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No to the bombing of Syria! Build a mass movement against the war
Serge Jordan, CWI
Donald Trump's administration is gearing up for another possible round of missile strikes against regime targets in Syria. This could trigger an explosive chain of events potentially leading to a more serious military conflagration between major international and regional powers in the Middle East. Moscow has responded to Trump's open threats by saying it would target US units involved in any attack on Syrian soil.
Both Trump and British Prime Minister, Theresa May, are going through turbulent political times, and are in need of diverting attention away from the woes of their administrations. In Britain, it has been very convenient for May that the alleged chemical nerve attack, with no concrete evidence provided, took place in the run up to this crisis. Along with France, where President Emmanuel Macron grapples with a new wave of working class action, and Saudi Arabia that has offered facilities to support the other three, all are ratcheting up their rhetoric and flexing their muscles against Assad's regime and its supporters in the Kremlin. They are cynically using the pretext of an alleged recent chemical attack in Douma, the main city of Eastern Ghouta in the suburbs of Damascus, for this purpose.
This abhorrent attack, which has allegedly killed dozens of people, is blamed, without as yet any substantiated evidence, on Bashar al-Assad's regime and its foreign backers. To be sure, Assad's regime has defended its corrupt rule over the years through rivers of innocent people's blood. The CWI does not give an inch of support to this brutal reactionary regime, nor to its Russian and Iranian patrons. Yet why would the Syrian army launch a chemical attack now, bringing down the wrath of the western imperialist powers? While not ruled out, the tactical logic behind such a decision is not obvious. Military victory in Eastern Ghouta was indeed within the regime's grasp, entrenching Assad's hold over most of Syria's urban centres. Some commentators have speculated that this recent attack might have been initiated by "rebel" jihadist forces in order to draw US imperialism deeper into the conflict.
Regardless of who is responsible for this attack, the urge to use it as an excuse for another imperialist intervention in the Middle East should be rejected and resisted outright. Fifteen years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, millions of people remember the lies of ruling politicians and their friends in the pro-establishment, pro-corporate media at the time in order to justify that calamitous war. Justifiably, many are hence not ready to uncritically lap up the official version of events presented now by western governments and mainstream media outlets. Other western interventions into Afghanistan, Libya have also been a disaster for the peoples of the area and have only worsened the crisis.
The war in Iraq precipitated the decline of US imperialism in the Middle East; the ongoing war in Syria has exposed it further, providing an open space for Russia and Iran to expand their regional influence. This, combined with Trump's administration move towards a more outright and naked support of Iran's arch enemies, Israel and Saudi Arabia, has brought regional tensions to a very high pitch.
Tensions in the region between the main powers, precariously kept in check during the battle against ISIS, have now come back to the fore with renewed intensity, as ISIS' proto-state has all but crumbled. Recent developments have seen an escalation in "inter-State" military skirmishes on Syrian territory, with a deeper military engagement from Israel, Turkey, Iran and others.
Trump's air strikes are likely to be a show of strength of limited duration, along the lines of what happened in April 2017, when the US navy fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase. Broader options, such as an all-out war for "regime change", would not only risk dragging the whole region into the flames of a major war, but would also hasten major political and social convulsions in Western capitals and across the globe. But war has a logic of its own, and new US airstrikes in such a combustible situation could lead to unintended consequences.
As inter-imperialist tensions rise in the Middle East and across the globe, the ruling classes' sheer hypocrisy and double standards are reaching staggering proportions too. Accusing Assad of "disregard for human lives", Trump, May and Macron have all recently rolled out the red carpet for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the architect-in-chief of the carnage and deliberate starvation of Yemen, which is killing a child every ten minutes on average. All went overboard to congratulate counter-revolutionary butcher al-Sisi for his recent farcical "re-election" in Egypt; all gave a de facto free pass to Turkish President Erdogan's ethnic cleansing operation in Afrin, as well as to Israeli snipers liberally gunning down unarmed Palestinians in Gaza - the condemnation of which US imperialism vetoed at the UN Security Council.
None of the commentators displaying outrage at the use of chemical weapons to justify a new military aggression in Syria raised any eyebrows when last year, the US army made use of white phosphorus in heavily populated areas of Mosul and Raqqa in the battle against ISIS. Hundreds of civilians could apparently then be dispensed with and their cities obliterated in the name of the "war on terror". The same logic has been used by Assad and Putin supporters to try and rationalize murderous sieges and brutal bombings of civilian populations living in areas of Syria held by armed rebel groups, most of which are of an Islamic-fundamentalist inclination - like the Salafists of 'Jaysh al-Islam' who were until recently in control of Eastern Ghouta.
In reality, the murderous rampage of Assad and his allies, like the civilian killings brought along with Western imperialist "liberation" from ISIS, combined with the mass poverty and alienation of millions, are likely to act as recruiting agents for future extremist Sunni armed groups – unless they are challenged by a genuine alternative. In parallel, the actions of ruthless armed gangs of the Salafist and jihadist types have helped Assad to maintain – through fear – control over important sections of the population. A new round of imperialist airstrikes would have the same effect, reinforcing Assad's narrative comparing his regime to a fortress defending itself against domestic and external terrorist and imperialist enemies.
The CWI vigorously opposes all military strikes on Syria, along with any foreign interventions and meddling in the country. The bloodshed and destruction, which has gone on almost unabated for the last seven years, need to be stopped, not heightened further. This is a task that all existing capitalist and imperialist powers involved in the region, struggling between them for power, prestige and profit, have shown utterly incapable of doing. There simply can be no solution to the horrors confronting the Syrian people on the basis of this rotten system.
Whereas the Syrian people are bearing the full blows of counter-revolution and war, an important and powerful working class exist in countries such as Iran, Turkey and Egypt. Allied with the region's poor and oppressed, and joining hands with a much needed anti-war movement in the West, such a force, armed with democratic socialist policies, can show a way out of the nightmare confronting Syria and the wider Middle East.
We say:
Stop Trump's attacks on Syria – withdrawal of all foreign forces from Syria now - no to all outside powers' interference in the region
Build a mass international movement against the war
For the building of united, multi-ethnic and non-sectarian defence committees in all parts of Syria to defend workers and poor against sectarian and military attacks from all sides
For the building of independent trade unions and mass workers parties, with a programme of land to the masses and factories to the workers
Down with dictatorship, capitalism and imperialism – for workers' unity and socialism
For a democratic socialist confederation of the Middle East and North Africa, respecting the rights of all minorities
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LaLiga: Alaves down Real Madrid; Atletico stretch winning run with victory over Valencia
28 November 2020, 11:13 pm ·4-min read
Madrid: Real Madrid slumped to a 2-1 loss at home to Alaves in LaLiga on Saturday as city rivals Atletico moved level with leaders Real Sociedad after extending their winning run to six matches.
Lucas Perez scored a fifth-minute penalty at Alfredo di Stefano stadium and Joselu added a second just after half-time following an awful mistake by goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.
Casemiro gave Real a lifeline on 86 minutes but Alaves held on for a victory that lifted them to ninth. Madrid remain in fourth place and six points behind Real Sociedad and Diego Simeone's Atletico.
"I don't have any explanations," said Real coach Zinedine Zidane, whose side followed an impressive 2-0 midweek win at Inter Milan by losing for the third time in 10 league games this season.
"We alternate between good and bad moments. The other day in Milan we played a good match, and today, three days later, we put in a display like that at home."
"It was our worst start to a match this season," he added. "We can't change the flow of the match. It bothers me, and the players too I think. The problem we have right now is consistency."
After a minute's silence in honour of Diego Maradona, in keeping with the poignant tributes around Spain this weekend following the death of the Argentine legend, Real soon fell behind when Nacho handled at a corner.
Perez powered the spot-kick beyond Courtois to give Alaves the lead, and the forward should have struck a second when he was played clean through, his attempted chip superbly swatted aside by the Real 'keeper.
Madrid's night went from bad to worse when Eden Hazard was forced off on 28 minutes after taking a knock, the latest in a long list of injury setbacks for the Belgium star.
While a terrific double save by Fernando Pacheco denied Toni Kroos, a howler from Courtois presented Joselu with the second goal on 49 minutes when a wayward pass went straight to the forward who steered home from 30 yards.
Mariano Diaz's header was cleared off the line before Casemiro tapped in from close range after Pacheco kept out Vinicius Junior's effort, but Alaves clung on as Isco clipped the bar with the final kick.
Earlier in the day, Atletico edged a tight contest at Valencia 1-0 that stretched their unbeaten league run to 25 matches.
They stay second but are equal on 23 points with Sociedad with a game in hand thanks to Toni Lato's own goal 11 minutes from time.
Stingy Atletico have conceded just twice in their nine league matches so far this season and have only scored two less than La Liga top scorers Sociedad, who host third-placed Villarreal on Sunday.
"We have made huge progress since April, since that wonderful match at Liverpool," said Simeone, referring to the Champions League last-16 tie his team won 4-2 on aggregate.
"The return to La Liga (after the first lockdown) was very good and the team was already starting to show encouraging signs. This is the result of the progression of all of the players."
Simeone applauded his former teammate and friend Maradona while teams held a minute's silence before kick-off.
Barcelona are 12 points back in 14th place, although they host Osasuna in Sunday's early match and will still have two games in hand on Sociedad come the end of the weekend.
Sevilla honour Maradona
Atletico will face European champions Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Tuesday hoping to reach the knockout stages with a match to spare.
They would join Sevilla, who qualified for the last 16 this week and are up to fifth after a 1-0 win at relegation strugglers Huesca.
Youssef En-Nesyri won the points for Sevilla after nipping in at the near post to tap in Lucas Ocampos' low pull-back with seven minutes remaining in a match dominated by the reigning Europa League champions.
Julen Lopetegui's side are one point behind Real Madrid as they chase a top four spot and a return to Europe's elite competition for next season.
There was also a tribute to former Sevilla player Maradona, who signed for the Andalusian club in 1992 after the end of a long drugs ban which hastened his exit from Napoli. He stayed one season before returning to Argentina with Newell's Old Boys.
A minute's silence was held before kick-off in which the Sevilla players wore shirts with Maradona's number 10 on the back while the song 'My Dear Buenos Aires' played over the loudspeaker.
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A Filmmaker's Quest to Tell Unknown Slugger Pete Hill's Story
Breanna Edwards
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Pete Hill.
He's a largely unsung hero in the baseball world, even as a Hall of Famer who played the majority of his career in the pre-Negro Leagues era for legendary teams such as the Pittsburgh Keystones, Cuban X Giants and Chicago American Giants; and yet most people have never heard of him.
According to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Hill, whose playing career dated from 1889 to the mid-1920s, was a fearsome center fielder with a powerful arm and "excellent glove."
Babe Ruth. That name ring any bells? Funny, since Pete Hill may have been better than him.
It's the story of disturbed graves at Burr Oak Cemetery, just south of Chicago, the legend of Pete Hill and a newspaper article titled something along the lines of "Is a Hall of Fame Baseball Player Buried Here?" that sent Canton, Ill., native Keith Carmack on a quest to make the slugger's name known.
"They had dug up about 300 graves," Carmack explains to The Root, "and resold the plots in the cemetery that was predominantly poor, African-American … and it just so happened that around that time there were a lot of Negro League baseball players buried there because a lot of those guys died poor, and so they were in this kind of cemetery with the unmarked grave or one little marker.
"People thought that he would probably be there, so I read that and it was really just one of those things where you just get this sort of just fire … inside of you," adds the 29-year-old, who studied sound design at Columbia College Chicago. "I dropped what I was doing and just decided I needed to make a documentary. I kind of said I want to see this story play out … so I just had to make it."
So Carmack went out and did exactly that. He went around gathering as much information and details as he could to compile what he calls the "most complete telling of Pete Hill's life and storied baseball career."
In the documentary, which runs a little under an hour and a half currently, Carmack interviews Hill's descendants, different historians with knowledge about the player, and the league.
He started out just being curious about where, in fact, Hill was buried, but ended up finding out something even more intriguing. It turned out that Hill's plaque in the Hall of Fame had actually been wrong at one point, with the wrong name and the wrong birthplace.
"His legal name was John Preston Hill and he went by Pete Hill … they ended up accidentally putting this player Joseph Hill on the plaque," he explains. "They were thinking of Pete Hill when they put him on, but they put the wrong guy's information on the plaque."
"Once they corrected the name, they realize he has family, direct relatives still alive, and they just didn't know," Carmack adds.
The documentary is pretty much completed as far as main production goes. However, Carmack is still trying to fund b-roll, stock footage and studio time for the soundtrack for the documentary through his Kickstarter. As of Friday evening, he had a little over $2,000 raised and is looking to raise a total of $6,800 ultimately.
His dream, he says, is to screen the documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival in October, which happens to be Hill's birth month.
A longtime fan of that particular festival, Carmack says that "for me to have a streaming for that festival … and see the premiere screening and have a whole theater full of people on Pete Hill's birthday, that would be everything to me."
But the real reason behind the film is that he just simply thinks it's long past time for Hill to have wide recognition.
"He didn't get that admiration and respect when he was playing at the time [because of segregation]. In baseball, everyone looks at stats and it's all numbers. … There was one year when Pete Hill hit one less home run than Babe Ruth and it was the year Babe Ruth really started to take off and become this home run king, and Pete Hill at that time was in the twilight of his career," Carmack says, pointing out the fact that records weren't as well-kept regarding the records of early black baseball players.
"He may have hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth, and by all accounts he played like Ty Cobb, and those are the two biggest names probably in the history of baseball," he adds. "But because of the time he played, nobody really understands that."
Breanna Edwards is a newswriter at The Root. Follow her on Twitter.
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We'll work with executive, stakeholders to develop sports — Kwara Speaker
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The Speaker of the Kwara House of Assembly, Mr Issa Danladi, said on Thursday that the house would collaborate with sports stakeholders and the executive arm of government to ensure sports development in the state.
Danladi stated this in Ilorin at a reception for four teams that made the state proud at national football tournaments in the country.
Represented by the Chairman, House Committee on Sports, Mr Ayokunle Awolola, the Speaker commended the management of the four teams for being good ambassadors of the state.
According to him, football is the fastest growing religion in the world today, which does not need any sermon before people follow it tenaciously.
Danladi promised that the house would enact laws that would support the development and growth of sports in the state.
In his remarks, the state's FA Chairman, Malam Idris Musa, said the body would explore the potential of football as tools for economic development, tourism and investment promotion.
He said the association would promote football to put Kwara on the global map of sports tourism.
Musa, noted that football was a catalyst for unity, panacea for youth restiveness and platform for employment.
He stated that the state appreciated the role of sports in national development, which informed the decision of the association to host the teams.
Musa praised the players and stakeholders for their dogged determination, dedication and sacrifice while also charging them to sustain and build on the momentum they had created.
On his part, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Sports and Youth Development, Alhaji Shuaib Akanbi, implored football stakeholders to join hands in the discovery and development of budding talents.
Akanbi appreciated the four teams for acheiving a remarkable feat in various competitions and promised that the state government would give the needed support and recognition to stakeholders and players.
Kwara Football Academy which was one of teams hosted, won a national U-14 competition in Ibadan recently alongside Moje Queens, a female team in Kwara.
Others are Gidado Football Club of Ilorin which gained promotion to the Nigeria National League (NNL) and Kwara United FC U-15 which came second in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL)/LaLiga U-15 competition in Abuja.


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Curry, Patricia Jean 1/26/1935 - 12/24/2021 Portage, MI. Patricia Jean (Blessington) Curry, age 86, died peacefully in her home surrounded by her family December 24, 2021. Preceding in death were her Husband John and a Great Grandson Huxley. Patricia was born on January 26, 1935, in Ann Arbor, MI., and was adopted shortly after by Peter and Stella Blessington. Pat graduated from Galesburg MI Schools. She attended St. Mary's College in IN and Western Michigan University. While Patricia attended St. Mary's, she met John P Curry. The couple married on October 26, 1956. Pat completed her Bachelor of Education degree at WMU. She retired in 1998 from Kalamazoo Public Schools after 42 yrs. of teaching. Pat was honored to educate hundreds of young minds, all while serving her community and raising her children. She will forever be known for her fashionista style, love for family, Sheltie's, reading, movie dates and chocolate and her undeniable dedication to her faith. Patricia is survived by her five children,Joseph (Sarah)Curry, Mary(Bob) Reffitt, Kathleen (Robert) Homan, Carmen (Jeff) Triezenberg, and John Curry; 14 grandchildren, and 17 great grandchildren. Visitation Friday, January 28, 2022 at 10am with Mass of Christian Burial at 11am at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, 1150 West Centre St., Portage, MI. Private burial will be at Fort Custer National Cemetery in the Spring. Donations in Patricia's honor can be directed to St. Catherine of Siena Church.


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Volkswagen CEO: It's 'Practically Unviable' for Corporation to Build EV Batteries in Europe
P. Gardner Goldsmith | December 7, 2022
In what might be one of the most infuriating ironies to cap a year of neurotic, pathological government and corporate arrogations of our personal autonomy, the Chief Executive Officer of German auto-maker Volkswagen now appears to have stumbled onto the truth that – SHOCK – it's not economically viable to build batteries for their fleet of utopian electric vehicles.
Stephen Green (an ironic surname) writes for PJ Media:
"Volkswagen, the German carmaker that's pledged to manufacture nothing but electric vehicles in Europe by 2035, now says it's 'practically unviable' to build the batteries they need domestically."
Welcome to reality, VW. It's not as if the problems of electric vehicle "tech" haven't been manifest, or at least researchable, for years. Yet corporate heads at Volkswagen – like the authoritarian-obsessives of the nation in which its headquarters is based – has obsessed about switching to "electricity" from petrochemical fuel, the fuel which is the cheapest, most efficient, moveable, storable, versatile source of energy in the world.
"That's according to Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schafer, who wrote on LinkedIn this week that 'Unless we manage to reduce energy prices in Germany and Europe quickly and reliably, investments in energy-intensive production or new battery cell factories in Germany and the EU will be practically unviable.'"
It sure does seem strange that the CEO of a major car maker would only grasp this reality NOW, when the information about the car batteries – and the larger constellation of problems associated with "electric vehicles" (including slowness of charge, fire hazard, environmental dangers in the sourcing of battery elements and the discarding of spent batteries, lack of energy portability, cold-weather problems, load-capacity inefficiency, and more) -- has been available for a long, long time.
Green notes:
"It takes a lot of energy to produce a lithium-ion battery large enough to power a car or truck, and Europe's high energy prices drive up the cost of making the batteries that were supposed to reduce costs."
How did Europe get those high costs for energy?
By politicians for decades imposing edicts and force, playing favorites with special "green" interests, and prohibiting the operation of the free market.
As I wrote in August for MRCTV, nanny-state national governments all over Europe have blocked Russian energy, embraced false, reality-challenging "Anthropogenic Climate Change" myths (complete with bogus "research" produced by many Climate Cultists who live off the public teat), prohibited petrochemical use for home heating, pushed mandates onto homeowners and car-makers, and engaged in such a long, massive propaganda campaign against cost-efficient petroleum/gas that millions actually have bought the fallacy that "green energy" – as it's erroneously called – is a viable economic option.
In this error, VW has followed the US Postal Service (USPS), about which I wrote for MRCTV in August, and which, as part of the Biden-Dem-RINO push to further institutionalize crony enviro-corruption, will receive $7.5 BILLION to buy a fleet of "electric mail vans."
And, beyond the expense of those albatrosses, their unfeasibility is so clear, it only makes sense that the always-in-the-red, crazily managed USPS would push for vehicles that will give it – and us, the people stuck with the bill and stuck with the USPS handling mail – massive headaches.
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As I noted in August:
"Waits for the most efficient electric vehicles begin, at the low end, at fifteen minutes for what is called a 'fast charge', but that's not a full charge, and that's under the best charging conditions outside the home. Charge time in such conditions usually takes much longer than fifteen minutes, and not only depends on the make and age of the electric vehicle, it depends on the capacity of each charger at a charging station, on how many chargers there are, and on how many people are trying to use the chargers."
But climate and energy insanity appear to abound in the halls of government. It's a worldwide malady, a fever for fascism – seeing government mix with or tell private industry what to do, via "incentives", "regulations", blocks on real, honest, market competition, and "grants" for research going down to the university level, "research" that many corporations utilize later… research that has steered the narrative towards people accepting a falsehood as good and true.
It's become so insane, the greenies actually are adopting a kind of "self-harm" mentality.
The big problem is that this harms everyone. And so, writes Green:
"Take a deep breath and try to wrap your head around this. Europe has been closing nuclear plants and subsidizing wind and solar. Now they'll tax wind and solar in order to 'fund a €54bn consumer aid package.'
Subsidized wind and solar are too expensive, so Germany will tax it to pay for consumer subsidies on wind and solar.
It takes a really big government to be that stupid."
And Mr. Schafer is one of the few who is juuuuuust starting to recognize that stupidity. Yet he has not shaken the belief in central-planning.
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Concludes Green:
"Speaking of viability, Schafer sure does have an interesting definition of that word. He praised Presidentish Joe Biden's so-called Inflation Reduction Act for providing 'highly attractive incentives to invest in new plants and production.'
Here's a pro tip for our European friends, and our so-called leaders in Washington, too: If an investment requires government incentives or subsidies, it isn't actually viable."
That's precisely right.
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Reports: Could Hulkenberg be on move to Renault in 2017?
By Tony DiZinnoOct 10, 2016, 11:28 AM EDT
The Formula 1 silly season has died down in recent weeks, but may be set to turn a surprise in the coming days if reports that Nico Hulkenberg are set for a shock switch to Renault come to fruition.
Reports in the German media (Auto Bild) and via Autosport, among others, have linked the German with a switch from Sahara Force India – which only just officially confirmed Sergio Perez for 2017 in the last couple weeks.
Hulkenberg has a deal with Force India and confirmed this back in July, but would need to break the contract via an escape clause in order to test the open waters of another team – if one exists.
Renault's Frederic Vasseur said he hoped to finalize the team's 2017 lineup by early September.
Of course, it's now October 10 and with Perez now out of the frame, Hulkenberg possibly in it, Esteban Ocon linked to a seat and Kevin Magnussen and Jolyon Palmer currently on board, we're starting to wonder if the Enstone-based team has plans to build a five-seater next year.


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Finny McConnell loves performing in Halifax. "Usually, we roll in on a Saturday night," shares the founder and front-man of Canadian Celtic-Punk legends The Mahones at a recent stop in the Nova Scotia capital. "But for some reason this gig was changed to a Wednesday."
It's no matter for McConnell and his band-mates; the Kingston, Ontario quintet have been putting-out seven days a week in support of their latest effort The Black Irish – an eclectic mix of rowdy rockers and soft Irish ballads – since its release last year.
"I love the new record," he shares. "It really reflects how far we have come as players."
Indeed, it's been a wild ride since McConnell and his long-time musical mentor Barry Williams put the band together on Saint Patrick's Day, 1990.
From the very beginning, the band set their sights on Celtic Punk. "I started off with the nasty Irish drinking songs," grins the singer-songwriter. "In fact, the first song I wrote for the band was 'Drunken Lazy Bastard.'"
Today, McConnell writes in batches of 10 to 20. "I come up with the titles first, to define what I want the piece to be about. I find a good hook, and I finish it off by painting in the lyrics. And then I won't write anything for two years."
Citing The Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners, and The Pogues as musical influences, The Mahones have shared the stage with the likes of The Dropkick Murphys, Shane MacGowan and The Popes, Steve Earle, Flogging Molly and Van Morrison.
Though tied by similar sound and style, McConnell steps outside of traditional musical structures. "A lot of people in the genre take airs, which are like riffs, of Celtic songs from the past, rewrite them and put their own lyrics to them. I like to invent my own and make them as completely original as possible."
While most of the band's material is of the Celtic Punk genre, they have experimented with other styles, including jazz, country, folk and rock – something that is well-reflected on the new recording.
"We like to mix it up," laughs McConnell. "It keeps things fresh for us and it keeps listeners guessing."
That variety is perhaps most evident on Whiskey Devils, a tribute album, that was released last year. "We were honoured," he says humbly. "Twenty bands around the world recorded twenty of our songs for our 20th anniversary. Some of them even play them better than we do!"
Their musical peers aren't the only admirers, as the line-up outside the nightclub in Halifax attests to.
"So what if it's a Wednesday?" smiles McConnell. "We've always got a little Saturday in us to share." ~ By Michelle Brunet
Reprinted from the Spring 2012 issue of Celtic Life International Magazine
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ON THE MORNING of August 6, 1964, thirty-year-old Donald Currey was leading several men up a trail along Wheeler Peak, the highest mountain in Nevada. One of Currey's companions wore a U.S. Forest Service uniform, a second lugged a chainsaw, and a third carried a camera to document the event that would follow. They hiked through the thinning air for several hours, past clusters of piñon pines and Utah junipers. Eventually, the men reached the timberline, a point 10,750 feet high on the mountain, where tall plants yielded to the onslaught of nature's winds and nothing survived beyond scrubby vegetation. There, on the environment's edge, Currey's team would encounter one of the world's more remarkable trees, the bristlecone pine. And there, they would change five thousand years of history.
The bristlecone pine is found only in the mountains of the southwestern United States at altitudes that sustain few other life-forms. The rugged environment sculpts the bristlecones into a dramatic, gnarled form, more horizontal than vertical, the physiognomy of an endless battle against the elements. On the wind-facing side, sand particles sheer away outer bark in a process called die-back. The wood beneath looks almost polished, as though it has been petrified alive. John Muir, the eminent naturalist, wrote that the bristlecone "offers a richer and more varied series of forms to the artist than any conifer I know of." The trees can grow up to thirty feet high and twenty around, but often maintain living needles in only a small section—an indoor Christmas tree's worth of green—which produces the distinctive prickle-tipped purple cones that lend the conifer its name.
In 1958 the bristlecone pine had created a giant measure of excitement within a tiny segment of the scientific community when a National Geographic article declared that the species produced the oldest trees on earth. Edmund Schulman, the scientist who wrote the piece, explained that he had used tree-ring dating—literally counting up the annual rings in the trunk—to identify multiple bristlecone specimens in California's Inyo National Forest that were more than four thousand years old. The most impressive find, a tree containing 4,676 rings, was named Methuselah, a nod to the longest-lived figure in the Bible. The National Geographic article asserted that the oldest bristlecones were located "at the western limit of their range" where Methuselah grew, suggesting that Schulman's biblically named discovery was quite possibly the world's oldest tree.
Schulman's finding held great promise for a variety of reasons. Tree rings recorded climatic activity with remarkable precision—wetter years generated widely spaced rings, drier periods kept them close, and all trees in a given area corresponded. Consequently, these bristlecones were silent but scrupulous witnesses to several millennia of droughts, floods, shifting rivers, and retreating glaciers. Their rings offered scientists, specifically dendrochronologists (those who study tree rings), a chance to reconstruct the local climate to dates contemporaneous with the building of the Egyptian pyramids.
Currey, a graduate student in geography, was hoping to exploit this relationship between trees and history. He wanted to develop a climatic timeline connected to glacier growth and rock settlements in the Southwest as far back as 2000 BCE. His research centered on geological features in eastern Nevada's Snake Range, a mountain chain capped by the imposing 13,063-foot Wheeler Peak. Bristlecones near the range's timberline held valuable data within the rings of their trunks.
Currey's research site was several hundred miles east of the Methuselah find. Thus, he anticipated finding only specimens much younger than those featured in National Geographic. During the summer of 1964, however, he stumbled upon something unexpected. A bristlecone stand in the national forest tract known as the Wheeler Peak Scenic Area appeared to contain trees as old as anything that Schulman had described. An eager Currey began to take samples of the trees using his twenty-eight-inch-long Swedish increment borer, a sophisticated hand tool with an aperture approximately the size of a drinking straw that removed a fragment of the trunk without causing permanent damage. Day after day, he scrambled over the limestone soil and the deposited rock that surrounded the bristlecones, carrying his notebook and Swedish borer alongside, collecting samples that he could later analyze under a microscope.
Currey's 114th specimen was the most spectacular that he encountered. He measured it as having "a dead crown 17 feet high, a living shoot 11 feet high, and a 252-inch circumference 18 inches above the ground." Such a wide base would have required four men with arms outstretched to encircle it. Currey also noted that the tree's bark, which was necessary for its survival, was only "present along a single 19-inch-wide, north-facing strip." The winds and sand had worn away everything else. But the tree was alive and still producing its compact bunches of needles on a three-inch-wide shoot.
Currey attempted to sample this tree, which he labeled WPN-114, but his borer broke. He tried again and damaged his reserve borer. Without equipment, he was suddenly stymied. This ancient specimen stood before him, its rings holding the secrets to several thousand years of climate change, and he had no way to study it, not with his borers, anyway.
Shortly thereafter, on that August 6 morning, Currey led the cutting team up Wheeler Peak. When they reached WPN-114, the men took turns sawing away at the tree. Several hours later there was nothing left but an enormous stump.
Currey brought the prepared samples to his microscope and began counting tree rings. Then he made a startling discovery. There were 4,844 rings, nearly two hundred more than in Methuselah. And WPN-114 had been cut down several feet above its true base, losing access to some of the earliest rings. The tree could have easily been five thousand years old. Schulman had been wrong about where the oldest bristlecones lived.
Thirty-year-old Donald Currey had unintentionally felled the most ancient tree ever discovered—an organism already wizened when Columbus reached Hispaniola, middle-aged when Caesar ruled Rome, and starting life when the Sumerians created mankind's first written language.
The next year, Currey quietly published his discovery in the journal Ecology. The three-page article, written in the scientific passive voice, acknowledged that WPN-114 was the oldest tree on record but postulated that future research would yield many older specimens.
However, the only thing that the future actually yielded was a growing controversy over why WPN-114 was allowed to be cut down in the first place. The forest ranger who had claimed that the tree held no interest for the public had been wrong. Conservationists knew about the bristlecones and had earlier named WPN-114 "Prometheus" after the Titan who stole fire from Zeus, gave it to man, and then suffered eternally for his action. These conservationists claimed that the Forest Service had acted recklessly in permitting the cutting. Stories that a member of Currey's team had died carrying a slab of Prometheus down Wheeler Peak left some observers suggesting that the tree had taken a life to remedy the injustice. Several dendrochronologists attacked Currey as an ignorant graduate student who didn't know how to handle a borer and had little or no scientific reason to fell this particular sample.
Evidence supported both sides of the controversy, depending on which accounts were used, and new perspectives leaked out over the decades. As late as 1996, the Forest Service ranger who authorized the cutting wrote a memo to correct "the many rumors," and Currey himself gave the occasional interview up until his death in 2004. The only facts that anyone seemed to agree upon were that WPN-114 was the oldest tree ever discovered and that Americans had intentionally killed it.
THE DEATH OF Prometheus was a tragedy, something to reflect upon with disbelief. Some of us, the more environmentally inclined, may react with anger, even outrage, knowing that scientists discovered such a marvelous tree only to steal it with a hasty and arrogant hand. After all, nothing can bring the elder statesman of the plant kingdom back. Others among us, perhaps more than would admit it in public, may simply shrug. It was one tree hidden on a mountain almost no one visited, whose only distinction was having been there longer than logic would suggest, a literal freak of nature, a sideshow act in wood. There are plenty of other bristlecones.
But to treat the felling of Prometheus in isolation misses much of the story. The controversy was not merely a localized battle between dendrochronologists, conservationists, and the men holding sap-stained chainsaws. It was a tiny chapter in a much larger narrative of trees and America, or trees and Americans, two members of the natural environment who are constantly acting on one another, and over time changing as a result. Trivial details in the Prometheus story represent important shifts in America's relationship with wood, trees, and nature.
Take the location of the tree, for example. Wheeler Peak Scenic Area was part of a national forest, a type of government-controlled land first created in the late nineteenth century. For much of American history, the idea that the government would control some of the forests seemed ridiculous, an affront to the spirit of individualism and private property that helped build the country.
The controversy itself formed part of a long lineage of Americans realizing that they had abused their great renewable resource when it was too late. Sometimes, this awakening involved a single tree, like the Liberty Tree that the Boston patriots could not protect from the axes of the British redcoats. Other times, it was a single species, such as the American chestnut, which was once the mightiest forest tree and now is little more than a legend due to an imported disease. Often, it was an entire forest, like the white pine belts of New England and the Lake States, which fell victim to America's logging industry.
The death of Prometheus offers only the tiniest window into this rich and wide-ranging history of Americans and their trees. The tale of how they shaped each other over time is simply too large, too multilayered, too varied for any single bristlecone on a lonesome timberline in Nevada. This larger story, however, forms the subject of American Canopy.
HOW EASY IT is to forget that much of American history has been defined by trees.
Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European to leave a detailed account of a journey to North America, marveled in 1524 that "the wooddes [were] so greate and thicke that an armye (were it never so greate) mighte have hydd it selfe therein." He labeled this heavily forested land Acadia, meaning "idyllic place." The trees, in his opinion, were the most useful thing the land had to offer.
But to speak of timber or fuel or pulp is to flatten trees into a single dimension. They also provide sustenance: sap into sugar, seeds into nuts and fruits. Their foliage brings life to desolate landscapes, their roots stability to shaky soils. Finally, on a hot summer day, there are few pleasures that rival hiding in the shade beneath the boughs of a noble oak.
Over the years, technology has obscured the vital role that trees have played in shaping society. Steel and plastic replaced timber. Coal and oil substituted for firewood. Digital screens are crowding out paper copies. Industrial food chains have left almost no one relying directly on the forests for dinner. Sometimes it seems like this was always the way, man's dominion over nature. Americans interact with trees that have been circumscribed, commoditized. Our furniture is a thin veneer of wood placed over synthetic materials. The wooden supports of our homes are tucked away from view with drywall and vinyl siding. Forests are cordoned off in carefully delimited regions, far away from the cities and suburbs. The juice from the fruit of trees has been pasteurized and homogenized.
This separation from nature makes it easy to forget just how important trees are to our lives today. Each year, the average American consumes roughly 250 board feet of timber, 200 square feet of plywood and other structural panel products, and 700 pounds of paper and paperboard. More than 2.5 million Americans hold jobs directly dependent on the country's woodlands. Nearly 20 percent of the nation's freshwater originates in the national forests. And these same national forests provide more than seven billion activity days for vacationers, hunters, fishermen, and hikers. But these are just the most obvious dependencies. Trees also provide raw materials for countless medicines, plastics, technological devices, and artificial food.
Additionally, some believe that our trees will hold the key to the country's future, as they have the past. Our illimitable forests, which extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store much of it as wood and other plant matter, may provide an opportunity to combat global warming. The same is imagined of tree planting. Scientists are also working to develop new processes that might turn trees into sources of renewable energy.
Thus, even as we have found many ways to replace trees, they remain as important as ever.
AMERICAN CANOPY explores this remarkable evolution. How trees changed from enemy, to friend, to potential savior. How forests morphed from obstacles to timber reserves to tree farms to sanctuaries of nature. How wood built the country, and apples united it, and trees imbued its great cities with life. How trees became part of the political calculus for westward settlement, as necessary as water and air, valued by settlers, speculators, surveyors, and soldiers. Americans started as people frightened of the woods, transitioned into a nation that consumed these woods for profit—along the way turning the tree into a lifeless, deracinated object—and finally arrived at the present point. Today, few of us understand where timber comes from or what to call any given tree species, but most of us share a sense that to destroy trees is to destroy part of ourselves.
This story is uniquely American. No other country was populated because of its trees quite like the United States. Nowhere else has the culture been so intimately associated with wood. Entire states were peopled specifically for their trees: lumbering in the Northwest; orange growing in Florida and Southern California. Such great American cities as Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, and Seattle would have looked completely different without the early commercial opportunities that trees provided. The industrial advance of the late nineteenth century—America's great surge forward—may have been exploiting steam trains, telegraphs, and electricity, but it depended on cheap, abundant wood for rail ties, fuel, buildings, and utility poles. The nation's military might also owed its fair debt to trees, unsung heroes of both world wars—for forests were recruited alongside soldiers. And after World War II, when a fast-rising population needed new housing, it was cheap timber that allowed for the sudden emergence of the suburbs, where, it should be noted, a tree could be found in every yard.
It is no surprise that trees would shape America more than other nations. After all, America has some of the most spectacular tree resources on the planet. Forests once covered almost half of the contiguous states, a staggering 950 million acres. The diverse geography across the country gives America ideal soil for almost any type of tree, from the palms of Southern California to the pines of New England. The United States is home to the world's biggest trees (the giant sequoias), the world's tallest trees (the coastal redwoods), and the world's oldest trees (the bristlecone pines). The biggest single organism on earth is also a tree species—and is also American—a stand of quaking aspens in Utah, known as Pando; it reproduces clonally, weighs sixty-six hundred tons, and is tens of thousands if not millions of years old.
American Canopy takes these magnificent American trees as its subject, but the story is most often one of personal drama. Americans, after all, are half the equation. The Sons of Liberty used a famous tree as a center for popular protest that helped spark the American Revolution. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were avid horticulturists who traded tree specimens as they negotiated the Constitution—Jefferson even considered the introduction of the olive tree to South Carolina as one of his greatest achievements. John Chapman, a man most Americans know as Johnny Appleseed, sold his trees to settlers looking to establish residence in the Ohio Valley. Henry David Thoreau helped awaken a nation to the beauty of woodlands. John Muir then used his passion for trees and unbounded nature to champion the creation of national parks. J. Sterling Morton, one of the first settlers in Nebraska, tried to turn the Great Plains into a forest by creating Arbor Day. Later, President Theodore Roosevelt, with his close confidant Gifford Pinchot, struggled to save the great western forests from industrial ruin. And in the following generation, President Franklin Roosevelt—a tree lover if there ever was one—looked to the nation's woody resources as a way to ameliorate the Great Depression. Each man's story tells a small fragment of a much larger tale, a tale that becomes the story of America.
This relationship with trees has been one of the great drivers of national development. It belongs in a conversation with other forces that helped to forge American identity: the endless frontier, immigration, democracy, religion, slavery and its legacy, the struggle for labor rights, the expansion of civil rights, and free market and state capitalism, to name a few. And like all useful cicerones, the trees show us a picture of America at its best and at its worst.
History has lost or buried many of the episodes highlighted in American Canopy. To learn about trees is to discover a side of the nation's past that is rarely told. No one has ever treated America's trees in all their dimensions as a subject for historical study. Pieces of the story for certain, but not the story itself. Perhaps it is because trees have been so integral to American history that it becomes easy to overlook them. People notice the unusual, not the ubiquitous. Like so many Americans, historians are guilty of taking trees for granted.
But trees are the loudest silent figures in America's complicated history.
MEANWHILE, Prometheus turned out to be one of the loudest trees of all, though only in death. With each year that passed and without the discovery of an older bristlecone, the tree's reputation grew, as did the controversy over its cutting. The felling of Prometheus convinced conservationists to take a more aggressive stand to ensure that such ill-advised chain-sawing was never repeated. Donald Currey even became one of the foremost advocates for greater controls over the region that contained the bristlecones. These efforts helped to create, in 1986, the Great Basin National Park, a heavily protected area that includes Wheeler Peak Scenic Area. And today all bristlecone pines, standing or down, receive federal protection. Thanks to these measures the bristlecones can continue to fight their eternal battle with nature's wind undisturbed and to silently record America and the world as they change. But for Prometheus, all that remains is an unmarked stump and a footnote in history. It is still the oldest tree ever discovered.


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KAZAKHSTAN: Human rights defender Evgeniy Zhovtis finally released!
Paris-Geneva, February 17, 2012. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), welcomes today's release of Mr. Evgeniy Zhovtis, founding member and Director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law.
On February 1, 2012, a court in penal colony ОВ-156/13 of Ust-Kamenogorsk city had decided to grant amnesty to Mr. Evgeniy Zhovtis, prominent Kazakh human rights defender and also a member of the Council of Experts of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) under the Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in charge of freedom of assembly. Mr. Evgeniy Zhovtis was finally released earlier today.
The latter was detained since September 2009 for "traffic accident triggering death". On April 26, 2010, the Supreme Court had rejected the appeal of his lawyer to initiate review proceedings declared by the observers as unfair.
"We welcome the release of our colleague Evgeniy Zhovtis, which had been awaited for a long time by the international community. However, we once again regret the fact that he was detained for more than two years on the basis of unfair proceedings marred with a number of irregularities, in an attempt to sanction his human rights activities. We hope that the case against him is now over, and that he will be able to resume his human rights activities as soon as possible", FIDH President Souhayr Belhassen said today.
"This overdue decision is good news for Kazakhstan and for the human rights movement. There is a dire need for voices like his to be heard loud and clearly", said OMCT Secretary General Gerald Staberock. "We hope that he is allowed to resume his work without hindrance and interference".
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Instead of receiving results in the traditional Recordset object, ADO can instead retrieve query results into a stream. The ADO Stream object (or other objects that support the COM IStream interface, such as the ASP Request and Response objects) can be used to contain these results. One use for this feature is to retrieve results in XML format. With SQL Server, for example, XML results can be returned in multiple ways, such as using the FOR XML clause with a SQL SELECT query or using an XPath query.
To receive query results in stream format instead of in a Recordset, you must specify the adExecuteStream constant from ExecuteOptionEnum as a parameter of the Execute method of a Command object. If your provider supports this feature, the results will be returned in a stream upon execution. You might be required to specify additional provider-specific properties before the code executes. For example, with the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server, properties such as Output Stream in the Properties collection of the Command object must be specified. For more information about SQL Server-specific dynamic properties related to this feature, see XML-Related Properties in the SQL Server Books Online.
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Response.write "ADO Version = " & adoConn.Version & "
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The FOR XML clause instructs SQL Server to return data in the form of an XML document.
FOR XML RAW generates generic row elements that have column values as attributes. FOR XML AUTO uses heuristics to generate a hierarchical tree with element names based on table names. FOR XML EXPLICIT generates a universal table with relationships fully described by metadata.
The command can be specified in a string as shown earlier, assigned to CommandText, or in the form of an XML template query assigned to CommandStream. For more information about XML template queries, see Command Streams in ADO or Using Streams for Command Input in the SQL Server Books Online.
At this point, XML has been streamed to the client browser and it is ready to be displayed. This is done by using client-side VBScript to bind the XML document to an instance of the DOM and looping through each child node to build a list of Products in HTML.


There are several challenges in the NoSQL world. Especially if you have very high availability requirements you have to accept temporal inconsistencies which you need to resolve explicitly. This is usually a tough job which requires implementing case by case business logic or even bothering the users to decide about the correct state of your data.Wouldn't it be great if we could solve this conflict resolution and data reconciliation process in a generic way at a pure technical level?That's exactly what CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) are about. CRDTs are data structures that are guaranteed to converge to a desired state while enabling extreme availability of the datastore.In this session you will learn what CRDTs are, how to design them, what you can do with them, what their limitations and tradeoffs are – of course garnished with lots of tips and tricks. Get ready to push the availability of your datastore to the max!
5. Challenges • Giving up ACID transactions • (Temporal) anomalies and inconsistencies short-term due to replication or long-term due to partitioning It might happen. Thus, it will happen!


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I mentioned in my previous blog post that I was recently honored to receive the Brower Youth Award. At the award ceremony in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, each awardee gave a speech. My speech outlined new institutional response to divestment and climate change. The video of the speech, along with an extended version of my remarks, was published in The Nation today. I wanted to share it with you!
The Brower Youth Awards annually highlight the top environmental youth leaders from across North America. Award recipients undergo a rigorous application review process and represent the best, most creative, young environmental leaders of today.
Chloe Maxmin, 21, of Nobleboro, Maine, a regular writer for StudentNation and an undergraduate at Harvard University, was one of this year's Brower Youth Award winners for her long history of environmental activism. Maxmin has a history of starting movements – she founded the first environmental club at her high school and built a student sustainability movement that continues to this day. At Harvard, she's keeping up the momentum as co-founder and coordinator of Divest Harvard. She researched Harvard's endowment and past divestment campaigns, and led the first campus vote on fossil fuel divestment in the world. She is also the founder and sole contributor of the online youth environmental network, First Here, Then Everywhere, which she hopes to build into a thriving hub of discussion and support for young environmentalists.
Maxmin sent us her acceptance speech, given in San Francisco on October 18 in which she outlined three new institutional responses to climate change and divestment.
On October 1, another Divest Harvard activist and I sat in the office of Harvard's President, Drew Faust. It had been over a year since we launched our movement. We had the support of over 3,000 students, over 170 faculty, almost 600 alumni, and countless community members.
Two days later, I checked my email and learned that President Faust had released a statement opposing fossil fuel divestment. I wasn't surprised. It repeated the same arguments that we had been hearing for a year. It reiterated the notion that Harvard is an academic, not a political, actor–which is to say that it somehow stands outside the realm of action.
My aim tonight is not to repeat these discussions. Instead, I want to take seriously President Faust's question…Chloe what would you do?
I'd like to suggest the first three principles of a new institutional response to divestment and the climate crisis.
The farm in Maine where I grew up, the meadows, lake, and trees…these are the roots that have filled me with an inexpressible love for this world, my family, my home, my community, friends, the people I will never know, the people I have yet to know.
Not all of us have grown up in Maine, but we all have places and people that we love.
The climate movement often seems like it's fighting "against something"–against indifference and political gridlock. But this is a struggle "for everything" that we care about.
This is the first principle of a new response: That our actions as individuals and institutions can be re-founded on love for one another, for all that is alive, and especially for the systems and creatures of this earth who have no voice.
Two years ago, I learned that tar sands could come through Maine and that Exxon owns 76% of the pipeline.
Citizens in South Portland Maine recently campaigned to block the flow of tar sands through Maine by passing the Waterfront Protection Ordinance. The ordinance failed to pass by 200 votes. The opposition (pro-tar sands interests) were out in full force. But I didn't anticipate the audaciousness of their effort. While the Protect South Portland coalition put $42,000 into the election, the Maine Energy Marketers Association poured almost $600,000 into stopping the ordinance.
This is exactly why I am involved with the fossil fuel divestment movement. The only way to diminish the hegemony and influence of this industry is to draw a moral line in the sand that rebrands it as anti-social.
This is the second principle of my response: Freedom depends on politics. It is up to us to take back "the political" and reestablish it as it was meant to be: a commitment to freedom through action.
So when President Faust says that Harvard is not a "political actor," I say: by supporting an industry that corrupts elections and coerces society, are you not being political?
But instead of this politics of silence, we seek the politics of courage.
Our society's institutions and leaders have been complacent in the face of climate change. We have stood by as our government has failed to act, as the fossil fuel industry has lobbied its way to riches, as the Arctic melts, sea levels rise, fires spread, droughts consume, and floods erase.
Divestment says: enough is enough. Take a stand. Recognize that our system is broken, and take a step to fix it.
This is my third principle of a new response: People can summon the courage to work miracles.
When we take the first steps towards a better world, we don't know what will happen. But we can't be too scared to find out, and we can never be too scared to fight for what we love.
Hannah Arendt, a great philosopher who knew that politics could never be separated from life, wrote that every time an action disrupts the status quo, it's a miracle.
People can author such miracles because we have the freedom and courage to establish a reality of our own.
With these three principles–love, politics, and courage–I say that we are the miracle workers. And we are the miracles.


The annual arrival of SonicActs in Amsterdam is always greeted with anticipation and this year was no exception. Held between the 23rd and 26th February at the Paradiso and De Balie, the international computer arts festival now in its 11th year, served up an intense 3 days of conference balanced out by 3 evenings and nights of live performance, extensive film programmes and an exhibition. A DVD and book on the festival theme will also be published in the next month or so.
Autonomous computer art has seen a revival in recent years with more and more artists developing their own hardware and writing their own software. For SonicActs, this is seen as an essential element in contemporary computer art.
The aim of the festival this year has been to provide a multi-faceted and penetrating overview of computer art in its many forms. International speakers drawn from computer arts, film, fine arts, music, the academic world, literature and art history, all came together to discuss not only the historical development but also the present and future position of computer art.
Speakers included Jasia Reichardt (GB), writer and curator who made history in 1968 with her exhibit 'Cybernetic Serendipity'; Lillian Schwartz (USA), a pioneer in the field of computer generated art and computer films; Curtis Roads (USA), composer and author of the influential 'Computer Music Tutorial' and Stephen Wilson (USA), professor of conceptual design at San Francisco State University and author of 'Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology'. The conference was already sold out before the start of the festival, such was the demand to hear these influential speakers.
The film programme which looked purely at digital film art alongside documentaries and computer films, also contained some gems. Much of the material had never been seen in the Netherlands before. My favourite was the Siggraph Collection which was a collection of short videos originating from the Siggrapharchives. (Siggraph is an annual festival of computer related technology and art, held in the US). The collection screened was an overview of the work taken from fields of science, art and entertainment. Each video played a pioneering role in the development of computer arts. Two that stood out were by Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith. I work in a company that produces purely digital graphical work and it's easy to take all this design technology for granted. But it had to be invented by someone. Ed Catmull's 'HandFace' was produced in 1972. He's the man responsible for inventing techniques for displaying curved surfaces. He is the man who invented texture mapping. He is the man who invented animation programme 'Tween' and eventually went on to be the first president of Pixar. An important man.
Alongside his work, was another film 'Vid Bits' (1974) this time by long-time friend and collaborator, Alvy Ray Smith. Alvy also co-founded Pixar and his long list of credits include developing digital image compositing and digital paint systems. He's won 2 Oscars for his contribution to digital art and animation in films. It's interesting to see how important these early films were in the development of digital graphic tools as we know them.
The exhibition also contained some legends of computer art, namely Ben Laposky (US), Edward Zajec (US), Frieder Nake (DE), Manfred Mohr (US) and Tony Longson (US). The art dates back to the early 50's and follows through to the late 60's. In fact, Ben Laposky, a mathematician and artist, is credited as having made the very first graphic art created by an electronic machine in 1950. All the art exhibited displayed strong mathematical and aesthetical qualities and clearly show the fascination these pioneering artists had for pattern, colour and algorithm calculations.
Finally, the music nights held at the Paradiso helped to introduce both established and fresh new talent drawing inspiration from digital technologies. The biggest attraction was the Friday night event complied by much respected Jace Clayton (aka DJ/Rupture), turntablist extrodinaire and founder of Negrophonic and Soot Records in the US. His choice of musicians was outstanding, sourced from a wide range of underground genres such as Grime, Ragga, Breakcore, Dubstep, Hip Hop and even Bellydance Punk (!).
My pick of the night had to be London's very own, No Lay and G-Kid. Two MC's from the Unorthodox Family, they represent the very distinctive Garage sound of young London. (You can hear samples of their music on the Sonic Acts website), Definitely two names to keep an eye out for in the future. Also Beans, one third of the legendary Anti-Pop Consortium and now a solo artist on Warp Records. What a treat to hear him perform live. Roll on next year.


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'It is my Joie de Vivre!' Group of seniors in Kanata find way to stay fit outside
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A group of Kanata seniors have found a way to stay active during the pandemic safely.
Susan Kunstadt has been a fitness instructor for nearly five decades. Her indoor classes were cancelled in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.
"Two years ago when everything closed, even my community centre, I was thinking. 'Am I ready to quit?' And I was not ready to quit!" said Kunstadt.
The 73-year-old says once she got the green light to gather outdoors in small groups safely, she started an outdoor, one-hour class at the Eva James Community Centre in Kanata.
"I sent an email and I said, 'Monday morning 9 o'clock at Eva James but outside, that was around March 18 (2020)' and two years later – we are still here!" Kunstadt says.
The class is free and takes place three times a week.
"This is my community service that I do – I have lived in Bridlewood for 43 years."
Kristin Timmins has come to classes since the beginning.
"I feel so much better after the exercise. You have to live in your body so you might as well exercise in it," said Kunstadt.
Lise Lajeunesse joining midway through the pandemic after encouragement from her neighbour.
"I had just retired, I came, and I got hooked immediately! Love the class, love the people it is so much fun. It is my 'Joie de Vivre!'" said Lajeunesse.
The class takes place rain, shine- or even blizzard. Even on Monday during the record-breaking storm, group members showed up.
"In ten minutes, everyone says they are sweating, we are outside – vitamin D!" says Kunstadt.
Kunstadt says the turnout and the seniors' commitment shows just how important exercise it.
"Not just for our bodies- but for our mental health now. I am working on flexibility, balance, mobility, we have weights," said Kunstadt. "In the summer we used rubber bands-but we can't use them in the winter, it is too cold for them, they are too stiff."
Ruth Moreau, a regular to class, says it is a way to beat the pandemic blues.
"Totally! We are just so happy that we have this, I don't know where we would be mentally if we hadn't had this outdoor adventure three times a week."
Kunstadt says she has no plans on stopping teaching the class.
"I have taught fitness for 43 years, I feel very satisfied, and very proud of these elderly… nothing will stop me!"
Fitness instructor Susan Kunstadt leads a one-hour, outdoor fitness class at the Eva James Community Centre in Kanata. (Leah Larocque/CTV News Ottawa)
A group of Kanata seniors gather for a fitness class with instructor Susan Kunstadt at the Eva James Community Centre in Kanata. (Leah Larocque/CTV News Ottawa)
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Philharmonic Childrens Festival May 2008 in Dresden.
Two week workshop with Linda Muller and "Education for Creative Living"
Mr Rainer Huber from "Evangelische Jugendarbeit im Kirchenkreis Halberstadt" invited the Group to visit Germany as part of an exchange program which was started during 2002.
After our tour to Galicia some of the members joined the Namibian team in Lisbon. The purpose of this was to participate in Lisbon for the 12th World Gymnastrada.
Nine-concert tour to Spain on invitation of the Mascato Group in Walvis Bay and Vigo.


Earlier this month I took Aubriella to the pumpkin patch. Brasee's Corn Maze and pumpkin patch is always a blast to go to and a tradition I started going to 3 years ago. I took Ella there for the first time last year when she was only a few weeks old. It is about an hour from the house. There is so much to do.
This year the weather was just right. It wasn't to cold, sun was out, and a slight breeze. Which also means it was crowded. The original plan was to have Aubriella lay in the corn pit like last year, but there were so many bigger kids in the corn pit it didn't happen. I was able to sit her in the corner and take a quick picture though.
Aubriella also went down the straw slide a bunch of times. After that she had wild hair.
They have a petting zoo of pony's and goats. Aubriella wasn't into the goats but wanted a pony. She almost crawled into the pony's cage.
Other things for kids to do is a kids straw maze, a wooden train they can crawl through, and a pitch black crawl through straw maze. For adults there is a large corn maze. This is the first year we went it the entrance and out the exit. It only took us about 45 minutes.
There is a pick your own pumpkin patch and an already picked pumpkin field. I let Aubriella crawl over to a pumpkin for us to take home. Now just to carve it for Halloween.


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