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Raleigh, N.C. – There has been grumbling among the president's base lately, but when push comes to shove, few Democrats would actually want to replace Obama on the ticket next year. Iowa would be the first stop for any challenger to his re-nomination, but there, Democratic caucusgoers are pretty satisfied with the job he is doing. 79% approve and only 16% disapprove of his performance in office. But rather than leftists, it is actually the few Democrats who place themselves to the right of center that give him the poorest marks. The 4% who are furthest to the right actually disapprove, 39-57, and the 11% who say they are just somewhat conservative approve only 51-43.
It is no surprise, then, that two-thirds of these voters want Obama headlining the ballot, and that among the rest, almost three times as many (20%) say they would actually prefer a more conservative candidate than a more liberal one (7%). Again, 77-78% of liberals are behind the president, but while 18% of the most liberal favor a candidate to his left, only 5% of the somewhat liberal do.
"All the noise about a primary challenge to Barack Obama from the left is just that- noise," said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. "There is no appetite for someone to seriously contest his nomination for a second term."
It is way early, but Iowa Democrats say Hillary Clinton would be their first choice to be the party nominee once Barack Obama's time in office is over. In an eight-candidate field of possible entrants into the open-seat race and one big-name celebrity, Clinton earns 44% of her party's caucusgoers' support, followed way behind by Vice President Joe Biden's 13%, and everyone else in single digits: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's 7%, former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold's 5%, Oprah Winfrey's 4%, Newark, NJ, Mayor Cory Booker's 3%, and Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer and Virginia Senator Mark Warner at 1% each. Unsurprisingly, 21% are not sure or would prefer someone else.
There is a huge gender gap, as over half (53%) of women give Clinton their support, versus only a third of men.
PPP surveyed 484 usual Iowa Democratic primary voters from April 15th to 17th. The survey's margin of error is +/-4.5%. Other factors, such as refusal to be interviewed and weighting, may introduce additional error that is more difficult to quantify.
Topline results are below. Full results, including crosstabs, can be found here.
Q1 Do you approve or disapprove of President
Barack Obama's job performance?
Approve .......................................................... 79%
Disapprove...................................................... 16%
Not sure .......................................................... 5%
Q2 If the Democratic choices for President next
year were Barack Obama, someone more
liberal than him, or someone more
conservative than him, who would you vote
Barack Obama................................................ 66%
Someone more liberal than him...................... 7%
Someone more conservative than him............ 20%
Not sure .......................................................... 7%
Q3 Given the choices of Joe Biden, Cory Booker,
Hillary Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Russ Feingold,
Brian Schweitzer, Mark Warner, and Oprah
Winfrey who would you most like to see as the
next Democratic candidate for President after
Barack Obama?
Joe Biden........................................................ 13%
Cory Booker.................................................... 3%
Hillary Clinton.................................................. 44%
Andrew Cuomo ............................................... 7%
Russ Feingold................................................. 5%
Brian Schweitzer ............................................. 1%
Mark Warner ................................................... 1%
Oprah Winfrey................................................. 4%
Someone else/Not sure .................................. 21%
Q4 Would you describe yourself as very liberal,
somewhat liberal, moderate, somewhat
conservative, or very conservative?
Very liberal ...................................................... 14%
Somewhat liberal ............................................ 33%
Moderate......................................................... 37%
Somewhat conservative.................................. 11%
Very conservative ........................................... 4%
Q5 If you are a woman, press 1. If a man, press 2.
Woman ........................................................... 58%
Man................................................................. 42%
Q6 If you are 18 to 29 years old, press 1. If 30 to
45, press 2. If 46 to 65, press 3. If you are
older than 65, press 4.
18 to 29........................................................... 12%
30 to 45........................................................... 22%
46 to 65........................................................... 46%
Older than 65.................................................. 20%


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When we develop self-compassion, we develop compassion for others as a result.
Sacramento, CA (PRWEB) May 10, 2013
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"This book is about the journey of Green Piece, a puzzle piece who looks around him and wants to look like other puzzle pieces that he sees," summarizes Mariscal. "In his fall off of the table, he meets new characters, and he learns more about the world around him."
The book follows the experience of Green Piece as he embarks on a fun and educational adventure. The characters he meets along the way – Cecil Celery Stick, Great Thought and Dust Bunny – show Green Piece that everyone fits in somewhere.
"In the era of very public stories of bullying, this story helps to shape children's experience with a moral tone of seeing the value of all 'pieces' of the puzzle," says Mariscal. "When we develop self-compassion, we develop compassion for others as a result."
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The software FEDIS (Finite Elements DISplacements) is a high efficient tool for the mapping process of displacements and temperature boundary conditions from main model to a submodel.
Many complex components, especially cast and forged parts, have a multitude of fillets that represent typical starting points for cracks. In order to produce a comprehensive evaluation of operating strength, exact stress amplitudes are required, as they play a major role in fatigue life. In order to reach these low error limits (e.g. 5%) a very fine FE mesh is required. As the highly loaded zones are mostly not known before the analysis, the fine, general meshing leads to very large FE models and therefore to very long modeling and analysis time generating high simulation costs. It is often impossible to analyze FE models with a mesh fine enough because the performance of today's computers is still insufficient.
FEDIS was developed to standardize this method, improving simulation speed and precision while reducing CAE efforts and CPU time.


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this seems rather interesting, I might put something together for this.
Create your own homeland in The Elven Empire
The Elven Empire - Forum
Dungeons & Dragons 3.5e
Ad Closes: Feb 24 '10
Estimated Members Requested: 5
Updated: Feb 14
I've got six players for now, but if anybody drops out it would be good to have a backup or two. If anybody still wants to take part in this game, write up a short background for me to consider and I'll let you know if you'll be needed.
Game Description:
The campaign will be set in Il'rendar/Rurth (see above).
It will be a mature game with adult themes meaning socio-political conflict and some violence and such.
Please post at least twice a week if not every day. I don't want posts that are TOO LONG as well. Frequency and quality above quantity. If all you have to say is one line, though, do add some descriptive details to help move the story along, share some of your character's quirks and mannerisms, or go off about the way things are in your character's homeland.
"Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up."
-Henry David Thoreau
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|whatever you would call a cadre of druids and wizards holding the community basically hostage via water
|they control trade through the desert, by holding a few of the larger oases under their 'flag' they lead caravans through their lands, my character would be a part of this group, to foster familiarity with the non-desert world
|I'm planning on using the Bhuka race and the desert druid variants from sandstorm if allowed, I'll probably clean it up more tommorow, it's quite late here. sorry


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18 And Want A Baby....Im 18 going on 30 im super mature and everything for my age. Ive beeen dating the same guy for about 2 years now we know everything about each other we went through the whole " i might be pregnant" bit after not using protection... i wasnt but i have to say i really wanted to be. ive always wanted children lots of them as many as i could have naturally. i was kinda bummed and cried after taking the test and it was negative... i didnt let him know i was upset i pretended to be relieved. i really want a baby, i want to feel them kick inside me move around and know im their protector. and that im their mommy ive always wanted to be called that. i feel like i was forced to grow up early and that ive been a full grown adult for 5 years but he doesnt feel like he is quite ready i dont know should i leave him and marry another great guy and have a family with him sounds harsh i know but is it even worth it we dont have the same goals or aspirations at all anymore.... i feel like hes completely detatched and we cant even have sex with out protection and he double checks to make sure i take my birth control pill. and he uses a condom and pulls out even with the condom..... hes super on edge about a baby.... i dont want it to be like that i want a little child so badly... im willing to move on from him.... help me decide what to do please? ?
I am honest man, i am principled, loving caring and I know how to treat a lady for whom they are. I love transparency. I am here because I am looking for a serious relationship that can lead to marriage. I need a woman who is understanding, caring, romantic and loving. She may not be charmingly beautiful, but attitudes and character and being industrious describes a good example of a perfect lady.
I know what you mean completely!! I'm 18 and I just got out of a 3 year relationship where I wanted a child and he didn't. We had a few pregnancy scares and I always got excited to see a positive sign on the test but it never appeared, it was always negative. The separate opinions on children eventually tore us apart. And now I'm with a new guy and we just experienced our first negative test yesterday...This probably won't be the first time either. I'm tired of getting excited for the results and then being disappointed once again in the end, it hurts more and more each time....

End it with this guy and get a new one. Quit wasting your time on a hopeless cause or you will never be happy. Find a guy that wants the same things as you. And when you find him- go for the gold and don't give up!!
While I completely disagree with having a child at your age, if that's really what you want, you have a decision to make... him or a baby. If the guy isn't comfortable with the idea of a baby and he isn't ready, he shouldn't have one. I think it's more mature to recognize that you aren't ready for a kid yet than to dive right into that. Parenthood isn't as nice as it seems from the outside looking in. Are you emotionally, physically, and financially ready to start a family? If the two of you really don't share the same ideals anymore, then end it.


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Elephant @ Castle
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The lodge rooms are warm and the beds comfortable, but that said there was little positive to say about this overnight stay.
The rooms had facilities such as fridge and microwave, suggesting that they are catering for the self catering visitor, but there are no work surfaces, so exactly how this would work is a mystery. The rooms were only 'reasonably' clean, in my opinion. Amazingly though, the toilet seat was soft close, which seemed out of filter with the basic, datedness of the rest of the surroundings. The pub. This was very small and cold, even after the log fire had been lit for a couple of hours. Don't mention the food. You are better off self catering. I can't recommend this place to anyone. It wouldn't be fair!
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Home Policy Priorities ICI Comment Letters
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May 29, 2007
Nancy M. Morris, Secretary
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, NE
Washington, DC 20549-1090
Re: File No. S7-09-07, Model Privacy Form
Dear Ms. Morris:
The Investment Company Institute1 is writing to support the Interagency Proposal for a model short-form privacy notice under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley ("GLB") Act.2 The short-form privacy notice is meant to improve, simplify, and standardize required disclosure. These are all laudable goals that we fully support. We also, in particular, strongly support the extension of a safe harbor to SEC registrants that use the model privacy notice.
We have some reservations, however, about "eliminating" prior guidance on privacy notices. We are concerned that the elimination of the guidance, in combination with extending the safe harbor for use of the model notice, as a practical matter, may adversely affect registrants that use customized privacy notices in lieu of the model notice. These concerns, as well as our specific comments on the proposed short-form notice, are set forth below.
Table of Contents
II. General Comments on the Model Form
III. Delivery of the Model Form
V. Comments on the Form's Contents
B. Page One: What; References to Credit-Related Information
C. Page One: Reasons We Can Share your Personal Information
D. Page Two: Sharing Practices
I. Use of Model Form S-P
If adopted, use of the short-form notice will satisfy the content requirements for privacy notices. This will provide SEC registrants using the notice "safe harbor" comfort that they do not currently have for privacy notices that are based on the sample clauses in Appendix A of Regulation S-P (the "Sample Clauses"). We strongly support the extension of "safe harbor" status to registrants using the model form.
While Model Form S-P would provide a safe harbor, the instructions make clear that use of the model form is voluntary, and the Notice further clarifies that "institutions could continue to use other types of notices that vary from the model form so long as these notices comply with the privacy rule."3 This is an important clarification. By design, a standardized form meant for use by many types of financial institutions limits the ability to tailor its contents to particular circumstances, and some institutions may prefer to continue to use the customized privacy notices that they have developed pursuant to Regulation S-P.
As mentioned above, however, we are concerned that the Commission's proposal to formally eliminate the Sample Clauses as guidance may adversely impact registrants that choose to use custom privacy notices. The Sample Clauses do not have safe harbor status and were adopted by the SEC merely as guidance. Even taking as given the statement in the Notice that "research to date indicates that the language in the Sample Clauses is confusing," there have been no changes to Regulation S-P that would render the Samples Clauses moot or no longer helpful in drafting the required disclosure. Accordingly, the Sample Clauses continue to serve a useful function by providing guidance to registrants who might choose not to use the model form and we recommend they be retained. Should the Commission determine to eliminate the Sample Clauses notwithstanding our objection, we strongly recommend that the Commission clarify the significance of their elimination. Specifically, the Commission should state that notices that are based on the Sample Clauses will not be deemed per se inadequate or inappropriate.
II. General Comments on the Model Form
As noted above, the model form has been proposed for use by a variety of federal financial institutions including, in addition to SEC registrants, thrift institutions, banks, credit unions, commodity firms, and entities regulated by the Federal Trade Commission. Developing a standardized form for use by these varied institutions obviously limits what information specific to a particular type of institution may be included in the form. We are pleased that, notwithstanding this limitation, the Commission has expressly sought comment on two issues of interest to our members. The first is whether the standardized provisions and vocabulary in the proposed form are sufficient to allow SEC-registrants to accurately disclose their information sharing practices. As discussed in more detail below, we believe that the standardized provisions and vocabulary may not be sufficient to communicate effectively with investors and may, consequently, result in greater confusion among investors. Minor edits to the form, however, should alleviate these concerns.
The second issue is whether SEC registrants should be able to omit certain terms from the form that may not apply to their information collection or sharing practices. To ensure that investors only receive meaningful disclosure regarding a financial institution's practices, we strongly recommend that the SEC permit registrants to omit from the form any information that is inapplicable to their practices. Requiring all registrants to include irrelevant information in the name of uniformity may cause the disclosure to be confusing, and possibly misleading, and thus may ultimately undermine one of the principal purposes of having a model form – to better communicate with investors.
Our specific recommendations are discussed in greater detail below.
III. Delivery of the Model Form
A. The Need for Flexibility
As a preliminary matter, we recommend that the Commission clarify in the adopting release that the delivery requirements set forth in §248.9 of Regulation S-P will continue to govern the delivery of the model form. Section 248.9 requires privacy notices to be provided so that each consumer can reasonably be expected to receive actual notice in writing or electronically. Examples of reasonable expectation of actual notice cited in the regulation include hand-delivering or mailing a printed copy or posting the notice electronically and requiring the consumer to acknowledge receipt as a necessary step to obtaining a particular financial product or service.
Consistent with this recommendation, we further recommend that the SEC provide registrants greater flexibility in providing the form to investors than is currently proposed in the instructions to the form. Certain instructions to Model Form S-P that require the form to be produced only on 8.5" x 11" paper. Many mutual funds currently provide their privacy notices to investors by including them in their prospectuses, and many investment advisers include their privacy notices as part of their disclosure pursuant to the brochure rule (Rule 204-3 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940). So long as a registrant reproduces the form in a way that satisfies the font, page layout, page content, format, style, pagination, shading format, logo, and color requirements of the instructions to the form, it should be permitted to deliver the form in a prospectus or an adviser's brochure even though that delivery does not comply with the 8.5" x 11" paper requirement. In support of this recommendation we note that enabling registrants to provide the notice as part of a prospectus or advisory brochure may increase the likelihood that their customers retain the information by decreasing the likelihood that the notice will be inadvertently separated or misplaced.
We also recommend that the Commission clarify that, rather than requiring that each page of the form be produced on separate sheets of paper, registrants may print pages one and two of the form on the front an back of a single sheet of paper (including on the front and back of a prospectus page or an adviser's brochure page). This may substantially reduce implementation costs. One member of the Institute has estimated that producing the model notice on separate sheets of paper will increase their costs between $350,000 and $400,000 annually; another has estimated their increased costs at $291,000. Such costs are likely to deter registrants from using the form.
B. Electronic Delivery
The Notice states that the federal regulators "recognize that institutions may post their privacy notices on their Internet sites, as well as deliver paper or email versions to their customers," and suggests that "institutions that post a PDF version of the proposed model privacy form may obtain a safe harbor." We appreciate this clarification and strongly recommend that, in the final adopting release, the Commission again expressly affirm the right of registrants to deliver the model form electronically. As you know, Regulation S-P provides registrants with the ability to satisfy notice delivery requirements by posting the notice on an electronic site and requiring the consumer to acknowledge receipt of the notice as a necessary step to obtaining a particular financial product or service.4 Many registrants take advantage of this to electronically provide their privacy notices. In light of this and the fact that certain instructions to Model Form S-P presuppose a hard copy notice,5 the Commission should provide further guidance as to how registrants can deliver Model Form S-P electronically can furnish the form and still be eligible for the safe harbor protection.6
The Notice seeks comment on whether federal regulators should develop a web-based design for financial institutions to use on their Internet sites. The Institute supports such an effort. Because disclosure on the Internet is not bound by the four corners of a paper document, it can provide more user-friendly, interactive, and layered disclosure. For example, as applied to Model Form S-P, instead of reading a list of "affiliates" in a pdf version of the form, which complies with the space limitations of the paper form, a link in the web-version of the form could take the user to a complete list of affiliates not limited by size constraints. Similarly, instead of page three of the form providing a web address that can be used to contact the registrant, the web-based form could enable the user to interact directly with the registrant. These functionalities could make the form more robust and interactive than a paper document and we believe that the Commission should capitalize on these benefits. We recommend, therefore, that the Commission develop a web-based version of the model form that is accorded safe-harbor treatment and can be used in lieu of a pdf version. If the Commission pursues this initiative, we would ask it to seek additional public comment on these issues because of the differences between Internet-based and paper-based disclosures.
IV. Joint Notices
The Institute supports the ability of registrants to use the Model Form for purposes of sending out joint notices with their affiliates and other financial institutions that are subject to the privacy provisions of the GLB Act. Notwithstanding our recommendations set forth below that relate to tailoring Model Form S-P to reflect more accurately the information collection and sharing practices of SEC registrants, we support the regulators providing registrants the ability to utilize joint notices that cover a variety of financial institutions that are subject to multiple regulators' jurisdiction. As part of the current initiative, we strongly recommend that the Commission work with its fellow regulators either to establish a single joint form or provide guidance to registrants to enable them to tailor their chosen model form to cover more than one type of financial institution.
We also recommend that the Commission clarify, consistent with Section 248.9(f) of Regulation S-P, that a registrant can provide a Model Form S-P that covers financial institutions other than the registrant's affiliates that are identified in the form so long as the disclosure in the form is accurate with respect to the registrant and the other institutions. This clarification is particularly necessary for mutual funds that may be reliant on non-affiliated financial institutions (e.g., an external transfer agent) to process customers' mutual fund transactions.
V. Comments on the Form's Contents
To enhance the disclosures in Model Form S-P, the Institute recommends a number of specific revisions to the form. A "redlined" example of the form, showing all of our recommendations, is attached at the end of our letter.
A. Page One: FACTS
The instructions governing what must be included in the "FACTS" section of the form specify that either the name of the institution or of the group of affiliated institutions providing the notice must be inserted in this section. For a mutual fund complex, the space limitations of this section may preclude listing each of the institutions or even the group of affiliated institutions covered by a single notice. We therefore recommend that the Commission provide flexibility regarding the name of the entity a registrant lists in this section. For example, the Commission should permit a registrant to insert the brand name used by the registrant in lieu of listing the group of affiliated institutions. To the extent the Commission believes it important for the form to include all the institutions within the brand, this information could be set forth either in a footnote to page one of the model form or in the "affiliate" section on page two of the form.
B. Page One: What; References to Credit-Related Information
As mentioned above, the Institute recommends that the Commission permit registrants to omit irrelevant (and potentially misleading or confusing) information from the form. For most mutual funds, the primary example of this is the form's repeated references to credit-related information such as credit history, credit scores, creditworthiness, and credit bureaus. Most mutual funds do not, and likely never will, need to collect this information, and thus the reference to it on the form would not be meaningful to mutual fund investors. Accordingly, we recommend that the SEC permit registrants that do not collect credit history or credit scores or share information with credit bureaus to delete reference to this information from throughout the model form.7 (The first such reference appears in the "WHAT" section of the form, which lists "credit history, and credit scores" as types of personal information the financial institution may collect.)
We also recommend that the Commission consider adding a bullet in the "WHAT" section of the form to read " bank account information if you sign up for certain account options we offer." This would address those instances in which some investment companies collect bank account information from shareholders who sign up for certain account options (e.g., ACH transfer of dividends or redemption proceeds).
C. Page One: Reasons We Can Share your Personal Information
First Row: We recommend that the disclosure in this portion of the form be supplemented to disclose some of the more widely-used purposes for which information is shared for business purposes. In particular, we recommend that this row read: "For our everyday business purposes – to process your transactions, maintain your account, protect against or prevent fraud or unauthorized transactions, or comply with federal, state, or local laws or other applicable legal requirements. This sharing may be with non-affiliates."
Fifth Row: We recommend that the Commission permit registrants whose affiliates do not obtain creditworthiness information on the registrant's customers be permitted to delete this entire row to avoid misleading recipients of the form.
D. Page Two: Sharing Practices
First Row: We recommend that the right-hand column of this row be revised to more closely track each of the three instances in which an investor will be provided a copy of the institution's privacy notice. In particular, we recommend adding the following underscored language to this section: "We must notify you about our sharing practices when you open an account, when we make a material change to our sharing practices, and each year while you are a customer."
Second Row: Because Regulation S-P does not expressly mention "secured files and buildings," we recommend adding the word "may" in the right-hand column of this row to read, in relevant part, "These measures may include . . ."
Third Row: To avoid recipients of the form being provided misleading or confusing information, we recommend that the SEC permit registrants to delete from the bullets in this box any information (e.g., "deposit money," "pay your bills," "apply for a loan," or "use your credit or debit card") that does not accurately reflect purposes for which the financial institution collects personal information. We also recommend adding the word "may" to the last sentence in this box, in addition to permitting registrants, as appropriate, to delete the reference to credit bureaus. This sentence as revised, in relevant part, would read "We may also collect your personal information . . ."
Fourth Row: The Institute recommends that the Commission permit registrants to delete the first bullet in its entirety if the registrant does not share information about the customer's creditworthiness. We also recommend that the second and third bullets be collapsed into one bullet that reads "affiliates or non-affiliates for marketing purposes." We recommend that an additional bullet consistent with Regulation S-P be added to read: "non affiliates unless the sharing is (1) related to processing and servicing your transactions, (2) for specified purposes authorized by law, or (3) with our service provider(s) for our joint marketing arrangements."
We recommend that the last sentence in this box be deleted. The specific question posed on the form is "Why can't I limit all sharing?" If individual companies choose to permit investors to limit all types of sharing, they should be permitted to say so in the response (e.g., by stating that, "In fact, you may. We voluntarily go beyond Federal and state law and provide you the right to limit all sharing."). If the company does not choose to grant investors that right, the answer to the question posed is appropriately contained in the model form response that refers to Federal law.
E. Page Two: Definitions
Everyday business purposes: We recommend that the Commission permit registrants to delete the second bullet if inapplicable to the registrant's business practices. We also recommend that the last bullet be deleted and replaced with new bullets that likely are more relevant to the sharing practices of SEC registrants. We suggest that these two new bullets read:
- protecting against or preventing fraud or unauthorized transactions
- complying with federal, state, or local laws or other applicable legal requirements including court orders and legal investigations
Affiliates: The instructions to the "Affiliate" section of the form may be confusing in that the first sentence requires the registrant to list the "categories of its affiliates," while the second sentence, which provides an example of the required disclosure, requires the registrant to "list companies." Also, requiring a registrant to list each affiliate or affiliated brand by company might exceed the space limitations of this box. To address these issues, we recommend that the instructions be revised to expressly provide registrants the option of listing either: (1) categories of its affiliates, or (2) a representative sample or such affiliates.8 We additionally recommend that the Commission permit registrants to omit from the list any affiliate with which it does not share information covered by Regulation S-P.
F. Page Three
Contact us: We recommend that the last sentence in the right-hand column of this section be revised to insert immediately before the period at the end of this sentence, "and we will implement your instructions as soon as reasonably practical." This addition, which is consistent with the requirements of § 248.7(e), would alert recipients of the notice as to when the registrant will implement any opt-out instructions received from such recipient.
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The Institute appreciates the opportunity to provide you these comments on proposed Model Form S-P. If you have any questions concerning these comments or would like additional information about our views, please contact Tamara Salmon of the Institute at 202/326-5825 or firstname.lastname@example.com. We again commend you and the other federal regulators for your efforts to enhance and streamline the disclosure provided to customers and consumers under the GLB Act.
Robert Grohowski
Senior Counsel
Securities Regulation – Investment Companies
cc: Andrew J. Donohue, Director
Penelope Saltzman, Branch Chief
Vince Meehan, Senior Counsel, Office of Regulatory Policy
Division of Investment Management
1 The Investment Company Institute is the national association of the U.S. investment company industry. The Investment Company Institute's membership includes 8,826 open-end investment companies (mutual funds), 666 closed-end investment companies, 398 exchange-traded funds, and four sponsors of unit investment trusts. Mutual fund members of ICI have total assets of approximately $10.634 trillion (representing 98 percent of all assets of U.S. mutual funds); these funds serve approximately 93.9 million shareholders in more than 53.8 million households.
2 Interagency Proposal for Model Privacy Form Under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act; Proposed Rule, SEC Release No. 34-55497 ((Mar. 20, 2007), 72 Fed. Reg. 14940 (Mar. 29, 2007) (the "Notice"). The Institute's comments relate to Model Form S-P.
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Ready for the new season, I'm stoked to have been working close with BR Fins on the new carbon textreme fin weighing in at under 150 grams!! Light, stiff, fast , spinny, responsive and a sick graphic, it ticks literally all the boxes!
Month: March 2013
BR Fins, massive gusts and a Granny helping me out my wetsuit
So yesterday we had a little adventure to a spot near Vienna, myself, BR and Chri made the journey to Greifindor (Greifenstein) and I figured I'd warm back into it slowly, my foot wasn't really feeling that stable so doing too much slidy gayness was out of the question… what a shame… Anyway was a good session and happy to have hit the water but I'm most happy about the 4.6 Quad I was using and the BR fin I had a go on for the first time. It really was the perfect shape and size was really easy to use – controllable yet playful, with a sick graphic. Hopefully I will get another test tomorrow before hitting the road for the UK, I'll make sure I report back on the fin again soon. Funniest part was probably coming in before the others and trying to get out of my wetsuit, was one of those ones with the zip across the back, after a lot of struggling I got it far enough that I could get my head out but then realised this didn't help, in the end a granny was out strolling with her dog, obviously hadn't noticed the sideways rain at that point, and she came over and combined with me pulling on the roof rack strap that I had attached to the zipper jobby, I was free, she then said that I should lose some weight so it's not so tight….. ooook!
Images below were all taken by Max 'BR' Brinnich.
Sailloft's Sailloft
So it only took a week or so to get round to it but I recently had the pleasure of heading up to Hamburg for a visit to Sailloft's Sailloft. It's the second time I've been there so nothing new upon arrival apart from the fact that I would be sleeping literally in the Sailloft and I would be there for 48 hours. It was actually really cool as I felt like I was in a real part of windsurfings core. We all know that Germany is the biggest windsurfing nation in the world, and if you didn't you do now, so to be at the HQ of one of the leading brands and to spend 48 hours developing brand new prototypes and really having deep discussions about why things work and what solutions we could come up with without resorting to materials that we really didn't want to go near, was great.
The main aim for my trip was to help develop the Quad range, to see if we can do anything to it to suit the PWA freestyler as much as the weekend warrior (a very hard task seeing as it works so well at the moment). In the end we cut and stuck two prototypes ready for the next stage of testing and have a whole stack of ideas for the coming year. So the R'n'D process will continue for the next 6 months with input from all the international team riders and hopefully then be ready in time to produce a fresh new 2014 sail, for 2014.
To be honest that's about as much as I can say right now but I'm stoked to be a part of a brand that is so pro-active and avoids cutting any corners to make a quick buck. On top of that is the Sailloft Quad+ which won the top spot in the recent German Surf Mag test. Pretty good going especially as they took the top spot for the original version of the Sailloft Quad last year.
Ha Tarifa! To sum it up – Windsurfing, Surfing, SUPing, Windsurfing, Windsurfing, Hospital, CT Scan, X-rays, Windsurfing, Hospital, X-Rays, Horses, Pony Ride, double forward to face, damn f***ing ponch, driving, driving, party, fancy dress, beer, sunsets, sunrise, warm, cold, warm, 40 hours drive, Portugal, Sagres, windsurfing, windsurfing, not necessarily in that order.
So I'm back in Austria now for a few days before heading up to Hamburg to catch up about the new Sailloft sails and discuss the plans for next years range. After that it's UK bound for some time and to hit the road around some of the UK's finest freestyle, wave and freeride locations with all the Patrik/Sailloft demo gear. So if you want to try any of it then get in touch and I'll try to swing by a spot near you.
As for Tarifa, it was a really cool place to go to, I'd had it on my list for years now and it certainly met all expectations, it's kind of a Cape Town in miniature and yet at the same time it has a very English feel to the landscape/water at this time of the year. I'm currently writing a feature with a friend of mine BR (from BR Fins) who travelled with me about heading there and a whole lot more so won't give too much away as it should be a pretty cool one with video, plenty of pics and some text to go along with it. Perhaps a 2 part feature, we shall see.
I imagine most people are interested in me doing the classic hospital trips, well I do certainly have video footage but am working on a personal video about that soon. However, Boards kindly posted a bit of news about it not so long ago, you can see that here (boards.mpora.com/news/another-man-down) and all I can say is that I'm still getting weird feelings from my head and it is over a week later, I was told (yesterday) that it can take up to 2 weeks to for any swelling to go down and sport should be taken easy in that time, good job I hit the water on day 3 then and no wonder I keep hearing random ringing in both my ears still! Any advice on head injuries/concussion welcome, either in the comments section below or message me. Anyway that's not all of it… I also ended up in hospital a second time after crashing a ponch. I wanted to train the ponch as it is how I busted my left foot almost two years ago now. So for most of the trip it was going ok then I figured I should see what I can add on to the end of the move, came in full power, didn't turn off the wind enough and halfway through the move my footstrap came out (completely forgot to tighten it, new board and a couple weeks in, stupid error!). This resulted in the board stopping the move and my body continuing through it. The pain was savage and I was convinced I had broken it, however it turns out that it's not broken but instead I've either torn or very much over stretched all the ligaments that connect the joints in the middle of the foot. Kind of hard to explain but there are quite a few of them there (you have 103 in total in the foot) and they are responsible for any twisting motion across the middle of the foot. I'm walking on it but pretty slowly and now focus hard on physio, to make sure it's ready as soon as possible.


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Chapter 1
The Idea Vacuum
Power expands to fill a vacuum.This holds for ideas no less than for military campaigns, as the George W. Bush administration's national security doctrine has so dramatically underscored.1 Announced in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it ranks as one of the most dramatic sea changes in U.S. national security policy ever. The Bush Doctrine has also turned traditional Republican Party foreign policy inside out and upside down. The congenital skeptics of foreign entanglements, whose leader heaped scorn on "nation building" in his 2000 presidential campaign, were transformed overnight into the world's self-appointed internationalists and policemen. The Bush administration committed itself to exporting American-style freedom and democracy worldwide, to confronting an "Axis of Evil" that was said to reach from to Tehran to Pyongyang,and to waging unilateral preemptive war by coalitions "of the willing" so as to achieve regime change as was undertaken in Iraq in March of 2003.
A good part of the Bush Doctrine's easy ascendancy can be explained by the shock, scale, and sheer drama of the 9/11 attacks that unfolded in excruciating detail on live television on that beautiful September morning, killing more civilians than had the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor sixty years earlier. It created an opening for Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and his influential neoconservative deputy Paul Wolfowitz to rewrite American national security policy almost overnight, without any serious debate on Capitol Hill or any significant opposition from the Democrats.
The Florida election debacle in November of 2000 brought George W. Bush to office with less legitimacy than any president since John Quincy Adams.2 By the time of the 2002 midterm elections, however, his standing was sufficiently enhanced that the Republicans gained seats in both houses of Congress, bucking the usual pattern whereby the party controlling the White House loses seats on Capitol Hill. The Republican congressional majorities grew again in 2004.3 Moreover, President Bush erased the dead heat of his contest with Al Gore by winning a majority of close to three million in the popular vote over Democratic challenger John Kerry. The administration's reduced popularity took its toll on Capitol Hill in the 2006 midterm elections, but the Bush White House remained in firm control of the national security agenda.
By the time of the 2004 presidential election the original rationale for the Iraq war was in tatters. It was obvious to all that the widely touted weapons of mass destruction did not exist. Nor was there any evidence of a reconstituted nuclear program. President Bush had been forced to admit that there was no link between Iraq and the 9/11 attacks. The war itself was going badly, with more than a thousand American combat troops dead, some multiple of that number wounded, and no plausible exit strategy—not to mention actual exit—in sight.Yet a decorated war veteran could not unseat an administration that had abandoned its core national security principles and bungled a reckless war of choice. Kerry played into the administration's hands by turning the spotlight from the start onto the wrong war— the last war—by declaring that he was "reporting for duty" and flaunting his Vietnam past and buddies at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. The result was months of charges and countercharges about whether Kerry had won his medals honorably, whether he had faked throwing them over the White House fence, whether he had called his comrades war criminals in his antiwar congressional testimony in the early 1970s, and whether he had misrepresented other aspects of his war record.
When Kerry did confront Bush over the conduct of the Iraq war, there was no contest of ideas or principles. The charges were over gullibility in believing the claims of Ahmed Chalabi and others that Americans would be greeted with flowers in the streets as liberators, over poor postwar planning, over lack of adequate equipment for the troops and armor for trucks, and over other matters of fundamental competence. Kerry did describe the conflict as "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time," but he was handicapped by having voted to authorize it in the Senate—a vote based, as the Bush campaign never tired of pointing out, on his having seen the same national intelligence estimates (NIE) that they had seen.4 This reduced Kerry to parsing the differences between voting to authorize war and deciding to go to war. Such distinctions are too subtle for electoral politics,where everyone knows that once you are explaining you are losing—if you have not already lost. It was as if Kerry had never noticed how disastrously Michael Dukakis had failed against George Bush's father in 1988, when Dukakis declared that "this election isn't about ideology. It's about competence."5
Or perhaps, as I contend here, the problem was that Kerry focused on tactical attacks on the Bush administration's competence because he lacked his own strategic vision of U.S. national security.The first rule of electoral politics is that you can't beat something with nothing. Particularly when one is confronting an administration that is as explicitly and dramatically ideologically driven as the George W. Bush administration, it is essential to formulate an alternative and demonstrate its superiority and attractiveness.
My goal here is to do just that. I begin with an account of the ideological vacuum created by the 9/11 attacks, which obliterated the possibility of thinking about counterterrorism through the lens of the criminal justice system. In chapter 3, I chronicle how the Bush administration filled this vacuum with the Bush Doctrine and its "war on terror," illustrating how radical a departure this has been not only from traditional Republican and conservative ideas in recent American politics,but also from U.S.national security practices at least since the days of Woodrow Wilson. In chapters 4–6, my attention shifts to defending a credible alternative to the Bush Doctrine.
My argument depends centrally on adapting the doctrine of containment developed by George Kennan, a career foreign service diplomat and then director of the Policy Planning Staff for President Truman, in response to the emerging Soviet threat after World War II. Kennan's argument was laid out in "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," published in Foreign Affairs in 1947, signed by "X," but widely known to have been his work.6 It provided the basis for the Truman administration's early postwar approach to the Soviet Union.Although it was modified in a variety of ways byTruman and his successors,the core ideas structured U.S. national security policy for much of the Cold War. The architects of the Bush Doctrine have declared containment to be obsolete in the post-9/11 era. I show that they are wrong. Refashioning containment in light of the realities of the twenty-first century offers the best bet for securing Americans from violent attack while preserving democracy at home and diffusing it abroad.
Kennan believed two things about the Soviets: that appeasement of their ambitions would be disastrous for America's vital interests, and that a direct assault on the USSR or its client states was unnecessary and would be counterproductive. The dangers of appeasement required no extended defense in the aftermath of World War II. Containment was intended to prevent Soviet expansion without saddling the United States with unsustainable global military obligations. It committed the United States to war only when its vital interests are at stake. Otherwise, the Soviet threat was to be contained by our relying on economic sticks and carrots, fostering competition within the world communist movement, engaging in diplomacy, promoting the health and vitality of the capitalist democracies, and ensuring that our attempts to combat the Soviets would not make us become more like them. As the Soviets became overextended internationally and the dysfunctional features of their economic system played themselves out, patient application of these tools would be sufficient to guarantee America's national security.
The Soviet adversary that concerned Kennan posed different challenges from those faced by the United States in the post-9/11 world, but there are important similarities as well. Kennan's article, initially known as the "Long Telegram," began as a February 1946 State Department cable from Moscow. It was designed to convince his superiors that the USSR's political outlook was so antithetical to ours that the United States had to find a basis for dealing with the Soviets other than argument and persuasion. Sometimes they might go through the motions of talking, but Kennan insisted that they saw the arguments of Western governments as mere ideological rationalizations for a system they utterly rejected as exploitative, decadent, and subversive of the world they sought to create.
The parallels with the architects of 9/11 and their supporters do not end there. Kennan had no doubt that the Soviets had regional, if not global, ambitions, that they were constitutionally hostile to democracy as Americans understood it, and that they expected much of the ideological contest between their system and ours to be played out in the Third World. And just as defenders of containment had to face down critics who sought to equate it with appeasement during the Cold War,so I argue here that today containment offers better and more powerful tools than does the Bush Doctrine for protecting Americans and their democracy.
Moreover, though this was not Kennan's focus, Islamic fundamentalists share in common with the old Soviets the lack of a viable economic model or a success story to which they can point.Where they have come to power, in countries like Afghanistan and Iran, the economic results have been disastrous because authoritarian regimes are not good at running market economies. In Saudi Arabia, a more complex example, success depends entirely on a nonrenewable resource. This makes it doubtful that in the medium term they can pose a serious challenge to democratic capitalism. For these reasons, among others, I make the case here that Kennan's arguments for containment have continuing relevance to our present circumstances.
There are, nonetheless, significant differences between the world the United States and its allies faced during the Cold War and the adversaries we confront today.The most obvious concerns the object of containment. The Soviet Union was a single "it," whereas today we face dangerous threats from a variety of hostile regimes and transnational terrorist groups. In one respect, as I argue, this situation lends itself to containment. It creates tensions among our adversaries' agendas, as well as openings for competition among them. But containing threats to America's survival as a democracy also confronts us with less predictable, more fluid and open-ended challenges than we faced in the Cold War.This reality is compounded by the proliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. The world is less stable than it was for much of the Cold War.
Recognizing this does not give us good reasons to abandon containment, but it does make it more complicated. It also suggests the importance of international instruments for which Kennan had little time.Among these are international law and institutions.The challenges posed by weak states, transnational terrorist groups, and unpredictable alliances all suggest that we should buttress the institutions of international legitimacy—pressing them into the service of fostering democracy, and containing threats to it,as best we can.And,whereas Kennan opposed collective defense arrangements like NATO, we should recognize that they can sometimes be helpful tools of containment—so long as they remain subordinate to our vital interest in securing the American people and their democracy into the future.7 It is ironic, as we will see, that the two areas where the Bush administration's practice has come closest to Kennan's views are the two areas where they stand in most need of modification.
One other parallel with the early Cold War years deserves mention. Since the collapse of the Soviet empire, Kennan and containment have deservedly been accorded great credit for the national security stance that contributed so much to that result without a superpower war. It is worth noting, however, that at the start of the Cold War it was no foregone conclusion that containment would be the dominant strategy. In the 1952 election campaign Dwight Eisenhower attacked containment. His future secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, called for "rollback" of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, and for aggressive confrontation with communism worldwide. That these views did not prevail, even in the Eisenhower administration, is due, in part at least, to the fact that they were vigorously contested by containment's defenders.
This history makes the Democrats' failure to contest the Bush Doctrine in the present climate, and to get behind an alternative like that proposed here, all the more troubling.This subject is taken up in chapter 7.The Democrats' failure can be traced to several sources. One is fear of challenging a president in a time of national crisis. A second, on the left of the Democratic Party, stems from ideological discomfort with the very idea of national security policy. A third is rooted in the changes wrought in the party's ideology by the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) since the 1980s and the resulting tactical political imperatives.Yet unless the DLC outlook is fundamentally rethought, the Democrats are unlikely to find an effective vehicle to challenge the Bush Doctrine in the medium term.Even if they win the White House in 2008,they will likely have been co-opted by much of the Bush administration's self-defeating national security policy.
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This was discussed at the bigtop meetup 6/9/2014 at Redhat. This is related to JIrs: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1222
Idea is to take currently what are hard coded parameters and test cases in the bigtop/bigtop-smoke-tests/build.gradle file and have it read from a parameter file a run/build time.
Parameter file could be either Yaml, JSON, etc. Yaml is most human readable, might not be issue though since seems like there shouldnt be too much data residing in it
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Thanks - this is a great idea. so there will be a json file that is controller for all tests in
BIGTOP-1222 - and gradle will use parameters from it.
Should probably start by deciding on the params/values we want to have dynamically read at runtime. Currently see these as initial candidates in existing file. Possibly some new ones to be added
List of dependencies(Question: where there be variable dependencies based on what tests are run? Or assumption include kitchen sink?):
dependencies{ //needed to avoid groovy not on classpath error. testCompile module('org.codehaus.groovy:groovy:1.8.0') testCompile group:'org.apache.bigtop.itest', name:'itest-common', version:'0.7.0',transitive:'true' testCompile group:'org.apache.hadoop',name:'hadoop-common', version:'2.0.6-alpha',transitive:'true' testCompile group:'org.apache.hadoop',name:'hadoop-hdfs', version:'2.1.0-beta',transitive:'true' }
Tests to be run:
def tests_to_include(){ return [ //"TestHadoopExamples.groovy", //"TestHiveSmokeBulk.groovy", //"TestHiveSmokeBulk.groovy", //"HiveBulkScriptExecutor.groovy", //"TestPigSmoke.groovy", 'TestMahoutExamples.groovy' ] }
NOTE: seems the doExclude and sourceSets will need updating based on the tests that are included
Environment Vars:
def vars = [
"BIGTOP_HOME", // for copying input files / resources
"HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME" // required for mapreduce programs to run
Seems these could probably extended to have some defaults, dynamically read others. Probably would want to extend to read from environment and if not present try to read from "external source", lastly if not found throw exception as do now
Off the top of my head:
Crunch also expects
Now sure why do we need BIGTOP_HOME though?
not sure about BIGTOP_HOME, maybe jay vyas added for test data and future use of the bigpetstore effort
there is this comment in current build.gradle file: // for copying input files / resources
Hi nate: iirc I store BIGTOP_HOME Because in
BIGTOP-1222 I'm pulling in the source directly for some tests - so need to know where the root directory is.


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Use of Computer-based Patient-reported Data to Assess Long Term and Late Effects of Head and Neck Cancer at the Point-of-care
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Patient-reported information on outcomes such as symptom-burden and health-related quality of life (QoL) is regarded as a useful tool to improve quality of care in clinical cancer research. However, integrating patient-reported information in the routine clinical practice is often difficult due to excessive time use and practical barriers. Electronic data acquisitions, where the treating physician has immediately access to the patient-reported data in the subsequent consultation, have been shown to be beneficial in the everyday clinical decision making.
The aim of this study is to develop and test a computer-based patient-reported assessment tool that will assist the clinicians in tracking long term and late effects in head and neck cancer patients and investigate if the tool leads to improved symptom assessment of a range of head and neck cancer specific symptoms, which again may lead to improved symptom control and enhanced quality of life in the patients.
Patients with a diagnosis of head and neck cancer attending the oncology outpatient clinics at Herlev Hospital and physicians and nurses who work at the clinic will be invited to participate. The assessment tool will be developed with inspiration from prior international studies of symptom assessment in head and neck cancer patients and tailored so that it will fit into a Danish context. The tool will be tested in a controlled intervention study. In the intervention group, patients will complete the assessment tool in the patients waiting area prior to every scheduled consultation. The result will then be printed and provided to the treating physician. In the control group, the patients will complete the assessment tool prior to consultations. However, the data will not be provided to the physicians at any time.
To assess the impact of the tool on number of symptoms addressed during consultations and patients' overall quality of life, medical records will be reviewed for before start of intervention and again at 6 and 12 months follow-up. The patients will also complete the EORTC QLQ-C30 and the EORTC QLQ-H&N35 at baseline and at 6 and 12 months follow-up. Furthermore, we will conduct a qualitative evaluation (semi structured interview and participant observations) of attitudes among clinicians and patients regarding the use of tool at the point of care.
|Head and Neck Cancer Patients Late Effects
|Behavioral: WebCan
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|Use of Computer-based Patient-reported Data to Assess Long Term and Late Effects of Head and Neck Cancer at the Point-of-care
- Prevalence of late effects [ Time Frame: baseline, 6 and 12 months follow-up ]
- Quality of life [ Time Frame: baseline, 6 and 12 months follow-up ]Quality of life at baseline and 12 months follow-up
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: WebCan
Provides computerized PRO to the treating physician at the point of care
Behavioral: WebCan
Provide computerized PRO (Patient Reported Outcome) to treating physician at the point of care to assess late effects after head and neck cancer
|No Intervention: Usual care
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Prevalent recurrence free patients with cancers in the tongue, oral cavity, pharynx and larynx attending the oncology clinic at Herlev Hospital, Herlev, Denmark. 9 months to 5 years after end of treatment
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with recurrence of their cancers and patients still in treatment.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01803061
|Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Unit of Suvivorship
|Copenhagen, Denmark, DK-2100
|Herlev Hospital
|Herlev, Denmark, 2730
|Study Director:
|Christoffer Johansen, Professor
|Danish Cancer Society Research Center
|Responsible Party:
|Trille Kjær, Phd student, Danish Cancer Society
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01803061 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 21, 2013
|Last Updated:
|March 5, 2015
Keywords provided by Trille Kjær, Danish Cancer Society:
Head and neck cancer
Quality of life
Late effects
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
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Quartermaster John Smith
b.Abt 1595 Toxeth Parish, Lancashire, England
d.29 Apr 1678 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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m. Abt 1631
m. Abt 1654
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Identity of Wives
Source:Glover, Anna. Glover Memorials and Genealogies : An Account of John Glover of Dorchester, Massachusetts and His Descendants, with a Brief Sketch of, in a footnote on p. 165, suggests this John Smith had three wives: first the Mary Ryder who was listed as his wife in the passenger list of the James, then a second wife named Mary who was mother of "several sons and daughters", and third wife, widow Katherine Pelton. Under this scenario, it is impossible to tell which children go with which wife, the popular dividing line between Mary#2 and Katherine being between Waitstill in 1658 and Deliverance in 1661. Fortunately for our sanity, all of this spousal speculation is probably incorrect!
It should be noted that there are some fairly obvious inconsistencies in the Glover Genealogies which makes it a questionable source to start with. But some or all of this arrangements appears in many sources describing Quartermaster John Smith. A thorough analysis by Anderson[3] refutes most of it.
Note: none of the birth/baptism records give the name of the mother. In 1636, John and Dorothy Smith are named as members of a church, and the name Katherine is known from John's will and various probate documents. Other than this, there is no record of the name of John Smith's wives.
John and first wife are mentioned as immigrating with daughter Mary in 1635, so the existence of the first wife and approximate marriage time is confirmed, if not her name. It is known that John remarried about 1654 because of church records mentioning his recent marriage, and the baptism of another daughter named Mary would be unlikely if it wasn't a different wife.
Since church records clearly name John's wife as Dorothy in 1636, there is no choice but to assume that Richard Mather's mention of Mary in 1635 referred to the daughter. Thus the first wife was Dorothy, not Mary, and there wasn't ever any evidence given to support Ryder as a maiden name.
There is no evidence that the death record found in Boston (i.e., not Dorchester) for "Mary wife of John Smith" on 11 Jan 1658 applies to Quartermaster John. This is the only basis for thinking there was a second wife Mary.
The maiden name of Katherine is not known, and Pelton appears to be based on early assumptions that the younger of the two daughters named Mary that are mentioned in John's will must have been a step-daughter.
The above analysis represents the simplest interpretation of known facts. Many aspects of this presentation raise doubts and make it clear we don't have the whole picture yet. For example, the eldest daughter Mary was born 24 years before the second daughter Mary, with no known children inbetween. The most likely motive for naming two daughters Mary would seem to be having a second wife with that name.


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Trailing 4-2 heading into the final period, the Syracuse Crunch started to play desperate hockey.
The Crunch, who dropped eight out of the nine contests coming into the game, needed a rally. Syracuse outshot Springfield 19-2 in the third period and scored three times to force overtime.
But a shot tipped in front of goalie Allen York spoiled the Syracuse comeback, as the Falcons topped the Crunch, 6-5, at the Onondaga County War Memorial Saturday.


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By Jessica King
It's been said the family that prays together, stays together. For the Borchardt clan, a more accurate saying would be the family that laughs together, stays in business.
Patriarch Ron Borchardt and his wife, Rosemary, opened Ron's Tire & Brake on the western edge of Main Street on Valentine's Day 1977.
On April 14, they will celebrate their 35th year in business with an "Open Shop Party."
In 1977, the Borchardts had just one employee besides themselves, Dale Wade. He and Ron did it all — they made the sales, they did the work, and they collected the payment.
Today, two of the couple's five daughters — Barrie and Bonnie — help manage the shop.
"I love working here," said Barrie.
Across town, daughter Brooke manages Danny's Truck and Auto, which the family purchased in 1992.
"Did I imagine it would be what it is today? I guess it was a goal in the end but it took off a little quicker than I thought," said Ron.
The family openly jokes about how ornery Ron and his mini-me Bonnie are, and how laughter has played a role in their success.
"How do you think you reach 35 years," joked Rosemary. "You have to laugh or you kill the other person."
Prior to opening the business, Ron had plenty of experience in the tire industry, having worked for both Goodyear Tire Co. in National City and BFGoodrich in Lemon Grove.
At the time he decided to go into business for himself, his father told Ron he was nuts to give up good steady work. But Ron was 37, had young children and a wife and thought to himself how much longer could he be the one laying under a vehicle.
In the early days, Rosemary remembers sitting around the shop and getting excited if a car slowed down. Unfortunately, back then they often just stopped in for directions, she laughed.
She also fondly remembers her twin girls, Barrie and Brooke, sitting on the office floor playing with junk mail.
"If I have to do it today with all the red tape out there, there ain't no way," Ron said. "I couldn't afford to do it."
The family briefly expanded into Escondido with a second tire and brake shop but closed it after coming to the realization it just wasn't for them. Ron said the red tape in the city and the proximity from home and family he could trust just wasn't worth it.
"It's very hard to find people to always do things the way you want them to be done," he said. "If it weren't for my daughters, truth be told, I probably would've retired a long time ago."
Over the years, the Borchardts played an active role in the community of Ramona, sponsoring about two dozen local sports teams, mostly youth soccer and softball. Ron has also supported about twice as many 4-H and Future Farmers of America students, helping to buy animals to show at fairs.
"You always have someone coming in asking for money to do this or that and I think what I thought was, if these kids are taking the time to raise these animals rather than sit on a street corner or whatever, then that was just a worthwhile thing to do and a good benefit to us all because maybe they'll use the experience to go onto college and do something good with their lives later on," said Ron.
At the end of the day, being in business for yourself is a lot of hard work, a lot of time, a lot of headache and a lot of grief, but Ron said he wouldn't have it any other way.
In addition to laughter, loyal customers have helped the Borchardts stay in business so long.
"We've got customers who have been coming into us since we opened and they're still coming," said Barrie.
"We have very good customers," added Ron.
The "Open Shop Party" planned for April 14, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., will serve as a thank you to customers, both new and old.
The public is invited to stop by the shop at 2560 Main St. for free hot dogs, sodas, music, a car show, and prizes. Free opportunity drawing tickets are already being given away at the shop's front counter for 35 prizes that will be given out the day of the party — one for every year in business.
Prizes include new tires, struts, alignment and oil change services, a flat screen TV, and a Kindle Fire.
The party is scheduled for April 14 instead of the shop's true Feb. 14 anniversary date in the hopes of better weather.


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After the storm. That's when clouds are often prettiest. So it was Wednesday when cumulus clouds drifted east over San Diego County at the end of a mild storm that spritzed San Diego County while most of us were sleeping. The clouds made for a beautiful afternoon.
The majesty of clouds after a storm
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As regular listeners will know, I'm a big fan of Phil Lesh music, which is to say post-GD lineups in all their many shades (or most of them anyway). This week, for a mid-summer dose of Dead, I want to turn our attention to one of the least popular tours, the 2009 run from The Dead.
This lineup featured the core four, along with Jeff Chimenti and Warren Haynes. And therein lie both the problem and the solution. Many fans complained about the roughness of the sound and playing, and the very dominant presence of Warren, and those are largely valid points. The shows I hit reminded me of an early eighties vibe — a little loose, a little rowdy, nothing very polished or transcendent in the way Grateful Dead can be. And it's worth pointing out that what followed was the end of Ratdog, a noteworthy pause in Phil and Friends and the birth of Furthur, the most steady and successful post-GD lineup, and not coincidentally the Deadsiest sounding, in the almost 15 years of music since Garcia's passing. Also, Warren was definitely in the forefront of every show, singing the majority of songs, sometimes trading verses with Bobby on a particular song, and sometimes Warren would sing a song one night and Bobby would sing the same song a few nights later. But that's the point here: you can't approach '09 Dead looking for the Grateful Dead or even earlier versions of The Dead or The Other Ones. You need to look at these shows as Warren Haynes and Friends shows, where his friends just happen to be the remaining members of the Grateful Dead (and one seasoned veteran of Grateful Dead family bands) playing Grateful Dead music. I have an old friend who used to say the Grateful Dead was one of the best backing blues bands around, always citing the Etta James show as evidence, and there's a lot to that. It's also exactly what was on display for this tour.
With that in mind, this week we have a chunk of a first set from Philly: New Speedway Boogie, Shakedown Street, Dupree's Diamond Blues and Hard to Handle. The music is pretty stellar here, raw and nasty and grooved out. Sure, some of that seems a bit out place in the huge arena settings that made up the tour, and might have been more at home in a club setting, but in the tide of time the ripping leads, big bass bombs and soulful singing speak for themselves. As always, enjoy!
Also, I just want to say what a pleasure it's been to be here at Hidden Track for all these years. Slade invited me to come on board within the first couple months of the blog, and ever since I've had the real joy of sharing so much music with all of you. I really appreciated that both Slade and Scotty always let me run with whatever I had in mind, from the acoustic mixes to the full sets to the long series, like the PLQ retrospective and the Ghosts of Jambands Past (which was the title of a column in the earliest days of jambands.com), and I've especially loved the reception you all have given to the various jazz episodes I've been able to offer. Dead and Phish sets and mixes always get lots of hits, but the jazz material is less of a safe bet, and you all seem to eat it up every time. It's been great, and I'm looking forward to sharing more over at JamBase in the coming weeks.
3 thoughts on "Stormy Mondays: Reconsidering The Dead '09 Tour"
July 8, 2013 at 2:55 pm
The show I saw in Worcester was the worst post-Jerry Dead related show I've seen. Not even close. Warren was off his game that night. Which was surprising because this was coming right after the Allmans historic 2009 Beacon run, where every night was mind blowing. And therein may have been the problem, Warren just seemed like he needed a break, or that he simply wasn't ready for the Dead tour at that Worcester show.
July 8, 2013 at 4:52 pm
Like I said, the least popular line-up. In picking out material for this week, I heard the Good Loving > Milestones from Worcester again. Pretty good.
There was a nutso lot scene at that show…
July 8, 2013 at 9:36 pm
I caught the show at MSG on 4/25/09. Unbroken Chain was fantastic. as the song wound down, I faintly heard the opening chords to Gimme Shelter and I said to myself, do not tease me. then song broke and blew the roof off and I was on cloud 9


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I will start by saying SlimLipo is not pain-free. I have a very high threshold for pain. Overall, I found the procedure to be uncomfortable. I only had to stop the surgeon twice. He was polite and his assistant, Molly, was very nice as well.
I work in healthcare so for me, it was very cool to actually get to watch this procedure being done on me. I got to ask questions during the procedure and it was a good experience, despite the discomfort. A total of 2.5 liters of fat was removed. If you are the slightest bit squeamish, I would recommend general anesthetic. The room looked like 'Scarface' by the time I was done!
I wore old sweats to the procedure which was great because by the time I goty home 45 minutes later my clothes were soaked through with blood and fluid. My husband and I had prepared the car and the bed with plenty of towels, mattress protectors, and even puppy pads to protect everything.
I am now two days post-op. I will see the doctor tomorrow for my first follow up visit. I am feeling better. The majority of the discomfort I am feeling is coming from the outer thigh areas. I have alot of brusing on my arms but little to none elsewhere. My arms are also itchy from the compression garment.
My abs look fantastic!!! Almost flat as a board already. I have lost two inches in that area and one inch on each arm and thigh.
I will post pics as soon as I can. Hope this review helps!


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Things like the rock men can be done in the regular line, so I doubt that would be a real possibility here. SDCC is an opportunity to do things that are a bit out of the ordinary, things you'd have to come up with a special SKU for in the regular line. I think Modulock would fit into that category; if he's done like Plastic Man, with lots of parts, he'd probably be hard to fit into the beast category because of price (due to tooling costs he might come in at a higher cost than even Rammy). Same with Multibot. Something like Razz and Broom would be too much for a normal slot but maybe not enough to justify a beast slot.
I thnk after the lackluster reception Vykron got last year, Mattel will go with something fan demanded this time, and it will be something a bit harder to fit into the regular line categories. That's what Mattel seems to see the SDCC exclusives as now, a chance to use the resources for something that doesn't quite fit elsewhere. Rock people, NA Skeletor, and other figures that could be a monthly choice for the sub are very unlikely. Even someone like Dare, if he were planned for this year, would likely be in a monthly slot, not at SDCC.