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Issue number eighty-nine
(May 2008) in a series of Signposts sent by the U3A International Group
UK and U3AOnline Australia, once a month, to any and all U3A members anywhere
in the world.
Please send snippets of possible interest to one of the editors.
Feel free to copy
this information in your newsletters.
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Web manager
Vennela
vennela@holloways.org
11th March 2009
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Free do-it-yourself
easy websites for local groups or for individual members. Ideal for announcements
and newsletters
- http://u3asample.googlepages.com
for an example page
- http://mail.google.com to sign up
for gmail/googlemail
- http://pages.google.com to make
your web page |
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Amateur Journalists:
The Guardian and HelpAge International are running a competition. Submit
a 600/1000 word article before May 6th and the 16 finalists get the trip
of a lifetime. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/
developmentcompetition |
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Music Groups:
This is a plug for YOUTUBE. Where else could you see and hear Grieg play
Grieg, Stravinsky play Stravinsky and Rachmaninov play Rachmaninov? Plus
archive clips of Rubinstein, Horowitz, Arrau, Lipatti and Wanda Landowska.
Click on www.youtube.com and put your favourite
composer/performer in the search bar. |
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Current Affairs
Groups: Social Watch monitors worldwide progress towards equality for
the poor and dispossessed. http://www.socialwatch.org/en/
informesTematicos/informesTematicos.htm Some excellent articles on poverty
and pensions. |
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Philosophy/Comparative
Religion Groups: This really wonderful compendium - www.sacred-texts.com
- covers much more than you might think, every religion (past and present)
that you can think of, folk tales, fairy stories, myths, Shakespeare, Tolkien....
A really fascinating resource. (Thank you Paul Hansford - U3A UK) |
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The Community Sustainable
Energy Programme (CSEP) was launched on 7 April. Funded through the Big
Lottery Fund, it provides grants towards the cost of energy efficiency measures,
such as loft and cavity wall insulation in village halls, visitor centres
and other community-based organisations. Visit www.communitysustainable.org.uk
for information or tel: 0845 367 1671 |
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