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I want to convert my 5.1 system into a 7.1 system. I currently have 4 Polk RM101's and an RM 201 center channel.
I'd like to add a pair of speakers that will match up timbre-wise as close as possible so if anyone has any extra Polk satellites they'd like to sell I'd be interested. I'd also consider picking up an entire 5.0 or 5.1 setup if you are looking to get rid of something but don't want to break up a set.
I'm looking for the speakers in black and the ones that have rounded backs and are more triangular (prism) in shape than rectangular.
I've included pictures of the style I'm talking about.
The models that I know will match:
RM101 (these were found in the RM6880, RM6800, and RM10 sets and newegg.com had them on clearance last year for way cheap)
RM201 (these were found in the RM20 sets or sold individually)
The models I think will be close:
RM8 (from RM85, RM87, RM95, and RM510 sets)
RM7 (from RM85, RM75, RM86, and RM705 sets)
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The scriptures contain counsel from prophets, inspired accounts of God's dealings with people, and revelations from God to His prophets. Scriptures teach that we are children of our Heavenly Father, who loves us. As part of His plan for our eternal happiness, we have come to earth. While we are here, the scriptures are a spiritual lifeline to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.
The main purpose of the scriptures is to testify of Christ, helping us come unto Him and receive eternal life (see John 5:39). Thus Latter-day prophets counsel us to study the scriptures every day, both individually and with our families. President Thomas S. Monson said: "Participate in daily scripture study. Crash courses are not nearly so effective as the day-to-day reading and application of the scriptures in our lives. Become acquainted with the lessons the scriptures teach. … Study them as though they were speaking to you, for such is the truth." 1
Through the words of the scriptures, we can come to know and love our Heavenly Father and the Savior Jesus Christ. We can read Their commandments and, as a result, learn to see the difference between right and wrong. We gain strength to resist the temptation to sin. We increase our desire to obey God's laws. The scriptures comfort us and teach us while we are on earth, and they show us the way back to our heavenly home.
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints accept the following as scripture:
The Bible is a collection of sacred writings containing God's revelations to ancient prophets in the Holy Land. Our eighth article of faith states, "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly."
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ contains God's revelations to ancient prophets in the Americas. It contains the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ (see D&C 20:9).
The Doctrine and Covenants is a book of revelations regarding the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, given to modern prophets beginning with Joseph Smith.
The Pearl of Great Price contains additional revelations from God to Moses, Abraham, and Joseph Smith.
God continues to reveal truths to living prophets through the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. These truths are considered scripture (see D&C 68:4). They come to us primarily through general conference, held the first weekend in April and October, when members throughout the world hear addresses from our prophet and other Church leaders.
For more information, see Gospel Principles (2009),
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16).
"The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ. …
"… Faith comes by the witness of the Holy Spirit to our souls, Spirit to spirit, as we hear or read the word of God. And faith matures as we continue to feast upon the word. …
"… Study the scriptures carefully, deliberately. Ponder and pray over them. Scriptures are revelation, and they will bring added revelation."
Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, "The Blessing of Scripture," Liahona and Ensign, May 2010, 34, 35.
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Category: popular nicknames for boys
How do you tell when popular names get too popular?
If a name is in the Top 10, it might be easy, but what if they're further down the list….and how far is far enough? Judging popular names gets even more difficult when they're short forms, maybe not so popular at all on their own.
Just how ubiquitous is Lily?, an expectant mom asked recently on our forums. Lily as itself is Number 17 on the official popularity list; up there, for sure, but there are only a third as many Lilys as there are girls who get the number one Isabella. So is Lily really one of those names you're going to hear coming and going?
Sadly, the answer may be yes, and here's why.
Lily, along with a handful of other nickname names, is not only popular on its own, but it's used as a short form for several other popular names: Lillian, Liliana, and so on. The result: Many more Lilys than you might guess.
This phenomenon can be applied to names with many spelling variations: Leila or Michaela or Mackenzie in their rainbow of flavors. But today's focus is on nicknames gone wild. Sure, these are adorable, but they all come with a warning label: rampant popularity ahead.
Addie – Addie is sweet and old-fashioned and even fresh-feeling, a followup to the now-overused Abby. But Addie is coming up fast thanks to a host of newly-popular mother names, from the trendy Addison to cool classics Adeline and Adelaide, often chosen specifically because they come with cute short form Addie.
Alex – Alex may be the unisex nickname name of the decade, not only a Top 100 name on its own for boys for a short form for boys' Number 6 Alexander along with a huge contingent of popular girls' names: Alexis, Alexa, Alexandra et al.


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ST. CLOUD, Fla. - A St. Cloud man died early Wednesday morning after driving his car into an elementary school fence, resisting arrest and being shocked with a stun gun by police.
Officers received a report of reckless driving and were alerted that the driver, later identified as 30-year-old Gerald F. Altomare Jr., of St. Cloud, had crashed his car into the fence line of Ross E. Jeffries Elementary School on Vermont Avenue going 60 miles per hour.
Altomare ran from the scene, but police located him a short time later, and he appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, according to officials.
Altomare then attempted to flee again and when ordered by police to surrender, he took a fighting stance, according to police, who said officers shocked him with a stun gun and put him in handcuffs. While in handcuffs, he continued to resist arrest, but he soon lost consciousness, police said.
Altomare was transported to the hospital and was later pronounced dead.
The two officers involved have been placed on paid administrative leave. Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating because it was an in-custody death.
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A Randomized Study of Daily and Intermittent Prophylactic Regimens for the Prevention of Disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex (MAC) and Fungal Infections in HIV-Infected Patients
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PRIMARY: To determine the efficacy of azithromycin and rifabutin alone and in combination for the prevention of disseminated Mycobacterium avium Complex (MAC) infection in HIV-infected patients. To determine the efficacy of daily versus weekly fluconazole for the prevention of deep fungal infections in this patient population.
SECONDARY: To determine the incidence of bacterial (including mycobacterial) infections, cryptosporidiosis, and toxoplasmosis in azithromycin versus non-azithromycin containing regimens. To determine the incidence of oropharyngeal and vaginal candidiasis in patients treated with daily versus weekly fluconazole. To compare survival and outcomes of primary endpoints in the treatment arms.
|Mycoses Mycobacterium Avium-Intracellulare Infection HIV Infections
|Drug: Azithromycin Drug: Rifabutin Drug: Fluconazole
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Masking: Double
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Study of Daily and Intermittent Prophylactic Regimens for the Prevention of Disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex (MAC) and Fungal Infections in HIV-Infected Patients
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|12 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
Concurrent Medication:
- Preventive therapy with isoniazid for M. tuberculosis.
- Maintenance therapy for CMV retinitis.
Patients must have:
- HIV infection or history of an AIDS-defining condition by CDC criteria.
- One documented CD4 count < 100 cells/mm3 within 12 months prior to study entry.
- NO active MAC disease, MAC bacteremia, or active mycobacterial infection (tuberculous or nontuberculous).
- NO acute opportunistic infection.
- Life expectancy of more than 6 months.
- Consent of parent or guardian if less than legal age of consent.
Exclusion Criteria
Co-existing Condition:
Patients with the following symptoms or conditions are excluded:
- Unexplained fevers, elevation in alkaline phosphatase, pancytopenia, abnormal liver function tests, or odynophagia for which the diagnoses of MAC and fungal infections have not been excluded.
- Serious hypersensitivity reactions to macrolides or rifampin.
- Unable to tolerate oral medications. FOR FLUCONAZOLE RANDOMIZATION -
- Serious hypersensitivity reaction to fluconazole.
- Active fungal infection (cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, aspergillosis, Candida esophagitis, thrush, vaginal candidiasis).
- Positive baseline urine cryptococcal culture.
Concurrent Medication:
Excluded for fluconazole randomization:
- Maintenance therapy for deep fungal infections.
- Chronic therapy with ketoconazole or fluconazole.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00002122
|United States, California
|Los Angeles County - USC Med Ctr
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
|UCI Med Ctr
|Orange, California, United States, 92668
|UCSD Treatment Ctr / Dept of Medicine and Pediatrics
|San Diego, California, United States, 92103
|Santa Clara Valley Med Ctr
|San Jose, California, United States, 951282699
|Harbor - UCLA Med Ctr
|Torrance, California, United States, 90509
|United States, District of Columbia
|Georgetown Univ Med Ctr
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20007
|George Washington Univ Med Ctr
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20037
|United States, Massachusetts
|Univ of Massachusetts Med Ctr
|Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 01655
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Univ of Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|United States, Texas
|Univ of Texas Southwestern Med Ctr
|Dallas, Texas, United States, 75235
|Baylor College of Medicine
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77005
|Houston Veterans Administration Med Ctr
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00002122 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 2, 1999
|Last Updated:
|June 23, 2005
Keywords provided by NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service:
Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection
Drug Therapy, Combination
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Communicable Diseases
HIV Infections
Mycobacterium Infections
Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Actinomycetales Infections
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
Bacterial Infections
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous
Antifungal Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
14-alpha Demethylase Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Steroid Synthesis Inhibitors
Hormone Antagonists
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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In my first decade involved in disability issues, I repeatedly heard people claim that marriages involving parents of children with disabilities had a divorce rate of more than 75 percent. So when I began my education leading to becoming a licensed professional counselor, I chose that particular topic as an area of research interest to see if this really was true. What I learned should surprise you.
The most fertile source of insight is hindsight and you never know how far you've come until you look back on where you've been. During the last few years I've had numerous opportunities to look back over my progress, sometimes it's with humor, sometimes it's with pride and always with amazement over how I thought issues would turn out and how things really unfolded.
My name is Beth Warren and I am a recent graduate of Chiefland High School. Instead of going to college in the fall, like a lot of my peers, I will be going to Ecuador, South America.
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Ask A Lawyer
C. C. of Cedar Key writes: "I wrote to you last month about being able to drive my golf cart around the city of Cedar Key without a driver's license even though my license was suspended, and you told me I couldn't because it was a motor vehicle and I had to have a valid driver's license. If that's true, why do I see kids who don't have licenses driving golf carts all over the place? If they can do it, why can't I?"
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By JENNI WILLIAMS
British politician Pearl Strachan once said, "Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs."
Words are very powerful; they can lift someone up, or quickly bring someone down. Words are especially powerful when speaking to someone who is sick. Saying the right thing at the right time is very important in providing comfort, reassurance and support. Sometimes, despite best intentions, we can say things or raise issues that unintentionally add stress to the lives of those who are ill.
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At around 7:30 p.m. Monday a policeman on patrol saw William Dennis Butrick, 21, driving in the area of Maple and Rodeo Road.
A check showed that Butricks drivers license was suspended. And, he has two active warrants from Keith County, one for an unspecified attempted felony and the other for failure to appear, driving under suspension and procuring alcohol for a minor.
Butrick was arrested and jailed.
In court Tuesday, Butrick waived his right to an attorney and pled guilty to driving under suspension, saying he needed to get to Keith County to take care of the charges there and he wanted to do so as soon as possible.
His license was suspended for another year and he was fined $150. He said he would have to set out the fine, and was ordered to remain in jail for 50 hours.
Butrick was arrested in August 2011 along with two other North Platte men, Austin Welch and Kristian Woodhouse, in connection with five burglaries. Police said the three men broke into sheds and garages, sometimes working alone and other times together. Homeowners reported full gasoline cans were stolen.
He was sentenced to the Work Ethic Camp in McCook, but was discharged for assaulting another camp resident.
In late-February 2012, District Judge Donald Rowlands re-sentenced Butrick to 240 days in jail, crediting him 190 days for time served before sentencing.
Hes only 20, defense attorney Blaine Gillett said at the time. He certainly has the ability to turn his life around.
But in April 2012, Butrick filled his car with gas at stations in North Platte and drove off without paying on two separate occasions.
He was charged with two counts of theft and one count of driving under a suspended license, but the latter charge was dismissed after he pled guilty to the two drive-offs.
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CINCINNATI — Supermarket giant Kroger announced company EVP, Don Becker, died Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm. He was 62 years old.
Becker had a 42-year career at Kroger, joining in 1969 as a clerk in the Cincinnati/Dayton division. In his most recent role as the retailer's EVP, a position he held since 2004, Becker led the company's merchandising and procurement for grocery, perishables, drug/general merchandise and pharmacy. He also had responsibility for advertising, consumer research and customer loyalty, manufacturing and corporate brands, customer insights and strategy, supply chain and supplier diversity. Kroger's Cincinnati/Dayton division and the company's retail clinic operator, The Little Clinic, reported to Becker.
During his career at Kroger, Becker also served as co-chair of Kroger's first general office cultural council.
"We are deeply saddened to lose Don, our dear friend and extraordinary leader," said David Dillon, Kroger's chairman and CEO. "Don leaves a legacy of enthusiasm and passion for doing what's right for our customers and our associates. He touched the lives of countless people in our company as well as throughout our industry and community. He was a true 'people person' who mentored many associates at every level of our business."
Becker is survived by his wife, daughter, son-in-law and grandson.


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'K-Mart' group pays big dividends for Brewers
PHOENIX -- Brewers special assistant Dick Groch is the man who scouted and signed Derek Jeter, a first-round Draft pick of the Yankees in 1992. But he can also appreciate a good bargain.
So Groch, entering his 11th season in Milwaukee's pro scouting department, was particularly intrigued to watch what he dubbed the "K-Mart group" throw bullpen sessions on Sunday. Side by side on a row of mounds were relievers John Axford, Jim Henderson and Brandon Kintzler and starter Mike Fiers -- who combined to cost Milwaukee a whopping $3,500.
Fiers is the group's "bonus baby," Kintzler joked, having received a $2,500 signing bonus as a 22nd-round Draft pick in 2009. Right about the same time, the Brewers purchased Kintzler from the independent St. Paul Saints for $1,000. Axford and Henderson signed after being released by other teams, and didn't cost a dime.
And yet, all four are expected to play meaningful roles in the Majors this season. Axford is the Brewers' closer, Henderson the leading contender for set-up duties and Kintzler has an inside track on another bullpen opening. Fiers is competing for a spot in the starting rotation after breaking into the big leagues last season.
Those are far from the only Major Leaguers to come from humble beginnings, but as Groch pointed out, "What's unique is when you put them all together in the same throwing group."
Speaking of unique, Kintzler had to turn down better money in Hollywood to sign with the Brewers. He was a finalist to play right-hander Tim Hudson in the film Moneyball, but the audition would have caused him to miss a chance to start the '09 American Association All-Star Game.
"I said, this is probably my best chance to get signed," Kintzler said. "I think I want to pitch in the All-Star Game. I don't want to be a movie star."


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So, you are looking to visit Nappanee? Well, look no further for your lodging than Homespun Country Inn!
Our Nappanee Inn was built in 1902, and the historic charm and ambiance of the house will become apparent as soon as you walk in! Much of the house has the original stained and leaded glass windows from over 100 years ago.The historic nature of the inn continues in your room, where you will find antiques, rich wood furnishings and handmade quilts. All of our rooms have private bathrooms, a TV with cable & VCR/DVD and wi-fi.
What other Nappanee Hotels can offer all this?
Of course every morning you stay at our Nappanee Lodging, you will enjoy a full breakfast by candlelight in our dining room. And although we are a romantic place, we also have a room with two twin beds, for those who have business travel in Nappanee.
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Solution Spotlight: World-Class Vibration Programs
Kathy | June 1, 2007
Up until now, one of the greatest challenges in implementing world-class vibration programs has been the cost to support in-house personnel and efforts. Today, there's a cost-effective alternative. According to Vibration Analysts Inc. (VAI), with its powerful new vibration data analysis process, companies now have access to an entire team of professional vibration specialists who can do the job for less than what a quality in-house program might cost. In fact, this supplier notes that it can quickly, economically and accurately analyze mass quantities of vibration data for any customer—anywhere. The only requirement is Internet connectivity.
VAI's patented process ensures that five Professional Vibration Analysts will review all vibration data, on three levels of increasing experience, with multiple internal peer checks to ensure quality results. This service also guarantees that a Certified Level-III/Category-IV Vibration Analyst (of which there are fewer than 100 worldwide) will analyze all vibration issues. By processing all data through five Vibration Analysts on three levels of increasing experience, each Analyst is able to maximize the efficiency of his or her data analysis.
Comparing his company's services to in-house vibration programs, president Ray Rhoe points out that VAI's process typically can reduce vibration program operating costs by $50,000 annually. For example, VAI's typical monthly charge to analyze vibration data for a nuclear power plant is $2000. This allows for up to 80 machine-train analyses per month. "Larger operations, with multiple sites," Rhoe says, "could save substantially more." In fact, the hardest part about saving clients money is just getting their attention.
Less waiting, wondering, worrying
While the VAI process clearly can save money, it also can cut down on many of the nagging questions that go along with managing vibration programs, including how quickly data is being analyzed. For example, since VAI offers the process on a global basis, and since data can be reviewed as soon as it is collected and downloaded, immediate 24/7/365 analysis of critical component issues is now available. In addition, many of the issues associated with in-house vibration program efforts are totally eliminated, including those of hiring and training qualified personnel, ongoing technical support and expert assistance, employee turnover, sick leave and vacation, among others.
VAI process overview
Step 1…
VAI's Certified Category-IV Vibration Analyst starts the process by reviewing the entire database for all new customers. This ensures that all component issues have been identified. Corrective recommendations and technical support are then provided as needed to help resolve those issues.
Step 2…
Every month thereafter, two Category- II Analysts independently analyze all new vibration data. They look for step changes, increasing trends and new frequencies that may indicate degraded equipment conditions, then peer check each other to ensure quality results. Any issues are forwarded to the next higher-level Analyst for a more detailed evaluation.
Step 3…
Two Category-III Analysts independently analyze all new issues in greater detail. They determine the cause of the issues and provide recommended corrective actions, then peer check each other to ensure quality results. At that point, they forward all issues to the Category-IV Analyst for the final and highest level of review possible. They then go back and review all new data to ensure that nothing has been overlooked.
Step 4…
The Senior Category-IV Analyst reviews all issues to ensure that the analyses and corrective recommendations are complete and accurate. A determination is made regarding the need for additional data to support the analysis, and the customer is notified of any immediate concerns. When finished, the Senior Analyst also goes back and reviews all new data to ensure that nothing has been overlooked.
Step 5…
A detailed monthly report is issued. These reports identify component ID, point locations that were affected, frequency(s) of concern, screen print of the vibration data, problem description, analysis of what the problem is, and corrective recommendations.
Every month thereafter, VAI repeats Steps 2-5 to ensure that customers are receiving the most accurate vibration data analysis possible. This leads to improved equipment reliability and reduced program costs for the customer.
Can it work for you?
To help prove that its patented process works, VAI now offers customers a
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services at no cost or obligation.
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Byron, IL


text: Politics 11 July 2012 It's an easy choice between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on tax Compared to Romney, Obama is downright folksy. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML President Barack Obama isn't a populist but he plays one on the campaign trail. Like many liberal Democrats, he plays up the down-home rhetoric for votes, but by nature he's a progressive technocrat immanently comfortable trusting the authority of experts. This comes from being the son of an anthropologist and former editor of the Harvard Law Review. This is why he sounded so wooden when attempting to rail against "fat cat bankers," and why he needs Vice President Joe Biden, a natural-born class warrior. But the president's populist mien stems from more than campaign strategy. It's context, too. Compared to quarter-billionaire Mitt Romney, his Republican challenger in the 2012 presidential election, no-drama Obama appears downright folksy. Sure, working-class Americans don't usually feel kinship with a former constitutional law professor, but that's far better than a guy who owns a dressage champion competing in the 2012 Summer Olympics. It'd be one thing if Romney's horse was a racing steed. Americans understand betting on the ponies. But dressage? First, it sounds kinda French. Second, that means a dancing horse, right? That's slightly unfair. But Romney isn't helping. First, he's not being clear about his wealth. He has released only two years of tax returns. This has allowed the Obama campaign to suggest, rightly or wrongly, that he's hiding something. And in fairness, that's a plausible charge given that Romney has cash stashed in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, and the reason you do that is to avoid the prying eyes of the Internal Revenue Service. Second, the central claim of his candidacy — that he is an experienced businessman who knows how to create jobs — took a major hit last month after a report in the Washington Post found that Bain Capital, Romney's former Wall Street firm, invested in companies that pioneered the trend of outsourcing jobs. Romney's reaction was twofold and too dumb — he demanded that the newspaper retract the story (it said no) and he said the reporters didn't know the difference between outsourcing and offshoring. Frankly most people don't, and if you're trying to save face by splitting hairs, good luck to you. You're going to need it. Third, he rebounds poorly. Parsing "outsourcing" and "offshoring" was just the beginning. Last week, the Associated Press revealed that Romney has investments in a company in Bermuda, raising more questions about transparency and indeed how wealthy Romney actually is. Estimates so far put his wealth at as much as $250m, making him the richest man to run for the White House in recent memory (Obama's wealth is as high as $3m). And again, Romney stumbled badly: "I don't manage [those investments], I don't even know where they are," Romney told a radio station in Iowa, a battleground state. "That trustee follows all U.S. laws, all taxes are paid as appropriate, all of them have been reported to the government. There's nothing hidden there." This kind of explanation flies with people who have blind trusts, but not with people who don't have trusts or don't know what trusts are, and sure as hell don't know why they are blind. And anyway, Romney could dispel the ambiguity by releasing more returns just as his father, George, did before making a run for the presidency. Now Obama is hitting hard: "What's important is if you are running for president is that the American people know who you are and what you've done and that you're an open book," he told a New Hampshire TV station. "And that's been true of every presidential candidate dating all the way back to Mitt Romney's father." My guess is that Romney won't release more tax returns, because he doesn't want to bring more attention to himself. I say this not because I think he's hiding something (though he may be for all I know), but because Romney wants this election to be a referendum on the president's first term not a choice between him and Obama. The reason for that is Americans tend to give incumbents the benefit of the doubt, but if Romney can raise enough doubt about the economy — and with a stalled economy on the brink of a double-dip recession, there's good reason for this strategy — he can frame the election as a thumbs-up-thumbs-down vote. Obama, on the other hand, is doing his best to make this a choice between opposing candidate, parties and ideologies. Yesterday, we saw the latest stage of that strategy when he called for Congress to allow the George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest two per cent of income earners to expire at the end of the year. This is good politics for two reasons. One, most Americans approve of such a measure, partly because taxing the rich lowers the national debt and partly because taxing the rich just feels good. The second reason this is good politics: It puts Romney in a box. Obama highlighted the fact that he himself would be paying higher taxes and that he stood ready to do so. Romney, meanwhile, has said letting the tax cuts expire is bad for small business, which may be true. What's certain is that Obama is setting up a choice. American voters can choose the rich guy willing to pay more in taxes for the good of his country or the rich guy who didn't. That, to most Americans, is an easy choice. › Would Boris Johnson rather be attacked by a dozen duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck? Mitt Romney's tax affairs are being efficiently used against him by Obama. Photograph: Getty Images John Stoehr teaches writing at Yale. His essays and journalism have appeared in The American Prospect, Reuters Opinion, the Guardian, and Dissent, among other publications. He is a political blogger for The Washington Spectator and a frequent contributor to Al Jazeera English. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles Just like Ukip, Marine Le Pen's National Front is slowly sliding into irrelevance "If not evolution then revolution": temperature rises in Catalonia as independence vote looms Trump's ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is the new darling of the neocons Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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Monday, September 25, 2017
Healthy Mouth, Healthy Kids
Missing Lateral Incisors
My three children, like myself, are missing their upper lateral incisors. My youngest, is quite resistent to the idea of orthordontic correction, as the rest of us have had. She identifies with her "special" look. What are the implications, medically, not cosmetically, of not pursuing treatment at all?
Usually there are no health implications of not "correcting" for the lack of lateral incisors. However, it would be a good idea to discuss it with her dentist in case there is a significant problem with her bite that would be corrected during orthodontic treatment. You might also want to discuss the implications of postponing treatment.
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Brentford turned in a spirited, hard working performance to defeat Rotherham United 2-0 at the New York Stadium on Saturday.
Goals in each half from Andre Gray and Nick Proschwitz gave the Bees a deserved victory.
And Bees boss Mark Warburton was understandably delighted with his side's second Championship triumph of the campaign ahead of the international break.
"It was a magnificent performance. They are a very organised side," he said.
"Harlee Dean and James Tarkowski really stood up to their threat.
"We looked to counter-attack and maximise our chances from wide areas. We must look at that and keep learning from them.
"Tremendous finish from Andre Gray. He offers power and pace. He is raw and sometimes that gives a randomness, but he deserved his goal. All credit to him."
Brentford threatened early when Andre Gray broke down the left channel, but his cushioned shot was palmed away by Adam Collin.
Matt Derbyshire should have done better for the home side when he broke into the box, but his final ball was neither a shot nor cross as it sailed across the Bees' six yard box.
It was end to end stuff when the Bees broke with a four on four attack, but Gray was dispossessed and after the Millers broke quickly at the other end Ben Pringle's shot was blocked by Jake Bidwell.
A nice passing move from Brentford saw Alan Judge's teasing ball into the box headed over the bar by Alex Pritchard. A low free kick from Jota on the right was then fired just wide of the right hand post by Judge.
The visitors came close to taking the lead when a great break by Jota down the right wing ended with a teasing cross which just evaded Gray in the six yard box.
Rotherham came closest to scoring when Paul Taylor's fierce shot cannoned off the bar. In an immediate reply, a free flowing move involving Pritchard, Jota and Judge came to a disappointing end when Stuart Dallas shot over the bar.
The Bees took the lead on the stroke of half time when Judge's ball found Gray on the left and a composed finish saw him slot the ball past Collin into the top right hand corner.
Early in the second half Pritchard wasted a great chance to extend the Bees' lead when he won the ball in Rotherham's half but selfishly shot from inside the box when Jota was unmarked to his left.
The Millers wasted a great chance to equalise when a James Tarkowski slip gave Derbyshire a one on one with Button, who blocked superbly with his foot.
A great run by Judge down the left carried him to the byline, but his cross into the six yard box bounced off Gray.
Rotherham continued to threaten and Taylor's low shot from ten yards brought a great save out of Button.
Richie Smallwood was the next to trouble Button, with a shot from the edge of the box which was comfortably held by the keeper.
In added on time Pritchard's 25 yard free kick sailed inches wide of the left hand post before the Bees sealed victory when great work by substitute Jon Toral saw him dance around a couple of defenders into the six yard box, from where he set up fellow substitute Nick Proschwitz for a simple tap in.
Brentford: Button, McCormack, Tarkowski, Craig, Bidwell; Douglas, Judge, Pritchard, Jota (sub Hogan 67, sub Proschwitz 82), Dallas, Gray (sub Toral 82) Subs (not used): Lee, Craig, Diagouraga, Tebar


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So, I have been debating on posting this for a long time. You will understand here in a moment why. But I want to mention before anything else that I am explaining this experience ONLY for the reason of understanding.
I have been meditating off and on for some years now. I was reading a book on out of body experience back about 7 years ago when I got started. It had it's own ways of inducing OBE's and all that. Well to make a long story short I read that book from front to back several times making sure I understood it all.
I meditated...a LOT. I would try during the day, but at night I would lay down in bed and meditate for a minimum of 2-3 hours a night. It did me good and it never harmed anyone and I always felt rested. But I never had an out of body experience.
However there was one experience I did have and I will never forget it for the rest of my life.
So, I followed the instructions. Breathing was the biggest thing with some minor visualizations. Everything was going good and I decided to just keep meditating this night. The visualization was to imagine there is a rope above you. On every out breath you pull up on the rope to the exclusion of all other thoughts.(the idea was to pull yourself out of your body). For those of you just curious, I never made it out of my body. But as I kept pulling, one day there was this "snap" of clarity that happened. It's so hard to explain so I am going to describe it in another paragraph. That was the method.
So imagine you walk into a room and someone shuts the door on you. There is no light. By no light, I mean NO light. Complete darkness. Not even a cat could see in this room. Suddenly "snap" my vision becomes clear. So clear that clarity is being used for lack of a better term. It was like I could see in the darkness...only clearly. All I remember is looking into it and the thought "it's completely empty and infinite." Then "boom" i'm back in my bed in my body. I don't know how long I was gone or how long it took to get there. I did not track my time.
After this experience I never tried again. I could not tell you why, but I stopped meditating and attempting obe's. Maybe I became scared or maybe I became frustrated.
I picked up the book the other day and I noticed that the same ideas and techniques used to attempt obe is almost the same as the ideas and techniques used to attempt jhana.
Anyways, i've wanted to share that for a long time. Hopefully someone may be able to use this experience to understand theirs or to help in cultivation. If you would like to know more about how I did it I can post something on it. So, anyone have any idea of what that was?


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Will soon be attending a 10 day retreat at a local monastery. I am looking forwards to the opportunity for uninterrupted practice in a supportive environment and keeping 8 precepts.
Attended the same retreat last year. The teaching is Vipassana with alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation. We are instructed to focus on the movement of the abdomen during sitting meditation. In my usual daily practice of anapanasati, the focus of the mind rests in the area of the nostrils. During last years retreat, it was uncomfortable to focus on the feeling at the belly. It seems that the mind rests more easily at the usual location of focus on the breath which is at the nostrils.
The question is if it would be best to dutifully make effort to follow the instruction of the teacher, even though it will likely lead to a less settled mind or use the time to further the usual practice of anapanasati to acheive concentration and allow vipassana wisdom to develope in that manner.


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THE Prime Minister will meet with Bolton MP Yasmin Qureshi to discuss her fight for a public enquiry into a pregnancy testing drug which a Bolton mum claims ruined her life.
Ms Quereshi has campaigned for an inquiry into alleged problems caused by the drug Primodos which Nicola Williams, of Little Lever, claims caused her to be born with life-threatening congenital health issues.
After raising the issue twice at Prime Minister's Questions, the Bolton South East MP has been invited to a one on one meeting with David Cameron at his House of Commons office on July 9.
She will also be meeting with shadow health secretary and MP for Leigh, Andy Burnham, next week to discuss the matter.
Ms Qureshi said: "I have been working hard on this for some time so I am really pleased that the Prime Minister has agreed to a personal meeting with me.
"It is a big step for us in our bid to get a public inquiry. We have had a lot of fob-offs along the way but this just shows that badgering and not giving up can work."
Miss Williams said she was "delighted" to hear that the Prime Minister would be speaking to Ms Qureshi about the issue.
She added: "It is fantastic news and has made me feel really positive about things — it has been such a long journey and this is a big moment.
"People like David Cameron need to hear the evidence that we have."
The hormone drug produced by Schering, a German company later taken over by Bayer, was given to women in the UK by GPs in the 1960s and 1970s as a pregnancy test.
Miss Williams claims to have uncovered mounting evidence that the Government was warned about the dangers of pregnancy testing drugs as far back as 1967.
The 42-year-old and her daughter Shareace Williams, aged 21, spent three days finding letters written between clinicians and public documents at the National Archives in Kew, London last summer.
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In the Eurorack Modular world I was introduced to the 4ms Rotating Clock Divider. This module takes a pattern and then starts moving or "rotating" or shifting it around. In this months issue of Sound on Sound (July 2013) there is a review of Soniccouture's Konkrete 3. It's a drum sample library created with things like a Buchla or Telemark paired with a sequencer and glitch effects. We have seen other software like this but Konkrete has a really cool feature called The Beat Shifter. The Beat Shifter is similar in idea to the 4ms RCD but with more control. Check out the video above to see it in action. I also included a video of the glitch parameter which is also nice. $129 USD.
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Adams: No need for more gun laws
January 21, 2013
I have been reading a lot of the letters about gun control, both for and against it. Is banning guns throughout the United States really going to help the situation? In Connecticut, assault rifles are already banned, and yet the young man had still gotten a hold of some. Modifications to any semi-automatic assault rifle is illegal, in fact any modification to any gun to make it into an automatic assault weapon is illegal. With just this information it is shown that no matter how much we try, those crazy guys are still going to find a way to get a hold of a gun and if not that, they will figure out other ways to get the "job" done.
There are already laws set into place to prevent certain guns to be sold to the public. Why do we need to sneak in more laws, why not just start enforcing the ones we already have!
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – The public has an opportunity to weigh in on the state's proposed list of dangerous animals that would be banned under a new law.
The list developed by the Wild and Dangerous Animal Board includes chimpanzees, crocodiles, giraffes, elephants, piranha, and several types of pythons.
The law passed this year only clamps down on new animals brought into West Virginia. Residents who already own creatures on the list can keep them if they get a permit from the board. There will be a $100 fee for each permit and the animals cannot be bred or replaced.
The list, which must be approved by the Legislature, is contained in a proposed legislative rule filed Wednesday by the Department of Agriculture. The rule would require the board to meet by Dec. 1 every year to review permits or to discuss whether new animals should be added to the list.
The public comment period runs through Aug. 1.
Some changes may be needed before the list is finalized. All rabbits and hares are on the list but the state does not plan to ban domestic rabbits, Department of Agriculture spokesman Butch Antolini told the Charleston Daily Mail.
Antolini said the state veterinarian believes domestic rabbits are covered by a part of law exempt in the new rule.
"If some things need to be spelled out further, that's what needs to take place," he told the newspaper.
Antolini said state officials expect many comments from the public on the proposed list.
West Virginia decided to determine which wildlife will be illegal for people to own after an Ohio citizen in 2011 let dozens of dangerous animals loose, including black bears, mountain lions and Bengal tigers.
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and property owners within Florida regarding beach
restoration and coastal construction.
What is the Department's role in protecting and
managing Florida's coastline?
Along with regulating construction along Florida's
coastline, the Department plans and manages beach
restoration projects to restore eroded shoreline in
coordination with the federal and local governments.
Subsequent maintenance of restored shorelines, referred to
as nourishment, is also administered by the Department.
What activities does the Department regulate and
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The Coastal Construction Control Line (CCCL) Program
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Regulated activities include the construction of homes,
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Regulated activities include beach restoration and
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Local governments ensure that coastal building structures
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What actions is the Department taking to restore and
protect Florida's shores following Hurricane Dennis?
Following Hurricane Dennis, the Department:
What structural repairs does the DEP's Emergency Final
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Under the Emergency Order, residents or local governments
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Rosa, Walton and Okaloosa counties can repair or restore the
following structures to the authorized configuration without
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Emergency permits can be authorized by the Department for
replacement of substantially damaged structures.
The Emergency Order expires on September 7, 2005.
What action can local governments take to mitigate
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Under the Emergency Order, seaward of the Coastal
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local governments and utilities in Monroe, Bay, Franklin,
Wakulla, Gulf, Escambia, Santa Rosa, Walton and Okaloosa
counties can authorize:
Any removed debris should be deposited landward of the
Is beach scraping authorized?
Beach scraping is not authorized under the Emergency
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where there is a threat to upland development, and where
sufficient sand can be scraped without adversely affecting
the beach.
Can sand be dredged from offshore and pumped under
No. A Joint Coastal Permit would be required to dredge
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What can private property owners do?
The Emergency Final Order authorizes local governments to
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owners to temporarily secure structures, remove safety
hazards and prevent further damage or collapse of
foundations, and repair damaged structures.
Property owners should contact the building department of
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permits by calling (850) 488-7708 or faxing (850) 488-5257.
Can I build a new seawall?
Property owners and local governments may not
construct structures or armoring that did not exist before
the emergency without the necessary permits, including new
seawalls. A DEP Administrative permit is needed for new,
reconstructed or repaired bulkheads, seawalls, revetments or
other rigid coastal armoring.
Is armoring allowed under emergency conditions?
Under emergency conditions, local governments may
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public and private infrastructure like homes, utilities and
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Local, state and federal agencies will work together to
provide short and long-term beach repair. The Department's
coastal engineers began conducting aerial and ground beach
assessments from Wakulla to Escambia County on July 12,
These detailed assessments will document the impact of
the storm on the Panhandle shoreline. While many impacted
beach and dune systems will recover naturally with time,
intermediate actions may be necessary to accelerate the
natural process and provide coastal communities with storm
protection. The Department will use the beach assessments to
identify needed local beach projects ranging from dune
restoration to beach restoration and nourishment.
Where can I get more information?
Information on emergency relief and post-storm permit
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Scotland Yard has widened its investigation into the Andrew Mitchell "plebgate" affair amid signs of strain between senior Conservatives and the police over the treatment of the former chief whip.
Some 30 officers are working on the Metropolitan Police inquiry amid claims that officers conspired to fabricate evidence against Mr Mitchell that ultimately led to his resignation.
David Cameron expressed concern on Wednesday that an officer tried to "blacken the name" of Mr Mitchell amid mounting questions over the initial account of his row with Downing Street police who refused to let him ride his bicycle through the main gates of Downing Street.
The officer is said to have written an email to his local MP, Conservative John Randall, posing as a member of the public and accusing Mr Mitchell of calling police "plebs". The account contained in the email, written the day before The Sun first broke news of the row on September 21, was very similar to that in the police log, which was later leaked to the Daily Telegraph.
Supporters of Mr Mitchell, who finally resigned in late October after a month of highly damaging headlines and criticism made his position as chief whip untenable, sought to start rehabilitating his battered reputation and raised the prospect of his eventual return to the Cabinet.
In the Commons, Mr Cameron said: "A police officer posing as a member of the public and sending an email potentially to blacken the name of a Cabinet minister is a very serious issue and does need to be seriously investigated. The Metropolitan Police Service is conducting a thorough and well-resourced investigation to get to the truth of this matter as quickly as possible."
The Met's investigation is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
The email to Mr Randall, which was passed to Downing Street on September 25, was published by Channel 4 News on Wednesday night. It is littered with grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, inappropriate capitalisation and malapropisms, including a reference to Mr Mitchell's "digesting behaviour".
The Metropolitan Police Service said it was conducting an investigation that could look at the possibility of a conspiracy. In a statement, it said: "The allegation that a serving police officer fabricated evidence is extremely serious. It goes to the very heart of the public's trust in the police service."
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AT&T's WCS plans to get FCC green light
The FCC is poised to allow LTE service in the long-unused 2.3 GHz Wireless Communications Services (WCS) band, clearing the way for AT&T's plan to use the spectrum for its LTE network.
Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski's office said Wednesday the agency would vote on revisions to its WCS rules at its Oct. 17 open meeting.
The changes will open 30 MHz of spectrum for mobile broadband service while protecting satellite radio operations in the band and are expected to closely follow a compromise AT&T and SiriusXM submitted to the FCC earlier this summer. The companies' proposal addressed long-standing disputes about use of WCS spectrum for wireless service.
"We applaud the FCC's expeditious review of the joint proposal we submitted with SiriusXM," Joan Marsh, AT&T vice president of federal regulatory affairs, said. "A vote on the item will permit the deployment of 4G LTE technologies in the WCS band that will help AT&T meet the exploding demand for advanced mobile broadband."
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AT&T's subsequent acquisition of WCS spectrum in August indicated its confidence that the FCC would loosen its rules so the band could be used for LTE. AT&T is buying a substantial amount of WCS and AWS spectrum from Comcast, Horizon Wi-Com, NextWave Wireless and the San Diego Gas & Electric Company.
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The FCC blocked AT&T's proposed merger with T-Mobile USA, the carrier's previous attempt at a spectrum grab. That stumbling block left AT&T searching for alternative sources of spectrum, even as primary competitor Verizon Wireless forged a $3.9 billion deal to buy a significant swath of AWS spectrum from a group of cable operators.
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This drawing, from my archive, was originally published in 2004. So eight years have passed, and we've moved to "acceptable".
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Here's a charming musical that isn't available on DVD, and should be.
A lot of people forget that writer Graham Greene was a prolific film critic in the 1930s. In addition to the fact that many of his short stories and novels were made into films, and he was a man of immaculate taste. Here, he discusses in a contemporary review the long forgotten film Paris in Spring, featuring a young Ida Lupino in a supporting part, which he smartly compares to the best of Ernst Lubitsch, the master of light romantic comedy. Yet, sadly, the film isn't available on DVD.
It should be admitted, as Greene notes, that the film's director, Lewis Milestone isn't a name readily associated with a project such as this; Milestone's most famous film, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), is a grim slice of anti-war realism, set during World War I. Yet so strong is the pull of Paris in Spring that having only seen it once, many years ago, complete with its highly stylized opening titles and location work at the Eiffel Tower, that I have never been able to forget it. Here's what Greene had to say on the film, which was released as Paris Love Song in the UK.
"You wouldn't think that [Lewis] Milestone, the director, was a Russian, so deftly has be caught the gay, the shameless Lubitsch Manner. It is a silly, charming tale of an Italian count [disappointed in love] who goes up the Eiffel Tower to pretend to commit suicide, and finds at the top a young woman who intends to commit suicide [for the same reason]. They agree, of course, to make their lovers jealous, and the lovers come together in the same conspiracy. Mr. Milestone mas made out of this nonsense something light, enchanting, genuinely fantastic.
Mary Ellis's is the best light acting I have seen since [Kay] Francis appeared in [Ernst Lubitsch's] Trouble in Paradise. She is lovely to watch and listen to; she has a beautiful humorous ease . . . only the cinema is able in its most fantastic moments to give a sense of absurd unreasoning happiness, a kind of poignant release: you can't catch it in prose: it belongs to Walt Disney, to [René Clair's] voices from the air [in À nous la liberté, 1932], and there is one moment in this film when you have it, as the Count scrambles singing across the roofs to his mistress's room; happiness and freedom, nothing really serious, nothing really lasting, a touching of hands, a tuneful miniature love."
As always, it's the films that survive in circulation that have the best chance to being reevaluated as time passes by – but since Paris in Spring has been more or less abandoned to the Paramount vaults, and circulates only in bootleg DVDs, one either has to see a second rate copy of this first-rate film, or be content with memories. Complicating things further is a really vicious review of Paris in Spring in The New York Times by Frank S. Nugent from July 13, 1935, when the film was first released in the States – contrast this with Greene's review, which is only available in a volume of his collected film reviews, and not on the web.
This is yet another film that deserves to to be on DVD; one more film where only the reviews survive.


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Day One
Fifteen minutes later (or so it seemed), our alarm clock went off and we struggled into town. Being new to the area, we probably took the absolutely worse possible way in, but we did pass an amusing "Apple Maggot Quarantine Area" highway sign, given its proximity to the Microsoft campus, however, and that alone was worth the trip. Seattle, for those who have never been, is amazingly similar to San Francisco: it's an old-looking city with plenty of trees (that is, it's nothing like Phoenix) and it stretches out to the water that surrounds it. The waterways of Seattle, however, are much more attractive than San Francisco, as is the surrounding countryside, which features the requisite towering pines and deep green grass. You have to forgive me for waxing over this: Living in Phoenix tends to dull your senses to the color green a bit.
The Windows NT 5.0 Technical Workshop was held at the Sheraton Towers in downtown Seattle. It is what it sounds like, a rich resort with all the amenities (that is, it's everything our hotel wasn't) including its own travel center and the like. The conference was held on the second floor, amusingly set next to a Rotary Club conference of sorts that featured some interesting-looking buttons. Pressing on, we received our first shock of the day, a massive (and I mean massive) binder full of white papers and slide presentation print-outs. The paper in the binder is about 6 inches tall (think about that for a second) and the thing has to weigh about 30 pounds. We got our ID badges, binder, and a few stacks of paper than Microsoft didn't have time to collate into the binder yet and sat down on the floor to mull over this a bit. Around us, a crowd was gathering, including a few familiar faces from Windows NT magazine and other trade publications. We grabbed some drinks (as usual, Microsoft provided a nice buffet breakfast each day drinks for the duration) and headed into the conference room when the doors opened at 8:00.
The stage was done up in typical Microsoft fashion with the same hardware the company uses at tradeshows. Keith and I grabbed seats right up front but two massive display panels brought images from computers on stage to the back of the room as well. We spent the next few minutes going over the agenda and other details of the conference. A couple of interesting notes: Microsoft, as usual, provided a press room with computers and Internet access, and free phone use. Not too shabby. They also offered to ship everyone's binders home for free via Federal Express. Given the heft of this thing, I can't tell you enough how much I appreciated this, and the cost of such a gift is staggering: By my estimate, about 150 of the 181 attendees were from outside the United States.
Day One -- Tuesday, August 18
8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. -- Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. -- Introduction and Product Overview
10:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. -- BREAK
10:15 a.m. to 12:15 a.m. -- Distributed Services
12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. -- LUNCH
1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. -- Core Architecture (Base)
2:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. -- Networking, Communications, & Printing
4:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. -- BREAK
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. -- Distributed Applications
5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. -- Day-One General Q&A
6:00 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. -- Dinner Reception
8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. -- Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. -- Setup
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. -- Management Infrastructure
11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. -- BREAK
11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. -- IntelliMirror
12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. -- LUNCH
1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. -- Hardware Support & Multimedia
2:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. -- Mobile Enhancements
4:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. -- BREAK
4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. -- User Interface
5:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. -- Closing and Q&A
6:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. -- Closing Reception
Introduction and Product Overview
Microsoft Senior Vice President Jim Allchin opened the conference with a technical and marketing overview of Windows NT 5.0. Allchin described the history of Windows NT, including an interesting timeline that somehow manages to squeeze a major release of NT into ever year since it was introduced. The following list also includes the goals of each release:
1993 -- Windows NT 3.1 -- Micro-kernel operating system
1994 -- Windows NT 3.5 -- Size and performance
1995 -- Windows NT 3.51 -- Interoperability and compatibility
1996 -- Windows NT 4.0 -- New user interface
1997 -- Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition -- Enterprise features (large memory support, etc.)
1998 -- Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server -- Legacy desktops
Based on this, it's fair to say that 1999 will be no different. Allchin told the 181 in attendance (which included representatives from 32 countries) that while Windows NT 5.0 was the most important release in NT's history, it was also just another step on the path to Bill Gates' vision of "information at your fingertips." Future releases, he said, would finish that goal. While I feel that this is a realistic view of the product, Allchin's comments to the press that day stand in sharp contrast to comments made earlier by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and president Steve Ballmer, who have described this release as something they're betting the company on. No matter: In the grand scheme of things, Allchin's comments ring truer, though they are far less exciting, I suppose.
After the history lesson, Allchin and Windows Product Manager Yusuf Mehdi, along with Windows NT Product Manager Mike Nash, gave a general overview of Windows NT 5.0. If I came away with one general theme for Windows NT 5.0, it would be this:
Windows NT 5.0 is aimed at the corporate user, not the home/consumer user.
Please read that a few times to yourself. While it's true that many people (myself included) use NT at home, Windows NT 5.0 will not supplant Windows 98 as the home operating system of choice. Microsoft does promise that the next major version of Windows NT after 5.0 will include a consumer version, but 5.0 is not it. This is, of course, a way to cover their tracks: While NT 5.0 (particularly Workstation) will, in fact, be a better OS for many home users, the company is focusing this release on corporate needs and features. Most specifically, it will not be providing the same level of compatibility with home/consumer apps that Windows 98 does.
Goals for Windows NT 5.0
Allchin iterated through a list of goals for Windows NT 5.0. These include:
- Improve overall quality Make incremental deployments possible (and easy)
- Improve ease of use
- Support next-generation applications (integration of the Web and Win32)
- Lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) Add key Windows 98 features (emphasis mine)
Given that list, here are the major features of each edition of Windows NT 5.0 (not that each succeeding edition is essentially a superset of the one before it):
Windows NT Workstation 5.0
Microsoft stressed that Windows NT Workstation 5.0 is for corporate users, not consumers. Key features include:
- Personalized menus from Office 2000
- Internet Explorer 5.0 integration
- "One-button" synchronization for mobile users
- Faster than Windows 98 on systems with 32MB RAM or more (yeah, right)
- Best of Windows 98: hardware support, multimedia capabilities, DirectX 6.0
- TCO: Setup Manager, SysPrep tool, etc.
- End "DLL Hell" -- not solved in current release (5.0), but getting better.
Windows NT Server 5.0
Windows NT Server 5.0 is billed as the "ultimate NOS." Key features include:
- Better performance for File and Print servers
- Quota support ala UNIX (woo hoo!)
- CPU throttling and other new features in IIS 5.0
- IE 5.0 + IIS 5.0 = Best performance (this isn't marketing hype, it's true)
- Better performance/flexibility for Applications servers
- Streaming media and unified communications for Communications servers
- Incremental deployment
- Centralized management (distributed as well)
Windows NT 5.0 Networks
Yusuf Mehdi effectively demonstrated why the combination of Windows NT Workstation 5.0 on the client and Windows NT Server 5.0 on the server offered the best possible combination of features with IntelliMirror.
- Combined, these two operating systems offer the absolute best platform for any corporate site.
- IntelliMirror: Store user profiles, Favorites, documents, and the like on a server
- Directory-based administration
- Machine replacement -- roaming users will automatically have access to everything, regardless of where they login
- Directory-enabled applications
- Web-based line-of-business (LOB)
- Integrated communications
Other editions and the "Server" vs. Services issue
Curiously, the Enterprise Edition was not discussed. If you're wondering, the Terminal Server Edition has been removed as a separate product with NT 5.0 and is available as an optional component of Windows NT Server 5.0, now known as Terminal Services. In fact, many "servers" have been renamed in 5.0 to more clearly label their position as a component of Server. For example, Internet Information Server is now called Internet Information Services and Transaction Server is now called Transaction Services (since renamed to "Component Services" --Paul).
When will Windows NT 5.0 ship?
I don't think the crowd was listening more closely to any part of the conference than the couple of minutes Jim Allchin spent discussing the release date of Windows NT 5.0. Unfortunately, there is no simple answer to this question: Rightfully so, Allchin says that Microsoft will ship Windows NT 5.0 when its customers say its ready. Specifically, members of the Rapid Deployment Program (RDP), a group of Fortune 100 business partners, is working closely with Microsoft to ensure that the product is as good as it can be. According to Microsoft, RDP members are responsible for finding the most bugs in Windows NT 5.0 (beta testers only find 10%) and these early adopters are given a huge say in the direction NT 5.0 will take. Another criteria for shipping is that no so-called "Sev-1" bugs (that is, "showstoppers") must exist in the code before Microsoft will ship it. Microsoft will be running its 1000+ production servers and 20,000+ desktops on Windows NT 5.0 before they ship it to the public as well. This process, which is known as "eating your own dog food," ensures that Microsoft itself is in a position to be its own biggest customer. If it's not good enough for Microsoft, they won't ship it.
Moshie Dunie, a Microsoft Vice President, also discussed the company's target date for shipping Windows NT 5.0. He said that there were 5000 people working on the product within Microsoft and its development partners. The NT team is composed on sub-teams (such as "Networking," "Shell," and the like) that work with a central build, test, and management team that is responsible for "building" Windows NT 5.0 every day. Dunie says that there are far more people testing NT 5.0 within Microsoft than there are actually developing it. Dunie also provided the following list of Windows NT 5.0 milestones:
- Beta 1 -- September 1997
- Beta 2 -- completed August 17, 1998 at 5:02 p.m. -- focus on quality, basically feature-complete
- Beta 3 -- full product. Focus on fit and finish, address Beta 2 feedback
- Release Candidates -- Based on feedback from Beta 3. Essentially final code
- Release to Manufacturing (RTM) -- Windows NT 5.0 goes "gold"
- General availability -- Approximately six weeks after RTM
Windows NT 5.0 Beta is shipping to over 250,000 testers (45,000 technical beta testers, 25,000 channel partners, 200,000 MSDN members, and 181 conference attendees). Dunie said that our CDs (which include Workstation and Server) were being burned as he spoke: We ended up getting them late Wednesday.
Dunie suggested that Beta 3 could be expected in late 1998 or early 1999 though no firm release date was given, of course. Given the massive improvements between Beta 1 and Beta 2, however, I predict that Windows NT 5.0 will see the light of day before the end of June 1999. However, I think it's best to remember the words of Moshie Dunie, who summed up the release of NT 5.0 like so: "When customers tell us it's ready, [we will release Windows NT 5.0,] not a day earlier."
After Windows NT 5.0...
Jim Allchin briefly discussed Microsoft's plans for post-Windows NT 5.0 releases, though he stopped shorting of specifically mentioning Windows NT 5.1 (code-named "Asteroid") and Windows NT 6.0 (code-named "Neptune"). He did, however, say that future releases of Windows NT would include the following:
- 64-bit clustering support (Enterprise Edition), better scaling, and more integrated storage
- Consumer simplicity -- auto-everything, maintenance-free, adaptive user interface
- Developer richness -- a full combining of the Win32 API with HTML for a new Windows presentation layer, localization independence, XML schemas, and the like
- New markets (ubiquity) -- Embedded NT, real-time OS features, unified programming and management
Keith and Paul visit Redmond
After the first break (which ran late like everything else those two days), Keith and I left Seattle and headed across the river to Redmond to visit with some friends at Microsoft. I don't want to describe this visit in too much detail (well, in any detail, actually) because that's not what this trip was about. We only had two days in Seattle and wanted to use our time as wisely as possible. Basically, we skipped out on the rest of day one, but information from the sessions we missed will be covered in future NT 5.0 Technology Showcase articles, thanks to the mammoth binder we got. The short version of our visit is that we got to see some people, check out the sprawling campus, and just hang out. By the time night came, we were both pretty exhausted, so we ended up crashing right after dinner. What can you expect after four hours of sleep and a full day?


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