This collection of twenty classical masterworks was created for advanced 5-string banjo players who use the 3-finger picking style. The pieces vary in length and complexity from a short Boccherini minuet to Bach’s monumental “Chaconne” from the Partita No. 2 in D minor. Regardless of duration, each piece has been carefully chosen for its beauty as a solo and for its capacity to provide an interesting challenge. Each selection is accompanied by insightful performance notes and will give any...

Are you part of a Catholic school community that is experiencing enrollment issues? Does your school have difficulty recruiting and retaining new students? St. Genevieve High School in Panorama City, California, was facing just such a harsh reality: its reputation was shot and enrollment was waning.By deciding to bring the school back from the edge and work toward achieving an Ideal Catholic School Community, St. Genevieve is now one of the great success stories in contemporary Cath...

Consumer Driven Healthcare has been sold to the American public as a salve for the healthcare crisis. It failed miserably and was the impetus for the creation of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Both concepts have their roots deep inside the profit models of the insurance industry who use powerful lobbies to screw American workers. In the case of Consumer Driven Healthcare employers were enticed (bribed if you’ll permit) with lower premiums to to the line on this horrible idea for the ...

The third episode of Political Fictions Revealed exposes the political fiction known as a Services Economy. This concept is political spin on an attempt at social cannibalism. It masks the conspiracy between government and special interest groups to hide the fact that there are more workers than jobs today in America. What the facts show is that government is manufacturing more poverty, more crime, and more illness to create service sector jobs that should not exist as a means of hiding gr...

We’ve been lied to by your government so many times that it has become the norm in America. Here are six great lies that have changed the course of the United States. Worst of all, they show a government in crisis preying upon the American people.

Crime has changed little over the centuries. What has changed in America beginning in the 1980s is the “Definition of Crime”. Historically, a crime requires at least two individuals (a perpetrator and a victim) and the intent of one party to harm the other party or the other party’s property. No more. Now, you can be both perpetrator and victim of a crime against yourself and go to prison for a mandatory minimum number of years. Crime has become big money with for-profit prisions traded on...

In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared a War On Drugs. Following Nixon’s disgrace the idea languished until 1980 under President Ronald Reagan. Under President Reagan a renewed War On Drugs was established with the “Just Say No” campaign of Nancy Reagan. Armed with all the tools of a professional marketing organization, the government entered out public school system to educate kids about illegal drugs. The result was that drug use. Under President Clinton, “The Pot Smoking” president, d...

The second episode of Political Fictions Revealed continues with the fictitious War On Drinking and Driving in America. Americans are angered by the needless deaths of thousands of innocents when a driver intoxicated on some substance drives an automobile. However, the facts reveal that the source of our anger is not what we believe it to be. There is no attempt to end, or even reduce, Drinking and Driving in America. In fact the data proves that both special interests and government profi...

Sex? Na klar! In einer Welt von YouPorn und Sexting ist es kein Problem, sich über Sex zu informieren – überall ist davon die Rede. Doch ist Sex nicht viel mehr als Körperlichkeit und Lust? Die klare Antwort: Ja! In der überarbeiteten Neuauflage des Longsellers »Baustelle Erste Liebe für Teens« zeigt Ute Horn mit den beiden Co-Autoren, Daniel Horn, 29, und Sarah Heuser, 17, dass zu einer Beziehung viel mehr gehört als nur Sex, auch wenn Sex etwas Tolles und Wertvolles ist. Und sie hilft da...

130,000 words. 482 pages in print.The Maricopa County Attorney and Sheriff mysteriously close a case of officer-involved homicide less than 48 hours after the shooting. Newspaper reporter Dianna Holmes becomes suspicious of a cover up, and enlists her former college professor, Jack McGlamary, to help her solve the riddle. Dianna doesn’t know that Professor McGlamary has a secret. He saw the shooting and the officer involved—the sheriff’s nephew—planted a gun on one of the victims t...

The Maricopa County Attorney and Sheriff mysteriously close a case of officer-involved homicide less than 48 hours after the shooting. Newspaper reporter Dianna Holmes becomes suspicious of a cover up, and enlists her former college professor, Jack McGlamary, to help her solve the riddle. Dianna doesn’t know that Professor McGlamary has a secret. He saw the shooting and the officer involved—the sheriff’s nephew—planted a gun on one of the victims to make it look like a case of self-defense...

The Horn of Africa is one of the most strategically important regions in the world. Global powers maintain military bases there. Trade routes that connect continents pass through its waters. International attention is constant.And yet, millions of people—especially pastoralist and nomadic communities—remain excluded from meaningful education and long-term development.Why?In A Mosaic of Different Realities in the Horn of Africa, Daniel Sugam...