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Thursday, 19th March, 2009, 12:00 PM #461
A Love in Need: Part 8 The Motel Room
Archive ran to the second room, one that didnt already have a corpse in the bathtub, and gently lowered Kliss into it. He turned on the spigot and began assembling a healing poultice. He could keep her alive, at least until they were able to get proper medical help. But she would be horribly scarred for the rest of her life.
The power went out. Silence. The room fell into total darkness.
There was screams from the bedroom. Archive stepped out, Glock at the ready.
Nothing. It was pitch black.
The power flashed back on. The room lit up. The television flickered back on. A horror movie onscreen screamed.
Someone began banging on the wall.
Archive spun, not sure where to point his pistol.
Suddenly, the power went out again, sending the room back into dark silence.
The thumping on the adjoining door began again. The lights went dark, then burst back on, then off again ... repeating like a strobe ... flashes of screams erupted from the television each time it restarted.
Archive looked closer at the video. It wasnt a horror movie, he realized. It was a person in the room. It was Andrews, screaming for his life as something grabbed him. He was stabbing his attacker with a knife.
Archive looked down. There was a dark red stain on the carpet.
He became aware of a presence in the bathroom doorway. It didnt move ... just stood there, filling the doorway, only a few feet away. Then it was gone.
The power came back on. Archive ran into the room. Kliss was missing.
There was a squeak from under his feet. Archive looked down at the rug he was standing on. He stepped off, slid the rug away, and discovered a trap door in the floor.
He lifted it and climbed down the ladder into a six foot by six foot box. There was nothing but the trap door in the ceiling and a small, sewer pipe-sized dirt tunnel leading out.
Archive squeezed into the tunnel. Dirt fell over him as he crawled deeper. The dirt walls of the tunnel squeezed Archives body as he crawled. Rocks and underground vines jutted out of the earth.
Archived dragged himself along the seemingly endless black hole. Nothing but darkness ahead and behind him. The tunnel squeezed even tighter. The walls partially collapsed, just a sliver of space to drag himself through. Dirt rained overhead as he crawled, like the passage was only seconds from caving in.
Archive pulled along, squinting into the black, until his hand grabbed a handful of flesh and fur, which elicited a loud squeak.
Archive pulled his hand back and watched as a rat scurried away to a larger shadow, a moving shadow. Dozens of rats filled the tunnel ahead.
He continued toward the mound and the squeaking grew louder.
Archive pushed through the center of the pile. Rats scattered, crawling over his hands and up his arms. He reached further and more rats squirmed out from under his hands, slithering out of a metal grate in the wall or scurrying beneath him.
Archive kept crawling, sliding over the tiny bodies, until finally, the squeaks faded. All he could hear was his own breathing, desperately trying to make it to wherever the tunnel led. And then a sliver of light appeared ahead.
Friday, 20th March, 2009, 11:37 AM #462
A Love in Need: Part 9 Orgy of Evidence
Hammer and Jim-Bean ran into the front office.
OH, GOD, PLEASE NO! shouted a man. Ill give you money. As much as you want!
There was the sound of a struggle, but it was distant. When Hammer pushed open the door to the back room, he caught sight of who was screaming.
It was a film playing on a video monitor. A man, Andrews, was begging a killer in a mask for his life.
A wall of monitors all displayed different angles of the motel rooms and grounds. Video cameras and equipment were piled all over the place. There were shelves of tapes lining the walls, each one hand-labeled: Steve and Sharon S., Glen and Flo D., John A.
Damn, said Hammer. We were so worried about Jawolalski we never even considered Kraygen.
I think hes working with the alien dogs, said Jim-Bean. They were doing some sort of surgery to the kid.
What kind of surgery? Hammer knew better than to ask Jim-Bean how he knew.
I dont know. They took something nasty out of him and put it in Andrews. Whatever it was, its like BIOSAN-4 only worse. It was so powerful I got infected just getting inside Andrews head.
Another shelf was stacked full of dusty watches, jewelry, toy dolls, truck stop souvenirs, a collection of rearview mirror crucifixes and rabbits feet, drivers licenses of various people ... all victims.
Why do I get the feeling Kraygens not human?
Something bumped beneath them. Jim-Bean and Hammer trained their Glocks on the floor as the mat shuddered.
Archive smashed open the trap door, Glock pointed upwards.
Jim-Bean rolled his eyes. Thats a good way to get shot
A trashcan came hurling through the glass at the front of the office with Kraygen fast behind it.
Before Hammer could lift his pistol, Kraygens arms shot out. They wrapped out, long and rubbery, around Hammer and Jim-Beans throats. He lifted them off their feet
Archive, now on his feet in the room, aimed his pistol carefully. You dont have enough arms to stop us all.
Protomatter gurgled Jim-Bean, Steward!
What? asked Archive.
Another tentacle shot out from Kraygens torso towards Archive. He fired and the Elder Sign-inscribed bullet found its mark, piercing Kraygens large forehead. He collapsed, melting like the faux nurse Hope had before.
Great, said Hammer. That confirms it. The Greys are using this place as some sort of experiment
I thought the Greys and their alien dogs made BIOSAN to destroy protomatter? asked Hammer.
Jim-Bean shrugged. The protomatter we saw escaped from containers. I think theyre a servitor race that the Greys are trying to keep under control.
He was cut off by the front desk phone ringing.
Hammer and Jim-Bean exchanged glances. Hammer finally picked it up.
We had it all wrapped up, said the deeply masculine voice of a woman. They took the poison out of David, and then put it into people nobody cared about. People without histories. Nobody important. Until you showed up. You just had to go snooping around. You just had to go poke your nose where it doesnt belong. And now our little arrangement is over. Why dont you come on over to Room 9? The doctor is in.
I think thats Davids mommy, said Jim-Bean.
Saturday, 21st March, 2009, 03:19 PM #463
A Love in Need: Part 10 Whats Up Doc?
The three agents closed in on Room 9. The curtains were closed.
Archive covered the door with his pistol. Hammer grabbed a chair from one of the other rooms.
Jim-Bean rolled his eyes. What are you doing, mate? Its a bloody hotel room. Its not that big!
Hammer ignored him and hurled the chair through the glass window.
Glass shattered. Hammer caught a glimpse of Kliss, her arms and legs bound to a chair, her mouth covered with duct tape. There was a rope wrapped around the leg of the chair leading towards the door. Kliss shook her head violently, tears streaming from her eyes.
Jim-Bean grabbed the handle of the door. We can just walk right through the front
NO! WAIT! shouted Hammer.
A shotgun blast went off as Jim-Bean opened the door, spraying Kliss brains across the back wall.
Holy Christ! shouted Jim-Bean, staring down at the headless body of the Dr. Kliss. Blood spurted from her neck, the arms and legs still trembling.
Damn it, Jimmy! shouted Hammer. When are you going to listen?
Pistols raised, Hammer ducked around to check the bathroom when brick exploded around him. Two giant arms punched holes through the wall and, crumbling much of the bedroom foundation, yanked Hammer outside.
Hammer let out a yelp and fired his pistols at the huge thing. One giant hand wrapped around his face and slammed him against the wall. The world spun.
He snapped out of it as a shooting pain tore through his thigh. A huge metal spike pierced Hammers leg and nailed him to the brick wall.
Jim-Bean squeezed off a shot and then pressed himself against the bathroom wall. The giantess punched right through the wall to reach him.
Jim-Bean was slammed against the fence on the other side of the wall. The hand, dirty and smelling of mud, slapped him back against the wall, holding him by the throat. He squirmed and then screamed as a spike was impaled through his torso. It would have killed a normal man.
That left Archive. He fired a careful shot from his Glock into the huge gorilla of a woman. She roared and charged right through the ruined wall at him. Archive barely had a chance to react before she slapped him down, then dragged him through the hole.
The telltale scream of agony meant that Archive had been pinned too, through the shoulder.
The wire fence that blocked the back of the motel was rent apart. Footsteps plodded away.
Jim-Bean came to. What shes gone?
Hammer clung to consciousness. He struggled to move and screamed again in pain as he wiggled a few inches up the metal spike.
Archive moaned.
Suddenly there was the blinding flash of two lights. Jim-Bean held up one hand. He knew he was in shock; it was so bright, and all he wanted to do was close his eyes.
Then he heard it. They all did. The sound of a trucks engine thrumming to life.
Oh no, whispered Archive.
Shoot, coughed Hammer. SHOOT!
Archive and Jim-Bean fired blindly at the lights.
The engine roared closer. One of the lights went out but it was growing larger.
Click, click, click. They were out of bullets.
Hammer struggled to lift his Glocks. Taking careful aim, he fired at a spot above and to the side of the lights.
Flames erupted behind the lights. The hunched form of the driver was illuminated in hellish relief as the truck continued to barrel down towards them.
Jim-Bean clutched his Realizer in one hand and struggled to focus. The pain in his gut was enormous, and every time he breathed a new burst of hot fire ripped through his torso.
He imagined the inside of the cab. And then he was there. She was dead all right, but it didnt matter. Gravity would do the job for her.
Jim-Bean focused on the steering wheel. If he could just nudge it enough
He strained, screaming with the exertion. The lights became so blinding that Jim-Bean lost his concentration. He could hear the roar of the flames and the bellowing engine
And then the truck turned sharply, smashing through the wall just a few yards to their left.
Sunday, 22nd March, 2009, 04:27 PM #464
A Love in Need: Part 11 David Phones Home
The three agents limped from the hotel. The rain was finally starting to let up, which let the fire from the truck spread to the motel. Unhindered by the storm, it roared across the rooftops.
Jim-Bean turned back. Wed better get the dog head
Forget it, said Hammer, limping through the parking lot. Its too late now anyway.
But thats our evidence!
Of what? Our mission was to apprehend Jawolalski and determine his sources. We have the names of the corporation and the drug. Davids gone, Kraygens a puddle of mush. We can hot wire the pickup truck and get the hell out of here.
Hammer stopped short. David stood in the middle of the parking lot, eyes wide.
Theyre dead, arent they? he asked without emotion. You killed them.
Jim-Bean kept his pistol trained on the boy. Unlike Hammer and Archive, he was almost fully recovered from his gut wound. The only evidence was the huge bloody stain down the front of his shirt.
Your parents tried to kill us, said Hammer.
David sighed, oddly unaffected by the whole incident. Kraygen, he wasnt my dad. I dont know where he was from. He was very nice to me. He saved me I would have died from the same disease that killed my dad. Whenever I got sick, they would put me to sleep and pull something gross out of me. Then they would stick it in people. Then theyd send the people out of town with orders never to come back. When they got married mom got big. Not just fat, but big. Real big.
We noticed, said Jim-Bean.
David looked at Jim-Bean with a hollow stare. That man you hit with your van escaped. He took me hostage in his car. Said he didnt want to hurt me but that I was insurance to keep him alive. Then you found me. My mom said we had to leave tonight. They were going to take me to another world; its the only place I can survive my disease
A small, dark bottle hung limply from one hand.
They told me to drink this He looked woozily at the bottle. Space mead. To travel across the stars
Something buzzed overhead.
David, said Archive. Who is They?
Theyre here, whispered David.
Two of the bizarre aliens they had seen before landed with a thump. Unlike the other alien dogs, as the Greys called them, these two were truly massive, with an extra pair of arms. The arms ended in large claws, almost like a lobster. Pink cilia served as a head, with no discernable eyes, ears, or mouth.
One stood behind David. The other next to Hammer.
For a second they froze, observing each other. Then Hammers pistol came up, aimed at Davids forehead.
The aliens blurred into action. One snatched up David, grabbing him gently in a parental embrace with all four of its arms, and buzzed into the air. The other alien roughly pinned Hammers forearms, forcing him to drop both Glocks. Then it too launched into the air.
Archive aimed his Glock.
No! Jim-Bean put one hand out to lower Archives weapon. Let me try.
Jim-Bean put both hands to his temples: WE APOLOGIZE. PLEASE RELEASE THIS THING. HE IS NEEDED BY US.
What are you doing? asked Archive desperately.
Begging for Hammers life, said Jim-Bean.
A moment later Hammer slid down off the one part of the sloped roof of the motel that wasnt on fire. He rolled off the roof and onto Tagerets car. He was unconscious, but alive.
Monday, 23rd March, 2009, 11:25 AM #465
A Love in Need: Conclusion
That night, the news showed an aerial shot of a structure, a roadside motel, sitting along a side road, surrounded by a vast, empty, brown wasteland. The image trembled from the rumble of helicopter blades whirling.
Several news vans, police cars, and ambulances were parked around the blackened motel. People milled about the scene. Behind the motel, a backhoe tore into the ground. Cops circled the back-hoe, digging with shovels.
This is a live shot of the Prairie View Motel, in the eastern side of McKinley County, said a newscaster. We've been told police have been working out here for several hours, but the details we're getting from them are sketchy at best. What we do know is that they've borrowed some equipment from a local farmer, and started digging in the rear of the property. What they're looking for though, we're not exactly sure.
The camera shakily zoomed in on the backhoe. As the machine dragged its teeth out of the earth and rose into the air, a dirt-covered corpse hung from the metal claw.
Oh, God! shouted the newscaster.
In a different news report, a male reporter stood outside a motel room door.
The best we can come up with is that some video tapes have been discovered that are somehow connected to the bodies the Sheriff's Department has found buried on the property.
Beyond the reporter, the motel room doorway was visible. The door was just hanging on its hinges. The wall on the opposite side was blown apart. Furniture inside was blackened and scattered about and there bloodstains on the ground outside the door.
Obviously they're being very tightlipped with details at this stage, said the reporter, so we don't know yet the content of the tapes.
In yet another news report, masked paramedics carried body bags past a female reporter. I've been told all the videos discovered are extremely violent and graphic.
The camera followed the paramedics past the female reporter, over a bloodhound stretching its leash to claw at the dirt, as if something was buried just beneath it.
The camera moved to a news van. The side doors had slid open, and police crowded around the video equipment inside.
The police are actually using our GNN truck to view what they believe is the most recently recorded tape. The images I saw on tape are horrific... Unimaginable, she said.
We turn now to the county sheriff. Nina?
The county sheriff was being interviewed by a newswoman for a television camera beyond them.
Sheriff, can you give us an idea of how many bodies have been found? asked Nina.
As of about a half-hour ago, we were at twenty-seven. But we haven't covered much ground yet, said the sheriff.
So you expect to find more?
I'm afraid so, yes.
There was a small pile of full body bags. The camera then turned to focus on the rusty vacancy sign hanging on the wall.
As for the immediate future, local authorities will be removing the vacancy sign that until today hung here outside the Prairie View Motel. This is Nina Juarez reporting live for the Global News Network.
Tuesday, 24th March, 2009, 03:19 PM #466
Chapter 35: Player of Hell - Introduction
This story hour is from the scenario Player of Hell by Michael C. LaBossiere. You can read more about Delta Green at Delta Green. Please note: This story hour contains spoilers!
Our cast of characters includes:
- Game Master: Michael Tresca
- Kurtis "Hammer" Grange (Fast Hero/Gunslinger) played by George Webster
- Sebastian "Caprice" Creed (Fast/Smart Hero/Techie) played by Bill Countiss
- Joseph Archive Fontaine (Dedicated Hero/Acolyte) played by Joe Lalumia
This is a standard vampire hunt, with a slight tweak because its a vrykolakas. This meant that the agents weren't entirely sure what they were facing going in. On the other hand, when I gave them a prop that clearly explained the vrykolakas' strengths and weaknesses, they pretty much ignored it perhaps because in a Cthulhu campaign, a vampire is never just a vampire. Both Caprice and Hammer flatly didn't believe that Mays was really being stalked by a vampire, so they took none of the advice until they had evidence it was the real deal.
Ultimately, this little scenario was actually the most exciting of the three. There were a hilarious turn of events, poor planning overcome by brute force, and a climactic scene in the vampire's lair.
This is all a setup for another scenario -- it reintroduces Simon Magnus, last seen in Chapter 0. The famous vampire hunter now has his own television show!
Defining Moment: Caprice isn't above using people as bait. Or cutting them.
Relevant Media
- Critical Locations: For D20 Modern and a lifesaver, since Delta Green rarely provides maps.
- Unseen Masters: The source for Magnus.
- Player of Hell: The source of the scenario.
- Dragula: by Rob Zombie.
- Weird World: To get an idea of how I imagine Magnus, think of V. V. Argost from the Secret Saturdays.
Wednesday, 25th March, 2009, 11:38 AM #467
Player of Hell: PrologueDig through the ditches,
And burn through the witches
I slam in the back of my
--Dragula by Rob Zombie
Simon Magnus had invited them to an Asian fusion restaurant in SoHo called the "Itchi-Leng." The decor was old brick walls, hardwood floors, timber ceilings, and paper lanterns, which lent the rooms some appearance of a Japanese country inn.
In his early forties, Magnus had a very closely trimmed goatee beard, and was extremely pale and thin. He wore dark-tinted glasses and a strange Indonesian cap. He wore a dark black leather coat. Magnus recommended a hot dark broth served with half-cooked exotic vegetables, sesame seeds, and noodles. He ordered a dish of boned chicken, scallops, and blanched spinach, and as an appetizer avocado with shrimp in miso sauce
"Thank you for agreeing to see me," Magnus said to Archive. "After your experience in defeating the Green Grove Vampire, I thought you would be just the right kind of men to defeat this threat that is haunting poor Mr. Mays."
Daniel Mays was a pale, gaunt-looking young man who was also a graduate student interning with Magnus, presumably in the art of vampire hunting.
Hammer looked back and forth between Magnus and Mays. "Take it from the top."
"Someone gave me a free MP3 player," said Mays, poking at his broth. "Some freaky looking old chick. But I wasn't about to turn down some free hardware. That's when the trouble started …"
"The next day he seemed a bit haggard and worn," said Magnus. "He approached me after class and, knowing my interest in unusual events, related a terrible dream. Go ahead Daniel."
Mays reluctantly related the dream. "I was asleep in my apartment when I had this horrible nightmare. It felt like the room was cold and it seemed like I was in this black void. Out of the blackness came this terrible face … the face of the old woman. She tore at my throat …I woke up screaming, with blood on my pillow."
"Let me see that MP3 player," said Hammer.
Mays handed it over.
Hammer held it up, turned it around a few times, tapped it on the table. "There's no battery compartment to it."
"You can't take the batteries out of iPods either," said Caprice, clearly skeptical.
"That's not what I mean." Hammer held up the MP3 player. "It doesn't look like it should even work." He put one of the ear buds to his ear. "Mind if I play it?"
Mays shook his head. "Be my guest."
Hammer hit the play button and nodded for a moment. "Britney Spears," he said, smirking. "Interesting play list."
"Give me that." Caprice snatched the player from Hammer and examined it. "No known brand I've ever seen."
"No bar codes on it, no identifying marks," said Hammer. "Nothing."
"Could have been made in China …" began Caprice when Archive stretched out one hand over the player, whispering a chant to himself. "What are you doing?"
"Inspecting its aura," said Archive. "It's pulsing with magic. That's no ordinary MP3 player."
"A mark of the vrykolakas," lectured Magnus, "is that it must present its intended victim with a physical item that creates a foul spiritual link between victim and victimizer. The victim must freely take this item, but once it is in the victim's possession it proves to be indestructible and unavoidable. It has been speculated that the item is not, in fact, a physical object at all, but a manifestation of the creature itself."
Caprice rubbed his forehead. "Seriously?" He banged the MP3 player on the table a few times, causing some of the other diners in the restaurant to look at him.
Caprice shrugged and turned to Mays. "Let's just assume for a moment that you're not completely insane and that you didn't experience some hallucination. Why should we waste our time surveilling your place—"
Mays cut him off. "I thought it was a bad dream, but …" he lifted his collar to show bite marks that looked like puncture wounds made from fangs.
"It's pretty clear to me that the kid's lost a lot of blood," said Archive.
"I believe that we might be dealing with a vampire," said Magnus, "but not the usual European variety. I think it is likely a Greek revenant known as the vrykolakas."
"A what?" asked Hammer.
"A vrykolakas," said Archive. "The history of these creatures dates back to the time of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. To become a vrykolakas, one had to be cursed, die a violent death, do a dishonorable act, or be excommunicated from the church. Such vampires usually return to complete some unfinished business in their lives."
"The method of destroying a vrykolakas is usually with fire," said Magnus. "Crosses and sunlight are not mentioned as being effective. Neither are stakes; many accounts describe vrykolakas being impaled over and over, beheaded and so on, and still returning to haunt the living."
Hammer and Archive looked to Caprice. He threw up his hands.
"Fine, fine! But if it turns out the kid is high, don't blame me!"
Thursday, 26th March, 2009, 11:35 AM #468
Player of Hell: Part 1 Fighting Fire With
A few hours and a hundred bucks later and the college student in the apartment next to Mays was vacated. Surveillance was placed in every room with wireless cameras. On one of the black-and-white monitors, Mays slept fitfully in his bed.
Caprice and Hammer sat at a folding table and watched the screens while they sipped coffee. Archive sat at a table and flipped through a musty tome.
"According to De Graecorum Hodie Quorundam Opinationibus, the vrykolakas does not lie in its coffin during the day. It feeds on blood like other vampires but when it kills a victim it devours the entire corpse. The noted German metaphysician Hasselberg speculates that the creature does this to prevent to creation of a competitor, and that a victim slain by a vrykolokas will rise again as a vampire."
"Yeah, right," said Caprice. "So we break out the silver bullets and the wooden stake "
Archive shook his head. "The only thing that has proven to be a reliable means of scourging the creatures is the use of fire."
Caprice yawned and checked his watch. "It's two in the morning. Nothing's happened so far. I'm not even sure why we're doing this mission"
"It's not a mission," said Hammer. "Think of it as a favor for Archive. He saved my life plenty of times."
Caprice shrugged and went back to blearily staring at the monitors. "Wait a minute!"
Archive stood up and walked over to Caprice.
"There!" Caprice pointed at the camera feed watching Mays' bedroom. "She wasn't there a second ago!"
An ancient hag, with skin like papyrus, was hunched over Mays' bed. The face had unusual growths of hair and the body looked starved. The eyes glittered in the nightvision scope of the camera; a predator's eyes.
Hammer loaded his pistols. "Get the thermite grenades and the flamethrower."
Caprice stood up. "Uh, what?"
Hammer looked at him. "You didn't requisition any of that stuff, did you?"
"Oh come on!" Caprice ran into the kitchen, shouting over his shoulder. "I thought the kid was nuts!"
"I don't think normal bullets are going to work " began Hammer. "Remember the Green Grove Vampire "
"I'll take care of it," said Archive. "I know how to deal with these sorts of things."
A minute later Caprice came out of the kitchen with a supersoaker water rifle with a barbecue lighter duct-taped to it.
"What the hell are you up to Hot Pants?" asked Hammer.
Caprice grinned. "Rubbing alcohol, a pressurized tank, and a little ingenuity!"
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Friday, 27th March, 2009, 11:48 AM #470
Player of Hell: Part 2 With Fire
Hammer kicked open the door, Glocks at the ready.
"Step away from the bed!" he shouted.
The hag, crouched over Mays unconscious body, whirled. Her eyes flashed red in the darkness. Hammer staggered backwards, covering his eyes.
Caprice squirted the supersoaker and missed completely, soaking the wall. The lighter ignited the stream of flames, setting the curtains on fire. The room was bathed in a hellish light.
Archive held up the leather patch that had the Elder Sign on it. "Behold the power of the Elder Sign!" he shouted.
That got the hag's attention. She shrieked, recoiling as the eye at the center of the Elder Sign opened to stare at her.
She vanished in a puff of smoke, like the witch out of the Wizard of Oz.
Hammer ran into Mays' kitchen and returned with a small fire extinguisher, spraying the room before the flames could spread.
Mays bolted upright, gasping in his bed. "Did you get her?" He looked around and then focused on the wall. "What happened to my wall?"
Caprice pumped the supersoaker several times. "She uh shoots fire out of her eyes."
"I told you your makeshift flamethrower was a bad idea," muttered Hammer.
Mays grabbed the MP3 player off of his nightstand. "I think I think I can feel her." He held up the MP3 player like a compass. "Yeah. She's " he pointed towards his bedroom window. "She's going that way. It's getting fainter."
"Let's go!" Archive ran out the apartment, dragging Mays with him.
Caprice gave his supersoaker a few more pumps and ran after them.
Hammer ducked out the door and slammed it shut behind him.
Having second thoughts, he returned a second later and grabbed the fire extinguisher.
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Ancestor Approved Award
The rules say I am to list 10 things I have learned about my ancestors that have surprised, humbled or enlightened me and then pass the award on to 10 other genealogy bloggers who I feel are doing their ancestors proud.
What Has Surprised Me:
1. That my paternal and maternal family trees couldn't be more opposite. My father's family has only been in the US for a short time for the most part and the one branch that was here before the Revolutionary War were Loyalists who went to Canada for over a hundred years before coming back. While in my mother's family you'll find Mayflower passengers and families that came to this country, for the most part, in the 1600s.
2. That my California roots run so deep. All of my maternal lines were in California well before 1900, some even before the Gold Rush. Perhaps that's why I love this crazy, messed up place so much (except in the summer, this place is a real arm-pit from May to September!).
3. That I've got Quakers coming out the wazoo. I've mentioned my frustration over the lack of Revolutionary War Patriots in my family tree before and those pesky Friends are a big reason why!
4. That not ONE family legend has turned out true. There have been quite a few and I wasn't expecting many of them to have much truth in them, but I am surprised that not a one in any branch of my family has turned out to have more than a shred (if that) of truth to it.
What Has Humbled Me:
5. The courage, strength and perseverance my immigrant ancestors had. I was especially touched when I found out about my great-grandmother who came to this country from Italy with her husband and three small children. They knew absolutely no English (in fact, until the day she died, her grasp of the language was tenuous at best), coming to a strange land, enduring a long uncomfortable voyage and uncertain about their future here and all while she was roughly seven months pregnant.
6. The sacrifices my ancestors made for this country and for future generations. From the war veterans to the farmers who toiled in their fields to the blue-collar everymen just trying to make a living, thank you.
7. The generosity of my relatives who were kind enough to encourage and share their genealogical treasures, knowledge and insights with me. Words cannot even begin to express my appreciation for all they have done and shared with me.
8. In addition to the generosity of my relatives, I am humbled by the generosity of all the librarians, government officials, record keepers, bloggers, volunteers and all-around nice people I've come across who have provided resources, support, information, and records. They aren't in my family tree but I would count myself blessed if they were.
What Has Enlightened Me:
9. Trial and error. And believe me, in all the time I've been doing genealogy, that has been A LOT of trial and error. I think it has made me a more patient person and someone who knows the value in looking at the details.
10. The internet. While only about 50% (at best) of the genealogy records I have I've gotten online, the internet has connected me to repositories, people, societies, archives, and many other off-line resources I would not have otherwise known about.
I'm not very good about passing on awards. For one, by the time I get around to passing them on everyone already has it and for another, I always feel like a horrible person whenever I play favorites. But I also realize what a cop-out it is to not pass it along. Plus, I know how nice it feels to get an award (or really any kind of recognition) and all these blogs are very deserving:
1. Nutfield Genealogy (in addition to being a great blogger, she's also a cousin of mine!)
2. Tangled Trees
3. Highway 99 (a fellow Central Valley native!)
4. Granny's Genealogy (we share a lot of research interests and I've been loving her recent posts on Michigan land records)
5. It's All Relative
6. Mikkel's Hus
7. Hacienda Circle
8. GreatGreats
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Thank you Leah for your kind recognition. It is greatly appreciated. Keep researching!ReplyDelete
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Greetings! Just an FYI to let you know I referenced your site in my response for 'Ancestor Approved' http://bit.ly/cGrIhw Thank you!ReplyDelete
On the Quaker thing - that surprised me in my family, too! Funny the things we never expect to find in our family lines.lReplyDelete
Thank you so much! It's nice to know my efforts are enjoyed! Please don't think that my tardiness in replying indicates any lack of appreciation; sometimes things just move slowly....ReplyDelete
My response blog post is at http://greatgreats.blogspot.com/2010/04/great-surprise-ancestor-approved.html
I hope that post also meets your approval!
Looking at your blog, I wonder if we are cousins?! I have Bartlett in Watertown, 1650ish; 3 Clark families in Plymouth, 1650s, Northampton 1670s, England 1600s; Johnson marrying Heath in England, 1613; Miller marrying Burnap, Reading MA; Parsons & Scott in Hartford, 1646; and Shaw in Plymouth: Nicholas1, Nicholas2, Stephen, Ruth who marries Moses Bates. I used to research Dillingham, Swift, & Wing, too, but I've disproven my link to their line. So far, I don't have any direct Mayflower lines, but they are all Great Migration immigrants and clearly mingling with Mayflower folks. Isn't this fun?!
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Jack Lebewohl, left, owner of the 2nd Avenue Deli, with one of his newest employees, Al Goldstein, who used to publish Screw magazine and now works for $10 an hour. Ive always preferred food to sex, Goldstein said.
Ex-porn king trades sex for salami at 2nd Ave. Deli
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Al Goldstein, the once portly clown prince of porn who made a mint publishing outrageous raunch in Screw magazine for over more than three decades, said he is now broke, basically homeless and attending classes with wife beaters after being convicted of verbally harassing one of his four ex-wives. But Goldstein seems grateful for a new job he landed late last month in the East Village.
His title? He is a host at the 2nd Avenue Deli near 10th St., making $10 an hour for now and claiming that turning people on to the joys of chopped liver, gefilte fish and brisket of beef is far more pleasurable than selling the more decadent forms of cheesecake. His duties include greeting customers and showing them to their tables.
I love it because Ive always preferred food to sex, said a slimmed-down Goldstein, 68, looking as somber as a banker in a dark thrift-shop suit during an interview at the iconic kosher eatery where he also works as a salesman for its catering services. It doesnt tell me Im not big enough. It doesnt take my house and it doesnt take a testicle. So for me, as I walk by windows of foods, its better than being in a topless club. But I have to watch it, he added, noting he shed 150 pounds via a stomach stapling operation last year and has to fight a homosexual relationship with Ben and Jerrys ice cream.
Goldstein claims that Screw folded last year because the Internet will give you all the porn you want and he subsequently lost his Florida mansion in bankruptcy proceedings, forcing him into the streets. He said he walked into the 2nd Avenue Deli with a hungry camera crew who had filmed him at a homeless shelter on W. 23 St. There he spoke to Jack Lebewohl, who has run the deli for the last nine years, ever since the unsolved 1996 murder of his older brother, Abe, who had been a longtime crony of Goldsteins.
Jack Lebewohl, 56, said he had already read a story in the New York Times about Goldsteins misfortunes in August when Goldstein suddenly showed up.
I went upstairs and said to my wife, Terry, I want to hire him, Lebewohl recalled. She looked at me and said: What will people say? And I said if my brother was still alive, he would have said, Absolutely. And that was it. I said no one needs a friend when things are going well.
I cried and said my life was over and Jack said, What would my brother do? I swear to God its true, Goldstein said. And he hired me on the spot. A man is what he does and for a year I didnt have a job. I felt hollow. I felt doomed. Ninety-five percent of your friends abandon you. Jack is one of the three percent of the people who stayed with me.
According to Lebewohl, the bad boy purveyor of smut is working out fantastically in the food trade. Hes an excellent host. I want him to learn the product and hes going to learn sales catering. Were going work out the financial stuff as things evolve. My mother had a saying in Yiddish, which Ill translate: Its better to lose on a smart person, than to win with a fool. And Al is no fool. Hes intelligent and honest and hard working. What more do you need?
Lebewohl noted that he first met Goldstein through his brother in the late 1970s after Abe catered a huge party at Platos Retreat when Goldstein celebrated an acquittal in his obscenity trial in Witchita, Kan.
Goldsteins fall as the high-profile publisher of Screw and host of the now-defunct cable show Midnight Blue can be traced to his more recent legal problems, beginning with his 2002 conviction in Brooklyn Criminal Court for harassing a former secretary, Jennifer Lozinksky, whom he allegedly threatened on the telephone. Although he now admits his behavior was inappropriate, he said his conviction was overturned 3-0 on appeal in New York State Supreme Court. He was convicted on similar charges for harassing his ex-wife Gina, after he published her telephone number in Screw and encouraged people to call her because, he said, she had turned his Harvard-educated lawyer son against him. By pleading guilty, he was able to get three years of probation, but the conditions are dire, he claims.
I dont have to serve any time but I have to report every other week, and I cant be in the sex business, he said. They check up on me. Theyre very judgmental.
Goldstein said he was denied permission by his probation officers to relocate to Los Angeles for a job in the X-rated mens field because of his verbal harassment conviction in New York. He cant work in the adult industry in New York, either.
They said you can stay in New York, but you cant work in the mens field, he said. They would rather I die of starvation, or make French fries at McDonalds
. Theyre looking for me to make one false step.
Jack Ryan, a spokesperson for the New York City Department of Probation, said he has found no records indicating Goldstein would be prohibited from working in the sex business. But he also noted that there are limitations on travel and relocation for people on probation.
Goldstein is now living at the Queens home of his fifth wife, Christine, 28, a psych major whom he said he met two years ago. He said she has developed Crohns disease and could die from it, noting that he tries to joke about her illness by saying that when shes dead, Ill date her three sisters. The couple married in January on Goldsteins 68th birthday. She really loves me, he said. She likes people who are rebellious and iconoclastic.
But Goldstein has nothing good to say about former flames including a live-in lover in Florida who, he claimed, dumped him over his financial problems. Women are despicable and vile and I prefer salami any day, he said. Suddenly I became ugly and smelly because I was poor. Before I was an Adonis. If women feel theyre sex objects, men are just money objects.
Despite such slings and arrows for a man who successfully peddled eros for years in its earthiest forms, testing the outermost limits of free speech, Goldstein seems peaceful and somewhat subdued now that he has a job and a supervisor. He claims that former Mayor Ed Koch was friendly to him when Koch came into the deli just before the Republican convention and he told Jack that Al had once put my head in the toilet bowl in the pages of Screw magazine, which once featured a ribald enemies list.
But Goldstein complains about having to attend weekly wellness classes on Roosevelt Island for people who batter women as another term of his probation. Im with 10 kids in their 20s who have beaten their girlfriends and Ive never hit a woman in my life. But my mouth is a weapon.
He plans to put that weapon to use starting at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 18 at Joes Pub, which is part of the prestigious Public Theater on Lafayette St. Goldstein will perform in a bawdy low brow musical review called What I Like About Jew, produced by Ron Tannebaum and Sean Altman and smacking of the old Borscht Belt, said pub director Bill Began. Nothing but the best for Al Goldstein, deadpanned Bill Bregan. We love people who tweak our audiences expectations a little.
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This is a superb child's transferware plate was made around 1840. The plate measures 7-1/2 inches in diameter with press moulded rim. A continuous impressed string of pearls wrap the inner and outer rim with the full Alphabet including the rare to find backward letter Z.
The purple transfer printing is embellished with four-color hand clobbering in blue, green, red, and yellow. The plate is finely potted and finished with wonderful thick pearlware glaze.
The central image features the month of July, depicted as a child sharpening his grass cutting scythe, surrounded by an abundance of blooming flowers,vines and fruit.
The plate made as part of a series featuring the 12 months and 4 seasons of the year. The plate resembles children's wares hailing from the Staffordshire region, but according to my research, it is likely that it was made in one of several Northern factories, particularly the Ynysmedwy Pottery near Swansea.
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I always like to think of Easter as our official start of spring, but I also remember that each year, I become the biggest sucker around and buy my girls beautiful Easter dresses. You know the ones… the sleeveless dresses, bathed in beautiful pastel colors, created with light and breezy fabric.
In my typical ways, I buy the dresses, take the tags off, then remember I live in Kansas…the land of weather never being what it is supposed to be on Easter Sunday. I don't believe my girls have ever experienced searching for Easter eggs without their dresses hidden under heavy coats, mittens and scarves.
Even though our weather in Kansas may not be spring like by Easter, I won't let that stop me from making spring like dishes for Easter.
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Face down and motionless, Kordell Stewart just lay there at the 5-yard line of a Lambeau Field that delivered the coldest of realities to the Bears during Sunday's 34-21 loss to the Packers.
Stewart lay so still for so long that two Bears teammates even ran over thinking he was hurt. And hurt he was; his pride had just taken a beating.
With 9 minutes 31 seconds left and the Bears driving toward a go-ahead score, Packers cornerback Mike McKenzie perfectly read a Stewart pass intended for Dez White. McKenzie returned the interception 90 yards for a touchdown that might as well have been a dagger.
In an instant that seemed like an eternity to the Bears, the 19-14 lead they were about to trim or overcome had become an insurmountable 27-14 cushion for the Packers. Within seconds, the 2003 season had all but ended and the 2004 season unofficially had begun.
"We think we'll be, at worst, two down, and all of a sudden the whole thing was turned around," coach Dick Jauron said of McKenzie's interception.
Stewart had tried in vain to tackle McKenzie near the 10 but was knocked off his feet. Afterward he was still feeling the effects of that blow, emotionally more than physically.
"That one play hurts me more than anything else," Stewart said. "[McKenzie] broke on the play pretty good. It was an anticipated play and he made it. It kind of stunned me for a minute."
Its ramifications will last much longer for the Bears.
The loss, coupled with the Vikings' victory over the Seahawks, mathematically eliminated the Bears from this season's playoffs and marked the start of the quest toward next season's. Now the best the Bears can hope for is an 8-8 record, and that won't be good enough to win any tiebreakers with the eventual NFC North champion or possible NFC wild-card qualifiers Dallas and Seattle.
In light of that, the Bears likely will take a long look at their quarterback of the future, first-rounder Rex Grossman, over the final three games.
A handful of Bears admitted they expect to see Grossman taking more snaps with the No. 1 offense in practice this week and wouldn't be surprised if he started at home Sunday against the Vikings.
"We'll talk about it on Wednesday and won't make any decisions before then," Jauron said.
That the Bears might have been only a few plays away from delaying Jauron's decision another week will nag them all off-season. But playoff teams don't turn the ball over five times on the road against a Hall of Fame quarterback like Brett Favre.
The crafty Favre completed 22-of-33 passes for 210 yards and helped offset a subpar day by the NFL's top ground game of only 97 yards rushing.
"We gave them enough opportunities, and they took advantage of them," Jauron said.
The game started oddly, as the Bears led 14-0 after their offense had run only 11 plays. But two big plays by the Bears in a 64-second first-quarter flurry sent chills of fear through Lambeau Field that had nothing to do with the 35-degree temperature.
With 1:54 left in the first quarter, Stewart threw a 61-yard touchdown pass to Marty Booker, who had beaten McKenzie down the right sideline. Three plays later, Favre uncorked an ill-advised pass trying to throw the ball away that linebacker Lance Briggs picked off and returned 45 yards to make it 14-0.
"We were right where we wanted to be," said Briggs, who also tipped a pass and made nine tackles.
But untimely turnovers ultimately put the Bears where they belonged.
After Green Bay's Ryan Longwell kicked a 24-yard field goal to put the Packers on the board with 11:15 left in the second quarter, Bears kick-return specialist Jerry Azumah fumbled the ensuing kickoff and the Packers' Torrance Marshall recovered at the Bears' 21. David Martin was credited with causing the fumble, but replays showed Azumah simply lost his grip on the ball.
"I fumbled. I don't really have any other comment other than that," said Azumah, whose 88-yard kickoff return for a TD late in the game meant more to his Pro Bowl chances than Sunday's outcome.
Four plays after Azumah's fumble, Longwell kicked a 38-yard field goal and the Packers had regained the momentum, if not the lead.
That came in the third quarter after the Packers converted McKenzie's first interception into a 35-yard Longwell field goal that gave Green Bay a 16-14 lead it never relinquished.
Even after McKenzie's second interception broke the Bears' back in the fourth quarter, they were driving in Packers territory when their fifth and final turnover of the day with 6:14 left sealed their fate.
Tight end Desmond Clark caught a 5-yard pass and was lunging for an extra yard when the ball popped loose. Green Bay's Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila recovered, and all hope was lost.
"That was on me, and if we score on that drive, who knows?" Clark said. "We'll never know what would have happened on those two drives (that included his fumble and McKenzie's interception) if we would have finished with at least a field goal. It really came down to just a couple plays we didn't make."
It also came down to a commitment the Bears never made to the running game. Running back Anthony Thomas carried the ball only nine times, his lowest workload in a game in which he was healthy since the season opener.
As a result, the Bears gained 44 yards rushing and became a one-dimensional offense, just as the Packers' defense had planned.
"They stacked the box like everyone else does, but even when they stack the box you have to be able to run the ball, and we couldn't," center Olin Kreutz said.
Thomas was coming off viral pneumonia and starting right guard Chris Villarrial missed the game with a strained oblique muscle, but excuses were as scarce as smiles in the locker room.
"I don't think that had anything to do with it," said Thomas, frustrated by his nine carries for 22 yards. "I haven't beat these guys in six times, and it's kind of getting annoying."
Indeed, it now has been three years and five days since the Bears have beaten their rivals to the north.
Nobody felt more frustrated about the Bears' seventh straight loss to the Packers than Stewart, who completed just 17-of-40 passes for 256 yards, with a touchdown and three interceptions. Stewart's quarterback rating of 41.2 was his lowest since opening day, and the toll showed after a day that started with so much promise ended in so much disappointment.
Asked if he worries about the inevitable move to Grossman, which would be Jauron's 23rd quarterback change in five seasons, Stewart bristled.
"That's my last concern," Stewart said.
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Guerrilla moving on from Killzone, working on new IP
Dutch studio Guerrilla Games is looking forward to a future beyond the Killzone IP.
Following its debut 2004 title Shellshock Nam '67, the Sony owned studio has worked on a succession of Killzone titles – six in total, the next of which, Killzone: Shadow Fall, releases alongside PS4 next month.
But with Shadow Fall production done and dusted the developer has confirmed to Eurogamer that new things are on the horizon.
That's definitely what's happening right now. I can't tell you what we're thinking of but yes," lead designer Eric Boltjes stated.
"As a studio we do want to branch out, and we have started work on a new IP, something completely different to Killzone. I don't want to say anything about it right now, but as a studio we do want to keep it fresh."
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The writing for "Charlie's Angels" leaves a lot to be desired, but the costuming is on point. From the cream romper that star Rachael Taylor rocks to the beaded cocktail dress that Minka Kelly wears in the final scene of the pilot, the show is firing on all fashion cylinders. (And writers, we caught that Prada reference.) Vintage clothes will also get a boost this TV season. Although "Mad Men" won't be back until next year, upstarts "Pan Am" and "The Playboy Club" will inspire throngs of the fashion forward to purchase everything from authentic Pan Am bags to replica bunny suits. See the fashionable outfits on "Charlie's Angels" Thursdays at 8 p.m. on ABC, "Pan Am" Sundays at 10 p.m. on ABC, and "The Playboy Club" Mondays on NBC at 10 p.m.
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The Beaufort County Division of Solid Waste and Recycling is holding a special Electronic Goods Collection and Document Shredding event Saturday, May 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at two locations.
Residents are encouraged to bring their broken computers, televisions, and other electronic appliances for disposal. S.C. law enacted last year prohibits dumping appliances in the landfill or at County convenience centers. Secure shredding of personal and tax documents will also be provided at no charge at the event.
Two county public works sites will accept the items: the Public Works North site at 140 Shanklin Road site near the Marine Corps Air Station, Beaufort, and the Public Works South site at 9 Benton Field Road off Burnt Church Road, Bluffton.
Acceptable electronic items include computers, printers, scanners, power supplies, monitors, UPS, hard drives, servers, laptops, cables, wires, surge protectors, switch boxes, sound equipment, tape drives, power supplies, calculators, copy machines, VCRs, DVD players, electric motors, cash registers, overhead projectors, transformers, test equipment, telephones, cell phones and other goods.
For more information or for instructions regarding the recycling of large quantities, please call the Beaufort County Division of Solid Waste and Recycling at 255-2734.


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Monday, July 1: Nokia Among Key Stocks To Watch
Polya Lesova discusses key stocks that will have traders' attention on Monday, including Nokia and Blackberry. Photo: AP
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NEW YORK (AP) — PepsiCo is bowing to public pressure for the second time in a week and cutting ties to Lil Wayne over the rapper's crude reference to civil rights martyr Emmett Till in a song.
Lil Wayne, one of the biggest stars in pop music, had a deal to promote the company's Mountain Dew soda.
Earlier this week, PepsiCo also pulled an online ad for the neon-colored soda that was criticized for portraying racial stereotypes and making light of violence toward women. That ad was developed by rapper Tyler, the Creator.
On Friday, PepsiCo said in a statement that Wayne's "offensive reference to a revered civil rights icon does not reflect the values of our brand." It declined to provide any further comment.
A publicist for Lil Wayne, Sarah Cunningham, said that the split was due to "creative differences" and that it was an amicable parting.
"That's about all I can tell you at this time," she said.
Rev. Al Sharpton, who had been working with the Till family to arrange a meeting with Lil Wayne and PepsiCo officials, said in a telephone interview that he hopes the decision ultimately is less about punishing individual rappers and more a cultural "teaching moment."
"Otherwise we're just waiting on the next train crash instead of trying to really resolve our problem and learn from these experiences and set a tone in the country that's healthy for everybody," he said.
Sharpton said that he and the Till family still plan to meet with PepsiCo officials next week.
The controversy erupted after Wayne made the reference to Till on Future's song "Karate Chop" earlier this year. He refers to a violent sexual act on a woman and says he wants to do as much damage as was done to Till.
The Black teen from Chicago was in Mississippi visiting family in 1955 when he was killed, allegedly for whistling at a White woman. He was beaten, had his eyes gouged out and was shot in the head before his assailants tied a cotton gin fan to his body with barbed wire and tossed it into a river.
Two White men, including the woman's husband, were acquitted by an all-White jury.
Till's body was recovered and returned to Chicago where his mother, Mamie Till, insisted on having an open casket at his funeral. The pictures of his battered body helped push civil rights into the cultural conversation.
Wayne had sent the Till family a letter offering empathy and saying that he would not reference Till or the family in his music, particularly in an inappropriate manner.
But the Till family had said Thursday that the letter fell short of an apology. The family was made aware of PepsiCo's decision Friday but did not immediately have a statement.
Music and media industry executive Paul Porter, who comments on music issues on his website RapRehab.com, said he thought PepsiCo's decision was an effort by the company "to do the right thing now."
Porter, who had complained publicly and to PepsiCo about Lil Wayne and the Mountain Dew video by Tyler, the Creator, said the company is "doing a whole evaluation of the process" involving its commercials and musicians. His comments were based on his conversations with the company.
"I commend them for making this strong judgment," he said. "Lil Wayne's apology was not an apology."
Earlier this month, Rick Ross also lost his deal with Reebok after he rapped about raping a woman who had been drugged. As for the Mountain Dew ad by Tyler, the Creator, PepsiCo said it pulled the spot immediately after learning people found it offensive.
The ad portrayed a battered white woman being urged to identify her attacker from a lineup of Black men and a talking goat that has appeared in other Mountain Dew ads. Tyler, the Creator has noted that the men in the lineup were played by his friends and members of Odd Future, a Los Angeles-based rap collective.
Talbott reported from Nashville, Tenn. AP Television Writer Lynn Elber contributed to this report from Los Angeles.
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MarketWatch Week Ahead: Alcoa, J.P. Morgan
Alcoa kicks off the third-quarter earnings season with its results on Tuesday. J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo are due to report earnings next Friday. Polya Lesova reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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At last we have a LCD TV that's designed as much for everyday Freeview as it is for the new era of high definition.
Sharp's latest screen is also one of its cheapest and while it lacks the style of sets further up its Aquos line-up, the LC32D44E is ideally set-up for any forward-thinking living room.
Not that the LC32D44E is especially well-endowed. Sure, there's a digital TV tuner inside alongside a couple of HDMI inputs, but the onscreen menus are basic and don't give access to much in the way of picture processing.
Extensive connectivity
On the rear, hidden in three compartments that aid the wall hanging process, are all the basic ins and outs. Alongside those two HDMI inputs are connections for composite video, S-video, component video, a PC and a couple of Scarts.
Routing audio from Freeview to a home cinema amplifier is possible by dint of a set of stereo audio outputs - although a digital optical audio output (from where surround sound could be created by an amp) is missing.
Also not included on the LC32D44E is 100Hz double frame-rate processing, which tends to make pictures smoother.
Impressive Freeview pictures
It's not a problem for the LC32D44E's built-in tuner. Picture quality from basic Freeview channels is excellent despite the poor quality of most digital broadcasts. Colours are well rendered and there's little in the way of picture noise, thanks to the LC32D44E's digital noise reduction circuitry.
Although we did spot some trace of mosquito noise around moving objects, the LC32D44E does a better job at upscaling Freeview than most sets at this size or price.
A 7-day electronic programme guide (EPG) complete with a thumbnail of the current channel is available to you via the nicely weighted remote control. There's a similar treatment for radio stations broadcast by Freeview, while there's also a Common Interface slot for adding subscription channels.
Switch to a high definition source and it's a different story. The TV's 1366 x 768 pixel resolution panel displays our Enchanted Blu-ray test disc with more than enough detail, but there is some picture noise in backgrounds.
Some motion smear
Colours are well saturated while the LC32D44E manages a reasonably good attempt at reproducing blacks.
Armed with an 'eco' mode that helps dim the set's backlight (all LCD TVs have a light that's permanently on behind the picture), the LC32D44E does struggle with fine shadow detailing although neither blacks nor colours fade when the set is watched from a tight viewing angle.
With little in the way of processing, it's no surprise that we did find some trace of motion blur on fast-moving objects - and a little judder on Blu-ray discs in general. At least audio is coped with well by the LC32D44E's tiny underslung speakers, although it's no substitute for a proper sound system.
Basic budget LCD TV
Missing a few niceties that a top-notch HD-ready LCD TV needs, there's little for hi-def fans to get excited about with Sharp's LC32D44E. Stripped-down and basic, it does a reasonable job with everything you throw at it but only excels in one area.
Crucially, that's Freeview, and if you've been disappointed by a lot of LCD TV's treatment of digital TV pictures in the past, the LC32D44E will come as a welcome relief.
All things considered, at just £470, we've got a hit on our hands.


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Roadworks are causing queuing traffic on the M1 by the Chesterfield junction as people finish work for the week (Friday, July 4).
Between junction 27 and 29 of the M1 vehicles are moving very slowly.
Likewise, ongoing roadworks on the A38 at Little Eaton are causing queues southbound between the Coxbench Road junction and Little Eaton Island.
An accident means the A453 in Kegworth is partially blocked and there is heavy traffic at East Midlands Airport, because of an accident. Police are currently directing traffic.
An incident on A511 Horninglow Road North in Burton Upon Trent has meant traffic is slow between the Farm Road junction and the Wyggeston Street junction.
Problems with traffic lights have meant that vehicles are moving slowly on the B5010 Station Road in Stapleford at the Town Street junction.
A traffic light failure has left traffic queuing on Radbourne Lane northbound carriageway in Mickleover at the B5020 Station Road junction.
There is heavy traffic on A50 northbound between Coalville and Derby.
There are problems on the A635 Stamford Street eastbound carriageway in Stalybridge from the B6176 Rassbottom Street traffic lights junction to the Wakefield Road traffic lights junction.


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Singleton encourages all to be better stewards of resources to be good Samaritans to brothers and sisters around the world.
Another Christmas is past and the new year is off and running. Each one of us can look back and remember dark moments as well as bright spots in the year gone by.
On the bright side, we did survive the Mayan calendar. Now let�s just hope that we can survive the �fixes� that our politicians barely passed to keep us from crashing over the �fiscal cliff� that they seem determined to push us over. Whether those �Band-Aids� patch things up or simply cause more problems, there are some obvious changes ahead that will impact the lives of everyone.
First of all, it is evident that we all will be paying higher taxes in the coming years. Right now we know that our employment taxes will go up and in all probability there will be other increases as well. We can all be assured that more of our income will continuously be going to pay for government services.
I�ll leave it to others to argue as to who will pay the fairer share; suffice it to say, we�ll all have less of our income to cover our own expenses and obligations.
One certain outcome from this is that we can expect to see giving to churches, ministries and charitable organizations decrease as the cost of living increases. While this seems inevitable, Christians, as well as those of other faiths, are called upon to give a portion of our income as an expression of gratitude for the blessings that we receive.
We all need to make sure that as we adjust our spending and create our budget, we do not cut back on that which we give back to God. Too often when we have to make reductions in our spending, we take care of our �needs and wants� and then we might give God a little, if there is anything left. We need to count our blessings and make sure that we give a proper share back to God.
We can also prepare for more requests and opportunities to help those in need. Whether it is direct requests from those in need, or from organizations that are trying to help others, we will be asked to make up for shortfalls brought about by our worsening economy.
As the government tries to put Band-Aids over the financial wounds, we will see more and more people fall through the cracks within the agencies and organizations that are struggling to help meet needs of those in our own communities as well as around the world.
Our response (responsibility) should be to be better stewards of our resources so that we might be good Samaritans to our brothers and sisters around the world.
Chris Singleton is program manager for Stop Hunger Now. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dropped by JPL on Thursday to outline the agency's plans to capture an asteroid, and to look at a model of a powerful new ion thruster that has enough strength to drag a space rock into orbit around the moon.
NASA unveiled a multistep plan to rendezvous with a smallish asteroid, put it in what looks like a giant reflective garbage bag, and bring it into lunar orbit, earlier this year.
Once the space rock is in a stable orbit around the moon, astronauts could land on it and bring small chunks of it back to Earth.
"This is the first chance humanity has to demonstrate with an asteroid of this size that we can move its orbit," Bolden said. "It will be tens of years before we can say we can protect the Earth from an impact. It won't happen in my lifetime as administrator, but this is the first step."
In order for the asteroid capture to work, scientists will have to find exactly the right space rock. They'd like it to be between 20 and 30 feet in length, moving at the relatively slow pace (for an asteroid) of 1.5 miles per second, and in an orbit that will take it close to the Earth and moon in the early 2020s.
NASA scientists originally envisioned sending a large spacecraft to the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter and plucking an asteroid from there, Bolden said. But with NASA's budget flattening out, and President Obama's challenge to land a person on an asteroid by 2025, the agency had to come up with a less costly strategy.
"The new plan is an ingenious alternative," he said. "If we can't get to the asteroid, we'll wait for the asteroid to fly by us."
While such a mission could help scientists better understand asteroids, or at least the particular asteroid that gets bagged, Bolden said the primary purpose of grabbing and moving an asteroid is to help develop the technologies that would be required to send people to Mars.
"My ultimate goal as a human being is to get us to Mars," he said.


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I think it's time to revive this topic, even though I just update my original post. Oh, well. Anyways, I just wanted to say that I really admire Kenohki's collection (except maybe Yu-Gi-Oh. I never got into it and I don't plan on getting into it.)
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The new year began not with a cannonball off the fiscal cliff but with an outbreak of conspiratorial cynicism.
WASHINGTON � The new year began not with a cannonball off the fiscal cliff but with an outbreak of conspiratorial cynicism.
This time it�s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose fall and concussion, followed by a blood clot between her brain and skull, have prompted an embarrassment of theories. The gist: That woman will do anything to avoid testifying about Benghazi.
Several commentators on the right opined via Twitter and TV, those most deadly hosts for the piranha of rumor and innuendo, that Clinton was faking her concussion to duck out on her appearance before congressional committees investigating the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
An independent report published last month placed substantial responsibility on the State Department. Not only was security at the Benghazi compound weak, relying heavily on local forces with conflicting loyalties, but requests for additional security apparently had been ignored or denied.
The sentiment that Clinton might not wish to testify is not without reason. It is hard to imagine the agony of knowing that one�s lack of vigilance may have contributed to four deaths. But the attacks on Clinton during her illness, essentially attacks on her character, have been cruel and unfair. What must the world think of us?
Clinton, who fainted as a result of dehydration brought on by a stomach virus, hit her head and suffered a concussion, after which a blood clot was discovered. She had to be hospitalized while blood-thinning medications were administered and monitored.
Although her critics backed off once the clot was reported, initial responses ranged from �She�s faking� to demands for proof of her concussion.
One writer demanded her medical records. John Bolton, former ambassador to the United Nations, called Clinton�s affliction a �diplomatic illness� to avoid testifying about Benghazi. Later he suggested that details were skimpy in an effort to protect her potential 2016 presidential run.
Again, Clinton may well prefer to miss her day before the firing squad, but it is unlikely that medical doctors or a hospital would assist a secretary of state � or anyone � in concocting a fake affliction.
Besides, you can�t have it every which way. Immediately after the Benghazi attacks, Clinton took full responsibility for the events and was accused by Republicans of falling on her sword to protect President Obama.
Now that she�s temporarily indisposed and unable to elaborate on her admitted responsibility, those same critics insist she�s trying to avoid taking personal responsibility.
The viciousness of the pundit class is disheartening and disgusting. And these days everyone�s a pundit. Got an opinion? Why, step right up to the microphone. If you�re �good TV,� you too can be a �contributor.�
One doesn�t have to be a fan of Hillary Clinton, though a Bloomberg poll says that two-thirds of Americans are, to feel tainted by the relish with which she and many others have been attacked � unfairly and disproportionately. Susan Rice comes to mind.
But this isn�t a problem only for women or Democrats. The rush to character assassination seems to be our only bipartisan imperative and is a blight on our political system. In this brooding age of superstition and portent, every misspoken word is a lie, every human error a hanging offense.
This is not to suggest that we be naive or credulous, but that we seek some balance in our approach to discovery. At the moment, we seem to be ricocheting between hysteria and delusion.
Eventually, Clinton will have to step forward and take her medicine. She is slated to appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in mid-January, though the date hasn�t been set. The nation clearly needs answers on what happened in Benghazi, and no doubt Clinton will provide them.
This is not blind faith in a favored politician, but respect for a process that relies on accepted rules of order. We owe our representative to the world � which is to say, ourselves � at least this much.
Kathleen Parker writes this column for the Washington Post Writers Group. Readers can reach her via email at email@example.com.


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Clinical trials are research studies designed to find new and better ways to treat patients with a wide range of diseases.
Physicians and scientists conduct clinical trials to find out:
Clinical trials may test new drugs, new approaches to using existing treatments, or newly developed methods of treatment.
Clinical trials are unique studies in that they rely on the participation of patients to test the new therapies. They are conducted only after a long process of research on the new treatment has already been completed.
Before ever testing a new treatment with people, studies are performed in research labs and with animals to examine possible benefits and side effects. By the time the treatment is given to patients in a clinical trial, it has been under study for many months or years.
When planning a clinical trial, an investigator (usually a physician) must write a detailed plan that outlines both the background and purposes of the study and the exact way in which the study will be conducted. This plan or "protocol" details each step of treatment and care for patients in the study, and it must be approved by scientific review boards within the investigator's institution and within the organization that sponsors the study. The protocol for the study ensures that the patients in study receive appropriate treatment and high-quality care and that the research is conducted scientifically.
Clinical trials are conducted in three phases, each aimed at answering a different research question. Each newly developed treatment must go through all three trial phases.


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Copyright Maximalists Just Won't Quit: Pushing New Monopoly Rights For Performers Through Sneaky Treaty Agreement
from the they-never,-ever-stop dept
For example, it appears that some folks have been pushing -- somewhat below the radar -- another treaty agreement to create a new form of intellectual monopoly: performers' rights (pdf and embedded below). There's a meeting planned for June in China to try to push this through.
As you hopefully know, in the US copyright is affixed to new and creative works as soon as they're put into a fixed form. But the copyright goes to whoever does that "fixing" or, on large productions, generally whoever is considered the "producer." The specific actors in, say, a TV show, don't get any specific rights in their performance. This makes sense. They're paid to do a job, which they do. However, some countries grant performers a copyright in their performances, and this new treaty is an attempt to push such rights for "audiovisual performers". As far as I can tell, this gives the performers in a work special new rights to stop how others use it. So, imagine a situation where someone wants to create a mashup video -- and they even get permission from the copyright holder to use it. Under this treaty, they'd then also need to get permission from everyone who appears in the video too, or they'll be violating that person's "audiovisual performance rights".
There are a variety of serious problems within the specifics, but just in general, why is this needed? It seems to serve no legitimate economic interest. All it does is create yet another category of monopoly rights that will certainly be abused to limit people's abilities to express themselves. It also almost guarantees that more new audiovisual works will be locked up and lost to culture. Already we have a serious problem with orphan works where the copyright holder can't be found. Imagine what happens when you need to find not just the copyright holder, but every single performer in the work and then secure a license from each of them. Yeah, basically every video will quickly become too expensive to ever use for anything, and thus it will be locked up.
Beyond that, there are some significant concerns in the details. Article 5 establishes "moral rights" in association with the economic rights. In the US, we've more or less (quite thankfully) ignored the requirement of the Berne Convention rules that say we need to recognize moral rights (to get around this, the US gives "moral rights" to a very, very tiny subset of artists). Moral rights, of course, are an idea built off of copyright, but rather than being about the economic incentives, they're about letting people stop the use of something because they don't like how it's used. We see people try to misuse copyright law all the time today because they don't like how a work is being used. The proper response is to let people know that's not allowed -- not to create new moral rights instead.
The agreement specifically states (in a footnote) that it shall apply to digital content online, including the requirement that performers have "the exclusive right of authorizing the direct or indirect reproduction of their performances." In other words, forget making videos that include performances with anyone who hasn't "licensed" you their performance right. How can the folks behind this not realize what kind of ridiculous problems this will cause? Take a video at a party of some people dancing -- and unless you've "licensed" the work from every dancer, you may be in trouble.
And, like pretty much every IP-related treaty these days, this one includes a stupid, technologically-illogical clause demanding anti-circumvention laws -- with no additional requirement that the only circumventions that apply are those that actually violate the other rights in the agreement. Instead, it's the same overly broad anti-circumvention clause that takes away your fundamental rights.
The whole thing is quite ridiculous, and just shows the nature of maximalist thinking. All they look to do is to create more and more monopolies that limit free speech and communication. It's really all about making the lawyers happier by creating more and more regulations for the kinds of things people do every day. Hopefully countries are smart enough to reject such a totally ridiculous concept, but from what we've heard, US officials are all for this garbage.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Jan 2008 23:23 UTC
"After the incredible success of the Asus Eee PC, other manufacturers are ready to get their piece of the pie. This means that within the next few months we are going to see this segment go from just two devices - the Eee PC and the Nanobook (which has yet to come out in the U.S. but which we have been hearing about for some time) - to many more." Another article on the Eee says: "Five of the 10 best-selling notebooks, including the top three models this weekend do not run Windows or Mac OS X. In fact, they are different models of the same diminutive notebook the Asus Eee PC - that runs on Linux."
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A great success
by archiesteel on Thu 31st Jan 2008 01:45 UTC
The success of the EeePC is now obvious to anyone. It appears Asus now wants to expand on that success:
Has anyone seen Tomcat? I've got a nice crow pie for him... :-)
RE: A great success
by sbergman27 on Thu 31st Jan 2008 02:34 in reply to "A great success"
I've got a nice crow pie for him...
The following sounds suitably awful to me.
Anything else I can do to help, just let me know. :-)
Crow Pie:
1 crow
stuffing of your choice
salt and pepper
2 Pie crust mixes
2-3 hard-boiled eggs
Stuff the crow. Loosen joints with a knife but do not cut through.
Simmer the crow in a stew-pan, with enough water to cover, until nearly tender, then season with salt and pepper. Remove meat from bones and set aside.
Prepare pie crusts as directed. (Do not bake)
Make a medium thick gravy with flour, shortening, and juices in which the crow has cooked and let cool.
Line a pie plate with pie crust and line with slices of hard-boiled egg. Place crow meat on top. Layer gravy over the crow. Place second pie dough crust over top.
Bake at 450 degrees for 1/2 hour.
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RE: A great success
by SReilly on Thu 31st Jan 2008 10:06 in reply to "A great success"


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this is a discussion within the Everything Else Community Forum; Sorry if these are a repeat. PILOTS: People who drive airplanes for people who can't fly. The FAA Motto: We're not happy till you're not happy. Wheelbarrow: Device invented to teach FAA inspectors to walk on hind legs. Fighter Pilots: ...
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PILOTS: People who drive airplanes for people who can't fly.
The FAA Motto: We're not happy till you're not happy.
Wheelbarrow: Device invented to teach FAA inspectors to walk on hind legs.
Fighter Pilots: Cold, steely eyed, weapons systems managers who kill
bad people and break things. However, they can also be very charming
and personable. The average Fighter Pilot, despite sometimes having a
swaggering exterior, is very much capable of such feelings as love,
affection, intimacy and caring. These feelings, however, very rarely
involve other people.
Words of Wisdom From Aviators:
Flying is a hard way to earn an easy living.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist
invents the airplane; the pessimist, the parachute.
If helicopters are so safe, how come there are no vintage helicopter fly-ins?
Death is just nature's way of telling you to watch your airspeed.
Real planes use only a single stick to fly. This is why bulldozers
(and helicopters*) *need two.
There are only three things the copilot should ever say:
1. Nice landing, Sir.
2. I'll buy the first round.
3. I'll take the fat one.
As a pilot only two bad things can happen to you and one of them will:
a. One day you will walk out to the aircraft knowing that it is your
last flight.
b. One day you will walk out to the aircraft not knowing that it is
your last flight.
There are Rules and there are Laws:
The Rules are made by men who think that they know better how to fly
your airplane than you.
Laws (of Physics) were ordained by God.
You can, and sometimes should, suspend the Rules, but you can never
suspend the Laws.
About Rules:
a. The rules are a good place to hide if you don't have a better idea
and the talent to execute it.
b. If you deviate from a rule, it must be a flawless performance
(e.g., when flying under a bridge, don't hit the bridge.)
Additional pilot & aircraft insights:
The ideal pilot is the perfect blend of discipline and aggressiveness.
The medical profession is the natural enemy of the aviation profession.
Ever notice that the only experts who decree when the age of the pilot
is over __ are people who have never flown anything? Also, in spite of
the intensity of their feelings that the pilot's day is over, I know
of no expert who has volunteered to be a passenger in a non-piloted
Before each flight, make sure that your bladder is empty and your fuel
tanks are full.
He who demands everything that his aircraft can give him is a pilot;
he who demands one iota more is a fool.
There are certain aircraft sounds that can only be heard at night.
The aircraft limits are only there in case there is another flight by
that particular aircraft. If subsequent flights do not appear
likely, there are no limits.
Flying is a great way of life for men who want to feel like boys, but
not for those who still are.
"If the Wright brothers were alive today, Wilbur would have to fire
Orville to reduce costs."
President, DELTA Airlines.
In the Alaskan bush I'd rather have a two-hour bladder and three hours
of gas than vice versa.
It's not that all airplane pilots are good-looking. It's just that
good-looking people seem more capable of flying airplanes.
An old pilot is one who can remember when flying was dangerous and sex was safe.
Airlines have really changed, now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant.
I've flown in both pilot seats, can someone tell me why the other one
is always occupied by an idiot?
Son, you're going to have to make up your mind about growing up and
becoming a pilot. You can't do both.
There are only two types of aircraft* - fighters and targets.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are
composed entirely of lost airline baggage.
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you
didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, and you weren't
nauseated by the food.
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