Release Date: 2006 Label: Fuel 2000 Records Tracks: 13 Rating: 4 This self-titled album is a joint effort from Craig Northey (the Odds) and Jesse Valenzuela (Gin Blossoms); Northey Valenzuela is the specialized blues-country record that neither respective band was focused on creating. Northey brings in his enthusiasm for songwriting while Valenzuela comes in with… Read more »
At Home: SAND Focuses on Saving Native Alberta Fescue Grass Environment Canada has just handed over a cheque for $45,000 to the Southern Alberta Land Trust Society (SALTS) for a comprehensive plan to conserve remaining prairie fescue grass species. These species are under threat of eradication from agriculture and noxious weeds. The Prairie Post has… Read more »
Animalia Dinosaurs and Dragons http://www.strangescience.net/stdino2.htm Did one myth come from another truth? Perhaps . . . Invertebrate Zoology http://www.amonline.net.au/invertebrates/ As humans, creatures used to a spinal column and obvious bone structure, it might be a little unfathomable to us how a creature could exist without them. World’s Strangest Dinosaur Names http://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/19/the-worlds-strangest-dinosaur-names/ Arthur Conan Doyle, Camelot,… 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 »
Distance and Open Education Effects on Accessibility for First Generation Learners – Research Subjects Wanted Participants must be: ? first generation post-secondary distance education students or alumni ? fluent in English ? at least 18 years old Respondents who complete our survey will be entered to win $150. To participate or for information, email: survey@leximortis.com… Read more »
Harlequin Enterprises is a publisher of romance novels. I think the first and last time I had one in my hands was 1973. That lack of current knowledge about the product and its umpteen variations hasn’t stopped me from mocking the stereotypical formulaic writing. In the past I’ve written about heaving breasts and throbbing loins… Read more »
Mutiny. The mid-nineties, killing time in the faded cafeteria of Calgary’s Viscount Bennett Centre for another excruciatingly dull 90-minute time-wasting lunch break. Usually, between classes, we go our separate ways but today we share a table and huddle in conspiracy. “If we all ask her to change the book, she’ll have to,” is the consensus…. Read more »
The world wants to give me a name, but I have no name in the sense that you mean. My name, my true name, is the sound of a thousand bats wheeling across the surface of a harvest moon. My true name is the sound of wind blowing through corn, of waves crashing against rocks,… Read more »
At Home: Ottawa Seeks Ethical Code To Keep Councillors Faithful To The Post The Ottawa watchdog organization Eye on Ottawa is actively seeking to implement a code of ethics onto municipal government. Luc Lapointe, interim chairman, wants elected municipal councillors to commit themselves to delivering campaign promises instead of using the elections as leverage to… Read more »
A good friend of mine has, for several years, been involved in teaching storytelling skills to elementary-school-aged children. She comes into classrooms and tells them funny or spooky folk tales and fairy tales from a variety of cultures around the world. Because she has a flair for the dramatic, and a lovely speaking voice, the… Read more »