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"Rage, goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving to its end."
With these harsh words begins the Iliad of Homer, which is, along with the Hebrew Bible, the foundation of all Western literature. For the centuries that followed its oral composition and later written development, the Iliad and its younger shorter sequel, the Odyssey, were the staples of classical education. Four centuries after Homer, Plato called Homer the educator of all Greece, and a generation later, Alexander the Great carried a copy of the Iliad on all of his magnificent and hideous conquests.
Roman senators quoted it and their sons' schoolmasters wrote cheat sheets for their students who were poor at Greek. William Shakespeare set one of his plays in the Homeric drama of the Trojan war. Homer's list of modern translators reads like a Who's Who of later literature, including Alexander Pope, John Dryden, William Cowper, William Morris, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hobbes, Laurence of Arabia and a host of others.
The outline of the Iliad is simple enough, and despite popular belief of those who faked reading it in middle school, it does not include either the story of the abduction of beautiful Helen by Prince Paris of Troy or the account of the Trojan Horse. Homer tells us that in the ninth year of the war at Troy to regain Helen for King Menelaus of Sparta, a fierce argument breaks out between the commanders.
When the gods oblige the Greeks to return the captive daughter of a priest of Apollo, held by the warlord Agamemnon, he loses face before his men. When the greatest of warriors, Achilles, insists that Agamemnon relent and return the girl, Agamemnon demands and gains another captive girl, held by Achilles, as a replacement. Furious at his sudden loss and shaming before the Greek armies, Achilles withdraws from the war in fury and spends most of the rest of the poem sulking in his tents with his best friend Patroclus. As more than one commentator has noted, Homer's description of the disasters which follow, is a comment on the consequences of poor leadership. Agamemnon's unwillingness to compromise, his shallow petty-mindedness costs him the lives of hundreds of his men and almost loses the entire war.
In the chapters that follow, with Achilles out of the war, the tide of war turns away from the numerically superior Greeks to the besieged Trojans. Prince Hector, whose name means "holder," is the son of the Trojan king, heir presumptive, and the best of the Trojan warriors.
On a moral level, Hector is in many ways the noblest and most admirable of the Homeric heroes, for he fights, not for reputation, face, gold or the love of a pretty girl, but to defend the weak huddled in his father's doomed city. In round after round, he manages to drive the Greeks back from the city walls, across the plains, to their beached ships and kills scores of Greeks, and wounds almost all of their best warriors. He even breaches their last defenses and begins to set their ships on fire.
Achilles' older friend, Patroclus, saddened at the mass death of so many friends, cannot persuade his buddy to return to the fight, but at the request of a senior Greek commander, he asks to wear Achilles' armor and stop Hector and the Trojan advance. And with this gesture of solidarity, Homer dryly adds, his doom is sealed.
When manslaughtering Hector kills Patroclus and strips him of Achilles' wonderful armor, the enraged Greek hero turns his baleful wrath away from Agamemnon and redirects it to Hector in a bloodlust of revenge. His goddess mother, Thetis, warns Achilles that two fates await him. If he abandons the Greeks and the war, he will live a long life of happiness and then be forgotten. Or he can return to the war, go out in a blaze of glory and then be remembered forever.
At his original shaming, Achilles chose the former. With the killing of his friend Patroclus, he chooses the latter. Achilles then gains new armor from the gods, returns to the war and drives the Trojans from the field. When Hector alone stands before the gates of high Troy to stand up to the bullying, death-dealing Achilles, he is butchered before his parent's horrified eyes and his body is desecrated.
From a religious perspective, one of the most interesting aspects of Homer's war story is the attitude of his gods. The Greek pantheon of gods, such as Zeus, Apollo, Hera, Athena and the rest, lead lives of pleasure and happiness. They lack nothing at banquets, can travel anywhere, and pass their hours in revelry and sexual conquests.
A much later Roman author named Lucretius argued that since the gods could lack nothing this explains why they did nothing for humans and were so absent from suffering humanity's lot. But Homer is not so cynical or agnostic.
His gods are real enough for him. But the immortal gods are, at the end of the day, bored out of their minds. Homer's gods need men and women, they need their wars, victories and defeats, to find an outlet for their own passions. But Homer grants a degree of nobility to men and women, which he denies to his immortal gods. The gods cannot suffer long, but men can, and how men face defeat and suffering is both the test and revelation of their character. When Achilles humiliates the body of Hector, tying it to his chariot and driving it around Troy for days, even the gods grow tired of his brutal sport.
Guided by the gods, aged King Priam of Troy goes to Achilles, the murderer of his son, to humbly beg for the body, so his lost heir can be given final rites and his soul given dispatch to the next life. The meeting of the two men is poignant. Priam's city is doomed without his son and Achilles is now doomed to a short, albeit famous life.
Both men have lost a loved one dear to their hearts and both have seen the sufferings of war face to face. Finally moved by compassion for the old commander, Achilles grants the venerable king's request for the body, and the story quickly draws to an end.
Thirty-two centuries have passed since Troy was supposed to have been sacked and its people killed or enslaved. The apathetic gods are gone as is Homer who wrote of them and the ancient scholars who compiled Homer's words.
But we mortals remain, and like Hector, Priam, Patroclus, Odysseus and the others, must live in a world still led by angry and arrogant kings, fanatics demanding revenge and women who must see their sons die in distant lands. What degree of nobility of spirit will we show in the face of our own Trojan wars? This remains to be seen.
Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is a professor of history and humanities at Moreno Valley College and a Roman Catholic priest. Write to him at Professing Faith, P.O. Box 8102, Redlands, CA 92375-1302, email him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter at Fatherelder.

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Heroes In A Nutshell: 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collection'
While Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is in the midst of a creative renaissance at IDW, with the current series making our own Best Comics of 2013 list, the publisher continues to release reprints and collections of stories that had been unavailable for years. Recently, IDW released a new hardcover edition of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collection, which was originally published in 2009 (the actual 25th anniversary) through co-creator Kevin Eastman's Heavy Metal publishing house, re-mastering the artwork and providing some stories with color for the first time.
Unlike ComicsAlliance editor Caleb Goellner -- who seems to bleed green -- I've only read a few issues of the new series. I really, genuinely liked it, but felt like my memories of the original comics, if not the comics themselves, were better. For that same reason, I haven't bought a single issue of IDW's Classics reprints; just saw enough of the first collection to know that I didn't like the cold digital coloring. Really, I didn't want to see TMNT with new eyes; I wanted it to remain great in my recollection, rather than diminished by the reality. I didn't want to find out that literally the most important comic in my life was reduced to trash because of the passage of time and changes in perception.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 30/12/2008 (3158 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Several major crime stories received national and even international attention – a fact I can personally attest to having been interviewed more than 75 times by radio stations across Canada and even into places like England about things that were happening in our own backyard.
I've lost track of how many times I was asked something along the lines of "what's going on in Manitoba???"
As we wrap up the year – and wonder what 2009 will bring – I wanted to reflect on some of the stories that I won't soon forget.
I had more than 400 stories published this year in the pages of the Free Press, but the following five have left a lasting impact. Here they are, along with some background and commentary about each:
THE GREYHOUND BUS KILLING – No Canadian crime story captured the public's attention in 2008 quite like the case of Vincent Li, who is accused of murdering and decapitating a man on board a Greyhound Bus in front of three dozen horrified spectators.
I was actually on a family vacation in Minnesota at the time and couldn't believe the e-mail I received from an editor that night. I thought it must be a hoax, that there's no way something so sadistic could happen in "Friendly Manitoba."
But it was true, even worse than we initially thought. I began working the phones from the U.S., trying to help fellow Free Press reporters who were on the story.
We broke the news that Li had ties to Winnipeg and even tracked down a local family that had taken him in through their church and expressed concerns about his mental status. We quickly learned about Li's past including his spotty work history, relationship with his wife and transfer to Edmonton. We broke the news that Li was a Canadian citizen and couldn't be deported – at a time when some media pundits were calling for his immediate expulsion. I got the first interview with the mother and stepmother of Tim McLean, and later spoke with them about their call for "Tim's Law" in Canada which would impact how mental illness could be used as a defence.
I vividly recall the chill I felt covering Li's court hearing in Portage la Prairie, just days after his arrest, where all the details of his crime emerged. I then boarded a plane to Edmonton the next day to begin retracing Li's recent history by speaking with co-workers, employers and neighbours.
It was a chaotic couple of weeks, and I'm not sure how many times I paused to ask myself "Is this really happening?" It still seems so surreal, now months later. I will be covering Li's trial in March 2009, where the only issue to decide is whether he should be found criminally responsible for his actions. No doubt eyes around the world will once again be focused on Manitoba.
THE PHOENIX SINCLAIR MURDER – Without a doubt, the most difficult criminal trial I've ever had to sit through. The evidence heard during the month-long jury case was appalling – a five-year-old girl repeatedly abused, neglected, tortured, confined to a cold dark basement, starved, forced to eat her own vomit and shot with a pellet gun "for sport."
There were so many angles to cover, including the role CFS may have played in Phoenix's death (which will be a central part of a future inquest) and questions about why the little girl's remains had yet to be buried (after our story appeared, lawyers for both accused announced they wouldn't stand in the way of releasing Phoenix's bones to family members).
I was moved to tears on several occasions, especially at the incredible sight of all 10 female jurors returning to court for the sentencing hearing. I've never seen anything like it.
Just 48 hours after Phoenix's mother and stepfather were given life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years, I was inside a jail cell sitting face-to-face with Samantha Kematch for an exclusive and very controversial interview.
Lots of readers were offended by the fact we gave her a "podium" to speak out. I felt it was important to hear what she had to say, especially since she didn't testify during the trial and the issues surrounding Phoenix's murder are still very much alive considering the upcoming inquest.
Not surprisingly, Karl McKay had a strong reaction to the story as well, especially concerning the finger pointing from his co-accused. He agreed to a jailhouse interview days later, which also struck a nerve with many.
We also took readers along for the interview by providing audio and video of them on the Free Press website.
INSIDE A MASS MURDER: TRIPLE SLAYING SHOCKS PARAMEDICS – It was a scene of absolute chaos. Three men shot dead, execution-style, inside a Winnipeg home. Three others seriously wounded.
I came in on the weekend to cover the city's first-triple murder in more than a decade and began looking for different ways to explore what happened. Thanks to some help from justice sources, I convinced paramedics who were at the scene to speak exclusively about what they'd witnessed and how they'd handled such a stressful situation, especially since a horrific fatal car accident with numerous other injuries had occurred at nearly the exact same moment, putting an incredible strain on the city's resources.
The story allowed readers into the crime scene, to the front lines of emergency responders and paid tribute to the unsung heroes whose vital work is often overlooked. The story also led to calls by the paramedic's union for better safety training and equipment, including bullet-proof vests, based on the increasingly violent and unpredictable crime scenes they are being forced to attend.
DRIVE-BY SHOOTING, DRIVE-THRU JUSTICE – For me, this story was personal. I was only months into my journalism career back in the summer of 1995 when I arrived at a disturbing crime scene - a young boy gunned down in the street after being mistaken for a gang member. It was the first time I'd ever seen a homicide victim in my life, the image of the boy's body laying on the street forever burned into my memory. The murder of Joseph "Beeper" Spence shocked Winnipeg and underscored the city's emerging street gang problem.
Now 13 years later, I pitched the idea of re-visiting the tragic case by looking at what became of Beeper's killers. After my requests for parole documents were answered, I was able to paint a troubling picture of their time spent behind bars, the prospects for their future and the "catch-and-release" game that is often played in the justice system. It was a classic "talker", a story that generated plenty of feedback about the justice system and its many flaws.
FAMILY'S TRAGEDY UPON TRAGEDY – This story began with my daily routine of viewing the morning obituaries. I was struck by one in particular, which involved a mother's touching tribute to her deceased young son. It was obvious he had committed suicide.
I wanted to know more, especially after learning her other young son had been the victim of a violent crime. Through newspaper archives I quickly found background on the initial case, which was a homicide in Alberta. I was then able to make contact with the mother and other family members, who agreed to speak out about their tragic loss.
The result was a poignant look at the long-term impacts of crime and how it drove a troubled young man to end his life in an eerily similar fashion to how his brother was slain. It also included an important message from the mother to other young people and shows how crime can impact families in so many ways, long after a case has been closed and the public has moved on.
It was a difficult story, but an important one that I was proud to be able to tell.
What stories/issue/trends will you remember from 2008? And, most importantly, why?


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- Heidarzadeh said...
Hi Javin
Please let us to see hole content for each post in google reader. like before!
In my country blogspot is filtered and unfortunately I can not see the hole content of each post in google reader.
Thanks in advance.
- January 25, 2012 at 11:34 PM
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There is a severe issue with using "errorpage" "isErrorpage" and declaring error page in web.xml file, it doesn't display properly in Internet Explorer at least version 6 and 7, instead it shows it own IE error page for page 404 and internal server error 500. better approach is using Spring exception handling and defining default error view for Spring's Exception handler. in this way you will get consistent behavior over all browser because error page will not be treated as error page instead it will be treated as another jsp page.I have spent lot of time to figure out this bug with IE6, you may save your precious time. Also there is another theory that IE and chrome will display its own error page if size of error page will be less than 512 bytes. I have tested this but in my case even if size was more than 512 bytes it was still showing "Internal server error-500" Only solution which worked was Using Spring Exception handling.
- February 6, 2012 at 7:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
I think best way to handle page not found error (Error code 404) and Internal Server Error(Error code 500) is to use Spring framework. Spring MVC provides Exception handling mechanism which can be setup in dispatcher-servlet.xml file and it can have different error pages for different Exception type and can have a default one as well but I am not sure if supports error code as well.
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The 29th Annual Leaf Peeper Festival
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KIM PHOTOS DU JOUR: DuJour's Spring 2013 issue, which was to launch online Tuesday and hits stands in March, features the omnipresent Kim Kardashian's "first" pregnancy photo spread. (The reality star has of course been photographed pregnant at several events since announcing her baby news.) Shot by Bruce Weber at his Miami home, the 25-plus photos and a 25-minute video interview with DuJour contributor Cornelia Guest will also be the subjects of a March 2 luncheon in Los Angeles for 30 guests. The multiplatform mag launched in fall 2012 in partnership with Gilt Group, whose members receive it in print, online and on mobile devices.
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Want to move into a haunted mansion just in time for Halloween? For less than $1 million, you can.
A live-in replica of Disney's Haunted Mansion attraction is listed for sale in Duluth, Ga. for $873,000. The 10,000-square-foot spooky house has four stories and seven bedrooms. The ghosts are not included in the deal -- except for the animated hitchhiking ghost scene in one of the home's six bathrooms.
The owner, Mark Hurt, is a designer and Disney contractor. He built the replica in 1996 in a gated community and lived there for 16 years with his wife and son. The replica matches the exact architecture and every detail of one of Disney's most popular attractions.
"He actually measured the real Disney mansion to make sure it was exact," says Mark Pianko of Theme Park Connection, a Florida company that specializes in Disney collectibles. "He went through a lot of great details to make sure it was authentic." Theme Park partnered with the owner to market the home.
The house features a "Haunted Mansion" plaque at the front gate, a two-story library, an elevator and a surprise for guests as they enter the first-floor bathroom.
"When they start washing their hands, the lights start to flicker and a ghost appears in the mirror," Pianko says. "Mark says he would forget to tell guests about the bathroom and then he would hear screams and say, 'Oh, forgot to tell them.'"
Hurt says he is selling the house because he is working on his next project, a resort-themed house modeled after Disney's Grand Californian.
The Haunted Mansion has received 45 bids on its eBay listing, which expires Nov. 1. The offers have not met the seller's asking price yet.
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[i]Doesn't time fly? It's the start of a new year and accordingly I'm pleased to announce our first Member of the Month for 2014 - Mark Brown.Most of you should know Mark, as he was a Mentor for a long time, stepping down only recently. I took the opportunity to catch up with him and ask him a few questions. Enjoy!
Mark, congratulations on being voted Member of the Month for January 2014. I have to ask - were you surprised?[/i]
Mark, congratulations on being voted Member of the Month for January 2014. I have to ask - were you surprised?[/i]
Thanks! I was surprised because I haven't been as active as I was in ye olden days. Maybe when I don't pop in as often you all forget the trouble I cause.
Oh we never forget But anyway... did you have a good Christmas? Your profile tells me that you are located in Victoria, Australia which means it will have been hot. How did you celebrate? Was it on the beach with a BBQ?
Christmas involved roast dinners and plum puddings with the immediate family, and then catching the extended family for brunch on Boxing Day with some time in the spa and pool.
Over new years I plan to go camping with my partner down near Gippsland at the 90 mile beach which will be fun and hopefully sunny.
You've been around the forums for a good while. What originally attracted you to SitePoint and what made you stay?
Yes, I found SitePoint when I was still at Uni. I hung out in the CSS forum all day and learnt how not to lay out pages with <table>s.I learned CSS for real when I started to answer others questions, but what made me stick around were the super helpful replies from people like Tyssen, Dan Schulz and Paul O'Brien. I really enjoyed Paul's quizzes too!
You have a [great homepage which I spent quite a while looking around. On it I read that you work for [URL="http://inspire9.com"]Inspire9](http://yellowshoe.com.au). Could you tell us what it is you do for them? Which web technologies do you use on a daily basis?
Thanks, I like simplicity and think that Times New Roman can still look decent.
Inspire9 is a co-working space so there's lots of startups and freelancers all working together. I worked there as a freelance front-end developer before joining [Inspire9's development agency, [URL="http://cultureamp.com"]Culture Amp and now am working with [URL="http://adioso.com"]Adioso](development.inspire9.com).
I've worked with Ruby on Rails almost exclusively, though Adioso is built with Python and Django. HTML, CSS and JavaScript are my bread and butter though.
What parts of your job do you like most?
I love learning something new and I get a kick out of working on something visual and interactive in particular - like Adioso's price calendar or Obsurfation's interactive map. Communicating with the users of your site and understanding how they use the site is really special and rewarding too - I wouldn't make an application without including Intercom and Mixpanel.
Are there any things you dislike?
Sure, testing in Internet Explorer. Finding out I've broken things for a lot of people gives me that sinking feeling too.
Hopefully that doesn't happen too often You claim that Inspire9 have the best offices in Melbourne. What makes them so great (I'm thinking free booze and motorbikes à la GitHub...)
It's just a relaxed work environment full of friendly and helpful people. There's no office politics because everyone is their own boss.
I also see from your homepage that you built an HTML5 game using SVG and Canvas. Can you tell us a bit about that. What were the challenges it involved?
It was a small job for a local design agency. The design was finished and I just needed to make it work on the web / iPad.
The more interesting parts were making the car animate and rotate around the track and detecting the direction of the spinner from mouse / touch gestures. I wrote a blog post covering some of the technical aspects. You always feel smart when you make something work with maths.
At SitePoint you are often to be found in the Ruby on Rails forum. What makes Rails so great in your opinion? Why is it your framework of choice as opposed to something like Django or CodeIgniter?
The first thing you notice about Rails coming from other frameworks is how much less you need to do. I find it much more enjoyable and productive than anything else I've used because everything has a home, the code is as little as needed and it has beautiful APIs. There's also a massive amount of contributions from the community in Ruby Gems which allow you to stand on the shoulders of giants. Ruby is also the prettiest programming language I have read or written. Rails conventions mean that I don't need to keep shifting my thought process away from the problem, all the pieces seem to work together - it makes me happy.
PHP is arguably the simplest thing to get up and running: install XAMPP, create index.php and anything between the <?php ?> blocks gets executed and can output into the page, anyone can get started quickly.
There's a very real lack of structure and design to PHP though, and OO was an afterthought. The enormous list of global functions is a junk drawer that keeps getting things tossed into it. This is why a lot of the method names are prefixed with their logical grouping like array_xxx(). It's the simplest but the ugliest option.
Python as a language is one of the very best, similar to Ruby and there's a care for design in the language and syntax. Django is Rails' lesser structured / more limited cousin and requires more code and effort to get the same things done. I don't find it as enjoyable as I'm always having to stop what I'm doing to include other modules or export new variables to views.
And where does Node.js fit into the mix from your point of view?
Node is a very attractive option right now. Architecturally it's unique and was created for its performance and asynchronous capabilities. A huge amount of momentum has built around it and will continue to grow. No doubt I'll use it in production in the future. It doesn't have a full-stack framework with the maturity of Rails yet but they're coming in fast and there's already great, light-weight frameworks like Express to get you started.
Moving away from tech. You were a Mentor at SitePoint until recently when you left us to travel around India. What was that like? Where did you go? What impressions did the country leave on you?
I traveled solo for 6 weeks around southern and eastern India. My partner joined me for two weeks in the north and then we headed to Nepal for two more weeks.
India has such a rich history and diverse culture, spirituality is everywhere and the people are very tolerant of one another. It's impossible to define because it's so diverse but I will share a couple of lasting memories.
Watching the sunset at Kanyakumari where three seas meet at the southern tip of India was a beautiful experience in a very spiritual place. Exploring the Buddhist, Hindu and Jain temples in the caves of Ellora was amazing. You can easily picture thousands of monks with chisel in hand carving and singing for centuries.
Sleeping under the stars of the Jaisalmer desert listening to the songs of the camel-men is magical. Exploring the high walled desert forts of Rajasthan makes you feel like you're in Lord of the rings.
Varanasi is India's holiest Hindu site where people come from all over India for their final pilgrimage to die and be cremated on the banks of the Ganges. Tasting the creamiest of hand-churned lassi in a tiny alley shop whilst the dead were carried outside on the shoulders of chanting family members to the cremation ghats was an experience I won't soon forget.
Finally, I experienced the hospitality and sentimentality of Indians when I visited the families of five friends I made in Hyderabad. They fall in love quickly and care deeply for their friends.
Wow! That sounds great. I see from your homepage that traveling is an important part of your life (you say that it is one of the greatest privileges to see the world). Where is the one place that you have been to that you enjoyed most?
Travel is a great education, it smashes preconceived ideas and unites you with others. I loved Vietnam, the people are friendly and honest, tasting the fresh pho made by little old ladies or the BBQ street food is great. Nepal's people are also lovely and it's breathtakingly beautiful among the Himalayas.
I see you've never been to Europe (Germany's nice :)). Where in the world would you most like to visit next? Why?
Well, in February I will be moving to the Philippines with my partner who has accepted a volunteer position for 8 months. At some point I will travel around South America too, including Peru, Brazil and Argentina.
I've wanted to experience cultures very different from Australia, and this is the reason I haven't spent much time in western areas like America or Europe. I'm sure I would enjoy them though.
As you travel so much, you must have experienced a wide variety of cuisines. What is your favourite food?
Vietnamese is my favourite. It's healthy, fresh, full of herbs and makes you feel great. Southern Indian food is also tasty and healthy, mostly vegetarian and full of spice.
Aside from traveling, what other interests do you have? What do you do when you're not online?
I spend all day on the internet When I do unplug, though, I enjoy riding my bicycle, eating well, playing the guitar and singing.
What's your favourite band/film/book?
I enjoy listening to my friends' bands most [Dash, [URL="http://www.triplejunearthed.com.au/Canos"]Canos, [URL="http://vimeo.com/44188558"]Winterlights](http://musicofdash.com/).Pulp Fiction would have to be near the top of my list, I am a big fan of Tarantino's movies. The Kite Runner and Shantaram are great books, Getting Real by 37signals was also hugely influential, I've read it about 20 times.
SitePoint Forums have seen a lot of changes in the past few months (e.g. the redesign and Ralph M's promotion to Admin). As someone who has been around here for good few years, what do you make of all this?
I see those as fairly normal changes. All websites need to be redesigned regularly and Ralph's been a great help around the forums for a long time, it was only natural.
If there was one thing you could change about the forums, what would it be?
SitePoint used to be the best place on the internet to learn web technologies with a community of people with the same interests. Nowadays there is a plethora of more focused ways to learn web technologies - screencasts, blogs, conference videos, books, and online schools like Code Academy, Code school and Learnable.
On the community side there's Twitter, Google Plus and Github, which put you in touch with some of the best in the world. SitePoint forums are still a great place to ask specific questions and receive personal answers. Its best asset is the sense of community and the amount of time that goes into responses - the social interactions on those other sites I mentioned are all in the form of fleeting moments or 120 character opinions.
The pace and focus of SitePoint's questions and answers are still unique. I think the Talk with The Experts sessions have been a great addition. More of that!
As you know, normally self promotion is not allowed on SitePoint, but I guess we can make an exception just this once. Is there anything you would like to take this opportunity to plug (a good cause or a new project, for example)?
[Hello Sunday Morning is a great cause. It's a community for people who are taking a break from alcohol and sharing their experiences and supporting each other. [URL="http://adioso.com"]Adioso is the most enjoyable and flexible way to find great flights. If you're a keen surfer you should give [URL="http://obsurfation.com"]Obsurfation](http://hellosundaymorning.org/) a bash.
I'm more of a diver than a surfer, but I'll check it out anyway:)And finally ... anything else you would like to add?
Teaching others is a noble endeavor. SitePoint continues to be a great place to learn as well teach, so keep up the great work.
[i]Thank you very much for some great answers, Mark! And thank you, too, for sticking around after stepping down as a Mentor!
Now it's over to the rest of you ...[/i]
Now it's over to the rest of you ...[/i]
Congratulations, Mark! It's well overdue recognition for you. What a great interview. You've had some amazing experiences and recounted them really nicely here. It's good for us square-eyed cyber folk to remember that there's a fascinating real world out there.
Have a great year, and well done to you both.
Well done Mark a thoroughly deserved award for the time you have spent here on the forums parting your knowledge.:)
Interesting and insightful interview.
That sounds like a passage from Lord of the rings :).
Very impressive Mark, I sort of envy your opportunities to travel so much. What an experience.
I really enjoyed the interview and your contributions, please keep coming back between your travels.
Congratulations, Mark, on MotM, and to you both for a fascinating interview.
Congratulations Mark, and great interview both!
I sure hope "Boxing Day with the extended family" is different than what first comes to mind for me
Yeah, it's no wonder they are extended. :shifty: [/ot]
Now time to hand over the throne. kidding Congrats, well deserved MOTM.
Thanks guys!
Mark, Congrats!!! On a great interview. Keep up the good work and continue with your travel.
When I grow up, I wanna be like Mark Brown.
Great interview. What a life! And, well deserved recognition.
Congratulation for that.................
Better late, than never.. Congratulations mate! I hope we could exchange knowledge in the future! Cheers!


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The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in the United Kingdom is Europe's largest organization for advancing the chemical sciences. The RSC is also 170 years old -- so it's no surprise the assets it's accumulated since the 1840s would be unwieldy to manage, publish, and otherwise make more broadly available. The recent explosive growth of digital assets has only exacerbated the problem.
A NoSQL database from MarkLogic offered the solution RSC was looking for, unlocking a treasure trove of assets and enabling the RSC to publish three times as many journals and four times as many articles. It also gave the Society the ability to develop new educational applications to make chemistry accessible to a wider audience.
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Supported by an international publishing business and worldwide members, the RSC's activities span education, conferences, science policy, and the promotion of chemistry to the public. Its history is rooted in a combination of societies that were integrated as one in 1980: The Chemical Society, The Society for Analytical Chemistry, The Royal Institute of Chemistry, and The Faraday Society. The accumulated content includes more than 1 million images, millions of science data files, and hundreds of thousands of articles from more than 200,000 authors. On top of that, add the recent capture of social media, video, and other digital content.
RSC determined the MarkLogic document database was the right solution to create one integrated repository -- and make it easily accessible to anyone online, from entrepreneurs to researchers to educators around the world. The key to MarkLogic is in how it stores content as XML documents: Information that should not or cannot be expressed in a straightforward fashion as rows and columns -- such as contracts, manuals, books, emails, tweets, and metadata -- is well suited to MarkLogic's XML-based, document-centric model.
David Leeming, manager at the projects office for the RSC commented, "A book chapter is very different to a journal article whereas in a relational model you couldn't work that out, and you couldn't put those two together. We can just fill out all our XML into MarkLogic and actually then bring it out together as a single integrated delivery mechanism."
A famous trait among many NoSQL systems is their schema-less nature, meaning the database's metadata does not have to be rigid in order to build the application -- a standard requirement for applications built on relational databases. With MarkLogic, information can be loaded as is, which is especially efficient for indexing and querying information with poorly defined, changing, and/or unknowable schemas.
Each piece of content is automatically tagged, which allows users to discover content quickly and understand the context around it, connecting the dots between different pieces of research, video, journal articles, or images. RSC's platform has also added new applications for children, journals for researchers, social features, and mobile capabilities all powered by MarkLogic.
Dr. Robert Parker, RSC Chief Executive, said, "The RSC began the process of making its data more open, social and mobile in 2010 and chose MarkLogic to bring all of its data into one database capable of handling any data, at any volume, in any structure. The project has already resulted in a 30 percent increase in the number of visitors accessing its 500,000 journal articles, a 70 percent increase in volume of searches on its educational websites, and an expanded international profile, with significant growth in visits from researchers in India, China, and Brazil."
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Crucial Ohio voters shed light on their presidential pick
EAST SPARTA, Ohio – Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday's presidential election, Americans lose, according to dissatisfied voters in rural Stark County.
"It's a ridiculous election," said Amy Rice, 26, of Canton South, shortly after casting her ballot for Republican candidate Mitt Romney. "Romney is not the best candidate; there are no winners here. I'm just voting to keep our rights."
Romney and President Barack Obama will closely monitor results in Stark County. Michael Barrone, political analyst and author of the book "The Almanac of American Politics," said Stark County is a bellwether in a crucial swing state. The outcome here should give the candidates a better idea of their chances statewide, he said.
Obama won here in 2008, beating John McCain 51.59 percent to 46.14 percent. In 2004, the county narrowly backed John Kerry against George W. Bush, and in 2000, Bush beat Al Gore by about 3,000 votes among 160,000 ballots cast.
Rice and her boyfriend, Tim Boyle, 25, said they do not identify with a political party. Rather, they call themselves pro-Americans or constitutionalists.
"I own a private security/bodyguard company, so the right to bear arms is important to me," Boyle said.
Boyle served in the Army and fought overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said he is disappointed that Obama focuses on welfare programs "for people who just sit at home and do nothing" while returning vets struggle to find jobs.
"To have guys who have given everything they have coming home and they can't find work, it's not right,"' he said. Most of his employees are veterans, he said.
Josh Wehr, 22, of East Sparta voted for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate.
It's time Americans had a viable third party candidate, he said. Johnson in recent days said the Libertarian ticket can get 5 percent of the vote and thereby establish itself as a relevant player in American politics.
"It's always Democrats and Republicans, and I don't agree with the policies of Obama or Romney," Wehr said. "It's time for a change. We definitely have a chance for a third party."
Wehr, who is gay, said he supports Johnson in part because he endorses gay marriage.
Obama said in an interview this year that his views of gay marriage have "evolved" to the point that he now endorses such unions. But Wehr said Obama has not done enough.
"He repealed 'don't ask, don't tell,' but Obama still has a long way to go," Wehr said. "He's had four years to make plenty of changes, and he didn't."
In Tuscarawas, Ohio, voters like Ann Clark and Patrick Fox illustrate just how close the race is, and how difficult it's been for pundits to predict the outcome here.
Clark is a registered Republican. Yet, she voted for President Barack Obama.
Fox, an independent, voted for Obama in 2008. Republican challenger Mitt Romney got his vote this time around.
Clark, 37, of Massillon, said she cares about the environment and global warming. That's why she voted for Obama.
"There is a vast difference between the two candidates, though it didn't come up much during the campaigns," Clark, a teacher, said. Obama will address climate change, she added. Romney will not, she believes.
For Fox, the dealbreaker was Obama's universal healthcare plan. He is a physical therapist and said he is "afraid of Obamacare" and what it might mean for other healthcare professionals.
He also does not appreciate "Obama trying to force churches to provide birth control to employees," he said.
In 2008, Fox swung his support to Obama after Republican candidate Sen. John McCain selected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.
"It was kind of scary to see that Palin could be that close to being president," Fox said.
He wishes more voters would eschew party politics and vote election-by-election.
"You can't believe everything the Republicans say or everything the Democrats say," he said. "I really think being committed to one party is not healthy."
Clark is rethinking her party allegiance, especially after several Republican officials made controversial statements this campaign concerning rape, and threatened to cut funding for Planned Parenthood.
"It feels like there's no place for women in the Republican Party," she said. "The candidates seem to be against women's rights. Planned Parenthood provides preventative care – to take that away from poorer people is just irresponsible."
In Canton, the county seat of Stark County, Derek Long has known for years how he would vote.
A 21-year-old black man, Long, voting in his first presidential election, supports Obama, saying he still is stunned that the Democrat won in 2008.
"I never even thought we'd have a black vice president," Long said Tuesday morning outside the VFW Post 3747 polling place. "I mean, there's still racism, I don't care what anybody says. But at least we can vote for a black man now."
Others pray Obama doesn't win again, and said race has nothing to do with it.
"Republicans are people who have something to protect; Democrats are people who want something," said John Klingaman, 45, who owns a machinery repair business in Canton. "I want to protect what I have. I voted for Mitt Romney."
Pre-school teacher Kelsey Kane, 21, also voted in her first presidential election Tuesday. She backed Obama.
Unlike others in this campaign-weary state, Kane said she enjoyed being the center of the candidates' attention. She watched every debate and never tired of the ubiquitous political ads.
"I thought it was kind of neat," she said. "It was kind of cool that we were the only state people relied on."
Long supports Obama not only because of his skin color, but because of his support for college grants and debt relief. He is a student at Stark State College in North Canton, and works 35 hours a week as a restaurant cook to help pay for tuition, he said.
"Obama is the only one who can relate to what I'm going through now," he said. "Romney can't relate to me at all."
Though Klingaman backs Romney, he is not optimistic about the Republican's chances.
He criticized Romney's campaign, saying he alienated blacks, gays and -- most recently -- women with his anti-abortion views.
"I don't think he's going to win," he said. "I think we're done for."
Whoever wins, he may have to wait a few days to find out. Paul Sracic, chair of the Political Science Department at Youngstown State University, said he expects vote-counting in Ohio to drag on for a while.
"I've seen where there will be 100,000 provisional ballots cast, and I have a hard time seeing this election being won by 100,000 votes," he said. "If that's the case, then we're in court."


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THREE houses in Burnley were ransacked by thieves police believe were looking to steal Asian jewellery.
The homes in Casterton Avenue, Colne Road and Reedley Drive, were broken into from the rear of the addresses between noon and 6pm on Wednesday.
The offenders, believed to be a group of white males, left iPads and other expensive goods while overturning the homes.
Det Insp Vinny DeCurtis, of Burnley Police, said he has stepped up patrols of the area to disrupt and prevent further burglaries.
He said: "There is a possibility that criminals might be coming from Manchester or West Yorkshire to target properties in this area.
"Often, jewellery has been given as a gift and means a lot to people, so it can be very upsetting if it's stolen.
"I would urge people not to keep things of high value in their houses."
It comes after more than £10,000 of family gold was stolen by three masked men who held two sisters, aged 12 and 13, at knifepoint at their home in Rossendale Road on February 3.
The Lancashire Telegraph revealed how Anisha and Ayesha Ali were home alone when the intruders broke in through a window at the property and forced the girls to lead them to the valuables.
Dad Ibby, 38, who owns the award-winning Usha restaurant, on the opposite side of the road, said his girls were left badly shaken by the raid.
On January 22, thieves raided magistrate Abid Sharif's home, stole property and caused £9,500 of damage when they ransacked his home in Ivan Street, Queensgate.
The father-of-three said he believed the offenders were targeting his home for gold.
Images of Asian heritage gold thought to have been stolen from homes in East Lancashire were released by police this week in an bid to reunite the pieces with their owners.
The items, which are worth thousands of pounds, were found at a jewellers in Blackpool after a man tried to sell them.
Det Insp Eric Halford, from Lancashire police's target team, said: "Usually it is custom and tradition when a son or daughter gets married to give gold, although it is different in everybody's family.
"In some cases, the jewellery has been passed down from generation to generation and it would be very high carat gold."


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International opera star Ann Howard has died at the age of 79, writes Jon Sharman.
The singer, most famous for playing the title role in Carmen 250 times, including opposite Placido Domingo in America, lived in Surbiton and still worked as a singing teacher.
Born Pauline Ann Swadling in Norwood, south London, she performed around the world in shows ranging from The Marriage of Figaro to HMS Pinafore.
In 1954 she married Keith Giles, an amateur pianist who would help shape her career, aged just 19.
He played accompaniment for her in the audition, which started her on the professional singing road.
Mr Giles died in 2004.
Howard's biographer and neighbour, Susan Higgins, said: "She did have a lot of friends and she was a very outgoing personality.
"A very talented, hardworking person in her job.
"When she was busy she was incredibly busy. There was a lot of travelling, but she always came home to Surbiton."
But there was no drama of the kind that fills celebrity magazines, Mrs Higgins said.
She said: "She never had any of that – she kept a very even keel and I think that was a lot to do with her husband and the home that she always came back to.
"She enjoyed family life."
Howard's final professional performance came in 1999, in Peter Grimes with the Welsh National Orchestra.
Mrs Higgins said: "All through her career she scarcely took any time off because she was always in rude health.
"She didn't mind what she did on stage, she just loved the stage.
"Very sadly she was very disabled with arthritis, but in herself she was still the very feisty lady that she always was.
"She was still full of plans. It was a terrible shock. It was so sudden."
Ann Howard was born on July 22, 1934, and died on Wednesday, March 26, 2014.
She is survived by a daughter.


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Despite occupying a key geographic position between the Mesoamerican and Lower Central American cultural worlds during pre-Hispanic times, Nicaragua is arguably the region's least understood country archaeologically, with most data limited to the country's Pacific side.
NGS/Waitt grantee Alexander Geurds hopes to rectify this with his Central Nicaragua Archaeological Project.
In March 2009, Geurds spent a month recording archaeological sites and studying monumental statuary in the mountainous area northwest of Lake Nicaragua, the largest freshwater lake in Central America. Twelve sites were registered, including an extensive settlement called San Isidro with some 500 mounds, more than any other site in Nicaragua.
At another site, called Nawawasito, 44 intact and fragmented Chontales-style stelae and monoliths were discovered, the first time such artifacts have been recorded outside of museum collections and in their original settings.
Compared with about a hundred statues known before Geurds's discovery, the statues at Nawawasito represent an extraordinarily large quantity in one area. Geurds's examination of Nawawasito led him to propose that Chontales-style statuary likely exists across a much wider area of Nicaragua than previously assumed, extending beyond the watershed line into the Caribbean lowlands to the east.
A second phase of the project, funded by an NGS/Waitt grant, is planned for January 2010. It will continue the search for monumental sculpture in Central Nicaragua to increase understanding of the region's pre-Hispanic cultures.
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Boyd heads out of the studio to join National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Bob Ballard aboard his vessel the E/V Nautilus. Currently in Turkey, Ballard tells Boyd about the many shipwrecks he is finding in the Mediterranean. You can follow Ballard and his team, live as they explore the ocean at www.nautiluslive.org.
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National Geographic grantee Valerie Clark licks frogs for a living. As Clark tells Boyd, she's not looking for Prince Charming. Instead, she is studying how the diet of frogs in Madagascar relates to the toxicity of their skin.
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Some go swimming with dolphins or stingrays, Brad Norman, National Geographic Emerging Explorer and marine conservationist, talks about swimming with the largest fish in the world: the whale shark. Norman speaks with Boyd about his research concerning whale shark habitats, tracking and conservation.
00:11:00 Losang Rabgey
National Geographic Emerging Explorer Losang Rabgey has found her life's work in strengthening rural communities on the Tibetan plateau, which includes building schools to educate local students. Rabgey joins Boyd with updates on the successful work of Machik, the non-profit she founded and now directs.
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National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert capture astounding images of African wildlife in their beautiful films. The Jouberts live in the African bush alongside the lions and other animals they profile. They explain to Boyd that, because big cats are in such danger, their work is now focused on conservation projects such as the Cause an Uproar program.
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National Geographic Emerging Explorer and virus hunter Nathan Wolfe says there is a disease pandemic lurking just around the corner. But, we can prepare ourselves. Wolfe says there are even ways to harness and use the power of viruses. Wolfe joins Boyd to talk about his new book, The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age, which is changing the way we think about viruses.
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National Geographic Emerging Explorer Joshua Ponte was a successful young English entrepreneur when, over breakfast one morning, his eye fell on a newspaper ad that said "Gorilla Reintroduction Program, Gabon." His life has never been the same since. Pursuing his passion for conservation, Ponte moved to a central African forest where 13 orphaned gorillas were being studied. Boyd talks with Ponte about the joys and dangers of raising young gorillas.
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How did the death and destruction of World War One lead young British climbers to attempt an epic conquest of Mount Everest? National Geographic Explorer in Residence Wade Davis answers that question in his new book "Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest." Davis joins Boyd in the studio to chat about the book.
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Skip to comments.Retired Music Promoter Recalls Stars from Sinatra to The Beatles
Posted on 06/11/2012 6:39:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bob Levine remembers the first time he met Frank Sinatra.
"I knew Sinatra before he was Sinatra," Levine said.
Levine, 84, would eventually become a promoter for Sinatra, but the first time he met Ol' Blue Eyes, he was just a 13-year-old kid cutting lawns in New Jersey.
Sinatra, who had not yet hit it big himself, was walking out of his house when he saw Levine and his buddies cutting the grass. Levine said Sinatra asked them what his wife, Nancy, was paying them.
Levine said one of them responded a quarter each. Sinatra then gave each of them a dollar bill and told them not to tell his wife.
"He said 'Don't say nothing,' " Levine recalls.
Levine recalled that story as he sat in his living room recently. His companion, an Irish wolfhound named Scruffy, rested on the floor nearby. Levine suffered a stroke several years ago, which has left him legally blind.
On the dining room table is a book about Glenn Miller and his orchestra along with stacks of papers, four prescription pill bottles, a blood pressure monitor and another machine to test blood sugar.
Glenn Miller was Levine's first break in the music industry. Levine got a job with Miller as a band boy.
"They get coffee to the orchestra. They shine the shoes. They run errands," Levine said.
Eventually Levine would work for Sinatra, who, by the way, told Levine he didn't remember the encounter with the kids mowing his lawn.
Levine also worked for the Beatles and came up with an idea on how to sneak them past the throngs of young female admirers.
One time, Levine had the Beatles' limo rendezvous with a fish truck on the highway. Then the fish truck drove the Beatles to the concert.
"The crowd separated for the fish truck. Not knowing they were in there," Levine said.
After the ride, the Beatles did not smell like fish.
"It was a clean truck," Levine said.
All these years later, Paul McCartney heard that Levine was having health problems and had lost most of his vision. McCartney sent him the Irish wolfhound to keep him company.
Besides the Beatles, Glenn Miller and Sinatra, Levine said he has also worked promoting and providing security to other performers, including famed guitarist Jimi Hendrix.
"He was very nonmaterialistic," Levine said of Hendrix. "With all the money he had he still lived very peasant-like."
Hendrix was reserved when the spotlight wasn't on him.
"Jimmy was shy," Levine said. "Once he hit the stage he wasn't."
He said it was important for him to give the stars their privacy during the 50 years he worked for them.
"Get your job done but don't be in their face that much because everybody else is in their face," Levine said. "Give them their privacy from my end."
"When you got to a city there was always one or two (radio) jockeys that were the biggest in that area and you invited them to dinner with Mick Jagger or Herman's Hermits."
Levine said that would prompt the disc jockeys to give the performer more air time.
"Then they go back to the station the next morning and whose records you think they are playing for the next few weeks" Levine said.
In some places, jukeboxes were big, so instead of disc jockeys, Levine said he would invite the owners of the juke boxes to dinner with the stars.
.Levine and his late wife, Kathy, moved to Palm Coast to help their daughter Caren Coles who was diagnosed with brain cancer. She lasted two years before the disease took her life. But then Kathy Levine had early onset dementia at 55 and after alternating between hospitals and nursing homes for three years she died, Levine said.
Then Levine had a stroke, which left him legally blind. He can only see a little out of one eye.
"So here I am, Palm Coast, OK," Levine said. "I don't like the climate. It's too warm too long."
Levine is left in Palm Coast with his memories. He listens to music through his Brighthouse cable service.
"I still like a lyric. What they are saying and all that," Levine said. "I like country now."
Works for me my FRiend.
Back to the FR grind. #;^)
I suspect by the stiff-necked nature of your comments that you probably hold the City of New York in about the same esteem as you do Paul McCartney. In fact, I bet you hear the devil when you play Beatles records backwards. But that would be your problem.
I'll leave you with a brain-teaser: if Paul McCartney "moved here to avoid paying high taxes," a) is that a bad idea? and b) where does that mean his tax dollars were going, once he did so?
you can puzzle that out on your own.
I'll type this really slow so you will get my point. Your premise has nothing to do with what I Posted earlier.
My problem is not him moving here because he wants to save on Taxes. My problem is that he supports people who want to do the same thing here that caused the problems in his native country. Kind of like all the Liberals that move from CA to Texas and support Liberal Politicians when they get there. Liberalism spreads like Cancer.
As far as your other comments, you are wasting time "supposing" what I meant. Sir Paul never apologized for his rude behavior in his personal attack on President Bush at the White House, but then again he was with his hero Pharaoh Obama at the time.
He is just another rich Libtard. Shut up and entertain me Paul, just like a Organ Grinder Monkey.
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Q. What is the Genealogical Proof Standard? Do I need to worry
about it if I research my family history as a hobby?
A. The Genealogical
Proof Standard (GPS) is a set of guidelines the Board for
Certification of Genealogists developed to help researchers draw
sound conclusions about their ancestors. It has five elements:
genealogists do a lot of work to show they understand the
GPS, but anyone can use the guidelines to be as sure as possible
they're tracing the right ancestors and sharing accurate
family information. The
GPS is outlined here, with bullet points about how
each element contributes to the credibility of your research.
For example, to conduct a reasonably exhaustive search,
"finding multiple sources for a single piece of information,
such as a birthplace, is key," writes Sunny Jane Morton in the
October/November 2012 Family Tree Magazine guide to
using the GPS.
"If you look at just one source, you won't see that there's
more than one possibility for what happened," Elizabeth Shown
Mills explains in the guide. Mills is the author of source
analysis references including Evidence!
Citation and Analysis for the Family Historian
(Genealogical Publishing Co.).
"We know that when there are
multiple eyewitnesses to an event, the accounts differ," she adds. "In
historical research, there's no such thing as the final answer.
All we can do is gather the best evidence possible and make a
In following the second element of the GPS, complete and
accurate citation of sources, Mills recommends "For every 'fact' we gather, we need to consider why we are
accepting it as 'fact.' What is there about this source that
makes it credible?"
Chances are that with your family
commitments, job, volunteering and other activities, you don't
get to spend as much time as you'd like on your genealogy research. Using the
GPS as a guide will help you make sure that the time you can
spend is devoted to researching your ancestors and honoring
their true experiences.
You can purchase Family Tree Magazine's GPS guide as a download here, or Family Tree Plus
members can read it here.
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Lt Garth Spencer, US Navy Pilot WWII
1942 — Iowa
Garth was a Navy Ordnance Specialist during WWII, He is the younger brother of Ronald Spencer who flew Combat Crew in the 310th Bomb Group, B-25 Mitchells as a Bombardier. Photo's and stories from Nephew Jerry Spencer. Please see Ronald's link under the MAP on the left :)
U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 about
Garth Spencer
Name: Garth Spencer
Birth Date: 25 Nov 1923
Death Date: 5 Jan 1995
Branch 1: N
Enlistment Date 1: 15 Apr 1943
Release Date 1: 8 Apr 1946
1930 Census/Dodge/Guthrie Co./Iowa/Roll: 656/ED: 9/Page: 3A
Household Members: Name Age
Roy W Spenser/Head/36
Jessie L Spenser/Wife/34
Dwight E Spenser/Son/14
Ronald L Spenser/Son/9
Garth H Spenser/Son/6
Jessie E Spenser/Daughter/4yrs-11mos
Social Security Death Index about Garth H. Spencer
Name: Garth H. Spencer
Last Residence: 72801 Russellville, Pope, Arkansas, United States of
Born: 25 Nov 1923
Died: 5 Jan 1995
State (Year) SSN issued: Iowa (Before 1951)
U.S. School Yearbooks
Name: Garth Spencer
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1925
Age: 16
School: North High School
School Location: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Year: 1941
Yearbook Title: Polar Bear
U.S. School Yearbooks
Name: Garth Spencer
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1922
Age: 20
School: Drake University
School Location: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Year: 1942
Yearbook Title: Quax
U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (Beta)
Name: Garth H Spencer
Residence Year: 1944
Street Address: 3311 Cambridge
Residence Place: Des Moines, Iowa
Occupation: Usn
Publication Title: Des Moines, Iowa, City Directory, 1944
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Historic day for DWU: $11.5 million Health Sciences Center dedicated
The faces Glenda Corrigan saw Thursday afternoon were heartwarming.
During a dedication ceremony at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, students, faculty, alumni and supporters gathered around the new $11.5 million building with Corrigan's name near its peak.
The Glenda K. Corrigan Health Sciences Center was officially christened.
"I don't think they could have done better," said Corrigan, a 1964 graduate of DWU. "This building is just awesome."
Corrigan and her husband, Fritz, were two of the major donors toward the construction of the building, a four-story, 48,000-square-foot structure that contains chemistry, biology and physics labs; two undergraduate research labs equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for student use; four nursing simulation labs; classrooms for nursing, athletic training, the sciences and mathematics; and faculty offices.
"All these young people going in here now, we didn't realize it but this is going to impact a lot of their lives," Fritz Corrigan said as he dodged students weaving in and out of the building's doors. "That's what this is about."
Dakota Wesleyan broke ground on the project Sept. 30, 2011. Although it was already being used when classes started Monday, Thursday's ribbon cutting was the building's formal dedication.
The Corrigans and DWU graduates Paul and Donna Christen each gifted $5 million toward the building, the biggest donations in school history. The foursome snipped a ribbon in front of about 600 people to wrap up an hour-long dedication. DWU President Amy Novak said about 100 of those in attendance were donors to the project.
Novak said the structure holds 13 classrooms and has 414 windowpanes. Large stairwell windows reveal an expansive view of Mitchell. From the top floor, landmarks such as Avera Queen of Peace Hospital, Holy Family Catholic Church and the Farmers Alliance grain elevator are visible.
Novak is optimistic about the impact the building will have on Mitchell and the region.
"This is a dream come true," Novak said. "To see the kids walk through those doors and walk into the classes and see this vision come to fruition, it's already creating a transformation, and I can only imagine the transformation that will continue."
The building will be the new home for the Donna Starr Christen College of Healthcare, Fitness and Sciences.
"Our vision is seeing thousands of young, eager students walking through these doors over the next decade," said Paul Christen, a 1950 DWU graduate and Donna's husband. "They'll be leaving with a quality education and ready to serve in the fields of health, fitness and science. The Corrigan building will help change the lives of these students."
Within the facility and college will be the Arlene Gates Department of Nursing, named for the late Arlene Gates, a memorial made possible by her husband, Ron Gates, of Mitchell. Before the dedication for the entire building, there was a ceremony for the Gates Department on the building's third floor. The family of Arlene Gates was also described as a major donor.
The afternoon ceremony started at the Sherman Center on DWU's campus and eventually moved in front of the Corrigan Center. The indoor ceremony included prayer, a choir and a church-like service influenced by the university's Methodist affiliation.
Bishop Bruce Ough started his sermon by asking all in attendance, "Don't you love it when a dream and a plan come together?"
"Today, we're celebrating the triumph of God's unlimited imagination," he added.
Mark Puetz, of Puetz Corp., attended Thursday's ceremony and was pleased with the project's final outcome. The Mitchell-based company designed, managed and constructed the project, with the help of some sub-contractors.
"I think the best part of being a part of the design and construction process is you have all these thought processes about what you envision this space to look like," Puetz said. "Now you actually see it. It's pretty amazing."


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I've been needing to add one last thing to finalize the mods to my CG Duo w/ SFB....finally finished it this weekend
A frosty beverage opening device and catcher
I'd been putting it off cause I wanted some sort of catch pan for bottle caps (don't want to chase them around) and hadn't been ambitious enough to bend up sheet metal for one. Then the other day, I had a lightbulb go off...I've got one built in underneath my side burner. Pull it out partially before popping the top and the caps fall right in.
It's slightly off-center from the drip pan but dead center on the side of the grill so it looks good.


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Im looking to add an email server to my centos vps. Are there any people would recommend? Its only for a single domain so that I can set up email addresses for certain people off my domain. I dont want to use sendmail as its too complex to configure.
If sendmail is too complex to configure then you probably don't want to take on installing and managing an email server. My advice would be to sign up for a hosted email provider somewhere and let them take that on, plenty of options out there depending on what you need from it.
Not all email servers force you to learn rewrite rules or m4 scripts. I still feel my prejudice against sendmail is justified.
Having managed email servers professionally on some level for the last decade I will tell you that the minor configuration issues of managing your email server pale in comparision to the pain in the *** of dealing with users and email and stuff happening in the rest of the cloud. IE, what happens when your server goes down for a few hours and people don't get emails? What happens when your server gets blacklisted for spam? What happens when your spam filter misbehaves and things don't get through? What happens when gmail rolls out a new feature that your el cheapo webmail has no prayer of supporting? Ever done mobile device support?
Unless I had a pretty big and skilled staff I would not want to take those problems on, especially compared to how cost effective hosted solutions are in 2014.
What wwb_99 said. My server administration task load, customer support time-sinks, and development mysteries (e.g notification emails being junked) became a whole lot easier once I started shifting mail onto 3rd party providers a few years back.
If you really, really, must then a combination of a control panel like webmin (clunky but workable) and postfix (easier than sendmail but not 'easy') should do what you need.
I use ispconfig3 control panel, and followed their how-to to build a CentOS server with an email server using Postfix/Dovecot and anti-spam and antivirus server-side components. Plus the ispconfig3 interface gives you a good tool to manage the mail server. Typically you won't need to visit any of the configuration files directly.
Ok, thanks, will look into.
These days it's easier and cheaper to outsource email services. I've worked with email servers in the past, and they are a real pain to deal with, especially if you are the only one responsible for troubleshooting issues and keeping it running. I fully agree with what @wwb_99 said above.
Heck, you can get fully-blown hosted exchange accounts with IMAP, POP, webmail, mobile webmail, activesync, 25GB of storage(per account) and full support for around $7-$10/mo per account. Plus, not having to deal with a lot of the technical headaches of running your own server is a big bonus.
I've actually gone through three major migrations with three different organizations and migrated from an in-house email server to an external 3rd-party email host. Each time, I went through the list of pros and cons and cost analysis, and each time hosted email services ended up being a no-brainier. While the migrations were headaches in and of themselves, after they were completed, I rarely had to do much other than create and delete accounts.
Running your own email server will suck up a lot of time, so unless you're just doing it as a learning exercise, I seriously do not recommend it.
Running your own email server will suck up a lot of time, so unless you're just doing it as a learning exercise,..I'd disagree, I've been running my own mail servers for my own personal and business email for a few years now, and once it was set up I've almost never had to touch the servers. But if you don't have a proper internet connection where you can control dns settings, add spf records, setting up backup MX, etc, you probably will spend a lot more time managing your mail server(s).
Do you have the email server on a hosting provider (pre-configured and/or managed environment), or did you set it up from scratch?
Even with 3rd-party hosting, you sill will need to configure DNS, MX, and SPF records.
Do you have the email server on a hosting provider (pre-configured and/or managed environment), or did you set it up from scratch?I built a CentOS Linux server with the aforementioned ispconfig3 located here in my home office, and put it on my Verizon FIOS business internet connection. Verizon gives me proper reverseDNS on my connection.
I have very simple DNS requirements, so I just use GoDaddy's DNS servers and manage the DNS through their web-based management tool. I tried running my own DNS server for a while, but there are too many DDoS bots out there and I don't want to invest in the super-dooper network stuff needed to deal with that problem. I get enough brute-force attempts in email trying to find a way in, but they seem to be much more manageable than the DNS bots.
I have two public domains on different public IP's, and actually have two servers and let the two mail servers provide secondary MX for each other. I have considered getting an external MX backup plan but my mail volume is pretty low, so unless my location goes dark for an extended period of time I am comfortable that my mail won't get lost (not too much, anyway :))
I set all this up probably three years ago. My servers email me a summary report each day that I usually don't even look at, since I have had basically no problems with this email setup. I had a hardware crash a year or so ago, but it was only a few hours to get a replacement server restored from backups and on the air.


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12 Monkeys
Funniest thing I've heard all day.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Yeah, it was a crappy low-impact cross-training workout. I don't have a bike, and can't swim well, so I don't have the options the rest of you do.
Lazy idiot
Whatever. It's a very pretty park for taking a long, long, long walk in.
There'll be other people, dogs, cute girl joggers. It'll be fun for you.
Tick tock
Yes, I've slogged through it before. I can do it again.
11.2 + LL =/= 26.2 + monkeys
Dude, I am sooooo monkey toast
Do monkeys like nutella?
I could slather myself in this before 8 AM.
Um...no, but I LIKE NUTELLA!!
Do not distract me.
I am not trying to distract you, Candice.
Tick tock....Fewer than 1200 little hours....
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away...(unkown) • Go With The Flow • Thyroid Support Group
The Greatest of All Time
You guys are at least running.
Pull off the stickers and rearrange them. Dumbass.
Buy my wife's sea catchers
all-out Martha Stewart on the Rubik's cube
When it's all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?


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I seriously think the photos will never stop! LOL! In an attempt to bring you all the amazingness from Full Figured Fashion Week…this is the last post with individual designers. The next two will contain all of the remaining designers. If I continued at this rate, then I'd be posting for a few weeks. And by then, you'll be sick of me and FFFWeek! LOL! OK…enough of that. Here are two creative and inspiring designers SK WiLBUR and Ashley Nell Tipton.
I met the SK WiLBUR team at the press event and they are nothing shy of "Fabulous!" Love them! They're super nice and funny! I love this…
"Size does not matter and everything curvy is LUXURIOUS and FABULOUS! Shapeless, dowdy dresses are a thing of the past. At SK WiLBUR we celebrate your curves and appreciate your bodies. It's a new day for the full-figured woman." -SK WiLBUR
*All photos were taken by me and are my personal property. No use of these images without my written consent.
SK WiLBUR
Ashley Nell Tipton was a definite crowd favorite! Not only is she amazingly sweet, but she's going to take this fashion world by storm! I only see great things for her. I also had a chance to chat with her at the press event and yeah…I <3 her. Her designs are fresh with an edge. Loving the polka dots!
"The artful combination of glamour and street inspired my collection. Women's curves inspired the construction and my love for color and a fight against the phrase "black is slimming" affected my color choices. Going against the grain I created a collection that is full of bright hues and bold patterns." -Ashley Nell Tipton


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Threes and SevensMath brain teasers require computations to solve.
Using the four digits 3,3,7,7 and the mathematical operators +,-,*,/ write an expression equal to 24. You must use each digit exactly once, but may use each operator multiple times, or not at all. Parentheses are allowed. The following would be a valid expression:
(7 + 3)/(7 + 3) = 1
HintThink fractions.
Answer(3 + 3/7) * 7 = 24
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