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People crowded under the picnic shelter at Creekside Park early Saturday morning �carbing up� on bananas and pastries as rain fell.
About 160 runners were not going to let the steady rain dampen their spirits as they prepared to run in the 17th annual Run for Shelter 5k.
Connie Carluccio came prepared, wearing a large yellow slicker and laughing with her fellow runners as they signed in.
�I look Like Big Bird,� she said and laughed.
Carluccio, 71, said it was her second year competing in the event.
�Last year I came in second,� she said. �My sister came in first. She dashed ahead of me at the last minute.�
But this year her sister was running in a different category so Carluccio said she thought she might win.
�I think this is wonderful,� she said. �I�m sure we are going to raise quite a bit of money and it is for a good cause.�
Susan Lucus, with the Coastal Women�s Shelter, said 130 runners pre-registered for the event this year and more people were lined up Saturday morning signing in.
All of the money raised goes to support victims of domestic violence. The Coastal Women�s Shelter, located in New Bern, has provided services from court advocacy to support groups for women and their children in Craven, Jones and Pamlico counties, for 28 years, Lucus said.
Last year Coastal Women�s Shelter provided service to 650 people, primarily women and children, Lucus said.
The women�s shelter has the capacity for 15 people and is usually full, she said.
Martha Hardison, executive director of the Coastal Women�s Shelter, was helping hand out T-shirt and was pleased with the turnout.
�It�s inspiring,� she said. �It shows the dedication people have for the service we provide in the community.�
Denise Priesing of Havelock, said she planned to run fast to get out of the rain as soon as possible.
�I think this is awesome,� she said. �I�m glad there is a big turnout even though it is raining.�
Bill Sanchez, race organizer, said the runners ended up racing entirely in the rain.
The three top overall female runners were: Harper McConnel, with a first place time of 00:19:51; Holli Quinn, 00:22:50, second place; and Amy Ramsey, 00:23:52, third place.
Overall in the men division was: Nick Gingras, 00:19:42, first place; Nathan McGrew, 00:19:47, second place; and Seth Poppe, 00:20:15, third place.
The Run for Shelter 5K was sponsored by CarolinaEast Medical Center and 10 financial institutes.
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Thanks to the sequester, the federal air controllers in Stockton's airport tower might be furloughed. The airport could become an "uncontrolled field."
Thanks to the sequester, the federal air controllers in Stockton's airport tower might be furloughed. The airport could become an "uncontrolled field."
How's that going to work?
I was braced for bad news. The shrug of an answer came as a surprise.
"There's safety procedures in place that we follow," said Patrick T. Carreno, the director of Stockton Metropolitan Airport. "The pilots, they're trained to go through uncontrolled airports."
So much for the lurid and sensational lobe in the reporter's brain that thought he'd hear, "If the air controllers are furloughed, all hell will break loose. We're talking midair collisions, carnage."
In fact, pilots land safely at thousands of uncontrolled airports nationwide. Locally, the airports at Tracy, Byron, Oakdale, Lodi-Kingdon, Lodi-Hwy 99, and Franklin near Elk Grove are uncontrolled.
Even Stockton's airport is uncontrolled overnight when "operations" (landings and takeoffs) are scarce.
Here's how the system works. During the day, Stockton's tower has responsibility for air traffic within a five-mile radius and an altitude from the surface up to 2,500 feet.
But if the air controllers are furloughed, pilots just switch to a "common traffic advisory frequency." Pilots keep a healthy distance from each other by radio communications.
In good weather, they don't even need radio. They can eyeball it.
"I learned how to fly at an airport in Kalispell, Mont., 25 years ago," said Rick Tutt, a commercial pilot. "At that airport we had airlines, military, emergency medical, crop dusting, parachute jumping and flight training. We all spoke to one another on the radio and we all coordinated with each other our arrivals and departures. And it all worked out really well."
Stockton is not a busy airport (a comedian who flew in for a Stockton gig once told me, "I couldn't even get arrested there.") It has one passenger airline, Allegiant. Allegiant runs one or two flights daily.
No cargo companies currently operate there. Roughly 150 small planes come and go every day. That's an average of 11 landings or takeoffs an hour between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., when the tower is staffed.
That doesn't mean nothing can go wrong. But Stockton's airport is well within the range of airports that can manage without air traffic controllers.
"Some airlines prefer to have towers, especially as your total operations go up," Carreno said. "If there's more aircraft flying around in the pattern they want to see more safety there. That's where the controllers come in."
But no specific business deals are jeopardized by the prospect of a furloughed tower, Carreno said.
Stockton's airport has never seen a major air crash. Unless you count one in 1946, when two military B-29s collided over Stockton in heavy fog. The planes crashed west of town. Eighteen airmen died. Three survived.
Air traffic control is a matter of not only of safety but efficiency, said Doug Church, a spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
Air traffic controllers move air traffic along faster. Without them, "fewer flights will be able to take off and land and the traveling public and the many businesses that rely on our air travel system will be impacted by the delays," Church said.
That's truer of big airports. For Stockton, air traffic controllers are an extra margin of safety. But Stockton could manage without them, if it had to.
A budget hawk might say if we can do without 11 federal employees, we should. The county, which pays utilities and other overhead on the tower, would save money, too.
A local economist would want to keep the high-paying salaries in the community.
I say Stockton's air controller tower is one of the few areas in which Uncle Sam does more than the minimum for Stockton. May the ax fall elsewhere.
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In the increasingly public fight between Arian Foster and a former girlfriend pregnant with a child she says is his, the Texans running back filed a counterclaim Tuesday alleging defamation of character and extortion.
Foster said Brittany Norwood, who filed a paternity suit that became public last week, falsely accused him of "outrageous behavior" that was intended to coerce her into getting an abortion. His suit claims that she has made intentionally false statements in order to force him to pay her off.
"Norwood has engaged in a calculated scheme to malign the character and reputation of (Foster), solely to attempt to gain a financial benefit," the suit states.
The counterclaim refers to a recorded conversation in which a voice that purportedly is Norwood's apologizes for the lawsuit and acknowledges her original complaint about intimidation was baseless. According to Foster's suit, the recording was made in a Jan. 12 conversation with Foster and includes her saying, "I never once said that you told me to get an abortion."
In the recording, Norwood blamed her attorneys for putting claims in the original paternity lawsuit that she did not authorize.
"I love you and you're still the father of my child," the lawsuit quotes Norwood as saying in an excerpt of the recorded conversation. "I'm not going to let anybody desecrate your name … That's not me at all."
Norwood's original suit included a request for damages because of "intentional infliction of emotional distress" caused by harassment by Foster and his brother, whom she claimed repeatedly tried to get her to have an abortion. Foster's counterclaim disputed that allegation and cited a text message she sent his brother saying she respected his opinion and recognized "what a good person you are."
In a statement Tuesday, Foster's attorney, Gary Zimmerman, accused Norwood and her lawyers of "a shake down to get millions of dollars" from the star running back, who was injured for much of the recent football season and underwent hernia surgery in November.
"We will vehemently fight these false allegations and restore Arian's good name," Zimmerman said.
Norwood's attorney, Doug York, couldn't be reached for comment.
Foster is married and the couple has two children. They live in the Houston area.


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Historically called "domestic violence," "intimate partner violence" describes physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a current or former intimate partner or spouse. This type of violence can occur among heterosexual or same-sex couples.
Violence by an intimate partner is linked to both immediate and long-term health, social, and economic consequences. Factors at all levels — individual, relationship, community, and societal — contribute to intimate partner violence. Preventing intimate partner violence requires reaching a clear understanding of those factors, coordinating resources, and fostering and initiating change in individuals, families, and society.
NIJ has often partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the issue of violence against women, in particular by cosponsoring the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS). The CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, which spotlights injury and violence prevention topics, defines four main types of intimate partner violence:
Stalking is often included among types of intimate partner violence. Stalking generally refers to harassing or threatening behavior that an individual engages in repeatedly, such as sending the victim unwanted presents, following or laying in wait for the victim, damaging or threatening to damage the victim's property, appearing at a victim's home or place of business, defaming the victim's character or spreading rumors, or harassing the victim via the Internet by posting personal information.
[2] As with perpetrators of physical and sexual violence, stalkers may be motivated by a desire to exert control over their victims. Stalking and intimate partner violence may co-occur.
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[note 2] Tjaden, P., and N. Thoennes.
Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey. Research Report. Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, November 2000, NCJ 183781.
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If you ask around about Gentoo, chances are you will get mixed reviews : some will say it's a waste of time, others will say it's only for ubergeeks, yet others will tell you it's the only way, but no one can deny the power that Gentoo offers in terms of choices and speed. Gentoo is a rolling release distribution, which means it has no release numbers and it's updated continuously.Gentoo is also a source-based distribution, which means that everything you install you must compile first. What Gentoo is not : it certainly isn't for everyone. If you prefer the comfort of binary package managers that install desired software on-the-fly, if you like to install your distro in an hour or so, then you might not like Gentoo. That being said, if you're curious, aren't afraid of the command line and some compilation, if you want to have your system just the way you want it or you just want to be more 1337, this article is just what you need. You will learn how to install, what to install, how to get the most out of your system and of course have some fun in the process. We must warn you before we start : Gentoo has some of the best written documentation of all the Linux distributions and this article cannot and does not want to take its place, by no means. Although you will have a working Gentoo system after going through our tutorial, you are advised to read the handbook and all other sections of general interest, like Portage (the software management tool), for example. That said, let's get ready and start installing Gentoo.
Getting and installing Gentoo
Fetching the iso image
Gentoo is mirrored in many locations, so we suggest you pick one mirror close to you and start downloading. We always trust Heanet, so we got our ISO from there. Since Gentoo is a rolling release distro, it offers new iso images periodically. The mirror layout might differ, but the Gentoo directory layout is standard : releases/$arch/current-iso/. On our system, we chose amd64 as $arch, but Gentoo offers installation images for more hardware architectures than most distributions, a notable exception being Debian. After you write the image, we're ready to go further.
Booting and prerequisites
Gentoo's hardware requirements are small, compared to other distros. However, keep in mind that you will compile some big pieces of software like the kernel, which take some time. Here there's an advantage and a disadvantage : if you use Gentoo on an older machine, it will take longer (days, maybe) to have it up and running just the way you want it. The upside is, you only install once and then you have a distro tailored to your hardware, so you can squeeze every bit out of it. Again, there are split opinions about this approach, so we will let you decide. If you have some modern piece of hardware, of course you won't have this problem. Before we begin, we'll like to ask you to make a list of your hardware : you will have to compile your own kernel so you'll have to know your machine pretty well.
Now let's boot from the CD. At the first prompt, press Enter so you can boot the default kernel. Should have special hardware needs, refer to the Handbook for a list of options.
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Next, we will need a working Internet connection, so we must set it up if it isn't already. If you connect to the Internet by DHCP, chances are you're already set. Use ping to make sure it is so. If not, use ifconfig first to see if your Ethernet card is present:
# ifconfig -a
You should see eth0 (or eth1, eth2, depending on how many NICs you have) listed. If not, the driver for your card wasn't automatically loaded at boot or your card isn't supported. Use modprobe to insert the correct module, as we presume you know your hadware, as specified below:
# modprobe forcedeth
This is just an example for a nForce Ethernet card. After you see your card listed in ifconfig's output, use
# dhcpcd eth0
for DHCP or ifconfig for fixed IP. Gentoo also offers net-setup, which is an interactive script that can be used like
# net-setup eth0
Alright, now that you have a working Internet connection, let's continue with disk partitioning.
We are not going to walk you through every step necessary to partition your disk. Instead, we will give you some pointers which will be useful to get your setup right. You can use fdisk for a pure command-line based interface or cfdisk for a curses-based one. If you already have your system drive partitioned, you can skip this step.
Before we start explaining (c)fdisk, we should stop for a while and see how you should partition and why. As Grand Master Yoda would say "You must un-learn what you have learned", because the partitioning setup for a source-based distro isn't (always) the same as the partitioning setup for a binary distro. Why? One intermediary step between source code and the executable is the creation of object files which are then linked into the final result. These object files tend to take some space, together with other compilation-specific ones. Hence we recommend a simple layout, as a Gentoo beginner, with / having plenty of space and swap according to the physical memory installed.
Invoke fdisk with the drive you want to set up like so :
# fdisk /dev/sda
We will assume the creation of two partitions, as stated before. fdisk's commands are single letter and intuitive : a adds a partition, d deletes, p prints and so on. Use n (for new partition) with t to set the partition type (83 for / and 82 for swap) and q if you want to quit without writing the changes. Again, refer to the Handbook for all the gory details, but in the end, with these commands, you're set. Remember to make / bootable with 'a', of course. Using w will write your changes.
With cfdisk, it's a shorter story since you get a nice curses-based menu with the partitions in the upper side and the commands you can use in the lower side. Just remember to mark the / partition bootable and set the partition types correctly : 83 and 82, as above.
Creating filesystems
In order to have a filesystem on our newly created partitions, we must run mkfs.$type $partition or mkswap $partition for swap.
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
# mkswap /dev/sda2
You can replace the ext3 part with ext2, ext4, jfs or xfs, but we consider ext3 to be a sensible choice for the root partition. Now let's make use of what we just created :
# swapon /dev/sda2
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo
Installing a stage
A stage, in Gentoo terminology, is an archive that will give you a working base to go on from. In the past, there were three stages supported : stage 1, stage 2 and stage 3 (see link). At the moment, only stage 3 installation is supported, which doesn't require bootstrapping the system, since that's done already in our scenario. Before that, you must make sure that your date is set properly, then, using links, get the latest stage 3 tarball (again, we will use Heanet as an example, but if you want to use a different mirror:
# cd /mnt/gentoo
# links http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/releases/amd64/current-stage3/
Find the file stage3-amd64-20110922.tar.bz2 (the date will probably differ, as you can see from the screenshot), put the cursor on it, press 'd' (download) and press enter. Exit the browser with 'q'. Now we must unpack the stage (make sure you are in /mnt/gentoo and you type the command exactly as shown):
# tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2
The tar flags are : x for extract, v for verbose, j to tell tar it's a bzip2 archive, p to preserve permissions (very important!) and f to say that the argument is a file, not a stream. If you look at the lines scrolling on your screen while unpacking, you will notice that stage 3 is nothing else but a "skeleton" of a working system's directory structure.
Installing Portage
We will explain more later about Portage in greater detail, but for now, the idea is as follows : the Portage archive you're about to download and extract is mostly everything you will need to install software on a Gentoo system. Portage was inspired by FreeBSD's ports system, hence the name, so if you ever worked with ports/pkgsrc on BSD systems, this will sound very familiar. Again, use links to go to the mirrors list, choose one and get the latest portage tree. On our system, we did
# links http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/snapshots/
and got the portage-latest.tar.bz2 file, then unpacked it (we are still in /mnt/gentoo, of course, but we will use absolute paths just to be sure) :
# tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
Configuring compilation options
Now, after all this setting up and unpacking, it's time we start configuring the system to fit our hardware. The file we need to edit is /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf in order to set some sensible options fit for our hardware. Our example system is a 64-bit Athlon, so we will add -march=k8 to CFLAGS. Ok, take it easy, we haven't started speaking alien language. CFLAGS is an environment variable that gcc, the compiler, takes in consideration when building software. So when adding something to CFLAGS, consider that every compilation ever made on your system will have that flag passed onto gcc. Hence, one must be very careful not to over-optimize or set flags just for setting's sake : use something appropriate for your CPU. So, -march stands for "machine architecture" and tells gcc to optimize the code it generates for that particular CPU type. On our Gentoo system, that's the only thing we added to CFLAGS, leaving the other existing options as they were. Read the gcc manual for options sensible to your hardware. You might wanna set MKFLAGS, which are flags passed to make, to -jx, where x is the name of CPU cores plus one. The Gentoo Live CD offers nano as an editor, so we will use that to enter the aforementioned changes :
# nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
Final preparations and chroot
Before chrooting in our new environment so we can start installing Gentoo, there are few things left to do. First is setting a mirror for software downloads in make.conf. No, this you don't have to do by hand : Gentoo offers you the utility called mirrorselect, which we will use to set up a "normal" mirror (http, ftp) and a rsync one. The commands are (beware to use '>>' and NOT '>'):
# mirrorselect -i -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
# mirrorselect -i -r -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
You will, of course, want networking to be available in your new environment, so you must copy DNS-related information :
# cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/
Finally, we will need to make the proc and dev filesystems available to the new system and we're ready:
# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
# mount --rbind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
We are assuming that you know what a chroot is and we insist on reading about the command you're about to type instead of typing it blindly. It will not help you learn anything and you have better chances of hosing your system. Linux and Gentoo in special is about learning, and we hope you like what you are doing.
After this short intermezzo, we can finally chroot in our new environment :
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# env-update
# source /etc/profile
# export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"
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USE flags
It is now time we update our portage tree so we can install software as needed in preparation of our final installation.
# emerge --sync
After the update finishes, we get to a very important part that's necessary when configuring a Gentoo system : USE flags. This is something unique to Gentoo and a means to customize your system to fit your exact needs. We feel an introduction is in order, so please read this carefully. You are expected to know exactly what do you want your system to be : if you want a desktop, will you run KDE or KDE-based apps or GNOME and GTK-based ones, or maybe neither, just, say, Fluxbox? Do you want a server? What services will it provide? We urge you to think this through, since it will save you a lot of hassle later. USE flags, as one can infer from the name, are keywords inserted in make.conf in order to tell Portage what capabilities you want your system to offer. Perhaps an example will be more appropriate in order to help you understand the power and importance of USE flags. Let's say you want to have a KDE-based desktop/workstation. You add kde and qt4 to the list of USE flags so any application you install that offers KDE support will add that capability at configuration time. If you don't want GTK support in your installed applications (those that support it), you just add a '-' sign in front of the gtk and gnome flags and you're set. The complete list of possible USE flags are to be found at /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc . Browse through the file and make sure you set USE flags appropriate for the purpose. A word of warning, though : if your list of USE flags is too short, chances are some applications you will install will ask you to enable some lacking flags, which you can do globally in make.conf or per package in /etc/portage/package.use. On the other hand, should you overuse the USE options, you will compile lots of (possibly) unnecessary software. That's why it's better to sit and think things through before writing the USE flags. More on this later. Now, after deciding what is it exactly we do want, open /etc/make.conf and add USE flags like so (chances are there are a few already there) :
USE="acpi apm ..."
Save the file and get ready for another important part : kernel configuration.
Kernel configuration
This part is going to be shorter than one might expect, for two reasons : one, we already wrote an article on the subject, and that covers most of what you need, second, when you type 'make menuconfig' you will already have a minimalist configuration suited for your hardware, but that won't mean you aren't encouraged to tweak more. Also, Gentoo offers genkernel, a kernel that is resemblant to the kernel on the live CD, but we won't cover that here : if we start tweaking, it would be a pity to leave the kernel out of this. Before we go into the kernel configuration step, though, we must select our system's timezone. Timezones information is stored in /usr/share/zoneinfo, so we need to copy the appropriate zoneinfo file to /etc/localtime :
# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Bucharest /etc/localtime
Change Europe/Bucharest to your location and you're ready to get the kernel source :
# emerge gentoo-sources
Yes, this is how one installs software on Gentoo : emerge $package. Not that complicated, is it? Of course, there are various options to the emerge command, making it a versatile package manager. Use the manual page to see the options and what they do, as you will use emerge a lot as a Gentoo user.
After the kernel sources are downloaded, you will see in /usr/src a symlink named linux which points to the actual kernel sources folder, like linux-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 (the latest stable version at the time of this writing). So, as per our previous article's indications, just type
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
Take your time to configure your kernel carefully according to your hardware, then build and install :
# make && make modules_install
This will take some time, depending on the options and the hardware. Remember you don't have to add -jn to make, because it's set in make.conf. We can now copy the kernel to /boot :
# cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.39-gentoo-r3
It's better if you write down the exact name of your kernel, you'll need it later. If you need some kernel module autoloaded, get its' name from /lib/modules and add it to /etc/conf.d/modules. For more details, consult the Gentoo Handbook.
The file's name stands for FileSystem TABle and it lists filesystems to mount automatically at boot, their mount points and options. It's a crucial file on any Linux/Unix system, so we recommend extra care when editing it. When opening it, you will see it already has some entries you can use as a starting point, like /dev/ROOT or /dev/SWAP. Replace ROOT with sda1 and SWAP with sda2, as per our example, check mount points and options, save and exit. The fstab file has a simple syntax of the form
# This is a commented example :
#/dev/sda3 /var ext3 noatime 0 0
The last three parts refer to mount options, dump options and filesystem check order. Refer to the fstab manual for further details, as this will be useful anywhere, not only on Gentoo and not only on Linux, for that matter. Double check the file, save and continue to
Networking information and configuration
Yes, you've already done that, but that was only for the installation. This time it is permanent, for your installed system. So, we will need to set the hostname (/etc/conf.d/hostname), domain name (/etc/conf.d/net) and configuration of the network per se.
# echo "config_eth0=\"dhcp\"" >> /etc/conf.d/net
Add localhost to /etc/hosts, as well as any other hosts you might need, then set the network to be autostarted at boot :
# cd /etc/init.d
# ln -s net.lo net.eth0
# rc-update add net.eth0 default
System configuration and system tools
You may have noticed we haven't done something essential yet : setting root's password. It's time we do it now:
# passwd
Let's edit /etc/conf.d/hwclock in order to make sure we tell the system how is our hardware clock set. If you have it set at local time, as many systems have, use
There are some system tools you find installed on every "normal" Linux installation and take for granted, but remember? Gentoo is all about customization and choice. So we'll have to install a syslogger and a cron daemon. The Handbook recommends syslog-ng and vixie-cron for those purposes, so we'll go with that :
# emerge syslog-ng vixie-cron
If you were careful, we added the network service to be started at boot with rc-update. Use the same syntax to add syslog and cron, as these are services essential to any Linux system. The general syntax is
# rc-update add $service default
"default" refers to the default runlevel, as per /etc/inittab. Now, as we worked with a DHCP configuration throughout the installation, we want to use it on our installed system as well, so we use
# emerge dhcpcd
There are some of you that might have noticed that something else, very important, is still missing from our future system : a bootloader. In the following section we will use GRUB as the example, but you can use LILO as well, although we only cover GRUB here. After emerging GRUB, we need to edit its' config file in /boot/grub/grub.conf in order to let it know about our kernel. We will show you how our grub.conf file looks like, then explain every section.
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GRUB starts numbering from 0, not from 1 as you might expect, so be extra careful. Basically, if you followed our advice about partitioning, your grub.conf should look the same, unless the kernel version differs. So, default=0 means that the default kernel to be loaded when the 20 second timeout expires will be the first one (top to bottom). splashimage is the file that'll make your GRUB screen look more pleasant, and of course you can download and use any splash image for GRUB your heart desires. "title" is what you'll see when your system boots and "root(hd0,0)" tells GRUB the location of the boot image in terms it understands. The last line is self-explanatory, we think. Check and double-check the grub.conf file and then save it.
Since we are in a chrooted filesystem, we need a /etc/mtab file, which lists the mounted filesystems. This command creates it :
# grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
Now all we have to do, after checking /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/mtab, is to install GRUB :
# grub-install /dev/sda
Using /dev/sda (without a partition number, like sda2) will tell grub to install itself in the MBR of the first disk.
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Congratulations! If you stayed with us and didn't already rebooted to some other, easier to use distribution, it probably means you have a Gentoo system installed! After you will reboot gracefully, you will see your Gentoo Linux root prompt, waiting for your commands. Where to go from here? We will show you briefly. But first, let's go back to the "reboot gracefully" part :
# exit
# cd
# umount -l /mnt/gentoo/dev{/shm,/pts,}
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# reboot
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Adding a user
We don't recommend issuing commands as root except when it's needed, since that's an invitation to disaster. Create a user, install sudo and your editor of choice and add your user to sudoers group:
# useradd -m -G wheel $user
# emerge sudo $editor
# visudo
You now have a very basic system installed, so the first thing you do is install some software. The most used things users expect from a software manager is search, install, update and remove. This is what this section will deal with.
For the sake of example, let's say you want to install mplayer. But there are a lot of mplayer-related packages (Gentoo has lots of software to offer!), so you don't know exactly what options you do have. Using
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As you have seen earlier, "emerge $package" is the way to go for installation. There are lots of options to use when installing, but we will only deal with --pretend, which only shows you what would be installed, but does not go through the actual installation. Since you're new with the concept of USE flags and you want to see how they influence the installation of new software, use
# emerge --pretend mplayer
which, as you'll see, will help you a lot deciding what USE flag you need to add and remove, globally or per-package.
Updating and upgrading
We told you earlier about "emerge --sync" to update the Portage tree. But how to upgrade installed software? What if you changed some USE flags in the meantime? How will that affect the other packages? A everyday-use command would be
# emerge --update --deep --newuse world
The first flag is obvious. --deep takes care of dependencies, so we suggest you use it every time, and --newuse is useful if some USE flags have been altered since the last update.
Removing software
You realized you installed something you don't really need. In our example, maybe you want to use VLC instead of mplayer, so you want to get rid of the latter. Since installation is called emerging in Gentoo terminology, the option to uninstall is, you guessed it, --unmerge. So, in order to uninstall mplayer and install vlc, one would do
# emerge --unmerge mplayer && emerge vlc
But mplayer pulled some dependencies when it got installed, and we don't need them anymore. emerge's --depclean flag helps you locate unneeded dependencies. Be forewarned, though : emerge will not tell you if what you remove is needed by some other piece of software, except system-essential software like glibc. So think twice before unmerging, we say.
Other Portage subjects
As you'll see in the Handbook, there are a lot (and we mean that) of subjects related to Portage we haven't covered here, for the sake of brevity : masked packages, software categories, overlays, etc. Either you wait until you'll have to deal with them, either (the preferred and recommended way) you start reading so at least you have an idea of the grand scheme of things.
Further reading
As we said and repeated, what you have read here is a small part of what Gentoo means. We only thought that the Handbook is a little dry and wanted to make it a little more palatable for the user wanting to learn. Instead of handing out links and books, we'll stick to saying this : read the Handbook, then read it again, then read the manual pages when needed, then use the links from the Handbook to go to other Gentoo tutorials and, most important, use Gentoo. Have lots of fun with it, too.


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The rocker does not do anything for the stiffness or strength in the laminate. It might pre-stress some of the layers if the layers are cut to fit a straight plank and then the plank is bend into shape in a press after the layup and impregnating is finished.
The stiffness is closely related to the height of the sandwich construction since the height of the beam is elevated to the power of three. The stiffness is of course based also a product of how stiff the materials you are using are, however, since very low Vf's are reached with hand layup the most dominant factor is height.
Adding a shape to the surface of the laminate can give you added stiffness, think of a corrugated plate vs. just a sheet of the same material and thickness.
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So if I was building a TT with some medium density closed cell foam, I would add that to the area between the pads and then taper that down towards the edges with a long slope towards the tips. I think torsional stiffness is most important so a +-45 degree layup will probably promote easy riding characteristics. That will give you most flex along the length of the board and minimize the twist.
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I can't find a single post on this, although I'm starting to think the search function is broken.
You can obviously guess my predicament from the topic title: I want to be a doctor but I can't handle the blood and guts. Basically, I'm looking for two things: other people's stories, and advice on how to overcome this problem. Any input at all would be appreciated, and I apologise if there are already posts on here about this (because it seems like there would be) -- I just can't manage to find them.
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when you say that you are squeemish what do you mean, what situation? when you see things on tv? If thats the case I wouldnt be too concerend. Onc you are actually working and in the situation you attitude cahnges. I am a paramedic and to begin with I always wondered how I would deal with certain situations, but from day one it hasnt bothered me. You have a job to do and you do it and then you have your next patient.
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No, it's usually the other way around. I can watch things on TV and read about them and even imagine them in detail without being put off, but once I'm face to face with those kinds of things, I start to feel nauseous and even light-headed.
Specifically, injections have always terrified me, and when I had to dissect a rat in biology class, even though I was better than I thought I'd be for the first half of the lesson, I eventually started to get woozy and had to stop for several minutes.
Also, particular parts of the body tend to get to me more than others, like the brain, the eyes, the genitals and the anus.
I really hope I get over it one day.
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A friend of mine when through med school ages ago. He said that when they used to watch autopsies, at first students would be fainting all around him. By the end of the course, they were in the back of the room watching and eating a sandwich.
So over time you get used to it. There are techniques to overcome or deal with it too. We were told to look away for a few moments, focus on our breathing, wiggle our toes and then look back at the speciment. I still get a bit queezy at times too.
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You may want to rent the series "Autopsy: Life and Death" by Gunther von Hagens. This german doctor actually autopsies dead people infront of a live audience! If you can watch through this without getting a bit woozy, it's a good start.
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There is hardly a business today that does not require high speed and high performance Internet connectivity. Let's face it, quality network access is table stakes for running a successful business in an increasingly connected world where commerce is 24/7/365 and can originate or terminate from anywhere and over any device with a browser. As a result, ensuring good networking and communications for employees is a major priority for all businesses, but it is an especially daunting one for large enterprises due the volume and the accommodation of rapid change thanks to things like the cloud, BYOD, mobility and the virtualization of the workplace.
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Meet the digital nomads, a growing group of heavy mobile data users that's redefining how service providers think about connectivity.
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As we touched on last week (and commands further attention), European telecom operators are not cutting it when it comes to delivering a stellar – or even an adequate – customer experience. This weakened Quality of Experience (QoE) tendency is forcing tech-savvy consumers to side with the company that is most responsive to their communications needs and not necessarily the one that offers a specific kind of service.
Typically consumers base their requirements on the strength, speed and coverage of their network, the depth and breadth of their product and services portfolio and, least of all, price. But this is the case no longer.
A recent study conducted in EMEA by European Communications – the results of which appear in a recent special edition, "Customer Experience" – found overwhelmingly that telecom operators are losing their edge when it comes to QoE. Alarmingly, only17 percent of operators say they have a 360-degree view of their customers.
A Holistic Approach is Necessary for Quality Customer Experiences
By Mae Kowalke
For the hotly competitive world of mobile communications service providers, it's no longer enough simply to provide fast, reliable connections for a variety of devices at competitive rates.
A recent article in the Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) e-zine Enriching Communications titled, "Taking Care of the Customer Experience," co-authored by ALU's Ben Geller, Senior Director of Marketing and Oliver Krahn, Customer Experience Transformation Growth Program Leader, on this subject is worth a read. They explain how, "Service providers are learning that they cannot differentiate with devices, services or pricing." This is clearly a dramatic change from the past.
Demand for Connected Services Drives Need for Customer Experience Solutions
By Erin Harrison
Demand for broadband services is growing at an explosive pace as consumers look for richer and more personalized connected customer experiences. But service providers' fast and reliable networks can't win over every customer. In addition, competition from new brands is making it tougher to differentiate with devices, services and pricing. In short, to stay competitive, service providers (SPs) have an imperative to cater to the needs of the market that goes beyond traditional approaches.
While consumers are aware that new technologies can bring added complexity, they also expect their devices and services to keep bringing them simpler and more compelling experiences. Based on these trends, SPs need new differentiators to remain competitive. To stand out and deliver market leading customer experiences, SPs need to make their offers easier to buy, easier to use with more user-friendly options for payment.
Alcatel-Lucent's Motive portfolio of solutions offers a four-pronged approach for SPs to step up their games.
The Five "Ps" for Service Provider M2M Success: Prioritize, Placement, Participate, Partners and Persona
By Erin Harrison
The burgeoning of machine-to-machine (M2M) applications in our increasingly connected world — partly characterized as consisting of an "Internet of Things" — has made telecommunication companies look to diversify their M2M offerings beyond what can easily become ones based primarily on commoditized connectivity.
A recent Alcatel-Lucent Enriching Communications article, "The 5-Ps of M2M Key to Service Provider Success," describes the five "P's" as:
- Prioritize opportunities
- Properly place their teams
- Participate knowledgeably in the supply chain
- Partner effectively
- Establish a credible persona
They are based on findings of research firm Analysys Mason's recently published, "M2M Communication Service Provider Scorecard: 2011."
IMS Provides Eco-Efficiency Choices, Creates New Revenue Opportunities
By Erin Harrison
Two opposing forces are driving the need for more efficient use of energy – the increased use of mobile device coupled with the power needed to sustain their use are necessitating that the telecom industry step up its efforts to improve eco-efficiency overall.
Given the trend of increased demands of today's mobile users – and the proliferation of new and different end-user applications and devices – an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a smart choice for service providers who are also looking for new revenue opportunities.
"Consumers are no longer content with a simple telephone; they want broadband and accessibility, wherever they are, on any device they choose. They want access to information, plus instant and reliable communications," a recent whitepaper by Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), "Alcatel-Lucent IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Eco-efficiency Makes Economic Sense," points out.
Rich Communications Suite -- SP Tool to Monetize the New Social Conversation Experience
By Mae Kowalke
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, service providers (SPs) are staying one step ahead by finding new and innovative ways monetize their offerings. For providers who recognize and leverage it effectively, the emerging new social conversation experience arising from the pervasive adaption and use of social media is proving to be a valuable tool in this endeavor.
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) has been busy developing solutions for fixed and mobile SPs to help them leverage the evolution of social media. On the mobility side, much of this development has been focused on two technical projects—Rich Communication Suite (RCS) and RCS-enhanced (RCS-e)—led by the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA).
In a recent white paper, "Building a Social Conversation Experience with RCS and RCS-E," Alcatel-Lucent researchers explain that RCS (developed in 2008) is intended to: "Leverage the global interoperability and ubiquity of existing voice services and Short Message Services (SMSs) and enrich them with Internet-type features more in line with user demand."
Mobile Application Assurance: The Ideal Business Engine
By Susan Campbell
Many mobile services available to consumers today are perceived as commodity services. The assumption is that every provider offers the same thing at the same level of quality. The result is that those willing to go the extra mile in terms of customer service are often those deemed worthy of customer business.
This perception is driving a new focus in this space as providers seek methods for:
- Improving monitoring
- Personalizing the experience
- Optimizing the network resources
- Enriching the customer experience to drive loyalty
As captured in this Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) TechZine article, Mobile Application Assurance, the main focus for any service provider should be on advanced deep packet inspection (DPI) for doing the above.
How Service Providers Can Capitalize on the Enterprise Cloud Market
By Beecher Tuttle
With the demand for cloud services expanding rapidly, service providers are in a unique position to exploit new markets and generate new revenue, in addition to benefiting from the significant capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operating expenditure (OPEX) savings associated with a cloud infrastructure.
However, to fully capitalize on this market opportunity, service providers need to develop an accurate sense of current and future market conditions as well as enterprise attitudes and perceptions of the cloud.
In an effort to provide a more granular look at these conditions and attitudes Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) recently conducted a global study, "Soaring into the Cloud," involving nearly 4,000 IT decision makers (ITDMs) from medium, large and multi-national companies.
ALU researchers found that 78 percent of companies are currently employing at least one cloud-based application, with organizations in tech, professional services and manufacturing/defense leading the way. Healthcare, government and education enterprises rely less on the cloud, but not by any significant margin.
It Takes a Village to Deliver Rich Communications
By Erin Harrison
As service providers (SPs) shift to all IP-networks, users expect features to become standardized. This gives SPs an opportunity to provide their customers a new conversation experience.
A recent Alcatel-Lucent Enriching Communications article, "RCS Success Requires Community-based Ecosystem," highlighted how the market for Rich Communications Services (RCS) has changed based on two developments that have converged — accelerating deployment of wired and wireless end-to-end IP networks and the rapid rollout and adoption of rich communications applications and services.
Living Video: A New Conversation Experience
By Erin Harrison
One of the reasons video is so pervasive today is because of the personal dynamic it brings to conversations and meetings, creating higher-level interactions. Just like a face-to-face conversation, video brings subtleties and other nuances that cannot be communicated in an email or text.
A recent article in Alcatel-Lucent's Enriching Communications, Living Video Conversations Go Mainstream, details how "living video" gives service providers opportunities to deliver a compelling new conversation experience. It says mobile networks, devices and people are ready for enriched video conversations, and service providers' are in a position to deliver them.
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Voice over LTE (VoLTE) -- Starting the New Mobile Conversation
By Erin Harrison
Most of us are familiar with the technology of Voice over IP (VoIP) – which simplistically is the use of the Internet Protocol to do voice communications over data networks that include the Internet itself. And, while most VoIP traffic has been over wired networks, a new voice technology is evolving called Voice over LTE (VoLTE) that is shifting the communications paradigm and enabling new services beyond traditional telephony over mobile networks.
In a recent article in Alcatel-Lucent's Enriching Communications e-zine, The New Mobile Conversation Starts with VoLTE, author Edmund Elkin states that, "It's no longer a question of whether VoLTE is the right choice for the new mobile conversation. It's really a matter of determining when to begin the move to VoLTE, developing a migration strategy and selecting a partner to accompany them on the journey."
New Revenue Opportunities Possible with the New Conversation Experience
By Susan Campbell
Service provider (SP) revenues are taking significant revenue hits from application and content providers (ACPs) as the disaggregation of content from physical access shifts value generation opportunities toward third parties. At the same time SPs are also attempting to ward off "free" offerings, such as people using things like Skype for making phone calls who are willing to put up with inferior quality, by attracting people to superior services they will pay a premium for. The challenge, which every day gains more urgency, is how to react to both trends.
The objective is to be relevant and central in evolving ecosystems and thereby be in a position to maximize new opportunities while minimizing risks. The vehicle for turning things around is embodied in the desirability of creating a new conversation experience with customers based on a holistic strategic approach.
A recent Alcatel-Lucent article, The Value of the New Conversation Experience highlighted the need for service providers to increase the average revenue per user and reduce churn, two of the major revenue corrosive issues. It focused on the reality that to accomplish these goals, SPs must quickly bring to market enhanced service bundles and also rapidly introduce innovative service offerings with compelling and differentiated perceivable value as critical to combating free services.
Permission-Based Mobile Marketing Strategies Hold Value for Advertisers, Operators and Consumers
By Beecher Tuttle
The influx of smartphones, tablets and next-generation networks has created a number of new ways for brands and marketing agencies to reach consumers. Unfortunately, many of today's mobile marketing techniques fail to engage consumers, who often find the advertisements to be bothersome, intrusive and unrelated to their interests.
One innovative and effective way to bridge this gap is a strategy called permission-based mobile marketing, a targeted advertising technique that changes the marketing paradigm by creating a dialogue with consumers, rather than an invasive, one-sided monologue.
The basic premise of permission-based mobile marketing is rather simple: users opt-in and give their consent for brands to send them targeted, preference-based marketing materials for products and services that they are interested in. If executed properly, a permission-based mobile marketing strategy can create value for brands, agencies, consumers and mobile network operators.
Creating The New Conversation Experience
By Susan Campbell
Humans are an increasingly mobile species, relying on technology to keep them connected to people, information, processes and more. While continued mobile technology innovation is a key in meeting the needs of a rapidly changing world, consumers are now demanding more than just technology – they want a new conversation experience. This experience is focused not solely on technology, but instead on improving the content and context of human interactions.
A recent Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) article in the company's Enriching Communications business e-zine entitled, Needed: A New Conversation Experience, the focus was on the importance of human interactions, stressing that the new conversation experience needed to be more personal, secure, social and mobile. It detailed how network intelligence will enable the new conversation experience and as well as how open innovation helps to enhance the experience, while also encouraging service uptake and loyalty for service providers (SPs).
Driving DSL Network Performance Excellence with Motive Network Analyzer
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Driving DSL Network Performance Excellence with Motive Network Analyzer
A dramatic rise in the performance required of digital subscriber line (DSL) networks is being caused by consumer adoption of bandwidth-demanding triple-play services. With the support of new real-time voice and high-definition video services, DSL network lines are now operating closer to their physical limits. This is straining copper and fiber capabilities and making them more vulnerable to quality and stability problems in delivering high quality experiences to individual households.
To meet these challenges, service providers must have the right tools and processes to meet the expectations of customers on DSL networks, while also preventing the escalation of operational expenses (OPEX) in doing so even as migrations to all fiber connections are taking place.
This fall Alcatel-Lucent announced that its Motive Network Analyzer surpassed the 100 customer mark. The big draw for this solution is its ability to enable service providers to identify, diagnose and troubleshoot all DSL problems across fiber and copper that can affect the customers' experience when leveraging broadband service.
The "Neo-Urbanization" of India -- Live Research on the Role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
By Erin Harrison
Urbanization is modernizing many areas of the world that were previously without access to healthcare, education, employment – and technology.
According to Alcatel-Lucent, 60 percent of the world's population expected to live in cities by 2025, which means that "neo-urbanization" — the transformation of historically rural and typically impoverished areas into cities — will have far-reaching implications and impact, including improved quality of life for countries with exploding populations.
In literally a quest for a deeper understanding of the impacts of all this the Alcatel-Lucent Market and Consumer Insight group has teamed up with IMRB International to piece together the "neo-urbanization" puzzle. The group is traveling across areas of India to better understand the "neo-urbanization" phenomenon in the Indian context and predicting how it will unfold in the next five to 10 years.
How Service Providers Can Take On Customer Experience Challenges
By Erin Harrison
It's indisputable that improving the customer experience, the way end users interface with a company's support people and business processes, will improve the service provider's bottom line.
According to Alcatel-Lucent, customer experience challenges that service providers face include: the cost of acquiring new customers; technical support and customer support/help desk.
"For many service providers, the new path to profitability is a holistic approach focused on anticipating customers' needs and improving their Quality of Experience (QoE)," according to an Alcatel-Lucent article that points out the customer experience has not always been a priority for service providers.
Wireless Service Providers Rely on lightRadio to Optimize MIMO Gains on LTE Networks
By Susan J. Campbell
As a service provider, what potential opportunities emerge if you were able to improve capacity, coverage and performance? With lightRadio technologies, you can gain support for current and anticipated wireless technologies that will address quality and growth changes; combine advancements in radios, antennas and baseband processing to support cloud principles, virtualization and architectural flexibility; and enable easy reprogramming and reconfiguration of network elements.
In this Alcatel-Lucent lightRadio Technology Overview, the innovations to address service provider challenges is explored. These challenges easily include adding more radios, antennas, towers and processing capacity; increasing spectral bandwidth; supporting new technologies; and making better use of cell site capacity. The development of lightRadio by Alcatel-Lucent focuses on optimizing total network costs over time so each wireless provider can make the most of their existing assets and capabilities.
Future Scenarios of Small Cells Technology Market Opportunities
By Erin Harrison
Last week we focused on the consumer market opportunities being realized by small cells technology. For operators, capital expenses (CAPEX) and operation expenses (OPEX) savings can be achieved by using small cells networks to deliver mobile broadband services, rather than the current macro network, according to the experts at Alcatel-Lucent.
In addition, new incremental service revenue can be generated from pre-qualified 3G and broadband subscribers. In some countries, the savings are substantial and actually outstrip potential revenue.
By increasing service quality and connection speeds indoors, small cells can improve voice calls and provide faster, more reliable data connections and coverage. Small cells are low-powered radio access points that improve indoor and outdoor coverage to increase capacity and offload traffic – as much as 80 percent during peak times.
In the whitepaper, "Small Cells Technology Fuels New Consumer Market Opportunities," Alcatel-Lucent developed forecasts for five national markets, and analyzed results from the survey and market penetration simulations. The results found that Asia will lead, while the United States and Europe will follow in capturing the new market opportunities found in small cells technology.


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UPDATE: Barry Manilow has rescheduled his Woodlands Pavilion date for June 30. All original tickets will be honored and are still available via manilow.com, ticketmaster.com or at 800-745-3000.
Anyone who donates a new or gently used musical instrument to the Woodlands Pavilion can still receive two tickets for the concert. Instruments may be dropped off between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily through June 30. Manilow himself is donating a Yahama piano to Conroe ISD.
Bad news, fanilows.
Barry Manilow has postponed a round of Texas shows, including Sunday at the Woodlands Pavilion, "due to bronchitis and on doctor's orders."
A new date will be announced soon, and all tickets will be honored. Refunds are available at point of purchase.
Read my interview with Manilow HERE.


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In Review: When Football Was Football: West Ham
Filed: Tuesday, 18th October 2011
By: Staff Writer
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"This book isn't about the modern era of football..."
When Football Was Football: West Ham is a nostalgic look back at the first one hundred years of West Ham United Football Club, from its humble beginnings in 1895 right through to the mid 1990s when Billy Bonds was in the managerial hotseat.
To all intents and purposes a pictorial record - with commentary added to each picture by the author - WFWF:WH is the result of one man's foray into the vast Daily Mirror image archive and, to the author's credit, contains several previously unseen (or long forgotten) photographs - even if the majority are standard stock fare - as you would expect in a retrospective collection of this nature.
Indeed, the more interesting images included here - from this reviewer's perspective, at least - are not those on the field of play (most of which have been seen in other collections) but rather those off it, which perfectly encapsulate the era being discussed - be that the wives and girlfriends of the 1964 Cup Final team or those of supporters mourning the death of Bobby Moore almost 30 years later.
The book is divided into chapters representing the eras of each of the seven managers at the club prior to the instalment of Harry Redknapp in 1994. So once the foreward and brief chapter on the Thames Iron Works is concluded we travel through the reigns of King, Paynter, Fenton, Greenwood, Lyall, Macari - who gets but two pages out of a total of 200+! - and Bonds.
Each chapter follows its particular era in chronological order and is punctuated with legendary figures from the club - although quite whether anyone but the author would consider the likes of George Kay, Jackie Morton, Pop Robson and David Cross to be club legends - solid performers though they were - is debatable.
On the bright side, those bona-fide club legends such as Watson, Gregory, Moore, Brooking and Bonds are all included so it's a minor quibble. Though as we're talking quibbles, the information regarding the club colours of the Thames Iron Works is slightly inaccurate and contradictory. But again, it's a minor point.
Overall, WFWF:WH is a fascinating pictorial record of the club's first one hundred years, beautifully designed and ideal for your coffee table - even if the older supporter will have seen a great many of the pictures included here elsewhere.
In hardback and priced at nearly twenty quid it's not cheap, but if you're looking for a Christmas present for a devoted Hammer you could do a lot worse.
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Broadway Improvements: Third Street to Ames
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September 27, 2014
The project has been completed.
June 23, 2014
The contractor is expected to complete landscaping this week.
June 16, 2014
The contractor is expected to complete landscaping in the area over the next two weeks.
June 9, 2014
Crews have mobilized to the area to perform landscaping operations, including the installation of an irrigation system.
March 3, 2014
Crews will mobilize this spring to install irrigation systems and landscape the area.
November 18, 2013
Crews are currently scheduled to perform roadway line striping on Tuesday, November 19.
October 28, 2013
On Wednesday, October 30, MassDOT's contractor, DeFelice Construction, will be paving Broadway between Ames Street and Third Street. Work hours will be 6 AM to 6 PM, and we expect paving to take 1 day to complete. Eastbound traffic on Broadway will continue to be detoured to Main Street and Binney Street during work hours; a westbound travel lane will continue to remain open. Ames Street will be closed at Broadway to through traffic. Please note paving is weather dependent and may be rescheduled due to rain.
October 8, 2013
Crews are currently planting and working on the irrigation system in the project area.
August 12, 2013
Crews continue to perform sidewalk work between the Marriott Hotel on Broadway and Ames Street.
August 5, 2013
This week, crews will be performing sidewalk work between the Marriott Hotel on Broadway and Ames Street.
July 29, 2013
Crews continue to perform sidewalk work on Broadway in front of the Marriott Hotel.
July 22, 2013
July 8, 2013
This week, crews continue to work on sidewalks on the south side of Broadway near the Marriott Hotel.
June 3, 2013
Crews are currently working on the sidewalks on the north bound side of Broadway. In addition to the work on the northbound side, crews are prepping the work area for the southbound side of Broadway.
May 29, 2013
Crews are currently completing sidewalk work on the north side of Broadway between Ames Street and Third Street.
May 6, 2013
This week, crews setting curb and prepping for new sidewalk on the north side of Broadway between Third Street and Ames Street.
April 4, 2013
MassDOT's contractor, DeFelice Construction, will mobilize on the north side (Volpe Center) of Broadway at Ames St during the week of April 8 to begin utility upgrades and sidewalk reconstruction. Crews will work their way towards Third St performing the upgrades for about 2 months.
Once this section is complete, crews will move to the south side (Marriott) of Broadway to begin sidewalk reconstruction.
March 11, 2013
On Monday March 11, crews will begin installing street lights on Broadway between Third St and Ames St. The work is expected to be completed by the end of the week. No Parking signs will be posted at least 24 hours in advance of construction. Please be sure to check posted signs for exact dates and times.
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The Broadway Improvements Project has been awarded to DeFelice Corporation, and they will begin work in March 2013. In preparation for that, the Cambridge Electrical Department has been working on installing new roadway lighting on Broadway.
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The project is substantially complete. Remaining items include irrigation work and landscaping, which will take place in spring 2014.
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2010 is the centennial year of the Boy Scouts of America, and national public television viewers can now see the power of this transformative organization. This film is a charming and gentle exploration of how the Boy Scouts - along with two weeks at a magnificent summer scout camp - can change a group of boys from Harlem into young men. Through these boys' eyes, we see camaraderie, structure, and personal growth in a world that is quite removed from their homes in Harlem. But the real story is the personal growth they experience, and how one formative week can change a boy's outlook on life forever. The images are enhanced by the haunting and emotional music soundtrack of a soloist performing a traditional spiritual. Over 50 million Americans have had connections to, or have been members of this formative organization.