Being a blogger or someone who writes their thoughts every week I watch my news feed quite a bit, it was a very busy week.
I am in no position to lie, why? Because even when telling things from my point of view, perspective or my side of the story, it seems everyone has instantaneous access to it. There is no fooling the public when it is right out there for everyone to see. Whether that is still true or may have changed recently but there is still the possibility, so I learned I have no secrets or privacy. It is true someone always finds out. So I have learned to live my life open and even without white lies. I have also learned to live without. Unfortunately, to hear a yes that is beneficial and in my favor is a shocking surprise that I look forward to every day even if it may never happen again. Take it from someone who's monumental big brother (figuratively and literally) is always watching and controlling my news feed. While I work at doing and thinking what is right.
With layers and issues it is hard to separate everything. I fight the bad while thinking of the good. However, It is not easy when one person wants you to think one way and you know the earth is round. There is a part of me that is really messed up with everything around, I know this. The argument is who started it but we know the reality. We have suggested images etched in the mind from what it is to be believed versus what occurred. It really is two fold they suggest something and I think, ugh and then I see what is suggested and then that is shown with another possibility then it is upped, my version their version until we all are puking because it got so gross and non of it happened in the first place to begin with, really it is all our imaginations our visions gone twilight zoneish. I begged not to be inundated by these images, that was just encouragement as well as anger and ignoring it or even saying no that never occurred, again only encouragement for several years this has gone on until I have found myself surrounded by this poisonous fruit in a room I am stuck in thinking maybe they will let me out maybe, though I know this is not the English Patient but really the Hunger Games with those berries in front of me.
I say what I say because I am the only one who will tell my side of the story.


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Pentagon Denies Relationship with Anti-Christian Extremist; Instantly Complies with His Demands
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 2, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
One month ago the Pentagon assured the public it was not being advised by anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein. Yet two days ago Weinstein called the Pentagon demanding that a Christian painting be removed from a dining hall in an Idaho Air Force base, and the Pentagon complied with his demand–in less than one hour.
On Apr. 28, Breitbart News reported that Pentagon brass met with Weinstein and his Military Religious Freedom Foundation. That was shortly after Weinstein published an article in which he called observant Christians "fundamentalist monsters" who seek to impose "a rapacious reign of theocratic terror" in the military through their "putrid theology."
While he opposes all religion in the military, Weinstein reserves his most caustic language for observant Christians. And the one thing he objects to above all things is proselytizing in the military, which Christians call evangelism.
Regarding evangelism, Weinstein told the Washington Post that, "What is happening aside from sexual assault is spiritual rape. And what the Pentagon needs to understand is that it is sedition and treason. It should be punished." (Emphases added and brackets omitted.)
Weinstein said service members who evangelize in the military should be court-martialed, and added, "You need a dozen court-martials real quick." A court martial is a criminal prosecution in the military, which depending on the crime can carry punishments ranging from fines, to expulsion from the military, to imprisonment. In case anyone missed the point, he also said, "We would love to see hundreds of prosecutions."
It must be noted that the Pentagon says it would not take this drastic step called for by Weinstein. It should also be noted, however, that the Pentagon continues to change its story on what its policy is on evangelism.
Nevertheless, the latest example of Weinstein's influence with the Obama-Hagel Pentagon came last week, as reported by Fox News' Todd Starnes. In the dining hall of Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho there was a painting-style picture of a U.S. Airman with imagery of the cross, above the word "Integrity" and with a reference to Matthew 5:9. (That verse reads, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.")
Weinstein called the Pentagon directly to complain about the picture. Less than one hour later, the picture was permanently removed.
Col. Christopher Short, the base commander, told Fox News the artwork was removed because, "We make reasonable accommodations for all religions and celebrate the religious diversity of our Airmen." It's an odd statement to say that accommodating religion and celebrating diversity means tearing down Christian artwork.
Weinstein has previously boasted that he has special status with the leadership of the Air Force Academy similar to the "bat signal" from Batman. He explains that:
"… he and Superintendent Lt. Gen. Mike Gould devised a code word only they know in case Weinstein needs to reach Gould with concerns about religious liberty on campus. 'We have our own bat-signal,' Weinstein said Friday, referring to the beam of light used to summon Batman in the DC Comic series…. Having a means to reach Gould with any concerns is a positive step in the work to make the academy religiously neutral ground, he said. 'We had a bad 96-hour period where I felt like we had fallen back to the bad old days,' he said. 'Our relationship [now] is stronger than ever.'"
Given Weinstein's published anti-Christian statements, his relationship with top military officials should raise eyebrows.
And it has done so on Capitol Hill. After Breitbart News' reporting on this relationship, 59 congressmen sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel demanding to know who approved these meetings and what was discussed. A group of 72 congressmen then sent a second letter demanding to know what the Pentagon is doing to protect the First Amendment rights of service members.
Also last week, one of Weinstein's staff members published a column denigrating Congress' efforts, and mocking Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) for coauthoring with Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) the letter signed by 59 Members of Congress. Taunting congressional leaders who are probing this situation may provoke lawmakers to amend federal law to clarify and reinforce service members' rights regarding sharing their faith.
The Obama-Hagel Pentagon insists that it would never court-martial a Christian for sharing his faith, but fails to explain why it would accept advice from someone aggressively demanding that action. The Pentagon also claims that Weinstein cannot be called a consultant because he's not paid for his advice and holds no official position. Yet the dictionary defines a consultant as, "a person who gives professional or expert advice." There is nothing about having an official status or getting a paycheck.
Mikey Weinstein has been meeting with top Pentagon officials during the Obama administration since 2009. He continues to communicate with them at will, and they immediately respond to his demands. He is therefore an unpaid advisor to the Obama-Hagel Pentagon, with considerable influence.
Not only that, but it's been more than two weeks since roughly 100 congressmen demanded answers from Hagel, but have not heard a word in response. Yet this anti-Christian extremist brags about how the Pentagon leaps into action when he makes a demand, removing Christian artwork in less than an hour.
Lawmakers are likely to intensify their efforts to find out what's going on here, and what they can do to stop this assault on Christians in the military.

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49. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, HEALTH EXPENDITURE SERIES: MEXICO – NATIONAL EXPENDITURE ON HEALTH 1, 1 (2013), available at http://apps.who.int/nha/database/Standard Report.aspx?ID=REP_WEB_MINI_TEMPLATE_WEB_VERSION&COUNTRYKEY=840 27 (last visited Feb. 4, 2013).
50. See generally COMISIÓN NACIONAL DE PROTECCIÓN SOCIAL EN SALUD, CATÁLOGO UNIVERSAL DE SERVICIOS DE SALUD, available at http://www.seguropopular.salud.gob.mx/ index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=340&Itemid= 389 (last visited Feb. 4, 2013).
51. Julio Frenk et al., The Democratization of Health in Mexico: Financial Innovations for Universal Coverage, BULL. WHO 542, 543 (2009).


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Scotland Yard is a British crime television series which aired on the BBC in 1960. Each episode was a dramatised documentary of a real-life case tackled by Scotland Yard. It should not be confused with the contemporary film series of the same title, which was made between 1953-1961.

Actors who appeared in episodes of the show include Glyn Houston, Lee Montague, David Lyn, Nigel Stock, Lloyd Lamble, Norman Mitchell, John Barrie, Brian Wilde, Michael Robbins, Frederick Piper, Geoffrey Chater, Patrick Newell, Roddy Hughes, Anthony Sagar, Mary Hignett, Martin Boddey, Bryan Pringle, Peter Cellier, Patrick Cargill, Jill Bennett, Rita Webb, Vanda Godsell, Marianne Stone, and Michael Ripper.

References

Bibliography
 Cooke, Lez. Troy Kennedy Martin. Manchester University Press, 2007.

External links

BBC television dramas
1960 British television series debuts
1960 British television series endings
English-language television shows


So sad to hear that this story came off to you as melodramatic and poorly paced! I was absolutely drawn in by that opening synopsis. I may still give this novel a shot and see for myself. Great review!
I was very saddend by it to be honest, because the synopsis really hooked me as well! Definitely give it a go, I'd love to hear what you think!
❤ Don't worry! It will (hopefully 😉) be better.
I hate when you get pumped from the synopsis and read it and was like 'oh…that was everything then?' like badly done movie trailers! Sorry this was a flop!
Hm. I tend to avoid YA where there's weird insta romance and where authors use memes (which lbr, will be dead by time of publishing and will not age well) in their work. But the synopsis did kind of grab me.
However, after the bleccch experience that was Shadow & Bone for me with a similar writing style I will have to pass. Sometimes I feel like I'm getting too old for YA :'(.
Ahaha. My fave is simple college stories that turn into fantastic and magical worlds and basically the MC is like wtf just happened what did I do.
Hahah sorry Alex! I was hoping it would be good, but it just wasn't executed well. I totally know what you mean about the immortal being/teenage relationships. It's super strange. Not to mention these immortals should be really worldly and mature, so they date a teenager?! Makes zero sense!
Totally! I didn't actually realize how much it annoyed me until now! But everytime this happens it always turns out to be a VERY cheesy and ridiculous romance. Not my cup of tea!
😂 Maybe don't read this one!


Fee: 50 Yuan/ticket for its garden, 35 Yuan/for renting a boat, 10 Yuan/ticket for visiting Taigong Hill or Bao'en Temple.
Operation: The lake opens 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; May to October is the best time to visit.
Route: Take a bus from Changzhou Long Distance Bus Station; In Liyang City, take a Bus No. 9, directly to the lake.
Most of the lake region is located in Liyang City, under the jurisdiction of Changzhou. The region covers about 300 square kilometers, including two national reservoirs. The average depth of lake water is 10 meters with the deepest 28 meters.
The lake has been listed as one of the prestigious 4-AAAA tourist attraction sites since 2001 and is one of the best nature reserves in Jiangsu Province. The lake is protected by national laws and has achieved the second highest rating for the drinking water quality.
When visiting the lake, there are two things you might want to try: sample the tea, made from materials harvested around the lake area and mixed in with the lake water, and taste the fish, produced from the lake. Around the lake, there are also many historic sites that you can visit. Have fun by joining with other visitors in fishing, picking up tea leaves, and more.
A 4-AAAA tourist attraction with beautiful lake environment and water. Take your time to find a tea house or a restaurant to sample its tea and taste its fish.


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Q: How to find what is hammering my I/O? On a Ubuntu Linux machine that is used as a webserver, I see that I'm really hammering the I/O:
 - dysphoria():~$ iostat -d 3 3
Linux 3.13.0-45-generic (dysphoria)     2015-10-20      _x86_64_        (1 CPU)

Device:            tps    kB_read/s    kB_wrtn/s    kB_read    kB_wrtn
xvda             53.20      3228.67         3.63 1962017809    2203864
xvdf              0.00         0.00         0.00       1308          0

Device:            tps    kB_read/s    kB_wrtn/s    kB_read    kB_wrtn
xvda           1106.83     47900.72         0.00     133164          0
xvdf              0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

Device:            tps    kB_read/s    kB_wrtn/s    kB_read    kB_wrtn
xvda           1003.56     53824.91         8.54     151248         24
xvdf              0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

Note that the average I/O is high at 53, but the current I/O is over 1000! How might I determine what is causing this? In top I see that MySQL is at 20% CPU, and fatrace is not helping:
$ sudo fatrace
read: Value too large for defined data type

I've looked at this quetion but their issue was swap, which I don't have enabled as this is an AWS EC2 instance, with EBS (non-local) storage. Some information regarding the machine:
$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2000       1906         94          7          3       1239
-/+ buffers/cache:        663       1337
Swap:            0          0          0

$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS \n \l

$ uname -a
Linux dysphoria 3.13.0-45-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 13 19:36:28 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 62
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz
stepping        : 4
microcode       : 0x416
cpu MHz         : 2500.058
cache size      : 25600 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm xsaveopt fsgsbase smep erms
bogomips        : 5000.11
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

A: You need to use iotop to find which program with high IO usage first.
and use Some tools for MySQL monitoring.

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Worldwide Market of Herbal Medicine is Expected to Grow at a High Rate Creating lots of Opportunities
Gulfam Shabbir
The worldwide market of Herbal Medicine is expected to grow at the CAGR of 5.88% during the forecast period of 2018 to 2023 according to the report of Report Ocean. The increase in the use of the herbal product is the reason for the demand for herbal products. Herbal products are made up of natural substances which are preferred by the health conscious people.
The report also includes major players in the herbal medicine market along with their business strategy and analytics. The global market of herbal medicine is divided based on the type and use of products. The market is also dived based on the source of the material.
Major regions are taken into consideration during the analysis of this report which includes, Asia- Pacific, South America, North America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The political and social conditions of these regions are taken into consideration to provide a complete analysis.
https://www.reportocean.com/
The International Market of Medical Implants is Expected to Reach 121386.6 Million by the Year 2023
The International Market of Adventure Tourism is Expected to Grow at the CAGR of 17.4% from 2017 to 2023


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The Hemlock Society (sometimes called Hemlock Society USA) was an American right-to-die and assisted suicide advocacy organization which existed from 1980 to 2003. It was co-founded in Santa Monica, California by British author and activist Derek Humphry, his wife Ann Wickett Humphry and Gerald A. Larue. It relocated to Oregon in 1988 and, according to Humphry, had several homes over the course of its life. The group took its name from Conium maculatum, a highly poisonous biennial herbaceous flowering plant in the carrot family. The name was a direct reference to the method by which the Athenian philosopher Socrates took his life in 399 BC, as described in Plato's Phaedo.

The Hemlock Society's primary mission included providing information to the dying and supporting legislation permitting physician-assisted suicide. Its motto was "Good Life, Good Death". In 2003, the national organization renamed itself End of Life Choices. In 2004, some former members of the Hemlock Society, notably Derek Humphry and Faye Girsh, founded the Final Exit Network. It took its name from Humphry's 1991 book of the same name.

In 2003, the Hemlock Society changed its name to End-of-Life Choices. In 2004, End-of-Life Choices merged with Compassion in Dying, which is now known as Compassion and Choices. Several local and state organizations, including the Hemlock Society of Florida and the Hemlock Society of San Diego, have retained the Hemlock Society name. Others, such as the Hemlock Society of Illinois (now Final Options Illinois), have changed their names.

Name
According to former president Faye Girsh, the Hemlock Society was founded in 1980 and was named in reference to Socrates' decision to end his life by drinking hemlock rather than succumbing to an existence he found intolerable. In the fifth century B.C., Socrates was convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens by encouraging ideas seen as contrary to the Athenian regime. Though he was sentenced to death, Socrates could have chosen exile, but chose death, an act seen as dignified and noble by many supporters of assisted suicide.

History
Earlier right-to-die advocacy organizations, such as the Euthanasia Educational Council (which formed in 1967 and changed its name to Concern for Dying in 1978), predated the Hemlock Society.

The Hemlock Society was started in 1980 after the success of Derek Humphry's book Jean's Way (1978), which recounted how Humphry assisted his wife in committing suicide on 29 March 1975 after a long battle with cancer. Due to the success of Jean's Way, Humphry had received many letters from people asking for information about assisted suicide. He decided to start the Hemlock Society in an effort to campaign for a change in law and educate the terminally ill on assisted suicide and its methods. Initially started in Humphry's garage in Santa Monica, California, the group eventually moved to Eugene, Oregon, and had many other homes.

Let Me Die Before I Wake, Humphry's book on the methods of assisted suicide, was originally published for members of the Hemlock Society. Due to library and trade demand, the book was published for the market in 1982 and became part of the foundation for the Hemlock Society's reputation and income. In 1991, Humphry published Final Exit, subtitled "The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying". The book was a bestseller, though there were calls for it to be banned. After the success of Final Exit, Humphry left the Hemlock Society and started Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization in 1992.

The Society was a founding charter member of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, which began in 1980 in Oxford, England, and was led by Sidney D. Rosoff and Humphry.

The Society's national membership grew to include 40,000 individuals and eighty chapters.

The Society backed legislative efforts in California, Washington, Michigan, and Maine without success until the Oregon Death with Dignity Act was passed on October 27, 1997.

Past Hemlock Society USA presidents included Gerald A. Larue, Derek Humphry, Sidney D. Rosoff, Wiley Morrison, Arthur Metcalfe, John Westover, Faye J. Girsh. Past executive directors included Derek Humphry (acting 1980–1992), Cheryl K. Smith (1992–1993), John A. Pridonoff (1993–1995), Helen Voorhis (acting 1995–1996), and Faye J. Girsh (1996–2000).

In the media
In the 2010 television film You Don't Know Jack, which dramatizes the activism of former Oakland County, Michigan pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian, fellow activist Janet Good (played by Susan Sarandon) meets Kevorkian (played by Al Pacino) during a meeting of the eastern Michigan chapter of the Hemlock Society which Good has organized. Good later offers to let Kevorkian use her home as the location of the assisted suicide of his first patient, Janet Adkins, but later withdraws the offer because her husband Ray, a former member of the Detroit Police Department, questions the legality of assisted suicide in the state. It forces Kevorkian to use his Volkswagen camper van instead. Good is later stricken with pancreatic cancer and, on August 26, 1997, becomes Kevorkian's 82nd patient. Oakland County deputy medical examiner Kanu Virani, however, later said Good did not have cancer.

See also
 Compassion & Choices
 Oregon Death with Dignity Act
 Right to Die
 World Federation of Right to Die Societies

References

The archives of the Hemlock Society and Derek Humphry are at the Allen Library, University of Washington, Seattle, United States

Bibliography

 Farewell to Hemlock: Killed by its name, an essay by Derek Humphry 21 February 2005

External links
 Final Exit, website of Derek Humphry
 Hemlock Foundation of Florida Inc.
 Hemlock Society of San Diego
 Compassion & Choices

Assisted suicide


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Residence hall guest policy will return to pre-COVID-19 standard beginning March 19
Beginning March 19, the University's guest policies for on-campus housing will extend to allow non-affiliate guests. This policy change comes after the lifting of other restrictions as a result of high vaccination and booster rates on campus.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2022/03/residence-hall-guest-policy-will-return-to-pre-covid-19-standard-beginning-march-19
Hopkins relaxes some COVID-19 safety protocols but maintains mask mandate
In an email sent to the Hopkins community on Feb. 25, the University announced the loosening of enhanced COVID-19 safety protocols citing the local and national decrease in cases and hospitalizations as well as high vaccination and booster rates on campus.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2022/02/hopkins-relaxes-some-covid-19-safety-protocols-but-maintains-mask-mandate
University holds large in-person lectures amid Omicron guidelines
This semester, the University has allowed the resumption of certain large in-person lecture classes, some with over 100 people, despite enhanced COVID-19 policies due to the Omicron variant.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2022/02/university-holds-large-in-person-lectures-amid-omicron-guidelines
COVID-19 restrictions loosened for residence halls, events
Effective Feb. 7, the University lifted certain restrictions related to guest policies for residence halls and club and athletic events, citing low COVID-19 case counts on campus.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2022/02/covid-19-restrictions-loosened-for-residence-halls-events
University resumes indoor dining citing low campus COVID-19 numbers
The University announced modifications to its COVID-19 policies for the spring semester in response to the low number of positive tests in the first week of students returning to campus in an email to the Hopkins community on Sunday. The modifications include resuming in-person dining and requiring a negative COVID-19 test before leaving quarantine.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2022/02/university-resumes-indoor-dining-citing-low-campus-covid-19-numbers
University announces further COVID-19 policy changes for spring return to campus
In an email to the Hopkins community on Jan. 14, the University announced several modifications to COVID-19 policies for the spring semester in response to the omicron variant.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2022/01/university-announces-further-covid-19-policy-changes-for-spring-return-to-campus
University updates COVID-19 guidelines for spring 2022 semester
In an email to the Hopkins community on Dec. 31, the University announced modifications to its COVID-19 policies for the spring 2022 semester due to the omicron variant.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2022/01/university-updates-covid-19-guidelines-for-spring-2022-semester
University will require booster shots for those engaged in on-campus activity
Yesterday, the University announced that Hopkins affiliates who work or study at its U.S. campuses will be required to get a Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 booster shot by Feb. 1 Affiliates will need to upload documentation of their booster shot in the University's Vaccine Management System. In interviews with The News-Letter, students expressed support for the mandate, and shared concerns about rising cases associated with the omicron variant.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/12/university-will-require-booster-shots-for-those-engaged-in-on-campus-activity
COVID-19 cluster reported among graduate students
University affiliates announced a surge in COVID-19 cases among graduate students in the past week in an email to the Hopkins community on Dec. 17.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/12/covid-19-cluster-reported-among-graduate-students
University announces changes in outdoor dining policy
The University announced on Oct. 26 that food and drink will be permitted at outdoor events. Previously, only single-serving, grab-and-go options were permitted to mitigate risks of COVID-19 transmission. University administrators noted that this change came because of high COVID-19 vaccination rates on campus.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/10/university-announces-changes-in-outdoor-dining-policy
Hopkins announces increased testing protocols for fully vaccinated students
The University announced in an email to the student body on August 27 that all fully vaccinated undergraduate students living both on and off-campus will need to be tested once a week. Previously, fully vaccinated students living off-campus were not required to be tested. Those with approved exemptions to the vaccine regulations will still need to be tested twice a week. Additionally, pregnancy will no longer be an accepted exception to the vaccine mandate.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/08/hopkins-announces-increased-testing-protocols-for-fully-vaccinated-students
A checklist of Hopkins COVID-19 protocols
Dear Class of '25,
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/08/a-checklist-of-hopkins-covid-19-protocols
University to only accept FDA-approved vaccines
In a reversal from previously declared policy, the University announced in an email on August 19 that it will only accept COVID-19 vaccines approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which currently includes the Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccines.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/08/university-to-only-accept-fda-approved-vaccines
Hopkins will require masks when indoors for all
In a reversal from previous fall semester masking guidelines, the University announced earlier today that it will reimpose the indoor masking mandate and reinstate social distancing requirements for indoor dining. According to the email, the policies will take effect August 5 for all affiliates, regardless of vaccination status.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/08/hopkins-will-require-masks-when-indoors-for-all
Baltimore to lift citywide mask mandate
Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott announced on June 16 that the citywide mask mandate and state of emergency will be lifted as of July 1. Scott noted that businesses and workplaces will be allowed to continue their own mask mandates. These new mask guidelines came the day after Maryland Governor Larry Hogan did the same for the state.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/06/baltimore-to-lift-citywide-mask-mandate
University announces summer health guidelines
Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Jane Schlegel announced that the University will be offering COVID-19 vaccine clinics on campus in an email to the Hopkins community on May 18. Registration is open for the first clinic, which will be held in the Glass Pavillion on Thursday, May 20.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/05/university-announces-summer-health-guidelines
University announces mostly in-person fall semester
Hopkins announced plans on Friday to largely return to normal this fall. Most classes will be held in person, and COVID-19 vaccines will be required for students. On-campus housing will be open at near-full capacity, and residency requirements will be reinstated for freshmen and sophomores. Administrators will determine face covering requirements based on public health conditions closer to the fall.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/04/university-announces-mostly-in-person-fall-semester
Hopkins announces the end of austerity measures
Hopkins suspended employer retirement contributions a year ago as part of its austerity measures to offset financial challenges due to COVID-19. On April 2, the University announced the full restoration of these benefits, as well as $10 million in research funding for faculty and $5 million for PhD students.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/04/hopkins-announces-the-end-of-austerity-measures
Maryland expands vaccine access to everyone 16 and older
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced on Monday that all residents 16 and older are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at mass vaccination sites, effective April 6.
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/04/maryland-expands-vaccine-access-to-everyone-16-and-older
University expands limits for indoor and outdoor gatherings
The University increased undergraduate gathering limits to 10 people indoors and 25 people outdoors, effective on March 31. Previously, these numbers were capped at five people indoors and 10 people for outdoor meetings.
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Backyard sunshade must be retracted for rain or wind.
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On a question on absconding businessman Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi, Kumar said that in the case of Nirav Modi, extradition requests from the CBI and ED are pending with the UK authorities.
The request for extradition of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi is being "examined" by Antigua and Barbuda, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
Answering a question on Choksi, MEA Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar at a briefing said, "According to the information that I have, the extradition request by the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) and the ED (Enforcement Directorate), is being examined by them (Antigua and Barbuda authorities) and after they have examined it, they have said they will convey their response to India."
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had met Foreign Minister of Antigua and Barbuda E P Chet Greene last month on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly and raised the issue of extradition of Choksi, who is currently in the Caribbean island.
Greene had conveyed to Swaraj the assurances of his Prime Minister for fullest cooperation of their government in the matter of extradition of Choksi to India, Kumar had said after the meeting.
Choksi is one of the alleged masterminds of the $2 billion scam in state-run Punjab National Bank and is an uncle of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi. He is wanted in India by the CBI and ED probing the fraud.
"The requests are under consideration," he said.
"We are committed to take this matter forward and to bring back the economic offenders," he said.
On Mallya, he said the Westminster Magistrates' Court has fixed December 10 as the date for a verdict in the case.


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Drive to Overturn Citizens United Under Way
The campaign to overturn Citizens United by adopting a Twenty-Eighth Amendment is starting to gain steam with Los Angeles voters heading to the polls soon to vote on a constitutional amendment to overturn the horrendous decision that the Supreme Court handed down in 2010. I have spoken with many people who think it's pointless to pursue this because the Supreme Court has spoken on the issue. That means that there is no better time than NOW to stand up and reject the Supreme Court's decision. They have the final say on the Constitutionality of a law that was pased, NOT on a Constitutional Amendment. The Supreme Court can do NOTHING if Americans stand up and publicly refute them.
I am under no illusion that this will be an easy task to accomplish, but does that mean that we should just give up as a citizenry? Should we just accept that our Supreme Court is in the pocket books of the moneyed interests? No, we should not! It is a long and drawn out process to amend our Constitution, but when Americans stand up and demand something as one, it gets done. This is not even a political issue. The vast majority of conservatives and liberals in this country agree that this was a terrible decision. That alone should give those saying an Amendment could never pass some pause. Conservatives and liberals can't agree if it's partly sunny or partly cloudy outside, so it is a breath of fresh air that even the most hard core conservative people out there don't believe that a multinational corporation is a physical person.
Let's stand with Los Angeles and other municipalities as they begin the process of encouraging our elected leaders to listen to their constituents. Democracy is messy and frustrating, but being a perpetual optimist gives me hope that brighter days are ahead for our country. Americans need to remember that no corporation can win if we stand as one and demand that we have an equal playing field with them.


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Champions of Pride
Meet Rhode Island Pride's Best-Kept Secret
If you've ever been to Rhode Island Pride, you have Alexis Gorriarán to thank.
By Daniel Reynolds
June 17 2019 2:53 PM EDT
If you're an LGBTQ person or ally in Rhode Island, you know Alexis Gorriarán — or you've at least benefited from his contributions to the Ocean State. Now, you will now him as one of The Advocate's Champions of Pride.
An activist of over 20 years, the 45-year-old Providence resident served as president of Rhode Island Pride for nearly a decade. In this capacity, he cofounded the state's famous night Pride parade, which raised the visibility of the Rhode Island's LGBTQ community, illuminated Providence as a queer capital, and brought a windfall of tourism to the Divine City.
In addition to Pride, Gorriarán has worked with the National LGBTQ Task Force and serves as chair and commissioner of the Providence Tourism Council. He is also the former LGBTQ liaison to the city of Providence and directed the mayoral inaugurations in 2011, 2015, and 2019.
A certified special event professional, he also works as the senior director of marketing for (add)ventures, produces events for governments, nonprofits, and companies alike. As a gay man of Cuban descent who is bilingual, Gorriarán is proud to be an ambassador of Providence and its diversity.
"As the creative capital, Providence has developed a culture of inclusivity, social justice, equality and advocacy for the LGBTQ community," he says. "Celebrating the pride and diversity of our community has become a fabric of our city and the state of Rhode Island. We have made some great strides to create a welcoming and incredibly diverse city that allows individuals to live their truth."
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Performance poet Chris Huet, aka CJ Bowerbird, shared the stage with his brother Pete Huet, part time zinester and bassist for indie rock band Waterford for Saturday night's gRage session in the Money Bin. The Huet brothers sat onstage in two hideous mossy-coloured single sofas dredged up from the past alongside 2XX FM host and gRage presenter, Yen Eriksen, as part of the You Are Here 2014 arts festival.
A small audience sank down into bean bags and patterned couches in the venue's makeshift lounge room for YAH's live version of the music video program Rage, complete with its own guest programmers.
Between each music video, Eriksen chatted with CJ and Pete about work processes and practice, the importance of narrative and musicality within art, and whether or not there exists a Sigur Rós music video featuring Icelandic elves.
At times the trio had trouble keeping a natural Q&A rhythm so there were a few uncomfortable pauses and strained responses throughout the discussion. Pete sometimes seemed uneasy being interviewed on stage but Eriksen still managed to persuade him to join her in a short grapevine dance demonstration. A compelling music video selection, CJ's grounding stage presence and Pete's self deprecating humour all drew smiles from the audience throughout the night.
The videos picked by Pete and CJ challenged or surpassed the conventions of the music video medium. In particular Pete's pick, the Bastards of Young by The Replacements supplanted the commonplace flashy music video with a black and white clip that consists of a 4 minute stony close up of a stereo blasting out the track.
The night was bookended with music videos that CJ confessed have been known to make him cry. Viðrar vel til loftárása by Sigur Rós was the first, a haunting and gorgeously shot clip that tells the story of the reactions of a community and family to two young boys exploring their sexuality. The final music video of the night was the stunning cover of electronic duo Crystal Castles' Untrust Us by the Capital Children's Choir. In this recording the original synthetic sounds are replaced with an insane combination of angelic voices and the simple sound of clapping hands.
An enjoyable surprise came at the end of the night with a performance from CJ and Pete that involved the brothers reading aloud each other's poems and written works. Most emotive were the pieces about childhood. Pete recreated CJ's experience of whoooooing down a hill on a billy cart and CJ crawled through a storm water drain from Pete's memory. This clever exchange of words was a well played move by the Huet brothers that showed that they too could move beyond the conventions of their medium for a night.
Kathryn Ford is one of those twenty-somethings that can be found wandering around government buildings and cafes in Canberra. She adores art and a powerful film, book or show can light her up for days or turn her into an angsty mess ruminating over every melancholic moment.
She is stoked to check out some YAH events and see how this city moves during an arts festival. She is confident that YAH will leave us all equipped with the ability to defend ourselves from parasitic ear-entering Yeerks and gifted with mad dance skillz that can only be learned from dancing in the dark.


Don't get me wrong—Chicago's already a terrific place to ride a bicycle. It's flat, with a bike-friendly street grid and a scenic, 18.5-mile Lakefront Trail. Since the early nineties, the City of Chicago has spent $100 million to push pedaling, striping over 110 miles of bike lanes, installing more than 12,000 bike-parking racks, and educating tens of thousands of people about safe cycling via Mayor Daley's Bicycling Ambassadors. Cyclists have access to buses and trains, we've got a fancy bike station in Millennium Park, and the list goes on.
But when Newcity asked me, a former Active Transportation Alliance staffer and consultant to the Chicago Department of Transportation's (CDOT) Bicycle Program, for my take on the current state of bike culture in Chicago, one word sprang to mind: stagnant.
On some levels things are going great. Since changing its name from the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, Active Trans has been doing yeoman's work building a coalition of biking, walking and transit interests. This has helped double the organization's budget and staff size, increasing its clout to promote green, healthy travel.
We now have four community bike centers spread from Woodlawn to Rogers Park, most teaching bike handling and mechanical skills to inner-city youth and selling refurbished rides to residents for cheap, green transportation. Three of these co-ops have expanded to larger digs in the last year or so.
There are now three Euro-style bicycle shops selling stylish, practical city bikes and cargo cycles, plus a gaggle of other new stores serving the ever-expanding ranks of daily commuters. After all, CDOT says bike traffic has quadrupled on Milwaukee Avenue over the last six years.
The Chainlink, a social networking site for Chicago cyclists, has ballooned to almost 4,000 members in just two years. There are now a multitude of two-wheeled subcultures in this city, some of which I've probably never even heard of. Why, only yesterday I heard the term "Tarck-ing" (fixed-gear, freestyle trick riding) for the first time.
But lately CDOT and other city agencies have been spinning their wheels when it comes to making bicycling safer, more convenient and fun through innovative bike facilities and programming. To paraphrase Daniel Burnham, they've been making little plans that have no magic to stir cyclists' blood.
This current leadership vacuum was apparent at this year's lackluster Bike to Work Rally. Mayor Daley, who usually shows up to give an enthusiastic if somewhat cryptic speech at the annual rally, was conspicuous by his absence.
CDOT Commissioner Bobby Ware, subbing for the mayor, seemed to know little about his agency's bike projects. He spoke with his nose in his notes, referred to the City's Bike 2015 Plan blueprint for cycling as the "2010 Plan," and mangled the name of a Bicycle Program staffer who accepted an award on behalf of the program.
In fairness, Ware's only been on the job for a month. But the fact that CDOT has had five commissioners in six years, for reasons known only to Mayor Daley, has slowed the pace of bicycle planning. Each new commish has to be brought up to speed on cycling issues, and this wastes precious time.
Another speed bump to better bike facilities and events has been the city's reluctance to put some skin in the game. Daley, rumored to be a cyclist himself, is often cited as the U.S. mayor who is most outspoken in support of biking. And as a powerful politician, his lip service is in fact crucial for motivating bureaucrats to support bicycle projects.
But like our under-funded transit system, bicycling gets almost no money from the city budget. Virtually all of the cash CDOT spends on bike initiatives comes from federal and state funds, often through federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality grants which come from a tax on gasoline.
This stinginess makes it harder to pull off bold schemes like the "ciclovia," an event that shuts down several miles of streets to cars, creating safe places to bike, walk and socialize. Active Trans first proposed bringing this Latin American concept to Chicago in the early 2000s, well before other U.S. cities were talking about it. But City Hall's insistence on a heavy police presence and reluctance to foot the bill delayed the program for years while Active Trans struggled to raise the necessary funds.
The ciclovia finally debuted in 2008 as "Sunday Parkways," with events on two different 3.5-mile courses on Sundays in the fall. In 2009 it was consolidated to one seven-mile summer Saturday event, called "Open Streets." After these modest successes, the program fizzled out due to the difficulty of funding it—there will be no major events in Chicago in 2010. Meanwhile, city-funded ciclovias have flourished in other cities. New York is staging three this year, Portland, Oregon is staging five, and San Francisco is staging nine.
Chicago used to be the poster child for big-city bike improvements. A few years ago, New York's Transportation Alternatives advocacy group liked to use the Second City's successes to shame the then-sluggish New York DOT into action. But things changed in 2007 when New York got a dynamic, bike-friendly new transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan. In recent years Chicago has fallen behind New York and many other cities in several aspects of promoting cycling.
Chicago has installed more bike racks than any other U.S. city. But last year the City began uprooting most of Chicago's parking meters to make way for pay-and-display units, eliminating tens of thousands of de facto bike-parking spots. Meanwhile, CDOT has not installed any new bike racks for months and will not be doing so anytime soon, due to installation contract delays.
On-street bike parking, where a single car parking space is filled with racks to accommodate a dozen cycles, reducing sidewalk clutter and advertising the space efficiency of bikes, is becoming commonplace in Portland, Oregon and San Francisco. Although Andersonville's Cheetah Gym, with the blessing of the local chamber of commerce, asked for on-street racks several years ago, CDOT passed on this opportunity, citing concerns about safety. Chicago still hasn't tried on-street bike parking.
Millennium Park's $3 million, state-of-the-art bike station opened to fanfare in 2004, but the facility is too far east to be of much use to most Loop commuters. The Bike 2015 Plan calls for building a second bike station in the West Loop, near Union Station and the Ogilvie Center, so that Metra commuters could pick up bikes to pedal to their offices. Although space was available to build the station in Metra's new French Market, next to the Ogilvie Center, CDOT missed the boat on this opportunity as well.
Separated bikeways, where cyclists are protected from cars by a curb or other physical barrier, are widespread in Europe and are becoming more common in U.S. cities. New York's separated bike lane on Sixth Avenue, for example, has been a hugely popular experiment, but Chicago has yet to try this idea.
Automated bike rental has been commonplace in Europe for years. Paris' Velib system, with 20,000 bikes at rental kiosks all over town, is credited with doubling the modal share for cycling. Chicago has been talking about this idea for years and in 2007 Mayor Daley rode a Velib bike in Paris. But Washington D.C. beat us to the punch two years ago, Denver now has 500 automated rental bikes and Minneapolis will be getting 1,000 this summer. Chicago is finally piloting a bike-share program this July, but once again we're thinking small, with only 100 bikes in six Loop locations.
But perhaps the most frustrating example of Chicago being the first to come up with a good idea for cycling but the last to implement it is the Bloomingdale Trail. As early as 1997, planners proposed turning the little-used Bloomingdale elevated rail line on the Near Northwest Side into a multi-use path and the Chicago Plan Commission committed to the idea in 2004.
Although the rugged, now-abandoned rail bed is already getting plenty of illegal use from cyclists, joggers and squatters, the city seems to be dragging its heels on renovating the structure and opening it to the public. It's unlikely to open until the end of this decade. Meanwhile, New York's elegant High Line "vertical park," a similar project that wasn't officially proposed until 1999, debuted last year to huge acclaim—it's already had millions of visitors.
As a follower, not a leader, in all these different categories, it's no wonder Chicago dropped in Bicycling magazine's ranking of the best large U.S. cities for biking, from first place in 2001 to tenth place in 2010. It's not that things are bad here, it's just that more exciting stuff is happening more quickly elsewhere.
Active Trans will be hiring a new director soon, and it will be interesting to see if this person can light a fire under CDOT and other departments to make some of the above projects happen sooner than later. But again, Active Trans can only push so hard, because the advocacy group depends on the city for consulting dollars.
Unlike in liberal, temperate West Coast cities where bicycling has long been popular and politicians have responded to demands from the public for better bike facilities, cycling in Chicago has traditionally been a "top-down" affair. Under Daley, the city has installed paths, lanes and racks in an effort to coax people out of their cars.
But now that Chicago cycling has gained momentum while CDOT's bike initiatives have lost steam, it's time for a "bottom-up" approach. Citizens need to start pressuring City Hall to put the mettle to the pedal.
It's worked before. After seriously injuring herself when she wiped out on one of Chicago's dangerous metal-grate bridges, in 2002 Kathy Schubert launched a letter-writing campaign demanding that the bridges be made safer for cyclists. The campaign infuriated then-CDOT Commissioner Miguel d'Escoto, but after receiving dozens of postcards, he ordered the Bicycle Program to start working on the problem. Eventually metal plates were installed on bridges at Wells and Cortland.
The Bike 2015 Plan, released in 2006, calls for the establishment of ten miles of "bike boulevards," traffic-calmed, residential streets where cycling is encouraged because cars are forced to slow down, common in Portland, Oregon, Berkeley and other cities. Last fall Sarah Kaplan grew frustrated that little action had been taken on this proposal. She formed the grassroots group Bike Boulevards Now! to lobby the city to get moving on the idea. CDOT Bicycle Program Coordinator Ben Gomberg now says he's hoping to establish Chicago's first bike boulevard by 2011.
If you want Chicago to remain a first-class bicycling town, contact your alderman, CDOT, or the Mayor's Office to demand that the city starts implementing big plans for biking—now. Tell them you want immediate action on exciting projects like separated bikeways, on-street bike racks, a new bike station, a large-scale bike-share program, city-funded ciclovias and the Bloomingdale Trail. Or, better yet, form your own grassroots group, recruit members via the Chainlink, and start organizing for change. It's time to put the rubber on the road.


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Florence-Darlington Technical College Automotive Students Serve As Guests Of STP At Darlington Raceway
by Hunter Thomas	September 6, 2017 0 comments
FLORENCE, S.C. – Fifteen Florence-Darlington Technical College (FDTC) Automotive Technology students were guests of STP and enjoyed an experience of a lifetime during the Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on Sunday, September 3, 2017.
While at the track Too Tough To Tame, FDTC Auto Tech students toured the legendary track and learned firsthand of how NASCAR teams operate on a race weekend. The experience was all courtesy of STP, a longtime partner of Richard Petty Motorsports.
"It was a privilege to host students from Florence-Darlington Technical College at Darlington Raceway," said Katina Wall, Marketing Director for STP. "There are automotive aficionados and future DIY-era in every community where NASCAR races. Their desire to learn more about the technological aspect of the sport, as well as future career options, is something STP is both happy to fulfill and enjoy seeing."
Former crew chief and NBC Sports analyst, Steve Letarte, greeted the students when they arrived at Richard Petty Motorsports' No. 43 team hauler. Letarte took the students inside the hauler and explained the process of how the team works on a race weekend. Afterwards, he gave a guided tour of NASCAR's technical inspection in the garage area. Students followed a race team through the technical inspection process and saw just how perfect the cars had to be before they hit the high banks of Darlington Raceway.
"This opportunity was a dream come true for Florence-Darlington Technical College's Automotive Technology students," said FDTC Public Information Specialist Hunter Thomas. "The college can't thank STP and Richard Petty Motorsports enough for this wonderful experience. For the students to get a private tour by Daytona 500 winning crew chief Steve Letarte is just priceless. The knowledge that Letarte has of the sport is just unparalleled."
Following the garage tour, FDTC students experienced an up close and personal view of the NASCAR driver/crew chief meeting that's held prior to every event. All of NASCAR's superstars were gathered in one place as students stood by and learned about the various procedures that drivers go through during competition. Students then walked outside of the tunnel and attended an appearance by Richard Petty at the STP display area. At the end of the day, students enjoyed the 68th running of the Bojangles' Southern 500 from the grandstands.
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Global maritime salvage company Ardent has teamed up with one of Greece's largest providers of tugs and a leading expert in pollution control in the region to provide emergency response services in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The partnership combines the expertise of Ardent and two Greece-based companies, Vernicos Tugs and Salvage and Environmental Protection of Engineering.
The three companies signed a cooperation agreement on 20th March 2018 to closely work together on future opportunities and at the same time retain their own corporate identities.
Vernicos Tugs and Salvage, is one of the oldest tug and salvage companies in Greece with 150 years of experience. In addition to its salvage experience, the company also owns through its consortiums the largest fleet of tugboats in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Environmental Protection Engineering S.A. (EPE), established in Piraeus in 1977, has successfully responded to more than two thousand pollution incidents over the last four decades, bringing to the table state-of-the-art equipment, specialized vessels, and highly trained and experienced personnel.
Ardent's formation companies are credited with multiple high-profile salvage jobs, including the raising the "Costa Concordia" off Italy (Titan), the refloating the grounded car-carrier "Hoegh Osaka" in the U.K. (Svitzer), extinguishing of the Caribbean Fantasy fire in Puerto Rico (Ardent), and more recently removed the jack-up, "Troll Solution" from the Gulf of Mexico (also Ardent).
"Ardent brings to the partnership experience in the world's most technically challenging salvage and wreck removal jobs in history, along with a cache of specialized, proprietary equipment – which will now be strategically stored at Vernicos' various depots, including Perama," said Dimitris Theodorou Ardent's Director EMEA.
"The Alliance allows us to be the most effective provider of marine emergency response services in the region, providing an integrated network of floating assets as well as specialized equipment. It is a joint effort to pro-actively protect our seas by providing emergency response in the Eastern Mediterranean and surrounding regions," said Jean Benzonana, Vernicos Tugs Chief Executive Officer.
"The synergies between the three companies will guarantee providing timely solutions in responding to marine incidents in the area of Eastern Mediterranean, and safeguarding the environment at the same time", said Mr. Vasilis Mamaloukas, EPE Director.


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Nicki Minaj Announced Adele Collaboration, Then Back Pedaled
Source: @PhotosByBeanz / @PhotosByBeanz
Nicki Minaj has been the bearer of fake news lately. From the abrupt announcement then retraction of her "retirement", to her latest stunt, fans are understandably giving her the side-eye.
During an interview at her Fendi capsule collection launch on Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles on Tuesday (Oct.15), Nicki Minaj was asked by Entertainment Tonight if she and Adele would be joining forces in the studio anytime soon, to which Minaj responded that a collaboration was already underway.
"Yes and yes, yes and yes, wooo hoo!" Minaj excited stated. "But Adele made me swear to secrecy that I'm not allowed to tell anyone that I'm working with her. And that we already shot a video. And it's an epic song! Ahh!"
Adele proved she can rap a Nicki Minaj verse, but will these two ever join forces? Nicki says she was kidding, but we're still Barbie Dreamin' for a collab!
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The announcement quickly gained steam as fans of both were overjoyed, but that joy was quickly diminished after Nicki announced that the big reveal was just a "joke."
"Omg guys. I thought everyone could clearly see I was being sarcastic. Sh*t! Now I have to go to Adele's studio & steal some files. Who's in the UK? I got a job for you ." Would a Nicki-Adele collaboration work?"
Omg guys. I thought everyone could clearly see I was being sarcastic. Shit! Now I have to go to Adele's studio & steal some files. Who's in the UK? I got a job for you https://t.co/oyh4hECNCC
— Mrs. Petty (@NICKIMINAJ) October 16, 2019
While Nicki Minaj may be "joking" about her work collaborations, there is one collaboration that she is taking very seriously and that is her union with boyfriend Kenneth Petty. During an interview with E! News, Minaj revealed that marriage is definitely happening and it could be as soon as within the week.
"We've gotten our marriage license, but there's a particular pastor who I want to officiate and so she was just made available as of today," she said. "She told me she's available within the next week, so we could be married in the next seven days."
In August, Nicki Minaj announced that she and her boyfriend were officially engaged after revealing that the two had obtained a marriage license.
"We still had to pick it up and I was traveling, by the time I came back, we had to renew it again," Nicki Minaj said at the time. "From that time, you have 90 days to get married. That was about a week ago, so now I have about 80 days."
Although she has big plans for her family life, Minaj assured fans that the wedding wouldn't stop her from releasing new music.
"I have to work on my album and I have a lot to focus on that I don't want to do the big wedding now. We'll do the big wedding later," Minaj continued. "I'll be married before my album comes out, but will have my wedding after the album comes out. Before the 90 days is over, yes, I will be married."
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package com.espirit.moddev.cli.commands.project.exportCommand;

import de.espirit.firstspirit.access.AdminService;
import de.espirit.firstspirit.access.Connection;
import de.espirit.firstspirit.access.ServerActionHandle;
import de.espirit.firstspirit.access.admin.ProjectStorage;
import de.espirit.firstspirit.access.export.ExportFile;
import de.espirit.firstspirit.access.export.ExportParameters;
import de.espirit.firstspirit.access.export.ExportProgress;
import de.espirit.firstspirit.access.project.Project;
import de.espirit.firstspirit.access.script.ExecutionException;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Class that can export a given FirstSpirit project from a server.
 */
public class ProjectExporter {
    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ProjectExporter.class);

    /**
     * Exports a project specified by projectExportParameters from a FirstSpirit server.
     *
     * @param connection              The connection that is used to access the FirstSpirit server
     * @param projectExportParameters ProjectExportParameters representing the project which is going to be exported.
     * @return true if the project was exported successfully, false otherwise.
     * @throws IllegalStateException If the given connection is null or not connected.
     * @throws ExecutionException    If a project with the given name does not exist on the server.
     */
    public boolean exportProject(@Nullable final Connection connection, @NotNull final ProjectExportParameters projectExportParameters) {
        if (connection == null || !connection.isConnected()) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Please provide a connected connection");
        }
        if (!projectExistsOnServer(connection, projectExportParameters)) {
            throw new ExecutionException("Project with name '"
                    + projectExportParameters.getProjectName()
                    + "' does not exist on server and could not be exported!");
        }

        final String exportDir = projectExportParameters.getProjectExportPath();
        if (!exportPathIsWritable(exportDir)) {
            throw new ExecutionException("Export directory '"
                    + projectExportParameters.getProjectExportPath()
                    + "' is not writable!");
        }

        return performExport(connection, projectExportParameters);
    }

    /**
     * Check whether a project with the given name exists on the connected server.
     *
     * @param connection              A connected connection to the FirstSpirit server.
     * @param projectExportParameters ProjectExportParameters containing the projectName to lookup.
     * @return true if the project exists on the server, false otherwise.
     */
    protected boolean projectExistsOnServer(@NotNull final Connection connection, @NotNull final ProjectExportParameters projectExportParameters) {
        return connection.getProjectByName(projectExportParameters.getProjectName()) != null;
    }

    /**
     * Fail-fast approach when export directory is not writable.
     *
     * @param exportDirectory Export directory to check
     * @return true if the directory is writable, false otherwise
     */
    protected boolean exportPathIsWritable(String exportDirectory) {
        if (exportDirectory == null || exportDirectory.isEmpty()) {
            return false;
        }

        final File exportDir = new File(exportDirectory);
        if (exportDir.exists()) {
            return exportDir.canWrite();
        } else {
            final File parentExportDir = exportDir.getParentFile();
            if (parentExportDir != null) {
                return exportPathIsWritable(parentExportDir.getAbsolutePath());
            } else {
                return false;
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Perform the actual export.
     * Sub-tasks are:
     * Check if project is available and activated, start project export, download project export to the filesystem.
     *
     * @param connection              A connected connection to the FirstSpirit server.
     * @param projectExportParameters ProjectExportParameters containing information about the project to export
     * @return true if the export performed without any errors, false otherwise.
     */
    protected boolean performExport(@NotNull final Connection connection, @NotNull final ProjectExportParameters projectExportParameters) {
        final String projectName = projectExportParameters.getProjectName();
        final Project fsProject = connection.getProjectByName(projectName);

        if (fsProject != null) {
            if (!fsProject.isActive()) {
                if (projectExportParameters.isFsForceProjectActivation()) {
                    if (!activateProjectByForce(connection, fsProject)) {
                        LOGGER.error("Project could not be activated.");
                        return false;
                    }
                } else {
                    LOGGER.error("Project is deactivated. Please set --fsForceProjectActivation to activate the project.");
                    return false;
                }
            }

            // Project must be active at this point
            final ProjectStorage projectStorage = connection.getService(AdminService.class).getProjectStorage();
            final ExportParameters exportParameters = new ExportParameters(
                    fsProject.getId(),
                    projectName
            );

            exportParameters.setExportDeletedElements(projectExportParameters.isExportDeletedElements());
            exportParameters.setMaxRevisionCount(projectExportParameters.getMaxRevisionCount());

            final List<ExportFile> exportFiles = triggerExport(projectStorage, exportParameters);
            final boolean downloadSuccessful = downloadExportFilesToFileSystem(projectExportParameters.getProjectExportPath(), projectStorage, exportFiles);
            if (downloadSuccessful && projectExportParameters.isDeleteExportFiles()) {
                deleteExportFiles(projectStorage, exportFiles);
            }
            return downloadSuccessful;
        } else {
            LOGGER.error("Project '" + projectName + "' not found on server.");
            return false;
        }
    }

    private void deleteExportFiles(ProjectStorage projectStorage, List<ExportFile> exportFiles) {
        try {
            for (ExportFile exportFile : exportFiles) {
                projectStorage.deleteExportFile(exportFile);
            }
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            LOGGER.warn("Export files could not be deleted.", e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Enforce project activation.
     *
     * @param connection A connected connection a FirstSpirit server.
     * @param fsProject  The project to check for activation.
     * @return Whether the activation was successful or not.
     */
    protected boolean activateProjectByForce(@NotNull final Connection connection, @NotNull final Project fsProject) {
        LOGGER.info("Project '" + fsProject.getName() + "' is not active! Trying to activate...");
        AdminService adminService = connection.getService(AdminService.class);
        adminService.getProjectStorage().activateProject(fsProject);

        fsProject.refresh();
        return fsProject.isActive();
    }

    protected List<ExportFile> triggerExport(final ProjectStorage projectStorage, final ExportParameters exportParameters) {
        try {
            final ServerActionHandle<ExportProgress, Boolean> exportHandle = projectStorage.startExport(exportParameters);
            return waitUntilExportFinished(exportHandle);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            LOGGER.error("Export failed due to an i/o exception.", e);
            return Collections.emptyList();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Wait for the server export to finish.
     *
     * @param exportHandle Handle of the active export job.
     */
    protected List<ExportFile> waitUntilExportFinished(ServerActionHandle<ExportProgress, Boolean> exportHandle) {
        ExportProgress exportProgress = exportHandle.getProgress(true);
        while (!exportProgress.isFinished()) {
            exportProgress = exportHandle.getProgress(true);
            LOGGER.info("Exporting...");
            try {
                Thread.sleep(2500);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                LOGGER.error("Thread sleep failed!", e);
                Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
            }
        }

        LOGGER.info("ExportProgress finished");
        return exportProgress.getExportFiles();
    }

    /**
     * Downloads the exported file(s) to the filesystem.
     * Ensures that the export directory exists beforehand.
     *
     * @param projectExportPath The download directory for the exported project.
     * @param projectStorage    ProjectStorage who processed the export.
     * @param exportFiles       List of all exported files.
     * @return true if the whole process was successful, false otherwise.
     */
    protected boolean downloadExportFilesToFileSystem(String projectExportPath, ProjectStorage projectStorage, List<ExportFile> exportFiles) {
        if (exportFiles.isEmpty()) {
            LOGGER.error("No exported files found.");
            return false;
        }

        File projectParentDir = new File(projectExportPath);
        if (!projectParentDir.exists()) {
            if (projectParentDir.mkdirs()) {
                LOGGER.info("Created directory " + projectParentDir);
            } else {
                LOGGER.error("Could not create download directory.");
                return false;
            }
        }

        for (ExportFile exportFile : exportFiles) {
            File projectExportFile = new File(projectParentDir + File.separator + exportFile.getName());

            try (InputStream downloadInputStream = projectStorage.downloadExportFile(exportFile); FileOutputStream exportFileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(projectExportFile)) {

                int read;
                byte[] bytes = new byte[8192];
                while ((read = downloadInputStream.read(bytes)) != -1) {
                    exportFileOutputStream.write(bytes, 0, read);
                }

                if (projectExportFile.exists()) {
                    LOGGER.info("Export file download successful.");
                } else {
                    LOGGER.info("Export file download failed.");
                    return false;
                }
            } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
                LOGGER.error("", e);
                return false;
            } catch (IOException e) {
                LOGGER.error("", e);
                return false;
            }
        }

        return true;
    }
}

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Joe Fresh Beauty now available at Shoppers Drug Mart!
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Startup Indeed Stepping Stone For Millenials But Giving Wings To Elderly Too
Story By: Reema Tyagi Writer, Blogger
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. "
- Edward de Bono
In the year 2007, when the global recession shook the world and people started losing their job. It was the time when millennials started rethinking that how fickle their 9 to 5 job was.
In India, specifically IT professionals were the one who got hugely affected by the recession and to overcome from this situation; they rewired their thinking to prove their mettle.
Then new fancy word "Startup" came into being which was earlier known as "Chota kaam" or "Apna kaam".
Before that in India, it was preconceived notion that specific clan of society known as "Baniya" were able to do their own business and Apna kaam was limited to basically open shops of something on those days.
So the small businesses had been modernized, reengineered with technology by professionals and came up in new "Avatar" called startup and soon the professionals became entrepreneurs.
As the time passed by, Indian market flourished with new startups and that startups from their hard work became billion dollar companies like OLA Cabs, Flipkart, Policy bazaar, OYO, Fresh works (B2B software-as-service (SaaS) company).
Now India is home to the world's third largest startup ecosystem, having added over 1,300 tech startups in 2019. And with the latest addition, India now has 24 unicorns, the third highest number of unicorns in a single country in world.
Read:-8 Tips For Naming Your Startup
But question arises here, what are the unicorns and how a startup can get unicorn status?
So the story begins from here, Aileen Lee, founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, coined the term unicorn in 2013 that refers to technology startup with valuations over US$ 1 billion or more something rare like unicorn , there were 39 unicorns in the united states that time and India had none.
Because India was fledgling nation in terms of startup and facing so many barriers like scarcity of funding, lack of knowledge and skills, improper infrastructure, and myriads of societal challenges like people mindset who thought job gives you fixed amount of money and if it is government job than both worlds are in your hands that means job security plus fixed monthly income.
Starting your own business seemed so unappealing that time even parents used to reject young male entrepreneurs as prospective groom for their daughters.
So it was very difficult in India to break this mindset and start your own business. A new hope arises when instead of all these challenges; people started thinking out of box and taking up challenges.
Back in 2007, when Indians were new to e-commerce concept, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal launched e-commerce website flipkart with a mere investment RS 40000. They both first started as an online bookstore from a two bedroom apartment in Bengaluru. Now flipkart is the one who is giving tough competition to Amazon in India.
Raghunandan G, founder of the Bangalore based ride sharing aggregator TaxiForSure in 2011 shared his story of entrepreneurship by saying "After finishing his MBA at the Indian Institute of Management, when he started giving thought of being entrepreneur, his business school classmates had education loans, engineering school batch mates were married and had housing loans. So, when he opened up his idea of startup in front of his friends they were not interested to come on board because startups were seen as incredibly risky at that time.
In the same year 2011, another idea emerged and took shape into a startup as OLA cabs when his founder Bhavish Aggarwal's (IIT graduate, age 25 at that time) hired a rented car to take him to Bandipur national park and in the half way driver started to renegotiate the fare. Due to this haggling of fare, driver forced him to out of the car and drove away. This bad experience led him to co found Ola Cabs with his fellow IIT graduate Ankit Bhati. This taxi hailing startup made Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit bhati youngest richest Indian.
This is how, founders of all these companies who once started as small startup owner, took risk and gave life to their ideas and became celebrities in their own right and giving hopes to budding entrepreneurs.
These ideas were indeed set stepping stone for young entrepreneurs but it doesn't mean elderly can't put their step forward to become entrepreneurs at this stage.
It is quite evident in Indian Society that when you are near to sixty then it must be your retiring age and generally people get retired themselves from work and responsibility too. So there must be some unfilled dreams would have been in them which left behind due to responsibility they had at young age to shoulder on.
But some retired people broke the norms, believed in their dreams and kick started their second innings to relive their dreams and substantially proved that when the hopes are high and determination is strong, then age is just a number.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once said, "Young people are just smarter". But Anand AnandKumar, the 55 year old co-founder of a deep science startup, deferred from his view and said "Age doesn't matter, whether you are 20 or 50, you have 30 seconds to get a VC attention" . He himself set up Bugworks Inc in 2014 with two co-founders and all three of them were above 50.
And there is story of Harbajan Kaur (aged 94) who started her entrepreneurial journey four years ago at the age of 90 and broke all norms of age. Once, Kaur shared her unfulfilled dream with her daughter that "she has done everything in her life but never earned a single penny". Her daughter knew that harbajan was very talented in cooking and encouraged her to make organic besan ki barfi with the brand name Harbajan's and sell them in a weekly organic market in Chandigarh.
This nonagenarian entrepreneurship became famous when Anand Mahindra, Chairman of the Mahindra group acknowledged her and took to twitter and called her "Entrepreneur of the year".
Mahindra wrote on his account to praise Kaur "when you hear the word 'startup' it brings to mind the images of millennials in Silicon Valley or Bengaluru trying to build billion dollar "Unicorns". From now let's also include a 94 year old woman who doesn't think it's too late to startup".
Yamini Majumdar mother of biocon founder Kiran Majumdar Shaw, started a laundry business in 1999 at the 68 after her husband passes away. "I didn`t want to sit idle so decide to start something of my own" she said.
Founder and manager of Triguni Food Pvt. Ltd, Radha daga went on to set up a successful food business at the age of 69. Now she is 78 and doesn't seem less energetic either. Even she adds "I work eight hours every day and though I do take three to four short vacations in a year, I am always available to my team". All these elderly people determination proved that Age is just a number and if you are young from your heart then you can achieve anything at any age.
And it is proven fact that There's nothing called the right time of starting a business. The right time is to find idea you are passionate about.
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Story By: Reema Tyagi