Joomla! site syndication http://www.taph.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:48:05 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.taph.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.taph.com Joomla! site syndication http://www.taph.com/site-news/a-note-from-deadgirl-2.html Happy Holidays! I wanted to take a minute to update everyone about the website. Please be aware that my laptop crashed and I am unable to retrieve any information from the hard drive until after the first of the year. I know there a many pending membership requests, and I apologize for the inconvenience. I will be able to access any new requests by webmail. Anyone with a pending request, please re-forward your email request to me and I will work as quickly as possible to get accounts activated. If you've requested membership but never replied to the membership questionnaire , please make sure you get those emails to me by the end of the year. I have hundreds of pending accounts and I will be purging those accounts after the first of the year.    I have (or had) an inbox overflowing with requests for book reviews, gallery creations, links, interviews, etc. I will try to respond to each email as soon as I am able. I appreciate each request that I receive and I thank everyone for valuing my opinion and allowing me to assist in any way I can. I try to reply to each email, but there are times that I am overwhelmed with the amount of mail I receive. I keep all pending requests and it may be some time before I am able to reply, please don't get discouraged. I try to reply to the emails that seem to have a higher priority, but each message is important to me. There is a problem with the submit news link in the Taph Member Menu , until this is fixed, please email news story links to me through the contact deadgirl link. Please consider contributing to the site by sharing news items you discover, but remember they must be relevant to the site. To determine if they are relevant, please click on the link to topics at Taphophilia to see the topic categories. The suggest a link is available for members to submit websites to be featured on Taph. There is also a problem with the Taphophilia Library section and I am unable to add any new books to this section. This is due to the book program generating errors while trying to communicate with Amazon. Hopefully a new program will be available soon, or perhaps an update to the current program I use will be released. Authors can continue to mail their books to me and I can create front page links and announcements until a solution has been reached. Any new authors or companies requesting front page advertising are still welcome to contact me for submission guidelines. Be sure to visit some of the links to companies that are displayed on the front page of the site. There are many gifts and books available which relate to the subjects discussed at Taph. Your support will help companies and authors continue to offer unique items, gifts, services and books to people with similar interests. Suggestions are always welcome in our community here at Taph. Please let me know if you have an idea for the site. We have been testing a few new apps for the site, one is a quiz feature. This feature will need many questions/answers to be submitted by our members, so start sending in your material! We've been considering a a database of iconography symbols with their corresponding images, which will require the help of our cemetery photographers. The Bible Belt doesn't feature a complete compilation of the vast number of symbols out there! A serial killer database and a section for burial/funeral customs have been suggested, as well as monthly-themed photography contests. Your suggestions and comments are valuable to the expansion of Taph. Have a wonderful holiday season and thank you for being a member at Taphophilia (dot) Com! Taphophile Articles - Site News Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:50:25 +0100 http://www.taph.com/media-reviews/historic-burial-grounds-of-the-new-hampshire-seacoast-2.html Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast by Glenn A. Knoblock is the newest release by Arcadia Publishing. This new title in the Images of America series is a photographic study of Colonial Era-burial grounds along the New Hampshire seacoast. The author uncovers the fascinating history of the area from the 1680s to 1810. Through the author’s collection of photographs, one can see the entire range of images present in the area’s old burial grounds, including grinning skulls and crossbones, heavenly cherubs, and epitaphs that tell magnificent tales. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Taphophile Articles - Media Reviews Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:28:51 +0100 http://www.taph.com/editorials/editorial-what-an-autopsy-should-be-2.html An editorial By Dale McFeatters, Scripps Howard News Service Strange as it may seem to a layperson, there is no legal definition of what constitutes an autopsy. An autopsy can range from a quick visual examination of the body to an exhaustive study and testing of organs and tissues. That ambiguity will change if Congress, as it should, enacts a bill by Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Rep. Frank Pallone, both New Jersey Democrats, that would mandate that a comprehensive autopsy shall include a full external and internal examination of all major organs and tissues including the brain, complete radiographs, metabolic testing and toxicology screening of the infant and child involved. Taphophile Articles - Editorials Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.taph.com/famous-graves/widow-selling-husbands-tomb-above-marilyn-monroe-2.html LOS ANGELES - An American widow is selling her husband's burial spot directly above film legend Marilyn Monroe so that she can pay off her mortgage. Elsie Poncher has put an advertisement on eBay to auction off the tomb in Westwood Village Memorial Park, Los Angeles. Here is a once in a lifetime and into eternity opportunity to spend your eternal days directly above Marilyn Monroe , says the advertisement. Taphophile Articles - Famous Graves Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.taph.com/interment-errors/beloved-husband-dad-is-mourned-but-its-not-his-body-in-the-casket-2.html By KITTY CAPARELLA Philadelphia - The mourners knew it wasn't Tex. Nearly everyone who passed the silver casket at Tindley Temple United Methodist Church yesterday morning whispered to each other. That's not Tex, they said. But the corpse was wearing his blue suit and black boots. The late Kenneth Tex Roberts, 80, who died Monday of a heart attack, was a jovial, mustached, retired tractor-trailer driver who loved to tell jokes, play cards and help people when they were down. Taphophile Articles - Interment Errors Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0100