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In Celebration of May 19th: Atatürk's 125th Birthday speech
Posted In Speeches
When Bob Livingston told me I had this opportunity to come and to speak about the extraordinary life of Atatürk and his meaning, not just for Turkey , but for the world, I was thrilled to be allowed to do so.
I want to take you back, and you can use the phrase 125th anniversary, but I want to take you back for just a minute or two since I did teach history, to 1881, because I think sometimes when you deal with these great figures who transform life for millions, it's easy to forget how really big the change was, and for them how lonely it must have been.
The world into which Mustafa Kemal was born was a totally different world. It was a different world in technology. It was a world before electric lights, a world before telephones. I have two grandchildren who are four and six, so I don't try to explain to them that there was pre-television and pre-cell phone, pre-blackberry, because that would be unthinkable, and they couldn't imagine it. But you and I know here is a young man growing up in a world totally different from the world he will leave at the end of his life. And it was a world which had an empire which had been around a very long time and that occupied a tremendous amount of territory. And there was no natural reason as a young man for him to think about the notion that the Ottoman Empire would disappear. There was no natural reason for him to contemplate the collapse of European civilization, the disappearance of Czarist Russia, the removal of Kaiser Wilhelm. And yet early in his life, he would begin to have these experiences.
Remember that he is 33 years old when the First World War begins, and it is not at all obvious, everybody expected in August of 1914 that it would be a three month war. It would be over quickly. And yet it drove on for four years. A hundred million people died. It was capped by a world wide epidemic of flu which we called in the U.S. the Spanish flu. It was a worldwide influenza which killed more people than had died in the four years of war. And at that point, as one of the most successful generals, the general I would argue, and I think most historians would agree, was the decisive figure in the Gallipoli campaign. That it was his leadership, and I'm looking forward to the New Zealand Ambassador's comments because in a very real sense, it was Ataturk's leadership, his toughness, his directness, his ingenuity, his energy, and drive which enabled the Ottomans to stop the British, Australians, New Zealand and French, allied landing on the peninsula.
And yet in the very process of successfully defending his country, he was studying the modernity of his opponents, he was learning what was necessary for success in the modern world. And when after the war the Ottoman Empire was disappearing, he was faced with an enormous decision, and I think, again I want you to place yourself in what is still a very young man at that point, someone who at 37 or 38 years of age is suddenly saying, all of the leadership around me is collapsing. All of the old rules are dying. And there are really two choices. There was a choice to create a classic military despotism and to preside over something which I argue you saw happening in Iraq during that period, something you saw happen in Egypt, something you saw happen in many places where strong men seized power with a self-perpetuation of their own agenda, something which has plagued much of Latin America for the last century, where we get very strong people, but they don't apply their strength for the good of the country. They apply their strength to the advantage of the elite.
And he looked around and he had two I think key insights which are extraordinary. Many years ago when I first became Speaker I think I shocked the Turkish ambassador because I was such a big fan of Ataturk. I remember at the time I was wonderfully received, and when one of my associates Dr. Stephen Kinzer was able to visit Turkey shortly after I gave the speech about the importance of Ataturk, he has never been better received anywhere in the world. People were just so nice to him. But I was fascinated as a young college teacher and before that as a graduate student because Ataturk has two extraordinary insights that he then allows to guide his heart and his head. And very often people have insight and then they forget them because they are too frightening or too hard, or they mean well, they are words up here but they are not actions down here. And the insights are actually contradictory. Bear with me, and those of you who are Turkish correct me if I get my understanding of history wrong, because they seem to be in the opposite direction.
The first is he is going to modernize the people, not just modernize the government, not just modernize the elite, but he's going to think through and then implement, carrying an entire great people into the modern world in terms of education, the entire effort to turn the whole country into a classroom so that literally in a matter of a year people were writing differently, moving into the modern world. The elimination of the fez.
When you start interfering with the very things people wear, you are in the heart of challenging their entire life. And yet he is carrying an argument that this is the cost of modernity. If we're going to be a modern people, if we're going to be strong enough to protect ourselves, and I rank him with Deng Chou Ping's (phonetic sp.) great speech across southern China when he said, he didn't say communism was over. He couldn't have said that. He said at one point, "I don't care if it is a black cat or a white cat as long as the cat catches the mouse."
Now what he was saying to the Communist cadres was if free enterprise can build a factory, that's good. If communism can build a factory, that's good. And there's actually a big bridge in southern China where they have these huge statues of black and white cats when you drive across the bridge because all of a sudden Deng Chou Ping was liberating the Chinese from the straitjacket of Maoism saying, if we are going to live in the future, we have to be prepared for change.
The other great moment when this also happens is when the Meijing restoration occurs in Japan and a small group of generals, the people at that time were about Ataturk's age, in their early 30's, would then guide Japan for 40 years. And from 1868 to 1925 was one of the great moments of modernization. And in my mind, you can see a direct parallel. These are people who are saying, for us to survive, our country has to become strong. For our country to become strong, it has to become modern, and for the country to become modern, the people have to live in the modern world, not just the bureaucrats, not just the generals, the people.
So on one level, he is this remarkable example of bringing together and carrying an entire nation into the future at a moment when it was not obvious. Remember, Turkey as it had become at the end of the Ottoman Empire , had lost all of its external provinces, it had lost many of its sources of wealth, it had been through a long and debilitating war. There was no reason to believe that out of this you could suddenly create a great new nation.
And secondly, and this is often misunderstood by people who are in the rarified world of academics or politics. To carry Turkey to the West, he moved the capitol East. It was very important that he recentered the government in Ankara to recenter the heart of the Turkish highlands so that Turkish people would look in at themselves and not be constantly looking at the Mediterranean and constantly looking towards Europe, because he understood that he had to unite these great streams, the populist and national sentiment of being Turkish with the meaning of being Turkish to become modern, democratic, and advanced. And that is genius.
But what made it truly historic wasn't that he understood it. It was that he then spent the entire rest of his life living that out; that he both imposed his will when he had to, and he patiently grew to capacity of the Turkish people towards self government, towards productivity, and towards modernity. It's very seldom you get both. Sometimes you have people who, in the effort to grow, people are too weak, and, therefore, the whole thing falls apart. And you could argue in a sense that was the great crisis the Shah faced in Iran late in his career, that he didn't know how to balance these two, how to both modernize and nationalize simultaneously.
Now what was the result? The result was first of all something he could not have predicted in 1918, the rise of a coherent modern nation of people who were proud of both their heritage and of their future, of a people who governed themselves, who have elections, who fight over power in precisely the way that we in this country believe God endowed all of us with the right.
And to set a little bit of delicate territory, let me say that when the Turkish Parliament could not give permission for the American Fourth Division to go through Turkey, I wasn't shocked because we had not won the argument in the hearts of the Turkish people, and the newly elected government of Turkey in a democracy had 93 percent disapproval. Like I say to people, in the modern world it's not good enough to have our ambassador talk to their ambassador and our secretary of state talk to their foreign minister. If we can't win the argument in the hearts of the people in a free society, you cannot expect the government of a free society to carry it through.
Just as in Germany , Schroeder won the election in part because the German people said "no", we don't want to go through that. And so you have to have some respect for the very traits that Ataturk was creating, a modern country, but a country that's a democracy where people do matter, and where people have to wrestle with their own lives, they have to make many decisions about the kind of future they want, the kind of life they want, the kind of opportunity they want for their children and their grandchildren.
And so I think when we gather today for this kind of event, you're celebrating more than a man, although whether one argues Washington or Lincoln, it's not a bad league to be in. This is certainly I think a man who ranks with the great modern nation builders of the last 100 years. A man eminently worth of study for anyone who would like to solve the problems of sub Saharan Africa, anyone who would like to solve the problems of democracy in the Arab world, anyone who would like to try to help the Chinese make the transition to freedom, because there's something magic about how Ataturk reached out, personified the future of Turkey, and got the Turkish people, convinced the Turkish people to invest their hopes in his courage and to invest their fears in his leadership and therefore to move in a 25 year period into a better world.
One of the byproducts of that was that when the Cold War began, Turkey resolutely sided with the West and was a very key player in containing the Soviet empire for 44 years. It's easy to forget how hard this was, how long a process this was, how much pressure there was sometimes to back down. My father fought in the Korean War, and always felt permanent affection for the Turkish brigade, which was so heroic, and so competent and proved its capabilities so beautifully, standing side by side as part of the Alliance .
Today, despite occasional arguments, the fact is that there is so much more that binds us together that can push us apart. And the truth is if in the long run we are to win the war on terrorism, and if in the long run we are to help all the Middle East in becoming democracies, the road to a great deal of that will be through Turkey and will be side by side with the Turkish people.
And so I felt when Bob called and offered me this chance that this was a great opportunity and time for the United States . I don't get many invitations to go to the local Rotary Club and explain the central role of Ataturk. It's something I've studied, I've thought about, I've tried at times to learn from. I've tried to see in what ways we can learn to do things better and more effectively by studying how he did it. And I commend each and every one of you for taking the time out of your life today for two reasons. One because it is good to celebrate who we are and where we came from. It strengthens, those flags matter, people are bound together by emotions that draw upon the memories of history and draw upon the facts.
But there's a second reason. There are some young people here today who may learn to dream of a bigger future for themselves, and they learn that they, too, can play a role in solving problems, and helping the people, and having a better future. And in that sense I think that Ataturk is a model that every young person in the world should study fully as much as we would encourage them to study Washington and Lincoln, and fully as much as we would encourage them to study the other leaders who spent their lives trying to bring people into the modern world, to help them achieve suffrage and give them a chance to live in freedom and safety.
So I look forward for many years to come to work with you and to work with the people so that together Americans and Turks can create a better future working towards the kinds of things we want our children and our grandchildren to experience.
Thank you very, very much.
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Bird-of-the-Month Photo Contest August 2021: Red-winged Blackbird
Photo: Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) by Tom Fishburn.
Be a part of the WCAS Bird-of-the-Month Photo Contest to help raise awareness of bird species through photography excellence.
You could win a one-year subscription to Bird Watcher's Digest! Deadline to enter: Tuesday, August 31, 2021.
WCAS Bird-of-the-Month Photo Contest August 2021
Be a part of the WCAS Bird-of-the-Month Photo Contest to help raise awareness of bird species through conservation education, fundraising success, and photography excellence. We're celebrating bird species and the photographs that best illustrate birds through composition, bird portrait, and bird action. Donations support chapter conservation education efforts.
To Enter:
The bird of the month is the Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus).
Contest opens July 1st and closes July 30th. Winners announced at the 09/07/2021 Speaker Series.
Reserve your Entry Ticket** Entry categories are:
Youth: 7-17 years of age $5 per photo.
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Judges focus on composition, bird portrait, and bird action.
Complete and submit the Media Release so that your images can be published for voting and viewing by the public.
Complete the Entry Form and upload your photo/s (please submit photos in a .JPG file format) before August 31, 2021 at 5:00 p.m.
Winners will be announced at the next month's Speaker Series, Tuesday, September 7, 2021, 7:30 p.m. hosted at the WCAS Virtual Conference Center. Monthly winners are also eligible for the yearly contest and additional prizes.
Choice of Prizes:
Bird Watcher's Digest, a one-year subscription
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**Note: The 'Bird-of-the-Month Photo Contest' is a WCAS fundraising event. Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society (WCAS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and a chapter of the National Audubon Society based in Cuyahoga County in Northern Ohio, USA. All contest entry tickets are tax-deductible donations to support chapter conservation activities. The tax ID number is: 34-1522665. If you prefer to mail your donation, please send your check to: Nancy Howell, Western Cuyahoga Audubon Treasurer, 19340 Fowles Rd, Middleburg Hts, OH 44130. © 2020 Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society. All rights reserved.

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While the Hive was quickly turning into a respected community hub and gaining attention for the many wonderful things it did, ReSpace was busy in the background maintaining and improving the system that made it all possible. Our hope was to find support and partners across all areas of society. Here is some of what we have done:
Social Innovation Strategy
ReSpace and the Hive are featured in Sage Publishing's Strategy: Theory and Practice textbook as an example of social innovation. Part of a feature of two pages and a picture of the Hive definition board, this is some of what they said:
"Social innovation can also be about bringing existing resources together in innovative ways. ReSpace Projects is an independent, voluntary and self-funded organisation that helps to fight homelessness and provide community facilities in the UK by facilitating rental agreements for community use with landlords of unused buildings. The innovation by ReSpace Projects was not so much creating anything new as connecting existing resources in new ways."
You can get your hands on a copy here: uk.sagepub.com
Back to Achievements
Circular Economy Principles
We are listed as delivery partners in the London Waste and Recycling Board's Route Map to a Circular Economy under the category of "Buildings". Part of a larger to strategy to re-use much more of London's waste, we are proud to be held up as an example of good practice – but we know there is still a long way to go!
Social Enterprise Hackney
Invited to speak about the resilience of small organisations at the inauguration of Hackney as a Social Enterprise borough. ReSpace are proud to have been described as "leaders" by the Chief Exec of Social Enterprise UK – Peter Holbrook.
Royal Docks Cultural Partnership
Invited by the GLA in an advisory role to identify and support assets of culture and innovation in their wider development plans for the Royal Docks area of Newham. This is a multi-billion pound development and our hope is to help them introduce systems and regulation to ensure that the cultural aspect of the development took into account local people's needs.
Citizenship – The Challenge
ReSpace are super proud to have partnered with NCS The Challenge to deliver citizenship education for youths from local schools. Their program to integrate and normalize social good as part of daily life and to encourage their participants to volunteer for local organsations fits perfectly with our ethics and we hosted groups every summer giving them workshops in music, video and art. The kids provided much needed inspiration to the crew of the Hive too!
You can watch a video made by one of the groups about the Hive:
ReSpace and the BBC
The Hive became the focus of a BBC Radio 4 documentary, 'A Waste of Space', where presenter and Daily Mail writer, Harriet Sergeant described ReSpace as "a solution to homelessness" after spending a few days and a night with us.
The documentary covers other uses of space: you can hear it here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b076mllv
One year on, we are pleased to release a Hive Dalston Impact Report. Featuring testimonials, statistics and pictures – our report documents just some of the benefits that the Hive model delivered.
"The Hive was a project like few others – part home, part venue, part social club, part festival – it constantly confounded expectations… it was a hub, a beacon and an inspiration."
Starting with a 6 month contract and an idea, we had no clue that 3 and a half years later we would be releasing a report detailing just a small proportion of the amazing things that happened at the Hive. As well as releasing the new Arkhive website – telling the story chronologically, we are proud to release the Hive Impact Report… click on the image to see it.
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Other highlights include:
ReSpace has been endorsed by Mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville
Our work was recognised in a statement by RIBA
At the other end of the scale, we were endorsed by perhaps London's most active and notorious squat crew who have previously made headlines for taking over empty mansions in Belgravia. For us, this is a major success, which indicates that mindsets are changing and that our credibility is perceived at all levels of society.
ReSpace was invited to represent Hackney in the second event organised by Oslo city council – Hackney meets Oslo, which celebrated social innovation in the two metropolitan areas. We were proud to present to an audience of the top 50 social enterprises in those areas.
We were invited to the panel to interview for Hackney cooperative Developments new Director of Social Business. We offer our congratulations to the successful candidate!
ReSpace was nominated by the Chair of the LFESC to be offered space by the fire service to develop projects. We held community consultations on behalf of developers U+I at the Lambeth fire station project and much of our proposal for the space was implemented by U+I.
ReSpace also inspired large developer firm, Omved – who have announced online that they will be pursuing the community garden proposed by ReSpace Projects, after years of making enemies in the local community in Highgate.
We were invited to present at a video conference with fourteen National Lottery consultants, looking to upgrade their funding models to improve their ability to provide for good causes.
ReSpace was invited to contribute to the London Plan by the Environment committee.
As a result of our focus on holistic systems, ReSpace Projects was asked to speak at the respected Sci-Art-Met conference about holistic health, by sector leaders, Orassy.


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package com.integratedapps.breloque.modules.locator.impl;

import com.integratedapps.breloque.commons.api.data.entities.DummyEntity;
import com.integratedapps.breloque.commons.impl.data.InMemoryStorageManager;
import com.integratedapps.breloque.modules.locator.api.entities.BusinessRule;
import com.integratedapps.breloque.modules.locator.api.entities.Mapping;
import com.integratedapps.breloque.modules.locator.api.entities.Script;
import java.util.List;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 *
 * @author Kir Sorokin, kir.sorokin@integrated-apps.com
 */
public class Test_LocatorAdminImplBasics {

    @Test
    public void addOneAndThenList(
            ) throws Exception {

        DummyEntity entity;
        BusinessRule businessRule;
        Script script;
        Mapping mapping;
        List<Mapping> mappings;

        final InMemoryStorageManager storageManager = InMemoryStorageManager.getInstance();
        storageManager.reset();

        final LocatorAdminImpl locatorAdmin = new LocatorAdminImpl();
        locatorAdmin.setStorageManager(storageManager);

        entity = new DummyEntity();
        entity.setDummyString("dummy string 1");
        entity.setDummyInt(1);

        entity = storageManager.store(entity);

        script = new Script();
        script.setMimeType("text/javascript");
        script.setCode("return true;\n");

        script = storageManager.store(script);

        businessRule = new BusinessRule();
        businessRule.setScriptId(script.getId());

        businessRule = storageManager.store(businessRule);

        mapping = locatorAdmin.add("test-service", entity, businessRule);
        Assert.assertEquals(0, mapping.getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mapping.getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity.getId(), mapping.getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mapping.getBusinessRuleId());

        mappings = locatorAdmin.list("test-service");
        Assert.assertEquals(1, mappings.size());
        Assert.assertEquals(0, mappings.get(0).getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mappings.get(0).getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity.getId(), mappings.get(0).getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mappings.get(0).getBusinessRuleId());
    }

    @Test
    public void addTwoAndSwitchPlaces(
            ) throws Exception {

        DummyEntity entity1;
        DummyEntity entity2;
        BusinessRule businessRule;
        Script script;

        Mapping mapping;
        List<Mapping> mappings;

        final InMemoryStorageManager storageManager = InMemoryStorageManager.getInstance();
        storageManager.reset();

        final LocatorAdminImpl locatorAdmin = new LocatorAdminImpl();
        locatorAdmin.setStorageManager(storageManager);

        entity1 = new DummyEntity();
        entity1.setDummyString("dummy string 1");
        entity1.setDummyInt(1);

        entity1 = storageManager.store(entity1);

        entity2 = new DummyEntity();
        entity2.setDummyString("dummy string 2");
        entity2.setDummyInt(1);

        entity2 = storageManager.store(entity2);

        script = new Script();
        script.setMimeType("text/javascript");
        script.setCode("return true;\n");

        script = storageManager.store(script);

        businessRule = new BusinessRule();
        businessRule.setScriptId(script.getId());

        businessRule = storageManager.store(businessRule);

        mapping = locatorAdmin.add("test-service", entity1, businessRule);
        Assert.assertEquals(0, mapping.getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mapping.getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity1.getId(), mapping.getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mapping.getBusinessRuleId());

        mapping = locatorAdmin.add("test-service", entity2, businessRule);
        Assert.assertEquals(10, mapping.getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mapping.getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity2.getId(), mapping.getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mapping.getBusinessRuleId());

        mappings = locatorAdmin.list("test-service");
        Assert.assertEquals(2, mappings.size());
        Assert.assertEquals(0, mappings.get(0).getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mappings.get(0).getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity1.getId(), mappings.get(0).getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mappings.get(0).getBusinessRuleId());
        Assert.assertEquals(10, mappings.get(1).getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mappings.get(1).getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity2.getId(), mappings.get(1).getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mappings.get(1).getBusinessRuleId());

        locatorAdmin.moveUp(mappings.get(1).getId());

        mappings = locatorAdmin.list("test-service");
        Assert.assertEquals(2, mappings.size());
        Assert.assertEquals(0, mappings.get(0).getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mappings.get(0).getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity2.getId(), mappings.get(0).getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mappings.get(0).getBusinessRuleId());
        Assert.assertEquals(10, mappings.get(1).getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mappings.get(1).getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity1.getId(), mappings.get(1).getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mappings.get(1).getBusinessRuleId());

        locatorAdmin.moveDown(mappings.get(0).getId());

        mappings = locatorAdmin.list("test-service");
        Assert.assertEquals(2, mappings.size());
        Assert.assertEquals(0, mappings.get(0).getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mappings.get(0).getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity1.getId(), mappings.get(0).getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mappings.get(0).getBusinessRuleId());
        Assert.assertEquals(10, mappings.get(1).getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mappings.get(1).getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity2.getId(), mappings.get(1).getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mappings.get(1).getBusinessRuleId());
    }

    @Test
    public void addTwoAndDelete(
            ) throws Exception {

        DummyEntity entity1;
        DummyEntity entity2;
        BusinessRule businessRule;
        Script script;

        Mapping mapping;
        List<Mapping> mappings;

        final InMemoryStorageManager storageManager = InMemoryStorageManager.getInstance();
        storageManager.reset();

        final LocatorAdminImpl locatorAdmin = new LocatorAdminImpl();
        locatorAdmin.setStorageManager(storageManager);

        entity1 = new DummyEntity();
        entity1.setDummyString("dummy string 1");
        entity1.setDummyInt(1);

        entity1 = storageManager.store(entity1);

        entity2 = new DummyEntity();
        entity2.setDummyString("dummy string 2");
        entity2.setDummyInt(1);

        entity2 = storageManager.store(entity2);

        script = new Script();
        script.setMimeType("text/javascript");
        script.setCode("return true;\n");

        script = storageManager.store(script);

        businessRule = new BusinessRule();
        businessRule.setScriptId(script.getId());

        businessRule = storageManager.store(businessRule);

        mapping = locatorAdmin.add("test-service", entity1, businessRule);
        Assert.assertEquals(0, mapping.getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mapping.getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity1.getId(), mapping.getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mapping.getBusinessRuleId());

        mapping = locatorAdmin.add("test-service", entity2, businessRule);
        Assert.assertEquals(10, mapping.getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mapping.getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity2.getId(), mapping.getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mapping.getBusinessRuleId());

        mappings = locatorAdmin.list("test-service");
        Assert.assertEquals(2, mappings.size());
        Assert.assertEquals(0, mappings.get(0).getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mappings.get(0).getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity1.getId(), mappings.get(0).getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mappings.get(0).getBusinessRuleId());
        Assert.assertEquals(10, mappings.get(1).getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mappings.get(1).getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity2.getId(), mappings.get(1).getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mappings.get(1).getBusinessRuleId());

        locatorAdmin.delete(mappings.get(0).getId());

        mappings = locatorAdmin.list("test-service");
        Assert.assertEquals(1, mappings.size());
        Assert.assertEquals(0, mappings.get(0).getIndex());
        Assert.assertEquals("test-service", mappings.get(0).getSubject());
        Assert.assertEquals(entity2.getId(), mappings.get(0).getEntityId());
        Assert.assertEquals(businessRule.getId(), mappings.get(0).getBusinessRuleId());

        locatorAdmin.delete(mappings.get(0).getId());

        mappings = locatorAdmin.list("test-service");
        Assert.assertEquals(0, mappings.size());
    }

}

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While climbing up the steps to the house, her house, for the moment anyway, she hears unfamiliar voices. Children. Adults.
She hesitates. Stands on the threshold. Looks into the lighted box of the hallway.
Have I missed something? Have months skipped by? Years? Does a new family live here now, a new family with the same picture of Bronte Beach on the wall and the same bed visible in my son's room?
The front door opens with her key. She enters. Stands in the hallway, listening. There amongst the chaos is his voice. She checks her phone. No messages. Stands in the hallway, wondering.
A woman creeps up the stairs unsteadily, her hand gliding over the banister, her wedding ring rasping on the metal tubing.
A strange woman in her home.
She nods and the stranger shuffles along the corridor, hands skimming the wall, feet uncertain on the floor. The bathroom door closes.
Climbing down the stairs and turning the corner into the light.
Her children waving from their bowls of ice-cream.
Another family, an extended family, three generations, one, two, three. She recognises the couple from years ago; they recognise her. They smile while she clutches for their names.
And she thinks – he always puts the male first, in these pairings, these couples who came into their lives. The male always came first, the female an attachment, an afterthought.
And she thinks – why did he not tell me they were coming?
Neil and Ursula. They belonged to him. Would belong to him. When they knew.
They stand and come to embrace her, arms closing about her stiff body. Ursula starts the introductions.
Their children, her father, the creeping woman upstairs; her mother.
Nodding, her eyes flick over to him. His eyes flit away and he stands.
His chair scraping back on the floor and he disappears into the kitchen.
Sydney traffic. Taronga Zoo. Manly Beach. Two weeks. Returning west tomorrow morning. Sydney buses.
Neil stares and she stares back.
She thinks, Neil knows, Ursula doesn't.
Sydney weather. The heat. The humidity. And how do those new buses work anyway?
A bowl of ice cream placed in front of her. Staring at the glistening, white domes as her hands clench and unclench under the table.
She could throw it at him, she could stand up and walk downstairs and out of the house and into the night.
She could announce their news to this happy family. Their son is playing cricket; we are separating. Their daughter is learning the violin; she is looking for a new place to live.
She smiles and picks up the spoon.
Sean trundles along with the herd, following the signs to the Sistine Chapel. He has lost the others. He glanced away for a moment and when he turned back, they were gone. They must have been pitched away from him on the tide of tourists they are travelling in. Too late to even throw him a life line. He supposes they will meet again at the exit, when they are all spat out some squalid hole in the wall like the rest of the waste products. Why didn't they make a plan? They should always make a plan. There are so many people here. He feels giddy. If he really needs to stop, he will have to fight his way to the side, cling onto some statue and get out of the pull of the current.
Every surface seems to be busy. The clashing colours of the clothes of the tourists pressing onwards, the paintings smothering the walls. The noise too! It ricochets off every surface. He is being pelted with syllables from all sides. He can't understand most of it. He would just like to rest. They swing out of a gallery and into another corridor, but even in this between-space there is no relief. The walls of the corridor are decorated too. Can't even rest his eyes before the next room! There are fat babies balancing on towers made of fruit and veg – not how Phoebe would describe it, but it about sums it up for him. Pattern crawling over everything like a disturbed ant nest.
The floors in these places were so hard. He should have worn his hiking boots. Tomorrow he will wear them. He can feel each step jolting all the way up his spine. Hiking boots… Not for walking over peaceful, green fields, but to cushion the blow his heels make when they slam down on hard, city surfaces. Both inside and out. If it wasn't marble floors, it was cobblestones. What were they thinking? All very impressive, as long as you didn't have to walk on it.
Green fields… He liked what they did in Austria. Climbing up from the lake, walking through the arch of the trees, balancing on boulders to cross the streams, the smell of crushed pine needles prickling their nostrils. There was still snow on the peaks of the mountains and the water stung their feet with its iciness. He and Phoebe had paddled barefoot into the stream, shrieking. Later, they sat looking down over the valley. He cut thin slivers of apple, passing them over to Phoebe as she leaned back against a tree.
That had been a good day.
He sighs and treads water in the bottleneck at the narrow doorway at the end of the corridor. If he loses his footing he will probably drown. He glances out the window and sees the Papal gardens. He would prefer to be out there in that soft greenness. He could snooze under a tree and wait for Phoebe. They should have arranged a time to meet. They could be waiting all day now. The others wouldn't mind arranging a time, setting a limit. He knows their interest in museums is minimal. The Vatican is just one of those things you have to see. When in Rome… ha ha. He wonders if they were as bored by his suggestion of bush walking? (or hiking or whatever it was called over here.) Possibly. They are all being so polite. It wouldn't last. This gentility. They should set times to meet up. If they had done this earlier, say in Austria, he could have climbed just that little bit higher and seen what was making that sound they were hearing. Bells? Was it goats? Bells hanging from their necks as they strolled through the long, wet grass?
He supposes he could just get out of here, have a quick coffee and sit on the steps in the sun to wait. Close his eyes. Shake his ankles out. They would all have to come out the same exit surely?
The crowd spills out into a huge open room.
And suddenly he is there.
This is it. He thinks flatly as he glances up. The Sistine Chapel. Woo Hoo.
First things first. He looks about at ground level and spots some bare wood – a space has opened up on one of the benches that line the walls. He makes a dive for it and sinks blissfully down, leaning back on the cool, hard wall. So there is the ceiling. There is the altar painting thingy. Yes it's good. He can see why it's on the list of things to do in Rome. His feet hurt. He can feel the blood descending to his toes, pooling there as if his feet were made of stone, like Jesus and his mates out on of top of St Peters. He will have to rest there for a while. He can't move. He looks at the ceiling and then folds his arms and looks at his watch. He wonders where the others are. Maybe they aren't too far behind him. Mike and Louise anyway, he can't imagine that Phoebe would get here this quick. He leans his head back against the wall and closes his eyes. He can't block out the noise. The whispering. The oohing and ahhing.
All these people from all over the world. He is one of them. One of the multitudes. These all-devouring tourists. It is making him queasy. Going to a place where they can't speak the language and trying to have the right experience. Sucking it all in during their three or four days. What he would really like to do, if he is honest, would be to go on a three or four day bushwalk, by himself. Take a tent and camp beneath the stars. Alone. He needs some space. He needs some time.
They were sitting two across, facing each other. Louise and Mike on one side and he and Phoebe on the other. Phoebe was asleep, her head leaning on his shoulder, her jacket worn backwards over her chest like a blanket. She felt the cold, that girl. He had the window seat, looking out at the scenery. Mike sat across from him, reading some book or other and Louise was there beside him. Sean had glanced away from the view and back into the carriage. His eyes had flicked over Mike and were on their way past Louise, when he realised she was staring at him. She was sitting right next to her boyfriend, studying him. If Mike had glanced up, he would have thought she was just looking out the window. But he didn't. He was engrossed in his book. Sean had let his eyes pass over Louise and down the train, as if he was counting the passengers, as if he was looking for an old friend, as if the blood wasn't rushing to his face. His eyes drifted back and there she was, still staring at him.
What? He wanted to snap. What are you looking at?
But he didn't of course. He looked out the window again and stared grimly outside, as if he was being dared. Which he was. She was sitting over there, staring at him, laughing at his discomfort. He rubbed his hand over his chin and willed his vision to stay outside the train. He was intensely aware of Phoebe's head on his shoulder, of the gentle little puffs of her sleeping breath that only he could hear, of her hand resting in his. He must have moved. Phoebe stirred and opened her eyes. He had pulled her close and kissed her rather passionately on the lips.
He had tried not to think about it too much. What was the point? There was enough friction on this trip without thinking about that, without reading anything into that.
But here he is, momentarily alone and thinking about it again. He is sitting in the Sistine Chapel with very, very heavy feet. He opens his eyes and runs them over the crowd. The place is packed. There are people standing in the centre of the room, craning their necks back, mouths open. There are people walking to and fro, trying not to collide with those who have stopped. There are others sitting on the benches that line the walls.
He catches his breath sharply. In a sudden break in the crowd, he had seen through to the benches on the opposite wall. To Louise sitting on a bench on the opposite wall. Staring at him again. Is he simply being paranoid? His vision is blocked again as a tour group leans into the tide of people and forces their way toward the exit. The leader holds a yellow flag above her head as if going into battle. They move on and he can see her again. No, he is not being paranoid. She is leaning back on the wall, not looking at the ceiling. Ignoring the ceiling, staring over at him. He has the solitude to test her this time, to really make sure. He holds her gaze. He holds it as it is crossed by gaping teenagers, retirees, parents dragging kids, people of all nations. The whole world. The whole world rushing past. He looks through them and finds her staring still.
They sit across from each other, their gaze stretched tautly from wall to wall. They sit and look as they have not looked at the ceiling, or the altar, or the statues, or anything else in this museum.
Then all at once, Louise slowly leans forward away from the wall and rests her elbows on her knees and clasps her hands. Moving in closer.


It's blueberry season, y'all. Time to get your hands on some of those delicious berries! I picked these berries up in Michigan at a Meijer store, and they were really good. I'm hoping to get to a farmers' market soon to pick up some local blueberries. I'm hoping I can still get strawberries, too. It's been a crazy month and I'm ready to get settled in and do some baking.
I did manage to throw together this coffee cake, and wow was it good. Incredibly easy, too! I think what made it so delicious was I used buttermilk and a special Southern flour called, White Lily. This was my first time baking with it and I can already tell a difference over regular flour. The cake turned out so light and fluffy. I'll have to research more on why White Lily makes baked goods lighter. I think it might have to do with the type of wheat they use. Have you used White Lily before?
The blueberry cake is topped with a buttery-brown sugar crumb topping. This could be served as a coffee cake for breakfast, or a dessert. If you serve it as a dessert, I recommend a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray an 8x8-inch glass baking dish with cooking spray.
In a medium bowl, sift together 2 cups flour, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, using a mixer on medium speed, beat together 6 tablespoons butter, sugar and vanilla until creamy. Beat in eggs until well combined. Reduce mixer speed to low and beat in flour mixture, alternating with buttermilk, until just combined. Gently fold in blueberries. Spread batter into the bottom of prepared pan.
To make the topping, beat together remaining 2 tablespoons butter, 1/3 cup flour, brown sugar and cinnamon until well combined and crumbly. Sprinkle crumble on top of cake batter. Bake 40-45 minutes or until well risen and golden brown. A toothpick inserted into cake should come out with moist crumbs attached.
13 comments on "Blueberry Buttermilk Coffee Cake"
I don't know if they're still picking, but Thies farm in Maryland Heights had a delicious crop of pick your own strawberries last week!
Never used White Lily but I've heard of it. Funny because at this moment I have a blueberry cake in the oven!! Blueberry season! Just bought a bunch at Aldi's. I remember you shop there and their prices cannot be beat!!!!
I'm still waiting for strawberry season to start in my neck of the woods. Well, it may have started, but I haven't been to the farmers' markets yet to see. They haven't started stocking local strawberries in the supermarkets yet.
I love berry coffee cakes! I love berries! I love cake! This looks so good. I have heard of White Lily flour, but I don't know what makes it distinctive. Maybe it's lower gluten like cake flour? I wonder if I could make this cake with cake flour.
Rachel, you have to try it! The flour makes baked goods so fluffy.
I haven't checked into your blog seems like forever. I am glad to see you are still posting delicious recipes. This blueberry cake looks delicious. I hope you are well. Do you still have your handsome cat?
I love blueberries and this coffee cake looks wonderful. I always appreciate that the recipes you post are easy to make, for us culinary challenged folks.
Meijer has raspberries on sale this week (77 cents for a 6 oz container) in case you are going to be near any this week (6/5 thru 6/11).
Haha I think I'm just lazy! I wish I lived near a Meijer. We have Harris Teeter here and they're pretty nice.
I'm glad you liked it, Courtney!


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