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Frank Sterle commented 2018-10-03 10:43:17 -0700"It's harder to rally people around a threat to humanity than one that endangers their own backyard." I spotted this profound yet disturbing truism, albeit perhaps logically Darwinian, in an essay in the July/August issue of The Walrus.
Especially with so much of the planet literally as well as emotionally on fire, it highlights for me the apparently prevailing penny-wise-pound-foolish widespread human mentality when it comes to the serious man-made pollution, though immediately free from our societal view, that's toxifying our life-sustaining natural environment and worsening an already dire global warming reality.
Perhaps it helps explain the increase in per capita automobile ownership (including SUVs) in Canada last year, compared to 2016, especially in B.C.; it's something that UBC's Sauder School of Business economist Werner Antweiler describes as "a disconcerting picture", considering serious global greenhouse gas concerns. "The number of vehicles has grown faster than the number of people in the country."
I often wonder whether that unfortunate aspect of our general nature that permits us our tunnel vision regarding environmental degradation, will be our eventual undoing?
Maybe due to (Spaceship) Earth's large size, there seems to be a general oblivious mentality as though even the largest contamination event can somehow be safely absorbed into the environment—air, sea, and land.
For example, it's largely believed that when released into gritty B.C. coastal waters, diluted bitumen (dilbit) will likely sink to the bottom, as with the 2010 Michigan spill in which dilbit is still being scraped off of the Kalamazoo River floor.
I wonder, could that sinking characteristic perhaps appeal to some people who are usually apathetic towards the natural environment deep below the water surface: i.e. it will no longer be an eyesore after it sinks—i.e. out of sight, out of mind?
Indeed, it's safe to assume that, had the (central B.C., August 4, 2014) Mount Polley copper and gold mine massive tailings pond release of a slurry of years' worth of waste into Polley Lake—yet for which there were no B.C.-environmental-law charges laid against Imperial Metals regardless of its clear recklessness—been located in plain sight just off of, say, Vancouver's scenic attraction Stanley Park instead of in a region of natural wilderness, it would not have received the relatively minute mainstream news-media coverage it has to date.
Apparently it's the nature of our beast; although, just because some human behaviour is common or 'normal', doesn't necessarily make it moral or ethical.
It may be the same mentality that allows the immense amount of plastic waste, such as disposable straws, to eventually find its way into our life-filled oceans, where there are few, if any, caring souls to see it.
Indeed, it's quite fortunate that the plastic waste doesn't entirely sink out of sight to the bottom, like dilbit, for then nothing may be done about it, regardless of divers' reports of the awful existence of such plastic tangled messes.
Could it be the same mentality that, when randomly asked by a Global News TV reporter (a few months back) what he thought of government restrictions on disposable plastic straws, compelled a young male Vancouverite wearing sunglasses to retort, "It's like we're living in a nanny state, always telling me what I can't do."
Astonished by his shortsighted little-boy selfishness, I wondered whether he'd be the same sort of individual who'd likely have a sufficiently grand sense of entitlement—i.e. "Don't tell me what I can't waste or do, dude!"—to permit himself to now, say, deliberately dump a whole box of unused straws into the Georgia Strait, just to stick it to the authorities who'd dare tell him that enough is enough with our gratuitous massive dumps of plastics into our oceans (which are of course unable to defend themselves against such guys seemingly asserting self-granted sovereignty over the natural environment), so he could figuratively middle-finger any new government rules with a closing, 'There! How d'ya like that, pal!"
And, of course, the condition is allowed to fester via a mainstream news-media, being socially liberal and/or economically libertarian, that seems to not have a problem with such infantile oh-well perspectives; the same narrow-mindedness that often makes me question whether we really have plausible hope in turning around our recklessness in time?
After all, why worry about such things immediately unseen, regardless of their most immense importance, especially when there are various undesirable politicians and significant social issues over which to dispute—distractions our mainstream news-media seem only too willing to provide us?
And, indeed, it must be quite convenient for Big Business—especially the fossil fuel industry—to have such a large portion of mainstream society simply too exhausted and preoccupied with just barely feeding and housing their families on a substandard, if not below the poverty line, income to criticize the former for the great damage it's doing to our planet and health, particularly when that damage may not be immediately observable. Furthermore, to have almost everyone addicted to driving their own fossil-fuel-powered single occupant vehicle helps keep their collective mouths shut about the planet's greatest and very profitable polluter, lest they feel like and/or be publicly deemed hypocrites.
Besides, what back and brain busting, home-mortgaged labourer sustains the energy to worry about such things immediately unseen, regardless of their most immense importance?
I see it somewhat analogous to a cafeteria lineup consisting of diversely societally represented people, all adamantly arguing over which identifiable traditionally marginalized person should be at the front and, conversely, at the back of the line; and, furthermore, to whom amongst them should go the last piece of quality pie—all the while the interstellar spaceship on which they're all permanently confined is burning and toxifying at locations rarely investigated.
As a species, we really can be so heavily preoccupied with our own individual admittedly overwhelming little worlds, that we'll miss the biggest of pictures.
Cecile Lemay commented 2018-10-03 10:36:14 -0700Trudeau was NOT put in power to poison our air, water, land. His actions are as severe as Trumps who also only cares about the almighty dollar, not citizens to the point of both risking their own re-election. Actions speaks volumes and both Trudeau & Trump actions, prove their own unstable, greedy, DANGEROUS MINDS!!
Rick Sanderson commented 2018-10-03 10:33:44 -0700If the government spends my tax dollars on a pipeline that I do not want, I will sue them.
Sarah Beuhler published this page in Updates 2018-10-03 10:33:25 -0700
Cecile Lemay commented 2018-10-03 10:28:19 -0700Governments are NOT put in power to RISK IT'S CITIZENS, WILDLIFE OR THE EARTH!!! Their job is to protect citizens and their environment, right to live healthy, breath clean air, drink clean water. When a Government is so hell bent on a deadly issue to the point of NEVER BEING RE-ELECTED, this speaks volumes as to their lack of stability on EVERY LEVEL!!


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Changing Christian attitudes toward death
Changing Christian attitudes toward death
A good deal has been written recently about the abrupt and surprising reorientation of the Christian church in the second century. At that time the attitude of the Christians to this world and the next suddenly and completely changed. So complete was this change of outlook and belief and so different was the resulting church from the apostolic one that the radical Dutch and German schools of church history were able to maintain that the primitive Christian church had never really existed, but was just an idealized reconstruction made in retrospect! One of the most instructive aspects of that change is the attitude of the church writers toward death. If we compare, say, Ignatius of Antioch with St. Basil on this subject, we find that the two men have absolutely nothing in common. Ignatius, who lived in the first and early second centuries, is straining every nerve to get to the other side. Any fame he might leave behind him as a saint or a martyr—any help he might give the church as its best-informed bishop—is no concern of his. As far as this world is concerned, he has lost all interest, every speck of it. Food and drink and the pleasure of life have ceased to exist for him: "I no longer wish to live after the manner of men," he writes to the Romans. "Believe me, I am sincere in this."2 Though he is quite aware that no man on earth could do the church as much good as he by continuing to live, he is nonetheless resolved not to linger here below for another moment if by any means short of suicide he can leave it. For Ignatius, the only reality is on the other side, and there is nothing metaphysical or abstract about it.
But consider St. Basil, the great theologian of the fourth century. Among his numerous surviving letters are a pair written to console friends of his for the loss of a child.3 These consolations read exactly like those of the pagan classical writers: The usual commonplaces about the inevitability of death and the shortness and misery of life do not attempt to hide the conviction that death is after all the supreme evil. But for a few scattered and conventional biblical terms, the letters might have all been written by Cicero, and some of them betray not the slightest trace of any Christian influence. What had happened to the faith? I grant you the consolatio was a well-established literary genre in the schools, but Basil is writing to his dearest Christian friends to give them what comfort he can as a bishop—surely, if he had more to give them he would. When the great Boethius in the sixth century was condemned to die, it was not religion but Dame Philosophy who brought him consolation in the death cell, and the famous essay she dictated on that melancholy occasion is not to be distinguished from the writings of a typical heathen philosopher in style, vocabulary, mood, or thought. Eventually the Christians ended up fearing death more anxiously than ever the pagans had. According to F. J. E. Raby, by the end of the Middle Ages "it now became a pious exercise to meditate on every ghastly detail which the imagination could add to the picture of the Passion," the individual identifying himself as much as possible with the suffering.4 "For the medieval Christian," writes Raby, "the Day of Judgment was almost wholly a day of terror," and "this same sense of terror is expressed in the . . . Mass for the Dead. . . . The recurring refrain in this noble prose adds to the sense of fear and apprehension."5 This Raby finds to be in complete contrast to "the joy and comfort of the early church."6 And so we see, when revelation ceased, the Christians went back to thinking about death exactly as the pagans do. That is neither surprising nor reprehensible, but it does offer us a good test for a true and prophetic religion. For such a religion must surely be one in which the early rather than the later Christian view of death prevails, and such a view has always characterized the Latter-day Saints.[1]
- ↑ Hugh W. Nibley, The World and the Prophets, 3rd edition, (Vol. 3 of Collected Works of Hugh Nibley), edited by John W. Welch, Gary P. Gillum, and Don E. Norton (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company; Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1987), Chapter 19, references silently removed—consult original for citations.


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In what's become a quarterly tradition around these parts, Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi announced this afternoon that projected city revenues over the next few years are again being revised downward.
The bottom line: The mayor and council have to find at least $190 million to balance this year's budget, which runs until Sept. 30. (That number may rise; the CFO has identified $87 million in overspending, too, but that can be offset by underspending and other cuts yet to be identified.) Finding the money, actually, isn't hard: The city's budget reserve can cover it, but at least half would have to be paid back in the next year's budget.
And for that budget, passed by the council last month, they'll have to find another $150 million in cuts even without having to refill the reserve. Add that in, and it's at least $245 million.
Council finance guru Jack Evans says tapping the budget reserve, with only three months left in the fiscal year, "probably makes sense." But he counsels that all of it should be paid back in 2010 to avoid exacerbating other budgetary issues lingering in the 2011 budget.
The shortfalls, according to Gandhi, can be attributed to declines in each of the three major taxation areas: Income tax receipts are down, with declining income and investment losses leading to larger refunds. Property tax collections are underwhelming, too, due to vacant properties being given exemptions from high rates and from a spate of refunds that had been held back pending investigation into the OTR scandal. And sales and use taxes—-particularly tourism-related taxes—-are precipitously falling.
"The uncertainties surrounding the nation and District economic outlooks remain very worrisome and require careful monitoring," Gandhi writes.
If the council were to decide, as Evans suggests, to borrow from the reserve for this year and pay it all back in 2010, it would have three weeks to find $340 million in cuts before sending the 2010 budget to Congress before its summer recess.
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It is undeniable that English has become a global language and the enormous global demand for using English as a means for communication has been apparent. With this spread of English and globalization, the result has led to a great demand for English language teacherswho can be both native and non-native English speakers. The study aims to explore university students' attitudes towards native and non-native English speakers' teaching practices in a context where English has been used as a lingua franca and an international language. Samples were 348 students who took a foundation English course in semester 2/2011. The instruments used were the questionnaires and interviews. It has been found that students had positive attitudes towards both native and non-native teachers' teaching practices; however, there were some different reasons why students felt positively towards each group of English language teachers' teaching practices. It is suggested that concerned administrators should not divide between nativeness and non-nativeness, Recognition of teachers' pedagogical and professional abilities should be put into consideration. For teachers of English, they should have a full understanding of the goals of language learning in current situations and reality. Future research should extend to investigate a broader sample of students in other schools or institutions where English has been used a medium of instruction or as a foreign language.


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Night trading is the after- or before-hours sale and purchase of stocks. Night trading was not legal until 1999, when the Securities and Exchange Commission legalized it. If you have a computer and access to an electronic communications network or an after-hours exchange, you too can engage in night trades.
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Although it may be nighttime in the U.S., night or after-hours trading occurs during the day in the foreign markets where those trades take place because of different time zones. When Wall Street shuts down for the day, trading hums along in different time zones throughout Europe and Asia, thanks to smaller specialized exchanges. Essentially, night trading provides access to foreign markets from a remote location so that trades can be carried out via the Internet, and investors can be engaged in the process 24 hours a day if they so desire.
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With markets opening and closing around the world at different times, night trading allows traders to make moves based on real-time developments overseas. For example, say there is a major natural disaster in China during the American overnight hours. As a night trader, you will be able to sell off the stocks that may be negatively affected, and purchase shares in companies that may benefit, all before U.S. markets open. With 24-hour access to the marketplace, investors are able to react quickly to make and save the most with each trade.
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Futures brokers and investors are one of the groups that most frequently engage in night trading. Because the market for commodities such as grains and crude oil can change at a moment's notice, these traders watch global events day and night to stay on top of the trends. Forex traders are also avid users of the night trade system, as foreign currencies fluctuate during daytime hours overseas.
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Douglas County Economic Development Report 4th Qtr 2020
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3rd Quarter Douglas County Economic Development Report
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Plate 25: Red-throated Diver
Gavia stellata
Graceful fish-hunter found along larger lakes and waterways.
The Loon is at perfect ease in the water; on land it shuffles along, using its wings as feet, and it cannot rise in flight from the ground. It lives almost altogether on fish which it captures under water and swallows entire. As a rule, it is to be seen far out from shore, floating quietly. Easily it slips under the water, perhaps to reappear a hundred yards or more from the point at which it went down.
The smaller Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata), usually a rare bird in Pennsylvania, is found during winter or early spring. In winter the back is gray, flecked with white; in spring there is a triangular patch of red-brown on the lower throat; it is always white below.An Introduction to the Birds of Pennsylvania
- Print out the notebooking pages provided below.
- Read the section on the Red-throated Diver in Nests and Eggs out loud.
- Have a younger student orally narrate what was read. He can then copy a few lines of his narration onto the notebooking pages.
- Older students can read the text, Plate XXV: Red-throated Diver, and provide a written narration.
- Sketch the bird. This encourages attention to detail, which will aid in identifying the bird later on. Another option is to use the printables provided below.
- Sketch the nest of the bird, along with the eggs. Note where the nest is usually found.
- Older students can include the taxonomy.
- Learn more about the Red-throated Diver or Loon at Cornell.
- On one notebooking page note the facts:
- Description.
- Habitat.
- Range.
- Food.
- Nest.
- Eggs.
- Call.
- The Loon is covered in The Burgess Bird Book: CHAPTER XXXVIII. Honker and Dippy Arrive.
Additional Resources
30 Narration Ideas
At some point you might appreciate some variety.
The Bird Study sections of our free nature study series: Our Wonderful World:
- Free Nature Studies: Hunting Birds With Eyes & Camera
- Free Nature Studies: Bird Guardians (Owls)
- Free Nature Studies: Landlord to the Birds
Printables & Notebooking Pages
Red-throated Diver (Loon) Notebooking Pages
Free simple notebooking set.
Red-throated Diver
Bird picture for notebook.
Red-throated Loon Range Map
For notebook from Cornell.
Bird Facts Notebooking Page
One option in a more graphic organizer style that is especially nice for noting the facts and range.


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The main research and innovation funders in the Nordic countries are now launching the joint Nordic Green Growth Research and Innovation Programme in cooperation with NordForsk, Nordic Innovation and Nordic Energy Research.
The programme will cover innovation, research and energy, as well as science and technology. The programme will generate Nordic added value and create synergies with relevant initiatives nationally and at the Nordic level. The total budget amounts to NOK 73 million.
The deadline for application is 18 August 2016.
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Early Applications of Linear Perspective
By Dr. Joseph Daubin / 08.09.2015
Distinguished University Professor of History
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
Representing the body
What renaissance artists had clearly achieved through the careful observation of nature, including studies of anatomical dissections, was the means to recreate the 3-dimensional physical reality of the human form on two-dimensional surfaces. In part, the key to this achievement lay in understanding the underlying, hidden structure of the human body which then enabled artists to produce realistic representations of what they saw on the flat surface of a wall (in the case of frescoes) or on a wooden panel or paper (in the case of drawings and paintings).
Artists in the early 15th century had learned to portray the human form with faithful accuracy through careful observation and anatomical dissection, and in 1420 Brunelleschi's experiment with perspective provided a correspondingly accurate representation of physical space.
Representing space
Brunelleschi, elevation of Santo Spirito, 1434-83, Florence (Italy)
Antonio Manetti, Brunelleschi's biographer, writing a century later, describes the experiment based on careful mathematical calculation. It seems reasonable to assume that Brunelleschi devised the method of perspective for architectural purposes—he is said by Manetti to have made a ground plan for the Church of Santo Spirito in Florence (1434-82) on the basis of which he produced a perspective drawing to show his clients how it would look after it was built. We can compare this drawing (left) with a modern photo of the actual church (below). It is clear how effective the new technique of mathematical perspective was in depicting spatial reality.
Brunelleschi, elevation of Santo Spirito, 1434-83, Florence (Italy) (photo: Randy Connolly, CC BY-NC 2.0)
The body in space
Masaccio, Holy Trinity, c. 1427, fresco (Santa Maria Novella, Florence)
But this was just the beginning. Ten years later, the painter Masaccio applied the new method of mathematical perspective even more spectacularly in his fresco The Holy Trinity, where the barrel vaulted ceiling is incredible in its complex, mathematical use of perspective. Here lines overlay Masaccio's actual geometric framework to make clear the structure of the perspective itself.
Perspective diagram of Masaccio's Holy Trinity
From the geometry it is actually possible to work backwards to accurately measure and reconstruct the full 3-dimensional space that Masaccio depicts—illustrating Brunelleschi's interest in being able to translate schemata directly between two and three-dimensional spaces.
It was not long before a decisive step was taken by Leon Battista Alberti, who published a treatise on perspective, Della Pitture (or On Painting), in 1435. Once Alberti's treatise was published, knowledge of perspective no longer had to be passed on by word of mouth. For some it became a matter of consuming artistic, even philosophical interest.
How One-Point Linear Perspective Works
Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris
Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi's Experiment
An introduction to Filippo Brunelleschi's experiment regarding linear perspective, c. 1420, in front of the Baptistry in Florence / Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris
Originally published by Smarthistory under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.


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Written in collaboration with Rob Lloyd, Chief Information Officer, City of San Jose and Michael Sherwood, Director of Technology and Innovation, City of Las Vegas
Data is now the foundation of increasing innovation in smart cities initiatives around the world. Cities everywhere are leveraging data to gain better insights into city operations and to improve citizens' lives. However, the explosion of simply too much data has propelled cities to embrace intelligent automation solutions powered by predictive analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), to extract maximum value.
Intelligent automation leverages machine learning to transform structured and unstructured—(otherwise known as "messy") data into actionable insights. Embedded AI smartly recognizes people, content, and context. It is an enormous opportunity for communities. Many cities and counties are streamlining processes by building greater efficiency, visibility, and control into their operations with less manual intervention, reducing the potential for error, resulting in reduced costs and improved customer experience. They seamlessly blend knowledge workers and cognitive automation to create agile workforces that achieve unprecedented levels of performance and satisfaction. City of San Jose and City of Las Vegas are two cities embracing these technologies.
City of San Jose, California
San Jose, the birthplace of Silicon Valley, has a lofty goal to become North America's most innovative city by 2020. One of San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo's priorities, since he was elected, has been transforming the diverse community of over one million residents into a "smart city." Since 2016, San Jose has emerged as leader in partnering with leading companies, shifting to agile and customer experience design methods, and incorporating responsive and data-driven technologies into municipal services.
A lead initiative in San Jose's transformation focused on simplifying service requests through digital service design. The "Awesome Customer Experience" project focused on customer experience, aiming to deliver omni-channel service access with a mobile app and portal, tight integration with work systems powering city departments, and a data lake to allow continuous service improvements—all in six months.
The My San Jose effort tapped almost 200 contributors spanning staffs, vendor partners, and community members and testers. The platform provided the City with its first true 311 system and targeted the City's six leading service types. The results were striking: Redundant calls were reduced by about 20%. Over 45,000 residents now use My San Jose to interface with their local government. And elected representatives can see their residents' demands through maps and dashboards that are real-time.
Just as important, the city's data lake positions San Jose for machine learning and predictive service management. The data has enabled staff to re-engineer and prioritize resources for illegal dumping and abandoned vehicle services, to be more preventative. Armed with growing contextual data, San Jose is building more predictive services. Automated solutions and multi-lingual voice/text-interactive services can be built for the first time in ways that produces high customer satisfaction. Data and AI provide unlimited potential in a world where we need to connect neighbors to community more than ever.
City of Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is an innovation hub. In entertainment, business, and technology, it is always looking to provide new experiences to build the community, and has invested in intelligent automation in many aspects of the operations across the city. The AI automation of their operations has made a huge difference in the way the city is managing virtually all of its systems, saving a significant amount of resources and enabling faster and better business decisions. The city started with automating the monitoring of internal IT operations such as finance, but has now expanded to watch over everything from vehicle traffic information and public safety systems to network infrastructure and trash collection. It's also using AI in delivering customer service by enabling access to city services with Alexa and other digital assistants. Furthermore, Las Vegas is a pioneer in mobility and has applied AI to its connected and autonomous vehicle initiatives in its downtown area. Lyft is running trials with 40 autonomous cars, and latest-model Audi cars can also receive data feeds from the city.
Advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation, are fueling a new era of intelligent automation, which will continue to be an important driver of organizational performance in the years to come. It is important for cities to understand and adopt intelligent automation to advance their smart cities strategy, or risk falling behind.
Franco Amalfi is a GovLoop Featured Contributor. He leads the go to market strategy for smarter government for Oracle Public Sector North America. Franco advises government officials on how to leverage modern cloud-based solutions and emerging technologies to help government organizations deliver personalized government services. In addition to working with customers, Franco authors, publishes white papers and articles on leveraging technology to drive business value for governments. He is also a frequent speaker at government conferences. He is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada and has completed an Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation, and Technology at MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, USA. You can read his posts here.


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Turkey's generals sound the retreat
Confronted with a wave of accusations that range from coup plots to assassination plans directed against high-profile critics, the Turkish military has ended its long-standing policy of stonewalling any attempt to investigate members of the armed forces from outside.
When Gen Ilker Basbug, Turkey's chief of general staff, ordered his subordinates to open a secret archive to an investigating judge last month, that decision marked a key moment in the transition towards more civilian control over the military, observers say. The balance of power in Ankara is tipping towards the civilians.
"We are not hiding anything, open the door," said the general's order, according to media reports that are understood to have had the blessing of the armed forces. Kadir Kayan, a judge in Ankara, has been going through documents in the "cosmic chamber" of the military, an archive containing secret files, for more than two weeks. Mr Kayan is investigating accusations that two military officers planned an assassination attempt on Bulent Arinc, a deputy prime minister and outspoken critic of the military. As a country that has seen four governments pushed from power by the military since 1960, Turkey developed "a structure we call military guardianship" over the years, Ali Bayramoglu, a prominent columnist, told yesterday's Vatan newspaper. In that structure, the military never fully recognised the leadership of civilian governments, he added. But recent events signalled that those days are over. "We see that this is changing step by step," Bayramoglu said. [continued…]


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It's difficult to overstate the influence and importance of the Fysisk Format label – which lives inside Oslo's Tiger Records shop and exists alongside their Diger distribution platform – or the respect it engenders. Home to much of Norway's best loud music (Blood Command, Årabrot, Haust, Okkultokrati…), think of it like Norway's Rough Trade (if you live in the UK. If you don't, think of it like another hugely respected and influential record shop). We spoke to FF's Kristian Kallevik about its long history, and Turkish greengrocers.
JJJ: What's the history of Tiger / Diger / Fysisk Format (for those who don't know, you could explain which is the label, which is the shop and how they interact)?
KK: Tiger started out way back in 1996, before the internet broke (at least in Norway) and was from the get-go a specialist in local underground stuff and imports. I've been working here since 2003. We have always been involved with local bands, so starting a record label in 2008 felt like a natural extension of our work. Our first ten releases were basically the next releases by the bands that we've pushed demos and self-released stuff from. The record store is still the main spot to find new bands for us, and also the meeting point for everyone involved in the label. Diger is a distribution operation for all the things that we think deserve more attention, but for various reasons don't fit into Fysisk Format.
JJJ: In these difficult economic times, how have you had to change your business, and what does the future hold for shops like Tiger?
KK: It feels like there have always been difficult times here at Tiger. I have never been part of any "golden era" and that's maybe our greatest forte. We are perfectly comfortable with today's situation. If the economy wasn't difficult I would be very suspicious. To me, the bad economy is the proof that we're doing something of importance, that we are changing the world of music. As for the future, I don't think we will see any new shops like ours starting up, but it seems like part of the record store culture is being channeled as cafe interior and "cultural atmosphere". God help us.
JJJ: Which release are you most proud of?
KK: It's very hard to single out one release; I am extremely proud of each one of them, and as time goes by I just get more proud. But to single out one I'd say Haust's 'Ride the Relapse' just because that's the one which started it
JJJ: The hardcore scene in Oslo seems to be vibrant, with the likes of Black Hole Crew being pretty active. Can you talk a little about your connection to it, and how you see its relevance right now?
KK: I'd say the hardcore scene is a lot more divided than it may seem. You've got the youthcrew fashionistas on one side, the eco-political tree-lodge crusties on another and then Haust, Okkultokrati and Årabrot who don't fit into any of these. Very little unity these days. Maybe that's what makes it vibrant?
JJJ: If you could have released one album from any artist in the past ten years, which would it have been?
KK: The new Prurient album is awesome, also anything by the Marked Men and everything on Sacred Bones and Not Not Fun Records.
JJJ: Any advice for new visitors to Oslo? Give us three of your favourite bars/venues/stores/tram-routes…
KK: These are the only three places I go:
1. The Turkish greengrocer in Torgatta for food
2. Deichmanske Library for books
3. Revolver for drinks and good shows (even though Okkultokrati is banned for life…)


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I remember the day, many years ago, that my pastor came around to the fifth grade classrooms wanting us to sign up for the training for altar servers. He explained that it was a tradition in our parish for the fifth graders to begin assisting with this important liturgical role. Most of the class eagerly signed up and we embraced our new role with gusto. Despite only being 10 years old, we knew that we had an important role to play in the Mass by assisting with the celebration of it. Throughout my time in grade school, I developed a love of serving at Mass. I found that through being involved in the liturgy, I grew in appreciation for the ceremony and tradition that surrounds Mass. I learned the parts of the Mass and was taught firsthand by the priests why we do the things we do at liturgy.
Fast forward 13 years after I first began altar serving, and I am still an active altar server at a basilica in my city. I am fortunate that the staff of the basilica has been extremely supportive of my involvement as an altar server. There is a camaraderie among the liturgical ministers that I have found to be one of the many benefits I have gained from my time as an altar server, and one of the reasons I keep coming back each weekend. Women in the Church today are becoming more involved and fulfilling more leadership roles. We are a crucial voice in today's Church, and it is important to recognize and appreciate the role women play in the liturgy.
Every time that we go to Mass we must recognize that just the simple act of celebrating the Mass takes place because of the efforts of lectors, musicians, cantors, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, ushers, sacristans, servers, and countless others. Each of these liturgical ministers finds joy in the role they fulfill at Mass. I encourage you to consider volunteering at your own parish! In today's Gospel, Jesus tells us:
"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am meek and humble of heart;
and you will find rest for yourselves.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."
Each time we go to Mass we are given the chance to connect with Christ on a personal level. We bring Him our joys and sorrows, we listen to Scripture, and we become one with Him in the Holy Eucharist. Being involved in liturgical ministries is a way to bring a new dimension to your personal experience of Mass. By serving in various roles at the liturgy, we can come to Christ in a more intentional way.
Rebecca Ruesch is the Blog Editor for the Catholic Apostolate Center
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Music-Educational apps for mobile devices.
Some programs that are currently in development are found below:
The MVP Initiative, "Music Vets Program:" Our initial pilot program teaches Veterans with PTSD how to play the guitar as a pathway to relieving some of their symptoms. Music has proven benefits in these cases. Our program will be innovative in scope in that we aim to not only teach vets how to play the guitar, but to raise their musicianship to a level whereby they themselves can teach music either through our expanded program, or in their own communities. Over time we hope to add in music education programs for vets on all instruments and music technologies. This program relies heavily on Bruce Arnold and his team of top notch New York musicians/teachers to give veterans a first class music education. This will draw significantly from Mr. Arnold's publications found at Muse Eek Publishing Company. These publications will be donated to the vets in this program. Our partner Klos Guitars will be playing a significant roll by donating instruments for the veterans so that they have a durable instrument to practice on as they go through our program. There are many other companies helping us with this initiative. A list of these companies can be found on our sponsors page.
The International Guitar Awards Foundation is in the development process in Miami, Florida. This program will dedicate itself to teaching music to young minority students. There will also be clinics and performances by major American and International artists.
We would like to particularly thank our many interns who have done such great work in creating and enhancing many of these projects.
Donations are always appreciated to support and push these programs forward.