This project aims to examine training given to international university students regarding Digital Scrapbooking Strategies (DSS) and their usage by students themselves
The results obtained will allow us to draw a portrait of the usage of DSS at an international level and to formulate recommendations to professors and members of the administration regarding solutions to reduce plagiarism within their own institution.
This project will create opportunities for the exchange of ideas, tools, best practices and approches which can allow different actors working in education to improve and adjust their pedogagical skills so that they can better train their students to use DSS and therefore decrease plagiarism.
Grant obtained from SSHRC.
Interested in countering plagiarism?
Make a difference and join our research team directed by Martine Peters from the Université du Québec en Outaouais.
Our team is currently examining how Digital Scrapbooking Strategies (DSS), the use of text segments from the Internet by students to write texts, can sometimes lead to plagiarism, deliberate or not, because of the ease of use of the copy and paste feature, combined with the availability of a phenomenal amount of information on the web.
As a result of this:
- too much copying and pasting may cause students to forget to systematically indicate where they have found their sources.
- the impression for some students that online material belongs to all, trivialize the act of scrapbooking information without attribution of authorship.
For this research, a mixed methodology is proposed, combining a collection of quantitative and qualitative data, obtained using questionnaires and triangulated with qualitative data from interviews.
Our research will:
- Examine the use of DSS by students.
- Examine the use of DSS by teachers and, which DSS training is offered by teachers to students.
Join our efforts as an institutional partner in understanding how best practices can be applied to help students with their informational and writing skills in order to respect copyright and consequently help counter plagiarism associated with the copy / paste of online material.
You can make a difference in countering plagiarism:
- As a partner institution where a sample of teachers and students will be recruited as subjects studied as part of the research project.
- As a representative of a partner institution, either as a collaborator or a co-investigator to be part of the research team.
Help us counter plagiarism, join our already existing partners all over Quebec and Canada.
Contact Martine Peters at martine.peters@


This license does not allow you to make changes or add functionality to CUPS and then sell a binary distribution without source code. You must specify the source of any changes or additions to the software and the complete code must be provided under the GPL or LGPL. The only exceptions to this rule are the portions of the CUPS software covered by Apple`s operating system license exemptions described later in this License Agreement. 11. If, as a result of a court order or alleged patent infringement, or for any other reason (not limited to patent matters), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) contrary to the terms of this license, they will not send you terms of this license. Therefore, if you are unable to simultaneously fulfill your obligations under this license and all other relevant obligations, then you absolutely cannot distribute the library. For example, if a patent license did not allow free retransmission of the library by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly from you, the only way to honor that license and it would be to completely refrain from distributing the library. The former name “GNU Library General Public License” gave the impression to some that the software libraries recommended by the FSF used the LGPL and GPL programs. In February 1999, Richard Stallman, gnu project manager, wrote the essay Why you should not use the Lesser GPL for your next library, explaining that the LGPL was not obsolete, but that the LGPL should not necessarily be used for all libraries. The LGPL was conceived as a compromise between the powerful copyleft of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and more permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT license. The word “reader” in the title indicates that the LGPL does not guarantee the total freedom of the end user in the use of the software; it only guarantees freedom of modification for LGPL-licensed components, but not for proprietary components. 5. A program that does not contain a derivative of a part of the library, but is designed to work with the library by compiling or being associated with it, is called a “work that uses the library”.
Such a work is not in itself a derivative work of the library and therefore does not fall within the scope of that licence. Otherwise, if the work is a derivative of the library, you may distribute the object code of the work under the conditions of section 6. All executable files containing this work are also covered by section 6, whether or not they are directly related to the library itself. . What if free software is only part of the application? Does the application need to be distributed with its complete source code? The reason we have a separate public license for some libraries is that they blur the distinction we usually make between modifying or adding a program and easily using a program. Associating a program with a library without modifying the library is, in a way, the use of the library and corresponds to the execution of a utility or an application program. However, in the textual and legal sense of the term, the linked executable file is a combined work, a derivative of the original library, and the ordinary General Public License treats it as such….
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Update: I will be speaking at RICH on Wednesday April 30, 2014 as part of the launch celebration of the Digital Library: Special Anniversary Edition.
For more information, please email Ms. Adrian Moore, Development and Communications Manager, RICH at firstname.lastname@example.org
The RICH - 40th Anniversary Report is now available online.
My essay on the history and impact of the experimental NEH state council system of grant making can be found there on pages 5-13, and excerpted here:
"Going the Distance
.....Today, Claiborne Pell, Rhode Island’s longest-serving senator (1961-1997), is best remembered for his advocacy of the so-called Pell Grant legislation that has enabled millions of Americans to attend college. But in 1960, President Kennedy sized up the quirky Pell as “the most unelectable man in America”. Rhode Island voters proved him wrong, thus enabling the path for Pell to sponsor and help enact the 1965 legislation founding both the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Why were the arts and humanities so important that such steps should be taken? The NEH mission statement answers that for us: “The world leadership which has come to the United States cannot rest solely upon superior power, wealth, and technology, but must be solidly founded upon worldwide respect and admiration for the Nation's high qualities as a leader in the realm of ideas and of the spirit.” The public humanities provide the principled perspectives a free people need to go the distance as they collectively confront those proverbial forks in the road.
Pell advocated for the public humanities as an essential component of the American system of checks and balances that our brawling democracy was founded upon as long ago as the Rhode Island Charter of 1663. On the national stage, he championed the outlier idea that the NEH was too important to leave only in the hands of experts in the Academy. Rather, the mission of the new National Endowment for the Humanities would be most fully realized in partnership with a system of affiliated but independent State Councils attentive to community-initiated projects and collaborative idea generation outside of but in partnership with the Academy. Quixotic as it seemed to many at the time, between 1971 and 1976 all 50 states launched an NEH-affiliated, independent State Committee for the Humanities. The Rhode Island senator with a vision catalyzed this unprecedented national experiment in grass roots support for the public humanities.
Making an Impact 1973-2013
The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH) was founded in 1973 with a kind of home court advantage and a mandate to engage in visionary grant making as a form of civic engagement. Pell had confidence that the smallest state would develop templates for the nation. Curiously, no one has written this history, or adequately conveyed the breadth and depth of the Council’s impact on Rhode Island’s prosperity and progress. It is an astonishing story of achievement that we begin to document here. For the Council’s 40th anniversary in 2013, a portfolio of grants was selected to exemplify key aspects of this larger history. The grants discussed here and more have been digitized into a new Special Edition 40th Anniversary Digital Archive and organized into three themes to more fully demonstrate grant making impact over time: “The Lively Experiment” and Civic Literacy; Our Stories, Our Rhode Island; and Place Making. This kind of documentation and thematic focus help to measure what public humanities grant making has achieved, as well as the value of civic engagement.
As RICH explores new partnerships and funding sources, there are two compelling conclusions.
First, Council grant making has helped seed hundreds of local humanities projects that collectively brought together new community partners, new ways of working, and innovative ways of sharing the public humanities. RICH acts as an experienced matchmaker helping coalesce a team of passionate people around a community-generated project. The Council helps identify the broadly defined knowledge experts each project needs for success, and delivers strategic resources to the right people at the right time because of the connective infrastructure laid down over four decades of community networking.
Secondly, as an institution that is both privately and publicly supported, the Council efficiently delivers federal dollars to local organizations in Rhode Island and has the flexibility and independence to develop new approaches to public engagement. RICH’s sustained involvement over 40 years has had a demonstrated impact on the state’s cultural and economic development. It is a connector, catalyst, incubator, and innovator working for the common good.
Moreover, the Council’s position at the center of multiple sectors can play an important role in the development of Rhode Island’s post-industrial knowledge economy. .... " [The entire 40th Anniversary Report is here.]
For more on the Digital Library: Special Anniversary Edition, please see here.


Raymond Buckland was born 31st August 1934.
Although English by birth, he and his wife emigrated to the USA in 1962. It was after this time that he became interested in Witchcraft and contacted Gerald Gardner to discuss the subject. The two men became friends and Gardner attended Buckland's initiation by Monique Wilson, probably around 1964, as Gardner died not long afterwards.
Back in the USA with a copy of Gardner's Book of Shadows, Buckland formed the Long Island Coven in New York. This was the start of American Witchcraft and virtually all fully initiated American Witches can trace their lineage back to this one coven.
Soon Buckland began to write books, his first published in 1969 was A Pocket Guide to the Supernatural, shortly followed by Practical Candleburning Rituals. Later on he wrote The Tree: A Complete Book of Saxon Witchcraft which detailed the basis of his own Tradition founded in 1973 and based on Anglo Saxon paganism, known as Seax Wicca.
However perhaps his most famous book, sometimes known as Big Blue from the colour of its cover, is Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft. Designed as a course in Witchcraft with seasonal rituals, magical exercises and spells this certainly gives anyone the basics of what Witchcraft is about and has been in continuous publication since 1986.


Hello friends! Today Swirl will be narrating the photostory. Enjoy!
I was bored.
There was so much stuff that we were supposed to be doing! We’d just gotten back from lunch, so we were supposed to be at our daily event. But, it was stormy. You couldn’t have a shaving cream fight when you might get struck by lightning. So, we’d been sent back to our cabins until dinnertime.
“Let’s do something,” Cali sighed. “I don’t want to sit here and do nothing all day.”
“I am doing something,” Sparkles groaned. “It’s called reading. But it’s hard to do with people complaining.”
Cali hopped off her bunk. “Whatch’a reading?” she asked.
“Oh,” Sparkles sighed. “I knew you were going to interrupt my reading.”
“This is a book called Winter. It’s the fourth book in a series about a cyborg Cinderella,” Sparkles explained.
“Since I knew it was going to be raining a lot, I checked out some books from the camp library for you two. I picked out this one for you Cali. It’s called Caraval, and it’s really whimsical. I thought you might like it.”
“I picked out one for you too Swirl,” Sparkles said, producing another book. “It’s full of adventure.”
“I’d rather stare at the ceiling,”
“Well, I appreciate you getting me a book,” Cali told Sparkles. “I’m going to give it a try.
Cali and Sparkles began reading their books. I was back to being bored.
“Psst!” I hissed at Cali. “Bored yet?”
She was so immersed in her book that she ignored me.
“Oh well,” I sighed.
I glanced at the book Sparkles had gotten for me. “It’s better than nothing, I guess.”
Part of me wanted to do literally anything else, but I was running low on things to do.
Once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down! The book was that good.
Hours passed and I was still reading. Cali and Sparkles had set their books aside.
“Don’t you want to come to dinner?” Cali asked.
“I’m good,” I mumbled, not bothering to look up from my book.
“You can bring your book to dinner,” Sparkles added.
I hoppped out of bed.
“Well, in that case…”
As we walked into the main hall, I turned to Sparkles.
“Thank you for picking out this book for me. I really, really love it,” I told her.
“I knew you would,” Sparkles replied.
What’s your favorite book?


Note: I read this book a couple of years ago, and I truly meant to review it earlier, but it’s been out on loan to a worthy recipient.
If there are now a couple of camps in the world of lean software development, they might be the “Lean/Agile” interpretation and the “Lean Software Engineering” interpretation. Middleton and Sutton made the first definitive statement of the latter camp, and well, you can guess where my sympathies lie.
I’ll start by saying that reading Lean Software Strategies and writing this review have been frustrating for me, because this is a book that I dreamed of writing. It’s kind of uncanny, really. QFD, TRIZ, DSMs, Design by Contract, static analysis, lean vs. craft, and so on. These are most of my big themes, and they’re all in there.
This outstanding book won a 2007 Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence and most deservedly so. It is the most direct and thorough application of Lean principles to the software development process that I have seen yet.
Cons? There is some crap on the CMM and programming languages that I didn’t find helpful, and I wish they had spent less ink on XP. More about reliability and security engineering would have been welcome (why does security always get short shrift in methodology books?). What the book lacks most is a usable walkthrough of how to set up a lean engineering process. It’s full of descriptions of what would be in such a system, but short on telling you how to get started.
If you are interested in this subject and all you have read is the Poppendiecks, please, please, please read this book. If you are interested in this subject and you have a background in software engineering, this is the book to start with. If you don’t know a lot about either software engineering or Lean, you should probably start off with Womack/Jones and the Poppendiecks, and then….please read this book!


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Ambientech: Ciencias, Salud y Medio ambiente. Educación Secundaria
Educational itinerary that explains in detail the 3 states of the matter through water and all the stages of the natural water cycle. Animations and interactive activities are combined to facilitate learning and increase motivation to study.
The edition of this educational itinerary has been possible thanks to the collaboration of the Agbar and Ambientech Foundation. Thanks to this collaboration, the educational itinerary is of good quality, open access, and scientific rigour.


Blossom Cotton Tea towelRegular price R 300.00
This CoralBloom bestseller is a creative take on a kitchen essential
Enjoy a touch of colour in your kitchen with this pure cotton tea towel. A perfect gift celebrating the emblematic Cherry Blossom of Spring ~ Pretty in pink! Featuring illustrations from the 18th to the 20th century, reworked specially for CoralBloom.
- Size: 44cm x 64cm
- Printed with eco-friendly water-based ink on durable 100% cotton
- Each item is lovingly made by hand and features elegant mitered corners
- Hand wash in cold water & iron on reverse, colours may soften with time
Images courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, contributed by Peter H. Raven Library


Categories: Romantic Suspense / Christian Fiction / FBI Crime Solving Novel / Clean Romance
Publisher: Tyndale House
Pub Date: September 7, 2021
Pages: 432 pages
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Fifteen years ago, Shelby Pearce confessed to murdering her brother-in-law and was sent to prison. Now she’s out on parole and looking for a fresh start in the small town of Valleysburg, Texas. But starting over won’t be easy for an ex-con.
FBI Special Agent Denton McClure was a rookie fresh out of Quantico when he was first assigned the Pearce case. He’s always believed Shelby embezzled five hundred thousand dollars from her brother-in-law’s account. So he’s going undercover to befriend Shelby, track down the missing money, and finally crack this case.
But as Denton gets closer to Shelby, he begins to have a trace of doubt about her guilt. Someone has Shelby in their crosshairs. It’s up to Denton to stop them before they silence Shelby—and the truth—forever.
PRAISE FOR TRACE OF DOUBT :
“Filled with high stakes, high emotion, and high intrigue.” – LYNN H. BLACKBURN, award-winning author of UNKNOWN THREAT and ONE FINAL BREATH
“Trace of Doubt is a suspense reader’s best friend. From page one until the end, the action is intense and the storyline keeps you guessing.” – EVA MARIE EVERSON, bestselling author of FIVE BRIDES and DUST
“DiAnn Mills serves up a perfect blend of action, grit, and heart. . . Trace of Doubt takes romantic suspense to a whole new level.” – JAMES R. HANNIBAL, award-winning author of THE PARIS BETRAYAL
“Well-researched . . . with some surprising twists along the way. In Trace of Doubt, Mills weaves together a tale of faith, intrigue, and suspense that her fans are sure to enjoy.” – STEVEN JAMES, award-winning author of SYNAPSE and EVERY WICKED MAN
DiAnn Mills is a bestselling author who believes her readers should expect an adventure. She is a storyteller and creates action-packed, suspense-filled novels to thrill readers. Her titles have appeared on the CBA and ECPA bestseller lists; won two Christy Awards; and been finalists for the RITA, Daphne Du Maurier, Inspirational Readers’ Choice, and Carol award contests.
DiAnn is a founding board member of the American Christian Fiction Writers, a member of Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and International Thriller Writers. She is the director of the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference, Mountainside Retreats: Marketing, Speakers, Nonfiction and Novelist with social media specialist Edie Melson where she continues her passion for helping other writers be successful. She speaks to various groups and teaches writing workshops around the country.
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Deconstructing lit tattoos. The Boston Phoenix examined the growing popularity of literary tattoos among writers, booksellers, librarians and other practitioners of the book trade in anticipation of next week's release of The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide by Eva Talmadge and Justin Taylor.
"There's a lot of people in the book that are affiliated with publishing or books in some way," said Taylor. "A handful of librarians, a lot of people who work for publishing houses, magazine journalists."
Indie booksellers are prominently featured, and Taylor said she tried to photograph them in their natural habitat: "I wanted to make it a thing about bookstores and about the places where literature is consumed."
During an author event at Books & Books, Coral Gables, Florida, bookseller Becky Quiroga asked Eric Carle "to sketch a Very Hungry Caterpillar on her arm, then dashed off to the tattoo parlor to make it permanent. She says her ink has been recognized by children and baristas from Florida to Spain," the Phoenix wrote.
Kurt Vonnegut is the most popular literary tattoo author, followed by Sylvia Plath, David Foster Wallace, and Shel Silverstein. "There are as many reasons for getting tattoos as there are people willing to be marked," Talmadge said.


9 December 2021
Hans Huber - Weissagung und Erfühlung
(Concert program was changed due to Covid-19.)
This Christmas it is exactly one hundred years ago Hans Huber passed away. “Hans Who-ber?” I hear you thinking. “Where did I come across this name?” If you attend chamber music concerts as enthusiastically as you frequent the concerts of the Sinfonieorchester Basel (SOB), the penny may drop quickly, but if not, who exactly is Hans Huber?
Today Frank Martin may be Switzerland’s internationally most revered composer, but around 1900 Hans Huber took the top spot. Born in the canton of Solothurn in 1852 into a musical family – his father was an amateur musician and a choral conductor –, Huber opted for a career in music. After secondary school, he moved to Leipzig to study piano and composition with, among others, Carl Reinecke, a composer today most recognised for his works for flute.
Having spent some years teaching in Alsace, he settled in Basel in 1877 at a time the city was gaining importance as a musical centre. Just the year before, not only the Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft (a forerunner of the SOB) had been founded, but also the Musiksaal had opened its doors: A stimulating environment for Huber to deploy his numerous musical talents.
Many of his works saw the light of day in Basel and were often premiered by himself either as the pianist or the conductor. With eight symphonies, dozens of chamber music pieces, operas, songs and religious works, Huber was one of the most prolific Swiss composers. His compositions for the festivities commemorating the fifth centenary of the merger of Gross – and Klein-Basel in 1892 and the fourth centenary of Basel’s accession to the Swiss Confederation in 1901 cemented his name and gained him a large audience.
Huber’s compositions were influenced by German giants like Brahms, Wagner and Strauss, but he also maintained close relationships with Busoni – the Italian composer who arranged Bach’s Chaconne for piano. Despite his international network and being open to musical ideas from abroad, he also drew inspiration from Swiss sources like the lakes and mountains, the paintings of Böcklin, Wilhelm Tell, and folk music.
Huber hugely contributed to the improvement of musical education in Basel. He initially taught at the local Musikschule of which he eventually became its director. As the Musikschule was a place where both amateurs and professionals honed their skills, it eventually spawned a conservatory fully dedicated to those making a living from music. And Huber became the director of the conservatory.
In short, during the forty years he lived in Basel, Huber was a pivotal figure in the development of the city’s musical life. He can be credited for laying the foundations of Basel’s reputation as a city of music that lasts to this day. Even so, his works fell into oblivion, not to be rediscovered until the late 20th / early 21st century. Meanwhile, many of them have been recorded, most notably his symphonies and chamber music. However, to my best knowledge, the Christmas oratorio Weissagung und Erfüllung hasn’t. The title of this work refers to the first chapter of the gospel of Matthew, where it is written that Mary’s immaculate conception and the birth of Jesus were the Erfüllung (fulfillment) of what the prophets had presaged (Weissagung).
Huber died on Christmas Day of 1921. If you had heard of him, you have most likely visited the Stadtcasino’s Hans Huber-Saal for chamber music, a lasting memory to one of Switzerland’s greats.
These English program notes have been published in the magazine of the Sinfonieorchester Basel.


The Infant Feeding Series (TIFS) contains an educational curriculum (lesson plans, handouts, readings and
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Choose from the options below. If you would like to print the entire curriculum, evaluation forms and training,
download the zip file. Note that this is a large file and may take several minutes to download. Or,
you can access individual portions of the materials via the indexed curriculum, which includes the lesson videos.


About the Academic and Research Vice President
The academic and research vice-president is accountable to the University’s academic and research affairs including community services, academic planning; and ensuring their implementation. It supervises the quality of teaching-learning and research activities. It also provides direct support to the University president in the management and co-ordination of the university’s overall strategic activities and in all University matters. All deans/academic directors, continuing education directorate, research and publication director, community service and industry linkage director, academic affairs director, library and documentation director, registrar and alumni director are responsible for academic and research vice president.


IIT Roorkee ranks among the oldest engineering education in
the world. It was established in the year 1847 as RoorkeeCollege of Civil Engineering mainly to train native engineer for the ongoing Ganges Canal. This was renamed as
Thomason College of Civil Engineering in the memory of its
founder James Thomason in 1854. Thomason College was
again onverted to Thomason College of Engineering in
1945 when department of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering were added. During its hundred
years of existence Thomson College produced many great engineers and technocrats and created new heights of
A wider role for the Thomason College was envisaged after
the Independence in 1947. Pt Nehru the first Prime Minister,
therefore, converted this Mecca of Engineers into University
th of Roorkee (UOR) on 25 November 1949.
During 2001 after creation of Uttarakhand state, Parliament of the country gave it status of Institute of National Importance and converted it to Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. The Institute has completed 150th year of its existence in October 1996. On September 21, 2001, an Ordinance (later on Act) issued by the Government of India declared it as the nation's seventh Indian Institute of Technology making it "Institution of National Importance". The Institute offers Bachelor's Degree courses in 10 disciplines of Engineering and Architecture and Postgraduate's Degree in 55 disciplines of Engineering, Applied Science, Architecture and planning. The Institute has facility for doctoral work in all Departments and Research Centers.
About Mahatma Gandhi Central Library The MGCL of the Institute finds a unique place in the academic library scenario in this part of the world. It is an amalgamation of the classic and the modern. While it is one of the oldest academic libraries in country, it is housed in a 80,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art ultra-modern centrally airconditioned building equipped with all latest ICT facilities spread over in four floors. Library building, equipped with surveillance system, has been aesthetically designed for around 500 users keeping in view comfort for cozy access and intelligent use by all kinds of users. Main attraction of building is availability of ample natural lights for reading. It uses RFID technology for providing human intervention free service to users. It provides seamless wi-fi access connectivity throughout the buildingbesides wired connectivity for more than 200 computers. Its well-equipped imaging center uses two Minolta Planetary Scanners for digitization of documents for Institute Repositories “Bhagirathi” and “Shodh-Bhagirathi” containing Institute's archival materials, theses, dissertations and other valuable publications.
From the very start of the institution (i.e.1847) a small College Library was established with a collection of a few hundred books to meet the need of about 34 students and 6 teachers. Later in 1856 its stocks were considerably augmented by the amalgamation of the Ganges Canal Library and the College Library was renamed as the Central Library. In 1862 the entire collection of the Addiscombe College Library of East India Company was added. With the result the collection of this library assumed considerable size and value.
In order to meet the growing needs of the institution, the strength of which had increased from 34 students in 1847 to 231 in 1873, a separate library block was constructed in the same year consisting of two big halls, one serving as stack room and the other as a reading room and two small side rooms for behind the screen jobs.
A necessity of a new library building was felt immediately after the college became the University and therefore the foundation stone for a new library building was laid on 25 th November 1949 which could be occupied only in 1960. This library underwent several renovations and design changes as per the requirement of the time.
After University became, Indian Institute of Technology on 21 Sept.,2001, it was felt that in the existing building necessary expansion and information technology related provisions cannot be made and, therefore, a new state of art building was planned. The foundation stone of the present building was laid on 19th June 2004 and it was completed in June 2007. Central Library started functioning from the new building from 12th July 2007. On first International Day of Non-Violence i.e. 2nd October 2009 the Central Library was renamed as Mahatma Gandhi Central Library (MGCL).
Central Library is located just opposite by the side of famous main building. By its shear grandeur it attracts the attention of the passerby. The present building is a state of art structure that provides the best possible environment and facilities to the students and faculty of the institution. With its imposing dome, front elevation and water fountain, it gives the look of a monumental structure. It occupies a total area of 90000 sq.ft. which is completely air conditioned.The most important feature of the building is the availability of ample sunlight through its dome and skylight provision.


– 2019 –
Ghosts that roamed Europe more than 170 years ago, as is known, acquired their place and time of existence and development in 1917 in Russia, and then in the republics of the former USSR and the countries of the socialist camp in Eastern Europe. In the 90s of the 20th century, all these countries returned to the bosom of the world order prevailing on earth.
With all the diversity and with all the breadth and depth of their achievements, the general condition of this world order has become the obvious fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Cataclysms, shaking the foundations of world civilization since its inception, splashed onto the shore of history the products of environmental, genetic and political half-life.
The arrogance and aggressiveness of modern human civilization of the conquerors of nature led to the grotesque and strategically self-destructive form of its further history. The uniqueness of the situation in which modern society lives is that there is a combination of civilizational and formational universal crises. (more…)


"Work Worth Doing" Inspires Hope in Vocational Callings
What began as a letter to his children about wisdom in work has transformed into a published book. Dr. Tom Heetderks launched his book, “Work Worth Doing,” in April 2020. The new career guidance resource inspires readers to rethink how they approach what they do each and every day.
Heetderks, dean of business for Cornerstone University’s Professional & Graduate Studies, weaves his role as a father and his extensive work experience into a collection of insights and wisdom anchored in a biblical foundation.
“Work Worth Doing” explores finding fulfillment in a career that goes beyond the paycheck. Writing from a Christ-centered perspective, Heetderks emphasizes the value of exploring why people work in the broader conversation of career paths and vocational calling.
Extending A Short Letter of Fatherly Wisdom
Heetderks didn’t begin this journey of writing a book with the intention of becoming a published author. The concept of his book stemmed from a letter of advice he wrote to his kids—one moving out after college, one in college and one in high school. He knew as his kids grew up and ventured into their own career paths and opportunities, they had some choices to make and decisions to navigate on their own. His letter encouraged them to pursue their careers in the context of God’s direction and passion for their life.
But his letter didn’t stop with his kids. His insight sparked an opportunity to provide hope for those taking their next step in their careers and lives.
“I was encouraged to extend this father-to-son letter into a book by two close friends from work,” he said. “After hearing their encouragement, I stayed up through the night and wrote the first 20 pages of the book. Over the following years, I wrote when I got the chance. I often figured that these added words would not see the light of day.”
His contact in Christian publishing thought otherwise. Through encouragement from other writers, leaders in publishing, and vocational counselors, Heetderks realized what he was writing had the potential to meet a need for hope in vocational calling. After revisions, rewrites, and rounds of edits, Heetderks became a published author.
“This faith-based book, along with its unusual orange cover, will always make me smile,” he said. “And as I’m reminded daily, thanks be to God, none of us ever works alone. God can use anyone, and He wants to use you.”
A Message of Hope in Discerning God’s Direction
With years of experience in the business world, Heetderks understands the pressure of work. “You’ll devote more time to work than to your leisure, family gatherings, and church meetings combined,” he said. With the amount of time spent at work, Heetderks saw it as an ideal space to share hope and wisdom in discerning God’s purpose and direction for one’s vocational calling.
“I’ve found that many books about the workplace and vocation are pretty tough to read,” he said. “With every word I penned, I pictured my own children and others in college. What was the most important thing to say about our faith, careers, and work?”
While the primary audience for his book is for college students and those beginning in the workforce, the implications of pursuing meaningful work transcend demographics. Heetderks wrote in a way as if he were talking with his children and sharing advice that they could easily grasp and apply to their own life.
Work, he argues, requires a “why,” or the reason why someone gets up and moves forward in their career. Finding fulfillment in a job tends to be less about the actual tasks assigned to you but more about how you go about it and for Whom you work for. That, he says, leads to work worth doing.
Through the chapters, he sprinkles in engaging humor and personal stories that bring in practical application. And with a Christ-centered perspective, Heetderks relies on a foundation in biblical truth to spark hope.
Career Wisdom Anchored in Scripture
Through this book, Heetderks addresses common topics and questions about work, all through a biblical foundation. “I hope to answer common questions about work, as well as connect the dots between our God, the worthiness of what you do and who you are meant to be,” he said.
To do this, Heetderks weaves in insightful Scripture that solidifies the focus of living out a Christ-centered perspective in one’s career and vocational calling. “The living and infallible word of God has a lot to say about work,” he said. “Work, in its different forms, is mentioned more than 800 times in Scripture.”
Through the example of biblical characters and powerful messages from Jesus, Heetderks paints a picture of what it looks like to engage in work that’s fulfilling and cultivates lasting transformation, wherever your career takes you.
“My prayer is that you discover some word, one verse or a thought in the book that will convince you that your work matters a whole lot more than you ever imagined,” he said.
You can find his book, “Work Worth Doing,” at many bookstores and online, including Amazon.


We'll have fun exploring CS Lewis' "The Silver Chair" this advent with a study prepared by Father Steven Balog. What Christian principles did Lewis intend to demonstrate to us through his imaginative writing? Let's find out together!
Past Study Resources
"Story of Scripture" by Bill Morris delves into how each book of the Bible points toward Jesus. We will start this study July and August 2021.
We will start the new church study series from the C.S. Lewis Institute: "Conversational Apologetics Course." This series helps us to reach those in our everyday lives with the message of Christ and gives us practice in defending our faith.
You can download the course workbook below. Additional reading materials are:


|Home > Wellcome Trust and malaria >|
A third edition of the Trust's award-winning educational CD-ROM on malaria has now been published. It gives an up-to-date overview of the subject from the basic biology of the parasite and vector, through clinical aspects, immunity, pathogenesis and epidemiology, to the latest World Health Organization treatment and control guidelines.
The CD includes up-to-date summaries of research on the treatment of falciparum malaria with artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), including new fixed-dose ACTs. It also covers recommendations on the treatment of severe malaria, control of malaria in pregnancy by intermittent preventive treatment, and the growing role of rapid diagnostic tests. Global efforts at rolling back malaria, long-lasting insecticidal nets and the latest on the hunt for a malaria vaccine are also covered.
The CD has been developed with key input from Trust-funded researchers in Kenya, Malawi and South-east Asia. Other contributors are from the WHO's Global Malaria Programme, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and elsewhere.
'Malaria 3rd edition' is suitable for anyone teaching malaria or for new researchers wanting an accessible, current introduction to the topic.
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Hello again everyone! I decided to start off the week with a bonus Students Speak Up post featuring one of my favorite school projects of all time that my fourth grade teacher created.
Every student is passionate in a different area, and one of the best parts about elementary school is the way that there is some time to help kids discover those different passions that could turn into lifelong jobs or hobbies. My personal passion is definitely writing, and so I would love to take today’s post to share how that came to be.
My fourth grade teacher, Mr. Gustafson, developed a project called the “Gusbery Award,” a play-on-words of the Newbery Award (an award given to the most distinguished American novel of that year for children). This project went on for several months until the end of the year, and throughout this time we as students were given a short amount of time each day to work on writing a story about anything that we wanted. We could write as many stories as we wanted throughout the month, but the only required one was that we produce a short “personal narrative” since that was part of the curriculum requirements.
When we finished our stories they were printed out and stapled into our very own book with a cover, title, and our name on the front, and then placed into our own personal little cubby on the “Authors Shelf” next to our classmates’ cubbies. I still remember how utterly magical it felt to me to churn out those books and see my shelf get fuller and fuller, and to see my classmates “check out” my books when they were finished and read them eagerly—the thrilled feeling sticks with me to this day.
At the end of the year, we were each allowed to submit one of our stories for entry into the Gusbery Award competition. We then each read the stories up for nomination and voted for them, and the winner received the Gusbery Award with honorable mentions going out to the next several books in line.
Many kids I know absolutely hate writing and would never do it on their own time, but in this case our whole class was so involved in it and read each other’s stories and sequels and trilogies as if they were real books. From then on I have fallen in love with writing and I submit stories to magazines on my own time, but that is where it all started.
There are many ways to do this type of project digitally as well if the in-person aspect isn’t possible, and it could be equally as effective. Perhaps your students aren’t necessarily interested in creative writing, but there are some who love math instead; this same teacher of mine also created a Number Jumblers club that students gained entry into when they completed certain math assignments in varying levels of difficulty, and at the onset of this club suddenly everyone was interested in math. Whatever the topic is, there are certainly students who may have an underlying passion for it, and for this reason it can be invaluable to create an engaging activity that draws the whole class in.
I hope that you enjoyed hearing from my perspective today, and I can’t wait to see you tomorrow for another Coffee Break Chat!


Title: GIVE IT ALL TO HIM
Author: MAX LUCADO
Publisher: Thomas Nelson (February 15, 2004)
GIVE IT ALL TO HIM, A STORY OF NEW BEGINNINGS by MAX LUCADO, may be small in size, but don’t let that fool you. I was surprised when I completed this book to discover how much I had highlighted.
GIVE IT ALL TO HIM is about new beginnings, forgiveness, and letting go and giving it all to God.
Quote from page 26:
“Listen. The weight of weariness pulls you down. Self-reliance misleads you. Disappointments discourage you. Anxiety plagues you. But guilt? Guilt consumes you.”
This little book is a great tool for those far from God, as well as those that are new Christians. I volunteers are Illinois Youth Center Warrenville, and plan to use this booklet as a teaching tool for the girls. It’s a quick read, clear, and right to the point.
How many of us have filled a garbage bag or two in our lives with guilt, shame, hatred, worry, resentment or unforgiveness? In GIVE IT ALL TO HIM, we learn that though some may have more bags then others, we’ve all had a garbage bag or two in our lives. It gives us not only the permission to give it to God, but the insight that He wants us to do that very thing, and the freedom it’ll bring. Something most of us need reminding at one point or another.


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Book Of The Month:
Vale by Tess Bentley (Local Author)
We think you will like this month’s featured Book of the Month. Join us in exploring this wonderful book, then let us know what you think.
“Beautifully atmospheric and brooding, Vale embodies an unassuming and searching voice from a bygone era. As a modern woman, Vale struggles with the same forces that have subdued women for centuries, her second chance at life in Victorian England offers an apt and deeply emotional reflection of female experience.”
“Woven with captivating historical elements, Vale is a beautifully written journey of epic love and heartache. Masterful and enchanting, readers will be enthralled!”
– MORGAN SHAMY, bestselling author of The Dollmaker
Trapped in an emotionally abusive marriage, thirty-six-year-old modern woman Vale is depressed. She longs for a happier life for herself and her two children.
Everything changes when she meets John Emberley, who presents himself as a distant relative but forces Vale back to his Victorian England with magic. Escaping into the English countryside, she finds an ally, Edward Emberley, master of Avenhurst Manor, who informs her she belongs to a cursed family of landed gentry and is eighteen again.
As she adjusts to the Victorian life, she struggles to overcome the pain of being separated in time from her children. But as she gets to know Edward, she realizes he may be much more than a friend-and even a chance to get her son and daughter back. But if she is to get her dream of the man she deserves and the children she misses, she must be ready to face not just her own inner turmoil, but the dark forces, old curses and buried secrets that lie hidden in the tranquil Victorian countryside.


When I visited my cousins in Ukkalgaon, India, I did not expect to see the one-room schoolhouse that lay before me. I vividly remember how the children eagerly sat cross-legged on the mud floor, separated from the elements by four rickety walls and a lame excuse for a roof. Coming from a world where smartboards and projectors dominated classrooms I couldn't even comprehend how these children could learn.
I found myself talking to the de-facto mayor of the village, Ulhas Tambe, hearing a first hand account of how the kids learned. In conversation, he brought up the need for a library. It sounded like a perfect solution to a complicated problem. We also talked about how computer labs could provide resources and virtual vocational training for the entire tow. While in planning for several years, no funding could be found for this library. It was then that I realized that I could help. I could bring in income from my freelance web-development to help fund these libraries. KnoMore was born.


|Print of the Ramapo River from 1870. Lewis and Mary Barbara Fisher had lived in Ramapo, New Jersey before coming to New Brunswick as loyalists in 1783. Their eldest daughter Mary stayed behind with her grandparents when they fled and another daughter, Elizabeth, returned to this area to visit her grandparents, married there and stayed. Credit: Rob Fisher.
|American Brigadier General George Clinton appended this list of prisoners to the official report of his successful raid on the loyalist 4th Battalion of the New Jersey Volunteers quartered at English Neighborhood, New Jersey on the night of 19/20 December 1776. It includes one of the earliest mentions of Lewis or "Lodwick Fisher", who was taken prisoner in the raid along with his brother Peter Fisher, and brother-in-law David Bayard and sixteen others from Captain Peter Ruttan's company. Ruttan's men must have formed the advanced guard which Clinton's troops surprised at dawn after an all-night march.The brief skirmish that followed allowed the main body of the 4th New Jersey Volunteers to slip away before a detachment from Clinton's force sent for the purpose could cut off their escape. In addition to their personal effects, the list tells us their place of residence. All of these men are listed as prisoners of the enemy in the muster roll of the 4th New Jersey Volunteers dated 18 November 1777. Credit: The Public Papers of George Clinton (Albany, NY: New York State Government, 1899).
|Print of Old Newgate Prison, near Hartford, Connecticut, from the nineteenth century. It was originally a copper mine but was unprofitable so the province of Connecticut purchased it in 1774 to use the mineshafts and caves as a prison. It was quickly pressed into use by the patriots in the War of Independence to hold captured loyalists. Lewis Fisher was held prisoner here in 1777 and 1778 before being released in an exchange of prisoners. Peter Fisher and David Bayard remained prisoners until the end of the war. Credit: Old New-Gate Prison Museum.
|The Grandmother's Story. The original manuscript by Georgianna Fisher of her recollections of conversations with her grandmother Mary Barbara (Till) Fisher about the coming of the loyalists to Fredericton in the fall of 1783. Its rustic style and lack of punctuation belie the accuracy of its contents and historical significance. It is now in the possession of Joan Golding Marien of Verdun, Quebec. Her mother, Kathleen Fisher Golding, recognized its importance and ensured its preservation. See the second page below. Credit: Joan Golding Marien.
|Lewis Fisher's petition to Governor Thomas Carleton for land, dated 6 December 1792. It is the first known document in his hand with his signature. It is notable that he signs it "Lewis" instead of "Ludwig" or "Lodewick" which is how his name often appeared in the muster rolls of the New Jersey Volunteers, 1776-1783. Credit: Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
|This map prepared in 1960 is based on the map in Lillian Maxwell's History of Central New Brunswick. It shows the Heddon Grant of 1788 in Fredericton including the 56-acre lot 29 of which Lewis Fisher and twenty-nine others shared parts. Lewis and Mary Barbara Fisher and other veterans of the New Jersey Volunteers had settled here in 1783 and the irregular layout of the lots reflected their occupation of the land prior to the grant. The fork in the road at the bottom of the map shows where today Forest Hill Road splits off from the Lincoln Road along the Saint John River. About 1792, Lewis Fisher took up land on Forest Hill and built his home there. Credit: Joan Golding Marien.
|This map shows all of the lots of the Heddon grant of 1788 below Fredericton. The large lot 29 of which Lewis Fisher obtained a small portion is in the middle. The lots he later occupied on Forest Hill are above the "public road" shown beyond the quarry lot. Credit: Lillian M. B. Maxwell.
|This map was prepared in 1908 and shows the lots below the town plat of Fredericton as they were in the early to mid-nineteenth century. The two lots in the name of Charles Fisher were those originally occupied by Lewis Fisher about 1792. Charles had assumed payment of the leases for them to King's College in 1837 but Mary Barbara Fisher, her daughter Sarah, and her granddaughter Georgianna continued to live there. The present location of these lots corresponds to Woodbridge Street and Charing Crescent. Credit: University of New Brunswick Archives (photo by Elizabeth Morrison).
|This aerial photo taken in 1945 shows Forest Hill and the west end of Fredericton. The highway along the river and Forest Hill Road are clearly visible. The old lot lines are still visible, including those of the old quarry lot, and above it the lots of Benjamin Ingraham, C.J. Peters, and the two of Lewis Fisher. Compare with the lot boundaries shown in the previous map. Credit: National Air Photo Library/Flight A8229-80.
|Title page of a book on landlord and tenant law from the law office of Fisher & Fisher in Fredericton, dated 29 September 1874. This is perhaps about the time G. Fred Fisher and Charles H.B. Fisher decided to build the new Fisher Building on the corner of Queen and York Streets which opened in 1877. Credit: Fred B. Fisher.
|Two pages from the account book of Lewis Fisher (1827-1897) of New Maryland. The accounts show his business transactions 1879-1886, including providing dry hard wood to Fisher & Fisher. Credit: Elizabeth Morrison.
|Tax receipt of William Hamilton Fisher of New Maryland dated 3 Jan. 1897, for tax due to the County and Parish and payable to his neighbour David Haining, collector for the Parish. Credit: Carol Gay.


How to disable the Extendify library?
Don’t want the Extendify library to show up in your editor? No problem. You have two options to easily remove the library button.
Disable Extendify Button
1. Open the block editor by going to any page or post.
2. Click the three dots at the top right of the page to open the preferences menu
3. Click the button that says ‘Disable Extendify’ under Plugins
This will remove the library button from the editor for any user that chooses to disable Extendify. It can be enabled again by clicking the ‘Enable Extendify’ button.
Installing an mu-plugin
If you wish to remove the Extendify library from an entire site, you can add the following as an mu-plugin. Note, this must be added as an mu-plugin and not added to the theme’s functions.php file.


This is the Library, that will eventually contain the repository of information and members pages, notes and diaries etc. and whatever else comes along.
Problems & Solutions
Identifcation Profile for Achatina achatina, Achatina fulica and Archachatina marginata. Taken from http://www.ceris.purdue.edu/napis/pests/gas/manual/ - link now dead.
Ecology and status of the giant african land snails in the BIA biosphere reserve in Ghana. Taken from http://www.unesco.org/mab/capacity/mys/98/asamoah/asamoharep.PDF - link now dead.
Identifcation Profile for Achatina achatina.
Mini Risk Assessment - Giant African Snail, Achatina fulica Bowdich [Gastropoda: Achatinidae] by Robert C. Venette & Margaret Larson.
Identifcation Profile for Achatina fulica.
Raut, S. K.; Barker, G. M. 2002: Achatina fulica Bowdich and other Achatinidae as pests in tropical agriculture. In: Barker, G. M. ed. Molluscs as crop pests. Wallingford, CABI Publishing.
Identifcation Profile for Archachatina marginata.
Calcium content of food.
Extensive list of plants that Achatina fulica is known to eat.
Oxalic Acid Content of Selected Vegetables.
Fourth quinquennial review of Schedules 5 & 8 of the Wildlife And Countryside Act 1981
Identifcation Profile for Limicolaria aurora
A large glossary of terms relating to molluscs.
The Life of Achatinidae in London - Presidential Address - R. H. NISBET (1974) | THE LIFE OF ACHATINIDAE IN LONDON - Presidential Address - R. H. NISBET (Proc. malac. Soc. Lond. (1974) 41, 171).
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This paper presented an overview of the passive strategies for ventilation and air-conditioning energy saving in underground metro stations. The strategies were relevant to building envelopes, piston effect and natural cold sources. This review found that the building envelopes had made minimal contribution to the research literature and might not be applicable to the underground stations. The piston effect was the most popular passive strategy in research community for its great energy saving potential. The ground cooling strategy was another promising option for air-conditioning energy saving but it was often overlooked due to its high R&D costs. The authors hope that this study can promote the adoption of different passive strategies for the ventilation and air-conditioning energy conservation in underground metro station buildings.
Keywords Underground; Metro station; Energy-saving; Passive strategies; Ventilation; Air-conditioning


Here we have put together some referencing for you to consider when handing in your work.
Format for Reference Citation and References
Citation in the main text (Based on Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 3rd ed).
Citation in the main text should be in the form of the authors’ surnames followed by the year of publication. When there are more than two authors and fewer than six authors, cite all authors the first time the reference occurs; in subsequent citations include only the surname of the first author followed by ‘et al.’. When a work has six or more authors, cite only the surname of the first author followed by ‘et al.’ and the year for the first and subsequent citations. For example:
- An interface processor is the basis for another human-computer interaction model (Edmonds, Jones and Davies, 1982). [ First citation ]
- Architecture of an application system produced using the Dialogue management System (Edmonds et al, 1982) approach is shown in Fig 9……..[ Second citation ]
- In Bass et al (1981), the interface for a statistical ……..[ First and subsequent citation for a work more than six authors ]
List of References
References should be ordered alphabetically according to the surname of the first author (use the editor’s name or the organisation’s name when the author’s name is absent).
Dicken, G.W., Leitheiser, R.L., Wetherbe, J.C. and Nechis, M. (1984) Key Information Systems Issues for the 1980’s. MIS Quarterly, Vol.8, No. 3, September 1984, pp. 135 – 160.
Gorry, G.A. and Scott-Morton, M.S. (1971). A Framework for Management Information Systems. Sloan Management Review, Vol.13, No.1, Fall 1971, pp. 55 – 70.
Gorry, G.A. and Scott-Morton, M.S. (1971b). A New Framework for Management Information Systems. Sloan Management Review, Vol.13, No.2, Fall 1971, pp. 20 – 30.
Books or a report
Kroeber, D.W and Watson, H.J. (1987). Computer-based information Systems: A Management Approach. Second Edition, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1987.
Gouda, M.G. and Dayal, U. (1971). Optimal semijoin schedules for query processing in local distributed database systems. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on the Management of Data, (Ann Arbor, Michican, April 29 – May 1, 1980.) ACM, New York, 1981, pp. 164 – 165.
IBM. (1984). Information Systems Planning Guide. Fourth Edition, July 1984. SPSS Inc. (1983). SPSS-X User’s Guide. McGraw Hill Book Company, New York, 1983.
Unpublished reports and theses
Thorpe, A. (1982). Stability tests on a tender-price prediction model. M.Sc. Thesis, Loughborough University of Technology, UK.; 1982.
To cite a website
International Narcotics Control Board 1999, United Nations, Vienna, accessed 1 October 1999, <http://www.incb.org>.
To cite a document or page within a website
Winston, J 1999, A look at referencing, AAA Educational Services, accessed 20 October 2002, <http://www.aaa.edu.au/aaa.html>.
To cite a website with no author
Land for sale on moon 2007, accessed 19 June 2007, <http://www.moonlandregistry.com>.
ArtsNSW n.d., New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, NSW Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation, accessed 19 June 2007, http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/awards/LiteraryAwards/litawards.htm
To cite Online Journals accessed via the World Wide Web
Morris, A 2004, ‘Is this racism? Representations of South Africa in the Sydney Morning Herald since the inauguration of Thabo Mbeki as president’, Australian Humanities Review, Issue 33, August - October 2004, accessed 11 May 2007, <http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-August-2004/morris.html>.


The journal is intended for specialists studying properties, durability problems and expanding the scope of various materials, researchers of academic institutes, universities, state research centers, institutes and enterprises of various industries, it can be useful to designers and technologists, students and graduate students.
Physical foundations of strength and ductility
Mechanics of deformation and fracture
Structure and properties of the deformed state
Advanced materials and technologies
Applied issues of strength and ductility
Diagnostics and methods of mechanical tests
Information about conferences organized by RAS, new books. Memorable dates.


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Recently i have started coding in C a lot and what i came across from a lot of people is that doing Threading in C is very hard, is it really like that? here is a simple Pthread program that should clear that up
get it here
in the above program i have just created 2 threads and passed thr1 ( = 1 ) and thr2 ( = 2 ) values as parameters the function void * thread ( void * ptr ) is executes as a separate thread, we create two thread objects thread1 and thread2, and start threads using pthread_create function passing thread object, function pointer and parameters as arguments, here NULL specifies default attributes for the thread, we can change this by passing pthread_attr_t structure instead of NULL.
we wait for the threads to finish using the pthread_join function
One major problem that is faced by most of the people is of using a library which is not a thread safe library, so you need to be careful about the libraries you use in your program, if not sure about a particular library being thread safe, just assume its not thread safe
PS - No updates from a long time as i dont have a proper net connection ….


Tips for Writing and Editing Novels:
That All-Important First Sentence
K.P. White, M.D., Ph.D.
If you are writing novels, chances are that you write pretty well. Poor writers rarely undertake such a venture. You likely know how to use spell check and grammar check. So what an editor like me most can help you with is organization. Whether you have an interest in publishing your work or you are writing a novel to share with your friends, children or grandchildren, there are certain rules that always apply.
First, novels must be interesting from the start if they are to be read to completion. I have a huge collection of novels, especially fantasy novels. Almost every day I pick one of them up for a half hour or so, merely as a restful diversion from other more serious reading and all my editing and writing. I have a few that I have never read, although I have tried. I just cannot push past the first thirty pages. That, to me, is the absolute longest you can lure readers along before a book absolutely grabs them or, alternatively, loses them.
But how do you make your story interesting from the start? Invariably, you have to put the story in context, which means introducing characters, places, situations and background, some of which may be tedious. Try, if you will, reading any of several books describing the folklore behind the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, before you read the stories themselves. I am sorry, but I find that most of this lore is boring and complicated. Yet the Hobbit and subsequent trilogy are among the top sellers of all times and now have a Trilogy of epic motion pictures to accompany them. Why?
J.R.R. Tolkein’s success started with the first sentence of his first book, The Hobbit: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” Why does this sentence work? Why does it grab so many readers? Probably the most important reason it does so is that it immediately raises a question: What is a hobbit?
The book Insomnia, which also has been made into a motion picture, starts: “Will Dormer opened his eyes abruptly.” Who is Will Dormer? And what is making him open his eyes abruptly?
Notice also that these two opening sentences of hugely successful books are short and simple. Either sentence could have been written by an eight year old. Compare these sentences with this one from one of the books that I just cannot seem to get into, despite several attempts. It starts: “It was a game, shon’ai, the passing game, Kel-style, in the dim round hall of the Kel, the middle tower of the House – black-robed men and a black-robed woman, a circle of ten.” This sentence certainly raises questions. Unfortunately, one of them is: “Just what the heck is this author talking about?”
Hence, the first rules of first sentences are:
1) It must raise an interesting question… Who? What? Why? How?
2) It should be relatively short.
3) It must be relatively simple to understand.
Oddly enough, writing a simple, short sentence can be difficult, particularly for young writers who pride themselves in being able to write so fluently. Where is the fun in writing: ‘Everything stopped’ when one can write: ‘Everything in the universe seemed to have come down to this one particular moment in time when the earth and the seas and the heavens ran together and all movement and thought and feeling ceased to be’? But which is more effective? Which will grab the reader?
The next sentence in this story can start to explain what is meant by this first short one. The power of the short, simple sentence cannot and should not be underestimated by the new novel writer.
There are a two more rules of first sentences that I believe in, one of which is demonstrated in the first sentence of yet another hugely successful series, which ultimately led to ten best-selling novels. The first book of this series starts: “The first thing the boy Garion remembered was the kitchen at Faldor’s farm.”
Again, this sentence is relatively short and very simple, and yet it raises several questions: Who is Garion? Why is the kitchen important enough to be the first thing he remembers? How long ago was the boy in that kitchen? What is this boy doing now? Where is Faldor’s farm? All of theses questions stem from a very straight-forward and relatively short sentence.
But the other thing that this sentence does in common with my first two examples is that it introduces one main character immediately. From the tone, it is clear that the characters introduced in this and the first two examples are central to the upcoming stories. Immediately, the reader has a character to identify with. In fact, each of these three books, The Hobbit, Insomnia and Pawn of Prophesy, continues to focus on the character introduced in the first sentence for several more sentences before anyone else is introduced. Compare this to the book I said I have been unable to finish, in which so many, mostly nameless characters are introduced in the first several pages that I found myself spinning. Hence, rule four for first sentences is:
4) Introduce the central character of the book or at least another VERY important character. Then continue to focus on that character at least for the next several sentences.
My final rule of first sentences is:
5) Make the information conveyed in that first sentence important to the story.
For example, if your first sentence is ‘Tom Johnson was wearing a green hat’, make sure that the green hat somehow is important to the story. Perhaps Tom wearing that green hat results in him being mistaken for someone else and kidnapped in Chapter Three. Perhaps that green hat is part of his baseball uniform and playing baseball is central to this boy’s life. Just like people remember first impressions, people remember first sentences. Readers often are keen to begin a new book and want to be enticed by it. They open it anxious to delve into it. Their attention is at its fullest. Planting an important seed of information in that first sentence allows it to grow throughout the story.
The novel I currently am writing starts: Zeke was crazy; everyone in Apple Grove knew this.” The sentence is short. It is simple. It raises several questions: “Who is Zeke? Why is he crazy? Is he truly crazy? Where is Apple Grove? It introduces one of the most important characters in the book. In fact, Chapter One is entitled: “Zeke” And Zeke’s apparent craziness is a central theme throughout the book.
If you already have started writing a novel, I challenge you to go back to Page One and read that first sentence you wrote. Will it grab your readers?


23 April, 2023
My book Pile of Shame became my tormentor. Recently I’m catching up with it just to get some closure. Most recent book I’ve read was waiting for over 10 years. Shame! I always had something better to read…
Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook by Sarath Lakshman is exactly what the title says. The book presents quite a few useful recipes to common problems. On top of that we’ll find some bash scripting basics and introduction to other common concepts.
I didn’t find much new stuff in it, but that was to be expected. Sadly, the way the book was written is pretty frustrating. One third of it are useless, repetitive descriptions and introductions. When you get over it, it might be a pretty decent read.
Here are some highlights of commands I’m not using often enough, for my own reference:
- grep (xD)
- got to start using curl instead of wget


You were made to be kissed, often and well.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (via weaverofstars)
Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms.
It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You’ll realize what’s changed is you.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”


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Three of Paul O'Brien's brilliant series on the battles of 1916. Shootout: The Battle For St Stephen's Green, 1916, Crossfire: The Battle of the Four Courts, 1916 and Field Of Fire: The Battle of Ashbourne, 1916. Collectively worth over €35.00, get this bundle for only €20.00.
A critical evaluation of the changes the Irish constitution needs to bring radical reform to Ireland. Embracing a wide range of views, Foundation Stone: Notes towards a Constitution for a 21st-Century Republic, is a shot across the bows of the ongoing constitution convention. It rejects the cosy and complacent notion that all our constitution needs is a small bit of tweaking and proposes bold and radical action.
If you are looking for happy, positive or uplifting stories then this might not be the book for you. If on the other hand, tales of human tragedy, hanging, rioting, misery, mayhem, man-eating Kerry eagles, rat-eating Belfast gamblers and Ardee transvestites are the things that fascinate you, come right on in.
Sarah Maria Griffin.|
Not Lost is a book about growing up, about friendship, about love, about life and living it well. It is by turns heartbreaking, funny, tender and gutsy, it is assured but never cocky and marks Sarah Maria Griffin as one of the major voices of her generation.
Christine Dwyer Hickey.|
A child wandering alone through a racecourse; an elderly lady grasping at a thread of memory; a young girl watching prostitutes from her window as they ply their trade; an Indian taxi driver living in his cab: these are some of the fractured lives and fragile hearts we meet in The House on Parkgate Street and Other Dublin Stories.
In Witches, Spies and Stockholm Syndrome, Finbar Dwyer offers a unique portrait of life as it was lived in medieval Ireland. Against the backdrop of what was often a violent and chaotic period of history, Dwyer explores the personal stories of those whose recollections have been preserved, finding in them continual relevance and human interest.
In December 2012, New Island and RTÉ Radio One’s ARENA launched the first on-air creative writing course. The course took place on the first week of each month until June 2013. Writer and creative writing teacher Dave Lordan led the course, each month offering a new writing prompt to listeners who would submit material based using that prompt as inspiration. This book contains the best of those submissions. To accompany them, ARENA has specially commissioned pieces by a host of emerging Irish writing talent producing a completely novel and enjoyable anthology that presents the best of up and coming Irish writing talent.
'Bodies can tell you a lot. There can be an eloquence about the dead. But you have to be able to interpret what they are telling you….' When a Dublin Pawnbroker is found murdered and the lead suspect goes missing, Sergeant Joe Swallow is handed the poisoned chalice of the investigation. With authorities pressing for a quick resolution, the public living in fear of attack and the newspapers happy to point to the police’s every mistake, Swallow must use every trick in his arsenal to crack the case.


I finally got around to picking up Steve Williams’ book OUT OF THE ROUGH. I mentioned I was reading it back in my post about how to improve your game while OFF the course. For golfers new to the game, Steve Williams spent 13 years as Tiger Woods’ caddy until the fall out. Hardcore golfers will not want to miss out on this book. New or young golfers should read this book too. It will help you understand golf better. I don’t want to divulge the juicy details here because Williams is such a great storyteller. Reading the book was an electrifying experience for me. For most of it, I either had goosebumps or held my breath at all the drama that happened behind the scenes. The book will make golf fans want to re-watch all the key moments in all the tournaments he mentions if only to re-live the glory all over again. I loved how the book jumps immediately into it. There were no long winded pages of his childhood and who he was as a person; he covers that very briefly.
The insider stories happens right away, up close and personal. And the way Steve wrote the book was extremely honest. He’s not afraid to make himself look bad and be truthful about how he feels about any of the golfers he’s caddied for or the rivals they played against. Should any of his colleagues read this book, they most likely wouldn’t be surprised about what Steve said about them as he said it to them directly. However, they certainly may not like what he said and probably wish he didn’t write the book. In that way, Steve writes a rather open book, completely throwing himself under the bus and some could say, his former bosses and rivals. There may be a couple sentences where they would cry Steve was wading into violating the Goldwater rule, the rule which bars psychiatrists from diagnosing public figures long-distance without having a personal session with them. Since Steve isn’t a psychiatrist, his insight and beliefs on the professional and personal downfalls of some of golf’s greatests can only be taken with a grain of salt. Yet, this is as close as the public will get to the golf phenoms through Steve’s book.
Steve writes without sugarcoating any of the mistakes he made on and off the course and directly acknowledges his faults. Interspersed in his book are accounts from some of his former bosses that tell their side of the story and the downfalls of Steve as well. I thought that was a fairly noble thing for him to do, to give others a voice to tell their side of the story. There are a few pictures of Steve as a child, caddying, showing his love of racing. He also has a page every so often that highlights the stats of the very talented golfers he’s caddied for or lists of his favorite moments in golf history. Most enlightening is the behind-the-scenes look and fly-on-the-wall observations of conversations that happened between him and the golfers — how he convinces them to take his advice, how they argue, the outcome on those decisions where tournaments are won and lost based on a single decision. He explains what he was thinking when a golfer failed terribly after not listening to his advice, if he somehow failed them with a mistake in making a poor caddy decision, or what surprised him when the unbelievable happened.
There were times where I actually laughed out loud or teared up from touching moments. The last few chapters cover the fall out with Tiger, how he caddies for Adam Scott, and leaves his 36-year career behind. And for novices, there is a glossary at the very end defining golf lingo. This book is a definite must-read for any golfer. It’s a rollercoaster of emotions, crises, and great tales from caddying for Greg Norman, Raymond Floyd, Terry Gale, Ian Baker-Finch, Adam Scott, and Tiger Woods. And I was surprised to read about how Tiger Woods broke someone’s ribs! (And no, it’s not his ex wife’s.) You should buy the book to find out who, and how it happened. If you want a happier relationship or to get your wife/girlfriend to let you play more golf, read my last post. And if you haven’t guessed by now, the Victory Front9 Back9 is named in honor of Tiger.


I just finished reading Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed's memoir about hiking from California to Oregon after the death of her mother sends her life spiraling downward. I'm still aching from the powerful punch of this story, delivered with so much grace and humor that I didn't even see it coming.
This book didn't just knock my socks off. It knocked off my t-shirt, jeans and knickers, too. It's a gripping adventure story that's brutally honest on every emotional level, and I was left open-mouthed with awe by Strayed's brilliant observations about everything from what it feels like to wake up with thousands of tiny frogs hopping on your body to her profound grief over the dissolution of her family.
As a writer, I've been mulling over this book, trying to think about what made this memoir—along with others I've loved by writers like Bill Bryson, Mary Carr, Alexandra Fuller, Haven Kimmel, Peter Matthiessen, Michael Ondaatje, and David Sedaris—rise to the level of art that's good for the soul. Here are a few thoughts:
Make Your Memoir about More than Just You
Unless you're Bill Clinton or Mick Jagger, nobody but your best friend cares about your life story (and she might be pretending). How can you make your memoir compelling? Find something unique about your narrative and focus the book around that instead of navel gazing about your first dog, your last lover, etc. For instance, Haven Kimmel does a brilliant job of this in Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana. She broke out big with this book by weaving her hilarious observations of small-town life around her own coming-of-age story. And, in The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen writes about traveling in Nepal and tracking the snow leopard as he asks some of the deepest life-and-death questions common to all mankind. We learn about the flora, fauna, and culture of the deep Himalaya as we follow his spiritual quest and the two narratives meld to create a mystical, timeless read.
Do Your Research
Whether you're writing about kayaking through Brazil after your Wall Street breakdown or the summer at Aunt Mary's lake cabin when your father went nuts, do your research. This means reading up on Brazilian history and wildlife or interviewing family members until your memories of that lake cabin become vivid and true. (You'll be amazed by how much your memories differ from, say, your little brother's.)
Here's the thing: you may have grown up in a dysfunctional family —if you're a writer, the odds are pretty high that this is fact. But writers, no matter how neglected or abused we were in our youth, have an unfair advantage: We have public voices. The people we're writing about often don't. Think long and hard about baring other people's secrets without asking permission.
Okay, so your mom liked to stand on her head naked in the back yard and forgot to pack your lunches for school. It was a tough life! But the point of writing a memoir about it is to show how you resolved conflicts, just like any character in a novel. This isn't therapy. The story has to go somewhere. The best memoirs are those where writers arrive at a place of acceptance and even forgiveness—as Mary Carr, Alexandra Fuller, and Cheryl Strayed do in their books.
Build a Narrative with Tension and Shape
From that first scene, you want to build enough tension into the narrative so that readers are turning pages to find out what happens. Think about the natural start and end points, and what the climax of the story looks like. Each chapter should be shaped like that as well, with its own narrative arc.
Play with Time
Your memoir doesn't have to be chronological. For instance, Strayed does a great job of playing with time, starting the book in the middle of her journey, at a point where her hiking boot literally tumbles off a cliff, then backtracking to where she was before she left. She proceeds on her trip and backtracks many times throughout the book to highlight various high (and low) points in her life story. By the time we finish reading about her journey, we understand why she had no choice but to walk the Pacific coast alone to mend her heart and soul.
Now that, my friends, is a truly great memoir.
Holly, though I don't anticipate ever writing a memoir, I do read many; and this blog post will help me to be a better reader. Thank you!ReplyDelete
From Kimberly Gadette: Another great one from you, Holly!ReplyDelete
You never know, Katie! I never thought I'd write one, either!ReplyDelete
I will definitely keep picking your brain when I go to write Children of Paradise...and my heart shakes at the task. There's not much left in writing that scares me as much as doing this Big Story, that I know needs telling and scares the sh*t out of me to face... I will read Strayed's book becuase you recommend it. ANd hope it doesn't make Children burn so bright I can't finish my new YA!ReplyDelete
So many books to write, so little time. THank you for how you always inspire me.
What a great post. It warmed my soul to know I'm on the right track with my memoir. When I started my memoir about being kidnapped and raped, one of the subplots was the constant conflict with my mom. I struggled with writing the truth and possible hurting my mom--or sugar coating the truth and risk alienating girls out there with mommy issues. So I told the truth about the strained relationship, but later show how we overcame our differences. Since a couple of agents are reading my memoir, I figured I'd better let my mom read it as well--really test if I was able to be both honest and fair. But I told her she couldn't discuss it with me until she read the entire thing. She made it through the story and in the end loved it :) Half way through it she was convinced I hated her though. When she mentioned it to my brother he said, "Well, is she a teenaged girl in the story?" Mom said, "Yeah." Brother, "Well, there you have it." HahaReplyDelete
Thanks for dropping by my blog. Interesting, not to mention thought-provoking pointers here on memoir writing. I've thought about it once or twice, but haven't had any huge event that would make interesting reading. Who knows what's in the future though.


Via Emma at The Old Rep
Make the most of your October half term with The Old Rep
This October half term, The Old Rep are putting on a string of events that will entertain and delight your whole family. From Julia Donaldson favourite, The Scarecrows’ Wedding, to a Halloween spectacular Dracula: The Kisses, and FREE pirate themed activities at the Library of Birmingham, The Old Rep are making this half term one to remember!
For further information or to book for any of The Old Rep’s half term events, please call the Box Office on 0121 359 9444 or visit oldreptheatre.co.uk (online booking fee applies).
The Silver Sword
Until Sat 24 October
Ideal for age 7+
FREE World War Two exhibition
Thu 22 October Post-show discussion featuring Jane Serraillier
Join Ruth, Edek and Bronia in this gripping tale of hope against all the odds, set against the backdrop of wartime Europe, produced by Sell A Door Theatre. Ian Serraillier’s The Silver Sword was named as one of the top 50 children’s books ever by The Times. This new adaptation includes original songs, handmade puppets and innovative storytelling techniques. History comes alive this half term, with World War Two artefacts from Birmingham Museum. Try on an air raid warden’s hat and learn what life was like on the home front!
Tickets £14 (Conc £12, Schools £8.50)
The Scarecrows’ Wedding
Sunday 25 October 1pm & 4pm
Ideal for age 3+
FREE craft sessions one hour before each show
Fun for all the family, Scamp Theatre’s heart-warming adaptation of the bestseller by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, is bursting at the seams with wit and wedding bells. Betty O’Barley and Harry O’Hay are excellent scarecrows. Harry loves Betty and Betty loves Harry – so they decide to get married and Harry sets off in search of wedding day essentials.
“Enchanting and hilarious. Bags of sheer family fun” The Stage
“Charming and cheerful. These scarecrows will make every child smile” Daily Mail
Tickets £12 (Conc £10, Family £40)
Treasure Island Pirate Fun Day, The Library of Birmingham
Friday 30 October 12pm-4pm
Ideal for age 4+
FREE pirate themed activities
Join the Pirate Crew at the Library of Birmingham, as The Old Rep launch their Christmas production of Treasure Island! Enjoy a wealth of swashbuckling activities, from free craft sessions in the Children’s Library meeting room, to pirate storytelling on The Story Steps, and Treasure Island drama workshops in the Beat Box.
All of these events are completely free of charge, and will be taking place in the Library of Birmingham between 12pm-4pm. Follow @TheOldRep on Twitter for further details!
Dracula: The Kisses
Friday 30 October 7pm
Ideal for age 14+
Bar open from 6pm to catch up and connect
Warm up for Halloween with Dracula: The Kisses from physical theatre innovators Scary Little Girls. This wildly entertaining romp explores sexuality, religion, politics and feminism, without compromising on the dark, daft fun that is quintessential Dracula. With a lush and lavish steam-punk design and an all-female cast of nine, Scary Little Girlstake this gothic classic in unexpected and unimaginable directions.
Dracula: The Kisses will be presented alongside two new works in development: an all-male physical theatre piece created by young men from Birmingham and beyond, and piece called Wonderwoman: The Naked Truth, exploring combining motherhood with a career in theatre in a light-hearted way.
Tickets £12 (Conc £8)
The Old Rep has recently re-launched under a bold new vision, inspired by Birmingham and the Midlands’ creative community, with excellent contemporary work from all art forms at the heart of the theatre’s vision.
Alongside a vibrant programme of sell-out comedy, dance, drama and top quality work for families, The Old Rep has introduced a new programme of creative and educational opportunities for local schools and communities to get involved in their work. The oldest purpose-built repertory theatre in the UK, The Old Rep has been described as a hidden gem of Birmingham, where innovative new work thrives alongside over 100 years of theatre heritage.


The Church of Ireland Select Committee on Human Sexuality has published the result of its three year ‘listening process’. Entitled the “Guide to the Conversation on Human Sexuality in the context of Christian Belief” it details the long and often fraught journey that this issue has taken from the House of Bishops’ first pastoral letter on the issue of Human Sexuality, in September 2003, right up to the present day and the publication of this guide. [Continue Reading]
Changing Attitude Ireland's archive of newsletters, with most recent issues appearing first. For an overview of all newsletters on one page, visit the Newsletters sitemap page.
The last few months have seen significant positive developments in the advancement of the rights and inclusion of LGBT people internationally. The Yes vote in the marriage equality referendum in the Republic of Ireland and judgement by the US Supreme Court have extended civil marriage rights to LGBT people. Recently both the Scottish Episcopal Church and the US Episcopal Church have made liturgical and canonical changes to allow LGBT people to marry within the church. [Continue Reading]
The Church of Ireland committed itself to a “Listening Process” on (homo)sexuality in the motion passed at its General Synod in Dublin in May 2012. Changing Attitude Ireland is endeavouring to ensure that the Church lives up to this public commitment. [Continue Reading]


Directed by Frédérick Madore, the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) is a collaborative and open-access digital database supported by the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Health and Care. Building on the success of the award-winning Islam Burkina Faso Collection launched in 2021, the current repository features over 7,500 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of various kinds, audio and video recordings, and photographs on Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Togo and Côte d'Ivoire.
The majority of documents are in French, with others available in Hausa, Arabic, Dendi, and English. The database also indexes over 850 references to relevant academic references such as books, articles, chapters, theses, reports and blog posts. Each document is tagged with detailed metadata and subjected to optical character recognition (OCR), making it easily accessible via keyword searches or more advanced multi-criteria searches. The IWAC also includes a comprehensive index of over 2,100 events, languages, locations, organizations, people, and topics.
The IWAC is committed to democratising access to vital research materials. By making these resources available online without financial barriers, we offer both West African and international researchers valuable alternatives to the often difficult conditions found in regional libraries and archives. In addition, the database is designed to facilitate the export of data and to support flexible and diverse query methods. Our aim is not only to advance research on Islam in West Africa, but also to serve as a pioneering model for similar initiatives in the future.
La base de données est aussi disponible en français.
News and release notes
The website is constantly evolving, with metadata being edited and new documents being added to the collection on a regular basis.
17 April 2024
The Collection is now compliant with the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) standards. This enhancement not only marks a leap forward in our commitment to making the database more accessible and user-friendly, but also underscores our commitment to promoting interoperability among digital repositories. The Universal Viewer allows for more interactive and immersive exploration of digital objects. Users can zoom, pan and explore images in fine detail.
22 January 2024
9 November 2023
The Islam West Africa Collection was officially launched on 9 November in Berlin. Further information.
31 October 2023
To demonstrate the potential of digital humanities to analyse the data in the Islam West Africa Collection, a series of visualisations were created using two corpus of press clippings from Beninese and Burkinabè newspapers. See more here.


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A Puppet Play
by Brett Crandall
based on the books
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Off to the jungle to meet Tarzan and his animal friends as he learns to embrace being "different".
ONDINE: A Queer Fairy Tale
COMING SOON TO YOUR SCREENS
The TRIALS of DAVID: A Queer, Biblical, Puppet Play
GOOD KING WENCESLAS
MURDER at the WOLF HOTEL
Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Charles Dickens' OLIVER TWIST
L. Frank Baum's THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ