As my studies in translation are surprisingly fast approaching their end, I decided it was the right time for me to put my knowledge of French to a final test. I live in Slovenia, a small European country, where students, at least many students that I know, take great advantage of the Socratus-Erasmus progam for… Read more »
JOB POSTING – ASSISTANT EDITOR, THE VOICE MAGAZINE The Voice Magazine is seeking a new Assistant Editor to handle all of the day to day duties of publishing The Voice Magazine each week. We publish 49 issues per year each Friday. Hours are flexible, but you must be able to devote 25-30 hours per week… Read more »
Aquarius January 21 – February 19 The glyph (written symbol) for Aquarius is two ridged wavy lines representing the spiritual water of heaven, electric energy and the wisdom of the future. Aquarius, the eleventh sign of the zodiac, is a masculine, fixed-air sign and is ruled by the planet Uranus. The symbol for Aquarius is… Read more »
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I’ve always loathed the notion of “living on borrowed time,” even though I’m confident that God wears a watch as big as the moon and with no dials. ~Jim Harrison I went to the doctor, and he told me I have no more than eighty or ninety more years to live. I can’t tell you… Read more »
It is sometimes very tempting, and dispiriting, to imagine that we have very little control over what happens in the world around us. Throughout the world, there are wars, riots, and signs of impending economic and environmental collapse. Sometimes we feel insignificant and powerless, as though we were plankton caught up in the great surge… Read more »
Release: October 2006 Label: Universal Tracks: 11 Rating: 3 Before I get deeply involved in a description of this album and its merit (or lack thereof), let me first explain my rating system for these reviews. Like most scoring charts, mine starts at one and ends at ten, with ten being the best. Simple. But… Read more »
Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan, by A. C. Grayling A year ago, I was living in Hamburg, where everyday I passed by a sculpture depicting mangled and burned corpses scorched into a charred wasteland. It was a memorial that portrayed the… Read more »
Indiepedia http://indiepedia.org/ It’s Wikipedia for the indie music crowd. Come add to the fun and available information. Participation is open to all. Woot http://www.woot.com/ “Woot.com is an online store and community that focuses on selling cool stuff cheap. […] We sell one item per day until it is sold out or until 11:59 p.m. Central… Read more »
JOB POSTING – ASSISTANT EDITOR, THE VOICE MAGAZINE The Voice Magazine is seeking a new Assistant Editor to handle all of the day to day duties of publishing The Voice Magazine each week. We publish 49 issues per year each Friday. Hours are flexible, but you must be able to devote 25-30 hours per week… Read more »
AU Students Applaud Affordability Framework New policy addresses many concerns, but barriers still exist Athabasca University Students’ Union – Friday’s press release on the Affordability Framework for Post-Secondary education included a number of surprises and addressed many of the concerns expressed in AUSU’s 2005 submission to the A Learning Alberta Steering Committee’s post-secondary review. Requests… Read more »
Thanks to the long-term thinking of Spencer Herbert of the Parks Commission, restaurants and other facilities serving food within Vancouver’s Parks are now filling their menus with environmentally sustainable seafood. Following a Vancouver Parks Board report, food vendors are being asked nicely to only serve seafood that has been caught in an “environmentally friendly way”… Read more »
We love to hear from you! Send your questions and comments to voice@ausu.org, and please indicate if we may publish your letter. To AU Students Microsoft Office 2007 will be officially released by Microsoft January 31, 2007, and has been available for download from Microsoft for a while. While AU staff will eventually be using… Read more »