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2014 Alfa Romeo 4C review
* New Alfa Romeo 4C driven in UK * Mid-mounted engine; lightweight carbonfibre chassis * On sale now, priced from £45,000...
The new Alfa Romeo 4C will be built at a rate of just 3500 cars a year, of which only around 200 will be coming to the UK. It's still a hugely important model for the Italian brand, though, because it's designed to show the world that Alfa can compete with the very best after years of mediocrity.
The 4C is a rear-wheel-drive sports car with a mid-mounted 1.75-litre four-cylinder turbocharged engine that produces 237bhp – 83bhp less than the Porsche Cayman S.
However, the 4C can still officially out-accelerate the Porsche due to the fact it's around 400kg lighter (the equivalent of chucking out a rugby team's front row).
This low weight is partially achieved by using an extremely light and stiff carbonfibre chassis 'tub' – similar to the one in the McLaren 12C supercar – but there are lots of other areas where Alfa Romeo has saved weight; even the passenger's seat is fixed in a single position because mounting it on rails would have added a few kilos.
The 4C starts at £45,000, a price that puts it midway between the entry-level Cayman and the flagship S model. Our test car was fitted with the optional £3000 Racing Pack, though, which adds a sports exhaust, lower and stiffer suspension, larger alloys and a sports steering wheel.
What's the 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C like to drive?
Despite its modest capacity and cylinder count, the 4C's engine really makes itself heard. It starts with an angry bark, emits a huge amount of turbo whoosh and roars like an old-school rally car under hard acceleration.
True, you might wonder what all the fuss is about at low and high revs, where the engine feels a little flat. However, mid-range performance is supercar strong, with 0-62mph taking just 4.5 seconds.
The gearbox is a twin-clutch automatic that can be controlled manually via paddles on the steering wheel, and it's when you make full use of these paddles that the 'box works best.
Sure, it can do a passable impression of a conventional auto when it's left to its own devices, but manual upshifts feel far more speedy and satisfying; they give you a real shove in the back when the 4C is in Dynamic or Race mode.
Things are less impressive around town, where the 4C's transmission is nowhere near as smooth or intelligent as the rival Porsche Cayman PDK's. There's no creep function, either, so you have to prod at the accelerator pedal in stop-start traffic.
Unlike most modern cars, the 4C doesn't have power steering, so it takes quite a bit of effort to turn the wheel when stationary. Fortunately, the steering lightens up almost as soon as the car is rolling, and it really comes alive at higher speeds, telling you everything that's going on.
Unfortunately, there's a lot of kickback through the steering wheel over bumps, and the whole car lurches one way then another over quick camber changes. You really have to fight to stay on your side of the road when pushing hard along a B-road.
The Alfa certainly feels more alert and alive than a Porsche Cayman, which is hardly a surprise given how much lighter it is. That said, the front end of the car runs out of grip earlier than you might expect, meaning you can't ultimately carry as much speed through bends as you can in a Cayman or a Lotus Exige.
No one buying a 4C will expect much in the way of refinement, and that's a good thing because there's a near deafening amount of road and wind noise at motorway speeds, and the optional sports exhaust also drones away loudly at a steady 70mph.
The ride is perfectly acceptable by sports car standards, though – even with the optional sports suspension fitted.
What's the 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C like inside?
Getting into the 4C requires a fair bit of flexibility because there's a wide sill to climb over and the seats are mounted close to the floor.
The exact height of the seat is set up for you when you collect the car from the dealer. Unfortunately, it can't then be adjusted unless you reach for your spanners, and the passenger seat doesn't even slide back and forth.
There's enough space in the cabin for tall adults, and the fact that you sit low makes the 4C feel properly sporty. The way Alfa Romeo has skewed the centre console towards the driver and left carbonfibre on display in the footwells adds to this impression.
Sadly, the hard plastics used for the dashboard are less appealing, and it's a pity the gearshift paddles aren't made of metal or carbon.
The design of the dashboard is also a bit of a mixed bag; it ditches traditional instruments for a digital display that's both clear and easy on the eye, but the stereo looks distinctly aftermarket and it's too easy for your passenger to bang their knee on the centre console.
Rear visibility is awful, too. Meanwhile, the boot is suitable only for soft bags, and you have to prop it open because Alfa ruled out a hydraulic strut on the grounds of saving weight.
Should I buy one?
Alfa Romeo says it wanted the 4C to be more focused than a Cayman, yet easier to live with than a Lotus Exige, and while it has achieved this, the Alfa certainly feels a lot closer in character to the Lotus.
If you're looking for a sports car that you can use every day, then, the Porsche is a much better buy – especially when you consider that it's ultimately a more capable machine.
However, the Alfa's blend of style, performance and rawness does give it lots of appeal, and it's predicted to hold on to its value incredibly well. So, as long as you have another, more practical car as well, the 4C is worth considering.
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Alfa Romeo 4C
Engine size 1.75-litre turbo petrol
Price from £45,000
Power 237bhp
Torque 258lb ft
0-62mph 4.5 seconds
Top speed 160mph
Fuel economy 41.5mpg
CO2 157g/km


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The Kitchen Sink Post
(The weather has drifted down into the cooler temperatures, slowing everything down a little bit more each day — including this this blog post, which I've rewritten and added to
three or four six times to reflect the changing reality over the past couple of weeks month. And so, I'm hurrying to post it before anything else happens again to force another rewrite.)
Sharing your work with people online produces a variety of outcomes. One of my favorites is waking up to fan mail from someone on the other side of the world. One of my least favorites is waking up to rejection notices, like I did a few mornings ago.
In related news, my "Chimera" project is on the market for anyone looking for a good science-fiction/action series. Otherwise, it's going back in the file cabinet and will likely serve as raw material for the novel I'll write after I finish the one I'm going to write after I finish the one I'm writing now.
Go ahead and try diagramming that last sentence, kids. But don't blame me if your head explodes.
Speaking of recursive oddities: The advertising agency I work for specializes in differentiation — that is, helping our clients identify and promote the things that make them stand out in the marketplace. Our corporate tagline is "Exactly Like Nobody Else" and the company bought all of us very nice Land's End shirts with the logo and tagline embroidered on them. The irony of everyone here having the same shirt reading "Exactly Like Nobody Else" wasn't immediately apparent, but it's now impossible to ignore — particularly on days like today, when seven out of the ten employees all wore our shirts. The atomic weight of such recursive irony could collapse around us and form a black hole. Of shirts.
In my last post, I mentioned I was finishing up a new play called "Drawing Away". Well, it's all done and you can find out more about it (and download a copy) on the Works page. If you do give it a look, let me know what you think.
With that out of the way, the next revision on my list was some long-overdue refinements to my adaptation of "The Odyssey". A week or so back, someone who worked on the original production at Northwestern College contacted me to see if the script was available for production at a theatre in Illinois . . . which put just the right amount of heat under my efforts to get things cleaned up. I got everything done just in time to send it off to their selection committee last week and I've also put up a copy here for everyone else. As always, let me know what you think.
It was interesting, coming back to those scripts after such a long time. As I said in my post last week, "Drawing Away" is a reboot of the first play I ever wrote — taking the basic premise and reworking it around a slightly different plot and cast of characters. I ended up using much more of the original dialogue than I'd planned; through no grand planning on my part, it just seemed to fit better into the plot than I expected. All in all, I like this version better. But check back in another twenty years.
Tightening up "The Odyssey" presented a different set of challenges. By the time it got to the rehearsal process, I'd done nearly fifteen drafts on the script. The original text, of course, is a massive and wandering story — and I spent most of my time trying to figure out how to do it justice without getting lost forever among the twist and turns. Coming back to it now, I was pleasantly surprised at how well I'd managed on the whole thing. Here's hoping the selection committee agrees.
(The production at Northwestern was a lot of fun. The music in particular has stayed with me. The composer did an excellent job with the score and I've always regretted losing touch with him before I could get a copy of it for myself. Reading back through the script again, I could still hear the haunting voices singing . . . fortunately, I have a DVD of a brush-up rehearsal and was able to pull the scene out and share it here. These, of course, are the sirens…)
mega kudos Achaiônn, nêa katastêson,
hina nôiterên op akousêis.
ou gar pô tis têide parêlase nêi melainêi,
prin g' hêmeôn meligêrun
apo stomatôn op' akousai,
all' ho ge terpsamenos
neitai kai pleiona eidôs…
The next major revision will probably be an adaptation I did of Calderon's "Life is a Dream" from a few years back. Once I catch my breath, I mean.
It seems strange to think of it now, but there was a time when I was convinced that I was only a playwright. With the exception of the occasional poem or short story, everything I wrote was meant to be performed by live human beings in front of live human beings. This wasn't by design or even preference, however. Everything that took shape in my head naturally seemed to gravitate towards the stage. There were a couple of odd things here and there — good ideas I still haven't figured out how to write in any form — but it was overwhelmingly obvious that I was a playwright, first and foremost. For whatever reason that was where my creative energy naturally flowed (some people have offered their theories about this but I won't get into those here).
Somewhere along the way and 30+ plays later, the tide has shifted . . . well, broadened might be a better way to describe it. There are a lot of different tributaries branching off of that flow now. If anything, it's the theatre branch that's the weakest these days (the same theories mentioned above provide a compelling reason for this as well).
I'm not complaining. But it does leave me with a lot of work that's never seen the light of day . . . yet.
Recently I went through my files and cleaned everything up, reorganizing forty years of detritus as best I could. There were lots of fun discoveries — plays and stories and poems I'd forgotten about, most of which were forgotten for a good reason. And there were plenty of little scraps from past lives that left me cringing — but like the bad writing, it's all just prelude to where I am now. And here is good.
But there was some good stuff, too. As well as a surprising number of things that I just flat out don't remember writing at all.
Which has left me wondering what to do with it all. Apparently I'm not the only one. My colleague Tony Delgrosso recently posted he was gathering up all his oddments at The Half Empty Moleskine and it's pieces like this one that make me glad he is.
The regular (and patient) readers of this blog know I've been making noises for a while about a new podcast. The good news (pun intended) is that it's out there and now you can hear some of those literary orphans that have been hiding in the back of the file cabinet.
There are a few episodes already, ready for download. If you want the fancy .M4V iTunes version, click here to subscribe. If you're more interested in the RSS feed, you can get that here. If you want to get your grubby little mitts on the individual files or an MP3 version, they're right here waiting for you. And if you want me to come to your house each week and perform it live in front of your closest friends and/or housepets, then make me an offer. No freaks.
Just for fun, each show comes with a free PDF download of the readings from that week — just in case you'd prefer not to have to listen to me all the damn time.
And if that weren't enough…
A few days back I was sorting through a number of things and realized that I'd never been "between projects" during National Novel Writing Month before. Usually when NaNoWriMo rolls around, I'm balls elbows deep in something and can't stop what I'm doing to participate. And although I'm currently hard at work on my next novel entitled "Pantheon" (at least, that's what my bio says), the truth of the matter is that I've allowed myself to get distracted by too many side projects over the past few months and "Pantheon" hasn't really gotten the attention it deserves.
Which leaves me at a crossroads. Do I keep "Pantheon" on the back burner and fire up NaNoWriMo? Or do I use November to work on the thing that I was already planning on doing, which was going to leave "Pantheon" out anyways?
Very difficult decision. I've got a couple of good concepts that could fit nicely into NaNoWritMo. But then there's the matter of the other November project I'd been planning.
Who know . . . maybe I'll do both. It's certainly possible but, either way, it seems that poor little "Pantheon" might just be getting short shrift once again. At least until November has come and gone.
As I said above, winter is here. We haven't seen snow yet, but I'm told by Girija that in Hindu culture you sacrifice two goats and leave their heads at the gates of the temple, making a stew to serve to the first two strangers who happen through the gate.
As much of a fan as I am of snow, it seems rather hard luck for the goats.
And besides, the snow will be here soon enough.
When I'm this busy, the first thing that invariably gets cut down is sleep. Next is reading. I can do without the first one but not the second.
I don't get a lot of magazines (apart from the comics, of course) but a few years back I discovered Esquire at my older brother's house and have been hooked ever since. Usually I spend thirty minutes or so with each issue some afternoon and then set it aside. But lately I haven't had time enough for that. I finally caught up to the June issue and this photo accompanying the Stephen King story 'Morality' took me aback.
I sat there staring at the page for a few minutes with an odd feeling at the back of my head, like someone'd snuck in during the night and burgled a few things and I'd just noticed.
I showed the photo to my wife and asked her what came to mind. She got it on the first try. It was like someone had taken a snapshot of the opening of my play 'The Red Boy' and I thought for a moment that my citizenship in Alan Moore's IdeaSpace had been revoked.
However, once I got up the guts to read King's story I was relieved. Not a bad story, overall. But from a completely different territory than 'The Red Boy' fortunately for my sanity.
But, boy oh boy, take a look at this picture and then go read the first few pages of this play. You'll see what I mean.
Having a long daily commute has made it easier to listen to books, fortunately. I just finished listening to Scott Anderson's "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" and, I have to say, I found it to be a fascinating (and inspiring) study. Highly recommended.
On the strength of a footnote in Anderson's book, I picked up a copy of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, and am enjoying it a great deal as well.
And, here and there, I'm reading another book by my wife's grandfather — the inestimable Ken Jones, that original Mad Men character I've mentioned here before. Like the last one of his I read, this one involves the Advertising business. Only this time around, it's set in Singapore and somebody's been murdered.
Ken just turned 90 this past weekend. Still writing every day, too.
I should be so lucky.
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Thanks for the lead into Tony Delgrosso's site. Also for the new podcast!
Now, I read "The Red Boy" last year or the year before at some point after listening to A&D and Matters and looking for some more material of yours. When I opened up this post to read I quickly scanned the page and saw the photo, thinking it was a photo of yours for Red Boy and wondering if it was being produced somewhere. Anyway, color me creeped out. I am going to have to read King's story now.
Lots to read and listen to. Thanks!
Finally read "Morality". I'm so glad it didn't overlap with Red Boy. It would be kind of funny to link the two, having the Red Boy from your play be the kid she picks in King's story. Maybe not terribly funny ha ha, but "fun" funny in my head for just a moment.
That being said, I'm not sure how I feel about King's story. I really love some of King's writing. He has written some of my favorite stories. I can't help but feel this one was a little slap dash. I do think there are some very interesting ideas brought up in the story. I think maybe the ending could have been expressed with a bit more length. Or maybe that really wasn't the point. I really like where it started. One thing I am personally tired of is women being the weak link and breaking down in some way after a crime is committed. I found the female's arc a bit cliche. But it still raised some interesting questions in my mind. I'm on the fence.
Agreed. I recently read a review of King's new book that came out recently in which the reviewer stated something along the lines that King is perhaps one of the most underrated authors of modern fiction. And whatever one's viewpoint of King is, I think this is very true. Because of that "genre writer" issue. It's cool to see his stuff moving out into the world, hopefully paving more roads for other writers.
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What We Know Today About Alzheimer's Disease
The Search for Alzheimer's Causes and Risk Factors
While scientists know Alzheimer's disease involves progressive brain cell failure, the reason cells fail isn't clear. Like other chronic conditions, experts believe that Alzheimer's develops as a complex result of multiple factors rather than any one overriding cause. The greatest risk factors for Alzheimer's are older age, having a family history of Alzheimer's and carrying the APOE-e4 gene. The discovery of additional risk factors will deepen our understanding of why Alzheimer's develops in some people and not others.
Although Alzheimer's is not a normal part of growing older, the greatest risk factor for the disease is increasing age. After age 65, the risk of Alzheimer's doubles every five years. After age 85, the risk reaches nearly 50 percent.
Another Alzheimer's risk factor is family history. Research has shown that those who have a parent, brother, sister or child with Alzheimer's are more likely to develop the disease. The risk increases if more than one family member has the illness. When diseases tend to run in families, either heredity (genetics) or environmental factors or both may play a role.
There are two categories of genes that influence whether a person develops a disease: (1) risk genes and (2) deterministic genes. Researchers have identified Alzheimer's genes in both categories.
In 2003, the Alzheimer's Association partnered with the National Institute on Aging to begin recruiting participants for the National Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Study, a federal initiative to collect and bank blood samples from families with several members who developed Alzheimer's disease late in life. The goal is to identify additional Alzheimer's risk genes. The study continues to seek participants.
Genetic tests are available for both APOE-e4 and the rare genes that directly cause Alzheimer's. However, health professionals do not currently recommend routine genetic testing for Alzheimer's disease. Testing for APOE-e4 is sometimes included as a part of research studies.
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The 23 human chromosome pairs contain all of the 30,000 genes that code the biological blueprint for a human being. This interactive illustration highlights the chromosomes containing each of the three genes that cause familial Alzheimer's and the gene with the greatest impact on Alzheimer's risk.
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Amyloid precursor protein (APP), discovered in 1987, is the first gene with mutations found to cause an inherited form of Alzheimer's.
Presenilin-1 (PS-1), identified in 1992, is the second gene with mutations found to cause inherited Alzheimer's. Variations in this gene are the most common cause of inherited Alzheimer's.
Presenilin-2 (PS-2), discovered 1993, is the third gene with mutations found to cause inherited Alzheimer's.
Apolipoprotein E-e4 (APOE4), discovered in 1993, is the first gene variation found to increase risk of Alzheimer's and remains the risk gene with the greatest known impact. Having this mutation, however, does not mean that a person will develop the disease.
Scientists have developed animal models of Alzheimer's by genetically engineering mice to carry the human genes that cause rare inherited forms of the disease. These mice provide an invaluable means for researchers to study potential new treatments and approaches to prevention. In 1987, The Alzheimer's Association funded the proof-of-concept work that laid the foundation for developing future Alzheimer's mouse models. In 2002, the Association funded development of a "triple-transgenic" mouse, widely considered the best animal model currently available. Learn more about our commitment to research.
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I've been a bit disappointed by the polls I've seen of the Senate race in Washington State. Dino Rossi, an attractive Republican challenger who very nearly was elected Governor in 2004, has been consistently behind incumbent Patty Murray. Murray's average lead, according to Real Clear Politics is 5.3 percentage points.
But two very recent polls suggest a closer race. A Survey USA poll released on September 23 shows Murray leading by a margin of 50-48. And a Fox News/Pulse Opinion Research survey of 1,000 likely voters, taken on September 25, has Murray leading by only 48-47. Both "leads" are within the margin of error.
With the race apparently tightening, Murray has announced that Bill Clinton will be campaigning for her on October 18. He will attend a fundraising luncheon in Seattle and a rally in Everett that afternoon.
As Liz Mair observes, this is a "great get" for the Murray campaign because Clinton remains very popular in Washington State. And the timing of his visit is excellent. It will come as voters are receiving their ballots in the mail.
The good news is that Murray clearly needs all the help she can get. The bad news is that she is about to get some significant help.
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MacKinnon continues to shine as Avalanche trump Wild in OT
Heaven only knows what Patrick Roy is going to ask his players to put on the table next, but if it works as well as his last request did, they better do it.
A day after the Colorado Avalanche coach challenged his players to put their, um, Joel Quennevilles on the table in Game 5, they responded with courage to spare in a dramatic comeback victory over the stunned Minnesota Wild.
PA Parenteau scored to tie it with 1:14 left in regulation and Nathan MacKinnon won it in overtime to give the Avs a 3-2 series lead heading back to Minnesota.
If Games 3 and 4 are any indication — the Avs were out-shot 46-22 and 32-12 in a pair of losses — this thing is headed back to Colorado for a Game 7.
Which is fine with MacKinnon and Co.
"That was indescribable," MacKinnon said. "We're a tough group, we've been down all year. We knew we'd come back to tie it and thank God we did."
After being totally dominated in the two games in Minnesota, the Avs hoped a change of scenery was all they needed to re-establish control of the series.
It was.
But it wasn't easy.
They had a 2-1 lead after 40 minutes, yet found out the hard way that Minnesota had a table, too.
The Wild scored twice in less than two minutes in the third to take a 3-2 lead. Colorado looked dead, but once again, with their goalie on the bench like they did in Game 1, they found a way to get it done.
"When you look around the room at the young club that we have, it's amazing how we continue to battle," Jamie McGinn said. "We did it all year and it's nice to show that we can do it in the playoffs when the stage is set. It just shows how bad we want it and how hard we're willing to work for each other. We never say never and we never give up."
The tying goal appeared to be offside, but that, too, was drowned out by the crowd noise in a frenzied Pepsi Center.
"We missed the fans here when we were gone," Gabriel Landeskog said. "You realize why people talk about home ice advantage so much throughout the year. We feed off the crowd so much, the way every hit matters and the way every shot matters. When you're an opposing team, I wouldn't say it puts you on your heels, but you certainly feel that energy against you."
There wasn't much of a storm for the Wild to weather in the first period.
Home ice advantage didn't seem to be much at all in dealing with the problems that plagued them in Denver. Colorado couldn't break the puck out, couldn't generate offence and had just two shots on net through the first nine minutes.
Things heated up significantly in the second, with Colorado doing to Minnesota what Minnesota had been doing to them in Games 3 and 4. They held the Wild to zero shots through the first eight minutes and change and took a 1-0 lead on Cody McLeod's shorthanded goal at 8:04.
Minnesota got that one back at 9:17 when Matt Moulson deflected their second shot of the period past Semyon Varlamov, but Colorado took a 2-1 lead into the second intermission on Nick Holden's deflection at 12:16.
Colorado's leading scorer in the regular season, Matt Duchene, went hard at the morning skate, taking regular line rushes Ryan O'Reilly and Jamie McGinn. That prompted speculation he'd be back for Game 5, but he still is not ready.


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Friday, 28 March 2008
Model Cyclist
Everyone's favourite model Agnes Deyn looking fabulous on her bicycle with her usual effortless style. Apparently Agnes cycled between shows during New York City fashion week, flying a Union Jack flag off the back of her bicycle.. Good girl!
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3 comments:
- meli said...
I like how the also caught the Mr. Sartorialist in the background.
- 23 April 2008 at 19:03
- Nathan said...
...looks so cool...I got hold of an almost identical bike, a Ducth import from these guys, www.dutchbikecompany.co.uk, they sell them in Chelsea far cheaper than hers
- 12 August 2008 at 09:27
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text: Frazao returns to Whitecaps FC after previously playing in the club's Prospects program (now known as the Girls Elite program). For the past three years, the Port Moody, BC native has starred playing Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) soccer at the University of British Columbia. This past year, Frazao was named Canada West women's soccer Player of the Year after scoring an astonishing 16 goals in just 14 games. In total, Frazao has started 45 of her 47 appearances for the Thunderbirds, scoring 33 goals and recording four assists.


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UPDATE: Police arrest two more in Sunday's attack on Laurel StreetStaff Report
March 05. 2014 9:37AM
MANCHESTER — Police charged a former New Hampshire state representative in connection with an inner city weekend melee that involved baseball bats, one that police say was wielded by the man's son, a former city high school football star.
Hector Velez Sr., 47, of 269 Central St., turned himself in to police Tuesday and was charged with riot. Police alleged that Velez brought his son, Hector Velez Jr., 18, to Laurel Street, to "settle a dispute" with the brother of his former fellow football teammate, David Weekly, 17.
The younger Velez and Weekly both played in the Central High School football backfield, and Velez was named to the second all-state football team in 2012. Velez faces three felony assault charges, one alleging that he struck his former teammate in the face with a baseball bat.
Weekly told police that Velez also hit him in the ribs with the bat after he was knocked to the ground.
Another person injured in the confrontation was Alfred Nyonee, 17, a basketball player at West High School.
Velez Sr. served in the New Hampshire House in the 2000s and was recognized as a spokesman for the Hispanic community then. In 2002, he received the Martin Luther King Award from the statewide coalition that honors King every year.
Efforts to reach him Wednesday were unsuccessful.
Manchester police spokesman Brian O'Keefe said Velez Sr.'s only involvement appears to be that he accompanied his son to the area. Had Velez punched or struck someone, he would have been charged with assault, O'Keefe said.
O'Keefe said it's uncertain what led to the fight. One version police heard is that it started over a past-due debt on a school book.
At Central High School, interim principal John Rist said the administration is aware that a fight took place nearby. Administrators are keeping an eye out for troublemakers, and the school has remained calm, he said.
"I think they (Velez Jr. and Weekly) have both finished their careers here at Central," Rist said.
Police said the melee took place outside 141 Laurel St. It drew a crowd of about 30 people, and 18 police took a half-hour to get the situation under control. Baseball bats and sticks were swung, and two teenage boys required hospital treatment for injuries.
Also surrendering to police Tuesday was Darius Weekly, 20, of 219 Notre Dame Ave. He was charged with riot and second-degree assault.
Previous stories follow:
MANCHESTER - Police have arrested two more people in connection with a street fight on Laurel Street Sunday night. One of the men arrested is the father of a man arrested Sunday.
Turning themselves in at the police station Tuesday evening were Hector Velez Sr., 47, of 269 Central St., and Darius Weekly, 20, of 219 Notre Dame Ave., both charged with Riot. Weekly also faces an additional charge of second-degree assault.
Police say the two took part in a large fight that erupted Sunday. Police found around 30 people fighting in the area of 141 Laurel St. Police estimated it took almost a half hour and a dozen and a half police officers to put an end to the fighting and calm people enough to interview them.
Police said Velez Sr. arrived on Laurel Street with his son, Hector Jr., who was arrested Sunday, and others to "settle a dispute" between his son and David Weekly, the brother of Darius Weekly.
Police said Darius Weekly struck Brian Colon of Manchester with a stick during the brawl, yet Colon refused medical treatment at the scene.
MANCHESTER — Two teens accused of using weapons during a street fight Sunday evening on Laurel Street were arraigned Monday in Manchester District Court on riot and second-degree assault charges. Police said the two charged used a baseball bat and a stick in the assaults.
Police said a riot charge against a 16-year-old will be handled in closed juvenile court, but Hector Velez Jr., 18, of 269 Central St., and Ahmed Shehabeldin, 19, of 1436 Elm St., were arraigned in open court.
Court documents say police found fighting in the area of 141 Laurel St., where a crowd estimated at about 30 had gathered. Police estimated it took almost a half hour and a dozen and a half police officers to put an end to the fighting and calm people enough to interview them.
Two teen males sustained injuries that required medical treatment at the Elliot Hospital, although police said none was life threatening.
According to the court documents, police officer Kevin Jusza reported that he grabbed a baseball bat away from Velez, who had ignored an order to drop it.
Velez is accused of hitting a former high school football teammate, David Weekly, 17, in the face with a baseball bat. Weekly told police that Velez also hit him in the ribs with the bat, after he was knocked to the ground.
Velez is also accused of striking Kevin Jenkins, 18, in the face and right and left forearms with the bat and of hitting the hood and passenger side door of a parked vehicle at the scene while Brieanna Ottman, 20, was inside it.
Officer Michael Buckley wrote that he saw Shehabeldin hit the right arm of Alfred Nyonee, 18, with a 19-inch stick wrapped in pink tape with cross bones. But Buckley also said Shehabeldin dropped the weapon when ordered to do so.
According to police, witnesses said Velez and his father went to the Laurel Street address looking for David Weekly. Jenkins told police that after he and his father went outside, where a crowd was gathering, the two young men got into an argument. According to the elder Jenkins, Velez pulled the baseball bat out of his sweatshirt and swung at his son, striking him in right forearm and face.
At that point, said the elder Jenkins, several others in the crowd began to fight. When David Weekly approached the fight, said the elder Jenkins, Velez ran towards Weekly and hit him in the face with the bat and the fight continued until police arrived.
Velez was arraigned on one felony riot charge, three second degree assault charges and a misdmeanor of criminal mischief. Shehabeldin was arraigned on a felony riot charge and one second-degree assault charge.
Velez and Shehabeldin could enter no plea to the felony charges in Circuit Court, so probable cause hearings were set for March 12, when the mischief charge against Velez will also be addressed
Bail for Velez was set at $2,000 cash-only on the felony charges and $1,500 personal recognizance on the misdemeanor. Bail was set at $5,000 cash/surety for Shehabeldin. Bail conditions bar contact with one another and with their alleged victims.


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TMC wrote:#32 wrote:With the way they're playing right now... is it a stretch to think that a 7... 8... or even 9 win season is possible??
Yes, I'd say 5-6 wins at best... Not every team is going to be as easy as the Rams. You have no chance to win against Seattle, probably will split with Arizona and with the Rams, that's two wins... I don't know the rest of you schedule, but 3-4 more wins should be the usual.
Look at it this way:
If the 49ers SOMEHOW (major upset) beat Philly this weekend... who else do they have coming up? Their next two games would be against Kansas City (minus Trent Green) and the imploding Oakland Raiders!
If the Niners upset the Eagles, they could very well be off to a 4-1 start. I have a hard time believing they'll lose 10 or 9 after that.
This weekend's game is essential to the season's success.


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Archaeological test excavations are currently taking place at the location of Bent's New Fort, west of Lamar, Colo.
Archaeological test excavations are currently taking place at the location of Bent's New Fort, west of Lamar, Colo. The work is being conducted by Richard Carrillo of Cuartelejo HP Associates Inc. of La Junta with the assistance of Roche Lindsey, research associate and students from the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Field School in Historical Archaeology.
Bent's New Fort was constructed by William Bent in the early 1850s as a trading post and freighting center for U.S. military supplies. In 1860, the site was taken over by the U.S. military for use as a commissary for the new Fort Wise, which was being built one-half mile west of Bent's New Fort. The title of Fort Wise, named for the governor of Virginia, was changed to Fort Lyon after the outbreak of the Civil War. Nathaniel Lyon was the first Union general killed in the war, succumbing at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri. It was from this original Fort Lyon that troops marched in November 1864 to carry out the infamous Sand Creek Massacre.
The current archaeological work is being funded with grants from the National Park Service's (NPS) American Battlefield Protection Program, the NPS National Trails Office Intermountain Region, and the Colorado State Historical Fund. The project is being administered through Canyons & Plains, the Southeast Colorado Regional Heritage Tourism group. The Bent's New Fort site itself is owned by Brad Semmens of Lamar and Gary McCall of Walsh.
Anyone interested in seeing the current archaeological work at the site is invited to attend an Open House from 9 a.m. to 12 noon on Thursday, July 11. This will be during the last week of the archaeology field session. Bent's New Fort is located on County Road 35.25 in far eastern Bent County. To reach the site, take U.S. 50 to County Road 35, approximately 10 miles west of Lamar or 25 miles east of Las Animas. Turn south on County Road 35 for 1 mile to County Road JJ (dead end). Turn east (left) and drive ? mile, turning south (right) onto County Road 35.25 for ? mile to the Bent's New Fort parking lot. Walk up the two-track road from the parking lot to the fort site.
For questions or additional information, contact archaeologist Richard Carrillo at (719) 384-8054 or Bent's Old Fort Superintendent Alexa Roberts at (719) 383-5010


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Naomie Harris: Los Angeles Italia Fest 2014 Opening Night Gala!
Naomie Harris flashes a smile while attending the 2014 Los Angeles Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest opening night gala held at the TLC Chinese 6 Theatres on Sunday (February 23) in Hollywood, Calif.
The 32-year-old English actress was joined at the event by singer Bono, Al Pacino, Elisabetta Canalis, and American Hustle director David O. Russell.
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The evening before, Naomie and her Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom co-star Idris Elba hit the red carpet at the 2014 NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena.
FYI: Naomie is wearing a Cushnie et Ochs dress, Christian Louboutin shoes, a Jimmy Choo bag, and Cartier jewelry.
15+ pictures inside of Naomie Harris and others at the 2014 Los Angeles Italia Fest Opening Night Gala…


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2010 Summer Meeting
Meeting Updates
Thank you!
We'd like to thank everyone who attended the meeting and helped make it a success! Check out the highlights and photo gallery from the meeting. We welcome you to join us in Jacksonville for the 2011 Winter Meeting.
Plenary & Awards Ceremony Recordings
Visit the 2010 Summer Meeting USTREAM Channel to see videos of the plenaries and awards ceremonies.
Registration Refunds
Registration refunds will be processed three to four weeks after the conclusion of the National Meeting.
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Luck is a relative term. If you wake up in the morning and find that a tree has fallen on your car and destroyed it in the driveway, someone's apt to say, "Lucky you weren't in it."
Actually, if you were really lucky, the tree would have fallen the other way.
Curt Gogol was sort of pushed under a falling tree by Andy Andreoff in Manchester on Monday night and he's lucky, if you want to define it that way, because all he suffered was a sore neck, lacerated lips and a partially severed tongue.
No concussion, though, so it looks like the blindside hit to the head by Andreoff will not end Gogol's career. Lucky him, only to have been maimed by a cheap shot and not killed or anything.
For all of that, Andreoff was suspended only three games in a decision that makes the American Hockey League look like the National Rifle Association. The cure for potential career-ending cheap shots in hockey is to encourage more of them, since the message is that a player risks only a three-game suspension by sneaking up on someone and nailing him in the noggin.
"I think it's just the perfect amount," Sharks coach Roy Sommer, who understands that freedom of speech comes with a price tag in the AHL, said of the suspension. "I didn't see the play, so I'm not in a position to comment. The guys who did see the play said it looked pretty bad.
"I mean, we don't have (Gogol) for this weekend at least, and that was a play that could have ended his career. What if he had broken his neck?"
It was obvious from the way the crowd in Manchester stood to applaud Gogol as he was carted off the ice that fans up there knew they had seen a cheap shot. After the game, Monarchs coach Mark Morris didn't make even the slightest attempt to defend Andreoff.
Gogol is not a popular player in Manchester, or at least he wasn't until this happened. He is an agitator, which is precisely why he is in the AHL. The Sharks hope that his ultimate upside is as a Brad Marchand sort of guy, somebody everybody hates until he's wearing their team's jersey.
However, until now, everything Gogol had done to irritate, and everything Manchester had done to respond, was strictly within the unofficial limits players create among themselves.
"Our games with Manchester," Jimmy Bonneau said, "it's been a very physical series and we've had some tough games with them. They have some tough players and so do we. But it had never crossed the line to being dirty."
"You have to say this about Morris and those guys up there," Sommer added. "It's a tough team but they've always been a standup team. A player like (Richard) Clune, he'll square up with you but there's nothing cheap about him, and he won't jump you. Same with (Justin) Johnson. That's the kind of players they are."
The three games the league gave to Andreoff match the three Worcester's Matt Pelech got for a hit to the head in November. They were different plays, though. Pelech threw an elbow as he was defending a rush in his own zone, so it was not a hit from behind. It was clearly a head hit, though, and he should have been suspended even if it was not premeditated.
Three games seemed reasonable.
Gogol was hit from behind and well after he had released the puck. Everybody saw Pelech's hit because that's where the puck was. The reason hardly anybody saw Gogol get nailed is because the puck was long gone.
While nobody on the Sharks will criticize the suspension for the record, not wanting to risk a fine, they do not believe it was fair, and not just because it was their guy involved but because they understand that if plays like this aren't taken out of the game, it could be them on a stretcher next time.
However, hockey remains a frontier world. If the sheriff isn't going to take on the bad guys, it may be time to organize a posse.
"We want to wait to see how the league handles it," Bonneau said at practice Wednesday morning before the suspension was announced. "We hope the league does the right thing."
The right thing is a matter of perception, just like luck. The Sharks and Monarchs play again on Jan. 18 at the DCU Center. Three games for Andreoff doesn't seem like enough punishment, and the AHL risks getting into an endless loop of retaliation by not taking care of it the right way.
1. Who holds the Sharks record for most career games played, none of them at home?
2. Who is the youngest player to score a goal in a Sharks uniform?
3. Who was the first goaltender, born and bred in the U.S., to be on AHL's first team All-Star squad?
Answers below.
Worcester is a remarkable 10-3 on the road in its last 13 games and will spend the weekend there, playing in Wilkes-Barre Friday, then the next day in Hershey. The Sharks have played 13 straight one-goal games and have won three in a row. Their last four-game winning streak was from Dec. 9-17, 2011. That was part of a five-game streak, all of which happened on the road. … If it weren't for the Connecticut Whale, Worcester would have left Manchester in first place on the last day of 2012. Monday night, while the Sharks were winning, the Whale blew a 3-0 lead in Portland. Furthermore, Connecticut is 3-0 against Worcester this season. It's all bad for the Sharks. … It was almost another Player of the Week for the Sharks. The incumbent is named Brennan, and he's a defenseman, but this one is T.J. Brennan of Rochester. He was 1-5-6 in three games for the Americans. … Worcester finished 2012 with a 32-35-9 record. That was only the second time it has been below .500 for a calendar year. The other was 2008 at 35-41-7. However, the last time the Sharks finished a year with a three-game winning streak was 2009, and they went on to have their best year ever in 2010 at 45-25-10.
Don Granato has done almost everything in hockey, from playing to coaching to scouting to being an executive, but he has never been able to shake the coaching bug, so he is back behind the bench.
The former IceCats coach, who was in Worcester from 2000-01 until being diagnosed with lymphoma late in the 2005 season, is in his second year in charge of the USA Hockey National Development Program's Under-17 team. Based in Ann Arbor, Mich., the team plays in the junior USHL, where Granato got his coaching start, and against some Division 1 college teams.
"It's high-end talent," he said, "and I'm having a blast doing it."
Granato recovered from lymphoma and eventually continued his AHL coaching career with the Chicago Wolves. He scouted for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Canucks, leaving the Vancouver organization to work for the national development program.
"Coaching is so different from scouting," he said. "Scouting is a slow process, and coaching is immediate. When I was scouting, I'd set the alarm and get up at 7:30 or so in the morning. Coaching, I don't need an alarm. Five o'clock, and I'm up and my mind is already racing."
As much as he enjoys working the young players, Granato would take a shot at the pros again.
"In a heartbeat," he said. "The timing would have to be right, the organization right, but I'd love to do it again."
1. James McEwan got into four games, all on a road trip through the Mid-Atlantic region, in January 2009. McEwan never played in the DCU Center.
2. Jamie McGinn was 18 years, 252 days old when he scored Worcester's lone goal in a 4-1 defeat in Manchester on April 14, 2007.
3. The very first goalie to be named a first team All-Star was an American, Frank Brimsek of the Providence Reds, in 1936-37. He was born and raised in Eveleth, Minn.
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ReleasesBack to
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Alone Together, Lee Konitz's first recording for Blue Note, is a special event. The saxophonist teamed up with legendary bassist Charlie Haden and young lion pianist Brad Mehldau, and the trio's interaction on this set of relaxed bop is astonishing. On paper, the music on Alone Together -- a collection of standards -- should just be straightahead cool bop, but all three musicians are restless and inventive, making even the simplest numbers on the disc vibrant, lively and adventurous. It's a wonderful record, one that makes a convincing argument that Konitz remains a vital force even as he reached his seventieth year.


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'Squishy' asphalt on Meredith streets to be replaced
August 21. 2013 9:24PM
MEREDITH — The pavement laid at the downtown intersection of routes 3 and 25 was made with contaminated asphalt and will need to be repaved next month, according to the state Department of Transportation.
When state road workers laid down a new layer of high-strength asphalt at the intersection on the nights of July 24 and 25, tests were taken of the liquid asphalt that later showed it was not up to specifications for high-strength pavement, said Jim Bowles, the district construction engineer for DOT.
"Asphalt contamination is fairly common on road projects," Bowles said. "Tests are taken all along the line by the contractors, but often when it gets to the point of laying the pavement something has gone wrong."
The intersection, which is heavily traveled in summer months, is slated to have its first-ever high-strength pavement, which is needed because in the hot summer months, the pavement can get hot as drivers sit and wait at traffic lights.
"Cars sitting still create heat in the pavement, which is already very hot, and that can make normal asphalt squishy," he said.
The state, which was paving the intersection as part of its yearly multi million-dollar District 3 Pavement Management Plan, sent workers to the intersection after the bad test results and found that while the pavement is not unsafe, "when we pushed it at the edges it started to move," Bowles said.
The provider of the asphalt, Pike Paving of Northfield, will pay for the new asphalt. The bad asphalt mixture was likely caused by materials supplied to Pike, so the contamination is probably not the paving contractor's fault, Bowles said.
"When you call for a higher standard of pavement, these things can happen; in fact, it happens to us multiple times each paving season throughout the state," Bowles said.
The repaving of the intersection will be done sometime after Labor Day, he said.


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=== EPEL Notes ===
=== EPEL Notes ===
EPEL does not have macros.gconf2, so please follow the instructions found here: [[Packaging:EPEL#GConf]]
EPEL does not have macros.gconf2, so please follow the instructions found here: [[Packaging:EPEL#GConf]]
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- 1 RPM scriptlet recipes
- 2 Syntax
- 3 Scriptlet Ordering
- 4 Snippets
RPM scriptlet recipes
Rpm spec files have several sections which allow packages to run code on installation and removal. These scriptlets are mostly used to update the running system with information from the package. This page offers a quick overview of the RPM scriptlets and a number of common recipes for scriptlets in packages. For a more complete treatment of scriptlets, please see the Maximum RPM book .
The basic syntax is similar to the %build, %install, and other sections of the rpm spec file. The scripts support a special flag, -p which allows the scriptlet to invoke a single program directly rather than having to spawn a shell to invoke the programs. (ie: %post -p /sbin/ldconfig)
The scriptlets also take an argument, passed into them by the controlling rpmbuild process. This argument, accessed via $1 is the number of packages of this name which will be left on the system when the action completes, except for %pretrans and %posttrans which are always run with $1 as 0 (%pretrans and %posttrans are available in rpm 4.4 and later). So for the common case of install, upgrade, and uninstall we have:
|$1 == 0
|$1 == 0
|$1 == 1
|$1 == 2
|$1 == 1
|$1 == 2
|$1 == 1
|$1 == 0
|$1 == 1
|$1 == 0
|$1 == 0
|$1 == 0
Note that these values will vary if there are multiple versions of the same package installed (This mostly occurs with parallel installable packages such as the kernel. However, it can also occur when errors prevent a package upgrade form completing.) So it is a good idea to use this construct:
%pre if [ $1 -gt 1 ] ; then fi
...for %pre and %post scripts rather than checking that it equals 2.
Except in some really exceptional cases (if any), we want all scriptlets to exit with the zero exit status. Because rpm in its default configuration does not at the moment execute shell scriptlets with the
-e argument to the shell, excluding explicit
exit calls (frowned upon with a non-zero argument!), the exit status of the last command in a scriptlet determines its exit status. Most commands in the snippets in this document have a "
|| :" appended to them, which is a generic trick to force the zero exit status for those commands whether they worked or not. Usually the most important bit is to apply this to the last command executed in a scriptlet, or to add a separate command such as plain "
:" or "
exit 0" as the last one in a scriptlet. Note that depending on the case, other error checking/prevention measures may be more appropriate, as well as running some commands only if we saw a previous command in the scriptlet which is a must prerequisite to succeed.
Non-zero exit codes from scriptlets break installs/upgrades/erases so that no further actions will be taken for that package in a transaction (see scriptlet ordering below), which may for example prevent an old version of a package from being erased on upgrades, leaving behind duplicate rpmdb entries and possibly stale, unowned files on the filesystem. There are some cases where letting the transaction to proceed when some things in scriptlets failed may result in partially broken setup. It is however often limited to that package only whereas letting a transaction to proceed with some packages dropped out on the fly is more likely to result in broader system wide problems.
Scriptlet Ordering
The scriptlets in %pre and %post are respectively run before and after a package is installed. The scriptlets %preun and %postun are run before and after a package is uninstalled. The scriptlets %pretrans and %posttrans are run at start and end of a transaction. On upgrade, the scripts are run in the following order:
- %pretrans of new package
- %pre of new package
- (package install)
- %post of new package
- %preun of old package
- (removal of old package)
- %postun of old package
- %posttrans of new package
Installing shared libraries requires running /sbin/ldconfig to update the dynamic linker's cache files. These can be invoked like:
%post /sbin/ldconfig %postun /sbin/ldconfig
It is also common to invoke these with the '-p' option as they are often the only program invoked in a scriptlet:
%post -p /sbin/ldconfig %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
If applicable, the latter way is recommended because doing so will automatically add appropriate dependencies on /sbin/ldconfig to the package (and FWIW, will prevent unnecessarily launching a shell process in the scriptlets).
Users and groups
These are discussed on a separate page
Initscripts Conventions
Full guidelines for SysV-style initscripts can be found here: Packaging/SysVInitScript
Scriptlet specifics can be found here: Packaging/SysVInitScript#InitscriptScriptlets
GConf is a configuration scheme currently used by the GNOME desktop. Programs which use it setup default values in a [NAME] .schemas file which is installed under %{_sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/[NAME] .schemas. These defaults are then registered with the gconf daemon which monitors the configuration values and alerts applications when values the applications are interested in change. The schema files also provide documentation about what each value in the configuration system means (which gets displayed when you browse the database in the gconf-editor program).
For packaging purposes, we have to disable schema installation during build, and also register the values in the [NAME] .schemas file with the gconf daemon on installation and unregister them on removal. Due to the ordering of the scriptlets, this is a four step process.
Disabling the GConf installation during the package creation can be done like so:
%install rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT export GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL=1 make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT ...
The GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL environment variable suppresses the installation of the schema during the building of the package. An alternative for some packages is to pass a configure flag:
%build %configure --disable-schemas ...
Unfortunately, this configure switch only works if the upstream packager has adapted their Makefile.am to handle it. If the Makefile.am is not configured, this switch won't do anything and you'll need to use the environment variable instead.
Here's the second part:
BuildRequires: GConf2 Requires(pre): GConf2 Requires(post): GConf2 Requires(preun): GConf2 ... %pre %gconf_schema_prepare schema1 schema2 %gconf_schema_obsolete schema3
In this section we uninstall old schemas during upgrade using one of two macros.
%gconf_schema_prepare is used for any current GConf schemas. It
takes care of uninstalling previous versions of schemas that this package
currently installs. It takes a space separated list of schema names without
path or suffix that the package installs. Note that behind the scenes, this
macro works with the
%post scriptlet to only process GConf schemas
if changes have occurred.
%gconf_schema_obsolete is used for schemas that this package
previously provided but no longer does. It will deregister the old schema if
it is present on the system. Nothing will happen if the old schema is not
present. This macro takes a space separated list of schemas to uninstall. One
example of using this might be if the package changed names. If the old schema
was named
foo.schemas and the new schema is named
foobar.schemas you'd use:
%gconf_schema_prepare foobar %gconf_schema_obsolete foo
The next section does the processing of the newly installed schemas:
%post %gconf_schema_upgrade schema1 schema2
%gconf_schema_upgrade takes a space separated list of schemas that
the package currently installs just like
Behind the scenes, it does the actual work of registering the new version of
the schema and deregistering the old version.
The last section is for unregistering schemas when a package is removed:
%preun %gconf_schema_remove schema1 schema2
When a package is upgraded rpm invokes the
%pre scriptlet to register
and deregister the schemas. When a package is uninstalled, the
%preun scriptlet is used.
%gconf_schema_remove takes
the list of schemas that this package currently provides and removes them for us.
Rebuilds for changes to macros
When macros change, packages that make use of them have to be rebuilt to pick up the changes. This repoquery command can be used to find the schema including packages to rebuild:
repoquery --whatprovides "/etc/gconf/schemas/*" |sort |uniq |wc -l
EPEL Notes
EPEL does not have macros.gconf2, so please follow the instructions found here: Packaging:EPEL#GConf
gdk-pixbuf loaders
gdk-pixbuf is a library that is part of the gdk-pixbuf2 package. It is for loading images in various formats in GNOME. gdk-pixbuf can be extended by implementing loaders for image formats in loadable modules. These loadable modules have to be installed in %{_libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders. To avoid opening all modules in that directory unnecessarily, gdk-pixbuf maintains a cache with information about the available modules in the text file %{_libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache. This cache file needs to be updated when the set of installed modules changes, by calling the gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders binary. Multilib considerations force us to install the binary in -32 and -64 variants.
The scriptlets to maintain the cache file are:
%postun gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-%{__isa_bits} --update-cache &> /dev/null || : %post if [ $1 -eq 1 ] ; then # For upgrades, the cache will be regenerated by the new package's %postun gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-%{__isa_bits} --update-cache &> /dev/null || : fi
Note the use of %{__isa_bits}, which is an rpm macro that expands to either 32 or 64, depending on the architecture of the package.
The GNU project and many other programs use the texinfo file format for much of its documentation. These info files are usually located in /usr/share/info/. When installing or removing a package, install-info from the info package takes care of adding the newly installed files to the main info index and removing them again on deinstallation.
Requires(post): info Requires(preun): info ... %post /sbin/install-info %{_infodir}/%{name}.info %{_infodir}/dir || : %preun if [ $1 = 0 ] ; then /sbin/install-info --delete %{_infodir}/%{name}.info %{_infodir}/dir || : fi
These two scriptlets tell install-info to add entries for the info pages to the main index file on installation and remove them at erase time. The "|| :" in this case prevents failures that would typically affect systems that have been configured not to install any %doc files, or have read-only mounted, %_netsharedpath /usr/share.
In all current Fedora, rarian has replaced scrollkeeper. There is no scriptlet needed for rarian. For instructions on what to do in EPEL releases, see Packaging:EPEL#Scrollkeeper
Use this when a desktop entry has a 'MimeType key.
%post update-desktop-database &> /dev/null || : %postun update-desktop-database &> /dev/null || :
Note: For FC5+, this scriptlet follows the same convention as mimeinfo files and gtk-icon-cache. Namely, the spec file should not Require desktop-file-utils for this. For older releases, one should
Requires(post): desktop-file-utils Requires(postun): desktop-file-utils
(See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/180898 and http://bugzilla.redhat.com/180899)
Use this when a package drops an XML file in %{_datadir}/mime/packages.
%post update-mime-database %{_datadir}/mime &> /dev/null || : %postun update-mime-database %{_datadir}/mime &> /dev/null || :
Note that similarly to the gtk-update-icon-cache code, these scriptlets should be run only if the user has update-mime-info installed and without a specific Requires: shared-mime-info. If shared-mime-info is not installed, update-mime-database won't be run when this package is installed. This does not matter because it will be run when the shared-mime-info package is installed.
Icon Cache
If an application installs icons into one of the subdirectories in
%{_datadir}/icons/ (such as
hicolor in the following examples), icon caches must be updated so that the installed icons show up in menus right after package installation. This consists of updating the timestamp of the top-level icon directory where the icons were installed, and running
gtk-update-icon-cache. 'touch'ing the top-level dir is done so that environments compatible with the Icon theme specification can refresh their caches, and
gtk-update-icon-cache which is additionally required for GNOME also does its work based on the dir timestamp.
Note that no dependencies should be added for this. If gtk-update-icon-cache is not available, there's nothing that would be needing the cache update, ditto if "touch" is not available, there's nothing that would benefit from icon cache updates installed yet either. Not adding the dependency on gtk-update-icon-cache (ie. gtk2 >= 2.6.0) or "touch" makes it easier to use the package (or the same specfile) on systems where it's not available nor needed, such as older distro versions or (very) trimmed down installations, and generally results in less entries in specfiles, rpmdb, and repo metadatas.
%post touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || : %postun if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null gtk-update-icon-cache %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || : fi %posttrans gtk-update-icon-cache %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :


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WAAS stands for Wide Area Augmentation System. It's a system of satellites and ground stations that provide GPS signal corrections, giving position accuracy up to five times better. A WAAS-capable receiver can give you a position accuracy of better than three meters, 95 percent of the time. You don't have to purchase additional receiving equipment or pay service fees to use WAAS.
The Origins Of WAAS:
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Transportation are developing the WAAS program for aviation use. WAAS corrects for GPS signal errors and provides integrity information about each satellite, making positioning information more accurate and more reliable. WAAS addresses all of the "navigation problem", providing highly accurate positioning that is extremely easy to use, for the cost of a single receiver installed on the aircraft. Ground- and space-based infrastructure is relatively limited, and no on-airport system is needed. WAAS allows a precision approach to be published for any airport, for the cost of developing the procedures and publishing the new approach plates. This means that almost any airport can have a precision approach, the cost of implementation is dramatically reduced.Additionally WAAS works just as well between airports. This allows the aircraft to fly directly from one airport to another, as opposed to following routes based on ground-based signals. This can cut route distances considerably in some cases, saving both time and fuel. In addition, because of its ability to provide information on the accuracy of each GPS satellite's information, aircraft equipped with WAAS are permitted to fly at lower en-route altitudes than was possible with ground-based systems, which were often blocked by terrain of varying elevation. This enables pilots to safely fly at lower altitudes, not having to rely on ground-based systems. For un-pressurized aircraft, this conserves oxygen and enhances safety.How it Works:Ground reference stations monitor GPS satellite data, and master stations collect data from the reference stations and create a GPS correction message accounting for GPS satellite orbit and clock drift plus signal delays caused by the atmosphere. The corrected differential message is then broadcast through geo-stationary satellites (satellites with a fixed position over the equator). Any WAAS-enabled GPS receiver can read the signal.
WAAS satellite coverage is available only in North America. Other governments are developing similar satellite-based differntial systems - Europe's systemis the Euro Geo-stationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS). WAAS receivers are compatible with EGNOS.


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The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has adopted 2013 seasons for deer, elk, pronghorn, black bear, mountain lion and gray wolf, as proposed by Fish and Game biologists.
The new seasons include an increase in elk controlled hunt and pronghorn tags and expanded wolf hunting and trapping seasons.
A summary of major changes for deer hunting include:
— Reduce antlerless tags in Units 22, 31, 32, 32A and 39 to maintain or increase deer numbers.
— Move popular rotating muzzleloader controlled hunt from east side of Unit 45 to east side of Unit 52.
— Add new archery hunt in Unit 45 with 10 tags.
— Move archery unlimited controlled hunt in Unit 72 up two weeks to start on Nov. 16 and run through Dec. 5, and expand the hunt area into a part of Unit 76.
— Reinstate 390 either-sex deer tags reduced after 2010-11 winter in Units 60, 62, 64, 66 and 67.
— Create Oct. 10 through Nov. 30 "high-quality" buck hunts with five tags each in Hunt Areas 21, 28-1, 30, 36A and 36B.
— Convert 85 extra antlerless tags in Units 21 and 36A to youth extra antlerless tags.
For the full list of changes for elk, pronghorn, black bear, mountain lion and gray wolf, click here.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel says he would like to resume playing rival Kansas in the future, with the games played at Arrowhead Stadium.
During a meeting Tuesday at The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1dYWej3 ), Pinkel suggested the game could be played in the first or second week of the season.
The rivalry ended after Missouri moved from the Big 12 Conference to the Southeastern Conference in 2012. Missouri officials have generally favored resuming the rivalry in football and basketball, while Kansas officials have shown little interest.
Pinkel says the game would make money for both schools and he would like the schools to bring the rivalry back for their fans.
The Tigers and Jayhawks played at Arrowhead Stadium from 2007 to 2011.


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Lamar University has been recognized on the 2013 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The honor roll is a distinction awarded annually by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to recognize universities around the country that excel in and promote community service activities in their region. It highlights the roles colleges play in solving community problems and encouraging students toward a path of civic engagement.
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The Green Bay Packers have released OTs Chris Campbell and Breno Giacomini, LBs Robert Francois and LB Cyril Obiozor, WRs Chastin West and Patrick Williams, DEs Ron Talley and Jarius Wynn, CB D.J. Clark, OL Evan Dietrich-Smith, QB Graham Harrell, TE Spencer Havner, SS Anthony Levine and RB Kregg Lumpkin, reports Packers.com.
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|Packers | Eight signed to futures contracts
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The Green Bay Packers have announced they have signed CB D.J. Clark, TE Tom Crabtree, OG Stanley Daniels, LB Robert Francois, WR Khalil Jones, RB Kregg Lumpkin, QB Chris Pizzotti and DE Ron Talley to futures contracts. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed. All eight finished the season on the Packers' practice squad.
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Rob Demovsky, of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, reports the Green Bay Packers have worked out free-agent CB D.J. Clark (Panthers), free-agent DE Orion Martin (Lions) and free-agent LB Andy Schantz (Portland State).
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Panthers.com reports the Carolina Panthers have released OL Justin Geisinger and S Kevin Kaesviharn. The team waived WR Larry Beavers, RB DeCori Birmingham, DL Casper Brinkley, OL Patrick Brown, QB Hunter Cantwell, WR Jason Chery, S Paul Chara, DB D.J. Clark, TE Andrew Davie, DT Marlon Favorite, DB Joe Fields, OL Keith Gray, LB Anthony Heygood, DT George Hypolite, LB Mortty Ivy, RB Jamall Lee, LB Jeremy Leman, WR Kevin McMahan, WR Marcus Monk, OL Jonathan Palmer and LB Kelvin Smith.
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Andrew Mason, of Panthers.com, reports the Carolina Panthers have signed undrafted free-agent CB D.J. Clark (Idaho State), LB Mike Juergens (Wyoming) and OT Garry Williams (Kentucky). Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
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STOCKTON - Beforehand, city officials avoided saying it directly, calling it "the B-word." And then Stockton dove in and filed Chapter 9. There's no denying now that the city is in bankruptcy mode.
STOCKTON - Beforehand, city officials avoided saying it directly, calling it "the B-word." And then Stockton dove in and filed Chapter 9. There's no denying now that the city is in bankruptcy mode.
But officials, along with local movers and shakers, are already plotting Stockton's rebound. The city will pull out of bankruptcy - officials hope sooner rather than later - and the economy, too, will turn around.
Stockton's brighter days lie ahead.
Councilman Elbert Holman, for one, said he is optimistic about the city's future.
"We're not just sitting there wallowing in what I call bankruptcy misery," he said. "We're going to get there, and then all of a sudden people are going to say, 'What happened?' "
Stockton filed for bankruptcy on June 28, giving it the dubious distinction of becoming the nation's largest city to seek Chapter 9 protection.
Officials who made the difficult call blamed years of sloppy bookkeeping at City Hall, overstretched borrowing for capital projects, high pay and benefits for city employees, and an unsustainable retiree health care program.
Led by City Manager Bob Deis, Stockton filed Chapter 9 and began restructuring its finances. Officials phased out paying the health care for former city employees and stopping payment on some debt.
Stockton ended 2012 with a meager budget surplus of about $6 million.
A fight has come from the Wall Street investors, who stand to lose millions of dollars invested into the city. Those firms, which insured the bonds Stockton issued, are now challenging Stockton.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein is overseeing the Chapter 9 case and has yet to rule on the creditors' objections. He is expected to hold a trial to decide if Stockton is eligible for bankruptcy protection.
As that high-profile case plays out, Stockton is retooling, setting the stage for its rebound. Part of that has been recruiting and hiring an enthusiastic staff leading City Hall, Holman said.
"I think we have a good team," Holman said. "We've got a good strategy. We're going to have a good recovery plan."
A key - yet little talked about - part of the city's recovery is revamping its permits center. That's where residents go for simple household jobs, such as replacing a water heater, or big developers must apply to build multimillion dollar factories.
Steve Chase, director of Stockton's Community Development Department, is charged with retooling the permits center, which for years drew complaints for being a bureaucratic black hole.
He's planning to ask the city to buy the department updated computer software, and on one Friday a month, he will close the doors to train his staff and find new ways to do business for more efficiency.
He calls it a cultural makeover.
With his department running smoothly, Chase said he will complement the work done by his counterpart, Wendy Saunders, director of Stockton's Economic Development Department, whose goal is to bring in businesses and jobs.
Chase, who also cited his focus as getting downtown Stockton humming, said he considers coming to work here the ultimate career challenge.
"I haven't had this much fun in a long time," he said. "It's kind of cool to be part of this management team."
Douglass Wilhoit, CEO of the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce, said he urges city leaders to stay the course in bankruptcy by taking it slowly and remaining focused on an exit.
Other California communities struggling financially admire Stockton's leaders for making the bold move to restructure its finances in dramatic fashion with a federal court's oversight, Wilhoit said.
Like Holman, Wilhoit said he predicts that Stockton will emerge with the economic upswing taking hold in California and the nation.
He cited the city's assets, such as the ever-thriving Port of Stockton and the local highways, railways and airport. This transportation hub will inevitably play a significant role in the city's recovery.
"We have a lot of things people would give their eye teeth for that we will build on as we come out of the dark ages," Wilhoit said. "But it has to be done the right way."
Contact reporter Scott Smith at (209) 546-8296 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/smithblog.


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Title: Hourglass
Author: Myra McEntire
Publisher: Egmont
May Contain Spoilers
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For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson's willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may change her past.
Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he's around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?
Full of atmosphere, mystery, and romance, Hourglass merges the very best of the paranormal and science-fiction genres in a seductive, remarkable young adult debut.
I wanted to like Hourglass better than I did. I had high, high hopes for it, and to be honest, I don't think anything could have lived up to the hype I had planted in my brain. I was thrilled to be reading a book that was a little different, one without vampires or shape shifters, but one that still had paranormal elements, and one that might be the tiniest bit scary. Emerson does see ghostly apparitions, and what's not spooky about that? I built this book up so much that it fell a bit short of my expectations.
Here's what worked for me: Emerson is a wonderful character. Since she can see things that nobody else can, she gets a big old crazy label slapped across her forehead. After spending time in a mental institution, she weans herself off of her medication because she is tired of feeling like a zombie. She is stubborn and determined, and she tells herself that she will just have to deal with the ghosts that she sees, without letting her brother and his wife know that she's not taking her meds anymore. While less than wise, it showed that Em is brave and that all she wants is to live a normal life like every other 17 year-old.
When her brother hires Michael to try to help her with problems, Em is surprised to learn that he's only slightly older than she is, and that he works for the mysterious organization called Hourglass. When Em tries to dig up some information on Hourglass, Michael is less than happy with her. In fact, he gets a little irate. Here's one of the things that I didn't like: Michael. I just never warmed up to him, or thought that he was the right guy for Emerson. He put his own agenda ahead of helping her, and he didn't hesitate to lie to her and manipulate her to get his way. It is disheartening when you don't like the soul-mate of the protagonist, and wish she would get together with his best friend instead. Even if his best friend is a player. Sigh. That was one love triangle I didn't mind, though I was hoping for a different outcome.
Without giving away too many spoilers, I will say that I loved the time-traveling aspects of the story. Michael wants Em to help him right a terrible wrong, and save the life of a man who was murdered by going back in time and changing history. The end result certainly wasn't what they had hoped for, but playing with the past should never be an easy accomplishment. There should be a price to pay, and an extremely heavy one at that. Emerson learns the hard way that changing the past shouldn't be undertaken lightly, and that there are worse circumstances possible, both for herself, and for her friends.
While I thought that parts of the story were sluggish and the pacing was uneven, the last 150 pages rocked out. I couldn't put the book down. That was bad, because I was supposed to socializing with friends while on vacation, but all I wanted to do was disappear for a bit to polish off the rest of the book. While I didn't totally love this book, I am looking forward to seeing what happens next, and I hope that the momentum from the end of this installment carries over to the next one.
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Date: Nov 04, 2012
Press Release Number: 182-2012
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reports the following update on conditions at its transportation facilities as of 11:30 today.
All five airports, LaGuardia, JFK International, Newark Liberty International, Teterboro and Stewart International are fully operational with normal flight activity.
AirTrain JFK service is fully operational. AirTrain Newark continues to operate at full service taking passengers to the NEC where they can take Amtrak (limited services) to Newark Penn Station and Philadelphia.
Tunnels and Bridges
The Outerbridge Crossing, George Washington, Goethals, and Bayonne bridges and the Lincoln Tunnel are open.
One lane of the south tube of the Holland Tunnel is open to bus commuters traveling eastbound from New Jersey to Manhattan from 5:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. and westbound returning to New Jersey from 1:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
PATH rail service continues to be suspended. PATH engineers, staff and third party contractors are working around-the-clock with the goal of resuming partial service between New Jersey and New York as soon as safely possible.
Port Authority Bus Terminal
Many carriers have returned to full service.
World Financial Ferry Terminal
There is limited weekend ferry service, with more expanded service on weekdays. For specific details on locations and times, please visit nywaterway.com.
The Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal in Elizabeth opened today. Port Authority staff and our partners are working around the clock to continue ramping up to full service. Four cargo vessels will arrive at Maher Terminal and one cargo vessel will arrive at APM Terminal. Both Maher and APM had power restored Saturday. Recovery and cleanup efforts continue at the Port Authority's other maritime facilities, which currently remain closed. Restoration of power by our utility providers is a primary requirement in getting all of the ports operational.
Port Authority staff and engineers remain on site at all Port Authority facilities to inspect conditions, assess damage, and perform repair work. For up-to-date information on our facilities, follow us on Twitter @PANYNJ. For further information for New York State, visit http://www.governor.ny.gov/stormwatch. For New Jersey, visit www.ready.nj.gov.
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Founded in 1921, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey builds, operates, and maintains many of the most important transportation and trade infrastructure assets in the country. The agency's network of aviation, ground, rail, and seaport facilities is among the busiest in the country, supports more than 550,000 regional jobs, and generates more than $23 billion in annual wages and $80 billion in annual economic activity. The Port Authority also owns and manages the 16-acre World Trade Center site, where construction crews are building the iconic One World Trade Center, which is now the tallest skyscraper in New York. The Port Authority receives no tax revenue from either the state of New York or New Jersey or from the City of New York. The agency relies on revenues generated by facility users, tolls, fees and rents as well as loans, bond financing, and federal grants to fund its operations. For more information, please visit http://www.panynj.gov.


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Bitcoin, the digital money created as an alternative to currencies controlled by nations and banks, is finding that its wider adoption depends on both as governments in China and the U.S. demand enthusiasts play by existing rules.
Bitcoin exchanges, payment processors and other startups say they need banks to connect them to the existing payments system and provide basic services like checking accounts. To do that, the fledgling companies must convince the regulators who police the banks that Bitcoins aren't being used to conceal illicit activity.
"Banks are scared to deal with Bitcoin companies, even if they really want to," said Stephen Pair, co-founder and chief technical officer of BitPay Inc., an Atlanta-based company that processes payments for merchants in Bitcoin. Pair said BitPay has relationships with banks in the U.S., Canada and Europe; he declined to name them at the banks' request.
Regulators show little sign of losing interest in tracking financial flows, be they in dollars, renminbi or Bitcoin. China's central bank today barred financial institutions from buying and selling the virtual currency and from pricing products in Bitcoin, sending prices tumbling more than 10%, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index, which synthesizes prices across major global exchanges where Bitcoins can be traded for traditional currency. Its value stood at $1,041.65 at 2 p.m. Eastern time.
Prices jumped last month when a Department of Justice official described the currency as "a legal means of exchange." Still, another regulator at the same event warned that Bitcoin-related businesses would need to meet current money-laundering standards before banks would agree to work with them.
Accounts Shuttered
Regulators have pressured banks to close some Bitcoin- related accounts. Tradehill Inc., a San Francisco-based exchange, shut down in August after its bank, Internet Archive Federal Credit Union, dumped Bitcoin-related clients for what it called "regulatory issues." U.S. officials also shut down an account at Wells Fargo & Co. used by Mt. Gox, a Japan-based exchange, to service U.S. customers.
Introduced in 2008 by a programmer or group of programmers under the name Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin is the most prominent of a group of virtual currencies -- money that exists mainly as a string of code -- that have no central issuing authority. Today, despite its unclear status, Bitcoin can be used to pay for t-shirts, food or an appointment with a Manhattan psychiatrist.
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Would you rather be sending a tweet or checking your email than be telling your hairdresser about your holiday plans? Hairstyling chain Toni&Guy get this and have teamed up with O2 to offer all their customers free in-store Wi-Fi across every branch.
Toni&Guy's 1.5million UK customers will be able to browse the web, watch videos and access social networking sites for free, letting them post a picture of their new do to Facebook while still in the chair without eating into mobile data plan allowances.
The free service will require a single one-time sign up process, which will then allow customers to automatically connect to every Toni&Guy Wi-Fi network in the country once in range.
The sign up process will also let customers connect to other brands' networks that use O2's free Wi-Fi service, including Debenhams, McDonald's, Costa, Fuller's pubs, House of Fraser, All Bar One and Café Rouge.
Ben Mein, commercial director for O2 Wifi, said:
"Hair and beauty salons are a new context for Wi-Fi and we are immensely pleased to partner with Toni & Guy given the quality and size of the audience that will be using the service. Their customers' lifestyles mean many are time-poor so the 90 minutes to themselves is prized and, with a high penetration of smart devices, this creates a perfect opportunity for O2 Wifi and Toni & Guy to engage and enrich that experience through unique content.
"As demonstrated by the way O2 Wifi has changed the market with a truly free and open Wi-Fi service to consumers, we share the same philosophy with Toni & Guy and it will be exciting to see how we develop the relationship."