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Forced Eviction from Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka, India
Nagarhole National Park - Banner at the entry of Nagarhole National Park. Credit: Eleonora Fanari
Articles on struggle and resistance - Subramani, a leader of the Bubakattu Krishekara Sangha (BKS), relocated in Hebala site, shows a book with all the articles about their struggle in the 80' and '90. Credit: Eleonora Fanari.
Nagapura II relocated place - A relocated families living in a 10msq in the Nagapura II relocated site. They have been left alone, without ensuring the sustainability of the community. Today the majority of the people work as labours in the coffee farm. Credit: Eleonora Fanari.
For forty years, a large number of tribal people have been evicted from the Nagarhole National Park (a Tiger Reserve), sometimes with relocation and compensation.
The Nagarhole National Park, also known as Rajiv Gandhi National Park, was originally constituted as a game sanctuary in 1955, and later declared a National Park in 1983. In 2007, the entire Nagarhole National Park was declared as a Critical Tiger Habitat (CTH), for a total area of 1515.59 sq. km. As per the MEE report 2014 in the CTH there are about 33 tribal settlements and 96 settlements in the periphery. There are 3 major tribal groups residing under the limits of the park, the PVTG group of Jenukurubas and Bettakurubaa, Yerawas, Soligas, and the sub-caste of Yerawas i.e.the Panjeri Yeravas and Pani-Yeravas.
The park has been a contested area since its inception, and the tribals living within its limits have a very long history of struggle. A high number of tribal people mostly belonging to Jenu Kuruba and Yerawa tribes were evicted from the park just after the implementation of the Wildlife Protection Act (WLPA), 1972, the first wildlife law that bans every activity within the park, denying the local communities access and use of their customary forest rights.
The movement started in 1984 under the banner of Bubakattu Krishekara Sangha (BKS). The creation of the movement was supported by the Coorg Organization for Rural Development (CORD), an NGO working for the welfare of the tribal communities. BKS is a movement born to save the forest, the water and the land, and against the hegemony of the forest department. Indeed at that time lots of forest landscape was converted into timber and eucalyptus plantation mostly used for commercialization, and highly planted in the western ghats [10].
They strongly condemn the forceful and massive displacement of the Adivasi from their ancestral land, taking up issues related to saving the forest while recognizing the rights of its people. In the eighties, they successfully protested against the TAJ group which was building up a 5 star hotel in the middle of the core area of the Nagarhole National Park [3]. The project was stopped in 1996. This long protest was followed by the arrest of numerous Adivasi, hunger strikes and numerous protests against the project. BKS strongly and successfully opposed World Bank funding of 60 crores for the establishment of eco-development committees, accusing the World Bank of proposing the project without the involvement of the Adivasi community. All the eco-development committees were stopped in 1998[3].
According to a Report compiled in 2014, a number of 3,418 families were displaced between the 70s/80s [1]. Today, the majority of these tribal communities displaced continue to be landless labourers. A new round of relocation started from 1999/2000, just after the park was declared a Tiger Reserve. From those years till 2010, a number of about 487 tribal families were 'voluntarily' moved out of the Park [2]. Initially, 280 families were relocated in Nagapura and Sollepura between 2000 and 2007, for a compensation of 1 lakh rupees and 5 acres of land [2].
However, the rehabilitation site was not conforming to the needs of the tribal villages and drinking water and other basic facilities are still not available. In 2010, under the NTCA sponsored scheme of 10 lakh rupees compensation, a number of 147 families agreed to relocate to the new site of Shettalli-Lakkapatna and Hebala, in Hunsur taluk. However, all these relocations have been coerced by the forest department together with conservationists lobby, such as the Wildlife Conservation Society, that directly funds the relocation plan in these areas (Interview with local people).
This, in violation of the already implemented Forest Rights Act, 2006, that recognizes the rights of local communities to use, access and habit the forest areas. In response to the forced relocation, the tribals have been repeatedly fighting against the relocation drive and the numerous violations of human rights. Since 2009, the 54 villages inhabiting the tiger reserve have started constituting the Forest Rights Committee (FRC) to submit the forest rights claims demanding the legal recognition of their forest rights. In Kodagu district the mapping of the areas have been supported by the CORD organization however not a single community rights (CRs) have been distributed till date. In Mysore District, in the HD Cote Taluk, 14 CRs were distributed in 2010/11, however, in the official documents, a map sketched on the back of the land title shows an area that corresponds to about 2 km of extension around their settlement. This minimal recognition of land to access their traditional community rights denies the Adivasi from accessing forest resources necessary for their livelihood (info from fieldwork). However, the villagers asserted that although titles distributed they continue facing harassment by the forest department. The local community continues asserting their rights even without any legal recognition.
Because of this political action, many tribals have been criminalized. Indeed as per The Hindu report between 2001 and 2011, a number of 192 cases against tribal people have been registered [4]. In 2015 it was seen that many people had settled in tents in fringe areas of Nagarhole and were considered an 'encroachment threat'[4].
In 2016, the tribal forum asked for rehabilitation measures [5]. In May 2017, after the NTCA order rejecting the implementation of FRA within the Tiger Core Areas [9], the Jenu Kuruba protested before the District Collector demanding the withdrawal of the unconstitutional order.
In December 2018, in a bid to draw the attention of the State government towards their long-pending demands, Adivasi of Mysuru district went into an indefinite dharna in Kakanakote forest of H.D. Kote taluk. As part of their demands, the agitating tribals asked for 12 hamlets to be declared as revenue villages; to give better education facilities for tribal children, and release funding to organize the self-help group (SHG) for women [8]. In total there are 35 villages that come from Kakanakote to H D Kote. The 12 villages were never declared as revenue villages.
Name of conflict: Forced Eviction from Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka, India
State or province: Karnataka
Location of conflict: Mysore and Kodhaku
The Nagarhole National Park, also known as Rajiv Gandhi National Park, is situated between the two districts: Mysore – HT Cote and Hunsur taluk - and Kodagu – Virajpeet Taluk-, in the state of Karnataka. It was originally constituted into a game sanctuary in the year 1955 covering an area of 130 sq.km, and subsequently was extended over an area of 643 sq km in 1983, in order to include the adjoining areas of Mysore district and thereby was declared as a National Park . At that time the core was about 192 sq km and the buffer was 451.39 sq km out of which 110 sq km were demarcated as the tourism zone.
The National Park includes 7 ranges, i.e. D.B. Kuppe, Antharasante, Veeranahosalli, Kalahaolla, Nagarhole, Metikuppe and Achanekowr. This park was declared the 37th Project Tiger Reserve in 1999, and it is part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. The Western Ghats Nilgiri Sub-Cluster of 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi), including all of Nagarhole National Park, is under consideration by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for selection as a World Heritage Site.
In 2007, the entire Nagarhole National Park was declared as a Critical Tiger Habitat, adjoined with the Bandipur National Park, which included a total area of 1515.59 sq. km. A buffer and a fringe area of the park was also declared, extending the entire park to 1205.76 Sq.Km., with a core of 643.35 sq km and a buffer of 562.41 sq. km.
Project area: 120,500
Affected Population: 23,000
Relevant government actors: Karnataka Forest Department.
National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)
International and Finance Institutions The	World Bank	(ESCAMP ,WB) from United States of America
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) from United States of America
Environmental justice organizations (and other supporters) and their websites, if available: Coorg Organization for Rural Development (CORD), https://www.siemenpuu.org/en/node/121.
Bubakattu Krishekara Sangha (BKS).
Nisarga Foundation
Intensity HIGH (widespread, mass mobilization, violence, arrests, etc...)
Ethnically/racially discriminated groups
Jenu Kuruba; Yerawa.
Forms of mobilization: Blockades
Development of a network/collective action
Lawsuits, court cases, judicial activism
Public campaigns
Street protest/marches
Occupation of buildings/public spaces
Appeals/recourse to economic valuation of the environment
Potential: Biodiversity loss (wildlife, agro-diversity)
Potential: Health problems related to alcoholism, prostitution
Socio-economical Impacts Visible: Displacement, Lack of work security, labour absenteeism, firings, unemployment, Loss of livelihood, Violations of human rights, Land dispossession, Loss of landscape/sense of place
Potential: Increase in violence and crime, Militarization and increased police presence, Specific impacts on women, Loss of traditional knowledge/practices/cultures
Court decision (victory for environmental justice)
Strengthening of participation
Violent targeting of activists
Development of alternatives: The tribals living in the area are fighting for the recognition of the Forest Rights Act to ensure the management of the natural resources in their forest areas. They are also asserting their rights and developing coffee plantation and other plantation in their area for their own development.
Do you consider this an environmental justice success? Was environmental justice served?: No
Briefly explain: The clampdown of a very strong movement is resulting in a loss of hope by the tribals, which lastly have been deciding to leave their land and get the compensation package offered. However many are still resisting within the forest protected area.
Wildlife Protection Act, 2006 Amendment
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006
[1] Muzaffar Azadi (2014), Executive Summary of the Report "On the Tribal Issueof Rajiv Gandhi (Nagarhole) National Park. Report submitted to Honourable Court Committee on the Tribal Issues of Rajiv Gandhi National Park.
Ajay Desai. 2010. Report on the progress of Village Relocation Nagarahole and Mudumalai Tiger Reserves. For the National Tiger Conservation Authority.
Ananda Siddhartha 2013. Forest Governance and the Forest Rights Act in Nagarhole, South India. Pipal Tree
Sanghamitra Mahanty (2002) NGOs, Agencies and Donors in Participatory Conservation: Tales from Nagarahole Author(s): Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 36 (Sep. 7-13, 2002), pp. 3757-3765
[7] Tribal forum seeks rehabilitation measures in Karnataka State Budget. Author: R. Krishnna Kumar. Jan. 23, 2016.
[2] The Hindu. Tribal relocation proves tricky, Author: K. Jeevan Chinnappa. Jan. 6, 2013
The Hindu. Concern over plan to rehabilitate tribal families displaced from Nagarahole. Author: R. Krishna Kumar.
[3] Equations, 1998, Recent Threats to Rajiv Gandhi National Park, in Nagarholem Karnataka, India: Taj Groups of Hotels and others.
Frontline. Eviction Fear, in Frontline. Author: Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed. Feb 13, 2010.
[6] Indian Express. Encroachment Threat Again at Nagarhole National Park. Meera Bhardwaj. June 3, 2015.
[8] The Hindu. 'Adivasis on Dharna in HD Kote, demanding rehabilitation'. Dec 11, 2018.
[9] The Hidnu 'Order staying FRA in tiger reserves violates tribal rights: Brinda', April 13, 2017.
[10] The Print "Study traces how the British ruined Western Ghats, one of India's most unique ecosystems" Author: Sandhya Ramesh. Nov. 9, 2018.
[4] The Hindu. 'Trespassing', collecting honey among charges against Nagarahole tribal people'. September 3, 2014. Author: Divya Gandhi.
Related media links to videos, campaigns, social network
The South Indian Adivasi Experience in the Nagar Hole National Park and the Muthanga Wild Life Sanctuary Speech at the Vth World Parks Congress, Durban September 2003.
Other comments: We are thankful for the information shared by Vijay Singh Ronald David of Coorg Organization for Rural Development (CORD), and Nanjundaiah of Nisarga Foundation.
Contributor: Eleonora Fanari, ICTA (UAB).


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Public school board elects chair and vice-chair
The Greater Essex County District School Board Administrative Office. (Photo by Alexandra Latremouille)
By Adelle Loiselle November 16, 2022 8:15am
The Greater Essex County District School Board of Trustees has elected its chair and vice-chair for the upcoming year.
Trustee Gale Simko-Hatfield, who has served nine previous terms, was acclaimed to the chair's position, while Trustee Cathy Cooke returns for a third consecutive year as vice-chair.
"It is reassuring to know that my experience and dedication are valued, and I pledge to fulfil the responsibility as Chair to the best of my ability," said Simko-Hatfield.
Trustee Connie Buckler, who represents Tecumseh and Lakeshore, was acclaimed as Chair of the board's Education Committee, and Trustee Ron LeClair, representing LaSalle and Amherstburg, is the Chair of the Operations and Finance Committee.
The Board of Trustees holds its first full public meeting on Tuesday, December 6.
The Windsor Essex Catholic District School Board meets next Tuesday to elect its Board of Trustee Chair and Vice-Chair and holds its first full public meeting on November 29.

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Brianna Wiest (* 11. Oktober 1992 in New York) ist eine US-amerikanische Autorin von psychologischen Schriften zur Lebensführung und von Lyrik.

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Wiest wuchs im Bundesstaat Pennsylvania auf, wo sie am Elizabethtown College studierte. Im Jahr 2013 erhielt die Autorin von der Hochschule einen Abschluss im Professional Writing und war auch in ihrer Studienzeit als Herausgeberin der Hochschulzeitung aktiv. Brianna Wiest hatte schon auf verschiedenen Onlineplattformen wie Throught Catalog und Huffington Post Artikel veröffentlicht, wollte aber eigentlich beruflich im Verlagswesen tätig sein. Nach positiver Resonanz auf ihre Veröffentlichungen, sah sie in der schriftstellerischen Tätigkeit ihre Möglichkeit anderen Menschen zu helfen und verstärkte das Engagement in diese Aufgabe. Beschäftigten sich ihre ersten Artikel mit dem Umgang von Leid, werden in den späteren Veröffentlichungen Kontrolle und Struktur über das persönliche Leben thematisiert. Im Jahr 2017 veröffentlichte Wiest unter dem Titel Salt Water ihren ersten Lyrikband. Als Personen, welche sie in ihrem Werk inspirieren werden von ihr Cheryl Strayed, Eric Greitens, Ryan Holiday, Jessica N. Turner und Brené Brown genannt. Italien, insbesondere Rom, bezeichnet Wiest als ihre spirituelle Heimat.

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Der Piper Verlag veröffentlichte im Jahr 2022 mit dem Titel 101 Essays, die dein Leben verändern werden das erste Buch der Autorin in deutscher Sprache. Der Lebensratgeber stieg in der Ausgabe vom 16. April 2022 auf Platz 16 der Spiegel-Bestsellerliste Sachbuch ein und wurde bis zum Jahresende 2022 auf dieser Liste geführt. In dieser Zeit erreichte der Titel 7 Mal den 1. Platz und ist somit eines der erfolgreichsten Sachbücher in Deutschland des Jahres 2022. Auch in der Schweiz konnte sich das Buch erfolgreich auf der Bestsellerliste des Landes platzieren. Die Video-Plattform TikTok wählte die Veröffentlichung zum Buch des Monats Juli 2022. In der Literaturkritik von der Süddeutschen Zeitung wurde das Buch als eine Sammlung von trivialen Allerweltsweisheiten, in der Literatursendung Druckfrisch dagegen als angenehm, differenzierter Lebenshilfe-Ratgeber bezeichnet.

 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, Thought Catalog Books
 deutsch: 101 Essays, die dein Leben verändern werden, Deutsch: Ursula Pesch und Anja Lerz, München : Piper, 2022, ISBN 978-3-492-07159-8
 When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal, Thought Catalog Book
 The Mountain is You, Thought Catalog Book
 deutsch: The Mountain Is You : Wie du Selbstsabotage erkennen und überwinden kannst | Das Booktok-Phänomen endlich auf Deutsch!, Deutsch: Renate Graßtat, München : Piper, 2022, ISBN 978-3-492-07160-4
 Salt Water, Thought Catalog Book
 Ceremony, Thought Catalog Book

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 Die Vorstellung der Autorin auf der Homepage des Verlages Piper

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Luigi Nicora (* 13. September 1829 in Mailand; † 27. November 1890 ebenda) war ein italienischer Geistlicher, Theologe, Journalist und Bischof von Como.

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Luigi war, mit starkem Intellekt und unermüdlichem Fleiß begabt, 30 Jahre lang Pfarrer der Kirche Santa Maria della Passione und dann Obersthofmeister des Mailänder Doms. Er wurde mehrmals eingeladen, hohe Ämter in Rom zu übernehmen, zog es aber vor, in Mailand zu bleiben, was seine gründliche Vorbereitung in mehreren Disziplinen zeigt: Philosophie, Theologie, Geschichte und Politik. Er war Mitarbeiter und Leiter der Zeitschrift "La Scuola Cattolica" in Mailand. Wegen seiner von 1873 bis 1888 veröffentlichten Artikel wurde er bei der Zivilbehörde als unzurechnungsfähig und unbelehrbar gemeldet.

Daher wurde ihm der königliche Exequatur verweigert. Papst Leo XIII. ernannte ihn 1888 zum Nachfolger des Bischofs von Como Pietro Carsana. Nicora hätte gerne auf das Bischofsamt verzichtet, aber dem Papst gegenüber gehorsam, behielt er das Amt, obwohl er daran gehindert wurde. Sein Beispiel an Konsequenz und Treue zur Kirche kam dem Bistum Como zugute, indem es die Katholiken aufrüttelte und sie dazu anregte, die Religionsfreiheit zu verteidigen und sich sozial zu engagieren.

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 Adriano Caprioli, Antonio Rimoldi, Luciano Vaccaro: Pietro Carsana. In: Diocesi di Como, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1986, S. 148, 149, 303.

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 Cronologia dei Vescovi Comensi auf diocesidicomo.it

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Home » World » A Message to the "Piano Guy" from the "Cello Guy"
A Message to the "Piano Guy" from the "Cello Guy"
Aleah Ingram October 30, 2016	World
It has been a tragic two weeks Jon Schmidt, popular LDS pianist in the musical group The Piano Guys. His daughter Annie disappeared while hiking in Oregon; after extensive searching she was never found.
As the group and family attempt to move forward, Steven Sharp Nelson, the cello player in the group, wrote a message for his dear friend. Below is an excerpt:
The first time I went on tour with Jon — long before The Piano Guys — I had just experienced one of the most difficult times of my life. I had lost my mother to a brain tumor. I was young and felt as though I couldn't live without a mother's love. I felt lost. Jon and I shared a hotel room and when he learned of my mother he told me of his older sister, who he had also lost when he was young. As we talked we discovered that my mother and his sister were remarkably similar — both loved to laugh more than anything else; both were endowed with incomparable musical gifts; and both loved others naturally and unconditionally. Jon stayed up the whole night with me trading stories. We laughed. And cried. It was what I needed. It was as if he had lowered a rope into my pity pit and lifted me out. I felt found.
Jon is no stranger to struggle. It's how he has earned his empathy. He has also taught me that tragedy shakes off our shackles of petty concern, allowing us to sweat off the small stuff. This softening is one of the enduring purposes of hardship. And as we are softened, our hearts open up to house faith in Eternal purposes that can't readily be seen. I consider these lessons to be priceless. I'm so grateful for his example.
You can read the full letter to Jon and his family here.
To make a long week more bittersweet, The Piano Guys released their first album since 2014 last Friday. You can learn more about it here. The group is also hosting a live video chat on Wednesday on their Facebook page to answer any questions and connect with their thousands of fans who have supported them this last week.
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Bietigheim-Bissingen, October 24, 2016 – Elegant design with practical details and a lot of performance to spare for day-to-day operation: The new Ecopaint Robot generation from Dürr scores high with many innovative functions for the automated painting process. Thanks to its greater kinematic freedom, the EcoRP E043i model with its seven-axis kinematic system enlarges the work zone and can often be used instead of a solution with linear displacement rail. This can significantly reduce investment and maintenance costs in the paint booth. Another newly developed product, the EcoRCMP2 robot control, is a key module of the Smart Factory.
Paint robots are usually equipped with six axes. A displacement rail in the booth wall ensures that the robot can move parallel with the car body in the paint booth and thereby reach all car body areas.
Dürr has now decisively advanced the familiar concept with its new robot generation. "The new EcoRP E043i from our third robot generation has been equipped provided with a seventh rotatory axis. This significantly increases flexibility and versatility," explains Dr. Hans Schumacher, President & CEO of Dürr Systems AG. The seventh axis is directly incorporated into the robot's kinematic chain, thereby increasing the kinematic freedom. Particularly in interior painting, this improves access to many areas and avoids collisions with the vehicle. Thanks to the new, optimized control system, the 3rd-generation Dürr robot moves along the car body in a uniform and with even more harmonious painting paths.
In most stop-and-go applications and in many line-tracking applications, it is possible to dispense with the complex displacement axis now in use. "Omitting the displacement axis produces clear advantages for our customers in terms of investment costs or space consumption, particularly when converting existing paint shops, but this also reduces maintenance and operating costs later on," says Dr. Schumacher. Efficient plant designs for typical automotive and add-on part painting tasks have been developed and verified in comprehensive simulations.
The six-axis variants are still available in the product range, alongside the highly flexible seven-axis robot. Apart from the missing seventh axis, they are identical to the seven-axis robot and are used with or without displacement axis. The EcoRP E/L133i robots operate either on a top- or bottom-mounted rail. In addition to painting, they also serve as lid openers in interior painting. Paint robots of this new generation can be placed anywhere in the room. For example, they can be installed on the floor, on the wall, on the ceiling or at an angle in the paint booth.
The Dürr robot family benefits from its modular design in production and maintenance. All equipment variants can be built based on a basic manipulator. Identical components are supplemented with a few type-specific components. For example, the six- and seven-axis models differ only in the design of lower robot arm 1. This low level of complexity and the uniform component design throughout reduce warehousing costs and simplify maintenance work.
New Scara robots (EcoRP L030i/L130i) as door openers with extended Z-stroke complete the new product line. The newly developed swivel head with optional tool cleaner, which Dürr is optionally offering, is unmatched worldwide. Its compact, flow-optimized design predestines the Scara robot for installation in paint booths. The door opener can be installed as a standard version or as a mobile version on a compact interior rail at different heights. This rail was designed with a robust guide system to cope with the harsh conditions in the paint booth, and it can move one or two Scara robots.
The outer contours of the new robot generation have been provided with many details to facilitate maintenance and repair in particular. The time required for replacing integrated pneumatic, control-system or high-voltage components in the robot is now up to 50 percent shorter," says Dr. Schumacher, explaining the innovative design. As an example, the outer shell of the new robot now consists of a few, easily removable cover panels. They are equipped with rapid-action latches for speedy access to the integrated application technology. The color changer and dosing pump are mounted on the robot's front arm, thereby permitting rapid color changes with little paint loss and low flushing-agent consumption. Hoses are invisibly routed through the robot interior.
Dürr's third-generation robot is controlled by another newly developed product, the EcoRCMP2 process and movement control system. Much smaller control panels with modular control and drive components, new motors with more power to spare and a digital encoder interface, as well as an integrated safety control system for safe monitoring of the working area and speed, stand for an all-new generation of paint robots based on Dürr's Smart Factory concept. This control platform combines numerous sensors and actuators belonging to the paint robot and the superordinate maintenance or control systems. An integrated interface makes the robot "cloud ready" and provides all relevant data to meet current and future demands in the Industry 4.0 environment.


Appropriately enough for the comedy two-piece, this show has been rescheduled from April 1. One half of Kiwi duo Flight of the Conchords Bret McKenzie sustained what he called "a very rock 'n' roll injury"in the weeks preceding the original date, when he fell down a flight of stairs, breaking two bones in his hand.
Wolves in the Throne Room re-imagine black metal as an ode to rain storms, wood smoke and the wild energies of the Pacific Northwest. Their first studio album, Diadem of 12 Stars came out in 2006 and since that time, Wolves in the Throne Room have become one of the most potent and highly regarded bands in extreme music.
The White Hotel, Salford, Manchester.
RAKHI / KATYA is a huge sound world from just two instruments.
RAKHI / KATYA is international artists in the north.
RAKHI / KATYA is chamber music at the highest level.
The Art of Football exhibition in the Baltic Triangle continues apace! Companion of the World Cup, a day of music takes place in Constellations this weekend.
Disco Socrates (celebrating the life of the impressively 'froed anti-footballer and activist) features live sets from Nigerian Wayne Snow, France's Oko Ebombo, Rozzma from Egypt and Iranian Lakiesha Goedluck. There will also by DJ sets from the likes of Andy Votel's Subtrópical Psychout, Anti Social Jazz Club, Melodic Distraction and Radio Exotica. All of this accompanies film screenings and much more, including screenings of the first two Round of 16 World Cup matches.
LAAF is delighted that Emel Mathlouthi will be part of this year's 20th anniversary celebrations!
Our enhanced musical programme will enjoy a spectacular opening weekend with a performance from internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter and the "voice of the Tunisian revolution", Emel Mathlouthi on Saturday 7 July at the Invisible Wind Factory.
We'll be hosting Emel as she enters a new phase of her extraordinary life, with a powerful, heartfelt performance of tracks from her sophomore album Ensen (Human), as well as her 2007 recording and viral anthem of the Arab Spring, Kelmti Horra (My Word is Free).
Art rock and prog meet as this affected NY quartet play 'rock music backwards'. Rhythmic, alien guitar parts leave room for the drummer and bassist to meander. Strange, upside-down music influenced by sounds form the world over, for fans of Abe Vigoda and other guitar-pedal mis-users.
Tipped by Jazzwise magazine as 'ones to watch' in 2018, Skeltr is a sax/drums duo that comes from a spiritual jazz persuasion, utilising sampling and electronic elements to create a dense musical bed upon which they live-perform drum patterns and soaring saxophone lines. Stylistically the pair takes in emotional balladry, punk funk and effect-pedal manipulations in real time. Recently toured with Californian jazz-funk polymaths Knower, another duo whose member Louis Cole described Skeltr as 'hot as hell'.
'AnDa' means blood sibling in Mongolian; the musicians in this 'union' are all blood brothers and sisters of some kind. Exploring the folk musics of their varying nomadic ethnicities (the 9 members come from different Mongolian tribes united by Genghis Khan), Anda Union presents a first for Inner Mongolian traditional music in a project that utilises traditional string instruments, harps, bagpipes and percussion particular to the vast, far Eastern area.
The best free cultural event in the city and the UK's greatest celebration of the African diaspora & its music marks its 26th year with sure-to-be stand-out performances from Orchestra Poly-Rythmo (Sunday) and Mim Suleiman (Saturday).
Four live music acts ranging from pop-punk to squeeze-box-punk, including an acoustic set from the Snakes Everywhere frontwoman.
This RLPO offshoot project performs four-piece iterations of pieces from the Klezmer, Gypsy Jazz, Irish Folk and Tango traditions. Clarinet, piano accordion, double bass, guitar and violin come together for pro interpretations and arrangements of rousing sounds from the world's travelling communities.
The city's best guitar player arranges another mid-week concert delight for us to enjoy, serving up Italian synth noise from genreless musician Toni Cutrone, alongside an appearance of Luke's new quasi-improv trio with Nick Branton and Michael P Metcalfe of Dead Hedge.
"Intimate sonatas" is the tag-line as the augmented string quartet leads arguably their most ambitious project to date onto the ground floor of IWF – literally wheeling a Steinway into the industrial venue's Main Hall for an unforgettable night of violin and piano.
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Laura Viers – Manchester Deaf Institute.
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    # Creates a new instance of Fax
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National Geographic, how I won and lost the contest in less than one second
Come to the next trip with Nomad Photo Expedition If you want to share with me the pleasure of travelling, discovering hidden locations, the contact with people of different cultures and, most of all, the challenge of improving your photographic skills.
It did not take long to take the winning photograph of the National Geographic Photo 2012: one seventh of a second (1/7 s in photographic terms), almost the same time it took me to lose the prize.
This is the story of how you can climb to the highest photographic peak and fall in only 72 hours. And why you should carefully read the rules of a contest…
Just landing from my last travel photography trip with Nomad Photo Expedition and reading the posts , I saw one from National Geographic. I did not hurry to open it, it could probably be an add, or the acknowledgement of the photographs I had sent at the last minute to the contest. I have to confess that, to some extend, I got excited before opening it thinking that -why not?- I possibly could have been selected on the top ten…
I opened the mail and read:
"Congratulations! …… Your photo was Chosen as the winner of the Places category for the 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest …."
I almost fainted: I was the winner of the contest !
My first thought is that I had misread the text. Secondly, that it was a friend's joke. I reread it several times. It is authentic: the Senior Editor in person signs the email .
I won the "Places" category, one of the most complicated categories for National Geographic, and that in the most demanding and renowned travel photography magazine in the world ! It's hard to aim higher in this photographic specialty. This year there were over 22,000 entries from 150 countries.
Only a couple of steps left: filling a document claiming the ownership of the rights to the image and licensing the rights for National Geographic. That, in addition to sending the original digital photography. By the way, I did not have the "negative" Raw because, unusually, by a mistake settling the camera (a Fuji X-pro1), that day only Jpg was set.
Everything was sent the next day.
And I prepared to enjoy the win …
Now, I thought, time to tell my closest friends the good news , the same friends that have been suffering my photographic stories year after year . Later the next circle of acquaintances. Once the price published, I should prepare a Press Release. You can not run through such an event in silence! Something that only happens once in life …! They were days of rejoicing, of shared joy. All the hours spent, travelling, flying, uncomfortable destinations. Everything acquired more sense after deserving global recognition on the extraordinary magazine.
It was then when I received a new mail from the magazine. I was informed by the editor that the photograph was disqualified: I had removed a plastic bag on the far right, along the edge of the frame.
The original photograph
But that did not matter! – I thought. Should I have minimally displaced the right side of the frame, croping, the damn bag would had never existed in the picture! It's like winning the Tennis Grand Slam and losing by stopping to relieve myself on the edge of the tennis court!
In desperation , I write to Tino Soriano, master of travel photographers, the only official National Geographic photographer in Spain, a reference in travel photography. I counted in his experience in this type of competition – having himself won the World Press Photo Award- as well as his familiarity with National Geographic matters, to help me focus the problem.
He does not give me great hope. Although he shares the view that the removed bag does not alter the substance of the picture, he believes that it will be impossible to meet, again, the jury, the rules do prevent adding or removing anything and Americans are very strict with rules. National Geographic even more. It is likely –he says – that such a picture – not being competing in a contest – as it is, would have been published by National Geographic itself.
I lunged to the computer and sent a mail to Monica Corcoran, editor of the magazine, arguing that a crop, perfectly allowed by the rules, would have done away with the object without further alterations, the bag would have melted with a slight burning-darkening, that it was unnecessary to remove anything digitally (the rule that bans deleting or adding tries to safeguard the spirit or nature of the photograph. Here the nature nor spirit of the original photo was not altered) and, most of all, that the minimal, slight modification did not alter the picture.
After what seemed –to me- a long wait (only 24 hours I most admit) for the answer, Monica Corcoran, Editor of National Geographic answered:
".. it is unfortunate you did not crop the bag or just leave it in, as it really had no impact either way….".
"… no impact either way …"!
I've won the Grand Slam, but was disqualified for removing something , that in fact, would have not changed the final result. And, worst of all, should I have been the jury, I would have acted in the same, exact way !
Which brings us to another issue : the "authenticity" of photography and how much can it be altered: darkened, enlightened, sharpened, reframed, etc.. . Furthermore, the extent to which rules should apply without prejudice to the spirit of what they are trying to protect.
But it was a contest … And the rules are the rules…
I have the consolation of knowing that, with or without the bag, this picture is mine. And, worst of all, a very expensive lesson learned: in an event of this importance there is no room for interpretation. The competition is the competition and the rules are strictly enforced.
But I now have a unique opportunity in history: the challenge of winning, for the first time in history, twice the National Geographic Photo contest! I promise to read, carefully the rules next time…
Harry Fisch, polyglot and originally a lawyer and businessman, has been a photographer for more years than he cares to remember. He has photographically documented more than 27 countries through which he has traveled, concentrating since 2002, on Asia, especially Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal and India.
Winner of the 2012 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO CONTEST, and later disqualified, he has also been a finalist in the 2013 SONY WORLD PHOTO AWARDS and selected in 2010 by Photoespaña—possibly the most prestigious Spanish photographic event—in the section "Discoveries". His work has been published among other photography magazines in "La lettre de la photographie", which was nominated best Blog of 2011 by the prestigious magazine LIFE.
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May 31, 2016 / 10:21 PM / 3 years ago
Swiss declare Alps tamed as Gotthard rail tunnel opens
Michael Shields
AMSTEG, Switzerland (Reuters) - Switzerland opens the world's longest and deepest rail tunnel through the heart of the Alps on Wednesday in an engineering marvel that stands as a symbol of European unity at a time of increasing fragmentation.
The 57.1-km (35.5 mile)-long Gotthard Base Tunnel, 17 years under construction and designed to last a century, is part of a 23 billion Swiss franc infrastructure project to speed passengers and cargo by rail under the mountain chain that divides Europe's north and south.
Typically Swiss, the project that federal transport office director Peter Fueglistaler called "a masterpiece of timing, cost and policy" came in on schedule and on budget.
High-speed trains will whisk passengers in 17 minutes through a passage that took days until the first Alpine rail tunnel opened in 1882. Around 260 freight trains and 65 passenger trains will traverse the two-tube tunnel daily once final testing ends later this year.
The Swiss, as a rule rail fanatics, are throwing a party to mark the event that will draw the leaders of all its neighboring countries in a show of European solidarity.
"It is just part of the Swiss identity," Fueglistaler said of the Swiss fondness for major engineering feats. "For us, conquering the Alps is like the Dutch exploring the oceans."
The tunnel along Europe's main rail line that connects the ports of Rotterdam in the north to Genoa in the south snakes through the mountains as much as 2.3 km below daylight and through rock as hot as 46 degrees Celsius (114.8°F).
The rail route goes over the pass now in a series of loops and tunnels. The new flat route means even heavy trains will need only one locomotive rather than two or three.
Engineers had to dig and blast through 73 kinds of rock as hard as granite and as soft as sugar. Nine workers died.
Swiss voters — despite opposition at times from the government and parliament — supported the gargantuan rail project in a series of binding referendums in the 1990s.
Fittingly, the first ones to travel the tunnel at the official opening will be 500 lucky winners plus guests from the 130,000 who entered a ticket lottery for the inaugural trip.
The overall project includes the Loetschberg rail tunnel that has already opened, the Cereti tunnel still being built and renovations to make rail tunnels at least 4 meters high at the corners to be able to handle big freight containers. Work is due to finish in 2020.
The mammoth rail venture is being financed by value-added and fuel taxes, road charges on heavy vehicles and state loans that are due to be repaid within a decade.
Major contractors included Alpiq, Balfour Beatty, Thales and Heitkamp.
Editing by Richard Balmforth


David Calder and Cat McLean, litigation lawyers, have witnessed over the last few years some questionable behaviour from of some of the UK's best known banks.
More recently they brought the Royal Bank of Scotland to court and won in the case of Royal Bank of Scotland vs. Carlyle a client of their legal firm and a well respected property developer who has suffered at the hands of his bank despite many years of loyal business.
Far from being an isolated case, David and Cat are finding and hearing many more companies coming forward with similar stories. The evidence suggests that the problem which brought Derek's case to court is in fact far more widespread than first thought. There will an opportunity to contribute and ask questions of Cat and David during this live webcast.


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Seeing Further – 5 Things to Know About SUSE HPC
October 30, 2018 | By: Jeff Reser
High performance computing (HPC) – the use of supercomputers and parallel processing techniques for solving complex computational problems – has traditionally been limited to the world of large research institutions, academia, governments and massive enterprises. But now, advanced analytics applications using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), deep learning and cognitive computing are increasingly being used in the intelligence community, engineering and cognitive industries.
The need to analyze massive amounts of data and transaction-intensive workloads are driving the use of HPC into the business arena and making these tools mainstream for a variety of industries. Commercial users are getting into high performance applications for fraud detection, personalized medicine, manufacturing, smart cities, autonomous vehicles and many other areas. In order to effectively and efficiently run these workloads, SUSE has built a comprehensive and cohesive OS platform. In this blog, I will illustrate five things you should know about our SUSE solutions for AI over HPC.
Stronger partnerships
The first thing to know is how vital SUSE partnerships are to our HPC business. While the SLE HPC product can be obtained through direct Sales, it historically has been made available via our IHV and ISV partners. But obtaining the OS and associated HPC tools is only half of the story. Our key partnerships provide opportunities to innovate and contribute to open source development in AI/ML/DL and leading-edge advanced analytics applications.
Hewlett Packard Enterprises' HPC software includes open source, HPE-developed and commercial HPC software that's validated, integrated and performance-optimized for their systems. SUSE is the preferred HPE partner for Linux, HPC, OpenStack and Cloud Foundry solutions. And SUSE technology is embedded in every HPE ProLiant Server to power the intelligent provisioning feature. We have several joint papers that describe how SUSE and HPE together deliver HPC power to enterprises.
ARM System on a Chip (SoC) partners are driving new HPC adoptions in the modern data center. And SUSE is helping transform the 64-bit ARM platform to an enterprise computing platform by being the first commercial Linux distributor to fully support ARM servers. In fact, SUSE provides ARM HPC functionality as part of SLE HPC. The increased server density on the latest 64-bit ARM processors really helps to optimize the overall infrastructure costs – making Arm-based supercomputers more affordable. ARM SoC partners include Marvell (formerly Cavium), AMD, HPE, Cray, MACOM, Huawei HiSilicon, Mellanox, XILINX, Gigabyte, Qualcomm and more.
Cray builds their own Cray Linux Environment (CLE) – an adaptive operating system, purpose-built for HPC and designed for performance, reliability and compatibility – it also happens to be built on SUSE Linux Enterprise. Cray supercomputers continue to have a majority share of the Top500 sites around the world. And Cray is a key player in HPC, producing both Intel-based and ARM-powered supercomputers.
Lenovo's strategy is to provide open access to clusters on their new highly efficient processors. SUSE and Lenovo jointly defined the scope of the Lenovo HPC stack using SUSE HPC componentry. In turn, Lenovo created the LiCO (Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration) adaptation – a premier AI/HPC package tailored to power AI/ML/DL workloads.
Those are just a few highlights of key partnerships for SUSE and HPC. Others include NVIDIA, Microsoft Azure, Fujitsu, Intel, Univa, Dell Technologies, Altair, ANSYS, MathWorks, Supermicro and Bright Computing. Another aspect of partnering in open source is continuing to be a major contributor in communities that guide parallel computing – including OpenHPC (where SUSE is a founding member), OpenMP and many more involved in shaping HPC tools.
More differentiators
The second thing to know is the clear and concise set of HPC platform differentiators. This list encompasses what's available in the SUSE OS as well as for HPC storage and HPC in the cloud:
SUSE Enterprise Storage is Ceph-based and software-defined, providing backup and archival storage for HPC environments that is very easy to manage
SLE HPC is enabled for Microsoft Azure and AWS Cloud
SLE HPC and associated HPC packages are fully supported for Aarch64 (Arm) and x86-64 architectures
Supported HPC packages, such as slurm for cluster workload management, are included with SLE HPC subscriptions. Also in the same HPC Module are Ganglia for cluster monitoring, OpenMPI, OpenBLAS, FFTW, HDF, Munge, MVAPICH and more.
SLE HPC is priced very competitively, and uses a simple, one price per cluster node model
SLE HPC provides ESPOS (Extended Service Pack Overlay Support) for longer service life for each service pack
SUSE Enterprise Linux is used in about half of the top 100 HPC systems around the world
SUSE Package Hub includes SUSE-curated and community-supported packages for HPC.
AI/ML focus
The third thing to know is our increased focus on the AI/ML market space and how we are providing the most efficient and effective HPC platform for these new workloads in a parallel computing environment. Technologies like cognitive computing, the Internet of Things and smart cities are powered by high performance computing and fueled by advanced data analytics. Businesses around the world today are recognizing that a Linux-based HPC infrastructure is vital to supporting the analytics applications of tomorrow. And we are finding that HPC is not just for scientific research any longer, and being adopted across banking, healthcare, retail, utilities and manufacturing.
In healthcare, an HPC platform underlies applications such as AI for precision medicine, diagnoses and treatment plans, cancer research, genomics and drug research. In the automotive world, we see HPC being used in aerodynamic designs, engine performance and timing, fuel consumption, safety systems and AI driverless operations. In manufacturing, HPC is vital for computational fluid dynamics, heat dissipation system design, AI advanced robotics, automated systems and other high-performance designs. And in energy, we find HPC as the basis for air flow designs in renewable energy, wind turbines and heating/cooling efficiencies.
SUSE Linux Enterprise HPC is integral to a highly scalable parallel computing infrastructure for supporting AI/ML and analytics applications being used across industries.
Restructured product
The fourth thing to know is how we've restructured our SLE HPC product with our goal of making HPC easier to implement and adapt. With SUSE's concerted effort to make HPC easier to adopt, implement and maintain we have recently made the following changes:
Invoked a simple, one price per cluster node model with significantly reduced list prices that can be used by IHVs, ISVs and direct Sales.
SLE HPC is available for x86 and Arm HPC clusters
SLE HPC has a new "level 3 support" SKU specifically for partners
There are multiple service life options including Extended Service Pack Overlap Support and Long-Term Service Pack Support
There are revised terms and conditions for smaller cluster sizes and increased clarity on defining compute nodes
More frequent updates on demand for popular HPC packages, supported by SUSE
Growing market share
The fifth and final thing to know is that SUSE continues to grow its market share in the supercomputing arena, as evident by the market share in the latest Top500 report. The latest analysis of the Top500 supercomputer sites report shows that half of the top 30 run SUSE, expanding to 40% of the top 100. One of the most compelling statistics from the report is when we look at the vendor share of paid OS, which represents 116 supercomputers in the top 500 list. Here we see that over half of the paid Linux OS in the top 500 are running SUSE.
From the same segment, we also calculated the paid OS "performance share", which is based on the total number of cores across 116 supercomputers. Here again we see that over half of the paid-for Linux OS in the top 500 are SUSE.
I will be providing more specifics on all of the areas I talked about in this blog post over the next several months, but hopefully I've given you a decent "first look".
With our open and highly collaborative approach through our strong partner ecosystem, we can help deliver the required knowledge, skills and capabilities that will shape the adoption of HPC and AI technologies today and power the new analytics applications of tomorrow.
For more information about SUSE's solutions for HPC, please visit https://www.suse.com/programs/high-performance-computing/ and https://www.suse.com/products/server/hpc/ and https://www.suse.com/solutions/hpc-storage/ .
Jeff Reser
@JeffReserNC