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Dec 04
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The Empire of the Mehdi
Heinz Halm. Translated from the German by Michael Bonner
In the 9th century, the ismailis — known in the Middle Ages under the name of Fatimeen — arose to play a prominent role in the history of the Near East. Today they are a prominent group for traders and businessmen, a peace loving communtiy known as the Dawoodi Bohra. Their spiritaul head is the 52nd Dail Mutlaq, Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (tus) who is the vicegerent of the Imam of the presnt day. The Dai al-Mutlaq represents the Imam during his Seclusion. In this mesmerising book, Heinz Halm describes the early history of the Fatimids, from the founding and spread of the Ismaili Fatemi society to the rise of the caliphal dynasty to power in North Africa and the founding of Cairo, their capital.
‘Grammarians, linguists, Semiticists, Ethiopianists, students, and curious speakers of Amharic will be well and long served by this exemplary work. For advanced students of the language, it will become an indispensable tool.’
Grover Hudson, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1998.
Good news: Heinz Halm’s excellent outline of the early history of the Fatimids is now available in English…The impression that this volume, despite its high scholarly claim, almost appears like a ‘best-seller’, may be acknowledged with pleasure by everybody expecting from a book in the non-fictional area, in addition to new insights and an increase of knowledge, also a fair deal of literary entertainment.
Sebastian Günther, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1998.
Readership: All those interested in the history of Islam and the Near East in general.
Heinz Halm, Ph.D. (1967) in Islamic Studies, University of Bonn, is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Tübingen. He specialises in Shi‘ite Iran; his book Shiism appeared in an English translation in 1991.
Michael Bonner, Ph.D. (1987) in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, is Associate Professor of Medieval Islamic History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His translation of A. Noth, Quellenkritische Studien zu Themen, Formen und Tendenzen frühislamischer Geschichtsüberlieferung was published in 1994 as The Early Arabic Historical Tradition.
This book is available at Amazon.com
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Setting up Your Blog for the Best Chances to Be Included in Google – and Your Best Bet For Staying In
Below are the top 8 items you need to be concerned with to get your blog prepared to be recognized and listed well by Google. The 8th item will clarify one of the most important factors if you want to stay in.
1- The Location of Your Blog
Your blog is doing you the least amount of good on someone else’s server. If you have Blogger, you can change from the blogspot version to have Blogger FTP your files to your server for free. Linux and Unix based servers are cheap and safe with wonderful GUIs. You can get cheap web hosting solutions with Ekhwan and rest assured of good services and support. We have both Windows based platforms as well as Linux platform to suit your websites’ need. We have very special offers for non-profit organizations as well. Do visit http://ekhwan.com
2- The Links on Your Blog Template
By links, I don’t mean what you link to when you post. I am specifically referring to the links in your blog. If you don’t edit your blog template to include links to the main part of your site, you’re making a mistake. How is Google going to find a link that isn’t there?
Edit your chosen template to make sure there is at least one link from your blog directory to the rest of your site. We at Ekhwan have experts working for your satisfaction with our web designers and web developers you will never have to look back. We handle projects for both static and dynamic sites.
3 – The Frequency of Your Updates
A wise webmaster recently said that the best thing you can do for your search engine efforts is to add a new page to your site a day, and to make one change to your site a day.
Why is this such great advice?
Because Googlebot does not need to re-spider your site if it doesn’t ever change. It probably will – but I’ve noticed the more there is a legitimate need for it to return, the more likely it is that you’ll get re-spidered.
Posting to a blog, or an RSS feed, and leaving it to stagnate will bring you zero traffïc. Furthermore, when people see an abandoned piece of web real estate, they leave. It’s like tuning into a TV channel and seeing “snow”. Most people can’t stand it for more than a few seconds, and will either turn the channel, or turn the television off.
There are even shorter attention spans online, from both search engine robots and people. If you want either to return, update constantly. Infoworld is a wonderful mailing list and user group where the editors post wonderful articles and content that you can use on your blog. You can also place Solo Ads and little sponsor links at low costs.
4 – The Right Keywords for Your Blog
When you’re selecting keywords for your blog, your best bet is to pick keywords that have a medium to high yield and low competition. The essential difference is this – would you rather be ranked #107 for “internet marketing” and get no traffïc, or be ranked number one for “learn internet marketing” and get a few hundred?
5 – The Placement of the Keywords on Your Blog
Here’s where your primary keywords need to be:
- in the title
- in the description
- in your post titles where applicable
- in the name of the links to individual posts
- in the text that links your posts
If you look at the front page of my blog, you’ll see the phrase “Free Traffic Tips” everywhere. And yet, the pages don’t sound ridiculous.
This is because I set up my blog so that every page and every post utilizes these words. If you set up your blog correctly, and get in certain habits when you post, you’ll find that your site will begin to rank for the term that best matches your topic.
6 – The Length of Your Blog Posts
Always remember this. “Posts are paragraphs, sentences are sp@m.” Your posts should be at least two paragraphs. If there is little to no content on a page, there’s no reason for it to be indexed unless it is the only page available for that term.
The only time your post can be shorter than that, and still be effective, is if you’re linking to something else. It won’t always work out that you’ll have several paragraphs worth of content to discuss. But do your best to stay above 90%.
7- The Frequency of Your Archives
Remember the wise webmaster’s quote earlier? Well, here’s a question – if one new and updated page on your site is good, do you think creating or updating three pages of your site can be better?
It sure can.
Daily archiving makes a huge difference. If you have this option, use it. If you don’t switch. If you need more room on your server, get some. It’s worth it.
When you combine daily archiving and having individual post pages, each time you post, your site generates a new page for your post, updates the day’s archive page (or creates it if it’s the first post of the day), and updates the index page of your site.
Combine these date-stamped pages with real content and you’ve got great spider bait.
8 – When, and Where You Are Linked
If you have Blogger, you’ll want to make sure your blog is listed as “public”, so that it will appear on Blogger’s recently updated blogs pages whenever you make a new post.
There is some speculation that this is what gets your blog spidered so quickly by Google if you use Blogger to post. And the answer is yes, if you are willing to wait about 48 hours, this will get you spidered once.
And IF your site is indexed, it will probably be dropped out the next day, if this is all you do. This has been documented in public on other sites.
What hasn’t been made public yet is that your best bet for staying spidered is frequent and regular updates. Let Google know that you’re not trying to use Blogger to sp@m its database. Provide useful content that updates at regular intervals.
All these tips help you get ethical attention from Google. You don’t need to do anything dishonest or underhanded to get your site spidered, or listed. So, if your site fills a need that Google has for sites, and you have a quality site, you can get listed.
With just these tips. you have enough to get a good blog into Google.
It’ll be up to you to stay in.
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Dec 04
27
Friendship Facts
2. Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
3. If you can buy a person’s friendship, it is not worth it.
4. True friends have hearts that beat as one.
5. If you cannot think of any nice things to say about your friends, then you have the wrong friends.
6. Make friends before you need them.
7. If you were another person, would you like to be a friend of yours?
8. A good friend is one who neither looks down on you nor keeps up with you.
9. Be friendly with the folks you know. If it weren’t for them you would be a total stranger. 10. A friend is never known till he is needed.
11. Friendship is a responsibility…not an opportunity.
12. Friendship is the cement that holds the world together
13. Friends are those who speak to you after others don’t
14. The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue.
15. Pick your friends, but not to pieces.
16. A friend is one who puts his finger on a fault without rubbing it in.
17. The way to have friends is to be willing to lose some arguments.
18. If a friend makes a mistake, don’t rub it in….rub it out.
19. Deal with other’s faults as gently as if they were your own.
20. People are judged by the company they keep and the company they keep away from.
21. A friend is a person who can step on your toes without messing your shine.
22. The best mirror is an old friend.
23. The best possession one may have is a true friend.
24. Make friendship a habit and you will always have
friends.
25. You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults.
26. Doing nothing for your friends results in having no friends to do for.
27. Anyone can give advice, but a real friend will lend a helping hand.
28. You can make more friends by being interested in them than trying to have them be interested in you.
29. A real friend is a person who, when you’ve made a fool of yourself, lets you forget it.
30. A friend is a person who listens attentively while you say nothing.
31. You can buy friendship with friendship, but never with dollars.
32. True friends are like diamonds, precious but rare; false friends are like autumn leaves, found everywhere.
33. A friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though you’re slightly cracked.
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Not all posts on this blog are my own words. Nor are all articles written by me. The blog is intended serve as my journal and dairy of interesting reading I have enjoyed and want to share. Some write-ups do not have the name of its author, the reason behind it is that I do not know the original source nor the author. If someone knows it they can add it to the comment box.
