For example, a Non Profit Organization presents the need for a capital fund-raising campaign to benefit the victims of a recent tragedy ; a school district superintendent presents a program to parents about the introduction of foreign-language instruction in the elementary schools ; an artist demonstrates decorative painting techniques to a group of interior designers ; a horticulturist shows garden club members or homeowners how they might use native plants in the suburban landscape ; a police officer addresses a neighborhood association about initiating a safety program.

Since then, the auction became a fund-raising tool for many public television stations, though its usage waned in recent years in favor of increased usage of special pledge drives throughout the year.

One of the hospital's most recent and successful fund-raising efforts has been the Dream Home Giveaway.

One of the hospital's most recent and successful fund-raising efforts has been the Dream Home Giveaway.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

Over a third of the funding for asphalt and gravel roads is being covered by the Ethiopian Government which is a considerable shift in recent years financial scheme.

The periods of the scheme include a few of the final, pre-Holocene, oscillations of the last glacial period and then classify climates of more recent prehistory.

A more recent ruling by the Supreme Court in 2008 has altered that scheme somewhat, by stating that treaties containing human rights provisions enjoy a status above that of ordinary legislation, though they remain beneath the constitution itself.

Lollipop sequence number spaces are a more recent and sophisticated scheme for dealing with finite-sized sequence numbers in protocols.

His most recent retirement was almost permanent because of recently paroled Sideshow Bob's latest scheme – wiring plastic explosives to a hypnotized Bart and sending him up on stage.

This double structure ( région /) is new, due to the recent extension of the regional scheme to the overseas départements, and may soon transform into a single structure, with the merger of the regional and departmental assemblies.

His father had only recently bought land in Ireland under a scheme to encourage the purchase of land after the recent potato famine.

The new uniforms were a combination of both the old and new styles, with navy blue retained from the most recent color scheme, but the now-famous ' J-note ' logo and gold and green were revived.

This scheme was undermined when molecular studies indicated that Soricomorpha is paraphyletic, because Soricidae shared a more recent common ancestor with Erinaceidae than with other soricomorphs.

With Kyle Rayner having rebelled against the Guardians to join the ' New Guardians ' a makeshift team consisting of representatives from all seven Corps, Hal Jordan's recent expulsion, and based on the ' recommendations ' of the now-emotionless Ganthet, the Guardians are preparing to create the ' Third Army ' to replace the Green Lantern Corps, which involves them recovering the mysterious ' First Lantern ' for an undefined role, prompting Sinestro, who learned about this prophecy after touching the Book of the Black, to enlist Hal's aid in stopping this scheme.

Bartle Frere wasted no time in putting the scheme forward and manufacturing a casus belli against the Zulu by exaggerating the significance of number of recent incidents.

A recent lighting scheme illuminating the exterior of the building, in particular the fly towers, has proved very popular, and is one of several positive artistic responses to the building.

In February 2009 consultation and planning stages started with a firm commitment made to progress the scheme despite the recent economic downturn.

Though Rickman's scheme remains in use, the subdivisions proposed by both Freeman and Sharpe are also often found in recent books.

The most recent scheme, costing £ 54 million, will see the clearance of 11 streets near Princes Park, nicknamed the " Welsh Streets " due to the streets being built and lived in by the Welsh workers who built a large percentage of buildings around Liverpool city in the 19th century and around the turn of the 20th century.

As part of the recent upgrading and facility improvement scheme, the CAA demolished the old hall 3, previously used for domestic arrivals and departures, to reconstruct a new hall to be used for international arrivals.

Although there is only one serotype of mumps virus, according to recent update by WHO ( June 2012 ), There are currently 12 genotypes A-N, ( namely A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, N ) excluding ( E and M ) and L-Zagreb vaccine strain comes under genotype N. The typing scheme is based on the sequence of the small hydrophobic ( SH ) gene.

In recent seasons, Pink put less films in its daily programming scheme, airing movies mainly in the evening.

However in recent years, Burnley Wood has suffered from housing market failure, and became part of East Lancashire's Elevate scheme to clear, rebuild or remodel what were considered to be an over supply of sub-standard housing.

However, there is one recent report of a point shaving scheme which involved the coordinated effort of referees and numerous players in German soccer.

( The Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Assurance Company is in essence a classic Ponzi scheme — founded before Charles Ponzi was born — which paid off early policyholders ' claims with premiums from more recent policyholders.

Although there are still formal planted beds, in recent years the planting scheme has become more naturalistic in style, reflecting modern tastes.

A recent, consensus-based evaluation of vasculitides occurring primarily in children resulted in a classification scheme for these disorders, to both distinguish them and suggest a more concrete set of diagnostic criteria for each.

In a recent book called `` World Peace Through World Law '', two distinguished lawyers, Grenville Clark and Louis Sohn, call for just such an overhaul of the U.N., basing their case on the world-wide fear of a nuclear holocaust.

His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.

Mr. Martinelli has, in recent weeks, been of the opinion that a special town meeting would be called for the vote, while Mr. Bourcier said that a special election might be called instead.

His recent experience in motor car advertising, a love for cars of themselves, the existence of A-Z's useless Wisconsin set-up, exposure to exciting conceptions of Hamrick's that nobody would buy, and the coincidental recent failure of a respected but out-dated small-car manufacturer called Ticonderoga Motors had given him an idea of such dimensions he was almost afraid to broach it.

* Individuals with expressive aphasia ( also called Broca's aphasia ) were once thought to have frontal lobe damage, though more recent work by Dr. Nina Dronkers using imaging and ' lesion analysis ' has revealed that patients with Expressive aphasia have lesions to the medial insular cortex.

In French the language is normally called basque or, in recent times, euskara.

During recent times, mainly during the apartheid reform and post-1994 eras, many more white Afrikaans-speaking people, mainly with " conservative " political views and of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent, have preferred to be called " Boers " or Boere-Afrikaners, rather than " Afrikaners ".

The last universal ancestor ( LUA ) ( also called the last universal common ancestor, LUCA ), that is, the most recent common ancestor of all currently living organisms, is believed to have appeared about 3. 9 billion years ago.

Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums, ( 和太鼓, " wa-daiko ", " Japanese drum ", in Japanese ) and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming ( sometimes called more specifically, " kumi-daiko " ( 組太鼓 )).

In recent years, " dharma " has evolved from an older, Bråhmanical dharma ( which the king's support was required both financially and in protecting the earth ), to a newer dharma called nåstika dharma.

A small, recent cluster of meteorite craters, the largest of which is called Kaali are found near Saaremaa, Estonia.

A recent branch has emerged within the essentialist school of thought called " neoessentialism.

The mountainous and most recent part of the island can be found to the west, the centre of which is dominated by Mount Capanne (), also called the " roof of the Tuscan Archipelago ".

J. Philippe Rushton has argued that the effect should be called the " Lynn-Flynn effect ", after Richard Lynn, " because it was actually the Lynn ( 1982 ) article in Nature that first identified the trend in recent times ( amongst the Japanese ).

The A-side, a song called " Substitute ", then a recent worldwide hit for South African girl-group Clout, was considered more " radio friendly ".

However, recent research published in Environmental Science & Technology, a publication of the American Chemical Society, suggests that many cases of feline hyperthyroidism are associated with exposure to environmental contaminants called polybrominated diphenyl ethers ( PBDEs ), which are present in flame retardants in many household products, in particular, furniture and some electronic products.

For Catholics, it is typical in the year of seminary training that a man will be ordained to the diaconate, called by Catholics in recent times the " transitional diaconate ".

In recent years, some have called for a dual state and federal regulatory system ( commonly referred to as the Optional federal charter ( OFC )) for insurance similar to the banking industry.

John adopted recent improvements in ship design, including new large transport ships called buisses and removable forecastles for use in combat.

Although K-Meleon 0. 9. 13 is based on Gecko 1. 7. 13, which is now obsolete, a simulation of it ( called " K-Meleon0. 9. 13-ud3-1. 8. 0. 7 ") has been made that is based on a current " k-meleon. exe " and a recent 1. 8. 0. x Gecko rendering engine to allow people who prefer the older K-Meleon 0. 9 interface to update their browsing to current security standards.

In recent decades, it has become one of the pillars of a new branch of science called cognitive neuroscience, a marriage between cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

Among the small sailing catamarans, also called beach catamarans, the most recognized racing classes are the Hobie Cat 16, Formula 18 cats, A-cats and the ex Olympic multihull class called Tornado and the recent popularity of the Weta trimaran ( NZ ).