Website
Standards and Explanations (and credit to some helpful resources)
NOTE
about technical difficulties: www.krigline.com has not been uploading correctly since I returned
to China in August 2011; www.krigline.com.cn
is usually more up to date, or at least shows you the photos that can
disappear from krigline.com. I don't know the source of the problems, but
it could be China's "Great Firewall" or my use of outdated Microsoft
FrontPage software (not supported since 2003/won't work on Windows 7/and
I don't have time to "start over" with other software). My site was also
"taken over" temporarily in Jan 2012 by hackers, and restoration may
have caused additional problems. Finally, I'm also having trouble with file names that
used to have capital letters (if a link does not work, you could try replacing
any capital letters with lower case letters). If menu buttons don't
appear at the top of a page, put your mouse over the missing button and
look at the bottom of your browser to see where it will take you. I'm a
low-income teacher, not a web master! It is getting harder and harder to
keep this website up, but I think there are many valuable things here
for those who can reach them. So, please be patient with my website's
problems, feel free to write to me about any you find (see below for my
address) AND sorry for the inconvenience!
Links, materials, articles, etc., provided by this
website are presented here without warranty of any kind. We don't know
of anything harmful, but (as with everything on the Internet) click,
read, visit or download at your own risk.
The educational resources on this website have been created for our
students under our understanding of "fair use" for educational resources. If we have inadvertently used copyright materials on this
web site (that is, anything owned by someone else), such materials were probably obtained
in an area of the public domain (or in our own files), and have been used here for informative
and educational purposes only. Any authenticated request from the
copyright owner to remove this material or to add source information
will be honored as soon as possible. The copyright remains that of the
owner except where stated otherwise. The use or citation of materials on this
personal website does not constitute an endorsement by the original author
or publisher.
Differences between .com and .com.cn
(and how to check for more-current pages)
China has stricter laws regarding Internet content than
the US, and we do our best to comply with those laws. For
example, it is never our intention to "make China look bad"
(which is illegal in China)--we love
living and working here! Examples and photos from China are here to help
those in other countries understand this wonderful country better. If
any Chinese person sees something on www.krigline.com.cn that should not
be published in China, please notify us in English) and we will remove
it as soon as possible.
To comply with these stricter standards,
some content on www.krigline.com is not on www.krigline.com.cn. In most
cases, I've added "-E" to
those page names, such as "www.krigline.com.cn/israel-E.htm", while the
complete page's name would be "www.krigline.com/israel.htm".
Since .com.cn can be uploaded from our home in China,
you can often find more-current
pages at www.krigline.com.cn. To check (from
www.krigline.com), normally you
simply need to add ".cn" to the page name (e.g.,
www.krigline.com/update.htm becomes
www.krigline.com.cn/update.htm). However, you may also have to add
"-E" if the content has been changed for China (but there are only about
15 of these "-E" pages).
If the page you want has
capital letters, please
change them to lower case! (See the yellow box at the top of this page
for explanation.) Because of this (MS Frontpage/upload) problem, I've
created a duplicate set of main links on the top of major pages.
While Michael taught at 西北工业大学, we
registered krigline.com.cn with the appropriate Chinese authorities. (see
the bottom of the home page)
Credit to some helpful resources
I have created the definitions used on this website, but
often after consulting one or more dictionaries. I highly recommend the
following reference materials (which I often use) to anyone trying to
learn English:
Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2004. (Software)
USA: Microsoft Corporation, ©1993-2003. (It is nice to have a good
dictionary/thesaurus inside your computer when you are writing. I
often consult this software when composing definitions.)
Summers, Della, Director. Longman
Dictionary of Contemporary English, 3rd ed. Essex: Longman
Group, Ltd. (Pearson Education), 1995. (Great dictionary for non-native
speakers; it’s no coincidence that my definitions often sound a lot like the
ones in this reference resource! Longman Dictionary is also
available as software, and it is available in China. I highly
recommend this helpful tool. You can also use this dictionary for free on
line.)
