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In Reply to: Re: always wondered if it would work on bass posted by Jian on February 10, 2002 at 08:55:25:
I fear that we may be getting out of control a bit here. It's one thing to upgrade the cheaper caps that Magenplaner uses to keep their costs of materials in check, or to upgrade the cheap stands they employ for the same reason, but to start mucking with the basic design is, IMHO, a bit of a sacrilege!
A tweak that cost near nothing in materials, such as the one proposed here, would certainly be employed by Magneplanar if it improved the solidity of the bass response. After all, this has been one of the few areas where the folks at Magnepan have received any criticism.
Jim Winey is an artist who happens to be an engineer. This is important to keep in perspective! We all appreciate how brilliant his designs are for releasing the music to ears in an open and airy manner unencumbered by the confines of wooden boxes. His ability to recreate a realistic soundstage is breathtaking and the overall coherence of his designs is unequaled. To venture into structural changes to his designs is, IMHO, not unlike rearranging a few of JS Bach's notes in one of his fugues, or revoicing some of Ludwig Van's chord structures!
We all strive to bring out the absolute best in each component we purchase, and to put together the combinations of components, cables, etc. that work best for our rooms and listening preferences. With all due respects, I have found that 'un-doing' tweaks and returning the original designs of audio engineers usually has far more advantages in sonic improvement than the converse.
To quote Mart - "just my 2 cents!"
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Peter Nelis
15 April, 2011
We examine the effect video games are having on our society - are they really the cause of all our ills?
If the media is to be believed, we live in violent times. Perhaps the most violent times of all. Everywhere we turn it seems the shadow of death, destruction and violence is cast over us. Yet our generation seems to be one of apathy. A quick shrug of the shoulders and a throwaway comment about how the world is gone mad are about all the majority of us can muster when it comes to even the most shocking of acts. Have we become so brainwashed by our choice in entertainment that we accept these atrocities? And more importantly, are video games playing a part in our increasingly unshockable culture?
If you listen to the views of notorious anti-games attorney Jack Thompson they might just be. Thompson is a man who has dedicated the last decade of his life to his attempts to take down the video game industry, because he believes it to be the cause of unmentionable evils.
"Murder simulators are not constitutionally protected speech. They're not even speech. They're dangerous physical appliances that teach a kid how to kill efficiently and to love it"
according to Thompson.
He doesn't stop there.
"You just watch. There is going to be a Columbine-times-10 incident, and everyone will finally get it. Either that, or some video gamer is going to go Columbine at some video game exec's expense or at E3, and then the industry will begin to realize that there is no place to hide, that it has trained a nation of Manchurian Children".
Ironically for a qualified lawyer, Mr. Thompson's greatest achievements have only been to court publicity on a regular basis with bizarre outbursts against video games at every available opportunity. In one attempt to legally shut down the availability of Grand Theft Auto IV following a shooting in the States, Thompson made it as far as court only to be shut down in no uncertain fashion by Fayette County Circuit Judge James Moore:
"Mr. Thompson's actions before this Court suggest that he is unable to conduct himself in a manner befitting practice in this state".
Ultimately Thompson was permanently disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court for inappropriate conduct, including making false statements to tribunals and disparaging and humiliating litigants, but his quest to further sully the name of video gaming continues unabated.
But is it possible that Thompson is on to something? Could it possibly be that the endless barrage of immoral behaviour, theft, crime and violence we immerse ourselves in regularly through our gaming preferences are manifesting themselves in a gradual acceptance of the more horrific side of our species or, dare we say, even encouraging them?
Well... no. Not so far as any well rounded individual could say surely. If you want the most realistic representations of graphic violence available in the mass media, where do you turn? The news media, be it print or broadcast.
At no other time in the history of mankind have we had such readily available access to so much global current affairs material. You can't turn on a TV without being bombarded with imagery of the latest religiously motivated terror attack, or monetarily motivated hostage situation. If you really want to see what makes the more homicidal amongst us tick, then it's at your fingertips. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Those so quick to lay blame for the most recent school shooting at the feet of the latest shoot 'em up seem incapable of asking themselves the question that really cuts through the double talk and delivers perhaps the most damning indictment of the human species of all.... where were video games when Hitler was growing up? Where were video games during the reign of Genghis Khan? What part did video games play in the violence of the Old Testament?
Surely if we're going to blame any form of entertainment available to day it has to be the arrival of the news entertainment culture. The lines have well and truly been blurred, due in no small part to the "reality TV" feel of news broadcasts in recent years. Neither the truth nor tact seems to matter any more in a world where selling papers or on-air ad time is deemed more important than human life.
One need only look at the media circus surrounding the death of Jade Goody for an example of how far removed the problems of modern culture are from the escapism of video gaming. A talentless "star" of Big Brother who contracted cancer suddenly receives more column inches than the humanitarian abominations taking place all over the world, purely because it's what the gossiping housewives eat up? Surely something is very wrong with this picture!
And they want to lay the blame at our doorsteps. It's the fault of video games that our generation seemingly don't give a damn about the injustices in the world and nothing to do with the fact that we've grown up in a society where a single celebrity's life is worth more air time than a thousand lives in a developing country. Well I call shenanigans!
Games are an easy stick for an archaic, and frankly out of touch, minority to beat us with. Video games with mature content are made for mature gamers. If parents buy Grand Theft Auto for their six year old kid then that's not the developer's problem, no more than it's the problem of a horror movie director if a parent buys his movie for their child.
We've been a scapegoat for far too long and it's time people realised just how tiresome it's becoming. If minorities like Jack Thompson want to make the world a better place then they should start looking a little closer to home and not bothering decent hard-working folks who can differentiate between real life and fantasy. Or perhaps he'd like to ban movies, books, music, theatre and television first, after all they've got a bigger catchment area than games do.
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As I noted in my item, it did seem a surprising move when Murdoch is preparing to split his organisation into two separate companies - publishing and entertainment. And there would also be big regulatory hurdles if he was to bid for Tribune.
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looking for an electronic ball valve with timer
I have a question regarding recirculation of hot water with a standard hot water heater. A third copper recirculation line was run to all water locations in the house to provide instant" hot water when faucets were turned on but since nothings "free" it causes the hot water heater to cycle on/off CONSTANTLY. I do not want to add a granfos pump on the system but rather I am looking for an "electronic" ball valve that I can put in place of the manual ball valve that is currently on the third "recirculation" line that goes into bottom of hot water heater. Would like to be able to open & close this electronic ball valve based on time of day to have instant hot water only at certain critical times of the day to reduce HWH cycling. I think there are normally closed selinoid activated ball valves that could be used but all I want is a simply electric actuated ball valve with a timer similar to the gilmour company plastic valves that are used for exterior watering. They connect to an exterior sillcock and set the built in timer and it turns on & off the water based on settings. ....But I can not seem to find such a product made for hot water.
So in summary I'm looing for an electronic valve with timer that I can put in place of the current manual ball valve that is normally open but is causes HWH to cycle alot. Just want to be able to open & close the ball valve on hte recirculation line based on time (probably morning and evening for a few hours). The recirculation line really works well but gives the HWH a real workout and burns alot of needless propane keeping that water hot when no one is there to use it during the day.
That's my situation and was wondering is someone on the site could please help me?
MANY thanks in advance.
It would most likely be cheaper if you found an electric solenoid valve, and run the 120 through a timer like what you would use to turn on the engine heater for your car or truck.
The valves are either normally open or normally closed.. all that you would have do is pick a valve the is either open and timer closes or closed and timer opens the valve.
The solenoid valve is what I use when I need to close and or open water flow to some treatment equipment.
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Lifting Soreness extended.....
For some reason soreness seems to last longer on me than usual.
I'm ready to jump back on the wagon and really take this lifting thing serious again. Usually, the first two weeks are horrible. Even to a point where I have to skip a few days to recover, and that usually messes with not only my schedule that I put in place, but with my sleep and eating habits.
When i try to just stay on schedule working out usually becomes a straight up torture session, which usually ends up with me quitting early, or just getting more sore.
I can't tell youhow many 2 weeks there have been in the last 3-4 years. It's just getting annoying. But I understand that it's no pain, no gain. In high school I wrestled at 185, and I was max benching 195, and now my max is at about 160. I still have some muscle mass but I just want to get it back in top shape like it was a few years ago.
I know some of you are way past this phase, but if you can go way back and try to remember how you overcame the "hump", and if there are any easy ways to do it.
How can I get past these next two weeks without feeling like sh*t afterwards? Should I start really small? Drink lots of water? Take cold showers? Pray to the weightlifting Gods?
Any advice?
Well, how much do you know about weight training?
Are you warming up? Are you cooling down? Are you making sure not to exercise the same muscles two days in a row?
Yup. All that has been taken into consideration. Warming up is pretty pointless for me. Same with stretching. I always thought of it as a myth, and this was confirmed by my weightlifting coach.
And I usually work back and tri's one day. Bi's and chest the other. I'll deadlift every other day, and I throw in a mix on shoulders every other day that I don't deadlift.
100 Situps and push-ups every morning, and that's pretty much the only thing keeping me in any shape at all these days haha.
If I dont stretch and warm up on the bad my lifting and any excersise is shot. The only thing I can put together is your eating or drinking water. Either eat better or take a supplement. I lift for an hour and a half everyother day and also run and all that. I have been doing it for a month and I havnt had any soreness last more than 2 days. My muscles are sore for 1 day then I had a shoulder pain from hitting the bag to hard. Whats your diet schedule and all that. Maybe someone will see whats happening, Or maybe your bed is not letting you get good rest.
Yeah I was a told by my wrestling/weightlifting coach that stretching was a myth. I've read bout it in other places, too. And I never really thought twice about it. I mean without stretching I was pressing 200 pounds in High School. Same when I played basketball and wretled. I just never stretched, I just thought it was a waste of time.
Don't crucify me, I might be wrong here, and I'm fine with being wrong.
My nutrition is pretty good. I mean it could be better, but for the most part I eat healthy and limit carb intake by about 80%.
I take the GNC mega man multi everyday, once at breakfast and once at dinnertime. I also take a calcium tablet twice a day. When I work out I usually take take 60 grams of protein that day with 2% milk, and I don't take the calcium pill fo rthat reason.
You think maybe I'm starting too heavy? I mean I'm pressing 100 lbs, and curling 50 lbs on one day, and by the next day I'm in agony. It's just an ordinary set too.
The only thing I'll admit is I don't drink water more than usual everyday. I usually drink a little less than the "8 Glass a day" minumum. Not sure if there is a link to soreness with that, but I've never found one.
I just know that some people, and friends just don't get sore like I do. It's not that I don't want to work out, it's just that the soreness is just too bad and it really gets the motivation to continue down. Into the third week I'm still sore, and it just keeps getting worse.
Ok, warming up and stretchig is mandatory, that coach was retarded.
It won't allow you to lift heavier or anything like that, it prevents you from injuring yourself.
I can't help you other than that. I never really get sore or feel like quitting. I had to stop weight training for about 6 months recently and I had no problem getting back into it. Sorry.
Actually he was a great coach, and there are definately studies out there that suggest that stretching ISN'T mandatory. It's just that we have always been told that it was a must so it's charred into our heads. My bet is if you google "Stretching myths" you'd be pretty surprised with what you find.
I really don't have a cure for it as well. Regardless, I'm going to dive in head first and see what happens. I'll try to work around the soreness, but we'll see if it eventually starts to at least plateau.
Stretch after you work out
Well you havnt stretched for your workouts and now your sore, I think that is something to think about. Like stated it wont help you lift more but it will prevent your muscles from well, being as sore as they are right now. Plus the water thing is a huge problem. If your training you should have an easy gallon a day. Maybe your not lifting right?? If you havnt noticed any gains or anything then you might have a problem. After 2 weeks I upped my weight cause the old weight wasnt enough. Have you noticed any gains or are you just getting pure soreness.
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Each year around this time volunteers come to help us take care of the creekside area of Dry Run Creek that flows past the library parking lot. Over the wintertime lots of trash has blown in or floated into this area, so we will pick it up and either recycle or dispose of it.
Wear your cruddy clothes and bring your work gloves so you can share in the good feeling that comes from working with others to make the world a beautiful place. There are also shrubs and flowers to attract birds and butterflies that will some weeding and mulching and label fixing. We will also finally put up our bat house and look for critters to add to our inventory of what lives there. If it is necessary to postpone the cleanup because of wet conditions or other weather related issues, this will be announced on KDEC radio, and we will have alternative indoor activities Volunteers must wear long pants, solid shoes and socks. Work gloves are helpful, but some will be provided. For questions about tools that might help our project, please call Heidi Swets at DPL, 382-3717.


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Angry birds defend their Bell Tower nestMay 24th, 2012
Falcons are causing a lot of commotion at UT. Not those ones from BG, but the resident peregrine falcons living on top of the UT Bell Tower.
The newest brood of chicks for UT's resident peregrine falcons, Belle and Allen, hatched and officials with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources did their annual visit to check on the baby birds. As you can imagine, the parents don't like the idea of humans messing with their nest and their aggression was captured by UT Photographer Dan Miller and Videographer Chris Mercadante. Watch the full video here.
And this is pretty cool. The news sharing program Right This Minute came across the video and included it, with clever commentary, in their broadcast. Take a minute to watch it:
The state officials verified the eggs hatched on May 4 and came back to campus Monday to place identification bands on their legs so they can be tracked after they migrate from their birthplace. The Blade and WNWO 24 were on hand to meet the baby birds.
The University also received some attention from U.S. News and World Report. Tom Barden, English professor and dean of the Honors College, was interviewed about his new book Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War. Read the question-and-answer column here. And Toledo Early College High School, a Toledo Public Schools high school located on the UT Scott Park Campus of Energy and Innovation, received a bronze medal from the magazine for its 2012 Best High Schools edition. ABC 13 covered the school's graduation ceremony on Tuesday.
UT has become a model for other states and universities considering mergers after the successful 2006 merger of UT and the former Medical University of Ohio. UT President Lloyd Jacobs is quoted in a piece in New Jersey's Courier Post about discussions there to merge Rutgers-Camden and Rowan University.
But mergers can reach fruition.
In 2006, the University of Toledo combined with the Medical University of Ohio, creating an institution with more than 8,000 workers, 23,000 students and an economic impact estimated to exceed $1 billion. The combined institution includes schools of medicine, law, education, engineering, nursing, pharmacy and business. The merger's cost was estimated at about $30 million.
"Frankly, there are few state institutions of our size that have gone through a successful merger," said Lloyd Jacobs, the university's president. "It's been six years now and there have been no talks of a divorce."
Jacobs noted the merger had to overcome hurdles. Once the merger plans became known, he said, alliances were formed, particularly among people who believed their jobs were at risk.
"There have been thousands of roadblocks from which firearms our police force should carry to the insignia," Jacobs said. "There are so many different decisions that have to be made and that is part of the culture clash. Each institution values different things."
Is there a doctor shortage in Toledo? Yes, says Dr. Jeffrey Gold, UT chancellor and executive vice president for biosciences and health affairs, and dean of UT College of Medicine and Life Sciences. He explains to ABC 13's Susan Ross Wells why:
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An Ohio Brony Meetup is scheduled for this weekend, according to Equestria Daily:
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Waterloo, ONTARIO — April 5, 2011 — Avvasi Inc. has won a coveted 2011 Branham300 award in the Top-25-Up-and-Comers category, one of four separate categories that make up the award. Branham300 Up and Comers are selected based on long-term promise and level of innovation, whether in a new technology area or improving an existing technology in a disruptive manner.
For nearly 20 years, the Branham300 has highlighted the top Canadian and Multinational Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies operating in Canada, as ranked by revenues. It illustrates the depth and breadth of innovative technologies developed in Canada and is widely considered to be a leading source of intelligence on Canada's ICT industry.
"The innovative companies recognized on this years Top 25 Up and Comers listing represent Canada's most innovative, disruptive and progressive start-ups," said Wayne Gudbranson, President and CEO of Branham Group. "Avvasi's next generation video networking technology is poised to reshape the approach that service providers take when monetizing videos on their networks."
Solving the Greatest Challenge in Mobile Video
The growth of video traffic has far outpaced the development of analytics and business intelligence tools required to measure video service quality and usage trends. Not only does the inability to measure video quality risk unprecedented churn rates, it most certainly hampers any attempt to monetize video. Now more than ever, service providers need to be able to capture, analyze and understand the subscriber experience. At the core of Avvasi solutions is a unique technology that offers a scalable, passive measurement capability that reports quality of experience (QoE) with on-deck and over-the-top (OTT) video content such as Netflix®, YouTube™, and iTunes™.
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MSNBC's Jansing did not challenge Snow on claim of al-Marri "trial," which detainee has not received
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On the June 12 edition of MSNBC Live, host Chris Jansing did not challenge White House press secretary Tony Snow's claim that "[n]one of" the many accusations against alleged terrorist Ali al-Marri were "even questioned at trial." In fact, contrary to Snow's suggestion, there was no trial. Jansing had asked for Snow's reaction to a June 11 decision by a Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel finding that the military's detention of al-Marri was unlawful and ordering that al-Marri be charged with civilian crimes, held as a material witness, deported, or released. Snow responded that al-Marri was "a member of Al Qaeda, had been working with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was the mastermind of September 11, who was apparently a part of a sleeper cell to do damage to financial centers in the United States," adding: "None of this was even questioned at trial." But al-Marri never had a "trial" at which he could challenge the government's assertions. Indeed, it was the military's authority to detain him without trial that the court of appeals was adjudicating: A month before al-Marri's scheduled trial in civilian court on criminal charges -- to which he had pleaded not guilty -- the government placed him into military custody when President Bush, in a June 23, 2003, order, declared that al-Marri "is closely associated with al Qaeda" and was therefore an "enemy combatant."
According to the appeals court's decision, al-Marri was initially arrested by the FBI as a material witness in Peoria, Illinois, on December 12, 2001. In February 2002, he was indicted in New York on a single charge of intent to commit credit card fraud; in January 2003, he was indicted on six more charges, including making false statements to the FBI. Al-Marri pleaded not guilty, and all the charges were dismissed in May 2003 for lack of venue. He was then charged with the same seven counts in Peoria, and after al-Marri again pleaded not guilty, a trial was scheduled for July 21, 2003. The appeals court described in its opinion what happened next:
On Friday, June 20, 2003, the [district] court scheduled a hearing on pre-trial motions, including a motion to suppress evidence against al-Marri assertedly obtained by torture. On the following Monday, June 23, before that hearing could be held, the Government moved ex parte to dismiss the indictment based on an order signed that morning by the President [which declared al-Marri an "enemy combatant"].
The federal district court in Illinois granted the Government's motion to dismiss the criminal indictment against al-Marri. In accordance with the President's order, al-Marri was then transferred to military custody and brought to the Naval Consolidated Brig in South Carolina.
Since that time (that is, for four years) the military has held al-Marri as an enemy combatant, without charge and without any indication when this confinement will end. For the first sixteen months of his military confinement, the Government did not permit al-Marri any communication with the outside world, including his attorneys, his wife, or his children. He alleges that he was denied basic necessities, interrogated through measures creating extreme sensory deprivation, and threatened with violence. A pending civil action challenges the "inhuman, degrading" and "abusive" conditions of his confinement.
From the June 12 edition of MSNBC Live:
JANSING: On Monday we saw a setback to the president's policies on -- the federal court ruling -- someone in the U.S. legally cannot be jailed indefinitely just because President Bush says that they're "enemy combatants." The court called this policy "disastrous." Is it now a case, Tony, where federal courts -- including the Supreme Court -- have consistently found that President Bush has overstepped his authority with his anti-terrorism efforts?
SNOW: Actually, Chris, no. This court opinion actually is at odds with the Hamdi [v. Rumsfeld] case before the Supreme Court and the Jose Padilla court case in the federal court. This is a three-judge panel. It's now going to go before the entire Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. We believe that this -- that our position is going to be upheld.
One of the unusual insinuations -- implications here is you got this guy, al-Marri, who was clearly a member of Al Qaeda, had been working with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was the mastermind of September 11, who apparently was part of a sleeper cell to do damage to financial centers in the United States. None of this was even questioned at trial.
What the court said was, because Al Qaeda is not a country, like Iran or whatever, you cannot hold him as an enemy combatant; that's completely at odds with American tradition. It's also at odds with the law. We think that our position will be upheld on appeal.
JANSING: Let me ask you finally, Tony, about what was said Sunday on Meet the Press by former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - The last soldiers with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division have returned home from their final mission with the unit.
Media reported the soldiers returned on Sunday to Fort Campbell after a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan.
It was the last mission for the brigade, which will be inactivated later this year. The 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division is among 10 Army brigade combat teams that will shut down by the end of 2015.
The Fort Campbell team became famous as the "Band of Brothers" in a book by historian Stephen Ambrose and a subsequent HBO miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
Lt. Col. Scott Kirkpatrick coming home was humbling and bittersweet.
"This is the final flight of the band of brothers and their final rendezvous with destiny as they furl the colors," he said. "It was a great honor to be the commander of the 2nd of the 506th and we were able to bring everybody home from my battalion which is usually a very, very difficult thing to do. This mission was difficult, but we are very happy to be back and we're very happy that we've accomplished all the tasks that were given to us."
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Warning! Warning! This site will steal your time, but you won't mind after you've watched a stream of awesome videos. I just wouldn't recommend visiting it when you have time-sensitive things to do!
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To give you an idea of the varied things you'll find at the site, here's some of the categories: Art, Biology, Computers, Health, Design, Environment, History, Humor, Internet, Nature, Philosophy, Robotics, and many more!
When I was there some of the latest videos included a secret hidden exterior entrance door [1], a bird ballet [2], and how polarity makes water behave strangely [3]. I lost track of time and ended up watching enough videos that it was two hours later when I came up for air.
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Forecasters are predicting two more days of plummeting temperatures, with the possibility of further snow tomorrow in London.
Widespread frost is also predicted to cause icy driving conditions across the South-East.
A severe weather warning is in place until Wednesday due to the treacherous conditions.
More snow is also on the way, with up to three centimeters predicted in some parts of the South-East.
Those in the north of the country could see up to thirty centimetres of snowfall by tomorrow.
In Scotland, Wales and central England temperatures could drop to as low as -20C.
Heathrow airport has cancelled more than ten per cent of its flight services today due to the weather and poor visibility.
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Last week many sites were claiming to unlock the iPhone remotely through IMEI number. The websites which offer remote IMEI unlock could not guarantee permanent unlock to users as promised. Veeence,of iPhone dev team confirms that Apple has the fixed the hole of their system which allows user to make requests for unlocks.
He tweeted:
From his tweet:
Time is up! Apple closed the hole for these official unlock requests (probably fired the employee). Don't get scammed
He further tweets that:
Apple might relock your IMEI. Make sure you back up your activation token w/ SAM to stay unlocked in future. Important! http://t.co/nOraQTM
However, there are no reports till now regarding Apple blacklisting IMEI and relocking the phone.
@veeence is there any precedent of Apple blacklisting IMEI and relocking the phone?
@hsardaryan no reports yet.
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