70,000 books from Cornell Libraries online now
December 16th, 2009
Today Cornell and the Internet Archive announce that over 70,000 public-domain books are available free online (many still to come). These are beautiful books that are now available with no restrictions. Thank you Cornell, Kirtas, and Microsoft. The Internet Archive has reformatted and re-OCR'ed the books to be compatible with the books scanned by the Internet Archive and many of the other collections available on the archive.org site.
Thank you to Anne R. Kenney, Oya Yildirim Rieger, William R. Kehoe Jr. all of Cornell; Jay Girotto, Danielle Tiedt of Microsoft; Lotfi Belkhir of Kirtas; and Hank Bromley of the Internet Archive, for making all of this happen.
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/ Nursery's in Bolton
Netmums
Tonge Moor Community Primary School, Stott Lane, Tonge Moor, Bolton, Lancashire, BL2 2LR
Monday - Friday 8.55am - 3pm during term times
Age Range: 3 yrs - 4yrs 11 months Area Forum - Tonge with the Haulgh
Website About NHS Direct
NHS DIRECT Twitter Website Address
NHS Jobs & Careers
NHS Direct Membership - Why Join?
NHS Direct - Choices Bolton Life
Young Bolton Life
Bolton Churches
The Bolton Church Network
Worldchurch Blogspot
UK Church Database (BOLTON)
The Grace Centre Bolton
Visitor Information - Which Church should I go to
Kings Church
Bolton Revisited "The Tonge Moor Bomb"
Bolton Primary Care Trust
Can't think of any Fundraising/ ideas? Think again:
A websitefor charity jobs and "not-for-profit" networking
Some Lancashire Features........
Travel Information for Lancashire
Faith in Lancashire
History
U-NEEK
Contact: Delia McGheen
Phone: 01204 546070
U-Neek is a music group formed mainly by Member's of BAND. They practice on Friday afternoons.
They perform regulary at the Royal Bolton Hospital,in many homes for the elderly and they have performed in The Church at The Centre.
They are an excellent group and are certainly recommended.
Social housing
Bolton Council may be 200 miles away but it faces similar issues to London councils in managing ex-offenders in the community. Jon Powell is the Homeless Welfare Manager at Bolton. He says:
"Ex-offenders are not a homogenous group. There have committed different types of crimes and they present different types of risk. Accommodation is key to minimising the risk to some of them but not all. Our homelessness and housing strategy is closely linked to offender management."
Social housing for single people in the borough is at a premium. For every property that comes up there are at least 100 people who express an interest. Powell says:
"When you are looking at the housing needs of ex-offenders you are constantly weighing up the risk of re-offending and their vulnerability. We have a finite resource, which has to be carefully targeted to get the most out of it.
"We also have to be very aware that for every flat that comes available, there is a long list of working, law-abiding citizens who also have housing needs. They too need a bite of the cherry and a balance needs to be struck." |
