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If anyone wonders why I might make myself even rarer than usually today: It's because I will be forced to an Xmas party at my workplace.
What are your experiences with this Evergreen of classic Weekend Television?
P. S: This is my first ever Blog Entry here so please be patient in case I should violate any formation rules... It's not intentional.


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Telun Berasap Falls is a waterfall found in Kerinci Regency, Jambi province, Indonesia. Its height is approximately . The source of water is Telun river, which disgorges around Mount Seven. The immediate source of water is Mount Seven Falls, which flows from Lake Gunung Tujuh atop Mount Seven.

References

Waterfalls of Indonesia
Landforms of Jambi
Landforms of Sumatra

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Le département des objets d'art du musée du Louvre est un des départements les plus riches du musée, constamment agrandi par des donations et des achats. On y trouve des bijoux, des statuettes et des bibelots, mais aussi des meubles et des tapisseries. Les objets couvrent une période allant du haut Moyen Âge au milieu du . La collection, l'une des plus belles du monde, comprend plus de 24 163 œuvres au total, parmi lesquelles 8 500 sont exposées dans 96 salles, dont certaines sont des chefs-d'œuvre en elles-mêmes (Galerie d'Apollon, Appartements Napoléon III).

Histoire du département

Ce département a été créé en 1893, année où il a été séparé de celui des Sculptures. De valeur exceptionnelle, ces objets et meubles proviennent des collections royales, des anciens trésors de Saint-Denis et de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit, ainsi que du transfert au Louvre, en 1901, de l'ancien musée du Mobilier National. À cela se sont ajoutés, depuis le début, de multiples donations et achats.

Les collections du département des objets d'art se trouvent au  du musée, dans l'aile Richelieu, les ailes Nord et Nord-Ouest de la Cour carrée, ainsi qu'au  de l'aile Denon (galerie d'Apollon). L'aile Richelieu accueillait auparavant le ministère des finances qui a déménagé à Bercy, a été réaménagée en salles d'exposition et inaugurée le . En , de nouvelles salles consacrées aux objets d'art du  ouvrent leurs portes dans les anciens bureaux du ministère des finances de Napoléon III, et portent à 20 000 le nombre de pièces inventoriées dans le département.

En 2005, la section du département des Objets d'Art du Louvre consacrée au règne de Louis XIV et au  est fermée pour rénovation, à l'origine pour une question de remise à niveau du système électrique qui devait durer 2 ans.

Le , après 9 années et un budget de 26 millions d'euros (financé par des mécènes), 33 nouvelles salles contenant plus de 2000 objets sont rouvertes, dont une grande partie ont été conçues comme des Period rooms présentant le mobilier français du règne de Louis XIV à celui de Louis XVI. Une première équipe d'architectes est assignée à la rénovation du département, mais en 2008, à la suite du constat d'infaisabilité de cette équipe, l'aménagement muséologique  de ces nouvelles salles est confié à Jacques Garcia avec les directeurs du département qui se succèdent. Fabrice Ouziel a dessiné les nouveaux décors. La rénovation des boiseries a occupé les trois quarts du budget total.

La collection d'art reconstituée s'est faite grâce aux contributions du Palais des Tuileries et du Château de Saint-Cloud sous forme de meubles et autres objets décoratifs, suivi par le Mobilier national de chefs-d'œuvre de l'ébénisterie et de la tapisserie d'origine royale.

Décors

Le plafond de la salle du pavillon de Beauvais (salle 605) a été peint par Carolus Duran. Lors de la rénovation de 2006-2014, un plafond peint par Giovanni Scajario a été installé, la coupole Toilette de Vénus de Antoine-François Callet a été remonté du Palais-Bourbon, et des tapisseries de Noël Coypel ont été apposées.

Les salles sont agrémentées de mobilier Boulle, dont l'entretien et la rénovation s'avèrent intensifs.

Collection

On distingue 4 groupes de collections dans le département :  les collections du Moyen Âge, les collections de la Renaissance et de la première moitié du , les collections de la seconde moitié du  et du  et les collections du  (y compris les appartements Napoléon III).

La présentation dans les salles des collections de la seconde moitié du  et du  a été divisée en trois grandes séquences chronologiques et stylistiques :
 1660-1725 : le règne personnel de Louis XIV et la Régence (salles 601 à 606).
 1725-1755 : l'épanouissement du style rocaille (salles 605, 607 à 615).
 1755-1790 : le retour au classicisme et le règne de Louis XVI (salles 616 à 632).

Cette nouvelle présentation des collections  permet de montrer les boiseries de plusieurs salons d'hôtels particuliers, de remonter la coupole des Petits-Appartements de l'hôtel du prince de Condé réalisée par Antoine-François Callet en 1774 et de présenter des meubles de André-Charles Boulle, Martin Carlin, Mathieu Criaerd, Alexandre-Jean Oppenord.

Œuvres majeures
Le Trésor de Saint-Denis :
 L'Aigle de Suger
 L'Epée de Charlemagne
 Le Sceptre de Charles V
 La Patène de serpentine

Les Joyaux de la Couronne :
 Le diamant Le Régent
 Le Diamant Le Sancy
 La Couronne de Louis XV

 Le Diadème de la Duchesse d'Angoulême

 La Couronne, le diadème et le nœud de corsage de l'Impératrice Eugénie
 Coffre des pierreries de Louis XIV
Les Décors Historiques:
 Les Appartements Napoléon III
 La Galerie d'Apollon

 La Chambre de Madame Récamier
 Salon de l'Hôtel le Bas de Montargis
 Cabinet de l'Hôtel de Villemaré Dangé

Mobilier :
 Table de Teschen
 Armoire aux perroquets (Boulle)
 Athénienne de Napoléon Ier
 Grand écrin de l'impératrice Joséphine
 Table de Toilette de la duchesse de Berry

Autres :
 Ivoire Barberini (byzantin)
 Vierge à l'Enfant (Jeanne d'Evreux)
 Casque de parade de Charles VI
 Tenture Les Chasses de Maximilien

Principales acquisitions récentes
 2023 :
 Tabatière Choiseul
 Candélabre Ananas et statue Le Silence de Joseph Chinard (pour la chambre de Madame Récamier)
 2022 : Camée attribué à Giovanni Ambrogio Miseroni
 2020 : Coffret dit roman
 2019 : Coffret à bijoux de la duchesse de Berry (don)
2018 : Le Livre d'Heures de François Ier (mécénat)
 2015 :
Table de Teschen
Tapisserie Les Astronomes (Histoire de l'Empereur de Chine)
 2014 :
 Paravent aux Oiseaux de la duchesse de Berry
 Le Char d'Apollon (bronze et marbre), d'époque Empire
 2012 : Statuettes provenant du groupe représentant la Descente de Croix, Saint Jean et Allégorie de la Synagogue
 2009 :
 Le Dais de Charles VII
 Boite à portrait de Louis XIV (don des Amis du Louvre)
 2008 : Grand Nœud de corsage de l'Impératrice Eugénie (ancienne collection des Diamants de la Couronne)

 2006 : Guéridon en porcelaine de Sèvres (don des Amis du Louvre)
 2002 : Diadème de la Duchesse d'Angoulême (ancienne collection des Diamants de la Couronne)
 2001 : Parure en or et mosaïque (ancienne collection des Diamants de la Couronne; don des Amis du Louvre)
 1992 : Diadème de l'Impératrice Eugénie (ancienne collection des Diamants de la Couronne; don des Amis du Louvre)
 1988 : Couronne de l'Impératrice Eugénie (ancienne collection des Diamants de la Couronne; don particulier)

Mécénat

De grands donateurs comme Isaac de Camondo ou Basile de Schlichting, d'autres mécènes comme le Cercle Cressent ou la Société des Amis du Louvre ont participé à la restauration ou à l'acquisition de pièces pour les collections de la seconde moitié du  et du .

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Musée du Louvre
 Joyaux de la Couronne de France

Lien externe
 Musée du Louvre : Département des Objets d'art


I have been finding so many cute cozy jackets and then it hit me that I haven't posted about this trend yet! Get ready to cozy up in today's roundup of 14 cozy jackets I've got my eyes on. These jackets are extremely versatile as most of them can be thrown over workout clothes to run errands afterwards, or can be put together for a chic seasonal look. The jacket I am wearing in these photos is honestly one of my favorite pieces in my closet right now! It is the perfect oversized, comfy fit, doesn't break the bank, and although its oversized, it is still flattering!
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President George W. Bush Print this document
Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. Our coalition is now engaged in securing and reconstructing that country. The United States and our allies have prevailed, and because of this our nation and the Middle East are more secure, a tyrant has fallen and Iraq is now free.
The credit for our military's success goes to the men and women who went in harm's way. The gratitude of our nation goes to:
The men and women of our military, particularly those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country
The commanders - especially Secretary Rumsfeld and General Tommy Franks
Our coalition partners - particularly the Armed Forces of the UK, Australia, and Poland.
Our 21st Century military carried out Operation Iraqi Freedom with a combination of speed, precision and boldness the enemy did not expect, and the world had not seen. With new tactics and precision weapons, coalition forces demonstrated that we can achieve military objectives while directing violence away from civilians.
Difficult work lies ahead in Iraq:
Bringing order and security to parts that remain dangerous
Bringing to justice the leaders of and those who are loyal to the old regime
Locating hidden chemical and biological weapons
Rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure after 30 years of devastation
Standing by the Iraqi people as they establish a government of, by and for the Iraqi people
The Battle of Iraq is one victory in the broader war on terror that began on September 11th, 2001, and still goes on. The President detailed progress made in the war on terror and reaffirmed America's commitment to defending our homeland and hunting down terrorists before they can strike.
America has a tradition of spreading liberty throughout the world. Our country is committed to freedom in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and in a peaceful Palestine. We make this commitment because the advance of freedom is the surest strategy to undermine the appeal of terror in the world.
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Modern Sherlock Holmes – Find out the (malware & ransomware) perpetrators.
A science concept guide human being to hypothesize boldly, to testify rigorously. It looks to me that this concept is principle but I believe that more terms can enrich our technology life. For example, carry the don't care term during your development and thinking. That is even though it was unsucessful, you will receive knowledge. You will dig out more during this circumstances.
Remark: Since don't care term also apply to boolean expression. May be you are think that it is a little bit side track, right. But we are in cyber world. In digital logic, a don't-care term for a function is an input-sequence (a series of bits) for which the function output does not matter.
OK, we go to the subject matter today. How we imagine that Sherlock Holmes do a study on cybercrime. Find out the (malware & ransomware) perpetrator?
Since I am not going to suggest that we engage a real exercises now. It is not a good idea without preventive control to execute this job. Run in rush without preparation thus contain inherent risk harm your machine and personal data. So we step back take a hot example (wanna cry) see whether can dig out more idea and information.
Since we are not going to do a forensic investigation. We simply walk through example (wannacry) on language setup. From language setup capabilities (see below), it looks that it cover the languages all around the world.
From criminal psychology point of view, it looks that the criminal not going to specify a specifics target. A high level point of view that they are looking for money. Fully compatible of language set benefits for their objective.
From detection point of view, the written language and grammar can provides hints to detective see whether to dig out hints. This hints may speculate for the direction of the detection. For example: the fundamental limitation of mother tongue translation to other native language.
Such detection might fool by criminal group and intend to interfere the direction.
Some of the times, the written programming style and infection technique might provides hints to detective to the right direction. But a lot of time will interfere the direction of investigation. For example: Wannacry relies on NSA (DoublePulsar) back door software agent or SMB v1 vulnerability (see below picture) to execute the job task. From normal circumstance's, bad guy will implant a backdoor to victim machine to fulfill the infiltration job task. Unfortunately the backdoor software (DoublePulsar) was given from NSA of their global surveillance program. Wannacry is a ransome software. In the sense that NSA might not be the perpetrator. As a result it interrupt the trace process. The investigator can't follow the hints to predict who is the appropriate party to do this criminal job.
Since above observation items might contain fundamental weakness. As a matter of fact, those items of evidences might become a relevant evidence. The fundamental theory by law of relevant evidence interpret that relevant part of evidence is logically connected to the fact it is intended to establish" (Blackwell, 2004). However the investigator or detective most likely will prefer to execute forensic investigation to receive the digital and demonstrative evidence.
We know that ransomware infection crisis like Wannacry victims suspended Health care services in United Kingdom. The major effect which harm to whole hospital services over there! Since healthcare services maintains compliance standard. It is possible to let the forensic investigator do the investigation (see below step).
However a technical limitation has been found on traditional digital forensic investigation criteria.
Few evidences will be lost once victim power off their machine.
Technology company note with alert of the technical weakness during forensics investigation. A preventive mechanism was build to avoid lost of critical data after system power off. The enhancement is that an software agent will be installed on the workstations. The software agent will collect the delta (data change) and then forward to the centralized repository in real time.
As we know, no design and solution is prefect. For this enhancement it is prefect to implement to enterprise or corporate environment. For workstation for personal usage it is difficult to implement. A drawback alert to the detective or government enforcement team that there is a technical limitation on personal devices (personal computer workstations, mobile computing devices and IoT devices).
Readers, if you can read this down to here, we might know the mentioned investigation mechanism are able to collect the following details.
(1) Memory dump, (2) disk image, (3) malware activities finger print, (4) virus and malware types, (5) C&C server public IP address and (6) malware dropper file.
Even through we received above informations on hand. However, it is hard to provide a comprehensive of evidence proof who is the perpetrator! For example, it is hard to collect the information details once workstation compromised by wannacry. As a matter of fact the whole disk has been encrypted. So, what's the next step when investigator face this problem.
Refer to below picture, you might aware that point C (C&C server) and point D (victim compromised web server) are located in different regions. They are not in single operation. Even though Forensics investigator are able to decrypted the hard disk or collect the activities log from their SIEM device. The trace result sometimes mislead the location of the area. It is hard to provides a clear picture. In order to identify the root sources. A detection terminology so called multi angle detection algorithm will be assist investigator in such circumstances.
The concept idea is that investigator will summarize the following entities.
Remark: As we know, hacker will relies on Tor network to hide himself in effective manner. Since it is hard to know their location status once their connectivities get inside to the onion network (Tor network).
6. Sometimes law enforcement team not going to let hacker know they has been traced. The job might run on ISP side (Point B). For instance, they will lock down the appropriate tor certificate and filter the certificate Issuer and Subject ID patterns.
a. Define correlation rule to find out the source IP address of the attacker.
b. Apply Google analytic methodology to figure out the attacker IP address.
8. The final action is activate the local police force to arrest the hacker.
Regarding to above description it looks that it is not easy to lock down the hackers actual location. Heard that some security expert relies on English written skill or C&C server to predict the attacker source IP address. From technical point of view, it might contained distortion.


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"Billions" Has Become TV's Sharpest Critique Of Toxic Masculinity
In its third season, Showtime's Billions has snapped into focus from being a blurry series about power to an infinitely sharper one about gender. Spoilers through last night's episode, "Hell of a Ride," below.
By Alison Willmore
Alison Willmore BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on April 16, 2018, at 12:41 p.m. ET
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Paul Giamatti as Chuck Rhoades and Jeffrey DeMunn as Charles Rhoades Sr. in the Billions episode "Hell of a Ride."
Dick is a multipurpose metaphor in Billions. Most of the characters in Showtime's hedge fund drama talk about their work, their success or lack thereof, and their stature as an extension of their virility. They aren't all men, but they do all circle a luxe locker room of an industry that's been overwhelmingly defined by men. Any observation you might feel inclined to make about Wall Street being dominated by bros vying to prove who has the biggest balls, Billions makes for you. In its very first episode, without the hint of a wink, a trader describes his issues at work to performance coach Wendy Rhoades (Maggie Siff) by using the language of erectile dysfunction: "I hear it happens to guys my age."
Exactly a season later, Wendy shakes a bottle of Viagra at an audience of hedge fund types, telling them that while some of them rely on it, none would admit that: "The thought that someone might know you need help is worse than not getting the help you need. Still, when the time comes, when you need to pull the trigger on the buy or sell order, you better be hard as a rock and ready to go" — no Freudian subtext necessary. More recently, to really underscore the erection connection and the fragility that accompanies it, a character insists he would part with a fraction of his — "an inch off my dick" — if it meant he and his failing fund could get back in the game.
When Billions, the creation of Brian Koppelman and David Levien, premiered in 2016, it was a show that — much like its wilder cinematic sibling The Wolf of Wall Street — felt unwilling to commit to being either a critique or a celebration of the excesses and amoral schemes it was putting onscreen. When you wallow in dudes slinging their schlongs around without any apparent subversion, it tends to come across as endorsement, especially when considered through the fumes of the presidential election that followed the first season, in which macho posturing and cartoonish wealth carried the day. In its early episodes, especially, Billions could be taken for another variation on the "flawed but great man" drama, and an addictive but particularly sour one whose standards of greatness were questionable.
Bobby "Axe" Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and Chuck at the end of Season 1.
It's actually about two men — US attorney and rising political star Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti), and hedge fund superstar and billionaire "man of the people" Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) — and the series unfolds in the shadow of their kaiju battle. Chuck, who sets out to take down Axe for insider trading with the obsessiveness of Ahab chasing Moby (sorry) Dick, might nominally be on the side of "good," or at least the law, but Billions is quick to muddy this divide. With his aims to run for office, Chuck proves himself to be someone willing to cross lines to further his own interests, while Axe is shown to be, while far from innocent, not the worst offender in his ethically flexible industry — just the showiest target.
Three seasons in, Chuck and Axe are still duking it out, and what's striking is how much smaller their continuing struggle now makes them look — so very human-sized. They've lost relationships and fortunes to a conflict that was started, by Axe's own acknowledgment, for "dick-measuring purposes." Somewhere along its run, Billions snapped into focus from being a blurry drama about power to being an infinitely sharper one about gender. It's a snappily paced, light-on-its-feet nightmare about pissing contests, bruised egos, and displays of dominance, and what happens when power and gendered behavior are so intertwined that they get openly treated as if they were one and the same.
Midway through its current season, Billions still couldn't be described as a critique of the finance world, or the political one that intersects with it — it regards them both with a clinical gaze, as structures that protect and serve themselves, resist consequences, and erode people's ideals with rewards and compromises. Part of what makes the protagonists' continuing clash quietly ridiculous is that, however intent they are on obliterating one another, both are wealthy white men cushioned by all the advantages they inherited or accrued for themselves, and they could ever only fall so far.
Chuck, with his pedigree and connections, could roll through the scandal that may or may not erupt around him and into a lucrative private sector gig if he had to; Axe, who in a recent episode had an earnest conversation with his ex-wife Lara about whether they could afford to live on a mere $300 million if they had to, immediately comes up with a workaround after being cornered into giving up his ability to trade. Billions is technically a drama, but it's more fitting to think of it as a dark, near-subliminal comedy about machismo and avarice, about what a surreal thing it is that so many people in power are really just jostling to throw their junk on the table.
Taylor (Asia Kate Dillon) at the poker table in "Optimal Play."
The best thing Billions has done was to introduce a nonbinary character in its second season. That's not just because casting the nonbinary actor Asia Kate Dillon as Taylor Mason — a brilliant analyst who strides into Axe's office, informs him of their preferred pronouns, and proceeds to impress him so much that he coaxes them out of their plans to head to academia with offers of a hefty paycheck and mentorship — is a milestone of representation. It is, as is the conversation that Dillon went on to lead about actor/actress awards categories. But Taylor has also crystallized the themes of gender and power that the show had previously been circling less certainly. The transformation of Taylor from an intriguing side character at the start of Season 2 to a central series regular in Season 3 is the saga of Billions finally clicking together, like a dance troupe finally nailing its choreography.
Billions is not exclusively a show about men, but it is shaped by masculinity to the extent that most of its women — formidable, brainy, tough — are seen through the ways they've had to learn how to navigate the expectations and biases of men. They shield themselves when needed, soften their edges when it's advantageous, and contend with being seen as sexual objects. Characters like Wendy, who can effortlessly hamstring a heckler with a precise observation about the source of his insecurities, or Assistant US Attorney Kate Sacker (Condola Rashād), whose guardedness when talking about the depths of her convictions speaks to an awareness that they could get her labeled as too emotional to get the job done, have had to get used to being one of the few women in the room. Wendy's storyline has been explicitly about those challenges, about being Chuck's romantic partner and Axe's professional one, and contending with how much trouble they have accepting that she can do both.
Taylor's experience is by no means easier than that of the women on the show ("You skinny fucking freak!" a finance bigshot spits at them at one point), but it's different, in that so many of their colleagues are confounded about what biases to bring to bear. No one at work has context for Taylor. In their first appearance, Taylor teases another trader about assuming they're a vegan, letting him sputter before dryly saying, "Of course I'm a vegan." Taylor, with their shorn head, neutral dress, and intense eye contact, is cerebral and straightforward instead of gut-driven and posturing, concerned about their carbon footprint, and uneasy with conspicuous consumption — all qualities that put them at odds with everyone around them at the office. At first, that made it seem like they were going to get saddled with being Axe Capital's conscience — that frequent burden of the outsider, to have to serve as a morally pure buzzkill.
Taylor and Mafee (Dan Soder) in "Dead Cat Bounce."
Instead, Taylor becomes the company's star, then Axe's unexpected chosen successor, carving out a path for themselves as someone for whom strength is not bound up in performing masculinity or displays of aggression. Taylor was clearly initially introduced to be a foil for Axe, to demonstrate that, despite how chest-thumpy the office culture around him is, Axe himself is capable of seeing talent whether it comes in a form he's accustomed to or not. But since then, Axe has in many ways been transformed into a foil for Taylor. He is an adviser who keeps trying to pass along his worst qualities as well as his best ones, because he doesn't see them that way, even as his skirmishes with Chuck end up making him an exile from his own fund.
"You know the rider in the bicycle movie who, just when he has victory in sight, takes his hands off the bars and just holds them out like this, taking in the sun, gliding, letting all the other racers whiz by him just because?" Taylor asks Axe this in the Alex Gibney–directed episode "Optimal Play" in the second season, when Axe approaches them about representing the company in a Wall Street charity poker tournament called, honest to god, the Alpha Cup. "I always want to be that biker," Taylor says. Despite their disinterest in that sort of competition, Taylor of course gets roped into playing and wins, taking down a taunting opponent whose rage makes him transparent.
It's an exhilarating moment underscored with unease, as their colleagues slap them on the back and cuff their head affectionately, rewarding them with "one of us" gestures of acceptance they weren't seeking out. Taylor understands that knowing you can win, and then opting not to bother, is actually a bigger power move than needing to constantly destroy all rivals. They even put it in language the Axe Capital community should understand: "The whole 'my dick is bigger than yours' thing, it wasn't for me."
Axe in "The Wrong Maria Gonzalez."
The motif of fathers and their (literal or figurative) children has become a throughline in the third season of Billions, and another way for the series to explore gender and power. Taylor, in becoming the heir to Axe's throne, has had to contend with their mentor's unwillingness to cede control of his kingdom. Axe turns up at the office, which is full of employees he's forbidden from interacting with, to show that it's still his territory, a compulsive flaunting of strength that mostly just undermines Taylor's still-new leadership role. There's a sense that he can't resist wanting to compete with Taylor, even if it means competing with his own company — to prove, even if only to himself, that he's still the best. As is the case with his war with Chuck, Axe just can't help himself.
While Taylor and Axe settle on a mutually agreeable detente, a more perverse reconciliation is achieved in the parallel storyline of Chuck and his actual father, Charles (Jeffrey DeMunn), a New York real estate tycoon. Charles' desire to further a family dynasty wars with his contempt for what he perceives as weakness in his son, and he is a great believer in manly posturing, in ways that his son is at least conflicted about. Billions is, on the sexposition-happy scale of cable dramas, relatively restrained with displays of sex and nudity. So it's telling that in Sunday's episode, "A Generation Too Late," the writers allow DeMunn a moment in the buff when Charles shucks his robe to dismiss a man who tries to corner him outside a steam room for an unwanted conversation — full-frontal as a power move.
In the previous episode, Charles scornfully lectures Chuck about trying to repair their relationship with a sentimental speech, as they stand outside an alumni event on a campus Charles describes as "the site of my greatest conquests." He points to a dorm and announces, "I fucked three girls in there once in a 24-hour period — one in the can." Charles is a hidebound, amusingly loathsome creation, and last night's installment ended with a particularly grim punchline about just what it takes for Chuck to secure affirmation from his father. All Chuck needed to do is to screw his dad over and force his hand. "I'm proud of you, son — you fucked me good," the older man says, in the first expression of pride toward his son since young Chuck lost his virginity to a sex worker of his dad's choosing at age 14.
Chuck and Wendy Rhoades (Maggie Siff) at the start of Season 2.
Billions can be cartoonish, and if the past year has underscored anything, it's that the IRL worlds of finance and politics sure can be, too. But the fictionality of Billions provides enough distance that there's a strange sense of comfort to be had from the series. Watching actual world leaders conduct their own dick-measuring contest on a nuclear scale is terrifying, because we exist at the mercy of their decisions, and we have to live with the consequences. Watching Axe and Chuck sneer at each other in the plush spaces the show rarely strays from, we're freed up to consider the sad absurdity of these tendencies. These men are so inured to competition and a desire to prove their dominance that they work against their own best interests and those of their successors.
The series doesn't pander by suggesting that its non-male characters are either better or more compassionate than men — both Taylor and Lara, for instance, advocate for financially gutting a small town whose debt Axe purchases. But the show does end up portraying stereotypical masculinity as a trap that its main characters can't find their way out of. That masculinity is a vulnerability that they have internalized as strength, even if these same characters still hold most of the power. They may be smart men, but they can be baited into doing some very dumb things for the sake of their pride and the need to demonstrate their prowess. And that's a hell of a lot more fun to watch unfold on scripted television than it is on cable news. ●
Alison Willmore is a critic and culture writer for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Contact Alison Willmore at alison.willmore@buzzfeed.com.


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Students get a dramatic lesson on risk of underage drinking
14,500 students from across England get a hard-hitting lesson on the risks associated with underage drinking as part of an award-winning international programme that will reach 35,000 students across the UK this year.
Secondary school students, aged 12 to 14, will watch a play about a group of friends who find themselves in trouble as a result of their misuse of alcohol. The performance is followed by an interactive workshop where pupils will be invited to probe the cast on any of the issues brought up during the play and explore the consequences portrayed by the actors.
The performance is part of 'Smashed', an alcohol education and awareness programme delivered by Collingwood Learning and sponsored by Diageo, a global leader in beverage alcohol. The tour will visit 90 schools in eight regions across England, reaching around 14,500 students. The programme has reached 400,000 pupils in 2,040 schools across the UK since it began in 2005, and is now delivered in every continent.
'Smashed' was developed in consultation with young people and combines drama with interactive workshops to help young people understand the facts, causes, and consequences of alcohol misuse and the risks of underage drinking.
The programme extends beyond seeing the play in the classroom. Following the workshops, 'Smashed' also provides additional support for the schools in delivering vital Personal, Social and Health Education, and offers a free online guide which supports parents with discussions at home about underage drinking.
The UK is making progress in reducing levels of underage drinking. According to an NHS Children's Health survey, the number of children aged 8 to 15 that reported drinking alcohol fell from 45% in 2003 to 14% in 2017[1]. However, there is still work to be done. A study by the ONS showed that when 16-24 year olds do drink, they are the most likely demographic to binge.[2] This is why 'Smashed' is targeting 12 to 14 year olds – it prepares them to make informed decisions in the future as they reach this age group.
Results from the latest Smashed evaluation report have shown: [3]
95% of students said they were less likely to drink alcohol underage after taking part
97% of students were able to correctly identify the legal age for buying alcohol after the workshop (a 16% increase in accuracy)
85% of pupils demonstrated confidence in where to get help with alcohol related issues locally after the programme (a significant increase of 42%)
96% of students understood the term 'peer pressure' after the session.
Chris Simes from Collingwood Learning said: "This is a real change from the usual classroom lesson and makes the risks of underage drinking impossible to forget. We help teachers carry these lessons forward by delivering Personal, Social and Health Education support after the visit, and offer parents free online support materials. We're thrilled to be supported by Diageo and to be heading to 90 schools, visiting 14,500 students, in the first England tour of the new decade!"
Aileen Keyes, Head of International Public Policy, Diageo said: "We're really proud to have supported Smashed for the last 15 years, and to have reached so many young people across the country. It's encouraging to see underage drinking declining and we hope programs like Smashed continue to help well into the future."
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'Runaways' Season 2 Trailer: 8 best moments
Straight Outta Brentwood.
Magan Yusuf November 30, 2018
The Pride has eyes and ears everywhere. Season 1 of Runaways ended with the gang of kids finally on the lam after 10 episodes of cat-and-mouse. The show, unlike Brian K. Vaughn's first run, took its time fleshing everyone out.
The parents got some added nuances and somehow made them sympathetic figures and it diverted from the source material in lots of ways by having Amy, Nico's sister, whose death was the catalyst to her, Alex, Chase, Karolina, Gert and Molly drifting apart.
Season 2 looks to hit the ground running and this trailer packs a lot of goodness!
Here's several moments that stand out!
Old Lace makes everything better!
Good luck hiding a deinonychus in plain sight! (Marvel/Hulu)
The Pride's reach exceeds their grasp
There's no lengths they'll go to bring them home. (Hulu/Marvel)
The Pride has hooked themselves up with a dope HQ that'll track the kids' every move. They better keep their heads on a swivel.
He won't be out for long (Hulu/Marvel)
Victor Stein (played by a wildly charismatic James Marsters) got taken out of the proceedings halfway through the season. He was dealing with his wife, Janet cheating on him with Robert Minoru (Nico's dad), an incurable brain tumor and his tenuous relationship with Chase.
This shot says that he'll be back in the game soon enough and so much has happened.
Who is he gonna side with? Jonah? The Pride? The Runaways?
— James Marsters (@JamesMarstersOf) January 10, 2018
I am your father . . .
Join me (Hulu/Marvel)
In a big diversion from the comics. Jonah (played by former Dr. Doom Julian McMahon) entered the picture as the threat behind the threat. He's the real head honcho of Pride and on top of that, he's Karolina's biological father.
His presence could mean a lot of things in the coming season. Are all the families gonna get on the same page to stop him?
Who's it gonna be?!? (Hulu/Marvel)
Alex has been something of a wildcard. He doesn't have any powers himself but he's got smarts and Nico had her suspicions during episode 6 where he figured out the passcode pretty easily to get into a Tina's office during a banquet.
Karolina and Jonah's relationship does bring more questions than answers and there's a moment in the comics where it's revealed that [REDACTED] is a double agent. It remains to be seen if the show pulls the trigger on one character's heel turn.
Who's the new guy?
(Hulu/Marvel)
S2 is going bigger, so it's only right that a character from the comics makes his debut. Topher (pictured above) is the first friendly (?) face they run into in Season 2. Will he be accepted with open arms?
Deanoru. That is all.
You hear that?, there's a lot squeeing going on! (Hulu/Marvel)
Aside from the shifting dynamics, it's good to see Karolina find some happiness through all this chaos and it's with Nico.
FAN SERVICE!
I see you…(Hulu/Marvel)
Last but not least, the trailer featured a great homage to Runaways #9 where Alex was peering through the portrait…
Jealousy just reared its head. (Runaways #9, Marvel, Art by Adrian Alphona)
Runaways is going full speed ahead and it's poised to outrun S1 if the trailer is any indication!
Season 1 of Runaways is now streaming on Hulu and Season 2 will drop, in its entirety, on December 21st!
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My fandom is multifaceted—I watch every Marvel live-action property (film and television alike) as well as DC's lineup. 'Daredevil' Season 1 made me take the leap into reading comics. I also have an affinity for strong, well-written female characters. I also love prestige series such as 'Game of Thrones', 'The Wire', 'Better Call Saul' and 'Atlanta'. When I'm not writing or watching Netflix, I'm a massive gamer and my PS4 is so worth two hours of my day.
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{-# OPTIONS -fno-warn-name-shadowing #-}
{-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-}
{-# LANGUAGE ViewPatterns        #-}
module Language.Haskell.Names.ModuleSymbols
  ( moduleSymbols
  , moduleTable
  )
  where

import           Language.Haskell.Exts.Annotated
import           Language.Haskell.Names.GetBound
import qualified Language.Haskell.Names.GlobalSymbolTable as Global
import           Language.Haskell.Names.ScopeUtils
import           Language.Haskell.Names.SyntaxUtils
import           Language.Haskell.Names.Types

import           Control.Monad
import           Data.Data
import           Data.Either
import           Data.Lens.Light
import qualified Data.Map                                 as Map
import           Data.Maybe
import           Data.Monoid
import qualified Data.Set                                 as Set

-- | Compute module's global table. It contains both the imported entities
-- and the global entities defined in this module.
moduleTable
  :: (Eq l, Data l)
  => Global.Table -- ^ the import table for this module
  -> Module l
  -> Global.Table
moduleTable impTbl m =
  impTbl <>
  computeSymbolTable False (getModuleName m) (moduleSymbols impTbl m)

-- | Compute the symbols that are defined in the given module.
--
-- The import table is needed to resolve possible top-level record
-- wildcard bindings, such as
--
-- >A {..} = foo
moduleSymbols
  :: (Eq l, Data l)
  => Global.Table -- ^ the import table for this module
  -> Module l
  -> Symbols
moduleSymbols impTbl m =
  let (vs,ts) =
        partitionEithers $
          concatMap
            (getTopDeclSymbols impTbl $ getModuleName m)
            (getModuleDecls m)
  in
    setL valSyms (Set.fromList vs) $
    setL tySyms  (Set.fromList ts) mempty

type TypeName = GName
type ConName = Name ()
type SelectorName = Name ()
type Constructors = [(ConName, [SelectorName])]

-- Extract names that get bound by a top level declaration.
getTopDeclSymbols
  :: forall l . (Eq l, Data l)
  => Global.Table -- ^ the import table for this module
  -> ModuleName l
  -> Decl l
  -> [Either (SymValueInfo OrigName) (SymTypeInfo OrigName)]
getTopDeclSymbols impTbl mdl d =
  map (either (Left . fmap OrigName) (Right . fmap OrigName)) $
  case d of
    TypeDecl _ dh _ ->
      let tn = hname dh
      in  [ Right (SymType        { st_origName = tn, st_fixity = Nothing })]

    TypeFamDecl _ dh _ ->
      let tn = hname dh
      in  [ Right (SymTypeFam     { st_origName = tn, st_fixity = Nothing })]

    DataDecl _ dataOrNew _ dh qualConDecls _ ->
      let
        cons :: Constructors
        cons = do -- list monad
          QualConDecl _ _ _ conDecl <- qualConDecls
          case conDecl of
            ConDecl _ n _ -> return (void n, [])
            InfixConDecl _ _ n _ -> return (void n, [])
            RecDecl _ n fields ->
              return (void n , [void f | FieldDecl _ fNames _ <- fields, f <- fNames])

        dq = hname dh

        infos = constructorsToInfos dq cons

      in
        Right (dataOrNewCon dataOrNew dq Nothing) : map Left infos

    GDataDecl _ dataOrNew _ dh _ gadtDecls _ ->
      -- FIXME: We shouldn't create selectors for fields with existential type variables!
      let
        dq = hname dh

        cons :: Constructors
        cons = do -- list monad
          GadtDecl _ cn (fromMaybe [] -> fields) _ty <- gadtDecls
          return (void cn , [void f | FieldDecl _ fNames _ <- fields, f <- fNames])

        infos = constructorsToInfos dq cons
      in
          Right (dataOrNewCon dataOrNew dq Nothing) : map Left infos

    DataFamDecl _ _ dh _ ->
      let tn = hname dh
      in [Right (SymDataFam { st_origName = tn, st_fixity = Nothing })]

    ClassDecl _ _ dh _ mds ->
      let
        ms = getBound impTbl d
        cq = hname dh
        cdecls = fromMaybe [] mds
      in
          Right (SymClass   { st_origName = cq,       st_fixity = Nothing }) :
        [ Right (SymTypeFam { st_origName = hname dh, st_fixity = Nothing }) | ClsTyFam   _   dh _ <- cdecls ] ++
        [ Right (SymDataFam { st_origName = hname dh, st_fixity = Nothing }) | ClsDataFam _ _ dh _ <- cdecls ] ++
        [ Left  (SymMethod  { sv_origName = qname mn, sv_fixity = Nothing, sv_className = cq }) | mn <- ms ]

    FunBind _ ms ->
      let vn : _ = getBound impTbl ms
      in  [ Left  (SymValue { sv_origName = qname vn, sv_fixity = Nothing }) ]

    PatBind _ p _ _ ->
      [ Left  (SymValue { sv_origName = qname vn, sv_fixity = Nothing }) | vn <- getBound impTbl p ]

    ForImp _ _ _ _ fn _ ->
      [ Left  (SymValue { sv_origName = qname fn, sv_fixity = Nothing }) ]

    _ -> []
  where
    ModuleName _ smdl = mdl
    qname = GName smdl . nameToString
    hname = qname . getDeclHeadName
    dataOrNewCon dataOrNew = case dataOrNew of DataType {} -> SymData; NewType {} -> SymNewType

    constructorsToInfos :: TypeName -> Constructors -> [SymValueInfo GName]
    constructorsToInfos ty cons = conInfos ++ selInfos
      where
        conInfos =
          [ SymConstructor { sv_origName = qname con, sv_fixity = Nothing, sv_typeName = ty }
          | (con, _) <- cons
          ]

        selectorsMap :: Map.Map SelectorName [ConName]
        selectorsMap =
          Map.unionsWith (++) . flip map cons $ \(c, fs) ->
            Map.unionsWith (++) . flip map fs $ \f ->
              Map.singleton f [c]

        selInfos =
          [ (SymSelector { sv_origName = qname f, sv_fixity = Nothing, sv_typeName = ty, sv_constructors = map qname fCons })
          | (f, fCons) <- Map.toList selectorsMap
          ]

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California utility taps Arizona solar power
Posted in alternative energy, energy, environment, green policy, NextLight Renewable Power, PG&E, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged Arizona, Arnold Schwarzenegger, NextLight Renewable Power, PG&E, renewable portfolio standard on October 16, 2009| Leave a Comment »
That was quick: Just days after California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation that would have limited utilities' ability to buy out-of-state renewable energy, utility PG&E on Thursday asked regulators to approve a deal with an Arizona solar farm to supply 290 megawatts of electricity. As I write in The New York Times on Friday:
Pacific Gas & Electric, the big California utility, asked regulators on Thursday to approve the purchase of electricity from an Arizona solar power plant, only days after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation that would have limited utilities' ability to tap out-of-state projects to meet renewable energy mandates.
NextLight Renewable Power will construct the 290-megawatt Aqua Caliente photovoltaic farm on private land in Yuma County, Ariz. The company, based in San Francisco, signed a deal with P.G.&E. in June to supply 230 megawatts from a solar power plant to be built outside of Los Angeles.
The legislation vetoed by Mr. Schwarzenegger on Sunday would have required California utilities to obtain 33 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020, mostly from in-state projects.
Environmental groups and unions supported that provision as a way to limit the need to build new transmission lines and to keep construction jobs in California. But the governor said it would hamstring utilities from complying with the 33 percent target, which he supports.
According to the filing the utility made Thursday, Arizona regulators have already approved the project and NextLight expects to obtain county building permits within a few months. In contrast, the licensing of a solar power plant in California can take years. The Agua Caliente project is also located near existing transmission lines that connect to California's power grid.
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Forget the recession, California goes for the green
Posted in alternative energy, BrightSource Energy, climate change, endangered species, enviro startups, environment, global warming, green policy, green startups, green tech, Natural Resources Defense Council, OptiSolar, PG&E, renewable energy, San Diego Gas & Electric, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, the green economy, tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, renewable energy, renewable portfolio standard, solar energy, solar power plants on November 18, 2008| 2 Comments »
photo: California Governor's Office
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday terminated talk that the recession will crimp California's fight against global warming when he ordered every utility in the state to obtain a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. And in a move that will shake up the land rush to build solar power plants in the desert, Schwarzenegger signed an executive order to streamline and prioritize the licensing of such projects.
"One of the great things about California, of course, is that we always push the envelope," said Schwarzenegger at startup OptiSolar's solar cell factory in Sacramento, surrounded by a triptych of solar panels, utility executives and environmentalists. "That is why today I'm proposing that we set our sights even higher. This will be the most aggressive target in the nation."
California currently requires the state's Big Three investor-owned utilities – PG&E (PCG), Southern California Edison (EIX) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SRE) – to secure 20% of their electricity from green energy sources like wind, solar and geothermal by 2010. Monday's move turns what had been a 33% renewables goal into a mandate and extends responsibility for meeting it to every electricity retailer in California.
Utilities, however, have struggled to reach even the 20% target as renewable energy projects become bogged down in California's extensive environmental review and licensing process that involves a host of state and federal agencies.
Many proposed massive megawatt solar power plants will be built on environmentally sensitive land in the Mojave and Colorado deserts in California, threatening to trigger years-long battles over endangered species and water.
Take, for instance, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, 400-megawatt solar thermal power plant to be built by Bay Area startup BrightSource Energy on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property. BrightSource, which has a 20-year contract to sell the power plant's electricity to PG&E, is dealing with the California Energy Commission, the California Department of Fish and Game, the BLM and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as well as the agencies that control access to the transmission grid.
Then there's environmental fights over extending power lines to connect such projects to coastal metropolises. Late last month, state regulators rejected San Diego Gas & Electric's plan to build $1.3 billion transmission line called the Sunrise Powerlink due to the environmental impact of routing it through sensitive desert lands. A final decision on the project to bring green energy from the Imperial Valley to coastal metropolises will be made next month.
Schwarzenegger's executive order requires various state agencies to collaborate to create a one-stop shopping permit process to cut in half the time it takes to license a renewable energy project – which now can be a two-year slog. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and BLM also agreed to participate in a Renewable Energy Action Team to expedite the licensing of solar power plants and other green energy projects.
"We will streamline the permitting process and the siting of new plants and transmission lines," Schwarzenegger said. "We will complete the environmental work up front, dramatically reducing the time and the uncertainty normally associated with any of those projects."
By March 1, the action team will identify and prioritize those areas of the desert that should be developed first for renewable energy projects based on environmental impacts and access to transmission. The group will also work with another task force that is identifying where power lines should be extended into the desert.
That will affect the fortunes of dozens of solar startups, financiers and speculators — everyone from Goldman Sachs (GS) to Chevron (CVX) — that have filed lease claims on nearly a million areas of desert land that the BLM is opening up for solar power plants. Those with land claims in areas at the top of the list for renewable energy development will find it easier to obtain financing – currently in short supply – to build billion-dollar projects. Those at the bottom of the list may rue the six-figure application fees they paid to stake claims on thousands of acres of desert land.
Behind the optimistic talk and smiles at Monday's press conference, utility execs and environmentalists who praised the governor's latest green initiative also signaled that political fights over how to achieve the state' ambitious renewable energy goals are not over.
"Transmission is absolutely critical to get those renewables from the Imperial Valley," San Diego Gas & Electric CEO Deborah Reed told the audience. "Assuming a positive decision on Sunrise Powerlink next month, we'll get to 33% by 2020."
But when the Nature Conservancy's Rebecca Shaw took the microphone, she offered a cautionary note. "In our urgency to create a more sustainable future, we must be careful not to destroy the very environment that we are trying to protect," said Shaw, associate state director for the environmental group.
California's aggressive renewable energy policies already have had one desired consequence: spurring the creation of green collar jobs. OptiSolar, which earlier this year signed a long-term contract to supply PG&E with 550 megawatts of electricity from a massive photovoltaic solar farm, employs 500 people at its Bay Area headquarters and factory. CEO Randy Goldstein said his company will hire another 1,000 for its new Sacramento factory.
The renewable energy industry's Obama wish list
Posted in alternative energy, energy, environment, First Solar, geothermal, Google, green collar jobs, green policy, green tech, investment tax credit, renewable energy, solar energy, Suntech, the green economy, tagged American Wind Energy Association, cap-and-trade, green agenda, Obama, renewable portfolio standard, smart grid, Solar Energy Industries Association on November 13, 2008| 26 Comments »
The wind, solar and geothermal industries have wasted no time pressing the incoming Obama administration to implement an alternative energy agenda to spur investment and create jobs.
During a conference call Thursday, the leaders of the Solar Energy Industries Association, American Wind Energy Association and other trade groups lobbied for a plethora of legislation and policy initiatives. None of these proposals are new, but given Barack Obama's campaign promises to promote alternative energy and the strengthened Democratic majority in Congress, the industry has the best chance in many years of seeing this wish list made real.
A five-year extension of the production tax credit for the wind industry (it currently has to be renewed every year) to remove uncertainty for investors.
A major infrastructure program to upgrade the transmission grid so wind, solar and geothermal energy can be transmitted from the remote areas where it is produced to major cities. Obama advisor Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google (GOOG), recently joined with General Electric (GE) chief Jeff Immelt to launch a joint initiative to develop such smart grid technology as well as push for policy changes in Washington to allow the widespread deployment of renewable energy by rebuilding the nation's transmission system.
Impose a national "renewable portfolio standard" that would mandate that utilities obtain a minimum 10% of their electricity from green sources by 2012 and at least 25% by 2020. Two-thirds of the states currently impose variations of such requirements.
Mandate that the federal government – the nation's single largest consumer of electricity – obtain more energy from renewable sources.
Enact a cap-and-trade carbon market.
"If the administration and Congress can quickly implement these policies, renewable energy growth will help turn around the economic decline while at the same time addressing some of our most pressing national security and environmental problems," the green energy trade groups said in a joint statement.
No doubt those measures are crucial to spurring development of renewable energy and creating green collar jobs. But the major obstacle confronting the alt energy industry right now is the credit crunch that is choking off financing for big wind and solar projects and scaring away investors from more cutting-edge but potentially promising green technologies.
A focus by President Obama and Congress on restoring confidence in the financial system will most likely do the most for green investment as well as restore luster to battered renewable energy stocks like First Solar (FSLR), SunPower (SPWRA) and Suntech (STP).
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FDA PROPOSAL: Aimed At Regulating Electronic Cigarettes
Posted 1:02 pm, April 24, 2014, by Staff Writer, Updated at 01:05PM, April 24, 2014
(CNN) — The Food and Drug Administration is making another attempt at regulating electronic cigarettes and other tobacco products.
On Thursday, the agency proposed rules that call for strict regulation of electronic cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, nicotine gels, water pipe tobacco and hookahs. Currently, only cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and roll-your-own tobacco come under the FDA's regulatory authority.
When these recommendations are finalized following a 75-day public comment period, the age limit to buy the products is expected to be at least 18, although individual states could choose to set it higher.
Health warnings would also be required, and the sale of the products in vending machines would be prohibited. Initially, the only health warning required for e-cigarettes would be about the potential for addiction to nicotine.
Manufacturers would be required to register all their products and ingredients with the FDA. They would be able to market new products only after an FDA review, and they would need to provide scientific evidence before making any direct or implied claims of risk reduction associated with their product.
Companies would also no longer be allowed to give out free samples.
After the public comment period, and once the proposed rules are finalized, manufacturers will have 24 months to submit applications to allow their products to remain on the market or to submit new product applications.
E-cigarettes deliver nicotine to the user as a vapor. They are usually battery-operated and come with a replaceable cartridge that contains liquid nicotine. When heated, the liquid in the cartridge turns into a vapor that's inhaled.
Most look like cigarettes, cigars or pipes, but some resemble pens or USB memory sticks. Because they have not been fully studied, the FDA says it's unknown what health risks they pose, how much nicotine or other chemicals are actually being inhaled, or whether there is any benefit to using them.
Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the percentage of high school students who reported ever using an e-cigarette more than doubled in one year, from 4.7% to 10% between 2011 and 2012.
As electronic cigarettes have increased in popularity, so have the number of related calls to poison control centers nationwide. According to a recent CDC report, poison control centers logged 215 calls involving e-cigarettes in February alone. Of those calls, 51% involved children.
"It's really the wild, wild West out there," said Margaret Hamburg, FDA commissioner. "Because e-cigarettes are increasingly in the marketplace. They're coming in different sizes, shapes and flavors in terms of the nicotine in them, and there's very worrisome data that show that young people in particular are starting to take up e-cigarettes, especially the flavored ones — and that might be a gateway to other harmful tobacco products."
Hamburg said officials don't know how many types are on the market, another reason why regulation is critical.
"We're already conducting research and working with partners in the research community to better understand patterns of use of these e-cigarettes and to learn more about the way in which they work and the delivery of the nicotine through e-cigarettes. But until we can really regulate them, we can't have all the information we need and we can't take all the actions that we might want to, to be able to best address the public health issues associated with them."
Miguel Martin, president of LogicTechnology Development — considered the second-largest electronic cigarette company in the U.S. — said he is encouraged by the FDA announcement.
"We look forward to being a part of this process and believe that science-based and responsible regulations are good for both adult consumers and responsible electronic cigarette manufacturers," Martin said.
Logic opened its doors in 2010. The company has nine products on the market, both disposable and rechargeable, but no flavored nicotine products. Logic implemented rules a year ago similar to the ones the FDA has proposed.
"We support and have already implemented those steps to ensure that adult smokers are the audience and consumer base of our products," Martin said. "We work with the retailers to ensure the product is sold to adult consumers of legal smoking age."
Experts have said that e-cigarettes, if properly regulated, could help reduce the number of people who use conventional cigarettes and die of tobacco-related disease.
But a lot of unanswered questions remain, according to Michael Eriksen, dean of the School of Public Health at Georgia State University, one of 14 U.S. institutions conducting FDA-funded research on electronic cigarettes.
Nicotine is a drug, and poison experts say the concentrated liquid form used in e-cigarettes is highly toxic, even in small doses. It can be inhaled or absorbed through the skin.
"How concentrated is liquid nicotine? Are there impurities in it? Is it properly handled like a pesticide?" Eriksen asks. "Nicotine is a pesticide, fundamentally, and we take so many precautions about pesticides for our lawns and how to wear gloves. But what precautions do consumers take when they put the nicotine vials in? People treat it (liquid nicotine) as sugar when it's a toxin."
Harold Wimmer, president and CEO of the American Lung Association, believes nicotine is highly addictive whether used in a regular cigarette or an e-cigarette.
So how safe are e-cigarettes? Hamburg said it's buyer beware.
"We think that there's a lot of information that needs to be understood about e-cigarettes and their use. We're trying to help provide some of that information through research that we're conducting," she said.
"But we need the tools that regulation provides to be able to get critical new knowledge about e-cigarettes and to be able to put in place a framework that will protect the American public and potentially e-cigarette users, and really address the issues of what are the health consequences and what are the potential benefits."
Hamburg believes these new rules will change the landscape.
If the FDA broadens its authority to regulate tobacco products, she said, it will make a major contribution to the health of Americans. But big changes could come slowly.
"It may be years before much regulation is imposed," said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond. "The lobbying at FDA and Congress will be intense."
And some believe the FDA has already waited too long.
"It is inexcusable that it has taken the FDA and the Administration so long to act," Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said in a statement. "This delay has had serious public health consequences as these unregulated tobacco products have been marketed using tactics and sweet flavors that appeal to kids, and their use has skyrocketed.
"The FDA and the Administration must now move as quickly as possible to finalize this rule."
Topics: e-cigarettes, FDA
Troy Hendrickson
All the issues, real or imagined, regarding the sale and use of "e-cigs" can be easily addressed without FDA regulation.
The sole reason for FDA regulation is provide a basis for taxing them like tobacco, to make up for the revenue they lost when tobacco use fell, which is odd, because the raise in taxes that resulted in decreased sales was the stated goal of the increase.
If they really wish to address a serious, costly problem and raise revenue, follow the CDC's recommendation that states raise their alcohol taxes significantly.
E-cigs are not 'safe nicotine'
Nicotine is addictive. There have been deaths from people who have broken their E-cigs and had the nicotine absorbed by their skin. YES, they should be FDA regulated, just like alcohol and combustible cigarettes.
its all about the money folks ..plain and simple.
There is no mention in regards to health risks from breathing the vapors, has that ever been considered?
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Bjørnøya has some of Europe's largest bird cliffs and it is believed that there are over 1.5 million birds here. The island is today protected as a nature reserve.
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Three feared dead in Masvingo plane crash
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Source: Three feared dead in Masvingo plane crash | The Herald November 23, 2018
The wreckage of the plane that crashed near Renco Mine in Masvingo.
George Maponga in Masvingo
Three people, one of them believed to be a Finland national are feared dead after a Cessna light aircraft they were traveling in crashed about 20kms south of Renco Mine in Masvingo South.
It is not clear when the Cessna-182 plane crashed at Chemanjenjere Hills in the Tokwane-Ngundu area.
The plane is owned by Executive Air Pvt Ltd of Harare. Police have already secured the wreckage of the plane while waiting for the Civil Aviation Authority team to arrive and initiate investigations into the cause of the crash.
Police recovered a Finnish identity card, Visa financial services card and a passport suggesting there were three passengers on board.
Sources at the scene said the plane appeared to be coming from Chiredzi adding that all the bodies of the occupants were decapitated making it hard to identify them.
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Thursday / Envy is a split EP by post-hardcore bands Thursday and Envy. It was released exclusively in a package containing the album on both 180 gram 12" vinyl and on CD — individual CDs or vinyl have not been made available. Three limited screen printed editions have been made available exclusively through web stores as of September 15, 2008. The album has since seen a limited release in cassette format, all 500 copies of which were sold exclusively through independent record label, Academy Fight Song's web store.

Track listing

Side A: Thursday
All songs written by Thursday.
 "As He Climbed the Dark Mountain" – 3:03
 "In Silence" – 4:42
 "An Absurd and Unrealistic Dream of Peace" – 4:13
 "Appeared and Was Gone" (Remix of "In Silence" by Anthony Molina of Mercury Rev) – 5:59

Side B: Envy
All songs written by Envy, except for track 1 written by Shido from Metalpark and Envy.
 "An Umbrella Fallen into Fiction" – 6:28
 "Isolation of a Light Source" – 3:40
 "Pure Birth and Loneliness" – 5:40

Personnel

Thursday
Geoff Rickly – vocals
Tom Keeley – guitar, vocals
Steve Pedulla – guitar, vocals
Tim Payne – bass guitar
Tucker Rule – drums
Andrew Everding – keyboards, synthesizers, vocals
Produced and mixed by Tim Giles
Assisted mixing by Matt Messenger
Recorded by Kevin Neaton
Mastered by Alan Douches

Envy
Tetsuya Fukagawa – vocals, sequencer
Nobukata Kawai – guitar
Masahiro Tobita – guitar
Manabu Nakagawa – bass guitar
Dairoku Seki – drums
Recorded and mixed by Takashi "Patch" Kitaguchi
Mastered by Tucky

Album personnel
Vinyl mastered by Paul Gold
Art direction, design, and layout by Jeremy deVine
Illustrations by Dan Grzeca

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Carl Robert Mikael Oscarsson, född 22 april 1967 i Stora Åby församling, Östergötlands län, är en svensk politiker (kristdemokrat). Han är ordinarie riksdagsledamot sedan 1998, invald för Uppsala läns valkrets.

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Oscarsson är bosatt i Almunge utanför Uppsala. Vid sidan om sin roll som riksdagsledamot är han även distriktsordförande för Kristdemokraterna i Uppsala län. Bland hans utskottsuppdrag i riksdagen märks främst att han varit ledamot i försvarsutskottet sedan 2010 och att han var ledamot i näringsutskottet åren 2006–2010.

Oscarsson är utbildad gymnasieekonom. Han läste high school i USA.

År 1991 grundade Oscarsson den ideella organisationen Ja till Livet, som han var ordförande för mellan 1991 och 1997. Ja till Livet verkar för att skärpa abortlagstiftningen. Oscarsson är dessutom sedan många år medlem i Livets Ord. Han röstades in i riksdagen genom personval i valet 1998. Ordförandeskapet i Ja till Livet uppmärksammades under 1998, och han ombads avgå som ordförande av dåvarande partiledaren Alf Svensson, vilket han också valde att göra.. Han är idag vice ordförande i riksdagsföreningen Forum för familj och människovärde, styrelsemedlem i Svenska Evangeliska Alliansen samt var under sex år ordförande i Almunge IK.

Under sina år i riksdagen har Oscarsson bland annat arbetat för att stärka försvaret och verkat för ökat statligt stödköp från försvarsindustrin och hävdat att Alliansregeringens politik skulle leda till "avveckling av den svenska försvarsindustrin".

Han har profilerat sig i familje- och människorättsfrågor. Han har särskilt engagerat sig i införande av vårdnadsbidrag, avdragsrätt för gåvor till ideella organisationer samt landsbygdsfrågor. Han har varit drivande för att instifta Raoul Wallenbergs dag som en minnesdag. Han började motionera 2001, och 2013 firades dagen för första gången. Han är ordförande i föreningen "Minnet av Förintelsen" som varje år håller i minnesdagen av Förintelsen i riksdagen.

Oscarsson är  gift sedan 2020 med Natalie Oscarsson (Serko) och har fyra barn tillsammans med sin förra fru som avled 2017. Även hans bror Magnus Oscarsson är riksdagspolitiker för Kristdemokraterna.

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Hospital uses human touch to aid end-of-life patients
3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago Wednesday, March 23 2016 Mar 23, 2016 Wednesday, March 23, 2016 9:26:00 PM CDT March 23, 2016 in Top Stories
By: Megan Kelly, KOMU 8 Reporter
COLUMBIA – When patient Deanna Dikeman needed some extra care after undergoing surgery, she found she didn't need to look any further than massage treatments at Boone Hospital.
"I got actively involved in the choices of my treatments. I decided I was going to be a survivor," Dikeman said.
Dikeman was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and had a mastectomy shortly after. During her recovery, she found she couldn't lift her arm due to lymphedema, a condition of swelling in the lymph nodes. She then started massage therapy with one of the two licensed massage therapists on staff at Boone Hospital Center.
"At first I thought it was just massage, but then I realized that there was healing and there was visualization and there was positive imagery and there were a lot of things I could do to promote healing and well-being," Dikeman said.
Since 2005, Boone Hospital has included massage therapy as part of its' supportive care program. While supportive care typically refers to patients needing end-of-life care, it also applies to patients with any life-altering illness, such as cancer, diabetes, congestive heart failure, COPD or kidney disease, according to Doreen Rardin, coordinator of the Supportive Care Program at Boone Hospital
While other supportive care therapies exist, such as art, music or pet therapy, Rardin said massage therapy is extremely beneficial because of the personal connection between the patient and massage therapist.
"It provides most of all that compassionate presence that all of our patients who are frightened, concerned, scared or dying really want somebody there with them," Rardin said.
Massage therapy has become a standard in end-of-life care because of its effectiveness in relieving anxiety, pain, and discomfort, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
According to a study by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, about 52 percent of patients felt a decrease in pain after undergoing massage therapy and reported an improvement in their overall anxiety and peacefulness.
"You can feel the positive energy from her intentions touch your skin and go into you. If you are willing to receive that, I think you are getting some positive healing energy that your body can use to help you," Dikeman said.
For the nurses, providing therapy and emotional support for patients in supportive care can get personal.
"I had an experience with a brother who died a very horrific, terrible death and it prompted me to recognize the fact that people shouldn't have to die that way," Rardin said.
While insurance doesn't always cover this type of care, about one-fourth of Medicare spending on health care is for services provided to those ages 65 and older in their last year of life. Boone Hospital Center doesn't want money to be a reason for not receiving care, according to Barb Danuser, the executive director of the Boone Hospital Foundation.
The Boone Hospital Foundation helps provide free massages for those in supportive care, through public donations. The foundation steps in and pays for the massages if they're not covered under the hospital's cost, according to Danuser.
"Sometimes medicine is just not enough for a patient to feel comfortable, but that massage is so beneficial to them. So one of the things the foundation believes in is to try to provide the extras to the patients at Boone," Danuser said.
In 2015, the foundation provided more than 500 free massages for patients. The foundation is hosting a golf tournament May 9 to raise money to continue massage therapy at Boone Hospital.


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BKW Meets Fourier: New Algorithms for LPN with Sparse Parities
Dana Dachman-Soled and Huijing Gong and Hunter Kippen and Aria Shahverdi
Abstract: We consider the Learning Parity with Noise (LPN) problem with sparse secret, where the secret vector $\textbf{s}$ of dimension $n$ has Hamming weight at most $k$. We are interested in algorithms with asymptotic improvement in the $\textit{exponent}$ beyond the state of the art. Prior work in this setting presented algorithms with runtime $n^{c \cdot k}$ for constant $c < 1$, obtaining a constant factor improvement over brute force search, which runs in time ${n \choose k}$. We obtain the following results: - We first consider the $\textit{constant}$ error rate setting, and in this case present a new algorithm that leverages a subroutine from the acclaimed BKW algorithm [Blum, Kalai, Wasserman, J.~ACM '03] as well as techniques from Fourier analysis for $p$-biased distributions. Our algorithm achieves asymptotic improvement in the exponent compared to prior work, when the sparsity $k = k(n) = \frac{n}{\log^{1+ 1/c}(n)}$, where $c \in o(\log \log(n))$ and $c \in \omega(1)$. The runtime and sample complexity of this algorithm are approximately the same. - We next consider the $\textit{low noise}$ setting, where the error is subconstant. We present a new algorithm in this setting that requires only a $\textit{polynomial}$ number of samples and achieves asymptotic improvement in the exponent compared to prior work, when the sparsity $k = \frac{1}{\eta} \cdot \frac{\log(n)}{\log(f(n))}$ and noise rate of $\eta \neq 1/2$ and $\eta^2 = \left(\frac{\log(n)}{n} \cdot f(n)\right)$, for $f(n) \in \omega(1) \cap n^{o(1)}$. To obtain the improvement in sample complexity, we create subsets of samples using the $\textit{design}$ of Nisan and Wigderson [J.~Comput.~Syst.~Sci. '94], so that any two subsets have a small intersection, while the number of subsets is large. Each of these subsets is used to generate a single $p$-biased sample for the Fourier analysis step. We then show that this allows us to bound the covariance of pairs of samples, which is sufficient for the Fourier analysis. - Finally, we show that our first algorithm extends to the setting where the noise rate is very high $1/2 - o(1)$, and in this case can be used as a subroutine to obtain new algorithms for learning DNFs and Juntas. Our algorithms achieve asymptotic improvement in the exponent for certain regimes. For DNFs of size $s$ with approximation factor $\epsilon$ this regime is when $\log \frac{s}{\epsilon} \in \omega \left( \frac{c}{\log n \log \log c}\right)$, and $\log \frac{s}{\epsilon} \in n^{1 - o(1)}$, for $c \in n^{1 - o(1)}$. For Juntas of $k$ the regime is when $k \in \omega \left( \frac{c}{\log n \log \log c}\right)$, and $k \in n^{1 - o(1)}$, for $c \in n^{1 - o(1)}$.
Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography / Learning Parity with Noise, BKW, Fourier Analysis, DNF, Juntas
Contact author: ariash at umd edu


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Q: Decode of UTF-8 String corrupts one string, but not another I'm having a very strange error.
I have verified that both my strings are UTF-8 (Checked through mb_check_encoding and mb_detect_encoding) but when I attempt to use utf8_decode on the string, it will return garbage characters to me. In this case, I actually do not need to use utf8_decode and the string will be normal.
The difficulty is that I have customers using UTF-8 databases that I pull strings from and I use utf8_decode to ungarble the strings for PHP. If I don't the space characters will be replaced with à . They share the same code to generate the string, but for some reason when I generate it for this other customer, the strings come out all wrong.
Is there a way for me to verify that I will need to use utf8_decode other than the fact that the string is utf 8?
Some Examples:
Using utf8_decode for customer 1:
?0,107�per�km
Without utf8_decode for customer 1:
€0,107 per km

Using utf8_decode for customer 2:
$7.00 per km
Without utf8_decode for customer 2:
$7.00 per km

Thanks guys!

A: mb_detect_encoding without an informed detect_order is no silver bullet, as this would demonstrate:
$ php -r 'echo mb_detect_encoding(iconv("utf-8","iso-8859-1","ë"));'
UTF-8

Obviously wrong, setting it to strict helps a little bit:
$ php -r 'var_dump(mb_detect_encoding(iconv("utf-8","iso-8859-1","ë"),mb_detect_order(),true));'
bool(false)

Why is it false? Well, let's examine the possible character sets mb_detect_encoding() uses in my configuration:
$ php -r 'var_dump(mb_detect_order());'
array(2) {
  [0] =>
  string(5) "ASCII"
  [1] =>
  string(5) "UTF-8"
}

Well, save for ASCII & UTF-8, no other character set will be detected. Jon has a point though: you can store it all as utf-8, and with the proper database settings, or even only just a correct character_set_results in a mysql (which I assume you use...) connection would do the trick to retrieve it as utf-8 regardless of how it's stored. However, if this is not an option for whatever reason I can't think of, it's up to you to specificy which character sets are possible for mb_detect_order.
$ php -r 'echo mb_detect_encoding(iconv("utf-8","iso-8859-1","ë"),"ASCII,UTF-8,ISO-8859-1,JIS", true);'
ISO-8859-1

In short: you are responsible for providing a list of possible character sets, and if you already have that kind of information... you can probably know the character set (by connection settings, database/table settings, or even just client-configuration, etc.) rather then to try to detect it.

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