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Among his many credits as an engineer, producer, programmer and artist, Jon Astley is perhaps best known for his award-winning work remastering classic albums from the likes of The Who, Abba and George Harrison.
Dave Lockwood
"Since I've been doing this, a lot of people have said to me 'It's great working with you because there are no secrets. You explain everything you're doing.' And I realise now why I hated taking my stuff to mastering engineers when I was a producer. I do try to make sure that my clients know exactly what processing is being applied, and I always A/B things at the same level so they can really hear how it's being affected." Mastering is no black art to Jon Astley, merely a logical step in a process with which he is intimately familiar in its entirety, having made the classic career progression from teaboy to engineer, then engineer to producer and finally mastering engineer (with a spell as a Fairlight programmer and artist in his own right thrown in for good measure).
From the elegantly appointed mastering room in his Georgian town house overlooking the Thames, Astley, feted in recent years for his award-winning remastering and restoration work with The Who, Led Zeppelin, Abba, Level 42, George Harrison and many more, recalls starting out in the audio industry in 1972. "I really wanted to get into the film industry, but there wasn't a film industry in the UK then, so the next best thing was recording music for films. I went to Olympic, because they did a lot of that. I actually met the owner in the pub and said 'Please can I work in your studio?' and he said 'Can you start on Monday?' Of course, I was making tea for two years before I was allowed to really do anything, but I was lucky enough to start working with Glyn Johns and became Glyn's right-hand man for the latter part of his stint with The Eagles and for Joan Armatrading and two Eric Clapton records. It was a fantastic time because Glyn was the man that everyone wanted to work with and a great engineer he'd often just go and reposition a mic and the sound would change quite dramatically. I was mostly running around for him, wiring, miking up, but then later, he wouldn't even show up sometimes. Eric Clapton's 'Tulsa Time' we did from start to finish without him and played it to him the next day, backing vocals, the lot! I started to work with Glyn out of the studio as well we did some live recording in America and then he asked me if I wanted to do The Who with him. That was potentially a little difficult for me because Pete Townshend is my brother-in-law and up to then he and I had pretty much kept apart, professionally, but I said 'As long as I'm working for you, Glyn, I don't see that there's a problem.' Then, three months into the project, Glyn ran out of patience with the band and left! They came to me and asked if I would I finish the record and that was how Who Are You became my first production job."
Astley was not entirely comfortable with all the responsibilities of the producer's seat, however. "You always have to be watching the budget I remember often thinking 'Christ, we didn't achieve anything today and we've spent a thousand pounds.' I felt very guilty about the wastage and I didn't enjoy that side of producing. That was one reason why I bought a Fairlight 1 when they first came out and got into programming stuff, because I could see the way that a lot of pre-production work could be done, and tracks could be assembled before going into the studio. I realised that as sampling time got longer, I could actually sample whole bits of backing vocals and guitar parts and that's when it started to get exciting to me.
"I suppose I was looking at it as a way of cutting corners 'If we get a backing vocal in the first chorus that's perfect and the track's been done to a click, we can just use it again on the second chorus and that'll save us half a day of singing.' It made budgeting so much easier. You could schedule four days to do a single and you knew as you walked in with your backing track that you'd be singing by day two, doing the guitar solos by day three and mixing it on day four. But I took it to extremes, though, and started to make records that were practically all Fairlight. After a while I found myself thinking, 'I actually don't like this any more I really don't like these bands.' And that's one of the reasons I stopped producing at that point, because I just didn't like the music any more. All those great 'playing' rock & roll bands that I used to work with had disappeared. So now I'm in heaven because I am remastering them all!"
Re: Mastering
Jon Astley's career move into the more specialised role of mastering engineer was no more planned than his sudden elevation to producer on Who Are You. "In 1996, The Who asked me to oversee their reissue/remastering program, so I started to reassemble the album masters, which was actually quite difficult as a lot of them were missing. In a lot of cases I was looking at copy masters and safety copies. But as I was listening to this stuff I started to think that perhaps it would be more interesting to actually remix a lot of it, so I went back to the record company and asked if they would entertain the idea of me faithfully remixing the eight- and 16-track masters. I had already done this on some tracks for the boxed set we had done just previously, and everybody liked the results there so they agreed.
"I went to Andy McPherson's Revolution Studio in Manchester. He's a great friend, a great engineer but most importantly a great Who fan and he knew exactly what was right for it in fact, as we got further into the project, he went out and bought an old plate echo to help us faithfully recreate exactly what it would have sounded like in the '60s and '70s. For mastering, I took those remixes to Tim Young at Metropolis and I went to see Bob Ludwig, who used to master my productions from the '70s and '80s and I spent a lot of time with him, going 'What does that do?' and 'Do you prefer that to that?' and dragging him out to dinner so I could pepper him with questions. I must have bored him rigid. But he was wonderful and gradually I became aware of what mastering was all about and what was really going on."
"The CEDAR processors really came to the forefront on this one. They worked brilliantly on the bass and bass drum: the only thing you could hear them working on was the guitar, where they just took the plectrum off the front. I had to treat that slightly differently. I use the De-hiss, De-click and De-thump plug-ins within SADiE, and I've got a hardware De-crackler in case I have to work with vinyl. The off-line processes just work beautifully: even the Auto ones will usually be right first time. Just occasionally I'll have to tweak the start and end point because the total area you are applying it to can sometimes affect whether it works or not. People often find it hard to believe that you can take something out without affecting the music, but you can. The first time I used the CEDAR De-hiss, I was just amazed. Suddenly I could hear all this echo that I hadn't been aware of because it had been covered up by tape hiss. There are some very clever guys there at CEDAR. "On the original vinyl of Live At Leeds they put a little note on the label saying 'The crackles are intentional'. So when I remixed it in '96 and used the CEDAR De-crackler to clean it up, I wrote on it 'The crackles are gone!' It's a nice record now. But some of the Who fans still come up to me at gigs and say 'You completely ruined that track because you took the hiss away.' I say, 'What are you comparing it to?' They say 'The one I've got,' so I just say, 'Well, play that then!'"
The Who Live At Leeds
The Who's Live At Leeds album is regarded as one of the band's finest, but the original live tapes presented a major technical challenge. "As everyone knows, there was a mains plug hanging out of the wall somewhere in the system, producing this constant crackling on every other track on the eight track. Bass drum, bass guitar, vocal... and guitar nothing too important! Sometimes it was just intermittent, and other times there were whole rows of them. It was so bad that Pete hadn't even mixed some of the tracks.
A Lot Of Little Things
Astley cites the ability to maintain perspective as one of the most important aspects of the mastering engineer's job. "You mustn't get so locked in to the details that you lose sight of the overall picture. And you have to know when to stop you have to know when you've done as much for the track as can be done and when applying any more of a process will actually start making it worse.
"I tend not to do alternate versions I stop when I like it and let the client decide. I don't vacillate as a mastering engineer. But I do like feedback from clients though. I really don't mind, and expect to go back and revisit things. I am always willing to try something else.
"Suddenly mastering seems to have become all-important louder, brighter, faster... People are using their Finalizers and their Pro Tools mastering plug-ins and so much stuff is just too crunched. People aren't letting dynamics happen. Volume seems to be everything, even for record companies. But as soon as volume becomes the primary issue, you're into crunchiness and less dynamics and it's such a shame because CDs could be so much nicer.
"Sorting out a whole lot of apparently little things is actually a large part of what I do. A lot of people have not got a running order sorted when I get the tracks, so as soon as you put them in running order you become aware that some of the transitions don't work or that there are level differences. Sometimes they'll have tried a running order and just thought 'Oh, that'll be OK when it's mastered: track two slightly brighter, track three slightly louder.' A band whose album I had already mastered called me yesterday and they had decided that they wanted to use a different version of the single, which was track two on the album. So I dug out the one I mastered six months previously and pasted it in, and the album just died when track two came in because it sounded 2 or 3dB quieter than the rest actually it was just as loud, but it sounded quieter. That's one of the mistakes that people often make: just because it peaks at the same level doesn't mean it's going to sound as loud. That's typical of the sort of work I often do.
"Some records are quick Catatonia's Paper Scissors Stone was done in a day with Clive Langer here with me, and I revisited two spots, which took maybe an hour, two days later. That would be a quick one, whereas something like Tori Amos' Strange Little Girls album took two weeks to master. It's not unusual with me for an album to get mastered three times. One thing I like to do is to master it and give people a copy and say, 'There's your record. This isn't finished. Go away and listen to it. Call me Monday.' Most people think of mastering as something where you walk out of the door and that's the end of the process. I like it to be much more creative than that. Decisions have to be made with the perspective of a couple of days. Sometimes I'll listen really quietly to an album that I've done and I'll think, 'I wish that intro was a bit louder.' So I might take that section, which may have peaks that are already 0.1dB off zero, and just push it up against a limiter to gain another 1, perhaps 1.5dB. The beauty of doing that inside something like the SADiE system that I use is that you can just tail it off after the intro and get rid of it for the rest of the track. Little tricks like that can make all the difference. Everything is recallable now and that makes it so much easier to just make these little tweaks. Although I do still write everything down as well. Sometimes you just can't get back to something that you had before it's inexplicable but probably to do with where the moon was!"
Remarkably, there are no tape machines at all in Jon Astley's room. "If I get anything contemporary on analogue, these days it's on half-inch and I will go out to wherever they mixed it and lift it from the machine it was recorded on there are just too many vagaries in half-inch line-up, especially at the bottom end. If the studio is getting back off their machine what they want to hear, I know that if I take my Genex and maybe some DCS converters out to their studio, I can come away with what they are listening to at 96kHz. Working from the Genex is great, as I can zoom around sections quickly, unlike working with tape."
Whilst he is keenly aware of the potential pitfalls arising out of many domestic surround systems' origins in the home-cinema market, Astley remains a fan of mixing in 5.1. "The most horrifying thing is that people are selling these systems where the TV speaker is the centre speaker in a 5.1 setup. That does very peculiar things because it's not the same as the others. You know that not everyone is going to have their surround speakers in the right place, but you can only get it sounding right on the system you mix it on. Bob Pridden and I have just remixed Who Are You in surround and its great fun. We used to spend days in mixing trying to get all those beautifully recorded, big sounds to come out of two speakers, but you just don't have to bother in 5.1. As soon as you start to place things around in different areas, you no longer need to thin them out or place them further back. You can hear all the sounds as they were recorded without them fighting against each other. A lot of the Who stuff that I did was sequencer-based, and if you just pull that stuff forward in a surround mix, the band have suddenly got their own space. It's beautiful. You don't have to fight for space for everything."
With the Genex as the primary replay source, the next unit in the mastering chain is usually Jon's Sintefex Replicator. "I use that mostly for valve-sounding EQ, as that enables me to keep it all digital SADiE have just put this old Decca EQ in it for me. Then it goes into my Weiss EQ1, the new linear phase model. It has a smoother sound, but it puts a 250mS delay through the system, which isn't great when you are working on a DVD. The next thing I'll go through is the Weiss DS1, if I just want to catch vocals that I think haven't been looked at properly in the mix, and very often I will go into my TL Audio PP10, which is the warmest digital compressor I've ever heard in my life it's got the most horrible front end to it, especially if you are working in surround, but the sound makes it worthwhile. I use the soft-knee compressor in there. Finally I'll throw it into my TC Electronic System 6000, which I mostly just use as a brick-wall limiter, although sometimes I'll use the three-band compressor if I want to get it sounding like a Finalizer! Obviously, every job differs in little unique ways, but that would be a typical processing chain. I knock stuff in and out all the time to see what it's doing.
"My compression settings won't actually change that much from track to track. I'll tweak the threshold to suit the material; ratio will be between 2 and 3 to 1, as I'm only affecting the top few dB. There's a parameter called Softness on the PP10 I've no idea what it does, but it goes between 7 and 8 and it sounds great! Finally, there's my SADiE system [see box].
Jon Astley: Solo Artist
"Very soon after I started working with the Fairlight I delivered a Marilyn Martin record to Atlantic in New York and I got a phone call at my hotel from the head of Atlantic and he said 'I need to see you in my office tomorrow.' I thought 'Oh shit.' When I went in he said 'I want you to make a record for me.' I said 'OK, who is it?' And he said 'No, I want you to make a record for me as an artist. I really like your production work and I understand that you do all the programming yourself. Can you sing?' I said 'I think so.' And he said 'Go and make a record.' He didn't even want demos. So I made a fairly rough and ready record for Atlantic called 'Everyone Loves The Pilot', based on Fairlight 1, and then the following year I got an all-singing, all-dancing Fairlight 3 and I took it to extremes. I made this record that was practically all Fairlight and delivered that. Pete Townshend told me that he used it as his benchmark in the studio for quite a long time, because it was just so 'perfect'."
"On modern stuff I'd very rarely need to EQ anything beyond one or two dB in maybe a couple of bands, but I can get fairly radical with EQ for remastering. It's funny, but top and bottom seems to always sort out what's missing from any track from the '70s, but during the '60s the top end was horrible, so you actually don't want to bring that out. The original tapes from the '60s will often be OK, but the masters are horrible at the top end. With George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, I felt there were complete bands of frequencies totally missing because it had been bounced on eight-track three or four times, with slightly faulty line-ups. Everything around 5k was just not there, even though Phil Spector had probably been adding tons of it every time he bounced because he loved that area so much. So sometimes you just have to get radical with it, but in that instance I could dial in a great big peak and it made no difference at all, because there was just nothing there for it to work on. I had to make it wider and work with what was there on either side of the hole! All Things Must Pass was possibly the most challenging thing I've done just the amount of hiss on it was overwhelming."
"When I went mastering I just used to take the SADiE with me. I even went to Bob Ludwig with two Who albums, Quadrophenia and Tommy remixed, and he mastered from the hard drive. My current SADiE system is an eight-in, eight-out Artemis and it's great. It does everything that I want it to do and it sounds good too so long as you clock it externally."
A New Challenge
'Doctor Fixit': Editing And Mastering With SADiE
"I bought my first SADiE in 1992 when I was a producer, as a studio tool just to edit albums together. I became know as 'Doctor Fixit' I used to work with Chris Kimsey a lot. There was a live album that we did for Johnny Halliday from four nights at Parc des Princes. Chris was in Metropolis four studios with four engineers and I'd be running around, taking a guitar solo and flying it in to night three and taking a vocal line from night two and putting it into night four, and that's how the whole album was pieced together. I thought, 'this is the way to do things'. We assembled the album on the SADiE too.
Although such painstaking restoration work often requires all his expertise, Astley also cites the recently released Tori Amos album Strange Little Girls as one of his more demanding mastering jobs. "For the first time I mastered the tracks in running order. We'd start each day by playing what we'd done the day before. Tori is not a volume freak at all, she just wants to hear certain things in the music that she knows can be got out of it in mastering. Sometimes she'll try to bring out a vocal and then she'll say 'OK, go back to the earlier setting for that chorus.' Then the mastering practically becomes part of the mixing process. Tori will want to use a specific EQ just for a part of a song, if that's what works. I do that myself sometimes too, if I'm working on my own. I will listen to something that I've had a couple of goes at, and think, 'Well, I really like it up to there, so why don't I just use that bit and then set up something else for the next bit and edit it together?' Obviously, I can hear the edit, because I know where it is, but if you don't take it to extremes, people never know.
"On Strange Little Girls I had seven bands of EQ that would vary from point to point in the track. I tend to get an overall EQ that I like for most of the track and then revisit parts and edit those in on the SADiE. Sometimes Tori would say 'Let's use that verse that we did from the other day.' Sometimes even 'Let's use that word that we did the other day.' But she's got extraordinary ears. You can play her a CD made in one machine alongside a CD made in another and she'll be able to tell you which was which every time. I couldn't tell you, so I don't know what she's listening to! But she's consistently right. She has hearing from another planet. There was one occasion when I had forgotten to switch on my external clock so the SADiE had used its internal clock and Tori came to me and said 'This CD you've made doesn't sound right.' I thought about it and looked at the system, and there it was I hadn't switched on the clock. And then I could hear it too. The top end just wasn't as clean, so there must have been a bit of jitter or something."
"I got slated in the press for it sounding like a studio record, but the only thing we did to it was to overdub one bass note where there was a key change in the middle of a blues and the bass player went 'booonnng', on the wrong note! He came into Olympic when I was mixing it and we matched it up in 10 seconds and replaced that one note. There was no spill problem. These days we'd just copy a note from somewhere else in the track and paste it in."
Recording Eric Clapton's Just One Night
Among Jon Astley's many production credits is Eric Clapton's live album Just One Night, which threw up an unusual technical difficulty: "The main challenge on Just One Night was that Eric wasn't supposed to know that I was doing it. I put up all these mics and the manager came running in saying, 'No, no, no! If Eric sees that he's going to know it's being recorded!' So I had to hide the audience mics and I had to take splits off the PA mics and I had to duck and dive backstage at the Budokan and keep out of everybody's way. I built a studio in one of the dressing rooms and just had all the cables coming in. And I sat there all afternoon and daren't venture out in case any of the band saw me. I got no soundcheck I just had a roadie go round the drums and I just guessed levels. I thought I'd lose two or three songs sorting it out, but we'd got two nights recording. As the band started I was poised over the mic gain controls on the board and as they went into 'Tulsa Time' all the needles were peaking at zero and it was just perfect. I thought, this sounds quite good just as it is don't touch anything! And that's how it went down. It was all the first night, which is why we called it Just One Night. That first night was just brilliant.
Room Design
There's no bass trapping in Astley's mastering room, and consequently he limits his monitoring to compact PMC LB1s. "These do actually give me a very true bottom end. Clients have also said to me 'This the first time I've heard it in a sitting room.' And I really like that. When I'm mastering I get used to working at one particular volume, and when I'm just listening back to stuff I'll be about 18dB below that quite quiet and I use a Crookwood 5.1 monitor controller to set the monitoring levels. The PMCs are very good at showing up little vocal ticks and clicks that have made it through the production process. When I've finished something, I'll also listen to it on headphones, listening for noises and stuff that you just won't notice on speakers.
"The bottom end is sometimes through the floor in some tracks these days, but it really doesn't matter as much as it used to. You get dub records with lots of really low stuff, so why can't you apply that to a pop or rock record? I do sometimes see the cones moving excessively and it turns out to be some sample that's been shifted down two octaves that people were just not hearing on their home studio monitors. Actually I did that myself with Bob Ludwig. I took him something I'd done on the Fairlight and I must have touched a key without being aware of it in the studio. Bob suddenly said 'Jesus! Look at that!' His cones were moving at about one cycle. That's one of the dangers of sampling, if you can't hear what you are doing down there. I look out for it now. Sometimes I apply a steep roll-off, perhaps an 80dB cut at 10Hz. I had an artist sitting in here once who said he could hear it when I put that roll-off in, and I actually began to hear it too, even though you would think this room couldn't possibly allow you to hear stuff down there."
Some People Are Never Satisfied!
Astley has gained industry recognition for his remastering projects, but his work on classic albums also has to face the toughest audience of all obsessive fans. "I got an award for remastering the Led Zeppelin BBC stuff, but actually it had never been mastered in the first place, so that went fairly smoothly. However, I also did a lot of Abba stuff, and there are dropouts on a lot of that which are quite severe in some places. There was an Abba fan who wrote to me saying 'Why does the backing vocal on the second line of the second chorus of 'Dancing Queen' now not go on as long as it used to on the vinyl version?' I couldn't think what he was on about, but when I looked at the file, I saw that there was a dropout there and I had taken the first chorus, which was just the tiniest bit shorter and pasted that in to sort out the dropout. The 'anoraks' out there are your greatest friend and your worst enemy. I'm being slagged off by the fans for the new version of The Who's Live At Leeds [see box], because they wanted to hear the tracks in order. Andy McPherson and I have mixed the Tommy section that originally that came in the middle of the show, which has never been released before, and I decided that we should put it out with the show as it was, with the new tracks that we mixed in '96, and that we'd put the Tommy section on a separate CD. That way you can hear it in its entirety without having to stop halfway through. The Who fans hate it. They say they want to hear the show just as it was. You just can't please everybody!"
Jon Astley's Mastering Tips
Volume isn't everything. Don't crunch.
A good clock source makes a huge difference to digital systems.
A/B frequently.
Make sure you listen at a level you can remain comfortable with for several hours.
Stick it on CD and live with it for a while.
You can't get the gaps right without listening to the whole album.
If you are referring to other material, make sure it is playing through the same converters as the track you are mastering import the reference track into your editor, if necessary.
Don't put too much top end on everything I was probably guilty of that for about the first two or three years I was doing this.
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1. | Silent Conversation | ||
A serious flirtation technique that does not really work with people who tend to be attracted, but so incompatible, they cannot even hold a simple conversation without losing the essence who they are in the process. A conversation that takes place in a silent relationship that is based on shallow feelings that strive to be more but are clearly stemmed from infatuation. Things that people say (in their minds) while looking into the eyes of another person so it is almost as if they could be talking to the other person but they are too afraid to actually open their mouths. When two people are strongly attracted to one another and cannot fight the urge to gaze into the eyes of the other person at least 15 times an hour in as quick a manner as possible, while in their minds saying short, anxious sentences that they probably would not want anyone in the room to hear. They participating in a silent conversation. In between gazes, they tend to ignore one another in order to "maintain their cool" and appear sly about their relationship. Then when the thought of the other person arises, which is constant, the conversation starts back up again. Oftentimes, these conversations take place in awkward classroom settings when the participants are bored and simply want the thrill of a secret (kind of, sort of) love affair. The girl looks up from her studies to see a handsome young man her age staring at her. Surprised by the attention, and flattered, the girl says in her mind, "Oh my gosh, he's staring at me again." Then she smiles and lets him know that it's game on.
When the boy realizes that he is caught, in his mind he says, "Oh shoot, she's looking at me now." Then he looks away and acts like he is doing his work again. He is trying so hard to let her know that he is "interested," but that's all he knows how to portray at this point. After so many attempts to let the other person know that the he or she is "falling for" the other one and in a pathetic attempt to kindle, or perhaps further, the relationship that has been lingering on for a year or so, the couple will try to hold the gaze for longer than two seconds, as they say, (in their minds of course) "I love you," but that is as far as the silent conversation will ever go and the relationship will wither away with it, considering that a silent conversation is more of an expression for "I am too afraid to talk to you, so I'm just going to stare at you and hopefully you can read my mind." |


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Context: not all pedophiles ("boy-lovers") just let their fantasies run away with them. Some are working to try to get beyond their hang-ups and help others to as well. Following the tradition of cognitive therapy, and in order to POUNCE ON, IDENTIFY and CONTROL those runaway moments by using irony and satire, the following vocabulary item was created and offered to the community by "Didaskalos."
Official motto of the website: BoyChat: You are not alone. Anagrams: Ah, cry; a looney-tune taboo. Ahoy! Let no cub too near ya. Yeah, no blue cartoon a toy. So, "Watching Blue Cartoons" is my new pet phrase for both: A) reading & posting at BoyChat; cuz the background is baby-boy BLUE, gettit? B) projecting needs & dreams & whatnot onto some boy. E.g., "Former poster Dr. Adam Selene has not been Watching Blue Cartoons with us for a while."
But I gotta stop working on anagrams; I just "heard" a boy three blocks down crying because he had to go to bed. I better put on my BLUE CARTOON cape, swing into action, and FIX THAT BOY-DRAMA!!!! Or: The new 16-year old lifeguard dudes at the pool this summer are pretty handsome, I'm glad to say. Was that one with the earrings coming on to me, or am I just Watching Blue Cartoons again? ---Didaskalos |


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Inauguration Day has come to a close. It is a day to take measure of a nation. A day to relish in the ceremony of a country unlike any other in the world. Whether the president's name is Reagan or Obama, Bush or Clinton, Eisenhower or Kennedy Inauguration Day is one to remember.
Four years ago a energetic history making president-elect took the oath of office before a record setting crowd packing into the National Mall and surrounding streets. President Obama was taking charge during the early months of economic freefall that had begun under his predecessor. Yet, on that day there still was hope. Today a more mature, experienced leader spoke with the confidence of never having to run for office again. A nation in an improved economic condition enjoys a greater sense of peace. It opens the door for a promise of greater achievement in the coming four years.
We know that a little less than half of the country does not think President Obama is doing a good job. Of course, that still leaves way more people thinking he does a good job than there are people thinking congress is accomplishing anything. We remain a nation divided. Yet in Washington today that was not the impression we conveyed to the rest of the world.
A handsome young family captured the attention of dozens of television cameras carefully placed around the capital. Some were stationary others tethered to cars and trucks. The image of continuity of government or a gradual transition into a new era while still having a hand on tradition makes for a grand day. Already it's time to get to work and turn that hope and promise into concrete progress before the next campaign begins for the open White House.
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Agenda and minutes
Environment, Sustainability and Community Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Monday, 12 September 2011 7:30 pm
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APOLOGIES To receive any apologies for absence. Minutes: Apologies were received from Councillor Avon who was substituted by Councillor Mathias. Apologies were received from Mr Bryson, Co-opted Member. |
DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST In accordance with the Members' Code of Conduct, Members are requested to declare any interests orally at the start of the meeting and again immediately before consideration of the matter. Members are reminded to specify the agenda item number to which it refers and whether the interest is of a personal or prejudicial nature. Members are also reminded of the requirements of Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 that they should declare and not vote on specified matters if they are two months or more in arrears with their Council Tax payments. Minutes: There were no declarations of interest. |
To consider and approve the minutes of the meeting held on 24 March 2011 and the minutes of the extraordinary meeting held on 9 May 2011 – attached. Additional documents: Minutes: The minutes of the ordinary meeting held on 24 March 2011 were approved as a correct record of proceedings and the Chairman authorised to sign them. The minutes of the extraordinary meeting held on 9 May 2011 were approved as a correct record of proceedings and the Chairman authorised to sign them. |
PERFORMANCE REPORT QUARTER ONE 2011/12 PDF 82 KB This report provides details of the performance of the Environment Directorate indicators that monitor the council priorities for the period April to June 2011. Minutes: Introduction of the Report The report was introduced by the Assistant Director of Environment (Development and Street Scene) and the Strategic Cabinet Member for Environment, Planning, Parks and Highways. In reporting the underperformance of processing of planning applications, the following points were outlined: (i) The areas of underperformance highlighted in the report related to the government national indicator system which was now no longer operational. The Council was developing its own performance indicator system. Although it was important to provide a fast service to residents and developers, the Council wanted to ensure that a high quality service was maintained. (ii) The number of planning applications received by the Council had increased in recent months by around 15%. A higher number of applications was also being referred to the Planning Committee. This increased the pressure on the service. Members' questions In response to Members' questions the following information was provided: (i) It was difficult to compare these figures to those of other London boroughs as not all boroughs used the same performance indicators. (ii) New performance indicators were being developed for Richmond Council which included examining the percentage of Planning Committee decisions which were in accordance with officer recommendations. (iii) It was not yet possible to evaluate whether reducing the planning committee cycle from fortnightly to every three weeks had an effect of the speed of application determination because this change had only been introduced in May 2011. However, it was not anticipated that this would have a detrimental impact and where necessary it would be possible to hold special meetings for major applications. (iv) The staff number within the Planning Department had not been significantly altered. It would be possible to accommodate the increased number of applications within current resource levels. (v) It was noted that at times delay in processing applications related to applicants not submitting all of the requisite information initially. It was hoped that promoting the use of the pre-planning advice service would reduce the length of time it took to process applications as applicants would be better informed. The Cabinet Member stated that officers were working efficiently to meet an increased demand in applications. It was RESOLVED: That the action plans as detailed in the report be noted. |
ALL IN ONE AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT PDF 94 KB This report provides Members of the Committee with an update on All in One and the development of the Council's approach to community involvement. Additional documents: Minutes: Introduction of the Report The report was introduced by the Assistant Director of Environment (Development and Street Scene), the Assistant Director for Commissioning Corporate Policy and Strategy and the Strategic Cabinet Member for Community, Business and Culture. In presenting the report the following points were outlined: (i) The Council was examining how to progress proposals which had emerged from the All in One survey and the subsequent village events. The role of ward councillor in engaging the community was being examined by a cross-party working group. (ii) The first draft village plans would be produced in the following weeks and would be open to consultation. The Assistant Director of Environment clarified that in this context the village plans were not the same as 'village plans' in the context of the Local Development Framework. (iii) Many of the issues that residents had raised in response to the survey and at the events related to Environment issues such as improvements to roads and pavements. For this reason it would be useful for the Environment, Sustainability and Community Overview and Scrutiny Committee to continue to play a role in examining the proposals which lead from the All in One survey. The Chairman explained that at a meeting of the chairmen and vice-chairmen of the Council's scrutiny committees it had been agreed that the Environment, Sustainability and Community Overview and Scrutiny Committee would lead in the scrutiny of the All in One project in order to provide focus and to avoid replication of work across scrutiny committees. Members' questions In response to Members' questions the following information was provided: (i) In order to meet the requirements of each community the Council would need to be flexible in how it procured services. (ii) The All in One survey was not a sample survey. It had been sent to all households in the borough in order provide all households with an opportunity to have a voice. The level of respondents (13,500) was very high for this type of survey as a percentage of the borough's population, which was encouraging. However, the Council had also undertaken further work to engage young people, as this group had a lower response rate. Taking the survey forward in terms of engagement would also recognise any areas which had had a lower response rate than others. (iii) The All in One Survey was viewed as being the starting point for a programme of community involvement that would be ongoing over the coming years. As the Council moved to a commissioning model it would be especially important to ascertain residents' service priorities. (iv) The village plans would be based on those local areas which had been identified by residents as distinct neighbourhoods. To carry forward community development in a meaningful way it would be necessary to focus on these distinct village areas rather than to dissect communities further into micro-communities. (v) The Council was working with local partners such as the police via the Richmond Partnership. However it was important for residents to be aware of the remit of the Council and the limits of its influence. For example, the Council could encourage the continued development of shopping centres via the planning system but it could not control the mix of shop types in an area. (vi) It was vital to the process of community engagement that ward councillors played an active role. Councillors should be consulted on the Council's proposals that were relevant to their wards and if this was not happening this would be investigated. The Council's approach to consultation was devolved and undertaken by individual services. Although there was now a centralised process with a dedicated webpage which was set up to provide a list of all live and past consultations. (vii) It was acknowledged that not all residents would have the time or capacity to be involved in the work of the Council in a significant way and hence the Council should not base all of its service decisions on the feedback of those who did get involved, although this could be used an indicator of residents' expectations. It would also be vital for the Council to give direction and focus to those who did want to volunteer their time in order to gain the most benefit for the community. (viii) The village events had been evaluated as being very successful in continuing the Council's engagement process. Feedback had been that residents appreciated the Council and its officers spending time in each separate community to listen to its concerns. The Cabinet Member thanked officers for contributing to the success of these events. (ix) Individual consultations on the Council's proposals and services would continue as distinct processes. However, the All in One survey could be seen as a starting point for re-orientating the Council's relationship with residents. It was a reminder to the Council to continue to invest in exemplary services such as parks and open spaces which had registered as being of key importance to residents. The Environment directorate was also tailoring its work to match those priorities identified in the survey by other means. For example the Highways Strategy had previously focused on roads but following residents' feedback later drafts of the strategy had paid equal attention to pavement issues. Members discussed how to identify a community and how to ensure that the needs of all the borough's residents were met: in particular those who were difficult to engage. The Committee also discussed how the internet could be used further as a resource for community engagement. It was RESOLVED: 1) That the proposals for taking forward the All in One and developing an approach to community involvement be noted. 2) That the development of public consultation since the task group, including recent consultations on environmental issues, be noted. 3) That the development of village plans be considered at the meeting of the Environment, Sustainability and Community Overview and Scrutiny Committee in November 2011, or as soon as the information became available. 4) That it be recommended that ward councillors be consulted on the relevant village plans as they are developed. 5) That it be recommended that ward councillors are informed of relevant Council consultations as and when they are carried out (where this was not already happening). |
This report gives details of the proposed work programme for the remainder of the municipal year 2011/12. Additional documents: Minutes: The Committee discussed its future work programme in light of themes discussed during the meeting and topics raised by individual Members as being of contemporary concern. It was RESOLVED: That the following items be added to the work programme: 15 November 2011 · The development of village plans (following the All-in-One consultation) · Procurement Plan · The 2012 Olympic cycle race and effect on traffic in the borough 20 March 2012 (if appropriate) · Update on the Thames Tunnel project |


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For a while now, we have been wondering when the next Leander Paes or Mahesh Bhupathi will hit the Indian tennis scene, or who will follow in Sania Mirza's footsteps and break through on the women's circuit. It looks like we have been asking the wrong questions all along. What we should be wondering is when Indian tennis will get its own Gopichand.
While the nation swayed side to side with each shuttle that Saina Nehwal hit across the net in London and celebrated with fervour Saina's achievements, India owes as much to Gopichand as it does to Saina for its first ever Olympic medal in badminton. Gopichand is one of those rare breeds in Indian sport – a former top player who has taken an active interest in the future of the sport, helping nurture young talent in the nation.
Gopichand has been India's most successful male badminton player since Prakash Padukone – winning the All England Club title in 1991 (badminton's equivalent of Wimbledon) and peaking at no. 5 in the rankings before injuries brought an end to his career. Since then, Gopichand has opened a coaching academy where many of India's top present and future badminton players train and is also India's national badminton coach.
A coach can only be as good as his disciple. And while Saina is lucky to have Gopichand by her side, Gopichand is equally lucky to have the talented, hard working and determined Saina by his. Saina has been Gopichand's pet project, and with her, he has executed a plan that goes beyond the badminton court. Right from tactics to diet to fitness to weight, Gopichand has worked on Saina with a single goal in mind – an Olympic medal. That goal is now a reality and as Gopichand himself said, he now has to think of new goals for his life.
That new goal is not too difficult to envision. A gold medal for Saina in the 2016 Rio Games, and perhaps taking P. Kashyap and PV Sindhu to the next level. Indian badminton is fortunate to have Gopichand steering it. In contrast, India's most successful tennis players in the last few decades have stayed away from assuming a larger role in Indian tennis.
Neither Vijay Amritraj nor Ramesh Krishnan – India's only noteworthy tennis players in the late 1970s and 1980s – have taken a similar role in Indian tennis (though Amritraj did open his own tennis academy which has since closed). And it doesn't look like India's current crop of tennis veterans are ready to don the mantle either. Both Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes are coming close to the end of their careers but it seems unlikley that either are ready to play the part. Paes will surely be India's Davis Cup captain/coach one day. But it's hard to mould a generation of champions if you're involved with them for just a few weeks every year.
Bhupathi already has his future set out through his sports and event management company Globosport. And both Bhupathi and Paes have their eyes set on the celluloid – with Bhupathi producing movies and Paes acting in them (obviously not in the same ones!!). And Sania Mirza will sooner or later settle down to nurture Shoaib Jr. and will not have time to focus on India's juniors.
What Anil Khanna and the rest of the Indian tennis administration need to do, is find their own Gopichand and hand over the reins to him. Until then, we shall continue to wander on the outer fringes of tennis, living perpetually in hope and looking back perpetually on what could have been.
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Chandra Sekhar Reddy Garisa Joined 0 points
Nice article Hareesh – the only correction being that you don't seem to have given enough credit to Mahesh for the tremendous work he has done over the last few years with MBTA as well as his contribution towards grooming and facilitating the development of Junior players. Agreed he is not a hands on coach like Gopichand but we should not undermine Mahesh's contribution in facilitating growth of a majority of junior players in the last decade or so. If any of us are involved or have worked so hard to find sponsors and traveling coaches for young tennis players – we will realize that its a thankless job especially when AITA is hell bent on sabotaging the work to settle personal scores!
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Ketki Kolhatkar Joined 0 points
completely agreed…its a success of Gopichand and his excellent training for the way Saina and Kashyap have performed in London and will do even better at Rio. on the other hand , I cant see any future of Indian tennis after Lee-Hesh step away from tennis. There's a very strong need of Some die hard devoted teacher like Gopichand if India wants to shine in tennis like badminton.
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Harsha Midathala Joined 0 points
Before finding their own Gopi Chand…Indian Tennis should first produce a Gopi Chand. A Gopi Chand who is capable of playing and performing in Singles.If the Junior Development programme in India starts today, then we can hope for some one to perform in 2020 Olympics. Lets hope for the best!
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Ram Narayanan Joined 0 points
to get a gopi in tennis coaching players, u need to get a gopi as a player in tennis. it is unlikely that we would get one. not to forget badminton is all about quick movements and not sprintings. whereas tennis is all about running hard with great stamina. that is one weakness as we indians are not natual athletes. so, it is not easy or I would say damn impossible to have a great singles player originating from the subcontinent. when vijay and ramesh played tennis had not been so energetic and they were playing with wooden racquets too. things have changed. so it is high time we does not mourn about what has happened in olympics. we should face the reality.
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Vishal Singh Joined 0 points
I want be a profesional player of badminton and I will become a world's no.1 player.
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Ashwin Panemangalore Joined 0 points
Gopichand's and Prakash's academies are at the apex where players go after reaching a certain level What you don't see is the small army of dedicated coaches across many cities and towns who work selflessly to bring up a cadre of middle class hopefuls Witness the participation in state and district badminton tourneys for under 12 and above This is missing in tennis and that is the essence of the difference Tennis is played and followed by the rich class in India where for most youth it is recreation The few successful players are not keen to settle down into a 'retrograde' step like coaching as you have yourself pointed out Badminton on the other hand has middle class people following it where aspirations go higher and throw up champion material Few know we have 11 players in the world top 100 badminton singles despite the strong Asian domination For all its media attention Tennis has not a single Indian in the top 200 singles and only two in the top 500.
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IJ's New City Studies: Want to Create Jobs? Remove Red Tape.
The Institute for Justice's city studies feature real-world entrepreneurs from eight different cities across the nation. Chicago entrepreneur Dee Busch, left, says requiring her to obtain a landscape architecture license would only raise the cost to consumers; it would not raise the quality. When Nick Harris started Nick's Towing Service, he could work anywhere in the city of Houston. But the city gave just 11 towing companies the exclusive right to freeway tows, and now Nick is shut out of the freeway market.
By Dana Berliner
Since our founding in 1991, the Institute for Justice has litigated to free would-be entrepreneurs from arbitrary and abusive government action. In that span, we have represented hairbraiders, casket sellers, computer repair techs, book peddlers, florists, vacuum vendors, interior designers, bagel and doughnut shop owners, eyebrow threaders, taxi drivers, limo drivers, van drivers, tour guides, people who file horses' teeth and even a person who massages horses for a living. Watching the alarming growth of regulation and red tape imposed on small businesses, we recognized that even more needs to be done to protect the rights of small business-people. IJ launched a nationwide campaign to promote economic liberty, which, of course, includes more litigation. But we also thought it was vital to expose how government barriers affect individual entrepreneurs throughout the country. And so, thanks to a grant from the Diehl Family Foundation, the Institute for Justice spent the past year conducting studies identifying barriers to entrepreneurship in eight cities around the nation—Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Newark, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
Cities and states throughout the country hamper entrepreneurship and job creation at virtually every turn, burying them in mounds of paperwork; lengthy, expensive and arbitrary permitting processes; pointless educational requirements for occupations; or even just outright bans. In every city we studied, overwhelming regulations destroyed or crippled would-be businesses at a time when they are most needed. For example, to operate a used bookstore in Los Angeles, the government demands that the owner get a permit from the police; record the personal information of everyone who brings in books for exchange or resale, including their names, addresses and book titles; and make this information available to the police. In some cases, the bookstore owner even has to thumbprint patrons who bring in books and file daily reports with the police. In Washington, D.C., to give sightseeing tours for compensation, the city requires you to first get a government-issued license. Similar requirements exist in Philadelphia and elsewhere. So, as tour guides pass the National Archives, which houses originals of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, they don't have the freedom to describe those charters of freedom without first getting the government's permission. Time and again, these reports document how local bureaucrats believe they should dictate every aspect of a person's small business. Government officials want to choose who can go into which business, where, what the business should look like and what signs will be put in the windows. And if that means that businesses fail, or never open, or can operate only illegally, or waste all their money trying to get permits so they have nothing left for actual operations, that's just too bad. This attitude would be bad enough in prosperous times, but in a period of financial strain and high unemployment, it's also incredibly foolish. The studies were released in October and have already received significant media coverage, including an editorial from The Wall Street Journal, an op-ed I co-authored with Chip Mellor for USA Today online, and op-eds and news pieces in the cities studied. In the coming months, we will use these studies as a source for new litigation, to advance the cause of entrepreneurs nationwide and to remove some of the barriers that crush entrepreneurs struggling to start or grow their businesses. Dana Berliner is an IJ senior attorney.
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Another High-school Romance - chapter 8
Liam's POV
I used to rule the world
Sees would rise when I gave the world
Now in the mornings I sleep alone,
Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice, feel the fear in my enemies' eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing: now the old king is dead, long live the king,
As I was singing in front on the Xfactor judges I was slowly observing Simon, I knew that it was his opinion that counts, and I wanted to impress him so bad,
I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing
Roman Calvary choirs are singing
Be my mirrors my sword my shield
I was really nervous, but I held my emotions well, it was this thing about me that I hated, and loved at situations like these, you see I am just a little insecure about expressing my emotions, that is why I want a girlfriend that shows every thread of emotion the instance she feels it, and that is why I want Jessica even more, not only is she one of the most beautiful girls I have ever seen, well maybe not one of the hottest, but definitely one of the most beautiful, I have always believed that beautiful and hot are two different things, beautiful is not only pretty from the outside but from the inside as well and she never, ever flaunts it, I even have this feeling that she disagrees with her being unbearably gorgeous, hot is simply an adjective given to those who were blessed with a good face and figure and also "blessed" with the attitude to flaunt it at any opportunity possible, which is why I always prefer beautiful over hot.
Anyways, Jessica is just beautiful, and if you ask me, she is perfect! As if she was carefully crafted in the heavens above and descended down to earth.
As I belted out the last verse of my audition song, I closed my eyes tight, I have never been good at this note, but I don't know what it was but it made me ace it, I got a standing ovation from one of the judges the cute female one sitting in the middle, however it was Mr. Cowel I was interested in, what was he going to say?, " that was amazing, however" he continued, "I felt that you are giving me 80%, and to be honest I am a greedy man, I want my 20%" I panicked for a moment, " I promise you that 20% next time", I said looking as innocent and sincere as I possibly could, and he fell for it! Not that I was setting him up or something, I will definitely give him that 20%, and this is how I made it to boot camp, and on my way out I felt my phone vibrating, and I hoped it was her and when I saw the caller ID I yelled out "Jessie, YES, just in time" to the phone right after I answered the call "so, guess what?, your "lee"" (referring to the nickname she calls me by) is going to be a celebrity now, so I guess you'll need to call for an appointment before we hang out!" I backed the phone away from my ear for an instance since she was shouting and when I heard her stop I closed the distance between the phone and my ear "love you jessie, bye", I heard that silence, as If gasping for breath she always did when I told her I loved her, of course she thought I meant that I loved her in a friendly way, and then she replied with the usual "me more lee, bye love", and I hung up.


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Jul 07, 2011Experience has increasingly shown that the abundance of natural resources does not necessarily produce rapid development in countries where they are found. Instead, paradoxically, they all too often produce
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Resolving the Three-Headed War from Hell: Seizing an Opportunity for Peace in Southern Sudan, Northern Uganda and Darfur
Jul 07, 2011In the third of the Africa Program Occasional Paper Series, noted Africa expert John Prendergast analyzes the interrelated crises plaguing Sudan and Uganda, and assesses what would be necessary to bring peace to the troubled region. more
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Jul 07, 2011On November 27, the Wilson Center's Africa Program hosted a discussion with Dr. Kizza Besigye, President of the Forum for Democratic Change. Dr Besigye provided a profile of Uganda's political history, the status of opposition parties and the government's neo-patrimonial culture and its intolerance towards other political views. more
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d'engagement de Goma signé la semaine précédente (les parties absentes ont été les autorités centrales civiles et militaires. Par ailleurs, les FRF ont été matériellement empêchés de revenir à temps des Hauts Plateaux). Assistaient également les présidents des sociétés civiles et des structures de coordination de chefferie coutumière des deux provinces. more
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Hitting the Target, Missing the Point: Youth Policies and Programmes in Kenya
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The radiator fan on my '04 V-8 Touareg continues to run for about five minutes after the engine is turned off. It doesn't matter if the engine is run for 30 seconds or after a long period. The problem first reared its ugly head when the "check engine" light went on. I made an appointment with the local VW dealership to have the problem fixed, but before he date for the appointment arrived, the battery died. After a new batter was installed, the "check engine" light went out but the fan continues to run after the engine is turned off regardless of how long the engine has been running. After a trip to the VW shop, I was told that the temp sensor needs to be replaced. Unfortunately, or fortunately, the dealership didn't have the sensor, so I left deciding that I could buy the part on-line and replace it myself.
I looked around the radiator and found what I think is the temp sensor located on an extension on the lower passenger side of the radiator. I disconnected the wires thinking that if the "switch" in the sensor is closed, disconnecting the wires would basically "open" the switch. However, with the wires disconnected and starting the engine and running for about 30 seconds, the fan continued to run for about 5 minutes even though the coolant was not above air temperature.
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Here is a quick step-by-step on how to install IDM 401 AE on top of Windows 2008R2 using Integrated Installer.
Security is the source of a few surprises on the Windows 2008R2. Also, the steps you take with Integrated Installer make a difference.
I have allocated 3Gb of RAM on my system, and 40 Gb of disk space. I would recommend you allocate more disk space, something like 80Gb for a test system.
- Create a Folder called Novell (e.g. C:\Novell ) and assign explicit rights for Administrator on it;
- Create a share on the folder;
- Run install from DVD/ISO and install all components;
- Create a user called postgres(type=Administrator) and set a complex password (e.g. N0vell123);
- Assign rights to the \Novell\IdentityManager\rbpm\potsgresql for user postgres(otherwise postgresql service won't start);
- add postgres user to share on \Novell
- run configure and deselect Identity Reporting (leave the rest checked).
After this step, you should have a working UserApp at http://ip_address:8180/IDMProv
You probably want to create an Inbound rule in Windows Firewall for the following ports: 8080,8180,8443,8543,8030,389,636,524,8081
Now if you want Identity Reporting, you need a SLES EAS server. You can install one using the IDM 401 AE Linux DVD/Medium and install only the EAS server (from under products). Then you need to obtain the system key from /etc/opt/novellsentinel_eas/config/activemqusers.properties (e.g. system=
You will need to open ports in your EAS server firewall: 15432 (postgresql), 1289 (audit), 61616 (ActiveMQ).
Then you can run configure again and select Identity Reporting. Set all IP addresses to EAS server for EAS, database and Data Collection Service.
After that, you can hit http://ip_address:8180/IDMRPT
If you need to restart JBoss, you can use start-jboss.bat under \Novell\IdentityManager\rbpm\UserApplication.
Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).
It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.
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Submitted by broonie27 on 22 August 2012 - 9:13pm.
Create a share, OK. Assign what permissions to the share?
Assign rights to the \Novell\IdentityManager\rbpm\potsgresql? What rights, full access or what?
What is the point in creating this postgre user unless you are running the config.exe under that user?
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