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Interview With Carol Ross Joynt on Reinventing a Life
Widow talks about recovery from financial ruin
Courtesy of Crown Publishing
En español | What you don't know can hurt you.
In fact, if there is a moral to Carol Ross Joynt's new memoir, Innocent Spouse, it is what you don't know that can destroy your life.
See also: Excerpt from Innocent Spouse.
In December 1996, she nestled against her husband's shoulder as their 63-foot sloop swept through the night toward the mountainous island of St. Bart's. Their 5-year-old, Spencer, on his first sail, lay asleep below in his bunk. She writes, "I had everything I wanted in the world." A month later, she was on the deck of a metaphoric Titanic, headed for the iceberg.
When Howard Joynt, a whip-smart rogue who owned the legendary Georgetown saloon Nathans in Washington, D.C., died of pneumonia at 57, his wife mourned her haven, her partner and the father of her only child. Yet, as Nathan Detroit, the fictional gambler for whom the saloon was named might have said, she had not seen nothing yet.
Not only was her castle built on sand, it was made of smoke and mirrors.
Carol Ross Joynt thought she knew her husband better than anyone. But, in her wildest dreams, she could not have imagined his secrets, including a multimillion-dollar tax debt.
As her husband's heir, Ross Joynt was left a single mom trying to run the restaurant and fight the IRS. It cost her her job as a TV producer for Larry King Live, where she was responsible for the big "gets" for King's show — such as Tom Cruise, Christopher Reeve and Elizabeth Taylor. And while Ross Joynt loved the lush life, she could live without it. And she did.
In a conversation with the AARP Bulletin, Ross Joynt discusses her book and reinventing herself at the age of 60.
Q. Howard's parents were very wealthy. Your father-in-law took pleasure in eating his breakfast cereal from Oliver Wendell Holmes' bowl. Why isn't Spencer doing that?
A. The will is written so Howard and his sister Martha would get the interest and the grandchildren would get the principal. The grandchildren were listed by name. Spencer was not born when the will was written. By the time he was born, Mr. Joynt had died and Mrs. Joynt had Alzheimer's. She died when Spencer was 4, a year before Howard died. I asked Howard to file to break the will, or something like that, to put Spencer's name in, but he would not do it.
Q. How do you make a living?
A. I live on fumes.
Q. That doesn't make sense.
A. Yes. It doesn't seem to.
Q. I know you write about Washington for the New York Social Diary and you have your talk show, Q&A Café, but what do you rely on for income?
A. We're sinking. When I had to get out of Nathans, it cost me $250,000. I'm a big believer in having no debt, ironically. We owned our house free and clear. I had to get a $500,000 mortgage on it. New York Social Diary brings in a whopping $250 a week. It's good fun. And there's my show. That's $750 a month. Some of that loan I took out against my house went to Spencer's college for the last two years. Also, things happen; you need a new boiler. A great deal went to health insurance. And then I had cancer.
Q. Cancer? Do you have the feeling you seriously pissed someone off? Like Zeus?
A. My psychiatrist was musing about that, if I killed babies in a previous life. It was a stage zero, very early, very treatable breast cancer detected at a yearly mammogram — the kind we're not supposed to need — so early that my body wouldn't even have recognized it as anything more than tissue. I had a lumpectomy and am having radiation and there is every confidence.
Q. Yet, this is very hard. Surviving so much to need to survive more. What is the plan that you have now?
A. I don't have a job yet because my feeling was that I had to give myself to the book. I hoped I could make it till the book came out. I've made inquiries about jobs. People say, "oh, use your contacts. You have so many contacts!" But what happens when you contact them for that reason, they start avoiding me on the streets. As I get closer to the book coming out, when it's finished with its moment, I'm going to be out there with my hand out, hoping for a job doing what I do best.
Q. Writing.
A. Writing. And it doesn't have to be in Washington and it doesn't have to be for TV. What I do best and what makes me happy is writing. I've put out feelers. I've even been applying for jobs on Craigslist, and they don't even respond to my résumé.
Q. Do you think that age is an issue with finding work?
A. I hope not, but having been in the position of hiring people in television I know that if the person doing the hiring is in his or her 30s, it is tough to look at a 60-year-old old and see viability. But my age is irrelevant to me. After all, I was writing the CBS Evening News for Walter Cronkite when I was 22. Where's the logic in that? But I was perfectly suited for the job.
Q. And now?
A. At 60, I'm just as perfectly suited for a job, however unlikely it might seem due to my age.
But yes, no question there is age and sex discrimination in the hiring of baby boomers. And intimidation, too, because we can spell without using spell-check and we have a knowledge of America and world history.
Q. Isn't there a special kind of hell about being in debt? Not just being in debt but knowing, for sure, that you can't pay what you owe?
A. I remember so well telling Spencer, "Don't answer the phone!" You never knew if it was one of the creditors. My life is changed. It's financially bereft. It's challenged. But I wouldn't take Nathans back for anything. If it was making money hand over fist, I still wouldn't take Nathans back. I had to give away half of every week's paycheck. I had to be the hard ass. I had to be the bad guy. I didn't like doing that.
Q. And it can't be argued that there is one set of behaviors if you have money, and one when you don't. And those who need it least …
A. …They have the most done for them. When Howard was alive, people said, "Yes, Mrs. Joynt, of course, Mrs. Joynt. We'll kick everyone else off the schedule and do it right now, Mrs. Joynt." After Howard was gone, if I'd call, they'd say, "You have to pay this bill first." That was because Howard walked on water.
Q. What allure was there for Howard to being one step in front of the law?
A. It's the lore, the romance. He had a very cushy upbringing, so to go into the saloon business was unexpected. For a lot of the guys, it was the Wild West. It's fun to make your own rules, run books out of your back pocket. Howard had a safety net. His father was there to pick up the shortfall. He never had to face the consequences until his father was gone. It breaks my heart that when he got caught, he couldn't talk to me about it. He told me there was trouble, but not to worry. If he had told me, I wouldn't have gotten the "innocent spouse" [status].
Q. You wouldn't want Nathans back. Would you want Howard back?
A. I would want my husband back. I would like to go out to dinner with him tonight. I have an awful lot to say to him. I think he'd find me a different person in a lot of ways. He'd like the life I've created for us. It wasn't the life we had. It isn't grand. But it's a solid life. We're not posh. Our address may be Georgetown, but it's a modest Georgetown. Our life now is much more planted in the real world.
Next: What every spouse should know about the major earner in the family. >>
Q. You describe yourself as close, loving, as mated for life as a pair of geese. But there was abuse, early in the marriage. Can you ever really forget a black eye?
A. You have to forgive to move on. Do you forget? No. Does it make you wiser going forward? Absolutely. After it happened it wasn't so much an issue of his being different but that I was different. Either I had to change or walk out, and I didn't want to walk out. If he wanted me to stay he had to do something about himself, be the man I fell in love with and not the asshole with demons inside.
Q. What happened?
A. My anger about him hitting me lessened substantially once he got help and learned to talk about it, and the Prozac. With his death the anger went away altogether. That particular anger. [Also] I think many more smart, accomplished and strong women are hit than would ever own up.
Q. Let's talk about what people should know, men or women, about the major earner in the family, and the family money.
A. If you are married to someone who is in a small business, you do need to educate yourself. If you're in the will, if you're the heir, however unctuous it might be to stick your nose in, you need to ask to see the audits. It's true particularly if you're not involved. I had nothing to do with Howard's business, and here I was the heir to it, not knowing anything about it at all. In a sense, I had enabled what happened to happen.
Q. What else?
A. Read what you're signing, even if it has been prepared by an accountant. There is nothing wrong with handing the financial affairs over to your spouse. But get educated about it. Find time to talk with your spouse about money, to check in every month, or three or six months. I did ask, what will happen to me if you die? And he said, "Sell Nathans immediately." In theory, that was great advice. But he left me in a situation where I couldn't sell Nathans immediately, in fact not for 12 years.
Q.What about your son?
A. Spencer. He had the parachute, emotionally. I made sure of that. Howard did too. He's got some demons, as we all do. I'm very proud of him. Every decision started with him.
Next: The need to survive. >>
Q. Does Spencer want you to get married? Not for him, for you?
A. For him, too! He says, why, oh why can't you find someone who occupies your time, and you can talk to him instead of me?
Q. You're optimistic, after all this. You're essentially upbeat.
A. If we went about being skeptical about every bloody thing, where is the joy in life? I need to survive. It's in my DNA. I need to move forward, to a place where people believe in me. I need to keep gaining ground.
Jacquelyn Mitchard, the best-selling author of 20 books, lives near Madison, Wis., with her family. Her next novel, Second Nature: A Love Story, will be published in September. She recently wrote about things she'll never wear again now that she's over 50.
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. - Pfeiffer University and Coker College each earned a win in a Conference Carolinas baseball doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at Joe Ferebee Field. Behind a Trey Lynch (Florence, SC) grand slam, the Cobras took game one 8-4 while the Falcons bounced back in the nightcap with a pair of three-run blasts by Eric Shoemaker (Huntersville, NC) and Carlos Badillo (Gurabo, PR) for an 8-6 victory. Pfeiffer improves to 7-10 overall this season, 4-4 in league play. Coker moves its mark to 10-5, 4-4.
GAME ONE: Coker 8, Pfeiffer 4
Tied 2-2 heading into the eighth inning, the Cobras put the first three runners aboard that set the table for Lynch. Matthew Kearns (Bay Shore, NY) started the frame with a hit-by-pitch followed by back-to-back infield singles by Nick Fuoco (Palm Bay, FL) and Jordan Buenting (Ankeny, IA). Lynch then delivered taking a 3-2 fastball to the opposite field for the grand slam and a 6-2 Coker lead. Jessie Crockett (North East, MD) later contributed in the six-run inning with a two-run shot to left.
Pfeiffer took a 2-0 lead early on as Aarin Sharpe (Wintervile, NC) registered an RBI-single in the first while Zack Pou (Stanley, NC) hit a solo shot to center leading off the third. Coker put lone runs up midway through as Lynch plated on a fielding error by the Falcons in the fifth and brought home the game tying run with an infield single in the sixth.
The Falcons tried to battle back with a sacrifice fly by Shoemaker in the eighth and a ninth inning Preston Lyon (Gastonia, NC) run-scoring triple to left-center, but came up short as Sharpe popped up on the first pitch he saw to end game one.
Mike Palko (Euclid, OH) earned the victory for the Cobras going 7.1 innings allowing three runs, two earned, on seven hits with six strikeouts. Lynch finished 3-for-5 with five RBI and two runs scored. Pou had three hits for the Falcons in five plate appearances.
GAME TWO: Pfeiffer 8, Coker 6 (7 innings)
Coker broke up a scoreless game two in the fourth with another Lynch round-tripper, scoring two, after a Buenting leadoff double. Drew Hardee (Rock Hill, SC) brought in the third run with a one-out single to center.
Pfeiffer bounced back in the home half of the fourth with a six-run frame thanks to three-run bombs by Shoemaker and Badillo. Pou and Sharpe singled to be aboard for Shoemaker's shot while Will Davis (New London, NC) and J.T. Pope (Mebane, NC) had two-out singles to keep the inning alive for Badillo.
Coker again came right back with three more in the fifth for a six all tie. Lynch, picked up his eighth and ninth RBI of the day with a two-run double to left while scoring as teammate Daniel Hiatt (Elwood, IN) was in a rundown between first and second. Hiatt took off on a steal attempt as Falcon reliever Luke Wilhelm (Lexington, NC) tossed to first for a pickoff attempt. Hiatt kept the pickle going long enough for Lynch to score just before the third out tag was applied to Hiatt.
Pfeiffer's final runs came in the fifth and sixth frame to salvage the Saturday afternoon split. Lyon struck with a go-ahead one-out dinger to left in the fifth while Pou came through with a two-out single up the middle in the sixth.
Wilhelm earned the win in relief tossing the fifth and sixth innings for the Falcons. Andrew Oliver (Cornelius, NC) picked up the save in the seventh with a strikeout, not allowing a run or a hit.
Both teams will meet again on Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. in the rubber game of the three-game set.


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I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.
How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.


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genesismarketing necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for a new main page for HubCast.com. The new main page should be a clean looking page that accomplishes the goal of introducing marketers to HubCast.
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Seriously though, the bacon is a gimmick to tie it in to Elvis. Simply omit it and you have a far more 'normal' cupcake. The cupcake takes its – admittedly rather cruel – name from Elvis Presley's alleged penchant, late in his life, for peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwiches.
I am aware that a lot of food sites are starting to promote Valentine's baking...and I've made Fat Elvis cupcakes. Perhaps not the most romantic of bakes. I do have some Valentine's bakes up my sleeve, but this weekend was more about the food of gluttony rather than the food of love!
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More than three weeks after beginning, South Africa's xenophobic attacks continue as the nation's leaders urge communities to begin bringing African immigrants from other countries back into their communities.
Just days after a Mozambican man was burnt alive in the township of Atteridgeville, and police raided a camp near the nation's capital, swinging clubs and firing rubber bullets and injuring dozens of the nearly 1,500 Somalis, Ethiopians, and Congolese inside, President Thabo Mbeki made a renewed appeal for the violence to stop. More than 62 have died since the violence began.
Speaking at a ceremony commemorating Youth Day on Monday, Mr. Mbeki praised the past efforts of South African youth in the liberation struggle that ended the racist system of apartheid. But, he added, "at the same time, we must admit that all of us have been humiliated and shamed by the small number of young people who took it upon themselves to lead criminal attacks against the Africans living among us."
Kgalema Motlanthe, the ruling African National Congress party's No. 2, reinforced the message at a speech in Soweto: "The current situations suggest that we are sinking into a flood."
While few predicted the anti-immigrant attacks, the warning signs have been present for years. Attacks against Somali shopkeepers alone have led to hundreds of deaths in sporadic violence since 1994, say Somali groups. The government doesn't track attacks based on national origin.
Anger about the government's inability to create jobs or to deliver electricity or drinking water to burgeoning townships has spilled over into open protests, complete with roadblocks, burning tires, and residents wielding clubs. Now, angry citizens have taken their frustrations out those who arrived in South Africa to make a little money, and succeeded.
"We're talking about the poorest of the [South African] poor, and there was no pressure valve, and so when the pressure grew, and you lit a match, the whole thing blew," says Adrian Hadland, director of democracy and governance programs at the Human Sciences Research Council. Dr. Hadland recently conducted focus groups in townships for a report for the government on the causes of and solutions for xenophobic attacks.
In the focus groups, "People describe themselves as being in a state of siege. Food is more expensive. Housing is more expensive. Jobs are harder to find. You would already be looking for a scapegoat, and then you have migrants arriving, most of them better educated, some of them with access to money," he says. The violence is "nothing new, but what is new is how the violence spread so rapidly, and nationally."
Tito Mboweni, the Reserve Bank Governor, said earlier this month that poor South Africans spend half of their income on food alone. "Food and petrol prices are the main contributors to inflation, but in recent months, more generalized price pressures have emerged as well," said Mr. Mboweni.
While government officials like President Mbeki are urging citizens to allow the migrants to return, Hadland says that few South Africans want reintegration to begin until the government meets some of their demands for better service and less corruption.
Judging from the mood at a transit camp for migrants north of Tshwane, as Pretoria is now called, few migrants would return to their former homes and businesses anyway without assurances for their safety.
On Saturday, violent clashes between camp dwellers – most of them Somalis, Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Congolese – and local police left dozens injured when police used clubs and fired rubber bullets to bring a restive crowd under control. Tensions rose, camp dwellers say, after a policeman demanded cigarette from a camp dweller, and when he was refused, he insisted on searching the boy for drugs.
More police were called in to search the camp for weapons, but when police entered a tent that had been designated as a mosque, camp dwellers pushed them out, and the violence began. Camp dwellers say that three persons – one Ethiopian and two Somalis – were killed during the Saturday raid, but pol ice took away their bodies. Police confirm only that some of the camp dwellers were injured.
"I am encouraged to see the situation is under control," Tshwane Executive Mayor Gwen Ramokgopa told a community meeting after the police raid. She said the raid occurred after a female police officer was "held hostage" within the camp, a charge the camp dwellers deny.
"For 15 years, Somalis have been killed in robberies, their shops burnt, but the government did nothing," says Abdul Abbas, a spokesman for the Somali community in the camp. "Then when the xenophobic attacks started, they did nothing again. They saved our lives, but they did nothing to save our shops. Then they bring us here, and now the police are fighting us. We are fed up."
Yitbarak, a young Somali whose shop in a Johannesburg township was burned by angry mobs 23 days ago, says that conditions in the camp are abysmal, that it's not safe to leave. "The government says they are going to protect us, but it is the police who are attacking us," he says. "The police tell us, 'Go home, this is not your country. This is South Africa.' "
Elmi Hissa, an elderly Somali shopkeeper, says that she has been robbed more times than she can remember in the past 10 years, and each time moved to a different community – from Johannesburg to Durban to Cape Town to Kimberly to Pretoria – in the hopes that the local people would accept her once they got to know her.
"For 10 years I was patient, but now I'm tired," she sighs.
"You struggle hard, you work hard, and after that people take it from you. You go to police and they say, why don't you go to your own country?" The reason she doesn't go back, she says, is that there's a war in Somalia that has already claimed seven of her children. "Sometimes I think until I cry," she says. "South Africa is not the place to stay anymore. You can't stay with people who don't want you."
Lukmaan Abdullah, a young Somali clothing salesman, fled Somalia just two months ago, when warlords came to take him as a soldier. His parents sold the house they were living in in order to pay for his transportation to South Africa, hoping the young man would be able to make enough money to help the family survive.
The day he arrived, however, the xenophobic attacks began, and Mr. Abdullah has spent the past 23 days in this camp. "When I left Somalia, the rockets were hitting the market where I worked. When I came here, the xenophobic attacks had just started. If I go back now, there will be no other way but to work with the warlords. They will force me, without a doubt."


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The Fedora ARM team is pleased to announce the Fedora 19 for ARM is now available for download from:
Fedora 19 for ARM includes two image types - one for use with platforms requiring a VFAT partition(Pandaboard), the other for use with devices that boot from an EXT partition(Trimslice). For each of these there are a number of desktop choices including MATE, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, SOAS and a minimal image that does not include the desktop. Any of these images can be used with QEMU.
For the Trimslice
Download the image of your choice for use with the Trimslice:
TYPE= # options include KDE, LXDE, XFCE, SoaS, Mate and Minimal wget <fix-me-path>Fedora-$TYPE-armhfp-19-1-sda.raw.xz
Copy the image to the intended media:
xzcat Fedora-$TYPE-armhfp-19-1-sda.raw.xz > /dev/<location-of-your-media>
Insert into the Trimslice and boot. Fedora will boot to an initial setup screen allowing you to create your user, set the root password and timezone.
For the Pandaboard and Pandaboard ES
Download the image of your choice for use with the Pandaboard or Pandaboard ES.
TYPE= # options include KDE, LXDE, XFCE, SoaS, Mate and Minimal wget <fix-me-path>Fedora-$TYPE-VFAT-armhfp-19-1-sda.raw.xz
Writing the image
There are two options for writing the image and preparing your media for boot. Below are step by step instructions on how to do it manually, or using a python script that will walk you through the process.
As root copy the image to the intended media:
TYPE= # options include KDE, LXDE, XFCE, SoaS, Mate and Minimal xzcat Fedora-OMAP-armhfp-19-Beta-1-sda.raw.xz > /dev/<location-of-your-media>
Once the card has been completed, removed and reinsert into your host PC. You will need to copy the U-Boot files into place for booting, the mount points in the example below are specific to Fedora 18 and may need to be adjusted for your host system:
USER= # replace with your user account name on the host PC TARGET= #choose panda or panda_es sudo cp /run/media/$USER/__/usr/share/uboot-panda/{MLO,u-boot.bin,u-boot.img,uEnv.txt.$TARGET /run/media/$USER/UBOOT/ sync
You should now be able to remove the media from your host PC, insert into your device and boot. If you are using an image that provides a desktop you will need to use a display to configure your user account, root password and timezone. For the minimal image this is done in text mode over the console.
Jon Chiappetta has simplied the process for creating a bootable image for the Pandaboard and Pandaboard ES. The script can be used from commandline or through a text menu that will allow you to choose the specific details for your device.
./arm-creator.py -h
Usage: ./arm-creator.py [-h --help] --install --image=/path/to/Fedora-ARM.img.xz [--board=<type>] --disk=/dev/...
For Versatile Express Emulation with QEMU
Even without hardware its possible to run the Fedora 19 ARM Beta using QEMU. To this we will use the generic image.
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/19-Beta/Images/armhfp/Fedora-armhfp-19-Beta-1-sda.raw.xz
Extract the image:
unxz Fedora-armhfp-19-Beta-1-sda.raw.xz
Mount the image and extract the kernel and initramfs for use with booting.
sudo kpartx -av Fedora-armhfp-19-Beta-1-sda.raw
Make a temporary mount point
mkdir /tmp/boot sudo mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /tmp/boot sudo cp /tmp/boot/initramfs-3.9.2-301.fc19.armv7hl.img . sudo cp /tmp/boot/vmlinuz-3.9.2-301.fc19.armv7hl .
To boot:
sudo qemu-system-arm -machine vexpress-a9 -m 1024 -nographic -net nic -net user \ -append "console=ttyAMA0,115200n8 rw root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootwait physmap.enabled=0" \ -kernel vmlinuz-3.9.2-301.fc19.armv7hl \ -initrd initramfs-3.9.2-301.fc19.armv7hl.img \ -sd Fedora-armhfp-19-Beta-1-sda.raw \
For convenience you can also download a script for booting the system here. To run the script:
chmod 755 boot-vexpress ./boot-vexpress -h Usage: ./boot-vexpress [--gui] --kernel=vmlinuz... --ramfs=initramfs --image=fsimage [--dtb=vexpress.dtb]
To boot the image:
sudo ./boot-vexpress --kernel=vmlinuz-3.9.2-301.fc19.armv7hl --ramfs=initramfs-3.9.2-301.fc19.armv7hl.img --image=Fedora-armhfp-19-Beta-1-sda.raw
Booting with device tree is possible, although passing --gui for graphics will not work. Booting without device tree is recommended for F-19, as it will work in both serial and graphics mode, whereas passing a DTB will only work with serial.
Calxeda EnergyCore (HighBank)
The Fedora 19 Beta for ARM includes support for systems that are able to perform a network installation using a kickstart, including enterprise hardware such as the Highbank. A working kickstart can be found here.
For more detailed instructions on setting this up, please visit this page.
Known Issues
- Significant logical volume noise on first boot. This is harmless and resolved after rebooting the system.
- Initial setup is not run on first boot.