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Hilary Gosher is a managing director at Insight, co-managing Insight Onsite, the firm's team of operations and growth experts who provide collaborative operational assistance and advice to Insight's portfolio companies. Hilary founded this team in 2000 and has worked alongside more than 70 software and Internet companies, advising on day-to-day strategy, operations, M&A and post-merger integration. She sits on Insight's investment committee, manages due diligence and runs Insight's marketing and PR activities.
Hilary currently serves on the Board of Directors, or works with Anaqua, Datacore, Drillinginfo, ECi Solutions, IKANO/Virtacore, Mimecast, Mediaspectrum, OverDrive, Photobox, Tongal and Shunra.
Prior investments include Cvent (IPO), Argus Software (acquired by Altus Group), Medidata Solutions (IPO), Primavera (acquired by Oracle), Scriptlogic (acquired by Quest Software), Shutterstock (IPO) and Vertafore (acquired by Hellman & Friedman).
Hilary is an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Stern School of Business. She teaches entrepreneurship to MBA students and actively mentors technology start-ups. In 2011 she authored a chapter titled "Customer Lifetime Value: Methodology and Applications for Operating Partners", published by Private Equity International in "The Operating Partner in Private Equity" handbook.
Prior to joining Insight, Hilary held management positions at The Monitor Group, where she consulted to companies in the healthcare, technology and infrastructure sectors.
She worked at Marketspace, an e-commerce affiliate focused on start-ups and online retail businesses.
Earlier in her career Hilary held finance positions at Reuters UK, and Sea Containers in London.
Hilary holds an MBA from INSEAD in France along with a BA in Economic History (first class pass) and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB), cum laude, from the University of Natal, South Africa.
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NYU Stern School of Business
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Shunra Software
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DataCore Software
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University of KwaZulu-Natal
BAEconomic History, EnglishJan 1, 1989
University of KwaZulu-Natal
LL.BCorporate and Contract Law, Medical JurisprudenceJan 1, 1991
MBAFinance, StrategyJan 1, 1998
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LONG BEACH, Calif., (UPI) — Lawmakers in Long Beach, Calif., have drafted an ordinance intended to regulate music coming from ice cream trucks.
The ordinance would require ice cream trucks to turn off their music when they are serving customers, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
Council members said they have been getting a lot of flak for the proposed regulation.
"I want to state for the record, I do like ice cream and I enjoy ice cream trucks," Councilman Dee Andrews said. "We just have to strike a balance of the needs of our neighbors for peace and quiet and the business needs to sell ice cream."
Ice cream vendors say they are worried the ordinance will have a negative impact on their business.
"The music is what brings the children out. If they take that away, our businesses are going to be affected in a negative way," said vendor Ismael Hernandez, who has peddled ice cream in Long Beach for 13 years. "The music is vital for us."
Long Beach residents who live near parks frequented by ice cream trucks say the music — which often includes songs such as "La Cucaracha" and "It's a Small World" — can be annoying.
"Sometimes I'm trying to watch TV and as much as you try to ignore the music, you can't," said Isaura Lopez, 23, who lives near MacArthur Park in Long Beach.


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Not bad Ravs!
I'm sorry my friend...no time. Anyway, I've finished it in this style...hope you can use it. It's not great, but it's all I have time for.
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I'm so sad you have not time... I like so much your style and with a few adjustements we could make a wonderful map... Ok, anyway, I thank you very much for giving me your time... Maybe in future I will ask you another map
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2014 Internships have been filled.
We'll begin accepting applications for the 2015 season in November.
Uproot Farm is a small diversified vegetable farm about an hour north of the Twin Cities. 2014 will be our fourth season during which we'll offer 100 Summer CSA shares, a limited number of Fall CSA Shares, and we'll continue to establish new fields and improve soil health in new ground. We'll grow a total of 6 acres of vegetables, with about 12 additional acres in cover crops.
In addition to the CSA, we grow for one farmer's market in Minneapolis and three small wholesale accounts, including two food co-ops and one food truck/catering company. We are not certified organic, but our practices meet, or exceed, all of the requirements of the National Organic Program.
The farm is located 15 minutes from Cambridge, MN, a town of 8,000 with a food co-op and many other amenities.
Internship Two internships are available. They begin April 15th, and end October 31st. Start and end dates may be flexible. As an intern, you will be immersed in all daily jobs on the farm including, but not limited to, tractor work, greenhouse work/management, irrigation management and implementation, planting, bed preparation, cover cropping, weed management (with both tractors and hoes), harvesting, washing and packing of over 40 types of vegetables, and possibly farmer's market sales.
***This is an internship based on learning through doing.
Housing Housing, kitchen, and a solar shower are provided in the renovated barn. There is a composting toilet just outside the barn. Laundry facilities are available in the farm house. Vegetables from the farm are available once we start harvesting.
Hours We work five and a half days a week–Monday through Friday with an hour lunch, and Saturday morning. Start time will vary throughout the season and is dependent on the weather and the tasks at hand, but we will usually work 7am-4pm.
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a drunk driver killed someone i love. i thought maybe, if i kept it up, i might hear something back…This is so beyond heart breaking, yet so extremely powerful. Never forget to tell your family, friends, and others you love them. It may be the last time you do so!
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Sam: I think Max's presence alone obliterates any chance of a snazzy film noir setting for us.
Max: Sam! It's a mythical red squirrel! Can I keep it?
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This strip club isn't far from the flat. That's convenient.
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Nuns' album remains atop Billboard's Classical Music chart for fifth consecutive week!
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The heavenly sounds of ADVENT AT EPHESUS opening eyes and hearts toward Heaven
ATLANTA, GA (December 27, 2012) – ADVENT AT EPHESUS, the Advent album from the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, has a firm grip on the No. 1 spot on Billboard magazine's Classical Traditional Music Chart for an impressive fifth straight week, putting the singing nuns on pace to become the bestselling new classical music act of 2012. The Benedictines of Mary have kept their lofty standing on the chart, despite recent classical album releases from Andrea Bocelli, Placido Domingo, Fifty Shades of Grey Classical, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Once Upon a Christmas, and the London Symphony Orchestra's Christmas Classics. The CD has had a tremendous and lasting impact on numerous listeners.
"It has been wondrous to hear the many testimonies of those who have found comfort and joy during Advent and Christmas by listening to the ethereal sounds of ADVENT AT EPHESUS. We have heard from anyone from a parent of a severely autistic young man who has found soothing calm by listening to the peaceful music on this collection; to a young woman who found stillness and consolation during chemotherapy while listening. Still others have been listening during their last moments of this life, and others while giving birth. For so many already, this music has undoubtedly inspired tranquility and uplifted hearts and for that we are truly humbled and grateful!" said Monica Fitzgibbons, co-founder of De Montfort Music.
Since its Nov. 20 worldwide debut from De Montfort Music and Decca Records, ADVENT AT EPHESUS has blessed the world with the sacred and sublime music of a hidden and contemplative religious order tucked away on Missouri's rural countryside. Hidden in prayer and sacrifice, their music now is available worldwide. In addition to the CD, the album is available as a digital download for all devices at a variety of online retailers, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble and the iTunes Store.
ADVENT AT EPHESUS has received praise from numerous Catholic leaders and has crossed over into secular media outlets.
@USCCB praises the new album: for the musical selection including "Praeparate Corda Vestra, which I never heard until the Benedictine Srs album 'Advent at Ephesus' (amazon.com/Advent-Ephesus…) "Love it."
Daniel Lord, editor of Catholic Exchange, called the CD "the most moving Advent collection I've ever heard."
American Public Media's "Performance Today" calls Advent at Ephesus "remarkable," and has featured the recording twice on their program in December, with additional music having aired on Christmas Day. Hailed as one of America's most popular classical music radio programs, the show has more than 1.3 million weekly listeners, and is heard on more than 260 stations around the country. To find stations carrying the program, click here http://performancetoday.org/stations.
USA Today ran a feature on Christmas Eve stating, "For the past month, the world of classical music has seen fewer shades of grey and more black and white."
People Magazine recently featured the Nuns on their "People Pinboard" page which highlights "celebrity news, photos and trends" in their December 17th issue, noting Advent for Ephesus "outsells Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album."
The Washington Times pre-Christmas review declared of Advent at Ephesus "their album, (is) an oasis of serenity in a dissonant world."
The Salt Lake Tribune says the disc is "divinely beautiful," while The St. Louis Post-Dispatch aptly notes the album is "quietly cutting through the blare and noise of commercial Christmas" and "an ideal remedy for jingle-itis."
Zenit honored the music by calling it "A CD that has debuted at No. 1 on Billboard magazine's Traditional Classical Music Chart provides, as it were, a backdrop to (sic) images of Our Lady."
Jean Heimann, Catholic Fire blogger, says: "The Benedictine nuns voices are crystal clear and so beautiful; the music captures the spirit of Advent, as it is very meditative and uplifting, containing a heavenly peace that you don't hear in secular music."
About the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles
Founded in 1995, the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, are a young, monastic order of religious sisters. United with Our Lady at the foot of the Cross; the sisters seek, above all else, a life of union with God in prayer as guided by the Rule of St. Benedict. They pray and sacrifice especially for the sanctification of priests. The Sisters sing together eight times a day as they chant the Divine Office in Latin. Along with the making of priestly vestments and sacred linens, the Benedictines of ...
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The Clough Center Public Law Colloquium provides a venue for public law scholars and graduate students from Boston College and other Boston-area colleges and universities to meet periodically throughout the academic year and discuss work in progress.
The Workshop is organized by Professor R. Shep Melnick (BC) and Tom Burke (Wellesley).
Archived Events
Fall 2012
Emily Zackin, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hunter College will present part of her new book Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights Princeton University Press (forthcoming 2013) based on her Princeton PhD dissertation which won the Corwin award for best dissertation in public law and the Burnham award for best dissertation in politics and history. Monday, November 12, 2012.
Spring 2012
Michael Klarman, Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, Harvard University Law School, will present a talk entitled "Same Sex Marriage Litigation and Political Backlash" based on chapters from his forthcoming book. Monday, April 23, 2012.
Fall 2011
Special Session, The Boston Area Public Law Group will meet to discuss significant cases currently on the Supreme Court's docket including: N.F.I.B. v. Sebelius challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Arizona v. U.S. regarding the constitutionality of Arizona's immigration law, as well as other major cases on the court's docket. Monday, December 6, 2011.
Spring 2011
James Fleming, The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law and Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life, Boston University Law School, and Linda McClain, Paul M. Siskind Research Scholar Professor of Law, Boston University Law School, will discuss their new paper, "The Myth of Strict Scrutiny for Fundamental Rights under the Due Process Clause." Monday, March 14, 2011.
Kevin McMahon, John R. Reitemeyer Associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut) will discuss his forthcoming book "Nixon and the Supreme Court: Strong Rhetoric, Selective Action." (University of Chicago Press). Wednesday, April 6, 2011.
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R. Shep Melnick, O'Neill Professor of Politics Science, Boston College, "The Supreme Court and the Civil Rights State," Monday, November 15, 2010.
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Keith Bybee, Associate Professor of Law, Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media, Syracuse University Law School, March 18, 2010.
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Michael Greve, American Enterprise Institute, "Conservatives and the Courts," Tuesday, October 13, 2009.
Lynn Mather, Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Buffalo, "Rethinking Lawyer Fidelity," Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
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Today a two-CD deluxe reissue of Weezer's 1996 second album, Pinkerton, hit stores. That's good news: it's one of the great albums of the 1990s, an alt-rock masterpiece that embeds almost unbearably raw emotion inside singalong tunes that still sound thrilling 14 years later. At the time, however, it was a big flop, with most fans and critics recoiling at its unpolished sound and over-share lyrics. In recent interviews, Cuomo seems proud of the album, but at the time its critical and commercial rejection was a huge blow. EW talked to him when the band's third album came out in 2001, and the singer essentially disowned Pinkerton as a "hideous record." "It was such a hugely painful mistake that happened in front of hundreds of thousands of people and continues to happen on a grander and grander scale and just won't go away," he told us. "It's like getting really drunk at a party and spilling your guts in front of everyone and feeling incredibly great and cathartic about it, and then waking up the next morning and realizing what a complete fool you made of yourself."
In the story, Cuomo also talked about the dark, scary period after Pinkerton when he retreated from the outside world and the band nearly fell apart. Read an excerpt after the jump, or check out the whole story here. READ FULL STORY


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I have been having a lot of problems with this kissms.tumblr site.
1, you may notice the pictures are out of order. I can't seem to fix that. This also seem to affect the corresponding texts… they wer all out of order, so i had to start putting the descriptions inside the picture posts.
2 I wasn't totally satisfied with the url KissMs as it implied more kissing than cuddling. But it was easy to write down and give to people as the project progressed. I'll keep this site open for the 2 strangers who participated. (contact me if you want.)
3. The new site is in sequential order! Neat!


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The Texans got off to a fast start last season. To repeat that early season success in 2013 seems to be a tougher task. In week 3 they have to travel to face the Super Bowl Champion Ravens, before coming home to host the Seattle Seahawks, a team that nearly missed playing in the NFC Championship game. Then they travel to the bay area to take on the NFC Champion 49ers.
They face a tough divisional foe in Indianapolis but the rest of the division doesn't seem as daunting. The Titans and the Jaguars don't appear at the moment to be any real threat in the upcoming season.
- Sep. 9 at San Diego Chargers (Mon) 9:20p
- Sep. 15 Tennessee Titans 12:00p
- Sep. 22 at Baltimore Ravens 12:00p
- Sep. 29 Seattle Seahawks 12:00p
- Oct. 6 at San Francisco 49ers 7:30p
- Oct. 13 St. Louis Rams 12:00p
- Oct. 20 at Kansas City Chiefs 12:00p
- Oct. 27 BYE
- Nov. 3 Indianapolis Colts 7:30p
- Nov. 10 at Arizona Cardinals 3:25p
- Nov. 17 Oakland Raiders 12:00p
- Nov. 24 Jacksonville Jaguars 12:00p
- Dec. 1 New England Patriots 3:25p
- Dec. 5 at Jacksonville Jaguars (Thurs) 7:25p
- Dec. 15 at Indianapolis Colts 12:00p
- Dec. 22 Denver Broncos 12:00p
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12mm gets you slightly closer and you loose about 1/3 stop of light, 25mm gets you even closer and you loose about 1/2 stop of light. You can use both together and get even closer.
One thing to bear in mind - it's just a tube with contacts, so the make isn't important unless you use a canon 1.4x or 2x converter. If you want to mix tubes and converters then you need the canon tubes as they don't have an internal rectangular plastic diaphragm found in third part tubes.
- I can't . . . but then I doubt there are any Jessops in SA.
Oh well - they were very cheap. Will have to check when I get home.
According to these tables the EF12 will allow you to get up to 1.17x and the EF25 will allow up to 1.38x life size magnification with the lens you mention.
The problem I have with the Jessop tubes is as follows.
Body + tube + 1.4x + lens = ok
Body + 1.4x + tube + lens = not ok
Which means I can't go for the super macro:
Body + 1.4x + tube + 2x + lens which I've seen somewhere, maybe an old EOS mag?
Ok - I was lazy and grabbed my 70-200 as it was on the shelf and the 100mm was in my camera bag. The jessops tubes don't work in any combination with a converter on the 100mm macro, which is as I first thought. They do work without a converter. But apparently the Kenko ones do and so do the Canon. Hopefully with all that cleared up, Bruce can decide what he wants to get.Helpful Post!
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This blog showcases posters – some commercial, some by street artists – found in the streets of Berlin.
I am not affiliated with any of the distributers or content creators, nor do I condone or reject the posters' message. This is simply a platform that collects the visual footprints of culture left on our beloved city for your viewing pleasure.
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NAPLES, Fla.-- In honor of Memorial Day, you can pay tribute to our fallen service men and women with special ceremonies that will be held across Southwest Florida.
Governor Rick Scott will be at the naples memorial day event.
The event kicks off at 8:45 Monday morning with a special ceremony for Sgt. Linda Pierre, who was killed in the line of duty while serving her country in Afghanistan this past April.
Sgt. Pierre was from Immokalee.
CAPE CORAL, Fla.- At 10 Monday morning In Cape Coral there will be a Memorial Day service in the Veterans Honor Garden at the Coral Ridge Funeral Home and Cemetery.
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla.- The City of Bonita Springs will hold a Memorial Day service at 9 am at Riverside Park on Old U.S 41 in downtown Bonita Springs.
PUNTA GORDA, Fla.- In Charlotte County starting at 11 am you are invited to attend the Military Heritage Museum's and the Charlotte County Veterans' Council's Memorial Day ceremony, at center court in Fishermen's Village in Punta Gorda.
FORT MYERS, Fla. -In Fort Myers Congressman Connie Mack will attend the "Fort Myers Memorial Gardens Memorial Day Remembrance" to honor those service members who have served and sacrificed for our country and freedom.
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Are all the drivers pre-installed on the workstations?
Does running the script as an admin work OK whilst running as a locked-down user fails?
This could well be one of the first, if not THE first post on this forum so Hello everyone.
I have spent the first week of the Half-Term holidays deploying Windows 7 to all our curriculum computers around the site using WDS.
Everything is working AOK (we were running Windows Vista before).
EXCEPT the printers! We have the printers install depending on computer name so for example LIB-PC01 will install the Library printers:
; If logged onto a Library Compute
; Clear all printers and connect Lib-Laser and Lib-Colour
if INSTR(@WKSTA,"LIB-") > 0
ADDPRINTERCONNECTION ("\\server-01\Lib-Colour")
ADDPRINTERCONNECTION ("\\curriculum\Lib-Laser")
;*** Printer Script for IT2 ***
ADDPRINTERCONNECTION ("\\printserver\IT2-Laser")
This is very hit and miss and sometimes nothing will happen, sometimes the driver will install but the printer won't appear in the list.
I need help with this ASAP please as I really don't want to go around the whole site installing them locally which is what I will have to do if I can't find a solution from this website or other resources.
PS. Not a biggy but the Group Policy settings for Desktop Wallpaper also seems to be playing up on W7, ie. it appears BEHIND a black desktop background. Our one is definately pushing through because when logging off it appears briefly once the black overlay(?) disappears.
Are all the drivers pre-installed on the workstations?
Does running the script as an admin work OK whilst running as a locked-down user fails?
Can you try:
in place of the addprinterconnection lines?Code:RUN "rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\server-01\Lib-Colour"
Have you updated your servers to 2k8 R2 yet?
The group policy options for printers on W7 are greatly improved
Thanks for the replies so far.
The Printer Drivers are installed locally when the printer connects for the first time. So on a newly built computer, once the printer connects for the first time on first logon, the driver is in place. The issues arise with both students, staff and administrators.
I will try these commands tomorrow, thanks. (RUN "rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\server-01\Lib-Colour")
Regarding Windows Server 2008. This could well be causing issues, we have some Windows 2003 Servers and some Windows 2008 only the 2003 ones are domain controllers/logon servers though. Today I experimented and moved a few printers over to a printserver I built as a virtual machine on one of our newest servers running Windows Server 2008 R2. The printer installations on these printers seemed more reliable until I carried out continued tests and there were still times (i'd say 3 times out of 10) when the printers just don't install.
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Did you look at the "point and print" GPO settings? With the Win7 GPO templates you can configure your point and print settings also on computer level ("administrative templates\printers"). I had a similar problem where my printers didn't install via login script on Win7 machines. Solved this by configuring the point and print restrictions on computer level.
We have found (in xp though) that we have to add a 2-10 second delay between each attempt to add a printer so that might possibly help.
We couldn't get printers to work until we did this.
cacls c:\windows\system32\spool /E /G everyone:F
Oops sorry this was on xp, though I assume it will be the same for windows 7.
Last edited by tommej; 5th November 2009 at 09:24 AM.
On my office PC running 7 x64 my standard script seems to be running OK (fails because I've not put a 7-compatible driver on the server but appears to be adding until that point consistently...)
I remember those point and print restrictions causing trouble with 2003 \ XP a while back, ended up disabling it at the time.
Out of interest does the GPO printer settings in 2k8 R2 let you set a default printer yetCode:Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\server\printer" objNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\server\printer"
Last edited by gshaw; 5th November 2009 at 09:35 AM.
That's the exact solution - we had the problem ourselves.Originally Posted by BartPe
Although we had already installed the drivers into the image when we were creating it (which worked fine with Vista) when we deployed the image, the logon script just wouldn't map printers and this "do you trust this printer?" dialogue would pop up demanding admin rights to install the drivers.
A quick reconfiguration of point-and-print settings in the GPO was needed - even though it was already set up for our previous Vista install, it still took a tweak to work with 7.
One thing that may prove useful to you - we moved away from using Kixtart scripts as even though I upgraded it to the latest version, it just didn't seem to want to run right. There were times when the logon script took an age to complete and the perception was that it didn't always complete properly when it did run fine. As a test, I wrote an equivalent VBScript and that executes a lot faster - so we retained it.
As for your administratively assigned desktop wallpaper not displaying correctly, we also see this issue - although it's a niggle and a bit of a curiosity, I just haven't had time to sit down and work the problem through yet. I suspect it's down to a change in the way Windows 7 handles the desktop wallpaper aspect of a theme compared to Vista / XP, possibly even that the GPO hasn't updated itself even though I have updated the domain functional level and the GPO templates....
Last edited by TheCrust; 5th November 2009 at 01:54 PM.
have you gone from 32 to 64 when you moved to Win7?
do your print servers have drivers for 32 and 64 bit OS's?
Like others have said I would highly recommend using group policies in 2008 and the 2008 print server as they are much better than in previous server versions
I would agree with what others have said and use the windows 7 group policies to do the printer mappings- they seem much more reliable now. We had a similar problem to yours where the printer mappings would be random (happened on XP as well) and since using the group policies we haven't had any trouble. It's much easier to customise the printer mappings with item level targeting instead of messing around with scripts as well.
If you are using 7, you should use the built in point and print drivers. Then you can allow all users to install drivers, printer scripts no longer need to be run during startup.
You need to add x86 drivers to R2 from a 32 bit W7 machine, so it also adds the 32 bit printing components.
There are lots of drivers listed when you choose the new windows update option. I used 7 to add all the 32 bit drivers so that my Vista machines to use them on the R2 server (ideally x86 and x64 should be the same version).
I did try the GPO options, but it slows down the logon too much compared to the logon script.
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Some Numbers for the 'Entitlement' Bashers
Paul Buchheit
"Americans constantly hear about the threat of "entitlements," which in the case of Social Security and Medicare are more properly defined as "earned benefits." The real threat is the array of entitlements demanded by the very rich. The following annual numbers may help to put our country's expenses and benefits in perspective.
$220 Billion: Teacher Salaries
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are just over four million preschool, primary, secondary, and special education school teachers in the U.S., earning an average of $54,740.
$246 Billion: State and Local Pensions
Census data shows a total annual (2012) payout of about $246 billion. Only about $100 billion of this came from state and local governments, with the remainder funded by employee contributions and investment earnings. A recent Pew study showed a little over $100 billion in annual state contributions to pensions, health care, and non-pension benefits.
$398 Billion: Safety Net
The 2013 safety net (non-medical) included the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), WIC (Women, Infants, Children), Child Nutrition, Earned Income Tax Credit, Supplemental Security Income, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Education & Training, and Housing.
$863 Billion: Social Security
Social Security is the major source of income for most of the elderly, and it is an earned benefit. As of 2010, according to the Urban Institute, the average two-earner couple making average wages throughout their lifetimes receive less in Social Security benefits than they paid in.
$2,200 Billion: Tax Avoidance
That's $2.2 trillion in tax expenditures, tax underpayments, tax havens, and corporate nonpayment. It is estimated that two-thirds of tax breaks accrue to the top quintile of taxpayers.
$5,000 Billion: Investment Wealth
That's $5 trillion dollars a year, the annual amount gained in U.S. wealth from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2013. Even though the whole country continued to grow in productivity, most of the new wealth went to the very richest people. According to Oxfam, the wealthiest one percent captured 95 percent of post-financial crisis growth since 2009, while the bottom 90 percent became poorer.
Another View: Annual Per Capita Numbers
The following are averages, which are skewed in the case of tax breaks and investment income, as a result of the excessive takings of the .1% and the .01%. Details of the calculations can be found here.
$8,600 for each of the Safety Net recipients
$14,600 for each of the Social Security recipients
$27,333 for each of the Pension recipients
$54,740 for each of the Teachers
$200,000 for each of the Tax Break recipients among the richest 1%
$500,000 for each of the Investment Income recipients among the richest 1%
The super-rich feel they deserve all the tax breaks and the accumulation of wealth from the productivity of others.
This is the true threat of entitlement."
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Krugman: Worried About Oligarchy? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
"Even those of you who talk about the 1%, you don't really get what's going on. You're living in the past.'
- Jon Queally, staff writer
In an interview with journalist Bill Moyers set to air Friday, Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman celebrates both the insights and warnings of French economist Thomas Piketty whose new ground-breaking book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, argues that modern capitalism has put the world "on the road not just to a highly unequal society, but to a society of an oligarchya society of inherited wealth."
The conclusions that Piketty puts forth in the book, Krugman tells Moyers, are revelatory because they show that even people who are now employing the rhetoric of the "1% versus the 99%" do not fully appreciate the disaster that global wealth inequality is causing.
Says Krugman:
Actually, a lot of what we know about inequality actually comes from him, because he's been an invisible presence behind a lot. So when you talk about the 1 percent, you're actually to a larger extent reflecting his prior work. But what he's really done now is he said, "Even those of you who talk about the 1 percent, you don't really get what's going on. You're living in the past. You're living in the '80s. You think that Gordon Gekko is the future."
And Gordon Gekko is a bad guy, he's a predator. But he's a self-made predator. And right now, what we're really talking about is we're talking about Gordon Gekko's son or daughter. We're talking about inherited wealth playing an ever-growing role. So he's telling us that we are on the road not just to a highly unequal society, but to a society of an oligarchy. A society of inherited wealth, patrimonial capitalism. And he does it with an enormous amount of documentation and it's a revelation. I mean, even for someone like me, it's a revelation."
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Moyers: Fighting for the Four Freedoms
"If you believe America desperately needs a great surge of democracy in the face of fierce opposition from reactionary and corporate forces, then remembering and reviving the spirit of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died 69 years ago this week, is in order.
In January 1941, FDRs State of the Union address made it clear that a fight was inevitable, a fight to preserve, protect and defend four essential freedoms: freedom from fear and want and freedom of speech and religion.
This week, Bill speaks with historian Harvey J. Kaye, author of the new book, The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great, about how FDRs speech was a rallying cry to build the kind of progressive society that Roosevelt hoped for but did not live to see at wars end.
Kaye says the president was able to mobilize Americans who created the strongest and most prosperous country in human history. How did they do it? By working toward the Four Freedoms and making America freer, more equal and more democratic.

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Finding Populism Today by Jim Hightower
"Mass movements don't just appear out of the fog, fully grown, structured and mobilized. They emerge in fits and starts over many years, just as the American Revolution did, and as did the Populists' original idea of a "cooperative commonwealth." A successful people's movement has to take the long view, to learn about itself as it builds, nurture the culture of its people, take chances, create fun for all involved, adapt to failures and successes, stay steadfast to its principles, have a stoic tenacity and organize, organize, organize. A little serendipity helps, too, so grab it when you can.
In 2011 a serendipitous moment for the populist cause rumbled across our land, though later it was widely (and wrongly) dismissed as a failure. That September, hundreds of young people, loosely aligned with an upstart group called Occupy Wall Street, took over Zuccotti Park in New York City and audaciously camped out on the front stoop of the elite banksters who'd crashed our economy. Occupy's depiction of the 1-percent vs. the 99-percent struck a chord with the unemployed, underemployed, and the knocked-down middle class. Occupy encampments quickly sprang up in some 200 cities and towns from coast to coast.
The uprising was ridiculed (even by many progressive groups) as naive, undisciplined and "not serious." Who's in charge? Where's their strategic plan? Why don't they have position papers? All this carping about Occupy failing to produce the usual trappings of a Washington-focused interest group missed two essential points the young people were making: (1) such trappings are not producing any change, and (2) we're not an interest group, we're a rebellion.
Rebellion has to come first. As it builds, structure and process will follow in due time. The great strength of Occupy is that it was a genuine, non-institutional, social, non-wonkish, morally compelling, and spontaneous stand against the culture of inequality that the moneyed powers are imposing. It touched people in deeper ways than issue politics will ever do. And the great achievement of Occupy is that it prompted a cultural shift that turned Wall Street's barons into social pariahs and put the issue of inequality directly at the center of our nation's political debate."
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133 Exhibit 53. Summary of availability and For the intended crossing phase (Red/Walk), 39.3% of cross- utilization statistics, PHB crosswalk, post. ings were classified as correct utilizations of crossing oppor- tunities, and 23.4% of events were correctly rejected events. Post (n = 242) Near Lane Far Lane Further, 4.7% were classified as missed opportunities and Availability Statistics inefficient behavior, and none were observed in the potentially P(Y_Enc) 76.4% 68.6% risky category. Similar to the early phases, many events (32.7%) P(CG_Enc) 70.2% 19.8% fell into the inconclusive category and were associated with a Utilization Statistics forced yield in either the near or far lane. Those pedestrians that P(GO|Y) 92.4% 97.6% waited to initiate crossing during the "Flashing Red" phase P(GO|CG) 100.0% 100.0% mostly made correct "GO" decisions, but more than half were once again associated with forced yields. A notable difference between Exhibits 49 and 53 for pre and Those pedestrians who rejected opportunities in the "Walk" post data is a drastic reduction in the rejected opportunities. phase ultimately crossed in the "Flashing Don't Walk" phase. With the introduction of the signal, drivers tended to yield Again, the majority of events here are related to yield events much more frequently, and many of these yields resulted in with drivers stopped at the signal. No rejected opportunities crossings. The proportion of inefficient decisions was reduced or inefficient events were observed, but again many events fall slightly, as was the rate of potentially risky events. The rate of into the inconclusive category. Exhibit 53 summarizes the avail- inconclusive events saw a large increase. As discussed above, ability and utilization statistics for the post treatment installa- these events are associated with forced yields, where none tion data. Since it appeared from the analysis above that most resulted in an O&M intervention. It is unclear whether a pedestrians crossed independently of the signal indication, the forced yield at a signal can truly be classified as a risky event results are presented in light of the near�far lane framework dis- since drivers are presumably prepared to stop given that the cussed above. This also ensures that the numbers are directly signal has been activated. However, in combination with red- comparable to the pre condition results. light running events, some risk may remain. The discussion The summary statistics suggest a large increase in the below examines in more detail the risk and delay performance availability of both yields and gaps from the pre condition measures. (Exhibit 49), as well as more efficient utilization of these crossing opportunities. Exhibit 54 shows a summary of all Performance Statistics events for the post condition by signal phase. at the PHB Crosswalk Exhibit 54 shows that crossing performance in the early phases ("Flashing Yellow" and "Solid Yellow") was generally The changed pedestrian and driver behavior that took place characterized by mostly correctly accepted crossing opportu- with the introduction of the PHB affects the delay and risk per- nities as well as a large portion of forced yields (inconclusive formance measures. Delay statistics in Exhibit 55 are provided events). Virtually no risky or inefficient events were observed for pedestrian delay in seconds, defined as the time differ- during these phases. ence between the time a trial started and when the pedestrian Exhibit 54. Summary of pedestrian behavior post condition, PHB crosswalk. Pedestrian Crosswalk Condition Decision Crossable/Safe Non-Cross./Unsafe Inconclusive Phase = Flashing Yellow/Don't Walk (n = 23) GO 5 21.7% 0 0.0% 18 78.3% NoGO 0 0.0% 0 0.0% � 0.0% Phase = Yellow/Don't Walk (n = 82) GO 39 47.6% 1 1 .2% 42 51.2% NoGO 0 0.0% 0 0.0% � 0.0% Phase = Red/Walk (n = 107) GO 42 39.3% 0 0.0% 35 32.7% NoGO 5 4.7% 25 23.4% � 0.0% Phase = Flashing Red/Flashing Don't Walk (n = 28) GO 12 42.9% 0 0.0% 16 57.1% NoGO 0 0.0% 0 0.0% � 0.0%
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134 Exhibit 55. Average pedestrian delay statistics for Exhibit 55 shows that the average pedestrian delay per leg in PHB crosswalk. the post condition decreased significantly from that in the pre a) Observed Delay per Leg (s) condition, from 16.0 s to 4.2 s (p = 0.0007). There was no sig- Pre Avg. Min. Max. Std. Dev. nificant difference between the delay experienced at the entry Entry (n = 18) 14.9 2.3 36.5 10.1 and exit portions of the crossing in either study. In addition to Exit (n = 18) 17.1 3.6 46.5 12.0 reporting the average delay for all participants, it is important Overall (n = 36) 16.0 2.3 46.5 11.0 to emphasize that some individual participants experienced Post much larger delays. The highest average delay for a participant Entry (n = 13) 5.9 2.6 14.6 3.2 was 46.5 s in the pre and 14.6 s in the post case. However, the Exit (n = 13) 5.8 3.5 11.7 2.4 single highest delay experienced by a study participant was Overall (n = 26) 5.8 2.6 14.6 2.8 100.2 s (not shown in the exhibit). The single highest delay in b) Delay>Min (s) the post condition was 56.3 s, indicating that some pedestrians Pre Avg. Min. Max. Std. Dev. did not cross during the first "Walk" phase. The reported delay Entry (n = 18) 4.5 0.2 11.9 3.5 figures further do not include trials that were terminated when Exit (n = 18) 3.9 0.0 11.8 3.9 the subject's wait time exceeded the 2-min time-out limit. Overall (n = 36) 4.2 0.2 11.9 3.7 Overall, the 2-min time-out limit was reached in 3 of 288 lane Post crossings for all subjects in the pre condition and never with Entry (n = 13) 1.4 0.2 3.1 1.0 the PHB present (208 lane crossings). Exit (n = 13) 1.4 0.2 3.0 0.9 The results for Delay>Min also show a significant reduc- Overall (n = 26) 1.4 0.2 3.0 0.9 tion between the pre and post conditions from 4.5 s to 1.4 s (p = 0.0044). Overall, the Delay>Min results suggest that the blind pedestrians did not miss many crossing opportunities. initiated the crossing. The exhibit further shows the delay Despite these low averages, some pedestrians experienced beyond the first opportunity (Delay>Min), which was defined Delay>Min of up to 33.0 s in the pre condition and up to 11.4 s as the time difference between the first yield or crossable gap the post case (not shown). The highest average Delay>Min encountered by the pedestrian and the actual crossing initia- values were 11.9 s and 3.1 s, respectively. tion. The crossable gap definition assumed crossing of two Exhibit 56 shows the cumulative distribution of pedestrian lanes at one leg of the roundabout. All statistics shown are cal- delay at the PHB. The 85th percentile delay is highlighted. culated from the average performance of each individual sub- The exhibit clearly shows a shift in the delay distribution, ject. The sample sizes in the pre and post conditions are 18 and with pedestrians in the post condition experiencing much lower 13 participants, respectively. delays. The 85th percentile delay was reduced from 29.8 s to Exhibit 56. Cumulative distribution of pedestrian delay at PHB crosswalk. PHB 100 POST 90 8.7 sec. 80 PRE 85%ILE 29.8 sec. DELAY 70 Percentile 60 50 40 30 PRE 20 POST 10 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 Delay (sec.)
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135 Exhibit 57. 85th percentile delay by subject � PHB Exhibit 58. Latency and yield lost time statistics for crosswalk. PHB crosswalk. PHB a) Latency (s) 120 Pre Avg. Min. Max. Std. Dev. Entry (n = 18) 5.0 1.4 10.1 2.9 85th Percentile Delay (sec.) 100 PRE Exit (n = 18) 7.0 3.0 14.9 3.5 POST Overall (n = 36) 5.9 1.4 14.9 3.3 80 Post 60 Entry (n = 13) 4.4 2.3 7.9 1.8 Exit (n = 13) 5.2 2.9 8.2 1.7 40 Overall (n = 26) 4.8 2.3 8.2 1.7 20 b) Yield Lost Time (s) Pre Avg. Min. Max. Std. Dev. 0 Entry (n = 18) 2.7 -1.7 9.9 3.2 1 3 6 9 11 16 4 7 10 12 14 17 2 5 8 13 15 18 Exit (n = 18) 1.2 -4.9 8.7 3.3 Overall (n = 36) 1.9 -4.9 9.9 3.3 9:00am 11:30am 3:30pm Post Subject Entry (n = 13) -0.4 -3.2 3.3 1.9 Exit (n = 13) -0.3 -5.1 2.7 2.4 Overall (n = 26) -0.4 -5.1 3.3 2.1 8.7 s. The difference is also evident when examining the cross- ing performance of individual participants. Exhibit 57 shows the 85th percentile delay for all participants in the pre and post condition. Note that subjects labeled 1, 5, 10, 15, and 16 did not For the YLT measure, pedestrians in the pre condition participate in the post study. waited an average of 2.7 s before crossing in front of an Exhibit 57 shows that the 85th percentile delay was reduced already yielding vehicle. However, the maximum average for every participant in the posttest condition. Further, the YLT was 9.9 s, and individual YLT observations were even effect appeared to be greatest for those subjects who experi- higher. In many cases, drivers may not be willing to wait this enced high delays in the pre study. So, in addition to reduc- long and a high YLT will therefore translate to an increased ing the overall delay, the PHB also created a more uniform percentage of missed yields [lower P(GO|Y)] or even an unsafe distribution of delay, even for participants with presumably condition where both driver and pedestrian proceed simulta- modest travel skills. The data in Exhibit 57 are arranged by neously. Note that the YLT can be negative, suggesting that the time of day the subjects participated in the study. A visual some pedestrians forced vehicles to yield. After installation of comparison does not show a significant effect on performance the PHB, many pedestrians crossed with the signal and thus by time of day. before the vehicles had yielded, resulting in an average YLT of The team further investigated two parameters intended to �0.4 s. The maximum average YLT also decreased to 3.3 s, describe the efficiency with which a crossing opportunity is suggesting a quicker response to the yielding vehicle. utilized. For utilized gaps, the latency is defined as the time dif- The above measures primarily focus on the efficiency of ference between a vehicle entering the crosswalk and the time crossing and largely ignore the explicit risk experienced by the pedestrian initiated the crossing. For utilized yields, the pedestrians. While delay and other efficiency measures are YLT is defined as the time difference between the driver first used frequently by engineers, they fail to capture the human slowing down for a yield and the time the crossing is initiated. element of crossing risk. The selected surrogate risk measure Note that in some cases, pedestrians may prefer to cross only for this study is the number of times the O&M specialist had after a car has come to a full stop (stopped yield) and so some to intervene in the crossing. Exhibit 59 shows the frequency inherent yield utilization time is expected. Exhibit 58 shows and rate of O&M interventions for all trials. statistics for both measures in the pre and post cases. Exhibit 59 shows a drastic reduction in the occurrence of The latency results in Exhibit 58 suggest that on average interventions. The percentage of trials that resulted in an pedestrians wait 5.9 s into a crossable gap before initiating the O&M intervention is reduced from 2.4% to zero in the post crossing, suggesting inefficiency in decision-making. With condition. In the pre case, the entry lane actually had a higher the installation of the PHB, the average latency decreases intervention rate than the exit, which is contrary to findings slightly to 4.8 s; however, that difference is not statistically sig- at other multi-lane roundabouts (Guth et al. 2005). Follow- nificant (p = 0.2363). Both the range and standard deviation ing discussion in Ashmead et al. (2005), a 2.4% likelihood of of the latency estimate are reduced in the post condition. a risky decision will result in a cumulative risk of 62.2% after


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Airport Bus is bookable upon arrival at Malta International Airport and they have a desk inside the arrival hall which is open 24hrs to meet all flights and cost apx 9.00euros for a single transfer or 16.00euros for a return transfer. This transfer will bring you to the Hotels Main Entrance upon arrival & will pick you up from the hotel entrance for your return transfer.
By Car: Exit airport car park follow road signs to Qormi, Gozo Ferry, Zebbug, Rabat, Mdina, St Pauls Bay, Qawra, upon entering the resort of Qawra drive along the seafront until you arrive at the Casino take the left turning after the Casino and left again to the bus terminus and turn right with the police station and the Hotel Santana is situated a few meters up the road opposite the public car park.
By Taxi: apx €25.00 , bookable from Taxi booth situated in the Arrival hall at Malta International Airport
Located Near
Located in the resort center of Qawra next to the Bus Terminus, a few minutes walk to the Casino, Bugibba Square is within walking distance (apx 10 to 15 minutes walk) , also within walking distance from the hotel one will find a variety of restaurants, bars, shops, scuba diving , water sports (Summer), Sandy & Rocky Beach. The main sights of Malta such as Mdina, Mosta, Valletta, Sliema, St Julians, the fishing village of M'arsa X'lokk, Blue Grotto can be reached by local bus from the bus terminus close by to the hotel.


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Friday, September 07, 2007
I'm sure many of you have always wanted to go to Mt. Everest, but the only thing stopping you was for want of something to do when you get there. Well that is all about to change. On October 13th, 40 British musicians are going to be staging the first acoustic concert on Mt. Everest. By making that clarification, they seem to be indicating that someone was the first to have an electric concert on Mt. Everest. The violin concert above obviously doesn;t count for anything, but makes a good photo. Big crowd. I wonder how the t-shirt sales were.
The concert which will take place at 18,000 feet is expected to raise several million dollars for the Love Hope Strength Foundation which is a cancer charity founded by Alarm frontman Mike Peters.
There probably won't be much dancing at that altitude and October should be nice and frosty also for the performers who include Stray Cats, The Fixx, The Alarm, and Squeeze. The show will be available on iTunes, but haven't seen if it will be broadcast in any other medium.
2 comments:
- email@example.com said...
Yeah, and if the weather turns violent, they can always use the violins as snowshoes.
- Fruit said...
I'm not too familiar with the terrain, but nothing screams "avalanche" more to me than a concert on the face of a snow-packed mountain range, acoustic or otherwise.
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