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We ensure that our privacy policy and our information gathering and notification practices adhere to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Safe Harbor Principles. We are also committed to complying with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.
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- At ZiggityZoom.com it is our policy to create online content that requires the collection of as little information as possible from our users. ZiggityZoom.com generally limits its collection of information to non-personal information, such as a username, password, a child's age, zip code and gender). The above information is collected when a parent registers to receive certain information (ex. Newsletter, coloring pages or educational worksheets).
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PJ Singh
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Coach Prabh Jot Singh (P.J.), begins his third season as the Lady Clippers Head Coach. He ended his second season as the Head Coach for the University of Maine at Machias Lady Clippers with an impressive 16-3-2 and made their way to West Virginia for the USCAA National Tournament and repeated a 1-1 record. The YSCC title was lost on penalty kicks on a windy afternoon where things did not go the Clippers' way. However, they did receive an at large bid thanks to the wonderful year they had.
In the 2012-13 Season, the Clippers recorded a 13-6 record and retained the YSCC championships. A trip to Nationals with a record of 1-1 in North Carolina and have started the season with a win already.
Coach Singh a former UMM Clipper himself and so was his wife (Class of 2005) both played for Coach MJ Ball from 2001-2005. Singh was a member of a very successful clippers program that won 3 regular season Sunrise Conferences (2 undefeated) and a trip to Tyler, Texas for a National tournament.
Coming from Accra, Ghana and being born to Indians, PJ feels finding the right people matters most first when recruiting to UMM. "
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Okay, inner stan truce?urbanmusik wrote:My inner stan has to make an appearance to say that Beyoncé and the music video's director made no secret that they were inspired De Keersmaeker. Plus that's not generic as it's not as if loads of people were inspired by that choreographer's video. [/stanmode]JSparksFan wrote:Sorry, my inner stan is uncontrollable at times. But if we must get nitpicky, let's not forget Bey's "borrowed choreography" for the "Countdown" video.urbanmusik wrote:I was just messing around, although you can add "One Step At A Time" to that list too.JSparksFan wrote:"Tattoo", yes, but not her entire discography.urbanmusik wrote:What? "Price Tag" sounds like "Party In The USA", nothing like "Irreplaceable".
It's "Hate That I Love You", "With You", "Lifeguard", "Come Back To Me", "Bye Bye", "Take A Bow", "Stronger", "Grown Woman" and basically the whole Jordin Sparks discography along with countless others which used the "Irreplaceable" formula.


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Arthur Hanna is senior managing director for Energy within Accenture Strategy. His role focuses on business strategy development and implementation, with additional responsibilities as senior client director for a leading global energy company. He is also a member of the Accenture Global Energy Board, chaired by Lord Browne, and is a member of the Accenture Global Leadership Council.
Mr. Hanna has more than 24 years of experience working for Accenture. During that time, he has led a wide portfolio of work for a variety of super major and national oil company clients with particular emphasis on post-merger integration, new business process model architectures and implementation, consumer research, brand management, new product development and market-entry strategies.
Mr. Hanna leads Accenture research on energy transition and new energy architectures and has presented at a number of international conferences on the issues associated with energy transition. He is also a Global Agenda Council member of the World Economic Forum.
Prior to joining Accenture Mr. Hanna had 10 years of international management experience with BP Oil International.
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Heart Health and Cardiovascular Disease
Special Attention and Special Considerations for Maintaining a Healthy Heart in Women
Compared with men, women are:
- more likely to die within the first year after a heart attack;
- more likely to experience another heart attack or be disabled with heart failure within six years of a first heart attack;
- and less likely to receive the proper and needed drug therapy –– as well
surgical or interventional care –– for a heart condition.
Women have certain risks and risk factors particularly associated with their cardiac health.
Women are also under-represented in heart-related research studies. These and many other heart-health facts have been the subject of national awareness campaigns focusing on women and heart disease. That's because women often fail to take seriously enough their own risk of heart disease and the connection between their personal heart health and certain variables that they may already understand, such as their blood pressure or cholesterol levels. Surveys show that most women, in fact, do not even know their test results in these areas. Furthermore, women may be less likely to have warning signs prior to a heart attack and they and their doctors often fail to recognize these signs. Studies also show that women wait longer to seek emergency care when they have signs of a heart attack.
What is your risk of heart disease?
Counseling Patients Across a List of Factors
Good quality prevention and care for cardiovascular disease is much the same for men and women, and yet knowledge is increasing about certain differences in women's hearts and their vulnerabilities. Experts believe that in women, for example, the cardiac affects of such risk factors as alcohol use, triglyceride levels, response to stress, and other factors are different than in men. In addition, age (in particular, whether a woman is pre- or postmenopause) is an especially important aspect of a woman's risk assessment for heart problems. Of course, use of hormone therapy in women also has heart-health implications.
Furthermore, women need to know about the affects on heart health of such lifestyle factors as weight and diet, and be familiar with how to establish such objectives as target heart rate. A healthier lifestyle can decrease a women's chance of developing heart disease.
The staff at Aria's Center for Gynecology & Women's Health can help patients to identify any risk factors they may have for heart disease and make appropriate referrals for a full screening for heart conditions. They offer recommendations on steps to safeguard heart health and on treatment for existing conditions. Working closely, as needed, with Aria's expanding and respected Heart Center, the women's center can help assure that female patients have access to the full range of cardiovascular testing, drug treatment, minimally invasive interventional care, surgery, and cardiac rehabilitation.
Working Closely with the Heart Experts
Symptoms that signal a heart condition in a woman can look somewhat different than those in men. For example, chronic fatigue can be an important warning sign in female patients. In addition, the combination of echocardiography and various types of stress testing is especially important in evaluating women for possible heart conditions.
Aria's women's center staff can help advise on and recommend care for such possible conditions as stable and unstable angina, coronary artery disease, heart attack, heart murmur, and heart failure. Aria cardiac specialists can provide any diagnostics or cardiology consultations needed and can help in making decisions about lifestyle interventions and cardiovascular treatments.
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Need help: been searching for 2 weeks online for a micro hydro system that I can use on my site which has the following:
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Biogems takes the head-to-head puzzle action pioneered by Capcom's classic Super Puzzle Fighter II and adds a few light RPG elements to keep things interesting. You pick one of three characters, then battle progressively smarter enemies by matching gems on a large grid (think Bejeweled). Differently colored gems have different effects. Some are offensive, some are defensive. Use the money you accumulate along the way to upgrade your armor and weapons. And watch out for the final boss--he's a dirty cheater.
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It's commonplace during Fashion Week to see Amazonian bodies walking around the tents. But this season, they're growing by leaps and bounds.
That's because enough NBA stars to field a team have invaded the spring shows — from menswear labels such as Michael Bastian and Tommy Hilfiger to women's designers including Zac Posen.
"You can't throw a penny loafer at a Fashion Week event without hitting one of these guys," says GQ senior editor Will Welch.
Fashion publicist Deborah Hughes agrees.
"This season, ball players have been the ultimate front-row guests, and we've seen them in droves," says Hughes.
Her eponymous firm organized Thursday's Duckie Brown show, which drew Celtics point guard — and GQ intern — Rajon Rondo, brothers Chris and J.R. Smith from the Knicks and Miami Heat's Chris Bosh.
While basketball
players like Amar'e Stoudemire and Dwyane Wade have held court alongside the catwalk the past few seasons, more players than ever are joining them.
Last September's lingering NBA lockout gave ballers free time to hit the shows, but this year they need to report to training camp on Oct. 1 — and they're still building Fashion Week into their schedule. "This whole generation of NBA stars is fashion-obsessed," says Welch.
And these guys have become just as aggressive in the fashion arena as they are on the hardwood.
"It's competitive between them," says Welch. "It's like the playoffs: Who won Fashion Week? The passion and curiosity they have for it is exciting."
Designers are only too happy to return the bro hug.
"When athletes attend a show, they engage a base that normally might not have paid attention to the collection," says Hughes.
"It's like, you're young, talented, handsome, with a little pocket change to burn and a little time off before training camp starts back up," says Welch. "So why not book a flight to New York and get a front-row look?"


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The entire Book of Shemos (Exodus) with every verse and every Rashi clearly read and explained in English on one MP-3 CD. Highlights from the leading Commentaries such as Ramban, R' Bachya, Ohr HaChaim, Klei Yaker, Netziv, Meshech Chachma, Mizrachi, Gur Aryeh, Divrei Dovid, Maskil L'Dovid are also drawn upon to create a symphony of Torah that will leave you inspired and knowledgeable. Special emphasis is given to Rashi that contains lessons in Hebrew grammar.
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Os designers de todo o mundo estão enviando designs criativos para Keey2Kids na categoria de design de página da web - custom.
We are a growing Education Service company, looking for a clean, artistic, elegant design.
Wow us with your genius in this DESIGN ONLY contest and not only will you win the prize but also be in pole position on the next competition for the rest of the site and we will make an excellent reference account.
Our site is boring that's why we need your super skills. Please read the brief and help us.
We have our logo to set the tone and colors of the home page redesign.
Thanks in advance for your submissions and time :) Good Luck!
Please keep in mind that the design needs to be fast loading so no massive images etc.
Flexibility is a must because the design and usability needs to appeal to children and to adults (parents, teachers, and business professionals).
We would like our homepage to rely on a strong aesthetic design that anchors our brand and that is strong enough that we can carry forward into the rest of the site and all of our marketing collateral effectively.
The homepage design needs to set the organization, style and design tone of the whole site.
The design needs to be welcoming and have a feeling of interaction and discovery rather than just another boring site full of information that turns off kids and non-techie parents and teachers get bogged down.
The main Challenges
· Usability – Clear & Easy navigation
· Features – Communicate our services
· Appeal – Students, Parents, Teachers, and Business Professionals
· News Letter Sign-ups
· Sign-in – Existing clients should easily be able to log into their account.
We would like to see clear navigation paths to:
· Logo to go back home
· About K2K
· Services
· Why use
· Resources
· Blog
· Contact
These pages can be arranged in logical sections that are distinct such as color coding or similar section theme.
A call to action on the main page is a must (something like "Click here to contact us today" which just links to the Contact Us page. We also want a newsletter subscription box ("KEEY NEWS") on each page (possibly on the right hand side). The News page is going to be regularly updated with articles related to Education for students, teachers, and parents. Please consider adding a shortcut to the top 5 articles below the newsletter subscription box with just the heading of the article which is the link to the article page.
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Feedback will be provided daily
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How can I get a replacement CD for my product?
You can download the driver from the Downloads tab for your product.
Note: Only the drivers are available for download. Any extra software that came with the product is only available on the CD.
If you wish to obtain a replacement copy of the Software CD (stock permitting), please contact our Driver Fulfillment department at 562 276-4367 (US) or 905 709-3839 (Canada). A charge for shipping and handling plus any applicable taxes may apply.
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Pick your favorite Zhu Zhu Pet and explore your very own humongous hamster city! Nurture them, feed them, hear them chatter and love them as you scoot and scamper through an awesome maze filled with chutes, tunnels, twists, turns, ramps and jumps for endless fun for everyone! Each Zhu Zhu Hamster has its own unique personality and whimsical sounds. Help them scoot, scamper, bump n' boogie through the crazy maze as you unlock more cool stuff the further you go in the hamster habitat. Collect all your favorite hamsters as you rule the Zhuniverse.
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Chalk it up to the fact that most of them would rather have gone home sooner, but the pre-Christmas comments of some members of the Senate made the Grinch seem like Santa Claus reincarnated.
"I am not going to get into the merits or demerits of the American farm program or this bill," said Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas. "I can sum up my own feelings by simply saying that America's farm program would make an old commissar from the Soviet Union puke."
Gramm, speaking during the Senate's debate, or lack of debate, on the Agriculture Committee farm bill, S. 1731, was ranting about re-writing Freedom to Farm months before it actually expired and how it was detracting from other, "more pressing" business.
Then, Minority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi said the Senate should vote on the trade promotion authority bill first. "If we really want to do something to help the economy and help agriculture, we would open up more markets," he noted.
Obviously, Sen. Lott had not seen USDA's latest forecast that U.S. cotton exports will reach the highest level in 75 years this year, but cotton prices are not expected to climb out of depression-era levels for some time.
Pat Roberts of Kansas criticized farm organizations for not doing their homework. "Too many farm organizations have simply come in and viewed the farm bill as an ATM machine, and they haven't reviewed the policy," he said.
Those were tough words for a group of lobbyists generally recognized as the most knowledgeable and ablest spokesmen for their industry of any in Washington.
Even the Democrats got into the act with Sen. Robert Torricelli of New Jersey taking up two hours of precious time threatening to launch a filibuster because of a provision in S. 1731 that would reduce barriers for trade with Cuba.
Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota offered the strongest rebuke to Gramm's slam. "Farmers would have been stunned to hear the speech of the senator from Texas because in his world the economics of what happens to farmers just doesn't matter," said Conrad.
As for Gramm's comments that the farm bill doesn't run out for nine months, Conrad said: "Effectively, this farm bill expired four years ago because that is when we started writing disaster assistance bills for agriculture because prices were the lowest they had been in 50 years."
And for Gramm's claim that the bill was over budget… "This bill is not one penny over budget," said Conrad. "If he really believes what he says, he should bring a budget point of order against this bill. He won't do it because the fact is the bill is not over budget."
At press time, there was little optimism that the Senate would be able be able to overcome the many obstacles being thrown up to completing its work on a farm bill before Christmas. They didn't.
Here's hoping that the hearts of some senators may have mellowed over the holidays and the Senate has come back to work in January, ready to move on legislation that will help farmers through one of their most trying periods in history.


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Sun-N-Fun Named ARVC 'Mega Park of the Year'
November 12, 2013 by RVBusiness Comments Off on Sun-N-Fun Named ARVC 'Mega Park of the Year'
Sun-N-Fun Resort and Campground in Sarasota, Fla., was named Mega Park of the Year by the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC) during its annual hospitality conference held Nov. 5-8 in Knoxville, Tenn. The resort is a flagship property of Carefree RV Resorts, North America's leading extended stay RV resort brand.
According to a press release, the Mega Park of the Year award is presented annually to RV parks featuring more than 500 campsites and is based on several criteria, including customer service, employee training, operational excellence, national directory ratings and community service. This is the third win for Sun-N-Fun which also received the award in 2008 and 2010.
"We are very excited to receive this award. To be selected as 'Mega Park of the Year' is a true honor," said Tim Deputy, Sun-N-Fun's general manager and a vice president of Carefree. "It means so much to me and to the entire Sun-N-Fun team to have industry peers select us for this extraordinary recognition."
Sun-N-Fun Resort and Campground has welcomed campers since 1967 and was acquired by Carefree Communities earlier this year. With 1,500 sites located on 177 acres on the east side of Sarasota, Sun-N-Fun provides a high standard of recreational facilities with an active, community-based lifestyle. The resort offers options for RV site rentals as well as park model rentals and sales.
Colleen Edwards, Carefree's president, said, "Carefree's strategy is to own and operate destination RV resorts in prime North American markets that offer a 'leisure resort lifestyle', exceptional service, and a cohesive sense of community for our customers and residents. Tim Deputy and his Sun-N-Fun team are a shining example of the culture Carefree aspires to extend throughout our company and in our communities. We are extremely proud of the hard work and dedication it took for Sun-N-Fun to earn ARVC's Mega Park of the Year award."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After some time away from home the MIT swimming and diving teams returned to the Zesiger Center pool this weekend, hosting the MIT Winter Invitational. The Engineers turned in some impressive performances in their home pool as three school records were broken and numerous NCAA cuts were achieved. The men's team tallied 15 wins in the 18 swimming events, while the women's squad was victorious 16 times.
Leading the way with three individual wins was sophomore Colby Dunn (Weston, Mass.). He began the weekend on Friday night with a win in the 50 Free, touching the wall in 20.68. On Saturday he completed the sweep of the freestyle events, taking the 200 in 1:39.37 and the 100 in 45.29. All of his winning times were NCAA B cuts.
Sophomore Michael Liao (Newport Beach, Calif.) was the other multiple winner for the Engineers, continuing his impressive season in the breaststroke events with wins in the 100 and 200, bettering the NCAA B cut standard in both. In the 100 he was first to the wall in 56.96, just 0.94 seconds away from the A cut. In the 200 he bettered the field with his 2:03.98.
Junior Wyatt Ubellacker (Georgetown, Ky.) achieved an NCAA A cut in his victory in the 100 Fly, a 48.74 effort that bested the field by nearly two seconds.
Sophomore Christy Rogers (Bend, Ore.) had a record breaking night as she broke Institute records in three events and won three events as well. Her first victory came in the 50 Free, taking the win in 24.27. Her first school record came on the leadoff leg of the 200 Medley Relay, a 50 Back leg that she completed in a record time of 26.91. She then completed a sweep of the individual backstroke events, winning both in record times. In the 100 she came home in 57.03 and in the 200 she turned in a 2:05.43. All three records she set she bettered her own marks, with her 100 and 200 time also meeting NCAA B cut standards.
Junior Anna Kokensparger (Omaha, Neb.) turned in another outstanding performance for the women's team, winning three events and coming up with an NCAA A cut in the 200 IM. In that event she came home in 2:05.04, just bettering the A cut mark by 0.03 seconds. She also took home wins in the 100 Fly in 57.47 and in the 200 Fly, turning in a 2:07.10, with both bettering the NCAA B cut standard.
Sophomore Morganne Klein (Campbell Hall, N.Y.) was a double winner for MIT, taking both of the breaststroke events. She started with a victory in the 100 Breast in 1:06.83, and then completed the sweep with a 2:25.84 in the 200. Also a double winner for the Engineers was freshman Emily Ryan (Indianapolis, Ind.). Her first triumph came in the 500 Free, in which she turned in an NCAA B time of 5:03.23. She then came back in the 200 Free, coming away with the win in 1:55.96.
MIT's relays were also in top form in the meet, picking up victories in nine of 10 events. For the men the 200 and 400 Free as well as the 200 and 400 Medley relays turned in NCAA B cut times. On the women's side the 200 Free and 200 and 400 Medley relay teams also turned in NCAA B Cut performances.
In all, the MIT teams turned in their most impressive efforts of the season, totaling a pair of NCAA A cuts and an impressive 33 B cut times.
Both teams will be back in action after the first of the year, hosting Colby College in a dual meet on January 14 starting at 3:30 p.m.


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Duplin County, North Carolina Genealogy
Guide to Duplin County, North Carolina ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
|Duplin County, North Carolina
Location in the state of North Carolina
Location of North Carolina in the U.S.
|County Seat
|Website: www.duplincountync.com
- 1 County Information
- 2 History
- 3 Places/Localities
- 4 Resources
- 4.1 African American
- 4.2 Cemeteries
- 4.3 Census
- 4.4 Church
- 4.5 County Records
- 4.6 Court
- 4.7 Genealogy
- 4.8 Land
- 4.9 Local Histories
- 4.10 Maps
- 4.11 Military
- 4.12 Newspapers
- 4.13 Probate
- 4.14 Taxation
- 4.15 Vital Records
- 4.16 Yearbooks
- 5 Societies and Libraries
- 6 Websites
- 7 References
County Information
Duplin County is located in the Southeastern portion of North Carolina and was named for Thomas Hay, Lord Duplin, a member of the English Board of Trade and Plantations[1].
County Courthouse
Duplin County North Carolina
118 Duplin Street
Kenansville, NC 28349
Reg of Deeds has b & d rec from 1913
m rec from 1749
maps & land records from 1749
& business rec from 1899
Clk Sup Ct has pro & ct rec
Register of Deeds
PO Box 970
Kenansville, NC 28349
Telephone: 910-296-2108
Fax: 910-296-2344
Clerk of Superior Court
PO Box 189
Kenansville, NC 28349
Telephone: (910) 275-7000
Duplin County North Carolina
Duplin County was created in 1750 from the northern part of New Hanover County and is named for Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin, later 9th Earl of Kinnoull. The earliest immigrants were Welsh, who arrived in the 1700′s, and soon followed by German Palatines and the Swiss in the 1730′s and 1740′s. The Scotch-Irish arrived in 1736 with Henry McCulloch, a wealthy London merchant, to settle on a rich and fertile 71,160-acre land granted to him from the British Crown. The French Huguenots and English, who migrated from Virginia along with Scottish Highlanders who came from the upper Cape Fear region, also were among the earliest settlers to the area along with African-Americans. The early settlements were primarily along the river and larger creeks as these were the best means of transportation. Henry McCulloch established several settlements. One on the east bank of the Northeast Cape Fear River named Sarecta, became Duplin's first incorporated town in 1787. Another settlement was established on the west side of the river on Goshen Swamp, and a third at a place referred to as Golden Grove, later to become the Town of Kenansville. (Source: Duplin County History).
Parent County
1749--Duplin County was created 17 March 1749 from New Hanover County.
County seat: Kenansville [2]
Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating North Carolina county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation North Carolina County Boundary Maps" (1664-1965) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.
Record Loss
Many court records are missing.
Populated Places
Neighboring Counties
African American
The first U.S. Federal census enumerating freed slaves was taken in 1870. Their records have been published:
- Melton, Carol K.W. and Joseph W. Wescott III. 1870 Federal Census: The African American Population of Duplin County, North Carolina. Rose Hill, N.C.: Duplin County Historical Foundation, 2000. FHL Book 975.6382 X28m 1870
|Tombstone Transcriptions Online
|Tombstone Transcriptions in Print
|List of Cemeteries in the county
|Family History Library
|Billion Graves
|NCGenWeb Archives
|Tombstone Project
|North Carolina Cemeteries
|Billion Graves
|See North Carolina Cemeteries for more information.
- North Carolina, Historical Records Survey, Cemetery Inscription Card Index at FamilySearch — index and images
For tips on accessing Duplin County, North Carolina Genealogy census records online, see: North Carolina Census.
- Bear Marsh. Constituted 1763.[3][4]
- Bear Swamp. Constituted 1791.[3]
- Bull Tail aka Wells Chapel, Wallace, N.C. Established 1756. Official website.[3][5]
- Great Cohara. Constituted 1759.[6]
- Muddy Creek. Constituted 1792.[4]
- Naughungo. Established by 1808.[4]
Church of England
- St. Gabriel's Parish. Established 1749.[7]
- Surviving records include Warden's Records of the Poor (1799-1817), which are kept at the North Carolina State Archives. Microfilm copy: FHL Film 19974.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
LDS Ward and Branch Records
- Albertson
Scots-Irish immigrants established Presbyterian churches in colonial Duplin County.
County Records
- 1833-1970 - North Carolina, County Records, 1833-1970 at FamilySearch — index and images
It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:
- Locate publications about direct ancestors
- Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family
- Identify publications, to quote Elizabeth Shown Mills, about an ancestor's "FAN Club" [Friends, Associates, and Neighbors]
- Alderman - Stone, Spessard. Lineage of John Carlton. [Wauchula, Fla.?]: S. Stone, 1991. FHL Book 929.273 C197s
- Bradley - Clegg, Reed L. Richard Bradley and Descendants: Lives and Times of Richard, Thomas, Henry, Samuel Carroll, James Harvey Bradley Families. Salt Lake City, Utah: R.L. Clegg Publishers, (1999?). FHL Book 929.273 B728c
- Broadhurst - Wooten, David Robert. We All Become Forefathers: Genealogies of the Wooten, Boykin, Whitaker and Broadhurst Families. 1993. FHL Book 929.273 W889wdr
- Bullard - Bullard, Spencer Ardell. William and Nathan Bullard Family: History and Genealogy. Lakewood, Colo.: S.A. Bullard, 2004. FHL Book 929.273 B872bs
- Carlton - Morris, Scott. Liberty Worth Fighting For: The Sacrifice of a South Georgia Wiregrass Family in the War Between the States. Sale City, Ga.: S. Morris, 1990. FHL Book 929.273 L272m
- Carlton - Stone, Spessard. Lineage of John Carlton. [Wauchula, Fla.?]: S. Stone, 1991. FHL Book 929.273 C197s; 1998 edition: FHL Book 929.273 C197s 1998
- Churchill - Churchill, Levis Allen and Dorothy Churchill Moye Sumrell. Churchill/Churchwell, Duplin, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt Counties, North Carolina. Greenville, N.C.: L.A. Churchill, 1993. FHL Book 929.273 C473cL
- Churchwell - See Churchill.
- Clark Crook, Billie Louise and Simeon English Clark. Our Clark Family: Or Texas Clarks. Austin, Texas: B.L. Clark, 1957. FHL Book 929.273 C547co
- Dickson - Carr, James Ozborn. The Dickson Letters. Wilmington, N.C.: n.p., 1933. FHL Book 921.73 D561a 1933
- Flowers - Hendrix, Mary Louise Flowers. Flowers Kith and Kin: A Record of the Descendants of Thomas Flowers through Henry and Nancy Adams Flowers. Jackson, Miss.: Hendrix, 1943. FHL Book 929.273 F669h
- Fowler - Hollis, Jane Cook. Immigrated to Tennessee: Chronicles of a Fowler Family. Memphis, Tenn.: J.C. Hollis, 1991. FHL Book 929.273 F829i
- Grady - Grady, Benjamin, Louis Carr Hendry and Henry A. Grady. John Grady (1710-1787) of Dobbs and Duplin, with Some of His Descendants. Wilson, N.C.: P.D. Gold Publishing, 1930. FHL Film 1321187 Item 8
- Gulley - John, Paul. John Gulley Genealogy, a Planter in Alabama and Arkansas and His Descendants: Also the Families of Bizzell, Godley, Ligon, Mendenhall, Purifoy and Others of England and Colonial America. Houston, Texas: P. John, 1991. FHL Book 929.273 G951j
- Hutchison - Hutchison: Family Records. MSS. Microfilmed 1974. FHL Film 288187
- Lanier Ingersoll, Louise. Lanier: A Genealogy of the Family Who Came to Virginia and Their French Ancestors in London. Washington, D.C.: Goetz Printing Company, 1965. Digital version at World Vital Records ($).
- Lanier - Morris, Scott. Liberty Worth Fighting For: The Sacrifice of a South Georgia Wiregrass Family in the War Between the States. Sale City, Ga.: S. Morris, 1990. FHL Book 929.273 L272m
- Lewis - Lewis, J.D. My Neck of the Woods: The Lewis Families of Southeastern North Carolina and Northeastern South Carolina. Little River, S.C.: J.D. Lewis, 2002. FHL Book 929.273 L585Ljd; CD-ROM no. 1036
- McCallop - Headley, Katy McCaleb. MacKillop (McCaleb) Clan of Scotland and the United States. 2 vols. Chillicothe, Mo.: E.P. Ellsberry, 1964. FHL Book 929.273 M124h
- McCanne - McCanne, Elizabeth C. A Brief Autobiography. Typescript. Microfilmed 1994. FHL Film 1698051 Item 47
- Merritt - Merritt, Edward and Leora Hiatt McEachern. The Merritts of Sampson and Duplin Counties, North Carolina. Typescript, 1968. FHL Film 874721 Item 4
- Middleton - Brown, Leslie H. "John Middleton of Hampton, Va., and Onslow County, N.C.," The American Genealogist, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Jul. 1979):161-162. FHL 973 D25aga v. 55
- Parrish - Lytton, Eugene R. Josiah Parrish, 1771-1846, Migrated to Alachua County, Florida 1823, Volunteer Soldier in the War of 1812. Typescript. Microfilmed 2001. FHL Film 1425373 Item 20
- Powell - Andrea, Leonardo. Powell. MSS., 1962, Photocopy, Polk County Historical Library, Bartow, Fla. FHL Film 978080 Item 2
- Sheffield - Hussey, Ray Walter. Descendants of John Hussey and Barbara Sheffield. Kernville, Calif.: R.W. Hussey, 1986. FHL Book 929.273 H965hu
- Sloan - Sloan, Stanley E. John Sloan, ca. 1783-ca. 1863: Descendants & Allied Families. Tucson, Ariz.: S. Sloan, 1988. FHL Film 1685453 Item 1
- Sloan - Bryant, Catherine M. The Dixon Sloan Family of Colquitt County, Ga.: Includes Families of Laura Sloan Pelham, W. P. Sloan, Amanda Sloan Webb, Oscar N. Sloan, Ella Sloan Bryant. n.p.: C. Bryant, 1988. FHL Book 1685453 Item 1
- Smith - Draughon, Eleanor Daphine Smith. Descendants of Elijah Smith of Duplin County, North Carolina. Durham, N.C.: E.D.S. Smith, 1971. FHL Book 929.273 Sm55d
- Sullivan - Pringle, Elizabeth Muir. Sullivans of Duplin County, North Carolina. 2 vols. Ogden, Utah: E.M. Pringle, 2007. FamilySearch Books Online; FHL Books 929.273 Su53p v. 1, v. 2; CD-ROM no. 4367.
- Wade - Rosser, John C. Some Descendants of Joseph and Mary Wade of Duplin County, North Carolina. Godwin, N.C.: J. Rosser, 1992. FHL Book 929.273 W119rj
- Ward - Ward, James Mayfield. The Noble Family of Ward. n.p.: J.M. Ward, 1975. FHL Book 929.273 W21wj
- Watkins - Watkins, William Bismarck. The Watkins Family of North Carolina: Particularly Enumerating Those Descendants of Levin Watkins of Duplin County, N.C., Who Emigrated to Alabama and Mississippi Early in the Nineteenth Century. Jackson, Tenn.: McCowat-Mercer, [1915]. FHL Film 1321283 Item 9
- Wells - Wells, James W. Descendants of Jacob Wells of Duplin County, North Carolina. Benton, Ark.: n.p., 1973. FHL Film 1318198 Item 7
- Wilkins - Murphy, Nathan W. Early Families of Muhlenburg County, Kentucky: Vincent, Wright, McElwain, Wilkins and Jarvis. Hanson, Ky.: David W. Murphy & Associates, 1999. FHL Book 929.273 V743m
- Williamson - Wise, Bel. Williamson Relatives. Typescript, 1977. FHL Film 1697644 Item 38
The Duplin County Register of Deeds Office has a complete record of all property conveyances dating back to 1750 when the county was founded. All of the indexes to Duplin County property records from 1784 thru the present are available for searching both at the Register of Deeds Office and also remotely via their internet website: rod.duplincounty.org. Additionally, all of the property records books have been scanned and are available for viewing and downloading with the exception of books 20, 22, 33, 43, 106, 249, 276, and 318. These books are however available at the Register of Deeds Office.
A number of land records have been transcribed and are available at the following sites:
- NCGenWeb Deeds Database- perform a Search of the deeds
- Duplin County Deeds at NCGenWeb Archives
- The FamilySearch Catalog lists some land records in Duplin County, North Carolina Genealogy. (In the Catalog, click on the link to a title to see details.) Some of the books – and others – may be on Google Books, on WorldCat, or available at public libraries.
Local Histories
Revolutionary War
- 1779 - 1782 - North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers 1779-1782 at FamilySearch — index and images
Civil War
Online Records
- 1861 - 1865 - North Carolina, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865 at FamilySearch.org — index and images
- 1861 - 1865 - North Carolina, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865 at FamilySearch.org — index and images
- 1861 - 1865 - U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry — index (free)
- 1861 - 1865 - U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry — index (free)
- 1885 - 1953 - North Carolina, Confederate Soldiers and Widows Pension Applications, 1885-1953 at FamilySearch — index and images
Regiments. Service men in Duplin County, North Carolina Genealogy served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Duplin County, North Carolina Genealogy:
- - 3rd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
- - 12th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, 1st Company C
- - 1st Regiment, North Carolina Cavalry, Company I
- - 2nd Regiment, North Carolina Junior Reserves, Company A
- - 3rd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Company B
- - 3rd Regiment, North Carolina State Troops, Company B
- - 8th Battalion, North Carolina Cavalry (Partisan Rangers), 5th Company
- - 8th Regiment, North Carolina Senior Reserves, Captain Henry Broadhurst's Company
World War I
- 1917 - 1919 - North Carolina, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919 at FamilySearch — index and images
World War II
- 1940 - 1948 - North Carolina, Discharge and Statement of Service Records, 1940-1948 at FamilySearch — index and images
- Duplin County newspapers - a listing of newspapers published in the county & libraries that hold them; via the Library of Congress. If you find a paper of interest on microfilm, you may be able to request it via Interlibrary Loan with your local public library.
- Duplin County residents in the newspaper - name listing of people from the county as located in misc. newspaper articles; time span varies. Articles indexed in the NC People in the Papers database from the NCGenWeb project.
- North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project - contains full-text papers from 1752-1890s. Search for your Duplin County ancestors to see if they were mentioned.
The Duplin County Clerk Office is located in the city of Kenansville. The North Carolina Constitution mandates that there be a Clerk of Superior Court for each county. The clerk is elected for a period of 4 years. The responsibilities of the Clerk are numerous and varied. As the judge of probate the Duplin County Clerk handles probate of wills and the administration of estates of decedents, minors and incompetents.
Online Probate Records
- 1660 - 1790 - North Carolina Will Abstracts 1660-1790 at Ancestry.com — index and images $]
- 1663 - 1979 - North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1665 - 1998 - North Carolina Wills and Probate Records 1665-1998 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
- 1735 - 1970 - North Carolina Probate Records 1735-1970 at FamilySearch.org — images
- 1760 - 1800 - North Carolina Will Abstracts 1760-1800 at Ancestry.com — index and images.
- Images of Wills and Estates, Book A, 1760-1848 North Carolina Pioneers ($)
Duplin County Clerk
112 Duplin St.,
Kenansville, NC 28349
Phone: (910) 275-7000
- Pre - 1790 - Pre-1790 Duplin County, North Carolina Genealogy Wills stored at the North Carolina State Archives are online - free. Website tips.
- 1760 - 1962 - Will Books A to 13 (1760-1962) have been digitized by FamilySearch - free.
A number of Wills and Estate Records have been transcribed and are available at the following sites:
- 1783 - Tax Lists, Duplin County, 1783 (index) in NC Taxpayers vol. 2, online at Ancestry ($)
- 1783-1817 - Tax Lists, 1783-1817 (images) online at FamilySearch
- 1786-1838 (gaps) - Tax Lists, 1786-1788, 1811-1813, 1816-1818, 1834, 1838 (images) online at FamilySearch
- 1811-1817 - Tax Lists, 1811-1817, Duplin County, North Carolina (images) online at FamilySearch
- 1815 - Tax Lists, Duplin County, 1815 (images) online at North Carolina Digital Collections
Vital Records
You may search Duplin County public birth, death, marriage and property records in the Office of the Register of Deeds free of charge. No appointment is necessary. The office is located in Room# 106 of the Duplin County Courthouse Annex at 118 Duplin Street; Kenansville, North Carolina 28349.
- 1913 - Present - Duplin County Births, 1913 - present -- search all birth records online at the Duplin County Register of Deeds website; includes more than 2,000 delayed birth certficates
- 1800 - 2000 - North Carolina Birth Index 1800-2000 at FamilySearch.org — index
- 1866 - 1964 - North Carolina Births and Christenings 1866-1964 at FamilySearch.org — index
- 1741 - 2004 - North Carolina, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
- 1867 - Present - Duplin County Marriages, 1867 - present - search all Duplin County marriage records on the Register of Deeds website.
- 1867 - 1961 - Duplin County Marriage Index 1867-1961 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free.[10]
- African-American cohabitation records - search at the Register of Deeds website
- Duplin County Marriages - misc. marriages added to the NCGenWeb Archives
- 1799 - 1893 - Duplin County marriages - may be included throughout Carrie Broughton's 6-volume index of the Raleigh Register & State Gazette newspaper (1799-1893). Marriages are listed by year and PDF files are searchable. Available on the North Carolina Digital Collections website.
- 1741 - 2004 - North Carolina Marriage Index 1741-2004 at Ancestry.com — index $
- 1759 - 1979 - North Carolina Marriages 1759-1979 at FamilySearch.org — index
- 1762 - 1979 - North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1763 - 1868 - North Carolina, Civil Marriages, 1763-1868 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1926 - 1975 - North Carolina, County Divorce Records, 1926-1975 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1958 - 2004 - North Carolina Divorce Index 1958-2004 at Ancestry.com — index $
- 1913 - Present - Duplin County Death Certificates, 1913- present - search all Duplin County death records on the Register of Deeds website
- Duplin County deaths - list of county area deaths reported in various newspapers; dates range from late 1700s to 1900s.
- Duplin County Obituaries - misc. obits added to the NCGenWeb Archives
- 1898 - 1994 - North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994 at FamilySearch.org — index
- 1906 - 1930 - North Carolina Deaths 1906-1930 at FamilySearch.org — index and images
- 1908 - 2004 - North Carolina Death Indexes 1908-2004 at Ancestry.com — index $
- 1909 - 1975 - North Carolina Death Certificates 1909-1975 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
- 1931 - 1994 - North Carolina Deaths 1931-1994 at FamilySearch.org — index
- Duplin County students at North Carolina colleges - a list alphabetized by surname from the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index
Societies and Libraries
Duplin County Historical Society
Historical Society/Commission
L. H. Sikes
PO Box 220
Rose Hill, NC 28458-0220
Family History Centers
Family history centers provide one-on-one assistance and free access to premium genealogical websites. In addition, many centers have free how-to genealogy classes. See family history center for more information. Search the online FHC directory for a nearby family history center.
- Duplin County, NC History, Records, Facts and Genealogy (Genealogy Inc)
- Duplin County, NCGenWeb - free genealogy resources; part of the national USGenWeb Project
- FamilySearch Catalog
- Duplin County, NCGenWeb Archives
- ↑ https://www.ncpedia.org/geography/Duplin
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 George Washington Paschal, History of North Carolina Baptists, 2 vols. (1930; reprint, Gallatin, Tenn.: Church History Research and Archives, 1990), 1:491; 2:564. FHL Book 975.6 K2p 1990.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Lemuel Burkitt and Jesse Read, A Concise History of the Kehukee Baptist Association: From Its Original Rise Down to 1808 (1808), Chapter 16. Digital version at archive.org.
- ↑ "Wells Chapel Baptist Church," North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, http://www.ncmarkers.com, accessed 22 October 2012.
- ↑ Morgan Edwards, Materials Towards a History of the Baptists in the Provinces of Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia (1772), 141. Digitized by SCDL Collections - free.
- ↑ Donna Sherron, "North Carolina Parishes," accessed 12 October 2012. Digital version at Lost Souls Genealogy - free.
- ↑ "Grove Church," North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, http://www.ncmarkers.com, accessed 22 October 2012.
- ↑ "Rockfish Church," North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, http://www.ncmarkers.com, accessed 22 October 2012.
- ↑ Genealogical Society of Utah, Parish and Vital Records List (July 1998). Microfiche. Digital version at https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/4/4d/Iginorthcarolinaa.pdf.


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BibleWorks 9: A Review
Arthur J. Fox
Ordained Servant, October 2011.
[URL: http://www.opc.org/os.html?article_id=275&issue_id=682 copied on 2012-06-26]
Beethoven had his Ninth Symphony (known popularly as the Ode to Joy). Some consider it his finest work. BibleWorks has now given us its ninth edition, and it may be its finest work as well.
The famous work space that consists of three windows (Search, Browse and Analysis) has an optional fourth window that can be enabled to join them. Let's review these:
The Search Window
Experienced users know the Search Window can find thousands of verses containing a single word in record time (I found 12,382 instances of the word "in" at the speed of .63 seconds.) That search can be done using very specific combinations of words and phrases and various versions (over 200 translations in over 40 languages including the original languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek).
The Browse Window
This window lists the results of the search in any translation you want, or all that the program has installed. The verses can be listed one at a time or in context.
The Analysis Window—Editor
The program refers to this now as an editor window but it also does analysis. Here you can get full parsing ability on any word, grammatical analysis, commentary analysis, and cross references, and can create your own notes, or even create text for word processing. All you need to do is click a tab.
The Analysis Window—Version
This window has a full range of tab based information on the version you are mainly using. It can show the verse you are studying in context, and give manuscript morphological and text critical analysis, a list of cross references, and statistics on individual words.
As in the past there are modules that you can access, some free, such as Matthew Henry and basic grammars and lexicons; and some for extra money, such as several theological dictionaries and Greek and Hebrew lexicons, as well as the full text of Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics (the prices range from $20 to around $200).
The basic intention of the program's creators is, as the subtitle tells us, to provide "Software for Biblical Exegesis and Research." You do not have to be a Hebrew or Greek scholar, a pastor, or a theological professor or student to use this program. I have one member of the congregation that I serve who has Version 8 of this program, and it has enabled him to grow in his understanding of God's Word. It is, in my judgment, the standard-setting biblical research program on the market and I highly recommend it.
I have only one minor suggestion for the BibleWorks team. For Version 10 I would love to see the editor become a full-blown word processor so that I can prepare fully formatted Bible studies or articles for publication or even sermon notes without having to transfer my work to MS Word or Word Perfect. Apart from that, you could not do better than to invest the $359 needed to buy this version (which includes upgrades from Version 6 and earlier) or, the $199 to upgrade from Version 7 or the $159 to upgrade from Version 8.
Arthur J. Fox, an OPC minister, serves as pastor of Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Reprinted by permission. © Copyright by the Committee on Christian Education of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. All rights reserved.


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Yes you are correct after further research the GT 570 has 480 CUDAs and the Quadro 4000 has only 256 CUDAs. Are there any other factors? Does the bit rate of 8 bits for the GTXs as opposed to the 10 Bit rate of the Quadros a major difference besides the colors of 400million as opposed to 800 million?
3. Re: quadro 2000 vs 4000Harm Millaard Apr 11, 2012 11:37 PM (in response to Anthonyvideo)1 person found this helpful
Only if you have a HP Dreamcolor or similar monitor and use 10 bit source material, but the number of people than spend more than € 2200 on a 24" monitor, would then probably opt for a Quardo 5000/6000.
4. Re: quadro 2000 vs 4000Anthonyvideo Apr 13, 2012 6:30 PM (in response to Harm Millaard)
So that then is the only difference between 8 & 10 bit and nothing else?
5. Re: quadro 2000 vs 4000Bill Gehrke Apr 13, 2012 7:07 PM (in response to Anthonyvideo)
Yes, a big difference in larger price and less MPE performance


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Umm is there something between them? I always thought they had a father-daughter type relationship but the later episodes seems to infer otherwise. The line that really made me think that they were attracted to eachother was when Nina first said she wanted to see Tenma again (along with Dieter). Okay that might seem innocent enough, but when Tenma sees her about to kill herself he tells her that he wouldn't know what to do if something happened to her. Then Tenma revives Johan because Nina asked him....Then in the last episode Nina got all gitty when she heard Tenma was back in town.
Is this more Japanese wishy-washy love or just am i just looking too much into this (or was I too dense not to see it earlier?)?
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I doubt Tenma has a thing for Nina, but Nina definitely does.
|2006-03-11, 23:11
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Hmm now that I say that I think it would be appropriate if they did/do get together.
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Tenma was a practicing doctor when he first met the (very young) Nina. And with his personality, he'd be fully conscious of the detrimental effect he'd have on her, were he to pursue a relationship with her.
I mean, he met her when she was in a severe emotional state, having just shot her brother in the head. No matter how much time has gone by, their relationship (friends or more) would revolve around that time period. Even in the back of his mind he'd be thinking of her as that little helpless girl, and I don't think any sort of healthy adult male would go for that.
He's always going to be there for her, but that's where it ends with him. But as Shiryuu says, there's a lot of signs that she feels quite differently...
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Obviously Nina likes Tenma, as for Tenma, he was way to absorbed in finding Johan to really notice anything. Tenma is a doctor, you get over how your patient look pretty quickly or else your going to be so depressed you'll jump off a building That and he's seen worse (inside of a brain anyone?) so he'll get over the helpless girl thing pretty quick if not already.
Anyhow, this is not a romance anime and isn't meant to be romantically acurate in real life (if there is such thing) so i wouldn't be suprised if Tenma likes her too and he certianly could do worse for a wife then Nina, she's at least better looking then his old GF and without a mouth that makes you want to strangle her. Either way, I doubt we will ever find out.
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For both Johan and Nina, Tenma is like the father figure they never had. Though for Johan, it was in a more twisted way, Johan reserved the ultimate "View of the End" for Tenma alone, his "gift" for the person who nearly lost everything to save his life is to give him ultimate loneliness. Tenma definately has a special place in the hearts of both twins.
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After finishing the series, I'm still a bit confused about their relationship. Is Nina in love with Tenma or does she just view him as a mentor figure like Dietriech does?
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For me, it would be wrong if they end up as a pair. Their age gap is like, super duper large, try to imagine a huge gulf between them. But, I think Nina has feelings for Tenma.
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I guess it could work. But I think that they're really close because they went through a whole lot of shit together - Tenma saved Nina more than once, and Nina helped Tenma unravel the mystery and cope with the guilt that was eating him from inside. It's always comforting to know that someone out there knows what you went through.
Nina showing atypical interest in his return isn't that surprising on hindsight - she was pretty happy when Lotte visited her after all (last few eps), and I guess Tenma paying her a visit would be even rarer since he's with DWB and isn't exactly free to visit her that often. It's like having a really close friend visit you after a long time - you'd drop all your other appointments to see him, especially since if he's flying off again the next day, right?
Even if Nina did have some romantic interest in Tenma (which is also not that surprising), I believe she's sensible enough to know that pursuing it will get her nowhere - from the looks of it she's a career woman, and a long-distance relationship with a travelling doctor 17 years her senior just doesn't seem a very good idea.
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Tenma is too chivalrous to put the moves on Nina, let alone have the idea even cross his mind. She's not even a blip on his romantic radar. She's one of many damsels in distress that the hands of the healer must save.
Just get over it. There's no romance there.
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By request – Aldor or Scryer for Healpriests
[Thank you, RaydenUni, for reminding me that I also write of shadowpriests. Addendum at end.]
Let me start with the critical point. Both have advantages. Both have disadvantages. The min-max is EXTREMELY narrow and in the end you should go with the one you think is most fun for your play. With that, let's dig into details. [Yes, this applies to quest gear too. Sometimes it's the Aldor piece that's Heal and Scryer that's heal/damage, and sometimes it's reversed.]
I think we need to start with "Aldor? Scryer? Do these matter to a beginner?" In other words, background. (Hey, it's me. Why do 10 words when I can write a novel?)
The Aldor are Draenai who got left in Outland. The Scryers are Blood Elves who are opposing Kael'thas – they were under him, they revolted saying (paraphrase) "Enough is too much." The Scryer Mutiny happened in the middle of a siege of Shattrath, and because of it the seige was broken. Neither side likes or trusts the other, but both trust a third party – which was in control of the city during the siege. To help maintain the peace, the city has two enclave areas where no members of the other faction may venture. There is a lot more story, but I'm going to leave that for players to find out. Like almost every other WoW player-race, there is both shining glory and deepest rot in both – sometimes both at the same time.
A couple more background points and we'll head for the discussion the advantages each holds for healpriests.
Everyone but Draenai and Blood elves starts exactly at zero with the faction – and gets a huge jump in rep with the introductory quest where they choose sides. If you're Draenai, you start with an edge with Aldor and looked upon with disfavor by the Scryer, and the reverse is true of the Blood Elves. Regardless of your level you can switch sides – there is a repeatable quest (two, actually) for each side which allows this. It is… mindnumbing. Or expensive, if you choose to purchase the reward items. But it is doable – you are not locked in forever if you decide the other side of the fence looks better.
There are a few surmountable quirks – like trainers. The Jewelcrafting trainer in Shattrath is in Aldor territory, while the Scryers have the Enchanting trainer. shrug – there are others in the outland. And there are some patterns/recipes/etc that are only available from one or the other — but which can be (and are) sold on the AH. And none of this is critical to the healpriest.
In the end, the only things that are 'dedicated' for either side are some reputation items. That is, after you earn reputation of sufficient level, you can purchase things. And even here… Here's the deal. Unless you're making a concerted and specific effort, then by the time you reach exalted with either you will have picked up gear (through drops and reward quests) that isn't that different – a few pluses in this stat, a few minuses in that stat. And I won't quibble about a difference of +/- 10 healing when we're talking over +200 on your item. At that point we're in my likes and dislikes, not your fun of the game.
OK, let's get into details. Let's start with the easy thing: Honored. Because you will get honored fairly early – the various quests will pretty much put you there.
If you are a scryer, you can purchase an inscription at honored. That's it. Now, for both groups the inscription is a good thing – it is pretty much the ONLY enchantment you can put on shoulders. Yes, shoulders. The scyers have four, of which three are conceivably of interest. The least on the surface – though of use nonetheless – adds +13 to defense rating. It's a little more survivability. Of the other two, one adds +13 spell crit rating, and the other adds 5 mp5.
If you're an aldor at honored, you also have inscriptions – plus a little. Again, only three inscriptions are (in my opinion) worth looking at as a healpriest. The first is defensive, and adds 13 to your dodge rating. Then there is the dual purpose spell enhance, with +15 to damage and healing. And the one that's classic for the healpriest — +29 to healing. Great if you're dedicated to group heals, nothing for you when soloing. I said there was a little more. The robes of the Anchorite are, really, very very nice. And you can get them when you're only honored. The bad news? You have to be level 70 to wear them. If you haven't found anything as good it's a guaranteed good chest piece – when you can have it. Still, at honored the lead belongs to the Aldor.
The next step up is going to take a little (not a lot) of dedication — most players will reach Revered doing everything after they're level 70. At revered both offer you a very nice staff. The Aldor staff is damage and healing (+121) along with some spell hit and spell crit ratings. The Scryer is pure healing (+228) plus some MP5. These are not bad staves – in fact, they are going to be a match for almost anything you get from any non-heroic instance. For the healpriest, the intuitively obvious choice is the Scryer here. Adding slightly is the Scryer trinket, which only adds some spell hit rating (a shadow, not heal, benefit) for equip. But it's got a use function (cooldowns and all the rest) that gives a 15 second boost to healing of +280. (And +150 to damage, but we're talking healpriests here.)
So while at honored the edge is for Aldor, at Revered the edge goes to the Scryers.
Except. OK, as I said, most players get Revered eventually, but Exalted is… purely dedication. See, the Big Toys in Shat don't belong to either group. Instead they belong to the other two groups – the refugees (sorry, Lower City), and the Kings – the Sha'tar. Remember I mentioned a trusted third party? That's these guys. What you do for rep with Aldor and Scryer both also give rep for the Sha'tar (though at a lesser rate) till you reach Honored with them. Which, by the way, is around Revered with the two starters. See the circle? Anyway… The Sha'tar don't care which group you belong to. And as a consequence all your work is, well, immaterial. Yes, both groups have some really nice stuff at Exalted. But since you need high rep with the Sha'tar to get to higher instances (and neither Aldor or Scryer are so necessary)…
Literally, it boils down to flavor. And what you want – if anything – at honored and maybe revered. The gains for each are… not worth parsing.
Choose for fun, and have no worries of consequences.
[Addendum. OK, I was rather narrowly focused when writing this – as I say in comments I tend to answer "by request" rather tightly. But this IS a priest blog, not just a holy priest blog, and I have and probably will again play shadow. Sooo….
At Honored, I'll stand by the position that there's no real gain. RaydenUni's point that the Aldor inscription has spelldamage is legit, but mana regen is as important to shadow as it is to heal. Quite simply, both are usable and useful choices.
And pretty much all the other gear has good matches outside the rep reward chain – the odds are very, very good that what you get will make the rep reward staves (that you cannot use till level 70) immaterial as one example.
But wait. There is a potential Big Deal. For shadowpriests the Secret Magic Number is 76. +76 spell hit rating guarantees max chance of hitting all bosses. As analyzed earlier, each point of spell hit rating is a nominal 0.08% improvement to your DPS – this little trinket is therefor a nominal 2.56% increase. As a level 70 with enough quests and instances under your belt to be Revered with either of these factions, your DPS floor should be no less than 400 — another 10.24 dps. In contrast, it takes over 26 in plus-damage to match this setting aside the boss effect.
And – the kicker – plus spellhit trinkets are kind of hard to find. Unless you count, among others, quests for the Terokkar Tablet of Vim or Starkiller's Bauble. Oh, wait — equivalent items available through quests, again.
sigh. There is no significant specific gain for either – both sides have good stuff that's available before you can get it anywhere else, but by the time you reach the Real Good Stuff you've probably found as good or better outside.
Pick for the flavor fun. Pick for your playstyle on the inscriptions. But the total edge either offers any priest is STILL not overwhelming for either faction.]
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Too bad you don't talk about shadow priests. After doing my research , I determined that Aldor was better for Shadow as it had more spell dmg and Scryer had more spell crit.
I have two priests. My main is shadow and my alt is 64 disc/holy. Both are tailors. The main is Aldor and I always wished that I had gone scryer so I got mystic spellthread, but then I would miss out on the +damage shoulder inscription. I solved that dilema by making the Heal priest scryer so I can make both spellthreads. It seems to me the choice Scryer/Aldor is six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
Something else, slightly more subtle that I would add is how you go about gaining rep with Aldor or Scryer. To gain rep with Aldor you can run a lot of Auchindoun. To gain rep with Scryer you run a lot of Tempest Keep. This means gaining rep for Lower City or Sha'tar respectively. I see few rewards for shadow priests from Sha'tar rep, but Lower City offers one of the best weapons at this level.
At exalted you have access to the Gavel of Unearthed Secrets. http://www.wowwiki.com/Gavel_of_Unearthed_Secrets
If you are like me, you will be running a lot of Shadow Labs to get Lower City rep, and in the process getting marks for Aldor. Maybe its inconsequential, but since the two are so close anyways it seemed worth mentioning.


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Chaos. That's the word, apparently the only word, to describe the current state of the Bowl Championship Series. I know this because last Sunday, after a bloody Saturday in which No. 1 Kansas State and No. 2 Oregon both lost, I performed the ultimate modern-day "scientific" test: I Googled "BCS" and "chaos" and got 3,620,000 results.
From USA Today: "Notre Dame tops BCS standings, but chaos not far behind."
From The New York Times: "A stunning one-two punch throws the BCS into chaos."
From … well, you get the idea. All that time spent arguing about how three presumably undefeated teams – K-State, Oregon and Notre Dame – would shake out into the most deserving two participants in a national title game has been rendered just so much breath wasted.
"Everything you thought you knew about the 2012 title race has been turned upside down," Stewart Mandel wrote on SI.com.
Not to mention sideways and inside out. See, a funny thing happened when Johnny Football and Texas A&M went into Tuscaloosa and beat Alabama. Everyone assumed, despite what happened just a year ago, that Alabama – and the SEC – was finally done.
After all, what did everyone outside of SEC country fear most? A repeat of last season and an all-SEC national championship game. While that's still not anywhere close to the most likely scenario, USA Today's George Schroeder aptly wrote that "the prospect for a second consecutive all-SEC showdown isn't at all far-fetched."
But what's most likely is still pretty disgusting to the rest of the country: the opportunity for a seventh straight SEC team to be crowned national champions.
The short version of where things stand now: If now-BCS No. 1 Notre Dame wins at USC the Irish go to the national title game. If BCS No. 2 Alabama beats Auburn and BCS No. 3 Georgia takes care of Georgia Tech, then those two meet in the SEC title game the next week in Atlanta and the winner, with one loss on the resume, gets a shot at Notre Dame and the national championship.
There are other scenarios and if Notre Dame loses at USC and BSC No. 4 Florida beats Florida State that could result in a Florida vs. Alabama/Georgia match-up in the national title game. If that were to happen, the air would go out of every football north of Dixie.
"SEC football is the best football in the country," said first-year Ole Miss Coach Hugh Freeze. "Everyone's partial, but we're the only ones to win six straight national championship games. I'd like to see us represented in a seventh."
And yes, Freeze is more partial than most. But when he says of the SEC, "It's as tough a grind as any conference in the country top-to-bottom," he's right.
So maybe, just maybe, what lies before us now is not chaos at all. Maybe it's just a needed re-calibration. After what Baylor did to Kansas State, can we believe the Wildcats would have gone this deep into a SEC schedule without one or more losses? After Oregon lost at home to Stanford and the Ducks' vaunted offense was grounded, are we to presume they would have come through an SEC schedule with every feather still in place?
No, what we have now makes far more sense than what we had a week ago. For it's likely that we will have a Notre Dame vs. SEC national title game. Reputation vs. Reputation, winner take all.
That's not chaos. That's a return to the natural order of things.
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One of the most useful Google Spreadsheets features is the GoogleLookup function, which allows you to find simple facts and quickly create a spreadsheet using Google's data. Unfortunately, the function will be removed at the end of the month and this will break a lot of spreadsheets that use it.
"As of November 2011, the GoogleLookup function will no longer be supported. This function relies on technology from Google Squared, a Google Lab that's been deprioritized. To save your data, copy the selection that contains GoogleLookup functions. Then, go to the Edit menu, navigate to Paste special, and select Paste values only. When the function is no longer supported, cells containing GoogleLookup functions will return #NAME? errors," explains Google.
Well, GoogleLookup was released long before Google Squared (2006 vs 2009) and it relied on Google's Q&A feature, which is still available.
Here's a way to use the ImportXML function to extract facts from Google Search (the mobile interface):
=RegExExtract(ImportXML("http://www.google.com/m/search?q=sri+lanka+capital", "//span[@class='waa4kx']"), "-(.*)")
Can you find a better way?
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Egypt revolutionaries make return to Tahrir Square
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's revolutionary activists, overshadowed since leading the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak, showed a new vigor Tuesday, scuffling with supporters of the military-backed government in Cairo's Tahrir Square and wrecking a state memorial dedicated to slain protesters only hours after it was inaugurated.
The vandalizing of the memorial reflected the youth activists' anger against what they see as an attempt by the current military-backed rulers, boosted by popular support since the July coup against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, to paper over past bloodshed and rewrite history.
The interim prime minister inaugurated the memorial's empty base - a statue to top it is planned later - with great fanfare on Monday afternoon. By Tuesday morning, the pedestal was reduced to a lump of concrete covered in revolutionary graffiti after activists before dawn ripped off its stone cladding and spray-painted it with slogans denouncing both Morsi and his nemesis, military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
"The revolution continues," one slogan across it proclaimed. "Down with all those who betrayed- military, former regime, or Muslim Brotherhood." Activists set a mock coffin draped with the Egyptian flag onto the pedestal.
Secular, leftist youth activists were at the forefront of Egypt's revolutions, starting with the 2011 uprising that ousted the autocrat Mubarak. But they have been overshadowed since. They have also been divided over how to deal with the new order after the military removed Morsi, the country's first freely elected president, on July 3 following massive protests against him.
Since then, the streets have been dominated by pro-military rallies or smaller, near daily protests by Morsi's backers, amid a heavy crackdown on Islamists. Non-Islamist critics of the new leadership have been reluctant to speak out for fear of being seen as supporting the Brotherhood and Morsi, whom they also sharply oppose.
But revolutionary groups were energized by the second anniversary Tuesday of the "Mohammed Mahmoud" clashes - one of the fiercest confrontations between protesters and security forces, named after the street off Tahrir where they took place.
On Tuesday afternoon, they turned out in small numbers in the square - a few thousands - but their return to Tahrir was a rare anti-military protest by the secular revolutionaries since Morsi's ouster.
"We are against both the Brotherhood and the military because they did not do anything for the revolution," said Omar el-Sibai, a 19-year-old architecture student. "And now if anybody says his opinion and is against the authorities, he is either a terrorist or Brotherhood."
Like others in the square, he denounced authorities for setting up a memorial to martyrs while neglecting a top demand of the revolution - retribution against those behind the killing of protesters.
Chants to drum beats echoed in the square, "Both the military and the Brotherhood can't be trusted" and "El-Sissi, it is now your turn." A banner in the square showed Morsi, el-Sissi and four other Brotherhood and military officials, with nooses around their necks.
Scuffles erupted when a group of supporters of the military also entered, carrying portraits of el-Sissi - whose birthday was on Tuesday. The two sides hurled stones at each other in intermittent clashes as activists chased out the military backers. Police fired one volley of tear gas, but largely stayed clear of the square.
Shortly before midnight, black-clad anti-riot police made a final push, fired heavy tear gas and police vehicles swept through the square dispersing the demonstration. Shortly after, army vehicles and closed some entrances to the square.
No Morsi supporters were seen in the square.
The 2011 Mohammed Mahmoud clashes were prompted by a crackdown on anti-police brutality protests that spiraled into demands for the end of rule by the military, in power after Mubarak's fall until Morsi's 2012 inauguration. More than 40 protesters were killed. Last year, three were killed when police under Morsi cracked on down protests marking the anniversary - turning the date into a rallying point for sentiment against the military, police and the Brotherhood.
The government's move to erect a monument in Tahrir turned the occasion into a fight over the memory of hundreds killed in Egypt's waves of protests - against Mubarak, against the military and against the Brotherhood.
Officials said the monument honors martyrs of "the two revolutions" - the anti-Mubarak uprising and the giant wave of anti-Morsi protests by millions before his ouster.
Infuriated revolutionary activists point out that most protesters killed over the past 2 ½ years died at the hands of police who have not faced trials and remain on duty. They say security forces have returned to the brutal ways they were notorious for under Mubarak - now under the pretext of fighting a war against terrorism.
Activists painted over an iconic mural of graffiti immortalizing martyrs on Mohammed Mahmoud Street. They covered it over with a camouflage pattern in shades of red, symbolizing blood security and military forces have spilled in crackdowns.
Many of the activists in Tahrir on Tuesday wore eye patches, commemorating protesters who were shot in the eyes and blinded during the Mohammed Mahmoud clashes.
The activists' protests put supporters of the military in a difficult rhetorical corner. Military supporters have depicted the military and the new government as the inheritors of the revolution after removing Morsi and his Brotherhood.
After initially trying to blame the pedestal vandalism on the Brotherhood, commentators on pro-military media criticized the activists who did it, saying they were only helping the Islamists.
In the same vein, Tamarod, the group that spearheaded the June 30 protests against Morsi and supports the new government, called the vandalism "regrettable."
The group also warned against protests Tuesday, saying the Brotherhood will try to infiltrate them and "drag the revolution into violence."
One of the military supporters in Tahrir, Zinat Fouad, said she was driven out of the square when activists threw stones. She said she had wanted to commemorate martyrs and show support for el-Sissi.
"Those who died are also our children," the 59-year-old employee of the tax agency said, wearing a military cap over her headscarf and an el-Sissi pins on her jacket.
But, she insisted, police were never to blame for protester deaths.
"They were killed by the Brotherhood, who wanted to divide Egyptians."