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This nonfiction book presents graphic dreams and visions of biblical proportions experienced by the author over a 50 years of his life, culminating with the presentation of prolific poetry inspired by God during the most trying times of his life. The book opens with a a dream related to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ during Armageddon as the planet is ablaze below his entrance from heaven. A picturesque view inside heaven, an angel naming my first born son, a voice from beyond ordering the writing of the first book" The Assassination of the Devil's Garden", and being taken in the presence of a deceased loved one are just a few of these out of the body experiences incorporated in this book.

My Snack Size Skills: 8 Life Lessons for a Happy and Healthy Me --a fun-filled book of powerful life lessons and interactive activities--empowers children in grades K-5 to live happy and healthy lives. Lessons include: Love Yourself Love Your Life Dream Big Think Positive Learn to Relax Eat Healthy Be Active Love Others

The microbiota of hydrothermal vents has been widely implicated in the dynamics of oceanic biogeochemical cycling. Lithotrophic organisms utilize reduced chemicals in the vent effluent for energy, which fuels carbon fixation, and their metabolic byproducts can then support higher trophic levels and high-biomass ecosystems. However, despite the important role these microorganisms play in our oceans, they are difficult to study. Most are resistant to culturing in a lab setting, so culture-independent methods are necessary to examine community composition. Targeted amplicon surveying, in which a marker gene is selected for DNA amplification, has become the standard practice for assessing the structure and diversity of hydrothermal vent microbial communities. The most commonly used marker gene is the small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) gene, due to its ubiquity across all cellular organisms and the presence of both conserved and variable regions. Here, the performance of primer pairs targeting the V3V4 and V4V5 variable regions of the SSU rRNA gene were assessed using environmental samples from microbial mats surrounding iron-dominated hydrothermal vents. Using the amplicon sequence variant (ASV) approach to taxonomic identification, the structure and diversity of microbial communities at Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount were elucidated in detail. Both primer pairs generated robust data and comparable alpha diversity profiles. However, several distinct differences in community composition were identified between primer sets, including differential relative abundances of both bacterial and archaeal phyla. The primer choice was determined to be a significant driver of variation among the taxonomic profiles generated. Based on the higher quality of the raw sequences generated and on the breadth of abundant taxa found using the V4V5 primer set, it is determined as the most efficacious primer pair for whole-community surveys of microbial mats at iron-dominated hydrothermal vents.