Issue: Auto liability insurance is compulsory in most jurisdictions; 49 states and the District of Columbia require drivers to have auto liability insurance before they can legally drive a motor vehicle, although the type of insurance and the amount of coverage required varies. New Hampshire is the only state that does not have a compulsory insurance liability law—auto insurance is not required if the driver complies with alternative financial responsibility requirements. However, a financial responsibility law exists in New Hampshire that imposes insurance requirements on those drivers that have demonstrated a lack of fiscal responsibility for a past auto accident.
Overview: Despite laws that compel the purchase of auto insurance, many people choose to drive without it. According to the Insurance Research Council (IRC), nearly 13% of motorists, or about one in eight drivers, were uninsured in 2014. There are many reasons people choose to drive without auto liability insurance. Some drivers cannot afford insurance; the IRC cites the economic downturn as a major factor in the leveling trend of uninsured motorists. A study by the Financial Responsibility and Insurance Committee found that among the uninsured driver group, "82% indicated they either can't afford insurance or the vehicle is inoperable or not in use."
Paying for uninsured motorists is a problem for responsible drivers who abide by compulsory insurance laws. The costs are passed along to the public in the form of uninsured motorist's coverage. Thus, in addition to paying for their own actions, each insured motorist also pays for a portion of the costs for others that choose to disobey the law.
The NAIC Property and Casualty Insurance (C) Committee developed a white paper titled "Uninsured Motorists: A Growing Problem for Consumers," which discusses the issues associated with identifying uninsured motorists in the states and solving the problem of noncompliance with compulsory motor vehicle insurance laws. The white paper describes the pros and cons of several solutions that have been tried in dealing with the uninsured motorist problem and concludes that there is an obvious need in developing a uniform cost effective approach for reducing the number of uninsured motorist.
Status:The NAIC's Auto Insurance (C/D) Study Group is charged with reviewing issues relating to low-income households and the auto insurance marketplace. Some of this group's work has involved studying uninsured motorists. The Study Group issued a "Compendium of Reports on the Pricing of Personal Automobile Insurance" in November 2014.
Through the NAIC, state insurance regulators, as well as the insurance industry, continue to work on a solution to reduce the number of uninsured motorists on the nation's highways.


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Nashville based indie pop duo, Clemency, unveiled a new single today called "Captive," marking the return of the band since 2017. Brothers Jason and Paul Watkins, natives of Yukon, Oklahoma, have been making music together since high school. The duo, now residing in Nashville, have spent years developing their sound, which has been described as "so incredibly infectious and luminous." Their music has been featured in commercials (John Deere, Timberland, Sports Authority, Pendleton Whiskey) and television shows like MTV's teen mom and CWs Emily Owens, MD., and has received warm response for it's clever use of lo-fi instrumentation. With three albums and multiple singles under their belt, the brothers return with their newest track "Captive." "This song is a declaration of devotion and deep love for someone who first loved us," said the band, "We wrote it in an attempt to capture how it feels to be loved well; inspiring,[…] Source: Christian Music
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We joke a little. We don't honestly believe she's vain in that way (just look at every interview she's ever had, ever). But regardless of the reasoning, Mystique will be going through some changes off camera for Bryan Singer's upcoming return as 'X-Men' helmer.
To transform Jennifer Lawrence into Mystique for 'X-Men: First Class,' it took hours upon hours (upwards of seven!) of being half naked while a team of makeup artists airbrushed on her blue scaly texture. The same thing went for Rebecca Romijn in the original 'X-Men' movies, but Lawrence still had it worse as the paint used caused nasty skin irritations to develop, prompting a doctor to be called on set.
Fortunately J-Law won't have to endure this anymore for 'X-Men: Days of Future Past.' "I'm so excited because I'm going to wear a body suit," she told E! "It will be from neck down so it will cut out time and the blisters."
She also revealed that filming starts in "Mayish," though because of her insanely busy schedule, she hasn't even had a good 30 minutes to sit down and read the script. "They literally gave me the script and I was like, 'I can't read this until Monday.'" At least she got to film 'Catching Fire' in Hawaii. That's technically a vacation, right?
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Update on Indian 2 shooting commencement
A 1996 film Bharateeyudu, starring the universal actor Kamal Haasan in the lead role, is a striking feature film that never perishes from the hearts of the Indian people. Now, the film will be having its sequel, which is going to be made by the director Shankar, who directed the first part.
Well, here is an update that the makers of Indian 2 are in plans to take the film to the sets in the month of September. They took to Twitter to share the news and wrote, "#Ulaganayagan @ikamalhaasan has gone to US for #Indian 2 preparation ork.. He will be there for 3 weeks.. #Indian 2 shooting will resume in September."
Currently, Kamal Haasan, along with the team has flown to the United States for the preparation of the film and they will commence the shooting work in September. Fans are excited to watch the sequel to Bharateeyudu, which is a supercilious project in our Indian era.
Billed to be an action thriller, Indian 2 is going to be produced by Lyca Productions. The film cast includes Kajal Agarwal, Siddharth, Rakul Preet Singh, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Bobby Simha, Nedumudi Venu and Samuthirakani in key roles. Anirudh Ravichander will be the incharge of its music.
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From Rome to RuPaul: A New Book Explores the "Complete Story" of Drag
"We're drowning in drag—and we're loving it," says author Simon Doonan.
by Christopher Rudolph 9/16/2019
Simon Doonan wears many hats. He is the creative ambassador for Barneys New York, partner to designer Jonathan Adler, a memoirist, and now a drag historian. Doonan's new book, Drag: The Complete Story, is the "first book on the cultural history of drag published in the 21st century," covering everything from drag's genesis in Ancient Greece to the girls of Wigstock and RuPaul's Drag Race.
NewNowNext sat down with Doonan to discuss all things drag, his personal history with the art form, and his thoughts on Drag Race U.K.
Joe Gaffney
First off, I have to tell you I loved the Beautiful People series [based on Doonan's memoir] back in the day.
All credit to Jonathan Harvey and Jon Plowman—they made a great TV show.
It aired over a decade ago now. Do fans still talk to you about it?
Well, I still get emails about it from fans saying it helped them come out to their parents and all this very touching stuff. I think it's very positive. I feel great about it—and Olivia Colman played my mom! I mean, now she's a mega-star. She's won an Academy Award! It's hilarious.
How long have you been working on this book about drag?
About three years. It requires an immense amount of research, reading, and organization. And rewriting. They say writing is rewriting. No regrets—what a fun rollercoaster. Especially at this time when drag has taken on a very complex prominence in the culture. It was the right time to do a book about the history of drag since drag is now central in our culture.
So much has changed even since you started the book three years ago.
In three years since I've started writing this book, the entire drag landscape has undergone this huge change. I mean, nothing to do with me; that was just what happened. When I started the book, I thought it was so important to have a firewall between drag and [transness], to be clear about the differentiation. But over the past three years, all of the preconceived boundaries and notions have evaporated. There are no rules anymore. You can be genderfluid, create your own identity. So much has happened in the last three years alone.
What's your personal history with drag?
Oh, God. Well, since I'm English, I was always sort of up to my eyeballs in drag. I have a picture of when I was 10 years old, in the backyard with my best friend, and we were both in drag. Drag is such a big part of the British comedy scene. Whether it's pantomime or TV comedy, a lot of the most popular comics in England are regularly dragged-up. Often straight guys, too. And the gay scene—when I entered it in the late '60s—was infused with drag. Drag was central to it; there were always drag queens. I've never not been around drag, so I don't even think about it at this point. I'm so used to it.
There are plenty of other books about drag out right now. What sets yours apart?
Mine is an attempt to do the impossible and chart the history of drag. Frank DeCaro did this great book. It's amazing, but it's more focused on the entertainment industry. Mine goes back to Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, mythology, all the way through to the Baroque Period, Victorian England. It was an attempt to just really flog through the history of drag, and make it fun and accessible for young people who maybe don't necessarily think about history. But I've also got all of the contemporary stuff up there. I come bang up to date with pop star drag, cinema drag, right up to date with RuPaul and all the girls. Violet Chachki's on the cover. But it does go all the way back to mythology.
I love how the book is categorized—and you even cover butch drag.
It was very important to me, honestly, to have a chapter on butch drag. Butch drag has been very major throughout history. In the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries, women would drag up for all kinds of complex reasons. If you were in law—if you wanted to be a lawyer's clerk in 19th-century England—you couldn't if you were a girl. So you had people, smart girls, dress up as a boy. Over history, women have avoided rape and all kinds of horrors by dragging up to escape, fight in wars. The history of the drag kind is fascinating. In the early 20th century, drag kings actually enjoyed massive prominence. They were very, very popular in Victorian England, and I think it was because people loved to see women satirizing masculinity, toxic masculinity, and the patriarchy.
Is there a drag queen out there who you love and think is particularly overlooked?
I think RuPaul has done such an astonishing job of highlighting the drag queens who are struggling, the ones who have their inner saboteur on their shoulder. I love their stories, and I always want to know where they're at and what they're doing. You know, queens like The Vixen, who made a big impression on me by exposing their vulnerability, their story. I'm always interested in those. There's no shortage of bold, creative queens. Sometimes it's the ones who are struggling who really capture the imagination.
Do you have a favorite queen, one you'd buy a ticket to see if she came to town?
Well, Violet Chachki, bless her—she's on the cover of my book. I think she's so creative and intriguing. So her, definitely. Also Sasha Velour—there are so many genius ones! Miss Vanjie… I mean, hello?! She's so charismatic. You can't take your eyes off of her. It's great.
Living in New York, how have you seen drag and the gay nightlife scenes evolve over the years?
I came here in the 1970s. There was plenty of drag, some of it very creative. In the '80s, after the sort of new-wave drag of Lady Bunny, Happy Face, Billy Beyond, that was an extraordinary moment. The birth of Wigstock, too. I guess what's been so astonishing to me has been to see the rebirth of drag every few years. In the '90s, there was plenty of drag, but it didn't seem like it was blowing anybody's socks off. It was like, "Oh, yeah. Drag." It was here; it was great. Whatever. And nobody really anticipated this glorious drag-plosion we're having right now, with the gender revolution, the Trump bump, the new look queens, the art and meticulousness of drag. And RuPaul's Drag Race has made drag this unbelievably vibrant, prominent form of creative expression. I don't think anybody could have anticipated it. I mean, think back to the first season of Drag Race. I don't think anybody ever could've imagined that we'd be living in a world now with the Javits Center filled with cisgender women who identify as drag queens, and bring their kids with them. It's incredible, what's happened. It's fascinating. There's this extraordinary moment happening right now where we're literally drowning in drag. [Laughs] And we're loving it!
Have you ever done drag?
Oh, my god. Are you kidding?! Yes! Of course! [Laughs] Halloween's my birthday. I mean, living in L.A. in the '70s in West Hollywood… bonjour! Yes, of course I've done drag! I've dressed up as the Queen of England many times. I was always a bit ratchet. It was me with a glue gun in a display studio cobbling together an outfit at the last minute. That's why I'm always in love with the queens today. Coming from England, all of my straight friends have done drag, too. The American sort of puritanical reaction to drag—we just don't have that. In England, people just think it's brilliant and fun. When I tell people I've done drag, they're always shocked. I'm just like, "What do people think I've been doing for 67 years?! Hello!"
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Do you have a drag name?
Oh, no. I guess I was always sort of punk rock about it. You know—chopping up a wig, improvising with some, like, fermented makeup, making things out of found objects. I was always more ratchet. When I dressed up as a queen, though, I took it more seriously. One time, Bonnie, our CEO, wanted to have a celebrity cut the ribbon on the new store in Soho. But we couldn't really nail one down. So I dragged up as the Queen of England and cut the ribbon. [Laughs] Those pictures are all online, darling. You can find those!
Are you excited for Drag Race U.K.?
Oh, my god. Totalmente! I cannot wait to see what they do. It's interesting because it's such a long time coming. There's such a long tradition of drag in England, but the American version of drag—the black drag, the drag from Paris Is Burning, the language and expression of drag—has come from the most incredible source: black drag queens. So you find now queens around the world who are serving, snapping, throwing shade, slaying, dropping. The language is drag is coming from America. I'm interested to see how much of that is in the English vernacular of drag, you know what I mean? Versus how much they've kept the old pub drag [style] coming through. When I was coming out, you'd go to a pub, and all of a sudden there'd be a blast of music. And a drag queen would just stagger onto the bar and run across it. She'd be lip-syncing. There was more of a sort of throwaway, British, Lily Savage kind of ethos around it. But I think the influence of RuPaul's Drag Race is global, and I'm interested to see how that plays out among the British drag sensibilities.
Keep Calm and Meet the Queens From "RuPaul's Drag Race U.K."
*All author proceeds for Drag: The Complete Story will go to the Ali Forney Center to protect LGBTQ youth from the harms of homelessness.
Christopher Rudolph
I write about drag queens. Dolly Parton once ruffled my hair and said I was "just the cutest thing ever."
@chrisreindeer
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Slovenian local implementation of the project All In took place in beautiful fishermen's town Izola, from 8th to 12th February. We really want our participants to get very connected during the training, this is why we decide to organize it in one piece and provide accommodation.
Our participants came from different backgrounds and experiences. We involved three participants with disabilities.
We started with getting to know each other games and group building activity where participants had to build the paper bridge with limited material in a short period of time.
After that we had presentation of Erasmus plus programme and All In project, where we presented aims and objectives of All In and the work we have done so far. In next days we went through modules and we talked a lot about inclusion, power, privilege and intersectionality. And that were also activities where participants had many "AHA" moments, which were discussed in the evening when we had daily evaluation.
In last day participants reported that they enjoyed training very much and learned a lot, which was confirmed with before and after learning assessment.


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Smart Climate Control Market - Growth, Trends, Forecasts (2020 - 2025)
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The global smart climate control market was valued at USD 3.109 billion in 2019, and it is expected to reach USD 8.262 billion by 2025, registering a CAGR of 19.21%, during 2019-2025. In recent years, the consumer propensity toward adopting energy-efficient solutions, safety equipment, and building healthy homes has increased significantly across the world.
- According to a study by the Joint Center for Housing Studies on healthy remodelling, in 2018, 30% of all the US households expressed concern about some aspect of their homes endangering their health, which was a 3% increase from 2014.
- Owing to such developments, homeowners are increasingly leaning toward adopting health and safety equipment as part of their homes, and air purifiers, thermostats, and smart sensors are increasingly becoming the focus. The demand for these equipment is expected to be particularly high in North America and Europe, owing to the higher penetration of smart homes.
- The demand for smart and connected air purifiers has gained traction in recent years. There is demand for such devices where the amount of air filtered and other stats visible on the smartphones enable users to have more control and offer alerts when the filters are to be changed.
- The growing propensity toward smart and safe homes is also augmenting the demand for safety sensors, such as fire and air pollution. Lack of safety sensors in the residential sector leads to safety hazards and fire accidents. According to a study by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), nearly 60% of the recent home fire deaths that happened in homes had no working smoke alarms in the United States.
- The demand for smart thermostat is currently driven from North America and Europe. According to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Environment (ACEEE), the market for smart thermostats is experiencing significant growth, with projections that, by 2021, more than 43 million US homes, or 40% of the total, will have a smart thermostat installed. Such developments are expected to further augment the demand for smart thermostats over the coming years.
Growing Household Spending
- With the growing consumer spending ability across developed and developing nations, a prominent share of the spending is directed at consumer goods and home appliances. According to the National Association of Home Builders, during the first two years after closing on the house, a typical buyer of a newly built single-family detached home tends to spend on an average USD 4,500 more than a similar non-moving home owner. Likewise, a buyer of an existing single-family detached home tends to spend over USD 4,000 more than a similar non-moving home owner, including close to USD 3,700 during the first year.
- According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average US household expenses amounted to USD 61,224 in 2018 per consumer unit with one consumer unit representing a household with shared expenses. Compared to the previous year, the spending increased by 1.9% on average; such growth in expenditure is expected to be driven by the technology spending of each households.
- In countries such as China and India, the household spending in terms of enhancing living conditions is increasing. According to the World Bank data, in 2018, household final consumption expenditures in China, Japan, India, and Australia, were at the top with USD 5,263.18 billion, USD 2,763.34 billion, USD 1,614.64 billion, and USD 808.92 billion, respectively.
- A prominent share of the household expenditure growth is expected to be driven by the spending over household appliances and electronic goods for improving standard of living. Such developments are expected to positively influence the demand for air purifiers, thermostats, and other safety equipment.
Asia-Pacific to Witness the Highest Growth
- In September 2020, China pledged to stop releasing carbon emissions before 2060 in a surprise move that catapults it ahead of US ambitions on climate change. China aims to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. The country's successful policies to improve air quality have helped local manufacturers to expand their domestic scope. In Beijing, through a systematic approach based on the adoption of smart technologies, the concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the air has fallen by 35% between 2013-2017. The adoption of climate control technologies has also played a significant role in this.
- According to the IQAir, Chinese cities achieved a 9% average decrease in PM2.5 levels in 2019, after a 12% decrease in 2018. However, 98% of towns exceeded WHO guidelines, and 53% of cities exceed China's less stringent national targets. In Beijing, frequent smog has seriously affected people's living environment and physical health. According to the World Health Organization, following Delhi, Mumbai, and Dakar, Beijing is currently ranked fourth on the list of cities with the world's worst air quality.
- Japan is also one of the significant investors and adopters of the climate control market. The country's growing concern for air pollution and climate change encourages many consumers to adopt energy-efficient technologies. The Japanese government has also collaborated with the Climate and Clean Air Coalition for tackling air pollution and climate change crisis. In recent years, the country has also promoted the use of a smart thermostat and air monitoring devices. Japanese companies already have cooling technologies with extraordinary energy-saving capacity.
- Due to the recent COVID-19 outbreak, many local vendors have reported a surge in domestic demand. Hence, these companies are further investing in technological advancement. For instance, Sharp Corp has claimed to have developed an air purifying technology, Plasmacluster technology, that can reduce airborne novel coronavirus particles by about 90%. In July 2020, Panasonic Corp. and Daikin Industries Ltd also reported that their air purification technologies could inhibit the virus when attached to a surface.
The market for smart climate control is concentrated with major giants, such as Daikin Industries Ltd, Honeywell Internation Inc., Unilever PLC, and Dyson Ltd, providing range of climate control solutions globally.The market poses high entry barrier in terms of both capital expenditure and government regulations. New entrants are required to invest in setting up of manufacturing facilities, along with technological advancements to keep track of the changes to remain relevant in the market.
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Survivor Natalie Martinez – an engineer and mom to Mariana – found the support she needed through Cancer180.
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Natalie Martinez had no way of predicting that a routine visit to her dentist would lead to a diagnosis of tongue cancer.
"My dentist pointed out a suspicious spot on my tongue," says Martinez. "I had a biopsy and doctors at MD Anderson monitored the spot for a few years. By 2014, it had become cancerous."
Martinez, now 37, was surprised by her diagnosis.
"My family has a history of cancer so I always knew it was a possibility," she says. "But I thought I'd be older if and when it happened."
Surgery to remove part of her tongue, followed by eight weeks of chemotherapy and radiation left her mentally, physically and emotionally exhausted. But recovery, she found, was even more difficult than treatment.
"The medical procedures were the easy part, because I had a goal each day," she says. "But when treatment ended, I was sent home and told to come back in three months for a follow-up appointment. I wasn't ready. Everything I'd been through hit me hard."
Martinez met with a counselor who recommended MD Anderson's Cancer180 program, named for a young survivor's observation that "when cancer strikes, life does a 180."
The program provides a social environment where young adult patients, survivors and caregivers ages 18 to 39 connect with other young adults affected by cancer. Together they attend social outings, educational activities and connect through online resources including a Cancer180 website and Facebook page.
"Young adult survivors sometimes feel alone," says Diana Leipold, a manager of Volunteer and Patient Programs. "They may be isolated from friends due to treatment, and find themselves with an experience that few of their peers can understand."
Traditional support groups don't always appeal to this age group, Leipold says. Instead, young survivors prefer connecting in social ways through Cancer180 outings to sporting events, cooking and pottery-making classes, ice skating, movies, and more. Cancer180 also sponsors an annual, one-day Young Adult Survivorship conference where topics such as fertility, employment and long-term survivorship are discussed.
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*Enabled migration of first-gen packages to second-gen packages (GA)

*Remove any Metadata Type from Managed Package (Pilot)

But looking at the release notes for packages:

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*Salesforce Winter '21 Release Notes: Packaging: Package Ancestry Visualizations, Unwanted Package Versions Are Deletable, Push Upgrades Are Generally Available
It seems like they didn't make it into the release.

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*Does anyone have any insight into the status of these features?

*What is the current process for migrating a first-gen package to second-gen?

*Is it too late to migrate to second-gen if I've started building the package in a dev org with a namespace, but not uploaded anything yet? (not even a beta)

A: For 1 and 2nd items, the work is in progress and cannot publicly disclose the dates.
I recommend you reach to your partner account manager or if you are an ISV reach to your ISV Technical Evangelist to get some idea on when it is going to be released and process.
For your third question below,

Is it too late to migrate to second-gen if I've started building the package in a dev org with a namespace, but not uploaded anything yet? (not even a beta)

No, it is not late, in fact, it is a perfect time to move to 2GP packages.
As long as you do not have a Metadata category that's not going to be ever supported in 2GP you should move to 2GP because of various advantages. There is no point in using 1GP packaging.
The process to get started with 2GP for you is really straight forward.

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*Enable Dev Hub in your Partner Business Org (Assuming you have this as you are an ISV)

*Link your Dev org where you have Namespaced to your Dev Hub org

*In your Dev org create an unmanaged package and add all the metadata you plan to package.

*Retrieve all the metadata from the package to your local project workspace (use sfdx force:project:create to scaffold a Salesforce DX Project and authorize salesforce CLI with your DevHub and Dev org) using below
sfdx force:source:retrieve -n ""

*Create a 2GP Managed package and package versions using packaging commands
sfdx force:package:create
sfdx force:package:version:create
Key Points to Note in 2GP Packages that are new compared to 1GP

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*You cannot create 2GP packages using the package manager UI. It is CLI driven and you will need to be comfortable with Salesforce CLI

*2GP packages are source driven, meaning the source you have in local is packaged and the source does not reside in org. I recommend you version your source using Git or any other VCS. Read more here

*2GP packages can be modular with the ability to break them down into multiple packages and relate them. So spend some time thinking through the architecture of your package for the long term.

*2GP Managed packages have the concept of Package Ancestors. This helps to branch your code if needed. Hence it's important you have ancestor tagged before you release the package.

*You can use Scratch orgs and use Source Tracking capability to push and pull metadata.

A:
Does anyone have any insight into the status of these features?

I don't think anyone can say anything publicly (#SafeHarbor and all that), but I'm sure they're working on it.

What is the current process for migrating a first-gen package to second-gen?

Until the release notes say otherwise, there is no path. Subscribers of First Generation Packages would need to uninstall the old and then install the new. Fortunately, once on the Second Generation Package, there won't be any need to do this migration again. Or, wait until a migration path is available.

Is it too late to migrate to second-gen if I've started building the package in a dev org with a namespace, but not uploaded anything yet? (not even a beta)

Not at all! You can link your namespace to your Dev Hub org, and from there, you can create Second Generation Packages after converting from Metadata API (MDAPI) format to Source format, which is typically as simple as a force:source:retrieve -x or force:mdpai:convert. Note that you can do this even if you had uploaded metadata, it just would not be convertible. I wouldn't recommend maintaining two packages, though; if you're starting fresh, now is the time to start on Second Generation Packaging (unless one or more metadata types are not supported yet). This allows you to create an unlimited number of packages that can all share the same namespace (but remember to use @NamespaceAccessible if you plan on sharing code across packages).

A: Based on the latest updates

Enabled migration of first-gen packages to second-gen packages (GA)

Not yet GA - but, this was noted as an extended developer preview in Winter '22 and they have details within the sidebar in the 1GP=>2GP Migration - Developer Preview group in the Partner Community

Remove any Metadata Type from Managed Package (Pilot)

This was made Generally Available (GA) in Spring '22

To request access to this feature, log a case in the Salesforce Partner Community. After this feature is enabled, remove the metadata component's source file from your Salesforce DX project, and create a package version.

You can see more specifics and details (including the list of metadata components & their behavior) in its own documentation page within Salesforce DX Developer Guide. Its lists the following metadata components as being "hard deleted"

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*Apex Class (excluding global Apex classes)

*Apex Trigger

*Visualforce component (excluding global components)

With many others being "marked as deprecated".

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Results of Surveys about Stock Market Speculation 12/99
Table I-US: Expectations Questions: Results from US Respondents
Date      Dow Jones  I-1 US    I-2 US    I-3 US
Industrial U.S.      U.S.      U.S.
Average    Expected  Expected  10-Year
at Time    One-Year  One-Year  Expected
of Survey  Growth    Growth    Growth in
DJIA)      in        in Nikkei U.S.
DJIA      Index     Corporate
(Annual
Real Rate)
A. Investment Professionals:
1989-II   2554       3.49%     -7.67%    5.57%
1990-I    2553       -0.26%    -9.14%    5.16%
1991-I    2902       6.17%      0.94%    5.02%
1992-II   3266       4.49%      6.47%    5.74%
1999-II  11078
B. Individual Investors:
Table I-JAPAN: Expectations Questions: Results from Japanese
Date      Nikkei 225  I-1 Japan  I-2 Japan  I-3 Japan
Index       Japanese   Japanese   Japanese
at Time     Expected   Expected   Ten-Year
of Survey   One-Year   One-Year   Expected
Growth     Growth     Growth in
in Nikkei  in         Japanese
Index      DJIA       Corporate
Investment Professionals:
1989-II   33631       9.49%       8.48%     5.02%
1989 end  35894       13.02%     10.46%       -
1990-I    32616       10.84%     12.57%       -
1990-II   26490       12.07%      7.29%     5.01%
1991-I    24935       19.33%     11.26%     4.68%
1992-I    18436       20.85%      3.41%     3.95%
1995-I    17830       9.34%      -3.66%     3.83%
1995-II   17984       13.20%     -1.03%     3.56%
1996-I    20169       10.65%     -2.58%     3.73%
1999-I    15097        1.41%     -6.02%     3.74%
Table 2-US
Qualitative and Scenario Questions
Results from US Respondents
Date     Stock    II-1 (2) II-2 (2) II-3 (1) II-4 (1)
Price    Stock    Stock    Advise   Advise
Index    Prices   Prices   Stocks   Against
Too      Too      Now      Stocks
High     High     Despite  Despite
U. S.    Japan    Expected Expected
Drop     Rise
1989-II  2554     18.7%    73.5%    34.4%    24.6%
1990-I   2553     37.9%    81.0%     6.0%    70.4%
1991-I   2902     34.6%    67.2%    26.4%    34.7%
Date     Stock    II-5 (1) II-6 (2) II-7 (1) II-8
Price    See      Trend    If PricesProba-
Index    Excitement Last   Dropped  bility
about    6 Months 3% Would of
Stocks   was      Expect   Crash
Specula- Rise     Next
tive     Next Day 6 Months
1996-II  5682     67.0%     0.0%    37.0%    15.7%
Table 2-Japan
Results from Japanese Respondents
1989-II  33631    0.0%     26.6%    39.1%    23.7%
1989 end 35894    9.4%     32.1%    -        -
1990-I   32616    0.8%     61.1%    -        -
1990-II  26490    11.1%    44.4%    6.8%     65.6%
1991-I   24935    10.4%    16.8%    9.8%     35.8%
1991-II  23332    19.2%    13.9%    14.0%    23.1%
1993-I   19048    31.0%    33.3%    15.5%    23.6%
1989-end 35894    41.3%    -        -        13.7%
1990-I   32616    -        -        -        -
1990-II  26490    -        38.2%    29.1%    31.7%
The above data were collected by Robert J. Shiller, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, Fumiko Kon-Ya, Japanese Securities Research Institute, and Yoshiro Tsutsui, Osaka University, in a series of mail questionnaire surveys of institutional investors (and a couple of surveys of individual investors in the US only) starting in 1989. We began collecting these data in reaction to the crash of 1987. At that time we felt that post-crash analyses of the Crash of 1987 were deficient in evidence about what investors were thinking that might have been a factor among the causes of the crash. There were volumes of data on prices and quantities, but virtually no evidence (except anecdotal evidence) about motives and concerns of investors as market events unfolded. We wished to make an attempt to correct this information imbalance by undertaking our own questionnaire surveys, doing these surveys every six months, and with nearly identical questionnaires in the US and Japan so that cross-country comparisons can be made.
We were particularly interested in speculative motives and intentions of investors, quantities that are very difficult to measure. The difficulty of measuring the effects of speculative motives or market psychology on stock prices has been so great, the quantities to be measured so hard to define, that many people even believe that there are no such effects at all, i. e., that markets are perfectly efficient. We still believed that it is worthwhile collecting some data on a regular basis, so that some analysis could be done in the future.
We have been conducting these surveys now for years, and have accumulated substantial data. We had the good fortune to choose a span of time that both preceded and followed the crash in the Tokyo market 1989-1992. Still,the meaning and significance of these data are not entirely clear to us; there is still not a long history of these data to analyze. These data as they are offered to everyone who is interested, with the hope that they will analyze the data carefully in conjunction with other information about the behavior of investors.
Further discussion of our methods and data appear in our article "Why Did the Nikkei Crash? Expanding the Scope of Expectations Data Collection," which was published in the Review of Economics and Statistics 78:156-64, February 1996.
I. Expectations Questions
I-1,2 "How much of a change in percentage terms do you
expect in the following (use + before your number to
indicate an expected increase, a - to indicate an expected
decrease, leave blanks where you do not know:
[FILL IN ONE NUMBER FOR EACH]"
After this question there were spaces to fill in the expectations for the various horizons and the two countries' indices, the Dow and the Nikkei. The mean answers for the one-year horizon are shown in Table I; expectations in both countries for both countries are presented.
I-3 "What do you think the rate of growth of real
(inflation adjusted) corporate earnings will be on average
in [the US, Japan] over the next 10 years?
Annual percentage rate: _______________%"
In contrast to the previous question, people were asked to answer only about their own countries' corporate earnings growth [in brackets, the US was printed in US questionnaires, Japan for Japanese]; see Table I.
II. Qualitative and Scenario Questions
II-1.  "Stock prices in the United States, when compared
with measures of true fundamental value or sensible
investment value, are:
1. Too low.     2. Too high.   3. About right.   4. Do not know."
II-2.  "Stock prices in Japan, when compared with measures
of true fundamental value or sensible investment value
are:
1. Too low.    2. Too high.    3. About right.   4. Do not know."
The above two questions were included because we learned from survey work in 1987 that the concept of an overpriced market was very much on people's minds at the time of the stock market crash of October 1987. Table II tabulates the fraction choosing 2, "too high." The remaining questions regard respondent's country:
II-3 "Although I expect a substantial drop in stock
prices in [the US, Japan]  ultimately, I advise being
relatively heavily invested in stocks for the time being
because I think that prices are likely to rise for a while.
1. True   2. False   3. No Opinion"
II-4 "Although I expect a substantial rise in stock
prices in [the US, Japan] ultimately, I advise being less
invested in stocks for the time being because I think
that prices are likely to drop for a while.
II-5 "Many people are showing a great deal of excitement
and optimism about the prospects for the stock market in
the [United States, Japan] and I must be careful not to
be influenced by them.
1.  True.        2.   False.    3. No Opinion."
Question II-3 was written to be our basic speculative bubble question, showing what fraction of investors are buying stocks for the short-term, intending to get out before too long. Question II-4 is essentially the opposite question. Question II-5 is very different, asking for an assessment of the excitement in the market rather than the respondent's advice. The fraction choosing 1., true for each of the above three questions is shown in Table II.
II-6 "What do you think is the cause of the trend of
stock prices in [the United States, Japan] in the past six
months?
1. It properly reflects the fundamentals of the U.S. economy and firms.
2. It is based on speculative
thinking among investors or overreaction to current news.
3. Other
4. No opinion."
The fraction choosing 2., speculative thinking, is shown in Table II.
II-7 "If the [Dow, Nikkei] dropped 3% tomorrow, I would
guess that the day after tomorrow the Dow would:
1. Increase.   2. Decrease.   3. Stay the same.   4.  No opinion."
The above question was written so that results would give an indication of the instability in the market, the tendency for people to think that drops in the market will be reversed. If people think that they will be reversed, then they would plausibly act so as to cause them to be reversed. The percent choosing 1 is shown in Table II.
II-8 "What do you think is the probability of a
catastrophic stock market crash, like that of October
28, 1929 or October 19, 1987, in the next six months?
(An answer of 0% means that it cannot happen, an answer of
100% means it is sure to happen.) Probability:____%"
The mean probability is shown in Table II.
Comments on Expected Growth Rates of Indices (10/16/97)
In 1997, our results show only modest expected growth rates for the indices, contradicting some other reports that people have extravagant expectations. A quarterly 1997 national survey of 750 mutual fund investors conducted for Montgomery Asset Management was reported in media (see New York Times, Edward Wyatt, "The High Hopes of Investors in Stock Funds," October 10, 1997, page D1.) They found that these fund shareholders expected in 1997 returns between 15 and 25% over the next year (depending on the date of the survey).
It is not clear why their results contradict ours. Possible reasons are that they surveyed individual investors in 1997, while our latest surveys of individual investors was in 1996. Also, their individual investors were mutual fund investors, whereas ours was a general sample of institutional investors. Another reason is that their survey was a telephone survey asking only a few questions, whereas ours was a mail survey with a long questionnaire asking many difficult questions. There is possibly a different sample selection bias between the two samples, theirs favoring the less informed, less involved investors. It is also possible of course that the nature of their survey, the other questions and remarks made, showed more encouragement to extravagant statements.
I am inclined to think that there is indeed some substance to the Montgomery Asset Management results, in that their results to reflect highly optimistic expectations of a segment of the investing population. One must interpret survey expectations results with some caution, not accepting any one survey result at face value.
Comparison of US in 1997-I with Japan in 1989-II (6/16/97)
Recent news commentary suggesting that the US stock market is overpriced and may be headed for a decline invites a comparison with Japan in 1989, just before the disastrous decline in the Tokyo market. One should not make too much of any such comparison, since many factors influence the behavior of a market, and the Japanese market crash had much to do with the deep economic recession that followed 1989 there. Still, many have interpreted the peak of the Tokyo market in 1989 with speculative excess, and so some explicit comparisons might be instructive.
The highest proportion we ever recorded in Japan who chose answer 2 to question II-3, that is, who advised stocks despite an expected drop, occurred in 1989. The United States showed in 1996-I its highest proportion since 1989 who chose answer 1 to II-3, and nearly the lowest proportion ever who chose answer 1 to question II-4, an opposite question. But, now, in 1997-I, the answers to the questions are not unusual. The expected growth in Japanese corporate earnings that Japanese respondents reported in answer to question I-3 was highest ever in 1989. The United States respondents are, in 1997-I, not now giving relatively high expected earnings in response to this question, although the expected growth rates are even higher than those given by Japanese respondents in 1989. On the other hand, US respondents did show in 1997-I a near-record high proportion seeing popular excitement about stocks in the US, question II-5, just as Japanese respondents to this question showed a near-record high seeing popular proportion seeing excitement in Japan at the end of 1989.
The Japanese respondents gave their lowest ever estimated probability of a crash in 1989 in answer to question II-8, just before the crash. However, US respondents' estimated probabilities of a crash in answer to II-8 in 1997-I are not particularly low.
Japanese respondents did not tend much more in 1989 than at other times to think that stock prices were too high in Japan (question II-2 Japan). US respondents in 1997-I reported in record high proportions that stock prices were too high in the US (question II-1 US).
In conclusion, these comparisons of the US in 1997-I with Japan at the end of 1989 do not show any obvious or strong similarities between the two.
Mailing Dates
First mailing dates in the United States were July 5, 1989, January 17, 1990, July 27, 1990, January 31, 1991, August 20, 1991, January 31, 1991, August 20, 1992, February 12, 1993, August 6, 1993, February 28, 1994, September 8, 1994, March 4, 1995, September 1, 1995, March 1, 1996, July 30, 1996 (institutional) Sepember 13, 1996 (individual), March 17, 1997, September 5, 1997, March 2, 1998, and September 9, 1998. In the United States, a second questionnaire and letter were sent out three to five weeks after the first mailing to those who had not responded yet. Mailing dates in Japan were July 3, 1989 (1989-II), November 9, 1989 (end 1989), March 6, 1990 (1990-I), August 10, 1990, February 2, 1991, September 9, 1991, March 27, 1992, September 11, 1992, March 19, 1993, August 4, 1993, February 28, 1994, February 13, 1995, August 22, 1995, February 23, 1996, and August 30, 1996.


Prague, Czech Republic - 26 May 2017: Statins are associated with improved heart structure and function, according to research presented today at EuroCMR 2017.1 The benefits were above and beyond the cholesterol lowering effect of statins.
"Statins are primarily used to lower cholesterol," said lead author Dr Nay Aung, a cardiologist and Wellcome Trust research fellow, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK. "They are highly effective in preventing cardiovascular events in patients who have had a heart attack or are at risk of heart disease."
He continued: "Statins have other beneficial, non-cholesterol lowering, effects. They can improve the function of the blood vessels, reduce inflammation, and stabilise fatty plaques in the blood vessels. Studies in mice and small studies in humans have shown that statins also reduce the thickness of heart muscle but this needed to be confirmed in a larger study."
Nearly 17% of participants were taking statins. Those taking statins were older, had higher BMI and blood pressure, and were more likely to have diabetes and hypertension. "This was not surprising because we prescribe statins to patients at high risk of heart disease and these are all known risk factors," said Dr Aung.
Patients taking statins had a 2.4% lower left ventricular mass and lower left and right ventricular volumes. Dr Aung said: "People using statins were less likely to have a thickened heart muscle (left ventricular hypertrophy) and less likely to have a large heart chamber. Having a thick, large heart is a strong predictor of future heart attack, heart failure or stroke and taking statins appears to reverse the negative changes in the heart which, in turn, could lower the risk of adverse outcomes."
"It is important to note that in our study, the people taking statins were at higher risk of having heart problems than those not using statins yet they still had positive heart remodelling compared to the healthier control group," added Dr Aung.
"There are clear guidelines on who should receive statins," he said. "There is debate about whether we should lower the bar and the question is when do you stop. What we found is that for patients already taking statins, there are beneficial effects beyond cholesterol lowering and that's a good thing. But instead of a blanket prescription we need to identify people most likely to benefit - i.e. personalised medicine."
Dr Aung said: "A dual approach should be considered to identify people who will benefit most from statins. That means looking at not only clinical risk factors such as smoking and high blood pressure, but also genetic (hereditary) factors which can predict individuals' response to statins. This is an area of growing interest and one that we are also investigating in our lab with our collaborators."


Goats are funny in their oddness. I came across this pair when I visited a small farm just outside Swakopmund in Namibia.
They went into immediate foraging mode, munching on all green foliage in their path.
The farm's border collie went into instincive herding mode the moment the goats were let out of their enclosure. The focus on her face was something to behold.
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Such fun photos of these goats. Thanks so much for playing along. Happy New Year.
We had goats just lke these when I grew up! They are odd and funny. I loooove Swakopmund. Thanks for the pics.
Thanks for the comment. Glad you like the goat pics :-). I wish I could move to Swakop. I would have daily blogging inspiration I am sure.


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Home News Suwaiba is still not satisfied with KATH boss sacking
Suwaiba is still not satisfied with KATH boss sacking
Daily Guide Africa
Suwaiba Abdul Mumin
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi, Professor Ohene Adjei, has been asked to proceed on accumulated leave with immediate effect, in relation to the missing babies who were born at the health facility recently.
The directive, issued by the Minster of Health, Sherry Ayittey yesterday, followed the inability of the hospital to produce the alleged stillborn babies of Suwaiba Abdul Mumin and two other women.
The ?proceed on leave? order has set tongues wagging as to whether Prof Ohene Adjei would ever be called back, in view of the poor handling of issues at the hospital.
Ms Ayittey had given the KATH management 14 days to produce the missing babies dead or alive, but as at yesterday, there was still no clue as to their whereabouts.
Prof Ohene adjei
Meanwhile, the board of KATH has been directed by the Minister to appoint a senior person in management to take over and inform the Ministry accordingly.
The doctor involved in the case and the midwife, under whose supervision the three purported stillborn babies went missing, have also been directed to continue their indefinite leave until their supervising bodies had submitted their final reports and decisions taken.
Ms Ayittey also directed the Medical and Dental Council as well as the Nursing and Midwifery Council that had asked for extension of time for the final submission of their reports, to do so not later than April 15, 2014.
Outlining its decision based on preliminary reports submitted by the Medical and Dental Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Ms. Ayittey said investigations revealed that laid-down procedures for disposing of still-births were not followed at KATH.
?Still-births are discharged to the mortuary attendant; this is booked by the attendant in a register but there is no evidence that was carried out in the case of the three stillborns,? she stated.
KATH had reported that it had followed the protocol of showing a newborn baby to its mother to identify its sex. This was to offer evidence of whether it was alive or stillborn, followed by the mother?s thumbprint in the still-birth record book to confirm or certify the information about the baby?s status.
On the other hand, the Minister said investigations disclosed that the bodies of the three stillborn babies could not be accounted for because the orderly on duty, who was supposed to put the dead babies in a box to the mortuary, allegedly took the babies to the incinerator.
?Madam Suwaiba Mumin?s baby, after it was shown to her to identify the sex and confirm its death by thumb printing the necessary document, was weighed, wrapped with the mother?s cloth and put in a box which was placed at where still-births are kept in transit to the mortuary. Unfortunately, this baby happens to be one of three babies allegedly picked up by the orderly and disposed of,? she said.
The sector minister also said investigations showed that the midwives at KATH did not document certain vital activities as they claimed. The midwives, who admitted Madam Suwaiba in the labour ward, did not confer with their colleagues at the ante-natal ward on the issue of absence of foetal heart rate, which they realized upon admitting her.
?There was no communication between the doctor and the midwife who was at the theatre. Records made available to the team do not indicate that the midwives at the ante-natal ward monitored the client between 4:30 pm until she was transferred to the labour ward at 10:00 pm,? Ms. Ayittey said.
The overall conclusion of the report, Ms. Ayittey indicated, was that care given to Suwaiba during her delivery at KATH was poor and therefore warranted the actions taken to solve the problem.
She thanked the family of Suwaiba Mumin for their cooperation and patience, while the ministry continued to probe into the matter to find a solution to the unfortunate incident.
?The ministry is in the process of facilitating a meeting with Madam Suwaiba and her family to find an amicable settlement to the unfortunate incident,? Ms. Ayittey said.
Some weeks ago, a stillborn baby of Suwaiba Abdul Mumin, went missing at KATH as the alleged dead baby could not be traced by hospital authorities.
KATH claimed the body had been burnt but family members insisted the baby was not dead and were therefore asking the hospital to produce the baby.
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Q: Etymology of multi-armed bandit I'm studying Reinforcement Learning, and have come across multi-armed bandits.
Why are these called bandits?  And why are they armed?

A: In section 2.1 of Sutton and Bardo's Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, they say:

[...] the k-armed bandit problem, so named by analogy to a slot
  machine, or "one-armed bandit," except that it has k levers instead of one. Each action
  selection is like a play of one of the slot machine's levers, and the rewards are the payout for hitting the jackpot.

A: This is actually explained on the Wikipedia page

This is a classic reinforcement learning problem that exemplifies the
  exploration–exploitation tradeoff dilemma. The name comes from
  imagining a gambler at a row of slot machines (sometimes known as
  "one-armed bandits"), who has to decide which machines to play, how
  many times to play each machine and in which order to play them, and
  whether to continue with the current machine or try a different
  machine.

they even have a picture of few of those:

As noticed by Henry in the comment, there is even more accurate image on Wikipedia to show the etymology:


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Ask The Expert With Wendy Rowe
Ask The Expert With Wendy Rowe 2nd November 2018 Salons Direct
Here at Salons Direct, we are absolutely delighted to catch up with the internationally acclaimed makeup artist and beauty expert, Wendy Rowe. Wendy has over 20 years of experience in international make-up artistry and beauty brand development and is one of the most trusted names in the industry. In this edition of 'Ask the expert', we chat to Wendy to learn more about her career progression, her biggest challenges, highlights and sources of inspiration.
When did you realise that a career in professional makeup artistry was for you?
I knew from a very young age that I would work in the fashion industry. I was interested in fashion very early on, from the clothes and the makeup to the designers and the models. When I was growing up it was the supermodel golden era and I was so inspired by the glamorous imagery everywhere. I've always been a visual person, so I knew that being involved in creating those images in some way would be the perfect career for me. The George Michael Freedom video made me really excited when I saw it, to the point that I realised that a career in makeup could be an option for me. The rest is history!
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What has been your standout career highlight so far?
Gosh, there have been so many! I've been so lucky to experience some amazing things throughout my career, and I'm still discovering new things and meeting fantastic talents all the time. But if I had to choose a few stand-out highlights from my career so far, one of them would be shooting a Prada campaign, which felt like a huge personal achievement. Of course, working with Burberry for 16 years and becoming an artistic consultant was also a real highlight and has been an enormous part of my working life. Through my work with Burberry, I formed some of the most amazing working relationships and friendships of not only my career but my personal life, too.
Landing my first French and Italian Vogue covers were also real landmark moments for me and seeing my work on the covers of those fashion bibles for the first time was major. Creating my limited collection with La Bouche Rouge, which was major! 6 beautiful red lipsticks all in environmentally friendly paper packaging with some of the proceeds going to charity. Writing my book, Eat Beautiful, and receiving such amazing feedback from friends and readers was another highlight, and I still love it whenever someone tells me they've enjoyed the book or tried one of my recipes. But I've learned that the best is always yet to come, and becoming the creative director for Max Factor this year has been yet another career highlight. Who knows what's next…
What has been one of the biggest challenges of your career to date?
One of the biggest challenges is trying to predict the unknown and be prepared for every eventuality. One of the most important things about being a makeup artist is being flexible and adaptable because the fashion industry has no rules. The job is so different from day to day, so saying 'yes' to requests even when you don't know exactly how you're going to make it happen is what can set you apart from the crowd. You can figure out the answer later!
What is one thing you wish you'd have been told before embarking on a professional career in makeup artistry?
If there is no way, create one! Nobody is going to do the work for you, so you need to find ways to make things happen for yourself. You never know what tomorrow is going to bring, every opportunity will be a learning experience, although it might not feel like it the time. And every challenge will add another string to your bow, so enjoy the process.
Who inspires you to be a fantastic makeup artist?
One of my favourite things about my job is the incredibly talented people I get to work with on a daily basis. I like to surround myself with people that push me creatively and inspire me to be a better makeup artist. Some of these people I've been lucky enough to work with over the years include Christopher Bailey, Elliott Smedley, Camilla Akrans, Inez and Vinoodh.
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How has your career developed over time?
Well, it has definitely progressed from what you imagine as a typical makeup artist role. I never imagined when I started working as a makeup artist half the things I've ended up doing over the years! I have been lucky enough to work in product development with Burberry whilst being an artistic consultant and now being the creative director for Max Factor. The great things about these roles is that it not only gives you more creative freedom to help shape a brand and the stories they are telling, but it means you can custom make products that you know you're going to love working with, and that the public are going to enjoy, too.
What inspires you to keep your outlook and work fresh?
Again, for me, it's all about the creative people around me at work, as well as traveling the world and seeing different cultures. The great thing about the job is that it's filled with diversity. I work with people of all ages, from all cultures and backgrounds. It really does come down to talent in the fashion industry, so you can learn so much from everyone you meet.
What are the biggest changes you've noticed across the industry over the years
That you are no longer just behind the scenes as a makeup artist, you are expected to be on camera and keep up-to-date across the multitude of platforms that are now available. If you want to be a top makeup artist in the modern age your job is no longer just about doing makeup. You need to be a presence on social media, be up-to-date with all the latest technologies and industry happenings and have a lot more strings to your bow. In some ways, it's challenging but it keeps things interesting and I love that it gives me the opportunity to learn something new every day.
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What are your holy grail kit essentials that you can't work without? Has this changed much over the years?
Yes, it has definitely changed thanks to technology, so products have really progressed. There are better formulas, more shades and a lot more options on the market to choose from. As for my essentials, I love the products that I developed for Burberry especially the contour sticks, concealers and fresh glow foundations. But I never close my kit, it's always open to exciting new additions, and I love trying all the new products that land on my desk on a daily basis.
What is the best beauty secret you can share with us today?
Look after your skin and your makeup will be easy.
I'm known as the 'master of nude skin' but truly beautiful skin starts before the makeup. Even when I'm working with a client for the very first time, creating their skin look will be at least 50% prepping the skin, and if you want flawless skin, it starts from within.
And finally…tell us more about your wonderful book, Eat Beautiful and why people should read it!
Beauty is about more than the makeup you wear. It's about what you eat, how you look after your skin, and how you feel. I wanted to help people achieve great skin, and my book really is a simple guide to doing just that. It's a combination of skin tips and tricks, beauty essentials, a herbal pharmacy and seasonal recipes. It will help you learn the importance of eating fresh, seasonal foods and nourishing your skin from within to look and feel more beautiful.
Shop for all of your beauty supplies and makeup needs online at Salons Direct!
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La Maison Jolie: Welcome Home by Hunting for George!
The Welcome Home collection by Hunting for George promises to be everything and more a home should be - inviting, relaxing, comfortable and super stylish! With a smorgasbord of gorgeous textiles, art prints, bed linen, soft furnishings and so much more on offer, it is going be a hard task picking a favourite from this collection!
With tan and navy being the colour trend to watch this season, this collection has it in spades. Some of the must haves are the Sunday wool blanket, the blue chambray quilt cover set, the Billie Jean cushion, the tan leather ottoman and Leo, the handsome navy blue leather cushion!
The new collection launched end of March and is available online. Here are some of the curated images from the collection for you to drool over! With such a usable yet uber stylish collection on offer, the only question is which piece will you get?
Till next time... Welcome Home!


What is Mr Nice Guy kush?
Mr Nice Guy kush is named in honor an autobiography about Howard Marks, a Welsh cannabis campaigner, author, and former hashish cannabis entrepreneur. After his death burst, he made an autobiography titled "Mr. Nice." Mr Nice Guy kush is a very rare, and powerful bud.
Mr Nice Guy kush has a very strong baby dank with a burning sensation in the nose. Mr Nice Guy kush has a strange taste of rotten banana and fresh pine with a fruity aftertaste on the exhale.
Mr Nice Kush has the strangest high ever. There is a very rapid and powerful indica head rush, with a strange, sudden sativa energy rush. Once the peak reaches is when the indica effects really kick in.
Mr Nice Guy kush has a great high, you can tell your head will be in the clouds once you smell it.


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A teenager's life is on the line when he discovers his all-American parents are Soviet spies in this taut espionage thriller. River Phoenix (Stand By Me, The Mosquito Coast) stars as Jeff Grant, a typical California teen who's recently applied to the Air Force Academy. During a routine investigation, veteran FBI agent Roy Parmenter (Sidney Poitier, Shoot To Kill) discovers that Jeff's parents are deep-cover Russian spies planted in the U.S. for eventual call to duty. After 20 years, the day of reckoning has arrived for the Grants, who have been enlisted by master KGB agent Karpov (Richard Bradford) to deal with a renegade Soviet spy. Caught in a lethal crossfire between the FBI and KGB, Jeff is forced to choose between love for his parents, his country and his own survival. With excellent performances from a top-notch cast, LITTLE NIKITA is a fast-paced suspense thriller in the tradition of classic Hitchcock.
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PlayStation Plus June 2021: Operation Tango, Squadrons and more
PlayStation Plus June 2021 free titles have been revealed by Sony and includes three titles across PS4 and PS5. Those with Sony's PlayStation Plus subscription will able to download the following games throughout June 2021. Keep in mind that PS4 games are also playable on the PS5. PS4 Star...
Star Wars Squadrons supports 120FPS on Xbox Series X, Series S
Star Wars Squadrons now supports 120FPS on both Xbox Series X and Series while PS5 does not. The new patch means players will have two options to choose from, depending on the console they have. The visual priority will run at up to 2160p and 60fps on Xbox Series X or 1440p and 60fps on Xbox...
Star Wars Squadrons gets B-Wings and TIE Defenders in December
Star Wars Squadrons will be getting B-Wing and TIE Defender ships over the next two months, EA and EA Motive have declared. The title will receive its first update on 25 November and will include balancing changes, tuning and some additional fixes. It will also include a new map in the form of...


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Q: insert special characters in mysql database using python angularjs How do I insert a value in MySQL that consist of single quotes. i.e
"I am joy's brother and trying to get a 'job' "
The single quote is creating a  problems.When I am trying to write some text using single quotes in text field. I am  getting an error in the console i.e,.
SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
How do you insert single quotes through the user interface (front end) using angularJs ,MySQL.

A: You're looking for:
conn.escape_string()

Look into what escape_string does. In a nutshell it takes your string and replaces the special characters with ex \x00.
See: http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/MySQLdb.html
otherwise just put a \ infront of the characters to escape them yourself! :)


Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with China's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Ming on Tuesday to prepare for Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to Egypt in January, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmed Abu Zaid said.
National Security Advisor, Ambassador Fayza Aboul Naga and Secretary General of the Arab League Nabil El-Araby, also attended the meeting. During the officials' discussions of visit preparations, Chinese official noted that Jinping will give a speech during his visit to the Arab League.
He confirmed the importance of Jinping's visit to Egypt since it will be his first visit to in 12 years and the first in 2016. China is eager for the visit to succeed and to showcase good diplomatic relations between both countries and a mutual aspiration to advance them, the official said.
Shoukry highlighted Egypt's efforts to provide what is necessary for the visit's success and praised China's support to Egypt politically and economically. He further praised the good relations between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his Chinese counterpart, exemplified in their cooperation in 2015 discussions.
China's official delivered an invitation to Al-Sisi during the meeting to attend the 11th summit of the 20th group scheduled to be held in September in Guanzhou, China.
Ming said China will host the summit in 2016 and is supposed to invite only two countries as guests and decided to invite Egypt due to its diplomatic importance. Abu Zaid said there will be more coordination and support between Egypt and China.
Al-Sisi visited Beijing in December 2015 and signed five strategic partnership agreements in various fields. Egypt also proposed 15 investment projects worth $15bn at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Johannesburg, South Africa.
During the summit and in the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping, African leaders, and top Chinese officials, Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail gave a speech on the importance of Sino-African cooperation and the necessity of China's participation in African development projects.


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This Week In Film History, 05.16.10
05.17.10 | Jay Steinberg
May 17, 1912: Carl Laemmle oversees the merger of a number of independent production companies to form Universal Manufacturing Company.
May 18, 1912: The first feature film from what would go on to be a burgeoning cinema industry in India, Pundalik, opens in Bombay.
May 19, 1927: Grauman's Chinese Theater opens. The first to leave their marks in cement: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Norma Talmadge.
May 16, 1929: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences holds the first Academy Awards ceremony at Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel.
May 21, 1942: For the first time, James Cagney attends the premiere of one of his films: the patriotic song-and-dance extravaganza Yankee Doodle Dandy.
May 21, 1952: Within one month of his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee, John Garfield dies of a heart attack at age 39.
May 21, 1958: An apparently unimpressed Universal opens Orson Welles' since-heralded Touch of Evil on a double bill on neighborhood screens.
May 21, 1983: The concluding film in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, Return of the Jedi, debuts.
May 20, 1988: Computer-generated "morphing" effects are used for the first time in director Ron Howard's fantasy-adventure Willow.
May 16, 1990: Muppet creator and family entertainment guru Jim Henson, 53, and actor-singer-dancer Sammy Davis, Jr., 64, die.
May 19, 1999: The long-awaited Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace sets an opening day box office record of $28.5 million.


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Q: Racket simple procedure for converting number from base 10 to base 4 Im having some problems with racket. The assignment wants me to write a procedure that converts any number from base 10 to base 4, the solution should be written in a list. for example (convert-to-base-four 12) -> (list 3 0)
Now i have written a procedure but it inserts each number in an individual list.
heres my code.
(define (convert-to-base-four number)
  (cond
    [(<= number 3) (cons number empty)]
    [(> number 3)  (reverse (list (remainder number 4)
                    (convert-to-base-four (floor (/ number 4)))))]))

Does anyone know what to do?
Many thanks

A: AlexKnauth's comment is the one you need to be following – you must define and adhere to a strict domain (input) and codomain (output) for your function
;; from your code
(list Y
      (convert-to-base-four X))

It doesn't matter what Y and X are here: if convert-to-base-four returns a list of some value and a recursive call to convert-to-base-four – which returns a list – you're going to end up with a list of lists!
One solution, as another points out, is to use append – but beware, it's a trap
(define (base4 n)
  (if (< n 4)
      (list n)
      (append (base4 (floor (/ n 4)))
              (list (remainder n 4)))))

(displayln (base4 12))     ; (3 0)
(displayln (base4 13))     ; (3 1)
(displayln (base4 14))     ; (3 2)
(displayln (base4 15))     ; (3 3)
(displayln (base4 16))     ; (1 0 0)
(displayln (base4 123456)) ; (1 3 2 0 2 1 0 0 0)

A better solution would avoid the costly use of append – here we do that using a named let loop with two loop state variables m and acc
(define (base4 n)
  (let loop ((m n) (acc empty))
    (if (< m 4)
        (cons m acc)
        (loop (floor (/ m 4))
              (cons (remainder m 4) acc)))))

(displayln (base4 12))     ; (3 0)
(displayln (base4 13))     ; (3 1)
(displayln (base4 14))     ; (3 2)
(displayln (base4 15))     ; (3 3)
(displayln (base4 16))     ; (1 0 0)
(displayln (base4 123456)) ; (1 3 2 0 2 1 0 0 0)

A: Try to use append on your list :)
Have fun with homework ;)


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Haroldo Eurico Browne de Campos (19 August 1929 – 16 August 2003) was a Brazilian poet, critic, professor and translator. He is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Brazilian literature since 1950.

Biography
He did his secondary education at Colégio São Bento, where he learned his first foreign languages (Latin, English, Spanish, French). He and his brother Augusto de Campos, together with Décio Pignatari, formed the poetic group Noigandres that published the experimental journal of the same name, which would launch the Brazilian movement of poesia concreta (concrete poetry). Haroldo received his doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of USP (Universidade de São Paulo), under the guidance of Antonio Candido. Haroldo was professor at the Catholic University, PUC-SP, and visiting professor at Yale and the University of Texas at Austin. His biography was included in the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1997 and he was awarded the Premio Octavio Paz de Poesia y Ensayo, Mexico, in 1999.

In addition to his vast repertory of original poetry and literary essays, Haroldo translated some of the most important literature of the Western tradition into Portuguese, such as Homer's Iliad, prose by James Joyce and poetry by Mallarmé. When he died he left unfinished a translation of Dante's Commedia, a manuscript that Umberto Eco had a chance to read, which compelled him to say that "Haroldo de Campos is the best Dante translator in the world". Translation, according to Haroldo de Campos, is much more than moving text from one language to another. Elements of the structure of the poem, like rhythm and sound combinations (rhyme, echoes, assonance, etc.) are often more important than semantics per se. His translations include poetry, Chinese, Japanese, Greek and Hebrew texts. He translated, major names of world literature, such as Goethe (German), Ezra Pound, James Joyce (English), Mayakovsky (Russian), Mallarmé (French), Dante (Italian) and Octavio Paz (Spanish). On stage, his works have been performed by three actors: Giulia Gam (1989, Cena da Origem, directed by Bia Lessa), Bete Coelho (1997, Graal: Retrato de um Fausto Quando Jovem, by Gerald Thomas) and Luiz Päetow (2015, Puzzle, by Felipe Hirsch).

Bibliography

Translations

 Ezra Pound - Cantares (together with Augusto de Campos and Décio Pignatari, 1960)
 Panorama do Finnegans Wake (together with Augusto de Campos, 1962)
 Poesia Russa Moderna (together with Augusto de Campos and Boris Schnaiderman, 1968)
 A Operação do Texto (directives for the translation of the poem A Sierguéi Iessiênin, de Maiakovski. 1976)
 Deus e o Diabo no Fausto de Goethe (translation of fragments of Goethe's version for the myth Faust , 1981). .
 Transblanco (translation of the poem Blanco, byOctavio Paz. 1986)
 Mallarmé (translation of some of Mallarmé's poems done together with Augusto de Campos and Décio Pignatari, 1991)
 Pedra e Luz na Poesia de Dante (translation of fragments of the Divine Comedy, 2000)
 Bere'shith: A Cena da Origen (translation of the Book of Genesis and The Book of Job, 2000)
 Ilíada de Homero vol. 1 (with notes by Trajano Vieira, 2001).
 Ilíada de Homero vol. 2 (with notes by Trajano Vieira, 2002)
 Maiakovski Poemas (together with Augusto de Campos and Boris Schnaiderman, 2002)
 Ungaretti - Daquela Estrela à Outra (translation of poems of the italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, together with Aurora Bernadiel, 2003)
 Qohélet - o que sabe (translation of the biblical book Ecclesiastes, 2004)
 Éden - Um Tríptico Bíblico (2005)
 Hagoromo de Zeami (translation of the theater play  Nô; hagoromo, written by Zeami Motokiyo, 2005)

Volumes of poetry
 Xadrez de Estrelas (1976)
 Signância: Quase Céu (1979)
 Galáxias (1984)
 A Educação dos Cinco Sentidos (1985)
 Crisantempo (1998)
 A Máquina do Mundo Repensada (2001)

References

Further reading
Jackson, K. David., ed.  Haroldo de Campos: A Dialogue with the Brazilian Concrete Poet. Oxford: Centre for Brazilian Studies, Oxford University, 2005.
Else Vieira and Bernard Mc Gwirk, eds. Haroldo de Campos In Conversation, In Memoriam.  London:  Zoilus Press, 2009.
Charles A. Perrone, Seven Faces:  Brazilian Poetry since Modernism (Duke U  P, 1996), chs. 2 and 6.
A.S. Bessa and Odile Cisneros, eds. Novas: Selected Writings by Haroldo de Campos (Evanston: Northwestern U P, 2007).

External links
Archivio Conz
 Official website of Haroldo de Campos
"De Campos Thou Art Translated (Knot)" by Charles Bernstein

1929 births
2003 deaths
Brazilian male poets
Brazilian translators
University of São Paulo alumni
Tropicália
Prix Roger Caillois recipients
Translators to Portuguese
French–Portuguese translators
Hebrew–Portuguese translators
Spanish–Portuguese translators
Latin–Portuguese translators
Greek–Portuguese translators
English–Portuguese translators
20th-century Brazilian poets
20th-century translators
20th-century Brazilian male writers
Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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By Brian Branam - October 25, 2012
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To be honest, I didn't know quite what to expect from Echoes in the Walls by Katrina Morgan. I was expecting an essay type book about the funny and aggravating experiences you will have when you attempt a huge project like renovating an old house. Echoes in the Walls is categorized as non-fiction humor, which is why I expected funny vignettes, but to my surprise this humorous book reads like a novel. I liked it because the characters are well written and very likable. They are, after all, real people, and who knows the members of a family better than Mom? The situation is totally believable. I have experienced some of the twists and turns of making an old house into the house of your dreams. This is probably another reason I like this book.
To my surprise and delight, Echoes in the Walls is, in my opinion, more about family and life's little quirks than it is about actually doing the job of building the house. Katrina Morgan's family is very real to me now. I feel I know them and how they will react to things at least as well as I do that fictional family so many of my generation grew up with, The Brady Bunch. This is a family you will learn to love and root for. This is a book you will appreciate. The fact that the story is true and that the characters are real gave it extra punch and authenticity for me.