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Explore Abu Dhabi's Past and Present Through Four Famous Landmarks
A kaleidoscope of colour, Abu Dhabi has developed into one of the world's great cultural hubs with a focus on celebrating its unique Emirati identity while also celebrating the diversity of the international residents and visitors that call "The Land of the Gazelle" home. Perfectly perched at the heart of it all is Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi at Al Maryah Island.
Located only minutes away from the "Big Four," as Front Office Manager Fabienne Krug calls them, your next trip to the capital can take you on a journey from the past to the present in only one or two days. Discover cultural hot spots Qasr al Hosn, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Louvre Abu Dhabi, and Qasr Al Watan in her own words, as she takes you on her city tour.
Qasr Al Hosn – Abu Dhabi's Oldest Monument
No destination tells the story of Abu Dhabi better than Qasr Al Hosn. A centre of power for the Al Nahyan family, everything grew around this structure dating all the way back to the 1790s. Today it is poetically juxtaposed against soaring skyscrapers such as the Burj Mohammed bin Rashid, the capital's tallest building.
To Krug it is the heart of the city. "We are only 15 minutes away from Qasr Al Hosn but it celebrates the roots of Emirati identity. The cultural centre is not only responsible for telling visitors about the building's significance in creating modern Abu Dhabi but it has become a centre for Emirati artisans to preserve their traditions, and to create new ones. It is the cultural hub from where everything else in the city flows. Here you will discover everything from Al Ayyala dancing to al-sadu, khoos, talli, and various sea crafts. It is the first stop on your tour that instantly creates a connection to our city."
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque – The Capital's Most Iconic Cultural Landmark
Developed by the UAE's founding father Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, no visit to Abu Dhabi would be complete without a visit to the iconic Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. Not only is it impressive in its scale as one of the largest mosques in the world but in its message of peace and tolerance. Celebrating architectural styles from across the Islamic world, it blends influences stretching as far as Andalusia and the Ottoman Empire.
In the words of Krug, "This should be on any visitors list. The mosque is not only stunning in the precision of its architecture and the artistic details but in the fact that it brings every culture and religion together under one roof. Every time you tour this structure, you discover a new detail to become fascinated with. However, my preferred time to visit is around sunset so you can appreciate the transition from brilliant white marble, to the serenity of purples and golds. Our favourite point to view this is from Wahat al Karama, where you appreciate serenity of the call to prayer alongside an incredible reflection along the water feature."
Louvre Abu Dhabi – The Middle East's Art Hub
The world's first universal museum, Louvre Abu Dhabi is a beacon connecting the world's cultures in the celebration of artistic expression. Constructed in the heart of the Arabian Gulf, the structure itself is a testament to the region's culture. The crown jewel is undoubtedly the roof, which represents the diffusion of light through date palms.
However, according to our Front Office Manager, the most impressive part is the gallery spaces. "Throughout the museum it tells you the story of humanity from antiquity to modernity in one space. This is an incredibly significant feat, especially in this part of the world. Best of all, it is dynamic, with its coordination with the Agence France-Muséums – 17 of France's most renowned cultural institutions. This collaboration sees pieces loaned to Louvre Abu Dhabi on a regular basis, creating compelling stories for our capital city. As an art lover I cannot recommend it enough."
Qasr Al Watan – A Global Centre for Diplomacy
The newest addition to Abu Dhabi's cultural landscape, Qasr Al Watan gives you unprecedented access to one of the world's only Presidential Palaces open to the public.
For Krug, there is no better way to roundup your visit to the Emirate. "It is more than the luxurious spaces and impossibly high ceilings. Qasr Al Watan, is a testament to the leadership that transformed the city from a humble pearl diving village into one of the world's most significant centres of power, diplomacy, and culture. I love nothing more than seeing that moment of awe when guests walk through the palace's impressive gardens, or step through the doors for the first time, and marvel at its scale. Then throughout the journey to the libraries and exhibitions gain understanding about the role Abu Dhabi plays in the region and globally. It is the ultimate way to discover how significant this city truly is. No trip is complete without a visit here."
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<?php

namespace AerialShip\SteelMqBundle\Tests\Functional\Entity\Repository;

use AerialShip\SteelMqBundle\Entity\Message;
use AerialShip\SteelMqBundle\Entity\Project;
use AerialShip\SteelMqBundle\Entity\Queue;
use AerialShip\SteelMqBundle\Helper\TokenHelper;
use AerialShip\SteelMqBundle\Tests\Functional\AbstractFunctionTestCase;

class MessageRepositoryTest extends AbstractFunctionTestCase
{
    /** @var Project */
    private $project;

    /** @var Project[] */
    private $allProjects;

    protected function setUp()
    {
        $this->loadQueueData();

        $projectRepo = $this->getProjectRepository();
        $this->project = $projectRepo->findOneBy([]);
        $this->allProjects = $projectRepo->findBy([]);
    }

    public function testDeleteExpiredDontDeleteNonExpired()
    {
        $queue = $this->getQueueRepository()->findOneBy(array('project' => $this->project));

        $messageId = $this->createMessage($queue)->getId();

        $countDeleted = $this->getMessageRepository()->deleteExpired();

        $this->assertEquals(0, $countDeleted);
        $message = $this->getMessageRepository()->find($messageId);
        $this->assertNotNull($message);
    }

    public function testDeleteExpiredDeletesExpired()
    {
        $queue = $this->getQueueRepository()->findOneBy(array('project' => $this->project));

        $this->createMessage($queue, 3, new \DateTime('-1 year'));

        $countDeleted = $this->getMessageRepository()->deleteExpired();

        $this->assertEquals(1, $countDeleted);
        $arr = $this->getMessageRepository()->findBy(array('queue' => $queue));
        $this->assertEmpty($arr);
    }

    public function testManageTimeoutDoesNothingToNonTaken()
    {
        $queue = $this->getQueueRepository()->findOneBy(array('project' => $this->project));

        $this->createMessage($queue);

        list($totalCount, $nonDeletedCount, $movedCount) = $this->getMessageRepository()->manageTimeout();

        $this->assertEquals(0, $totalCount);
        $this->assertEquals(0, $nonDeletedCount);
        $this->assertEquals(0, $movedCount);

        $arr = $this->getMessageRepository()->findBy(array('queue' => $queue));
        $this->assertCount(1, $arr);
    }

    public function testManageTimeoutDoesNothingToNonExpired()
    {
        $queue = $this->getQueueRepository()->findOneBy(array('project' => $this->project));

        $this->createMessage($queue, 3, null, new \DateTime('+1 minute'));

        list($totalCount, $nonDeletedCount, $movedCount) = $this->getMessageRepository()->manageTimeout();

        $this->assertEquals(0, $totalCount);
        $this->assertEquals(0, $nonDeletedCount);
        $this->assertEquals(0, $movedCount);

        $arr = $this->getMessageRepository()->findBy(array('queue' => $queue));
        $this->assertCount(1, $arr);
    }

    public function testManageTimeoutDecreaseRetriesRemaining()
    {
        $queue = $this->getQueueRepository()->findOneBy(array('project' => $this->project));

        $messageId = $this->createMessage($queue, 3, null, new \DateTime('-1 second'))->getId();

        list($totalCount, $nonDeletedCount, $movedCount) = $this->getMessageRepository()->manageTimeout();

        $this->assertEquals(1, $totalCount);
        $this->assertEquals(1, $nonDeletedCount);
        $this->assertEquals(0, $movedCount);

        $arr = $this->getMessageRepository()->findBy(array('queue' => $queue));
        $this->assertCount(1, $arr);

        $this->getEm()->clear();

        $message = $this->getMessageRepository()->find($messageId);
        $this->assertNotNull($message);
        $this->assertEquals(2, $message->getRetriesRemaining());
    }

    public function testManageTimeoutDeletesWhenRetriesRemainingZeroAndNoErrorQueue()
    {
        $queue = $this->getQueueRepository()->findOneBy(array('project' => $this->project));

        $messageId = $this->createMessage($queue, 0, null, new \DateTime('-1 second'))->getId();

        list($totalCount, $nonDeletedCount, $movedCount) = $this->getMessageRepository()->manageTimeout();

        $this->assertEquals(1, $totalCount);
        $this->assertEquals(0, $nonDeletedCount);
        $this->assertEquals(0, $movedCount);

        $arr = $this->getMessageRepository()->findBy(array('queue' => $queue));
        $this->assertCount(0, $arr);

        $this->getEm()->clear();

        $message = $this->getMessageRepository()->find($messageId);
        $this->assertNull($message);
    }

    public function testManageTimeoutMovesToErrorQueue()
    {
        $mainQueue = $errorQueue = null;
        foreach ($this->project->getQueues() as $queue) {
            if ($mainQueue == null) {
                $mainQueue = $queue;
            } elseif ($errorQueue == null) {
                $errorQueue = $queue;
            } else {
                break;
            }
        }

        $mainQueue->setErrorQueue($errorQueue->getId());
        $this->getQueueRepository()->save($mainQueue);

        $messageId = $this->createMessage(
            $mainQueue,
            0,
            null,
            new \DateTime('-1 second'),
            null,
            $expectedBody = 'message to be moved to error queue'
        )->getId();

        list($totalCount, $nonDeletedCount, $movedCount) = $this->getMessageRepository()->manageTimeout();

        $this->assertEquals(1, $totalCount);
        $this->assertEquals(0, $nonDeletedCount);
        $this->assertEquals(1, $movedCount);

        $arr = $this->getMessageRepository()->findBy(array('queue' => $mainQueue));
        $this->assertCount(0, $arr);

        $arr = $this->getMessageRepository()->findBy(array('queue' => $errorQueue));
        $this->assertCount(1, $arr);

        $this->getEm()->clear();

        $message = $this->getMessageRepository()->find($messageId);
        $this->assertNull($message);

        $message = $this->getMessageRepository()->findOneBy(array('queue' => $errorQueue));
        $this->assertNotNull($message);
        $this->assertEquals($expectedBody, $message->getBody());
    }

    private function createMessage(
        Queue $queue,
        $retriesRemaining = 3,
        \DateTime $availableAt = null,
        \DateTime $timeoutAt = null,
        \DateTime $createdAt = null,
        $body = 'message body'
    ) {
        $message = new Message();
        $message
            ->setQueue($queue)
            ->setAvailableAt($availableAt ?: new \DateTime())
            ->setCreatedAt($createdAt ?: new \DateTime('2014-01-01 12:00:00'))
            ->setTimeoutAt($timeoutAt)
            ->setToken($timeoutAt ? TokenHelper::generate() : null)
            ->setRetriesRemaining($retriesRemaining)
            ->setBody($body)
        ;

        $this->getMessageRepository()->save($message);

        return $message;
    }
}

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Q: Почему одни экземпляры создаём через new, а другие литерально? Всем добрый день.
Подскажите пожалуйста, почему экземпляры встроенных объектов, например, Number, String, Boolean, Object, Function мы создаем литерально, то есть объявляем переменную и присваиваем ей значение. А некоторые экземпляры объектов, которые тоже являются встроенными, мы создаём уже с помощью оператора new, например Promise или Date? Ведь те значения, строки, числа, булевые значения, объекты объявленные литерально, функции (которые мы объявляем как function declaration, не присваивая какой-либо переменной) - они ведь тоже являются экземплярами встроенных объектов, как и:
const promise = new Promise(/*some function as parameter*/);
const date = new Date();

Только promise и date мы почему-то создаем через оператор new, а те же числа, строки, объекты, булевые значения, function declaration/expression без оператора new. Объясните пожалуйста, почему именно так? Если любые значения являются по сути экземплярами определенных встроенных объектов.
Если я сделаю вот так:
console.log(new Number(1) + new Number(2)); // выводится 3 и typeof полученного значения number
То есть всё в порядке, это то же самое, как если бы мы сделали:

console.log(1 + 2);

И ничего не изменилось бы, но всё же не пойму, что почему некоторые экземпляры мы создаем исключительно через оператор new ? А не литерально.
Важное замечание: Я сейчас не привязываюсь конкретно к встроенным объектам Promise и Date, экземпляры которых создаются через new, я их привёл исключительно в качестве примера, есть и куча других встроенных объектов, экземпляры которых мы создаем с помощью new. Поэтому не привязывайтесь пожалуйста в данном вопросе конкретно к Promise и Date!


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What was Hitler like in private?
The image of Hitler is very well-formed in the modern public imagination: stern, stoic, focused, commanding and intimidating, with a powerful oratory skill and a terrifying ability to stir up passion within his followers.
Ask anyone to do a Hitler impression and they will immediately do one of two things: shout and wave an arm defiantly, or clasp both hands behind their back and glower. He is an iconic villain, and there is very little footage or testimony that I have seen which "humanizes" him as anything other than stern, commanding, and deadly.
That being said, we also know that Hitler's public image was very carefully maintained. Public events were staged with care and precision, personal information (such has his family and his relationship with Eva Braun) was withheld to keep him seeming larger than life, etc.
Hitler wanted to project an image of power and command, both to his followers and to the rest of the world.
However, on the flip side, we also have bits of information about Hitler's personal life that go counter to this image of the dour commander. He was an artist, for example, and his paintings (at least the ones I've seen) have generally shown quaint, tranquil, even idyllic scenes.
He may have enjoyed doodling Disney characters and he was a huge fan of American popular cinema, such as King Kong and Snow White.
Taking both sides of this into account, do we have any idea of what Hitler was like in private? Was he actually a stern man when he was with friends, or was that simply a facade? Obviously he needed some backbone to do everything he did, but when he wasn't commanding armies or ordering construction projects, did he ever relax? And if so, how? Do we have any accounts of his sense of humor, or whether he was personally a very funny person? Was he a picky eater or a foodie, did he enjoy dancing? Did he tend to quietly "preside" over parties and gatherings, or was he always the center of attention?
Do any unbiased firsthand accounts exist of Hitler's general personality and demeanor, either during his time as Führer or before it?
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Albert Speer's book "Inside the Third Reich" describes Hitler's nature and personality in detail. Speer was a close friend of Hitler from an early point and knew him well. He describes him as being in person a typical middle class Austrian bumpkin with tastes to match. Hitler had various odd predilections, which Speer describes in detail. For example he was a vegetarian and had very exacting ideas about proper diet. In personality Hitler was kind of the uncle type, very kind and loving towards animals and children, but having awkward relations with women and no recognized children of his own.
If you want to learn about Hitler's personality from the horse's mouth, you can read the Tischgespräche (table talk) which records typical day to day conversation at the dinner table and around the house where Hitler lived. It provides an intimate portrait of the dictator which will tell you more than ever wanted to know about his day-to-day personality.
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and there's the home movies shot by Speer and others at Berchtesgarden of course. Shows the Mensch Hitler, rather than the Fuehrer. – jwenting Oct 8 '14 at 4:47
This book is an excellent read, from the scene described above, and Speer's being drawn in (as a young architect) by his enthusiasm for grand buildings, through to 1945 by which time Hitler was coming completely unhinged as everything fell apart round him, and Speer's sense of "WTF happened to us all, that we did this?" – Brian Drummond May 12 '15 at 13:33
How accurate is the book? According to his Wikipedia page, Speer apparently lied prolifically about his involvement in the Third Reich in order to avoid getting executed during the Nuremberg trials. – nick012000 Oct 18 '19 at 2:32
Q What was Hitler like in private?
We cannot know!
The vast majority of material available that otherwise might shine some light on this is highly unreliable.
Q That being said, we also know that Hitler's public image was very carefully maintained.[…] Do any unbiased firsthand accounts exist of Hitler's general personality and demeanor[…]?
This care for image continues to this day. And that's the reason we do not have 'unbiased' accounts.
Almost all those movie snippets we have been shown a trillion times by now were crafted and selected by the Nazi propaganda machine. We see him in uniform, but not in pyjamas. Almost all recollections or memoirs involving him are not from anything 'private' but social occasions at best. At those he maintained an image, and those reporting it did that as well. They maintained an image of him –– and of themselves. Of course the typical distortional effects of human memory only add on to this.
This gets worse for English-only speaking inquirers into this, as virtually all attempts at researching this is severely handicapped by outright bullshit published as fact, even by major biographers who are otherwise reliable and generally respected. Be that Kershaw, Toland, Irving, Pyta, Ullrich or Fest they all jump into the trap for this aspect, with a wryly grin.
It is really egregious how uncritical "Hitler in private" stories are told.
Most people asked will point to "Hitler's table talk". A collection of censored, redacted and invented material in which fact and fiction are indistinguishable. The German version is largely worthless already, but the quality deteriorates in the French and ever more so in the English versions.
Some will point to Speer's memoirs. A notorious liar who after 1945 seems to have never written down anything truthful in his books which were not much more but a utility for his own image.
Other accounts may want to claim that "ah, but the story his own private secretary tells" must be genuine, reliable, close to the source, really 'private'. That is not the case.
From all these sources we have a puzzle in which the pieces are largely missing and those remaining have pictures that faded, were overpainted, exchanged and from all remaining the edges are mostly broken off.
Example 1: Table Talk
"Hitler's Table Talk", in all its incarnations had its content commissioned and authorised allegedly by Bormann and was then published in German by an actual witness of these events, Henry Picker, in a very limited edition.
A first review of that book appeared to be not very convinced of its content:
Alfred Vagts: Review of "Hitler's Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier, 1941-42. – By Henry Picker. [Im Auftrage des Deutschen Instituts für die Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Zeit, geordnet, eingeleitet und veröffentlicht von G Ritter.] (Bonn: Athenium Verlag. 1951. pp463.)":
[…] They are not stenographic notes but memorandums written postprandially.
Such grading raises once again the question of the true reproduction of Hitler's utterances, recalling to the reviewer the time when, as a history student in Munich in the early I920's, he went together with friends to NSDAP meetings and afterwards tried to agree with them on what the speaker of the evening had actually said: there was never, within an hour after the meeting's close, any firm agreement as to the content of the speeches, though all of us were trained to observe and note down historical facts. Neither the victims nor the observers of the Pied Piper seemed able to reproduce the words to the tune they carried away in their ears, though not a few of them might notice the palpable errors and intentional falsehoods in the oratory. These errors are here again, not only numerous factual mistakes, as Professor Ritter warns the reader, but many which seem calculated to impress an audience by their false conciseness. (On one page an overpaid actor's salary is given as 3-4000 marks per month, on another the same man's earnings are 3-4000 marks per evening [pp. 35, 386]; "75 per cent of the German emigrants to Australia died en route" [p. 310]; "Venice's constitution lasted exactly 966 years" [p. 2041. One wonders why not 1100 years, from the first doge to the end of independence in 1797.)
It is therefore entirely in doubt what was actually said, and no-one can be sure whether Picker was accurate, whether and much Bormann was smoothing things over or whether Hitler himself changed anything when glancing over it to authorise it.
But as can be seen from the dates this volume is supposed to cover it is not the entire basis for is this book of "Hitler said that". It gets so much worse for the English version, published much later!
And this 'source' also has a colourful publication history:
Richard C. Carrier: "'Hitler's Table Talk': Troubling Finds", German Studies Review, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Oct., 2003), pp. 561-576:
What is the Table Talk?
The Table Talk is purportedly a transcription from notebooks written in shorthand by at least two secretaries to Hitler, Heinrich Heim and Henry Picker, who were instructed by Hitler's right-hand man Martin Bormann to record for posterity whatever Hitler said in his bunker in Berlin, usually during meals or tea. In addition to official matters, they recorded things he said off the cuff, each logged by date and time (like "morning," "afternoon," or "evening"). So far all accounts agree. Beyond this is some confusion that an enterprising historian will some day have.
That may be difficult, since much is said by Genoud and Trevor-Roper without a word as to how they know it. No sources or documents are cited.
One might readily question the authenticity of such a text, given the conflicting versions and questionable chains of custody in this case and the abundance of other forged works purporting to reveal the secret thoughts or plans of Hitler. But it is likely the notes were real. There are two completely independent manuscripts, and a fragment of a third; and all agree in such a way as to corroborate the existence of a genuine original. The fragment consists of forty-two typed pages in the Adolf Hitler Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress, which are probably authentic. Scribbled in handwriting atop the first page of these is the brief remark: "Found by Mr. Jos. Schrasberger, München, Herzog Wilhelm Straße 4." This is probably part of the lost copy of the Bormann manuscript (discussed below). Finally, Werner Jochmann's edition of the text includes an introduction citing notes and letters confirming the Table Talk was indeed being made and collated during the war.
Picker, of course, was an eyewitness to this affair, and says in his first introduction (33-34) that Heim had been authorized by Bormann to go beyond his official duty to transcribe Hitler's spoken orders and decisions and to include whatever else interested him, and this authority passed to Picker during Heim's brief absence. Picker says Hitler actually looked over his record on occasion and approved it as accurate, yet didn't realize how often these notes were being taken.
He also reports that the official notebooks collated by Bormann were lost in the "confusion of the surrender." These would turn up a year later in Genoud's possession, and some pages from a copy of this apparently ended up in the Library of Congress. But Picker retained his own original notes and those made by Heim before him.
Trevor-Roper's edition claims to be working from a version of the notebooks extensively edited and collated by Martin Bormann, called the Bormann Vermerke ("Bormann Notes"), which until recently existed only in the private collection of François Genoud. Genoud relates in his 1952 preface that the thousand-page monstrosity had a note at front in Bormann's handwriting: Bitte diese - später äußerst wertvollen - Aufzeichnungen sehr gut aufheben, "Please preserve with the greatest care these notes of a capital interest for the future" (Jochmann publishes a facsimile of this note opposite his title page). According to Jochmann's introduction, these were to be the "official" notebooks, collated and edited from the originals by Bormann and published as a definitive party manifesto for the victorious Reich. Unlike Picker's, the Bormann text continues to 1944. Since Picker received his copy of the notes from Heim upon replacing him until Heim returned, he did not have access to the remaining notes taken after this tenure.
Jochmann and Trevor-Roper (in the preface to his third edition) both relate (among many other details) that the Bormann-Vermerke was sent piecemeal from Bormann to his wife Gerda. Another copy reportedly went to an office in Munich, which was likely destroyed by allied bombing, apart from the pages recovered by Schrasberger. Gerda fled to Italy with her collection of the notes in 1945 and died there in a detention camp in 1946. A local Italian official then acquired the manuscript, which he sold to Genoud around 1948. That manuscript is the basis for Jochmann's text, as well as Genoud's and Trevor-Roper's translations.
Which Version Should We Trust?
There are so many published versions and editions of these notes I gave up attempt to track them all. In general, there are four major versions, each with its ow advocate: Henry Picker (1951, 1963, 1976), Francois Genoud (1952), H. R. Trevor-Roper (1953, 1973, 2000), and Werner Jochmann (1980). Of these only two offer the original German (Picker and Jochmann). Genoud, a Swiss banker a lifetime Nazi, offers his own French translation. Historian Trevor-Roper presents the English translation of R. H. Stevens and Norman Cameron.
From the isolated comparisons I made, Trevor-Roper's English appears to be an almost verbatim translation of Genoud's French. Yet the title "Hitler's Table Talk" is a direct English translation of Picker's title, not Genoud's, and Trevor-Roper's preface claims the translation was made from the German original of Martin Bormann. Genoud's version ends in 1942 (his preface declares an intent to publish the rest in a second volume, which never transpired), as does Picker's (who did not have any material beyond 1942), while Trevor-Roper and Jochmann continue with entries up to 1944.
Assuming any published text is a genuine copy of these notes, Picker's edition (especially where it agrees with Jochmann) carries the strongest claim to authenticity.
It contains the actual German, and was the first to be published, a year before Genoud, and though Genoud procured a lengthy but essentially trivial preface from Robert d'Harcourt of the Academie Française, Picker had the involvement and auspices of a major university and Hitler historian: "Arranged on behalf of the German Institute for the History of National Socialism, initiated and published by Gerhard Ritter, professor of history at the University of Freiburg."
Moreover, Picker was one of the actual stenographers (from 21 March 1942 to 2 August 1942), and thus transcribed many of the notes himself in the very presence of Hitler, making him an eyewitness with access to the notebooks of his predecessor Heim, which he says he acquired directly, bypassing the editing of Bormann.
Picker's second and third editions also contain several testimonials to the text's accuracy and authenticity by fellow bunker officers, including Gerhard Engel, and also a testimonial by historian Walter Mediger who checked the first edition against Picker's own transcripts and "made corrections" accordingly, testifying to the accuracy of the new edition in relation to those notes. Picker asserted in his first edition that [translating Picker's German] "a sufficient number of the staff at the FHQ lives to be able to testify to the authenticity of the recordings of the table discussions, since Hitler spoke rarely at table on military affairs," and to demonstrate his personal knowledge he gives a detailed description of the bunker and meeting. […]
There may be a clue on the website of the controversial historian David Irving. He relates how Genoud attempted to hoax him in the 1970s with what appeared be a forgery of "Hitler's Last Testament," which Genoud published earlier. Irving even claims he got him to confess to forging this "testament," Genoud declaring in his defense "But it's just what Hitler would have said, isn't it?" Irving's story throws a lot of suspicion on Genoud as a man willing to perpetrate a hoax, thinking it permissible to fabricate the words of Hitler if it was what he believed Hitler "would have said." Such a man would likely have no scruple against altering and insert words and remarks into the Table Talk.
Further study of Genoud's history and motives, and the nature of the distortions he introduced into the record, would be worthwhile. He appears to have been a very strange man with a colorful history: a Swiss banker and Nazi spy who laundered money for the Third Reich, a self-professed neo-Nazi right up to his suicide in 1996 (though never an open supporter of the holocaust), a voracious purchaser and profiteer of Nazi archives, and an admitted financer of terrorists."' But I will leave it to more able historians to explore the facts of his life. Whatever Genoud's motivation for doctoring the text, the fact that Stevens and Cameron's English translation matches Genoud's falsified French (as we shall see), and not the actual Bormann-Vermerke published by Jochmann, leaves many questions unanswered. Were they lazy? Duped? Accomplices in crime? Whatever the case, the Trevor-Roper edition is to be discarded as worthless. […]
It is sufficient to note that, whatever his beliefs were, they are distorted in Genoud, and these distortions among many others were retained in the text of Trevor-Roper. Yet that is the only English translation of the Table Talk in print, and few know how worthless it is.
Hugh Trevor-Roper is known from his involvement as an early expert witness when the Hitler Diaries were published in the early 1980s. People were quite quick to nickname him "Hugh Very-Ropey" afterwards, while many sprung to his side and defended this as on honest, one-time mistake. That it was not. He did it again, of course, and before, many times. One such instance is this Table Talk:
Mikael Nilsson: "Hugh Trevor-Roper and the English Editions of Hitler's Table Talk and Testament", Journal of Contemporary History 2016, Vol. 51(4) 788–812, 2016
This article examines the publication of the famous 'Hitler's Table Talk' and 'The Testament of Adolf Hitler' as well as the role of British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper in this process, including his relationship with the Swiss banker François Genoud – the owner of the 'original' manuscripts. The article is based on research utilizing Trevor-Roper's personal correspondence and papers; material that has never before been used to investigate this matter. Besides shedding light on many previously unknown details concerning the publication of these documents, the article shows how Trevor-Roper consistently failed to enlighten his readers about central source-critical problems connected to the documents he was validating. He did so on numerous occasions and through several editions of the sources, even though his personal correspondence shows that he was well aware of the problems. The article argues that Trevor-Roper chose not to reveal these problems in public so as not to upset his business relationship with Genoud so that he would gain access to further documents in Genoud's possession.
These findings rule out any reliability at all for the given text overall in English versions. As indicated in the early review, even the German text contains factual errors, impossibilities and a huge lot of lies, seemingly or really from Hitler's mouth.
German historian Peter Longerich concludes in "Hitlers Stellvertreter. Führung der NSDAP und Kontrolle des Staatsapparates durch den Stab Heß und Bormanns Partei-Kanzlei", K.G. Saur: München, 1992, p 6, that the Bormann papers are so unreliable and originals inaccessible, that they have to be viewed with "skepticism". Fact is indiscernible from fiction and without external evidence, not a single word from the book can be trusted. The German original was written, and rewritten by Nazis and revisionists, during the war and after it. All foreign translations were written, rewritten and expanded, sometimes demonstrably doctored, by either revisionist right wingers like Genoud or very greedy and sloppy, if not downright fraudulent historians like Trevor-Roper. Newer editions of varying quality and state of the underlying text are now published by a well known right-wing revisionist publishing house in Germany, not known for having anything reliable on offer, completing the circle.
Conclusion on Table Talk
Since the "Table Talk" and books like that are the source for the quote in the compilation that originated the question, many originals of the sources for that book disappeared, or are not accessible, or were just fabricated, regarding that quote we have to conclude:
Did he say any of that what's in that book?
Maybe? We have no reliable proof in either direction.
Except, that he almost certainly did not say what appears in the English translation.
The main steps leading into this conundrum:
Hitler said something.
the Nazis Heim or Picker wrote some of that partially down the next day, paraphrasing Heim's words: "as best as he was able to capture and recall the gist of it, often failing to do that reliably".
Hitler and Bormann went over that to approve and redact it.
Picker and Heim assembled some of the stuff after the war. That material is considered unreliable in principle by leading historians – including the editors of this material.
Genoud then published the available material in his French translation with his own redaction and added completely fabricated material, claiming the material to be completely truthful…
The English version translates that last French version and gets endorsement from a systematically sloppy historian.
That version is then quoted in the book of the claim in question but now even completely out of the context which was already unreliable at the source.
What comes closest to what he might have said in 'a' German original is not from steganographic note-taking in the event but stemming from minutes from memory written some time after the fact. That still cannot be read in the overreaching fashion of the English translation in the claim.
Historians must be aware of all this when they use these sources. It is an inevitable conclusion of this essay that historians should refrain from immediately quoting these sources as if they were reproducing Hitler's words verbatim - this is simply not the case. The table speeches were written with the express purpose of conveying the illusion that one could meet Hitler face to face, that is, they were created over long distances to create confusion and deceive.
–– Mikael Nilsson: "Hitler redivivus. "Hitlers Tischgespräche" und "Monologe im Führerhauptquartier" – eine kritische Untersuchung", VfZ 67 (2019). DOI 10.1515/vfzg-2019-0004
Example 2: Speer's "memoirs"
Since his imprisonment in Nuremberg and Spandau, Speer has worked to stabilize his somewhat positive image as an apolitical technocrat and misguided idealist through extensive secret written records (which were smuggled outside to his friend Rudolf Wolters in Coesfeld with the help of a nurse) by the Nuremberg Trial, while concealing all the negative points of his biography (promotion of the concentration camp expansion, expulsion of Jews from Berlin). Particularly in his two very successful book publications, Erinnerungen von 1969 and Spandauer Tagebücher von 1975, he reverses decisive phases of his activities in the "Third Reich" to some extent.
The Speer biography of historian Magnus Brechtken, published in 2017, confirms Schwendemann's assessment by means of a confrontation of Speer's narratives with the sources. Speer's memoirs with a world circulation of almost three million copies, as a seemingly authentic contemporary witness report, had shaped the historical picture of a small group of criminals around Hitler who were responsible for war, the Holocaust and slave labor, while Speer wanted nothing to know about it.
The Spandauer diaries, in which Speer describes the years of his captivity and at the same time recalls his time in the closest NS leadership circle, served the same purpose, describing and ridiculing the characteristics of his fellow prisoners (Baldur von Schirach, Rudolf Heß, Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Konstantin von Neurath, Walther Funk). The legend that he had the New Reich Chancellery built in less than twelve months is also repeated in both books (and thus a legend devised by Nazi propaganda to underpin the alleged efficiency of the Nazi system) Spear biographer Magnus Brechtken describes the diaries presented in Speer's preface as allegedly authentic as "literary invention" in the light of the sources.
Brechtken considers the widespread legend that Speer ignored Hitler's final orders to destroy infrastructures in Germany to be particularly spectacular, thus making the later economic miracle possible. Particularly striking is the episode in Speer's "Memories" that he allegedly confessed Hitler's refusal to obey orders shortly before the end of the war in the Führer bunker and left him with tears in his eyes, because this scene was invented by a French journalist in 1952. Speer found it useful and therefore made it his own in the book.
Joachim Fest (1926-2006), who as an editorial consultant had played a decisive role in Speer's publications and thus in his self-stylisation, later stated that Speer had "turned our noses with the most trustworthy expression in the world"
"Speer is a prototype for the social group of the functional elites who consciously chose Hitler and gave National Socialism its actual dynamism through their expertise. Without all the doctors, lawyers and administrative experts, the rule could not have functioned so well. Speer was basically only one of the most committed, ambitious and hard-working. That's why after 1945 he was also the ideal figure for all those who wanted to say: "I did participate, but I didn't hear anything about the crimes". Even people who marched along at the front were allegedly not involved afterwards. Speer, like everyone else, knew exactly what he had done. He very successfully denied and repressed that afterwards."
- Magnus Brechtken
–– Wikipedia: Albert Speer
Example 3: Private secretary Traudl Junge
It is in large part her account that formed the basis for the movie Downfall.
It is worthwhile to examine this quotation more closely. Junge does not exercise self-criticism here, but a normative one. In her opinion, what she tells has actually happened in this way, but it does not fit into her current view of history. The terrible Hitler cannot and should not be the same one who lovingly trains his bitch. The conflict between what Junge can remember and what she wants to remember pervades her entire autobiographical conversation.
The thoughtless reproduction of the intimate and allegedly authentic stories about Hitler are not only a media-cultural problem, […]
Traudl Junge was by no means a victim of history, but the price for her successful integration into post-war society was the tabooing of part of her memories, because these memories had already arisen at the time of their creation under the conditions of a narrowed and distorted perspective and had become problematic in the Federal Republic since the 1960s at the latest.
–– Benedikt Tondera: "Die gespaltene Erinnerung Traudl Junges. Eine Analyse der autobiographischen Erzählungen Traudl Junges und deren medialer Inszenierung", BIOS Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen, Vol 21, No 2, 2008.
Our post-fascistic fantasy
It was in the spring of 1932, in the midst of presidential elections, that the National Socialists discovered the publicity value of Hitler's private life. […] Having proved its broad appeal, the image of the private Führer would become a staple of National Socialist propaganda for years to come.
The coming out of the Führer's personal life marked a distinct departure from earlier National Socialist publicity, which had focused on Hitler's role as agitator of the masses and leader of a militant political movement. In the 1932 runoff election, the need to cast a wider net pushed Nazi Party propaganda toward a celebration of the personal attributes of their candidate. […]
Perhaps most daringly, Nazi publicists brought Hitler's private life into the limelight in order to emphasize his moral and human character and thereby win over the bourgeois voters and women who had overwhelmingly supported Hindenburg on the first ballot.
Given the circumstances of Hitler's private life, this was truly an audacious move. […] While the Nazis continued to fight reports that could harm Hitler's reputation, they began to construct for public consumption their own version of the private individual. The image of "Hitler as private man" would now be reconfigured into an asset rather than a liability.
The title of Heinrich Hoffmann's photo album, The Hitler Nobody Knows (Hitler wie ihn keiner kennt, 1932), announced the shift in the Führer's image. The book appeared in mid-March, shortly after the first presidential election. While conceived earlier and perhaps independently, it nonetheless served as an effective tool in the National Socialists' new campaign to appeal to a broader public through the recently discovered "private Hitler."
Hoffmann, as Hitler's official photographer, had extensive access to the German leader, and from the thousands of images at his disposal, he selected one hundred to encapsulate the Führer's personal life.
[…] In fact, and as Germans were to learn after the war, Hoffmann's distorted and highly edited vision of Hitler's personal life bore little resemblance to reality; Eva Braun, for example, would be banished from such portrayals during the Third Reich, despite becoming a fixture of his inner circle by 1936.
The dust jacket text further suggested that the book would serve as a visual complement to Hitler's Mein Kampf, and the book did begin biographically, like a family album, with photographs of Hitler as a baby (with a birth announcement "pasted" in the corner), the house where he was born, his parents, his school and army days, and his rise as an orator and politician. In documenting Hitler's contemporary life, Hoffmann included an assortment of photographs that mostly appeared to be candid shots of Hitler engaged in activities either of a private nature or at the peripheries of his political duties—for example, stopping for a quick picnic lunch on the way to give a speech or chatting with a worker who approached his car. Relatively few of the images revealed an urban landscape; instead, Hitler's so-called private life played out mostly on a pastoral stage. A number of the images of Hitler at leisure focused on the Obersalzberg, although Haus Wachenfeld, while described, was not visually depicted. Hitler was shown in the mountains with his dogs, reading outdoors, walking, talking with a neighbor's child, and dressed in casual clothes, including lederhosen. Here, a caption stated, away from the "noise and restlessness of the cities," Hitler could relax and recover from the "stresses and strains" of his political struggle. Yet despite the pretext of being personal, these images of a relaxed and often smiling Hitler were by no means apolitical. Thus, a photograph of Hitler sitting in the grass reading the newspaper and grinning broadly was accompanied by a caption indicating that he was amused by the "fables" printed about him by a hostile press: "champagne feasts, Jewish girlfriends, a luxury villa, French money …"6 The viewer, at whom Hitler gazes, is invited to share in this intimate moment and laugh along with him.
On a deeper level, the book as a whole served a political purpose: to recast Hitler, through the vehicle of his private life, as a "good" man.
–– Despina Stratigakos: "Hitler at Home", Yale University Press: New Haven, London, 2015.
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There is a documentary, in which Hitler's secretary is interviewed, which is titled in the blind spot. This refers to an expression she used in the interview. – Dohn Joe Oct 18 '19 at 8:41
Others have covered the documentary sources very well. I'd like to draw attention to another way of answering this question: the Hitler-Mannerheim recording: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_and_Mannerheim_recording
This is the only known recording of Hitler having an unscripted conversation. It was made without his knowledge. An English transcript is available here.
https://civilianmilitaryintelligencegroup.com/19880/transcript-of-a-recording-of-adolph-hitler-and-carl-mannerheim
I haven't verified it, but on face value:
1) Hitler talks a lot. It's 11 minutes and Mannerheim hardly gets a word in. Unsurprising.
2) More surprising: Hitler seems worried, anxious, maybe even depressed. It goes without saying that he had good cause to be concerned by June 1942. However, he always projected an insane level of self-belief. I always thought he was crazy enough to believe he could never lose, but maybe he knew he was scuppered and there was absolutely no way out of it.
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That recording seems indeed 'genuine', and is surprising, for many, only used to hearing a few screaming sound bites. But it is decidedly not 'private'. The most interesting part is how Mannerheim seems to have been expecting a discussion, but only getting a lectures and confessions (or how to describe this crude mix?) – LаngLаngС Jun 1 '19 at 21:10
You could argue that this conversation was not private. However, the question asked what he was like in private, and I think this is closer to his real behaviour. His speeches were clearly more affected. – Ne Mo Jun 10 '19 at 14:12
After listening to way too much more speeches/recordings: Other than being allegedly candid, I do not see/hear that much difference to other audio performances of AH. We have to expect yelling/screaming in streeet fights( party rallies, really big audiences. But these are really not much more than voice projections to large audiences, spaces. But listening to smaller occasion speeches, I fail to recognise much more significance to tone/voice. He had a very high dynamic range at his disposal. (Point being: histo-doc movies are misleading in selecting sound-bites) – LаngLаngС Oct 16 '19 at 23:50
Then we learn that his private character was no different to his public one: bombastic. – Ne Mo Oct 20 '19 at 21:39
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Although the weekend has been less than stellar (I had to work Saturday and, although the assignment was fun, and I got a good story out of it, and there will be OT pay, it was work), it has not been unproductive.
So I split it at what seemed to the be opportune place, and realized with a certain amount of relief that doing so gave me enough room at the end of the new, shortened Chapter 15 to reintroduce one character who I needed to bring up to date. I realized that, of course, by going back over my timeline chart. I was horrified to realize I had gotten so involved in one character's subplot that I'd left another one roughly 12 hours behind the times. Hence my post of a couple of days ago. Now, I only have to fix the other three or nine plot points I realized I'd left dangling.
The cake of the title is an apple harvest cake I made very late in the evening. It's one of my mother's and Nana's, and it is clearly a wartime cake (oil, not butter, which is usually the tip-off in my family's recipes) adjusted and sweetened to a post-war nicety with Too Much Sugar and Four! Count 'em! Four! eggs. I played a little with the ingredients this time around and it made for a very nice pound-cakey texture, although I'm generally fond of the sort of mealy texture that oil cakes usually have.
Since it is now past midnight, I should call it more than a day, and prepare for the crazed week to come. Perhaps at another time I should talk about the editorial new mandates our new publisher has introduced and how they have ... intensified ... the work environment.
And I will let you know what I thought of the movie, I promise.


Today's my birthday. Happy Birthday to me! My cube was decorated when I got to work. I have such good work friends (finally - it took a while to scope everyone out and pick out the good ones)! I got cards, yummy candy, jewelry, and gift cards.
There have also been a few funny incidents. One gal came to my desk to drop off something for one of my bosses, looked around, and said, 'Is it your birthday?' Duh! What a dumbass. Then another girl came by and said, 'It's your birthday! Are you excited?' She obviously doesn't know me very well. First, I'm not the most excitable person. Anyone who knows me knows that. It's not that I don't get excited, it's just that I don't show it well. Second, it was 8:45 am. When I do get excited, as a rule, I don't get excited before 11, at the earliest.
Then she asked me how old I was. Odd, right? I don't have an issue with my age (the last stretch of my 20s...the very last). I don't feel any older than 21, at the most. I'm basically a big kid. But still. I think it's kind of weird to ask anyone obviously over 25 how old they are. Right? Or am I way off? Especially if you aren't particularily good friends - just coworkers, coexisting day to day in the same general area.
I kind of hate birthdays at work anyway. I try to take that day off usually, but what with my surgeries and the lake next week (yay!), I couldn't afford to this year. Bummer. So now I have to deal with everyone saying happy birthday, asking what I've gotten, or what I'm doing that night. I guess it's a nice break from all of the foot talk, though. All I hear lately is 'How's your foot doing?' or 'Looks like you're walking better!' I don't mind talking about it with my friends, but with people I don't know that well, it's just stupid. Give it a rest. Yes, that's what happens when someone has surgery, or injures herself - it gets better. Shocking!
Okay, enough ranting. Time to be happy. I've got the new Head Automatica album playing, and it makes me happy. And I'm being treated to lunch at California Pizza Kitchen. Yum. Hopefully I'll get to celebrate with a martini tonight.
PS - Pickle - The martini glass is neat-o. Feel free to get me those anytime!


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Dublin Oldschool Available on Netflix in Ireland/UK from June 1st
29 May 2019 : Nathan Griffin
Emmet Kirwan and Dave Tynan on location in Dublin.
Element Distribution has announced that 'Dublin Oldschool' will be available on Netflix in Ireland and the UK from June 1st.
Originally a stage play, the Dublin-set feature film was adapted for screen by Emmet Kirwan ('71', 'Heartbreak') and Dave Tynan (Heartbreak, 'Just Sayin'). The project was also directed by Tynan with Kirwan in the lead role alongside Ian Lloyd Anderson ('Love/Hate', 'Game of Thrones'), Seána Kerslake ('A Date for Mad Mary', 'Can't Cope, Won't Cope') and Sarah Greene ('Rosie', 'Rebellion').
One of the highest grossing Irish films of 2018, 'Dublin Oldschool' tells the story of Jason, a wannabe DJ, on a drug-fuelled trip through the streets of Dublin as he stumbles from one session to another. Somewhere between the DJs, decks, and drug busts he stumbles across a familiar face from the past, his brother Daniel.
Daniel, an educated heroin addict, is living on the streets. The brothers haven't seen or spoken to each other in years but over a lost weekend they reconnect and reminisce over raves, tunes and their troubled past. Two brothers living very different lives might have more in common than they think.
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1520 CET – FEWER PAGES BUT MORE BRACKETS: While the latest negotiating text has been reduced to 50 pages from 54, the number of brackets has risen to 1,718 from 1,167 since Monday, analysis by the Tropical Forest Group and ParisAgreement.org showed. "Even at this late stage, rather than reduce disagreements, negotiators are raising new specific issues of contention. This would seemingly suggest that negotiations are moving backwards," they said. However, they point a few reasons to be optimistic, including the "larger blocks of discord (options)" being reduced to 205 from 228, and "certain critical sections" seeing "dramatic improvements, including the implementing body for the new Paris Agreement and the transparency system/framework to clarify overall implementation".
1338 CET – DUTCH/UK LAUNCH $175M RENEWABLES FUND: The two nations launched the Climate Investor One facility to fund renewables projects in poorer nations though development, construction and operation. One of four winning innovative pilots under the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance this year, it aims to provide clean power to 6 million people, create 23,000 jobs directly and 300,000 indirectly while avoiding 1.5m tonnes of CO2. The Netherlands announced a €50m contribution with $75m from the Dutch development bank FMO. UK officials attended the launch but were only able to put up a £50m "expression of interest". "This enables Climate Investor One to move to the next phase and attract participation of private investors in renewable energy projects in developing countries," said FMO, which will jointly manage the fund with private infrastructure company Phoenix InfraWorks.
1201 CET – DEVELOPMENT BANKS ON TRANSPORTATION: It's transport (and buildings) day here at COP-21, and eight multilateral development banks have committed to accelerating their efforts to mitigate transportation emissions. The sector accounts for about 60% of global oil consumption, 27% of all energy use, and 23% of world energy-related CO2 emissions. In their statement, the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank, and the World Bank pledged to speed up action in three areas. Those are climate finance (substantially increase financing for climate change mitigation and adaptation over the next few years, with transport expected to play a key role in that), low-carbon transport solutions (increase their focus on this while continuing to harmonize tools and metrics to assess transport-related GHGs), and adaptation (jointly develop a systematic approach to mainstream climate resilience in transport policies, plans and investments).
1142 CET – NGO RESPONSE MIXED: Green groups responded to the new ADP text with careful optimism on Thursday. The text provides clearer options on long-term targets and provides a good basis for ministers to take further, said Greenpeace's Kaisa Kosonen, but Raman Mehta of the Vasudha Foundation stressed that there is little progress on finance, and said there is a need for a new paradigm on differentiation (i.e. CBRD). Developed nations "are pushing for complete symmetry, which is inappropriate," he told reporters.
1035 CET – NEW DRAFT TEXT: A slow start to Thursday, but the ADP contact group has published a new 50-page draft agreement and draft decision on workstreams 1 and 2 of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action. The document is available here.


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I *love* the plans for Beacon Hill. Any of the three would probably work for me — least of which the Tower option, though.
Dan, I feel the same way. That said, I'm sure there's some serious objections out there. Can anybody fill me in on what the big criticisms are?
First, I'm not a fan of the upzoning of the El Centro property from single family to neighborhood commercial. I feel the City dropped the ball by not fixing a covenent on the property disallowing future rezoning, ensuring that the old school property would always serve as a community center and publicly-accessible open space. I respect and appreciate the mission of El Centro, but feel the community is losing out on open space by allowing the southern half of the property to be developed for private residential/commercial use. The portion of the property that has been used for construction staging for Sound Transit over the last several years would make a great neighborhood park, particularly being adjacent to the Lander street features. If the City does allow the upzoning, they should split the property and preserve the zoning of the northern half with the school building and only upzone the southern half. Also, I find it odd that the existing conditions drawings don't show that the El Centro lot is currently zoned single family, requiring a significant upzone to 50-foot or 65-foot NC.
Another complaint I have is with the 65-foot option. During one of the meetings that I attended, the DPD rep stated that 65-foot zoning would not be placed adjacent to single-family. Maybe they don't consider being directly across 17th avenue to be adjacent, but I would if I owned one of the houses on 17th. A 2-lane street should not substitute for the need for a buffer between 65-foot and SF zoning.
I think the tower option if laughable and unnecessary. However, I worry that having that zoning designation will delay or prevent the construction of smaller buildings that are a scale that the neighborhood can actually support, yet again leaving space undeveloped and underutilized.
Chris, Your point on El Centro and closing the door on a park is one I've hadn't heard, and I think it's a good one.
I totally agree with you about the tower.
My understanding is the El Centro has plans to preserve open space in a "plaza" style. I absolutely support El Centro in the desire to add affordable housing to the services they provide. It's a great fit, and badly needed.
I support 65ft in general. More than height, I'm concerned about design–the Council is voting on some proposed changes that would make it easier to build attractive buildings and harder to build the monstrosities that have eaten Ballard and Fremont's souls.
A brief "hurray!" that El Quetzal is applying for a liquor license. TWO places to enjoy margaritas on Beacon Hill? Yay!
I'm very comfortable with the 65′ option, and the growth of neighborhood amenities that denser housing will bring. While I agree it would be nice to have a larger park in the business district core, I think that getting the huge new park space a short walk away over the reservoir makes up for it. I'm remembering when I lived near Group Health on Capitol Hill. There was no significant public space in the 15th Ave. business district, but we had all of Volunteer Park right up the street.
I do agree with Melissa's worries about design. There's some fabulous modernist architecture going on these days that fits Seattle to a T, but there's also a lot of soul-shrivelling dreck. It would be a nightmare if we ended up with the tower option and something on the hill like the new Escala building's thirty stories of faux Miami hotel styling that is downtown's latest eyesore.
Being directly north of El Centro inside the Urban Village boundary, I wonder how long it's going to be before upzoning starts happening in the adjacent SF zones. I recognize not everyone will be happy about it, but I think when the time is right it will have an overall positive impact on the hill and the city.
Just thought I'd expand on my nightmare by saying that if we had a tower as beautifully designed as the Chase/WaMu/Seattle Art Museum building, it still would seem too much too soon. It's like the three bears, and 65′ is juuuust right.
Getting back to the question at the top of list, my criticism of the recommendations is the missing City investment in infrastructure. The State Growth Management laws require Seattle to do neighborhood planning. In that process the State also requires that the City plan for investments in public infrastructure: streets, parks, public safety, utilities, etc. This is called "concurrency". This planning work is to be done at the same time as upzones to increase density.
Many of us brought up this concern immediately, before meetings even started, because word on the street was that the City wanted to upzone without concurrent planning for City investments.
This is essentially what we have in our update. Check out the level of specificity of recommendations in our "real" neighborhod plan from 2000 for street and park improvements. Where is the equivalent of our matrix in our 2009 update? Where are the specific street, park, and public safety recommendations?
All other City plans have specific lists of projects with estimated budgets, timeframes, responsible department, etc.
Our plan update has none of this. Because this isn't a plan document, it is a propaganda piece with some good information and a plethora of omissions. What is the City going to do to improve Beacon Avenue, and public safety in the next ten years? What happened to all the very specific recommendations of the community that came out in the meetings?
Ask these questions when you get to testify to Council on the merits of our "update". Upzones without concurrent planning for City investment are a thinly veiled effort to increase property tax revenue without agreeing to spend that money in the neighborhoods where it is being raised. It contravenes the State Growth Management Act.
Freddie, not to be contrarian, but doesn't the "North Beacon Street Concepts Section" download specifically address improvements to Beacon Avenue? I don't know about improving public safety, because I don't have major public safety concerns about the neighborhood. We've certainly had our run-ins with petty crime in the neighborhood, but I hardly feel like I should oppose zoning changes I agree with because someone broke into our house. And as I said, the new park space seems like it will be a fantastic amenity very close to the newly dense commercial core.
I haven't gone to any of the meetings, so I don't know what the tone of them is, but what I see reported back doesn't really make me want to go. If relations with the city are as contentious and antagonistic as they are represented, then it's hard to see how anything good can come from either side.


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Ss Cyril & Methodius Orthodox Church
An Orthodox Christian community on the campus of UW-Madison
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Proskomedia
Form-fillable Proskomedia PDF files that can be downloaded, filled out, printed and submitted for prayers and commemoration at the Office of Oblation that precedes the Divine Liturgy. You can also send the form as an attachment directly to Fr Gregory.
The Priest takes a particle from the fourth prosphora, and places it below the Holy Bread, to the left.
From the fourth prosphora, and those that the faithful have given, the Priest remembers the living faithful, removing a particle for each and placing (them in a row below) saying with each name:
Remember, O Lord, Your servants (name).
The Priest takes a particle from the fifth prosphora and, placing it below the above row, remembers the departed, saying:
In blessed memory and for the remission of sins of the most holy Patriarchs, Bishops, Priests, Deacons, and all monastics; and of all the blessed founders of this holy church.
The Priest remembers the Bishop who ordained him, if he is departed, and then any other departed faithful, removing a particle from the fifth prosphora for each and placing it next to the first, below the row of the living, saying with each name:
Remember, O Lord, Your servant (name).
When he finishes remembering the departed, the Priest says this prayer:
Remember all of our Orthodox fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters, who have departed in the hope of resurrection to eternal life in Your communion, O Lord who loves mankind.
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Woohoo it's Spring Break!!!! Anyone else on Spring Break this week? It came just in time; since it was so late this year it's been a while since the students have had any sort of break and you could see how tired both students and teachers were lately. I don't have any big plans except relaxing, lesson planning, and a trip to Mario Batali's super grocery store in Chicago called Eataly (I had a fun time explaining the name to my parents who both thought I was planning on going to Italy). I've been wanting to go ever since it opened but haven't had a chance yet so I am extremely excited to finally see it!! I'll let you know how I like it!
Today I decided to try out this recipe I found a few weeks ago for Cool Ranch Roasted Chickpeas. It's from a vegan blog and the original recipe uses nutritional yeast (which I'll admit I had never even heard of) in place of real cheese, so I modified the recipe since I am not vegan and enjoy cheese (probably a little too much) and tried it out and it turned out great! It's a great flavorful snack for when you want something with a crunchier texture but don't want the calories and unknown ingredients that come with chips or other snack foods. I'll definitely make these again!
Begin by preheating your oven to 350. Then, drain and rinse 2 cans of chickpeas (garbanzo beans) then let them dry.
Add the beans into a large bowl and mix in 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar, 1 teaspoon fine sea salt, 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder, 1/2 teaspoon onion powder, and 1/2 teaspoon dried dill.
Chop 1 tablespoon fresh parsley and 2 tablespoons fresh chives and mix both into the chickpeas.
Finally, add in 2 tablespoons of parmesan cheese and mix well.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spread the chickpeas onto it in an even layer. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until crispy, stirring once after 20 minutes. You may need to keep the chickpeas in a little longer depending on your oven if they are not crispy.
Let them cool a little bit, then start snacking! I didn't have enough self-control to wait until they were completely cool so I risked burning my fingertips to munch on them while they were still hot. It was worth it!
You could store these in the fridge if you want them to keep for a few days, but they will probably soften in there so if you want them crispy you may need to reheat them again in the oven.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, combine chickpeas, extra virgin olive oil, apple cider vinegar, sea salt, garlic powder, onion powder, dill, parsley, chives, and parmesan cheese. Mix together until chickpeas are well-coated.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spread chickpeas evenly on the sheet. Bake for 35-40 minutes (or until crispy), stirring after 20 minutes. You may need to keep them in the oven a little longer until they are crispy. Let cool, then enjoy!
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import sys
import re

from difflib import ndiff

multiproc = False
try:
    from multiprocessing import Pool
    multiproc = True
except:
    pass

args = sys.argv
jobs = 1
match = re.match('-j([0-9]+)?', args[1])
if match:
    args = [args[0]] + args[2:]
    if match.group(1):
        jobs = int(match.group(1))
if jobs == 1:
    multiproc = False

from LedgerHarness import LedgerHarness

harness = LedgerHarness(args)

#def normalize(line):
#    match = re.match("((\s*)([A-Za-z]+)?(\s*)([-0-9.]+)(\s*)([A-Za-z]+)?)(  (.+))?$", line)
#    if match:
#        if match.group(3):
#            prefix = match.group(3) + " " + match.group(5)
#            if match.group(8):
#                return prefix + match.group(8)
#            return prefix
#        elif match.group(7):
#            prefix = match.group(7) + " " + match.group(5)
#            if match.group(8):
#                return prefix + match.group(8)
#            return prefix
#    return line

def generation_test(seed):
    p_gen = harness.run('$ledger --seed=%d generate' % seed)

    cout = harness.read(p_gen.stdout)

    if not harness.wait(p_gen, msg=("Generation for seed %d failed:" % seed)):
        return False

    p_print = harness.run('$ledger --actual -f - print')
    p_print.stdin.write(cout)
    p_print.stdin.close()
    p_print_out = p_print.stdout.read()

    if not harness.wait(p_print, msg=("Print for seed %d failed:" % seed)):
        return False

    #p_cerr_bal = Popen("%s --args-only -f - bal" % ledger, shell=True,
    #                   stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, close_fds=True)
    #p_cerr_bal.stdin.write(cerr)
    #p_cerr_bal.stdin.close()
    #
    #cerr_lines = [normalize(line) for line in p_cerr_bal.stdout.readlines()]
    #
    #if p_cerr_bal.wait() != 0:
    #    print "Stderr balance for seed %d failed due to error:" % seed
    #    print p_cerr_bal.stderr.read()
    #    del p_cerr_bal
    #    return False
    #del p_cerr_bal

    p_cout_bal = harness.run('$ledger -f - bal')
    p_cout_bal.stdin.write(cout)
    p_cout_bal.stdin.close()

    cout_lines = harness.readlines(p_cout_bal.stdout)
    if len(cout_lines) == 0:
      return False
    #norm_cout_lines = [normalize(line) for line in cout_lines]

    if not harness.wait(p_cout_bal, msg=("Stdout balance for seed %d failed:" % seed)):
        return False

    p_print_bal = harness.run('$ledger -f - bal')
    p_print_bal.stdin.write(p_print_out)
    p_print_bal.stdin.close()

    print_lines = harness.readlines(p_print_bal.stdout)
    if len(print_lines) == 0:
      return False

    if not harness.wait(p_print_bal, msg=("Print balance for seed %d failed:" % seed)):
        return False

    success = True
    #printed = False
    #for line in ndiff(cerr_lines, norm_cout_lines, charjunk=None):
    #    if line[:2] == "  ":
    #        continue
    #    if not printed:
    #        if success: print
    #        print "Generation failure in output from seed %d (cerr vs. cout):" % seed
    #        if success: failed += 1
    #        success = False
    #        printed = True
    #    print " ", line

    printed = False
    for line in ndiff(cout_lines, print_lines, charjunk=None):
        if line[:2] == "  ":
            continue
        if not printed:
            if success: print
            print "Generation failure in output from seed %d (cout vs. print):" % seed
            success = False
            printed = True
        print " ", line

    return success

beg_range = 1
end_range = 20
if len(args) > 4:
    beg_range = int(args[3])
    end_range = int(args[4])

def run_gen_test(i):
    if generation_test(i):
        harness.success()
    else:
        harness.failure()
    return harness.failed

if multiproc:
    pool = Pool(jobs*2)
else:
    pool = None

if pool:
    pool.map(run_gen_test, range(beg_range, end_range))
else:
    for i in range(beg_range, end_range):
        run_gen_test(i)

if pool:
    pool.close()
    pool.join()

harness.exit()


the good think with Greece is that have a lot of countries 'inside her' at smallest areas ofcourse!! you can have a little taste of every terrain... Tenere is all paint.. only the small black cycle round the lid of gas tank is wrap.
οκ!!! i welcome you from now!
hello from sunny and hot Greece!!!!


Rebecca Petras is Program Director for Translators without Borders. Previously she was a board member for two years and served on the executive committee as the head of marketing and communications.
Accurate, up-to-date information in the right language can save lives. The not-for-profit organization Translators without Borders aims to transfer critical knowledge by translating information for humanitarian projects.
The call came in January: "Can you help us translate thousands of messages during the Kenyan elections to make sure civilians across the country are heard?" asked Heather Leson of Ushahidi, the successful non-profit organization focused on information collection during humanitarian events. "Sure!" was my immediate response. I knew our translators were still learning, and I knew they had just been taught MemoQ by our dedicated volunteer, Marek Pawelec. And I knew we had an excellent project head in Nairobi who had been carefully trained and mentored by our board member in charge of Kenya, Simon Andriesen.
No doubt – this was an important project. Organized by a number of humanitarian groups and managed by Ushahidi, the election project – named Uchaguzi – was designed to increase transparency during the Kenyan elections. Five years earlier, in 2007 and 2008, major unrest after the elections had resulted in more than 1,000 people losing their lives, and a general mistrust in the election process and its results. This time the goal was to make sure all voices were heard during the elections and to minimize the impact of intimidation that often occurred through social media networks. To do it right, language had to be considered: When engaging in community issues, Kenyans generally use either the lingua franca Swahili or their mother tongues, which add up to more than a dozen throughout the country.
Translators without Borders' mission is, to use language to transfer critical knowledge. We knew this was a very important humanitarian situation – we would figure out how to help.
And we did. Our team of professional translators, who were without a professional path just six months before, played an important role in the success of Uchaguzi. They worked nonstop for eight days, translating information from ten languages – and they felt great about being part of this charitable effort.
This is a good example of what we do – in Kenya and around the world. Translators without Borders translates for humanity. We take critical content that is often available only in major 'world' languages, and we make it available in regional and local languages, giving people access to this knowledge in their own language. In most cases, we work with professional translators who volunteer their time. In fact, in May, our professional volunteers reached a major milestone, having translated ten million words for humanity in just the past two years. These are words that help Syrian refugees, doctors in Haiti, mothers in India and care workers in Indonesia.
Back in Kenya, we are working to increase language capacity, as it is known in the translation jargon. The fact is, there are very few translators working into Swahili, and those who do are quickly snatched up by commercial enterprises that can pay top rates. We recognized this issue when we were asked to do some health translations into Swahili, and we could not find translators who would do the humanitarian work. We then began to hear many stories about the lack of knowledge in Swahili and the general lack of translators or a translation industry. This led us to establish our first translation training center in Nairobi where we have trained ten translators by now and plan to train more this year.
Our team's work on Uchaguzi was actually a bit of a change from the translators' daily work, which is primarily healthcare based. Our team is especially trained on healthcare issues and specializes in healthcare translations. We work on a number of small projects, including subtitling maternal and neonatal videos for mothers in Kenya. But two projects dominate our work: one for the Open University and the other for Wikipedia (financed by Indigo Trust).
Our team is currently working on a project called Health Education And Training (HEAT), a volume of half a million words of training materials for community health workers. This material was originally written by the Open University (in the UK) for the government of Ethiopia, where it is already being used. The content is first reviewed and edited by our team of English editors, managed by Content Rules of California (a major supporter of our work). The editors take out any references that are specific to Ethiopia and make it more general. They also simplify the text. The end result is then translated by our team in Nairobi. All work is carefully checked and edited, both linguistically and medically. This project is partly subsidized by a grant from the Open University.
The other major project is our 100 x 100 Wikipedia project, which involves the translation of the 100+ most widely read Wikipedia articles on health issues into 100+ languages. The project is well under way – dozens of articles have been translated into a still growing number of languages. All Swahili work is done by our translators. This part of the 100 x 100 Wikipedia Project is funded by The Indigo Trust.
Meanwhile, we do work for a number of other non-profit organizations and social enterprises who recognize the importance of having their information in Swahili. For example, in addition to the Uchaguzi project, we translated the Ushahidi platform into Swahili, completing the work in record time.
We are proud of this work – yet there is so much more to do. Swahili is an important language, spoken by 60-100 million people in East Africa, but no less than 2,000 other languages are also spoken in Africa. It is Translators without Borders' mission to create translation capacity by providing training to translators who live in areas with the triple disadvantages of poor public health, health information in the wrong language and an underdeveloped translation infrastructure. In Uganda, for example, four major languages are used, and with the help of trained translators, we could greatly assist the Village Health Teams who handle most of the health needs. We will strive to satisfy these needs as we continue to spread more knowledge to more people around the world.


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Gen. Patrick Nyamvumba (born 11 June 1967) is the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff of the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and the Minister of Internal Security of the Republic of Rwanda.

From 2013-2019, he served as the Chief of the Rwandan Defence Force. Prior to that, from 2009 to 2013, he served in Sudan as Force Commander of the AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). A graduate of the Nigerian Defence Academy, Nyamvumba previously served the RDF as a commander of infantry forces, Commandant of the Rwanda Military Academy in Nyakinama, Musanze District, President of the Military High Court (2007-2009), Chief of Logistics, and Chief of Operations, Plans, and Training (1998-1999).

War crimes allegations
As the head of the Training Wing of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) during the Rwandan Civil War, Nyamvumba allegedly commanded death squad operations in which Hutu civilians in RPF-controlled areas were butchered.  Nyamvumba's troops lured and killed Hutus at meetings.  Some were hunted down and killed with guns or hoes and dumped in the Akagera River.  Victims were also loaded onto trucks, taken to Akagera National Park and killed there, before being burned and incinerated.

References

External links

 UN Biography Patrick Nyamvumba

Rwandan generals
United Nations military personnel
Living people
1967 births
Interior ministers of Rwanda

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Rebecca Stephenson
Clinical Associate Professor & Director for Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership for Social Justice | Loyola Marymount University
Department of Educational Leadership and Administration
Professor Rebecca Herr Stephenson earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Communication from USC and her M.A. in Teaching from LMU. She returned to LMU in 2013 to serve as the Managing Editor for the Journal of Catholic Education. In addition to working with the Journal, Professor Stephenson teaches qualitative research methods and writing courses in the doctoral program, and since August 2021 she has been serving as interim director of the doctoral program.
Her research focuses broadly on teaching and learning with media and technology. She has published and presented on topics ranging from children's educational television and video games to strategies for incorporating blended learning into the K-12 curriculum.
She is co-author of two books, Teaching Harry Potter: The Power of Imagination in Multicultural Classrooms (2011, Palgrave MacMillan) and Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with Digital Media (2009, MIT Press).
Currently, she is working on a study of K-12 teachers' perceptions of the impacts of the current political climate on their students' experiences at school and is a contributor to the Magic Chair project, a transmedia project dedicated to telling stories about disability.
University of Southern California: Ph.D., MA, Communication 2008
Loyola Marymount University: M.A.T., Education 2003
Emerson College: Bachelor of Arts, Visual and Media Arts 2000
Digital Media and Learning
Academic writing and editing
Critical pedagogy
Kappa Delta Pi
Children's Media Association


I had a weekend to spend in La La Los Angeles. I was after something old (a place I had visited before and loved), and something new (a place I had always wanted to visit). I decided to start with something old.
With the Oscars happening over this particular weekend (I had no idea) accommodation was tight. However I managed to find a great Airbnb with an amazing family in Inglewood. It's not a posh neighbourhood, but it's central with access to all sides of LA.
I started the morning early. Google Maps said it was 40 minutes to Venice, and with LA traffic you normally add an hour, but I was optimistic.
The traffic was surprisingly light, and as a minimalist I loved this billboard – Self-storage is stupid. Funny.
Driving along, it looked like it was going to be a perfect day in terms of the weather. It actually was only 40 minutes to Venice Beach.
Since I have been to Venice Beach before, luckily I knew where to find free street parking. If you don't need to park next to the beach, and you park a few blocks back, you can usually find plenty of parking.
I started walking towards the beach. I saw some funny text on the wall – "You look amazing in that sense of entitlement". There were homeless people on the same street so it kinda made sense.
Ahhhhhh, Venice Beach, it's good to be back.
I had seen this coffee shop in Venice last year, and I always wanted to try it.
Of course I had some price shock, when you convert to Australian dollars. I think I paid about AUD$7 for a cappuccino.
I headed over to the boardwalk and beach.
As I said…… cold, but perfect weather.
Time to stroll. Yes, I took LOTS of photos… I couldn't stop.
It was entertaining watching the street vendors and locals set up for the day.
Of course, the street art is fantastic – an outdoor art gallery.
I thought this guy was weird. I guess this is what the world is coming to – paying someone to have a conversation with you – interesting business idea.
His topic for discussion is – "Shame on Snap Chat for desecration of the American way of life".
If I could hug all street art I would.
I normally don't have dessert for breakfast, which is technically what an Acai Bowl is, but today – why not?
A little bit of St Mark… the Patron Saint of Venice. Venice in Italy that is. Yep, he's the dude who wrote one of the books of the New Testament.
Just popping by Jim's place.
An ode to some great minds and philosophers.
Next it was off to Abbot Kinney Boulevard (another Flaked filming location).
It's only about 5 minutes drive from the beach, but it is full of boutique shops, cafes, coffee and street art.
Recognise the location of "Free Coffee" from Flaked?
There are these wonderful, quirky, educational art pieces up and down the road. They have great local stories to tell.
It is such a pretty street.
It's easy to love this place.
This art piece is etched into the wall.
I first tried this coffee in San Francisco in August 2015, and then again in New York in April 2016, so I knew it was good.
I normally don't have two posh coffees in one day, but my time is limited this weekend.
Then time to walk back.
And then another fun exhibit.
A little piece of political art.
Time to go. Thanks Venice. See you next time.
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