![]() ![]() Start a repair request below to make a reservation with a Genius to get help with a hardware repair. An in-person interpreter can be arranged by advanced request for. You can do more than shop and learn in an Apple Store. Sign language interpretation is available at our stores through an on-demand video service, instantly and at no cost to you. ![]() From setting up your device to recovering your Apple ID to replacing a screen, Genius Support has you covered. Our Geek Squad agents are Apple-trained, so you can trust us with all your Apple devices, at our convenient locations, all on your schedule. Or in a one-on-one session at an Apple Store. Then, on the Reservation page, select Cancel. To cancel your appointment, access that email and select the Manage my Reservation link. But hopefully, this will prove to be a much bigger pain-in-the-beck for scalpers. Schedule an appointment to service or repair these Apple devices. After you make your appointment, youll receive an email with your reservation details. If you’re not a scammer, nothing should change for you here, except you’ll have to go through the small extra-step of logging into your Apple ID before booking a Genius Bar reservation online. ![]() The new policy also should help with no-shows, which can be something of a time sink for Apple Stores trying to handle their Genius Bar workloads. That was heaven for scalpers, but a maddening ordeal for people who actually, you know, wanted to get their iPhones fixed. That meant that if you had a bank of fake email addresses and enough hands clicking, you could potentially book an entire store’s worth of Genius Bar appointments the second they became available at midnight. Shop online for Macbooks, iPads, iPhones, Airpods & more. Previously, there was never a formal log-in process, and you could just go into Apple’s Genius Bar reservation system online, enter a store and date, then pick your times. Select is Irelands leading Apple Premium Reseller offering 6 stores in Ireland & our online shop. The new policy should help thwart the sort of Genius Bar scalping that is common in countries like China and other developing nations. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Fans can purchase cans of select domestic beers for $5 and select local craft beers for $6. The Value Beer Menu is also expanded: The selection of specially priced 12-ounce beers is expanding to over 10 locations and 12 varieties. Rolling Roof Refreshment Stands now offer hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, peanuts, sodas, water and red ropes from $2-$4. In addition, the team has lowered concessions prices on ballpark staples and beer. Both will be available on the Terrace Club Level. Added to The Natural’s vegetarian and gluten-free options this season is the Beyond Burger plant-based patty that “looks, cooks and satisfies like beef.” Lil Woody’s and Ballard Pizza have expanded to two new locations. Hiroshi’s Sushi now features made-to-order poke bowls in addition to a selection of handmade sushi. However, the team has worked with concessionaire Centerplate and third-party vendors to keep speciality stands open, including Ivar’s and Kidd Valley, Caffé Vita coffee, Din Tai Fung and Paseo. Like every other MLB team, the Mariners are stressing grab-and-go prepackaged food at most concessions stands. ![]() Alas, the 2020 season was scrapped before the Mariners could unveil the changes to the public they’ve been on display for the most part this season. With the dawn of the 2021 MLB season, the Seattle Mariners were finally able to unveil upgrades planned for last season at T-Mobile Park.īefore the 2020 MLB season, the Mariners had embarked on a $30-million T-Mobile Park update that touched on virtually every part of the ballpark click on the link for all the details. Kyle Seager: The Giants have had a close look at Seager’s brother Corey for many years now, and while Corey is definitely the better of the two, Kyle is a tremendous baseball player and the name scares me all the same.By Kevin Reichard on Apin Major-League Baseball, News He swung a red-hot bat during Spring Training, so the Giants pitchers will want to pay him extra attention. Ty France: ZiPS projects France to be the Mariners most valuable player this season after his breakout season in 2020, his second year in the big leagues. He did a tremendous job suppressing walks last year (he led the league with 0.9 per nine innings), and we know how much the Giants want to work counts and draw free passes. Gonzales is coming off of his best MLB season, when the lefty posted a 3.10 ERA and 3.32 FIP. Marco Gonzales: The Giants plan on being a very good offensive team this year, and their first test is the Mariners Opening Day starter. Three Mariners to watch Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Part of that is due to his performance and the team’s trust in him, but, as Andrew Baggarly notes, part of it is because the Giants want to let him ease into the season against a mediocre Mariners team, rather than throwing him to the wolves against the Padres next week. His new changeup opened eyes, and his stat line will make you drool: 17 innings, 7 hits, 2 walks, 22 strikeouts, 1 earned run.Īfter starting camp as a fringe roster player, Webb now opens the year as the team’s third starter. Logan Webb: Webb was the best Giants pitcher in the spring, by a comfortable margin. 373/.489/.718 the rest of the way out, and still managed to finish fourth in the NL in wRC+. We kind of forgot about that because he hit a staggering. He’s here, and he’ll play.īelt struggled out of the gates last year while dealing with a foot issue, and hit just. He seemed destined to start the year on the Injured List - as he did last year - but no. I’m just happy to see him out there.īrandon Belt: Belt only had 9 plate appearances all Spring Training, after getting a very late start due to foot surgery, a bout of the coronavirus, and a battle with mononucleosis. We’ll all be keeping an eye on that for the next weeks and months, but for today, I don’t care how Posey does. How is his health? Did the year off help him, or is he just a year older? Posey is one of the most intriguing players to watch this year. Three Giants to watch Photo by Rob Tringali/Getty Imagesīuster Posey: It’s been 550 days since we last saw Buster Posey play in a baseball game. ![]() Record: 0-0, last in the AL West by an embarrassing margin Record: 0-0, first in the NL West by a deafening margin Seattle Mariners Where: T-Mobile Park, Seattle, Washington Maybe we can find a middle ground in there.Įither way, the season is off and running, and I, for one, am excited and ready. The Giants have been transparent about their goal of becoming the first team in MLB history to go undefeated or, if failing at that, at least try to finish within 30 games of the two-headed behemoth that is the cream of the NL West’s crop. Today marks the start of the 2021 MLB season, which means it marks the start of a new year of San Francisco Giants baseball. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hannett later said, " were a gift to a producer, because they didn't have a clue. Hannett recorded Curtis's vocals for "Insight" down a telephone line so he could achieve the "requisite distance". He also used the sound of a basement toilet. Hannett, who believed that punk rock was sonically conservative because of its refusal to use studio technology to create sonic space, used a number of unusual production techniques and sound effects on the album, including several AMS 15-80s digital delays, the Marshall Time Modulator, tape echo and bounce, as well as the sound of a bottle smashing, someone eating crisps, backwards guitar and the sound of the Strawberry Studios lift with a Leslie speaker "whirring inside". Unknown Pleasures was recorded at Strawberry Studios in Stockport over three weekends between 1 and 17 April 1979, with Martin Hannett producing. Gretton estimated that the album would cost £8,000 to produce however, Wilson said in 2006 that the up-front cost ended at £18,000. No one could use the word 'cockney' with as much contempt as Rob". Wilson added that one of Gretton's main reasons for approaching Factory was so "he wouldn't have to get on a train to London every week and 'talk to nuggets'. Wilson explained that Gretton had calculated that given Factory's 50/50 split of profits, the band could make as much money with the indie label as it could by signing to a major. However, the band's manager, Rob Gretton, approached Wilson about releasing an album on his Factory Records label. According to Hook, the band received a £70,000 offer from Genetic Records in London. They made their television debut on Tony Wilson's local news show Granada Reports in September 1978. The band's first release was the self- produced extended play (EP), An Ideal for Living, which was released in June 1978. Īfter signing a recording contract with RCA Records in early 1978, Joy Division recorded some demos however, they were unhappy with the way their music was mixed and asked to be released from their contract. To avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt, they renamed themselves Joy Division in late 1977. After a number of changes of drummer, Stephen Morris joined the band-at that time called Warsaw-in August 1977. Ian Curtis, whom Sumner and Hook already knew, applied and, without having to audition, was taken on. Forming a band with their friend Terry Mason on drums, Sumner on guitar and Hook on bass, they advertised for a singer. Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook had separately attended a Sex Pistols show at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall on 4 June 1976 and both embraced that band's simplicity, speed and aggression. Joy Division formed in Salford in 1976 during the first wave of punk rock. It has since received sustained critical acclaim as an influential post-punk album, and has been named as one of the best albums of all time by publications such as NME, AllMusic, Select, Rolling Stone, and Spin. It is the only Joy Division album released during lead singer Ian Curtis's lifetime.įactory Records did not release any singles from Unknown Pleasures, and the album did not chart despite the relative success of the group's non-album debut single " Transmission". ![]() The cover artwork was designed by artist Peter Saville, using a data plot of signals from a radio pulsar. The album was recorded and mixed over three successive weekends at Stockport's Strawberry Studios in April 1979, with producer Martin Hannett contributing a number of unconventional recording techniques to the group's sound. ![]() Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by English rock band Joy Division, released on 15 June 1979 by Factory Records. ![]() ![]() “How is it possible for a country to have its moral compass so broken that homosexuality and murder can feel the same?”īut four inmates agreed to participate and began to speak about their lives with surprising candor, according to Viñayo. “We want to create a reflection-from this extreme place of the prison isolation cell-of the kind of society we have built,” he says. ![]() Martinez, though, says Unforgivable isn’t a film “about gangs,” or an attempt to redeem their members, but an examination of the culture that allowed Geovany to arrive at his twisted moral conclusion. This week police arrested three gang members for an armed attack on a Doctors Without Borders ambulance. Though gang violence and murder rates have plummeted over the last year-which many suspect is the result of a secret pact between the gangs and President Nayib Bukele-there are an estimated 60,000 gang members in a country of 7 million, and they have killed tens of thousands over the past decade. ![]() And sympathy for gang members is a tough sell. Homosexuality remains taboo and violence and discrimination against LGBTQ people is rife. Evangelical churches are a growing influence in El Salvador, far outstripping the state and just pipping the Catholic Church to become the country’s most trusted institution in 2016, according to public research institute IUDOP. But it is likely to be controversial at home. The film’s nuanced portrayal of the former gang members’ experience won it international praise and prizes at a string of major film festivals in 2020, making it the first Salvadoran film to be eligible for an Oscar. “But loving another man, that’s not natural.” “I think killing a person, yes it’s bad but it’s not that difficult,” he says at one point. ![]() Living in the isolation cell with his partner and other gay inmates, he grapples with both his sexuality and his violent past. 8-follows Geovany, a gay man who worked as a hitman for Barrio 18 and left the gang in 2016. The short documentary they produced, Unforgivable-premiering worldwide via Vimeo on Demand from Feb. The state had effectively ceded control of daily life inside Gotera to church leaders, who preach that homosexuality is a sin as grave as violence.Īs soon as Martinez left the prison and got in his car, he called Marlén Viñayo, 33, a Spanish director living in El Salvador, to tell her what he’d seen. 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The melody broadcast from Mister Softee trucks – bearing the likeness of a music-box – was composed by Philadelphia ad man, Les Waas (né Lester Morton Waas 1921–2016) who titled it, "Jingle and Chimes." Waas created close to 1,000 jingles. Jingle Mister Softee mascot and official truck at an event in Tampa, Florida Mister Softee suspended its China operations in 2016. While its American counterpart operated almost exclusively with trucks, Mister Softee China had kiosks in downtown shopping areas and trucks throughout China's suburban neighborhoods and business districts. Mister Softee China had created a menu that combined classic American ice cream products of shakes, floats, and sundaes with new Chinese products such as green tea ice cream, red bean ice cream, kiwifruit sundaes, and milk tea floats. Five years later, Sparks had ten trucks and 25 employees, with plans to expand throughout China's eastern region. In 2007, with Alex's help, Sparks launched a Mister Softee China franchise in Suzhou with just one truck. Sparks spoke fluent Mandarin and had been teaching English in Suzhou. son while attending the University of Miami. China A Mister Softee ice cream truck in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, 2008Įnglish-teacher-turned-entrepreneur-now- stand-up-comedian Turner Sparks was roommates with Alex Conway – Jim Conway, Jr's. ![]() Conway and Jim Conway, Jr., took over the business. Around 1999, William and James' sons, John P. Headquartered in Runnemede, New Jersey since 1958, Mister Softee became one of the largest franchisors of soft ice cream in the United States, with about 350 franchisees operating 625 trucks in 18 states. was founded in 1956 by brothers William Aloysius Conway (1922–2004) and James Francis Conway (1927–2006) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company is based in Runnemede, New Jersey. (doing business as Mister Softee) is an American ice cream truck franchisor, best known in the northeastern United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() Join the /r/firemblem Discord server! Find like-minded friends and have fun talking about games or playing together. For Engage specific questions, consider consulting the pinned Engage Question Thread. Please make use of the Question Thread for your quick questions. Please use comment commands if you are on mobile to flair your posts, the comment commands are given here. Warnings will be given out and suspensions/bans will follow if the behavior is repeated. Mods will respond appropriately to violations of the rules to the degree at which they are broken. The above spoiler tag only works in self-posts and comments, not post titles. To use a spoiler tag in comments, by typing >!Beware the Black Fang!!!Beware the Black Fang!< It is only fair they get a chance to go into a story blind for the full experience. 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The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: ![]() Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]() ![]() It’ll be at about the same altitude (that is, the same height off the ground) as Altair and will set around the same time.įomalhaut is a fairly young system about 25 light-years away. But when you see it, there’s no doubt: It’s the only bright star in what’s an otherwise humble and quiet part of the sky. Without any other even moderately bright stars nearby to act as signposts, it can be tough to spot, so be patient. ![]() Fomalhaut will be the next bright star you come to. Once you’ve found Altair in the last of the glowing twilight, turn to the south, toward your left. The farther north you are, the closer to the horizon it is. Fomalhaut never rises more than about 20 degrees above the horizon from mid-northern latitudes. The southernmost first-magnitude star visible in the north is Fomalhaut, whose name comes from Arabic and means “the mouth of the whale.” Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish, not to be confused with Pisces the directionally agnostic fish, is a dim and sparse constellation that can be tough to see because our view of it puts it low in the southern sky. While we’re still looking westward, after we’ve found those first three stars, it’s a quick hop to the fourth. (Light from the star itself has been blocked out to see its surroundings better.) Fomalhaut b is one of the few worlds for which we have a direct image. If you’re fortunate enough to live under good, dark skies, away from light pollution, you might also be able to make out the Milky Way’s glow cutting right through the center of the Triangle and then up overhead. Altair sets around 7:30, with Vega and Deneb not too far behind. These stars are all wonderful in the summer, but there’s something special about seeing them in the dusky early evening sky in the winter, and letting your mind wander back to hot dogs, baseball games, and trips to the beach. If it’s so bright from its current distance, imagine what it must be like much closer to it. It’s dimmer than the other two stars, but even from so far, it’s still very bright. Estimates suggest that the light we see now has been traveling toward us for about 2,000 years. It’s an old, giant star whose exact distance is a little tough to pin down. But Deneb, which forms the Swan’s tail, is one of the most distant stars we can see with the unaided eye. ![]() As the New Year’s festivities start, we’ll see the Swan and Eagle gliding into the dusk, chasing after the Sun.Īltair and Vega are among the closest stars to us, only about 17 and 25 light-years away, respectively. Let’s start our tour with them, looking toward the western horizon after sunset just as the skies start to dim. But - believe it or not - the Summer Triangle’s stars are still in winter evening skies too. In August, the constellations Cygnus, the Swan, and Aquila, the Eagle soared high overhead, lighting up those sweltering skies with Lyra, the Lyre, between them. The last time most of us thought about the Summer Triangle, it was popping into the sky over the eastern horizon after a long, slow, summer sunset. It’s fun to make the most of the long nights around the winter solstice for a tour of the skies’ brightest lights. They’re all above the horizon at some point between sunset December 31st and sunrise January 1st, New Year’s Morning. One of my favorite holiday traditions is taking a break from the rush to spend time with some friends on New Year’s Eve: the 15 stars visible from mid-northern latitudes, figure around 40 degrees north, that are first magnitude or brighter. ![]() Thanks for taking some time to stop by Sky & Telescope’s tour of some of the sky’s brightest stars. ![]() To start exploring, first pause the video, then click and drag the view to other parts of the sky, or zoom in and out of your current view using your mouse (or two fingers if on a mobile device). Note: This video is interactive! Besides the usual video controls, you can also use this as a window on the night sky. Get the New Year off to a good start by coming along with Scott Levine and the Worldwide Telescope on our interactive video tour!Ĭannot display WorldWide Telescope because your browser does not support iframes. Every year around the winter solstice, all 15 of the northern night sky’s brightest stars – those first-magnitude and brighter – are above the horizon and visible sometime between sunset and sunrise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the more interesting to me relates right back to those template databases. The CREATE DATABASE command has a number of options, as you can see in the documentation. Also, when you restore a database, PostgreSQL uses template0 to start that process (I’ll explain how and why once I learn).Īnd what about that postgres database? Well, that’s a default built into PostgreSQL so that tools always connect to a default database. What’s that? Well, in the event you completely mess up template1, template0 acts as a baseline. However, there’s more going on in PostgreSQL. You can add objects to template1, and then they will automatically exist in any other new database you create. The table template1 operates very similarly to model. ![]() In PostgreSQL, the same thing happens, but the database is called template1. In SQL Server, you have a system database called model used as a template when you create a new database. Since I know SQL Server, I’m going to compare what’s going on here, to what’s going on there. The command to create a database is quite simple: I don’t want to document every single possible method, so I had to pick one.I’m old, and I’m just more comfortable working on code within a dedicated coding tool as opposed to simply running it from the command line.For example, it plugs in very nicely to GitHub, so you can easily keep the code as you develop it up on GitHub ( go here if you want to see my VERY basic PostgreSQL code: ).I’m going to focus there, working primarily within Azure Data Studio (ADS). Finally, the SQL commands are available once you’re connected to PostgreSQL. You can do everything from a command line or use a graphical user interface (GUI) that lets you work with PostgreSQL. I could then back them up.Īs with any data management system, there are many ways to get this done. I needed to create a database and a couple of tables. However, I realized I had another thing I needed to do before I could begin learning – and teaching - backups. Now, what to do with it? In the first article in this series, I said I would start by learning about backups. You have an instance of PostgreSQL running locally (or you’re connected to the cloud). Data Types in PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant Note: If this is the first time you are connecting to your DB instance, you can try using the default database name postgres for the -dbname option.How to back up and restore with PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant.Creating a Database and Tables in PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant.Connecting to PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two of our guests, Jose and Juan, are brothers from Chicago. It was an incredible five days, with too many highlights to keep track of. They even ate a picnic lunch, which had been prepared and packed with care back at the Double E. Throughout the park, they saw Yellowstone’s iconic herds of buffalo. The audience of the Cody Nite Rodeo recognized the Freedom Alliance veterans in an resounding ovation of gratitude.Īnother day was spent in Yellowstone National Park, where the Marines visited Excelsior Geyser, Dragon’s Mouth Spring, Artist Point, and Old Faithful. ![]() While in town that evening the servicemen attended the rodeo, which is the longest-running in the nation. The most popular with the Marines by far was the Cody Firearms Museum! Four hours later, everyone had caught their share of fish, and two novice fishermen had found a new pursuit.įreedom Alliance organized an expedition one day to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in nearby Cody, a multiplex of five museums dedicated to America’s West. But Frank, at the stables, gave him and another new rider his undivided attention and they embarked on their first trail ride ever.įriends of the ranch manager volunteered their time, equipment, and boats so that the veterans could try out fly fishing on the Shoshone River. One veteran admitted that he’d never been close enough to touch a horse. The Marines enjoyed exploring the ranch on ATVs, as well as in the saddle. ![]() The least we could was reunite them with their brothers. These 10 men experienced hell on earth … and survived. There were others, they all said, who were more heroic, who sacrificed more.Īnd yet, when one reads their combat records, you see the wounds, the multiple deployments, the outstanding service. Some hadn’t seen each other in years, and, despite horrific shared memories of combat, the laughter and storytelling started up right away.Īt various points throughout the trip, each guest said he did not deserve this kind of treat. From Chicago and Baton Rouge, as well as the states of California, Texas, Florida and more, these Marines from all parts of the country had a common bond…įallujah-the bloodiest engagement of the war. The 10 men we selected for this getaway seemed to immediately relax and settle into the beauty surrounding the Double E Ranch. Ranch owners Erik and Stacy and their family acted as welcome committee, hospitality executives, and new best friends. Ranch manager Troy arranged and guided daytime activities for the Marines. The Double E’s “horse whisperer” Frank provided breathtaking trail rides and one-on-one instruction. Head chef Coletta and her kitchen staff prepared fantastic meals. The two months during which this campaign was fought are considered the most intense of the Iraqi War.įast forward twelve years, and some wonderful folks in Wyoming, the owners and staff of the Double E Ranch, invited Freedom Alliance to use their property to provide a vacation for Marine Corps veterans of Operation Phantom Fury and Fallujah.Īctually, not only did they donate the ranch and its resources for this purpose, but they volunteered themselves, as well. 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Many airports in this country operate what is known as a Gate-Delivery system for duty free purchases. As and when more airports introduce pre-order or shop and collect systems, we will place a link on the corresponding page so you can find products and prices and order your goods, pre-travel. Miami and other airports now have an online order system in place called Duty Free Express. Convenience and Food Operators like Spar, 7-Eleven and Hudson have shops in the arrivals area.Īirport retailers are now introducing online pre-order duty free shopping, you can pre-order goods from your tablet or iPhone, before you travel, for collection on departure. Some countries like Canada and Japan are studying the introduction of arrival duty free shopping as it will bring new revenues to airports and also avoid the confusion encountered by travellers with the transit of liquids on aircraft.Īlready, Bermuda, Jamaica and Grenada have introduced arrivals shops in the baggage claim areas of their airport terminals, the terminal arrival shops in the main Swiss airports are now open. ![]() This means that you cannot buy Duty Free goods, such as Liquors or Tobaccos, in the departure lounge, nor can you buy these products on your flight to the US. When you clear Customs for the USA at your outbound airport, your flight to the USA is then classified as a US Domestic and not as an International flight, because you have already cleared Customs and technically entered the USA before departure. This procedure operates from some airports in Canada, Abu Dhabi and Ireland and will soon be extended to other airports around the world. But, in the USA your purchases will be delivered to you at the gate when you board your aircraft and not in the store.Īnother important advice is if your outbound airport uses the system known as “pre-clearance” for US Customs and Immigration. ![]() So, on your travels to the US, make sure you buy at your departure airport store.įor your return from the USA, you can buy in the departure terminal if you are travelling on an international flight, all major gateway airports have stores. If you want to shop and fly you should also be aware that two major US Carriers, Delta and American Airlines, no longer sell any duty free goods on board, they terminated this practice last year. Duty Free on arrival is not permitted when arriving in the United States of America, only departure duty free shopping is allowed. ![]() |
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