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Toshiba Creating 40 Jobs in Horn Lake with Distribution Center Opening
Project Will Cost $14 million
JACKSON, Miss. and LAKE FOREST, Calif. – Toshiba America Business Solutions is opening distribution operations in Horn Lake. The $14 million project will create 40 jobs.
"The tremendous success DeSoto County's distribution industry has experienced in 2019 alone is unparalleled, as companies, including Toshiba, have generated nearly 2,000 jobs for the area's workforce," Gov. Phil Bryant said. "There is no doubt that strong momentum will continue in 2020. The region's outstanding transportation network allows industry leaders ease-of-access to their customers, and more and more companies continue to discover the many benefits of a North Mississippi location."
TABS is a subsidiary of technology solutions company Toshiba Tec Corporation. The company provides multifunction printers, including its award-winning e-STUDIO™ multifunction printer, managed document services and digital signage for businesses of all sizes throughout the United States, Mexico and Central and South America.
Toshiba is locating distribution operations in a 328,355-square-foot facility in the Core 5 DeSoto 55 Logistics Center. The new location will allow the company to expand its distribution capabilities to meet increasing client demand.
"Toshiba is pleased to establish operations in Mississippi," said R. Steven Tungate, Toshiba America Business Solutions vice president and general manager, Service, Supply Chain Management and Innovation. "Our new facility allows us to expand our distribution footprint to better serve our clientele."
The Mississippi Development Authority is assisting with equipment relocation. The city of Horn Lake and DeSoto County are providing property tax exemptions in support of the project.
"This is a strategic win in 2020 for Mississippi as Toshiba is recognized around the world for the innovation, quality and value of their products and services," said MDA Executive Director Glenn McCullough, Jr. "Thanks to the DeSoto County Economic Development Council and the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors for their teamwork with MDA to bring Toshiba to Mississippi."
Toshiba plans to recruit 40 new employees in conjunction with the distribution center opening in August 2020.
About Mississippi Development Authority
Mississippi Development Authority is the state's lead economic and community development agency. MDA focuses on new business recruitment, existing business expansion, workforce training, and tourism promotion. For more information, visit MDA's website at mississippi.org.
About Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.
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This is Home #534
Home is where the Irish & Celtic music is. It's the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast.
Jon Pilatzke, W Ed Harris, Amelia Hogan, Susana Seivane, Marc Gunn, We Banjo 3, Gerry O'Connor, Duncan McLauchlan, Glaucia Carvalho, Eireann's Call, Steel City Rovers, Bang On The Ear, Coast, The McDades, Brad Tuck
I hope you enjoyed this week's show. If you did, please share the show on social, or with a friend.
If a song or tune inspires you, please support the musicians. You can buy their CDs, digital downloads, shirts, pins, stickers, and songbooks. You can follow them on streaming or see their shows. You can support more and more Celtic musicians on Patreon. And of course, I always appreciate it when you drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast.
0:07 - Jon Pilatzke "Arthur's Seat / Big John MacNeil / Randall's Hornpipe" from Amongst Friends
4:46 - W Ed Harris "The Glad Eye/The Journeyman/The Wayward Son" from Turas Ceilteach
9:21 - Amelia Hogan "Red-Winged Blackbird" from Dispossessed
12:52 - Susana Seivane "Muiñeira do Graciano e A Fraga" from Os Soños Que Volven
18:36 - Marc Gunn "Mingulay Boat Song" from Scottish Songs of Drinking & Rebellion
25:41 - We Banjo 3 "This Is Home" from Roots to Rise (Live)
29:07 - Gerry O'Connor "Last Night's Joy (Reels)" from Last Night's Joy
32:28 - Duncan McLauchlan and Glaucia Carvalho "The drunken sailor" from McLauchlan's Celtic Brew
35:46 - Eireann's Call "Luseblus" from Tús
40:43 - Steel City Rovers "Single Malt of Knowledge" from Grand Misadventures
44:38 - Bang On The Ear "Paddy Lay Back" from F15TEEN
46:41 - Coast "Flesh and Blood" from 10.2
49:56 - The McDades "Willie Reilly" from The Empress
53:33 - CLOSING
55:11 - Brad Tuck "The Red Violin" from Single
* Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. I am Marc Gunn. I'm a musician and podcaster. In every show, I share my love of Irish and Celtic music from around the globe with you. But I'm also here for the artists.
The artists in this show need your support so that I can keep bringing you more great music each week. You can find a link to all of the artists, along with show times for each song when you visit our website at celticmusicpodcast.com. You can also support this podcast on Patreon.
I'm looking for good stories to share on our companion podcast. Pub Songs & Stories is a Virtual Public House for musicians to share the stories and inspiration behind their music. If you have a story that you'd like to share about a song, drop me an email. Put "Pub Story" in the show subject. Tell me about your story. Maybe I'll ask you to record your story for the show.
Because of Your kind and generous support, this show comes out at least four times a month. Your generosity funds the creation, promotion, and production of the show. It allows us to attract new listeners and to help our community grow.
A super special thanks to our newest patrons: Lissa C, Kevin B F, Richard L
CELTIC CHRISTMAS PODCAST IS BACK WITH A NEW FORMAT
The Celtic Christmas Podcast has a new format and goal this year. We're gonna help indie Celtic musicians with Christmas music get greater play on streaming. The all new podcast format is there to help make that happen. Subscribe to spread Christmas cheer and listen to the podcast this Sunday.
I'll also release the next Celtic Christmas playlist of the season. In the meantime, listen to Celtic Christmas Women on spotify. Follow the link to listen.
Subscribe to the show at CelticChristmasPodcast.com and help me develop a brand new Christmas podcast and playlist experience!
Jeff Hahn emailed from Western North Carolina: "Hi, Normally i listen to your podcast when i am sitting with my chickens in their coop. Today, I'm going to ...dispatch...a rooster though. Part of life on the farm, but it feels very old world listing to the music and hanging with the birds. Thanks for the podcast and music."
Pamela Hatley emailed a photo: "Here is a picture of the moon from last evening. Thought I would share it while listening to #529. Photo taken in Tampa Florida on 10-20-21 with a Samsung S21 ultra."
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Q: What do the little blue squares on the minimap mean? On the minimap I occasionally see small blue squares with little lines coming out of the corners. What do they mean? My first guess was that they were nearby explosions, but I think I see them too often for that to be the case.
EDIT: Here's a pic, you can see two in the lower left (they might be circles and not squares like I first thought).

A: Blue ¤ on mini-map means friendly anti-tank mine or friendly C4. You can also see these symbols over them when you're nearby. Even in HC mode.

A: I think they are one of the following:

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*capture points (the blue square), which your squad leader has designated you defend (the lines from the corners)

*mines: the antitank mines (and possibly claymores) are small squares (I seem to recall them being circles) with corner lines

a picture of it would help greatly, just to be sure, but I'm quite sure it's mines. will try to make my own screenshot later.

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Miscellaneous USAF Patches
53WEG 'Spy' Patch
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The 53d Weapons Evaluation Group is a United States Air Force unit that reports to the 53d Wing. It is stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida and is part of ACC. During World War II the unit, then known as the 475th Fighter Group, operated primarily in the Southwest Pacific Theater. The 475th Fighter Group was perhaps the best known of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning groups in the theater since it contained among its personnel the top scoring flying aces in the Pacific--Richard I. Bong (40 kills) and Thomas B. McGuire, Jr. (38 kills), both Medal of Honor recipients. By the war's end, no fewer than 38 other pilots from the 475th had achieved ace status while flying exclusively P-38s. The group's commander for 20 months, Colonel Charles H. MacDonald, scored 27 kills in his famous aircraft, the "Putt Putt Maru" and was the seventh-ranking American ace. The group remained in the Far East until 1949 as part of the occupation forces. From 1955 to 1956 the group was an Air Defense Command interceptor group, stationed at Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport. It was inactivated in 1958 when the United States Air Force withdrew its regular units from this civilian field. As the 475th Weapons Evaluation Group, then the 53d Weapons Evaluation Group, the group has performed its current mission at Tyndall since 1983. They now conduct most of the "Advanced Programs" for the USAF, as depicted in this "Spy-vs-Spy" spoof from many years ago. This patch does have velcro attached.
59 TES Patch
This is the squadron patch for the 59th Test & Evaluation Squadron (TES). It says "Golden Pride" across the top.
412 Flight Test Squadron Patch
This is the squadron patch for the 412th Flight Test Squadron. I don't have any other info on them, so if you know, please drop me a line.
413 Flight Test Squadron Patch "Nutcrackers"
This is the squadron patch for the 413th Flight Test Squadron. The 413th Flight Test Squadron (413 FLTS) is part of the 96th Test Wing and is based at Duke Field, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. It performs flight testing on C-130 Hercules, CV-22 Osprey, MH-53 Pave Low, UH-1 Iroquois, and HH-60 Pave Hawk aircraft. Check Wikipedia for their history....WOW!!
This is the squadron patch for the 416th Flight Test Squadron located at Edwards AFB, CA that flew the F-16 Falcon during testing phase.
This is the squadron patch for the 445th Flight Test Squadron located at Edwards AFB, CA. They were around for years during the early years of the F-16, but decommissioned and were "absorbed" by the 416th FLTS.
6510 Test Wing Crest Patch
This is the wing crest patch for the 6510 Test Wing. Established as 412 Fighter Group (Single Engine) on 20 Nov 1943. �Activated on 29 Nov 1943.� Inactivated on 3 Jul 1946. �Redesignated as 412 Fighter Group (Air Defense) on 20 Jun 1955. ��Activated on 18 Aug 1955.� �Discontinued on 1 Apr 1960. � Redesignated as 412 Tactical Fighter Group on 31 Jul 1985 but remained inactive. �Consolidated (1 Oct 1992) with 6510 Test Wing, which was established, and activated, on 1 Mar 1978. Redesignated as 412 Test Wing on 2 Oct 1992. This patch does not come with velcro attached.
USAF Materiel Command Flight Test Patch (Lt Blue)
This is the 'light'-blue version of the command patch for the US Air Force Materiel Command Flight Test located at Eglin AFB, FL. This patch does not come with velcro attached.
USAF Materiel Command Flight Test Patch (Dark Blue)
This is the 'dark'-blue version of the command patch for the US Air Force Materiel Command Flight Test located at Eglin AFB, FL. This patch does come with velcro attached.
USAF Materiel Command Flight Test Patch (Light Blue)
This is the 'light'-blue version of the command patch for the US Air Force Materiel Command Flight Test located at Eglin AFB, FL. This patch does come with velcro attached.
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Trying to cancel your cable service is almost as tough as getting in touch with the cable company.
This video is for anyone who's ever been frustrated trying to get an actual live person on the line when calling any company (which is to say, everyone). The man here was trying to cancel his service with Comcast cable.
One little problem: he's been on hold for over three hours. And why is that? Well, it seems Comcast had closed the department for the night and didn't bother to provide that little cell phone battery-eating detail to him.
We'd try to reach out to Comcast for comment, but we don't have that kind of time.


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Viewfinder: Ted Wathen
Ted Wathen was part of a photography team that toured Kentucky in the mid-1970s and documented life in each of the state's 120 counties. Forty years later, he's returning to rural Kentucky to take the measure of change and continuity.
by Shawn Poynter June 15, 2016 June 15, 2016
Woman Coal Miner Getting Ready for the Shift. Consol Westland #2 Mine, Pennsylvania. All photos by Ted Wathen
In 1975, photographers Ted Wathen, Bill Burke, and Bob Hower set off in different directions to make documentary pictures in every one of Kentucky's 120 counties. Funded by the Kentucky Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, it took the team three years to complete the Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project. Since then, Wathen has been a commercial photographer in southern Indiana, just across the border from Louisville, Kentucky. He's looking to get back to his documentary roots by shooting a follow-up project in the state.
Daily Yonder: What inspires you to get out and shoot/produce work?
Ted Wathen: I seem to be working in two directions right now. Sometimes the directions cross. I've been photographing landscapes for over 40 years, and I've been doing documentary photography for the same time period, with a 36 year gap. After my work on the President's Commission on Coal concluded in 1979, I needed to concentrate on making a living, so I started doing commercial work . . . corporate and advertising photography. To artistically sustain myself during the time I was doing commercial work, I concentrated on land and waterscapes, and this I still do. Last year we restarted the Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project, and with that, I resumed doing documentary photography. What a thrill! With the resumption of the Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project I am mixing landscapes and documentary work . . . the landscapes are documents of how and where we live.
Little League Ball Player. Beckley, West Virginia.
DY: What do you like about working in rural areas?
TW: I am drawn to areas with sparse population. Show me a map with a vast expanse of land and one dirt road crossing it, and I will take that road. The shortest distance between two points is not the route to take. Interstate culture is homogenous. If you want to get a feel of the country, you need to get off the interstates and start exploring. That's where the visual fun is.
Surface Mine. Letcher County, Kentucky. 2015.
DY: Why is photography important right now?
TW: We are inundated with photography. Part of me wants to start a campaign to "Save the digits!" Photography has gotten so easy and so accessible that it's in danger of becoming superfluous. "Selfie" is one of the words I hate the most, indicative of photography that has no meaning other than the individual's sense of the imagined importance of that moment. To me, the importance of photography is in trying to make images that rise above the banal . . . images that are transcendent, that will hopefully survive the sea of meaningless digits.
Tattoo Artist. Letcher County, Kentucky. 2015.
DY: What was it like documenting every county in Kentucky?
TW: We were pretty naïve. We went out, and our role model was the Farm Security Administration's work. That and [photographer] Robert Frank probably were the big role models we had. The idea was, you were to go into a county and try and find out what made the county tick. What did people do for a living? What were the economic drivers in the county, and photograph them, if you could.
A lot of it had to do with just driving around and seeing things, and knocking on doors. One of the things we learned very early on was that you don't snipe. You know that film "Stranger With a Camera" [2000, directed by Appalshop's Elizabeth Barret]?
That whole incident of the guy getting shot was very recent. We heard that story all the time. I'm really grateful that that film got made, because it dealt with the whole mythology created, related to that incident. The mythology was that these outsiders came down and they were filming this guy's property. They didn't ask anybody, and they were just making us look bad. The owner comes back saw him. They told him to stop, and they pointed the camera at him, and he shot him. That was the mythology, and that was the story I always heard.
Everybody felt that the camera man had it coming. That's not really what happened, so that's why I'm glad they made the movie. We were told that story all the time. "They got what's coming to them," and so we learned very quickly on that you don't snipe. You always ask before you photograph. Unfortunately, the Canadian filmmakers asked, they just asked the wrong person.
Miner Racking Pool Balls After His Shift. Powhatan Point, Ohio.
DY: What were the logistics of the Kentucky project?
TW: When we invented the Kentucky Documentary Projects, there were 120 counties in Kentucky. We divided up so each photographer had 40 counties, and each photographer had a section of each of the geographic regions. I had a third of the Appalachian regions, and my partners had the other 2/3, and I had a third of the Bluegrass, and so on and so forth. That way, nobody had hegemony over any one area.
When we first started the project, the first thing I did is I took a drive, and I drove through all my counties. The idea was that I wasn't really looking to take pictures, although I did take a few. It was to just drive and get a feel for what I was looking at. It scared me because I'd had this idea, but now I was faced with the reality.
The reality then was, really, the areas that looked the hardest [were in] Appalachia, because it was an area that I was totally unfamiliar with. People were living in situations that I hadn't seen before. The housing was different, and it was just … It scared me, as it scared a lot of flatlanders that would go there.
What that did, and it did it to all of us, the three photographers, it made us work harder in eastern Kentucky than we did in the other areas. It made us spend more time, because it took more time to get comfortable. It took me a while to realize what was going on, and it wasn't just that the housing was different, or the way people earned a living was different, or that peopled looked a little different, maybe dressed different.
It was that it was claustrophobic. You were always in a valley. You could never see the horizon. That's what I finally figured, it was claustrophobic. Once I got used to the claustrophobic sense, it got a lot better.
Country Store and Tavern. Adel, Oregon. 2015.
DY: How is it different working in a rural community than working in an urban area? Do you look for different things, or do you feel a different way? How does that work for you?
TW: In a way, I think it's almost easier [to work in a rural area], because I think people in cities are maybe more suspicious. In rural areas, I find if I tell my story, whatever the story is, being why I'm there, what I'm doing, the acceptance is generally quicker and easier and less qualified.
Here's a Whitesburg story from this last month. Forty years ago, I could walk up to a factory and knock on the door, go in the door, and tell people I was with the Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project, and we're making a book and a documentary on Kentucky, and we'd like to take pictures. Usually, that worked. Now, you can't do that. Now, you've got to go through the legal department. You spend a week of kicking around, before they say no.
I had a blank day [in Whitesburg]. I had something that I had scheduled, nothing was scheduled, and people kept telling me what a great [tattoo] artist John was. I walk over, and I walked down to his studio. The guy greets me and I say, "I'm looking for John." He said, "I'm John, but I'm not the John you're looking for." Then, I meet the John I'm looking for, and he's doing a tattoo on this lady's arm.
I tell him what I'm doing now and I say, "I'd like to photograph what you're doing." He said, "Sure, go ahead. No problem." I think, if I'd done that in Louisville, there would be a lot more questioning.
Former Company Houses. McRoberts, Kentucky.
Viewfinder: 'Sidetracked' Creates a New Sense of Place in the South
Viewfinder: Shawn Poynter Says So Long
Viewfinder: Kyler Zeleny and His Bedlam in the West
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About the Pastor - St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church
In the Lord's Service
Fr. Michael Loza is a native of Philadelphia. At the age of 12 he left for Rome where he attended High School at the Ukrainian Pontifical Minor Seminary. He later studied Philosophy at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Rome) under the patronage of Patriarch Josyf Slipyj. Since 1982 he attended Holy Spirit Seminary and St. Paul University (Ottawa), where he completed a Masters of Theology degree.
With the blessing of Bishop Isidore Borecky of Toronto Michael was quietly ordained in 1988 in the underground Church of Ukraine by Metropolitan Volodymyr Sterniuk and Bishop Pavlo Vasylyk.
Together with his wife Oksana, his first pastoral assignment was as associate pastor of St. George's Ukr. Catholic Church in Oshawa (1988-2001). In 2001 the Lozas were transfered to Oakville to nurture the potential for a vibrant parish community in the Oakville and West Mississauga area.
Fr. Michael is also chaplain of Corpus Christi Catholic High School in Burlington.
Fr. Michael & Oksana Loza live in Glen Abbey (Oakville) with their two adult children, Marianna and Mark.


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Isaac Winslow (ca. 1671 – December 14, 1738) was a British politician and militia officer who lived in the colonial settlement of Marshfield, Massachusetts. A member of the prominent Winslow family of the Plymouth Colony, he served as a civil and military official in a period marked by political transition.

Early life and ancestry
Isaac Winslow was born ca. 1671 on the family estate in the village of Marshfield, Plymouth Colony to Josiah and Penelope (Pelham) Winslow. He and his sister Elizabeth were the only children of four to survive to adulthood. Winslow's grandfather was Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow, a governor of Plymouth Colony and one of that colony's near-mythical "Pilgrims." Josiah also served as governor, as well as commander-in-chief of the colonial militia during King Philip's War.

Career

Winslow was appointed to the Plymouth County Inferior Court of Common Pleas in 1712 and served until 1738, for the last nine years as its chief justice. In 1715, he was commissioned a colonel in the Massachusetts militia and given charge of a regiment drawn from Plymouth County, and was a judge of the Court of Probate for Plymouth from 1718 to 1738. A decade after Plymouth's incorporation into Massachusetts, Winslow became prominent at a wider colonial level. In 1703, he was appointed for the first time to the Council for the Province of Massachusetts Bay. As a representative in the legislature's upper house, he and his fellow councilors were to serve as advisors to the Royal Governor in Boston, as well as pass laws and approve government expenditures.

Winslow's term in council was marked by a period of war and turbulent politics; Massachusetts was almost constantly fighting New England natives and French colonists in Canada, and several successive governors would clash with the lower House of Representatives on issues of finance and legislative appointments. With the exception of 1715, Winslow served as a member of the council until 1736, for a time as its president.

Personal life
Around the turn of the 17th century, Winslow built a house at the current intersection of Careswell Street and Webster Street in Marshfield. The Isaac Winslow House still stands today as a museum. He married Sarah Wensley of Boston on July 11, 1700 in a ceremony presided over by the Reverend Cotton Mather. The couple had six children: Josiah (born 1701), John (born 1703), Penelope (born 1704), Elizabeth (born 1707), Anna (born 1709 or 1710), and Edward (born 1714).

Winslow died in Marshfield on December 14, 1738 and is buried in the nearby Winslow Cemetery. His wife Sarah, sons John and Edward, and daughters Penelope and Elizabeth were named heirs.

References

 Krusell, Cynthia Hagar; Bates, Betty Magoun. Marshfield: A Town of Villages 1640-1990. Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts: Historical Research Associates, 1990.
 Taylor, Alan. American Colonies: The Settling of North America. Vol. 1. The Penguin History of the United States. United States: Penguin Books, 2001.
 Whitmore, William H. The Massachusetts Civil List for the Colonial and Provincial Periods 1630–1774. Albany: J. Munsell, State Street, 1870.
 Winsor, Justin, ed. The Memorial History of Boston Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1630–1880. Vol. 2: "The Provincial Period". 4 vols. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881.

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Porto Novo steht für:

 Porto Novo (Kap Verde), Stadt auf Santo Antão, Kapverden
 Porto Novo (Concelho), Distrikt auf Santo Antão, Kapverden
 Porto Novo (Portugal), Ort in Portugal

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 Portanova
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Are you looking for some ways to get rid of pavement ants? They can be pesky little critters, can't they? You are in luck. We do have some simple solutions for you. Follow us as we take you to the next section.
Pavement ants really dig the sugar. If you have any grease, sugar, fruits or even other bugs lying around, the ants will be attracted to this. We are not kidding. You might want to eliminate these things from your home. They will even come inside to find what they are looking for. They start from the outside and work their way in.
Have any sweets in your closet? You might think a partially opened package is okay in there. It's not. It's best to remove it and put it elsewhere. The ants will find their way into your closet too.
This is one of the better sprays you can use to fight them off. There's something within the formula that ants find desirable. It gets shared with their friend and even the queen mother. The only bad thing is that this formula works to slowly kill the population. This is what makes it difference from the other sprays and insecticides.
Please use this spray with caution. It could harm you and your family. Determine the entry ways and the routes they take to get food and other supplies. Once you determine this, you can use the Combat to get rid of them. Find the small openings and holes from where they enter. Once you block these areas, there is no place for them to go.
This is another good resource for killing the ants. Check with your local store to find out information about it. Look up the ingredients. Find out what should be in the bait. Use this as a guide to find the proper liquid bait. There are some out there that are not what they say they are. It's up to you to find the proper liquid bait. If you have any questions you can also call your local wildlife control company. They will have all the necessary information you will need to complete your task.
There's just one thing to remember with liquid bait. Don't spray the bait and then use the insecticides to balance it out. This is going to be counter-productive. The last one will just cancel out what the first one is trying to accomplish.
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Here Are 14 Amazing Facts About Alibaba's Co-Founder Jack Ma
by Guest Blogger April 20, 2018
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Jack Ma is one of the richest people in China, and his way to the top has been a long and tough journey.
A business magnate and philanthropist, Jack Ma is the cofounder of Alibaba, a conglomerate that's focused on technology, artificial intelligence, retail, e-commerce, and the internet. If that leaves a lot to the imagination, think something along the lines of a combination of eBay and Amazon.
Something as impressive as starting a company and turning it into one as big as Alibaba naturally spark the interest of many. Getting a closer look at Ma's history and tidbits about him could be just the thing to know more about how it came to be.
As of this writing, he's behind only Tencent Holding's CEO and chairman Ma Huateng, making him the second richest in China, according to Forbes. On the international stage, he's in the 20th spot.
Beyond his home country of China, Ma may not be a household name such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, or Jeff Bezos just yet. However, all that has been changing since his accomplishments and whatnot have made their way to the worldwide scene.
For starters, Alibaba shares opened at $92.70 per piece, which is the biggest initial public offering or IPO in the history of the United States.
Now to whet the appetite: his real name is Ma Yun. That's just one of the many amazing facts about Ma, and there's a lot more to find out.
He Started Out As An English Teacher, Earning $12 To $15 Per Month
After he graduated from Hangzhou Teachers University – now known as Hangzhou Normal University – with a bachelor's degree in English in 1988, Ma was the only one chosen out of 500 students to be a university teacher.
It was a stroke of good luck, and it was probably an honor. During his stint as an English teacher, he was earning somewhere between 100 to 120 Renminbi a month. At the time, that was equivalent to roughly about $12 to $15.
He spent a total of five years teaching before he moved on to other things, including but not limited to starting his own businesses.
He Learned English By Giving Visitors Tours Free Of Charge For 8 Years
When he was 12 years old, Ma had a strong desire to learn the English language.
To do that, he would give foreigners tours for free, riding his bicycle during the early hours of each morning to a hotel in Hangzhou that's at least 40 minutes away.
He would then improve his English by conversing with the visitors as they go through the tours. Not only that, but he also learned "Western people's system, ways, methods and techniques." In that, he developed a globalized view, which was in conflict with what his teachers and studies taught him.
This went on for eight years.
He Flunked His University Application To Hangzhou Teachers' University Not Once, But Twice
With billionaires such as Gates and Zuckerberg dropping out of Harvard University, it's easy to mistake Ma as following in their footstep.
The thing is, his story didn't go like that at all. He flunked his university admission exam at Hangzhou Teachers University two times. In an interview with Inc., he even said that the university could be considered as the worst in the city.
What's more, he wasn't really a good student to begin with.
"I failed a key primary school test two times, I failed the middle school test three times, I failed the college entrance exam two times and when I graduated, I was rejected for most jobs I applied for out of college," he said.
Needless to say, Ma didn't let his failures stop him or slow him down on his way to success.
He Was Rejected By Harvard 10 Times
During the World Economic Forum 2015, Ma revealed that he was rejected by Harvard University.
For most people, one rejection is enough to stop them, but that wasn't the case for Ma. He applied over and over again to the university until he was rejected a total of 10 times.
"I applied for Harvard ten times, got rejected ten times and I told myself that 'Someday I should go teach there,'" he said.
In 2002, he gave a speech in Harvard where he was called a "mad man" for his way of managing Alibaba by a CEO of a foreign company, whose mind was changed after Ma invited him for a three-day stay at his business.
Ma earned his Master of Business Administration degree or MBA from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.
He Was Rejected For A Job Application At KFC
Right after leaving behind his five-year career as an English teacher in 1995, Ma started his search for other opportunities.
One of the 30 jobs he set his eyes on was a local KFC branch in Hangzhou, but he was rejected by the fast-food restaurant. To add insult to injury, he was the only applicant who was rejected out of 24 candidates. In other words, the other 23 people who applied got in, and Ma was the only person who didn't get hired.
After that, he went on to pursue his own business, which was a small-time translation and interpretation company.
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Rethinking Iran's Terrorism Designation
by M. Reza Behnam
Some ideas take on a character akin to sacred texts whose validity is rarely questioned. One such belief is that the Islamic Republic of Iran is the biggest threat to the Middle East and the United States. The threat narrative has become required foreign policy catechism in Washington, D.C.
Menacing stereotypes and bellicose rhetoric are the standards by which Iran has come to be judged. It has continually been in the crosshairs of American administrations since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The process by which a country is determined to be a terrorist state is highly subjective and politicized. The United States has assumed the singular role of terrorism arbiter.
After only weeks in office, the Trump administration "officially put Iran on notice" for a ballistic missile test, and imposed new sanctions. It was only a matter of time before the Trump administration would resurrect the "Iran the terrorist state" mantra to deflect attention from its internal chaos.
The unpredictability of the Trump White House and volatility of the Middle East make it vital to understand the nature of Washington's anti-Iran bias, how and why Iran has come to be cast as an international sponsor of terrorism, and most importantly, examine why the characterization is false.
The 1979 revolution and overthrow of the shah freed the country from its obsequious relationship to Washington. Iran's regional influence spread not in terms of conquered territory; instead, its revolutionary ideology gave voice to Shi'ites living in oppressive Sunni majority-ruled countries.
The Islamic Republic presented a dilemma for Washington, accustomed to dealing with the ruling families and autocrats of the Middle East. To curtail the revolution's influence, Washington manufactured a narrative depicting Iran's leaders as irrational religious fanatics in charge of a dangerous state that acted contrary to traditional state behavior. America's attitude was hardened with the takeover of the U.S. embassy in 1979, shaping the negative lens through which Iran's policies and actions would be viewed thereafter.
The trauma inflicted by the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) deepened Iran's distrust of Washington. From Tehran's perspective, America's support for Saddam's aggression was Washington's attempt to restore the monarchy and to destabilize the government. The post-revolution 1980s were filled with uncertainties and excesses as Tehran struggled to survive its war with Iraq—a war largely subsidized by Saudi Arabia and supported by the United States.
In the 1990s, Iran's foreign policy shifted toward integrating into the international community and shedding its hard-line image. Tehran attempted to develop closer relations with Saudi Arabia and build constructive ties to the West. Although Iran opposed the 2001 U.S. attack on Afghanistan, the goal of fighting terrorism and toppling the Taliban regime—-driven from power in November 2001—united the two countries in perhaps the most constructive period of U.S.-Iranian diplomacy.
At a December 2001 meeting in Bonn, Germany, Secretary of State Colin Powell credited Iran with being particularly helpful in establishing an interim Afghan government, following the American invasion. It was Javad Zarif, then Iran's U.N. ambassador and current foreign minister, who mediated a compromise over the composition of Afghanistan's post-Taliban government, ultimately leading to an agreement. And it was Iran that insisted that the agreement include a commitment to hold democratic elections in Afghanistan.
A burst of diplomatic talks between Iranian and American officials took place from 2001 through May 2003. Topics included cooperative activities against their mutual enemies: Saddam, the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Meetings resumed even after President George W. Bush listed Iran among the "axis of evil" countries in his 2002 State of the Union address.
Tehran's final attempt to normalize relations came in May of 2003 in what became known as the "grand bargain." Calling for broad dialogue "in mutual respect," Iran suggested that everything was on the table, including full cooperation on Iran's nuclear program, ending material support to Palestinian opposition groups and assistance in helping stabilize Iraq.
Convinced that the Iranian government was on the brink of collapse, and emboldened by its perceived victory in Iraq in March 2003, Bush administration officials belittled the initiative. The administration's imperious posture and failure to build on Iran's cooperation in Afghanistan, led senior officials in Tehran to conclude that Washington's goal was regime change.
Bush strategists had another objective in ousting Saddam—-to isolate and increase the military and political pressure on Iran, and to a lesser extent, on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government. Repeated often by administration officials was the refrain, "Today Baghdad, tomorrow Damascus, and then on to Tehran."
To curb Tehran's growing influence in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, Bush launched an unprecedented financial war against Iran. A list of strategies developed in 2006 by Stuart Levy—-the first under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Treasury Department—-were implemented to drive Iran out of the global economy.
Where Washington sees terrorism, the Iranian government sees itself combating a power structure in the Middle East that benefits the United States, Israel and Sunni Arab regimes.
Congress defines an international sponsor of terrorism as a country whose government supports acts of international terrorism. Tehran does not support "international" terrorism, but it does provide material support to regional movements that it calls the oppressed, whose battle is directed toward the state of Israel—Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. These groups have used violence against Israel to end the brutal occupation of their land.
Tehran regards as legitimate its support for national liberation movements that fight against Israeli occupation and aggression, insisting it is not terrorism. Iran's leaders believe that Israel's long-term goal is to weaken the Islamic world, eliminating all resistance, in order to carry out its expansionist designs.
From the perspective of the people of the region, Israel has a long history of occupation, invasion and state terrorism. Interestingly, the Arab media has accused Washington of sponsoring terrorism because of its support for Israel.
The Israeli government has relentlessly pushed the perception that Iran, specifically a nuclear-armed Iran, is the greatest threat to peace and stability in the region and world, and has successfully sold this provocative idea in the United States. Senior Israeli security officials have refuted the assertion that an Iranian nuclear weapon would threaten Israel. Their claims are poignant considering the fact that Israel enjoys a huge military and technical advantage in the region, and possesses an arsenal capable of deterring any nuclear aggression.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's motives for vilifying Iran are many, but primarily it serves to distract international attention as Israel continues settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and Syrian Golan Heights.
Saudi Arabia, like Israel, is doing everything in its power to make sure the United States remains engaged in the Middle East. Riyadh relies on Washington to do its heavy lifting, and anti-Iran propaganda helps in its campaign. Saudi rulers believe that the Assad government is pivotal to Iranian influence in the region, and have been encouraging Washington to get rid of him for years. They were buoyed by Trump's missile attack on Syria and recent state visit as a sign that Washington is pivoting away from Obama's policy of rapprochement with Iran, and renewing its ties to the kingdom.
The intense focus on Iran as a menace does not correspond to its capabilities, intent or danger. A 2017 Congressional Research Service report stated that Iran's national security policy involves protecting itself from American or others' efforts to intimidate or change the regime. According to the 2014 U.S. Defense Department Annual Review of Iran, "Iran's military doctrine is defensive. It is designed to deter an attack…."
Forty-five U.S. military bases encircle Iran, with over 125,000 troops in close proximity. The Congressional Research Service asserted that Tehran allocates about 3 percent of GDP to military spending, far less than what its Persian Gulf neighbors spend.
Iran's nuclear program has cultivated scientific innovation and national pride. It required pragmatic leadership to accept the constraints of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The agreement subjects Iran to greater restrictions and more intrusive monitoring than any state with nuclear programs, while its neighbors possess unlimited nuclear programs and, in the case of Pakistan and Israel, nuclear weapons.
Intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency agree that Iran has not been attempting to develop nuclear weapons. According to the IAEA and the U.S. State Department, Iran has been fulfilling its obligations under the JCPOA.
Toughness on Iran has become a litmus test for American politicians to demonstrate their support for Israel. Congress overwhelmingly passed a ten-year extension of the Iran Sanctions Act, which was set to expire on December 31, 2016. The renewal makes it easier for the Trump administration to reimpose sanctions that Obama lifted under the JCPOA.
Unlike other countries in the Middle East that have integrated missiles into their conventional armed forces, Iran has been singled out for the same behavior. Iran's recent missile test did not violate the JCPOA. It has no long-range missiles, no nuclear warheads for its missiles, and has not threatened their use. Without nuclear weapons, missiles are of negligible importance. Unlike the Saudis and Israelis, Iran does not have a large or modern air force.
A February 26, 2015, report by the director of national intelligence, titled "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Communities," stated that Iran is not the chief sponsor of terrorism, and removed Iran and Hezbollah from its list of terrorism threats. The report asserted Tehran's intentions are to "dampen sectarianism, build responsive partners and deescalate tensions with Saudi Arabia…, and combat Sunni extremists, including the Islamic State."
Yet there are countless examples of aggression against Iran.
The Saudi government has sought for decades to motivate Sunnis to fear and resist Iran. To that end, it has spent billions on a campaign to expand Salafism (an ultra-conservative, austere form of Islam) as a major counterforce in the Muslim world.
In 2007, Congress agreed to a Bush administration request of $400 million to escalate covert operations to destabilize Iran's government, with regime change the ultimate goal. The funding request came at the same time that a National Intelligence Estimate—-the collective work of America's sixteen spy agencies—concluded that Iran had ceased its efforts to develop nuclear weapons in 2003.
Both the Bush and Obama administrations employed some of the most draconian financial methods ever used against a state, including crippling sanctions on Iran's entire banking, transportation and energy sectors.
The first known use of cyber warfare against a sovereign state was launched against Iran by the United States and Israel in 2009. The Stuxnet virus crippled Iranian centrifuges used to produce nuclear fuel.
Beginning in 2008, four of Iran's nuclear scientists were assassinated on the streets of Tehran; the evidence pointed to Israeli agents. In 2011, a military arms depot was blown up, killing 17 people. The incident was similar to a blast in October 2010 at an Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps missile base in Khorrambad. Both acts of sabotage were attributed to Israel.
American organizations such as the jingoistic United Against a Nuclear Iran, chaired by former Senator Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., have called for attacks on Iranian ships in the
Persian Gulf and on Iranian military forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria, and are pressuring the Trump administration to increase sanctions and to cancel the JCPOA.
These acts of aggression are justified in Washington and elsewhere by the standard rhetoric of the Iranian terrorism myth, but there is scant intelligence to support the claim. In a 2011 poll conducted in twelve Arab countries by The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (based on face-to-face interviews of 16,731 individuals), 73 percent of those surveyed saw Israel and the United States as the most threatening countries, with 5 percent seeing Iran as such.
Most U.S. officials quietly acknowledge that Saudi Arabia and the Sunni-ruled Gulf monarchies are the major supporters of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, not Shi'ite Iran. Vice President Joseph Biden concluded just that during a foreign policy speech at Harvard in October of 2014. A recently released classified State Department cable dated December 30, 2009, stated, "…donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide."
It is Iran that is helping to fight the Islamic State in Iraq. Its offensive in the Syrian war was at the request of the country's sovereign government. Iran lives in the neighborhood and relies on regional allies, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Assad in Syria, to bolster its security if attacked. Syria was the only country to support Iran during the Iraq war. Tehran is keenly aware that the outcome of the Syrian war may have major consequences for the region's Shi'ites, and could reshape the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia and Israel have made Iran their major regional adversary, and to that end have built a formidable alliance. Syria has become the theater for competing regional interests. Both the Saudis and Israelis are aiding al-Qaeda affiliated forces in Syria. Washington has partnered with Saudi Arabia in the war to achieve its long-established goal of regime change, while Riyadh seeks to end what the Saudis see as the power emerging from the Shi'ite Crescent—Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.
Israel, for example, has been pressuring the United States and Russia to restrict and ultimately expel Iranian-backed militias from Syria, and has continued to attack pro-Iranian forces in southern Syria. From Israel's perspective, Syria—ally of Iran and supporter of Hezbollah—has been one of the few remaining Arab states capable of standing in the way of its regional ambitions. Israel would like to see Syria fractured into small, sectarian enclaves, so weakened as to be no threat.
Israel has partnered with al-Qaeda's franchise in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra (also called the al-Nusra Front). Al-Nusra's goal, like the Islamic State, is to overthrow Assad's secular government and establish a radical Salafist regime. United Nations observers have documented the delivery of material aid and ongoing coordination between Israeli military personnel and al-Nusra armed groups. Al-Nusra terrorists are being cared for in Israeli hospitals.
By supporting al-Nusra, Israel has effectively sided with America's enemy and has, therefore, emerged as a state sponsor of terrorism.
In the wake of the 9-11 attacks, President Bush, in his September 20, 2001, speech to Congress declared, "Every nation now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists….From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."
Iran has been fighting terrorism since 9-11. Its national security depends on stable borders and a stable region. To that end, it is fighting in Syria and aiding the Iraqi government to recapture territories held by the Islamic State, at great cost to its military.
Iranians know all too well the egregious effects of terrorism. For decades, U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies have covertly financed, equipped and trained opposition groups that have fomented and carried out terrorist attacks inside Iran. Thousands of civilians and political figures, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, have suffered injury at the hands of terrorists. U.S. intelligence agencies have supported the acts of violence committed by the Mujahedin-e Khalq—listed by the State Department as a terrorist group (now delisted) that advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic—as well as the Baluchi militant Salafi group Jundullah. An Iranian ethnic minority, Jundullah is a Sunni group aligned with the thinking of al-Qaeda.
Terrorism is a cudgel used to engender fear. And fear, grounded in erroneous information, can result in destructive government policies, and in the worst case, war. This is especially true of the U.S.-Iran relationship. After almost four decades, Iran and the Middle East have substantially changed, while American policy has not. Iran's evolving and nuanced political system does not fit into Washington's outdated, hegemonic good guy-bad guy worldview.
American, Israeli and Saudi regional objectives depend on the existence of an enemy; and to that aim, Iran's terrorism designation has proven a potent rhetorical weapon.
Washington's hardline rhetoric and policies toward Iran merely strengthens the power of the country's hardliners . Given the circumstances, Tehran will continue its defensive, cautious strategy, cooperating with the West on issues such as the fight against the Islamic State, while asserting what it sees as its historical role in the region.
M. Reza Behnam, Ph.D., of Eugene is a political scientist specializing in the governments and politics of the Middle East, and American foreign policy in the region.
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The Pull and Tug of Between the Prosecutors and Cops in Prosecuting Criminal Cases
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When I said DA Michael Morrissey did the right thing using the nolle prosequi to terminate the prosecution of Amy Bishop I got some push back from some that a DA should not have such power. Earlier others criticized my suggestions the prosecutor is the most important part of the criminal justice system. They suggested the DA interferes too much with the cops indicating the DA should be some type of rubber stamp approving whatever the cops do. I could not disagree more.
Many of the cops look upon assistant district attorneys (ADAs) as an obstruction and interference to the way they think things should be done. They want ADAs to just take their cases and prosecute them, no questions asked. In fact, they'd prefer that people from their own departments prosecute the cases rather than an outsider, which the ADA is always considered to be. That was the way it was once done. Some still yearn for the old days as I see from comments to my blog.
The cops are right in their appraisal that the ADAs are a hurdle that they have to pass over. That's how the system is supposed to work. I met with every ADA we hired and gave them a little introductory talk. One thing I told all of them is that we are not cops. Our jobs are different. The cop has the hard job of being on the street and encountering the daily wash and flow of the citizenry. She has to make immediate decisions under immense pressure and sometime s/he might run into a person who is extra belligerent, or goes through a harrowing experience, or runs into the same person again and again. Sometimes the cop jacks up the charges, sometimes the wrong person is grabbed, sometimes the way in which the evidence was gained was not right, or sometimes the person is being overcharged or should not be charged at all. I'd tell the ADAs we want our cops to be aggressive but that is not our job.
An ADA has to take the evidence the cop gathers, analyze it, and make a decision on the best way to prosecute it, if she decides to prosecute it at all. ADAs work in a less threatening environment where they have the time to analyze cases. If they just follow the cops desires they are not doing their jobs.
I recall one occasion I had a district court ADA call me. He was in the middle of a case where the trooper's evidence against the defendant came from a tape recording the trooper had secreted in his cruiser. He secretly recorded the defendant's conversation with another person. The ADA wanted to know how to put it in evidence. I told him he couldn't. It violated chapter 272, section 99 which prohibits secret recordings without a court warrant. It was all the evidence we had that the defendant committed the crime so the case had to be dismissed.
The ADA told the trooper we couldn't use the tape. He became quite upset. The ADA reported back to me that he said: "I should have listened to what they told me at the Academy." Hearing that I thought he would go on and say they had been taught that they couldn't secretly record people. But I was wrong. He went on to say, "They taught us not to tell the ADAs how we got our evidence."
These point out the big problems with all police departments — they are insular, suspicious and protective of themselves from outsider. Prosecutors are considered outsiders. They should be. They are on the same team but have a different function.
Often the walls would break down when you worked closely with some of the investigating officers over a period of time. The police officers assigned to our office or who were on our task forces worked hand-in-hand with us every day. The decisions on what to do about specific matters were often made after discussions in the quiet of our offices. We would discuss what we knew and what we thought we could learn by taking this or that step. Working with the police investigator in the office and working with the uniform cops was like night and day. I'd notice this when I'd go on searches or to crime scenes. The guys from the office knew why I was there and appreciated that I had a function which often was to make sure that if any searches were to be done in other places or even if the time at the crime scene was to be extended, I would work to ensure the legal sufficiency of the paper work to do the next step while they continued their investigatory work searching for contraband or interviewing suspects. The guys in uniform looked at me suspiciously as if I was intruding on their turf.
The bottom line is the prosecutor and the cops should work together but one person has to make a final decision. The ADA is one step removed from the turmoil of the street where the cops and citizens collide. Think of it as a boxing match. We don't let the fighters or their friends decide who wins. We have a referee. The prosecutor is the referee between the citizen and the cop.
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Q: Networking search + image downloads operations in OperationQueue: Operations vs URLSession's delegateQueue I need to perform this scenario:

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*User provides some search parameters which I should use to call an URL and parse its response (I use an URLSessionDataTask for this).

*That response is a JSON that may contain several image URL's I should then call to download (I use as many URLSessionDownloadTask as images URL's I got), and then show them in an UITableView (one image per cell).

*User should be able to cancel the current search to start a new one, so previous complete search + downloads process could be still in progress at that moment.

Moreover, for the data task (initial search) I use an URLSessionConfiguration.default, and for the several download tasks I use URLSessionConfiguration.background.
Initial search (data task) and the set N image downloads (N download tasks) are serial, meaning that I need to get the response of the initial search to start the image downloads. But I need the N image downloads to be concurrent, since I am going to show each image in its corresponding cell once that certain image has finished being downloaded.
On the other hand, all these networking operations (search + downloads) need to be asynchronous, of course.
My question: I have seen that URLSession has an initializer that can be provided an OperationQueue as delegateQueue parameter. Regarding this option, I think I should do something like this:
self.queue = OperationQueue()
self.queue.qualityOfService = .userInitiated
self.defaultSession = URLSession(configuration: configuration, delegate: nil, delegateQueue: queue)
self.backgroundSession = URLSession(configuration: backgroundConfiguration, delegate: self, delegateQueue: queue)

Then I should be able to call self.queue.cancelAllOperations() when user starts a new search.
Would this be the correct approach to my scenario? Would the images be downloaded concurrently?
The other option I have thought about is to create that same OperationQueue but, instead of passing it as delegateQueue to both URLSession, to model the data task and the download tasks as Operation and call self.queue.addOperation.
Is there any difference in behaviour and performance between this two options? Which one should be the appropriate for my scenario? Or would it be better a different approach (in such case, which one)?
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Other option I'm thinking of is: each cell to have a reference to its own URLSessionDownloadTask and call to download its image when cell is reused, but cancelling the task when a new download is going to be performed, something like that:
var downloadTask: URLSessionDownloadTask?

func downloadImage(imageUrl: URL) {
    downloadTask?.cancel()

    let request = URLRequest(url: url)
    downloadTask = backgroundSession.downloadTask(with: request)
    downloadTask?.resume()
}

Here I don't use the operation queue, just cancel the task. Is this correct and better option? Should I then call downladTask?.cancel() when the cell is dequeued?


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Wonk of the Year John Kasich Gives Energetic Speech in Bender
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By Gregg Sangillo | March 22, 2019
American University awards its Wonk of the Year to an individual who is smart, passionate, focused, and engaged, and uses those attributes to enact meaningful change. On Thursday night, for 2019 WOTY John Kasich, the operative word was engaged. Kasich mostly dispensed with the lectern and walked around the stage, trying to connect with students in every corner of the Bender Arena bleachers. At one point, he even called on a couple students in the crowd.
The former Ohio governor, congressman, and Republican presidential candidate delivered his speech with conviction and empathy. The enthusiasm continued during a candid moderated discussion with AU president Sylvia Burwell.
The student-run Kennedy Political Union hosted Kasich, with AU College Republicans cosponsoring the event.
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Kasich talked about growing up in a small, blue-collar town outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of a mailman and the grandson of a coal miner. He then attended the much bigger Ohio State University. After meeting the OSU president and learning that he knew President Richard Nixon, Kasich had the audacity to write a letter to Nixon himself. Kasich was invited to a meeting with Nixon, which his family assumed wasn't real and possibly a scam. But Kasich—a first semester freshman—soon found himself outside Nixon's Oval Office.
"A guy walks up to me and he says, 'Young man, you're going to get five minutes alone with the President of the United States,'" he recalled. "What I'm thinking is, 'I have a new jacket, a new shirt, and a new tie, and new pants—I didn't come all the way here for a lousy five minutes.'"
He met with Nixon for 20 minutes, which was longer than he got in the Oval Office during his entire time in Congress. "Why does that story matter? Have big dreams," he said.
While working as an aide in the Ohio State Senate, his boss was helping Ronald Reagan's upstart 1976 presidential campaign. Kasich was suddenly asked to map out delegates in five states for Reagan. "I had absolutely no idea what that meant, and I said, 'Absolutely! I can get that done!'" he recounted. "Sometimes you have to learn to fly by the seat of your pants and have confidence that you can figure something out."
He told a story about sleeping on a cot at an AU fraternity house, while trying to launch a career in Washington. He eventually got a job working for a former aide to President John F. Kennedy. Kasich met numerous influential Democrats on Capitol Hill, even as he prepared to run as a Republican for the Ohio State Senate. He learned a valuable lesson, which he relayed to AU students: "No silos. Don't lock yourself in. You're young. You got the whole world in front of you, and I want you to take advantage of it in every way that you can."
Kasich encouraged students to take action themselves. And to break with polarized political debates, he suggested that people have more power than they realize. "Presidents don't matter that much," he said. "What affects you are the people you live around. Your roommate, your mother, your father, your brother, your sister. Where you live. What you do on a day-to-day basis. The things that you're interested in and you care about."
In searching for meaning and truth, he spoke of how each student is made special. "There's never been anybody like you before, and there will never, ever, ever be anybody like you again. So, you have a destiny and you have a purpose," he said. "On this college campus, I guarantee you that there are many conversations that occur at 2:00 o'clock in the morning…about 'what is my purpose?'"
While discussing civil rights and political leaders, he also highlighted a few everyday heroes who are changing the world. He spoke of a shoe shiner at a children's hospital in Pittsburgh, who used his tip money to donate more than $200,000 for families who couldn't pay their hospital bills. He talked about a nine-year-old boy in Ohio who grew up in a homeless shelter. After his grandmother adopted him and wanted to buy him an Xbox, he implored her to instead use that money to buy blankets for other homeless people. Kasich also exalted kindness from celebrities, including Drake visiting a sick girl in a hospital.
He also described the courage it sometimes takes to ask for help. After noting how a player in this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament openly sought mental health treatment, he explained why that's an important issue on college campuses. "The ability to admit a need is not a weakness. It's a strength," Kasich said. "Maybe you can be part of that group that leads us out of this wilderness. Where people can begin to admit their problems."
Escaping Silos and Listening
Kasich returned to the idea of escaping your silo and listening to different viewpoints. "There's nothing more boring than somebody who can't listen. There's nothing more boring than people who can't explore something they don't agree with," he said.
He then referred to an earlier conversation he'd had with Fanta Aw, vice president of campus life and inclusive excellence, about issues in Central Asia and Africa. "She's interesting! She's not boring! I don't know if she's a Republican or a Democrat. I have no clue. I don't care. It doesn't matter to me. She's just something special," he said.
He praised President Burwell, recalling how they worked together on Affordable Care Act-related issues when he was a Republican governor and she was Health and Human Services secretary in a Democratic administration.
During the question-and-answer session, a student asked Kasich what he learned from his presidential bid. "You want to be a successful politician? Let people know you care about them. Listen to them," he said.
He downplayed the notion that voters and their chosen candidates need to agree on every single issue. "The person that's going to emerge on the Democrats' side is somebody who can capture a certain imagination, a certain zeitgeist, and a certain sense that, 'They know me, they get me, and they care about me.' That is what I think, in the 21st century, people want out of a politician at any level."
Burwell ended the evening with a question about Kasich's future presidential aspirations. "Is there anything that you would like to announce, or say, tonight, to close us out?" Burwell asked.
"I'm not going to get in a race that I can't win," Kasich said, before stating that he's enjoying writing a book, commentating on CNN, and starting a new business. Yet he added, "If all the sudden I felt that I could win and change the country, that's another story."
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module Google
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Q: Select with except in postgresql General except query is like this
(SELECT * FROM name_of_table_one
 EXCEPT
SELECT * FROM name_of_table_two);

is there a way to write a query where I pass a list of values and perform except or intersect operation with a specific column of a table and select from that the list I had passed to DB.

A: Use a VALUES list.
select * from (values (1),(2),(100000001)) as f (aid)
    except
select aid from pgbench_accounts

A: You can achieve that with the IN clause
"except":
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE your_column NOT IN (list of values)

"intersect":
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE your_column IN (list of values)


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Should a Small Business Have Cyber Insurance?
I am asked this question almost every week. It is really small business data breach insurance. All the publicity regarding hacked servers in the news media has spooked a lot of people. It seems just about everyone in this day and age uses the internet to promote their business and or products and services. That alone will not require any insurance. But if you are collecting client information and storing it on a PC or server in your office that has a vulnerability issues written all over it.
You might think that most data breaches are caused by hackers or malicious attacks. But more than half of data breaches are caused by system glitches and human error.
While on business travel you lose your cell phone, which has sensitive customer information stored in your email's Inbox.
Data that is maintained in a cloud environment is somewhat safer. You are relying on that vendor to have the correct security. Once again, this should not be taken for grant it. You should be discussing the software you have or are about to invest in with an internet specialist or your IT professional.
You can probably get a get an "add on" to your business liability policy that will cover the above actions.
So my answer to the questions regarding a small business needing Cyber Insurance is most likely "yes" if you fit into the above description. If you are having a vendor handle one of these areas for you, I would discuss their plan of action for stopping problems and if a breach does happen what is their response.
It is only going to get more complicated and your business is going to more involved with data type tools and software.


True, Rudyard Kipling was based in India – but the jungles his stories were based on are also found in the terai region of Nepal! Chitwan National Park is home to a healthy population of tiger, leopard, sloth bear, rhino, elephant, gaur, dhole, sambar deer, spotted deer and many more mammals, not to mention around 500 species of bird!
This soundscape was recorded late one afternoon in grassland adjacent to a stretch of dense riverine forest. Being mid-spring, the air was full of vibrant birdsong with orioles, barbets, doves, magpie-robins, ioras, mynas, coucals, junglefowl,peafowl and many more species all calling to create an incredibly complex soundscape. The alarm call of a large Sambar deer can be heard as a deep bark at regular intervals, a sure indication of a tiger or leopard nearby.


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Stage 773 announces 'Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival' line-up
By By Johnny Oleksinski
| Tribune reporter |
Stage 773 has announced the line-up for the second annual "Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival," a festival dedicated to the geekier sect of the Chicago funny scene, representatives for the venue said on Monday. Including sketch, improv, stand-up and more, the four day event runs from March 19 through March 22.
Kicking off the festival on March 19 is "The Best of Hey, I'm A Big Fan: A Night Of Fan Fiction Readings." On March 20 are "Jack and The Nerds: A Nerdy Cabaret," "Michinoku Driver and Mrs.," "Clown Car To Sicily And Matt Griffo" and "Lowcarbcomedy." On March 21 are "Chi Nerd Fest Stand Up Showcase!," "Improvised Star Trek," "WHO PROV" and "THOR and The Hot Karl." And capping off the weekend on March 22 are "Planetary Defense Force," "Pretty/Windy," "Improvised Jane Austen," "Urlakis and Cusick," "The Nerdologues" and "Plan 9 Burlesque."
The "Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival" begins at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave., on March 19. For tickets, visit stage773.com.


She's big. She towers over my other figs. Her height is matched only by my Rin Tohsaka fig.
If you need more detailed pictures of her I'll be happy to take them!
she is alright.. her skin is not as pale? as the picture but more orange.
She's huge! Very well made, which is sadly not a consistency you can expect from Sega's prize figures. Definitely pick this up if you collect Ruri figures.
anybody know where i can get her ?


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August and September reveiw- Goalkeepers
Date: 27th September 2015 at 5:06pm
Written by: thurlow97
We are now two months into the season, meaning it's time to review our players' start to the season.
Firstly it's our Goalkeepers who have undergone some criticism.
Jonathon Bond- 6-
Bond was signed by Clarke as our number one and he's started every league game so far. If you are judging him on goals conceded, you'd think I am being very harsh, but Bond has been helped massively by our defence. Jonathan Bond made one horrible mistake to cost Reading two points at Sheffield Wednesday and was also harshly blamed for not keeping out Derby's winner at the Madejski. The young keeper also struggles with balls into the box and has dropped a few of corners but managed to get away with it. Although we are nine games into this season, it's tough to judge Bond so far as we have defended so well.
Ali Al-Habsi- 3-
Reading's second team keeper has played in both of the league cup games and has really struggled, playing a part in all three goals conceded. During the friendlies, Al-Habsi scared the Reading fans and showed us that he has a mistake in him. Unfortunately for Reading, he has brought this into the season, resulting in an early exit of the League Cup. Reading were in control against Everton before two school boy errors from Al-Habsi cost them. Terrible start to his Reading career and I'll be surprised if he plays again.


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An open fracture is also known as compound fracture in which, the fractured bone fragments stick out through the skin or crack down tp the fractured/broken bone. Management of open fractures is not simple and seeks serious medical attention as it involves more damage to the surrounding tendons, muscles and ligaments. Treatment of an open fracture may depend upon various factors. The goals of treatment may also vary. Certain treatments are meant for preventing the infection. Some are for getting the broken bones to heal, and some are to restore the function of the bone.
High-energy trauma like motor vehicle accidents and direct blow are the most common causes of open fractures.
How are open fractures treated?
Debridement and irrigation: Debridement and irrigation is done to control the risk for infection. In debridement, the surgeon will remove the dirt, foreign bodes, muscle, other soft tissues, contaminated and unhealthy skin. The surgeon will also clean the bone as well. Pieces of bones that are unattached will also be removed. If there is any bone fragments that are severely contaminated, will also be discarded. Any bone loss happened during this procedure will be corrected later with surgeries.
Irrigation: Irrigation is the procedure done after debridement. Several litres of saline is used to clean the wound after it is cleansed.


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Inc. Magazine Names Exact Solar No. #2167 On 2018 Inc. 5000 List
August 16, 2018 By Dara Bortman
Ranking is the Result of Impressive Three-Year Sales Growth of 205%
6.76 kW — Pennington NJ
YARDLEY, Pa. – Aug. 16, 2018 — This week, Inc. magazine ranked Exact Solar No. 2167 on its 37th annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list highlights those that are successful in the most dynamic segment of the American economy – independent small and midsized businesses. According to the publication, the chosen are creators. They create companies, they create value, and they create jobs. Many have gone on to be the most recognized public brands, such as Microsoft, Dell, Domino's Pizza, Pandora, Timberland, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zillow, and others.
According to Mark Bortman, owner and CEO of Exact Solar:
We are honored to be recognized on the Inc. 5000 for the second year in a row. It takes more than just having an entrepreneurial spirit. In a competitive solar energy market, credit really goes to our amazing team, from sales people to installers to our excellent office staff, that always puts our customers first and never gives less than 100%. Our customers know, from each and every interaction with everyone in our Exact Solar family, that their complete satisfaction is our goal, from the first sales discussion through the life of their solar energy system
He adds:
Our smaller size allows us to take the time each customer needs to be educated about what they are purchasing and confident that they are getting the best system for their home and their family. Unlike the larger national installers, we never incentivize our installers with bonus pay for faster installations, so each job is installed perfectly for each unique home. That attention to detail, and obvious care, makes all the difference to our customers.
The 2018 Inc. 5000, unveiled August 15, 2018 online at Inc.com, is the most competitive crop in the list's history. The average company on the list achieved an astounding three-year average growth of 538.2%, and a median rate of 171.8%. Not only has Exact Solar beaten the median at a 205% growth rate, but by being 61st of 181 listed Pennsylvania operations, the company is also a top performer in the region.
Inc. editor in chief James Ledbetter comments:
If your company is on the Inc. 5000, it's unparalleled recognition of your years of hard work and sacrifice. The lines of business may come and go, or come and stay. What doesn't change is the way entrepreneurs create and accelerate the forces that shape our lives.
In addition to being recognized nationally for our business growth, Exact Solar is especially proud of our repeated industry and customer rankings. For five years running, the company has received an Angies' List Super Service award, a direct measure from our customers. We have also been a Top 500 Solar Contractor for five consecutive years, recognized among our solar peers.
More about Inc. and the Inc. 5000 Methodology
The 2018 Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2014 and 2018. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2014. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2017. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2014 is $100,000; the minimum for 2017 is $2 million.
Click here for Exact Solar's Inc. 5000 profile . You may also view the complete 2018 Inc. 5000 list .
Exact Solar services residential and small commercial customers in eastern Pennsylvania and south-central New Jersey. We are one of the few companies in the area with extensive experience in all three types of solar energy systems: solar electric, solar water heating and solar pool heating. Thanks to increasingly lower costs, higher reliability, favorable state renewable energy policy advances, and a 30% federal tax credit, we are providing the most dependable solar energy systems that deliver the greatest savings ever. Because the federal tax credit begins a scheduled and steady reduction after 2019, we encourage anyone with interest to contact us soon. Visit Exact Solar's website or call (215)621-8353 for more information. The company offers free on-site consultations, exceptional customer service, and turn-key system implementation from start to finish.
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