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Blair Waldorf
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- "Have a little faith, and if that doesn't work, have a lot of mimosas."
- —Blair
Blair Cornelia Bass (née Waldorf, previously Grimaldi) is a main character in the Gossip Girl series of novels and its television adaption, in which she is portrayed by Leighton Meester.
Blair is regarded as the "Queen Bee" of the Upper East Side. Her husband and love of her life is Chuck Bass, and her best friend is Serena Van Der Woodsen. She is also good friends with Nate Archibald and Dan Humphrey.
Appearance and Style
Blair is considered the most glamorous and beautiful person in the Upper East Side. She is the daughter of a successful fashion designer, Eleanor Waldorf, which contributes to her notable fashion sense. In the novel series, she is described as a striking brunette, and never loses her position as Queen Bee. Amidst Season 2 of the TV series, she was voted the most beautiful female lead by readers of Glamour.com.[1] Additionally, her wardrobe continually garnered real-life acclaim during the early seasons.Though naturally beautiful, and much-admired, Blair, being an overachiever, enjoys making an effort to catch eyes, often wearing classic, Audrey Hepburn-inspired designer clothes. At times, she also feels challenged by her friend Serena, the similarly admired former Queen Bee. This sometimes creates a comical paranoia in Blair, leading to questions of perception versus reality. However, it is ultimately Blair who remains Queen Bee of the social scene, both during Serena's absence and after her return, in each version of Gossip Girl.
"There's only one queen bitch in this town and that's me"
-Blair Waldorf
"That girl is fiercely strong. Independent. Outspoken. Beautiful. Capable of anything...and no man or magazine should be able to take that away from her."
-Dan Humphrey
Despite leading a privileged and prominent lifestyle, Blair is generally characterized as a comical overachiever. At times, Blair's ambition can lead her to embrace a haughty and scheming side. Generally speaking, Blair is ruled by her insecurities, despite a confident exterior, usually caused by her feeling inferior to Serena. While she's regarded as being extremely knowledgeable, Blair seldom leaves success to chance, or to her own talents, and usually works to sabotage her competition. Typically, Blair finds rivals in most females, including (and sometimes especially) Serena, her best friend. A result of this insecurity, Blair does not trust easily, and when she does is always tremendously hurt when she feels betrayed. However, despite her manipulative and often ruthless behavior, she is revealed to have a sensitive and loving nature as well.This side is revealed time and time again especially when Blair must come to the defense of someone she cares about. Notably, this protective, warm side is evoked by Serena or Chuck. Blair also seldom gives up on those that she cares about, as evidenced when Chuck was grieving his father's death and she continually came to his aid, even when rebuffed. Romantically speaking, Blair generally finds herself conflicted by her own expected desires and what she truly wants. With the exception of Chuck (and Dan in season 5), Blair almost always pursues relationships with men who offer a status symbol (Nate having been a handsome Archibald, or the royal titles that accompanied Lord Marcus or Prince Louis). Despite her social-climbing agenda within her love-life, Blair seems happiest when she has someone to spar with, and is usually at her best with a romantic partner who challenges her.
Novel Series
In the novel series Gossip Girl Blair Waldorf is the daughter of Harold Waldorf, a rich lawyer and Eleanor Waldorf, a wealthy heiress from an Upper East Side family. Blair's father was caught cheating on Eleanor with another man named Giles, which caused Eleanor to divorce him. Harold soons moves to France with Giles, leaving Eleanor and Blair on the Upper East Side. Blair grew up being best friends with Serena Van der Woodsen and Nate Archibald . Soon Blair's mother meets a guy named Cyrus Rose, a rich architect. Blair can not stand Cyrus and wishes he and his son Aaron Rose would just disappear from their lives. But unfortunately for Blair, Cyrus and Eleanor get married and soon get pregnant with a little girl named Yale (Blair's choice). Blair is dating Nate Archibald in the first book until she finds out Serena slept with him, making her angry at both of them. She soons lets the anger go by book two and the three are all friends again. Later down the line, Blair gets into her dream school, Yale University, and graduates. While in college she briefly dates Chuck Bass but it ends quickly. At the end of the series she and Serena are at odds when they both date Nate until they both decide to let him go and move on with their lives. Blair loves shopping at Barney's, Bendel's, and Bergdorf's. She and her father both love shoes, their favorite designer is Christian Louboutin. She loves Audrey Hepburn and her favorite movies are Breakfast at Tiffany's and Roman Holiday.
TV Series
Season 1
She makes her first appearance in Pilot. She finds out that Serena and Nate had sex behind her back and they never told her, but goes ahead with the Kiss On The Lips party, and begins to alienate Serena. However, the two make up and things seem to be going well for awhile, until she breaks up with Nate in The Handmaiden's Tale and loses her virginity to Chuck that same night. She later gets back with Nate and fakes her virginity for him in Hi, Society. She also grows closer to her mother Eleanor Waldorf, as they accept their new life without Harold Waldorf. Later in the season, she becomes in the middle of a love triangle between Chuck and Nate, and almost moves to France as a result. Serena stops her and she remains in New York. She also begins a power struggle with freshman Jenny Humphrey, and eventually reclaims her seat as queen when Jenny bows out. At the end of the season, she and Chuck try to make a relationship work by planning to go to Europe together and she's rekindled her bond with Serena.
Season 2At the launch of the second season, Blair was described by creators as the queen at the center of the Gossip Girl chess game.A large portion of her story line in Season 2 revolves around her love-hate relationship with Chuck Bass, which was labeled "the heart of GG" by People magazine. While competing with Serena, Blair forms an unexpected friendship with Jenny, who states that they each work for everything they achieve, while Serena often glides through life. During their interviews at Yale University, Blair and Serena apologize for their ill feelings and resume their friendship. In the episode "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?", Chuck is devastated by news of his father's death, prompting Blair to offer her support while telling Chuck that she loves him. He initially shuns her advances, but later turns to her for comfort.However, the two stop seeing each other due to Chuck's uncle, Jack Bass, convincing him he has an inability to commit to a relationship. After being rejected by Yale, Blair finds unexpected encouragement from Nate. After being recommended by her step-father Cyrus, she applies to New York University, and is accepted. When Georgina finds out that Blair is attending the same college as her in the following year, their competitive relationship renewed.
As the season ends, Blair crowns Jenny the new queen of Constance Billard School. In the season finale, it is discovered that Blair slept with Chuck's uncle Jack and that Chuck had slept with Vanessa Abrams. Chuck then departs for Europe. He later returns to New York and reconciles with Blair while declaring his love for her, and the two finally begin a committed relationship.
Season 3In the third season, Blair joins Vanessa, Georgina, and Jenny's brother Dan at NYU. Much of her story line concerns her inability to attain her previous status at her new school. She finds emotional support from her mother, as well as Chuck. However, she and Chuck separate once again when Blair feels that he manipulated her while competing with his uncle.
She later transfers to Columbia University, and learns that an emotionally reformed Chuck was responsible for her enrollment. They later team up as part of a role-playing scheme to help Serena's mother and Chuck's adopted mother, Lily. In the season finale, Chuck attempts to propose to Blair, but is interrupted by Dan, who reveals that Chuck had slept with Jenny. Two weeks later, Blair and Serena depart for Paris intending to spend the summer together.
Season 4In Season 4, Blair and Chuck become competitive once again, but eventually resume their sexual relations before recognizing their love for one another. When the relationship interferes with their business interests, she and Chuck break up once more. Chuck promises he'll wait for her, and both affirm their belief that their love will reunite them in the end.
Blair then teams up with Dan when the two share common goals. They also end up working together at W. magazine, where friction develops between the two.On Valentine's Day, she discovers that Chuck has romantic feelings for Raina Thorpe, the daughter of his business rival. Later, she and Dan spend the evening talking on their cell phones while watching Rosemary's Baby. Blair later quits W. and is shown asleep with Dan in his Brooklyn flat. Later, upon growing curious of their feelings for one another, Blair and Dan share a kiss before the mid-season hiatus.
Blair eventually decides that she wants to be with Chuck, but shuns him once again after he tries to humiliate Dan.She is later courted by a prince from Monaco named Louis. During a private confrontation, a drunken Chuck punches a window after he finds out Prince Louis has proposed to Blair, which cuts Blair's face as it shatters. Afterward, Blair chooses to accept a proposal from Louis. Blair later attempts to warn Chuck about potential trouble in his family. She is then abducted by an enemy of the Basses, Raina's father Russell Thorpe. Chuck later rescues Blair and apologizes for his violent actions. Following a night out together, the two have sex before Chuck advises Blair to return to Louis, believing that she will be happier with him. However, the season ends with the revelation that Blair may be pregnant.
Season 5In the fifth season premiere, Blair continues to plan her wedding, but begins to encounter problems in her relationship with Louis. It is later revealed that she is pregnant. Blair tells Chuck that the child is Louis', and states that part of her wanted Chuck to be the father. Dan becomes Blair's confidante and is shown to be in love with her, though she remains oblivious to his feelings and states that there is nothing more than friendship between them.
Though she insists that she is in love with Louis, Blair begins to seek Chuck out as the season progresses. The two eventually declare their love for each other prior to a car accident. Though both recover, Blair suffers a miscarriage from the crash. At the wedding, Gossip Girl releases a recording of Blair confessing her love for Chuck. Nevertheless, Louis and Blair get married, though Louis informs her that they will have a loveless marriage of convenience. She then receives support from Dan, leading them to share a kiss on Valentine's Day. Amidst these developments, Blair grows conflicted between her feelings for Dan and Chuck. After taking steps to end her marriage, she chooses to begin a romantic relationship with Dan. By the end of the season, however, after a debate about which love is the best—with Dan she feels safe, with Chuck she feels vulnerable—Blair declares that she is still in love with Chuck, and chooses to pursue him.
Season 6In the final season, Blair resumes her romantic relationship with Chuck, while Chuck and his father Bart—who is revealed to be alive in the previous season—become bitter rivals. Blair pursues her career as head of Waldorf Designs, with several mishaps, before staging a successful line. In the penultimate episode, Bart falls to his death while trying to attack Chuck atop a building. Afterward, Blair and Chuck depart together. In the series finale, Blair marries Chuck which results in her not having to testify against him in his father's murder case. Five years later, Blair is shown to be running her mother's successful fashion line and she works with Jenny in a line called "J for Waldorf", she and Chuck are seen to be happily married with a 4 year old son named Henry, suggesting that Chuck got Blair pregnant a few months after they married.
- If you really want something, you don't stop for anyone or anything until you get it.
- I'm not a stop along the way. I'm a destination.
- The most important parties to attend are the ones you're not invited to.
- Destiny is for losers. It's just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen.
- Every voice in my head screamed, "don't," but I didn't listen. I followed my heart because I love you.
- I've tried so hard to be a Serena but I just can't help being a Blair.
- I'm sick of always looking like Darth Vader next to Sunshine Barbie.
- You can't make people love you, but you can make them fear you.
- Fashion is the most powerful art there is. It's movement, design, and architecture all in one. It shows the world who we are and who we'd like to be.
- I lost my true self but I want to be found.
- If you want to be a part of this world, people will talk. Eventually, you need to decide if all this is worth it.
- Feelings never do make sense. They get you all confused. Then they drive you around for hours before they drop you right back where you started.
- Haven't you heard? I'm the crazy bitch around here.
- Once men have tasted caviar; it baffles me how they settle for catfish.
- It takes more than even you to destroy Blair Waldorf.
- Haven't you heard? I'm the crazy bitch around here.
Hobbies / Skills
- Charity/ Fundraising Work - Blair has been shown to be involved in numerous fundraising events because she comes from a wealthy family, and she cares about having a good reputation.Even though she mainly participates in these events / groups to benefit her status, she still makes an effort and succeeds.She is the chair of the community outreach committee.It's revealed that she would like to spend her time helping children's charities.
Trivia / Facts
- She took Art as a subject in school
- She takes a drug called Lexapro which is used to stop depression and anxiety
- She spends most of her summers in Southampton
- When she was 9, she tackled Senator Schumer's daughter for wearing a Harvard sweatshirt at a Yale football game
- She used to be bulimic
Blair is snobbish but can often be a smart and jealous character with a sensitive side that manages to grab the hearts of many when she is featured. Blair is a little bit of everything being innocent and slutty, stupid and smart, ugly and pretty and young and old all at the same time. She is considered to be "the center of the Gossip Girl chess game" and involved in most of the love triangles on the show.
Serena & Blair's Friendship
Although Blair is the queen of Manhattan's social scene she is the character than you often feel sorry for as her best friend Serena often steals the spotlight. The constant power struggle and competition between them serves as their biggest issues that recur throughout the series. Blair often feels like the people in her life that should be on her side, side with Serena (Eleanor, Nate, the girls at Constance). However, best friends since childhood, their bond keeps them together and they manage to work through their issues every time.
Fashion & School
Due to the fact that her mom is a fashion designer she has a range of styles, mainly inspired by her favorite actresses, Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. Blair's looks are always classic and well put together, and very girly. Also, Blair is very focused on her academics and dreams of attending Yale University, although she is ultimately rejected. She eventually attends New York University and Columbia University.
Love Life
Her one true love throughout the TV series is Chuck Bass, the rather rebellious, but handsome best friend of Nate Archibald. As she previously dated Nate, this causes problems, but Nate manages to move on. Chuck and Blair's relationship is a rather bumpy and frustrating one, they both love each other, but refuse to be together as they feel they don't suit. Chuck also struggles to commit to Blair which also makes things difficult for the two of them. They share an unusual love-hate relationship, but as all good love stories should they manage to work things out. Another prominent love interest of Blair's is Prince Louis Grimaldi, whom she eventually marries and gets pregnant with, eventually losing the baby. She originally loved the idea of being a princess, but realizes there are sacrifices she must make. Unusually, she also dates Dan for a small period of time, but as she becomes stuck in another love triangle, she chooses Chuck over him.
Scheming and Plotting
Blair Waldorf is also known as the queen on scheme, along with Chuck Bass as her accomplice. She manages to embarrass and frame most of her friends throughout the series with her clever tricks and unpredictable and dramatic moves. Due to the fact she is sneaky and often gets others to do her dirty work she often comes out on top and usually gets what she wants.
Control Freak
There is a mean streak in her though, in the majority of Season One Jenny Humphrey acts as her slave and she bosses her minions around just as much until they all finally turn against her. As she wins them back she treats them exactly the same again, not learning from her mistakes which is a surprise for Blair. She may always seem that she is on top, but underneath she is insecure about her social status. This anxiety creates flaws in her character causing her to lash out and hurt others.
Most of her more evil actions can be blamed on the many hardships and betrayals she has endured and like most of the characters on Gossip Girl it is many. A few key examples are Serena sleeping with her boyfriend; Nate, her Dad being gay and divorcing her Mom, losing her baby in a car crash, Chuck sleeping with Jenny, her Mom barely being at home, struggling from previous bulimia problems, constantly being second best and the perpetual scrutiny from Gossip Girl. Although Blair seems to have the wrong motives, her evil actions stem from the pressure and stress of her lifestyle and like so many others in her positions she struggles to cope at times.
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Stage 21: Versailles to Paris, 125km
What a finish to the Tour for me. Following on from Costa landing my stage 20 tip at 38/1, today I landed a whole host of bets recommended in my preview. I was a big fan of Quintana before, I'm a huge fan now of the diminutive Colombian! The stage worked out exactly as I had hoped.
The break went with the usual suspects in there chasing the polka dots jersey, in what was a complete waste of time in the end give the 50pts on offer for the winner at the top of Annecy-Semnoz. Riblon and Rolland were there, along with Voigt and a few more, but Movistar controlled things for the first 100km or so and never really let them build up a big enough lead, despite Jens Voigt doing what Jens does best and inflicting enormous amounts of pain on himself and others!
But it all came down to the last climb as expected - Movistar kept the pace high, Sky helped and pretty soon it was just Froome, Rodriguez and Quinana. Contador cracked badly, losing a huge amount of time, and with it 2nd and 3rd place! Kreuziger cracked, as did Porte and Mollema and Fuglsang. In the end, Froome tried an attack, it was easily reeled in by an inspired Rodriguez, who was riding himself on to the podium. Then Quintana attacked and he was away to a famous victory.
So we landed a stack of winning bets today -
Quintana for the stage win - 11/4
Quintana to win KOM jersey - 11/10
Quintana to finish second to Froome on GC - 10/11
Rodriquez to place on stage - 9/10
Rodriguez to finish Top 3 in GC - 8/5
Contador - Layed to finish in Top 3 on GC - 4/7
Contador - Layed to finish in Top 3 on stage - 9/4
A pretty good return on the day's work you could say!
So on to tomorrow and the final stage in Paris - this year it is Paris and the Champs Élysées with a twist. Not only is it a Nocturne race, ending at 9.30pm local time, for the first time ever, but also, instead of turning at the Arc de Triomph like they have always done they are instead racing around the Place de Etoile.
Not that it is going to make one jot of difference to the outcome, it is going to end in a mass bunch sprint down the Champs. BUT - the big question this year is will Cav be dethroned as the king of the Champs Élysées for the first time in five years?!
Cav of course is brilliant on this stretch of road. 4 times in a row he has destroyed a whole host of sprinting talent. His finishing acceleration out of that final bend is astonishing, especially when seen from that mobile camera that runs alongside them down the final 400m or so. He incredibly has all 8 of his team-mates still in the race, which will be invaluable to lead him in to that final corner. He has had a mixed tour though and has won only two stages to Marcel Kittel's three.
Kittel has been sensational and his finishing kick has outdone Greipel and Cavendish on two stages. He has 7 team-mates left, but crucially, Veelers abandoned just two days ago, a key part of Kittel's lead-out. But I don't think it will really matter too much to him as Kittel is well able to handle himself, as long as he is put in the first 5 or 6 places hitting 300m to go he has a great chance with his sheer speed.
Greipel too has a stage to his name, but lost Sieberg, one of his lead-out men a few days ago, so only have Henderson and Roelandts left for the finish. I think they will have a real battle with OPQS for the final bend and it could get very messy, especially as it will be dark! Sagan of course is also going to be involved but I don't think he has the outright speed to trouble the other three.
So who wins it?!
Well, I am going to go against Cav for the Champs Elysees for the first time in 4 years. I think Kittel will surf the lead-out trains of OPQS and Lotto and be on Cav's wheel when it matters most, with about 100m to go. His finishing kick will take his past Cav on the line. Greipel will hang on for third, Sagan, Kristoff and Benatti will fight out the minor places.
Kittel was biggest price 7/2 with Paddy Power but that has been cut to 3/1, you can still get some 7/2 on Betfair. Cav is 10/11 on Betfair and that might be worth a lay too. Not much value to be had in backing them to finish in the top 3 but if pressed, the best value would be Greipel at 1/2.
Marcel Kittel to beat Greipel in a match bet at 4/6 with Bet365 appeals, as does Kristoff to beat Goss at 4/7 with Paddy Power.
Whatever happens, it is sure to be a spectacular finish to a great Tour in Paris. A Tour that has gotten even better in the last two days, here's to a hat-trick of stage winners for us!


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Mommy Banger J.Lo Flossin' That Bawwwdy On The Beach In Brazil
Jennifer Lopez Wears White Bikini On Beach With Kids And Boyfriend In Brazil
J.Lo was spotted having a fun day at the beach with her boo thang Casper Smart and twins Max and Emme.
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WASHINGTON— Herman Cain's wife says the claims of sex harassment against the GOP presidential candidate don't ring true because he "totally respects women."
Gloria Cain told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren: "I'm thinking he would have to have a split personality to do the things that were said."
In an interview to be aired Monday during the cable show On the Record, Gloria Cain said she can't believe the claims he harassed women when he led the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.
"You hear the graphic allegations and we know that would have been something that's totally disrespectful of her as a woman," she said. "And I know the type of person he is. He totally respects women."
Excerpts of the interview were released Sunday.
At least four women have now accused Herman Cain of sexually harassing them when he led the National Restaurant Association. He has denied wrongdoing and has been trying to move forward in his presidential campaign.
Cain's wife of 43 years is often described as "gentle" and "the nicest woman you'll ever meet."
The two were married in 1968, have two adult children — a daughter, Melanie, and a son, Vincent — and grandchildren.


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jwmovies on December 8, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Approx. address for this drive-in was 3303 Hopkins Avenue. The northern half of Carrie St. is located where the entrance stood.
NYozoner on February 2, 2011 at 5:29 am
U.S. 17 & Carrie St, Brunswick, GA 31520
The above address will map accurately to the location of the drive-in, which was on the west side of US 17.
Here is a 1951 aerial photo of the drive-in, courtesy of Earth Explorer and USGS.


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I really am shocked at this, not because they are harassing him, not because they want to imprison him. I'm shocked because Barrett Brown is facing decades in prison for copying a hyper-link. Link Barrett accused of sharing was also posted on Cryptome + several blogs. Will these websites be indicted for transferring link too? UK journalist Ryan Gallagher asked on Twitter over the weekend Full text at link.
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The Federation of European Motorcyclists' Associations (FEMA), an organization comprised of 24 national riders' rights organizations from 19 European countries, has elected Gerard Livett as its new president.
A former member of the National Committee of the Motorcycle Action Group in the UK and Greater London Representative, Livett was unanimously elected by FEMA's members at the group's annual general meeting in Brussels. He is FEMA's seventh president and replaces Hans Petter Strifeldt of Norway.
FEMA was born on January 1, 1998, when the Federation of European Motorcyclists (FEM) and the European Motorcyclists Association (EMA) merged.
FEMA is the only European riders' rights organization with a permanent presence in Brussels, concentrating its efforts on motorcycle and rider-related matters. Together with the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA), the Motorcycle Riders' Foundation (MRF) and the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), FEMA is part of an International delegation with the objective of ensuring an efficient representation of motorcyclists at the United Nations where worldwide standards for powered two-wheelers and road safety measures are developed.
In 2008, the delegation managed to 1) persuade the European Commission to include motorcycles in transport policy and infrastructure deployment, 2) include motorcyclists in road safety audits, 3) garner a vote at the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) towards safer guardrail designs, and 4) integrate motorcyclists' needs and wants in the European debate on Intelligent Transport Systems.
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STOCKTON - Snowflakes failed to fall onto the streets of Stockton as forecasts earlier in the week predicted, but local rains combined with a cold snap made for some nice powder up in the foothills and up the road in Lake Tahoe.
Snow reports at Bear Valley Ski Resort indicated between 10 and 14 inches of snowfall. A post on Bear Valley's website indicated optimism with the new snow that the resort could open as early as next Sunday.
Bear Valley's marketing department did not return a phone call from The Record on Saturday. However, a video posted by resort employee Mattly Trent on Bear Valley's Facebook page showed him standing knee deep in new powder as snow fell around him.
"We got some really awesome light snow. It's in the 5 to 6 percent water content, so we're digging that, man," Trent said on the video.
Skiers who prefer Lake Tahoe could find even more prime conditions. There was as much as 2 feet of new powder in some locations, and as much as 30 inches of snow at the Heavenly Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe, according to the website tahoeskiworld.com, which aggregates snow reports from every resort in the Tahoe area.
Tahoe Ski World's Jeffrey Weidel said there are eight Tahoe resorts open this weekend.
As for Stockton, the National Weather Service forecasts a morning freeze, but otherwise it will be mostly sunny with a high temperature of 44 degrees expected today. The rest of the week is also expected to be clear, with morning frosts but sunny days hitting a predicted high of 59 degrees Friday.
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Madame Butterfly, One of the World's Great Love Stories,Launches the 2012-2013 Season in September 2012
From September 6-16, 2012, Houston Ballet will revive artistic director Stanton Welch's signature work Madame Butterfly on a program with his one-act ballet Clear. Set to Puccini's memorable score, in an arrangement by John Lanchbery, Madame Butterfly chronicles the love story of the beautiful geisha Cio-Cio San who is betrothed to marry the handsome American, Lieutenant Pinkerton. The production unfolds dramatically on Peter Farmer's picturesque sets, which beautifully evoke the mystery and languor of 19th century Japan. Opening the program is Mr. Welch's explosive and sensual work Clear, set to music by Bach.
Premiered by The Australian Ballet in 1995, Madame Butterfly was Mr. Welch's first full-length ballet. The two-act work tells the story of the beautiful geisha Cio-Cio San who renounces her faith and her family to wed Lieutenant Pinkerton, the handsome American naval officer who is betrothed to another. The centerpiece of the work is a ravishing wedding night pas de deux for Pinkerton and Cio-Cio San, which closes the first act.
Since its premiere, Madame Butterfly has become Mr. Welch's international signature piece, having entered the repertoires of Houston Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, Boston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet West, and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre.
"Madame Butterfly is a wonderful and famous love story, along the lines of Romeo and Juliet," says Mr. Welch. "Returning to this ballet, Houston audiences will be able to see the maturity of our dancers as they return to roles and bring new levels of richness to the story. It will also be exciting to watch new casts of young company members who are quickly making a name for themselves in the dance world."
At the ballet's Houston premiere, Marene Gustin of the Houston Press wrote, "Houston Ballet needs more story ballets like this one...the company really danced, flowing through the choreography and shining in the storytelling." (September 26, 2002) Houston Ballet last performed Stanton Welch's Madame Butterfly in 2007.
Mr. Welch's Clear is an abstract work, for seven men and one woman, showcasing Houston Ballet's male dancers and set to music by Bach. Noted fashion designer Michael Kors created the costumes for Clear. Sleek and sexy, Mr. Kors's flesh-toned designs focus the attention on the dancers, emphasizing the emotional impact of Mr. Welch's choreography. Mr. Kors, who lives near the Joffrey Ballet School in Chicago, was inspired by the students he sees every day in their layers, which influenced designs for some of his collections.
When American Ballet Theatre premiered Clear on October 25, 2001 in New York City, Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times enthused:
Seven Men And One Woman Equals Explosion
Clear is already the major hit of American Ballet Theater's season. The choreography is explosive, fiercely danced by seven men with no show of diminished energy by the sole woman in the cast. Yet under the almost aggressive exuberance there is a hint of sadness, resolved finally in the comfort of a lover's embrace....
Above all Clear is a work that uses classical technique but not classical style. That is, it is not a classical ballet. (Think Balanchine or Petipa.) But it explores the academic dance idiom in depth. Mr. Welch knows how to play around with that idiom: Clear has a contemporary look but not the self-consciousness about the ballet vocabulary sometimes seen in Ballet Theater's works by modern-dance choreographers.
This naturalness extends to the way Mr. Welch has matched the ferocity of his fast footwork with the delicate sound of the violin and oboe in Bach....
As a choreographer Mr. Welch, 32, is something of a chameleon. When The Australian Ballet introduced his work to Americans at the Kennedy Center in Washington in 1994, the roots of his British-derived classical training were obvious. But so was his rebellion against tradition. Clear is a variation on that theme; the early promise is being fulfilled." (October 30, 2001)


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Extracting Transparency in the EU
By Ashley Dalton
It's not every day the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 has something to say about new European Union accounting rules.
On Wednesday, the European Parliament approved a law that will require oil, gas, mining and logging companies to report any payments of more than €100,000 they make to governments in each country they operate in. That's payments for such things as production entitlements, taxes, royalties, dividends, bonuses and infrastructure improvements.
And Bono, U2′s bespectacled crooner-in-chief and the co-founder of The One Campaign, a nongovernmental organization fighting poverty and disease in Africa, is giving a toast.
"[This] is a great game changer for activists fighting extreme poverty," Bono said in a statement. "Hats off and glasses raised to the Irish Presidency and the European Parliament."
Bono and The One Campaign— along with other nongovernmental organizations including Oxfam, Global Witness, and Publish What You Pay— have fiercely lobbied for this legislation in Parliament. Their primary goal was to make records of extractive industries' payments to governments available to the public.
"With this information, citizens of mineral-rich countries can ask hard questions of both companies and governments about the deals that they make," said Ronny Patz, a spokesman for Transparency International in Brussels. "The secrecy that surrounds these deals has been fertile ground for the corruption that has too often blighted the development of natural resources."
African countries, where Europe does most of its extractive mining, are among the world's poorest and citizens there often don't see much of the revenues their governments generate from allowing foreign companies to exploit their natural resources.
The U.S. passed legislation to increase transparency in extractive industries with 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank Act. Wednesday's vote gets the EU up to speed with the U.S., covering in total 70% of all extractive industry world-wide, said Arlene McCarthy, a member of the British Labour party and the European Parliament's chief negotiator for the new transparency law.
In fact, demands for companies to report profits, payments to governments and other financials on a country-by-country basis have been gaining traction in the EU. Earlier this year, the Parliament managed to slot requirements along these lines into new capital rules for banks — despite fierce resistance from some member states.
And the EU's Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier said Wednesday he won't stop here. "We must go further now and take measures on more transparency on tax for all large companies and groups," said Mr. Barnier, adding that the commission plans to take new steps in that direction by the end of the year.
Mr. Barnier, along with members of the Parliament, believe country-by-country reporting can shine a light on how large multinational companies like Apple Inc. take advantage of loopholes in different national laws to avoid paying taxes.


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Accounting for Astronomical Figures
My print column this week examines the lifetime cost of NASA's space-shuttle program. This has been a difficult number to produce for some time, as in the early years of the program the NASA budget didn't clearly delineate shuttle spending.
"The NASA budget was not divided by costs or programs," recalls Rad Byerly, co-author of two studies of space-shuttle costs and a research associate at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "We made some guesses. We weren't making just a wild-ass guess, but a scientific wild-ass guess."
Ambiguity in long-term spending figures is not unique to the space program. "There is no single standard for reporting the costs of Department of Defense programs that run for multiple years," said Cindy Williams, a principal research scientist of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Without standards, those reporting a military-program cost have some latitude to choose how to report the numbers. "Someday I'd like to start a business proving the defense budget has gone up, gone down or gone sideways," said Lawrence Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C. "Tell me what you want, and I'll make it happen for you."
Winslow T. Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information and a critic of the military's use of inflation in its spending figures, says, "My best advice is to be careful in reporting whose figures you are stating, what they do and don't cover, and what the problems might be. Most ignore all that and pretend precision and completeness, when they are in reality doing no such thing."


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Health Insurers Ordered to Refund $114.5 Million
By Jon Kamp
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered 11 health-insurance companies, including a WellPoint Inc. unit and Aetna Inc., to refund a total of $114.5 million linked to what the state called "overcharges" on premiums last year.
The biggest refund, of $61.1 million, comes from WellPoint's Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, according to a press release from New York's Department of Financial Services. Excellus, a nonprofit Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, was ordered to refund $21.4 million, the next-largest amount. Aetna is required to refund $11.5 million, the state said.
Due to changes made last year, the state requires insurers to spend 82% of premium revenue on medical care and refund the difference to policyholders if the companies spend under that level. The federal health-care overhaul law also set requirements for spending levels on medical care.
Cuomo, in the release, said the refunds "should serve as a message to companies that we are watching, and we will not tolerate any action that wrongly hurts the finances of the people of New York."
But insurers took issue with the notion they have overcharged. According to the New York Health Plan Association, the state is announcing refunds based on 2010 rates that were filed in 2009, before the state changed requirements. The Department of Financial Services "changed the rules in the middle of the game" and "wrongly characterizes this as overcharging," the association said in an emailed statement.
Aetna spokeswoman Cynthia Michener said the "overwhelming majority" of the insurer's New York business met the state's requirements, and said Aetna's rebates are caused by the state backdating its mid-2010 changes to January last year.
"If the law had not been applied retroactively, we would have had the opportunity to price our business appropriately," Michener said.
For-profit insurers including Aetna and WellPoint have posted strong earnings this year as economic turmoil continued to slow the pace of patients using health-care services. The light traffic in operating rooms and doctors' offices means fewer bills for insurers to cover.
The state's Financial Services Department said refunds in that state are linked to policies covering nearly 574,000 people. Most of the refunds are for policies covering people in the large-group market, where plans cover 51 or more members.


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Neeses Barn – Orangeburg County, South Carolina
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Hi Jean! We're not sure about where the grave is, but a good place to start would be to look at our Orangeburg genealogy resources, where you'll find links to many sites that can probably help you. And hopefully, another SCIWAY visitor will comment with any information or leads they have. Good Luck!
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Trying to find the grave of Mathias M Fender. He was born in 1720 and died in 1796. Most of the family was in Bamberg. Found the grave site of John Jacob Fender. Please help me if you can!


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Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land Chapter 19 Summary
- The Martian Diplomatic Delegation (a.k.a. Jubal, Mike, and the crew) fly to Washington DC. En route, Mike gets his first attempt to grok the immensity of human cities and the ocean, which makes him pretty stinkin' happy.
- Jubal and crew are asked to join Douglas in his office before the meeting, but Jubal sends a letter instead.
- Mike reunites with Dr. Mahmoud, the linguistics expert from the Champion. The two discuss everything that has happened to them, and then Mike introduces him to his new water brothers.
- Jubal thinks Mahmoud looks like a poser; Mahmoud thinks Jubal looks like a professional American, which is worse than a poser in Mahmoud's book. He also doesn't like women being present in a meeting that should be attended only by men. Well, then.
- Mahmoud sets aside his personal differences and becomes a water brother to all of Mike's new water brothers. He's especially impressed with Jill's newly acquired Martian vocabulary and starts reassessing his previous ideas about the ladies.
- Jubal makes life miserable for Douglas's people. He demands half the seating at the meeting table, he requires a flag be made for Mars, and he wants the Mars movement of The Nine Planet Symphony to be played for their side. He threatens to leave if his demands are not met.
- (Oh, and if Jubal's musical selection doesn't seem right to you, check the "Shout-Outs" section.)
- More of Mike's friends from the Champion arrive, and Jubal gives them his newly acquired seating.
- Senator Tom Boone meets Mike and invites him to a Fosterite service. Jubal agrees to go with Mike when the time comes. The senator sits on Mike's side of the table.
- The meeting starts as Douglas enters the room.


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NEW BEDFORD — Jose M. Vieira, 62, died Thursday, March 21, 2013, at St. Luke's Hospital. He was the husband of Graciete (Pimentel) Vieira and son of the late Jose L.B. and Maria Alice (deOliveira) Vieira.
Born in Ribeira Quente, St. Michael, Azores, he resided in New Bedford since the age of 16.
He was employed as a commercial fisherman until his retirement.
His family includes his wife; 1 son, Jason Vieira and his wife, Rosa; 1 daughter, Lisa Amaral and her husband, Mark; 2 sisters, Maria DoCouto and her husband, John and Gloria Couto and her husband, Jose; 5 grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
His Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated in Our Lady Of Mount Carmel Church Monday morning at 10:30. Visiting hours in the funeral home Monday morning 8:00-10:00 prior to the Mass. Interment in Rural Cemetery.
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reverse shaping
I am knitting a cardigan...
Left Front: DEcRow (RS) k2,ssk, knit to end
Inc Row (RS) k2,M1 knit to end
Shape armhole: Bind off 5 stst at beg of next Rs row (RS) Dec 1 st at beg on every Rs row 6 times
Shape neck: (RS) Decx 1 st at neck edge every 4th row 10 times, then every RS row 6 times
Shape Shoulder:
Bind off 7 sts at beg of next 3 RS rows
Right Front
Work as for left front, reversing all shaping.
How do you reverse shaping?
would the increase and decreases be at the end of rows instead of beginning?
Bind off on WS instead of RS?
I am just not sure how to proceed.
Yes, to 'reverse' shaping, all you have to do is put it on the other edge. The L front has you dec/inc at the beginning of the row, so for the R front, do it at the end of the row. You can't BO at the end of a row, so you do that at the beg of a WS row instead. The decs can all be done on RS rows though, just at the end instead of the beg of them.
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Kenneth Egan urges Joe Ward not to be rash after agonising TKO defeat at European Championships
Updated: Tuesday, 04 Jun 2013 12:38 | Comments
Olympic silver medallist Kenneth Egan has urged a "disgusted" Joe Ward not to make any rash decisions after his heartbreaking TKO loss at the European Championships in Belarus.
The Moate Light-heavyweight was leading his Polish opponent in yesterday's 81kg bout but fell and suffered a dislocated kneecap just 20 seconds from the end of the final round.
Egan told RTÉ Sport: "He is disgusted, he's lying up there in the bed with a cast around his leg. I just went in and said the usual stuff, hard luck.
"He's only 19 years of age, he has the World Championships, please God, in October.
"[I told him] not to make any rash decisions, he has any amount of time on his hands, he just needs to rest now, put the feet up, he'll heal quick enough. Six to eight weeks, they reckon, and he'll get back on the horse.
"[But] he's really down on himself, he really fancied himself to go out there and taking that gold medal."
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At least the bromance should hold up from here on in.
Having told the world that "I gave him my heart" before last night's Champions League meet-and-greet between Chelsea and Galatasaray, Jose Mourinho appeared to be sporting a couple of moistened eyeballs when Dider Drogba hugged him and gave him a peck on a cheek seconds before the ball began rolling at Stamford Bridge.
Not sure Ron 'Chopper' Harris would have been caught necking Tommy Docherty back in the day, but this is an age when metrosexual man is encouraged to share his feelings. If only Drogba had expressed himself with such feeling during the match.
Drogba scored 157 goals in 341 outings for Chelsea. If John Terry had departed his team bus dressed as a Chelsea pensioner beforehand, he is unlikely to have been as well received as Didier, who was pictured embracing home supporters, apparently with the healing hands of Peter Poppof rather than Osgood before being handed a silver boot by his former club.
All this adoration reached fever pitch after Drogba went out a Chelsea icon having scored the winning penalty in a shoot-out against Bayern Munich in the 2012 Champions League final. Leave them wanting more, but probably don't bother coming back with a tepid Turkish mob.
For Drogba, the love-in continued throughout the evening. Which tells you enough about where it all went wrong for him, and a dreadful Galatasaray side. The Turkish team had held Chelsea to a 1-1 draw in Istanbul three weeks ago, but produced an anemic performance in losing 2-0 on the night to tumble out 3-1 over two legs to Mourinho's side.
They managed to muster one shot on target. Despite being encouraged by 3,000 or so rabid diehards, some of whom looked like extras from Taken 2, too many players were not scared enough by their followers to find some meaningful form.
Galatasaray's players have a particular set of skills which are very limited. Some them didn't seem to care enough. Including, it must be said, big DD up front for whom the night turned into a lap of honour before his adoring public.
Roberto Mancini's side were an embarrassment here, worse than the Manchester CIty defeat he presided over in the FA Cup final against Wigan 10 months ago. It is just a shame they somehow managed to see off Juventus at the group stage to reach this juncture. Juve would not have been party to such goings on.
What was supposed to be a competitive match between two blue-chip clubs in the last 16 of world football's greatest competition, turned into the unofficial testimonial that Drogba never received having left Chelsea eight years after the 'Special One' signed him from Marseille for £24 million.
In a match devoid of any true competitive edge, it probably served to highlight what Drogba once was and where he is now.
In a similar scenario, one recalls speaking to the then Celtic manager Martin O'Neill a decade ago about the Swedish forward Henrik Larsson's return to Celtic Park with Barcelona.
O'Neill was quick to point out that Larsson would not hesitate to blade Celtic if given the chance. He didn't.
Larsson came off the bench to score Barca's third in a 3-1 win much to the dismay of the home supporters. Drogba never looked in the mood to achieve something similar last night.
If Drogba, 36, had been cutting open Chelsea like the player he was a decade ago, it is doubtful if those home fans would have been so thrilled with his reappearance in West London.
Instead, he managed to balloon a free-kick over the bar in the first half so badly that the ball accidentally flew straight into one of his many tribute banners up in the Gods. Late in the second half he missed a volley that would have been gobbled up when he wore a blue shirt.
Perhaps it all got too much for him, but that in itself is unprofessional. The hugs, plaudits and talk of being part of the Chelsea family would not have come so readily from Mourinho, Terry and Frank Lampard if Drogba had scored the goals that buried his old club.
Drogba seemed to spend the night in splendid isolation. He played up front alone, but that would not have hindered him at one stage against Terry and Gary Cahill.
What last night confirmed is that he is surely unlikely to provide the answer for Chelsea in future years. Certainly not when another veteran Samuel Eto'o, 33, is suddenly producing some stylish performances. His opening goal leaves him as only the 14th player to reach 30 goals in the Champions League.
Mourinho had intimated that he could pick up Drogba in the close season, but surely his time has come and gone.
A player-coach role might be welcomed by the diehards, but Chelsea should be setting their millions towards landing Radamel Falcao or a Diego Costa this summer.
At the end, there were hugs and kisses between Drogba, and all his former companions. Excuse one for reaching for the sick bag, but last night was not the time nor the place for such shenanigans.
The ITV pundit Andy Townsend had to be reminded that Wesley Sneidjer was only 29 and still a key part of the Dutch squad when he commented that he no longer goes past players the way he used to.
There is more than a feeling that Drogba and Sneidjer are in some form of semi-retirement in Turkey. Sneijder should be representing a loftier club than Gala, but the scent of money in his nostrils affected his decision-making when he departed Inter for life on the Bosphorus.
It was all far too chummy as Chelsea meandered into the quarter-finals with Drogba only too willing to accept the bit-part role. Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
Drobga has probably polished his legacy at Chelsea by being party to it all, but what the Champions League as a competition stands for was besmirched by the sickly nature of this love-in.
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Invisa Hotel Club Cala Verde
The Invisa Club Cala Verde hotel complex is located in the bay above Playa Figueral, and is surrounded pine forests. The sandy beach is around 150m away and is accessible via a flight of steps or by passing through the hotel's sister complex of Cala Bianca. A public transport stop is to be found some 200m from the hotel. The town of Santa Eulalia is around 800m away and the centre of San Carlos around 5 km.
This beachside eco-hotel is set over a 3-storey main building and an annex, housing a total of 257 rooms. It has a lobby with 24-hour reception desk, currency exchange counter and eight lifts. The hotel is family-friendly and offers a bar, a playroom, a TV room and a public Internet terminal. Additional facilities include a newspaper stand, a café, a small supermarket and shops. There is also an air-conditioned à la carte restaurant with highchairs for children. Medical assistance and a laundry service are available. Younger guests may let off steam in the playground and participate in the kids' club activities. Those arriving by car may park in the garage.
The tastefully furnished rooms come with an en suite bathroom with a shower, a direct dial telephone and satellite/ cable TV. Other standard features include a kitchenette with a fridge, air-conditioning, a hire safe and a balcony.
The well-maintained grounds overlook the bay and feature two swimming pools, a separate paddling pool, a sun terrace with sun loungers and parasols and a poolside snack bar. Guests may play tennis, table tennis, bocce, beach volleyball and billiards/ snooker. There is also archery and aerobics, and an activity programme is occasionally put on.
Guests may select their breakfast, lunch and dinner from a buffet.
There are no rooms adapted for disabled people.Pets are not accepted.
We've also got great rates at the following hotels in the same area.


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Q&A: Intel's Tech Chief on Mobile, TVs and the Next Big Thing
The number of products that could have Intel inside is increasing, the company says. And that has the chip maker predicting strong growth over the next few years. Case in point: The company recently debuted a chip for television computing as part of Google TV, in a partnership with the Internet giant, Sony and Logitech. Intel has faced questions, though, about its move into chips for mobile devices, a market that is dominated by designs from ARM.
Digits spoke with Justin Rattner, Intel's Chief Technology Officer and the head of its research arm, about what the company is looking at as it develops new chips. His responses are summarized below.
What is Intel doing with mobile and with chips that consume lower levels of power?
We continue to work aggressively on energy efficiency. Mobility is where more and more of the technology is going. So until we solve the battery problem … as long as things are running on these batteries, energy will be important.
But it's not just a matter of processor energy efficiency. On chips in handheld systems, the processor is a pretty well-managed consumer of energy. There's a lot of other stuff on that chip that is not as well managed as the processor. So these things can be turned on and off at the chip level in ways that can improve efficiency. In Moorestown, [Intel's new chip for smart phones based on the Atom processor], we reduced idle power by more than 50 times. In Medfield [the next generation of the chip] we will do more, not just lower standby power but considerably lower active power.
If you run at "near-threshold voltage" — threshold voltage is when the transistor turns on — you get an order of magnitude reduction in power. Today's chips are not designed to work that way, but that is something we are working on. We are building a catalog of near-threshold-voltage "functional blocks" … so the product team can then come along and see that it works. Sometimes our product developers are not ready to take these leaps of faith, so the researchers build it to prove that the ability is there.
In addition, if you actually look at the communications circuits in the phones, they're horribly inefficient. We're working on technology that replaces the analog elements of the [communications hardware] with all digital elements … It's easily twice the efficiency.
What is Intel's strategy with televisions?
[The 4100, the chip being used for Google TV,] is the first indication of Intel moving in a very direct way into consumer electronics, not just a PC. You're going to see a lot of other TV-like products based on the 4100. Google TV is just the first instance of what we see as the next big transition for televisions.
Now we think it's time for television and computing to come together. I prefer that — computing and television — to Web and television, because it's more than looking at the Web on a large screen from 10 feet away. And we're building silicon to support that vision.
How did the push into televisions come about?
The first product of this type was the Viiv platform, which was driven by the thought that people wanted a PC in the living room. Well, it turned out that people didn't want that. They might want a PC in the kitchen and the office and the den, but not in the living room. So the response to that was to take a completely different look. That was when we started to go out and talk to consumers.
[The 4100] represents the first clear example of experience driving architecture. Intel has groups of researchers who work on ethnographic research, observing people. Four or five years ago we moved groups of these researchers into the product-development groups. These people understand television at the level of the human experience of television, how people relate to television.
In the past, [consumer-products makers] would say, "We're not going to need that feature" of the chip. But for the first time, with this research, we were able to say, "That's going to change the user experience." We were able to turn off those chip features and say, "This is what you get without them." It's really a different approach to silicon design than we've had in the past.
The process is going to transform product design at Intel. What kind of experience can you create that makes your product more compelling?
Who are you working with on the push into television?
It's safe to say that if someone is in the business of making TVs, they are talking to us.
What is the next big thing for Intel?
Security. The question is how we take what is fundamentally an open platform in many of these consumer-electronics devices and make it secure. We've got open software with something like Android. We've got app stores and people downloading apps. It's the Wild Wild West.
How do we take an open platform and selectively close it, protect crucial parts of the code from attack and keep secrets even if the software is compromised? It seems like an impossible task. But we think we know how to do it.
As long as someone doesn't go in and start slicing up the silicon with laser beams, this can be protected — your medical records, your high-value content.
But this is what is several years out.


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Sage, Broken Leaf or Rubbed Powder
Sage has a very pungent flavor, requiring only small quantities for good seasoning. Sage is most popularly used in turkey stuffing, although stuffings for goose, chicken and duck also benefit from this seasoning. With our strong German and Slavic populations in the Midwest, many folks still practice the art of sausage making; we sell a lot of sage for this purpose. Sage marries very nicely with pork; it makes a nice salt-free rub for pork roast.
For most of its history sage, like so many of the herbs, was best known for its medicinal virtues. The Druids' belief in the healing powers of sage was so strong that they believed it could bring the dead back to life! A tea made from sage leaves was said to improve both memory and prudence. One custom allowed maidens to foresee their future husbands by gathering a sprig of sage in the garden on Midsummer's Eve exactly at midnight. We found a recurring theme in our research of herbal histories: medicinal uses often dated back to several centuries BCE, and featured the addition of an herb to food in order to counteract disruptive elements of that dish. Sage was thought to counteract the indigestion caused by such rich foods as sausage or fatty poultry; therefore it became a regular ingredient in these recipes. Over many generations, what initially was not so warmly received as a flavor came to be truly enjoyed; the recipes then called for the traditional herb regardless of whether its medicinal properties were proven. NOTE: As with all herbs, sage is light in weight while being high in volume. For example, the 4 oz. size will fill a quart size zip-lock bag while the 8 oz. size will fill the gallon size. Most people only need the jar or the 1 oz. size package.
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Google Versus the EU
The YouTube search history of Europeans is at the center of a major face off between the web's most powerful company and the European Commission. Six European data agencies launched investigations into Google this week in an action coordinated through a Working Party established by the Commission. The action pivots on the data that Google collects from users of its services, data such as location, emails, and search histories.
Data is Google's main asset, and the European governments want to curtail how Google can use it. They are pushing for two changes in particular. First: that users are informed where and for what purpose any data taken will be used. For example, whether information entered in email service Gmail will affect results in Google Search Engine. Second, the European governments want Google to offer users the choice to opt-out of data collection.
The problem started with the merger of Google's 60-plus separate privacy polices in March 2012, which allowed Google to share data collected on one service with all its services. European data agencies say that leaves users unclear as to whether and how data taken on one service will be used in another.
Targeted adverts are how Google makes money on its free services, and data is what Google uses to target the ads. Google made $43.7 billion from targeted advertising last year, out of total revenues of $46 billion.
The changed privacy policy will have contributed to the 20% year-on-year rise in ad revenue that the company saw between 2011 and 2012, says Mark Little, principal analyst at Consulting Group Ovum.
"When Google put its privacy laws together it did it so it could make better consumer profiles. That is what advertisers pay for. There is a race between Google and Facebook to create the richest customer profiles."
And it's not just the advertising. Unconstrained data is intrinsic to Google's vision of the future.
Mr. Little said: "If Google is stopped from collecting personal data it also prevents certain products that Google have created, for example, Google Now. If there's a large group of people, say Europeans, Google can't collect data from then it would mess up products like that."
Google Now, Mr. Little explains, is a hyper-data service that tells you not only that you have an appointment but when you should leave for it based on where you are, where the meeting will be and traffic conditions. It is a cute gadget, but it is also indicative of the direction that the company is going:
"I wouldn't say Google Now itself is central to what Google is trying to do, but what executives like Larry Page [and] Sergey Brin are into is artificial intelligence. They want to take interactive services further so you hardly even have to interact with it. Because it knows so much about you, you will just get the information you need when you need it."
But though the battle lines are drawn, this particular stage of the showdown is unlikely to be serious for Google. Even if the investigations do find Google to be in breach of local laws, the potential fines will be small change to the internet giant.
The maximum fine that any of the six national data protection agencies can levy is is €1.2 million ($1.5 million), from the Italian authority. The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office can issue fines of £500,000 ($758,000). In France, the top fine is €300,000 ($385,000).
But measures that force Google to change its behavior could cause more problems. Any change that requires extra permission or restricting the use of particular sorts of data, would lessen the value that Google gets from its European users. And giving people an opt-out of data could result in a lot of people saying no, said Mr. Little of Ovum. He cited a recent survey by Ovum Consulting that asked 1,000 international web users whether they would opt out of search-engine tracking if there was a simple way to do it — 66 % said yes.
Dr. Orla Lynskey, lecturer in law at the London School of Economics, suspects that the easiest course for Google may be stepping back from its single data policy.
The key issue in data protection, said Ms Lynskey, is knowing what will happen with the data, from this all other rights follow. "You have a right to know what is collected, and why it is collected, that is really important. Obscuring that is the main problem." That is why the single privacy policy has proved to be a flashpoint.
Ms. Lynskey also highlights another aspect of the investigations. "The most interesting aspect of this case is how it is being investigated," she said. Restructuring in Brussels, and European cooperation over data protection could present a more formidable opponent for Google to deal with, with greater powers.
U.S. authorities have also protested Google's Single Privacy Policy, but Europe is at the forefront of challenging it. "In the U.S. there's more of a hard line approach to this — that there's no such thing as a free lunch," said Ms. Lynskey.
Dr Oreste Pollicino, an associate professor in law at the University of Bocconi in Italy, mentions the difficulty for government in getting it right. "It's a balance between the right to do business and the right to privacy, it's difficult for governments. They are split on this."
Clive Holtham, Professor of Information Management at City University said that if something is to be done, it will have to be governments who do it: "it's hard for an individual user to address it, other than by simply not using the service. Which is why I think we'll start to see it being picked up more by governments."
Google's first Director of Privacy, London-based Alma Whitten, retired earlier this week after three years in the job. Her key achievement was bringing in the Single Privacy Policy, something that her successor — San Francisco-based software engineer Mr. You may have to look at again.
Commenting yesterday, a Google spokesperson said: "Our privacy policy respects European law and allows us to create simpler, more effective services. We have engaged fully with the DPAs [Data Protection Authorities] involved throughout this process, and we'll continue to do so going forward."


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So this one is defective. Call your vendor and request a replacement.
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Warriors roll: Warren drills Marietta 70-47 in boys' rivalry game
Prep boys basketball
January 8, 2014
VINCENT — As Warren's junior varsity coach, Mark Duckworth did not lose a game at Warrior Coliseum last year....
Kids need stronger life styles, lifting and a desire to follow the coach, AD and Principal. Parents do not need to be assistant coaches..just meet your responsibilities as parents.
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Sorry Rat... I said 20 b/c that was MTTA keeping the game close.
After MTTA barely beat Belpre it was evident they would struggle in the TVC.
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"They (Marietta) did a good job the first half but I feel like we just wore them down."
Once again, Marietta's athletes are not strong enough to compete with a high caliber team.
Better listen to Duck and get in the weight room. Follow him, him will lead MHS Basketball back to what it was in the late 80's through mid 90's.
In Mark I TRUST!!!
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Not exactly a bold prediction calling Warren by 20. Way to go out on a limb.
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I called that one.
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By TAC Daily Updates on August 5, 2013
Sources indicate a bill to nullify indefinite detention in Ohio is in the works. That's good news! But you don't have to wait for state lawmakers to take action. You can jump start the movement to protect against federal kidnapping in Ohio right now, today, by working right where you live.
Government bodies at the local level can step into the fray. Counties and cities can refuse to assist any federal attempts at indefinite detention in their jurisdictions. These measures will not only provide practical protections for their citizens, they will send a strong message to Columbus.
When you build a network of support from the ground up, it will create a strong mechanism to demand that your state legislature will do the same. One step, and one community at a time, you can nullify indefinite detention.
1. Contact your local legislators – County, City, Town – and urge them to introduce model legislation in support of the Liberty Preservation Act.
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2. Become a local leader. If you're dedicated to stopping federally sanctioned kidnapping, we'll provide you with the tools you need to not only act on your own, but to organize and lead others to help support these efforts.
contact us here and let us know –http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/volunteer
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Gene synthesis companies establish measures to counter bioterrorism
Regensburg – The five largest suppliers of synthetic DNA will establish common measures to prevent misuse of synthetically produced DNA by bioterorrists or criminals (see more). Yesterday, Blue Heron Biotechnology, DNA2.0, GENEART, GenScript and Integrated DNA Technologies, which together represent an 80% share of the synthetic DNA market, announced the establishment of a common screening protocol that will be applied to every single synthetic gene order. "We are proud to announce the formation of the International Gene Synthesis Consortium", said John Mulligan, CSO of Blue Heron Biotechnology.
The IGSC's "Harmonized Screening Protocol" is comprised of the screening of gene sequences against a regulated pathogen database developed by the consortium and one or more of the internationally coordinated sequence reference databanks, such as NCBI/GenBank, EBI/EMBL, or DDBJ. Amino acid sequences of possible translation products for each ordered synthetic gene will also be screened. Purchasers of synthetic genes will also be screened in accordance with national guidelines. Furthermore, the IGSC companies have agreed to keep all screening, customer, and order records for at least eight years. IGSC companies have also reserved the right to refuse to fill any order, and to notify authorities upon identification of potentially problematic orders, and will coordinate efforts with local and national law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Finally, the five companies will comply with all applicable laws and regulations governing the synthesis, possession, transportation, export and import of gene synthesis and related products.
The development of the promising field of synthetic biology could be hampered - especially in Europe - by negative public perception, according to experts. "While 51% of all reports about Synbio in US newspapers are positive, in the EU only 28% are positive," said Dr. Elenore Pauwels from US-based Synbio Project (Washington). According to the US ethicist, most people are concerned that bioterrorists or states could misuse synthetic DNA sequences to make a novel bioweapon from scratch. The growing field provides a variety of biotech applications, such as the construction of microorganisms with specific desirable properties.