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For Duke's Coach K, Basketball Is a Family Affair
Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski on winning, the NBA and family.
JOHN BERMAN and SARAH ROSENBERG
June 7, 2010, 8:41 PM
DURHAM, N.C., June 8, 2010— -- When you hear the name Mike Krzyzewski, most people think of the supremely confident, vein-popping, Duke basketball coach who stews, steams and swears on the sidelines.
Krzyzewski is that man, but there's a lot sports fans might not know about the infamous head coach -- besides the spelling of his mind-boggling last-name.
"He's the man who would play beautiful princess with me and my sisters," said middle daughter, Lindy Frasher, 33.
What most do know about "Coach K" -- as he's called -- is his record. In his 30 years at Duke, Krzyzewski has four national titles, with 868 wins under his belt as head coach. He's just 34 wins away from being No. 1 on the list of all-time winning basketball coaches, but Krzyzewski swears it's not just about winning.
"If we define everything by winning, I think it's a very shallow existence. If I spent every waking moment trying to just beat you, eventually that becomes a shallow life," he said. "I'm not saying that's never been a part of my life, but as I've grown older and more mature that can't be what motivates me. Again, I want to beat you, but that can't be the bottom line for me because I've won enough to do that."
The Bottom Line: Leadership
Krzyzewski says all he ever wanted to be is a leader.
"That is what I was trained to do. That's why I went to West Point -- not just to be an army officer, but to be a leader," he said. "Every cadet who has gone to West Point or who is there takes an oath, a lifetime of selfless service to our country in a leadership position."
Krzyzewski graduated from West Point in 1969. He never served in combat, but was captain of the basketball team and immediately went into coaching. He became the head coach at West Point in 1975, before taking the helm at Duke in 1980.
Krzyzewski's theories on leadership read like a motivational speaking kit. Take his metaphor of the fist for the five players on the court.
"With a basketball team, it just works out that there are five guys and if five can play as one and play like this -- going at people with all the talent of the team," he said. "You have to communicate, you have to care for one another, you have to have collective responsibility, you have to trust one another and you have to have pride in the group that you're with and then you go forward and you hardly ever beat yourself that way."
Krzyzewski has had so much success with the fist at Duke, and coaching the 2008 Gold Medal Olympic team, that there has been constant speculation about a possible jump to the pros. When asked about a move to the NBA, he tried to put it to bed more emphatically than ever.
"I'm coaching here [Duke] forever -- for as long as I coach," he said. "I'm not going to go to the NBA."
It's a Shermanesque statement, but he insists he won't go next year, not ever -- even if Cavaliers' star LeBron James came knocking at his door.
Krzyzewski's Modest Roots
Krzyzewski turned down a reported $40 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers a few years ago -- a hefty sum for a kid who grew up in Chicago, the child of Polish immigrants. His father was an elevator operator, and his mother swept floors for extra money. Both shaped Krzyzewski into the man he is today.
"Everybody has a mom. My mom ended up being the greatest person in my life," he said. "Even when I became this coach, my mother was at my side here, and she's at my side here."
The coach helped fund the Emily Krzyzewski Family Center in Durham, N.C., to pass on the values his mother gave him.
"I've learned that you don't do it alone. I learned that you need to trust somebody when you have tough decisions or are in difficult situations, that you don't know it all and that unfailing love and unconditional support are amazing things when given to a person and I had that from my parents," he said. "That's what I try to do as a parent, as a grandparent and as a coach to try to incorporate what my mom, who never went to high school, and my dad, who only went to two years of high school. They knew it better than I did -- I probably won't ever know it as well as they do."
The Women Behind Coach K
His mother isn't the only woman behind Coach K's success. There's also his wife Mickie, whom he married the day he graduated West Point, and his three daughters: Debbie, 39; Lindy, 33; and Jamie, 28.
"The way we run our basketball program and all of our outside interests in relationships with charities, etc., are run as a family. And they're the core. We call my three daughters, my wife Mickie and I, the starting five," Krzyzewski said.
Krzyzewski, who has been surrounded by men at West Point, and on the court at Duke, has always been drastically outnumbered at home. At family dinners, he said it was impossible for him to get a word in edgewise.
"We used to have to make everybody take turns speaking around the dining room table because everyone wanted to talk. We'd always skip over him," Mickie said.
But being the father of three daughters has softened the coach.
"I think it opened him to be better able to listen. He is more capable of listening to his players, to his staff and to the recruits and their families because he kind of knows you know, I don't have to be the king, because when he's at home he's not thing king," Mickie joked.
"I didn't know growing up how great it would be to be a grandfather and I didn't know growing up how great it would be to have your best friends be your daughters, be your children," Krzyzewski said. "There is a relationship that a father and daughter have that I didn't know anything about. But I've learned it."
Duke Basketball: A 'Mom and Pop' Program
In the K household, it was always about the K kids -- not about the coach.
"The way the house was decorated, the things that hung on the walls were things that had to do with us... like an art project we did for school or pictures of us," said daughter Jamie Spatola. "Lindy was a dancer, a picture of Lindy dancing, as opposed to some award that my dad won."
But it was never a matter of keeping basketball and home-life separate.
"I think there was a choice -- either we were going to compete against basketball, and against Duke and against those players for his attention, or we were just going to all be in it together," said Frasher. "It was a decision that was made by my parents when we were really young. You hear of mom and pop grocery stores and mom and pop diners and this is like a mom and pop college basketball program."
The Krzyzewski women were always a huge part of Duke basketball -- from trips on the team bus as kids to calling a future all-star for dating tips.
"I remember being in junior high and calling Grant Hill in his dorm room," Frasher recalled. "'I'm having some boy trouble, and excuse me, Grant, could you take some time away from being an all-American and doing your calculus or whatever to talk to me about boys!' and he did! And he gave me advice and we talked. He was a great big brother, role model kind of person."
Chances are any player not comfortable with the Krzyzewski family rules never ends up at Duke to begin with. A semi-official stop for all recruits is to come to the Krzyzewski home and meet the family, Mickie said.
"Our family meets every recruit before he commits to coming to Duke," she said. "No matter what else they do they come to my house and they meet the daughters and grandkids."
There have even been times when a prospective player was given a thumbs down by the family, Mickie revealed.
The Blue Devils' Coach Fans Love to Hate
The Blue Devils have become the college basketball team that fans around the country love to hate. They squashed Butler's Cinderella story, beating them in the NCAA finals this year, and generally they win. To some, their pride in the system borders on aloof, if not arrogant.
Krzyzewski has been booed on the court and portrayed in papers as the big, bad coach. In April, the Indianapolis Star published an illustration of Krzyzewski with horns and a bull's eye drawn on his head; the paper later apologized.
To him, it's part of the game. "I understand it. I would rather be booed for being good than booed for being bad," he said.
But it's something his family will never get used to.
"I think the hardest part has been the negativity that has come about in the media quite a bit and in the public. Things that are said about him, caricatures, dreadful things are said about him and that's been hard," Mickie said. "Route against Duke, but the level of hatred is really uncalled for and the nasty things that get said, that's really uncalled for."
Mickie and the girls don't see what upsets people so much about the men's basketball coach who has a "Dreamgirls" CD in his office.
"He's got some good moves. Usually it's Motown. He's a big Motown guy, a big Smokey Robinson. That's like his favorite," Frasher said. "When he's really feeling it then he'll get up and bust a move, it's great."
"When we get together as a family and have an evening when nobody is around but us, he will attempt to sing which he's really bad at he needs to stick to coaching!" Mickie said. "Singing is not going to be a career for him."
What he thinks about is not the 868 wins, or the big salary or the record that has made him an iconic figure on campus, or even what he wants his legacy to be.
"I would like people to think I was really good at what I did," he said. "I was honest and I competed every day."
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Potentially uplifting reports emerge for despondent Newcastle and West Ham fans
Newcastle United and West Ham supporters in the Transfer Tavern were left deflated and despondent by their respective sides over the weekend, with the Magpies losing at Burnley while the Hammers let slip a two-goal lead to draw against bottom club Crystal Palace.
Rafa Benitez's Newcastle knew that victory over the Clarets on Monday night would have propelled them up to sixth place in the Premier League table, but Jeff Hendrick's second half strike secured a 1-0 win for Sean Dyche's side, who subsequently moved above the Magpies and into seventh in the table. Whereas Slaven Bilic's West Ham were cruising at Selhurst Park thanks to goals from Javier Hernandez and Andre Ayew, but they were left bitterly disappointed come the final whistle as a Luka Milivojevic penalty and 97th minute strike from Wilfried Zaha secured a 2-2 draw for Roy Hodgson's side.
Thus, neither set of supporters are overly joyed in the Tavern this week, but they might be intrigued and perhaps uplifted by a recent report from Sporx, which suggests that both clubs have been scouting Galatasaray midfielder Papa Badou Ndiaye in recent times.
The 27-year-old only made the move to the Turkish giants during the summer after an impressive two-year spell at Osmanlispor, with whom he scored 18 goals and laid on seven assists in just 75 appearances.
And that form earned him a move to Galatasaray over the summer but he hasn't quite hit the heights at the club, having failed to net or lay on an assist in ten Super Lig appearances, yet that hasn't stopped scouts from Newcastle and West Ham, among others, reportedly keeping tabs on his progress.
In fact, scouts from the Premier League duo were in attendance as Ndiaye's Galatasaray lost 2-1 at Trabzonspor on Saturday, a game in which the midfielder was sent off for a second yellow card in the final minute.
Thus, whether either Newcastle or West Ham do indeed look to firm up their interest in the Senegal international very much remains to be seen.
Landlord's verdict: Papa Badou Ndiaye certainly earned his move to Turkish giants Galatasaray during the summer, having scored 18 goals in just 75 games for Super Lig rivals Osmanlispor in the two years previous.
And although the 27-year-old only moved in the summer, it hasn't stopped several sides scouting the midfielder in recent times, with Newcastle United and West Ham reportedly interested in his services.
Both sides could do with midfield reinforcements in January in a bid to bolster their ranks and improve their respective squads, but given he hasn't quite got going yet at Galatasaray, it remains to be seen whether they feel that Ndiaye is the man to strengthen their midfield options.
Newcastle and West Ham fans… what do you make of the news? Let us know!
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Talks between W Africa Mediators, Mali Coup Leaders Enter 2nd Day
Closely watched talks between a West African delegation and military officers who overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita earlier this week have entered a second day. Spearheaded by former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, the delegation from the regional ECOWAS bloc met military officers led by Colonel Assimi Goita behind closed doors for several hours on Sunday morning. "The discussions are going very well," Jonathan told journalists as he stepped out during a break, without elaborating. A senior officer close to the coup leaders told Reuters news agency that the morning's discussion had focused on the sanctions the bloc imposed on Mali, which include suspending trade and closing borders, following Tuesday's coup. Al Jazeera
West African Leaders Press for Mali President's Release
West African leaders visiting Mali pressed Sunday for the release of ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita amid mounting speculation that he could be flown out of the country after thousands showed support for the military coup that toppled him. The 75-year-old Keita has been in the custody of the ruling military junta for five days at the barracks where the government overthrow originated. The 15-nation regional bloc known as ECOWAS has demanded Keita's reinstatement, though with a wave of public support for his ouster it appeared increasingly unlikely Sunday he would return to power. ECOWAS had earlier demanded that Keita be reinstated and said it would mobilize a regional standby military force. But a demonstration by thousands of Malians showing their support for the coup in the streets of Bamako on Friday made it more difficult for the regional leaders to sideline the junta. … The high-level delegation, led by Nigeria's former president, Goodluck Jonathan, held talks with the junta, including Col. Assimi Goita, who has declared himself the group's leader. The regional delegation also met with Keita and the other detained officials. AP
Libya: 7 Points Listed for Stability after Ceasefire
Following the announcement on Friday of a ceasefire across Libya, the spokesperson of the High State Council, Mohamed Bnias made it clear that there are 7 points to be respected for ensure progress in Libya aftermath. The most important point was the rejection of any dialogue with military commander Khalifa Hifter, and said the council will hold to account anyone responsible for shutting down the gateway to the country's major oil export terminals. According to Mohamed Bnias, Spokesman of the Libyan High State Council: "The necessity of serious work to end the state of rebellion in the country with an immediate ceasefire, and to enable the Government of National Accord to extend its control over all of Libyan soil. Second, the complete rejection of any form of dialogue with the terrorist war criminal Hifter." … Friday's ceasefire marks a breakthrough following international pressure amid rising fear of a new escalation in the chaotic proxy war as rival sides mobilize for a battle over the coastal city of Sirte. AfricaNews
Suspected Islamist Militants Kill 13 in Eastern Congo Villages
Suspected Islamist militants killed 13 people during raids on two villages in eastern Congo, the army and a village chief said, the latest in a spate of attacks the United Nations says may constitute war crimes. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group operating in North Kivu province in Democratic Republic of Congo, have killed more than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, according to U.N. figure. Militiamen tied up the victims in the villages of Kinziki-Matiba and Wikeno, 10 km east of the city of Oicha, before killing them in the attack on Friday afternoon, said Chui Mukalangirwa, a local village chief. … The ADF has operated in the dense forests near the Ugandan border for more than three decades. Late last year the Congo army launched a large-scale operation against them, sparking a violent backlash against civilians. Several attacks attributed to the ADF have also been claimed by Islamic State, although researchers and analysts say there is a lack of hard evidence linking the two groups. Reuters
Militia in Eastern DRC Agrees to Stop Attacks
An armed group in the eastern DR Congo has agreed to President Felix Tshisekedi's appeal to suspend attacks on its ethnic rivals, the militia and government said Sunday. UN officials have blamed massacres they say are akin to "crimes against humanity" on the Cooperative for the Development of Congo (Codeco), which draws its members from the mainly farming Lendu people who have historically clashed with Hema traders and herders. "We are stopping the acts of violence as the head of state is asking," Codeco spokesman Basa Zukpa told AFP. "We are ready to seize his outstretched hand. That's why we are telling our units to respect this process, to be calm." It was not clear when the ceasefire was agreed. Codeco was most recently blamed for killing 19 civilians in attacks on August 9 on three villages in the troubled eastern province of Ituri. AFP
DRC Opposition Leader Fayulu Returns to Push for Early Elections
DR Congo's opposition leader Martin Fayulu on Saturday returned to the country, after six months in Europe and the United States, to demand for an early election in the country. Fayulu ran for the 2018 Presidential election on the Lamuka Coalition ticket. Moments after he touched down in Kinshasa, he addressed supporters declaring, "I told you that Félix (Tshisekedi) is a puppet and that it is another person who is in power. Isn't that what we see today?" Fayulu claimed he won the 2018 presidential election but accuses the electoral commission of working to deny him the victory. He says he wrote to the African Union last February to propose two solutions to end the crisis in the DRC – one being that the continental body oversees a vote recount in Kinshasa. The second proposal was to have a repeat election, which must come earlier than the planned 2023, but after adequate reforms in the electoral regime and the electoral commission. The East African
Nigerian Security Clash with Biafra Separatists Turns Deadly – DSS
At least two people were killed in a clash between Nigerian state security officers and a group campaigning for the secession of a part of southeastern Nigeria formerly known as Biafra, security services said on Sunday. The incident between Department of State Services (DSS) agents and members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) took place in southeastern Nigeria's Enugu state. DSS said two of its personnel were killed in what they called an unprovoked attack, while IPOB, in a statement, said 21 of their members were killed and more than 40 others arrested after security forces stormed one of their meetings. … IPOB leaders have called for secession in the region, where tensions have simmered since a Biafra separatist rebellion sparked a civil war in 1967-70 that killed an estimated one million people. Reuters
Deadly Violence in Cote d'Ivoire as Ouattara Gears Up to Claim Third Mandate
At least two people have been killed during inter-ethnic violence which broke out on Saturday northwest of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. This comes on the heels of the nomination of President Alassane Ouattara to run as the candidate for the ruling RHDP party, for a third term in office. Clashes occurred in the town of Divo, some 200 kilometres northwest of Abidjan and at least two people were killed, according to hospital sources. Doctors reported that one man died on Sunday morning from wounds sustained during the clashes, while a second man died in a fire in a bar on Saturday evening, according to witnesses. Hospital staff also reported that several people had serious injuries from machetes. On Saturday, Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara was officially chosen as the candidate to represent the ruling RHDP party in the 31 October elections. … Violent and sometimes deadly protests have spread across the country since 6 August when Ouattara decided to run in the election, going back on his initial promise. His choice to run for a third mandate has been deemed unconstitutional by the opposition. RFI
Sudan Ready to Cooperate With ICC Over Darfur, PM Says
Sudan's prime minister said on Saturday the country was ready to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) so those accused of war crimes in Darfur appear before the tribunal, a list that includes ousted President Omar al-Bashir. Bashir, who has been in jail in Khartoum since he was toppled after mass protests last year, is wanted by the ICC for alleged war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur in a conflict that killed an estimated 300,000 people. The government reached a deal with rebel groups in February calling for all five Sudanese ICC suspects to appear before the court, but Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok had not previously publicly affirmed Sudan's position. … Sudan's transitional government, a three-year joint civilian-military arrangement led by Hamdok, says it is close to a peace deal with some rebel groups active in Darfur, a vast region roughly the size of France. The government and some of the rebels are expected to initial an agreement on August 28. VOA
As Burkina Faso Grapples with COVID-19, New UN Data Reveals 'Alarming Deterioration' in Food Security
An estimated 3.3 million people in Burkina Faso are facing acute food insecurity, two United Nations agencies warned on Friday. Citing alarming new data, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), stressed that "urgent and sustained action" is needed to address the worsening food and nutrition situation throughout the country. Since the situation in Burkina Faso was last assessed in March, acute food insecurity has increased more than 50 per cent, according to the latest analysis. And in a country already reeling from conflict and climate change, the UN survey points out that COVID-19 has intensified people's inability to earn money to cover their daily needs. "The COVID-19 pandemic is further exacerbating a crisis that was already deteriorating at a worrying pace, pushing more and more people into severe food crisis and acute food insecurity," said Dauda Sau, FAO Representative in Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the provinces of Oudalan and Soum in the Sahel region have been driven into the emergency phase of food insecurity, as defined by the analysis. UN News
Ebola Spreading Rapidly in DR Congo's Equateur Province
he World Health Organization is concerned by the rapid increase and spread of the deadly Ebola virus in remote, densely forested areas of Equateur province in the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Health officials report 100 people in DRC have been infected with Ebola in fewer than 100 days, killing nearly half or 43 of those who have contracted this highly contagious disease. The WHO says the virus is continuing to spread and is already in 11 of the province's 17 health zones. This is of particular concern because of the difficulty of reaching affected communities in the geographically vast area. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says there currently is a delay of about five days from the onset of symptoms to when an alert about a suspected case is raised. VOA
Zambian President Fires Central Bank Governor in Surprise Move
Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Saturday summarily dismissed central bank governor Denny Kalyalya and replaced him with former deputy finance minister Christopher Mphanza Mvunga, a statement from State House said. "President Lungu has terminated the contract of Bank of Zambia governor Dr Denny Kalyalya with immediate effect," said the statement, which did not provide reasons for the dismissal. Kalyalya, who previously served as a World Bank executive director, was appointed in February 2015 and had his contract extended in 2018 until 2023. His dismissal comes barely three days after the central bank cut its benchmark lending rate by 125 basis points to 8.0% to try to safeguard financial sector stability and protect livelihoods in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reuters
Twenty Inmates Killed after Madagascar Prison Riot
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When a Crackdown Prevented Protests, a Hashtag Gave Them a Voice
hen Zimbabwean activists began planning mass protests against corruption in mid-July, the country's authorities turned to a familiar playbook to shut down their opposition. They began rounding up government critics and arrested a prominent journalist, Hopewell Chin'ono, who had exposed a corruption scandal around the government's purchase of personal protective equipment for health care workers. A new curfew—allegedly to prevent the spread of coronavirus—slid into place, preventing movement after 6 p.m. And on July 30, a day before the proposed marches, the police warned that participants would "be regarded as terrorists." The next morning, the streets were empty. Government, it seemed, had won. But online, it was a different story. In and outside Zimbabwe, the hashtag #ZimbabweanLivesMatter was gathering strength, first among Zimbabweans airing grievances with their government, and soon, by people around the world expressing solidarity. CS Monitor


Cyber espionage, Red October, Anonymous and hacktivists… Cyber security has risen rapidly in the headlines, and the interest will continue unabated in the future. But what are we talking about when we talk about cyber security?
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ROWAN COUNTY, NC (WBTV) – Substance use, and its connection with the opioid epidemic, emerged as Rowan County's greatest concern in need of fixing, according to the Community Health and Human Service Needs Assessment presented by the Rowan County United Way on Tuesday morning.
"It shows that it has to be addressed," said Steve Fisher of the United Way board. "The substance abuse has so many levels to it, it affects our children, it affects our workforce. We talk about unemployment, it's not really the problem. The jobs are there, it's about helping folks that have a background check that they could pass…and be available to work."
"By the information that came out, we know that the opioid epidemic is happening in our community," said Alyssa Smith of Healthy Rowan. "We know there are some root causes of unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, of mental health issues, of substance use issues in our community that need to be addressed. I think what the document does is really highlight where we need to work on. If we don't address this issue now, it's going to lead to the long-term chronic diseases later, quality of life, it's going to affect business is here."
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Believe me, I have done it myself — — until it is completed locked. Be Ware: If iTunes prompts you to enter the password, this method won't work for your device. So you also can use it when. However, this will remove all data on your iPhone. The restore is done via WiFi and may take quite a while to do so be patient. In such a situation, it helps if you know how to unlock your iPhone.
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Step 4: Click on All Devices at the top of the opened window. Step 2: You will be asked to download a firmware for your iPhone. Before you start, make sure you have Microsoft. So, it becomes necessary to enable passcode on your iPhone to limit its access to only yourself. Option 3: Other passcode unlock options that work without deleting data If you have been unsuccessful, or unwilling to risk damage to your device using the previous methods then this option may be a better choice.
To enable both the Find my iPhone feature and make iCloud backup. Make sure that it's the latest version. But we highly recommend to check our previous post. On the general preferences window select the Devices tab at the top 4. Most people tend to set up iCloud backup when they get a new iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch because it is one of the steps in the startup process. Let us know in the comments if any of the above steps worked for you? I changed the forgotten password and then went on vacation. With serveral clicks, you can reset your iPhone and starting it off from a fresh point.
While still holding it, press the Volume Down key. Then you'll enter your email or phone number in the box provided. Fill in your details and continue with the process. If you've ever restored your iPhone using iTunes, you'd know how to do the entire procedure. The first method is highly recommended. Step 1 Press the Home button on your locked iPhone to activate Siri and ask it to display the current time.
This method does not work if you want a way to remove forgot iPhone password without restore. Other Ways to Unlock iPad Passcode But Need to Restore If the above two methods did not work for your locked iPad device, restoring it is the only thing left to do. It can help to find and unlock your iPhone passcode without losing data when you forgot iPhone screen password due to your iPhone passcode not correct. It is likely you have done so as it is part of the initial setup process when you first start up your device when new. There will also be an option to change your password. Step 3: Press the Home button again and you're in! If your device keeps stuck in Recovery Mode screen for more than 15 minutes, you have to repeat steps 2 and 3. This can remove the forgot password.
But it also has many flaws that may make your iPhone vulnerable to security attacks. Step 3: Find and click on Find iPhone option. Method 1: Forgot iPhone Passcode without Restore using Siri Siri, the virtual assistant of Apple that lets users perform a variety of functions on their iPhone. You can easily use iTunes to restore your iPhone, but what if iTunes is showing an error or is unable to detect your device when it's plugged in? Then, press and hold the side button until you see the recovery mode screen. Apple makes the passcode reset difficult on purpose. So having a backup makes your life much easier and guarantees you will be able to keep all your pictures, reminders, notes, videos, calendars, contacts, call history, text messages etc. Last, you can write a message to send feedback in the comment section.
Then iTunes will wipe iPhone without passcode, which means iTunes will delete all of your iPhone data, settings, apps, including the password. Once in recovery mode, iTunes will bring up a restore and update notification on your computer. It will take about 10-15 mins to do. Press and hold the Home button to bring forth Siri. There is another advantage — the software will not damage your device in any way making it much safer than. In this way, you can gain an access to your disabled iPhone again.
If you have a friend who is going through the same situation, then feel free to share this guide with them as well. Find out the best method to use by answering the following simple question… …do you have a backup? Please refer to the ways in the following part. The device screen should remain black. There are several reasons you might want to unlock your iPhone, including restriction removal, firmware version upgrade, network provider issues as well as improved flexibility and accessibility. Click Start Repair to start system recovery.


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Q: Redux store access from components I have a react app using redux.  I am using connect to mapStatetoProps and mapDispatchtoProps.  Everything works and I'm able to call actions and pass them to my reducer which then sets up the state.  I can then access the state using props because my application is wrapped around react's Provider.
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*can I have the store be automatically populated when my application starts so that a call to props accesses the data initially loaded?

*why does an action trigger all reducer functions? shouldn't it only trigger the reducer corresponding to the called action?

*if a particular reducer is called, shouldn't the state changes it makes then be available to all components via props?

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If your initial state is loaded asynchronously, then you'd additionally want something else, maybe throw in a spinner or defer creating store and rendering app.

*You can only have a subscription to the whole store, and not to individual parts of the state. There is no mapping between the actions and reducers. There's benefits to that as well as disadvantages. The benefit is that you only have 1 subscription point, which drastically increases simplicity. connect will automatically deal with whether a component needs to rerender and update based on the current and previous props. The disadvantage is that the speed is not as good, I've even done some benchmarks in the past, but the it is still acceptable.

*The components will only update if their mapStateToProps parts of the state changed. This reduces unnecessary updates, so, always provide those parts of the state in mapStateToProps if the component depends on them.

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They're childhood friends who pursued their passion together and are now really making a name for themselves and their brand. What initially drew me to these two was that there is such a strong correlation behind the brand and their personal lifestyles. Everything from what they wear out to dinner parties down to their home decor screams SCF.
While currently they live in Venice, the SCF work space is in Los Angeles where Cydney designs each collection and Dallas oversees production. Oh, and don't forget Olive, their spunky pug - she of course plays a part too.
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Q: In shell,how to make a comand2 as a continue for comand1 I have a shell file,I want to use it like
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after connect success,it will wait for the next command,
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now my question is how to make the 2 command into 1 command line because I want to call it in a ruby file.
The way I use to call shell in ruby is like "%x[command1;command2]".but it will got error because comand2 will be treated as a shell command,not a input after cammand1.
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This has truly been the most historical year in private aviation. While the strain of unprecedented flight demand has caused a ripple of new challenges across the industry, it has also fueled extreme growth and innovation. Here is a closer look at the forward-thinking actions we have taken, as well as predictions for 2022.
A Historical year in review
NetJets responds to record demand by focusing on service to our Owners.
A SURGE IN FLIGHT DEMAND
At NetJets, we are now operating at 30% more flight volume than we did prior to the pandemic. Meanwhile, we are taking aggressive steps to preserve the exceptional service our Owners expect—and deserve. Specifically, this means growing our fleet, gaining new talent, streamlining operations, and slowing our sales process.
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Our first Global 7500, our new flagship and Bombardier's 1,000th Global, was delivered in December—with more to come in the new year
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Air travel infrastructure is being taxed in ways we have never experienced. Everyone is feeling significant air traffic control delays, and everything from fueling and ramp space to catering and ground transportation are being pushed to their maximum capacity. This means we are continually looking for innovative ways to streamline our operations. For example, to ease the overload on our catering partners, we are more frequently flying catering in from larger cities, utilizing delivery services, and partnering with local restaurants. This inspired our new partnerships with Major Food Group-owned restaurants Sadelle's and Parm, and critically acclaimed chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. With hopes of expansion, this test offers meals exclusively created for Owners departing New York.
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Purposefully building for the future, we have made a significant investment in new facilities. This includes large-scale hangars in California, Colorado, Texas, and Florida. Our Maintenance Service Hubs—regional facilities that allow us to service and stock aircraft where we have the most flight volume—have been so successful in providing Owners more seamless access to their aircraft, we have been thoughtfully expanding the program in key markets. To offer premium service and enhance our Owners' experience at their most visited locations, we are growing our list of dedicated Owner lounges in the U.S. and Europe.
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On the sales side, we put all jet card requests on a waitlist months ago to prioritize service to our existing Owners, and requests now number over 2,000. Subsequently, we paused share and lease sales for immediate access, which resulted in further relief of demand on the fleet. As the rest of the industry is forced to prioritize profit over customer satisfaction, we are proud to be able to put our focus on protecting the exceptional travel experience we offer our Owners.
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After NetJets put new jet card requests on a waitlist, other providers did the same. Meanwhile, because most of our competitors don't have our level of financial security, some are dropping their rates or creating new incentives to generate short-term cash despite short industry supply and record demand. Others have been forced to increase hourly rates, extend daily minimums, and require greater advanced booking notice. While this will help them manage demand, it does so at the expense of their customers.
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In 2021, we became the first private aviation company to buy a stake in the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) when we partnered with WasteFuel, a next-generation waste-to-fuel business that converts municipal waste into SAF. The use of SAF will result in an 80% reduction in carbon emissions on future NetJets flights, and together we will establish up to five biorefineries where solid waste management is a major problem, starting in Manilla, Philippines.
In just one year, our Global Sustainability Program has yielded the following results:
Over 751,000 gallons of SAF uplifted into our aircraft
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We anticipate more individuals, families, and businesses will continue to invest in private aviation for the countless advantages and conveniences and for reliability. As a result, we will all need to continue to adapt.
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Started by AllenLowe, 28 Jul 2010
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Posted 28 Jul 2010 (edited)
so - the blues reissue box was reviewed by an on-line Classical mag. Reviewer didn't like it, that's ok, that's how it goes.
So I send an email response to the review - and I get an email back from the editor who tells me they would be happy to do a positive interview with me for the next issue of the mag - but as part of a package deal in which I take out two full page (paid) advertisements.
cripes, I thought for a minute - is this legal? Should I contact the attorney general? Another payola scandal?
trying not to burn bridges, as I usually do, I politely declined. But I find this whole thing disgusting.
Edited 28 Jul 2010 by AllenLowe
papsrus
Location:Florida
That is terrible.
Zero editorial integrity. The publication should be exposed.
That's worse than the fucking national inquirer -- at least they make no bones about what they do.
ghost of miles
Location:Chronic Town
Wow. You think you can be too cynical--but I guess you can't.
jeffcrom
Location:Atlanta, GA
Did the guy at least sound embarrassed by what he was proposing?
Fer Urbina
And he'd have run the ads on the same issue as the positive review...
You should have accepted. Now we'd never know if he'd have asked you to write the positive review yourself.
It is disgusting, and they should be outed and shamed.
I was told by a musician who wanted to submit his CD to Jazz Times that the magazine responded that to get a review he had to take out an ad. That seemed fairly unethical to me.
I wonder if this is SOP at this outfit -- they do a drive-by critique, the subject of the review contacts them to correct the record or whatever, and the editor makes a peace offering involving an ad sale. If so, yeah, it sounds not just highly unethical, but illegal. The writer of the review might not be in the loop, but it still kicks the legs out from under anything he wrote.
1) he did not sound the least bit embarrassed, it appeared to be business as usual -
2) it did make me wonder if I'd been set up, though I don't really think so. But it certainly could embarass them if I went public, though I am more interested in whether they broke the law; this smacks of classic payola.
Allen, it's nearly lunchtime--I'll give you a nice review for a really good sammich.
Edited 28 Jul 2010 by ghost of miles
mmmmmmm...........how about a donut?
Big Beat Steve
Location:Southern Germany
Please set me straight: What are the really, really superlative qualifications of contributors to CLASSICAL music mags when it comes to reviewing early blues?
Not that being really sympathetic to the music would automatically result in a positive or rave review, but it certainly is an essential ingredient to an in-depth understanding of what you are supposed to review.
Wonder what reviews of classical music would turn out like if you were to review that music from a JAZZ (or rock or whatever) angle.
As for the rest: Disgusting! And a case for big, fat whistleblowing IMHO.
Edited 28 Jul 2010 by Big Beat Steve
Ken Dryden
Location:Ooltewah, TN
So much for the wall of separation between the advertising and editorial departments. Let me know
of this outfit so I'll be sure to avoid it.
They probably loved Nigel Kennedy's attempt to play jazz.
the review was actually pretty dumb, but I figured the reviewer is entitled to her opinion (she said Bix was a terrible blues player; criticized me for not including people who are actually included in later boxes; hates the Whiteman Band, which I like; though I put too much schlock in the first set - I think she didn't like some of the minstrel stuff) -
ok, I shall reveal - it was Fanfare Magazine.
With no small dose of irony, the reviewer's main criticism that this or that track should not have been included because they aren't examples of the blues ignores what I understand to be the basic premise of your entire project Allen -- that the blues emerged from a fairly broad range of musics.
There are tracks on Vol. 1 which are meant to show various musics that hint at the blues, various converging trends that later evolved into the blues, but these tracks are not meant to be examples of the blues per se in its latter form(s), obviously. She seems to miss this point entirely, which seems like kind of a big deal.
yes, she did tend to miss the point that I was questioning, in the project, the whole blues concept. I was just, in this thread, trying to keep that separate from the editor's actions, which bothered me almost as much as the bad review. Opinion is one thing, ethics another -
B. Clugston
Location:Vancouver, B.C.
Good for you for outing them. I've heard of this practice at some other music magazines too. Whenever you read a review that sounds like a press release and you see a corresponding ad nearby, there's a good bet that the ad-for-review deal happened.
There's no danger of me subscribing to Fanfare...and I like classical music.
a few years ago the NY Times Arts and Leisure section did a big story about a Barbara Streisand concert - and there about a page later was a big ad for the concert - probably woulda been there anyway, but still, it looked very strange.
This is SOP. Come on, Allen, did you forget that check you sent me for the Jews In Hell review?
Besides, doesn't anyone read Bob Rusch's Cadence & You column?
Edited 29 Jul 2010 by Jay
When my Art Ensemble box was issued in 1993 I bought an ad in DB and a feature review ran in the mag. At that point it was mail order only and I complained to the reviewer about not including my address. He said it was deleted by an editor - maybe they didn't know I had and ad. Since then, I have not had a single review in the magazine, unless I missed them.
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This is all depressing. I can't say I'm surprised, but its just so obnoxious. I haven't read DB in years, but I assume it still purports to be a/the leading jazz publication? Pathetic.
I'm not about to defend these sorts of practices ...
But I'm familiar with this world from my newspaper career, so know that this sort of thing is SOP. As entertainment editor of a major newspaper, I went through countless lunch-time* footsies with record companies and promoters, never IIRC promising coverage in return for ad space bought; more it was in return for access to the artists and preference for future interviews etc etc.
It may seem to some of you to be splitting hairs, but favours were never done that involved favourable reviews. They were and are sacrosanct.
That seems to be the case here - the mag was not, as far as I can tell, promising a favourable review in return for expenditure on ads. That's how it was in my world, anyway. I'm sure the mileage varies elsewhere. And that REALLY would stink.
*They always paid, oh yes ...
Edited 29 Jul 2010 by kenny weir
Allen, if it's any consolation:
No one gives a rat's posterior about critics anymore. Critics' opinions don't carry the same weight they did decades ago, even though the critics have probably put on weight themselves. People who would care enough about music to buy the collections you compile would read about them on sites like this, or read Amazon reviews, etc.
If there is a new release that I'm interested in, I can determine pretty quickly if I should buy it or not. I don't worry about what Robert Cristgau thinks.
The days of the almighty music critic are gone. So don't sweat it.
Allen, I just read the review, and this was my favorite part:
"...I could understand how just "some guy who collects records" could sit around and play these things without cringing (I've met several of these), but I find it puzzling why Lowe, a professional jazz musician, inflicts so much pop drivel on the listener and then makes such comments as "I like it, so there."
You couldn't PAY for a better line than that.
That sentence alone sealed the deal for me.
Can I give you my credit card number?
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The New York Public Library has a treasure trove of really old baseball pictures.
As it turns out, the ones from the 1800s are strangely captivating.
The blog Ptak Science Books first uncovered them, and then io9 picked it up.
We pulled out a mix of action shots, team photos, and portraits with floating baseballs (they're actually dangling from strings) that we simply couldn't stop looking at.
We can't tell exactly what makes them so awesome.
Maybe it's the silly uniforms. Maybe it's the mustaches. Or maybe it's the old-school photography.


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CALLS for tougher measures to stop corner shops selling booze to youths in London's East End are among ideas by the public following a series of open meetings with health and local authority officials. They called for more law enforecement to stop yob behaviour
By Mike Brooke
CALLS for tougher measures to stop corner shops selling booze to youths in London's East End are among ideas by the public following a series of open meetings with health and local authority officials.
The calls are among suggestions from the public forums organised by NHS Tower Hamlets and the local authority earlier this year.
Tougher law enforcement to stop liquor sales to the under age to prevent teenage binge drinking was put forward at one meeting for families in Bethnal Green and Spitalfields.
More co-operation with police and park rangers to identify drinking 'hotspots' where youths gather was suggested at another meeting for people living in Whitechapel, Stepney Green, Shadwell and Wapping.
Anyone charged with drunk and disorderly behaviour on the streets should be referred to workshops and support groups, suggested residents at the meeting for Bow, Mile End and Bromley-by-Bow.
More education through families, religious leaders, and schools about the dangers of alcohol was put forward at the meeting for Limehouse, Millwall, Blackwall and Cubitt Town residents.
Families also wanted more education for those with alcohol problems and tips for families so they can see the tell tale signs.
Other measures included 'shock tactics' to stop people smoking such as personal stories captured on film.
The meetings allowed residents the chance to influence the way £2.4 million in public funds is being spent on extra services to help improve life in the East End.


Sometimes it feels like 2017 was all about President Donald Trump.
But Americans were obsessed with a bunch of other trends throughout the course of the year, too.
The team at Foursquare put together data on what Americans watched, ate, and spent money on in 2017, from the solar eclipse to Aziz Ansari's "Master of None" on Netflix.
Check out the biggest trends of the past year below.
In January, people from around the world descended on Washington, DC for the Women's March.
The Women's March didn't just lead to a increase in visits to government buildings in DC, as Foursquare found. It also led to a huge jump in sales of office supplies— they were up by as much as 42% versus last year during the same period. In total, $6 million was spent on a mix of poster and foam boards, paint markers, flip charts, fabric paint, staplers, and specialty iron-ons in just one week.
And there were some real political effects, too. Republican John Carman, who sat on the nine-member Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders in New Jersey, was defeated in November by Democrat Ashley Bennett, who ran because he mocked the Women's March.
Americans got more into self-care this year.
There's some evidence suggesting that meditation changes the brain for the better: A growing body of research suggests that even a few minutes of a daily mindfulness practice is linked to lower stress levels, more positivity, better focus, and creativity.
Various successful people including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin all reportedly meditate.
People made it to the theaters for the live-action remake of "Beauty and the Beast."
"Beauty and the Beast" director Bill Condon said that Josh Gad's character LeFou, the sidekick to antagonist Gaston (Luke Evans), was Disney's first-ever openly LGBTQ character.
A drive-in movie theater in Alabama announced that it would not be showing the movie because of that.
Then came the instagrammable Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino.
Starbucks later come out with the limited edition Zombie Frappuccino. Business Insider thought it was "an overly sweet mess manufactured for Instagram."
Visits to New York's Storm King jumped after characters on Aziz Ansari's "Master of None" went there.
Aziz Ansari later said that having more money than he "ever imagined" has changed the way he looks at his work.
"Everyone just buys into this, like, Oh, I need to keep making stuff, I need to go make more money. I don't need to make more stuff. I've made a lot of stuff! I'm financially okay. I'm not gonna make stuff just for the sake of making stuff. I want to make stuff 'cause I'm inspired. Right now I don't really feel inspired."
People really got into Negroni week.
Renowned mixologist Tony Conigliaro showed Business Insider how to make the perfect Negroni. Take a look, if you want to spice up your holiday cocktails.
Fewer people hit the gym before summer.
Sometimes, getting to the gym is just a mental hurdle. Business Insider's Libby Kane shared nine ways she tricks herself into going to the gym.
Basically everyone watched the eclipse.
The solar eclipse cost an estimated $694 million in lost productivity. It also caused a 10% drop in Netflix viewing as everyone headed outside.
Chipotle finally added queso to the menu — but most people hated it.
Business Insider's Kate Taylor and Hollis Johnson found Chipotle's queso, "grainy and soupy, more akin to a broccoli-cheddar soup from Panera than to a cheese dip."
Luckily, the chain updated the recipe, and the quality has somewhat improved.
Maple flavor may outpace pumpkin spice.
Meanwhile, Starbucks quietly raised prices on brewed coffee and cookies at a number of locations on Pumpkin Spice Latte launch day.
Fans in Houston piled into local bars to watch the World Series.
The average ticket to Game 7 of the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros this year cost nearly $1,500 less than last year. But the average ticket cost was still high at $2,534.
And overall, people have started to get way more into fine dining this year.
Most people blow 70% of their money on just three things — housing, transportation, and food — and cutting back a bit might be the key to retiring earlier.
In fact, eating out accounts for 43% of the annual food expenditures for families on average — an obvious area to save some cash.


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Set within the explosive cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1980s, Becoming Kirrali Lewis chronicles the journey of a young Aboriginal teenager as she leaves her home town in rural Victoria to take on a law degree in Melbourne in 1985.
Adopted at birth by a white family, Kirrali doesn't question her cultural roots until a series of life-changing events force her to face up to her true identify.
Her decision to search for her biological parents sparks off a political awakening that no-one sees coming, least of all Kirrali herself as she discovers her mother is white and her father is a radical black activist.
Narrative flashbacks to the 1960s, where Kirrali's biological mother, Cherie, is rebelling against her parent's strict conservatism sees her fall into a clandestine relationship with an Aboriginal man. Unmarried and pregnant, Cherie's traumatic story of an unforgiving Australian society give meaning to Kirrali's own rites of passage nearly twenty years later.
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A visitor writes about York in the 1850s
Lendal ferry and the Ouse, 1854. Photo: Roger Fenton (city archives)
Yesterday's December Daily included descriptions of the Black Swan on Coney Street by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist and short story writer.
He was appointed US consul in Liverpool in 1853 and spent some years in England. During that time he seems to have gone all over the country by train, and recorded in his journals his impressions of the places he visited, including York.
I thought I'd include some more extracts from those journals, recently discovered. They convey an interesting 'sense of place', from a visitor's point of view, from this particular visitor's point of view.
These extracts date from a visit to York in 1856:
Before reaching York, first one old lady and then another (Quaker) lady got into the carriage along with me ; and they seemed to be going to York, on occasion of some fair or celebration. This was all the company I had, and their advent the only incident. It was about eleven o'clock when I beheld York Cathedral rising huge above the old city, which stands on the river Ouse, separated by it from the railway station, but communicating by a ferry (or two) and a bridge. I wandered forth, and found my way over the latter into the ancient and irregular streets of crooked, narrow, or of unequal width, puzzling, and many of them bearing the name of the particular gate in the old walls of the city to which they lead. There were no such fine, ancient, stately houses as some of those in Shrewsbury were, nor such an aspect of antiquity as in Chester; but still York is a quaint old place, and what looks most modern is probably only something old, hiding itself behind a new front, as elsewhere in England.
From his description, it seems that instead of getting the ferry (pictured above), he crossed the river via Ouse Bridge (no Lendal Bridge at this time), so perhaps then headed down Coney Street, as he states that he then found his way, 'by a sort of instinct, as directly as possible', to York Minster.
Minster south front, 1853. Photo: William Pumphrey (city archives)
Trying to access the Minster, he goes in by the wrong door — hard to imagine this now, when the Minster is a much-visited tourist attraction, with all visitors carefully guided in to a well-signposted entrance.
He does of course describe the Minster in detail, and his impressions of it. Including that 'in England, the interior of a cathedral, nine days out of ten, is a vast sullenness, and as chill as death and the tomb.' Having left the Minster he wanders around a bit, and is helped to find the way back to the railway station by a friendly local.
After emerging from this great gloom, I wandered to and fro about York, and contrived to go astray within no very wide space. If its history be authentic, it is an exceedingly old city …
York is still partly surrounded with a wall, and has several gates, which the city authorities take pains to keep in repair. I grew weary in my endeavor to find my way back to the railway, and inquired it of one of the good people of York, — a respectable, courteous, gentlemanly person, — and he told me to walk along the walls. Then he went on a considerable distance; but seemed to repent of not doing more for me; so he waited till I came up, and, walking along by my side, pointed out the castle, now the jail, and the place of execution, and directed me to the principal gateway of the city, and instructed me how to reach the ferry. The path along the wall leads, in one place, through a room over the arch of a gateway, — a low, thick-walled, stone apartment, where doubtless the gatekeeper used to lodge, and to parley with those who desired entrance.
I found my way to the ferry over the Ouse, according to this kind Yorkist's instructions. The ferryman told me that the fee for crossing was a halfpenny, which seemed so ridiculously small that I offered him more; but this unparalleled Englishman declined taking anything beyond his rightful halfpenny. This seems so wonderful to me that I can hardly trust my own memory.
In focusing on the changes, as we do, as I've done so often on here, we can perhaps forget the things that continue, haven't changed. It's still quite common for the 'Yorkist's' and the people of anywhere to pause and help the lost traveller where they can, and to only take what's 'rightful'.
I'm continuing with December Daily. Thank you to everyone who has supported these pages recently with virtual coffees, and to everyone who appreciates careful, thoughtful words — whether mine or someone else's.
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Award-winning, hard-hitting, much-aclaimed Xenu TV! Staring Bob Minton, Stacy Brooks Young, Jesse Prince, Mark Bunker, Overlord Xenu, and a star-spangled cast of dozens!
Picket Picture From San Francisco --- lots of enturbulation started!
Shotgun Bob #1 Fray with Scientology escalates to gunfire.
Shooting in NH: The rest of the story!
How did "Cicero" know this?-Minton Take Note!
"Antagonism leads to shotgun blasts"
"Local man helps many leave Scientology"
Why is Scientology recklessly out of control?
Who will be the next Jane Kember & Mo Budlong?
Re: Minton assaulted by Scientologist; was arrested.
Scientology thugs attack Minton; Minton is arrested for defending himself.
Friendly fire, or clams in disguise?
Bob Loves Stacy! Oh, My!
The enemy is amongst us!
Re: The enemy is amongst us!
Scientology and the Nazis: blood brothers?
Are there any ethical Scientologist who will answer?
Re: Are there any ethical Scientologist who will answer?
Letter to David: Is the end near?
Scientologists, critic, battle in the name of dead "worshiper"
Bob Minton: Will he rouse the gorilla?
Double Crossed. Robert Cipriano claims Scientologists rewarded him.
CW Scieno drama queen Benetta Slaughter held in contempt and sanctioned!
Revenge pickets or harassment? You decide.
Clearwater city manager seems to favor Scientologists?
Where is Mark Bunker when you really need him?
It's Hammer Time! Mark Bunker gets attacked by a hammer.
Is Rider lying about Richard Bernard?
How much oddity can one town take?
DM taking the money and running? Nope.
On the Road to Total SP-dom.
Scientology: An asset or liability for Clearwater?
Re: repayment of monies from the "freewinds"
Scientologists bankrupt on the Elbe?
Miscavige, it's very simple. Even an ecclesiastical fraud like you can grasp this!
Vanguard, Sunday July 16, 2000, Lagos --- Leave Minton alone!


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Q7. The only function of NOT gate is to ……………..
Q9. In Boolean algebra, the bar sign (-) indicates ………………..
Q10. An OR gate has 4 inputs. One input is high and the other three are low. The output is …….
Q11. Both OR and AND gates can have only two inputs.
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Game servers are notoriously unreliable; they die all the time. At least every couple of hours.
When they die, your game server is offline, at least until you realize this, and then you have to manual restart it.
This can happen many times a day, day in and day out every day of every year. You don't have time to monitor your server and restart it all the time.
There are products such as TCadmin, gamecp, SwiftPanel, god, Procautostart, ps-watcher, monit, and so on that purport to watch a (game server) process and start/stop/ restart it if it has crashed. Some have some other options to ftp up files with a web interface and edit some default files, and are all very complex pieces of software and cost money and add a lot of junk which you don't need. I got so fed up with trying to get any one of them to work that I finally wrote my own.
You don't need all that other crap. All you need to do all the work for you is a script which does one thing: watches a process and restarts it if it has died.
That Linux does not have a command built in to do this, is totally appalling to me.
Once you have your game up and running under Linux, use my very simple code below that will watch your linux game server and restart it if it has died.
# if you need to monitor more than one serer, copy the code under "FIRST SERVER"
# and paste it as many times for a SECOND SERVER, THIRD SERVER, etc.
# $ yum install mc and recreate with "mcedit check_and_restart_servers.sh"
# then look for your game server pid the same way, and kill it as well.
# later I'll write a script to do this.


This year marks the inaugural Panama International Boat Show at the Flamenco Marina located near downtown Panama City. The boat show took place from June 20 through June 22nd. HMY Sales Representatives Jay Jurgens and John Strader were down in Panama City to make sure HMY Yachts takes full advantage of every opportunity to market and promote our clients boats everywhere. HMY Yachts presence is rapidly growing in Central America as the market presents new opportunities for our clients wishing to buy or sell their boats. They went down to the show with MY WAY, a 2010 54' Viking and QUEXOPA, a 2005, 56' Viking. MY WAY is represented by HMY listing broker John Strader and QUEXOPA is handled by Jay Jurgens.
The show was conveniently located at the mouth of the Panama Canal, close to Panama City. This location also offered great views of the skyscrapers of downtown Panama City, a close drive away to exciting tourist destinations and restaurants. With sportfish, motor yachts and tenders ranging from 20' to 60' there were vessels for boaters of every size and lifestyle. The show welcomed crowds all day Friday and Saturday, however, the show had to close early on Sunday due to inclement weather.
We are excited to be part of the first Panama International Boat Show and look forward to many more.
John Strader and Jay Jurgens both work out of our Dania Beach office in South Florida. They can be reached at 954-926-0400 or at jstrader@HMY.com and JayJurgens@HMY.com, respectively.


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Q: Docker multi wordpress vs single architecture multi wordpress - Are the resources used the same? (nginx/mysql/ubuntu) I have a vps cloud server with around 20 wordpress sites, currently uses nginx to route to the different /var/www/html/wordpresssite . They all share the same mysql server but different login credentials to each of their DBs.
I then implemented on a new vps cloud server (same specs = 2 core + 4GB memory), to try to dockerize all 20 wordpress sites but it seems that the websites become almost unresponsive at times. A few reloads and some of the sites load inconsistently. I followed the instructions here (https://linuxhandbook.com/deploye-multiple-wordpress/).
Just checking to see is it because putting 20 wordpress sites into 20 containers uses a lot more resources as my original method? Is it because we are creating 20 different mysql server instances etc? Or perhaps a configuration error?

A: If you followed the link, you created 20 mysql server instances + 20 wordpress sites + 20 apache servers. Your Nginx server, which acted as a seventh layer reverse proxy, listened on external ports and connected requests to 20 docker containers ...
This web servers' structure alone will eat up your vps resources.
If you can live with wordpress multisite + domain mapping plugin, go for it. This deployment consumes fewer resources.
If you have to go with docker, try standalone Nginx setup + single database server container + multiple wordpress containers using x.x.x-fpm-alpine image.


Please find the Spring 2019 job description here.
Applications for the Spring 2019 campaign are now open!
What are the telephone campaigns?
Our telephone campaigns are an exciting opportunity for students to make an important contribution towards attracting essential philanthropic support from alumni and friends of Imperial.
During each campaign, we aim to contact around 9,000 alumni, sharing news and upcoming events at Imperial, and inviting alumni to support the College through a range of giving opportunities. These donations will help to fund projects across the College, from scholarships and financial support for current students to campus improvements and extra-curricular developments. For more information about our current fundraising priorities, visit the giving homepage.
Last year we raised over £200,000 to support many different initiatives at Imperial. We hope to continue this success during our spring appeal, the second campaign of the 2018-19 academic year.
The telephone campaign isn't just about fundraising; it is also a great way for Imperial to stay in touch with its alumni and build a long term relationship with them. Alumni enjoy hearing about what it is like to be a student at Imperial today, and reminiscing about their own experiences.
Join the team this year!
The College is looking to recruit a dedicated team of trained student fundraisers who are passionate about Imperial and enjoy the opportunity to engage with the alumni community. The spring 2019 appeal will run for six weeks, from Monday 11 February to Sunday 24 March.
The telethon is a great opportunity to boost your CV, and the professional skills you will develop are highly valued by employers. We will support you with training throughout the campaign, and you will have the opportunity to speak to alumni who studied a similar course and who have lots of careers advice to offer. It's also a great networking opportunity, not only with other current students but with alumni as well.
Interviews will be held from Monday 4 February through to Wednesday 6 February on the South Kensington Campus.
Students who are successful at the interview stage must attend the compulsory paid training on Saturday 9 February (10:00 - 17:00) and Sunday 10 February (10:00 - 17:00).
Please see our Frequently Asked Questions for more information about the application process, or for other queries contact Ollie Bennett (o.bennett@imperial.ac.uk).