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Passerelle Debilly – The Bridge of Spies
FURTHER RESEARCH FOR my Paris Bridges Project took me to the Passerelle Debilly, a stone's throw from the Tour Eiffel and one of the four "passerelles piétonnières", or footbridges, to cross la Seine within the Paris city limits.
Like some of the other bridges in this part of Paris, the Paserelle Debilly owes its existence to one of the great Expositions Universelles, or World's Fairs, held on and around the Champs de Mars in the late nineteenth-century. Built as a footbridge for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, the Passerelle Debilly was originally positioned to connect the Army and the Navy exhibition halls on one side of the river with the Old Paris halls on the other.
Exposition Universelle 1900 – Passerelle Debilly and the Armées de Terre et de Mer Exhibition Hall.
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The Passerelle Debilly was designed by three French engineers Jean Résal, Amédée Alby and André-Louis Lion. Jean Résal held the position of Ingénieur en chef des ponts et chausses, a prestigious civil engineering post dating back to the seventeenth-century and an especially important post during the late nineteenth-century redevelopment of Paris. Résal was a pioneer of building metallic bridges in the late nineteenth-century and his work includes as well as the Passerelle Debilly, the Pont Mirabeau, the Pont de Bercy, the Pont Notre-Dame and the magnificent Pont Alexandre III.
The construction work for the Passerelle Debilly was undertaken by the firm of Daydé et Pillé, specialists in metallic construction who also constructed several other bridges in Paris.
Passerelle Debilly From Downstream
The construction work was completed and the Passerelle Debilly was opened on 13th April 1900. To begin with the name of the footbridge was ambiguous, it was called both the Passerelle de l'Exposition Militaire and the Passerelle de Magdebourg. It was only later that it was formally designated as the Passerelle Debilly, after General Jean Louis Debilly who was killed in the Battle of Jena (La bataille d'Iéna in French) in 1806.
The bridge of course was designed as a temporary structure to serve visitors to the 1900 Exposition Universelle. But in 1903, after the Exposition had been deconstructed, the bridge was taken over by the City of Paris and it became a permanent fixture but not before it was moved some two hundred metres upstream opposite the rue de la Manutention, closer to the Pont d'Alma and further away from the Pont d'Iena, the bridge named after the battle in which Jean Louis Debilly died.
Tour Eiffel from under the Passerelle Debilly
The Passerelle Debilly we see today is the original bridge save for several new coats of paint and the addition of the tropical hardwood walkway. It's 120 metres long and 8 metres wide and it stretches from the Quai de New York on the Right Bank to the Quai Branly on the Left Bank. The bridge comprises three spans anchored on stone piers with the central span forming an arch with an intermediate deck of 75 metres and two half-arch end spans of 22.50 metres.
Passerelle Debilly anchored into one of the stone piers
At either end of the Passerelle Debilly are columns decorated with dark green ceramic tiles giving the impression of waves made by the French ceramic company, Gentil et Bourdet.
Having successfully survived its temporary status after the 1900 Exposition Universelle, the Passerelle Debilly came under threat again in 1941 when the Président of the Architectural Society no less characterised it as an "accessoire oublié d'une fête passée", a forgotten accessory of a past event. But the Passerelle Debilly snubbed its nose at this intervention and survived to become listed in the supplementary registry of historical monuments in 1966.
Regular readers will know that I have embarked upon a Paris Bridges Project; a project to explore all the thirty-seven bridges that cross la Seine within the Paris city limits. My exploration includes not only researching the history of each bridge but also seeking out the characteristic sounds of each bridge.
On my visit to the Passerelle Debilly I began by recording the sounds under the bridge on the Quai de New York side. I sat on a metal rail, as far under the bridge as I could get, with the metal frame of the bridge and the wooden walkway above my head and began to record.
Sounds under the Passerelle Debilly:
https://soundlandscapes.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/passerelle-debilly-under-the-bridge-avenue-de-new-york-side.mp3
The sounds of boats passing each leaving their sonic footprint in the form of waves lapping on the edge of the quay, a boat moored to my left creaking as if held prisoner and crying out for some means of escape, a sonic glimpse of a tourist guide over the public address system on a passing tourist boat, the testosterone-fuelled sounds of a passing motor-cycle, half-heard conversations of teenagers, and the occasional, almost imperceptible, footsteps echoing from the tropical hardwood floor of the bridge above seemed to be the characteristic sounds from under the Passerelle Debilly.
But the characteristic sounds of any place are as varied as the places you listen from and so I decided to venture up onto the bridge to see what I could find.
Standing on the bridge, I set up my microphones on the downstream side of the bridge pointing upstream across the broad swathe of tropical hardwood lining the floor of the bridge, something those walking across the bridge in 1900 would not have found. From this position I was able to record everyday life passing by.
I found three distinctive sets of sounds on the bridge.
Sounds on the Passerelle Debilly:
https://soundlandscapes.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/passerelle-debilly-on-the-bridge.mp3
Not surprisingly, the sounds of footsteps on the wooden floor on the bridge were much clearer than the muffled sounds of footsteps I'd heard earlier from under it. It was interesting to observe the variety of shoes that passed by, not something I would usually take an interest in, but I became quite expert in recognising which shoes would make an interesting sound and which would not. The repetitive sounds of tourist boats passing underneath the bridge were ever present of course but it was the snatches of half-heard conversations in a variety of languages that I found really fascinating. Who were these people, what had brought them to this place and what stories had they to tell?
One distinctive sound that I might have expected was conspicuous by its absence – the sound of vehicular traffic. Save for the inevitable screeching motorcycle in the distance, from the centre of the bridge the sound of traffic was almost imperceptible – a rare thing in Paris.
While the sounds of vehicular traffic were pretty much absent from the centre of the bridge, the sounds of the river traffic were certainly present. I'd heard the sounds of the boats passing from under the bridge and from on the bridge but, since there was so much river traffic at the time I was there and since the sounds of the boats filled the air, I thought I would try to listen to them from a different perspective. I changed my microphones for a pair of tiny lavalier microphones, the same as TV newsreaders wear, which I lowered down from the edge of the bridge so that they were hanging midway between the bridge and the water.
Sounds of the passing boats from between the bridge and the water:
https://soundlandscapes.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/passerelle-debilly-boats-from-on-the-bridge.mp3
From this perspective I still caught some of the sounds emanating from on the bridge (the microphones were omni-directional) but I was able to capture the sounds of the boats passing underneath with a clarity that would not have been possible from on the bridge. Listening through my headphones I heard snatches of conversation from on the boats often before the boats had actually emerged from under the bridge and most surprisingly, I heard the sound of music from a boat berthed on the Quai Branly which was quite inaudible from my previous recording position on the bridge.
One of the things I'm trying to do in my Paris Bridges Project is to not only discover the characteristic sounds of each bridge but also to try to seek out the sounds that might be unique to each bridge. Finding the unique sounds can be quite a challenge because the sounds are often not immediately obvious and sometimes they can be almost imperceptible to the casual listener.
At the Quai Branly side of the Passerelle Debilly is the Port de la Bourdonnais, a place where some of the large restaurant boats that ply la Seine are berthed. The bridge runs over the top of the port with steps leading down to the quay. Under the bridge, beyond the steps, is a wall behind which run two railway lines of RER Line 'C'. It seemed to me that the sounds of an RER railway line running under the Passerelle Debilly could be the unique sounds of the bridge that I was looking for so I stood under the bridge, listening and waiting.
Presently, I heard the very faint sounds of a train passing behind the wall, sounds too faint to capture without the aid of contact microphones (microphones designed to pick up sounds from solid objects) but the sounds were definitely there. Since I wanted to capture these sounds but I didn't have my contact microphones with me I resorted to 'Plan B'.
From where I was standing, the rail lines were completely hidden from view but a few steps further along the Port de la Bourdonnais metal grills appear in the wall.
I approached one of the metal grills and discovered that it was just, but only just, high enough for me to reach and so with the dexterity of a cat burglar I managed to get my tiny lavalier microphones through the grill and lower them down the other side. I waited to see what would happen.
Sounds of RER Line 'C' passing under the bridge:
https://soundlandscapes.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/passerelle-debilly-rer-line-c.mp3
Standing at the end of two wires protruding from a hole in the wall attracted more attention from the passing tourists than I'd bargained for but I pressed on regardless and I was pleased with the results.
I was struck by the near silence in the tunnel between the trains despite the everyday sounds around me on the outside of the wall. The only time this silence was disturbed was when a very large tourist bus passed behind me, rather too close I thought.
For me at least, these were the unique sounds of the Passerelle Debilly.
Located as it is close to the Tour Eiffel and the site of the 1900 Exposition Universelle, the Passerelle Debilly is well used to hosting visitors.
In 1900 visitors came to witness the latest in architecture, machines and inventions including such things as the new Art Nouveau, the Grande Roue de Paris Ferris wheel, Russian nesting dolls, diesel engines, talking films, escalators, and the telegraphone, the first magnetic audio recorder. Today, visitors still come to experience what Paris has to offer and a good number of the visitors, now as then, will pass over the Passerelle Debilly.
But there was a time when the Passerelle Debilly was more than just a passing attraction for tourists.
For those of us of a certain age and for whom memories of the Cold War are still vivid, the Passerelle Debilly, when viewed from a certain angle and in a certain light, has a rather sinister look to it. It's perhaps not surprising then to discover that the Passerelle Debilly was a meeting place for spies and particularly secret agents of the former East Germany. In 1989, a German diplomat working for the Secret Service of the Democratic Republic of Germany was found dead on this footbridge several days after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Knowing that gave me a whole new perspective on the Passerelle Debilly – The Bridge of Spies!


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Gary P. Seligman
gseligman@wileyrein.com
The Strike Zone for Breach of Contract Policy Exclusions
In a case of Field of Dreams gone wrong, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently considered whether a contractual liability exclusion barred coverage for a claim by the operator of a minor league baseball team alleging that a stadium, promised by the insured city if the team came to town, was never built. OneBeacon American Insurance Co. v. City of Zion, No. 12-cv-4437 (N.D. Ill. July 29, 2015). In one of the first cases applying Illinois law to address a breach of contract and contractual liability exclusion in a professional liability policy, the court held that the exclusion barred coverage for the city but that the insurer had a duty to defend the city officials named in the suit. The court came to this conclusion even while applying a broad "but for" causation test to determine the applicability of the exclusion because the city officials were alleged to have made misrepresentations and engaged in a conspiracy of which the alleged breach of the city's contract to construct the stadium comprised but a part. Policyholders may attempt to use the decision in Illinois and elsewhere to urge courts to find a duty to defend notwithstanding broadly worded and broadly applied contract-related exclusions, depending upon the types of wrongdoing alleged and their nexus to the relevant contract.
The operator of the minor league baseball team brought suit against the city and its mayor and economic development director. The team alleged the city had agreed to build a stadium in consideration for the team coming there to play. The city council approved the sale of bonds to finance the construction, and the city entered a contract with a construction firm to build the stadium. The team alleged that the mayor and director then decided not to pursue construction at the site but continued to misrepresent to the team and to the public that construction of the stadium would occur. Instead, according to the team, the city officials conspired with a local real estate developer to prevent the bonds from being issued, delay the construction, and relocate the stadium to a site where it would not be financially successful, all causing the team substantial economic losses. The mayor then allegedly publicly blamed the project delays on the team owing back rent. The team asserted breach of the construction contract against the city, alleging that it was a third-party beneficiary to the contract. The team also asserted causes of action against the city officials for fraud and civil conspiracy. The city's insurer brought a coverage action for a declaration that it had no duty to defend the city or the individuals against the team's suit.
The court considered the breach of contract and contractual liability exclusion in the policy's errors and omission coverage part. The exclusion barred coverage for:
Any "claim" arising directly or indirectly out of, or in any way related to liability assumed under any contract or agreement or breach of contract to which the insured is a party or a third-party beneficiary, or any representations made in anticipation of such contract or agreement or any "claim" against any insured arising directly or indirectly out of, or in any way related to tortious interference with a contract or business relations. However this exclusion does not apply to liability the insured would have in the absence of the contract or agreement.
The court found that the exclusion precluded coverage for the city because the alleged wrongful acts of the city were limited to and would not exist "but for" the breach of the construction contract—the only causes of action asserted against the city were for breach of contract and specific performance. However, the court opined that application of the exclusion to the fraud and conspiracy claims against the individual defendants was "less straightforward." The court determined that the exclusion did not conclusively bar coverage for the claims because the underlying complaint alleged numerous wrongful acts by the officials, including making disparaging statements about the team to the public, frustrating the issuance of the construction bonds, and relocating the stadium to an inferior site. None of this conduct, in the court's view, "relie[d] on a provision in the [underlying construction] Contract."
Although it is one of the first times a court applying Illinois law has considered a breach of contract or contractual liability exclusion in a professional liability policy, the court's analysis was not consistent with many courts around the country applying such exclusions, even when assessing an insurer's duty to defend. Where a claim is solely for breach of contract, as with the claim against the city here, courts have had little trouble finding that such exclusions preclude coverage. However, when the underlying complaint asserts causes of action beyond breach of contract, courts have come to differing conclusions.
The language of the contract-related exclusion in the city's policy was actually quite broad. It excluded claims "arising directly or indirectly out of, or in any way related to liability assumed under any contract … or breach of contract." Some courts have held that tort claims, such as conversion, breach of fiduciary duty, or fraudulent inducement, are not precluded by such exclusions even though they are clearly related to the insured's contractual relationship with the claimant.[1] Other courts have concluded that such exclusions do bar coverage for tort claims arising out of an alleged breach of contract because such claims flow from or would not exist but for the contractual relationship, even if the claims concern formation of the contract rather than the insured's manner of performance.[2] Perhaps to ensure judicial interpretation consistent with this latter line of cases, the exclusion in City of Zion also expressly excluded claims arising directly or indirectly out of, or in any way related to representations made in anticipation of a contract or the insured's tortious interference with a contract. However, the exclusion also contained a carve-out, commonly found in similar exclusions, excepting liability the insured would have in the absence of the contract or agreement.
The court concluded that the contract exclusion in City of Zion did not apply to the claims against the city officials because those claims alleged wrongdoing outside the scope of the city's construction contract and could arise in the absence of that contract. That is, the court applied a "but for" causation test—whether the alleged wrongful acts could have been asserted but for a breach of the stadium construction contract—that came up negative. The court agreed with the city officials' contention that the claims against them could have stood with or without the city's construction contract.
The court expanded on this reasoning when it later also determined that no coverage was available to the city under the policy's CGL coverage part because of the separate breach of contract exclusion in that section. The exclusion contained the same broad lead-in language as the parallel exclusion in the E&O coverage part—"arising directly or indirectly out of, or in any way related to"—but did not contain an exception for liability that would attach in the absence of a contract. The court interpreted "arising directly" and "in any way related to" broadly, finding that the "core factual allegations" of wrongdoing against the city plainly involved a breach of contract. In that regard, the court's analysis aligned with other Illinois cases interpreting "arising out of" lead-in language broadly, both in coverage grants[3] and in exclusions, [4] to require only "but for" causation.
Thus, on the one hand, City of Zion may serve as a reminder that contract-related exclusions might not be applied as written where an underlying claim is not pled solely on a contract-based theory of liability. On the other hand, the court's ultimate conclusion regarding the CGL policy was correct. The "but for" causation test remains a broad measure of whether a claim falls within an exclusion, and City of Zion does not foreclose the application of contract-related exclusions to other claims, even when determining the duty to defend.
[1] See, e.g., Foodtown Inc. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., 412 F. App'x 502 (3d Cir. 2011) (contract exclusion did not apply to breach of fiduciary claim); TranSched Sys. Ltd. v. Fed. Ins. Co., 958 F. Supp. 2d 331 (D.R.I. 2013) (contract exclusion did not apply to claims that insureds made misrepresentations before formation of contract); McPeek v. Travelers Cas. & Sur. Co. of Am., No. 06-cv-114, 2006 WL 1308087 (W.D. Pa. May 10, 2006) (exclusion for claims arising out of any contract or agreement did not apply to fraudulent inducement claims that arose prior to contract).
[2] See, e.g., Spirtas Co. v. Fed. Ins. Co., 521 F.3d 833 (8th Cir. 2008) (applying contract exclusion to claims for breach of trust, conversion, and unjust enrichment because they "arose from" the contract); Cousins Submarines, Inc. v. Fed. Ins. Co., No. 12-cv-387, 2013 WL 494163 (E.D. Wis. Feb. 8, 2013) (contract exclusion barred coverage for rescission claim); Julio & Sons Co. v. Travelers Cas. & Sur. Co. of Am., 591 F. Supp. 2d 651 (S.D.N.Y. 2008) (contract exclusion barred coverage for breach of contract, fraud, and negligent misrepresentation causes of action, but not breach of fiduciary duty).
[3] See, e.g., Elec. Ins. Co. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, 346 F. Supp. 2d 958, 966 (N.D. Ill. 2004); Md. Cas. Co. v. Chi. & N. W. Transp. Co., 466 N.E.2d 1091, 1094 (Ill. Ct. App. 1984).
[4] See, e.g., Lemko Corp. v. Fed. Ins. Co., 70 F. Supp. 3d 905, 919 (N.D. Ill. 2014); Citizens Ins. Co. of Am. v. Uncommon, LLC, 812 F. Supp. 2d 905, 911 (N.D. Ill. 2011).
Anna, a partner in the TMT Practice and co-chair of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Practice, was recently elected Assistant Treasurer of the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA), and began her term on July 1.
Anna M. Gomez

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Josef Dolívka (9. března 1934, Olomouc – 17. března 2021) byl český regionální publicista, sběratel výtvarného umění, autor článků o výtvarném umění a kurátor výstav.

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Josef Dolívka absolvoval roční grafickou školu v Olomouci a krátce pracoval jako aranžér.

Josef Dolívka žil v Kostelci na Hané, kde v 60. letech působil jako předseda MNV. V této funkci se zasloužil o vybudování pomníku Petra Bezruče. Byl i předsedou Spolku přátel Petra Bezruče. Založil Klub přátel výtvarného umění v Prostějově a od roku 1988 byl jeho předsedou.

Věnoval se popularizaci výtvarného umění a především ex libris.

Publikoval čláky o prostějovských osobnostech v Prostějovském deníku.

Ocenění
 Cena města Prostějova (2006)

Dílo
 DOLÍVKA, Josef: Výtvarníci prostějovského regionu. Prostějov 2007. ISBN 978-80-254-3976-0.

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10321 Rampo è un asteroide della fascia principale. Scoperto nel 1990, presenta un'orbita caratterizzata da un semiasse maggiore pari a 2,3297998 UA e da un'eccentricità di 0,0945221, inclinata di 6,05933° rispetto all'eclittica.

L'asteroide è dedicato allo scrittore giapponese Rampo Edogawa.

Collegamenti esterni

Corpi celesti scoperti nel 1990
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We all have goals we want to meet during our lifetime. The education of our children, a comfortable and financially secure retirement and perhaps a new home or a second home. The first step of estate planning is to help you plan for – and realize – these lifetime goals. It addresses your legal and financial concerns, taking into account your goals and tax considerations. It also takes advantage of existing laws and funding vehicles to save you on taxes and help manage your property in an efficient and profitable way during your lifetime.


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See features of the bridge
History & significance
The four culverts that were built to carry Trunk Highway 74 over a drainage channel in Whitewater State Park (Bridges 8592, 8593, 8594, and 8594) were designed by the National Park Service, the Minnesota Department of Highways, and the Minnesota Department of Conservation. They were constructed in 1936 by a Works Progress Administration (WPA) Transient Camp located in the park. With nearly identical basic designs, they have metal Armco multi-plate arches with rustic style headwalls and low knee walls built of Oneota Dolomite, a local carbonate rock quarried within the park. Depending on the location, some have extended stone wingwalls that form flumes to channel the water. The stone masonry consists of random ashlar, roughly squared blocks, nearly coursed in some areas. Each culvert has a 10-foot-wide arch opening with long skewed barrels ranging in length from 85 to 115 feet.
The four culverts are contributing elements within the Whitewater State Park Historic District, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Whitewater State Park (Winona County)
Bridge features
The metal multi-plate arch (Bridge 8593).
Extended wingwall and concrete channel floor (Bridge 8593).
Tall wingwalls creating a flume (Bridge 8594).
Trunk Highway 74 over a stream
National register evaluation (PDF, 4 MB)
National register of historic places registration form (PDF, 0.5 MB)
Condition and rehabilitation study (PDF, 8 MB)
Rehabilitation alternatives study (PDF, 2 MB)
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Is Your Work Zone Prepared for a Cyber-Attack?
Data breaches and cyber-attacks have been increasing at an alarming rate both in volume and in size. The targets for these attacks have also evolved and according to Construction Dive, construction companies are increasingly being targeted for their floor plans, security system designs and server locations. Additionally bids, customer lists, contracts, and customers' and employees' confidential information, such as billing and payroll is also targeted and subsequently lost through data corruption and cyber ransom.
Although you don't normally hear about construction company security breaches in the headlines, but rather hear about large, high-profile breaches, such as the Target security breach of 2013 which cost Target $148 million and the banking institutions an additional $200 million, construction company breaches can be just as devastating to the company due to their size. Jay Shelton, writer for Construction Business Owner, said these security breaches are substantial enough to put a small to medium sized construction company out of business as critical data is lost.
What has increased the risk for construction companies to become targets? Constructor Magazine believes it is due to the type of competitive projects these companies aim to deliver, which are highly dependent on many forms of technology to complete and require close working relationships with vendors, subcontractors and clients. The data is shared and stored on multiple servers, making it more difficult to ensure security.
In 2014, there were over 117,000 cyber-attacks per day, which was up almost 50 percent from the previous year. If a computer is being used at the business, there is a risk involved, and if your company becomes a target and security is breached, it could cost the company almost $750,000, according to a report by Kaspersky Lab.
Create an internal policy: Studies have found that the front door to a cyber-attack is opened 90 percent of the time by employees of the company. At the time, they are unaware, but the majority of hackers can retrieve data just by an employee clicking on a fake link that breaks down the security codes.
Learn from the past: Look into past companies that have already experienced a cyber-attack and see if there were particular measures taken that could relate to your company.
Keep all systems updated: Multiple notifications come through during the year asking for computers to be updated to the most recent version. The easiest piece of advice given is to always update your systems.
Use cloud services: For small and large companies, cloud services are worth the monthly subscription. The cloud takes the form of a security expert and can backup all your data.
Create unique passwords and change them often: When creating logins for your software, be sure to make up passwords that have no relation to you or your company. Those will be the first to be tested out.
Additionally, increasing employee awareness, hiring a security expert and knowing what not to do also make the Business to Community list. Be sure to review the full list and remember that just because you own a small company does not mean it won't be a target for cyber-attacks. Small businesses are targeted more and more because hackers assume they have not implemented the necessary security measures.


Seems that there is an issue with shortcuts and symbols in general.
I think that the alt keys are not working is not a Diodon issue but rather the HUD resp. X which is blocking the Alt key.
I have disabled the Alt Key for the HUD (http://askubuntu.com/questions/122209/how-do-i-modify-or-disable-the-huds-use-of-the-alt-key) and tested all the alt shortcuts key you have mentioned. All of them seem to work (except the one with the symbol).
Decision has been made to drop the internal Diodon hotkey feature and leave the responsibility of register a custom shortcut up to the desktop environment.
Depending on the DE you use but symbols in keybindings should work otherwise will it be an issue of the specific desktop environment.
Diodon: Shortcut Keys not working?


Marysville Tourism | Winter at Lake Mountain!
Another winter season has come around to Lake Mountain again, and everything is pointing towards a bumper season up the mountain in 2017. The success of the opening weekend for 2017 is only a taste of what is to come in the 2017 Winter Season at Lake Mountain Alpine Resort.
To help you plan a fun day or weekend out in the snow, we've compiled a list of some of the top attractions available this Winter!
Top things to do this Snow Season!
Get the kids into Lake Mountain's Fischer Nordic Fun Park– the safe environment and expert instructors at the Fischer Fun Park create the perfect place for the introduction to cross-country skiing for young and old. Looking for a bit of extra help? Sign up for a private lesson with a expert instructor to improve your skills even further!
Try something new at the Burton Riglet Park! Exclusively for those between the ages of 3 – 6 years, the Riglet Park offers a great way to introduce your littlies to the world of snowboarding, with one on one instruction on the basics that could build a snowboarding champion!
Toboggan!! The ever popular tradition in the snow at Lake Mountain Alpine Resort, you won't be disappointed in the fun that can be had flying down the slopes! The Village Toboggan Run is guaranteed to have a cover of man-made snow all season long too!
Enjoy a warming Hot Chocolate from the on-mountain Cafe. Providing an array of delicious food and drinks, you won't be leaving with a rumbling tummy when you look at the many different hot and cold options in the Café!
Take a ride on the Dual 240m Flying Fox! Make the excitement of snow even more exciting, by flying over all the action on the slopes on the awesome Flying Fox! With tickets available on mountain, it's a fantastic way to see the mountain from a different angle, or try your hand at something off slope.
Slide down the Tube Run and feel the thrill of the sweeping berms. Yet another fantastic alternate activity for everyone, you'll be sure to get your blood pumping and heart racing as you fly down the exhilarating 100 metre long dry slope Tube Run.
Interested in having a bit of down time? Build a snowman in the Snowman's Village, or practice your throwing by rolling a snowball and picking a target!
The walk up to the Summit Lookout is one of the more beautiful walks on the mountain when under snow. Take a break from the slopes and enjoy the amazing views overlooking the Acheron Valley.
The events calendar is looking very full of Ski races over the winter season, and it all kicks off with the Lake Mountain Sprint X on Saturday the 24th of June! Be sure to come up and see all the (hilarious) action on the day, with a race theme of 'World Leaders' sure to see some interesting characters take part in the races!
Keep up to date with everything that is happening at Lake Mountain on their website, www.lakemountainresort.com.au, or get social and keep your eyes on the Lake Mountain Facebook page over the winter season.


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Intel Xeon E5-2600 V3 Review: Haswell-EP Redefines Fast
By Patrick Kennedy 08 September 2014
Page 10 of 10:
Haswell-EP Evolves The Server And Workstation
Page 1: Xeon E5-2600 v3 Platform Introduction
Page 2: Meet Intel's Grantley Platform
Page 3: Fortville: 40 GbE Ethernet For The Masses
Page 4: How We Tested
Page 5: Supermicro SYS-6018R-WTR
Page 6: Linux-Bench Components And Test Setup
Page 7: Benchmark Results
Page 8: More Benchmark Results
Page 9: Power Consumption Results
Page 10: Haswell-EP Evolves The Server And Workstation
The night Chris Angelini was writing his review of the Core i7-4770K for Tom's Hardware and I was doing the same, we both reached similar conclusions: Haswell on the desktop is not a big deal. But Haswell-EP is a completely different story. Intel uses its advanced manufacturing to enable more cores, more cache, and a redesigned memory controller able to support DDR4. All of that comes together to yield a big step up compared to Ivy Bridge-EP. When you consider that these CPUs replace parts in servers with four to eight cores, the potential gains are substantial. Delivering twice the performance in a similar form factor makes it easy for any business to at least consider consolidating their hardware infrastructure.
When it comes to power consumption, we already know that Haswell was designed to service the mobile space. This has some favorable implications in the server world too. Of course, the difference is that Haswell-EP-based CPUs are much larger (and multiplied in a dual-socket configuration), so all gains are amplified.
In terms of performance per core, unless your software is optimized to exploit AVX 2.0, Haswell's biggest benefits come from the architecture's inherent IPC tweaks. Where Haswell-EP really shines is its higher core counts that help scale performance accordingly in well-parallelized workloads.
DDR4 memory support is perhaps the most next-generation aspect of Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors. In time, we will likely see higher data rates, increased density, and potentially lower-power versions of the standard. Unlike DDR3, DDR4 is still supply-constrained, so new servers are going to be priced higher until memory vendors catch up. Right now, the market is split. Most consumer devices are tied to DDR3; Haswell-E/EP is the first design pushing DDR4. That'll change slowly. But for now, there are quantifiable power and performance benefits to justify the eventual adoption of a what currently appears to be a ridiculously expensive technology.
Reflecting on the press day that Intel hosted to introduce Haswell-EP, higher core counts, DDR4, and advanced ISA support were the most obvious platform changes. But the company's Fortville adapters are arguably even more exciting to me. The doors opened by a low-power controller capable of two 40 GbE interfaces or eight 10 Gb links cannot be ignored. I have been using Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI adapters for quite some time in 40 Gb Ethernet mode. But the power consumption benefits of Intel's technology compelled me to go out and buy a new 40 Gb Ethernet switch.
Truly, this is the march of progress. More IPC throughput, a greater number of cores, more memory, and beefier I/O to exploit the platform's bolstered data handling capabilities translate to further consolidation of workloads. Intel is clearly driving towards a software-defined vision and takes a major step toward that goal with its Xeon E5-2600 v3 introduction. Then again, the way Intel presents its strategy addresses a more complete datacenter solution. Much like HP, Intel no longer pitches the Xeon as a new, faster processor on its own (even if it is). Instead, the company has a holistic goal for driving compute, storage, and networking performance over the next few years. Haswell-EP is the showcase for that.
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CaptainTom 08 September 2014 16:44
Wonder how long it is until 18-core CPU's are utilized well in games...Maybe 2018 or 2020?
dovah-chan 08 September 2014 17:23
Captain Tom said:
Actually we should be trying to move away from traditional serial-styled processing and move towards parallel processing. Each core can handle only one task at a time and only utilize it's own resources by itself.
This is unlike a GPU, where many processors utilize the same resources and perform multiple tasks at the same time. The problem is that this type of architecture is not supported at all in CPUs and Nvidia is looking for people to learn to program for parallel styled architectures.
But this lineup of CPUs is clearly a marvel of engineering and hard work. Glad to see the server industry will truly start to benefit from the low power and finely-tuned abilities of haswell along with the recently introduced DDR4 which is optimized for low power usage as well. This, combined along with flash-based storage (aka SSDs) which also have lower power drain than the average HDD, will slash through server power bills and save companies literally billions of dollars. Technology is amazing isn't it?
2Be_or_Not2Be 08 September 2014 17:55
There is still a lot in games that doesn't translate well into parallel processing. A lot of gaming action only happens as a direct result of the user's input, and it usually triggers items that are dependent upon the results from another item. So parallel processing doesn't help a lot there; single-threaded performance helps more.
However, with multiple cores, now we can have better AI and other "off-screen" items that don't necessarily always depend upon the user's direct input. There's still a lot of work to be done there, though.
The new Haswell-EP Xeons are definitely going to help with virtualization. However, I see the high-price of DDR4 and the relative scarcity of it now as being a bit of a handicap to fast adoption, especially since that is one of the major limiting factors to how many servers you can virtualize.
I think all of the major server vendors are going to suck up all of the major memory manufacturers DDR4 capacity for a while before the prices go down.
balister 08 September 2014 20:00
Whether it helps or hinders will ultimately depend on the VM admin. What most VM admins don't realize is that HT can actually end up degrading performance in virtual environments unless the VM admin took specific steps to use HT properly (and most do not). A lot of companies will tell you to turn off HT to increase performance because they've dealt with a lot of VM admins that don't set things up properly (a lot of VM admins over allocate which is part of the reason using HT can degrade performance, but there are other settings as well that have to be set in the Hypervisor so that the guest VMs get the resources they need).
InvalidError 08 September 2014 20:38
This is easier said than done since there are tons of everyday algorithms, such as text/code parsing, that are fundamentally incompatible with threading. If you want to build a list or tree using threads, you usually need to split the operation to let each thread work in isolated parts of the list/tree so they do not trip over each other and waste most of their time waiting on mutexes and at the end of the build process, you have a merge process to bring everything back together which is usually not very thread-friendly if you want it to be efficient.
In many cases, trying to convert algorithms to threads is simply more trouble than it is worth.
Rob Burns 08 September 2014 22:44
Great to see these processors out, and overall good article. I only wish you used the same benchmark suite you had for the Haswell-E processors: 3DS Max, Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop. I'd also love to see Vray added to the mix. Not much useful benchmark data in here for 3D professionals. Some good detail on the processors themselves however.
The3monitors 08 September 2014 23:27
Just take my money. Pls.
Drejeck 09 September 2014 00:24
Simply never.
A game is made by sound, logic and graphics. You may dedicate this 3 processes to a number of cores but they remain 3. As you split load some of the logic must recall who did what and where. Logic deals mainly with FPU units, while graphics with integers. GPUs are great integers number crunchers. They have to be fed by the CPU so an extra core manage data through different memories, this is where we start failing. Keeping all in one spot, with the same resources reduces need to transfer data. By implementing a whole processor with GPU, FPU, x86 and sound processor all in one package with on board memory makes for the ultimate gaming processor. As long as we render scenes with triangles we will keep using the legacy stuff. When the time will come to render scenes by pixel we will need a fraction of today's performance, and half of the texture memory (just scale the highest quality) and half of models memory. Epic is already working on that.
pjkenned 09 September 2014 01:39
Great points. One minor complication is that the NVIDIA GeForce Titan used in the Haswell-E review would not have fit in the 1U servers (let alone be cooled well by then.) Onboard Matrox G200eW graphics are too much of a bottleneck for the standard test suite.
On the other hand, this platform is going to be used primarily in servers. Although there are some really nice workstation options coming, we did not have access in time for testing.
One plus is that you can run the tests directly on your own machine by booting to a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS LiveCD, and issuing three commands. There is a video and the three simple commands here: http://linux-bench.com/howto.html That should give you a rough idea in terms of performance of your system compared to the test systems.
Hopefully we will get some workstation appropriate platforms in the near future where we can run the standard set of TH tests. Thanks for your feedback since it is certainly on the radar.


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May 22, 2012 by BostonSoul48
Buchholz seems to have returned to his usual, inconsistent self. Or rather his usual, consistently inconsistent self. Or rather his usual, consistently mediocre self. However you word it and no matter how you look at it, the result was still the same: we won, but we could just as easily have lost. And that should never be the case when the offense does its job. Assigning responsibility to various parts of the team seems to be the theme over the past several games, but then again, you could look at it this way: if the team made a habit of winning as a team and losing as a team on a consistent basis, divisions of responsibility within the team would seem less conspicuous.
Buchholz only lasted five and one-third innings. He gave up five runs on six hits, which, as you can see, is about an average of one run per inning. If you look at it that way, it's a good thing he was taken out when he was. He also walked four and struck out two; never a good sign when you walk twice as many as you strike out. He threw ninety-four pitches, fifty-seven of which were strikes. His best pitch for strikes was his curveball, followed by his cutter. His changeup and fastball left very much to be desired if you ask me.
It was unfair. Buchholz went one-two-three in his first two innings, and I was getting ready for a quality start. Instead, I, as we all did, had to come to terms with the fact that those solid two innings meant nothing in light of the third, when he threw thirty-one pitches and allowed all but one of his runs. He just collapsed; he couldn't find the strike zone and his command vanished into thin air. It was amazing, obviously in a bad way. It was the complete and total disappearance of any shred of control or ability on Buchholz's part. He gave up a single, a walk, and a single to load the bases. Then he walked in a run. Then he allowed an RBI single. Then, as if the first one weren't embarrassing and humiliating enough, he walked in another run. Then the fourth run scored on a double play before the inning was finally ended on a groundout. He allowed a leadoff home run in the fourth on a changeup, went one-two-three in the fifth, and then secured the first out but left two on in the sixth before he was replaced by Miller.
Meanwhile, we were busy battling back and digging ourselves out of the hole that Buchholz had so generously put us in. We went down in order in our first two innings as well, until we got on the board in the third. Nava singled, Byrd doubled, Che-Hsuan Lin grounded out, Aviles singled in Nava, and Byrd scored on a sac fly by Pedroia. At that point, the score was 2-0; after Buchholz's epic fail, we were down by two. The home run put us down by three. We went down in order in the fifth but tied it up in the sixth. First, Papi started things off with a leadoff homer to right on a high fastball. The ball actually bounced on the overhang over the seats out there and exited the park completely. Now that's power. He crushed it. He absolutely crushed it. Gonzalez followed that with a double and Middlebrooks with a single. Salty grounded out, but then Gonzalez scored on a sac fly by Nava, and Middlebrooks scored on a balk. The game was then tied at five.
We broke that tie in the very next inning. Lin struck out, Aviles singled, Pedroia doubled, and Papi walked intentionally to load the basis. All Gonzalez could muster was a sac fly, and all Middlebrooks did was single in Pedroia, but even though those didn't seem like the ideal results of clutch at-bats, they did supply us with two crucial runs that we'd need to win.
We added a third insurance run in the eighth; with two out, Lin singled, Aviles struck out but reached on a wild pitch, and Pedroia singled Lin in. The scoring finally stopped after the eighth, when Hill, who replaced Miller who'd had a very solid outing featuring a one-two-three seventh, allowed three straight singles that but another run on the board for Baltimore.
The Orioles may have scored the last run, but they didn't laugh the last laugh. We did because we held on and won, 8-6. Padilla and Aceves finished the game, with Miller taking the win. The lineup featured four multi-hit performances, three for two hits each and one, that of Middlebrooks, for three hits. All in all, what made this win so great was that, aside from starting pitching, we did everything. We put a competent and effective relief corps out there. We batted around; we played long ball, and we played small ball. We covered all the bays, both literally and figuratively, and left no stone, again with the exception of starting pitching, unturned.
The win was so awesome that it gave us some hope that we can win in our current state, which we'd better get used to since Ross is now officially out indefinitely with a fracture in his foot. With that said, showing that we have the ability to win in our current state is very different from actually winning in our current state. Last night we demonstrated that we can do it, but will we? That's the big question. Either way, we wish Ross a speedy recovery.
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Stress can add years to your looks. Being overworked, constantly in a hurry and not getting enough sleep will increase stress within the body. Stress releases cortisol. Too much cortisol causes inflammation, which affects every system in the body including the skin.
Blotching, redness, wrinkles, dry itchy skin, and puffy eyes (rings) are all symptoms of over production of cortisol and inflammation. Bags under the eyes are caused by mostly by genetics but can be developed from lack of sleep. Lack of sleep causes fluid to accumulate under the eyes making the eyes look puffy and tired.
High exposure to ultraviolet rays (sun) will damage the sensitive skin cells on the face resulting in premature aging.
* Reduce stress as much as possible. Get control of your emotions and learn to relax more during the day.
* Eat lots of antioxidant foods. Antioxidants will fight against inflammation.
* Drink plenty of water. Water helps flush out extra sodium reducing eye puffiness.
* Limit exposure to sun. 10 minutes in direct sun light is fine to reap the benefits of Vitamin D absorption. Chronic sun exposure will destroy the cells.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week temporarily waived Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) requirements in eight states to prevent gasoline shortages after fuel supplies from refineries in the Gulf area were disrupted by Hurricane Isaac. The waiver affects gas stations in Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina.
The waiver applies to the use of RVP gasoline for the remainder of the "high ozone" period, which ends on Sept 15. The waiver allows available supplies of higher RVP gasoline to be used prior to the end of the high ozone period.
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Making sure coatings measure up
Duplex coatings designed to prevent corrosion need to be measured with appropriate equipment, says Peter Neumaier, technical sales manager, Helmut Fischer
Measuring Class 2 & 3 coatings
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Corrosion-protective duplex coatings are frequently used in the automotive industry for pipes and wires in brake and fuel systems, plus other vulnerable areas. The coatings are composed of a 25-30μm zinc layer and a paint or plastic layer of 20-100μm. The thickness of these coatings is an important quality factor and a non-destructive measurement method is crucial for quality assurance as well as cost control.
There are four main types of industrial duplex coatings: Class 1: Hot-dip galvanised steel components with a zinc coating thicker than 80μm, distinctive zinc-iron diffusion zones and a paint coating with a typical thickness of more than 85μm. These are used primarily in the field of steel construction.
Class 2: Zinc thicknesses up to about 10μm, deposited galvanically or in a dip bath, and paint thicknesses of up to 15μm. These are found primarily in automotive vehicle body manufacturing.
Class 3: Zinc thicknesses of up to about 30μm and an organic coating of paint or plastic with thicknesses of typically less than 200μm. These often feature on automotive piping.
Class 4: A zinc-iron or zinc-nickel alloy layer and an organic layer. Due to the high cost of the zinc alloy coating, these are found primarily on automotive components with a significant risk of corrosion.
As these duplex systems are a combination of organic and metallic coatings, typical metrology techniques for multi-layer systems, such as X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) or coulometric methods, are ineffective because they are incapable of measuring the pure organic elements involved. The only economical, non-destructive and user-friendly procedures available are those which incorporate both the magnetic induction and the eddy current test methods.
The Class 2 and 3 duplex coatings which are most often involved in automotive painting can be measured with a phase-sensitive eddy current method suitable for both metallic coatings and non-conductive external coatings, given the appropriate instrumentation.
In such circumstances, the electrical signal from a probe can be viewed as a vector with a variable magnitude and phase angle (phase). With a duplex coating system, a variation in the zinc thickness causes a change in the magnitude and phase of this vector, while an increase or decrease in the paint thickness essentially affects only the magnitude. By evaluating the probe signal according to its magnitude and phase, the zinc thickness can be determined irrespective of the paint thickness overlying it. The size of the phase variation caused by the zinc thickness can be optimised through the selection of an appropriate eddy current measuring frequency for the zinc thickness range in question.
Since duplex coatings are, in mathematical terms, equation systems with two unknowns, the solution requires two independent 'equations'. The first is represented by the phasesensitive eddy current technique, while the second is obtained by a conventional magnetic induction procedure. Subtracting the separately measured zinc thickness from the total measurement provides the thickness of the organic coating.
However, the methodology cannot be used for coatings in which zinc-iron diffusion zones with a thickness and electric and/or magnetic properties different from those of the substrate material or of the pure zinc coating occur as a third 'unknown'. It is worth noting that the phase-sensitive eddy current method also requires a sufficiently high electrical conductivity of the metal coating which is to be measured, so that the necessary eddy currents can develop.
The relatively large size of the workpieces involved generally requires the use of hand-held instrumentation, such as the Phascope PMP10 Duplex and ESG20 probe combination that has been developed specifically for the measurement of duplex coatings.
The instrumentation facilitates statistical evaluation and output to a printer or PC via an RS232 interface. It also offers the option of entering an 'offset value' in the range of 1-5μm to allow for the presence any pre-treatment coating.
The instrument is thus appropriate for measuring the thickness of any duplex coating system on steel or iron that consists of a metallic, non-ferromagnetic intermediate coating and an electrically non-conductive top coating, as long as the product of electrical conductivity and thickness of the intermediate coating is at a magnitude of at least 5MSμm/m. The most important applications, however, are those involving the thickness measurements of duplex coatings in Classes 2 and 3.
Within the automotive industry, galvanised steel sheet is now being used with increasing frequency and is usually delivered with the zinc coating already applied either by galvanic deposition or in a zinc dip bath. Although the thickness of such coatings can be presumed to be consistent within any given batch of unformed material, this will not necessarily continue to be the case after the material has been processed. When automotive body parts are formed, the zinc coating may flow or be scraped off in areas of severe bending radii and this may alter its thickness by between 3-9μm, or even remove it.
Similarly, during body repairs the zinc coating may be sanded away, leading to a reduction in the paint thickness. This will not only be problematic for the inspection of the finished painted body, but will also be critical in the quality monitoring of cataphoretic paint because the thickness of such a material will typically only be about 20μm. A measurement error of 5-6μm resulting from diminished zinc coating simply cannot be tolerated.
A particularly important attribute of the instrument, given the current emphasis on 'lightweighting' of vehicles, is its applicability to aluminium structures. This is because the instrument is also equipped with a conventional eddy current channel to measure the paint thickness on such parts. The instrument automatically selects the required measurement method – duplex or eddy current – when the probe touches down, and stores the data it records in the same application. A simple evaluation of the paint thickness is therefore possible irrespective of the type of sheet metal involved.
The importance of measuring the two coatings separately derives from the fact that they fulfil different tasks and the overall quality of the completed part is dependent on the individual thicknesses. However, this task cannot take place during manufacturing because the two coatings are applied in a continuous production process and an intermediate inspection of the zinc coating would entail a costly interruption. An instrument such as the Phascope PMP10 Duplex takes care of this concern by providing a user-friendly and reliable means of non-destructive thickness measurement for duplex coating systems which are typically encountered in the automotive industry.
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Books | Interview
'I want to treat facts of history as sacred,' says Navtej Sarna
Navtej Sarna's new novel recounts the horrors of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The author and diplomat speaks to Nandini Nair about writing the history of Punjab and the freedom struggle through fiction
Nandini Nair Nandini Nair | 22 Jul, 2022
Crimson Spring Navtej Sarna
312 pages | ₹ 899
Navtej Sarna (Photo: Raul Irani)
THE JALLIANWALA BAGH massacre that occurred on April 13, 1919 proved to be an inflection point in Indian history. The event has come down to us through textbooks and academic books, archives and retellings. Now, author and diplomat, Navtej Sarna brings alive the massacre in a true fiction novel. Dedicated to "the martyrs of Indian freedom," Crimson Spring (Aleph; 312 pages; `899) brings the atrocity to life by viewing it through the eyes of nine characters—Indians and Britons. The novel's prologue opens with the facts; 25,000 people had gathered at Jallianwala Bagh on that Baisakhi day. Sarna concludes the prologue with, "These then, are the facts. Even a hundred years later, the facts speak for themselves. The before and the after is only history."
In this novel, Sarna uses historical facts to tell the story of people. Crimson Spring is a people's history, which gives us Punjab of the early 20th century. We see a Punjab simmering with tension after the deportation of Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr Satyapal, leaders who were spearheading the protests against the Rowlatt Act. We see the walled city of Amritsar with "its twelve gates, its sinuous lanes becoming narrower and narrower as they snaked into its crowded interior". The city is peopled by characters like Maya Dei who prays at the Golden Temple at dawn and Lance Naik Kirpal Singh who is eager to meet his family after the war. And then there are the more recognisable figures, such as Udham Singh and Michael O'Dwyer. Through the story of characters, Crimson Spring serves as a one-stop guide for the human story of the Rowlatt Act, the Ghadar Movement and the Indian soldiers' participation in the First World War.
Delhi-based Sarna speaks about his wish to write a Punjab book and how writing and diplomacy fed each other. Excerpts from the interview.
This book is based on facts. But it's a novel. Could you walk me through that decision of making this a novel?
It grew very organically. It has gone through a long process of thinking and tossing around and filtration. If I now go back to some of the passages I've written, some of the books I read, it goes back 10 years. I started thinking of Jallianwala Bagh in terms of a subject to address when the centenary came in sight in 2012, 2013. And in my head, this was one discrete subject, and then I also had long wanted to do an early 20th-century Punjab novel. I wanted to distil some of the ways of life, some of the things that were happening about which I had read, I had heard. Increasingly, I thought that the next generation doesn't really have something good to read about them, except history books etc. And I wanted to explore that—the Ghadar movement, the Sikh soldiers who fought in the First World War, the reform in terms of Sikh thought, the education aspect, which started in the early 20th century by the Singh Sabha Movement. And, of course, how it all meshed into the freedom struggle. In my head these were two different books. But sometimes you realise that there's only that much you can do.
Then the second thing is that actually all this fits in. I had neither the time nor the capacity to actually go looking for some completely new piece of archive that nobody had ever seen, which would merit a new nonfiction book. Otherwise, it would be a rehash of so many books that exist and I was convinced that the best way to bring in everything is to do it as a novel. And set it against the Jallianwala Bagh to explore all the other historical parallel trends, the streams of social, cultural, political importance that were happening. So that's where this idea began, and it slowly kept changing form as it went along.
In the prologue you write, "These, then, are the facts." As a novelist what is your relationship with facts? How did you strike a balance between fact and imagination?
I'm obsessive about facts. I want to treat facts of history as sacred. I spent a lot of sleepless nights wondering, can I change this or what exactly was that. And then when I was revising my drafts, I said, 'Where the hell did I get this?' And then I had to open this whole almirah of notes and I had to keep on digging to know where I got which fact from. Because you know, over six-seven years you gather them from different places, and then you forget where it was. I don't do footnotes. As far as known facts are concerned, I did not change anything, to the best of my knowledge.
My view is that one has to be very careful with actual historical characters. Like in this case, there's Colonel Dyer, Michael O'Dwyer and Udham Singh. Now these are actual historical characters. There's a limit to the liberties you can take with them as a novelist.
I constantly feel that there are people who may only read this one book on this subject. So, I did not want to invent anything about these characters, except when you start giving them an internal life, when you start giving them thought and words and emotions then, somewhere you have to make sure that it's in the broad direction of reality.
It may not be exact. But for instance, Udham Singh, he talks in the book. It's like a diary or a monologue, but actually most of it is based on his letters. So, it's not completely invented. Yes, the language is, the tone is, that's the character you invent, or you embellish. But the broad trend has to be in the same direction as you think the historical figure would have gone.
That's why I mentioned it in the author's note very clearly that I have taken some fictional liberties with his early life on which facts are barely available, some to make it dramatically cohesive, how he links up with the other characters and all that. But again, it's in the broad trend of his movements. It's not completely off the moon, so to speak.
I have visited Jallianwala Bagh a few times and it's always been a very emotional experience. The last couple of visits have actually been quite disappointing because I found that the portrayal of the tragedy is not coming through, says Navtej Sarna
And at the same time there's one issue there which is the basic decision to show whether Udham Singh was in Jallianwala Bagh or not that day. Now a lot of people have taken liberties with that. The movie Sardar Udham shows him there for hours and hours. But I then made a choice based on his own statement. I got this particular quote from his trial transcript, in which he says, 'I wasn't there. I was in East Africa.' In my mind, a person like him, when he sees that he is going to be hanged in any case, would have made a big thing, 'Yes, I was there. I saw it.' He had no reason to lie at that stage.
But anyway, to come back to your question, the fictional characters, there are many in this book. You have full freedom how much of fact you want to pin into that. For instance, there's a protagonist who is a soldier in the First World War. Now, I have invented his entire life, but I did not invent his unit. I did not invent where that unit travelled in which year. Even which ship they went on when they were moved from Europe to Mesopotamia, so I still kept the broad historical guidelines. And then there are some middle characters who are inspired by real life characters. But then there are characters on their own. These are always minor characters in real life. But then in fiction they become major protagonists. It's a mix of a lot of things, but it's the weaving together of fact and fiction.
The other two characters who are well fleshed out are Punjab's Lieutenant Governor Michael O'Dwyer and Colonel Dyer. They both had different ends. Dyer has multiple strokes and dies supposedly plagued by guilt. O'Dwyer was assassinated by Udham Singh. What were some of the challenges of creating them?
These are two historical characters. I had to draw a lot on actual history. They don't have a lead role in the book, they are seen through witnesses. Dyer is seen through his ADC mostly and O'Dwyer is seen mostly through his chief secretary. A lot of their character had to be reflected through other eyes. Dyer did die a pretty lonely death in his cottage, from some accounts a very tormented death. And O'Dwyer carried on being blasé and grand and defending Dyer until he finally met his nemesis in Udham Singh.
Again, I had to be extra careful that I did not let emotion, or any strong feelings come in the way of a restrained literary portrayal. That is actually what I was striving for, because it doesn't help the literary merit of any book if the writer gets overtaken by emotion and anger and so that had to be shown through other characters. For instance, Udham Singh talks a lot about them and particularly about O'Dwyer, and the anger of an entire people is channelised through his voice.
This book has a lot about the contribution of the Indian soldiers to the First World War. And there is a poignant quote from a soldier— "this is not war, this is the end of the world". Do you think the contribution of the Indian soldier to the World War has been forgotten? Also, the book brings out how these soldiers are puzzled that the men they were fighting alongside are now shooting at them.
Which is true. There was a tremendous contribution. Firstly, let's get to that. People were being recruited left, right and centre, particularly in the Punjab. Michael O'Dwyer wanted to be this great hero who would send the maximum number of men, who would actually send the maximum amount of contributions to the war fund. The province of Punjab was really the breeding ground for all this.
Figures vary, but at least a million combatants went to war abroad and about 60 to 70,000 of them died. And they fought in very difficult circumstances. They fought in unknown landscapes against an unknown enemy, against unknown weaponry. They were just issued a gun. And sent into the winter of Europe. They fought in these trenches, and they fought bravely. There were 11 Victoria Crosses that they won.
A lot of them were confused as to who they were fighting for. Initially, the motivation was the money—`11 a month in a debt ridden, poverty-stricken country. These were usually second sons who didn't have land, who didn't have anything.
Then, of course, the news started coming back in the letters about how terrible it was—although the letters were heavily censored. Then the recruitment became almost like transcription. They had gone for the money, they had gone for izzat (respect), they had gone for the glory of war. Mahatma Gandhi was actually very active in recruiting them. He helped the British, to the surprise, to the angst of many of his Indian comrades. And then he also realised what was happening. When they came back, they were faced with the Rowlatt Act. And many of the soldiers then became involved in the protest movement.
I'm afraid that we have not recognised them enough, but fortunately when the centenary came by of the war, there was some amount of focus. But you will still see conflicting opinions. There's an opinion that this was not our war. These were mercenaries. They went for the money and they didn't fight for the tricolour, they fought for the Union Jack. My point is—it was Indian blood shed on foreign soil. We have a chance to commemorate that. After 100 years, countries are willing to put up a memorial and recognise them. My belief has been that we need to do more.
My view is that one has to be very careful with actual historical characters. There's a limit to the liberties you can take with them as a novelist, says Navtej Sarna
What are your own memories of Jallianwala Bagh?
I have visited Jallianwala Bagh a few times and it's always been a very emotional experience. The last couple of visits have actually been quite disappointing because I found that the portrayal of the tragedy is not coming through. The sanctity of the place, the austerity that is needed in a memorial is somehow getting lost in the touristic shape that it's being given. People are treating it in parts like a picnic spot. But what it needs is to retain its starkness. If you visit a memorial like Auschwitz in Poland, you just step inside, and you're hit by tragedy because they've kept it in its stark form. What we need to do with Jallianwala Bagh is to perhaps recreate its stark form so that everybody who goes there is reminded of the tragedy. The sound and light shows don't help.
Since you are a diplomat, I must ask you about this line. 'It was true – British-Indian society was a swirl through gymkhanas and dances and a race for this appointment or that. Routine work took up most of the time and the rest was spent in nursing rivalries.' Was that your experience?
(Laughs) It's unfortunately true of all services. As it is other worlds—the corporate world for instance. People have the same rivalries, etc. People spend a lot of time not pursuing some high ideals. There's a lot of personal ambition. There's a lot of swiping at each other. There's a lot of backstabbing going on. That comes through in the book in the voice of a character who's different. He believes that bright people come here, but they stop thinking. I must say that it happens even today.
As the author of multiple books, such as Folk Tales of Poland (1991), The Book of Nanak, (2003) etc, how have you managed a writing career and a diplomatic career?
I retired only three years ago. This is my 10th book. I've been writing before I joined service. I started writing as a feature writer, as a journalist, as a book reviewer. Then I moved onto short stories. This is my third novel. Each book has taken me to a different part of the craft. I have no illusions. I wasn't born with the gift of writing a novel at 20 something and making it a success. I had to walk up the ladder learning the nuts and bolts. It's been a great ride. I wrote during service. Not at the expense of my service, hopefully. I wrote in my own time. The two careers fed each other. As a writer, I found I could be a more effective diplomat in many ways, including the set of people I could meet. The sensitivities that I could share with a different set of people in any country. And as a diplomat, it helped with my writing, because it gave me the chance to go to places I would never have been to otherwise and make use of those places.
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Around the times of sunrise and sunset, the sun's reflection on a large body of water, such as a sea, appears as an elongated gold band, also called a 'glitter path'. For the first time, this research explores this intangible manifestation of light from an archaeological perspective, focusing on the Late Bronze Age culture present on the Greek island of Crete. The observations gathered during the phenomenological fieldwork revealed that the elongated sunlight reflection has the qualities of an axis mundi, echoing the liminal convergence of opposing realities. By comparing Late Minoan III funerary iconography with the fieldwork results, this study developed an interpretation of Minoan eschatological beliefs establishing analogies between the cultural and the natural world. It concluded that the vision of the glitter path across the chthonic sea might have been regarded, in the Late Bronze Age, as the luminous roadway toward afterlife regeneration.
Cosmology has always been about humanity's efforts to comprehend the Universe and their connection to it; as scientific cosmology has progressed so has humanity's part diminished. The classical cosmology possessing the notion of sympathy, where all 'things' are connected has been gradually replaced by a large scale astronomy cosmology, leaving humanity bereft of meaning and leading to feelings of disconnectedness. Thus humanity has attempted to reconnect with the Universe by various methods one of which may be superstition. This presentation examines these issues through an investigation into the practice of superstition within a diverse group of people in relation to their individual world views, and the possible evidence of other forms of cosmology.
A review of the experiences of Dutch astrologers with an academic education: why have they chosen to pursue an astrological career?
It is my experience that within my social environment an intellectual outlook is taken for granted, implying that astrology is written off as being inherently contradictory to critical rational thinking. In a small study I compared my experiences as an astrologer with a degree in History with 12 astrologers with a similar background. Personal difficulties, isolation and feelings of 'otherness' were reported, but also, in line with their academic training, a critical reflection on the presuppositions underlying intellectual opinion was expressed. Within the context of a relevant theoretical debate this approach touches on some broader cultural and academic issues as well.
The fields of astrology and tarot will be explored in terms of their use past and present as mantic arts, both exoterically as fortune-telling, and as esoteric disciplines. It is suggested that their exoteric role in popular predictive forecasting is all that most members of the public know about either tarot or astrology. The focus of this talk will be on the esoteric. There are two versions of the tarot's history: a scholarly version which holds that it did not become an occult doctrine until the late eighteenth century, having been invented for amusement in the Italian Renaissance; and an occult version which maintains a much longer history, but cannot provide proof. Suggestions will be made in which astrology and tarot may possibly be combined in the future as a cross-disciplinary esoteric system.
Seidr is a set of shamanistic practices from pre-Christian Northern Europe, recorded in Icelandic medieval texts, and practiced today by some contemporary Pagans that are part of a Northern European Pagan movement (usually called Heathenry or Asatru). Old Norse sources show seidr included prophecy and some kinds of interaction between different worlds of the Old Norse cosmology, including communication with ancestors and other spirits. This research aims to expand the understanding of contemporary seidr in Britain, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands, comparing practices and experiences of different oracular seidr practitioners, and if they contributed to different personal worldviews or cosmologies.
This study explored the 'holy' in contemporary Norway, the word 'holy' or 'sacred' are traditionally used within the context of the Norwegian protestant church, which was the state church until 2012. From then on these two institutions separated and the Norwegian church are now on equal footing with other religions and spiritualities. In light of these social changes eighteen informants were asked to describe associations and experiences with the 'sacred' for investigating what it reflects within the considered 'secular' condition.
Astrology is the study of both time and place. This research, however, gives priority to place through a qualitative in-depth investigation of the phenomenology of astrological place, as encountered in the testimony of six contemporary location astrologers. The specialized field of Location Astrology explores the power of place in order to discover where in the world an individual may encounter distinct aspects of her/his identity or find favourable conditions for personal or professional development. The intimate relationship between identity and place in astrology is investigated through an interpretative stance towards the lived experience of the astrologers and an interdisciplinary quest for corresponding patterns of meaning in other academic fields. The findings of this investigation confirm that location astrology is related to a search for personal identity and vindicate the Aristotelian understanding of place as a potent, fertile, and purposeful phenomenon. The central discovery of this work is seen to be the search for the "mysterious self" as the re-emplaced "numinous other" - of which the pilgrim's quest proves to be a fitting analogy, and narrative the essential vehicle.


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Trump's Evolving Relationship With Saudi Arabia
By Jackie Northam
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Saudi Arabia earlier today. He's there to meet with officials about the recent attacks on the state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco. Saudi officials say those attacks were unquestionably sponsored by Iran. The U.S. has the same view. Iran denies involvement.
The way the U.S. responds will be guided at least in part by President Trump's complex relationship with Saudi Arabia and its leaders. NPR's Jackie Northam has followed that relationship for years, and she is here in the studio to walk us through how it's evolved. Hi, Jackie.
JACKIE NORTHAM, BYLINE: Hi, Ari.
SHAPIRO: Begin with Trump before he was president. Today he seems really committed to standing by the Saudis. But that wasn't always the case, right?
NORTHAM: No, certainly not. For years he spent a lot of time complaining about the Saudis, basically that they weren't paying their way. The U.S. was protecting the kingdom at all times and that the Saudis were only paying a fraction of what they should have been paying. Now it actually went to - at some point back in 1987, he took out full-page ads in several major newspapers around the U.S. just laying out these complaints, saying that it was costing us too much money and that they need to start carrying their own baggage. And he went - even went on TV making this same complaint.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Japan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, these very, very wealthy countries that we're projecting should pay for their own defense. They should pay us for the defense, or they should defend themselves.
SHAPIRO: And then that started to shift as he was running for president in 2015, 2016, right?
NORTHAM: Yeah, certainly his tone became friendlier towards Saudi Arabia.
TRUMP: Saudi Arabia - and I get along great with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.
NORTHAM: And he keeps coming back throughout his whole history since then about money. He talks about billions and trillions, and it always comes back with money with the Saudis.
SHAPIRO: The investment and the money that the Saudis have invested not just in the United States, but in his own companies.
NORTHAM: Exactly, yeah. No, exactly right.
SHAPIRO: So once President Trump takes office, moves into the White House, what is his rhetoric about Saudi Arabia at that point?
NORTHAM: Well, then it does turn a little bit more for sure. And it really does help that his first trip out as president was to Saudi Arabia.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The president was greeted by King Salman of Saudi Arabia upon his arrival today in Riyadh. The purpose of the visit is to strengthen the alliance between the two countries.
NORTHAM: And this was organized by his son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, who actually has formed a very strong bond with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman. Anyway, the Trump and all his administration - all his key figures in that end up in Saudi Arabia. And they are given the red-carpet treatment.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Not only did the king come greet him, but he also presented a pretty heavy gold medal around his head. And as you see, the president walking down there as this ceremony takes place.
NORTHAM: It helped cement this relationship, and it became a very - it has become a very strong relationship between President Trump and the Saudis.
SHAPIRO: And as we said, money has also helped cement that relationship. Talk about the financial entanglements between Saudi Arabia and the United States.
NORTHAM: Where you really saw this was during a visit by the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, to the Oval Office to meet President Trump. And this is going back about a year and a half.
TRUMP: Thank you very much, everybody. It's a great honor to have the crown prince with us. Saudi Arabia's...
NORTHAM: And at that meeting, you know, the crown prince is sitting there in all his regalia and everything. And President Trump pulls out these posters which have pictures of tanks on them and planes on them and ships on them. And then there's the prices next to - millions billions of dollars, how much Saudi is buying off the U.S.
TRUMP: Six-hundred-and-forty-five million dollars, $6 billion - that's for frigates. Eight-hundred-and-eighty-nine million, $63 million. And that's for various artillery.
NORTHAM: The thing is, you know, a lot of analysts thought that these numbers A, were inflated, but also that many of these contracts had been signed under President Obama and not - were not new contracts at all.
SHAPIRO: The biggest test of this relationship seemed to be the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in a Saudi consulate in Turkey. Tell us about how that affected the relationship.
NORTHAM: Right, and he was a Saudi journalist. And he was a dissident here - in self-exile here in the U.S. When it became clear that Jamal Khashoggi had been killed and this story unwound on that, U.S. intelligence assessed that the crown prince did have some role in his killing. Now whether he ordered or not is not sure but that he did have a role. You know, there was international outrage at the time and condemnation and that, except from President Trump.
TRUMP: The CIA has looked at it. They've studied it a lot. They have nothing definitive. And the fact is maybe he did. Maybe he didn't.
NORTHAM: You know, President Trump made it clear that there are - you know, Saudi weapons deals are worth a lot of money.
TRUMP: They spend $400 to $450 billion over a period of time...
UNIDENTIFIED INTERVIEWER: So...
TRUMP: ...All money, all jobs, buying equipment.
UNIDENTIFIED INTERVIEWER: ...That's the price. As long as they keep buying...
TRUMP: No, no.
UNIDENTIFIED INTERVIEWER: ...I'll overlook some of this behavior.
TRUMP: But I'm not like a fool that says we don't want to do business with them. And...
NORTHAM: So there was a lot of pushback on this. And it continues to today.
SHAPIRO: And as we look today at this attack that Saudi Arabia and the U.S. say were carried out by Iran and the U.S. consideration of how to respond, how do you see this relationship affecting the decision that is now in President Trump's hands?
NORTHAM: Well, this is gonna be a tough spot for President Trump because he is clearly a supporter of Saudi Arabia and the crown prince and that. But at the same time, we're hearing echoes from, you know, the late-1980s again, where he's saying essentially that they have to help pay for this.
TRUMP: ...But the fact is that the Saudis are going to have a lot of involvement in this if we decide to do something. They'll be very much involved. And that includes payment. And they understand that fully. But they're going to be...
NORTHAM: So I think it's a pretty tough position for him to be in right now.
SHAPIRO: That's NPR's Jackie Northam. Thanks, Jackie.
NORTHAM: Thanks very much, Ari.
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Medicare benefits are accessible for individuals under 65 because of an incapacity or ESRD (end organize renal infection). If you or somebody you know is qualified for Medicare benefits because of an incapacity, you will have an indistinguishable benefits from a Medicare recipient who is more than 65. That is the uplifting news. The awful news is, you might not have the same number of alternatives for supplemental coverage as the individual more than 65.
For the most part, when you turn 65 and select in Medicare, you have three alternatives.
Enlist in Medicare and pay out-of-stash for the segment of charges that Medicare does not cover.
Buy a Medicare supplement (Medigap policy) amid your open enlistment period.
Enlist in a Medicare Advantage plan that may even incorporate the Part D Medicare drug coverage.
If you are accepting Medicare inability benefits, you can pick the principal choice and pay the out-of-stash charges that Medicare does not cover. This will incorporate a healing facility deductible, doctor's facility co-pays for expanded stays and 20% of the charges for outpatient administrations. This can be a tricky incline. You are more than likely on a settled wage of SSI and the holes in Medicare can be unusual and conceivably fiscally wrecking. Because of the idea of your Medicare qualification, a qualifying incapacity, your health care expenses might be higher than somebody getting to be qualified because of turning 65.
The second alternative, buying a Medicare supplement, may not be accessible to you. Government law does not as of now require insurance organizations to offer you a Medicare supplement if you are more youthful than 65. Albeit, a few States expect organizations to do as such, it for the most part implies that you will pay a significantly higher premium than somebody who is 65. Those on Medicare can shop for Medicare supplement plans 2019 at www.Medigapplansguide.com/medicare-supplement-plans-2019.
A Medicare Advantage plan is accessible to all recipients, including those accepting Medicare handicap benefits. If you have the two sections An and B of Medicare, live in the plans benefit region and don't have ESRD, you are permitted to select in a Medicare Advantage plan.
These are the benefits of an Advantage plan for those getting Medicare handicap benefits.
An Advantage plan offers the sureness of settled expenses, including; co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles. The vulnerability of outpatient costs (20%) are wiped out with co-pays and co-insurance.
The premium (if required) is generally a small amount of the premium for a Medicare supplement.
The Part D Medicare drug plan is regularly included.
Favorable position plans frequently incorporate benefits past what Medicare incorporates. Additional items can incorporate dental, vision, hearing, exercise center participations, rebates on elective health administrations and transportation to and from medicinal arrangements.
A Special Needs Plan might be accessible for qualifying interminable conditions. These plans incorporate a far reaching level of oversaw care identified with your health condition.
An Advantage plan can give you a more far reaching health plan than Medicare alone while costing impressively not as much as a Medicare supplement. When you contrast the decisions accessible with you, it is anything but difficult to see that a Medicare Advantage plan has an extraordinary arrangement to offer you if you are getting Medicare handicap benefits.
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He faces up to 30 years in prison for drugging and molesting a woman.
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In the first celebrity trial conviction in the #MeToo era, Bill Cosby has officially been convicted of drugging and molesting a woman, according to reports from the Associated Press.
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After 14 hours of deliberations, a jury outside of Philadelphia has convicted Cosby, 80, of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Temple University employee Andrea Constand. The ruling comes one year after a previous jury was unable to reach a final decision, resulting in a mistrial.
This guilty verdict means Cosby could face up to 10 years of prison time for each count. Since the trial began, dozens of women—five of whom have testified—have come forward to say they were drugged and assaulted by the ex-Cosby Show actor.
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