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MSFO students to perform alongside vocalists in chamber recital
by Rebecca Klar	on July 21, 2017 866 views
The instrumental and voice students are coming together for a chamber recital unlike any other this summer.
"It's lovely for (the audience)," said Donald St. Pierre, head vocal coach. "It's something fresh and different from what they usually hear."
As opposed to the typical voice recital where singers perform with one pianist, at 2 p.m. Saturday in Fletcher Music Hall, instrumental students have the chance to perform with their vocalist peers.
In addition to the unusual arrangement, St. Pierre also picked material that will likely be unfamiliar to the audience.
"Where Don finds this amazing repertoire, I have no idea," said Amanda Austin, a voice student. "But he will not let you get away with making music below your capacity."
During Saturday's recital, Austin will perform Arthur Shepherd's "Triptych" along with two violinists, a violist and a cellist. She said she's enjoying the rare opportunity to collaborate with the Music School Festival Orchestra students as a small ensemble.
Austin said the first day the group worked together, two of the instrumentalists said "we've never worked with a singer before." The reverse is true for the vocalists, she said.
"As young singers, most of our collaborative efforts are with piano and, if we're lucky, orchestra," Austin said. "Having such intimate communication with the players empowers us as an ensemble to make choices together."
St. Pierre said the recital is a chance for the instrumentalists to get a "sense of what the world of vocal music is like." He said having words in songs makes a difference in regards to exploring what a piece expresses.
He said the instrumental students are excited for this chance they seldom get — especially the percussionists.
In two of St. Pierre's unique selections — John Cage's "A Flower" and "The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs" — Joshua Jones, a percussionist, will play on the lid of a closed piano.
"It's a little exotic," St. Pierre said, "but as far as John Cage goes, easy listening."
The recital isn't all unfamiliar pieces. The first half of the recital will end with a well-known Franz Schubert piece, "Der Hirt auf dem Felsen" ("Shepherd on the Rock"). The selection is St. Pierre's "succession to something people would expect to hear at such a recital," and will be performed by a vocalist accompanied by a clarinet.
St. Pierre chose to open the second half of the show with another Schubert piece. In keeping with the program's focus on under-recognized pieces, the second Schubert is the lesser known "Totus in corde langueo."
"In certain regards, it's harder than 'Shepherd on the Rock,' " St. Pierre said. "But the tenor and clarinet are doing a beautiful job. People will enjoy hearing something fresh and new."
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Rebecca Klar is a recent graduate of Binghamton University with a bachelor's degree in English with a concentration in rhetoric. She is excited to be spending her first summer at Chautauqua as a School of Music reporter for The Chautauquan Daily. You can contact her at rebeccaklar1@gmail.com.
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Both of the lessons today deal with the issue of call. In the Gospel, Jesus calls the fishermen Simon Peter, Andrew, James and John. "Follow me," he says, and they leave everything and follow him. This lesson is contrasted by the lesson from the reluctant prophet Jonah, who also received a call from the Lord God: "Go!" "And then away in the opposite way he went."(1) It is also interesting to note that Mark makes it clear throughout the Gospel that these disciples really didn't know what they were getting into. They have preconceived ideas of who Jesus is and what he wants from them that turn out to be completely wrong. One wonders if the disciples actually understood more from the beginning if they would have been so willing to leave their nets and follow. Jonah on the other hand seems to have a pretty good idea of not only what is expected of him, but what the result will be. This is why he tries to run away. He is not in agreement with God. In both cases the bottom line ministry that these men are being called to is one of unconditional love and grace; it is one of radical inclusion. In the Gospel this is made manifest on the cross. In Jonah, God does not want to see the city of Israel's hated enemies destroyed and Jonah just knows that God will end up having mercy and extending forgiveness. And Jonah wants no part of it.
I think there are points of contact between us and the disciples, and us and Jonah. Like the disciples, we too often create an image of Jesus/God that looks more like our ideas of who God is and what we think God's priorities should be. Popular Christianity includes a strong element of judgment and tends to downplay God's love and grace. Oh yes, "God loves everyone" (we say)… "but" – and then we come up with conditions: "you have to "accept Jesus as your savior or you have to be good or you have to believe in a certain way or you have to be a part of a certain expression or denomination or you have to accept these political positions or you have to… etc. etc. etc." WRONG! God's love and grace are unconditional! God loves us, and because of that then we are able to respond to our call. This is why the focus is on the cross of Jesus. It reminds us of God's amazing love and grace for us. If it starts to become a symbol of "you better do this, or that, or else" then we are missing the point.
Like Jonah, we too often like to pretend we know the mind of God. God can't love those people, God can't possibly be willing to forgive and accept those people! We like to think of ourselves as having a special IN, and the annoying thing about grace is that it tends to be so radically inclusive. And this is exactly the point that God makes at the end of the book of Jonah. God informs Jonah in no uncertain terms, that God is a God of love and forgiveness and God loves the creation so wildly and passionately that God will go to whatever lengths God needs to in order to bring people into relationship and wholeness. Too bad you don't like it, Jonah! But you cannot presume the mind of God. And this is our problem as well. Way too often, we like to presume the mind of God. We are constantly baptizing our prejudices, our priorities, our opinions, our politics and claiming: "God is on my side – and – God opposes you." Or we arrogantly assert – "If you want to be right with God you have to think like me!" WRONG! We do not know the mind of God and to presume the mind of God is to try to put ourselves in God's place, which you might remember did not work out so well for Adam and Eve. (And which theologians down through the years have used as a definition of Sin).
A very wise Pastor has summed up the message of these lessons in this way: "If God does not love everybody, then there can be no love for anybody. If God is not gracious to all, there can be grace for none." (2) This is the central theme of the story of Jonah and the Gospel of Jesus. And like Jonah and the disciples we are all being called to follow, to live lives that reflect this grace and love and to reach out in God's love and grace to care for others and pass on this love. It is to this that we are being called. God's call to us is that we would open our hearts to God's love and grace and be open vessels of this love and grace to all – that is – TO ALL. It is a risky call, because God is so generous and like the disciples we have a hard time understanding and accepting God's radical inclusivity. And like Jonah when we do begin to understand we might want to go in the opposite direction. But just as God pursued and followed Jonah even into the belly of the whale, God will follow us and never let us go; constantly showering his love and grace upon us and calling us to follow and to love – In the name of Father, Son+ and Holy Spirit!
(1) - I am wondering if any of my readers will recognize this line. "And away------ in the opposite way I walked. What a clever plan, what a capital plan. I've listened with attention...." Perhaps readers from England in particular might recognize it. If you can identify it, send me an email or post a comment. I realize it is unrelated to the theology and biblical exposition of the post - but I could not resist!
(2) Pastor John Jewell - a United Methodist pastor whose sermons sometimes appear on Textweek. I read this line in his sermon on these very text several years ago and have always found them very meaningful. They sum up for me one of the core foundational planks of the Gospel! Thank you Pastor Jewell.


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CHICAGO, IL—DECLARE-TIMI 58, a trial of the selective sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor dapagliflozin (Farxiga; AstraZeneca) in patients with type 2 diabetes and high cardiovascular risk, met only one of its two co-primary endpoints, but it was still seen as supportive of the benefits of the SGLT2 inhibitor class for reducing heart failure risk.
MACE (CV death, MI, or ischemic stroke), one of the efficacy endpoints, occurred in 8.8% of patients treated with dapagliflozin and 9.4% of those who received placebo (HR 0.93; 95% CI 0.84-1.03), a difference that met criteria for noninferiority but not superiority. The other co-primary endpoint, a composite of CV death or hospitalization for heart failure, was significantly reduced with dapagliflozin (4.9% vs 5.8%; HR 0.83; 95% CI 0.73-0.95), driven entirely by a relative 27% reduction in the risk of heart failure hospitalization (HR 0.73; 95% CI 0.61-0.88).
Stephen Wiviott, MD (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA), reported the findings, which were published simultaneously online in the New England Journal of Medicine, here at the American Heart Association (AHA) 2018 Scientific Sessions. Topline results were released last month.
Taking into consideration results from the CANVAS trial program involving canagliflozin (Invokana; Janssen), the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial of empagliflozin (Jardiance; Boehringer Ingelheim/Eli Lilly), and now DECLARE-TIMI 58, Wiviott said at a press conference that there are some conclusions that can be drawn about SGLT2 inhibitors as a class.
Commenting for TCTMD, Jacob Udell, MD (University of Toronto, Canada), said the reason dapagliflozin did not reduce MACE in this trial like the other SGLT2 inhibitors did in their respective trials boils down to study design. DECLARE-TIMI 58 had the largest primary prevention cohort out of the three trials; CANVAS mostly involved secondary prevention; and EMPA-REG OUTCOME was all secondary prevention. The risk of moving to a lower-risk group in a trial, Udell said, is that it can be more difficult to demonstrate a drug effect over the same length of follow-up, there could be a different mechanism of risk in that group, or the level of risk could be too low to see an effect. A little bit of each of those factors could have played into the dapagliflozin results.
What is reassuring, he said, is that the impact on heart failure hospitalization has been consistent with all three SGLT2 inhibitors.
"I think this demonstrates and kind of seals the deal that there is a class effect for at least heart failure, at a minimum, and likely for composite endpoints that have a mechanism of hemodynamic improvement," Udell said.
It would be premature to use the DECLARE-TIMI 58 findings to state that the SGLT2 inhibitors are effective for primary prevention, but the potential for these drugs in expanded secondary prevention scenarios—both in diabetics and nondiabetics—is provocative, Udell said, adding that these drugs could be attractive options early after a cardiovascular event.
DECLARE-TIMI 58, conducted at 882 sites in 33 countries, randomized 17,160 patients with type 2 diabetes and either established atherosclerotic CVD (secondary prevention cohort: 41%) or a high risk for CVD (primary prevention cohort: 59%). Patients in the latter group were at least 55 years old for men and 60 years old for women and had at least one additional risk factor. Patients were required to have a creatinine clearance of 60 mL/min or higher. Overall, the mean age of the trial population was 64, and 37% were women; 10% had a history of heart failure at baseline.
Through a median follow-up of 4.2 years, dapagliflozin 10 mg/day reduced glycated hemoglobin, body weight, and blood pressure compared with placebo.
Looking at the components of the co-primary endpoints, there was a significant reduction in hospitalization for heart failure and a nonsignificant trend toward less MI (HR 0.89; 95% CI 0.77-1.01). Ischemic stroke and CV death occurred at similar rates in both groups.
Because only one of the co-primary endpoints was met, findings on secondary endpoints should be considered hypothesis-generating. A composite renal endpoint (at least a 40% drop in estimated glomerular filtration rate to less than 60 mL/min/m2, new end-stage renal disease, or renal or CV death) was reduced with dapagliflozin (4.3% vs 5.6%; HR 0.76; 95% CI 0.67-0.87). All-cause mortality was numerically—but not significantly—lower in the dapagliflozin group (6.2% vs 6.6%; HR 0.93; 95% CI 0.82-1.04).
In terms of safety, dapagliflozin led to higher rates of treatment-emergent adverse events leading to drug discontinuation (8.1% vs 6.9%), diabetic ketoacidosis (0.3% vs 0.1%), and genital infection (0.9% vs 0.1%). Those last two events are known side effects of the SGLT2 inhibitors, Wiviott said. Bladder cancer, amputation, and fracture were not increased with dapagliflozin.
To get a sense of the impact of SGLT2 inhibition overall, Wiviott and colleagues performed a meta-analysis of CANVAS, EMPA-REG OUTCOME, and DECLARE-TIMI 58, which was published online in the Lancet. For MACE, SGLT2 inhibition reduced risk in patients with established disease (HR 0.86; 95% CI 0.80-0.93) but not in those with risk factors (HR 1.00; 95% CI 0.87-1.16). In contrast, the risk of CV death or hospitalization for heart failure was lower with treatment in both types of patients.
Commenting for TCTMD, Steven Nissen, MD (Cleveland Clinic, OH), said the lack of a MACE benefit in DECLARE-TIMI 58 is likely due to differences in how the trials were conducted and not a difference between the SGLT2 inhibitors.
"I think these drugs are more similar than dissimilar," he said.
At the press conference, Javed Butler, MD (University of Mississippi, Jackson), who served as a discussant for the trial, said DECLARE-TIMI 58 confirms and replicates findings from the other SGLT2 inhibitor trials. Together, they show robust renal protection and reductions in heart failure hospitalizations in both patients with established disease and those with risk factors, with a MACE benefit seen in those with established disease.
"Based on the data from these three trials and the plethora of other published data from real-world evidence, it stands to reason that for patients similar to those that were studied in the SGLT2 inhibitor trials, these drugs should be used for prevention of heart failure risk irrespective of their effect on MACE outcomes," Butler said, adding that for other types of patients—such as diabetics without additional risk factors or with manifest heart failure—further research is needed.
Wiviott SD, Bonaca MP, Mosenzon O, et al. Dapagliflozin and cardiovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2018;Epub ahead of print.
Zelniker TA, Wiviott SD, Raz I, et al. SGLT2 inhibitors for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular and renal outcomes in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cardiovascular outcome trials. Lancet. 2018;Epub ahead of print.
DECLARE-TIMI 58 was sponsored by AstraZeneca.
Wiviott reports receiving grants from AstraZeneca, Amgen, and Sanofi Aventis; grants and personal fees from Arena, Daiichi Sankyo, Eisai, Eli Lilly, Janssen, and Bristol-Myers Squibb; grants, personal fees, and other from Merck; and personal fees from Aegerion, Allergan, AngelMed, Boehringer Ingelheim, the Boston Clinical Research Institute, Icon Clinical, Lexicon, St. Jude Medical, Xoma, Servier, and AstraZeneca.
Butler reports having relationships with AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Janssen, Sanofi, Novo Nordisk, and Merck.
Udell reports performing advisory board consulting for all of the SGLT2 inhibitor manufacturers.


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Pamela Avant Hernandez age 62, died Sunday January 1, 2023 in Columbus Regional Healthcare System, Whiteville, NC. Born June 27, 1960, in Columbus County, NC, she was the daughter of the late Coy Brice Avant and Kathryn Geneva Williams.
She is survived by her husband, Jose Hernandez of the home; three daughters, Candy Hernandez and husband Isai of Loris, SC, Crystal Mishoe of Tabor City, NC, and Jessica Mishoe of Tabor City, NC; one step daughter, Maria A. Magana of FL; one sister, Linda Diane McPherson of Whiteville, NC; sixteen grandchildren, Dustin (Acie), Joseph, Madeline (Ethan), Malorie, Ryder, Orlando, Galilea, Laykynn, Isaac, Masie, Kannon, Elloree, Hanna, Guillermo, Jesus, and Giselle; and two great grandchildren, Timber and Lakota.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one son, Kenneth Dewayne Soles and one sister, Wanda Faye Jones.
Visitation will be held Tuesday, January 3, 2023 from 7:00pm until 9:00pm in the Inman Ward Funeral Home Chapel.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, January 4, 2023 at 2:00pm in the Inman Ward
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ISE Update: SINGAPORE TO HOST 1ST ICE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA!
We are excited to announce the 20th International Congress of Endocrinology will take place in Singapore! ISE will partner with the Endocrine and Metabolic Society of Singapore (EMSS) to host ICE 2022 in Asia's 'Lion City'.
The landmark first ICE in Southeast Asia will support ISE's long-term regionalisation vision and be co-located with the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies (AFES) biennial meeting. AFES, our key Regional Affiliates, comprise the highly active endocrines societies of Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam and in partnership with ISE and EMSS, will co-host the National, Regional and International Congress of Endocrinology in Southeast Asia in 2022.
Representing the essence of modern Asia, Singapore offers a dynamic mix of cultures, ideas and histories - both cosmopolitan, with a touch of old school. An accessible destination where East meets West, Singapore's standing as top International-meetings city (Union of International Associations) will provide the ideal environment to showcase the latest scientific developments in the field as well as promoting the much needed advancement of endocrinology in the wider region.


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Weed could be coming to a couch near you if Colorado legislators approve a proposed marijuana delivery pilot program.
Based on Oregon's cannabis home delivery regulations, House Bill 1092 would establish regulations for delivering both medical and recreational cannabis to consumers. The state could start issuing licenses as soon as Sept. 1, 2018 if the legislation passes.
Co-sponsored by Rep. Jonathan Singer (D-Longmont) and Rep. Jovan Melton (D-Aurora), this isn't the first time Singer and Melton have tried to pass marijuana delivery. The representatives introduced a similar marijuana delivery proposal in Feb. 2017, but Gov. John Hickenlooper put the kibosh on it.
The governor has never been an enthusiastic marijuana supporter, and he called last year's attempt to legislate cannabis delivery a "hazard" that could draw the attention of federal authorities.
However, Singer told The Cannabist, "Bottom line is that we haven't seen an increase in public safety issues where this is rolled out. Additionally, if there's concern about federal attention, the federal attention would already be on Oregon where this happens."
Colorado already allows delivery of prescriptions and alcohol, and Singer said that allowing cannabis delivery would "hopefully…decrease the incidence and the likelihood of DUIs, whether they're related to alcohol or other substances."
Delivery workers would be trained to verify medical marijuana cards and IDs for adults 21 years or older. Licensed delivery vehicles would be required to include tracking and security measures, and there would be limits on the amount of marijuana transported at any one time. Transported cannabis must be delivered to a physical address. Delivery licenses would be valid for one year, renewed annually.
Because the legislation is a pilot program, state licensing authorities would need to report back to House of Representatives' Business Affairs and Labor Committee and Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee by March 1, 2020.
The House Finance committee will hold the first hearing on the issue on Feb. 7.


Forget Grease. Parity is the word – at least in the Missouri Valley Conference this season.
It took just three league games to whittle down the number of undefeated MVC teams to one. After Saturday's victory at SIU, Valparaiso stands at 4-0. Yet, with less than a quarter of the season in the books, it's difficult to declare the Crusaders a favorite.
After SIU's 75-70 league-opening win over Missouri State, SIU coach Barry Hinson warned that virtually every league game would be a nail-biter. There have been a few exceptions, but, in general, Hinson was/is correct.
On a nightly basis, it's outstanding. Every game is a potential win … and a potential loss.
There was a time in the MVC that playing on the road meant almost certain defeat – ask Wichita State and Creighton what it was like coming to the SIU Arena in the first decade of this century. There was a time when it took a miracle for an MVC team to leave Carbondale with a win.
Conversely, there have been times when the Valley was divided into haves and have nots. While the Salukis were virtually invincible in Carbondale in the early part of the century, SIU also experienced a doormat period.
There were years when any loss to SIU, at home or on the road was a bad loss. The same can be said about Evansville, Indiana State, Illinois State, Bradley and virtually every team in the league.
A coach, player or fan could look at the schedule and mark specific games with a "W" or an "L" and at the end of the year find their prognostications to be amazingly accurate. That's not the case this year.
It is still early, but looking at results in the first three weeks of the season it's easy to see that the top three teams in the league could have six or seven losses. That makes the conference season fascinating for fans and ulcer-inducing for coaches.
You cannot honestly look at the league standings and feel like a game is an easy "W".
If the parity holds through the regular season, the MVC tournament has the potential to be amazing. This could be a year when a Thursday night entry could make some noise.
Then, of course, there is the downside.
If every Valley team finishes the year on equal footing, the MVC will be a one-bid league.
Last year Loyola separated itself from the pack. The Ramblers more than likely would have gotten a bid if they had been upset in the tournament – hindsight certainly suggests they should have been. By stepping up, the Ramblers created an opportunity for another MVC team to slip into the tournament.
LES WINKELER is the sports editor for The Southern Illinoisan. Contact him at les.winkeler@thesouthern.com, or call 618-351-5088 / On Twitter @LesWinkeler.
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Long read: Public opinion, legitimacy and Tony Blair's war in Iraq
The Labour Party is still living with the consequences of Tony Blair's decision to join the US in waging war in Iraq. It destroyed Blair's credibility and fed the backlash against the 'moderate' wing of the party which eventually led to Jeremy Corbyn's election. In this post, based on his new book, James Strong traces Blair's attempts to manipulate public opinion in favour of war despite serious doubts about the legitimacy of the invasion. It wasn't that Blair and his ministers lied about what they believed – it was that they believed things that were wrong, and failed to publicise how weak the evidence was on which their beliefs relied.
A banner outside a Chilcot Inquiry session in 2010, at which Tony Blair was questioned about the Iraq war. Photo: Jason via a CC-BY-NC 2.0 licence
Sir John Chilcot's statement to the BBC that Tony Blair made the case for war in Iraq "on beliefs, not facts" accords entirely with my findings.
Democracies are not supposed to fight unpopular wars, but Britain did just that in Iraq. Professional politicians are not supposed to court career disaster by ignoring what the public wants. Tony Blair did exactly that when he ordered British forces to help overthrow Saddam Hussein despite hostile opinion polls, critical media commentary and both the largest parliamentary rebellion and the largest street protests against any UK government, ever.
In my new book Public Opinion, Legitimacy and Tony Blair's War in Iraq (London: Routledge, 2017), I ask how it was possible that Britain wound up fighting a war in Iraq that so many British people considered illegitimate. It's a complicated question. One consequence that we're still living with is Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader of the Labour Party. Corbyn opposed the invasion of Iraq. In fact, as I've written about (quite critically) elsewhere, Corbyn opposes the use of force by Western states as a point of principle. His foreign policy stance is only the most obvious way in which he differs from Blair. His style matters too. We know he is far less scripted and far less smooth than Blair. But he is also far more 'Habermasian' – in the manner discussed below. He is far more willing to make his case on its merits and far less keen on finding ways to bludgeon opponents into agreeing with him. That, unfortunately for him, is part of why he has struggled to get a fair hearing.
Blair may have taken 'spin' to an extreme, but he was right to think he needed to do something to overcome media bias. Corbyn's struggles are the mirror image of Blair's – what happens when you spin too little versus when you spin too much. While this post (and the book it highlights) focuses on Blair and Iraq, comparing its findings to Corbyn's experience underlines the tension between two logics of communication that every political leader has to face.
In the first part of the book, I present what I call a 'holistic' account of British public opinion towards the prospect of war in Iraq during the period between January 2002 and March 2003. My holistic approach combines traditional survey methods – opinion polls – with an original content analysis of 2,115 newspaper comment pieces, 333 parliamentary speeches, participant accounts and the treasure trove of detail and documentation released by the Chilcot Report.
A holistic approach better reflects the goals of a foreign policy analysis study. As a foreign policy analyst (FPA), I'm not really interested in what public opinion objectively was. I'm interested in how political elites contested and constructed a certain idea of public opinion, and how that affected decision-making.
It also helps compensate for some of the shortcomings of survey methods. Echoing critical analyses by Herbert Blumer and Pierre Bourdieu, I argue that opinion polls unreasonably assume that every citizen has a prior view on every foreign policy question, that they weight every individual equally when in reality some are more influential than others and that they reflect the concerns of elites with the resources to commission polls. In short, I argue that the latent views of the passive mass matter only when they are likely to be activated across the board – like when a referendum is proposed. Otherwise, I argue it is the active, elite public that really counts.
I still use opinion polls – they both reflect and shape elite discourse, and do affect decision-makers too. Figure 1 shows aggregate poll results in the pre-invasion period. It makes clear that for most of the build up to war, most poll respondents opposed the use of force in Iraq.
Figure 1: Aggregate UK opinion poll data on the prospect of British military action in Iraq, January 2002-March 2003. Source: ICM/YouGov.
These results didn't stop the war for two main reasons. Firstly because, in Douglas Foyle's classic terms, Tony Blair was an "executor" – he thought public support was desirable, but not necessary. Ultimately, he thought it was his job to lead rather than follow public attitudes. Secondly, and relatedly, because Blair predicted that people would 'rally round the flag' if it actually came to war. It is well documented that support for war spikes once the fighting starts. People don't want to look disloyal, and many resign themselves to the inevitable. Blair was right. In the final week before the invasion support went from 38% to 54%.
As Figure 2 shows, most British newspapers also predominantly opposed the invasion of Iraq.
Figure 2: Distribution of views expressed in newspaper commentary, by publication.
The picture was not actually as negative as this slide suggests, however. For one thing, it combines editorial lines and the views expressed by commentators. The Observer, for example, printed more anti-war than pro-war commentary, but its editors ultimately broke with their counterparts at its stablemate the Guardian, and supported the invasion. More crucially, the papers that most strongly supported the invasion sold more copies than those that opposed the invasion. During this period the strongly pro-war Sun, for example, sold fifteen times as many copies as the anti-war Independent, nine times as many as the Guardian and 1.7 times as many as the Mirror. On average pro-war publications sold 1.88 million copies and anti-war publications 1.24 million copies. Compounding this advantage still further was that the government's most vocal supporters were the right-wing publications that traditionally opposed Labour governments, and its main critics were the left-wing publications that traditionally supported Labour.
Figure 3: Distribution of net average views expressed in parliamentary speeches, by party.
As Figure 3 shows, finally, the government also enjoyed the support of Conservative Party MPs in the House of Commons, while the small Liberal Democrat party offered the most consistent opposition and the government's own backbenchers also took a more anti-war than pro-war stance. This meant the government did not need to worry about being punished by voters for ignoring their opposition – it would make no sense to switch from Labour to the Conservatives over Iraq given the Conservatives supported the war. Combined with the massive size of Labour's 2001 election victory, it also ensured the government could survive back-bench rebellions fairly comfortably. Tony Blair then capitalised on this advantage still further by threatening to resign if MPs voted against him. Forced to choose between their most successful leader ever and Saddam Hussein, many Labour MPs backed Blair.
So from an FPA perspective it makes perfect sense that British domestic opposition failed to stop the war in Iraq. A holistic approach also allows us to consider how the direction and the intensity of public attitudes interacted. How much public attitudes matter depends on how much public actors care about the issues at stake. Figure 4 shows what share of the source material investigated during this study came from each month during the pre-invasion period.
Figure 4: Average salience of Iraq war across parliament, press and polls.
As we can see, there were three increasingly significant spikes in public interest, around March and April 2002, September 2002 and then early 2003. The first was driven by President Bush's condemnation of Iraq as part of an 'axis of evil' during his first State of the Union speech in January, and Blair's subsequent visit to his Texas ranch in April. The second was driven by widespread debate in Washington during August 2002 over the prospect of war in Iraq, by the Blair government's failure to respond sufficiently quickly to media demands for more information and by the speculation that followed. The third was driven by the UN inspection process, the deployment of troops and ultimately the start of the war.
Figure 5: Salience-adjusted average monthly press, parliamentary and poll positions on the prospect of war in Iraq (1= entirely pro-war, -1= entirely anti-war).
Figure 5 combines data on the direction and intensity of attitudes in polls, parliament and the press. It shows spikes in opposition in March 2002, August 2002 and February 2003 followed by a rally effect across all three source types in March 2003. Crucially, what the holistic approach shows is that the first two spikes declined largely because the government released more information that calmed speculation. In April 2002 Blair made clear publicly that he supported confronting Saddam Hussein but that there was no immediate prospect of military action. In September 2002 Bush promised to work through the UN while Blair released the now-notorious 'dossier' on Iraqi WMD. In February 2003 Blair successfully blamed France for scuppering the UN process while the inevitability of war bred resignation among opponents.
This observation – that the government's communications efforts changed few minds but lowered the salience of Iraq as an issue – plays into the discussion of legitimacy.
Tony Blair tried to argue his way to war in Iraq. He made set-piece speeches, held press conferences and published information dossiers. He took questions from MPs and live television audiences. He led five major House of Commons debates in addition to his weekly question time grilling. He even appeared on MTV. He claimed he wanted a full, open and well-informed public debate on the prospect of war in Iraq, and on the surface he appeared to act that way. Surface appearances can, however, mislead.
Both the content and the form of Blair's arguments in the pre-invasion period constituted the legitimacy deficit surrounding the war. I define legitimacy as a discursive construct, as a product of public debate. Echoing debates amongst scholars of legitimacy between advocates of political definitions – in which legitimacy derives from public consensus – and normative definitions – in which legitimacy derives from abstract principles, I present two ideal types of communicative legitimacy. At the political end is a model derived from the social theory of Michel Foucault – though I claim no particular expertise in Foucault's work. From this Foucauldian perspective, legitimacy reflects political consensus and political consensus reflects power. Legitimacy is, in other words, simply a product of power, lacking any distinct normative value. At the normative end, meanwhile, is a model derived from Jurgen Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action. From this Habermasian perspective, legitimacy derives not just from political consensus, but from a consensus achieved in the right way. For Habermasians, legitimacy emerges from a public debate based on truthfulness, openness to everyone looking to participate, and flexibility on the part of all involved.
The main driver of the legitimacy deficit surrounding the Iraq war was the clash between the Blair government's explicitly and repeatedly professed commitment to seeking deliberative legitimacy in Habermasian terms, and the much more manipulative, Foucauldian reality of how it actually behaved. Though I find that ministers generally did not lie outright, they were often economical with the truth, especially when discussing the evidence underpinning their beliefs. Though Blair in particular engaged in a range of communication exercises, he still sought actively to control the timing of debates and who participated in them. Even members of the Cabinet found themselves shut out of key discussions, and Blair took certain fateful decisions alone. Finally, though some individuals like Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and (in particular) Attorney General Lord Goldsmith showed some willingness to revisit their views in the face of new evidence, most ministers and officials stuck resolutely to their established positions regardless of developments.
The shortcomings of the government's communication campaign further undermined its arguments. It claimed that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction in violation of UN Security Council disarmament obligations that threatened British national security, that there were good grounds in international law for invading Iraq in March 2003, that overthrowing Saddam was the morally proper thing to do and that the Blair government possessed sufficient political authority to make that decision in the first place. I find each claim problematic – both in terms of Habermasian criteria, and more prosaically in terms of how persuasive they were.
Threat and WMD
By making clear pre-invasion statements about the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme, the government both undermined its claim to legitimacy in Habermasian terms and set itself standards it later struggled to meet.
To begin with, the government got key judgements wrong. MI6 failed to spot that one of its sources based his description of Iraqi chemical weapons on the movie The Rock, starring Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage. It was slow to admit as much. More generally, the Joint Intelligence Committee fell victim – admittedly, in line with several allied intelligence communities – to groupthink. Having repeatedly underestimated Iraq's WMD capacity in the past, the JIC interpreted new intelligence as the tip of the iceberg. It also failed to update its assessments as new information came in – for example, treating the fact that UN inspectors found no banned material as evidence that Iraq was successfully concealing an active WMD programme and not considering the possibility that there was no programme to hide.
More damagingly, ministers drew conclusions that went beyond what the JIC advised. Blair wrote in his foreword to the dossier that Iraq's WMD posed a "current and serious threat to the UK national interest". Chilcot concluded that Blair did indeed believe that, but that the JIC did not. Indeed, MI5 advised Blair that Iraq lacked the capacity to threaten Britain directly and that it had showed no sign of intent. Blair similarly wrote that "I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt" that Iraq was developing WMD. Again, Chilcot concluded that Blair did indeed believe "beyond doubt", but the JIC thought differently. Jack Straw summed up the issue. He told Chilcot that "all the little bits of information, however patchy and sporadic, all pointed in one direction". The problem, however, was that – as the JIC advised both Blair and Straw – the information available was indeed "patchy and sporadic". Indeed, Chilcot found that MI6 had no sources with first-hand knowledge of either Iraq's capabilities or its intentions during this period. Blair described the evidence as "extensive, detailed and authoritative". He seems genuinely to have believed it was. It was not, and he was in a position to know it was not.
Finally, the WMD dossier itself conflated the sort of neutral information exercise Blair claimed it represented – the sort of exercise required of a government seeking legitimacy in Habermasian terms – and more Foucauldian policy advocacy. Though Lord Hutton's inquiry concluded there was nothing intrinsically wrong about the fact that the JIC consulted Alastair Campbell on the wording of the dossier, since the JIC didn't accept phrasing that didn't fit the intelligence, there is still a difference between publishing intelligence assessments – which are usually balanced, nuanced and uncertain – and publishing the dossier, which was clearly designed to make the case for war. One particular element that later proved controversial was the claim that Iraq could deploy chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes of an order to do so. Journalists interpreted this as a claim that Iraq could attack Britain in that sort of timeframe. But the JIC's assessment referred specifically to battlefield weapons, which don't have that kind of range.
The government, in other words, was neither entirely truthful in presenting its case to the public, nor flexible in the face of contradictory information. It wasn't that ministers lied about what they believed – it was that they believed things that were wrong, and failed to publicise how weak the evidence was on which their beliefs relied. To some extent, this worked. Though critics challenged the dossier, and it changed few minds – polls suggested just 4% of respondents shifted stance after the dossier came out, mostly anti-war to undecided – it did dampen damaging speculating over the summer of 2002. At the same time, however, the dossier established unrealistic criteria. Had the government said "we don't really know what's going on in Iraq, but it doesn't look good" it would not necessarily have looked dishonest later on. But it would probably have faced much stronger opposition.
An independent commission famously described NATO's intervention in Kosovo as "illegal, but legitimate". Britain's UN Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock later described the Iraq war as "legal, but of questionable legitimacy". Chilcot refused to comment on the substantive question of whether or not the invasion of Iraq was in fact legal, but described the process by which ministers took legal advice as "far from satisfactory". As Philippe Sands QC, a leading international lawyer, put it – "far from satisfactory" is "a career-ending phrase" in civil service language.
Part of the problem lay in the "deliberate ambiguities…necessary to get a consensus" on UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – as British ambassador to the US Christopher Meyer put it. Part of it lay also in Blair's refusal to involve Attorney General Lord Goldsmith in negotiations surrounding the resolution, fearing either that involving him would lead to leaks, or that he would set legal standards impossible to reconcile with the political realities. As a result, Chilcot concluded that the British government voted for SCR 1441 despite the fact it "didn't really know what it was voting for". It took Straw and Blair until a week before the invasion to agree an interpretation. Blair clearly believed Iraq would quickly be caught refusing to co-operate with UN weapons inspectors. When that did not happen, he had to disparage an inspection process he worked hard to establish, and then search for 'smoking guns' he knew were unlikely to be found.
More damaging still was the fact that Blair believed both that Britain should uphold international law and that it was morally proper for powerful states to use force to overthrow regimes, like that in Iraq, that abused their own people. Blair believed in regime change, and he believed his own moral judgement was superior to that of those who criticised him – even the Pope himself. He never acknowledged, let alone resolved, the clash between what international law actually allowed and what he personally believed it should allow. That meant he had to downplay his strong commitment to regime change because it clashed with his equally strong commitment to acting within the law. This led to contradictions – he railed against the injustice of leaving Saddam Hussein in power and promised to do just that if Saddam complied with UN inspections. He described his "enthusiasm" for regime change and called it a "myth" that he sought it in Iraq. Blair was not truthful, in that he downplayed how strongly he believed in regime change, and failed to discuss the clash between his legal and moral positions. He was not open, in that he tried to exclude the Attorney General from policy discussions. He was not flexible, given he repeatedly rejected legal advice that did not match what he felt he could negotiate in Washington and New York, and ignored moral counsel that contradicted what he personally thought. No wonder his Chief of Staff Jonathan Powell accused him of having a "messiah complex".
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he claim that France prevented agreement on a 'second' UN Security Council Resolution failed all three Habermasian criteria but, interestingly, did not lead to punishment after the invasion. It was a rare example of how normative and political legitimacy can play out differently.
Then International Development Secretary Clare Short later described this claim as "one of the big deceits" of the entire pre-war period. As Ambassador Greenstock told Chilcot, Britain never secured the minimum nine votes needed to pass the 'second' resolution – so France's threat to veto it was not decisive. As Blair told Bush in a private letter on 11 March 2003, however, French President Chirac's clear determination to take a stand did "provide some cover" for Britain's failure at the UN. Ministers and officials actively blamed France and encouraged press and parliamentary critics who echoed that blame. They continued despite frantic French efforts to clarify Chirac's 9 March statement that "whatever the circumstances, France will vote no". When French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin told Jack Straw that Chirac was still open to compromise, Straw ignored him and insisted that he "read the comments differently" – as if his interpretation of French foreign policy carried more weight than that of the French foreign minister. British ambassador to Paris Sir John Holmes wrote to London that "our position can hardly surprise the French, nor the fact that we are using Chirac's words against him…he did say them, even if he may not have meant to express quite what we have chosen to interpret".
No one in Britain suggested taking France's position – that military action might yet be necessary, but that it was not justified yet – seriously. That betrayed a lack of flexibility. Ministers maintained that France had closed off all room for compromise, despite French officials insisting the contrary. That reflected a lack of truthfulness. Finally, the government tolerated suggestions – mostly from public commentators – that France did not really deserve to have a say – that its objections were unwarranted in some way. Blair's insistence that he could legitimately ignore an "unreasonable" veto at the Security Council underpinned this stance. This showed a lack of openness. Despite these shortcomings, the argument worked. YouGov found 70% of British voters rejected Chirac's stance. Labour MP and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee Donald Anderson attacked France. A series of Sun editorials compared Chirac to "a cheap tart" and a "worm", contrasting his "arrogance and greed" with Blair's "highest moral principles".
On 28 July 2002 Blair wrote to Bush "I will be with you, whatever". Cabinet neither discussed nor even knew about this letter. In public, Blair maintained "no decisions have been taken". At the end of October he formally offered British ground troops to the US for planning purposes. In mid-January 2003 he privately gave up on the UN inspection process and approved invasion plans. Again, Cabinet was not told. It is true that the government faced widespread and at times unreasonable press hostility. It is true that some Cabinet ministers leaked everything they heard about Iraq to the press at the earliest opportunity. It is true that some parts of the government's argument could not have survived a full, frank, open and flexible public debate.
But the Blair government, and Tony Blair in particular, repeatedly claimed they sought a proper public deliberation. In making that claim, then failing so dramatically to meet it, they created the conditions for the legitimacy deficit that followed. At the same time they made inconsistent, irreconcilable and incorrect arguments that became impossible criteria for success.
That the Stop the War movement failed to stop the war made a good deal of sense. That the invasion nevertheless wound up widely regarded as illegitimate made sense, too. Ultimately the approach the government took proved neither properly deliberative nor persuasive.
What we learn from all this is simple. How governments talk about foreign policy matters. It influences public debate, though more by raising and lowering the salience of an issue than by persuading people to adopt a different view. It determines both the political and the normative legitimacy of a decision. It establishes criteria for success. The clash between deliberation and persuasion in the Blair government's case for war in Iraq explains a good part of the legitimacy deficit surrounding it. Shortcomings in the specific arguments made explain the bulk of the rest. It would perhaps have been better not to have talked so much after all.
This post represents the views of the author and not those of Democratic Audit. It is adapted from the original here. A podcast of the launch event from which this text is drawn – featuring comments from Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman of King's College London and Professor Juliet Kaarbo of the University of Edinburgh – is available here. The book is available to read online for free, for a limited period only.
James Strong (@dr_james_strong) is Fellow in Foreign Policy Analysis in the Department of International Relations at LSE.
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LRH thought there were two cases here. 1.) What is created by one alone which I believe he dubbed "actuality", and 2.) What he thought were the results of agreement between two or more beings.
So he distinguished between an "actuality" which is something "real" only to oneself and part of "one's own universe", and "reality" which he dubbed "agreement", as indicating a shared or co-created universe.
This view he summed up in his essay on "the 3 Universes". There is more complexity to this view, but that's the essence of it as I recall it.
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A biological father, Daniel Joseph, 31-years have been handed over to the Kaduna Police Command for raping own two years old daughter name withheld.
The incidence was said to have occurred in Gonin-Gora, Chikun local government area of the state and leading to the daughter discharging.
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Protein kinase C facilitation of acetylcholine release at the rat neuromuscular junction
E. D'Angelo, P. Rossi, F. Tanzi, V. Taglietti
Protein kinase C (PKC) is a Ca2+-dependent enzyme involved in synaptic transmission, which can be experimentally activated by the phorbol ester, phorbol 12-myristate-13-acetate (TPA). We studied the effects of TPA application on acetylcholine (ACh) release at the rat neuromuscular junction by means of the focal recording technique; possible effects of TPA at the postsynaptic site had been ruled out in preliminary studies. In extracellular solutions containing 2 mM Ca2+ and at the stimulation frequency of 0.1 Hz, TPA increased endplate current (EPC) amplitude. In non-stimulated preparations spontaneous current frequency was increased at a similar rate. The similar time course of TPA action on evoked and spontaneous currents suggests that an increased presynaptic Ca2+ efficacy can be considered to be the probable mechanism of action. The interactions of PKC with ACh release were further investigated. In 0.1 mM Ca2+ extracellular solutions, TPA enhanced evoked currents only at stimulation frequencies (e.g. 40 Hz) that were themselves capable of inducing facilitation. This facilitation is classically associated with presynaptic Ca2+ accumulation, indicating that PKC interacts synergistically with Ca2+ to facilitate ACh release. In particular, since mean quantum size and release probability remained almost unchanged during TPA facilitation, it was concluded that PKC acted by enlarging the immediately available store. Interestingly, TPA also increased the presynaptic currents that were observed to be largely brought about by Ca2+-dependent K+ currents: evidence was obtained to suggest that increases in these currents provide negative feedback against excess release activation rather than being an expression of enhanced Ca2+ influx.
European Journal of Neuroscience
Protein Kinase C
Phorbol Esters
Phorbol ester
Presynaptic currents
Quantal release
D'Angelo, E., Rossi, P., Tanzi, F., & Taglietti, V. (1992). Protein kinase C facilitation of acetylcholine release at the rat neuromuscular junction. European Journal of Neuroscience, 4(9), 823-831. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.1992.tb00192.x
Protein kinase C facilitation of acetylcholine release at the rat neuromuscular junction. / D'Angelo, E.; Rossi, P.; Tanzi, F.; Taglietti, V.
In: European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 4, No. 9, 1992, p. 823-831.
D'Angelo, E, Rossi, P, Tanzi, F & Taglietti, V 1992, 'Protein kinase C facilitation of acetylcholine release at the rat neuromuscular junction', European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 823-831. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.1992.tb00192.x
D'Angelo E, Rossi P, Tanzi F, Taglietti V. Protein kinase C facilitation of acetylcholine release at the rat neuromuscular junction. European Journal of Neuroscience. 1992;4(9):823-831. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.1992.tb00192.x
D'Angelo, E. ; Rossi, P. ; Tanzi, F. ; Taglietti, V. / Protein kinase C facilitation of acetylcholine release at the rat neuromuscular junction. In: European Journal of Neuroscience. 1992 ; Vol. 4, No. 9. pp. 823-831.
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text:
package org.apereo.cas.web;

import org.apereo.cas.AbstractCentralAuthenticationServiceTests;
import org.apereo.cas.BaseCasCoreTests;
import org.apereo.cas.CasProtocolConstants;
import org.apereo.cas.authentication.CoreAuthenticationTestUtils;
import org.apereo.cas.config.CasThymeleafConfiguration;
import org.apereo.cas.services.web.config.CasThemesConfiguration;
import org.apereo.cas.ticket.ProxyGrantingTicketImpl;
import org.apereo.cas.ticket.expiration.NeverExpiresExpirationPolicy;
import org.apereo.cas.web.config.CasValidationConfiguration;
import org.apereo.cas.web.support.WebUtils;
import org.apereo.cas.web.v2.ProxyController;

import lombok.val;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Tag;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.ObjectProvider;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.thymeleaf.ThymeleafProperties;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.TestConfiguration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Lazy;
import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletRequest;
import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletResponse;
import org.thymeleaf.spring5.SpringTemplateEngine;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;

/**
 * @author Scott Battaglia
 * @since 3.0.0
 */
@SpringBootTest(classes = {
    BaseCasCoreTests.SharedTestConfiguration.class,
    CasThemesConfiguration.class,
    CasThymeleafConfiguration.class,
    CasValidationConfiguration.class
})
@Tag("CAS")
public class ProxyControllerTests extends AbstractCentralAuthenticationServiceTests {

    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("proxyController")
    private ObjectProvider<ProxyController> proxyController;

    @Test
    public void verifyNoParams() {
        assertEquals(CasProtocolConstants.ERROR_CODE_INVALID_REQUEST_PROXY, this.proxyController.getObject()
            .handleRequestInternal(new MockHttpServletRequest(), new MockHttpServletResponse()).getModel()
            .get("code"));
    }

    @Test
    public void verifyNonExistentPGT() {
        val request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
        request.addParameter(CasProtocolConstants.PARAMETER_PROXY_GRANTING_TICKET, "TestService");
        request.addParameter(CasProtocolConstants.PARAMETER_TARGET_SERVICE, "testDefault");

        assertTrue(this.proxyController.getObject().handleRequestInternal(request,
            new MockHttpServletResponse()).getModel().containsKey("code"));
    }

    @Test
    public void verifyExistingPGT() {
        val ticket = new ProxyGrantingTicketImpl(
            WebUtils.PARAMETER_TICKET_GRANTING_TICKET_ID, CoreAuthenticationTestUtils.getAuthentication(),
            NeverExpiresExpirationPolicy.INSTANCE);
        getTicketRegistry().addTicket(ticket);
        val request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
        request.addParameter(CasProtocolConstants.PARAMETER_PROXY_GRANTING_TICKET, ticket.getId());
        request.addParameter(CasProtocolConstants.PARAMETER_TARGET_SERVICE, "testDefault");

        assertTrue(this.proxyController.getObject().handleRequestInternal(request,
            new MockHttpServletResponse()).getModel().containsKey(
            CasProtocolConstants.PARAMETER_TICKET));
    }

    @Test
    public void verifyNotAuthorizedPGT() {
        val ticket = new ProxyGrantingTicketImpl(WebUtils.PARAMETER_TICKET_GRANTING_TICKET_ID,
            CoreAuthenticationTestUtils.getAuthentication(),
            NeverExpiresExpirationPolicy.INSTANCE);
        getTicketRegistry().addTicket(ticket);
        val request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
        request.addParameter(CasProtocolConstants.PARAMETER_PROXY_GRANTING_TICKET, ticket.getId());
        request.addParameter(CasProtocolConstants.PARAMETER_TARGET_SERVICE, "service");

        val map = this.proxyController.getObject().handleRequestInternal(request, new MockHttpServletResponse()).getModel();
        assertFalse(map.containsKey(CasProtocolConstants.PARAMETER_TICKET));
    }

    @TestConfiguration("ProxyTestConfiguration")
    @Lazy(false)
    public static class ProxyTestConfiguration {
        @Bean
        public SpringTemplateEngine springTemplateEngine() {
            return new SpringTemplateEngine();
        }

        @Bean
        public ThymeleafProperties thymeleafProperties() {
            return new ThymeleafProperties();
        }
    }
}