Jerry (Jere) T Kentner was granted land in London, Ontario, after the war. At some point he made his way to Erin and in 1825 he was elected to Township Council.
Frederick Near was yeoman as private in Capt. Hamilton’s Flank Company 2nd Regiment Lincoln Militia in 1812. Capt. Hamilton’s muster rolls shows his name from September to December 1812. He also served in Capt. Robert Grant’s Company in 1814. He was part of detachment erecting defense 27 April to 2 May 1814; works on Queenston Heights in May and June assembled at Mississauga Point; July and October on Third Riding.
Richard London SUE was born in 1772 in Greenwich, Sussex, New Jersey, USA. He was the son of Bartholomew London UEL, (Source: Upper Canada Land Petitions ‘L’ Bundle 20, 1837, RG 1 L3, V.295, Petition 54, C-2131, Archives Canada) a farmer, whom had suffered from being loyal to the British forces during the war.
“… he has been almost three months in one prison and from there removed to another when he was detained some time on suspicion of recruiting men for His Majesty’s Forces. He has suffered the loss of both health and property for his loyalty …”
(Source: Upper Canada Land Petitions ‘L’ Bundle 1, 1792-1795, RG 1 L3, V.283, Petition 20, C-2124, Archives Canada). Continue reading Richard London
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Richard Hiscott was born in 1790 in Wiltshire, England. His application for a land grant shows that he was a weaver before he enlisted with the 76th Regiment of Foot in 1809 as a Private and retired from the same regiment having attained the rank of Sergeant in 1830 (National Archives in Kew, WO 97/874/28). During his service he participated as a member of 76th Regiment of Foot in the Peninsular War as part of Wellington’s Troops. In 1814 and after the British success against French troops in Spain the 76th Regiment of Foot was transferred to Canada (The Service of British Regiments in Canada and North America, Charles H. Stewart, Department of National Defence Library, 1926, Ottawa, p. 316). There Richard Hiscott with his Regiment participated in the closing stage of the War of 1812-1814 at the Battle of Plattsburgh. Following the war Richard Hiscott stayed in Niagara. After he retired from the army he successfully applied for a land grant for his 21 years of service in the British Army (National Archives in Kew, WO 97/874/28). Continue reading Richard Hiscott
76th Regiment of Foot
Lieutenant James Clement, UE (1764-1813)
James Clement was born the 15 Jul 1764 in the Mohawk Valley, New York. He was the son of Ludovicus (Lewis) Cobes (1725-1781) and Catlyntje (Catherine Eliza) Poutnam (1726-1807). He was a United Empire Loyalist and served as an ensign in the Indian Department towards the latter part of the Revolutionary War. He received a 2,000 acre land grant in Niagara Township after the war, as well as a town lot in Niagara-on-the-Lake (Upper Canada Land Petitions, National Archives of Canada, microfilm No. C-1647); Continue reading James Clement UE
Levi Green was born in May 1783 in Hardwick, Sussex, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of Ensign Adam Green UEL and Martha (Smith) Green. (Source: Upper Canada Land Petitions “C” Bundle 20, 1836-1837, RG1, L3, Vol 213, Petition #87) Adam Green UEL, who was a recruiter for the New Jersey Volunteers, acting under Colonel (Judge) Nathaniel Pettit during the Revolutionary War, had Lot 24 Conc. 4, Saltfleet Township, and petitioned for additional land in 1794, after which he received an additional 300 acres (Lot 24, 25 and 26, Conc 5) adjoining. Continue reading Levi Green
5th Regiment Lincoln Militia
Richard Ellerbeck was born c1783 in Poughkeepsie, New York Province, the son of UE Loyalist Emmanuel Ellerbeck/Elderbeck of the New York Volunteers and his wife Sarah. By 1785, the family was settling near Kingston, in Frontenac County, Upper Canada.
John Cornelius Ryckman was born at Schnectady, New York State, USA in 1795, the son of Cornelis Janse Ryckman and Margarita Grietje Bradt. John’s mother, “Margaret” was the daughter of UE Loyalist Captain Arent Bradt of Butler’s Rangers.
George Parker was born in 1781, in Pennsylvania, the son of UE Loyalist John Parker and his wife, Nancy Watson. George came to Upper Canada with his parents and siblings, following the American Revolution, settling in Lincoln County. In 1808, he married Hannah McGaw, daughter of Patrick McGaw.
James Pickard was born in Niagara Twp., Lincoln County in 1796, the son of UE Loyalist Private James Pickard, UE and his wife Hannah.


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We asked fire managers & scientists that work in the Appalachian region for their suggestions on the top research papers that they use most. The collection below includes summaries and links to each of the top 30 recommended.
The Effects of Prescribed Burning and Thinning on Herpetofauna and Small Mammals in the Upper Piedmont of South Carolina: Preliminary Results of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study
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Homeland Security Handbook: Strategic Guidance for a Coordinated Approach to Effective Security and Emergency Management edited by David Kamien, New York: McGraw-Hill, pp.861-876, 2012
A Systems Perspective on Homeland Security, a chapter in the second edition of the Homeland Security Handbook, points to the growing dynamic complexity of the homeland security domain and argues for the significance of adopting appropriate lenses and approaches to ensure due rigor in our assessment of related issues. The piece defines homeland security enterprise as a complex system; introduces fundamentals of a systems perspective; and uses mass transit security as a homeland security domain example of systems thinking.
Federal Rules of Evidence Rule 702 gives the “trier of fact”-that is, the judge-broad authority to decide the admissibility of forensic testimony and evidence at trial. This has been referred to as a “gatekeeper” role. The best laboratory practices discussed in this paper can provide the key for the gatekeeper to allow test results and testimony into courtroom proceedings and help overcome TV-Land's “CSI effect” for jurors.


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The Creeping Madness
13th Age’s setting has a detailed history, I am just going to give a rough guide so that you can fill in any blanks you want with your character’s history if need be.
The 1st Epoch
The planes shifted and brought forth the world and all on it. Dragons were the first to settle and soon they made their spawn. The influence of closer plains soon also brought others, such as the devilish fey (Goblin-kin) and other hominids.
The first Epoch was mostly the settling of Arkoa and the races finding their place in the world. City states formed but it was not to last. The 1st Epoch ended with the Cataclysm.
An object fell from the heavens wiping out half the population and darkening the sky for twenty years.
The 2nd Epoch
The races soon rebounded and with more vigor. They began to form kingdoms, mostly along racial lines and territories. This Epoch lasted for 4,000 years and was marked by century long wars.
It was said the gods grew tired of the constant war so they brought about the Incursion. The planes of elemental chaos spilled out onto Arkoa. Outsiders spilled onto Arkoa, fiends and elementals vied for control of Arkoa. It was only through unity that they were pushed back and their planes resealed. This was the founding of the Empire.
The 3rd Epoch
The founding of the Empire marked the beginning of this Epoch which is the current Epoch. It began 2311 years ago, making this 2310 E3.
The Empress is a direct descendent of the first Emperor, Pels De’Leir, an Alanorian. She rules all of Arkoa other than the uncivilized Goblin-kin, Orcs and the Gripplis. She is well liked among her subjects but is not yet married as she is only 17 years old.
Tragedy has yet to strike this Epoch.


Conversations with an Angel by Judith Baadsgaard and Lone Maria Skovgaard-Petersen was the first publication at Forlaget Ignatius, which is part of Ignatius Healing and Retreat. The book tells Lone Maria’s life story and about her spiritual development.
About the book
How can you be in a place in life where you have to give up the desire to be cured of cancer and yet are deeply happy?
Conversations with an Angel depict the cancer-stricken Lone Maria’s path from illness, doubt and hopelessness until a settled position.
In the conversations with Judith Baadsgaard, we get an insight into Lone Maria’s childhood and adult life, and we follow her development towards an uncompromising spirituality, where healing comes second and the connection to the divine comes first.
In Conversations with an Angel, it is a mystic who talks about life and death, and the book provides an inspiring and life-affirming portrait of a woman with cancer’s path towards a clarification and a higher consciousness – a meaning of both death and the life that is about to end for her.
About the authors
Lone Maria Skovgaard-Petersen (1959-2017). Educated organic farmer 1987. Physiotherapist 1995. Art education at Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts completed 2010. Part of the establishment group around Ignatius Healing Center from 2010.
Judith Baadsgaard (b. 1951). Graduated as a psychologist in 1985. Clinical psychologist and development consultant in Viborg Municipality until 2000. Head of counselling at the Danish Cancer Society until 2007. Private psychologist in Aarhus from 2007. Part of the establishment group around Ignatius Healing Center from 2007.
From the book’s preface
“Many of us have cancer or other serious illnesses in our lives. We cannot but be deeply touched by the conversations in this book between Judith and Lone Maria, who have cancer. Judith is a psychologist and is very close to Lone Maria. In the conversations, she is the one who asks open and relevant questions, which gives us insight into Lone Maria’s spiritual journey. We are taken by the hand and gently led into another reality that few of us are aware of: the energy of love, a higher consciousness, the Christ and Mary light, God.
The conversations take place from 2016-2017, when cancer continues to take its toll on Lone Maria’s physical body, and the suffering is unbearable. Although the physical miracle does not occur in the form of healing, Lone Maria experiences over the years a spiritual miracle that is far more significant, promising and and liberating than anything else she has ever experienced in her life. With her life story, she becomes a messenger between heaven and earth, an angel who opens to divine reality and makes it available to us.
Being in this energy of love, Lone Maria experiences as a lift upwards, a loving embrace, freed from drowning in self-pity and in her ego. Here the book has a message for both sick and healthy people.
Today, there is a growing longing for such a “spiritual upward lift”, while at the same time being fully present in everyday life and in the world. However, there is a lack of spiritual guidance from people who have experience of divine reality without losing their grounding. In Conversations with an Angel, this is miraculously conveyed, deeply authentic and impactful. Full of love and hope.”
Jette Dahl, author and diocesan priest for spiritual seekers in Ribe Diocese 2011 – 2017
“Thank you for the beautiful and rewarding book, which I have read with great benefit, recognition and joy. It is precisely the joy woven closely together down the sorrow that I clearly recognize from my own life.”
– Charlotte Rørth, author, about Conversations with an Angel.
“Lone Maria’s determination, persistence and love are exemplary. It is also an unsentimental account from real life, which shows that life with a spiritual dimension has enormous potentials that we can choose to share in… The book contains some of her paintings that clearly show her spiritual contact… Educational reading.”
– Ingelise Hallengren on Conversations with an Angel, New Aspect, April 2018.
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Texts & Books
A comprehensive archive is available covering about 7,000 books from the USA, England, France, Poland, the Soviet
Union, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Japan and Greece, to name but a few. Special emphasis is given to illustrated books,
but only once the sources of the photos and the publishing criteria have been established.
Moreover, there are hundreds of original magazines such as the complete edition of the “London Illustrated News”,
the “Signal” in French, the Italian “Tempo” and even articles by the NS (Nazi) press. The archive
also contains more than 12,000 post-war articles about all aspects of the Second World War.
to original documents collected over a period of 40 years there are some 70,000 copies of NS documents from Polish,
German and British archives.
Film and Video Archives
Besides text documents there is a small film archive showing interviews with prominent people of the time such as
Sir Frank Roberts, Chief of the Central Department at the British Foreign Office and advisor to Winston Churchill
for Eastern Europe, Countess Klementyna Mankowska, who was a top spy for the Allies, and Dr. Günther Nollau
who was a member of the counter-intelligence unit and later became President of the Federal Office for the Protection
of the Constitution.
The film archive is complemented by a comprehensive video archive containing some 1,000 or so cassettes with over
4,000 items relating to Word War II, the Third Reich and the post-war era. All materials are currently being labelled
The collection of photos is continuously growing. It is presently also being archived and is made up of about 6,000
historical pictures of the period 1933 – 1945 and more than 25,000 photos of historical places which were taken at
all European WW II sites. There are black-and-white and colour photographs as well as 6x6 slides or smaller. A large
number of these pictures, which have not been published before, are original photos taken of Adolf Hitler between 1938
and 1943 as well as of aerial warfare. They represent the biggest photo collection of air-raid shelters and facilities,
fire engines, and weaponry systems. Moreover, there are photos of subterranean sites and bunkers for V-weapons, military
training areas, barracks und museums. In addition, comprehensive documentation is available on Normandy, the production
and launch sites for V1 and V2 rockets, the guerrilla war in Poland and memorials in Germany, in which the focus has
generally been on historic colour photos.
Aerial photos, ordnance survey maps and other maps have been taken over from the archives of the well-known military
historian Janusz Piekalkiewicz.
All materials are presently being digitalised, so that reproducible CDs and DVDs can be burned on request. (Please
refer to Bookings).
Recordings of Statements by Contemporary Witnesses
There is huge collection of recorded statements by contemporary witnesses, especially members of the Gestapo, the
SD (security service), counter-intelligence, the SS, the air force, and civilians. The archive contains transcribed
recordings, hundreds of original letters and diaries with an emphasis on aerial warfare and the war in Poland.


This book by Eike Reich, Head of CAMAG Laboratory, and Anne Schibli provides all of the theoretical and technical information needed to perform reliable and reproducible HPTLC to establish the identity, purity, quality, and stability of raw materials, extracts and finished botanical products.
High-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography for the Analysis of Medicinal Plants presents a complete overview of the technique and common applications of HPTLC in herbal analysis.
The book is essential for analysts, quality assurance professionals, and regulators seeking a comprehensive text on how to use HPTLC to determine whether botanicals comply with current, good manufacturing practices. It will also benefit students in pharmacognosy, phytopharmacy, pharmaceutical biology, and analytical chemistry programs.
The Italian translation of the HPTLC book was published in 2009: HPTLC Cromatografia su strato sottile ad alta prestazione per l'analisi delle piante medicinali (edizione italiana a cura di Nicoletti M.) Order your copy from the publisher CIC Edizioni Internationali.
Original English Edition
Authors: Eike Reich, Anne Schibli
Year: 2007 (1. Edition)
Book Type: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 978-3-13-141601-8 (GTV)
ISBN 10: 3-13-141601-7 (GTV)
ISBN 13: 978-1-58890-409-6 (US)
ISBN 10: 1-58890-409-1 (US)
Italian translation 2009
ISBN 13: 978-88-7141-855-8


In recent years, the theory of extraterrestrial visitations has gained a growing number of followers. Ancient writings that speak of beings descending from the heavens seem to lend credence to this intriguing hypothesis.
Among these alleged extraterrestrial beings are the Anunnaki, revered deities of the Sumerians. Did the Anunnaki truly arrive from another planet, subsequently civilizing humanity? Or is this merely a misinterpretation or far-fetched notion based on millennia-old myths?
In the Beginning, There Were the Anunnaki:
Before the grand pantheon of Ancient Greece and the gods of ancient Egypt, there existed deities revered by the Sumerians. This civilization thrived in the Middle East, in what is now modern-day Iraq and Iran.
The Sumerians worshipped a pantheon of deities known as the Anunnaki, descendants of An, the supreme being who ruled over all gods in Sumer.
According to Sumerian legends, the Anunnaki came from the skies. Babylonian creation myths speak of 300 Anunnaki guarding the heavens and another 300 guarding the underworld.
These deities held such significance that they were even mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh. However, the narrative took a bizarre turn.
The Babylonian Clay Tablets:
Dating back to 2500 BCE, Mesopotamians began venerating Enki, the son of the supreme god An.
Fast forward to the 19th century when archaeologists discovered tens of thousands of clay tablets in Babylon (an empire that emerged in the territories occupied by the Sumer and Akkad kingdoms).
These collections are so voluminous that they continue to be translated and researched even today. The one who brought the Anunnaki deities into contemporary spotlight is author Zecharia Sitchin.
In his book “The 12th Planet,” Sitchin included translations of 14 such clay tablets, which shed light on Enki. This work became the catalyst for the popularization of the Anunnaki.
Named “The 12th Planet,” Sitchin’s book proposes that the Sumerians believed the Anunnaki hailed from a mythical planet called Nibiru.
Sitchin suggests that Nibiru follows an enormous orbit around the Sun, completing it in 3,600 years. When Nibiru was closer to Earth some 450,000 years ago, Anunnaki allegedly decided to pay our planet a visit.
Were the Anunnaki Gods Extraterrestrial?
Sitchin contends that the Anunnaki landed in Sumer with the intent of exploiting Earth’s natural resources, specifically its gold. Unable to mine the gold themselves, they supposedly genetically engineered a species called “humans” to labor for them.
Sitchin’s book sold millions of copies. He, along with his predecessors—Swiss author Erich von Däniken and Russian author Immanuel Velikovsky—believed that ancient texts were not merely myths.
All three proponents argue that ancient Babylonian texts were, in fact, scientific journals and that the Anunnaki had extraterrestrial origins.
However, mainstream academics and historians unequivocally reject Sitchin’s and his colleagues’ ideas. They assert that Babylonian tales are simply myths concocted by ancient humans to explain their world.
Since then, science has advanced, elucidating natural phenomena, astronomy, fauna, and other aspects that were once attributed to divine intervention.
An Advanced Civilization:
Nonetheless, one thing is certain: ancient Babylonians were more advanced than contemporary perceptions often hold.
A translated clay tablet from 2015 demonstrates that Babylonian astronomers made highly precise mathematical calculations regarding Jupiter’s orbit 1,400 years before Europeans did.
Additionally, it’s possible that Babylonians developed trigonometry a thousand years before the ancient Greeks. Does this suggest that ancient Sumerians had extraterrestrial visitors who imparted advanced mathematical knowledge?
Did ancient civilizations have access to computers or complex calculating technologies? Almost certainly not. However, those who subscribe to the ancient astronaut theory, bolstered by a popular TV series, firmly believe otherwise.
Others contend that ancient societies had ample time to develop mathematics and make detailed celestial observations without external technological assistance.
Unraveling the Mystery Through Tablet Deciphering:
No one truly knows what the Sumerians intended when writing about the Anunnaki. On one side, historians challenge extraterrestrial theories.
On the other, proponents of the theory argue that these lost civilizations couldn’t have possessed such advanced knowledge without “external help.”
Perhaps the enigmas surrounding the Anunnaki have less to do with extraterrestrials and more to do with gaps in understanding ancient cultures.
Our limited knowledge of Sumer stems from clay tablets inscribed in a language no longer spoken. To uncover more, archaeologists must continue deciphering scripts from that era. Thus, we can only await the work of linguists to shed further light on this captivating mystery.
To delve deeper into this topic, explore “The 12th Planet”:
The culmination of 30 years of intense research, “The 12th Planet” serves as the inaugural installment in the “Earth Chronicles” series. This collection of revolutionary works draws from documentary evidence suggesting that humanity’s lineage might involve extraterrestrial forebears—interstellar travelers who arrived on Earth eons ago, sowing the genetic seeds that eventually flourished into the remarkable human species. “The 12th Planet” vividly resurrects the Sumerian civilization and presents millennia-old evidence of the existence of Nibiru, the planet of the Anunnaki deities, and their periodic visits to Earth every 3,600 years.


by ultadin | 08/10/2015 3:56 pm
The Cause of Degradation:
The Downward Filtration Method. But what happened in India? Foreign Christian missionaries even resented the nominal amount of one lakh rupees kept aside for the education of Indians. The British cut down the financial resources and brought in several regulations one after the other- regulations like “there has to be a ‘pucca’ building etc. That was not the end. They invited T.B. Macaulay to decide how to divert the money, what should be the medium of instruction and the mode of educating the Indian.
He made English the medium of instruction and diverted the money for English education. G.D.Trevelyan writes in “Life of Lord Macaulay”(vol 1 pg164) “A new India was born in 1835″. What Alexander, Ashoka and the western missionaries had failed to do was accomplished by Macualay’s educational minutes, decreeing that India was to receive through English education, the language of the West. “The very foundations of her ancient civilization began to rock and sway. Pillar after pillar in the edifice came crashing down.” But Macaulay did a more harmful thing, which is not generally known. He adopted the “downward filtration method” for educating the Indians. What is this method? The problem facing Macaulay was that Indians were numerous and The British were a handful. How were they going to educate the Indians? How could this nation be weakened so that in self-forgetfulness it would support the British Raj?
The story goes that once when he was in Ooty, in his residence, he saw an Indian officer coming and touching the feet of a peon sitting outside his office (which was near his residence.) and was obviously surprised. Why was an officer touching the feet of a peon? He was told, “You don’t know, this Indian society is a peculiar one. Here the Brahmins are respected and the peon belongs to that caste.” The changes that Macaulay brought after this are well documented and authenticated in books.
The downward filtration method was formulated according to which the forward caste (even this was much later) was given preference in schools. To put it in his own words,” But it is impossible for us with our limited means to educate all in English. We must at present do our best to form a class of persons Indian in blood and colour but English in tastes, in opinion, in morals, and in intellect.’ To gauge how much he succeeded in his mission, we only need to look into the history of the Indian educated classes since that time onwards. The fact is that we have not tackled the Macaulayian issue even after Independence, and graver still, few realise that the problem exists at all.
The system of giving preference to Brahmins in the govt. and missionary run schools went on for nearly hundred years. In the meantime other castes practicing any trade had lost their business due to the flooding of Indian markets with British goods and also due to the deliberate strangulation of their business by the British. Due to the land policy of the British, born out of their greed, the farmers had become landless labourers in their own lands, and the landlords the cruel stooges of the British. The systematic destruction of the Indian system of education deprived certain castes of education. Thus over a hundred years these castes had become impoverished and ignorant and the Brahmins who were supposed to lead the society became distorted in their understanding of things, due to foreign education.
DESTRUCTION OF THE INDIAN SYSTEM OF EDUCATION An article published in ‘Bharathi’, the cultural magazine of IIT-Madras contributed by V.Ravi Kumar (B.Tech, Mech. Engg.) based on a study of Kum.B.Nivedita’s “The Tormented Indian Spirit- Redemption or Regression
Source URL: http://ultadin.com/2015/10/08/destruction-of-the-indian-system-of-education-part-ii/
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20 January 2007
Foreword to Heather Hedden's upcoming book
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Indexing is not a popular profession by any stretch of the imagination. Not only is it almost completely unknown in lay circles, but let's be honest: writing indexes sounds about as exciting as cleaning the house, but a hundred times harder. Also, if you were born in any year before 1990, the idea of Web indexing sounds like cleaning a house in outer space. I mean, there are no houses in outer space.
The Internet and the Web -- this monstrously huge and growing system of sharing data -- desperately need more information sorcerers like Heather Hedden. Not only does Heather have the talent to recognize when knowledge is missing, but she also has the ability to make that knowledge visible. She starts by learning for herself, and then she loves to share.
Heather and I first crossed paths in my classroom, where I taught a course called "Writing Indexes for Books and Websites." My course was written to explore the questions and theories of indexing, and so couldn't be limited to just books. Heather’s interest went much further, and since then she has explored writing web indexes as a singular discipline. For me, Heather has been a student, an apprentice, and a role model. She's someone I count on to get things done. She has vaulted across the lines from library science to book indexing to web indexing, each time with surprising success, and has since become a renowned and respected expert in the web indexing community.
Indexing Specialties: Web Sites is a book filled with honest, get-it-done advice. Heather is not afraid to talk about the code and the tools, because she has faith in her readers. In her hands, the complicated stuff looks straightforward. Besides, when the technical lessons are over, Heather shows readers how to think about web indexing as well: as a process and as a business. Until now, if book indexers wanted to graduate to the Internet frontier, they had no unified place of reference, no single source of everything they'd want to know. In fact, some of the tools Heather includes in this book were almost completely unknown to indexers until now.
I am excited and pleased to see Heather compiling this knowledge in a book. She has put into print an indexer's Rosetta Stone, which will lead book indexers toward other information management topics like taxonomies, information architecture, and search tools. It's not about complicated coding practices and computer programs, but about the guidelines to getting that A-to-Z index published on the Internet, and doing it right.
She begins by exploring the boundaries of web site indexing, clarifying what kinds of sites need indexing, how they should look, and how they should work. Then she immediately provides the HTML building blocks to making your indexes appear on the Web, the surprisingly simple code you'd need to create index pages, index entries, indentations, hyperlinks, and cross-reference links. If you've never programmed on the Web before and are afraid it's over your head, you’ll be kicking yourself once you see how easy Heather makes it.
Once you're armed with the grammar, you next need the tools to actually write. Heather gives you the detail about the tools (CINDEX, HTML Indexer, HTML/Prep, Macrex, SKY Index Professional, and XRefHT) to create or generate indexes that are ready for web publication. She takes more time exploring the specialized tools of XRefHT and HTML Indexer, two stand-alone web indexing applications, and shows how you can use their features with agility.
The last third of the book is dedicated to the "mindspace" of web indexing. There's more to indexing than just the tools, and so Heather writes carefully about how indexers should approach the job. She addresses the challenges of working out of order, adding anchors, indexing periodicals, and knowing which pages and at what level of detail you should index. She deals in detail with cross-references, language, subentry structure, and format. Finally, Heather dives into the nitty-gritty of the web indexing marketplace, including how to market yourself as a web site indexer.
Web Sites is going to satisfy you immediately and in the long term. On behalf of the American Society of Indexers -- and myself, personally -- I am honored to welcome Heather as an esteemed author in our community.
President of the American Society of Indexers (2006-2007)


Although Qingfeng Valley was small, it had been established for more than one hundred years. Its history as a medical sect was also close to two hundred years. Every time a disciple return to the sect after traveling outside, they would record their experiences in the bamboo slips and handed them over to the sect in exchange for a certain number of contribution points. All of these records could be found in the library pavilion. The elder who managed the library was Elder Yan. He was also the teacher Meng Qi admired the most in Qingfeng Valley.
Meng Qi set up a trap with some medical substances to prevent people from entering her room. Then she turned back to the lazy little tiger. In fact, even without the little guy’s possible relationship with the white-robed man that resembled her master, Meng Qi still wanted to heal him.
—He is so comfortable to touch! Cute, soft, fluffy~
Meng Qi closed the door and walked briskly towards the library pavilion in the sect’s back area. At this time, the sun was already setting down. Warm sunset shone on the mountain where Qingfeng Valley was located. Around this time, usually was the most lively in one day, when all the training and classes had just ended. But on her way to the library, Meng Qi didn’t see other disciples.
Until she entered the library pavilion’s ground floor, she finally saw Elder Yan, who supervised the building. Sitting cross-legged on the chair, a row of bamboo slips floated in front of the elder. Meng Qi couldn’t see what kind of movement he made, but the bamboo slips quickly flew upwards. She had seen this scene many times, but still couldn’t help but look up at the flying bamboo slips.
The library pavilion in Qingfeng Valley wasn’t large. It was a four-story building with an empty middle section. On each side, bookshelves were hanging from the ceiling to the floor. The upper sides were full of overlapping bamboo slips. There was a spiral staircase going up from the first to the third floor. But further up, there were no stairs.
Most of the bamboo slips stayed on the first floor and flew into one of the bookshelves on this floor. Except for one, that slowly flying to the third floor, and landed on one of the empty shelves.
“Meng Qi.” Elder Yan opened his eyes. He looked like to be in his early thirties. He wore Qingfeng Valley’s blue robe, his long hair bundled up on the top of his head, slantedly bounded by a strange-shaped bamboo headdress.
“Elder Yan.” Meng Qi respectfully saluted him. “This disciple would want to ask for Elder’s help.”
Elder Yan did not ask her the details. Instead, he stared at Meng Qi: “Today, some honored guests came to our sect. The sect leader called all the disciples to go to greet them at the great hall. Why are you here?”
“Honored guests?” For a moment, Meng Qi was confused before she finally remembered. Just now, Lu Qingran was waiting for Chu Tianfeng at the main gate, so the guests must be people from Fentian Palace.
Aren’t they so fast?! She literally had just healed Chu Tianfeng!
But this had nothing to do with Meng Qi. In her previous life, she was locked up in the dungeon and managed to survive the dangerous period without even a single scratch. This time… If she was careful, she should be fine.
“This disciple doesn’t know.” She answered honestly.
There was a faint smile in Elder Yan’s eyes: “I heard it were the Fentian Palace’s young master and his sect’s elders. You don’t want to meet them?”
Fentian Palace’s young master was very famous in the Eastern Realm. The young man was handsome and also a genius cultivator. There were indeed many women who wished to be his cultivation’s partner.
“The sect leader was there with other senior brothers and sisters. It doesn’t matter if this disciple doesn’t go.” Meng Qi replied respectfully. Anyway, no one had told her to go.
“What problem do you need my help with?” The smile in Elder Yan’s eyes deepened.
“It is a poison. After being poisoned, there are silver marks on the wound, which make it bleeding continuously.” Meng Qi asked politely: “Does Elder know this poison?”
“Oh?” Elder Yan closed his eyes.
Meng Qi waited patiently. Elder Yan’s cultivation was higher than the sect leader. Especially his medical cultivation level, which already entered the fourth rank. Meng Qi had heard the gossip about Elder Yan from other disciples. He once vowed to travel all over the world to treat all the patients he met. So every other year, he would leave the sect and go out on a journey. Because of this, he didn’t hold a significant post in Qingfeng Valley. In addition to an empty elder’s title, Elder Yan would take care of the library pavilion whenever he stayed at the sect.
Elder Yan never had any personal disciple before. The majority of the disciples in Qingfeng Valley didn’t have any desire to be under his tutelage either. In contrast, becoming the sect leader’s personal disciple or other elders with real authority was obviously much better in their eyes.
“There is one…” Elder Yan opened his eyes slowly, “This bamboo slip is for you. You can read and study by yourself.” The elder waved his hand. A small bamboo slip flew from the fourth floor and stopped in front of Meng Qi.
“Thank you, Elder.” Meng Qi saluted once again. She was going to ask Elder Yan for a few more questions when they heard a rush of footsteps outside the pavilion.
Two Qingfeng Valley’s disciples hurriedly entered. After they greeted Elder Yan, they turned to look at Meng Qi. Both disciples had a strange expression. Their eyes flickered for a bit before saying: “Junior Sister Meng Qi. Sect leader and the elders from Fentian Palace are calling you. Come with us to the great hall.”
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Monday, March 18, 2013
The Grimm Diaries 11-14 Cover Reveal and Giveaway
Update: Don't forget to check out my giveaway with author Sophie Davis here http://www.sophiedavisbooks.com/
Phew, that took long.
First of all, there no Snow White Sorrow yet, but the Prequels are on the way. The lovely editors talked me against releasing them before making them perfect, but I have to say I want you to read them asap--and nothing really gets perfect, it's a lie. I will announce a release date in the coming days. I thought I tell you about the titles, narrators, and descriptions of each prequel. Also make a cover reveal for one of the prequels, which most probably will be the cover for the bundle. The Prequels feature the Piper, Children of Hamlin, Ladle Rat, the Devil, Jack, Hansel, Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Tooth Fairy, goblins, Sweeny Todd, Peter Pan, Wolfy, Marmalade, Jacob Grimm, and of course the Queen of Sorrow.
The Grimm Diaries 11-15:
10.5) Happy Valentine’s Slay by Wee Willy Winkie The real Sandman Grimm sheds a light on what happened in Jawigi, and tells about how some of the teens in Sorrow spend their Valentine’s Day.
11) Children of Hamlin by the Devil The Devil tells the story of the Piper of Hamlin, who he really is, the historical events he witnessed, and his relationship to Ladle Rat. Most of all, why they call him the Black Death.
12) Tooth & Nail & Fairy Tale by Jack Madly Jack Madly stole a sack full of baby teeth from Bluebeard’s enchanted castle, which reminds him of when he first met the Tooth Fairy when he was a child; a memory he wishes to forget.
13) Ember in the Wind by the Little Match Girl All the Little Match Girl wants is to sell her matches so she uses the money to eat and find shelter from the cold. But no one in the cruel city of crowded London helps her. Eventually, she learns something about who she really is, and it changes her life forever.
14) Jar of Hearts by the Queen of Sorrow The Queen of Sorrow, still trapped in the Dreamworld summons Cassandra, the fortuneteller, to ask her about the identities of Lost Seven. The problem with Cassandra is that she’s cursed that her predictions will never be believed. The Queen is still determined to believe her, but it will cost more than she can bargain for.
*A prequel called the Pumpkin Piper and another about the origins of Sleeping Beauty were postponed until after Snow White Sorrow.
*I tailored this bundle to answer more questions than delve into characters. Two major plots will be revealed, and I hope you enjoy them:)
P.S. If you can't see the full cover, click on it to see it larger.
Lastly, an awesome reader said something that I liked in response to another reviewer who called the series lame and cheesy. And I'd like to quote her saying, "May the cheese be in your favor!" :D


Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success. To improve them, you need to create a more disciplined environment.
And to have such an environment is to have a system ingrained in your brain and this is not an easy one.
Discipline comes from training your brain and body to have a regime that makes you committed to specific learning or practice.
I read 4 self-help books that made me more disciplined in life.
A book that made me consistent in my reading habit.
Another one encouraged me to write (almost) on a daily basis.
And two other books that made me focus on my side hustle.
In this article, I’ll talk a bit about each book with some notes I wrote about which might be an appetite for you to read these books. When you read them, you’ll realize why discipline is important and how to apply such strategies.
1. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
The Power of Habit is a best seller book for the New York Times, Amazon.com, and USA Today; authored by Charles Duhigg and first released in 2012.
This book explores the science of habit and how you can change your life by creating good habits and reforming your bad ones.
What I like about this book is the incredible research studies mentioned especially in the first part and the large number of stories which make the topic very clear. I also like the end of the book which wraps the theoretical thoughts up because it gives you guidelines on how to apply the ideas.
On a personal level, a big reason that I have a consistent reading habit now is this book.
2. Atomic Habits by James Clear
Atomic Habits is the #1 New York Times best seller. Over 2 million copies already sold. Authored by James Clear and published in 2018.
This book distills so much value into forming new habits and is very practical and to the point when explaining the four laws of behavior change to better understand human behavior.
What I like about this book is its intuitiveness. Most of the ideas and stories are to the point and pretty much make sense. I also like the harmony of the four laws being distributed among the parts of the book to illustrate the whole point of human behavior and how understanding habits can really transform why we’re doing what we do on a daily basis.
On a personal level, I’m not saying I started writing content while reading this book but it’s a great resource that made me think about writing as a routine I do every day using the habit stacking and temptation bundling formula mentioned in the second part of the book.
3. The ONE Thing by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
The ONE Thing was published in 2013 and authored by Gary Keller with Jay Papasan and has appeared 500 times on national bestseller lists and more:
- #1 Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today
- Won 12 book awards
- Translated into 35 languages
- Voted Top 100 Business Book of All Time on Goodreads
This book’s value lies in methods on how to help you get distractions out of your life and stick to just one thing at a time to be more productive and get extraordinary results.
On a personal level, I applied this book and found the ONE thing I need to do in my side hustle and finally published my first ebook. The book was a great resource that made me think about writing an ebook that starts with just ONE Thing which is a blog post.
Bearing in mind I had some relevant blog posts already so I had to focus on smaller things that can make me achieve the whole thing and I finally did publish it on Gumroad! What helped me the most in the book was the Pareto Principle mentioned in the second part of the book.
4. Deep Work by Cal Newport
Deep Work was published in 2016 and authored by Cal Newport who is an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He is the author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You and three other books giving advice to students.
The book is currently a best seller in Time Management, Personal Time Management, and Job Hunting & Career Guides.
I like Deep Work especially for the emphasis on quitting social media while doing actual deep work. I found the idea of deep work relevant to many uninterrupted times that I had during study and work. I really wish I had read it during college; it would have changed my mindset a lot and I would have become more focused.
As a whole picture, the book is amazing and it’s more like common sense which you need someone to remind you about. It can help you be more focused and able to say no to shallow work like social media and replying to some emails and status meetings.
On a personal level, I have quit Facebook for more than a year, and after reading Deep Work I realized it’s one of the best decisions I made in my 20s.
I recommend you to read these books in the order I presented; The Power of Habits has the theoretical foundations for habits and then Atomic Habits builds upon them to provide the practical point of view.
The One Thing helps you get distractions out of your life and this helps when you have habits.
And finally, Deep Work emphasizes having uninterrupted time to have effective work (a deep one).
Reading these 4 books will tremendously make you a more disciplined person.
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If I were to tell you a West Indian Fairytale...
What would it look like?
TALE of SHADOWS
Would it be bright, colorful and tropical? Would it be darker than a mountain rainforest on a moonless night?
In a region where our folklore stems from a rich but traumatic history, the characters of the regions folktales have always been nuanced.
What if there was a once-great forest guardian seeking redemption, seeking to right a terrible wrong and learning to face his past and forgive himself?
What if there was a little girl who struggling to find her own voice and finds acceptance amongst the strange creatures and monsters of an enchanted forest?


In their analysis of newspaper coverage of opioids in the United States, McGinty et al divided the United States into four geographical regions (Northeast, South, Midwest, and West) and chose one newspaper from each region. The present study follows the same format, choosing the New York Times (Northeast), Tampa Bay Times (South), St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Midwest), and San Diego Union-Tribune (West). Examining all of these newspapers in total could potentially mitigate regional differences in sentiment toward psilocybin. Some of these newspapers have absorbed other newspapers over the time period being examined (January 1, 1989 to December 31, 2019). Following the example of McGinty et al, the archives of those absorbed newspapers have been included under the titles of their current publishers.
The four newspapers above were also chosen because the online media database Nexis Uni (the academic research portal of the LexisNexis database) had archives of their articles over the time period being examined. Sets of articles were created by searching Nexis Uni for all articles that mentioned psilocybin. McGinty et al and Zhang et al also used aggregated newspaper databases to compile their articles, as opposed to using the databases of the newspapers themselves (LexisNexis in the case of McGinty et al and newspaperarchive.com in the case of Zhang et al). In addition, my study used Nexis Uni in order to avoid any variations in the quality of databases and search engines administered by the newspapers themselves.
When creating sets of articles from Nexis Uni, it was necessary to search for a variety of terms in addition to “psilocybin.” Although synthetic psilocybin is available, the compound is often ingested via the mushrooms which naturally contain it. Unlike many other psychoactive substances, psilocybin is therefore frequently referred to by its delivery container (mushrooms), even in journalistic contexts. After extensive reading of psilocybin journalism, the present study chose four search terms for psilocybin: “psilocybin,” “magic mushrooms,” “hallucinogenic mushrooms,” and “psychedelic mushrooms.” Searches were made for both plural and singular forms. If other common journalistic terms for psilocybin are discovered which are not represented in the present study, this could be a topic for future research. There are also many slang terms for psilocybin, such as “shrooms” or “boomers.” However, most of these slang terms also have other meanings and seemed rarely used by the newspapers in this study unless other terms for psilocybin were also used. For example, a search for “shrooms” in the New York Times over the study’s time period only found 5 articles using this term for psilocybin, but 25 non-psilocybin uses. Therefore, I did not include these slang terms in my Nexis Uni searches.
There are also a small number of non-psilocybin mushroom species that have hallucinogenic compounds (such as muscimol, which is found in some Amanita species). There would therefore seem to be at least some risk that terms such as “hallucinogenic mushrooms” or “psychedelic mushrooms” might refer to these species rather than psilocybin species. For example, 4 out of 308 New York Times articles in the Nexis Uni search results referred to these mushrooms and had no references to psilocybin mushrooms. To avoid this problem, I removed articles from the Nexis Uni sets if they only referred to non-psilocybin mushrooms.
Duplicate articles were removed from the sets, even if they had different date lines. Nexis Uni has a functionality to filter out duplicate articles, but it was only sporadically successful, so manual removal of duplicates was also necessary. However, multiple articles about the same news event were included as long as the articles seemed independently written (for example, following new developments in the event or approaching it from a different perspective). The number of articles in which a term occurred was counted, not each individual occurrence of a term. Some articles used more than one term, which is why the overall number of articles in each newspaper’s set is lower than the number resulting from adding together the articles in each term category. It is also important to note that many of these articles do not have psilocybin as their central topic. Many journalistic mentions of psilocybin are made only as parts of articles about different topics.
After the searches and data cleaning described above, the final article set consisted of 534 total articles for all four newspapers. Of these, 304 articles were from the New York Times, 89 articles were from the San Diego Union-Tribune, 67 articles were from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and 74 articles were from the Tampa Bay Times.
Determining the sentiment of articles presented challenges. Nexis Uni, for example, has a feature called “Negative News” that uses algorithms to create a set of only negative articles for a particular search term. However, the Negative News results for psilocybin were often inaccurate. As just one example, the Negative News algorithms chose the New York Times article “Cancer Study of Hallucinogen Hints at New Role for Illegal Drug,” (Hoffman) which described studies that showed psilocybin could help treat depression and anxiety. Yet an article describing patients using psilocybin to reduce mental illness would seem to be a positive article. I suspect that Negative News chose this article due to its frequent use of words that often have negative connotations such as “depression” and “anxiety.” Many more examples of incorrect algorithmic choices could be listed here.
Even if attempts were made to adjust the negative weight of words in order to fit the paradigm of psilocybin, algorithms might still have difficulty with nuances. For example, in a New York Times review (Kakutani) of the book Prozac Nation, the word “depression” was used with the same definition as the positive article mentioned above, i.e. as a clinical psychological issue. However, in this context, “depression” was a negative word because the review implied that the author used psilocybin as a way to ineffectively escape her depression, not to treat it.
To avoid problems with using algorithms to determine the sentiment of articles, for the purposes of this study, I decided that human judgement was a better option. Yet there were still significant risks with this option. For example, the present study is being conducted by only one researcher, which could result in significant bias about sentiment. Future studies in this area might be improved by having more than one researcher determine the sentiment of articles. In addition, the same researcher could potentially give different sentiment ratings to an article depending on the condition of their mind at a given moment. A full discussion of the debate between machine and human judgment is beyond the scope of the present study, touching on the fields of philosophy, computer science, and logic.
To help mitigate these risks, I decided to read and rate all 534 articles twice. The two periods of reading and rating were separated by roughly two months, to allow for variation in mood or focus possibly caused by external events. The sentiment scores for each period were then added together and averaged. For those interested, a data table with my sentiment scores for each period is available in the Results section of this website (through the link “Sentiment-(Newspaper)”). This is still far from a perfect methodology, but I believe that the results provide at least some insights.
After settling on human judgment, other challenges presented themselves. Take, for example, the New York Times article “Ideas Unlimited, Built to Order” (Schiesel). This article praised the pleasant effects that psilocybin could have for its users, which would seem to be positive, but the article also called psilocybin “toxic,” which would seem to be negative. In addition, even articles that were clearly determined to be positive or negative might have had different degrees of positivity or negativity. For example, a brief article describing an arrest for psilocybin possession might be negative, but it could be argued that there is more negative impact from a longer article about a psilocybin arrest that also details the damaging impact of that arrest on the life of the accused. It would therefore seem negligent to treat these two articles identically.
To address these problems, I found inspiration in previous studies about media portrayals of psychoactive substances. McGinty et al and Zhang et al created different thematic categories in which each article could be assessed. Since their thematic categories were not exactly applicable to psilocybin, I identified five thematic categories to rate sentiment about psilocybin. For each category, each article was given a score of -1 (negative), 0 (neutral), or +1 (positive). The total scores in each thematic category were then calculated for each year for each newspaper. The scores in each category were also then added together to provide a single sentiment score for each year.
The five thematic categories in the present study were:
1) Legality: Is using psilocybin seen merely as a criminal act (negative) or only unfortunately illegal (positive)?
2) Mode of Action: Is psilocybin seen as physically damaging (negative) or physically beneficial (positive)?
3) Personal Impact: Is psilocybin seen as psychologically detrimental (negative) or psychologically beneficial (positive) to the user?
4) Scientific Integrity: Is psilocybin research seen as pseudoscience (negative) or rigorous and serious (positive)?
5) Social Impact: Is psilocybin seen as detrimental (negative) or beneficial (positive) to society beyond the user?
To further clarify the difference between mode of action and personal impact, mode of action concerns physical effects of psilocybin while personal impact concerns psychological effects. Returning to the example mentioned above (“Ideas Unlimited, Built to Order” [Schiesel]) the praise for psilocybin’s pleasant psychological effects received a +1 for personal benefit, but the reference to psilocybin as “toxic” received a -1 for mode of action.
1. Hoffman, Jan. “Cancer Study of Hallucinogen Hints at New Role for Illegal Drug.” New York Times, 1 Dec. 2016.
2. Kakutani, Michiko. “The Examined Life Is Not Worth Living Either.” New York Times, 20 Sep. 1994.
3. McGinty et al. ” Criminal Activity or Treatable Health Condition? News Media Framing of Opioid Analgesic Abuse in the United States, 1998–2012.” Psychiatric Services, vol. 67, no. 4, April 2016.
4. Schiesel, Seth. “Ideas Unlimited, Built to Order.” New York Times, 30 Oct. 2003.
5. Zhang et al. “Analysis of print news media framing of ketamine treatment in the United States and Canada from 2000 to 2015.” PLOS One, 3 Mar. 2017.


Guidelines for Communicative Language Teaching
The Essentials of Language Teaching is a resource website for instructors in second/additional language and foreign language teaching contexts. The site provides a concise and accessible overview of the principles, practices, and teaching conventions that are recognized as most effective by language teaching professionals.
The Essentials starts with the premise that the purpose of language is transmission of information and ideas. The goal of language learning and language teaching is therefore the ability to communicate, that is, to use the language. For this reason, the site promotes a learner-centered approach that uses meaningful tasks, authentic materials, and guided discovery activities to develop communicative competence.
NOTE: As of November 2021, much of this site has been taken down for renovation. Please check back in early 2022 for updated content.


The Walls of Delhi, Uday Prakash, Translated by Jason Grunebaum, Hachette India, 2012.
Stories on cities, non-fictive accounts of their people, and grand narratives of their past and present have become a fad of late. Given its political and demographic position, New Delhi is naturally one to earn such interests. Like all big cities, Delhi has its allures of opportunity and advancement mixed in with its dark secrets and insatiable hunger. The Walls of Delhi, a collection of three stories by Uday Prakash, one of India’s finest contemporary Hindi-language writers, is set within the changing Delhi landscape. These are tales from its underbelly. It is a journey into the megalopolis’s subaltern mass, hidden beneath its sprawling infrastructure and glitzy exterior. The turmoil and tragedies in these quaintly South Asian stories has Delhi siting silent and brooding in the background.
Translated from the Hindi by Jason Grunebaum, Prakash’s The Walls of Delhi portrays a Kafkaesque world where the individual is trapped within the gridlock of bureaucracy and power. The trap hardly matters for his characters; they take it as part of their being. However, it is the few choices and the resultant hope that is the source of their greatest anguish. Prakash’s characters are so far beneath the power dynamics of the Delhi machine that they are mostly forgotten, like the flies that swarm around a garbage dump. Ironically almost, their survival is linked to their insignificance. To be noticed is dangerous, as revealed in the award-winning and highly popular Mohandas, the second story in the collection. Prakash’s stories shift through the voiceless mass of Delhi as he delves into their lives. The plots and twists are predictable while death, decay and disease central themea. Sadly and frustratingly, these are the certainties his characters have. But even here, there is the occasional resurgence of the inexplicable and magical, moments that last just long enough and are remembered just clearly enough to question the inevitability of these certainties.
The value of this translation is self-evident once one starts reading the book – it’s a hard book to put down or leave midway. It reveals a world where English is the language spoken from above and even in translation, resists any belonging to this world. The stories provide voyeuristic glimpses of the unnoticed and peripheral. They blur the lines between fact and fiction and taint the reader with the grime of the city.


This motivational personal-development and self-helpbook was inspired by a suggestion from Scottish American businessman AndrewCarnegie. While the title implies that this book deals only with how to achievemonetary wealth, author Napoleon Hill explains that the philosophy taught in thesepages can be used to help individuals do or be almost anything they want. Forinstance, according to sportswriter… Jim Murray, Think and Grow Rich was credited for Ken Norton's boxing upset ofMuhammad Ali in 1973. At the time of Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold twenty million copies since itspublication during the Great Depression in 1937. It remains Hill's biggestseller and was listed by Businessweekas the sixth best-selling paperback business book seventy years after itspublication. It is also on John C. Maxwell's "e;Lifetime Must-Read"e; list.
Series: Made for Success


Here are some resources that I find useful for spiritual growth. You should check them out.
Alpha and Omega Ministries: Alpha & Omega Ministries is an apologetics ministry based in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. James White, the director of Alpha & Omega Ministries, debates people on the issues of Calvinism, Islam, the Trinity, and Roman Catholicism, to name a few.
Logos Bible Software: Logos Bible Software is a Bible library program. Though its prices might seem high they are rather reasonable. This is a wonderful resource because it can save someone hours of research since you are able to search through your entire library with one click. Also, it is an invaluable tool for the pastors without formal training in the biblical original languages as it allows one to study a word without knowing the language, and it is an even greater resource for those who know the biblical languages.
Monergism: For those who love reformed theology, Monergism is the site for you! Monergism contains the works of many reformed authors, both old and modern, as well as audio by them. It is also a wonderful resource for learning what reformed theology is.
Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA): The RPCNA has its roots in the Scottish Covenanters of the 16th century. (This is the denomination I am part of.)
Sabbath Meditations: Sabbath Meditations is a blog of mine which functions to help Christians “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Ex. 20:8). Each week, reading or listening resources will be published in order to help the Body of Christ obey this commandment.
Sermon Audio: Sermon Audio is a site where you can find many sermons by many pastors and speakers available as free downloads or streaming on the web. Some speakers that you can find here are; Voddie Baucham, Paul Washer, R. C. Sproul, John Sawtelle, Steve Bradley, Dr. Carl R. Trueman, Richard Bennett, Dr. Joel Beeke, Alistair Begg, and many others.
Treasure Jesus: Treasure Jesus is a new ministry whose purpose is to “spread a zeal for the love of the knowledge of God found in Jesus.” Treasure Jesus was started by some guys at my church. Right now they are focusing on ‘Truth For Africa’ which is a focus on equipping the pastors of Africa. For more information, check out their website
Virginia is for Huguenots: “Virginia is for Huguenots is a blog devoted to the church history, and devotional thoughts, of (mainly) English, American and Dutch Puritans, French Huguenots, Scottish Covenanters, and other godly men and women of old who embraced experimental Calvinism. Their history and literature is a legacy to be treasured, and this blog exists to share that with readers today. I am a Reformed Presbyterian who lives in Virginia, and I am descended from French Huguenots.”
Biblia: Biblia is a branch of Logos that allows you to read the Bible in a variety of translations. You can also search by passage or topic.
Blue Letter Bible: Blue Letter Bible also allows you to read the Bible and search through it. One also has access to a concordance and a few other tools.
ESV Bible: This is basically Crossway’s online ESV Bible. An account is not required but having one does allow you to “unlock” some extra features.
Confessions of Faith:
Resources in Spanish


Just received word that my biretta has been included in the work "Sammlung Phillipi", the ultimate book on clergy headwear, by Dieter Phillipi.
'"This hardcover book showcases the entire Philippi headwear collection
and more in over 1,000 fascinating and exclusive photographs.
The Philippi headwear collection is currently the world’s largest
collection of clerical, ecclesiastical and religious head coverings—
and is unique in both its scope and size. Whether they are ceremonial
or worn as a part of everyday life, you’ll fi nd examples of
headwear from every religious persuasion around the globe. In addition,
the collection includes photos of 116 religious objects, making
it a truly fascinating study of diverse cultures and traditions."
It's available at www.powells.com


When is the last time you read a book with your cup of coffee or tea? We are always reading online - emails, newsletters, ebooks, digital downloads, webinar recordings... the list goes on and on! Reading online is easy and convenient and, after all, we're online most of the day anyway!
It can be very refreshing to step away from your computer (and all of our multiple screens) and read a book with real pages! You're likely experiencing some digital overwhelm and Zoom meeting fatigue due to the pandemic as we speak and this could be just what you need. Some of you may not have thought about reading a book for a while. If that's you, try to incorporate reading into your work life because it offers new ideas, perspectives, and inspiration.
I shared with you in this post how to organize work-related books the Marie Kondo way. When you determine which books "spark joy" for you, place those books (only) on your bookshelf. TIP: no need to fill the entire shelf with books--place other items of color, interest, and inspiration on your shelf too.
Keep the ones you reference often and are currently reading on a bookshelf or table nearby for easy access and so you don't forget to read them! Keep a reading list of the book titles you want to order or borrow and read next. TIP: ask "Siri" to keep your list like I do.
This photo is a snapshot of what's on my bookshelf. What's on yours?
Here are two of the books I have on my reading list: Your Fully Charged Life by Meaghan B Murphy and The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod (recommended to me by a good friend and colleague). TIP: borrow books from a colleague or the library instead of buying to reduce book clutter and save the trees. What's on yours?
Share the title and author of one book on your workspace bookshelf and one book on your work-related reading list in the comments.


It was very recently that I chanced upon an Agatha Christie in my husband’s library. Having tried one of her books in school and rejected it as not being my cup of tea I put it aside.
But enough convincing by dearest hubby made me give it another go. So what I started with was ‘Five Little Pigs’. And boy was I hooked. I soon followed it with ‘Murder In Mesopotamia’, ‘Taken at Flood’, ‘Death on the Nile’. All from the Hercule Poirot series.
M. Hercule Poirot, a small bald Belgian man with highly refined manners – is not probably how we usually imagine a detective. But with one book you start admiring his way of analysing a mystery, reading the nuances in human behaviour, his shrewd ways of getting information and asking the right questions, not giving up till all the pieces of puzzles fit in logical and finally the big showdown. Where he gathers an audience and step by step explains the mystery, the killing, why it was done and finally who did it. A little vain but very enjoyable.
I intend to read all the books in this series in the next couple of months. The books vary in the quality of suspense created but still are interesting enough that you would want to read them in one go.
I realise that Agatha Christie novels are well read around the world. But inspite of being an avid reader I just discovered this jewel. And for all those who haven’t yet discovered them I insist that you try them!


I began my literary life as a poet, and Google Books has a perusable copy of my first book, The Lost Body of Childhood. The Open Library has a description, with links to libraries where it's available: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6562918W/The_lost_body_of_childhood. Used copies are listed for sale here: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780914278252/?tab=all
In April 2023 I revived the small press I founded, Alembic Press, with a new imprint, Boca Ciega Books, to publish my own work. My second collection of poems is the first title, available on Amazon.com: The Bus to San Simón.
In June 2023, Boca Ciega Books will publish my first novel on Amazon, titled Wideman's Gospel.
Once the novel is published, I will return to drafting and revising family- and personal-history narratives. My 2023 goal is to complete a memoir now titled Chaplain's Kid.


IPC MEDIA AND DC COMICS RESURRECT LEGENDARY UK COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS
November 22, 2004
Leading UK consumer magazine publisher, IPC Media, and DC Comics, the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world, are joining forces to bring back a host of superheroes that originally appeared in classic British weekly comics such as Lion and Valiant in the 1950's and '60's.
In a deal announced today by Loaded/Uncut publisher Andrew Sumner, IPC+ director Andrew Horton and Paul Levitz, the President & Publisher of DC Comics, DC Comics will become the worldwide master licensee of the rights to produce and publish new comics material based on the IPC library of properties, including The Steel Claw, The Spider and Kelly's Eye. These new titles will be published in the United States under DC Comics' WildStorm imprint, home to the critical successes Ex Machina and The Authority.
World-renowned comic book writer Alan Moore (Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) will plot one of the first projects, a unique comic book series called Albion: a six-part, monthly series which will be scripted by his daughter Leah Moore along with John Reppion. The series will be illustrated by Shane Oakley.
Andrew Sumner says: "The fact that Alan Moore has devised Albion as a vehicle for resurrecting IPC's library of iconic British adventure heroes is the best possible outcome for our deal with WildStorm. This is the biggest piece of UK comics news in 25 years. A whole generation of British males grew up relishing the adventures of IPC's fantastically macabre superheroes and the cultural significance of their comeback, after more than two decades, is enormous."
Albion represents only one of the titles that WildStorm has planned. Future projects will involve award-winning British artist Dave Gibbons (Watchmen, The Originals).
DC Comics VP - Sales & Marketing Bob Wayne adds: "Helping to bring these classic IPC characters to a new generation of readers has been great fun. I'm looking forward to the response from comic book fans in the US and Canada as this British Invasion begins in 2005."
Andrew Horton adds: "This deal is a great example of Time Warner co-operation. We are re-invigorating interest in these characters and creating a platform for future value." For further information and imagery, please contact Chris Taylor, head of Media Relations, IPC Media, Tel: 020 7261 5276 or Email: email@example.com
Notes to editors:
IPC Media is the UK's leading consumer magazine publisher, comprising a portfolio of almost 100 magazine brands and occupying the number one position in 16 of the sectors in which it operates. Now part of Time Inc., the publishing division of TimeWarner, the company's market-leading portfolio of magazines range from Woman, Woman's Own, Country Life and Loaded to Horse & Hound, NME, Ideal Home and Marie Claire.
DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, a division of Time Warner, is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world and home to such iconic characters as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Sandman. These DC super heroes and others have starred in comic books, movies, television series (both animated and live-action) and cyberspace, thrilling audiences of all ages for generations. DC Comics' Web site is located at www.dccomics.com.


We have a number of elementary resources available for you. Among those resources, you will find a series of books that our President and CEO, Dr. Randell E. Trammell, has written called the "Georgia Caroline Visits..." series.
The series was written by Dr. Trammell when trying to explain civic and government issues and structures to his own children. Named after his own daughter, Georgia Caroline, each book follows her 'class' on a field trip on various adventures to better understand the structure, function, and processes of government.
Each book has lesson plans written to support it, which can be found below. The books can be purchased on Amazon.
Lesson Plans and Resources Supporting Georgia Caroline Visits the State Capitol
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Last night we read Behold...the Unicorns!and as I was reading I discovered this is not a "story" book. Instead it is a book about the lore of unicorns. Since we are beginning our study of the anceints it kind of fit right in with what we are doing. For me it was the Europen mythology vs. Greek mythology. I think we all learned something from this little book.
Maybe you reading this post were familiar with this, but I didn't know that there were christian teachings about unicorns or that there were stories about them not making it on Noah's boat so they died in the flood. I guess I just always put unicorns in the category of mythical creatures and left it at that. They are equal in my mind to greek mythology. This little children's book has left me wanting to research more.
Reading is such a powerful medium. That's why I'm always on top of what my kids are reading and the sources they are coming from. The timing of when a child is exposed to a thought or theory is so important. I've heard some say, "it's just a kid's book, how harmful can that be?" Sometimes things are not "harmful" and sometimes they are, but this book got me thinking again about how we teach certain things.
When my oldest was much younger he loved dragons. He love the imagery and anything pertaining to them. We would talk about how dragons were mythical creatures and not real, only for him to ask one day, "What about St. George?" That question began a whole conversation about what is real. Just like this book has again. How do you answer those questions for your children? How do you separate imagery from reality? Some times it's tricky.
Had they just left the unicorns with knights and the typical depiction I would have been just fine, but when they included Noah and stories from the bible I was in the odd place again. What's real and what's imagery. Guess it's just all food for thought.


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This 4 bedroom home offers large rooms and solid wood doors and trim and sits on over 2 acres of absolutely gorgeous land, offers a park-like setting outlined by mature trees and has proudly stood for more than 100 years! Behind the home is a two story carriage house “a carry over from an earlier time” as stated in the Richland and Its Prairie Beginnings history book which covers many of the historic homes in Richland. The structural integrity of both the home and carriage house have stood the test of time.
The location allows you to enjoy the annual 4th of July parade in town and Richland’s own wassailing tradition in December to kick off the holiday season and numerous other activities that take place in the Village Park. Its proximity to other amenities allows you to walk or ride your bike to the library, Hardings Market, restaurants, numerous churches, preschools and Gull lake Schools campus are some of the many popular reasons to enjoy living in the Village of Richland.
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It's NaNoWriMo, national write a novel month, where you hopefully write 50,000 words by the end of November. My book club and I decided to participate. Well, we're halfway through, I am at 14,262 words, and the other two members have all but given up. Instead of giving up and feeling overwhelmed, I decided to try to make it to 25,000 words by the end of the month. I think that is admirable. I also want to share my story, which is written in short chapters; is good for a person who doesn't know what to blog about. It also gives me a chance to edit what I frantically typed at the beginning of the month before I had a plan. I hope you enjoy!
Something at the back of his mind, in his subconscious remembered lending it to his neighbors up the block, but there was no way to know. The tug he felt came from a gut feeling. If it were based on something more solid, like proof, he would have had the book in his hands. He had to accept that the book was gone. But right now was when he wanted to read it the worst. Christian's day at school had consisted of two big tests, being teased about his favorite yellow sweatpants and losing part of Japan to another shogun in his social science class's version of Risk. He needed to escape. It was painful for him to scan the bookcase in hopes that the spine would magically appear-The Snow Queen and Other Fairytales by Hans Christian Anderson-back among the other books. He was depressed because he was so careless with it and scanning the shelf only made it worse.
He didn't even know where the book came from. It was old, it did not have a sleek dust jacket with vibrant colors like most of his other books. Instead, it was bound in real cloth with gold writing on the spine and had a small picture on the front that gave the reader an idea of the illustrations inside its covers. The drawings were the best part. They were gruesome, dark and would have been censored out if the book were published today. His only belief was that it was from his grandparents because they had a lot of old children's books at their house. It seemed like a book they would have owned —the mildew smell characteristic of their house —it was comforting.
The Snow Queen was his favorite and always would be. Although the other tales like, The Little Mermaid, where Ariel does not marry the prince in the end but turns to sea foam after losing her tongue, and The Wild Swans, where Eliza must endure weaving sweaters from stinging nettles under a vow of silence in order to transform her brothers from swans back into humans, were deliciously magical and dark, he enjoyed The Snow Queen the most. He loved to escape into the tale where Kay, who gets a piece of the devil's mirror lodged in both his eye and heart, is stolen by the Snow Queen and his best friend, girlfriend, Gerta must endure many trials in order to rescue him. Unknown to him, his love for the story was fueled by a wish to have a friend like Gerta—who would travel the world in order to save him. All he knew was the feeling it gave him ever time he read it; he felt protected.
He started thinking about the illustrations because they were unlike any others he'd seen; something about them drew him further into the fairy tale's world. The first one was the most gruesome because anything cute would have been swallowed up by Anderson’s descriptions. He remembered the mirror described as turning all good things ugly and transforming the most terrifying things into something even more terrible and the drawing on the page opposite a perfect representation of the description. Hideous creatures beyond what he imagined goblins to look like held the mirror by a tree. One goblin, made even more ugly by the mirror, stood admiring himself while the other's chuckled. The landscape around the mirror also seemed melt into something that could never be seen as beautiful, at least that's how he felt when he looked at it. Muddy browns and bloody reds replaced nice green colors, and twisted lines and abnormalities replaced straight clean lines. Christian loved this drawing the best because when Kay got pieces lodged in his eye and heart later, Christian felt like he understood how Kay saw the world, why he left.
He needed to see that image because he felt the world was an ugly place tonight and he had to read the rest of the story—where the snow queen materializes and takes Kay, where the Gerta is trapped in a perfect garden by a witch, and where Gerta finally rescues Kay—because through it, his hopelessness would give way to hope. But it was gone. Christian felt empty because he knew that he would never get it back. Even if he got another copy of the story, he knew he would miss the illustrations. He had to accept it and find something else to cheer him up.
Christian skimmed his bookshelf in hopes of finding something that would fill the void. The Complete Brothers Grimm, they were dark, and his copy had a cool medieval drawing of a knight slaying a dragon on the front cover. It was bloody too. Or he could read the cool dinosaur book that was really outdated but had the best drawings of his favorite dinosaurs. A Tyrannosaurus Rex ripping apart its prey would make him feel better. His eyes came to rest on a book that he hadn't seen before or he didn't remember. His parents added books to his shelf sometimes when they were cleaning out old boxes so maybe it was one of theirs. He couldn’t read the title on the spine because the metallic paint had chipped off of the worn cloth. Something about the book intrigued him; maybe it was because the spine was the same color as The Snow Queen and Other Fairytales. There was no title on the front cover either, someone must have taken off and misplaced the paper jacket. Christian opened the book.
The inside paper, the endpaper that masks the fabric used in binding the book, had an intricate pattern that Christian had not seen before but it reminded him of the pattern on the cover of his copy of The Arabian Nights. It captivated Christian because it shimmered when he shifted the book in his hand; it almost seemed liquid. It almost seemed like magic to Christian, but he knew it was only an optical illusion. But it captivated him and it was exciting finding a new book. Christian decided that he would find out what the book was and at least start it tonight. If he didn't like it, he would get something else. He had nothing to lose.


Feb 19, 2010 at 3:44 PM
Edited Feb 19, 2010 at 3:47 PM
> I do notice that the full txt file is read for every request.
No. It shouldn't. As stated in the documentation,
For the plain text map files, the key/value pairs are cached in memory for quick matching. IIRF loads new values automatically when the map file changes.
If the map file has been updated, then IIRF will re-read it. IIRF checks the timestamp on the map file for every request.
Once the map is read into memory, to determine if a match is made, IIRF compares the subject string to each string in the map, or until a match is found, via a call to the strcmp function in libc.
You can find documentation on the rnd map type at the link I gave above, or in the .chm file that's included in the IIRF download.