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Cardiff Blues chairman Peter Thomas has promised to sign three or four internationals for next season - although Gethin Jenkins will not be among them.
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Years ago, teenagers with acne were told to cut out the potato chips and given a tube of Clearasil. Today, we know far more about the reasons why some people develop acne and how it can most effectively be treated.
All cases of acne are not created equal, and neither are all acne treatments. Although all acne has its roots in the same process -- hormonal fluctuations that stimulate oil production -- not all acne is equally severe and not all cases of acne will respond to the same types of treatments.
Most cases of acne fit within one of three main categories, says Macrene Alexiades-Armenakas, MD, PhD, an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Yale School of Medicine and a specialist in laser therapy for acne, who practices in New York City:
Comedonal acne. This is the kind of mild acne that involves blackheads and whiteheads. It forms because a component of skin oil called sebum, along with old skin cells, block the pores of the skin. Comedonal acne appears most often on the forehead, nose, and chin.
Inflammatory acne. This form of acne occurs when the area just under the "plug" (the blackhead or whitehead) becomes reddened and inflamed.
Cystic acne . The most severe form of acne, cystic acne develops as the result of an actual infection in the area of the outbreak. Cystic acne often runs in families. It's often very painful and can result in disfiguring, permanent scarring.
The type of treatment that works for you will depend both on the kind of acne you have, and the additional factors that seem to trigger acne outbreaks.
Treating Mild to Moderate Comedonal and Inflammatory Acne
Most cases of mild comedonal acne occur in teenagers and young adults, and these can usually be treated with traditional topical creams and gels. The most common of these are retinoids, like Retin-A, Differin, Renova, and Tazorac. They work by unblocking clogged pores.
Dermatologists will often combine a topical retinoid with an oral antibiotic, such as doxycycline, tetracycline, minocycline or erythromycin, which kills the bacteria that cause inflammation around the blocked pores.
"This type of treatment is focused on teenagers, who usually have a period of a year to four years when they're breaking out because of changing hormone levels and increased oil production, and in some cases, genetics," says Amy Taub, MD, founder and medical director of Advanced Dermatology in Lincolnshire, IL. Taub is also an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.
Each of the antibiotics has its own set of side effects -- doxycycline causes sun sensitivity, for example, and tetracycline can cause yellowing of teeth in children -- so dermatologists will work with their patients to help choose an antibiotic that works best for them.
Mild to moderate comedonal acne can often be aggravated by external triggers, like hair gels and makeup. "Some of these makeups and gels are so occlusive that when the person stops using them, the acne goes away," Alexiades-Armenakas says.
Treating 'Hormonal' Acne
Many cases of inflammatory acne are "hormonal" in nature -- that is, they occur in teenage girls and women, and are aggravated by hormonal fluctuations like those that occur during the menstrual cycle. For these women, dermatologists often choose to prescribe either oral contraceptive pills or another medication called spironolactone.
There are now three oral contraceptives that are specifically approved by the FDA for the treatment of acne in women: Yaz, Estrostep, and Ortho Tri-Cyclen. Only pills that combine the female hormone estrogen with the synthetic version of the male hormone progesterone, progestin, can stabilize hormonal fluctuations in a way that can treat acne.
Oral contraceptives are a very effective treatment for acne in many women, but you have to give them time to work, says Bethanee Schlosser, MD, assistant professor and director of the women's skin health program in the department of dermatology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. "I ask patients to give the pills at least three months of use before judging their impact. That's when the studies found a notable difference between placebos and oral contraceptives. Many patients went on to get further benefit at about 6 months out. This is not an overnight process."
Some women may prefer not to use oral contraceptives, or should not take them because they are smokers or otherwise at high risk. These women, as well as those who only get partial acne relief from contraceptives, are often prescribed a drug called spironolactone.
This medication is a diuretic -- that is, a "water pill" that causes frequent urination. It also blocks receptors for male hormones, which modulates the hormonal surges that can stimulate oil production, causing acne. Spironolactone isn't approved by the FDA to treat acne and probably won't be, Schlosser says, because as a generic drug there's little motivation for a manufacturer to pay for the trials needed to go through the approval process. But most dermatologists agree that it works well as an acne treatment.
Treating Severe Inflammatory or Cystic Acne
When acne does not respond to the standard one-two punch of topical retinoids and oral antibiotics, patients have two other choices: the drug isotretinoin, or one of several procedure-based treatments for acne that involve using laser or light treatment to reduce inflammation and kill acne-causing bacteria.
Isotretinoin is an extremely powerful treatment for acne, often clearing up severe, scarring breakouts that had not responded to any other treatments within a matter of a few months.
But it also carries with it a host of risks and side effects, including inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, liver damage, bony malformations, depression, and a virtual certainty of severe birth defects for the babies of women who take isotretinoin while pregnant.
In 2005, the FDA established an online tracking database, called iPledge, and now requires all patients to sign onto the database to continue receiving their prescriptions. The iPledge system requires women to submit two negative pregnancy tests before they can receive an initial prescription for isotretinoin. Women must also undergo a monthly pregnancy test before each refill. Men are also tracked because of isotretinoin's depression risk.
"Anyone taking [isotretinoin] really needs to be counseled properly about all of these risks," Alexiades-Armenakas says. The drug also impairs wound healing, so if a patient with severe cystic acne begins taking the drug, those cysts typically resolve with scars. "It gets rid of the underlying problem, but you're almost guaranteed to heal with scars if you're at that level of inflammation when you start taking [isotretinoin]."
The alternative to isotretinoin for people with severe, stubborn acne, is a treatment involving laser/light therapy. The two main options are:
Photodynamic therapy. "In this technique, we apply a prescription liquid to the patient's face, chest, or back -- wherever the acne is -- and then apply a light or laser to activate the medicine," Taub says. "Not only does the medication kill bacteria -- which is less important, because bacteria will come back -- but over a few months, it also reduces the size and activity of the oil glands."
Isolaz. This treatment combines a vacuum with a broadband light. The vacuum cleanses pores and extracts excess oil, while the light helps destroy the acne-causing bacteria as well as reducing the activity of the oil gland.
"For people with the most severe acne who've failed other treatments, I usually count on [isotretinoin] or laser treatment," Taub says.


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Interactive Debug Probe
The Debug Probe acts like the Python Shell for evaluating and executing arbitrary Python code in the context of a debug program. This acts on the current debug stack frame, and is available only when the debug program is paused.
You may use many of Wing's source editor commands and key bindings within the Debug Probe, and can use the up/down arrow keys to traverse a history of recently typed commands.
Like the Python Shell, the Debug Probe in Wing provides auto-completion and integrates with the Source Assistant so that documentation and call signatures are readily available for functions and methods that are invoked here. Goto-definition works here as well.
This makes the Debug Probe particularly useful, not just to find and understand bugs, but also in crafting and trying out new code to fix the bug.
Even when no bugs are present, the Debug Probe can be used to craft code quickly in the live context in which it is intended to work. To do this, set a breakpoint where you plan to place the code, debug until you reach that breakpoint, then work in the Debug Probe to design parts or all of your new code. The auto-completer and Source Assistant running in the live program context make navigation of unfamiliar or complex code quite easy, and can greatly speed up the design and implementation of new features for existing code.
Conditional breakpoints are a natural companion for the Debug Probe. Setting a conditional breakpoint makes it easier to isolate one iteration or invocation out of many, thus isolating either a problematic case for which a bug fix is needed, or a particular case for which a new feature is desired.
In the Debug Probe, the Up and Down arrow keys will traverse the history of the code you have entered and the return key will either execute the code if it is complete or prompt for another line if it is not. Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down will move the cursor up and down and Ctrl-Return will insert a new line character at the cursor position.
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12.10.1. Debugging Code Recursively
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CARY, N.C. (WTVD) --Hours after Cary police issued an arrest warrant for the man suspected of gunning down a nurse at Hyde Park Court Apartments, 36-year-old Daniel Remington was rounded up by police in Fayetteville. Investigators say Remington lives in Cary.
Remington is expected to make his first appearance before a Wake County judge on Monday. As he sits behind bars, investigators are working to find out whether there's any link between Remington and the victim, 58-year-old Wendy Johnson.
The manhunt that started in Cary ended more than 24 hours later on Hunter Circle in Fayetteville.
A woman who lives out there had no idea that someone was wanted for murder almost 80 miles north of her neighborhood.
Friday night around 11, several 911 calls led police to Hyde Park Court Apartments in Cary.
Cary police released the numerous 911 calls made that night. In one call, the caller described hearing yelling, "I'm in the parking lot, I believe I heard a gunshot and I can hear someone yelling from outside."
In another call, a caller says "I just heard a really big gunshot."
The operator asks "How many shots?" and the caller responds "I only heard one and then people running."
When police arrived, they found Johnson lying on the pavement with a gunshot wound.
Investigators with tracking dogs combed the area for the shooter.
The next night a warrant was issued for Remington's arrest.
Just hours later, the investigation led to Hunter Circle, and woke up a normally quiet neighborhood.
It all ended with Remington in handcuffs.
No word from police about what led up to the shooting.
Remington's record shows his trouble with the law stretches back many years, and includes charges for breaking and entering and larceny.
Now he's accused of murder.
Police have offered no connection between the suspect and the victim.
And that the only thing ABC11 found is that at one point he was incarcerated in Sanford, in Lee County, which is where police say the victim is from.
Residents of Hyde Park Court say Johnson was a night nurse and was there to take care of a patient, a small child.
This marks Cary's fourth murder of 2014.
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The best days for the largest gaming market in the world, Macau, may be behind it, as weakness in the high-roller sector spreads to the mass market, according to Gary Pinge, analyst at Macquarie Securities, who cut his estimates for the industry earlier this week.
"I think the days of 40 percent growth are probably behind us," Pinge, who is based in Hong Kong told CNBC.
Pinge points out that the nearest province of Guangdong already accounts for 55 percent of mainland Chinese visitors to Macau, whereas Hong Kong visitors account for 40 percent of total visitors in the biggest casinos. The "low hanging fruit have been picked," Pinge said.
In a report to clients, Pinge cut his 2012 revenue growth forecast for Macau's gaming industry to 13 percent from 15 percent. The figures are a far cry from the 58 percent growth seen by the industry in 2010 and 42 percent expansion in 2011.
Most of the slowdown in Macau - which overtook Las Vegas as the world's No.1 gaming destination by revenue back in 2006 - will come from the high-roller or VIP segment, which contributes about 70 percent of Macau's revenue. Those high spenders have been pulling back since the middle of last year because of slowing growth and a credit crunch in China.
The VIP segment will probably grow just 10 percent this year, far slower than the 44 percent growth last year and a 70 percent expansion in 2010, Pinge wrote in the report.
But Pinge also cut his estimate for the mass market segment, which many had expected to continue doing well. Growth in that segment has remained robust so far, with a 35 percent increase in 2011 from 34 percent in 2010.
According to Pinge, the mass market is beginning to show cracks. He downgraded growth forecasts for the segment to 20 percent in 2012 from 28 percent last year.
"While overall visitation growth has been strong, this has been buoyed by low-value package tour customers," Pinge wrote, adding that the growth is being driven by higher-spending customers, who could pullback in tandem with the behavior seen in the VIP segment.
The declines across all segments of Macau's gaming industry have yet to be reflected in the share prices of the main players, Pinge said. He cut his price targets for the Hong-Kong listed shares of Sands China and Melco Crown to HK$27.20 ($3.50) from HK$31.70 and HK$15.70 ($2) from HK$17, respectively.
"Everything has to be seen from the perspective of valuation. I think the weakness hasn't been priced in," Pinge said. "I think the market is looking for a more optimistic outcome than Macau can actually deliver."
But other analysts say a slowdown has already been priced into the shares of the Macau players.
Shares of both Sands China and Melco-Crown have plummeted more than 20 percent respectively since their 2012 peaks in April. The stocks have underperformed the benchmark Hang Seng Index , which has declined about 10 percent over roughly the same period.
"It's no secret that VIP growth has come down from previously lofty levels," said Grant Govertsen, Managing Partner and Lead Analyst of Union Gaming Research in Macau. "You're already seeing a slowdown priced into shares of the Macau names, but I don't necessarily see a repeat of the Vegas 2008 scenario when the public equities of many of these names was seemingly going to zero."
He and other analysts say that it's too early to worry about the mass market.
"While Macau's gaming industry is certainly not 'recession-resistant', we are still holding our view that Macau's casino gaming revenues will post double-digit growth in 2012 over 2011," Jonathan Galaviz, Managing Director and Chief Economist of Galaviz & Company in Las Vegas told CNBC. "Over the long-run, a decade, the trajectory of tourism in Greater China will be very significant and Macau will capitalize upon that growth."
The only scenario where the VIP segment could collapse would be a hard landing in China's economy, that is, GDP growth of under 5 percent, Aaron Fischer, Head of Consumer & Gaming Research at CLSA Asia Pacific Markets in Hong Kong said.
"If there was a hard landing in China, we believe the VIP segment could fall 20 percent, which would cause the stocks to selloff but this is not our expectation," Fischer said. "Our checks show that business is still trending well, but growth is slowing down due to the high base [last year]."
—By CNBC's Jean Chua.


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Cumberland County, Virginia Genealogy
Guide to Cumberland County, Virginia ancestry, family history and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, immigration records, and military records.
|Cumberland County, Virginia
Location in the state of Virginia
Location of Virginia in the U.S.
|County Seat
- 1 County Information
- 2 Cumberland County Virginia History
- 3 Cumberland County Virginia Places/Localities
- 4 Cumberland County Virginia Genealogy Resources
- 4.1 Research Guides
- 4.2 African American
- 4.3 Bible Records
- 4.4 Cemeteries
- 4.5 Census
- 4.6 Church Records
- 4.7 Court
- 4.9 Genealogy
- 4.10 Immigration
- 4.11 Land and Property
- 4.12 Local Histories
- 4.13 Maps
- 4.14 Migration
- 4.15 Military
- 4.16 Miscellaneous Records
- 4.17 Naturalization
- 4.18 Newspapers
- 4.19 Probate Records
- 4.20 Taxation
- 4.21 Vital Records
- 5 Cumberland County Virginia Genealogy Societies and Libraries
- 6 Cumberland County Virginia Genealogy Websites
- 7 Cumberland County Virginia Genealogy References
County Information
Cumberland County is located in the Central portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia and was named for William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, second son of King George II of Great Britain[1].
Cumberland County Virginia Courthouse
Cumberland County Courthouse
P.O. Box 8
1 Courthouse Circle
Cumberland, VA 23040-0008
Phone: 804-492-4442
Clerk Circuit Court has marriage, divorce, probate
and court records from 1749, birth and death records
Cumberland County Virginia History
Parent County
1748--Cumberland County was created in 1748 from Goochland County.
County seat: Cumberland [2]
Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating Virginia county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Virginia County Boundary Maps" (1617-1995) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.
Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.
- Lost census: 1790, 1800, 1890
Cumberland County Virginia Places/Localities
Populated Places
Cumberland County Virginia Genealogy Resources
Research Guides
- "A Guide to the Counties of Virginia: Cumberland County," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1964):122-124. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors ($).
African American
- Freedmen's Bureau Letters or Correspondence, 1865-1872
- Heinegg, Paul. "Cumberland County Personal Property Tax List 1782-1816," Free African Americans.com, available online. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
Bible Records
Images of the Virginia Historical Society's family Bible collection have been digitized:
- Virginia Historical Society Papers, 1607-2007 - browse collection at FamilySearch; free.
Additional Bible records include:
|Tombstone Transcriptions Online
|Tombstone Transcriptions in Print
|List of Cemeteries in the county
|Family History Library
|Billion Graves
|VAGenWeb Archives
|Tombstone Project
|Virginia Gravestones
|Billion Graves
|See Virginia Cemeteries for more information.
- 1800-1986 - Virginia, Jewish Cemetery Records Index, ca. 1800-1986 at FamilySearch — index
For tips on accessing Cumberland County, Virginia Genealogy census records online, see: Virginia Census.
|Historical populations
1782 Enumeration
- Cumberland County Heads of Families - 1782 at U.S. Census Bureau - free. County begins on page 15.
1784 Enumeration
- Cumberland County Heads of Families - 1784 at U.S. Census Bureau - free. County begins on page 67.
1890 Union Veterans
- "Virginia's Union Veterans: Eleventh Census of the United States 1890." Prince William County Virginia, by Ronald Ray Turner. FHL Collection.
Church Records
The 10,000 name petition (dated 16 October 1776) has been digitized at the Library of Congress website. It was signed by people from all over Virginia who wanted an end to persecution of Baptists by the Established Church. Baptists and Baptist sympathizers alike signed the petition. To find your ancestor in this record, first check Hall's transcription in the Magazine of Virginia Genealogy (Vols. 35-38, with annotations in Vol. 39), which is available online at Ancestry ($). It is also available in book form at the Family History Library: FHL Book 975.5 B2vs v. 35-39. Then proceed to the Library of Congress website to see the original images.
Church of England
See also King William Parish
See also Littleton Parish
See also St. James Southam Parish
Meade's 1861 history of parishes in Cumberland County is available online.[3]
Early monthly meetings (with years of existence):
- Fine Creek Monthly Meeting (1756-1775)[4]
Indexed images of Cumberland County, Virginia Chancery Records 1750-1912 are available online through Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index. These records, often concerned with inheritance disputes, contain a wealth of genealogical information.[5]
- [Harrison] Descendant of Benjamin Harrison, b. c1715, d. 1761 Cumberland County, Virginia. Y-DNA 26 Marker Test, FTDNA (labelled H-106, Lineage 2). Genetic signature available online, courtesy: The Harrison DNA Project, World Families Network.
More than 150 genealogies have been published about Cumberland County families. To view a list, visit Cumberland County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies.
- Ljungstedt, Milnor. "Items from Southern Records" [Showing Family and Trade Connections with Northern Colonies and the Home Countries], The American Genealogist, Vol. 15 (1938):95-104. Available at American Ancestors ($). [Cumberland Co., VA surname: Thompson.]
- List of imported servants and transported convicts from Europe who served labor terms in Colonial Cumberland County, Virginia Genealogy (work in progress), courtesy: Immigrant Servants Database.
During the War of 1812, American officials reported finding a total of 3 British aliens, some of whom had families, living in Cartersville and Cumberland County.[6]
Land and Property
Grants and Patents
Land patents (pre-1779), land grants (after 1779) and surveys are available online at the Library of Virginia website. For step-by-step instructions on retrieving these records, read the Virginia Land and Property article.
- Bannister. 405 patents dated 1714-1835 in what is now Cumberland County, Virginia placed on a map. DeedMapper, 2004. [Names of those who received land patents, dates, land descriptions, and references may be viewed free of charge (click "Index" next to the county listing); however, in order to view the maps, it is necessary to purchase Direct Line Software's DeedMapper product.]
Local Histories
- Clay, Robert Y. "Some Delinquent Taxpayers 1787-1790," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1976):199-208; Vol. 21, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1977):167-171. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors ($). [These records often identify migrants who left the county and their intended destinations. Cumberland County's 1788 Delinquent List appears on 20:34; 1789 Delinquent List appears on 21:168.]
French and Indian War
- Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at FHL. [Identifies some Cumberland County militia officers, soldier enlistments, and veterans; see place name index.]
- Boogher, William F. Gleanings of Virginia History: An Historical and Genealogical Collection, Largely from Original Sources. Washington: n.p., 1903. Available at FHL; digital version at Google Books. [Includes a chapter titled "Legislative Enactments connecting the preceding historic sketch [French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War] with the adjudication of the resulting accounts that follow; with the list of officers, soldiers and civilians entitled to compensation for military and other services rendered." For Cumblernad County, see p. 70.]
- Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954. Available at FHL US/CAN Book 975.5 M2c; digital book at Ancestry ($); Google Books; and Archive.org. [Identifies some Cumberland County militia officers and soldiers; see place name index.]
Revolutionary War
Regiments. Service men in Cumberland County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Cumberland County supplied soldiers for the:
Additional resources:
Cumberland residents recommended for military commissions during the Revolutionary War.[7]
- McIlwaine, H.R. Proceedings of the Committees of Safety of Cumberland and Isle of Wight Counties, Virginia, 1775-1776. Richmond: D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Printing, 1919. Available at FHL; digital versions at Ancestry ($), FamilySearch Books Online, and Google Books.
- A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census]. 1841. Digital versions at U.S. Census Bureau and Google Books et. al. 1967 reprint: FHL Collection 973 X2pc 1840. [See Virginia, Eastern District, Cumberland County on page 130.]
- Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions, With an Added Index to States. FHL Collection 973 M24ur; Collection with index and images at Ancestry ($). [Includes veterans from this county; Virginia section begins on page 238.]
War of 1812
Cumberland County men served in the 17th Regiment.[8]
- Douthat, James L. Roster of War of 1812, Southside, Virginia. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, 2007. Free online surname index and purchase details at Mountain Press website. FHL Collection 975.5 M2djL. [Includes Cumberland County.]
- List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Why Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance... Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883. FHL Collection 973 M2Lp v. 5; digital versions at Google Books and Internet Archive. [See Vol. 5, Virginia, Cumberland County, p. 69.]
Civil War
Regiments. Service men in Cumberland County, Virginia 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 Cumberland County, Virginia Genealogy:
- - 3rd Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate). Company G (Cumberland Light Dragoons).[9]
- - 18th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company E (Black Eagle Rifles) and Company F (Farmville Guard).[10]
- - 21st Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company D (Cumberland Greys).[11]
- - 44th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company G (Randolph Guard).[12]
Records and histories are available, including:
- 1861-1865 - Virginia, Civil War, Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
- 1861-1865 - Virginia, Civil War, Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865
- 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)
Civil War Battle
The following Civil War battles were fought in Cumberland County.
- April 7, 1865 = Cumberland Church, also known as Farmville[13]
- April 6-7, 1865 = High Bridge[14]
- Maps of Civil War battles in Virginia: 1861 and 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865
Miscellaneous Records
- 1607-2007 - Virginia, Historical Society Papers, 1607-2007 at FamilySearch — index and images
- Virginia Naturalization Petitions, 1906-1929
The Virginia Newspapers Project identifies local Cumberland County, Virginia Genealogy newspapers.
Indexed images of the Virginia Gazette (1736-1780) are available online through the Colonial Williamsburg website. In addition, Professor Tom Costa and The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia have created a database of all runaway advertisements for slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, and ship deserters listed in this source and other Virginia newspapers (1736-1803), see: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia. These newspapers are valuable resources for all regions of Virginia.
Probate Records
A free index to Cumberland County, Virginia Genealogy wills and administrations (1749-1810) is available at the Library of Virginia website.
Online Probate Records
- 1639 – 1850 Virginia Land, Marriage and Probate Records 1639-1850 at Ancestry.com — index to transcribed records, incomplete, $
- 1759 – 1769; 1769 – 1792 – Images of Wills, Estates, Inventories etc. Virginia Pioneers ($)
- 1749 – 1769; 1769 – 1792 – Images of Wills. Virginia Pioneers ($)
How can Virginia tax lists help me?
- [1759] McCrary, Patti Sue. Cumberland County, Virginia Tithable Lists for 1759. Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007. Available at FHL.
- 1764-1792 - Crouse, Randy F. McNew "Personal Property Tax Lists of Buckingham County Virginia , Vol. 1, 1764-1792, Randy F. McNew Crouse 2017. 428 pages. Available at Lulu ($) and FHL. Family History Library Call Number: 975.5623 R4c. In 1778, a small triangular area of Buckingham county bordering the James River was given to Cumberland county. Buckingham residents living there then, and following the division of the county, became residents of Cumberland county. In addition, owing to the proximity of the two counties, many families that lived in Buckingham also owned property and/or had relatives in Cumberland and vice-versa, or they were former residents of the other. This book is a comprehensive transcription of all extant tithe and personal property tax lists (over 12,000 records) for Buckingham County, Virginia from its formation in 1761 through 1792. Includes 1764, 1773-4, 1782-1792.
- [1782-1816] Cumberland County Personal Property Tax Lists 1782-1816 (images); digital version in Tax List Club at Binns Genealogy ($).
- [1782-1815] Tax Digests available at Virginia Pioneers ($)
- [1782-1816] Heinegg, Paul. "Cumberland County Personal Property Tax List 1782-1816," Free African Americans.com, available online. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
- [1783] - Personal Property (or Land) Tax List, 1783; index online at Revolutionary War Service website - free.
- [1787] Schreiner-Yantis, Netti and Florene Speakman Love. The 1787 Census of Virginia: An Accounting of the Name of Every White Male Tithable Over 21 Years, the Number of White Males Between 16 & 21 Years, the Number of Slaves over 16 & Those Under 16 Years, Together with a Listing of Their Horses, Cattle & Carriages, and Also the Names of All Persons to Whom Ordinary Licenses and Physician's Licenses Were Issued. 3 vols. Springfield, Va.: Genealogical Books in Print, 1987. Online at FamilySearch - free; FHL. [The source of this publication is the 1787 personal property tax list. Cumberland County is included in Vol. 1.]
- [1788-1789] Clay, Robert Y. "Some Delinquent Taxpayers 1787-1790," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1976):199-208; Vol. 21, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1977):167-171. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors ($). [These records often identify migrants who left the county and their intended destinations. Cumberland County's 1788 Delinquent List appears on 20:34; 1789 Delinquent List appears on 21:168.]
- [1791, 1800] Indexed images of the 1791 and 1800 Personal Property Tax Lists of Cumberland County, Virginia are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
- [1800] "Cumberland County, Virginia, 1800 Tax List," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1973):197-200; Vol. 17, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1973):249-252. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors($).
- [1804] Morton, W.S. Cumberland County Poll List [1804], excerpted from "Cumberland County Records," William and Mary College Quarterly, 2nd Series, Vol. 22 (1942):61-64. Available at FHL; reprinted in Virginia Tax Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983, which is also available at FHL; digital version at JSTOR ($).
- [1815] Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at FHL. [The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax. Cumberland County is included in Vol. 1.]
Vital Records
Indexes to Cumberland County, Virginia Genealogy births, marriages, and deaths are available online. These collections are incomplete, but are easy to search. Most records can also be ordered electronically online as well. Courtesy: FamilySearch - free. See also How to order Virginia Vital Records
- 1912-1913 - Virginia, Birth Certificates, 1912-1913 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1660-1800 - Virginia Marriages 1660-1800 (Ancestry) ($).
- 1660-1959 - Virginia, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
- 1740-1850 - Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (Ancestry) ($).
- 1749-1791 - Cumberland Marriages (VAGenWeb)
- 1749-1840 - Elliott, Katherine B.. Marriage Records, 1749-1840, Cumberland County, Virginia. South Hill, Va., 1969.
- 1936-1988 - Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1918-1988 - Virginia, Divorce Records, 1918-1988 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1912-1987 - Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987 at FamilySearch — index and images
Vital Record Substitutes
The Virginia Historical Society's Marriage and Obituary Index, 1736-1820 (newspaper abstracts) is available for free online. Images of the original index cards are browseable, arranged alphabetically by surname.
|For birth, marriage, and death record substitutes, see Bible Records, Cemeteries, Church Records, Newspapers, and Probate Records.
Cumberland County Virginia Genealogy Societies and Libraries
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.
Cumberland County Virginia Genealogy Websites
- Cumberland Co., VAGenWeb. Part of the USGenWeb Project. Maps, name indexes, history.
- Cumberland County, VA History, Records, Facts and Genealogy (Familytree101)
- FamilySearch Catalog
- Cyndi's List
Cumberland County Virginia Genealogy References
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_County,_Virginia
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Cumberland County, Virginia. Page 712 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861). Digital versions at Internet Archive: Vol. I and Vol. II.
- ↑ Jay Worrall, The Friendly Virginians: America's First Quakers (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Publishing Company, 1994), 537-539. FHL Book 975.5 K2wj.
- ↑ "Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index Availability," Library of Virginia (accessed 26 January 2010).
- ↑ Kenneth Scott, British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812 (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979), 320-333. FHL Book 973 W4s; digital version at Ancestry ($).
- ↑ J.T. McAllister, Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War: McAllister's Data (Hot Springs, Va.: McAllister Pub. Co., 1913), 29-30. Digitized by Internet Archive.
- ↑ Stuart Lee Butler, A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812 (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Pub. Co., 1988), 73. FHL Book 975.5 M2bs.
- ↑ Thomas P. Nanzig, 3rd Virginia Cavalry (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, c1989). FHL Book 975.5 M2vr v. 61.
- ↑ James I. Robertson, 18th Virginia Infantry (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1984). FHL Book 975.5 M2vr v. 12.
- ↑ Susan A. Riggs, 21st Virginia Infantry (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, c1991). FHL Book 975.5 M2vr v. 72.
- ↑ Kevin C. Ruffner, 44th Virginia Infantry (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1987). FHL Book 975.5 M2vr v. 39.
- ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 16 August, 2012)
- ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 17 August, 2012)


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Point Park Appoints New Members to Board of Trustees Thursday, July 18, 2013
Point Park University has announced the election of Darrell E. Smalley and Ryan Stana for membership on its board of trustees. The election was confirmed at the July 15 meeting of the board.
Darrell E. Smalley is a principal of Ernst & Young LLP with 19 years of public accounting experience. He was admitted to the partnership in July 2010. He serves clients in northeast Ohio, upstate N.Y. and Philadelphia, Pa. and is the Indirect Tax Market Leader for the Pittsburgh, Pa. and Charleston, W.Va. regions. Smalley's clients operate in multiple industries including manufacturing, consumer products, construction, retail, health care and distribution.
Smalley serves on the boards of the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania, the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, NEED and The Poise Foundation. He also serves as the chairman of the board of trustees at Rodman Street Missionary Baptist Church.
Smalley has a bachelor of science in business administration from LaSalle University and is a certified member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation (CMI).
Ryan Stana, named one of the top 50 entrepreneurs in New York City in 2004, is the founder and CEO of RWS and Associates. Stana is responsible for guiding the RWS creative staff and developing first-class events and entertainment for his clients. Celebrating 10 years of business in 2013, RWS is regarded as one the nation's premier production companies.
Stana produces, writes and directs award-winning shows and television events, which have earned numerous accolades including a 2009 EMMY® Award and IAAPA BRASS RING awards and nominations. His productions have been attended by U.S. presidents and have featured celebrities ranging from Vera Wang, Bob Newhart, Pat Benatar and Queen Latifah to the stars of Sesame Street and NBC's The Voice. Stana's continued commitment to the amusement industry allows him to be an active International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) entertainment committee member and has led RWS to be the country's largest provider of branded stage shows ranging from the children's property Thomas the Tank Engine to CBS Television's top-rated The Amazing Race.
As an educator, Stana has been on faculty at New Jersey City University, Dance America and as a master class instructor for numerous international model and talent conventions. Stana currently serves on the board of directors of the Broadway Dreams Foundation - an organization that offers training to anyone who aspires to a career in musical theater regardless of their ability to pay.
Stana holds a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music. He also earned a bachelor of fine arts in theatre arts from Point Park.


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Neosho residents should see work on a stoplight at Kodiak Road and Highway 60 starting in the spring.
Neosho residents should see work on a stoplight at Kodiak Road and Highway 60 starting in the spring.
The Neosho Transportation Development District's board of directors announced Friday that the Missouri Department of Transportation has issued a notice to proceed on the long-awaited stoplight.
Work is expected to begin in early March, with a June 30 completion date.
"I think it's really good news to the City of Neosho and our citizens that we're getting started on one of the first projects out there that's really near and dear to a lot of people's hearts," said board member Steve Roark. "That's great news for the citizens that travel out there."
Richard Davidson, Neosho mayor, said the installation of the light will benefit Neosho residents.
"While we had hoped that light would be in before the end of the year, seeing that it will now be installed is a good thing for Neosho," Davidson said. "When that light is fully operational it will make Neosho safer for our citizens and our school children."
The board of directors approved a change order for the project on Friday, bringing the total project cost to $824,133.
The project cost was increased by $39,715.48 due to a delay from the original project start date of September 2012, according to TDD consultant Darrell Gross.
"(MoDOT) had originally set a notice to proceed for September 2012 and due to the litigation and such they put that on hold," Gross said, referring to an August petition filed by the City of Neosho questioning the TDD's validity. "Under MoDOT's contract…there are provisions for liquidated damages, delays, possible material increases and so forth. They have negotiated it out to $39,715.48."
Gross said the Neosho TDD would be responsible for funding that increase.
According to the change order presented to TDD directors, the increase in costs is due to five areas affected by the delay: the subcontractor and supplier cost increases, which come to an additional fee of $5,669.71, increased material costs of $5,994.15, $4,500 in costs associated with working in the spring as opposed to the fall, rescheduling labor at a cost of $4,006.45, and $19,545.17 to arrange supervision for construction.
Gross said MoDOT is expected to let each of the TDD's projects out for bid by June 2013, which includes construction of a north outer road, south outer road and extension of Hale McGinty Drive.
Gross said MoDOT would likely hold a public hearing by the spring of 2013, and the plans would also go before the city for approval before the projects are let out for bid.
"I have Dec. 31, it's doable," Gross said of the projects' completion date. "It's allowing about six months to do construction on the roads, which they would quit doing any kind of work that required paving by probably November."
"This is a big year, this is the year for us," said board chairman Ray Stipp.
In other business, TDD board members:
• Voted to approve a budget for 2013, which includes $7,394,958 in expenses and $118,607 in net operating income.
• Voted to make an amendment to the TDD's bylaws to change a requirement that says the district's budget must be submitted to the City of Neosho for the city's review not less than 90 days prior to the intended day of approval.
Stipp said the provision came from a CID statute requiring that, and it is not required under TDD statute.
"This is kind of a correction to our bylaws," Stipp said.
• Voted to approve a final 2012 budget. Gross said each time a bill was paid the budget was amended to reflect that. Friday's vote approved the budget with each of the changes the board had previously approved.


text: Dairyland Seed Introduces Third-Generation Alfalfa Hybrid July 9, 2013 04:18 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By News Release Email Source: Dairyland Seed The company that brought the first hybrid alfalfa to the industry in 2001 and announced its second generation in 2009, announced this week the launch of the next generation: HybriForce-3400 GEN-3. It will be available from Dairyland Seed beginning this summer. The HybriForce-3400 GEN-3 hybrid alfalfa offers even greater yield performance across all types of cutting management programs, while still providing the increased uniformity and palatability producers have experienced with the first and second generations. According to Tim Clark, forage product manager for Dairyland Seed, HybriForce-3400 GEN-3 is entering the marketplace more extensively tested than any other alfalfa variety in history, and the results confirm HybriForce-3400 out yields the competition. Clark says GEN-3 has been tested in 21 university state trials in seven states, showing a 12.3% yield advantage against competitive alfalfas in head-to-head comparisons. Additionally, GEN-3 has been tested against hundreds of varieties in Dairyland Seed's proprietary testing program. These data show HybriForce-3400 GEN-3 provides a 5% bump in yield over GEN-2, and Dairyland Seed HybriForce alfalfas have won 90% of trials against competitor varieties. Developed with the same patented msSunstra™ hybrid alfalfa technology as HybriForce-400 and -2400, HybriForce-3400 maintains the hybrid yield of those elite lines all the way through to commercialization by controlling pollination. This is in comparison to traditional approaches to alfalfa breeding, which suffer from random pollination and inbreeding with each stage of commercial seed increase. Research has shown that HybriForce-3400 hybrid alfalfa performs well in both wet and dry years, through extreme winter conditions and in multiple cutting regimens. GEN-3 maintains the uniformity, palatability, and outstanding leaf-to-stem ratio dairy producers have come to expect from HybriForce products. "Even when cutting was delayed, HybriForce-3400 showed similar relative feed value and relative forage quality, with higher yields resulting in improved milk per acre compared to other commercial varieties," says Clark. "With its uniformly fine stems, GEN-3 should also pack and store better in silos, resulting in better forage quality at feeding time, more palatability and less feed waste in the bunk." For more information, go to www.dairylandseed.com. Back to news


text: Cavaliers forward/center Tyler Zeller sustained a left cheek contusion with 5:39 remaining in the fourth quarter of Monday night's game in Los Angeles versus the Clippers. He did not return to play and X-rays taken at the Staples Center were negative. He traveled with the team to San Francisco following the game and was re-examined at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, where a CT Scan revealed a non-displaced fracture of his left orbital bone (cheek). Zeller also experienced a concussion as a result of the injury and has been placed in the NBA's concussion protocol process. He will continue to be monitored and evaluated, while a treatment plan is established in consultation with Cavaliers head team physician, Dr. Richard Parker, and Cleveland Clinic Sports Health. No specific timeline for his return to play has been established yet. Zeller is currently listed as Out for the Cavaliers' game tonight against the Warriors.


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I have been working the Andrew Forgey parent problem from several angles. Collecting as much as I can from records generated in his lifetime is one strategy. The only thing I have gleaned from this is the fact that he was born in Tennessee, he consistently stated this in every census. I have located his obituary in the Davenport Iowa Democrat which states he was born in Knox County, Tennessee.
Another strategy has been to trace all 15 of his children in hopes that they may have mentioned the names of Andrew's parents. I have located some county history bios and obits. Only Elias mentions his father's origins:
I've also worked the problem by searching his stated Tennessee birthplace records. By process of elimination I came up with Hugh Forgey and Catherine Fisher as probable parents. I have not found Catherine Fisher in any records generated during her lifetime. I have only found her mentioned in Donald Whyte's A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the USA and Palma Carmen Scheumack's Reynolds family letters with the journal of Robert Bannon Reynolds.
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BASF says it plans to introduce 28 new crop protection products in the next four years, a feat that would double the number of new entries the company has brought to the U.S. market in the last decade.
The products will come from nine new active ingredients BASF intends to launch during the same time period along with significant label extensions and new seed treatments, the director of U.S. crop production products for BASF said.
Speaking at a meeting for consultants and retailers in Grapevine, Texas, Paul Rea said the unusually large number of new products is the result of BASF's decision to commit a substantial amount of resources to the agricultural markets.
"The Ag Products and Nutrition component make up only 9 percent of BASF's annual sales of about $86 billion a year," he said. "But we as a company are investing 35 percent of our research and development funds back into Ag Products and Nutrition.
That means BASF has accounted for 40 percent of the new active ingredients introduced in the agricultural market in the last seven years. All told, the company has launched 29 new products since 2001. Bringing on 28 more between now and 2013 will be an ambitious undertaking, Rea acknowledged.
"That's coming from a huge investment in innovation and research and basic active ingredient discovery for the agricultural markets here in the U.S.," said Rea. "It's a commitment BASF has had for a very long, long time because we know farmers are going to face challenges in the future of feeding an ever-growing population on this planet earth that we call home.
"There's going to be more people that need food in the next 30 to 40 years than we've ever produced for in the past and new solutions, new technologies are going to help farmers reach those ambitious goals we have to feed what will probably be 9 billion people on the face of the planet in the next 30 to 40 years."
BASF's new products include:
• Herbicides — three new active ingredients and 11 new products or extensions.
• Fungicides — three new active ingredients and 11 new products or extensions.
• Insecticides — three new active ingredients and three new products and extensions.
• Seed treatments — seven active ingredients and three new products.
The new insecticides reflect a return to a market where BASF has not had much activity in recent years.
"We only have two insecticides in the marketplace today — that's Regent for in-furrow use for corn insect control and Respect, which can be used on a broad spectrum of crops, including corn, soybeans and specialty crops," said Rick Chamblee, manager of technical services for BASF Crop Protection.
"As we move forward we want to expand that portfolio, and we're doing that in a couple of different ways. We've recently signed an agreement to bring new miticides into the marketplace. We have resistance issues so new miticides are always needed. We also have some very good active ingredients that are registered in Europe, and we want to explore bringing those into the U.S. marketplace to meet grower needs."
He said BASF's scientific discovery group has also discovered some new modes of action that will be reaching the market not in the next few years, but probably in 2016.


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PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, Oct. 30, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.
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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII's 1st Trailer Debuts
Shades at night....should I even ask?
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Framerate's pretty bad in that video, I hope that it fixed before release otherwise it's looking pretty decent.
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And I saw the trailer. But as expected, it is hard to get excited or even care, unless I actually know Lightning as a person. Not the game's fault; it IS the third part of a trilogy. But I really am just waiting for FFXV at this point.
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all in all an okay trailer
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Now where did that city came from...? Anyway the world-exploration seems to be a step up from XIII-2 which is already a good one too. The town also seems bigger..which sadly might be compensated by the quantity of the town.
Also I couldn't see much about the battle system since the trailer isn't clear enough. Based on my experience from the previous games... I don't think the battle system could be judged solely by watching it though. I really need to feel and experience it before commenting it. I watched a XIII battle video before and it looks boring as fuck, then when I played it everything seems fast-paced and quite enjoyable.
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One thing I note from the trailer....I'm getting a bit tired of the music from FFXIII.
It looks fine. I think the battles are going to get boring though with the Lightning focus, but that's the direction they are going here. Going from a three person party that you could switch roles around with, to a two person + 1 monster party, to Lightning. Well hopefully they can keep it interesting.
Like that the exploration looks better in this one so this town should be interesting to run around in. Though I can't believe that they seriously made Lightning say "these are the final 13 days." I mean yeah it is Final Fantasy XIII, but come on guys...
Well let's just hope Lightning is right. Just wrap it up in a solid manner.
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I think it's a pretty bad idea to have Lightning being the sole main character of this game, especially since her personality isn't exactly the most entertaining. It's going to be even worse if there is nobody to counterbalance it. I was fine with her limited role in XIII-2. I'm also afraid the combat is going to be even more boring than before with only a single character. I thought they had changed the system, but it looks to be exactly the same.
I'm confused by the setting. When does this take place? Where does this take place? Who is the villain going to be? Still Caius?
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Meanwhile, with some exceptions, and most egregiously in XIII-2, the characters' troubles and motivations don't feel real or relatable, and at best they merely rise to the cliche "I want to protect X," and no higher. What is it they try to do then? To "be a hero?" To avoid turning to crystal? To save the flow of time? Yes, grand, apocalyptic motivations are appropriate in FF games (stopping Gaia from becoming Terra), but it's usually coupled with deep, meaningful motivations, like the ones I described above, that really give you a sense of the characters' humanity and help you identify with them. Not so much with XIII, and again especially 2. They feel artificial to me, forced and shallow, like their issues and motivations were just there for the story's sake, rather than their own.
I guess she meant "again."
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I really don't like the architecture and design choices for their main city in the trailer. I just think they clash way too much, which unfortunately sways my overall impression negatively.
Lightning's character design is still cool to me, the shades and well.. just about anything she could put on would be cool, hot, or cute to me most likely.
I suppose Lightning's personality will have to open up quite a bit since she looks to be a lone wolf here.
Supposedly this game will work based off time. Certain actions can push time backwards, and "miracles" can push time forward. Time will also effect when things are open to the player and when things are not.
In their presentation they put a lot of emphasis on that, so hopefully we will get a day and night experience that not many games have been able to pull off. In my mind to do this correctly, would be a shit load of work, thats for damn sure.
Overall, I think I'll give it a chance. Hell I will buy it day one. Their presentation for this title makes me think they are working very hard on it and are passionate on what they are trying to accomplish.
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i have pretty mixed feelings about this. certainly this game can't go down in price after a month or two like FFXIII-2, right? RIGHT? oh, who am i kidding. i'll buy it when it hits the $10 mark in a year. maybe they'll toss some DLCs in for free!
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I'll play it. I'm a masochist for the FF franchise, after all.
Frankly, even no-personality Lightning will be a blast of fresh air after I had to play her cutesy sister and the Kingdom Hearts pin-up model in the last game.
I haven't followed the development at all, but are they getting rid of the asinine paradigm system, and increasing the likelihood that we'd actually input specific commands for our characters? Or is it just character? Are we really only playing Lightning? What is this...FF turning into an open world game ala Assassin's Creed, but with individual RPG battles or something? Why do they keep reducing the characters in these FF XIII games? What strange focus testing did SE do that convinced them their FF fans dislike having a bunch of personalities to play with?
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Normal anatomy
The heart is located in the chest cavity, or thorax. It pumps blood from the lungs to the rest of the body.
A heart transplant may be recommended for heart failure caused by:
- coronary artery disease
- cardiomyopathy (thickening of the heart walls)
- heart valve disease with congestive heart failure
- severe congenital heart disease
Heart transplant surgery is not recommended for patients who have:
- kidney, lung, or liver disease
- insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM)
- other life-threatening diseases
Heart transplants are the third most common (corneas and kidneys are the most common) transplant operations in the U.S. (over 1,500 cases per year). A healthy heart is obtained from a donor who has suffered brain death but remains on life-support. The healthy heart is transported in a special solution that preserves the organ. While the patient is deep asleep and pain-free (general anesthesia), an incision is made through the breast bone (sternum). The patients blood is re-routed through tubes to a heart-lung bypass machine to keep the blood oxygen-rich and circulating. The patients diseased heart is removed and the donor heart is stitched in place.
Heart transplant prolongs the life of a patient who otherwise would die. About 80% of heart transplants are alive two years after the operation. The main problem, as with other transplants, is graft rejection. If rejection can be controlled, then survival can be increased up to 10 years or more. Immunosuppressive drugs must be taken indefinitely. Relatively normal activities can resume as soon as the patient feels well enough and after consulting with his or her doctor. However, vigorous physical activities should be avoided.
The major problems are the same all major organ transplants face:
- a shortage of donor hearts
- rejection of the transplanted heart
- cost of the surgery and post-operative care, including immunosuppressive drugs
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May 8, 2010
The Sacred Heart men's and women's track and field teams competed at the 2010 New England Championships on Friday and Saturday at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The Pioneers women finished ninth overall in the 39 team field with 35 points while the men were 25th among 39 teams with 11 points.
Freshman Ashley Beck (Nesconset, NY) , competing in her first New England Championship, finished fifth in the heptathlon totaling 3,327 points over seven events. Beck won the 200 meter dash clocking in at 27.72 seconds and also finished second in the high jump with a height of 4'11.50".
In the long jump, Ashley Matakevich (Stratford, CT) earned the Pioneers best finish of the meet, taking second place with a leap of 18'1.50" to pick-up eight team points. The sophomore also scored in the triple jump with a sixth place finish at 36'7.00".
Sophomore Carol Cress (Butler, PA) scored points in both the shot put and javelin events. Her throw of 41'6.50" earned her a sixth place finish. Cress also scored points in the javelin with a fifth place finish, recording a throw of 123'08".
In the discus, sophomore Christine Middleton (Colchester, CT) posted a fourth place finish, earning the Pioneers five team points. Middleton's throw of 139'1" put her in the top-eight. Sophomore Athalia Smith (New Britain, CT) took fifth in the hammer throw with a toss of 184'09".
On the track, junior Samantha Troy (Lebanon, CT) picked up points in the 10,000 meter run with a seventh place finish in 40:2.80. The Pioneer 4x800 relay team placed seventh overall with a time of 9:20.43.
For the men, Senior Keith Rowe (Taunton, MA) finished second in the decathlon. Rowe totaled 6,294 points over the 10 events. Rowe won the 100 meter dash with a time of 11.27 seconds, won the long jump with a leap of 21'5.50" and took the high jump clearing the bar at 6'2.75". He placed second in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.73 seconds.
Graduate student John Kenworthy (Gloversville, NY) took sixth in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, clocking in at 9:24.32.
All nine Pioneers earned All-New England honors thanks to their top-eight finishes at this year's championship event.


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Gertrud Gruenbaum
Born: March 26, 1917
Vienna, Austria
Born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, Gertrud grew up in Vienna. Trude, as she was affectionately called, attended a public secondary school, where half of her classmates were Jewish. At age 7 she rejected music lessons for classes in dancing and acting. Trude wanted to be like Greta Garbo. She launched an acting career at age 18, assuming the stage name Trude Hermann.
1933-39: Because I was Jewish I couldn't get acting jobs in Austria and nearby Sudetenland. In 1937 my agent found me work in Italy; I stayed there after Germany annexed Austria in March 1938. A friend advised me to cast an absentee ballot for Hitler for "practical reasons." After all, no Nazi would expect a Jew to vote for him. My voting was recorded on my passport, later enabling me to prove German citizenship.
1940-44: When the Germans occupied Italy in September 1943, the Italians refused to hand over the Jews. Since in Germany Gruenbaum wasn't necessarily a Jewish name, the Germans didn't realize I was Jewish. They gave me the choice of "returning" to Germany or serving them in Italy. After I swore by the life of their beloved Fuehrer that I was an Aryan, they hired me as an interpreter. When the Allies neared Rome, I went into hiding because the Germans wanted me to retreat north with them.
Trude was liberated by American troops on June 4, 1944. She immigrated to the United States in 1950.


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Niger make their point
Niger picked up their first ever point in the African Nations Cup when their Group B clash with DR Congo finished goalless in Port Elizabeth.
Gernot Rohr's side lost all three games on their tournament debut last season and went down to Mali in their opener this year, but they more than held their own against DR Congo, who were clear favourites coming into the match. They could have taken all three points but they failed to take advantage of a three on two situation in injury time.
The result leaves DR Congo third and Niger fourth, with qualification now down to the final matches against Mali and Ghana respectively on Monday.
Niger almost took the lead in the fourth minute when Modibo Sidibe pounced on careless defending and found himself unmarked on the left of the area. Robert Kidiaba spread himself but Sidibe's attempt to pass the ball across the goalkeeper and into the bottom left-hand corner resulted in the ball coming back off the post.
Congo responded with Lomano LuaLua mishitting a shot wide when well placed. They came close to going ahead in the 13th minute when Mulota Kabangu's cross found Tresor Mputu as Niger pushed up. He controlled the ball with a mixture of chest and head before unleashing a firm, low shot which Kassaly Daouda did well to tip round the post.
Youssouf Mulumbu spurned a great chance in the 35th minute when LuaLua's blocked shot broke for him unmarked in the area, but he fired wide despite having plenty of time and space. Striker Dieumerci Mbokani thought he had put Congo ahead four minutes before the break when he was clean through but Daouda pulled off a great save.
Maazou's sharp shot was uncertainly parried by Kidiaba after the re-start and the Tunisia-based striker then forced the keeper into a diving save from a header despite being outnumbered by Congo defenders.
The game was evenly balanced but there were few clear-cut openings in the second half. Niger almost scored in the fourth minute of injury time when they found themselves in a three on two situation. Alhassane Dante's 20-yard shot was parried by the keeper, who then intercepted Maazou's lofted cross and the final opening was gone.


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Inclusive Development
Many people are excluded from development because of their gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability or poverty. The effects of such exclusion are staggering, deepening inequality across the world. The richest ten percent of people in the world own 85 percent of all assets, while the poorest 50 percent own only one percent.
Development can be inclusive - and reduce poverty - only if all groups of people contribute to creating opportunities, share the benefits of development and participate in decision-making. Inclusive development follows UNDP's human development approach and integrates the standards and principles of human rights: participation, non-discrimination and accountability.
There are many elements for a nation to consider in pursuing inclusive development. A vital one is how to create productive and gainful employment. This should be paired with effective and efficient social safety nets to protect those who cannot work or who earn too little. To reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), many developing countries will also need to enhance public services by building schools and hospitals, training teachers and doctors, and providing access to water, sanitation and transportation, all of which requires public spending. Well-designed fiscal policies - the way a government collects and spends public resources - can play a major role in stimulating growth and reducing poverty.
UNDP works with developing countries to improve how inclusive development policies and programmes like those mentioned are designed and implemented. It provides policy advice in areas such as employment strategies, job creation and social safety nets. We help develop the capacity of governments to formulate strategies and fiscal policies that stimulate pro-poor growth, reduce poverty and achieve the MDGs. At the same time, UNDP advocates for a stronger role for the state, enhanced public investment and economic governance to ensure...
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Wabash Wrestlers Battle IUby Brent Harris • November 18, 2010 Share:
The Wabash wrestling team took on Division I program Indiana University Thursday night in a dual meet at Chadwick Court. The Little Giants hung tough in several matches despite losing 44-0 to the Hoosiers.
View photos from the matches here.
Freshman Marc Escobedo opened the competition at 125 pounds against Justin Brooks from IU. Escobedo recorded two escapes in the second period to draw within two points of Brooks before eventually losing 8-2.
Sophomore Jake Strausbaugh (left) stayed even with Geno Capezio through two periods at 149 pounds, scoring a takedown on a quick leg-scissors move before heading into the third period. Capezio scored the only points in the final period with a take down, eventually adding a point for riding time in a 5-2 decision.
Sophomore Tyler McCoy (below right) recorded a takedown in the third period of his 165-pound bout against Ross Powell to make the score 6-4. McCoy could not get any more points in the period, losing by the two-point decision.
Dalton Stanley, a freshman from Topeka, Kansas trailed early before matching Nick Avery move for move in their 174-pound bout before the final 8-3 win by Avery. Greg Rhoads was within two points of Eric Cameron at 184 pounds before two takedowns and riding time gave the IU wrestler a 10-5 decision.
Wabash travels to Wisconsin Concordia for the Falcon's Open Invitational
Results - Indiana 44, Wabash 0
125 - Justin Brooks (IU) defeated Marc Escobedo (W) 8-2
133 - Matt Ortega (IU) pinned Bobby Perry (W) at 2:45
141 - Mitchell Ritchey (IU) pinned Garrett Payne (W) at 1:05
149 - Geno Capezio (IU) defeated Jake Strausbaugh (W) 5-2
157 - Ryan Konz (IU) pinned Graham Youngs (W) at 1:41
165 - Ross Powell (IU) defeated Tyler McCoy (W) 6-4
174 - Nick Avery (IU) defeated Dalton Stanley (W) 8-3
184 - Eric Cameron (IU) defeated Greg Rhoads (W) 10-5
197 - Matt Powless (IU) won by technical fall over Dylan McBride (W) 26-11 (fall time 5:00)
285 - Ricardo Alcala (IU) pinned Zach Stone (W) at 2:05


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A little boy of about five years old when the novel begins, Emil is of Swedish descent, and lives with his family in Hanover, Nebraska.
Emil's sister, tall and strong, her appearance does not reveal the tremendous hardships they suffer under. Her hair, reddish-blond curls, is very beautiful.
Carl Linstrum is an older boy, a relatively close neighbor of Alexandra's family. He is artistic, generous and kind, though not very well spoken.
Marie Tovesky
A little bohemian girl about Emil's age, she is the beloved niece of Joe Tovesky and has come from the city with her mother to visit him.
Joe Tovesky
A Bohemian man who lives in the area, he has many sons but no daughters and dotes on his niece Marie.
One of Alexandra and Emil's brothers
One of Emil and Alexandra's brothers.
John Bergson
Father of Alexandra, Emil, Lou and Oscar, John Bergson is very ill and he doesn't know how his family will survive if he dies. The son of a shipbuilder whose mother had died young and whose step-mother had squandered their fortune, John had come west eleven years before and now has little but land to show for it.
An older Norwegian man, Ivar goes barefoot and does his best to protect and care for animals, especially horses, cows and birds. Some people, like Alexandra, think him very wise about nature, but many also think him strange and possibly even dangerous.
Charley Fuller
One of the richest men in the area, Charley Fuller made a lot of money in real estate, and during the period of drought he attempts to buy up as much of the Divide as possible.
Mrs. Bergson
John Bergon's wife, Mrs. Bergson misses her childhood home very much and does her best to replicate it on the frontier. Many of her neighbors think her stuck-up, because she goes to such lengths to live a civilized life in the wilderness.
The youngest of the three Swedish girls who work for Alexandra.
Nelse Jensen
One of the men who work for Alexandra, Nelse may or may not be courting Signa.
Frank Shabatas, Marie's husband.
Emil's best friend since childhood, a very talented pitcher, Amedee marries Angelique.
Amedee's new bride
Mrs. Hiller
A woman whose farm adjoins the Shabatas', her pigs sometimes escape into their fields, because she has only a lame son to help her.
Mrs. Hiller's son
Jan Smirka
A hired boy who worked at the Shabata's for one year. Frank fired him, because he was jealous of Marie's kindness to him, but Marie hoped that Signa and Smirka would be married.
Raoul Marcel
A friend of Emil's, Raoul is a very talented singer.
Father Duchesne
The young priest of the French Church.
Mr. Schwartz
The prison warden, Mr. Schwartz is German and used to be a harness maker.
A prisoner at the penitentiary.
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One of Alexandra's workmen, an Irishman, Flinn functions as Alexandra's foreman, though he has no such title.


text: About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne), You have a cancer. Knowing that his death will be painful and lingering, Books is determined to be shot in the line of duty. In his remaining two months, Books settles scores with old enemies, including gambler Pulford (Hugh O'Brian) and Marshall Thibido (Harry Morgan) and reaches out to new friends, including a feisty widow (Lauren Bacall) and her hero-worshipping son (Ron Howard). Throughout the film, Books' imminent demise is compared with the decline of the West, as represented by the automobiles and streetcars that have begun to blight the main street of Books' hometown.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
This quintessence of must
In the countrysides, the harvests are getting under way, and in the cities, the fall Foires aux Vins are stocking shelves in air-conditioned supermarkets with gleaming bottles of Bordeaux. Special offers are sliding into mailboxes and popping up on computer screens.
It's la rentrée, and, as opposed to the more paschal renewals of spring, this is the golden-leaved time for revisiting wine. Soon, we'll be drinking a glass of carbonic bernache, or seeing just how much a favorite from last fall has changed before bottling. I've been giving in to the irresistible impulse to revisit things (I thought) I loved, just to see how they and my palate have evolved. It's a fun exercise, and also helps tame the overgrown cellar.
(And this will come as a spoiler to no one: I still love those Selosse champagnes.)
Last night, I opened a curio: the darkest rosé in the world.* It is the Domaine de Rapatel's "Ça, c'est du rosé?," purchased last year at the domain, which is situated just outside of Nîmes and whose wines are mostly in the Costières de Nîmes appellation. At the time, the wine had been slightly funky, still working in the bottle, a curious discovery.
Last night, it was angry. It had consolidated itself around a core of something it wasn't quite digesting, a kind of raspy backhand of not-quite-stilled CO2. Still, it had a top layer of fruit that was pleasing. This was utterly atypical fare. And as such, it made me smile as I looked at it, turned the glass, swirled, and thought, I am drinking the darkest rosé in the world. Ha ha!
A fitting close to the summertime months and their rounds of Bandol and Côtes de Provence and even, hell, the uncompromisingly taut and pale Baudry Chinon Rosé. Something dark, something not-quite-right, something transitional.
And soon, a new season.
*Readers may feel free to contradict and shoot me down, for my own edification.
8 comments:
- Joe said...
Joe likes this.
- September 8, 2009 at 5:10 PM
- elodie said...
So do I
- September 8, 2009 at 11:08 PM
- thor iverson said...
The darkest rosé I've ever encountered was from Garretson in Paso Robles. 16.something percent, completely opaque. I've had yours, and the Garretson made it look like a sylvaner.
No, it wasn't good.
- September 9, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- Scott Reiner said...
what about that crap rose/orange wine from scholium?
- September 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM
- Sharon said...
Joe, elodie, So very kind, indeed.
Thor, you've had Rapatel rosé? Knock me over with a feather! How did that come about?
Scott, orange isn't darker than red, now, is it?
- September 9, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- Scott Reiner said...
did you see the color of that wine!?! orange is a state of mind, that was red.
- September 10, 2009 at 6:28 AM
- Sharon said...
Oh, that's right. Must have been those Michael Jackson "Thriller" contact lenses I had on. Or the fact that my notes from the dinner are lost to posterity.
- September 10, 2009 at 9:20 AM
- Arjun said...
Ah, the passing of the seasons...
- September 13, 2009 at 7:18 AM
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In just 10 years the number of children diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, rose by 24 percent, a large new study suggests.
A comprehensive review of medical records for 843,000 children who were covered by the Kaiser Permanente Southern California health plan found that between 2001 and 2010, 5 percent of kids ages 5 to 11 were diagnosed with ADHD, which can cause impulsive behavior and trouble concentrating.
During that time, rates of new ADHD diagnoses also jumped from 2.5 percent in 2001 to 3.1 percent in 2010, or an increase of 24 percent.
Plus: Tips for Parents with ADHD Raising Kids with ADHD
The study, published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that the incidence of ADHD among white children during that time increased the most – from 4.7 percent in 2001 to 5.6 percent in 2010. The incidence rate for African-American children increased in that time frame from 2.6 percent to 4.1 percent, while hispanic children saw their rate increase from 1.7 percent to 2.5 percent.
Children of pacific islander heritage witnessed no change.
Plus: 19 Celebrities with ADHD
"While the reasons for increasing ADHD rates are not well understood, contributing factors may include heightened awareness of ADHD among parents and physicians, which could have led to increased screening and treatment," said study lead author Darios Getahun in a statement.
"This variability may indicate the need for different allocation of resources for ADHD prevention programs, and may point to new risk factors or inequalities in care."


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While I have my doubts about some of the more asinine gun control measures passing at the federal level, here in Colorado things aren't looking so good for gun owners. Among the measures that stand a good chance of passing both houses of the legislature is banning concealed carry permit holders from bringing guns on college campuses. This would reverse a 2008 Colorado Supreme Court decision which stated that the CU Board of Regents could not prohibit permit holders from carrying concealed weapons on campus because college campuses were not exempted according to Colorado's Concealed Carry Act of 2003.
These sentences in this Denver Post article jumped off the page:
"Students and guns are a bad mix," said Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, the sponsor of the bill, adding that college student engage in risky behaviors like heavy drinking and drug use.
"As the research shows, you don't need a gun on a college campus to be safe," Levy said, saying data overwhelmingly shows students are at low risk of violent crime on campus.
I've made this point before that every school campus (which would include college campuses as well as K-12) can expect to have a murder on campus once every 12,000 years. Rep. Levy is quite right that college campuses are low risk in terms of violence. But isn't the entire impetus behind these calls for more gun control in response mostly to these tragic mass shootings in schools, malls, theaters, etc? If these events are so rare, why then do we need laws limiting the number of rounds in a magazine or clip, banning certain cosmetic features, or expanding gun free zones to include college campuses? I thought the point was that law makers need to "do something" to make our schools, malls, theaters, etc. safer ("if it would save one life…").
It seems to me that since we are relatively safe, perhaps the best answer is to do nothing.


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Where's the worst parking in town?
|Any Trader Joe's.
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|De la Guerra Plaza.
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|Funk Zone.
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|On the street downtown for working stiffs.
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|Phfft. I ride my bike. No parking problem.
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|South Coast Deli in Goleta.
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Specifically, the TJs on De La Vina, but the others are kind of bad too.
Num1UofAn (anonymous profile)
September 12, 2013 at 11:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I used to work the State St. Farmer's Market downtown. Like anybody else who works downtown and has to find parking, you have to go several blocks out to find free parking. TJ's is not that bad, in fact the one on De La Vina I can usually get a spot right on the street, right in front of the front door which is very convenient. On occasion during rush hour it can get bad, but I've never had to loop around the lot more than once or twice max.
I don't know of any solutions to the downtown parking issue other than building more parking structures and then lowering the price for longterm parking or create a very inexpensive monthly, quarterly and/or annual pass. Although walking 2 or 3 blocks to work isn't the worst thing in the world either.
loonpt (anonymous profile)
September 12, 2013 at 12:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)
So then one must ask: how is it that the City grants permits without ensuring adequate parking? Answer: anti-automobile bias in the City gov. I.e. "if we make your life miserable enough, you'll quit using your car." Has worked out real well, hasn't it? Isn't anyone else tired of being governed by unelected idealistic bureaucrats?
JohnLocke (anonymous profile)
September 15, 2013 at 9:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)
When I worked downtown @State & Ortega, our company leased two parking lots and provided parking passes for the lot next to Dargan's. Not a small expense. Many patrons of the Pressroom bar would take our parking spaces which resulted in lots of business for TowTime.
EastBeach (anonymous profile)
September 17, 2013 at 9:55 a.m. (Suggest removal)
We all know that as Americans we have the Diving Right that we never ever should have to walk more than 20 seconds from our car to the door of our chosen destination.
It is a walking problem, not a parking problem.
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September 17, 2013 at 4:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)