Support the Artists in your Community!

Date: July 17 - 26, 2008
Time: Noon to 11 p.m.
Location: Northlands AgriCom, Hall A
http://www.capitalex.ca/shopping/north-west-originals

Next meeting...July 17, at the opening night of Capital Ex, at the SIP - Festival in the AgriCom.

Art of Conversation XXII

http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/ip-pi/bcip-picc/news-nouvelles/2007/20071027edmonton_e.shtml

Government of Canada Supports Art Gallery of Alberta Expansion
Building Canada: Stronger, safer, better

Edmonton, Alberta — The Honourable Rona Ambrose, President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of Western Economic Diversification, on behalf of the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, today announced that Canada's Government has identified the expansion of the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) as a priority under its new Building Canada infrastructure plan.

 Left to right: MP Laurie Hawn; Alberta MLA Thomas Lukaszuk; MP Mike Lake; New Vision Capital Campaign Co-Chair, Don Oborowsky; Chair, AGA Board of Directors, Allan Scott; Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of Western Economic Diversification, the Honourable Rona Ambrose; and Alberta MLA the Honourable Gene Zwozdesky.

 more comics http://journaling.bravehost.com/comic.html

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Karma, Cause and effect

 

v  Selfish impulses, needing to control and hide things will lead to one's own strife.

v  How we have lived and how we live - free of guilt and regret?

v  We can learn a lot from other's selfishness and the consequences of their actions.

"The law of cause and effect is in constant operation, and we reap what we sow—not as a matter of punishment, but as the effect following the cause."  Yogi Philosophy - Spiritual Cause and Effect

"We also see that the one who caused us injury has thereby set the stage for a similar injury to befall himself, and Karma will inevitably bring this to him without any action on our part."
"To me belongs vengeance and recompense" says the Lord according to Moses. (Deuteronomy XXXII, 35) In other words, it is not for man to revenge himself, but to leave it to Nature and the Law of Cause and Effect. If man insists on taking revenge, he is thereby sowing the seed for the return to himself of the same injury in the future." Karma: The Law of Consequences Life's Riddle by Nils A. Amneus

"Because TV is moving into being delivered over the Internet -- and some of the big phone companies are building up the infrastructure for that -- you're going to have that experience all together," Gates said.

This is an interesting article By Ben Hirschler.

Article link

Is this what television has been reduced to? Flipping through hundreds of channels only to find poor quality, mind numbing tv shows and endless advertisements. Throughout our lifetime, we have all experienced the birth of television's earliest years.  We graduated to a new world of cable television. We expanded our tv viewing world further with satellite television, only to discover on demand tv shows we've all seen before. It's become an endless loop of tv channels, strung along a video wasteland full of mind numbing, poor quality programs. So what's next? More of the same?

A few months ago my wife and I made that big step. We cut the "umbilical" cord - cancelled our cable television service and ventured into a whole new world of Internet interactive television. We quickly learned that we can find all the interesting information and entertainment we want via digital broadcasting. Even television networks have succumbed to the power of the Internet.

There is a segment of die-hard boob tube watchers who are still passively watching sitcom after sitcom with canned laugh tracks. Even the young viewers are steadily diminishing as they venture into the www. I hate to typecast certain generations, but it seems that it's the older viewers who are keeping the traditional cable television as we know it, alive.
Article: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/53951.html

A few Internet tv links:
http://discoverychannel.ca/_home/index.shtml
http://www.cbc.ca/national/#features
http://tvunetworks.com/
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/live_tv.html
http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/

 

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