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Review: Billy Goat Tavern, Washington DC
And now for something completely different.
I went to the brand new Washington, D.C. location of Chicago's famous Billy Goat Tavern this past weekend, and to put it succinctly, I was horrified. For anyone who has been to the legendary Billy Goat Tavern on lower Michigan Avenue in Chicago, where the smell of grease is strong, where every surface is covered with Chicago Tribune clippings, where the Cubs rule, where pictures of goats and Tribune columnists adorn the walls, and where there is no Pepsi (only Coke) and no fries (only chips), the shock of the pristine Starbuck'd location and feel of the D.C. branch of this fine Chicago institution would be too much to bear.
Not only were there chips and Coke on the menu, but there were even White Sox pennants hanging behind the bar and above the condiment station! The White Sox! In the Billy Goat Tavern! That is blasphemous (unless, of course, it is some roundabout way of transferring the Cubs' curse to the White Sox, in which case I'm all for it).
Furthermore, there was a sign welcoming both elephants and donkeys, something that would be unheard of in the Chicago original where, during the Republican convention of 1944 in Chicago, a sign went up proclaiming "No Republicans Allowed." Perhaps this concession is a political necessity in a political city, but it still goes against the grain of the Billy Goat Tavern tradition.
The burgers are identical, though the buns lack the grease-infusion offered by the decades old grill surface in the Michigan Avenue original. And again, there were chips and Coke. That's a slap in the face to tradition.
I think I will be reserving my Billy Goat visits for the Chicago original. This D.C. location has sold out and sold out badly.
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Declare Victory and Come Home?
On Wednesday President Bush will give a speech about our current situation in Iraq. Though he has been giving the same speech about staying the course and "we'll stand down when Iraqis stand up", expect this speech to be a bit different. Though they will never admit it, Bush administration officials must recognize that Rep. Murtha's comments about redeploying our troops have had an effect on the debate about Iraq. Suddenly we have seen a shift from some administration officials about when that "stand down when Iraqis stand up" might happen. Seemingly, it is when American public opinion says so and has little to do with the actual readiness of Iraqi security forces. Recent comments by Secretary Rice and others have chipped away at the notion that we will really stay until the situation improves. From the Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Starts Laying Groundwork for Significant Troop Pullout From Iraq
By Paul Richter and Tyler Marshall, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON — Even as debate over the Iraq war continues to rage, signs are emerging of a convergence of opinion on how the Bush administration might begin to exit the conflict.
In a departure from previous statements, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said this week that the training of Iraqi soldiers had advanced so far that the current number of U.S. troops in the country probably would not be needed much longer.
President Bush will give a major speech Wednesday at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., in which aides say he is expected to herald the improved readiness of Iraqi troops, which he has identified as the key condition for pulling out U.S. forces.
The administration's pivot on the issue comes as the White House is seeking to relieve enormous pressure by war opponents. The camp includes liberals, moderates and old-line conservatives who are uneasy with the costly and uncertain nation-building effort.
Now it should be clear to all that Iraqi forces have not made miraculous strides in the last few weeks. To suggest otherwise is nonsense. The Iraqi security forces are, for the most part, just as inept as they were a few months ago when the Bush administration was saying that we were in it for the long haul and wouldn't abandon the Iraqi people. Suddenly, however, we're declaring Iraq ready to go, and we're doing so right when political dissent against the war has been coming from all sides. Very convenient.
And all of this is unfortunate. Leaving now would be bad for America's security image in the world (the weakening of which precipitated our battle against terrorism in the first place), and would be bad for the Iraqi people since security forces are simply not ready to take over. On the other hand, there is something to be said for the notion that our withdrawal would make the insurgency wither substantially, as all groups in Iraq seem to agree that the coalition presence is the major impetus for violence and that lacking an American target, the terrorists would quickly be seen for what they are: murderers and criminals.
That is not to say that things would work themselves out if we left, for a sectarian power grab conflict (a nice phrase for a low-level civil war) would undoubtedly erupt, but a lack of foreign targets in Iraq would quickly change the dynamics of good versus bad in Iraq. Some clarity in that regard, for the Iraqi people, would do the country some good. If Iraqis hate the terrorists but resent the American presence, they will be silent. If they have only the terrorists to resist, I think we would see results.
Again, all of this is an unfortunate outgrowth of a poorly implemented plan for remaking the Middle East. The Neocon plan for spreading democracy through the Middle East was and is a noble one that I support, but its admirable vision has been tarnished by a Bush administration which almost willfully chose to undermine the success of that vision through poor implementation. We needed more troops from the outset, but now find ourselves stuck with not enough boots on the ground to win, and just enough not to lose. That is not a tenable position for our military. On that account, Murtha is right to call for a redeployment of forces.
So what are we left with? We have an Iraq that hasn't improved much in the past few months, which still lacks an adequate state security apparatus, and suddenly the Bush administration has decided that since it is losing ground across the political spectrum, we can just declare victory and come home. That is a weak option, but among our feeble choices, it may unfortunately be our best.
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Review: Istanbul: Memories And The City, By Orhan Pamuk
Upon leaving Turkey in December 2003 a friend gave me a copy of Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red, as a farewell gift. As I waited in the Ankara airport at 5am for the ticket counter to open for the day, I worked my way through the book. It is a murder mystery set in the late Ottoman period. Each chapter in the story is told from the perspective of a different character and as a result the reader sees the intrigue of the murder and the drama of the Sultan's court in vivid detail.
Or so I have heard. I never actually finished that book for a variety of reasons (I'm generally not a big fan of fiction/mysteries, I hadn't slept the night before, etc.), but I now have a greater urge to come back to it. After reading Pamuk's Istanbul: Memories and the City, it is much easier to see where the author's motivations for literature come from, and why he chooses the characters and themes that he does. Istanbul is a wonderful memoir of both the author's early life and the city that he has called home. Critics of Pamuk often say that his style is too depressing and melancholy to be enjoyable, but in Istanbul, Pamuk explains where this feeling, hüzün in Turkish, comes from. In many ways, Pamuk's own childhood experiences and emotions parallel the hüzün he senses in Istanbul, the once great capital of the Byzantine and then Ottoman empires.
For those who have spent any extended period in Istanbul, this memoir of the city and of its greatest contemporary author is a must-read. Pamuk describes the mood and aura of the city perfectly: a once magnificent capital of the world, chalked full of a history that its residents can never shake, engulfed in a past that weighs down their present but also defines their unique future. His accounts of wandering the back streets of Beyoğlu, Üsküdar, Nişantaşı and Taksim will bring back wonderful memories to those who have done the same. His descriptions of the sights of the city, along with the many old photographs included in the pages, offer a sense of Istanbul that many sense and taste, but few can describe and make real.
For those of you out there who have not been to Istanbul, however, Pamuk's narrative provides a brilliant tale of childhood imagination that we can all relate to. Pamuk shows through stories and his own memories how his world view developed alongside the city that he alternatively resented, loved, fought with and embraced. His stories of fighting with his brother, of knowing but not knowing about his father's mistresses, of skipping school so he could explore the city, of watching yet another yali (an old wooden Ottoman summer house on the Bosphorus) burn into the night, of living on the edge of a changing 1960's bourgeois elite, of finding himself amidst it all - these stories provide the reader with a true accounting of a life and a city.
Having neglected My Name Is Red (and Pamuk's other novel, Snow) for the past three years, Istanbul has provided me with an insight into the inspiration behind Pamuk's work in such a way that I am anxious to crack open his two works of fiction. Istanbul: Memories and the City is highly recommended.
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Oily Participants
Last week a document obtained by The Washington Post showed that, contrary to their testimony, representatives from several big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force to craft energy policy. When questioned by Sen. Lautenberg (D-NJ) about whether they or their representatives participated in these meetings, just about all of the oil executives had flat out denied it. Of course, they were lying.
Well, according to the GOP, it all depends on the definition of "participation". Huh?
Yesterday, Marnie Funk, a spokeswoman for the GOP staff of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, one of the two panels that convened the hearing, said its lawyers had reached a preliminary conclusion: Based on a court decision in which two groups unsuccessfully challenged the secrecy of the Cheney task force, Funk said the executives appeared to be telling the truth.
"What we simply determined was that the definition of 'participation' was something litigated, and what the court concluded was that attending meetings, and even making presentations, did not rise to the level of fully participating," Funk said.
If being at an energy task force meeting, giving presentations and speaking candidly with those who make the decisions is not considered "participation" I don't know what is.
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The Winter issue of The Washington Quarterly, the international policy journal I currently work for, is now available online. Check it out. There is a section of five articles on various aspects of U.S.-China relations, as well as a spattering of articles included in our "Provocations" section about defeating insurgencies, German foreign policy, the legacy of the Soviet era in Russian political culture, and the future prospects of the European Union, among other topics. It's worth a read, especially if you're feeling particularly wonkish today.
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Israel Gets Centered
Israeli politics are about to get a shake-up. Ariel Sharon is announcing today that he will leave the Likud Party and found a new somewhat centrist party. I see this as a great thing for both Israeli politics and for the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Since the beginning of this second intifada, the two major parties in Israeli politics, Labor and Likud, have become characatures of themselves. Labor has shrunk from its responsibilities to be a strong alternative voice for peace and has instead embraced almost unconditional withdrawl as its party platform. On the other side, Likud has continued its never-ending battle between ardent nationalistic hawks like Benjamin Netanyahu and more centrist and reasonable leaders like (gulp) Ariel Sharon.
Mr. Sharon, 77, has been battling self-styled "rebels'' within Likud who opposed the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and four small settlements in the West Bank last summer as a violation of the party's principles and history. The rebels have been led by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who quit the cabinet just before a final vote approving the Gaza withdrawal.
While he has kept his intentions to himself, Mr. Sharon has told intimates that he would like to be the leader who defines, at last, the borders of Israel. He has said that he does not want to be a prime minister whose hands are bound by a party that opposes territorial compromise with the Palestinians and would object to any significant Israeli pullback in the occupied West Bank.
Certainly there is something in this move that is motivated by Sharon's quest for a proud legacy. Every leader wants to be the one who finally brokers a lasting peace. But more importantly, a centrist party in Israel - one that won't back down to the obfuscations of the Palestinian leadership but which will still seek reasonable peace - is desparately needed. Sharon's move to kick settlers out of Gaza this past summer was a brilliant move. He gave the Palestinians what they wanted - Israel out of at least some of their territory - while making the Palestinian leadership prove that it can govern and control its newfound territory. The jury is still out on that part of it.
Sharon's move, along with Labor's unexpected rejection of long time party leader Shimon Peres and subsequent sprint out of the grand coalition government and into the arms of its peacenik left, will force new elections sometime in the next 90 days. In combination with the Palestinian legislative elections set for January, the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace may change dramatically in the near future. With any luck Netanyahu will be isolated on the right fringe with the rest of the unreasonable Likud stalwarts and Amir Peretz, Labor's new lefty leader, will see a similar fate as Peres and a few other Labor moderates jump ship to join Sharon's new party.
I see this all as a good thing for Israel and, potentially, for the Palestinians. 2006 could be a big year.
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Quick Exit, Foiled
This picture is just too funny to pass up:
After fielding some tough questions at a news conference in Beijing, Bush tried to make a quick exit only to find that his chosen escape route, the big wooden doors to his right, were locked. He then had to awkwardly field a few more questions before being directed out of the room by his personal aide. What is with the Bush presidents and awkward moments in Asia (see George H. W. Bush puking on the Japanese prime minister in 1992)?
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The Nuge Chimes In
However unintentional, it seems to be Kenyon Week here at Nothing Aside. This time the contributor is none other than Kenyon's president, S. Georgia Nugent (affectionately known as "The Nuge" or "G. Nugget" by students). Writing as part of a series on colleges for Slate, Nugent takes up the issue of moral and ethical development as an important part of one's complete education. Perhaps she has been spending a bit of time in Horowitz House with our esteemed Political Science faculty?
But what of the emphasis on moral development? On the same national survey of faculty, only 69 percent identified "developing moral character" as the most important aspect of a college education, and only 39 percent chose "enhancing spiritual development." When I have asked my faculty colleagues their views, they say they are too "modest" to assert the ability to develop moral character and too wary, in today's political climate, to meddle in students' spiritual development. Perhaps it's time for me and my fellow presidents to draft the syllabus for that capstone course in metaphysics with which the presidents used to send their graduates off into the world.
What would be the syllabus for such a course? My response—not at all flippant—would be: It doesn't matter. What I'm talking about is not a required reading list; rather it is an experience of understanding and growth that might take a myriad of forms. The goal is not mastery of a subject but maturity as an adult—attaining a degree of self-understanding, an appreciation for the limits of the human condition, empathy for others, and a sense of responsibility for civil society. For me, as a classicist, the syllabus would probably focus on the Homeric epics and Greek tragedy. These texts have, to my mind, almost unparalleled power to anchor us in the world and confront us with both our wrenching limitations and our soaring possibilities as human beings. But for another colleague, the entire syllabus would be Melville's Moby Dick; for another, such a course would consist of teaching his students to construct a scientific instrument by hand; for a fourth, the course might be organic chemistry taught inductively through group discussion. What matters is not the subject but the sensibility. In fact, each of these hypothetical courses is one I have known a fine faculty member to teach, in a way that offered not information "to pass the exam" but the wisdom of a life-changing experience.
Kenyon's emphasis on the roots of the liberal arts education are, I think, stronger than most schools like it. For the best example of what Kenyon is all about though, I must refer back to the speech given by David Foster Wallace at my commencement last May.
Now that I am out of Kenyon, I really see how unique the liberal arts education is and how far it can take students. Too often here in Washington I find myself surrounded by overly-ambitious students (often from George Washington University, though the others are no less guilty) who don't know the first thing about political philosophy, the roots of our socio-political motivations or our responsibility to civic virtue. Since their first day of college they have been studying "Eastern European Security Issues", "Weapons Proliferation in Latin America" or some other equally admirable yet obscure and precise topic. All of these classes and subjects are of great interest, but without the theory behind the practice, what good is it all? If you don't know what Rousseau is blabbering on about, or don't comprehend why Aristotle would bother with a few words on political ethics, each real world crisis of our present day will be an unnerving surprise. If we have the right "sensibility" and the right degree of "self-understanding", as Nugent says, we'll be prepared to face what comes next with confidence and control. That is what a true education is all about.
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Taking A Look At Lebanon
For those of you who have an interest in the future of Lebanon, be sure to read (or continue reading) Michael Totten's on-the-ground accounts of life in the "new" Lebanon now that Syria has officially pulled its military out. But for some of the more down-and-dirty political details of Lebanon's limp towards fuller democracy free of violence and extremism, be sure to read Chris DeVito's online article in Foreign Policy. He looks at the potential leaders in Lebanese politics who could legitimately take on and challenge the influence and bully-like behavior of Hezbollah. Not an easy task in a country that is all too familiar with conflict and the politics of brutes.
Full disclosure: Chris is yet another Kenyon alum, just a year ahead of me, working for a prominent foreign policy publication. We're everywhere! If I remember correctly, while at Kenyon Chris studied the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and issues in that region quite extensively. He knows his stuff.
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Now we know why Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) didn't want to have the energy executives sworn in during their hearing before the joint Energy and Commerce committees last week: they were lying through their teeth.
A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.
The executives were not under oath when they testified, so they are not vulnerable to charges of perjury; committee Democrats had protested the decision by Commerce Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) not to swear in the executives. But a person can be fined or imprisoned for up to five years for making "any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or representation" to Congress.
Toward the end of the hearing, Lautenberg asked the five executives: "Did your company or any representatives of your companies participate in Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001?" When there was no response, Lautenberg added: "The meeting . . . "
"No," said Raymond.
"No," said Chevron Chairman David J. O'Reilly.
"We did not, no," Mulva said.
They blatantly lied to Congress. No doubt they knew questions about the task force meeting would come up in the hearing, and no doubt Senator Stevens knew this as well. It seems fairly clear that Stevens' forceful rejection of calls from Democrats to swear in the witnesses was an effort to allow false statements to be made. (Note: When half a dozen Major League Baseball players were called to testify before Congress about steroid use, they were all sworn in).
While I'm not sure if there is any strong reason to nail the Bush administration for meeting only with energy executives and not environmentalists and others during its energy task force meetings in the summer of 2001, the flagrant acceptance of false statements by Stevens is something that should be looked into. He knew they would perjure themselves, and therefore used his power as chairman to keep the testimony from being under oath. That is an abuse of power.
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Elevating Youth Voices, Building Youth Skills for Health Design
Impact Area Adolescents & Youth, Sexual & Reproductive Health
By: Melissa Higbie, PSI's Adolescents 360 Director, and Amy Uccello, PSI's SR. ASRHR Technical Advisor
The statistics underscore the urgency.
Across sub-Saharan African, two in five girls still have an unmet need for modern contraception–despite decades of concerted efforts across the public health community to evolve and adapt how we approach adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (ASRHR) programming.
And we believe it's, in part, because young people's voices usually inform but have rarely meaningfully co-created the solutions that serve them.
Through PSI's youth-powered programming, we've learned that by working with and for young people, to co-design alongside diverse experts, we can reimagine how adolescents and youth perceive and access modern contraception, and drive toward a future in which all young people can dare to dream.
That's why PSI is pledging to identify, train and deploy a corps of 500 young people from around the world with the skills to co-design and implement ASRHR programs alongside technical experts—all by 2030.  These Youth Fellows will be employed as practitioners in programs within and beyond PSI, working as researchers, analysts, advocates and community-level champions who can counsel teams on how to apply meaningful youth engagement (MYE). And, through intergenerational and peer-to-peer mentorship, they will be supported to develop the confidence and skills needed to successfully influence and deliver public health programming.
But it doesn't end there.
The pledge is part of our larger, cohesive global vision to work alongside cross-sectoral partners to establish quality standards for representative youth leadership, to determine how to track the impact of MYE and to create pathways to bring in youth at younger ages and provide them with opportunities that extend well beyond the fellowship, itself.
Because to achieve a world in which every young person – every girl, and every boy – can access contraception, a shift requires us all – public health practitioners, donors and partners, alike – to get youth-powered, together.
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A360 Tanzania Young Designer Rosemary Nazar announces PSI's Commitment to Global, Meaningful Youth Leadership at ICPD25 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Young Leaders at the Helm
PSI works alongside 680+ young leaders to co-create and co-implement youth-powered programs across our global network. From the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Children's Investment Fund Foundation co-funded Adolescents 360 (A360), to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs-funded Project Ignite, our young PSIers allow us to step deep into our youngest consumers lives, to understand the diversity of their self-defined needs, and the holistic approach required to program in response.
It's a shift from youth-centered to youth-powered.
With young people at the helm, we've made substantial inroads (and still know, we've got a long way to go) in what it takes to reframe modern contraception as relevant, valuable and accessible.
And through it, we've captured the learnings that you too can apply:
1. Start with Her Goal, Not Ours
PSI approaches contraception with a youth lens. We lead with young people's self- defined dreams; we put power in their hands; and we meet young people where, when and how they say they need.
What does it really mean to listen to young people define their dreams? Watch this webinar hosted by PSI, Save the Children and FP2020.
2. Aim to Serve the Whole Girl – and Go Where that Leads Us
Young people's goals and aspirations fall within and beyond the realm of health, particularly toward livelihoods and education. We will continue to ensure the relevance and value of ASRHR services to young people's lives by connecting services to young people's aspirations, as they define for themselves. And we will partner for impact across sectors.
Explore how the KfW Development Bank and USAID-funded Project N'zatonse delivers combined health, income generation and social development activities for Malawi's most vulnerable youth.
3. Adapt and Fail Forward
What got us here will not get us to where young people need us to go.
To deliver impact for young people, we must stay ahead of the curve, anticipating the current and emerging challenges young people face in accessing needed care.
And those challenges are only becoming more complex—particularly as climate change increasingly threatens the stability of the health systems and markets on which young people rely.
PSI remains unafraid to ask new and hard questions, learn in real-time, and adapt (and fail) forward. We do all of this in partnership with young people and local health systems, building lasting local capacity for adolescent-responsive programming.
In Tanzania, A360 engages youth "SWAT" teams, namely young people who serve as on-site "eyes" during A360 events.
Leveraging their own youth perspective, they tell us what's working and flag what's not – allowing us to make programmatic adjustments in real-time.
Here's how.
4. Bringing Care Closer to Young People
A key part of youth-powered programming is understanding—and delivering—on young people's self-expressed priorities.
Young people have traditionally been expected to meet health systems where they are. But at PSI, we're flipping the script.
We meet young people where they say they are and how they say they need. PSI's market-agnostic approach to diagnosis means that we stay open to leveraging and strengthening all service delivery channels that young people desire.
We approach our work with an unbridled curiosity – we, alongside young people, the influencers around them and the health systems that serve them, commit to innovating, whenever necessary, to bring care as close to young people's door as possible, and in ways that are engaging, dignifying, and fun.
In Mozambique, Aquele Papo – a social behavior change campaign powered by PSI Mozambique's ASRHR programs Vale a Pena and Ignite and developed for adolescents by adolescents – combines in-school showings of the campaign's feature film with fun, pop-up events where young people learn about their bodies and gain life skills, with the option for free contraceptive counseling with a youth-friendly nurse.
5. Elevate Youth Voices
Nothing for young people, without young people.
PSI believes in the right of young people to shape the lives they desire. Young people join us as equal decision-makers to co-create and implement the programs that serve them.
PSI works to clear the path for young people to exercise their power, and we offer our platform as a means to amplify their voice and vision.
Access to contraception is not just about protecting girls from an unintended pregnancy today; it's about putting power in girls' hands so they can achieve their life dreams, now and into the future.
Through MYE and effective youth-adult partnerships, we help bring young people together with disciplinary experts to chart new and groundbreaking paths forward for ASRHR. And with it, we're continually working with partners across health-and non-health sectors to explore and evolve what it looks like to engage young people meaningfully, authentically and effectively – for lasting value for ASRHR programming, within and beyond PSI.
Onward we go.
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IT'S TIME TO MAKE SELF-INJECTABLE CONTRACEPTIVES A NORM IN UGANDA
By Precious Mutoru, Advocacy and Partnerships Coordinator, PSI Uganda Earlier this month, I spoke with Dr. Livingstone Makanga, Assistant Commissioner Reproductive and Infant Health Division at Uganda's Ministry of Health (MoH), to talk about
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The Z22 Blond Silk Cashmere Dark pendant has a handcrafted blond bamboo frame sheathed in hand-woven dark silk-cashmere that leaves the upper and lower portions of the pendant uncovered, the color and weave of this particular fixture lending it an almost tribal feel. The fabric, sourced from Afghanistan from a company that employs local women to knit shawls, is tied to the frame by hand, the textural quality of the woven shade filtering the emitted light to cast dreamy patterns on surrounding surfaces.
The fixtures are "handmade" in the truest sense of the word so longer lead-times may apply and slight variations in the profiles of each pendant may exist. Ay Illuminate keeps true to their commitment to protect the environment by producing this fixture free of any chemicals, preserving the beauty of these natural materials.


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Q: one to one bidirectional hibernate mapping I was trying to implement hibernate one-to-one bidirectional mapping between Person class and Address class using annotation. While running the program it gave me some errors
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    at org.hibernate.type.EntityType.getIdentifier(EntityType.java:397)
    at org.hibernate.type.ManyToOneType.isDirty(ManyToOneType.java:242)
    at org.hibernate.type.TypeFactory.findDirty(TypeFactory.java:597)
    at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.findDirty(AbstractEntityPersister.java:3123)
    at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.dirtyCheck(DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.java:479)
    at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.isUpdateNecessary(DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.java:204)
    at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.onFlushEntity(DefaultFlushEntityEventListener.java:127)
    at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEntities(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:196)
    at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:76)
    at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:26)
    at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1000)
    at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.managedFlush(SessionImpl.java:338)
    at org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransaction.commit(JDBCTransaction.java:106)
    at com.vaannila.domain.Add.main(Add.java:58)

following are my classes
Person.java
package com.vaannila.domain;

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.OneToOne;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.JoinTable;
import javax.persistence.OneToMany;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

@Entity
@Table(name = "PERSON")
public class Person implements Serializable {

private long personId;
private String personName;
private Address personAddress;
    private Set<Phone> personPhoneNumbers = new HashSet<Phone>(0);

public Person() {
}

public Person(String personName, Address personAddress, Set<Phone> personPhoneNumbers) {
    this.personName = personName;
    this.personAddress = personAddress;
            this.personPhoneNumbers = personPhoneNumbers;
}

@Id
@GeneratedValue
@Column(name = "PERSON_ID")
public long getPersonId() {
    return this.personId;
}

public void setPersonId(long personId) {
    this.personId = personId;
}

@Column(name = "PERSON_NAME", nullable = false, length = 100)
public String getPersonName() {
    return this.personName;
}

public void setPersonName(String personName) {
    this.personName = personName;
}

@OneToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
public Address getPersonAddress() {
    return this.personAddress;
}

public void setPersonAddress(Address personAddress) {
    this.personAddress = personAddress;
}

    @OneToMany
    @JoinTable(name = "PERSON_PHONE", joinColumns =
    { @JoinColumn(name = "PERSON_ID") }, inverseJoinColumns =
    { @JoinColumn(name = "PHONE_ID") })
    public Set<Phone> getPersonPhoneNumbers() {
        return personPhoneNumbers;
    }

    public void setPersonPhoneNumbers(Set<Phone> personPhoneNumbers) {
        this.personPhoneNumbers = personPhoneNumbers;
    }

}

Addres.java
package com.vaannila.domain;

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.OneToOne;
import javax.persistence.Table;

@Entity
@Table(name = "ADDRESS")
public class Address implements Serializable {

private long addressId;
private String street;
private String city;
private String state;
private String zipcode;
    private Person person;

public Address() {
}

@Id
@GeneratedValue
@Column(name = "ADDRESS_ID")
public long getAddressId() {
    return this.addressId;
}

public void setAddressId(long addressId) {
    this.addressId = addressId;
}

@Column(name = "ADDRESS_STREET", nullable = false, length=250)
public String getStreet() {
    return this.street;
}

public void setStreet(String street) {
    this.street = street;
}

@Column(name = "ADDRESS_CITY", nullable = false, length=50)
public String getCity() {
    return this.city;
}

public void setCity(String city) {
    this.city = city;
}

@Column(name = "ADDRESS_STATE", nullable = false, length=50)
public String getState() {
    return this.state;
}

public void setState(String state) {
    this.state = state;
}

@Column(name = "ADDRESS_ZIPCODE", nullable = false, length=10)
public String getZipcode() {
    return this.zipcode;
}

public void setZipcode(String zipcode) {
    this.zipcode = zipcode;
}

    @OneToOne
    public Person getPerson() {
        return person;
    }

    public void setPerson(Person person) {
        this.person = person;
    }

}

Phone.java
/*
 * To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
 * and open the template in the editor.
 */

package com.vaannila.domain;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Table;

/**
*
* @author junaid
*/
@Entity
@Table(name = "PHONE")
public class Phone implements java.io.Serializable {

private long phoneId;
private String phoneType;
private String phoneNumber;

public Phone() {
}

public Phone(String phoneType, String phoneNumber) {
    this.phoneType = phoneType;
    this.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;
}

@Id
@GeneratedValue
@Column(name = "PHONE_ID")
public long getPhoneId() {
    return this.phoneId;
}

public void setPhoneId(long phoneId) {
    this.phoneId = phoneId;
}

@Column(name = "PHONE_TYPE", nullable = false, length=10)
public String getPhoneType() {
    return this.phoneType;
}

public void setPhoneType(String phoneType) {
    this.phoneType = phoneType;
}

@Column(name = "PHONE_NUMBER", nullable = false, length=15)
public String getPhoneNumber() {
    return this.phoneNumber;
}

public void setPhoneNumber(String phoneNumber) {
    this.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;
}

}

Main class
  package com.vaannila.domain;

 import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
 import org.hibernate.Session;
 import org.hibernate.Transaction;

 import com.vaannila.util.HibernateUtil;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Set;

 public class Add {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().openSession();
    Transaction transaction = null;
    try {
        transaction = session.beginTransaction();

                    //Transaction for person 1 start
                    Address address1 = new Address();
                    address1.setCity("Bangalore");
                    address1.setState("Karnataka");
                    address1.setStreet("Ring Road");
                    address1.setZipcode("560000");

                    Set<Phone> phoneNumbers = new HashSet<Phone>();
                    phoneNumbers.add(new Phone("house","32354353"));
                    phoneNumbers.add(new Phone("mobile","9889343423"));

                    Person person = new Person();
                    person.setPersonName("Junaid");
                    person.setPersonAddress(address1);
                    person.setPersonPhoneNumbers(phoneNumbers);

                    session.save(person);
                     //Transaction for person 1 end

                     //Transaction for person 2 start
                    Set<Phone> phoneNumbers2 = new HashSet<Phone>();
                    phoneNumbers2.add(new Phone("house","32354353"));
                    phoneNumbers2.add(new Phone("mobile","9889343423"));

                    Person person1 = new Person();
                    person1.setPersonName("Wayne");
                    person1.setPersonPhoneNumbers(phoneNumbers2);

                    Address address2 = new Address();
                    address2.setCity("Chennai");
                    address2.setState("Tamil Nadu");
                    address2.setStreet("OMR Road");
                    address2.setZipcode("4000");
                    address2.setPerson(person1);

        session.save(address2);
                     //Transaction for person 2 end

        transaction.commit();
    } catch (HibernateException e) {
        transaction.rollback();
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        session.close();
    }

}

 }

All tables are getting created, but when deleting the table, all except Person and Address is not getting deleted.
Can anyone please help me?
Thanks in advance.

A: Got it working guys.
i missed out mappedBy property. After adding that its working fine.
@OneToOne(mapperdBy="personAddress")
public Person getPerson() {
    return person;
}

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Fair Warning: I was not impressed with this Roasted Apple Butter recipe; employ at your own risk.
I love preserving. Correction: I love the idea of preserving. Concentrating fruits to their purest essences, brining carrots and peppers and beans in a sweet and spicy elixir, rows of sparkly jars on the sheves, sharing these jars with friends and family. It also involves a lot of work, a lot of space, a lot of dirtied pots and pans and stovetops and cabinets, and a lot of produce to produce a very small yield. I did not let this daunt me, however, and had my intentions set on plucking apples from trees in a rolling orchard and honouring them with a special treatment, not unlike last year's attempts at Christine Ferber's delicious recipe for apple compote.
Well, folks, the plans fell through. We never made it to the apple orchard after all. We got rained out and colds were running rampant among certain members of the crew so we put the road trip on hold indefinitely. Instead, I had to get my apple fix at St. Lawrence Market and rely on the kindness of a friend to drive me home with ten pounds of apples. My apple butter recipe calls for a mix of sweet apples to add complexity, so I elected McIntosh and Northern Spy.
I'm not a big apple snacker. When I do indulge, I prefer hard, crisp, cold apples…preferably Granny Smith. I wanted something a little more local, though, and McIntosh apples are deeply rooted in Canadian history dating back to about 1811 when they were discovered on the McIntosh homestead in Dundas, Ontario. Known for its red and green skin, semi-tart flavour and tender white flesh, it's been a popular staple in many students' school lunches because of its smallish size and healthful properties.
Northern Spy apples also come into season a little later and have a similar colouring but are known for its firmer flesh and rich, sweet aromatic flavour. I thought the two would complement each other in the apple butter…so on with the adventure.
This recipe came to me by way of a newish cookbook in my collection: Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It. The book has some marvelous ideas for making more of your unconventional food items like marshmallows, jerky, cheese, olives, ketchup, etc. I found these recipes immensely appealing and was eager to try one. Now I know that apple butter is not a stretch for the home preserver. In fact, it's one of the rather simple things to make; one doesn't need to worry so much about the alchemy that causes fruit to gel and set. This recipe, however, calls for roasting the peeled-and-quartered apples for a couple of hours and then pureeing them with the additional seasonings. This was a nice alternative to the traditional stove-top stewing method and is meant to enhance the colour and flavours. Easy peasy.
Well, it was sort of easy. But it was also messy. I nearly destroyed two of my best baking sheets in the process. I lined them both with foil and gave them a spray of oil to prevent the apples from sticking. After two hours in the oven, the apples joyfully carmelized and fused to every exposed surface of the pan. Even the foil couldn't be removed. It was a nightmare. So I scraped off as much of the mush as I could and processed it in the Cuisinart for a good long time.
Glory be: those ten pounds of apples produced a frugal 4.5 jars of sticky, cinnamony, beige spread. The flavour was fine, but I doubt I'd ever make it again. I had to use my power steamer to clean the baking sheets and the recipe has left me a tad nervous to try another recipe from the book. But I've already used the apple butter in a vegan banana bread recipe, so good things have come from the experience.


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namespace ui {

//!
//! \brief Formats an error message to fit on screen.
//!
//! Given the program's name and an error message, properly formats it to
//! fit on screen.
//!
//! The program's name is not stored globally to prevent the usage of this
//! function from inside the library.  Making it a explicit parameter
//! restricts its usage to the frontend.
//!
std::string format_error(const std::string&, const std::string&);

//!
//! \brief Formats an informational message to fit on screen.
//!
//! Given the program's name and an informational message, properly formats
//! it to fit on screen.
//!
//! The program's name is not stored globally to prevent the usage of this
//! function from inside the library.  Making it a explicit parameter
//! restricts its usage to the frontend.
//!
std::string format_info(const std::string&, const std::string&);

//!
//! \brief Formats a block of text to fit nicely on screen.
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//!
std::string format_text(const std::string&);

//!
//! \brief Formats a block of text to fit nicely on screen, prepending a
//! tag to it.
//!
//! Given a text, which is composed of multiple paragraphs separated by
//! a single '\n' character, reformats it to fill on the current screen's
//! width with proper line wrapping.  The text is prepended with a tag;
//! i.e. a word that is printed at the beginning of the first paragraph and
//! optionally repeated at the beginning of each word.  The last parameter
//! specifies the column on which the text should start, and that position
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//! automatically takes the correct value.
//!
std::string format_text_with_tag(const std::string&, const std::string&,
                                 bool, size_t = 0);

//!
//! \brief Formats a warning message to fit on screen.
//!
//! Given the program's name and a warning message, properly formats it to
//! fit on screen.
//!
//! The program's name is not stored globally to prevent the usage of this
//! function from inside the library.  Making it a explicit parameter
//! restricts its usage to the frontend.
//!
std::string format_warning(const std::string&, const std::string&);

} // namespace ui
} // namespace atf

#endif // !defined(_ATF_CXX_UI_HPP_)

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In the context of a global warming, deciphering signaling pathways leading to plant adaptation to drought, water availability, and salt tolerance is a crucial question. A common crossing point of these plant stresses is that they impact water potential (Ψ), which is a thermodynamical parameter indicating the availability of water for the plant biological and biochemical processes such as turgor (P), stomatal aperture or photosynthesis.
Ψ is very difficult to directly measure in plants, which prevents one to develop straightforward strategies to decipher gene regulatory networks (GRN) controlling it. The current project proposes to tackle this limitation by finding sentinel genes reporting rapid changes in water potential (or ΔΨ). The main objective is to develop new dynamic biosensors based on genetic markers that quantitatively indicate the drop in water potential of a plant organ or cell.
Actions planned consist in the characterization of early transcriptomes from samples of roots treated with a range of water potentials. Data will be analyzed to find genes which expression quickly and quantitatively reflects P, Ψ and/or ΔΨ.
A deep analysis of short term regulation of the turgor pressure has been performed on root cortical cells with a cell pressure probe.
This allowed us to calibrate our experimental system prior to plant treatment for RNA extraction.
A transcriptomic analysis has been performed on the samples, revealing the early (15 min) transcriptional changes upon water stress in roots.
About 500 genes are significantly regulated upon water stress imposed by various solutes (PEG, NaCl, sorbitol, EG). Among which a few show a very good correlation between expression level and solution water potential/ turgor pressure. Those will serve as a basis to develop plant water stress sensors.
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>Ward Ethics
>On becoming a "team player": searching for esprit de corps and conflicts of socialization
Ward Ethics
Dilemmas for Medical Students and Doctors in Training
Prologue. Breaking the silence
Letter from a young doctor
On caring for patients
Problems in truth-telling
On becoming a "team player": searching for esprit de corps and conflicts of socialization
Argot, jargon, and questionable humor: assuming the mantle at the patient's expense
Making waves: questioning authority and the status quo
Perceiving misconduct and whistle-blowing: observing peers or superiors commit an act deemed unethical
Epilogue: Using this book
Part II - On becoming a "team player": searching for esprit de corps and conflicts of socialization
Thomasine K. Kushner and
David C. Thomasma
Thomasine K. Kushner
Neiswanger Institute of Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
All relationships within a hospital are based on the authority of one person over another. When medical students first arrive on a hospital ward, they immediately find themselves enmeshed in a pre-existing, well-defined system of hierarchical work relations. Taking their place alongside (or more likely in back of) staff physicians, residents and interns, students join the medical sector of the ward community, which – apart from patients – otherwise consists almost exclusively of people whose work supports the doctors in their therapeutic activities.
Part of the task for any newcomer seeking entry to an established group is to identify, and be identified with, the prevailing culture. Medical education, like other professional socialization experiences, seeks to assimilate individuals into the system by imbuing them with a sense of group solidarity, obeisance, and esprit de corps. The wards in which doctors in training gradually learn to be part of the medical team provide the most powerful structure for this aspect of the socialization process.
Idealistically, and perhaps naively, it is often assumed that, in addition to the acquisition of knowledge and skills, during their apprenticeship on the wards, medical trainees will be exposed to the attitudes and values of senior physicians who, through instruction and example, will nurture those attributes society expects from the medical profession, e.g., compassion, integrity, and a sense of professional ethics. Although this idealistic portrayal of life on the wards sometimes does occur, the history of the emergence of the teaching hospital attests to the hurdles to be overcome and idealism's subsequent rarity.
Edited by Thomasine K. Kushner, University of California, Berkeley, David C. Thomasma
Book: Ward Ethics
Online publication: 05 February 2015


The jaw joint is known as the "temporomandibular joint" (TMJ). TMJ disorders (TMJD) are common, reflecting the busy and stressful nature of our daily lives. Most symptoms of TMJD are mild and do not need treatment. As in other joints of the body, symptoms may go away with time.
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Obstructive sleep apnoea is a disorder in which breathing is briefly and repeatedly interrupted during sleep. For people with sleep apnoea, the combination of disturbed sleep and oxygen starvation may lead to hypertension, heart disease, mood and memory problems. Sleep apnea also increases the risk of automobile crashes.


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In an emergency, you're probably fine as long as Waffle House isn't closed
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In a disaster, the "Waffle House Index" meme gets tossed around as the ultimate barometer for its severity. The story goes that if the famously always-open breakfast joint is open, you're in the clear; be careful if it's serving a limited menu of nonperishable items; and if it's closed altogether, look out. This year's Hurricane Matthew, for example, ended up briefly shuttering a total of 98 outposts, although as many as 477 of them were in the storm's path.
A new article on FiveThirtyEight explores the spread of this index, investigating whether or not it is an accurate measure and what else it might mean. It turns out that, while there isn't a simple, accurate index that anyone keeps track of, Waffle House does keep FEMA in the loop on its preparations, and the restaurant chain is decidedly forward-thinking in those preparations, including staffing internal analysts that predict store closings and monitoring social media to determine any possible supply chain disruptions. The company uses a green-yellow-red designation internally, creating a reliable heat map of how disrupted local infrastructure might be.
Waffle House apparently takes their "always open" branding extremely seriously; it's all hands on deck when something might compromise that. "We say we throw chaos at chaos," Vice President Will Mizell told FiveThirtyEight. "We just throw a lot of resources down there to get restaurants open. Our CEO will be there. In Matthew, our chairman was there, too." For one thing, Waffle House is simply not set up to go off the grid for a few days; as a business, it's designed to be always-open, so maintaining that is hugely important.
But, as the article notes, it also leads to an influx of business. Each Waffle House contains a sign providing employees with tips for hurricane preparedness. It ends: "We will be very busy and you will make lots of money!" The article notes that even disaster-relief crews end up relying on Waffle House as a solid meal in the midst of relief efforts, so you can add "I was stuck in a hurricane-ravaged area" to "I was drunk and someone drove me there" as reasons to eat at a Waffle House.


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Chokalinga Chittibabu, commonly known as  Mayor Chittibabu, was an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament elected from Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Chengalpattu constituency as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in 1967 and 1971 elections. He was first elected to the Madras Corporation in 1958 and was the Mayor of Madras in 1965. He was arrested under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act after Indira Gandhi declared emergency and the DMK government was dismissed in 1976. He was jailed along with DMK leaders and died of injuries due to police torture suffered while trying to save M.K. Stalin in Madras Central Prison.

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M..K Stalin Prison Life

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians
India MPs 1967–1970
India MPs 1971–1977
Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu
Mayors of Chennai
1935 births
1977 deaths
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According to the filing, the bank's board will consider "by way of circular resolution on or after January 2, 2019 the proposal for raising capital by this infusion"
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You can now play 3D Engine Auto + for PC on a desktop/laptop running Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and MacOS/OS X. This can easily be done with the help of BlueStacks or Andy OS Android emulator.
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3. Select the focus mode, and focus on a particular part in a mechanism.
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3D Engine Auto + For PC can be easily installed and used on a desktop computer or laptop running Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and a Macbook, iMac running Mac OS X. This will be done using an Android emulator. To install 3D Engine Auto + For PC, we will use BlueStacks app player. The method listed below is set to help you get 3D Engine Auto + For PC. Go ahead and get it done now.
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For veterans affected by mesothelioma, asbestos law help is an absolute must-and the sooner it's acquired, the better. It's important to realize that asbestos exposure in the military – occurring between the 1930s and 1970s-was irresponsible and negligent, and the parties at fault do need to be held liable for their reckless and careless actions.
It's also important for veterans to know that the U.S. Military is immune from liability and will not be named in any civil action filed by former servicemen and women. Instead, commonly named defendants in personal injury lawsuits related to asbestos-linked illnesses include companies that manufactured, distributed or installed asbestos for military applications.
Most law firms that specialize in mesothelioma litigation offer consultations to potential clients free of change. At this initial meeting, you'll have an opportunity with a legal professional and discuss your options for recourse as well as the specifics of your individual case in detail. At this point, the consulting attorney can also offer you advice and guidance on how to proceed and even whether or not he or she believes your claim is viable.
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China's shift to online sales
When Michael Mayer steps outside his front door, the street market is not far away. Within a matter of minutes, he reaches the Sanyuanli fruit and vegetable market, located in the heart of Beijing. He has not taken his wallet with him for three years. "Across the entire market, people pay only by smartphone. That's still in its infancy in Europe – here it works across the board," says Mayer, Head of Sales and Marketing for the Volkswagen brand in China – this is the country where the corona pandemic first spread.
Tayron GTE - only available on the Chinese market.
Digital world premiere of the Tayron GTE.
And it's the country where digital solutions were already very much part of everyday life, even before the crisis. Even when it comes to buying a car. "Chinese customers always have their smartphone at the ready. That's why online consultation was already well established and accepted before Covid-19," says Mayer. When people didn't go out the door in February, the trend accelerated. 550 Volkswagen models were sold in March in a completely digital process.
This is made possible, for example, by virtual showrooms that car buyers can visit from home without the risk of infection. In the digital showrooms, they can see the vehicles and inquire in real-time about prices and equipment. The number of visitors is high – the FAW-Volkswagen joint venture showroom on the Autohome platform alone has more than 2.5 million customer views. "We are also currently observing a growing interest in car ownership, because many people no longer want to be dependent on public transport," says Mayer.
Michael Mayer: "We are currently observing a growing interest in car ownership."
Live stream from the dealership: "Car salespeople are becoming entertainers," says Michael Mayer.
An increasing number of the more than 2,000 Volkswagen dealerships are also presenting the current model line-up via live streams, some of which reach thousands of viewers. "On average, dealers present a new show every other day on platforms such as TikTok or Kuaishou," Mayer says. The competition is tough. "Those who want to be found must always offer something new."
Car salespeople need new skills in this world. Good product knowledge remains the basis – but if you want to be successful, you have to appear in live streams like a type of TV presenter. "Car salespeople are becoming entertainers," says Mayer. In February, Volkswagen trained more than 70,000 participants in a three-day online training course in the use of live broadcasts and the production of short videos: "After that, the lively experimentation with digital formats began, always to the benefit of the customer." For example, virtual test drives were offered in which the interested parties sit in their living room at home while the dealer streams from the car.
If you want to test a car in a real-life situation, you can book the test drive online and have the car delivered freshly disinfected to your front door. "Dealers naturally remain an important part of our service," says Mayer. Customers also have the car delivered to their home after purchase or use the same service to have it conveniently taken to and from the workshop. From mid-February to the end of March, SAIC VOLKSWAGEN carried out around 18,000 service procedures and deliveries.
Customers like the car to be delivered to their home.
There is currently still one hurdle to overcome in the area of digital payments. The maximum limits of the usual online platforms are not designed for new car purchases. "In individual cases, however, we can already process payments digitally today, for example by online credit agreement," says Mayer.
In the meantime, the car market in China is recovering from the corona-induced slump – Volkswagen expects the situation to normalize by the summer. Mayer assumes that the digitalization of the business will also continue at a rapid pace. "However, this does not mean that we will make pure online sales the standard." He believes it is more important to intelligently digitalize further process steps – and thus to work in a more customer-friendly and cost-effective manner. Shortly before closing, many customers still wished for a personal meeting with their salesperson. Mayer: "They expect that they can negotiate the price. That works best on site. For this reason, we plan to have separate meeting corners in new car dealerships. Even if digital continues to spread, the human aspect must not be forgotten."
During the corona crisis, not only online sales are gaining in importance – major digital events are also becoming more important. On April 25, FAW-Volkswagen presented the Tayron GTE, an SUV with hybrid drive, in a digital world premiere in the newly built live streaming studio. The four-hour broadcast from Changchun reached more than 11 million customer views.
SAIC VOLKSWAGEN organized a dealer conference for the first time in March using an App. The digital format enabled the number of participants to be increased to more than 10,000 viewers. At the same time, costs fell by some 80 percent. The online format was so successful that it will be retained in the future.
SUV with hybrid drive: the Tayron GTE.
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Notes on Lost Temple
Published 30 Nov 2021, last modified 9 Dec 2021
Lost Temple by Dominique Cyprès
I have released my new album Lost Temple on Bandcamp (best place to buy it; name your own price) and on the Internet Archive (best place to download it for free). It is also on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon, and Tidal.
I started releasing albums as an amateur musician just this year (2021) when I finally discovered an instrument (modular synthesizers, or really, a software simulation of them called VCV Rack) on which I felt competent enough to record myself. Lost Temple is my third album and is a little different from the first two, which were for the most part instrumental, ambient music. It's a concept album where every track features recorded speech sampled from the tapes the Federal Bureau of Investigation collected in its investigation of the agricultural commune of Jonestown, Guyana, following the mass death centered there—starting with the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan of California, which was the focus of their investigation, and the murder of four other people who were traveling with him (three members of the press and a Jonestown defector). This attack precipitated the murders and suicides of 909 people in Jonestown and four people in the Guyanese capital, Georgetown, all on the day of 18 November 1978.
To explain the motivation for making the album and indicate context for its source material, here are some notes on the album, broken down by track.
Pound the Walls
The album started with a track I was working on, "Pound the Walls", for which I was building a drumbeat and randomized melodic sounds in a blues scale, and I wanted to bring some speech into it to give it a sort of emotional anchor. So I brought in the spoken phrase "scream, yell, pound the walls" and ran it through a vocoder, giving it a robotic sound that is in tune with the rest of the music. This is now the only vocal sample on the album that doesn't have anything to do with Peoples Temple.
And as I meditated on that phrase, I thought about things that would make me want to scream, yell, and pound the walls, and that led to a memory of a time when I was in high school ca. 2007, and somehow came across the Jonestown "Death Tape", cataloged by the FBI investigation as Q042, which had been digitized and uploaded to the Internet Archive. I had never been able to listen to that tape all the way through, and I still haven't, but I had listened to portions of it and browsed the transcripts that the Jonestown Institute had on its web site. I felt (and still feel) the need to confront some of the social implications of what occurred in Jonestown: how so much authority could become concentrated in one man that he could orchestrate such a horrible thing, and how people came to live in a community that would end in this awful self-destruction. I was particularly disturbed by how it seemed that people were cajoled or coerced into ignoring the protests and obvious suffering of their own children. The immediate physical horror of the scene is obvious, but what really stayed with me was the social horror. Sometimes the line between healthy leadership and a destructive autocracy isn't immediately obvious. Sometimes genuine love for and dedication to a community can be bent toward perverse ends.
So I brought in Jim Jones's opening words on the "Death Tape," a declaration of love for the Jonestown community that, for an outside observer, is contradicted by everything that follows. This gave a new meaning to the other vocal sample I had used, too: "scream, yell, pound the walls" became an expression of the frustration of being powerless to edit history, a frustration that is only productive when sublimated into the will to author a better present. And from there this whole project clicked into place, because I felt that i couldn't leave it there. I knew that listeners unfamiliar with the context would not associate Jim Jones's words with the same complicated questions and feelings they brought up for me, and I discovered that the Jonestown Institute had published, amongst a great wealth of material, many other Peoples Temple tapes. So I decided to work on music that would guide a listener through a sampling of some of that context—not because it can answer any of the important questions about Jonestown and Peoples Temple, but because it might lead someone to start asking them in the first place.
A Private Phone
When I first listened to Q618, a recording of a phone call between then Peoples Temple member Garry Lambrev and former member Liz Forman, I was struck by a moment at the beginning of the conversation, when Forman explicitly raises the possibility that she's being recorded and Lambrev insists that she isn't. I feel this serves as a good introduction to some central thematic tensions in the album. This phone call is supposed to be private, but now the world is listening in. Forman can sense she's been lied to, but she continues the conversation on friendly terms. Lambrev describes Peoples Temple as "a place of protection and love," and yet if someone has heard of Peoples Temple today, the one thing they're most likely to know about it is that its Jonestown project came to a violent end.
Pentecostal Socialism
For this track i posed myself the challenge of building case for joining Peoples Temple, directed at myself. It's important to understand that many people had sensible reasons for joining this community. So worked with excerpts of a Jim Jones sermon I found especially compelling, one delivered in Philadelphia in spring 1977 and recorded on tape Q987. At the most vulnerable point of my life, when I needed community direction, and guarantees of stable food and housing, this message might have drawn me in.
When We Do It There's a Revolution
It was important to me to bring the voices of children into the album as a way of acknowledging their presence in Jonestown. This scholastic debate about the competing socioeconomic philosophies of capitalism and socialism from tape Q668 is also an example of people other than Jim Jones digesting and articulating their understanding of Peoples Temple's mission and ideology. It is a moment of levity, as the children manage to crack endearingly puerile jokes even as they engage with serious issues. At times they express the simplest and most optimistic utopian vision of what Jonestown can accomplish: a self-sustaining, truly egalitarian community. In order to understand how things went wrong, it is necessary to understand what things were supposed to look like if they went right. I think this recording offers a glimpse of it.
The title comes from a mishearing of the line "what we'd do if there's a revolution," but I felt it captured the utopian impulse of the track.
The supernatural element of Jim Jones's message—whether it be dramatic faith healings, "discernments" gleaned from covert Peoples Temple surveillance of potential members, or occasional demonstrations of mediumship and necromancy–was a significant draw for some Peoples Temple members in the United States, though not a core element of the Jonestown project's mission. To present an especially dramatic example, I sampled clips from Q928, in which Jim Jones conducts a supposedly unplanned séance, having detected a lost spirit in the room.
Jonestown Chorus
This is something different from the rest of the album, a sound collage that attempts to surround the listener with overlapping recordings that represent different dimensions of thought that were active in Jonestown life: artistic (Q172, a musical performance of the Jonestown Express), practical (Q039, Judy and Patty Houston describing daily life as children in Jonestown in a probably rehearsed message to their grandfather in the United States on the day they died), political (interlude from Q668, paraphrased readings from George Jackson's prison letters published as Soledad Brother; and Q331, reading of the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), and personal (Q274, Jose Simon delivering an autobiographical sketch). The impression I hope people get from this track is that they are encountering a massive and complicated community of human beings; that's what Jonestown was.
Violent Revolutionaries
This track features Q659 and a short clip from Q714, recordings of Peoples Temple members starting their names and declaring themselves "violent revolutionaries." These recordings have a complicated context: they were the audiotape version of the known Peoples Temple practice of directing members to sign elaborate confessions to fictitious crimes, or to sign blank paper to be used for the same purpose, a practice intended to disincentivize defection and the leaking of information about the organization's inner workings. But even without this context, it is obvious that something strange is going on that is not being said; the exact words of many of these statements vary very little from one another, some people struggle to say them and instead offer halting and unconvincing constructions like "I'm a violent revolution… I want to overthrow the country." And this is to say nothing about how foolhardy it would be for people who truly were trying to instigate "violent revolution" to produce documents that serve no discernable purpose except to incriminate their authors should they ever be discovered. At times the effect is almost funny; some even seem to giggle a little as they speak. But overall it's an unsettling listening experience, repetitive and conspicuously disingenuous, that hints at the layers of deception and coercion that occurred in this community.
When Is Going to Be the Time
The audio here comes from Q775, in which Marceline Jones and Linda Sharon Amos, both figures in the inner circle of Peoples Temple leadership, surreptitiously record a visit to former members Linda and Clara Swaney in which they attempt to convince Linda Swaney to return. However, the Swaney sisters raise a number of serious concerns about Peoples Temple: that members work to the point of exhaustion toward unproductive ends, that the real "cause" around which everything is organized is a man (Jim Jones) prone to constant manipulation, and that Jim Jones relies on his godlike image within the organization to empower him to "use" his followers sexually in a way that threatens their mental and emotional health.
Not That I'm Afraid
Just after putting together "Pound the Walls," I wanted to balance out Jim Jones's voice with another voice from the "Death Tape," that of Christine Miller, who made an admirable attempt to talk Jones down from what he was about to commence. As a parent of two young children myself I was particularly moved by this simple line: "I look at our babies and I think they deserve to live, you know?" I think so too.
The high-pitched, theremin-like melody at the end of the track was something I improvised at the the time of recording, just an expression of the raw feeling I felt when I heard Christine Miller say those words, knowing that ultimately they were not heeded.
Mr. Fraser
This track samples two tapes. One is Q1290, a recording from the office of United States consul Doug Ellice in Georgetown, Guyana, as he and his wife attempt to determine what has delayed Congressman Leo Ryan's departure from Guyana and how to interpret the coded radio transmissions between Peoples Temple radio operators in Jonestown and Georgetown at a time when we now know the deaths in Jonestown had begun.
The other tape is Q875, a recording of news broadcasts and some ambient noise from 19 November, 1978, the day after the deaths in Jonestown. This tape has inspired a number of conspiracy theories because the FBI catalogued it as one of the tapes they collected in Jonestown, suggesting that someone was alive and recording these news broadcasts in Jonestown at a time when everyone still in Jonestown who might have plausibly made the tape there is believed to have died. I happen to subscribe to the mundane theory that Q875 was recorded outside Jonestown, perhaps by members of the Guyana Defence Force, and was miscategorized by the FBI when they were collecting evidence.
But the purpose of using both these recordings here isn't to advance one or another theory about the origin of Q875. Rather, here I wanted to close the album with a coda that captures a moment where the world was only on the cusp of learning what it had already lost. We now know, thanks to an outdated radio codebook recovered from Jonestown, that the messages about "Mr. Fraser" that Doug Ellice repeats on Q1290 mean that many people have died or are dying there; it's chilling to think that people heard this on their shortwave radios and didn't know what it meant. Also present in the track are much-analyzed ambient percussive noises from Q875, the voice of a Guyanese news broadcaster delivering the news about the murders in Port Kaituma that set the whole calamity in motion, and Mrs. Ellice's "Oh no!" when she receives word about the shooting on the airstrip there.
Much more to learn
I really hope that no one who listens to Lost Temple is left with the impression that they've been gifted an adequate understanding of Peoples Temple or of Jonestown; instead I hope that listeners are left with an aesthetic impression of the scale and complexity of the community that lived there.
I also want to guide people who may have only a dim notion about what Jonestown was, filtered through pop culture one-liners over intervening decades, to be open to a more nuanced and sympathetic understanding.
In the public consciousness, Jonestown has become a synecdoche for the concept of "brainwashing," but what brainwashing actually entails at a specific level is not something most of us can enumerate. Given the right inflection, the word can conjure fantastic images of secret hypnotic techniques and labyrinthine torture chambers. But the picture of the road to Jonestown's demise that one gleans from the rich historical record provided by survivors, relatives, and recovered primary source materials—most of which I haven't even touched yet!—is often both less exotic and more alarming than these fantasies. In accounts of abuse and deception directed by Jim Jones and enabled by the organizational structure he put in place, the general form of behavior is sadly familiar, though the details are astonishing in their own way. When we understand that the organizational culture of abuse that ruined Jonestown exists on a continuum with more commonplace abuses, and not in a distinct category of behavior entirely foreign to the experience of most people, we recognize the need to confront these patterns before they cause irreparable harm. This may not be a new idea for those who have personal connections to Peoples Temple, but it is a message the greater public still really needs to hear. Recently I have found Gus Breslauer's article "Cults of our Hegemony: An Inventory of Left-Wing Cults" to be a useful starting point for thinking about this problem in the Marxian and anti-capitalist contexts that are of particular interest to me.
But the people of Jonestown didn't exist to deliver us this message. They were about a thousand fully realized human beings, as complex and contradictory and not fully knowable as any of us, and I hope Lost Temple can lead people to an aesthetic encounter with that reality, more than anything.
I thank my friends J. D. Huffman and DonutShoes for letting me bounce musical ideas off them. Though this wasn't my first introduction to the topic of Peoples Temple and Jonestown, the You're Wrong About podcast episode on it brought it back to mind and piqued my interest in Peoples Temple activities before Jonestown. Once I'd started this project, the Transmissions From Jonestown podcast helped me understand the Peoples Temple tapes from a broad perspective on the group's history, and its host provided some encouraging correspondence that kept me going early on. Jonestown Institute Editor and Research Director Fielding M. McGehee III also graciously corresponded with me when I reached out to explain what I was doing. And of course, the Jonestown Institute generally made this project possible, as without their work to obtain, archive, and publish records of Peoples Temple (including the tapes), I would not have had any of this source material to work from—and would probably have a much poorer understanding of Peoples Temple overall.
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Moody's rates Bacardi Bonds Baa1, stable outlook.
New York, January 18, 2011 -- Moody's today assigned its Baa1 rating to the 10 Year $300 million notes issued by Bacardi Limited. The outlook remains stable.
Bacardi's ratings and stable outlook reflect the company's solid position in the spirits industry, with a number of leading premium and super premium brands, stable cash flows, strong profitability which is enhanced by a favorable tax structure and a moderate leverage profile and a seasoned management team. These positives are offset by the company's more modest size when compared with its larger beverage and consumer products competitors, some concentration on Bacardi rum, exposure to the premium and super premium spirits segment which could come under pressure in a severe economic downturn, some structural subordination due to $350 million of debt ($300 million of which matures in March 2011) guaranteed by Bacardi International Limited (which is not a guarantor under the rated instruments), and private ownership with a less independent board than most public companies.
"An upgrade is not likely at this time", said Linda Montag, Moody's Senior Vice President. To achieve an upgrade Bacardi will need to demonstrate that it can continue to successfully grow its businesses and achieve greater product and geographic diversity while sustaining solid margins, cash flow and a conservative balance sheet. Furthermore, to be considered for an upgrade, Debt to EBITDA should be sustained materially below 2.5 times, Interest coverage would need to be sustained above 8 times (both based on Moody's standard analytic adjustments) and structural subordination at Bacardi International Limited due to the private placement debt maturing in 2011 and 2014 would need to be substantially eliminated.
Downward rating pressure could develop if operating results were to deteriorate or if management were to take any action that significantly increased leverage. Debt to EBITDA materially above 3 times or EBIT/Interest sustained below 5 times (both based on Moody's standard analytic adjustments) could lead to a downgrade.
The last rating action was on August 24th when we assigned a Prime-2 rating to Bacardi Limited and its Guaranteed subsidiaries for short term commercial paper issuance.
The principal methodology used in rating Bacardi Limited was Global Alcoholic Beverage Rating Methodology published in August 2009. Other methodologies and factors that may have been considered in the process of rating this issuer can also be found on Moody's website.
Bacardi Limited, headquartered in Bermuda is the world's largest privately owned spirits company and the number three spirits company globally in terms of sales.


Sing a song about my spleen.
0.o Couldnt make out half of what you said XD But that's awesome.
Half? Other than the word "spleen," I couldn't make out ANYTHING Andrew said.
…Yet this song STILL rocks!!
I love my spleen and it thanks you for those kind words!
He said: Your spleen is purple. Your spleen is oval. Your spleen does stuff with blood. It weighs less than half a pound.
your spleen goes out to taco bell?
Of course. I take my spleen to Taco Bell all the time.
I hope many people will listen songs to know about spleen. So many resources they are updated for the users to remember their values. So we will manage their songs and music from online.


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Video game nostalgia is bigger than ever, with print magazines; blogs; emulators, and remakes for modern platforms all catering for those who want to relive the games of their youth.
The problem is that it's incredibly time-consuming to actually play Jet Set Willy; Chuckie Egg; Super Mario World; Pilotwings; James Pond 2: Robocod; Alex Kidd in Miracle World; The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past; Final Fantasy VII, or whatever game floats your nostalgic boat. What's more, when you actually play those games from your past, they often feel slow, clunky and nowhere near as exciting as they did when you first sat down with them.
This year, I discovered that iTunes offers a range of Final Fantasy soundtracks, and as the 16-bit and 32-bit games in that series were some of the most important games of my youth and young adulthood, I bought them. On playing classic pieces like VII's One Winged Angel and Aerith's Theme, I was taken back to university, with vivid memories and emotions from that time instantly filling my head in a way that the pop music of that time simply doesn't quite manage. Meanwhile, music from IV and VI transported me to my teenage bedroom, where my brother and I would spend many hours huddled over Nintendo, Sega and Commodore hardware controlling everything from a super-speed hedgehog and crudely realised 3D vehicles and spaceships.
Why would a game soundtrack from 1997 make me feel a way that an album from that same year like Radiohead's OK Computer couldn't manage? To me it's the attention you put into a video game – the emotional investment of seeing your avatar through to the end of its journey. It never quite leaves you. Even if it gets buried by fresher memories over time, all it takes is a well-composed tune you first heard played through an 8-bit or 16-bit console's basic audio processor to make the feelings come racing back.
The practical element here is important, too. Actually playing Final Fantasy VI all the way through again would take far too long out of my busy adult life, but just listening to its soundtrack is enough to make me feel like I'm playing it for the first time. After all, isn't that why we get nostalgic – a sense of something we've lost and can never recapture?
The only problem is that there aren't quite enough full soundtrack albums available for the games I'd love to relive this way. Dear Konami, I'd pay good money for an orchestral recording of the Super Castlevania IV soundtrack, and Nintendo would do brisk trade by simply putting the music from its classic SNES Mario and Zelda games online for paid download.
A final tip – if you ever get the chance to see a top orchestra playing music from one of your favourite games, don't pass it up. I saw the London Symphony Orchestra play music from Final Fantasy IV, VI and X at the Barbican in London this year, and it will stand as one of the highlights of 2013 for me. I'll be at LSO St Luke's in London this coming February to see composer Nobuo Uematsu playing the classics himself.