Our Helpful fundraising ideas come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Hopefully you can adapt some of them to have fun and raise funds for your group. We often include similar information to reflect possible variations. You will definitely find some repeats but ... just maybe ... that's because they have proven to be successful! Some of the ideas will work for your group, some obviously will not. But make sure you review the list because there are some real gems from the small raffle nights to full blown concert nights to sporting events. Here are a few.......
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Dolly Parton Imagination Library fundraiser Idea's
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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book-gifting charity for young children aged 0-5. Dolly was inspired to set up her Imagination Library as a tribute to her father, a smart and hard-working man who was unable to read or write. Dolly wants to guarantee access to books, inspire a lifelong love of reading and help children reach their full potential.
All children enrolled in the Imagination Library receive a book in the post every month until their 5th birthday. Every book is personally addressed to each individual child. All titles in the Imagination Library are published by Penguin Random House and carefully selected by a panel of experts in early childhood literacy and reading. Books are chosen to support developmental milestones and encourage active involvement. The programme is completely free for children and their families
Reading and imparting a love of books is one of the most important things we can do for our children. Book sharing with a child encourages bonding and development of language, communication and cognitive skills. Books are the fuel for a child’s imagination!
The Dollywood Foundation UK (DWF) works with sponsors to provide the books. Each Imagination Library sponsor funds the books and postage, currently £25 per child, per year. Sponsors do not pay for DWF staff, our database or any other DWF costs; Dolly pays for these in full. The sponsors include those from local and central government, companies big and small, NHS trusts, Rotary Clubs, charities, housing associations, primary schools as well as private individuals – people like you! Sponsors set up Imagination Libraries in entire towns, villages, nurseries... there are even companies offering Imagination Library as a staff benefit. Imagination Libraries range in size from 10,000 children to 10. Each individual Imagination Library is as big or small as the sponsor wants to make it.


The expansive College Library is housed in the center of the campus in an exclusive building designed for the purpose. The library comprises separate sections : the Main Library, individual Departmental Libraries (Sciences), the Periodicals and the Text Book Sections. Together, all the sections of our library display a rich collection of approximately 50,000 titles and around 3,500 e-books. The Library has study spaces with a mix of quite individual and group-study areas. The Library provides a book-bank facility too for lending text books to needy & deserving students for a period of one year at a stretch. Internet facility is now available for students inside the library premises itself. Computerization and digitization of Searching/referencing of titles is now been worked upon and the work is expected to be completed in near future.
Anugrah Narayan Singh College, Barh, is an authourised user as a college registered under NLIST programme,and has access for the e-resources (6,000+ ejournals and 31,35,000+ ebooks ).
Library advisory committee
The college has a Library advisory committee. It acts as a link between the library-users and the library staff. The Library Advisory Committee compresses of the following members.
1. Principal (Chairman)
2. Sri Ashok Kumar Singh – Asst. Librarian
3. All HOD’s, Coordinator NAAC, Coordinator IQAC – Advisory Members
4. Dr. Binod Kumar Jha – Library In-charge
5. Mr.Vipin Nautiyal – Deputy Library In-Charge
The committee meets generally twice a year to make various important decisions and implement
those initiatives :
To allocate budget.
Problems of library and users are discussed and solved.
Library performance is monitored or enhanced through user’s feedback
Sri Ashok Kumar Singh – Asst. Librarian
Miss. Priyanka kumari – Routine clerk
Sri Sunil kumar singh – peon
Md. Neyaz ahmad- peon
Working hours: The library remains open for 10:00 AM to 05:00pm as per college hours on all working days.
It remains closed only on Public holidays and during Puja Vacation
Dear Users, National Digital Library is an initiative by HRD ministry. It is a huge collection of learning resources( 68 lakhs books) from primary to PG level. You can use it free of charge.
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The IIT-Professor Assisted Learning (PAL) video lectures for Class XI and Class XII can be accessed on You Tube through the links shown below. Many faculty members from various IITs have contributed to these lectures. Prof. Ravi Soni from the Dept. of Physics, IIT Delhi is the national coordinator and IIT Delhi has coordinated this entire effort with funding from MHRD. Over 600 hours of lectures in Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Biology are available for students.
Biology: Channel 19
Chemistry: Channel 20
Mathematics: Channel 21
Physics: Channel 22
These videos can also be accessed on Doordarshan Freedish DTH. Complete list of videos is available at (Channel 19,20,21 and 22)
e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC. The content and its quality being the key component of education system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages have been developed by the subject experts working in Indian universities and other R & D institutes across the country. Every subject had a team of principal investigator, paper coordinators, content writers, content reviewers, Language editors and multimedia team.
NPTEL online courses
National Programme for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
is a joint initiative from IITs and IISc to offer online courses and certification in various topics
Learn for free; Pay a small fee to write an exam and get a certificate
The [email protected] Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs submitted by the researchers.


It took 4 years to create this collection, and they only produced 2,998 books. Most don’t realize that only 200 are signed by the artist and these unique books can only be reserved online.
MIAMI, FL, September 21, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ — On Wednesday, September 21, 2022, (Miami, FL) ARTIKA will publish a new book by the Colombian Artist Fernando Botero and his Via Crucis series. Vía Crucis, is a key piece of work on the trajectory of the artist, known for the globally recognized and admired style of “Boterismo”. It took 4 years to create this collection, and they only produced 2,998 books. Most don’t realize that only 200 are signed by the artist and these unique books can only be reserved online. It’s a personalized buying process with a concierge service.
“We are excited to work for a second time with the Maestro Fernando Botero on Via Crucis, a homage to Colombia and his beginnings. In Artika we are proud to have been editing art for over 20 years, creating pieces that are a conjunction between art and an artist book, a new category thought for collectors and art enthusiasts” – Marc Buil, Global Director, ARTIKA | Artists Books
In 2012, Fernando Botero donated his Vía Crucis series to the Antioquia Museum in Medellin. In celebration of his 90th birthday, now that masterpiece morphs into an artistic tome that pays homage to the people of Colombia – a book that connects art history to the master’s memory, created by publishing house ARTIKA BOOKS.
The issue at hand is a limited, numbered edition of Vía Crucis, a key piece of work on the trajectory of Fernando Botero, which includes the full series of drawings and paintings in which the Maestro expresses his personal interpretation of the Christian Way of the Cross, the scenes that evoque the path Jesus took from his capture up to crucifixion, which has inspired countless works of art over the centuries. In its own way, Botero’s contribution offers a completely original take on this classic iconography. Vía Crucis is also proof of Colombian roots always being present in the work of this Maestro. During his childhood, Botero would observe the paintings and sculptures exhibited in churches, and this initial contact with art left a mark in his creative personality. The commitment to his country is manifest in his donation of Vía Crucis in 2012, as a gesture that yields ownership to the Antioquia Museum of the rights to the work, also valid for this edition.
The Art Book: a personal language for a universal topic
This bilingual edition in Spanish and English includes all the works that conform the Vía Crucis series. The illustrations, adhered to the Art Book with three dots of glue, are reproductions of the highest quality of the original drawings made in pencil and watercolor on paper. The cover of this volume is an unpublished image printed on canvas: a silhouetted detail of the oil painting Cerca de la Cruz (Close to the Cross, 2010), from the artist’s personal collection.
Every print is accompanied by a quote from the Bible, printed on red translucent film. The images depict the Passion of the Christ through different classic scenes that the Maestro explores and reinterprets in his unique style, known as boterismo.
The result is a compelling scenery that reveals, for example, Jesus carrying the cross through the streets of a Colombian town or a 20th century soldier standing among the centurions and roman soldiers that surround the Christ.
Study Book: the keys to Botero’s work
All elements of Vía Crucis are analyzed in detail in the articles collected in the Study Book, whose authors are some of the most recognized voices in the study of the works of the Maestro. American critic David Ebony and Camilo Castaño, curator for the Antioquia Museum, review the qualities that make boterismo a recognizable and admired style worldwide.
Vía Crucis will be made available at artikabooks.com. This being an artist book in which every detail is accounted for, and whose confection includes Maestro Botero himself, a limited number of units will be launched in this edition, reaffirming its distinctive character. It comprehends the aesthetic attributes of an unparalleled work of art and the character of an eminent source of knowledge about an essential moment in the broad trajectory of this notable Colombian artist.
Founded in 2003, ARTIKA is a publishing house belonging to Grupo Planeta and specializes in devising artist books – limited editions whose cornerstones are the work of outstanding international creatives the likes of Gaudí, Lita Cabellut, Jaume Plensa, Fernando Botero, Toulouse Lautrec, Joaquín Sorolla, Joaquín Sabina, and Frida Kahlo. Their books are crafted using meticulous artisanal processes that make every unit unique and unrepeatable. The ARTIKA catalog currently offers a collection of contemporary works that invite the reader to uncover the essence of each artist, where design and innovation are front and center, from the very concept down to the materials employed.
About Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero is a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor born in Medellín. His signature style, also known as “Boterismo,” depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. Several major museums have purchased his works for their permanent collections, and his paintings and sculptures have been displayed in Colombia, New York, Miami, Venice, Zurich, and more. Critics have praised Botero’s art, which warmly and whimsically depicts the life of peasants and aristocrats, clowns, dancers in motion, families, and children at play.
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The Secret Place is one of the most sought-after books. It is meant for rewriting your destiny no matter your individual case. It will help you understand how to have access to divine presence.It was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit after an invisible hand of God, or “power,” literally saved Pastor George from a fatal accident that can only be God! He has also discovered that many people have been into the secret place, but very few dwell there! Dwelling there makes you a conqueror in the days of trouble and challenges.
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George Mfula is the overseer of Rise and Walk Church Global Inc. He is an author, speaker, pastor, leader, teacher, and prophet. His mandate is to liberate, people from all oppressions of the devil through the preaching and teaching of the word of faith accompanied by signs, miracles, and wonders.


Kiawah Island History
Kiawah Island, SC > Kiawah
On March 10, 1675 history was made when the Kiawah Indians sold their land to the English for the cost of assorted goods like hatchets, cloth and sundry other items that the Indians desired. After this initial purchase the ownership of the Island was passed on and divided up among different individuals like Captain George Raynor (1699)and John Stayarne (1737) who were the primary owners.
At Stayarne’s passing in 1772 his accumulated wealth was valued at 146,247 pounds or approximately 2.5 million dollars which included his eight plantations, townhouse and the hundreds of slaves that lived on the Island as well. In his will the Island was split into two, the western half going to one granddaughter Mary Gibbes while the eastern side went to the other granddaughter Elizabeth Vanderhorst. This establishment of two plantations would last well into the twentieth century.
Elizabeth and her husband Arnoldus Vanderhorst II built their own plantation house and kept relatively few slaves that tended to subsistence crops like peas, corn and indigo. Their plantation would then be destroyed during the American Revolution in 1780 only to be rebuilt five years later. Once the war ended Arnoldus started planting a new crop, cotton, that not only increased the number of his slaves from a few hundred to over a thousand but brought great fortune to the Vanderhorsts.
This half of the Island was passed on through the Vanderhorst family for several generations until the end of the Civil War when, beset by illness and war losses, black freedmen became abundant. Although there are only fragments that can be pieced together there came to be a man by the name of Quash that was half-black, half-white, his lineage being intertwined with that of the Vanderhorsts and who came to some power during his time.
As the primary caretaker “Miss Adele,” a widower, Quash would later be called the “Cassique (chief) of Kiawah” by his beloved Adele. As one of the few black men on the island that could read and write Quash would become one of the most noted individuals in Kiawah Island history. Quash would later leave the island and purchase his own plot of land on nearby Johns Island where he raised his family including grandson Harold Arnoldus Stevens who became the first African American on the New York State Supreme Court.
After the somewhat tumultuous first few hundred years on the island, the 1900’s brought peace and a renewed interest in Kiawah’s land. People started to purchase plots to build their homes on and real estate on the island came to be considered some of the best in the Charleston area. The Kuwait Investment Company took great interest in the area and, after purchasing it from the Royal family who had owned it previously, began in earnest residential development on Kiawah Island. When they were unable to complete their initial development plans due to stock market problems in the 1980s, Kiawah Resort Associates took over undeveloped parcels of land and still continue today to develop and maintain the beauty and privacy that is associated with Kiawah Island. Several golf courses, hundreds of gorgeous homes and world-class hotels later, the island has become a focal point of the Charleston area not only to travel to but to make a home on.


This is the third in a four-part series of guides on engaging receiving communities in order to advance immigrant inclusion and build stronger, more cohesive communities. It provides information on who community leaders are, recommendations for leadership engagement, and case studies on engaging state and other leaders.
Other guides in this series include Building Cohesive Communities in an Era of Migration and Change and Innovations in Building Meaningful Contact Across Difference.
Topic(s): Community Engagement
Subtopic(s): Community Cohesion
Resource Type: Guide
Date: September 30, 2019
Target Audience(s): Service Provider
Author(s): Welcoming America


Every programmer who worked on Windows platform might have struggled with MFCs or Windows API to design GUI for their applications. Those might have worried, how if we shift to systems of different platforms like, linux, unix or macintosh. Basically every platform has its own wa of building interfaces. Now this interface development has been generalised by Trolltech.
QT is a generic class library that can be used to build GUI applications accross various platforms like Windows, Unix/X11, macintosh and embedded systems. It has been developed in C++ and commercialised in 1996. Highly interactive user interfaces can be designed using this class library. Find more about it at www.trolltech.com
Ref: Trolltech's Website
V Rama Aravind, Aug, 2004.


Description: A new book just out from Oregon State University Press includes several chapters that mention Malheur and its environs. Edited by Friends of Malheur Refuge board member Alan Contreras and two other leading Oregon bird observers, it covers early bird-related explorations beginning with the Lewis and Clark expedition and continuing through the mid-20th Century. This includes chapters on Charles E. Bendire, who studied the birds of Malheur Lake and nearby areas while stationed at Camp Harney in the late 19th Century, and William L. Finley and Herman Bohlman, who worked to establish Malheur and other refuges. In addition, the life and work of Ira Gabrielson, Stan Jewett and Dave Marshall is featured. All of them were involved in making Malheur a modern and successful refuge.


In 1804, Lewis and Clark started up the Missouri River on a journey of epic proportions. Their task—given to them by President Thomas Jefferson—was to cross the continent, home to dozens of diverse (and sometimes unfriendly) native tribes, and document a place largely unknown in the European imagination.
Barely six months earlier, Jefferson had purchased the 580-million acre Louisiana Territory from France, an immense area in the middle of the United States, but no one had a clear idea of what lay in this vast and utterly wild landscape.
Without question, the story of Lewis and Clark's two-year journey to the Pacific Ocean and back is a tale of great hardship and deprivation, but what's less often appreciated is the truly epic linguistic challenge they faced.
Imagine the task—and awesome responsibility—of having to name every plant, animal, tribe, cultural custom, and geologic feature on a two-year expedition where everything is new to you.
This was an especially daunting task because Lewis and Clark had rudimentary grade school educations (which was typical at the time), almost no scientific training, and very little worldly experience to draw from. To name this ever-changing landscape, day after day, meant they had no choice but to resort to their imagination and use whatever crude materials they had on hand.
What's particularly charming and useful about their efforts is the sincere and unpretentious way they approached this enormous undertaking. Their writing wasn't filtered through the lens of education, so more than any other piece of American literature, the Lewis and Clark journals capture the raw character of life beyond the edge of the frontier.
Faced with the task of naming countless things that no European had ever witnessed, Lewis and Clark were forced to invent words, combine words from the languages they were encountering, and use familiar English words in utterly new ways. Many of the words that came easiest to Lewis and Clark were old colloquial and dialectical words they grew up with in the backwoods of Virginia, so their journals are full of intriguing new formations like chittediddle (katydid) and hackmatack (western larch).
It's even more fascinating that at that time there were no standardized spellings, so Lewis and Clark often wrote out words phonetically, mimicking the sounds they were hearing when illiterate fur trappers or Native American translators gave them names for things. This gives us an immensely valuable glimpse into how words were spoken at a time when these wildly different cultures were mingling and uncomfortably clashing on a continent in flux.
It is said that in the course of describing this vast wilderness Lewis and Clark added 1500 new words to the English language. Many of these words are so commonplace today that we take them for granted, but names like "mule deer" and "grizzly bear" and "prairie dog" had to be invented from scratch by Lewis and Clark.
This is language in its most vital state, when everything is fresh and new. Today we have stifling grammatical rules, old dictionaries, and critical spell checkers looking over our shoulders. We forget that language is also meant to be wildly fertile and playful, that we are meant to break rules in order to speak of experiences that matter to us...just like Lewis and Clark.
Lewis and Clark witnessed herds of buffalo that took hours to pass, flocks of birds darkening the skies, animals that had no fear of humans, unmarred vistas which stretched for hundreds of miles, and proud, vibrant native cultures in their prime. It's inconceivable to imagine what that experience must have been like. It's inconceivable to imagine what it would take to name this experience.


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The winter months are the perfect time to swot up on the latest edition of the bat surveys good practice guidelines. Some Ecologists refer to this document as the ‘bat bible’ with the newest 3rd edition published this week; available as a download from the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) and in print from NHBS.
The 3rd edition contains the latest evidence and best practice guidelines, along with new and revised content. This includes new chapters on bat surveys of trees, advanced licence survey techniques and new sections on acoustic surveys at swarming sites and how to use statistics to analyse bat survey data.
This document has been reviewed by the 2nd edition authors who represent BCT, Natural Resources ales (NRW), Association of Local Government Ecologists (ALGE) and ecological consultancies, but also by representatives from Natural England (NE), Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) and an Local Planning Authority (LPA). Unfortunately the wind farms chapter has been removed from the 3rd edition guidelines along with the major infrastructure project chapter due to a delay in the publication of the National Bats and Wind Turbines project report. First Ecology have contacted the Bat Conservation Trust and have been informed that separate guidance is to be produced on windfarms which should also be available in the next few months. Until this date the relevant guidelines as stated in one of the chapters of the 2nd edition still stand.


Eds. Derek Beaulieu, Jason Christie, and Angela RawlingsThe Mercury Press, 2005 ISBN 1551281163 192 pages
Shift & Switch is an anthology of contemporary, experimental poetry, written by young poets under forty years of age. The book attempts to redress a recurrent oversight in our literary history by showcasing the work of upstart writers who do not subscribe to the lyricism of the personal anecdote, but who instead aspire to extend the boundaries of expression into unusual regimes of linguistic innovation. Such poets often go underexposed, if not unrecognized, in this country, despite their influence in other literary cultures.
Derek Beaulieu, one of the three editors, argues that, for far too long in Canada, lyric poems of both “confession and reflection” have become “flattened into a sameness,” reiterating the same forms of nostalgia in the same tones of quietude—but despite this monochrome, stylistic sensibility, most anthologies of poetry in Canada have nevertheless portrayed such traditional verse as the most progressive genre, marginalizing alternate varieties that interrogate the formal limits of such linguistic convention.
Jason Christie, one of the other editors, goes on to argue that many anthologies of poetry in Canada have also concerned themselves with definitions of cultural identity (one usually defined in opposition to the literary legacies of both America and Europe)—but while the writers in this collection are Canadian, their aesthetic interests extend beyond such national concerns: “their nationality is not a distinguishing feature of their poetry.” Such poets, instead, subscribe to an eclectic ensemble of marginalized, cosmopolitan styles.
Angela Rawlings, the last of the editors, reiterates some of these polemical arguments in a manner far more flamboyant (if not more incoherent) in tone, suggesting that, if the “cacophony” of this anthology has any cogent, poetic agenda, it must reside in its “enthusiasm for questioning what a poem may be.” The anthology thus juxtaposes varied genres, all influenced by a smorgasbord of avant-garde writers, including, among others, concrete poets, feminists, and pataphysicians, language poets, oulipians, and conceptualists.
Greg Betts, for example, has submitted excerpts from his poem If Language, a collection of correlated paragraphs, each one a lengthy anagram that completely recombines the letters from another passage by the poet Steve McCaffery. Betts highlights the potential of such permutations when he uses the letters from McCaffery to requote a passage from Shakespeare, rearranging the word “Honorificabilitudinitatibus” into “Hi ludi, F. Baconis nati, tuiti orbi”—a famous Latin phrase, attributing authorship of the plays to Bacon.
Jordan Scott, on the other hand, submits excerpts from his poem Blert, a work that attempts to turn the linguistic impediment of his stutter into the basis for a poetic genre. He gathers words that use phonemes too difficult for him to pronounce (because of his stammer), and then he recombines these glottal phrases into sound poems that, when performed by him, engage his body in a powerful struggle for expression—a kind of “mandible chatter, a gatling hopscotch:/ herring clatter buccal cove, yokel coconut acoustic.”
Sharon Harris also offers excerpts from her much awaited project Fun With Pataphysics, a work that attempts to explain poetry in the kind of low-tech, gee-whiz lingo found in science classes for kids. Harris rewrites science manuals, replacing a keyword like “world” with another word like “poems,” so that, when asked, “What would happen to the world as we know it, if poems were hollow?” she discovers that, “we would be in danger of death by suffocation, thirst, frying, starving, freezing, and drowning—in that order.”
Chris Fickling is among the many visual poets showcased in this anthology, all of whom generate pictures from letterforms, producing texts meant to be seen more than read. Fickling, for example, arranges letters on the page in such a way that they reproduce celebrated paintings from the history of art, including “The Birth of Venus” by Botticelli and “Starry Night” by Van Gogh. Such witty texts illustrate the degree to which the “imagism” of poetry has always had to compete with richer, visual traditions in the world of art.
Carmine Starnino (one of the lyric poets who might impugn such an anthology) has already complained elsewhere that the poets in this book exist in “a state of permanent adolescence,” unaccountable to the more mature, more formal, nuances of official lyricism—but his jibes at the avant-garde have always struck me as an expression of an ongoing anxiety: the fear that posterity is going to punish his generation of lyric poets for their own lack of imagination. (Starnino just does not seem to have the Klingon heart of a poet.)
While this anthology does arise from the exuberance of youthful editors, ready to break from the decorum of editorial protocols (going so far as to include examples their own work—which is in fact quite respectable in quality), the anthology nevertheless sets, in most cases, exemplary standards of excellence for its selections, and such work certainly provides a “core sample” of innovation in our literature. You may not yet recognize many of the poets in this provocative compilation—but chances are, you soon will.


Globally acclaimed Kenyan playwright and author, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has made history by becoming the first writer to be nominated for the International Booker Prize as both Author and Translator. The literary giant is also the first nominee writing in an indigenous African language (Kikuyu). The International Booker Prize is awarded every year to a book of fiction in any language that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. It is run alongside the Booker Prize for English-language fiction. The prize money is split between the book's author and its translator. Thiong'o is among 13 authors nominated for the award for best translated fiction, standing a chance to walk away with £50,000 prize. He earned the nomination (writer and translator) through his novel dubbed The Perfect Nile, described by the judges as “a magisterial and poetic tale about women’s place in a society of gods”, and written in the Bantu language Gikuyu. Thiong’o used to write novels in English until 1970 when he resolved to wrote in his mother tongue. This year’s International Booker longlist spans 11 languages and 12 countries, and many of its works also cross genres. In 2020, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o used his mother tongue Gikuyu language while making an acceptance speech for the 31st Catalonia International Prize by the Catalan government. Ngũgĩ was honored with the prestigious award for his distinguished and courageous literary work and his defense of African languages.


For many physicists, Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is the top of Physics. A whole new concept, based on a flexible Space-Time Continuum. A wonderful New and Original insight in the Origins of Space and Time. But nowadays physics requires more than a fundamental theory about Space and Time.
The Mathematical foundation for a “Quantum Mechanical Model of the Black Hole” is based on a 10-dimensional Space-Time Continuum. This article has been written in projections of a 10-Dimensional Space-Time Continuum within an easier to understand 4-Dimensional Space-Time Continuum. For that reason, this theory will not start with “Einstein’s famous Field Equations”, but the start will be at a very fundamental concept in Physics. Isaac Newton’s 3rd law as a fundament in Classical- and Quantum Mechanics.
To make the theory of the “Quantum Mechanical Model of the Black Hole” as much understandable as possible, this article starts with a short comprehension of the theory.
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Hayley J., Macpherson et al. The trouble with Hubble: Local versus global expansion rates in inhomogeneous cosmological simulations with numerical relativity. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2018;865(1).
Mc Clure M.L., Dyerb C.C. Anisotropy in the Hubble constant as observed in the HST extragalactic distance scale key project results. New Astronomy. Volume 12, Issue 7, October 2007, Pages 533-543 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newast.2007.03.005.
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Some trivia: the first English translation of the Bible was done in most part by John Wycliffe in 1383. It was a handwritten translation. In 1525 William Tyndale completed and printed a Bible for the "common man", which was smuggled into England from Germany. Tyndale was eventually arrested and burnt at the stake in 1536. King Henry VII ordered that the English Bible be used in all the churches in England sometime after 1539, so that ever Bible did become accessible by the "common man". King James I resolved that a proper translation was needed, and a panel of translators was organized in 1603. The King James Become was published in 1611.
Bible were published in South Africa from the early 1800s, with translations into many of the indigenous languages.
The Society of True Afrikaners was founded in 1875 with the purpose of translating the Bible into Afrikaans. The first complete Afrikaans Bible was only published in 1933 with a revision in 1953, known as the Afrikaans Old Translation ("ou vertaling") and considered one of the best translations of the Bible into any language. A new direct translation is currently in the works.
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NppSnippets, Snippets plug-in for Notepad++
NppSnippets is a plug-in for Notepad++. It adds the possibility to add code snippets to the current document by simply selecting it from a list.
To download version 1.3.0, click here.
Development build There are also development builds available for download. To see what's new check the documentation. Make a backup of the original DLL and your database. Put this DLL at the same place where your current DLL is. If you can't work this out yourself, a development build is probably not for you!
Please know that the 64-bit version of the plug-in is not tested much. And to install it see the manual installation instruction from the documentation.
How to install
NppSnippets.dll to the
plugins directory, copy
NppSnippets.sqlite to the
plugins/Config directory in your AppData directory and (re)start Notepad++.
How to use
To open the Snippets window, click on the "Jigsaw" button on the toolbar, or via the menu "Plugins" ➡ "Snippets" ➡ "Snippets".
The window consist of two parts. A combo where you can select the library and underneath there is the list of snippets in the chosen library. To insert a snippet simply double click on the item in the list and the snippet is inserted at the current cursor position.
When you switch to another document with another language the snippets for that new language are read from the database.
To add or edit a snippet, right-click the snippet in the list and edit. To add or edit a library right-click the combo-box where you select the current library.
For more more information see the on-line documentation.
This plugin is released under the GPL2-license. The source code can be found at GitHub.
Here are user provided libraries for everybody to download and use. They are provided as-is. I don't have the knowledge or intention to verify the quality of every library. If you find any real bug in any library please contact the author or me.
The easiest way to use the libraries is to import them into your own database by right-clicking the library combobox and choose
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Version 1.3.0 (June 2013)
- Fixed problem with inserting UTF snippets (issue #3).
- Fixed wrong title of Import Library dialog.
- Fixed some potential bugs found when trying to fix GCC compilation.
- Converted the documentation from ODT to DocBook. Because of that an on-line version of the documentation is available as well.
- Upgrade to SQLite version 188.8.131.52
For the complete release history, including the upcoming changes, see the on-line documentation.


Catholicism: Delving into the Holy See
Mover of nations, maker of kings, director of souls—the Catholic Church looms large on the world stage, as well as in the religious world. The sheer enormity of the Church's presence, the length of its history and the depth of its theology can intimidate the scholarly and the religious neophyte alike. But this ancient faith has entered the 21st century with gusto, maintaining an impressive presence online to help you research, explore and interact with Catholicism.
Read a Spanish-language version of this Web Guide.
Though Catholicism's basic tenets are the same as those of other Christian sects, its 2,000-year history of dogma, discussion and writings distinguish it from other forms of Christianity. Explore Catholic history with the sites below.
- These sites are primarily evangelical, and don't take an unbiased stance toward the Catholic faith. Regardless, they contain a wealth of information on Catholicism. Keep in mind their respective biases while taking advantage of the education they offer.
- Many of the Catholic Web sites you'll encounter are apologetics: systematic defenses of and education about the faith. Though these are intended to convince, they can nevertheless be well researched and argued, and quite informative.
For Catholic history ...
Catholic Apologetics Information
links to articles and excerpts that explain the history of the Catholic church, including ecclesiastical history, history of heresies, persecutions of Catholics throughout history and more.
Encyclopedia is a powerful resource for anyone needing clarification of details about the Catholic faith. Of particular interest is a full chronological list of Popes since the beginning of the Church.
Vatican II-The Voice of the Church
devotes itself to education, opinions, and analysis of Vatican II and its implications for the Church. Written by the representative of the English Benedictine Congregation attending the conference, it is a scholarly and serious resource.
For official Catholic organizations ...
The Holy See
is the official site of the Vatican. Find Catholic news, information on Vatican museums and the Vatican library, archives and more.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
is an extensive site that links to all ministries and departments of this official Church organization. If you're looking to connect with official Catholic efforts in the U.S. in any area of religion, culture, politics or media, this is the place.
For Catholic texts ...
The Holy See Archives
offers the official versions of the fundamental Catholic texts, such as the Bible, the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Documents of the II Vatican Council.
Thinking of converting to Catholicism or just wanting to learn more about Catholic beliefs and practices? The sites below offer a range of sources for those new to the Catholic faith.
- The sites in this guide deal with the specific beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church. For more information regarding the basis of the Catholic faith, see the findingDulcinea Web Guide to Christianity.
is written by a convert to the faith and is a practical and educational guide to Catholic beliefs and practices. Although aimed at the new convert, its categories, found on the left sidebar, provide good resources for anyone interested in the religion.
knowledge base is actually a database of all past questions posed to its team of apologists and grammarians and their informative answers. If you're pondering something more specific, venture your own question here.
is one of the better-known apologetics sites, aiming to educate you in Catholic beliefs, practices, lifestyle and history. For more information on any issue, join the site's forum to take part in a discussion with other users.
A religion, a church, a state? In a sense, the Catholic Church is all of these, stemming from the unusual nature of the Vatican as a political, diplomatic and religious body. As such, there is a wealth of activity and events to report on, discuss and analyze in the Catholic world. Find Catholic news, including Catholic TV and radio sources, with the sites below.
- The Vatican publishes its own weekly newspaper, which is available online.
- Some of these sites are secular looks at Catholic news. Most, however, have Catholic perspectives, each incorporating the Catholic faith in a different way. Read enough of any site you visit to understand its message and point of view before you bookmark it.
provides well-written news. Designed as a clone of The New York Times site, this newspaper has many of the same features and sections you'd find on a newspaper of that style, but with a Catholic perspective.
Roman Catholic Church section, part of a larger Christianity page, gathers Catholicism-related articles from its impressive news archives and daily articles. Read up on the developments within the Catholic Church that the mainstream media is following.
Catholic News Agency
focuses on news of the Holy See. Besides its quality news reports, you'll find a number of podcasts, as well as documents and resource sections with more information from the Church, such as encyclicals.
brings you reporting (with a Catholic perspective) of news across greater Asia. Available in Italian, English and Chinese (choose the respective flags on the top right), this site is both a news agency and a mission, spreading a Catholic view of the modern world.
is a vibrant collection of articles, commentary and features on Catholic issues today. Based on the teachings and philosophy of Pope John Paul II and Vatican II, this is a forward-looking approach to the Catholic Church and faith.
For Catholic newswire services ...
is a Catholic newswire service that posts some of its content online. The site has straightforward articles on the day's news. For a quick dose of Catholic news in seven different languages, this is the place to visit.
For Catholic TV and radio ...
is the official broadcasting station of the Holy See. Available in 34 languages, its radio programs are presented in multiple formats. There are also print articles that focus on religious programs and news of the Vatican and the Pope. These articles also cover greater world affairs in a Catholic context.
Although widely dispersed around the world, the immense and diverse Catholic community can all come together online. For Catholic dating, education, discussion, business and more, use the sites below to connect with the Catholic community's global citizens.
- Always be careful when sharing personal information online. For more information on how to protect yourself and your family while taking advantage of what the online community has to offer, read the findingDulcinea Internet Security Web Guide.
For Catholic portal sites ...
is a gateway to the Catholic world online. With feature articles, tools for the faith, reviews, a Catholic dictionary and more, this site tries to encompass all aspects of a Catholic lifestyle.
is a bilingual site (English and Spanish) that tries to cover the full range of Catholic life with articles and resources. Browse the site to find daily prayers, news, Mass times and more.
is a portal site and community tool. Find links to all kinds of Catholic sites and services, such as the "Find A Church" clickable map tool. A membership enables church ministries, organizations and other institutions to access a full suite of online tools, including free Web hosting, e-mail and other Catholic community-enhancing features.
For Catholic community organizations ...
The Pope Benedict XVI Fan Club
is your stop for everything papal. Unofficial and informal, you'll find a biography of the man, links, interviews, resources and a blog.
National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry
exists to help foster, develop and shepherd the Catholic youth community. Find information on the organization's programs, and links at the bottom left of the page to other Catholic youth organizations.
For Catholic dating sites...
is a dating site specifically for Catholic singles. This company also runs similar sites for Jewish and other Christian singles.
has a quick sign-up process. Included in your profile are answers to basic questions about your agreement with Catholic teaching, although disagreements don't preclude you from joining. Though primarily a Catholic dating site, it is open to non-Catholics, as well as people simply looking to meet other Catholics for professional or friendly reasons.
They say you can't throw a stone in Rome without hitting a Catholic church. For those of us elsewhere (or less inclined to cast the first stone), there are online tools to help you find a Catholic church.
- Many "Find a Church" sites are user-generated, meaning a church must enter itself into the database. As a result, not all sites list the same results. If you can't find what you're looking for on one, try your luck on another.
- The Catholic Church is hierarchical: If you're having trouble finding a local church, contact your local diocese for help.
is intended to help travelers find an appropriate place to attend Mass, but it can be useful for anyone looking for a church. Search by location, country, zip code or phone number, or include criteria such as services offered (for example, adoration, confession or devotion), languages served and more.
lets you search for Catholic parishes by name, city, state, zip code, pastor, Diocese, area code or phone number.
is a simple church locator for all major Christian denominations and Judaism. Results are simple, consisting of the church name and address.
The Catholic Church is not only a religious organization, it is also one of the largest charity and relief bodies in the world. Volunteer with the Catholic Church and work for social justice, economic development, health education, disaster relief and more.
- Your church is another great resource for finding communities in need of help. Ask the clergy (or members involved in the community) if they are aware of any Catholic charities or if they know of any volunteer opportunities.
To find Catholic charities ...
has a great list of Catholic organizations and causes held in high esteem in the Catholic community. Scroll down the page to find the list on the right side.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
offers information on the issues, campaigns and organizations of the USCCB that focus on social issues. Here you'll find information on ways to get involved with all their efforts.
Catholic Relief Services
is the official international relief and humanitarian agency of the Catholic community, operating in more than 90 countries in need of development and relief services. Its expansive site presents information on CRS efforts, as well as the resources you need to get involved with all the relief, food security, agriculture, fair trade, health services and other charity work done by the organization.
With the large presence of the Vatican and Catholic churches on the Web, it's easy to forget that the Catholic Church is made up primarily of its members. Culture, religion, faith, charity, the Vatican, world news: All can be found on Catholic blogs.
- The blogosphere is huge, even the Catholic corner of it, so a comprehensive list of the best-quality Catholic blogs out there is nearly impossible to compile. To find more Catholic blogs, surf the blogrolls of the Catholic blogs you enjoy.
- Remember that blogs are a highly subjective source of information and are not intended to represent the values and opinions of the entire Catholic community.
For Catholic blog directories ...
Catholic Blog Directory
is a simple but rich alphabetical list of Catholic blogs, with additional sections for blogs by members of the clergy. Browse here for some real finds.
Saint Blogs Parish
is a directory of hundreds of Catholic blogs. Browse the categories listed at the top of the page.
For some leading Catholic blogs ...
is an excellent window on the modern world through the eyes of Catholics, written by a group of politically and demographically diverse bloggers.
Whispers in the Loggia
meticulously tracks the day-to-day events of the Catholic church. The author, Rocco Palmo, has cultivated an array of insider sources, and his blog has about 8,000 readers a day, some of whom are Church officials. Palmo claims that the Pope himself reads the blog, but even if he doesn't, the blog is a detailed source for lay people curious about the Vatican.
focuses more on issues of faith and doctrine than on news or current events. Come here for a layperson's take on the state of the Catholic faith and for theological discussion.
is a playful yet well-written blog on Catholicism, the world and the life of its author, a lay ecclesial minister. True to its name, the author doesn't shy away from the kind of language and emotion you find on the rest of the blogosphere, bringing a refreshing everyday humanity to her writing.
Most Recent Guides


COFFEE ROASTERS COMPANION
If you are an experienced roaster, new to roasting or simply interested in roasting, this book is a MUST HAVE for your library. This is Scott's third printed and published book and once again he delivers. With 20+ years experience he has done a great job including a lot of information on key topics and presenting it in a very accessible way that is engaging for a novice roaster as well as an experienced veteran. Having grown up in a coffee producing family I did not start working in coffee independently until 1994 the same year Scott did and I have a great appreciation for his methodical approach as an educator, author and consultant. If you pick up this book I recommend you set aside a few hrs of time, brew up a great cup of coffee, sit down and enjoy from cover to cover in one sitting.
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The book is a comprehensive book on everything under the sun. How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, ‘n’ how many seas must a white dove sail
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Yes, ‘n’ how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND, 1962
Copyright 1962 by Warner Bros. Inc. Renewed 1990 by Special Rider Music


Life as a Software Developer: Best practices and life skills, First Edition
Knowing what to expect about working as a Software Developer is crucial and can go a long way towards succeeding in the software industry. Life as a Software Developer was written for just this purpose, to help students studying software development and to give recent graduates insight into their prospective field. You will learn about:
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The book contains much practical advice which you can take away, together with the skill set gained from obtaining your qualification. The transition from student to a working professional will become easier because the advice given can be learned quickly rather than through your own experience - taking years to acquire. This book acts as a coach so you avoid common pitfalls saving time, money, and other resources in your life.
As a result, the book will give you more structure in your career instead of figuring out the hard way what you should do. It will enable you to make better decisions, find ways to generate more money, and be employed in the right company. I believe the experience I've had working in the industry, and some of the mistakes I've made and almost made have added more value to this book.
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Overall this book has been an excellent source of increasing my awareness in an organization and handling different day to day scenarios effectively, and I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is just starting out, as well as those who have been long time developers, who may be after help keeping up with current practices, trying to solve an issue that only another developer would have experienced firsthand or after some information about how to further their career."


The second volume from the exciting Dayo series is here! After spending years under the tutelage
of master riverspirit Fola and drum king Lekan, our young heroine is finally ready to reclaim her
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The Bluegrass Banjo Chord Bible, with its 2,160 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by many jazz players. To accompany the 2,160 chords, a further 720 possible moveable chord configurations are included, together with a useful range of slash chords, reflecting the popularity of this type of chord in many of today's artist and compilation topline songbooks.
This highly comprehensive guide provides the musician with no fewer than 68 different types of chord in all twelve keys, making it the definitive publication for the bluegrass banjo. Whether you play folk, rock, pop, jazz or any other type of popular music, The Bluegrass Banjo Chord Bible makes the ideal reference source for all occasions.
Standard Chords covered in The Bluegrass Banjo Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C, Cm, C7, Cm7, C5, C6, Cm6, Cmaj7, Cdim, Cdim7, C-5, C+, Csus2, Csus4, C7sus4, Cm7-5, Cadd9, Cmadd9, C6add9, Cm6add9, C7-5, C7+5, C7-9, C7+9, Cm(maj7), Cmaj7-5, Cmaj7+5, C9, Cm9, Cmaj9, C11, C13.
Advanced Chords covered in The Bluegrass Banjo Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C4, Cadd11, Csus4add9, Cm-6, C7sus2, C7-5-9, C7-5+9, C7+5-9, C7+5+9, C7add11, C7add13, C7+11, Cm7-5-9, Cm7-9, Cm7add11, Cmaj7+11, C9sus4, C9-5, C9+5, C9+11, Cm9-5, Cm(maj9), Cmaj9-5, Cmaj9+5, Cmaj9+11, Cmaj9add6, C11-9, Cm11, Cmaj11, C13sus4, C13-5-9, C13-9, C13+9, C13+11, Cm13, Cmaj13.
Major Slash Chords covered in The Bluegrass Banjo Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C/C, C/Db, C/D, C/Eb, C/E, C/F, C/F#, C/G, C/Ab, C/A, C/Bb, C/B.
Beside the many pages of chord boxes or windows, the book features useful sections on tuning, chord construction, fingerboard layout, FAQs, alternative chord naming, fingering, slash chords, harmonic intervals, chord window blanks for transcribing your own favorite chord sequences etc.
Review of features:
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- 144 Major slash chords in all keys
- 720 possible moveable chord positions
- Standard 'Open G' (gDGBD) tuning
- Chord theory, FAQs and tuning guides
- Fingerboard diagrams
- Banjo family factfile
- Alternative chord naming chart
- Blank chord windows for your own jottings and arrangements
The aim of this guide is to provide the musician with the flexibility only really offered to guitar and keyboard players in the past. Now, with the help of The Bluegrass Banjo Chord Bible, musicians will be able to pick up any songbook and instantly have access to even the most complex and advanced chords.
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Lusatian compositor Korla August Kocor (1822 – 1904) devoted a lot of attention to case studies of folk music, not only Lusatian but also Czech, Russian, Slovakian and Polish. His earliest studies of Polish folk melodies (with Lusatian words) were composed in 1845. In years 1867 – 1868 he again devoted himself to Polish folk songs. Firstly, he adjusted two numbers for the choir and secondly - six numbers for the accompaniment of violin and piano. The material used for these works came from Juliusz Roger's compilation, edited in Wrocław in 1863. Kocor was the first composer to use this compilation.


Glorious Papers (Techniques for applying colour to paper): Ruth Issett (Batsford) Ruth is a real colourist, and the ideas she has for using paint, paper and other supplies you can get from any artists shop are amazing. There's also a chapter on what you can do with the papers once you've made them.
ArtEffects: Jean Drysdale-Green (Watson Guptill) This book's for artists, but covers all sorts of media (inks, watercolour, acrylics, oils, pastels etc) and shows you how to use them in weird and wonderful ways to get great backgrounds.
Origami: The Art of Paper-Folding #1: Robert Harbin (1968, Coronet) It's as old as I am, good easy to follow introduction that gets quite complicated towards the end
The Origami Bible: A Practical Guide to the Art of Paper Folding: Nick Robinson (2004, Collins & Brown/ Crysallis Books) Again, a good solid easy to follow introduction that gets very very complicated towards the end. Bought this as I'm a huge fan of the Wet Folding or 'new experimental' origami section at the end. Not that I've ever tried it, I just look at the pictures.
On Paper: New Paper Art: Jane Thomas & Paul Jackson (2001 Crafts Council/ Merrell) Catalogue for an exhibition I never saw - the sections on 'new folding' and 'cut & constructed' are particularly inspiring
Fabric Painting for Embroidery: Valerie Campbell-Harding (Batsford) Valerie's ideas can be used equally well for paper, she has great suggestions for printing motifs using household objects (like half a cauliflower floret) and the illustrations are gorgeous.
Finding Your Own Visual Language (A Practical Guide to Design & Composition): Jane Dunnewold, Claire Benn & Leslie Morgan (Committed to Cloth)


My own experienced of theatre at SJCHS begins in 1988, when I began my career here as a teacher. Prior to that, I depend on yearbooks to tell me that the gymnasium was the first theatre on the campus. There was a proscenium stage on the north, and the floor was covered in linoleum. For the 70s, most theatrical productions, like skits and plays, and Mass took place in this assembly space for the SJCHS community, until the decision was made to put in a competition-grade wood floor in the gymnasium, which displaced the theatre. Outside the gym, Sister Elizabeth Marie, C.S.C. led students to trophy status in Speech and Drama competitions with other Utah high schools; she is remembered very fondly for her good work with students.
In 1985, the Browning family and many community supporters built the library addition. Part of this building project was the creation of an outdoor amphitheatre on the north side of the library. It had a small stage, still present, and four banks of turf seats held in place by railroad ties. The school’s first production of Pippin took place here, as well as God’s Favorite, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Godspell. Some of the directors during this time were Mark Hoffman, Tom and Barb Legoski, and Mike Lovett. Weather permitting, this was the venue for Mass. At other times, Mass was in the cafeteria, and that was also where dances were held.
Theatre moved indoors during the 1990s. The cafeteria became the theatre, with the raised portion serving as both stage and back stage. The crew built a stage extension which stretched out to the west wall. The faculty room was the green room, the Advancement office a dressing room. For musicals, the band played on the stage, to the east behind a scrim. Alice in Wonderland, Harvey, Arsenic and Old Lace, Little Women, Nunsense, and Grease were some of the standout performances in this theatre. Directors for these plays were Bryan Jeffreys (SJCHS’91), Reb Gale Fleming, Ralph Coleman, and Michelle Blaney. Living Stations premiered at SJCHS here, directed by Kim Beger. The music program, begun by Barb Legoski, was taken over by Alfonso Tenreiro in 1998. Band and Vocal were taught in the cafeteria two days a week each, before school, so they would not disturb classes.
1999-2000 saw the dream of a real Performing Arts and school assembly space take shape. A capital campaign was begun by Principal David Lang, and carried on by the next principal, Claudia Raab, under the Advancement director, Sherri Hansen (SJCHS ’78). Plans were considered, revised, scaled down, scaled up, in response to the generosity of the many donors to the campaign. Central to the completion of the project was a very generous gift from the ALSAM foundation-on St. Joseph’s Day, 2001- which brought the campaign to its goal and allowed the gifts of the other donors, such as Bob and Mary Evans for the theatre, Mike and Denny Joseph, the Val A. Browning Foundation, the Stewart Education Foundation, and the Samuel C. and Myra Powell Foundation, among many others, to move from hope to concrete. Construction began in summer of 2001, and the building was dedicated in 2003. The school schedule was revised from 7 periods to 8, to allow all grades elective choices so cadres of performing and visual artists could form.
The new Performing Arts facility, dedicated in 2003, brought the Evans Theatre, with its scene shop, costume storage, and green room; a dance studio; music room; and television production studio to the education of the Jayhawks. The total facility also added conference and catering facilities, an upgraded Visual Arts studio, a new Computer Science room, and two new classrooms to the campus.
The Evans theatre provides an appropriate space for school Masses and gatherings, as well as community events; it is now a centerpiece of our school. Central to its purpose is the staging of all performing arts- drama and musical, concerts for band, vocal, and dance, and events such as Living Stations. The Jayhawks present and future look forward to the next memorable event to occur in its great space!
Note: Mr. Allred has been a teacher, principal and actor at Saint Joseph Catholic High School. He currently holds a position on the Saint Joseph Catholic Schools School Board.


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The 'Leaping Gazelle' flash/insignia of the British XIII Corps and later of Allied Force Trieste is used here until a general masthead has been developed for the Old Soldiers' Home webpages. Suggestions are welcomed.
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An Historical Perspective of the TRUST Command
Compiled by Charles D. NoblesQuick link: detailed content listing
This webpage introduces a journalists' view of the history of the May 1945 - October 1947 occupation of Venezia Giulia by Allied Forces and their 1947-1954 peacekeeping mission in the Free Territory of Trieste, 103 articles and reports in all.
Although most of the papers come from American sources, there is relevant information for our veterans, families, and friends of British XIII Corps, BETFOR (British Element Trieste Force), British 24th Infantry Brigade, and their supporting units.
We are all indebted to Chuck Nobles, Tank Company, 351st Infantry, TRUST, who several years ago sent me a paper copy of previously-lost files he had created. I have, with equipment only now available to me, recreated 'PDF' files from that material.
The Introduction and a listing of the contents are downloadable as a 2.2 MB, 10 page PDF file at Doc2002_Trieste.pdf, http://www.timelycomputerstuff.com/oldsoho/thp/Doc2002_Trieste.pdf
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The huge task of ending the series Robert Jordan created, is so monumental it would scare most people off. Luckily, Brandon Sanderson wasn’t scared, and that gave all of us Wheel of Time-fans a hope of someday seeing the bookline finished.
The book is, of course, good. Originally meant to be the finishing twelth book of the series, the script became so huge that it is now the first of the ending trilogy, making it the twelth book out of fourteen. The story lines are continued in a way that follows up with the world that we’ve previously gotten to know through Jordan’s pen. We follow each of the main characters on their adventures, maintaining all of the time an infuriating feeling of suspense. The people we know are changing, for better and for worse. Mat, Perrin and Rand are still in different places. Mat has seperated from Tuon, and finds himself back with the band. We don’t hear much about him in this book. Tuon is back with the Seanchan, now an Empress, and even though We’ve come to like her during the last book, it’s annoying to see her clashing against Rand and the rest of the world, making mistakes based on predjudice and misassumptions. Perrin is not being in focus in this book either, but we get a sense that something is changing about him and his relationships. Rand is maybe the one changing the most, and during the book, we see an even darker side of him, where he’s affected by the long-dead madman in his head. At lest for Rand, there is a breakthrough at the end of the book, making everything a bit less frustrating.
Egwene is also an important character of this book, and everything she does and discovers in the divided Tower, makes this book really exciting. Next to the main theme of Rand’s struggle with his own mind, this is the story that keeps everything moving forward. We also get a long expected glimpse of Tam, who in this book has made his way back into the series.
Many might say that Sanderson makes a good job of blending in with the previous author’s way of writing. I agree that even though Jordan was a remarkable writer, it would be tiresome to read all the eleven other books in a row because of his intricate descriptions and his way of almost repeating certain things. But then again, that was part of what made the Wheel of Time-books for me, and I must admit that even though Sanderson is a splendid writer, it annoyed me that I sometimes got distracted while reading because I knew Jordan would never write it that way. Still, that’s just my opinion, and the book is still very, very good, and has an ending worthy to be a part of the Wheel of Time-books.
I think you’ll like it.


CURRENT ECONOMIC ISSUES
by A. V. Sloan, Stanford MBA
Analyze all sides by asking:
"What's in it for them?"
This book is part a series for high school economics and social studies courses. Other books are "The Invisible Hand" (free markets) and "Fostering Prosperity" (government's role).
01 (page #).. TABLE OF CONTENTS:
02 Chapter 1 ANALYZING A CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE
04 Chapter 2 DRUGS: Lessons from the Prohibition era
06 Chapter 3 CRIME: Reducing its frequency and cost
09 Chapter 4 WELFARE: Helping those in greatest need
12 Chapter 5 HEALTH CARE: Controlling increasing costs
16 Chapter 6 ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Discouraging It
18 Chapter 7 EDUCATION: Getting the most for the dollar
20 Chapter 8 LEGAL SYSTEM: Reducing the costs of suits
22 Chapter 9 SPORTS TEAMS: Should taxes support them?
24 Chapter 10 INHERITANCE TAXES: How high should they be?
What's the best way to solve problems like drugs, crime, or health care costs? Rather than argue for specific solutions, this book presents an economics based method for analyzing such issues. Readers are encouraged to look at major issues in a rational way and to develop their own point of view on the best solution.
The start of Chapter I:
Politicians are always arguing. "Taxes should be reduced!" "No, lowering taxes would mean cuts in vital government services!" Which side is right? How can we analyze a controversial issue? A good starting point is to listen carefully to the messages each side is sending.
For a full chapter, click to readChapter II on analyzing the issue of Illegal Drugs.
See author's correspondencewith The Federal Reserve on other Current Issues
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The aim of this project was to conduct research in analytic aesthetics through a series of conversations with 10 leading figures in the field. The project was supported by the British Society of Aesthetics and the American Society for Aesthetics and the resulting conversations are published by Oxford University Press (2017). The book gives readers new insights into key issues in aesthetics and a better understanding of the theoretical approach and outlook of the individual philosophers who participated in the project. The book also contains black-and-white portraits of all contributing philosophers made by the internationally renowned photographer Steve Pyke (MBE, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, staff photographer at The New Yorker, whose work is held in many permanent collections, including National Portrait Gallery and V&A in London). The portrait of Noël Carroll was made by Claire Anscomb.
An excerpt from Professor Murray Smith’s Foreword:
“Maes pulls off something rather remarkable with Conversations: a book which works well as both an introduction and as a more advanced text. In part this arises from the fact that Maes fully exploits the potential of conversation, at once the possession of all of us, and a major tool for philosophical inquiry. For the novice and the lay person, on the one hand, the format of the conversation encourages directness and simplicity, for as it unfolds a conversation requires a high degree of ongoing, mutual comprehension on the part its participants in order to continue; at least in its original live incarnation, a conversation offers no opportunity to pore over lengthy statements. For the expert, on the other hand, there is an equally great reward, for the informality of the interview encourages a cut-to-the-chase clarity and no-beating-around-the-bush frankness, compelling interviewees to lay their cards on the table.
In Conversations Maes has gathered together and interviewed at length a group of aestheticians of the top rank, and in doing so he has created a unique introduction to and overview of contemporary aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Other books might have other strengths, but no book will give you a richer and more dialectical account of the state of contemporary aesthetics, a more diverse account of its objects of study or the variety of stances taken towards them.”


Federation of AHS
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The Association held a conference entitled,
Debauch and Outrage? A commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the Norfolk Islanders in Tasmania
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Zherebtsov Igor L.
Director of the Institute, Doctor of Sciences (History)
L. Zherebtsov was born on November 24, 1960 in Syktyvkar. In 1983 he graduated with honors from the Historical faculty of Syktyvkar State University, and went to work to the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1983-1984 he served in the Soviet Army. Since 1984 he works at the Institute of Language, Literature and History, graduated from postgraduate course on speciality 07.00.02 – history of the USSR (by correspondence), occupied positions of a senior laboratory assistant, Junior researcher, researcher, senior researcher, Head of the Department of History and Ethnography, Scientific Secretary of the Institute (1996-2001), Deputy Director for scientific affairs (2001-2010). Since December 2010, he was Acting Director of the Institute, in April 2011 at the General meeting of the Ural Branch of the RAS he was elected Director of the Institute.
In May 1989 in Moscow (People’s Friendship University) he defended his Candidate’s dissertation on speciality 07.00.02 – history of the USSR “Migration of population of the Komi region in the end of XVI − beginning of XVIII century”, in November 1998 in Ekaterinburg (Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences) – the Doctoral dissertation on speciality 07.00.02 – national history “Demographic processes in the Komi region in the end of XV – beginning of XX century”. He has the academic title of “senior researcher” (1994).
I.L. Zherebtsov is one of the leading scientists-historians of the European North of the Russian Federation, founder of large-scale historical and demographic researches in the North-East of European Russia, Honored worker of the Republic of Komi. He published more than 450 works, including more than 20 monographs and encyclopedias in Russia, Belarus, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, India, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Slovakia, Turkmenistan, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, South Korea, as well as articles in domestic and foreign scientific collections and journals “Acta historica neosoliensia”, “N66 – Kulturi Barentsregionen”, “Linguistics uralica”, “Journal of the Belarusian State University. History”, “Belaruski gistarychny chasopis”, “Russian and Slavic studies”, “Russian history”, “World of Russia”, “Ural historical Bulletin”, “Carelia”, “Nature”, “Life of nationalities”, “Monuments of the Fatherland”, “Nestor”, “Nevton”, “Finno-Ugric world”, “Finno-Ugric studies”, etc. He made presentations at 35 international and 40 all-Union and all-Russian scientific congresses, conferences and symposia in Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkmenistan, Finland, Estonia, South Korea and Russia, at more than 40 regional scientific forums.
He made a great contribution to the development of important problems of the historical demography of the Finno-Ugric peoples, the history of the Northern regions. Having studied the impact of natural and geographical conditions on demographic processes at different stages of history, he proved the relationship between the changes occurring in these processes and climate change, formulated the conceptual framework of the approach to the analysis of climate change as an important factor in the history of population, proposed in the framework of the theory of demographic cycles to consider climate change as a factor determining these cycles. He conducted a comparative study of the historical and demographic development of the Finno-Ugric peoples, revealed the significant role of the climatic factor in their demographic history. He showed that the migrations of immigrants from European Russia to the Urals and beyond the Urals were the result of climate change, that the development of Siberia and the Far East was initially international in composition of the pioneers, highlighted the significant role of the Komi Republic in this process. He revealed the regional features of demographic processes in the European North of Russia. Very important and promising is the complex interdisciplinary approach used by I. L. Zherebtsov to the study of historical and demographic problems, in which the traditional methods of analysis of historical sources are organically supplemented by methods of related Sciences – anthroponymy, dialectology, folklore, which allows to obtain additional very significant scientific results.
Besides, I.L. Zherebtsov’s research traces the history of the administrative-territorial division of the European North of Russia, proposes a new concept of the political history of the European North-East during the period of revolutions and civil war, identifies the main stages of formation and development of humanitarian science in the Komi Republic.
He is carrying out extensive scientific-organizational work. He made a significant contribution to the coordination of humanitarian research in the Republic of Komi, to the creation of fundamental research on the history and culture of the region. He is heading 16 of the planned research themes and scientific projects, performed by the Programs of fundamental researches of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Branch, RAS, grants of the Russian Foundation for Humanitarian Sciences and the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research. He organized 15 international and all-Russia, as well as a number of regional scientific forums, including a series of conferences and symposiums on historical demography. He is Responsible editor of more than 40 scientific publications, organizer of the scientific journal “Historical demography” (2009), thematic series of collections of articles “Ethno-demographic processes in the North of Eurasia” and “Daily life of the Komi region”. He is Chairman of the Presidium of the Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch, RAS, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the National Museum of the Komi Republic, Chairman of the Komi Republican charity public Fund of victims of political repressions “Repentance”, a member of the United Scientific Council for Humanities, Ural Branch, RAS, of the Board of the international society of historians “Fenno-Ugrika”, of the Russian Committee of Finno-Ugric historians, of the Collegium of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Komi, of the public Council of Municipality “Syktyvkar”, member of Editorial Board of scientific journals “Journal of the Belarusian State University. History”, “Ural Historical Bulletin”, “Proceedings of the Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch, RAS”, “Finno-Ugric world”, “Heritage”. For achievements in the field of fundamental research and scientific-organizational work he was awarded the State scientific scholarship for outstanding scientists of Russia, was awarded Honorary certificates of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch, RAS, Honorary diplomas of I.Kuza University (Iasi, Romania) and M.Bela University (Banska Bystrica, Slovakia), the honorary title “Honored worker of science and technology of the Russian Federation”.
I.L. Zherebtsov’s research is of great practical importance for the development of a new concept of demographic development of the North, taking into account the centuries-old experience of human habitation in this region, for educational, cultural and educational activities. For research important for the socio-economic development of the Republic of Komi, he was awarded the honorary titles “Honored worker of the Republic of Komi” and “Honorary scientist of the Republic of Komi”, he is twice winner of the Prize of the Government of the Komi Republic, was awarded the medal “For services in the all-Russian census of 2002”, Diplomas of the Republic of Komi, the State Council of the Republic of Komi, the territorial body of the Federal state statistics service of the Republic of Komi.
He actively cooperates with higher education institutions of the Republic of Komi, the European North of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Slovakia, makes a great contribution to training: directs graduate students and doctoral students, conducts scientific and practical conferences of young scientists, students and schoolchildren. Under his leadership, 2 Candidate’s Dissertations were defended. He is Foreign co-head of 5 doctoral students (PhD). He was a member of the regional dissertation Council at Syktyvkar State University, headed the State attestation and examination commissions, he regularly acts as an opponent in the defense of Doctoral and Candidate’s dissertations in various dissertation councils. He is co-author of 7 textbooks; his works are widely used in the educational process. He is Laureate of the State prize of the Republic of Komi in the field of education, awarded with Diplomas of the Ministry of Education and Higher School of the Komi Republic, Syktyvkar State University.
He fruitfully conducts popularization work: published 20 popular science books, a large number of materials in the media; was the editor-in-chief of the journal of local lore, one of the organizers and leaders of the Society for the study of the Komi region and the cultural and educational organization “Syktyvkar”. He was winner of the RFBR scientific and popular articles competitions, for educational work was awarded Diplomas of the Russian Union of veterans of Afghanistan, Ministries of Culture and National Policy of the Republic of Komi, Municipality “Syktyvkar”, etc., Diploma of the Political Council of the party “United Russia”, letters of Thanks of the Head of the Republic of Komi, Interregional public movement “Culture brings people together”, etc.