" and "Advance 100 steps." Those blocks were arranged them so that BB8 swerved around enemies on the way to his goal, or Elsa's skate traced intricate geometric shapes into a sheet of ice.
Kelly Grant, an advisor in SNHU's military STEM program, said she was surprised by what she was able to accomplish. "I just thought it would help me relate to my students on a deeper level," she said. "... I just thought it would be good to help me relate to them more."
Another STEM advisor, Steve Pleasant, said it was interesting to peek behind the scenes of a relatively simple game and get a little bit of perspective into what must go into more involved video games. "It gives me a good idea of what's going on behind the scenes in these computer programs. It's nice diving into this a little bit deeper," he said. "Then when you see these complicated games, it's kind of awe-inspiring to see the level of detail that went in."
Angela Foss, associate dean of online STEM programs, said that was a secondary goal of inviting STEM academic advisors to the event. "I think that's what this activity provides for our advisors. It's not only what coding and programming is but also exposure to some of those frustrations one might get, which I think gives them a better context to support the students."
The events are also designed to raise participants' knowledge about computing and to hopefully kindle an interest that pushes them to continue exploring coding and technology. That's increasingly important as technology encroaches more areas of our lives, including everyday products such as refrigerators and lamps. "Programming, because of the way technology is infiltrating our lives, it's really a literacy that people in many disciplines should have exposure to because it will only enhance the skills they have," Foss said. A small business owner, for example, can improve their Wordpress website themselves with just a small amount of coding knowledge. "It's very powerful," Foss said. "It's something that's so simple, but can be so powerful."
Parents have recognized how important computer science will be in their children's' lives, but most school districts in the country don't reflect that. According to Hour of Code statistics, 90% of parents want their child to study computer science in school but only 40% of schools offer it as a subject, and only six states have defined computer science standards at the K-12 level.
Britton said coding is similar to reading, in that it is a valuable skill in every person's life whether they're focused on computers and technology or not. "Everyone uses technology. It doesn't mean you necessarily need to be a coder, but you should understand what's going on inside all of these different pieces of technology that you're using," she said. "The more literate you are, the better off you are. Even if you're not a coder, that literacy is really critically important for you to even use the technology.


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International Livestock Research Institute Climate Risk Analysis Jobs in Kenya
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a consultant to support SADC and its member states to develop plausible future-oriented climate-resilient pathways for sustainable and equitable economic growth and socio-economic development, with a special focus on agriculture and natural resources.
This consultancy will develop a synthesis background paper that summarises knowledge of the likely effects of climate risk on future vulnerabilities in SADC, with a focus on agriculture and natural resources but also including what is known about other sectors too.
The paper will be a key input into a broader process to assist in prioritization and help build capacities for strategic planning, regional prioritisation and foresight, including the revision of the SADC Regional Indicative Development Plan and the SADC Climate Change and Action Plan.
The work will help advocate for an integrated regional approach to support the SADC Common Agenda while ensuring that actions are widely applicable and scalable across the region.
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) seek to recruit a consultant to carry out a desk study that synthesises existing climate risk analyses of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
The work will be based on the IPCC's risk framework from 2014 and expand on similar work done for SADC and other geographies.
The focus will be on the agriculture, food security and natural resources sectors, but as far as is feasible and appropriate, the work should include other key SADC sectors.
This work will involve the collation and review of a wide range of information, including the following: agriculture systems characterisation, location of smallholder and commercial systems, current and future climate hazards, vulnerabilities, capacities and impacts, and a broad outline of cost-effective climate-smart options, as far as they are known.
The primary output will be a working paper summarising the climate risk analysis and hotspot climate risk maps for SADC and other knowledge products.
A draft of the paper should be validated through interactions with regional actors.
Specific Responsibilities Include
Gather existing reports detailing current and future climate hazards, vulnerabilities, capacities, and impacts (using IPCC climate risk framework components) specific to the SADC region.
Assemble existing information at regional level on farming systems characterisation, location of smallholder and commercial systems, and current and future climate change impacts on agriculture.
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Background paper to include sections that cover (1) new science with respect to the likely direct and indirect effects of climate change to 2035, (2) a broad outline of cost-effective adaptation options, and (3) limits to knowledge and key information gaps for the 16 member states of SADC.
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LGBT, Transgender	— June 21, 2016 at 6:50 pm
Justin's story: Advocating for respect and compassion
by Amy Lynn Smith
This father of a transgender daughter is committed to overcoming ignorance, online and off.
This is part of a story series about the lives of transgender people. Read the introduction here.
At some point, a Facebook meme that demeans transgender people — usually with vicious lies — has come across your feed. If you're a person with any empathy, it's probably made you angry, sad or at least disappointed in the person who shared it.
Now imagine you're the father of a transgender daughter, who is subjected to a barrage of these images day after day, particularly in the wake of the anti-LGBT "bathroom bill" law in North Carolina.
One such father is Justin Marone, whose 24-year-old daughter Lily came out as transgender about three years ago. Justin, his wife, Dawn, and their daughter, Tyler, have all embraced Lily's authentic self. And the one thing that has never wavered is their love for her.
So when Justin saw about 15 anti-transgender memes in his Facebook feed on a single day, he finally had enough. Although he rarely posts on Facebook, he had to say something.
"The fact that I posted this huge rant is really out of character," Justin says. "But it's so frustrating as a parent of a trans kid to see all the stupid memes online every day — people who don't understand the damage they're doing, consistently putting up something they'd say was 'in good fun,' not understanding how it might impact someone like my daughter."
At the time he posted his statement, Justin says not everyone in his life knew that Lily is transgender. So he stood up to what he describes as "beyond anything I could put up with at that point." Here's what he posted:
I am the father of a trans gender daughter. The level of ignorance and hatred being spewed has risen to the level that I want to crawl into a hole and not come out. People I love and respect have made amazingly hurtful and ignorant comments that makes me wonder who they are and if all my interactions with them have been for show. The laws in places such as NC that are being brought out to protect people are both unenforceable and ridiculous. If you do not realize that the idea of using a public bathroom is one of the most physically and mentally perilous things a trans gender person might have to do than educate yourself and stop perpetuating the ignorance that we have all been subject to of late. Trans gender people are the most marginalized and mistreated group in society. If you think they "choose" to be trans, take a moment and think about what that means. The level of anxiety they experience about the little things in life we all take for granted, would make the best of us unable to even get out of bed in the morning. So before you share the next ignorant meme, take a moment and understand the gravity of the hurt that causes to a fellow human being.
Justin says the response to his post from his friends and family was entirely positive. He and his family are devout Lutherans, and he admits that some of his Christian friends chose to stay silent about his post. But he's okay with that.
"You're entitled to all your opinions," he says. "We don't have to see eye to eye on everything."
Knowing that it took him some time to understand what it means for Lily to be transgender, Justin respects that the same will be true for many others. He struggled at first to wrap his head around the idea that his child who was assigned male gender at birth identifies as female, and he initially thought it must somehow be his fault. He knows better now, and from day one he and his family kept coming back to one thing.
It wasn't about how much we are going to love this kid. That was never a question for us.
After Lily came out to them, Justin and Dawn attended counseling with her and joined a support group for parents of transgender children, which he says was extremely helpful.
Although everyone in their family has been accepting of Lily's transition, they've had a lot of questions, which prompted Justin to educate himself even more than he was doing already.
When you're getting 6,000 questions a day, you need to educate yourself. The level of ignorance about transgender people is really high. I had to explain to one person that this is not a choice. Why would somebody choose to join the most marginalized group in all of society? Why would you make a choice to join a group that means you'll struggle in every aspect of life? It's not human nature to make that choice.
The choice for trans people is 'Am I honest about who I am and will I live as who I am, or live a lie because that might be easier?' Lily's life before was the lie. Lily is not the lie. When you look at things that way, it really changes your perspective.
So does the sobering fact that, before she came out, Lily tried to commit suicide. After that, Justin says, "You're okay with pretty much anything your child wants to do as long as they're alive."
But he says Lily still struggles with anxiety and depression, something he understands — especially when he sees the kinds of things people post online.
I think a lot of people miss the fact that many trans people deal with a high level of anxiety and depression. Not just what their minds do to them but what we do to them. People don't realize that getting out of bed and being part of the public is difficult when you're so marginalized.
Justin has always been protective of his children. Because Lily is transgender and Tyler is gay, he's understandably shaken by society's vitriol toward the LGBTQ community.
What happened in Orlando is my biggest fear in life. The idea that someone is so dogmatic in their beliefs and has so much hate is frightening.
When all this bathroom bill stuff started happening, Tyler said, 'People are going to pull women like me out of bathrooms' — and then it started happening to her.
Having once worked at a high school as a softball coach, Justin says that students using the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity shouldn't be a problem for parents.
"It's much safer for the trans female to be in the girls bathroom, and if people had any idea of what went on in high school bathrooms just in general they'd never let their child leave the house," he says. "A trans child being in the bathroom that matches their gender identity should be the least of their worries. It's not an issue to their kids."
His daughter's gender identity is also not an issue to the people Justin is closest to, something for which he is grateful. In fact, Justin has found support from some surprising allies, including one friend who is such a "tough guy" that he might not seem like an affirming sort, Justin says.
He told me, 'Listen, at the end of the day they're your kids. All you can do is love them and support them, and we're your friends and we're here for you.'
The idea that this person you'd never expect this out of — you can never underestimate the human spirit. When you're getting love and support from people, it's powerful. It really restores your faith in humanity.
Justin doesn't expect his Facebook post to put an end to people sharing anti-transgender memes, but maybe they'll think twice next time. He knows that changing people's minds — and society's stereotypes — takes time. But he encourages people to talk to each other and listen.
"I think people are good. Their base nature is good, but ignorance is a really difficult thing to overcome," he says. "Anything we can do to educate people is good. As long as you are respectful and loving and understanding — come at it with love instead of what we see in the media all day long — that's really the important thing."
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Donald Trump's Weapons of Mass Distraction
by D.R. Tucker
The gambit worked.
He knew it would.
He knew the media would allow him to get away with it. He knew the press would be guided by the supposed beauty of his weapons. He knew the Fourth Estate would get off on his show of force.
Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing. By dropping bombs in Syria and Afghanistan, and ramping up tensions with North Korea, he has driven the controversy over Russia's interference in our election off the front pages. He knew that mainstream-media entities tend to have very short attention spans. He knew that Americans tend to have very short attention spans. He knew that all he had to do was "give 'em the old razzle-dazzle" and they would let him get away with the murder of democracy.
When he saw the millions marching against him on January 21, Trump knew that all he had to do was invoke the specter of national security and the War on Terror and those crowds would drift away. He knew that fear rules, that power dominates, that might makes right. He knew that all he had to do was keep his base satisfied, and ramp up pseudo-patriotic sentiment among enough Americans who didn't vote for him, and his presidency would survive, perhaps even thrive.
Trump understood that we are a fearful country with a fearful media. We think a terrorist is around every corner. We think it's only a matter of seconds before another plane takes down a tower, before another militant massacres a marathon. He knew that, in the fearful American mind, his bombs serve as a security blanket.
He's not crazy. Anyone who thinks he's out of his mind is wrong. This is intentional and deliberate. This is not screwiness. This is strategy.
No one remembers the Russia story now. He has erased Russia's interference in our election from the American mind. Who dares to question the legitimacy of a President in wartime? Remember the scorn Michael Moore received when he did? No one wants to go through what he went through.
He pulled off the scam. He knew the power of imagery and emotion. He knew that Americans who aren't paying close attention would think he's making headway against perceived threats to the United States. He knew that with enough time and enough bombs, this country would slowly but surely start to see him as a winner.
He knew that truth doesn't really matter anymore.
In his call for Congress to censure Trump for his manipulation of our military, Ernest Canning observes:
Although the ability of Congress to Censure a President is not expressly provided for by the Constitution and has only been used once in our nation's history (Andrew Jackson 1834), it is generally recognized as a valid, if not binding, means for expressing the will of Congress. One would hope that, coupled with a threat of future impeachment, a mere debate over a formal Censure Resolution would be enough to persuade our irrational Commander-in-Chief to step away from the precipice.
That may be overly optimistic given the reluctance of a Republican-controlled Congress to hold this President accountable and the repeated failures of the corporate-owned media that have been soundly criticized for "cheerleading" in favor of acts of war. This was exemplified by MSNBC's Brian Williams description of the missile launch against Syria as "beautiful" and by the utterly unnecessary question postulated on Twitter by his network: "Does the U.S. missile strike on an airbase in Syria constitute an act of war?"
How absurd! If Russia launched a missile strike on an American airbase, would any American journalist question whether that strike amounted to an "act of war?" Indeed, while it differed wildly in scope, rationale and lethality, there was little difference conceptually between Trump's decision to strike a Syrian airbase and former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo's decision to bomb Pearl Harbor.
Despite previous inadequacies in both Congressional and media performance, one would hope that the gravity of this situation would have a sobering effect on the heretofore irresponsible; that we can rely upon both Congress and the media to successfully pull this nation back from the brink of catastrophe.
Sadly, even if Congress and the media tried to "pull this nation back from the brink of catastrophe," those entities would be resisted by both Trump's loyal fanbase and fearful Americans "in the middle" who have fallen for the bogus idea that Trump's just trying to protect this country.
He knew what he was doing.
That's the scariest thing of all.
UPDATE: North Korea suffers from a failure to launch. More from the Washington Post.
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D. R. Tucker is a Massachusetts-based journalist who has served as the weekend contributor for the Washington Monthly since May 2014. He has also written for the Huffington Post, the Washington Spectator, the Metrowest Daily News, investigative journalist Brad Friedman's Brad Blog and environmental journalist Peter Sinclair's Climate Crocks.
Trump's Trade War With China Ends in a Truce, Not a Historic Deal
The president was desperate for an accomplishment to brag about on the campaign trail.


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Excellent photo. This group does have the mien of a very serious football team, particularly when contrasted with some of the more raggedy groups in Boyles.
This is Coburg's (VFA) Senior Team photographed at the Coburg City Oval, circa 1938-39.
At the centre of the middle row is Jack Scanlon who captain-coached Coburg 1937-39. Scanlon had previously played 67 games for St.Kilda (1930-36). Also identified in the photo (by means of 1941 photo in Coburg Football Club's 1991 Centenary publication) are Tom Re (extreme left of top row, three games with Fitzroy 1936-37), Irvine (second from left in second top row), Bannister (extreme left middle row).
Intriguingly, the player second from right in the top row is the much-travelled Cairo Dixon. Dixon played for a succession of football clubs in the thirties era, in particular Coburg, Williamstown and Kew (Sub District ). See 122_208 - Probably Williamstown 1932(extreme right of front row); 122_106 - Probably Kew Sub-Districts Team 1939 - V1(fourth from left in middle row).
Coburg's champion forward Lance Collins appears to be missing from the above group. Collins was suspended by Coburg in the latter part of 1938. His absence here could be interpreted as further evidence that the photo is from 1938. Collins is in Coburg's Team of the Century. He also played for Carlton 1942-43, 1945.
Same grandstand as in the photo 122_435 - Coburg Senior Team 1933. Grandstand packed. Good crowd.
Cairo Dixon appears to have only played for Coburg in 1934 and 1937-38. The photo is unlikely to be 1934. 1937 or 1938 is much more likely.
Peter Reville (South Melbourne, Fitzroy) played for Coburg in 1937 but not 1938. He is not in the photo.
Player front row far left is possibly Lance Collins.
The player second from right in middle row is also possibly Collins - albeit remotely.
Coburg Historical Society have a photo of the 1940 team on Picture Victoria, but the resolution is too small to see the faces. A better quality copy of this picture will assist in naming people in the SLV 1938 photo. Coburg in 1940 were blessed with two champion forwards - Lance Collins, and the incomparable Bob Pratt, ex-South Melbourne. Note their presence in the second front row.


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Photograph by Roger Stalley. Image of the junction between the east wall of the MacGiollapadraig chapel and the original nave showing a clear masonry break.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Images of the angles where the MacGiollapadraig chapel meets the original nave at Fertagh showing two clear masonry breaks.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Images of the east wall of the MacGiollapadraig chapel including a twin window with round headed lights (missing its mullion) and a recessed feature with lintel.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Detail of choir, east elevation, showing a shaft with stiff - leaf capital flanked by angle rolls.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. View of crossing tower from nave.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Close up views of crossing capitals.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Window seat located in the south wall of the nave.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. The corbels in the north wall of the nave, each bearing heraldic displays.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. The north - west angle of the north transept, buttress and base.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Windows of the south choir wall.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Eastern window of north transept chapel along with details of hoodstops.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Cranial hoodstops of the rere - arches in the south choir wall.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Western end of south choir wall.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Views of the tomb chest of the MacGiollapadraig double tomb. The tomb chest is decorated with various architectural forms interspersed with foliate designs.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. The round tower at Fertagh.
Photograph by Roger Stalley. A window from Fertagh, re - set as the west window of Johnstown Roman Catholic Chapel in the nineteenth century.