Workshop on Hark and Listen at British Council India, New Delhi

Date and Time: 28 December, 2013 (Saturday), 11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Address: British Council India, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi  110001

Age group between: 10 and 14 years

Registration fee: INR 400 per person

Email ID: delhi.enquiry@in.britishcouncil.org

About the Event: This workshop will help enhance listening skills in children. It involves listening to songs, dialogues, short comprehension tasks and some fun activities. Children will learn how to listen and respond in a clear and organised manner. Come and be a part of this workshop and learn to listen consciously and effectively.

Fun Festival for Children from 20 December, 2013 to 29 December, 2013

Indian Festivals, Holi

Holi

Holi is the festival of colors. It marks the coming of spring. It is celebrated in the month of phalgun. it occurs on the day of full moon.

  This festival is of 2 days. The importance of the 1 day is-long time ago there was one cruel king Hiranyakashypu, he wanted everybody to worship him instead of god.  But Prahlad followed Vishnu. He planned to kill prahlad.  He thought that Holika would sit with him in the bonfire because Holika could not be harmed by fire by virtue of a boon from GOD.But the opposite happened-Holika died and prahlad came out without getting burnt. The triumph of prahlad represents victory of good over evil.  

     In North India on the eve of holy bonfire are lit. They enjoy by singing and dancing. The next day they enjoy with gulal. Some people enjoy this with gulal ,water, water balloons, bucket of water, water guns and harmful colors.

it is a very joyful festival.

 ISHITA RASTOGI

 VI-E

BAL BAHARATI PUBLIC SCHOOL

Brij Vihar, Ghaziabad

Norway Decided to Digitize All the Norwegian Books

The National Library of Norway is planning to digitize all the books by the mid 2020s. 

Yes. All. The. Books. In Norwegian, at least. Hundreds of thousands of them. Every book in the library's holdings.

By law, "all published content, in all media, [must] be deposited with the National Library of Norway," so when the library is finished scanning, the entire record of a people's language and literature will be machine-readable and sitting in whatever we call the cloud in 15 years. 

If you happen to be in Norway, as measured by your IP address, you will be able to access all 20th-century works, even those still under copyright. Non-copyrighted works from all time periods will be available for download. 

Here in the States, we are struggling to make even a small percentage of English-language works accessible to the citizens of our fine country, despite the efforts of groups like the Digital Public Library of America, Hathi Trust, and (I dare say)Google. 

Which means that we are not ready for the apocalypse. But the Norwegians, that's a people preparing for the deep future. Now they are home to the Svalbard Seed Vault and they will have all the books stored away. 

Imagine digital archaeologists coming across the remains of early 21st century civilization in an old data center on the warming tundra. They look around, find some scraps of Buzzfeed and The Atlantic, maybe some Encyclopaedia Britannicas, and then, gleaming in the data: a complete set of Norwegian literature. 

Suddenly, the Norwegians become to 27th-century humans what the Greeks were to the Renaissance. Everyone names the children of the space colonies Per and Henrik, Amalie and Sigrid. The capital of our new home planet will be christened Oslo.

Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/norway-decided-to-digitize-all-the-norwegian-books/282008/

Source: http://io9.com/norway-is-digitizing-its-whole-library-1481064343

The KrackerJack Karnival - Two-day, fun-filled Children’s festival

Date & Time: 21- 22 December, 2013. 10:00 am to 7:00 pm

Entry : Rs. 100 per person, available at : 

Note : Free entry for Kids below 5 years of age. 

Place : The Ashok, 50-B, Diplomatic Enclave, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi

About the Event: The KrackerJack Karnival is Delhis First and foremost Mega Expo cum Festival catering purely to children and their needs. This two-day, fun-filled children’s festival is packed with fantastic exhibits, interactive activities, entertainment, and the latest products & services for children. With this event we’ve set out to create fun, educational, and involving activities for kids this holiday season in Delhi. 

Website : www.krackerjackkarnival.com