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The Beginning of the End of Multiculturalism
RattlerGator has seen the future unraveling of Democrats and it begins with their disputes over the meaning of the fight between Hillary and Obama. I believe he's onto something. He observes the fire and brimstone in comments from a Frank Rich article critical of Hillary Clinton. Really, read his whole thing.
I had an extended discussion with a friend this morning about the Barack v. Hillary situation. Your comment [The 50+ crowd that created him [RattlerGator: meaning, Barack Obama] now feels a kind of obligation to kill him, as he has been obliged to try and kill them.] highlights a problem likely unseen by much of America but very much bubbling in the black community -- people don't know what to think of how they feel about this Barack Obama guy, and they don't know what to think of their feelings vis-a-vis the manner in which white folks view him and respond to him.
We don't often think of Barack Obama as a creation of the Democrat Machine, and it's really stunning to know that we haven't. But he is indeed the petard upon which Democrats have tried to hoist Republicans since his arrival on the scene. But where did he come from, really? The Democrats have given Obama an inch and he has taken a mile. With his recent four state sweep, the Clintons are really stumbling to keep up. Plus, Obama is pulling in more money. Who let the dogs out? This is the deep trouble in the Left that is forcing them to grapple with two attributes they have invested so much meaning and value in, race and gender. It's going to make their heads explode.
RattlerGator has brought to my attention something about the Boomers' inability to get over their own roots, where the most significant moral chit was 'marching with Dr King'. I mean really, how scary is that? It is probably one of the last best significant things your garden variety white person could do of moral significance by virtue of the color of their skin. We, on the other hand, merely had to succeed against the odds - which is a lifetime endeavor. A march some Sunday weekend? Ha! It's like me saying 'I shook Barney Frank's hand!'. That may have been hugely significant in breaking the cultural barriers of the 50s, but then again, the 50s weren't all that retarded and lots and lots of Boomers were doing the same thing. The rewards of doing the adolescent rebellious yet moral thing against a regressive background of racist parenting should only count so much, and yet the Clintons of the world have been banking on it for decades.
This is the origin of multiculturalism. It is rooted in the basic countercultural idea that Boomer parents (and America by extension) were so incredibly wrong about race and war that they couldn't be morally right about anything. And the exploration (some Sunday march) that a generation of white youth had during the Summer of Love to find that blacks and hispanics and all the other 'others' were actually human destroyed their faith in their parents' American culture. The very humanity of 'others' came as a shock to these poor naifs and they haven't been right since. The problem is that such Boomers have been on stage too long, and their basic reversion to their signature memes, without any appreciation for what the Conservative revolution has long stood for, has left them derailed from the real track of liberty.
The Baby Boom is a market phenomenon. I'm one of that minority of Americans who never thought much of Dustin Hoffman or the Rolling Stones. Quite frankly I've never seen The Graduate and I only know three or four songs by the Stones. When Bill Clinton came rolling around in 1992, I didn't trust him, but I was glad to see the torch of the Presidency finally get to someone within 20 years of my age. Bill Clinton spoke my language and recognized the same parts of America I did, like the Arsenio Hall Show. But this was just a market phenomenon. He never got down to Constitutional purity. He never got down to core principles of America and he did nothing to bring me, or anyone, to a truer conscious patriotism as a citizenship. He never demanded sacrifice, instead he just gave us the flavor we desired. He was all about movement, and in 1992 that's what I wanted to see and hear - movement to a new generation, a Pepsi Generation.
Now it's easy for me to see all that movement was just agitation. If it took triangulation strategies, if it took bombing Serbia, then that was the cost. The point was that he could market us a Cabinet 'that looks like America'. What anybody did in those seats was not our concern, we just knew to let multicultural ethics force us not to look past race and gender. As Clinton took a whack at military policy, we knew he was going for the trifecta of sexual preference as well. He consciously politicized and brought front and center something that wasn't broke and should have been left alone.
We tend to forget the fundamental problem with godless communism which is that it sees human beings as getting their meaning from systems. To to the commie, there is no human soul which endows people with their fundamental value, instead, people get all of their meaning from the social contract. Outside of the system, people don't exist. And therefore the shape of the system defines the shape of the human without which we are supposedly all barbarians. It's easy to see the Civil Rights Movement from that perspective. Before it, blacks were not fully human because the system didn't recognize them. And of course it's also easy to see white humanity as augmented and enhanced due to their conformance to a new system recognizing black humanity. The communist, the socialist, the Marxist all see the human experience as not only being enhanced and affirmed by the System but established by it, and that said system is its only defense. In such a scheme, individuals are just like wild free electrons, not the captured flow of electricity - the only use for electrons. Recognition of a god is just a checkbox, a reason to conflict without the order imposed by the system. Race is another checkbox, gender is another checkbox, and so on. All generating 'natural' conflicts, the conflicts of Boomer parents. Multiculturalism is the ethics through which one should contextualize these essential conflicts according to the Left.
The Democrat's investment in the ethics of multiculturalism enables them to put faces in places and exploit the existential insecurities of so-called 'minorities'. It works, not so much because it satisfies the actual needs of various groups but because it satisfies the ideological desire to suggest that race, gender and preference 'gaps' have been bridged. So much of the multicultural debate and the entire calculus hinges on the false ideal of proportional representation, that people often fail to consider basic questions of principle. Nobody knows nor much cares what Lani Guinier, Joycelyn Elders nor Sistah Souljah stand for, but it's obvious that they are black women (a twofer) and the the Clinton Administration dissed them at one point or another. And so what passes for the black interest is counting noses and rhetorical patronage. But even on this simplistic basis, the chickens are coming home to roost. The Democrats will now pay for allowing Obama's race be an enabler in their multicultural agenda which is their primary avenue to their definitions of minority groups - which have become, because of this game, defacto minority interest groups. Despite the fact that women have the same issues as citizens and the same interest in solving those issues as everyone, they have been reduced to a gender interest group. Hillary's gender is the 'answer'. Despit the fact that African Americans have the same issues as citizens and the same interest in solving those issues as everyone, they have been reduced to a racial interest group. Obama's race is the 'answer'. Multiculturalism multiplies agendas and interests falsely, but now the Democrats have to deliver.
In the case of Obama vs Clinton, the entire 'black' agenda of the Democratic party has been hijacked by an African American candidate. And the fact that the Democrats have not materially offered anything to African Americans above and beyond their special racial interest groups status and the occasional faces in high places, rapidly becomes evident as the candidates compete for the African American vote. It is tragic that black voters have come to expect little more that multicultural lip service, but the fact that they have gotten Obama so quickly and so dramatically highlights the emptiness of the multicultural promise.
Whether or not Obama is willing or able to effect a change of agenda that more accurately addresses the true needs and concerns of African American voters is beside the point here. The fact is that now that he exists, now that he has demonstrated his viability as a candidate, without question, people are going to start asking if and why he's the only one. But most importantly, Obama has proven that the multicultural rhetoric has been empty. Whether or not the Democrats hyped him there, he *is* black power, and he's going to have to be put down forcibly if the Democrat power structure that the Clinton machine represents is to survive this election.
There are only two options, none of which is appetizing for that machine.
They will either disabuse their multicultural agenda by tacking towards the premise that Obama's race should not be considered and that where it counts, his skills and experience are most important. Then they go after him on skills and experience - which is an odd tack considering the other Democrats who were originally in the running many possessing much more skill and experience than the front runners. Or they find a way to marginalize his multicultural value by suggesting some equation like women + hispanics > black. Either way, African American and other voters who pay significant attention to this racial traffic are going to be pissed. The mendacity will be transparent, and that will stick to the Clintons and their Party like glue. A possible third way is to split the difference by offering a joint ticket. In that case, Obama becomes party to the old multicultural ethic and the game continues. But that's really just the first option all over again.
The necessary conflict between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is going to fracture the party along the multicultural lines that it drew on itself and on America. This is the beginning of the end of multiculturalism.
February 12, 2008 in Critical Theory | Permalink
Tags: clinton, democrats, multiculturalism, obama


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Peter Verhoyen (* 1. August 1968 in Belgien) ist ein belgischer Flötist und Piccoloflötist.

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Peter Verhoyen ist Solist-Piccolo bei deFilharmonie. Er ist angestellt am Koninklijk Vlaams Conservatorium in Antwerpen und am Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brüssel als Dozent für Pikkolo und Fachdidaktik-Flöte. Zusammen mit Cellist Stefaan Craeynest hat er das Kammermusikensemble Arco Baleno gegründet. Mit diesem Ensemble hat er neun CD-Aufnahmen und verschiedene Rundfunkaufnahmen realisiert. Außerdem ist er regelmäßig aktiv im Collegium Instrumentale Brugense unter der Leitung von Patrick Peire und im Orchester Il Novecento unter der Leitung von Robert Groslot.

Diskografie (Auswahl)
 Piccolo concerti. Mit Ataneres ensemble. EtCetera KTC 1749 (2022)
 Piccolo sonatas. Mit Stefan De Schepper (Piano). EtCetera KTC 1736 (2021)
 Zigeunerweisen. Mit Ilonka Kolthof, Anke Lauwers, Thomas Fabry (Pikkolo), Stefan de Schepper (Piano) und Ann-Sofie Verhoyen (Harfe). Etcetera KTC 1701 (2020)
 The Birds. Original works for piccolo and piano. Mit Stefan De Schepper (Piano). Codaex CX 4026 (2020)
 Mighty Metamorphoses. Repertoire für Pikkolo et Flöte des 21. Jahrhunderts. Mit Stefan De Schepper (Piano) und Aldo Baerten (Flöte). EtCetera KTC 1668 (2019)
 Flötenquartetten des Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mit dem Kammermusikensemble Arco Baleno. EtCetera KTC 1486 (2015)
 Best of both worlds. Marc Matthys European Quartet mit Ali Ryerson und Peter Verhoyen. Alley Cats PMP 5411499510225 (2014)
 Britannia. Kammermusik für Flöte/Piccoloflöte, Streicher und Cembalo. Mit dem Kammermusikensemble Arco Baleno. EtCetera KTC 1372 (2008)
 Piccolo Tunes. Mit Stefan De Schepper (Piano). EtCetera KTC 1296 (2006)
 Claude Debussy / Luc Brewaeys – Präludien für symphonisches Orchester. Mit dem symphonischen Orchester deFilharmonie. Talent DOM 381004 (2005)
 Antonio Vivaldi. Flötenkonzert 'Il Gardellino', Pikkolokonzert. Mit dem Kammermusikensemble Arco Baleno. Etcetera KTC 1278 (2004)
 Fantasia... sul linguaggio perduto: Werk für Flöte und Streichtrio. Mit Kammermusikensemble Arco Baleno. Radio 3 R397003 (1996)

Weblinks
 Website des Musikers
 offizieller YouTube-Kanal

Klassischer Flötist
Interpret Alter Musik
Interpret (Neue Musik)
Belgier
Geboren 1968
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Guam flag flies at HRC headquarters
Masako Watanabe
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A Guam flag was raised at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Human Rights Campaign following the territory's legalization of same-sex marriage.
The Campaign flies the flag of every state — and now a territory — when marriage equality becomes law in that jurisdiction, according to James Perez Servino, the group's associate director of Online Mobilization and Social Media.
Same-sex marriage became legal in Guam last Friday after a federal judge struck down Guam's prohibition on same-sex marriages. Tuesday was the first day for gay couples were able to file for marriage applications.
One couple — Nikki Dismuke-Johnson and Deasia Johnson — married immediately after obtaining their license shortly after the Department of Public Health and Social Services opened for business Tuesday. They were married by the agency's director in a civil ceremony witnessed by Kathleen Aguero and her partner Loretta Pangelinan — the plaintiffs who won the federal lawsuit.
Aguero and Pangelinan plan to wed July 4.
Prior to their marriage, the Johnsons, who were first to arrive at Public Health Tuesday morning, stepped aside to let Aguero and Pangelinan be the first gay couple to obtain their license.
The Human Rights Campaign is a civil rights organization with about 1.5 million members working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, Servino said in an email.
Hundreds of Guam residents are members, he said.
University of Guam President Robert Underwood, Sen. Nerissa Underwood, Paul Guequierre, Ben de Guzman and Adam Carbullido joined him at the flag raising, Servino said.
Servino is a California native with Guam roots, according to his profile on the online professional network site, LinkedIn.

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The Board of Education of Carroll County will hold its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, February 13, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. in the Charles I. Ecker Boardroom at the Board of Education offices, located at 125 North Court Street, Westminster. Agenda items will include the adoption of the Preliminary Operating Budget for FY20. The public is encouraged to attend. There will be time for citizen participation at this meeting.
The Board meeting also will be broadcast live on Channel 21, with rebroadcasts on Thursday, February 14, at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, February 16, at 9:00 a.m.; Sunday, February 17, at 8:00 p.m.; and Thursday, February 21, at 8:00 p.m.


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Headmaster's Newsletter Friday 6th December 2019
It is quite easy to become jaded about politics, especially with the frequency of elections and the deterioration in the quality of public discourse. But that jadedness is dangerous and can too easily lead to us becoming disengaged from the political scene because, many would argue, 'they're all the same' or 'they're all lying'. Why bother, they say, if nothing really changes or promises are reneged upon at the first opportunity? That electoral ennui is enough of a spur for us to ensure our boys do get engaged in public debate, that they do take an interest in people beyond themselves, and that they do learn what it is to be civic minded.
Part of that civic mindedness is learning about our political process and what it means to vote. NCS is currently abuzz with our own mock election, with four different political 'parties' (bearing no relation to real ones, beyond their colours, I suppose) vying for the votes of the school community. It is great to see some of the older boys think-tanking about potentially attractive policies – those concerning care for animals seem especially popular – and learning how to respectfully canvas for votes. Indeed, we are of course very keen for that word 'respect' to underpin our mock election, in the hope that such a respectful approach will seep into more public discourse when the boys are themselves old enough to engage with it directly. Playgrounds have, historically, been fertile grounds for mob-fuelled demagoguery. Not here, I'm delighted to say, and even the slightest populist urges have been quietly curtailed to ensure the boys vote on issues not personalities, on conscience rather than charisma. And, luckily, there are no Twitter feeds for the candidates to vent their spleens about the opposition; very few of those candidates have business interests in the Ukraine. Our election will take place next Monday and the results will be announced later in the week. One of our Year 8s will pick up the keys to No. 10 shortly thereafter.
Building buzz wire games in Year 6; Agility training in Reception; Investigating burning in Year 7; Pre-Prep playtime; Composing and performing rhythms in Year 5
It might seem a little odd to be thinking about all of this when we are normally preparing for Christmas, but the chaplain reminded us in chapel on Wednesday that Advent is in part a season for meditating on leadership and responsibility. I am happy to reassure you that this part of the ritual year is also progressing as normal. The Christmas trees are up, the advent wreath candles are being lit in assembly each morning, carols are being sung, cards written and disseminated. The boys' shoulders are down as they realise they are just a week away from a well-earned Christmas break. More about which anon.
All best wishes,
Matt Jenkinson
Person of the Week: Lady Constance Lytton
Artwork of the Week: Mozart's violin sonata in B flat (as played by Timon in Monday's assembly)
Word of the Week: suffrage
Savile Road parking. Could I politely ask those dropping off or picking up their sons by car to turn off their engines while they wait? Many thanks.
Library Books. Please could all books be returned to the library by Monday for return or renewal and then from Tuesday onwards borrowing for the Christmas holidays can take place. The boys can also avail themselves of all the wonderful Christmas-themed books currently on display as well. We appreciate it is a busy time of the year, but please encourage the boys to search out any library books lurking in hidden corners of their bedrooms or at the bottom of school bags and bring them in on Monday. And please remind them to sign books out properly. Many thanks.
Please find attached Mrs Hess's 2019 Christmas Quiz. Completed quiz sheets to her in the Library by the end of the first week of next term. There will be the usual festive chocolate prizes!
This term some of Year 3 have spent their Monday lunchtime activity discovering what makes a museum. They have explored archaeology and artefacts, conservation and curatorship and created their own story based around two objects. Using their discoveries, they have created their own "Cabinet of Curiosities" of objects that they found interesting. This will be open for the Private View on Monday 9 December, from 15.30-16.00. Their "Virtual Museum" will be accessible online.
Snow (or other extreme weather). In the event of an overnight snowfall or other extreme winter weather, we usually remain open because we have a number of staff who live very locally. But please do not feel that simply because we are open you have to make dangerous efforts to get here if road conditions are problematic. An update on weather conditions here will be sent by Parentmail on any such mornings.
My very best wishes to the choristers as they continue their Christmas schedule. In addition to their services in College, the boys will be singing at St John's Smith Square on Monday 16 December at 19.30.
Tuesday 10 December – Chamber Choir sing at the Christmas Market, 5.30-6.00pm. Do come along to support the boys – joining in if you'd like.
There is no School Service next Wednesday, because we shall be practising for the carol service.
Huge thanks to everyone who is helping to organise the NCSPA Christmas Fair on Thursday 12 December and to everyone who has brought in gifts for the stalls. It should be a very enjoyable occasion. Do remember to let your sons have a small amount of pocket money if they wish to buy gifts for family and friends.
Thursday 12 December – Pre-Prep Nativity Play: 14.00 School Hall. Written and directed by Mrs Cox and performed by members of Pre-Prep. Limited parking on a 'first-come-first-served' basis will be available in the school grounds from 13.30 onwards. The play will finish at approximately 14.45. Parents should then be able to collect their children from form tutors and take them to the Christmas Fair. There will also be a very polished (!) earlier performance on Wednesday 11 December at 14.00; again, limited parking will be available from 13.30 on a first-come-first-served basis. Tickets should be in the boys' book bags today.
Friday 14 December – New College School Carol Service: 11.00 New College Chapel. Doors open at 10.15. Pupils will be reading and the music will be provided by the Pre-Prep, junior and chamber choirs and the choristers. There will be plenty of opportunities for congregational singing too. Limited parking is available again on a first-come-first-served basis in the school grounds but please do not arrive to park before 10.35 because we want boys to have their morning break unimpeded by cars. As advised by Mrs McCusker a few weeks ago, due to recently implemented College fire regulations we have been forced to limit numbers at the service and therefore entry is strictly by ticket only. We are already at the capacity allowed us by the fire regs and we do not want people to be disappointed on the day, so please do not come unless you have a ticket in your possession (and please let friends and relatives know this too). If you have received tickets and know you will be unable to use them, please return them to the school office so they can be redistributed.
School ends at 12.00 on Friday 14 December. Parents should collect boys from school not from the chapel. On their return from the chapel, boys will collect belongings from their classrooms. Boys in Pre-Prep should be collected from Pre-Prep classrooms. Years 3-4 can be picked up from their form rooms to avoid them crossing the playground while cars are in motion. Boys in Years 5-8 will be brought to the sports hall where they will meet up with parents. Please be sure to meet them there and not in the car park: the former is much safer!
The Oxford & Cambridge Singing School Christmas Course will be on Friday 20 December 2019, for children aged 7-13, at St Barnabus' Church, Jericho. The repertoire will centre on sumptuous festive music by Peter Warlock, Thomas Ravenscroft, John Joubert and John Rutter plus some traditional favourites. These courses are for children and young adults who love to sing and are devised to include choral singing, singing lessons in small groups to focus on developing vocal technique, music appreciation, music history, music theory in the form of games and exercises - all to improve their general musicianship, technical ability and confidence. The children will perform an informal concert at the end of the day, to which family are warmly invited to attend. For those who aren't familiar with the courses, please follow this link: https://vimeo.com/288600178/9108897ee8 Bursaries are available on the course courses and booking is via www.oxbridgesingingschool.com
Charities. https://www.schoolreaders.org are looking for volunteers to help listen to pupils in primary schools, thereby helping to improve their literacy. If you would like more information, do visit their website or contact Mrs Brown. On Thursday we heard in assembly from Mrs Showell-Rogers about the Community Emergency Foodbank and her family's three-day challenge to eat very limited provisions. If you would like to learn more, or support the charity, please visit http://www.cefoxford.co.uk/
Please note that there will be no Saturday morning school tomorrow.
University Term ends
16.00	Christmas Carol Service, New College Chapel (TICKET ONLY)
No after school activities in the last week of term
14.15	U13A Rugby vs D'Overbroeck's, Home
16.00	Choristers' Christmas Party, Red Room
14.15	U11A Rugby v Bruern Abbey, Home
14.15	U11B Rugby v Bruern Abbey, Away
17.30	Chamber Choir carol-singing (Oxford Christmas Market)
Form Period: reports discussed and issued
No School Service
9.00	Carol Service practice
14.00 Pre-Prep Nativity Play
14.30	U13 A-C Rugby vs CCCS, Home/Away
16.30	College Staff Family Carol Service
9.00	Readers to Chapel
14.00	Pre-Prep Nativity Play
14.00	NCSPA Christmas Fair, Sports Hall
19.30	NC Choir: Sheldonian John Rutter Concert
9.00	End of Term Assembly
11.00	Carol Service in Chapel
End of Term 12.00 noon
16.00	NC Choir: Old Members' Carol Service
19.30	St Thomas's Feast
14.00	Rehearsal (Chamber Choir, Choral Society), New College Chapel
19.00	Concert: Wassail! (Chamber Choir, Choral Society), New College Chapel
19.30	NC Choir: Christmas Concert, St John's Smith Square
Staff INSET
10.30	Pre-season hockey training (Years 7-8), St Edward's astro
14.00	Pre-season hockey training (Years 3-6), Iffley Road Sports Ground
After School Activities Start
10.00	School Service, New College Chapel
Speaker: The Headmaster. Coffee afterwards in the Undercroft for parents and visitors
10.30	Year 6 Science talk
Memorial service for Peter Dickens (choristers only)
9.30	U11 A WHS PS Hockey Festival, Away
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The demand fee increased from $5 to $25 as of January 1, 2009, by a vote of Town Meeting. Effective January 1, 2014, we will no longer be mailing payment reminders before imposing the demand fees on unpaid bills.
The Tax Collector's office is located on the second floor of the Town Hall Building, 16 Lowell Street, and is open Monday to Thursday, 7:30 am to 5:30 pm (until 7 pm on Tuesdays).
There is also a white drop-off mailbox located outside in the parking lot (at the parking lot's exit) where residents may drop off tax payments, water bill payments, excise bill payments, or any other town business. Payments left in the box will be credited the next business day.
The Town of Reading currently bills on a quarterly schedule. Real estate and personal property tax bills for the fiscal year (July to June) are mailed quarterly. Payments are due by the end of the business day in the Tax Collector's office on August 1, November 1, February 1, and May 1 or the following regular business day if the 1st falls on a weekend. Postmarks are not considered payment in a timely fashion per M.G.L. It is the taxpayer's responsibility to ensure that tax bills arrive in the Treasurer or Collector's office on or before the due dates.
There are between six and eight Motor Vehicle Excise tax bill mailings during the year. The largest mailing occurs in February and usually includes all vehicles registered in Reading for over one year. Although collected by the Town, these bills are generated from the records of the Registry of Motor Vehicles as of January 1 of the bill year.
Janine Brussard
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Debbie DelGreco
Assistant Collector
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Jackie Alberto
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Town Hall, 2nd Floor
16 Lowell Street Town Hall, 2nd Floor Reading MA 01867
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Municipal Lien Certificate Request Form (PDF)
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I've been trying to grow chamomile, but I'm container gardening which is always a crapshoot. Sometimes it works out, sometimes everything just… dies. The verdict is still out on my chamomile, but one thing is for sure–it isn't thriving. So I was very excited to see bunches of fresh herb at the farmers market. I wasn't alone. The little bundles of gorgeous sweet-smelling flowers were gone in a heartbeat. I went for a long walk after the market and found myself periodically pulling the chamomile out of the bag and taking a long sniff. I'm sure it was entertaining to those who were watching, but the aroma was heavenly.
I've never made tea from fresh chamomile so I thought a side-by-side comparison with the dried herb would be interesting.
What I found is the dried had a deeper yellow color and a melon/honey like flavor with a hint of bitterness at the end. The fresh never moved beyond a light greenish yellow, had the flavor of fresh apple with a little less bitterness. Preference? Fresh herb. The flavor was brighter. I'm reminded of tomatoes–canned make marvelous sauce, but there is nothing like biting into a fresh tomato in season.
Oh… not everyone can get their hands on a bunch of fresh chamomile even in the depths of summer, but if you can, what a pretty treat to serve alongside a plate of cucumber sandwiches and little cakes. And chamomile is an herb known for its beneficial effects on the body. Its ability to calm the nerves makes it a great nighttime beverage.


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The internationally renowned and beloved Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli releases his breathtaking new album, Believe, celebrating the power of music to soothe the soul. It follows his record-breaking 'Music for Hope' performance at Easter from the historic Duomo cathedral in Milan which was watched live by millions around the globe. It features a previously unreleased track from the late, great Italian composer Ennio Morricone, as well as 'Gratia Plena' – from the critically acclaimed new movie, Fatima –, two duets with award-winning mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, and for the first time ever Andrea Bocelli has recorded his own interpretations of 'Ave Maria' and 'Padre Nostro' along with familiar favourites such as 'Hallelujah', 'You'll Never Walk Alone' and 'Amazing Grace'. Believe, co-produced by Steven Mercurio and Haydn Bendall, is a collection of uplifting songs that have inspired and sustained Bocelli over the years.
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE
FRATELLO SOLE SORELLA LUNA (DOLCE È SENTIRE)
PIANISSIMO duet with Cecilia Bartoli
AMAZING GRACE duet with Alison Krauss
PREGHIERA (ALLA MENTE CONFUSA)
GRATIA PLENA (from the movie "Fatima")
CANTIQUE DE JEAN RACINE
INNO SUSSURATO
OH, MADRE BENEDETTA! (ADAGIO DI ALBINONI)
I BELIEVE duet with Cecilia Bartoli
ANGELE DEI
MUI GRANDES NOIT E DIA
MIRA IL TUO POPOLO
AMAZING GRACE (solo version)


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Sunny comes in different forms for me.
and a conversation with a new customer who was cheerful and full of life.
Sunny, such a good word!
Yesterday I saw a tire cover on the back of a jeep that read "life is good". Then today, a bookmark I used had the words "count your blessings". It is very apparent to me that no matter the day you're having, if you look around, you will find something good.
For instance, if it's hot and muggy and you see dark storm clouds brewing, you know there's bound to be rain soon and hopefully a reprieve in the heat.
Or you notice it's getting dark outside and you step out and catch a beautiful sunset.
Often times I get up in the morning after having a restless night. I sit down for my quiet time in prayer and bible study and a lot of times after I lift my head from prayer I look out the window in front of me and see the dew glistening on the grass. Peace… in that moment complete peace is what I find.
So look for something good each day. The way you see things directs your way.
It's been a few days since I last wrote. Hope this finds you doing well.
This week has been moving both slow and fast… have you ever had a week like that?
Some days dragging along with no energy to speed it up, others so energized that sleep doesn't come… next thing I know it's close the week's end.
Each morning I begin my day in prayer and in Bible study and that is the only thing that has been constant for me this week. Everything else has just kind of took place at the back burner and I've just kind of made it through the week, breathing and not moving much.
Today, was a better day, though my head is still a little stuffy from congestion.
So, how has your week been?
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many of God's creation, I adore.
Showy Evening Primrose and Tickseed.
In many ways I see His presence each day.
He is ever with me, come what may.


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Smith v. Wilson
United States District Court, D. Montana, Helena Division
JACOB SMITH, Plaintiff,
THOMAS WILSON, BALTISAR, SEGOVIA, DOE #1, DOE #2, DOE #3, MICHELLE STEYH DIRECTOR OF THE MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, LEROY KIRKEGARD, TOM WOOD, PAUL REESE, AMBER EDWARDS, CAPTAIN JASON GRIMMIS, and HELENA PROBATION AND PAROLE OFFICERS MICHELLE JENICEK, DEANNE LOUNGEE, AND CHRISTEN THENNIS,, Defendants.
Dana L. Christensen, Chief Judge
United States Magistrate Judge John T. Johnston entered his Order and Findings and Recommendations in this case on April 3, 2019, recommending that several of Plaintiff Jacob Smith's claims be dismissed for failure to state a claim. (Doc. 33 at 33-34.) Smith timely filed an objection and is entitled to de novo review of those findings and recommendations to which he has specifically objected. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C). Absent objection, this Court reviews findings and recommendations for clear error. United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc); Thomas v. Am, 474 U.S. 140, 149 (1985). Clear error exists if the Court is left with a "definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed." United States v. Syrax, 235 F.3d 422, 427 (9th Cir. 2000) (citations omitted). "A party makes a proper objection by identifying the parts of the magistrate's disposition that the party finds objectionable and presenting legal argument and supporting authority, such that the district court is able to identify the issues and the reasons supporting a contrary result." Montana Shooting Sports Ass'n v. Holder, 2010 WL 4102940, at *2 (D. Mont. Oct. 18, 2010) (citation omitted).
Smith objects to one aspect of Judge Johnston's Findings and Recommendations, the recommended dismissal of his retaliation claim against Defendant Michelle Jenicek. (Doc 37 at 1-4.) Jenicek is a state probation officer who filed a request to have Smith transferred from temporary placement in the Lewis & Clark Detention Center to placement in the Montana State Prison. Jenicek filed the request in September 2016. On October 26, 2016, the Jefferson County District Court revoked Smith's sentence in that court and imposed an additional term of incarceration. Nine days later, on November 4, 2016, Smith was transferred to Montana State Prison. Smith claims that Jenicek sought his transfer from the Lewis & Clark Detention Center to Montana State Prison in retaliation for his continued litigation activity.
Judge Johnston recommended dismissing Smith's claim against Jenicek because Smith had done no more than provide a "formulaic recitation of the elements" which failed to show that his litigation activity was "the substantial or motivating factor behind his transfer to prison." (Doc. 33 at 16.) Although facially plausible, Judge Johnston noted that it is "equally if not more plausible" that Smith was transferred because his Jefferson County sentence had just been revoked. (Id. at 17.) As determined by Judge Johnston,
When faced with two possible explanations, only one of which can be true and only one of which results in liability, plaintiffs cannot offer allegations that are merely consistent with their favored explanation but are also consistent with the alternative explanation. Something more is needed, such as facts tending to exclude the possibility that the alternative explanation is true, in order to render plaintiffs' allegations plausible.
(Id. (quoting Eclectic Properties East, LLC v. Marcus & Millichap Co., 751 F.3d 990, 996-97 (9th Cir. 2014)).) In Smith's case, he had failed to provide any facts tending to exclude the equally likely possibility that he was transferred because his sentence had been revoked.
Smith's objection contains a list of his litigation activities that he asserts supports his claim that he was transferred in retaliation. (Doc. 37 at 1-4.) Smith then concludes by saying that he "establishes that he was not transferred to MSP due to his revocation in Jefferson County since the 'special override' occurred in September and the Jefferson sentencing occurred in October." (Id. at 4.) The Court does not find that Smith has established anything. Judge Johnston considered the fact that Smith had continuous litigation activities when stating that it was plausible that Jenicek requested Smith's transfer in retaliation for those activities. Nonetheless, Judge Johnston recommended dismissal because Smith had failed to contend with the more likely possibility that Smith was transferred because of his revocation. Smith's additional documentation of his litigation does not address this problem. Further, despite Smith's unsupported contention to the contrary, his documentation does not provide any basis for determining that his revocation had nothing to do with his transfer. Both Jenicek's request and the Jefferson County revocation occurred prior to his revocation. The fact that Jenicek's request occurred first does not establish that the Jefferson County revocation was not the reason for his transfer, especially when the Jefferson County revocation occurred a mere nine days prior to his transfer and Jenicek's request had been filed approximately six weeks prior. The alternative explanation remains more likely and Smith's objection is overruled. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that Judge Johnston's Order and Findings and Recommendations (Doc. 33) are ADOPTED IN FULL and the following are DISMISSED:
1. Smith's claim that the DOC Director, Probation Officers Jenicek, Loungee, and Thennis, and Jason Grimmis took adverse action against him by overriding him from LCDC to MSP during the critical stages of his legal proceedings as alleged in Paragraph 39 of the Amended Complaint;
2. Smith's claim that the DOC Director and Probation Officers Jenicek, Loungee, and Thennis conspired with Defendant Steyh as alleged in Paragraph 40 of the Amended Complaint;
3. Smith's claim that Probation Officers Jenicek, Loungee, and Thennis threatened and punished his family, friends, and witnesses in retaliation for his litigation activities as alleged in Paragraph 41 of the Amended Complaint;
4. All claims against Defendants DOC Director, Montana State Prison Administrators, Thomas Wilson, Tom Wood, Daniel Segovia, and Leroy Kirkegard named in their official capacities.
5. Smith's procedural due process claim regarding his placement in maximum custody and/or solitary confinement as alleged in Paragraphs 57-63 of the Amended Complaint;
6. Smith's procedural due process claim regarding loss of property as alleged in Paragraphs ...


Q What is tactile sound?
Tactile Sound is the sensation of sound transmitted directly to the human body by contact, rather than by sound waves through the ears. For example, when you stand on a train platform you can feel the train approaching as well as hearing it. Explosions, crashes, sonic booms, and thunder are all normally felt in addition to being heard. Tactile sound is also present in the vibratory signature of musical instruments, your automobile, in aircraft, someone walking across the floor or slamming a door, even the vibration from the compressor in your refrigerator. When we talk we experience our voice in a tactile format, if we are in intimate contact with a talking individual, we can feel their voice. Besides air pressure, tactile sound can be conducted through ground motion. Tactile sound can also be transmitted through water, for example in a swimming pool or hot tub.
In addition to being produced naturally, tactile sound can be produced by a transducer in the same way that sound can be produced through a loudspeaker. Tactile sound has been used by the military for flight and tank simulators, for rides in amusement parks, medical research musical tactile massage, home cinema, computer games, car audio, dance floors, water beds, patio decks and for musical performance as tactile feedback for drummers and other musicians. It has even been used recently to promote weight loss, improve muscle tone and improve blood circulation by a resistance training company.
Various designs for tactile transducers have been presented since the 1960's, most of which fall under the "shaker" category. Shakers create a vigorous vibration by moving a mass (usually a magnet) which is bolted to a final mass (like a chair or couch). A simple example of this is the vibration available on a common mobile phone. Another way of producing tactile sound uses "linear actuators", which move furniture (usually up and down), rather than shaking it. The main advantage of linear actuators is that they deliver actual motion (ground excursion), not just vibration.
Recently, tactile sound transducers have evolved to include higher frequencies and produce higher fidelity. The human tactile frequency range is from 1 Hz, very low frequency such as earthquakes, up to 5 kHz in some hearing impaired individuals. For most individuals 2 to 3 kHz is the upper threshold for tactile reception.
These newer devices must have higher resolution than previous "shakers" to produce these frequencies. Most humans have tactile resolution to 2 Hz which is the smallest change in frequency that can be perceived. The primary use for this extended bandwidth is to reproduce the vibratory signature for musical instruments such as violins, guitars, the human voice or sound effects in movies (for example, the Speeders in Star Wars). Also higher frequencies may be used to augment hearing through bone conduction, a consideration for people who have compromised their hearing from exposure to loud music.
Tactile sound is often used to increase the realism of an artificial environment. For example, mounting a tactile sound transducer in a chair or couch in a home cinema setup can give more of a sense of "being there". For such use, the transducer is often connected to the LFE channel of an A/V receiver. Tactile sound is often used in combination with a subwoofer so that low frequencies can be both felt and heard.
To facilitate broadband tactile sound, all channels are summed to provide a full range signal to the transducer amplifier. Graphic equalizers can also be used to further modify the effect.
For musical performance, drummers will often use a tactile sound transducer mounted on their drum stool so they can "feel" themselves playing, rather than using a more conventional stage monitor. The size and power of a stage monitor required to adequately reproduce low frequency drum sounds would be expensive and hard to transport, while a tactile sound transducer can be rather small and require much less power to get the job done.
Q Will my neighbours hear vibrations?
It is very difficult to say whether or not the transfer of vibration will be experienced by your neighbours - there are so many variables to consider.
Firstly, it depends on the product used and its installation, then the construction of any party walls and flooring come into play. Solid walls and flooring made from concrete will be less likely to conduct any vibration than a thin plaster board wall and hollow flooring.
The volume setting is also a factor. There's a fair chance that your neighbours will hear a set of conventional speakers if they're on full blast, but less likely if you set them at a reasonable level and the same applies to any bass shaker, although there is no audible sound as such.
Using a tactile unit in conjunction with a conventional speaker system allows you to reduce the volume level of your sub and still feel all the bass (and more) you want. Rubber isolators should also be used to retain the effect within any seating and reduce the amount of tactile transfer into flooring.
Conventional speakers actually 'move' the air to transfer the sound which is unavoidable, so by using a ButtKicker, it can actually be more 'neighbour friendly'.
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We also offer a range of custom packages specially configured and optimised for SimVibe software users. There are many different options so to get the right one for you, please contact us for more information and we'll be happy to help.
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Midnight Cowboy won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1969, and picked up another two for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (a relatively low tally, and exceeded that year by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). It lost in four other categories - both leads were nominated for Best Actor, Sylvia Miles for best Supporting Actress, and also for Best Film Editing.
The other Best Picture nominees were Anne of the Thousand Days, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hello, Dolly! and Z. IMDB users rate it second on both systems, with Easy Rider first on one ranking and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid first on the other. The Hugo that year went to the (real) Moon landings. There were a lot of good films that year; I have not seen any of those mentioned so far, but I have seen The Brain, Oh! What A Lovely War!, The Bed-Sitting Room, Luis Buñuel's The Milky Way and A Boy Named Charlie Brown (the one with the dramatic spelling bee). Midnight Cowboy is better than any of them.
Here's a contemporary trailer.
New York is by far the most popular setting for Oscar-winning films, though this is actually the first for eight years, since West Side Story - the longest gap we've had. (Seven years separate The Broadway Melody and The Great Ziegfeld.) It's the story of a young Texan who tries to make his fortune in New York in the swinging Sixties, and makes friends with a local; but both of them are chewed up and spat out by the naked city, and they end up heading to Florida with one of them dead on arrival.
I'm not going to write a lot about it. I liked it very much, and it's going in my top ten (ahead of A Man for All Seasons, but behind The Bridge on the River Kwai, since you ask). There are no returning actors from previous Oscar-winning films, and none who also appeared in Doctor Who. The film is about the friendship between two white male characters, but the women characters are on the whole empowered. Literally the first thing the protagonist does after the credits finish rolling is to greet his black colleague. There is a strong visibility, if not always positive, of gayness. It's a story of broken dreams, and decline and fall, and it's told very well.
I think there are three things to mention in particular.
First, the music. My god. I had a real double-take moment about halfway through when this came up on the soundtrack:
For me and for many people of my age and a bit younger, this is the theme tune for the BBC children's nature programme Wildtrack.
I now know that all the hip adults in the room were nudging each other and muttering, "That's the music from Midnight Cowboy!"
Before I get onto the two stars, the two women who stood out for me were Brenda Vaccaro as Shirley, the girl with whom Joe actually manages to perform after a false start, and Sylvia Miles as Cass, his first New York lover. This is not a feminist film, but these two roles are actually pretty empowered women. Cass got an Oscar nomination for it.
The only other film I've seen Jon Voight in is Catch-22, though of course I've seen his daughter in a few things as well. He is billed as the star here, and certainly his is the character with the most interesting arc, but I think his co-lead puts in the more memorable performance. It's a high threshold though, as Voight manages to put in a thoroughly convincing performans as a wannabe cowboy with or without his clothes on.
I should say here that the received wisdom about the film is that it's about a "male prostitute". This is simply not on. First of all, I think we say "sex worker" these days. Secondly, he's not actually very good at it. The first woman he has sex with in New York actually gets him to give her money, the young man with whom he has a sexual encounter refuses to pay him, and when he finally does get paid for sex he finds he is impotent. Joe describes himself as a hustler; I think I would call him a wannabe hustler, given his lack of success.
Dustin Hoffman simply rules as Ratso, the disreputable chap who becomes Joe's friend and eventually more or les dies in his arms. He gets the single most memorable line of the film - "I am walking here!" - and he's the one your eye is drawn to in their scenes together.
Incidentally there are a number of good websites detailing the New York locations of the filming. Here's one with various other incidental details about the film.
All of the music is good, so is the acting, but the cinematography is the best. The Texas flashbacks, Joe's miserably unsuccessful attempts to trade sex for money, New York as a place that consumes its inhabitants, and the Andy Warhol party, and the final scene on the bus, all superb viewing. The plot is simple and told visually as much as by the script.
As I said, one of the good ones. You can get it here.
Next up is Patton, of which I know nothing, but I guess it is about the general.
As usual, I went and read the novel on which the film is based, Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy. The second paragraph of the third chapter is :
She was known as Chalkline Annie, suggesting the order that had to be maintained in order to serve efficiently the large numbers of boys to whom in a single half hour she made her body available.
It's a rare case where it's actually rather difficult to decide which is better between the book and the film (which sticks closely to the last two-thirds of the book). The book does give us a lot more details of Joe's early life (mostly in fact in New Mexico rather than Texas) and takes us deeper inside his head. The descriptions are vivid and somewhat unssettling. On the other hand, that tight-third narrative gives us a more restricted view of events than the camera can do, and the fact is that Joe is not all that interesting or nice a person to spend time with. It's a memorable (and short) read all the same. You can get it here.
1920s: Wings (1927-28) | The Broadway Melody (1928-29)
1930s: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30) | Cimarron (1930-31) | Grand Hotel (1931-32) | Cavalcade (1932-33) | It Happened One Night (1934) | Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, and books) | The Great Ziegfeld (1936) | The Life of Emile Zola (1937) | You Can't Take It with You (1938) | Gone with the Wind (1939, and book)
1940s: Rebecca (1940) | How Green Was My Valley (1941) | Mrs. Miniver (1942) | Casablanca (1943) | Going My Way (1944) | The Lost Weekend (1945) | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | Gentleman's Agreement (1947) | Hamlet (1948) | All the King's Men (1949)
1950s: All About Eve (1950) | An American in Paris (1951) | The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) | From Here to Eternity (1953) | On The Waterfront (1954, and book) | Marty (1955) | Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | Gigi (1958) | Ben-Hur (1959)
1960s: The Apartment (1960) | West Side Story (1961) | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | Tom Jones (1963) | My Fair Lady (1964) | The Sound of Music (1965) | A Man for All Seasons (1966) | In the Heat of the Night (1967) | Oliver! (1968) | Midnight Cowboy (1969)
1970s: Patton (1970) | The French Connection (1971) | The Godfather (1972) | The Sting (1973) | The Godfather, Part II (1974) | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) | Rocky (1976) | Annie Hall (1977) | The Deer Hunter (1978) | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
1980s: Ordinary People (1980) | Chariots of Fire (1981) | Gandhi (1982) | Terms of Endearment (1983) | Amadeus (1984) | Out of Africa (1985)
21st century: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
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Review: Of Gods and Men (2010)
Xavier Beuavois's Grand Prix-winning film looks beautiful, but is technical recreation the best way to capture the Trappist monastic experience?
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Xavier Beuavois's Of Gods and Men is a film so boring that it threatened to put me to sleep at least three times during its interminable 122 minutes. I have nothing in particular against the monastic life or unexpected political collisions or trying to understand why people remain inflexible when given clear mortal consequences in resisting common sense or the Trappists or the Algerians or films that are slow and long and, yes, even boring. Indeed, the film's premise — based on the real-life assassination of seven monks who refused to leave Tibhirine in 1996 when terrorists entered their inner sanctum — is a fascinating one.
But this film ain't Tarkovsky or Antonioni. The problem here — and I do realize this snoozefest has won the Grand Prix, along with unchecked fellatio from the film snob brigade; knock yourselves out — may be that Beuavois has so insisted on uncompromising authenticity (even going to the trouble of basing one shot around a shaky home video), of lining up every damn narrative moment to some scrap of a fact, that there's little wiggle room to explore any discrepancies. These people lived, for fuck's sake. And they were braver and more committed than most of us. I'm not necessarily against such orthodox recreation of reality, but it's often most interesting when given a new context or a new framework that permits us to feel something. When Christian Marclay asks us to rethink images of clocks, as Art Fag City's Will Brand recently suggested, he's asking us, in breaking his own rules, to wonder if the viewing experience is too easy. What the hell is Beuavois asking us to do? By producing such a tepid timewaster, he encouraged me to walk out at several points and read a book on the subject. Alas, it was only my own stubborn self-discipline to sit through every damn minute that compelled me to stay. I am now writing a bitter review that vitiates the noble obduracy of the Trappist monks. And I feel terrible about it. But I cannot give this film a fair pass. It feels so trite in comparison to Wisconsin or Algeria or Libya or any other clusterfuck I could get sucked down when chasing the headlines.
The problem may be that I'm a reader and many of the film people who accept this malarkey as art are often not seen holding a book. I mean, even Ann Patchett's melodramatic novel, Bel Canto, has more going on than Of Gods and Men. Beuavois seems to have avoided any deep or insightful investigation of the kind of temperament it takes to carry on with your low-key existence as terrorists abscond with your provisions and beat up on the people you're trying so desperately to help. That kind of moral predicament should contain some element of horror. Is that too much of a concession to conventional narrative exigencies? Perhaps. While there is certainly some resistance to the decision to stay, and there is definitely a united front on the question, if the narrative intent here is to mimic what it feels like to be bullied, then I submit to the filmmakers that, no matter how tough or committed you are to a life of avoidance, you will still feel some modest trauma or shock. It's certainly interesting that the monks here choose ritual as a panacea.
The film does looks beautiful. Shafts of light cascade against crumbling walls in need of new paint. There's a quiet dignity in the way these monks share a meager meal — with one remarkably indigent celebration just before the monks concede to the inevitable, Swan Lake playing in the background and tearful eyes, that achieves a cinematic poignancy I'd be hard-pressed to dismiss. And I very much liked the way Beuavois shot many of these monks with the backs of their heads to the camera, a subtle visual suggestion conveying to the audience that we may very well be invading their holy lives.
But to get to these moments, one has to sit through a squirm-inducing concatenation of slow stretches. Endless and not especially sophisticated dialogue about how a love for God replaces a love for women. And so forth.
With so much attention to ornate aesthetics, I kept wondering why I felt damn near nothing for these monks. They receive letters and visits from the concerned. But they answer that they didn't come to Algeria for personal interest and that there remains some circumstances in which men will not carry out evil. Stubbornness is an intriguing quality to contemplate, but up to a point. These dead monks demand more than technical recreation in order for us to feel.
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Random Royalty February 25, 2011 at 10:32 pm
You know Edward, I really like your writing and critiques, but you blew this one.
When I was in film and communications we used to say that you could tell one of us from the literati as being functionally illiterate, e.g. we were the ones who read the movie but saw the book.
The problem with the bookish types is not having any clue about film aesthetics, and it drives them nuts when there are no clear plot points, 3 act structures, strong protagonists…especially when the artsy film types swoon over movies like this.
Generally it is unwise to trash cinematic art (or any art form) without really knowing anything about texture, structure or "language". This film, while far from being a masterpiece, is an excellent study of texture (you picked up on, that's easy) and film language in the strong French tradition that started with the Nouvelle Vague.
To put this in a way that you might undersand, trying to read Ulysses without an appreciation of Joyce's critical realism, with his goal of reader transcendence, becomes excruciatingly boring in precisely the same way as you found this film. Swan Lake playing during the Christmas Week scene should have tipped you off.
And having spent a bit of time in a Cistercian monastery, it isn't that the love of God replaces women. It is that the monastics (and the Christian mystics) believe that God IS love. The monks try their hardest, fully aware of their own human faults, to embody that belief in their thoughts and their actions. As such, they believe that Evil is just the Good corrupted, which explains why their faith carried them to help anyone in need, as well as the deep respect they had for people of Muslim faith.
Keep in mind that these are deeply spiritual men, and your own inability to discern these points is only an indication of your own lack of spiritual (and artistic) maturity.
Rite Tyme March 10, 2011 at 1:20 am
On the money! Loved your review, especially your dry sense of humour 🙂 I have some friends who love to rave about this film. Now don't get me wrong, I love me some slow Godard stuff sometimes but this film is really an A class snooze fest.
Neil Lawrence March 16, 2011 at 9:58 am
Couldn't agree more with your review. This was one of the most boring films I've ever seen. And you're right about not feeling anything for them – after 2 hours I didn't feel I knew them at all. Where was the character development? Was it really necessary to have singing and prayer again and again – we got the point – they're monks!
Other than the Swan Lake scene (which did move me) and the monk in his room crying out for guidance there was nothing of merit in this film. By the end I was willing the assassination to come sooner just so I could escape.
Joe May 20, 2011 at 4:33 am


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Q: How to customize The Symfony MakerBundle I am trying to customize the maker:crud.
The official documentation and The Symfony MakerBundle indicates "you can create your own make: ... command reusing the tools provided by this bundle .To do that, you should create a class that extends AbstractMaker in your src/Maker/ directory".
So my first step is to copy from the repository, which is also indicated in the documentation, the script MakeCrud.php in the src/Maker/MakeCustomCrud.php (I rename it). I apply some basic changes like renaming the class and the name of the command.
When ready the available commands I am waiting to see between the commands make some make:custom-crud. Obviously when trying to invoke it (php bin/console make:custom-crud) I am informed Command "make:custom-crud" is not defined.  I'm doing something wrong and I don't know what it is.
I transcribe part of the code below src/Maker/MakeCustomCrud.php:
<?php

/*
 * This file is part of the Symfony MakerBundle package.
 *
 * (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
 *
 * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 * file that was distributed with this source code.
 */

namespace Symfony\Bundle\MakerBundle\Maker;

use Doctrine\Bundle\DoctrineBundle\DoctrineBundle;
use Doctrine\Common\Inflector\Inflector;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\ParamConverter;
use Symfony\Bundle\MakerBundle\ConsoleStyle;
use Symfony\Bundle\MakerBundle\DependencyBuilder;
use Symfony\Bundle\MakerBundle\Doctrine\DoctrineHelper;
use Symfony\Bundle\MakerBundle\Generator;
use Symfony\Bundle\MakerBundle\InputConfiguration;
use Symfony\Bundle\MakerBundle\Renderer\FormTypeRenderer;
use Symfony\Bundle\MakerBundle\Str;
use Symfony\Bundle\MakerBundle\Validator;
use Symfony\Bundle\TwigBundle\TwigBundle;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Question\Question;
use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Csrf\CsrfTokenManager;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Validation;

/**
 * @author Sadicov Vladimir <sadikoff@gmail.com>
 */
final class MakeCustomCrud extends AbstractMaker
{
    private $doctrineHelper;

    private $formTypeRenderer;

    public function __construct(DoctrineHelper $doctrineHelper, FormTypeRenderer $formTypeRenderer)
    {
        $this->doctrineHelper = $doctrineHelper;
        $this->formTypeRenderer = $formTypeRenderer;
    }

    public static function getCommandName(): string
    {
        return 'make:custom-crud';
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function configureCommand(Command $command, InputConfiguration $inputConfig)
    {
        $command
            ->setDescription('Creates Custom CRUD for Doctrine entity class')
            ->addArgument('entity-class', InputArgument::OPTIONAL, sprintf('The class name of the entity to create Custom CRUD (e.g. <fg=yellow>%s</>)', Str::asClassName(Str::getRandomTerm())))
            ->setHelp(file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/../Resources/help/MakeCrud.txt'))
        ;

        $inputConfig->setArgumentAsNonInteractive('entity-class');
    }

A: You can patch it with composer:

*

*Make a directory ./patch

*Copy the file of vendor directory ./vendor/symfony/maker--bundle/src/Resources/skeleton/form/Type.tpl.php
and add in your composer.json
Example:
 "scripts": {
    "auto-scripts": {
        "cache:clear": "symfony-cmd",
        "assets:install %PUBLIC_DIR%": "symfony-cmd"
    },
    "patch": [
        "cp patch/patch_crud/Type.tpl.php vendor/symfony/maker-bundle/src/Resources/skeleton/form/."
    ],
    "post-install-cmd": [
        [
            "@patch",
            "@auto-scripts"
        ]
    ],
    "post-update-cmd": [
        "@patch",
        "@auto-scripts"
    ]
},

you can modify the file
a example of this here

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From a series of writings, sayings, hearings, mindings, assembled into an unfinished and unfinishing dialogue about specters (and between specters?) taking place in the subconscious.
Shown at GOLD+BETON (Cologne, Germany) during the show Spectral Presences.
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Basilea announces completion of patient enrolment in phase 1 study with oral BAL101553 in brain cancer
Tuesday, 27. August 2019 07:15
Basel, Switzerland, August 27, 2019 – Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. (SIX: BSLN) announced today the completion of patient enrolment in its phase 1 study with the oral formulation of the novel tumor checkpoint controller BAL101553 in brain cancer patients.1
The study included 28 patients with progressive or recurrent glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive primary brain tumor,2 or high-grade glioma. Patients received once-daily oral BAL101553. The maximum tolerated dose (MTD) was determined at 30 mg per day. Dose-limiting adverse events included gait disturbances, hallucinations and confusion, which were all reversible.
Dose levels up to and including 25 mg per day were well tolerated. Clinical antitumor activity of BAL101553 was shown with one exceptional, long-lasting responder still on treatment, whose brain tumor tissue displayed strong expression of the potentially response-predictive biomarker EB1 (end-binding protein 1). In addition, five further patients experienced stable disease as a best response. 3
Dr. Marc Engelhardt, Basilea's Chief Medical Officer, said: "The results from the phase 1 study in brain cancer patients indicate a manageable safety and tolerability profile, which is consistent with the safety profile observed for BAL101553 in the treatment of other advanced solid tumors. The observation of an exceptional, durable response in a GBM patient whose tissue was strongly positive for EB1 is encouraging, especially as we had previously identified EB1 as a potential response-predictive biomarker for BAL101553 based on comprehensive preclinical studies in GBM models. We are now assessing the potential utility of EB1 to support a biomarker-driven clinical study with BAL101553 in GBM and other cancer types. This would subsequently allow using BAL101553 as a targeted therapy in patients whose tumors show high EB1 expression."
About BAL101553
Basilea's oncology drug candidate BAL101553 (the prodrug of BAL27862)4 is being developed as a potential therapy for diverse cancers. In addition to the study described in this press release, there are two more clinical studies ongoing. In Switzerland, a phase 2a expansion study is exploring the drug in recurrent glioblastoma and platinum-resistant ovarian cancer patients using weekly 48-hour infusion.5 In the U.S., a phase 1 study is being conducted in collaboration with the Adult Brain Tumor Consortium (ABTC), in which BAL101553 is explored in combination with radiotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma who have a reduced sensitivity to chemotherapy with the standard-of-care drug temozolomide.6 In preclinical studies, BAL101553 demonstrated in-vitro and in-vivo activity against diverse treatment-resistant cancer models, including tumors refractory to conventional approved therapeutics and radiotherapy.7, 8, 9 BAL101553 efficiently distributes to the brain, with anticancer activity in glioblastoma models.10, 11, 12 In preclinical studies, end-binding protein 1 (EB1) was identified as a potential response-predictive biomarker in glioblastoma models.12 The active moiety BAL27862 binds to the colchicine site of tubulin, with distinct effects on microtubule organization,13 resulting in the activation of the "spindle assembly checkpoint" which promotes tumor cell death.14
About Basilea
Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. is a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company, focused on the development of products that address the medical challenges in the therapeutic areas of oncology and anti-infectives. With two commercialized drugs, the company is committed to discovering, developing and commercializing innovative pharmaceutical products to meet the medical needs of patients with serious and life-threatening conditions. Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: BSLN). Additional information can be found at Basilea's website www.basilea.com.
This communication expressly or implicitly contains certain forward-looking statements, such as "believe", "assume", "expect", "forecast", "project", "may", "could", "might", "will" or similar expressions concerning Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. and its business, including with respect to the progress, timing and completion of research, development and clinical studies for product candidates. Such statements involve certain known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause the actual results, financial condition, performance or achievements of Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. is providing this communication as of this date and does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements contained herein as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Peer Nils Schröder, PhD
Head of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
media_relations@basilea.com
investor_relations@basilea.com
This press release can be downloaded from www.basilea.com.
1 ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02490800
2 B. M. Alexander, T. F. Cloughesy. Adult Glioblastoma. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2017 (35), 2402-2409
3 J. S. Lopez, R. Kristeleit, R. Rulach et al. Phase 1/2a study of once daily oral BAL101553, a novel tumor checkpoint controller (TCC), in adult patients with progressive or recurrent glioblastoma (GBM) or high-grade glioma. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2019, 37, 15 Supplement, 2025
4 J. Pohlmann, F. Bachmann, A. Schmitt-Hoffmann et al. BAL101553: An optimized prodrug of the microtubule destabilizer BAL27862 with superior antitumor activity. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting 2011, abstract 1347; Cancer Research 2011, 71 (8 Supplement)
7 A. Sharmq, A. Broggini-Tenzer, V. Vuong et al. The novel microtubule targeting agent BAL101553 in combination with radiotherapy in treatment-refractory tumor models. Radiotherapy Oncology 2017 (124), 433-438
8 G. E. Duran, H. Lane, F. Bachmann et al. In vitro activity of the novel tubulin active agent BAL27862 in MDR1(+) and MDR1(-) human breast and ovarian cancer variants selected for resistance to taxanes. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting 2010, abstract 4412; Cancer Research 2010, 70 (8 Supplement)
9 F. Bachmann, K. Burger, G. E. Duran et al. BAL101553 (prodrug of BAL27862): A unique microtubule destabilizer active against drug refractory breast cancers alone and in combination with trastuzumab. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting 2014, abstract 831; Cancer Research 2014, 74 (19 Supplement)
10 A. Schmitt-Hoffmann, D. Klauer, K. Gebhardt et al. BAL27862: a unique microtubule-targeted agent with a potential for the treatment of human brain tumors. AACR-NCI-EORTC conference 2009, abstract C233; Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2009, 8 (12 Supplement)
11 A. C. Mladek, J. L. Pokorny, H. Lane et al. The novel tubulin-binding 'tumor checkpoint controller' BAL101553 has anti-cancer activity alone and in combination treatments across a panel of GBM patient-derived xenografts. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting 2016, abstract 4781; Cancer Research 2016, 76 (14 Supplement)
12 R. Bergès, A. Tchoghandjian, S. Honoré et al. The novel tubulin-binding checkpoint activator BAL101553 inhibits EB1-dependent migration and invasion and promotes differentiation of glioblastoma stem-like cells. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2016 (15), 2740-2749
13 A. E. Prota, F. Danel, F. Bachmann et al. The novel microtubule-destabilizing drug BAL27862 binds to the colchicine site of tubulin with distinct effects on microtubule organization. Journal of Molecular Biology 2014 (426), 1848-1860
14 F. Bachmann, K. Burger, H. Lane. BAL101553 (prodrug of BAL27862): the spindle assembly checkpoint is required for anticancer activity. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting 2015, abstract 3789; Cancer Research 2015, 75 (15 Supplement)
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Colorado man arrested in 2012 killing of 13-year-old son
| Monday, July 24, 2017
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SUMMARY: Treatment protocol for the easily frightened dog, or phobic dogs. For the layman.
AUDIENCE: It sits uncomfortably between two types of audiences: too basic for the professional, and too in-depth for the dog owner. I guess the niche is the very dedicated dog owner, and for them, it very clearly breaks down the therapy protocol for reactive dogs, and the beginning professional.
REVIEW: The books somewhat lacked structure, and covered some subjects at surprising depth, considering the title and target audience (layman). But do you know what? Thankfully so! Because Ali Brown's account of dog nutrition, de-sensitisation and counter-conditioning, are simply the best explanations I'd ever read on the subject. She clearly masters the subjects, and has a way with vivid images and clear explanations.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Her background in teaching clearly shows throughout the book, as she has a real talent for making abstract concepts tangible and clear. I have even borrowed her wording to explain some concepts to non-professionals.
I suspect the book is self-published, or at least on a limited budget, so the presentation and design weren't all that. But it really didn't bother me.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading that book and will look out for more by Ali Brown.
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