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RCCO Edmonton and Sundays at Three Present Michael Unger in Concert at the Davis Organ

Extend the Music of the Season at the Winspear with Sundays at Three featuring with Michael Unger and The Davis Organ

Sundays at 3 presents the Fourth Annual Stuart and Winona Davis Memorial Tribute and the second concert of its Canadians Near and Far season featuring Canadian organist Michael Unger. Michael’s program will feature works by Widor, Schumann, Daquin, Raison, Litaize, Bach and Canadian composer Henry Hugh Bancroft.
Originally from Toronto, Michael studied at the University of Western Ontario and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where he currently lives. Michael, an organist and harpsichordist, appears as a soloist and chamber musician in tours throughout North America, Europe and Japan. He is the 2008 winner of both First Prize and Audience Prize in the American Guild of Organists’ National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance (NYACOP) among other awards.

Link: http://www.rcco.edmonton.ab.ca/sundays_at_3-2012-01-08.html

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Homo Energeticus: An Ellulian Analysis of the Alberta Oil Sands

The Alberta oil sands are examined in the context of Jacques Ellul’s analysis of the technological society. Ellul’s theory of technology as a social rather than technical phenomenon illuminates the rhetoric of economic necessity and inevitability used to justify the particular case of the Alberta oil sands industry. Ohter social values – including moral goods, future generations and environmental sustainability – are subsumed within efficient mastery of nature. This techno-logic recognizes no logic but its own and thus assumes for itself a sacred character. Applying Ellul’s hermeneutic provides grounding for the examination of tensions surround the Alberta oil sands.

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FREE TAX SAVINGS SESSION

Do you pay a lot of tax every year? Do you want to learn ways to pay less tax? If i help you pay less tax, that means you’ll save money, what would you do with that money? Please call to register for this free session and learn tax savings strategies. Call 780-695-9737.

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2012 Lemieux Lecture on Biotechnology

Learn about advances in yeast biotechnology through Dr. Tillman Gerngross, a profession of bioengineering at Dartmouth College: http://bit.ly/t7Ldsf

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Swarm Live this Saturday Night

Rock band SWARM, one of Edmonton’s Longest Running Bands who is currently involved in Canada’s Got Talent is live this Saturday Night November 26 at THE WESTSIDE PUB. Go to their website http://westsidepub.ca/ for more details including more events and great daily specials.
They are located at 15135 – Stony Plain Road.

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