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#include <linux/mman.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
#include <linux/page-isolation.h>
#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
#include <linux/falloc.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/ksm.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/swapops.h>
#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>

#include <asm/tlb.h>

/*
 * Any behaviour which results in changes to the vma->vm_flags needs to
 * take mmap_sem for writing. Others, which simply traverse vmas, need
 * to only take it for reading.
 */
static int madvise_need_mmap_write(int behavior)
{
	switch (behavior) {
	case MADV_REMOVE:
	case MADV_WILLNEED:
	case MADV_DONTNEED:
	case MADV_FREE:
		return 0;
	default:
		/* be safe, default to 1. list exceptions explicitly */
		return 1;
	}
}

/*
 * We can potentially split a vm area into separate
 * areas, each area with its own behavior.
 */
static long madvise_behavior(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
		     struct vm_area_struct **prev,
		     unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int behavior)
{
	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
	int error = 0;
	pgoff_t pgoff;
	unsigned long new_flags = vma->vm_flags;

	switch (behavior) {
	case MADV_NORMAL:
		new_flags = new_flags & ~VM_RAND_READ & ~VM_SEQ_READ;
		break;
	case MADV_SEQUENTIAL:
		new_flags = (new_flags & ~VM_RAND_READ) | VM_SEQ_READ;
		break;
	case MADV_RANDOM:
		new_flags = (new_flags & ~VM_SEQ_READ) | VM_RAND_READ;
		break;
	case MADV_DONTFORK:
		new_flags |= VM_DONTCOPY;
		break;
	case MADV_DOFORK:
		if (vma->vm_flags & VM_IO) {
			error = -EINVAL;
			goto out;
		}
		new_flags &= ~VM_DONTCOPY;
		break;
	case MADV_DONTDUMP:
		new_flags |= VM_DONTDUMP;
		break;
	case MADV_DODUMP:
		if (new_flags & VM_SPECIAL) {
			error = -EINVAL;
			goto out;
		}
		new_flags &= ~VM_DONTDUMP;
		break;
	case MADV_MERGEABLE:
	case MADV_UNMERGEABLE:
		error = ksm_madvise(vma, start, end, behavior, &new_flags);
		if (error)
			goto out;
		break;
	case MADV_HUGEPAGE:
	case MADV_NOHUGEPAGE:
		error = hugepage_madvise(vma, &new_flags, behavior);
		if (error)
			goto out;
		break;
	}

	if (new_flags == vma->vm_flags) {
		*prev = vma;
		goto out;
	}

	pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff + ((start - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
	*prev = vma_merge(mm, *prev, start, end, new_flags, vma->anon_vma,
			  vma->vm_file, pgoff, vma_policy(vma),
			  vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx);
	if (*prev) {
		vma = *prev;
		goto success;
	}

	*prev = vma;

	if (start != vma->vm_start) {
		error = split_vma(mm, vma, start, 1);
		if (error)
			goto out;
	}

	if (end != vma->vm_end) {
		error = split_vma(mm, vma, end, 0);
		if (error)
			goto out;
	}

success:
	/*
	 * vm_flags is protected by the mmap_sem held in write mode.
	 */
	vma->vm_flags = new_flags;

out:
	if (error == -ENOMEM)
		error = -EAGAIN;
	return error;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
static int swapin_walk_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start,
	unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk)
{
	pte_t *orig_pte;
	struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->private;
	unsigned long index;

	if (pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(pmd))
		return 0;

	for (index = start; index != end; index += PAGE_SIZE) {
		pte_t pte;
		swp_entry_t entry;
		struct page *page;
		spinlock_t *ptl;

		orig_pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, start, &ptl);
		pte = *(orig_pte + ((index - start) / PAGE_SIZE));
		pte_unmap_unlock(orig_pte, ptl);

		if (pte_present(pte) || pte_none(pte))
			continue;
		entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
		if (unlikely(non_swap_entry(entry)))
			continue;

		page = read_swap_cache_async(entry, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
								vma, index);
		if (page)
			page_cache_release(page);
	}

	return 0;
}

static void force_swapin_readahead(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
		unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
	struct mm_walk walk = {
		.mm = vma->vm_mm,
		.pmd_entry = swapin_walk_pmd_entry,
		.private = vma,
	};

	walk_page_range(start, end, &walk);

	lru_add_drain();	/* Push any new pages onto the LRU now */
}

static void force_shm_swapin_readahead(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
		unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
		struct address_space *mapping)
{
	pgoff_t index;
	struct page *page;
	swp_entry_t swap;

	for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE) {
		index = ((start - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + vma->vm_pgoff;

		page = find_get_entry(mapping, index);
		if (!radix_tree_exceptional_entry(page)) {
			if (page)
				page_cache_release(page);
			continue;
		}
		swap = radix_to_swp_entry(page);
		page = read_swap_cache_async(swap, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
								NULL, 0);
		if (page)
			page_cache_release(page);
	}

	lru_add_drain();	/* Push any new pages onto the LRU now */
}
#endif		/* CONFIG_SWAP */

/*
 * Schedule all required I/O operations.  Do not wait for completion.
 */
static long madvise_willneed(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
			     struct vm_area_struct **prev,
			     unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
	struct file *file = vma->vm_file;

#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
	if (!file) {
		*prev = vma;
		force_swapin_readahead(vma, start, end);
		return 0;
	}

	if (shmem_mapping(file->f_mapping)) {
		*prev = vma;
		force_shm_swapin_readahead(vma, start, end,
					file->f_mapping);
		return 0;
	}
#else
	if (!file)
		return -EBADF;
#endif

	if (IS_DAX(file_inode(file))) {
		/* no bad return value, but ignore advice */
		return 0;
	}

	*prev = vma;
	start = ((start - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + vma->vm_pgoff;
	if (end > vma->vm_end)
		end = vma->vm_end;
	end = ((end - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + vma->vm_pgoff;

	force_page_cache_readahead(file->f_mapping, file, start, end - start);
	return 0;
}

static int madvise_free_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
				unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk)

{
	struct mmu_gather *tlb = walk->private;
	struct mm_struct *mm = tlb->mm;
	struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->vma;
	spinlock_t *ptl;
	pte_t *orig_pte, *pte, ptent;
	struct page *page;
	int nr_swap = 0;
	unsigned long next;

	next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
	if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))
		if (madvise_free_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd, addr, next))
			goto next;

	if (pmd_trans_unstable(pmd))
		return 0;

	orig_pte = pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
	arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
	for (; addr != end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
		ptent = *pte;

		if (pte_none(ptent))
			continue;
		/*
		 * If the pte has swp_entry, just clear page table to
		 * prevent swap-in which is more expensive rather than
		 * (page allocation + zeroing).
		 */
		if (!pte_present(ptent)) {
			swp_entry_t entry;

			entry = pte_to_swp_entry(ptent);
			if (non_swap_entry(entry))
				continue;
			nr_swap--;
			free_swap_and_cache(entry);
			pte_clear_not_present_full(mm, addr, pte, tlb->fullmm);
			continue;
		}

		page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, ptent);
		if (!page)
			continue;

		/*
		 * If pmd isn't transhuge but the page is THP and
		 * is owned by only this process, split it and
		 * deactivate all pages.
		 */
		if (PageTransCompound(page)) {
			if (page_mapcount(page) != 1)
				goto out;
			get_page(page);
			if (!trylock_page(page)) {
				put_page(page);
				goto out;
			}
			pte_unmap_unlock(orig_pte, ptl);
			if (split_huge_page(page)) {
				unlock_page(page);
				put_page(page);
				pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
				goto out;
			}
			put_page(page);
			unlock_page(page);
			pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
			pte--;
			addr -= PAGE_SIZE;
			continue;
		}

		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTransCompound(page), page);

		if (PageSwapCache(page) || PageDirty(page)) {
			if (!trylock_page(page))
				continue;
			/*
			 * If page is shared with others, we couldn't clear
			 * PG_dirty of the page.
			 */
			if (page_mapcount(page) != 1) {
				unlock_page(page);
				continue;
			}

			if (PageSwapCache(page) && !try_to_free_swap(page)) {
				unlock_page(page);
				continue;
			}

			ClearPageDirty(page);
			unlock_page(page);
		}

		if (pte_young(ptent) || pte_dirty(ptent)) {
			/*
			 * Some of architecture(ex, PPC) don't update TLB
			 * with set_pte_at and tlb_remove_tlb_entry so for
			 * the portability, remap the pte with old|clean
			 * after pte clearing.
			 */
			ptent = ptep_get_and_clear_full(mm, addr, pte,
							tlb->fullmm);

			ptent = pte_mkold(ptent);
			ptent = pte_mkclean(ptent);
			set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, ptent);
			if (PageActive(page))
				deactivate_page(page);
			tlb_remove_tlb_entry(tlb, pte, addr);
		}
	}
out:
	if (nr_swap) {
		if (current->mm == mm)
			sync_mm_rss(mm);

		add_mm_counter(mm, MM_SWAPENTS, nr_swap);
	}
	arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
	pte_unmap_unlock(orig_pte, ptl);
	cond_resched();
next:
	return 0;
}

static void madvise_free_page_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
			     struct vm_area_struct *vma,
			     unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
{
	struct mm_walk free_walk = {
		.pmd_entry = madvise_free_pte_range,
		.mm = vma->vm_mm,
		.private = tlb,
	};

	tlb_start_vma(tlb, vma);
	walk_page_range(addr, end, &free_walk);
	tlb_end_vma(tlb, vma);
}

static int madvise_free_single_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
			unsigned long start_addr, unsigned long end_addr)
{
	unsigned long start, end;
	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
	struct mmu_gather tlb;

	if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_HUGETLB|VM_PFNMAP))
		return -EINVAL;

	/* MADV_FREE works for only anon vma at the moment */
	if (!vma_is_anonymous(vma))
		return -EINVAL;

	start = max(vma->vm_start, start_addr);
	if (start >= vma->vm_end)
		return -EINVAL;
	end = min(vma->vm_end, end_addr);
	if (end <= vma->vm_start)
		return -EINVAL;

	lru_add_drain();
	tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, mm, start, end);
	update_hiwater_rss(mm);

	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, start, end);
	madvise_free_page_range(&tlb, vma, start, end);
	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, start, end);
	tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, start, end);

	return 0;
}

static long madvise_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
			     struct vm_area_struct **prev,
			     unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
	*prev = vma;
	return madvise_free_single_vma(vma, start, end);
}

/*
 * Application no longer needs these pages.  If the pages are dirty,
 * it's OK to just throw them away.  The app will be more careful about
 * data it wants to keep.  Be sure to free swap resources too.  The
 * zap_page_range call sets things up for shrink_active_list to actually free
 * these pages later if no one else has touched them in the meantime,
 * although we could add these pages to a global reuse list for
 * shrink_active_list to pick up before reclaiming other pages.
 *
 * NB: This interface discards data rather than pushes it out to swap,
 * as some implementations do.  This has performance implications for
 * applications like large transactional databases which want to discard
 * pages in anonymous maps after committing to backing store the data
 * that was kept in them.  There is no reason to write this data out to
 * the swap area if the application is discarding it.
 *
 * An interface that causes the system to free clean pages and flush
 * dirty pages is already available as msync(MS_INVALIDATE).
 */
static long madvise_dontneed(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
			     struct vm_area_struct **prev,
			     unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
	*prev = vma;
	if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_HUGETLB|VM_PFNMAP))
		return -EINVAL;

	zap_page_range(vma, start, end - start, NULL);
	return 0;
}

/*
 * Application wants to free up the pages and associated backing store.
 * This is effectively punching a hole into the middle of a file.
 */
static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
				struct vm_area_struct **prev,
				unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
	loff_t offset;
	int error;
	struct file *f;

	*prev = NULL;	/* tell sys_madvise we drop mmap_sem */

	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)
		return -EINVAL;

	f = vma->vm_file;

	if (!f || !f->f_mapping || !f->f_mapping->host) {
			return -EINVAL;
	}

	if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE)) != (VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE))
		return -EACCES;

	offset = (loff_t)(start - vma->vm_start)
			+ ((loff_t)vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT);

	/*
	 * Filesystem's fallocate may need to take i_mutex.  We need to
	 * explicitly grab a reference because the vma (and hence the
	 * vma's reference to the file) can go away as soon as we drop
	 * mmap_sem.
	 */
	get_file(f);
	up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
	error = vfs_fallocate(f,
				FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,
				offset, end - start);
	fput(f);
	down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
	return error;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
/*
 * Error injection support for memory error handling.
 */
static int madvise_hwpoison(int bhv, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
	struct page *p;
	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
		return -EPERM;
	for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE <<
				compound_order(compound_head(p))) {
		int ret;

		ret = get_user_pages_fast(start, 1, 0, &p);
		if (ret != 1)
			return ret;

		if (PageHWPoison(p)) {
			put_page(p);
			continue;
		}
		if (bhv == MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) {
			pr_info("Soft offlining page %#lx at %#lx\n",
				page_to_pfn(p), start);
			ret = soft_offline_page(p, MF_COUNT_INCREASED);
			if (ret)
				return ret;
			continue;
		}
		pr_info("Injecting memory failure for page %#lx at %#lx\n",
		       page_to_pfn(p), start);
		/* Ignore return value for now */
		memory_failure(page_to_pfn(p), 0, MF_COUNT_INCREASED);
	}
	return 0;
}
#endif

static long
madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev,
		unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int behavior)
{
	switch (behavior) {
	case MADV_REMOVE:
		return madvise_remove(vma, prev, start, end);
	case MADV_WILLNEED:
		return madvise_willneed(vma, prev, start, end);
	case MADV_FREE:
		/*
		 * XXX: In this implementation, MADV_FREE works like
		 * MADV_DONTNEED on swapless system or full swap.
		 */
		if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
			return madvise_free(vma, prev, start, end);
		/* passthrough */
	case MADV_DONTNEED:
		return madvise_dontneed(vma, prev, start, end);
	default:
		return madvise_behavior(vma, prev, start, end, behavior);
	}
}

static bool
madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior)
{
	switch (behavior) {
	case MADV_DOFORK:
	case MADV_DONTFORK:
	case MADV_NORMAL:
	case MADV_SEQUENTIAL:
	case MADV_RANDOM:
	case MADV_REMOVE:
	case MADV_WILLNEED:
	case MADV_DONTNEED:
	case MADV_FREE:
#ifdef CONFIG_KSM
	case MADV_MERGEABLE:
	case MADV_UNMERGEABLE:
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
	case MADV_HUGEPAGE:
	case MADV_NOHUGEPAGE:
#endif
	case MADV_DONTDUMP:
	case MADV_DODUMP:
		return true;

	default:
		return false;
	}
}

/*
 * The madvise(2) system call.
 *
 * Applications can use madvise() to advise the kernel how it should
 * handle paging I/O in this VM area.  The idea is to help the kernel
 * use appropriate read-ahead and caching techniques.  The information
 * provided is advisory only, and can be safely disregarded by the
 * kernel without affecting the correct operation of the application.
 *
 * behavior values:
 *  MADV_NORMAL - the default behavior is to read clusters.  This
 *		results in some read-ahead and read-behind.
 *  MADV_RANDOM - the system should read the minimum amount of data
 *		on any access, since it is unlikely that the appli-
 *		cation will need more than what it asks for.
 *  MADV_SEQUENTIAL - pages in the given range will probably be accessed
 *		once, so they can be aggressively read ahead, and
 *		can be freed soon after they are accessed.
 *  MADV_WILLNEED - the application is notifying the system to read
 *		some pages ahead.
 *  MADV_DONTNEED - the application is finished with the given range,
 *		so the kernel can free resources associated with it.
 *  MADV_REMOVE - the application wants to free up the given range of
 *		pages and associated backing store.
 *  MADV_DONTFORK - omit this area from child's address space when forking:
 *		typically, to avoid COWing pages pinned by get_user_pages().
 *  MADV_DOFORK - cancel MADV_DONTFORK: no longer omit this area when forking.
 *  MADV_MERGEABLE - the application recommends that KSM try to merge pages in
 *		this area with pages of identical content from other such areas.
 *  MADV_UNMERGEABLE- cancel MADV_MERGEABLE: no longer merge pages with others.
 *
 * return values:
 *  zero    - success
 *  -EINVAL - start + len < 0, start is not page-aligned,
 *		"behavior" is not a valid value, or application
 *		is attempting to release locked or shared pages.
 *  -ENOMEM - addresses in the specified range are not currently
 *		mapped, or are outside the AS of the process.
 *  -EIO    - an I/O error occurred while paging in data.
 *  -EBADF  - map exists, but area maps something that isn't a file.
 *  -EAGAIN - a kernel resource was temporarily unavailable.
 */
SYSCALL_DEFINE3(madvise, unsigned long, start, size_t, len_in, int, behavior)
{
	unsigned long end, tmp;
	struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev;
	int unmapped_error = 0;
	int error = -EINVAL;
	int write;
	size_t len;
	struct blk_plug plug;

#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
	if (behavior == MADV_HWPOISON || behavior == MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE)
		return madvise_hwpoison(behavior, start, start+len_in);
#endif
	if (!madvise_behavior_valid(behavior))
		return error;

	if (start & ~PAGE_MASK)
		return error;
	len = (len_in + ~PAGE_MASK) & PAGE_MASK;

	/* Check to see whether len was rounded up from small -ve to zero */
	if (len_in && !len)
		return error;

	end = start + len;
	if (end < start)
		return error;

	error = 0;
	if (end == start)
		return error;

	write = madvise_need_mmap_write(behavior);
	if (write)
		down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
	else
		down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);

	/*
	 * If the interval [start,end) covers some unmapped address
	 * ranges, just ignore them, but return -ENOMEM at the end.
	 * - different from the way of handling in mlock etc.
	 */
	vma = find_vma_prev(current->mm, start, &prev);
	if (vma && start > vma->vm_start)
		prev = vma;

	blk_start_plug(&plug);
	for (;;) {
		/* Still start < end. */
		error = -ENOMEM;
		if (!vma)
			goto out;

		/* Here start < (end|vma->vm_end). */
		if (start < vma->vm_start) {
			unmapped_error = -ENOMEM;
			start = vma->vm_start;
			if (start >= end)
				goto out;
		}

		/* Here vma->vm_start <= start < (end|vma->vm_end) */
		tmp = vma->vm_end;
		if (end < tmp)
			tmp = end;

		/* Here vma->vm_start <= start < tmp <= (end|vma->vm_end). */
		error = madvise_vma(vma, &prev, start, tmp, behavior);
		if (error)
			goto out;
		start = tmp;
		if (prev && start < prev->vm_end)
			start = prev->vm_end;
		error = unmapped_error;
		if (start >= end)
			goto out;
		if (prev)
			vma = prev->vm_next;
		else	/* madvise_remove dropped mmap_sem */
			vma = find_vma(current->mm, start);
	}
out:
	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
	if (write)
		up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
	else
		up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);

	return error;
}


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Working with Triumph
Graham Powell, Course Director, MA Product Design, School of Fashion, Textiles and 3D Design, approached Triumph Motorcycles to see if his students could design a range of Triumph-inspired lifestyle accessories as a student project. Working with Triumph, Graham conceived a design project for his 18 students inspired by the Triumph brand, the company's heritage and the Triumph Bonneville T100 – providing design references through its classic 60s styling, contemporary engineering, twin peashooter exhausts, chrome engine covers, two-tone paint and spoked wheels.
The students developed a stunning range of concepts to be hosted and exhibited by Aedas at their Colmore Plaza premises. A team of Triumph senior executives judged the lifestyle concept designs produced for the exhibition to award a design placement to the winning exhibit.
Following their deliberations, the judges chose British student, Nick Orme's 'Corkscrew', incorporating a brake lever assembly, as the winning prototype design – awarding him a placement at Triumph.
24-year old Nick Orme from Moseley said: "The corkscrew idea came about after considering all the information Triumph had given us. I wanted to create something simple that they would be able to produce without too many problems or extra costs. It also seemed like a visually strong idea that motorcycle enthusiasts and particularly Bonneville riders would appreciate."
We were impressed with all of the entries but Nick's design, which used a Bonneville brake lever, master cylinder and handlebar grip, really stood out. His corkscrew was an innovative use of motorcycle parts that created a lifestyle product we could really see customers buying.
Stuart Wood, Chief Engineer
Nick's prize included an industrial design placement with Triumph's Clothing and Accessories department. Nick added: "Triumph is a fantastic British company and I really think it has an opportunity to push the boundaries of the accessories that most motorcycle companies currently produce."
Second prize, a voucher for £100, was awarded to Wa Ya-Lin of Taiwan for her two Bowls, incorporating Triumph wheel spokes.
A stunning Hat Stand designed by Elena Matyas of Romania, incorporating front wheel hub and mirrors was awarded third prize.
The students were thrilled with the exposure the project gave them to have both a creative free reign in designing lifestyle accessories inspired by the Triumph brand as well as the practical focus of having to produce products which could be manufactured and sold into the Triumph customer base.
To fulfil the design brief they had researched the business, its heritage and ethos, its products, production methods and processes as well as the culture at the heart of the brand. The opportunity to interact with Triumph's internationally-renowned and much cherished brand in an uninhibited way was something as designers they had learnt from, providing with the means to analyse and assess quality brands and design briefs in light of customer focus, emerging needs and the practical drivers.
Triumph received much PR and coverage of the project in design blogs internationally.
Fans around the world were delighted to read about and review the students' prototypes, with the images of the 18 accessories having been commented on Triumph Motorcycle fan blogs and renowned design blogs worldwide with great gusto!
Nick Bloor, CEO, Triumph said, "This has been a great opportunity for a company like Triumph to help foster relationships with universities like Birmingham City University and also to bring new talent and creativity into industry."

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For one shining moment, Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" was the most talked about economics book of the year. Adulation came from all corners, including Larry Summers, a man some blamed for having helped loosen financial restrictions that led to ever-greater gains for the 1%.
"Even in terms of income ratios, the gaps that have opened up between, say, the top .1 percent and the remainder of the top 10 percent are far larger than those that have opened up between the top 10 percent and average income earners," Summers wrote in his "Capital" review. "Even if none of Piketty's theories stands up, the establishment of this fact has transformed political discourse and is a Nobel Prize-worthy contribution."
Today, Summers has announced he is already over Piketty.
"Atif Mian and Amir Sufi's House of Debt, despite some tough competition, looks likely to be the most important economics book of 2014," Summers writes in a post for the FT. "It could be the most important book to come out of the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession."
Mian and Sufi, professors at Princeton and the University of Chicago respectively, argue that what caused the Great Recession to be so great wasn't the banking sector blow-out, but rather overindebted households. The full title of the book turns out to be "House of Debt: How They (and You) [emphasis ours] Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again."
Households do not spend while they are still overly indebted, which precipitates slow growth even after banking is restored to health. Spending slowdowns are caused by household over-indebtedness, so of course they precede problems in the banking system. And, when consumers do not spend, businesses have less need to borrow to finance investment, inventories or receivables.
This argument, Summers says, "is a major contribution that furthers our understanding of the crisis. It certainly affects what I will examine in trying to predict and forestall future crises."
It was a good run, T.P.


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Posted on February 06, 2016 by Dean Hybl
There was no surprise in the selection of Brett Favre for the 2016 Pro Football Hall of Fame class.
Between 2000 and 2009, the selection committee for the Pro Football Hall of Fame chose for induction a grand total of 54 former player, coaches and league officials. You might think that number reflects exclusivity and ensuring only the "best of the best" are recognized with the highest honor for the sport. However, in a sport with 32 teams and more than 1,600 players every year, the reality was that the committee left a lot of deserving players waiting in the wings.
Because of that, over the last seven years the committee has been playing catch-up. Where a class of six or seven was once an exception (only nine times between 1970 and 2009), every class since 2010 has included at least six inductees and with the addition of eight new members for 2016, there have now been consecutive classes of eight for the first time since 1967 and 1968. Since 2010, 50 former players, coaches and contributors have been selected for the Hall of Fame.
I applaud the current committee for recognizing the mistakes of the past and continuing to grow the HOF, but even with their larger classes there continues to be questions and confusing decisions.
When Brett Favre finally retired (for the last time) following the 2010 season, there was little doubt that he would be a member of the 2016 Hall of Fame class. The other seven people who will join Favre in Canton this August include a few more surprises.
Perhaps the most disheartening thing about the Class of 2016 is that both of the senior selections, Dick Stanfel and Ken Stabler, are not alive to enjoy their day in the sun. Both died within a month of each other during the summer of 2015.
What is especially frustrating is that both players have been eligible for the HOF for decades and in fact had both previously been finalists.
One of my biggest disappointments with the HOF has always been the high number of former players or coaches who wait sometimes for as many as 50 years after they have retired before they get selected.
You would think that if someone is "Hall of Fame worthy" they would be inducted within a reasonable time after retirement, but unfortunately that hasn't always been the case.
Tags: Brett FavreKen Stablermarvin HarrisonNFLPro Football Hall of Fame
Category Football, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Sports History
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Posted on August 07, 2011 by Dean Hybl
Though he is only in his second NFL training camp, some are already trying to rush to judgment about whether Tim Tebow can become a successful NFL quarterback.
One of the dangers in today's era of instant communication and immediate gratification is that we want everything to happen right now. We don't want to wait for a piece of information, an answer or for success. It is in this instant world that Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is helplessly trapped.
After a record setting and highly successful college career at the University of Florida, most NFL experts said that Tebow could eventually develop into a capable NFL quarterback, but it would take time and patience.
Those are two words that don't often fit into today's sports world. With players receiving sizable salaries from the minute they enter the league, owners, coaches and fans don't usually have patience to allow a player to mature and grow, especially at the quarterback position.
It didn't use to be that way. In fact, the most recent example of what can happen when a team gives a young quarterback time to mature and develop was personified last February when Aaron Rodgers led the Green Bay Packers to victory in Super Bowl XLV.
Originally selected with the 24th pick in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Packers, Rodgers threw only 59 passes in his first three seasons while sitting on the sidelines watching future Hall of Famer Brett Favre.
When he took over in 2008, Rodgers was ready to be a star and in three seasons as a starter has completed 64% of his passes for more than 12,000 yard, 86 touchdowns and 31 interceptions.
In just his third season as a starter, but sixth season in the Green Bay system, Rodgers and the Packers won their first championship in 15 years.
There was a time in NFL history when stories like Rodgers' were common.
Ken Stabler joined the Oakland Raiders as a second round selection in 1968 after playing for legendary coach Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama.
After spending his first two seasons on the taxi squad, Stabler joined the active roster in 1970 and from 1970-72 saw limited action while George Blanda and Daryle Lamonica saw most of the action at quarterback for the Raiders. Read the rest of this entry →
Tags: Aaron RodgersDenver BroncosKen StablerKyle OrtonRoger StaubachTim Tebow
Category Football, NFL, Sports History


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Tue, 01/21 | Women's Basketball at Holmes Community College (5:30 PM) V
Thu, 01/23 | Women's Basketball at Mississippi Delta Community College (6:00 PM) V
Mon, 01/27 | Women's Basketball vs. East Mississippi Community College (5:30 PM) V
Thu, 01/30 | Women's Basketball at Coahoma Community College (5:30 PM) V
Mon, 02/03 | Women's Basketball at Itawamba Community College (5:30 PM) V
Thu, 02/06 | Women's Basketball at Northwest Mississippi Community College (5:30 PM) V
Thu, 02/13 | Women's Basketball vs. Holmes Community College (5:30 PM) V
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PAIR OF SOPHOMORES SET NEW CAREER-HIGHS IN NORTHEAST'S SEASON OPENER
Wallace State Community College-Hanceville
Wallace State Community College-Hanceville (1-0) 19 15 19 17 70
Northeast Mississippi Community College (0-1) 8 19 16 21 64
Cherelle Jones (above) had a double-double with a career-high 22 points & 12 boards, but Northeast lost its opener to Wallace State.
Pts: Imari Martin - 18
Reb: 3 Players (#10, #14, #20) - 7
Ast: Miajah Bullock - 6
Pts: Cherelle Jones - 22
Reb: Cherelle Jones - 12
Booneville, Miss. - The Northeast Mississippi Community College women's basketball team could not shake off a sluggish start to the newly christened 2018-19 campaign.
The Lady Tigers fell to Wallace State (Ala.) Community College at Hanceville 70-64 in the season opener for both programs on Tuesday, November 6 at historic Bonner Arnold Coliseum.
Northeast trailed 19-8 after the first quarter and was held scoreless for nearly five minutes to begin the contest. Dayzsha Rogan finally drained a three-pointer that served as the inaugural points of the year for the Lady Tigers at the 5:05 mark.
The cold snap continued, though, with another four-plus minute span between field goals. The Lady Lions built a double-digit lead by the time Dominique Caldwell's layup ended the drought with 25 seconds left in the period.
Rogan got the Lady Tigers back into the matchup in the second quarter. She scored 10 of her 15 points in the period, including another trey as part of an 8-2 run by Northeast to close the first half.
Caldwell sent the Lady Tigers (0-1) into the locker room with momentum after drilling a shot from long distance right before the buzzer. Her first career trey at the collegiate level cut Northeast's deficit to 34-27.
The Lady Tigers' come-from-behind effort increased in earnest after the intermission and ran through Cherelle Jones in the post. She tallied 18 of her career-high 22 points in the second half.
Jones, who along with Rogan are reigning Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) All-State selections, accounted for the initial eight points of the third quarter for Northeast.
The Lady Tigers got back within two possessions at 46-40 on an old-fashioned three-point play by Tekeria Newson that was assisted by Quitonya Webster. But Wallace State-Hanceville built its lead back to double figures at 53-43 by the end of the third.
Northeast got even closer to evening things in the final period. The Lady Tigers came as close as one possession on three separate occasions throughout the fourth, including as late as 1:35 to go following another Jones bucket.
However, the Lady Lions (1-0) made three out of four free throw attempts in the final minute to hold off Northeast and secure their first triumph in Booneville since the 2011-12 season.
"I asked them after the game what was wrong and they said they were a little nervous," said Lady Tigers head coach Brenda Mayes. "I was proud of the fact that they came on and started to play the way we're capable of playing in the second half."
Jones added 12 rebounds to her game-high point total to record the 12th double-double of her tenure in the City of Hospitality. She was 10-of-18 from the floor and added a block to her resume as well.
"The first half I think we had to get the jitterbugs out. But once those left, we got it going," Jones said. "I know that my team is depending on me so I want to do even better."
Lanoria Abrams was the third double-digit scorer for Northeast. She set a new career-high with 16 points on 5-of-6 shooting plus a 6-of-9 showing at the charity stripe in her debut as a sophomore.
Six freshmen made their inaugural appearances with the Lady Tigers versus Wallace State-Hanceville. Caldwell topped the group of newcomers with seven points, three steals and two assists.
Northeast returns to action on Monday, November 12 with a road trip to Volunteer State (Tenn.) Community College. Tipoff in Gallatin, Tenn., is slated for 5:30 p.m. at the Pickel Field House.


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The Shelter: Animal SOS
April 27, 2021 /in Uncategorized /by Cian
Episodes 3 and 4 sees the DSPCA tend to Trigger, a dog with a head injury, an injured fawn has emergency treatment while a terrapin is rescued from Dublin's Grand Canal
Each episode offers an up close and personal look at the work of the DSPCA including the dedicated work of the veterinary team who fight to save the lives of the many domestic and wildlife animals that need their help every day
The Shelter: Animal SOS is a new series on RTÉ One that offers a behind the scenes look at the work conducted every day by the Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (DSPCA), Ireland's oldest and largest animal welfare organisation. The programme is being aired in partnership with Purina PRO PLAN – who are dedicated to the health and well-being of pets through premium nutrition.
The six-part series, filmed at the 32-acre DSPCA facility in the Dublin mountains over the course of a year, shares the trials and triumphs of a dedicated team of care-staff, vets and volunteers as they fight to save the lives of the many animals that need their help.
The series features a huge variety of animals – from cats and dogs to birds and ponies – and provides a unique perspective on the incredible work undertaken by the DSPCA team.
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Elise treats Trigger, a dog with a head injury and an injured kitten called Hero, who had tried to get across a busy dual carriageway.
Maria the pregnant Chihuahua goes out to a foster home to give birth.
An injured fawn is given emergency treatment.
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Ireland international rugby player and full time Vet Elise makes use of her sporting skills as she tries to round up a goat for treatment.
A surrendered terrier takes an emotional toll on Tanya.
Elise and Mandy treat a terrapin that was dumped in Dublin's Grand Canal.
Cattery care staff member Colm looks after a lost hairless cat called Fluffy.
The DSPCA, which marked its 180th anniversary in 2020, is dedicated to the promotion of animal welfare and the protection and rehabilitation of sick, abused or neglected animals, and the organization says that the the television series will give the public a realistic behind the scenes look at the great work they do to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome over 2,500 animals every year.
The series has been produced as part of a partnership agreed between DSPCA, Purina PetCare and RTÉ earlier this year.
Elise O'Byrne White, Veterinary Surgeon at the DSPCA, said: "I volunteered here and I loved it so much I now work here! It's a really unique place to work. I don't think there's anything else like it in private practice because we see so much here, including all sorts of cases involving cruelty and welfare. It's also a great place to work in terms of the team. We've a great veterinary team and then when you look beyond that – we have a cattery, treatment facility and all of these places filled with caring, kind and fun people who are all trying to do the same thing as you. It's such a great pleasure to be able to come into work every day and work with that team."
Ben Warner from Purina PetCare added: "Purina is proud to have partnered with the DSPCA for over 15 years. The Shelter: Animal SOS shines a spotlight on the essential work we know their tireless team undertakes every single day. Our Purina PRO PLAN – which uses the power of science and high-quality ingredients to develop a superior range of products – really supports this work. Every cat and dog cared for by the DSPCA is provided with Purina PRO PLAN all year round, which support's their development and rehabilitation."
The DSPCA, a registered charity, is dedicated to the promotion of animal welfare and the protection and rehabilitation of sick, abused or neglected animals. Located on a 32-acre site in Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, the DSPCA campus offers shelter and care to a wide variety of animals. In fact, the organisation rescues, rehabilitates and rehomes over 2,500 animals each year – domestic and wildlife.
The DSPCA has a dedicated and trained force of Animal Welfare Inspectors to investigate complaints of cruelty and neglect, to provide guidance and education to animal owners, initiate prosecutions for offences and attend to sick and injured stray animals or those which have been abandoned.
The DSPCA Vet Team works seven days a week providing critical care, carrying out lifesaving surgeries and performing over 3,000 neuter/spay operations annually. They also provide ongoing care and veterinary support to over 300 animals in the DSPCA Foster Programme.
The DSPCA also works closely with the Irish Government to keep legislation updated and implemented to further improve the lives of all animals. Founded in 1840, the DSPCA is Ireland's oldest and largest animal welfare organisation.
The Shelter: Animal SOS airs on Fridays at 8:30pm on RTÉ One and is available to watch on RTÉ Player
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Bill in Congress Would Protect Olympic National Forest Land, Rivers
Hearing Wednesday in Congress on Bills to Protect CA Public Lands
CORE Act Closer to Protecting 400,000 Acres of CO Public Lands
Analysis: Public Lands Attract Visitors, Dollars to Big Sky Country
Bill to Fund MT State Parks Upkeep Goes to House
Deferred maintenance in Montana parks has reached $22 million. (Tony Webster/Flickr)
HELENA, Mont. – A bill to increase funding for Montana's outdoor-recreation sites has passed the state Senate and moves on to the House.
Senate Bill 24 increases the voluntary vehicle-registration fee for state parks from $6 to $9, estimated to generate an additional $1.8 million each year. The revenue would be used to maintain state parks and fishing access sites, and create a trail and recreational facilities grant program.
Sen. Terry Gauthier, R-Helena, introduced the bill and says it would help tourism – Montana's biggest revenue stream.
"The better we can make Montana look from a parks perspective, more people spend money in the restaurants, they come and recreate," says Gauthier. "And Montana really comes out ahead on the revenue side for all the money that's spent here. It actually turns into revenue for the governor, and I think it's a great program. It's investment in the state of Montana."
Gauthier says the revenue generated from tourism supports vital state programs. But he notes that funds going toward state parks often are the first to be cut when the state has a budget shortfall. He says Montana's deferred-maintenance costs for park upkeep currently stand at $22 million.
George Real Bird III is a commissioner in Big Horn County south of Billings, who says outdoor recreation is vital to his county's economy.
"The Big Horn River and the three state parks in our county bring folks from all over the world and across our state to Big Horn County," says Real Bird. "And if we could have some more revenue to help improve those sites, improve our parks, improve our fishing-access sites, Big Horn County is all the much better."
Montana has 55 state parks. The bill passed the Senate 33-to-16 and is being carried to the House by Rep. Tom Welch, R-Dillon.
Eric Tegethoff, Public News Service - MT


What to Wear for your Fall Photoshoot.
Guys... Long dresses look amazing in photos. I know not many people think of a long dress when they are putting outfits together for their photo shoot but they look amazing and you get so much flowy and romantic movement which just enhances the emotive style of the photos. Now not every setting lends itself to this style. If we we're going pumpkin picking or apple picking or we are in an urban setting I probably would not wear a long dress but if we are shooting in a more natural surrounding, this is perfect.
I'll get right to it with my first set. I always start with Mom's dress because it's most important for Mom to wear something she feels amazing in and then I style the rest of the family around mom. This stunning dress is from Morning Lavender. You probably aren't going to be wearing this dress around town or to family functions but it would look amazing for a photo shoot. depending on your comfort level, you will probably need a tank underneath or a safety pin up top. The Kids outfits are from Zara and Dad's is from J Crew. I like to leave Dad's outfit really simple (a Henley is always a good option) and really let Mom shine. All of the links to the outfits are below the image.
This next one is an Amazon Dress. Again, you are probably not wearing this to a family bbq and you probably would not feel comfortable wearing this out and about but it's really similar to a much pricier "Free People" dress and would look fantastic in some sunset photos plus I think it's like $30 tops. Picture some hazy sun flare and your little nugget clutching onto your dress as you walk through a field or forest. I'm actually thinking of ordering it for myself, just for self portraits. That little girl dress also matches perfectly and is also adorable. Also for little boys, I love overalls, especially cozy knit overalls. The earthy tones of this set are really timeless. dad again is super simple. you can't go wrong with a chambray shirt layered over a tee and some earth toned cords.
This last one is definitely a more conservative option for mom but still beautiful and also from Amazon for under $30. It's a darker color so more slimming but still has some beautiful earth toned flowers. I think in one of the reviews, someone actually bought it for a photoshoot and said they felt like a princess in it. That's awesome, I want you to feel like a princess during your shoot! again everyone else is in earthy tones. I love that Golden Cord dress from H&M and again super adorable overalls for a little boy. Dad is super simple. I'm really not trying to draw too much attention to dad (or maybe I'm just really bad at styling men). but If your Husband is super trendy or has a more Vibrant fashion sense than I want him to look like himself of course.
Bottom line is, I love doing this so if you have booked with me and want help, please let me know and I would love to create an inspiration board for you or If you have a dress or a certain outfit and need help coordinating the rest of the family. I would be more than happy to help!!!


Dame Emma Thompson has joined the Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests in London. Sadly she just needed to jet in from Los Angeles to do so. Hollywood hypocrisy comes in all shapes and sizes. Surely she could have YouTubed her support from her gated mansion to do her bit!
For a group that demands we must be carbon neutral by 2025, there are always exceptions when it comes to themselves. Take the stacked coffee cups in the picture above.
Do these Einsteins realize that the majority of take away wax-lined coffee cups aren't recycled even though they can feel good about themselves when disposing of it in the right bin? How many people elect to have their brew poured into a ceramic cup? Certainly not this lot.
The cost to recycle the 500 billion (and rising) coffee cups consumed annually is so astronomical (it is hard to separate the wax that stops the cup disintegrating because of the energy intensity involved to do so) that over 90% end up in landfill. No one talks about that 300 million tons of virgin paper used to make these cups! How many of us give it one thought when we need a shot of caffeine? Right?! Although Starbucks is trialing a 5p latte levy for those that elect to use a paper cup.
We pointed out the glaring mistakes made on the XR website earlier in the week. If only they did their homework. No doubt their proposal for citizen assemblies will be stacked with people with little knowledge of the subject matter. Perhaps they can sip on Starbucks lattes as they seek ecological justice.
While XR might claim they didn't ask for a police presence, sadly public safety requires the Met commit already thin resources. 570 arrests have been made. Lying on the ground, according to XR, stretches the police even thinner as it requires 4 officers to carry them away.
Let's say they win government support and hit 2025 carbon neutrality. Many industries would need to shut up shop to meet the demands of the protestors. Has XR built that into the manifesto? Of course not. Any price is worth paying when no one has bothered to work out the cost.
Shorten dodges but can Morrison prosecute?
Opposition leader Bill Shorten dodged a legitimate question numerous times on how much his climate policies would cost to implement and the impacts to GDP. Either he doesn't know or he does know and reckons the public will not buy what he is selling.
The question is can PM Scott Morrison prosecute all these free hits? What a lay up to have a key policy platform with no costings or benefits to speak of.


Pips Cloner Review – Pipscloner Scam?
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If real user reviews of Pipscloner are what you are looking for, then check the comments below. They are real customer experiences with this product. If there are no comments, then be sure to come back frequently and check for updates as our review and discussion of this product continues to grow.
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I bought it and got a refund a month later. They trade like kids. Either they are thieves or they have no real experience trading fx.
I wish I had Carl's problem of no singnal. The signals I got stink. As of a few minutes ago, 11 open positions. the best one is only $0.44 – Can't even buy a can of soda. The other 10 positions are going to put me around $220 negative. One of the things I hate most is there are no stops or indications of where he would like to take profit. If I didn't have a trade of my own that was doing well, My broker would probably close all his positions due top stopout. It;s happened with his trades before. I am losing too much money from this. I do not recommend it to anyone. Another annoyance is the e0mails trying to dell me other peoples products.
Hmm….have not received any signals for the last 2 weeks. I have been following some of the previous trades on my account and I am very disappointed to see a total lack of money management. No stop losses (or TP's) are ever put it and if the trade goes the wrong way, then you can be hundreds of pips negative in floating. I noticed that almost all trades are done on orders. I must say that I am wondering if "live" trades are actually taking place. Maybe these guys have a robot running instead, or just place orders without proper analysis. Either way, very disappointing to see how they trade. I have started to enter my own TP's and SL's and had better success then, but I still don't like this.
Yes, there has been a spate of similarly marketed unreliable systems in recent months. Whilst the purchase cost of these systems might be refundable, the cost of testing them on a VPS is not.
There is definitely "something rotten in England." They have the art of scamming down absolutely pat and it gets me every time. Fortunately I always get my money back from Clickbank but even so, I am becoming very gun shy of anything emanating out of the "merry old motherland." Now my results with PC's "Live traders," (if there really are any): Week one Profit/Loss History: Down 98.99 (75.89 plus; 165.35 minus) Floating.P/L: Presently Down over $1,000 (At last count Consistent losses almost exactly two to one against the winners.) Most of the trades don't make any sense at all if there are live traders doing the trading and monitoring their trades.
So here's what I think…This is another artfully presented scam by the same authors as Push Button Pips, Copy Paste Pips, Forex Cash Bot, etc. (they are being churned out weekly!) except this time with supposedly live traders since that's the latest marketing gimmick. I don't know how it's done but I'm sure they enjoy the use of our money while they have it. I am absolutely astonished that Clickbank continues to sell these forex programs without some sort of insurance that they are dealing with honest providers. It must cost a fortune to operate their refund dept. I will not be purchasing another miracle program out of England again. What they sell sounds great but is EXTREMELY expensive in the long (and even the short) run.
Well,15 trades so far this week with 3 traders;currently about $375 floating loss.Hope things will improve.Currently 5 trades with small gains,3 with substantial losses & 1 with a small loss. Closed trades:3 with small profits,2 with small losses.
Started off great in first week. Increased the demo account by 50%. Last night, however, it overtraded in the wrong direction on two very spikey pairs – USDJPY and USDCHF. Result = huge losses on these pairs which almost emptied demo trading account. Admittedly it has been a very difficult trading week, but this scale of loss shouldn't happen even in the worst trading situation.
VERY GOOD 1ST WEEK — UP OVER 300 PIPS — I AM USING JUST I TRADER – Tim , intraday trades most of the trades closed within 24 hours. No problems to report. You can follow all trades live on mt4 live.
While it worked, I had a few excellent trades on my very small account, however Pipscloner crashed my MT4 platform and the longer it stayed on the more often it crashed. They've told me many times already that it works on the build I have but it definitely doesn't and now that it's off, all is working well. I even upgraded my memory on my VPS to make suret that was the problem but it didn't make any difference. A new platform and re downloading all of my EA's still didn't help. It was definitely Pipscloner.
GBPUSD short with 0,71 Lot (!!) @ 1,6240…1 Hour later the next Trade GBPUSD short with 0,01 Lot (!!!) @ 1,6255.
Hey Guys, what´s a Moneymanagement?????
The first Trade 71 times higher than the 2. Trade!
And once again…2 BIG LOSSES!!
Now 8 Trades in the last 3 Days – all 8 Trades are BIG LOSER!
Pips Cloner – only made to destroy Accounts!!
Never seen support like this…amazing! Havent seen results yet but based on members area and support, I can tell this one will be one I'll actually NOT refund for a change..
EXCELLENT SUPPORT – LIVE SCREEN SHOTS MT 4 — AISO EMAIL TRADES TO YOU IF YOU WISH – YOU CAN MAKE A CHOICE OF PERSON MAKING YOUR TRADES. GOOD IDEA TO DEMO TEST WITH DIFFERENT BROKERS IF YOUR RESULTS ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE MT4 LIVE ACCOUNT, SO FAR EVERYTHING UP FRONT — WILL SEE HOW IT GOES DURING DEMO PERIOD.
Oohh – an excellent Support…but only Losers in the Account!
Sorry – the Trade GBPUSD was LONG!!!
Only 4 Trades in 2 days…all 4 Trade are Loser…The last Trade GBPUSD short @ 1,6245 closed @ 1,6242 with a lost. Only 25 Minutes later, these Trade was @ 1,6260…and can make a good win.
Is PipsCloner made for destroying the Accounts of the User?


Zimbabwe's president has re-appointed as one of his vice presidents a former military general who helped him take power.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Constantino Chiwenga, who led the defence forces when the military rolled into the capital in November to pressure longtime leader Robert Mugabe to resign.
Chiwenga later left the military with several other generals to take up leadership positions in the government and ruling party.
Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi were sworn in as the two vice presidents on Thursday as Mnangagwa's first Cabinet appointments since his inauguration on Sunday after a disputed election.
"For now, Mnangagwa and Chiwenga need each other for political survival strategic purposes," says Harare-based analyst, Alexander Rusero.


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Was Toure's exit from Man City handled correctly?
Yaya Toure and his agent, Dimitri Seluk, have a good relationship, they have been together for 17 years. Seluk also looks after his brother, Kolo Toure. Yaya calls his Ukrainian agent, Papushka, which means Daddy in Russian.
There has always been controversy surrounding Seluk, especially whilst Yaya has been at Manchester City. Pep Guardiola and Seluk have not seen eye to eye over the last 2 years. A lot of name calling has gone on. You can't help but think that a lot more is to come from Seluk after his client has now left the club.
Manchester City fans love Yaya but it was the right time to move on. The role of the agent is to be there for the player to hide behind when needed, how many of the comments that Seluk came out with whilst his client was at City were actually from the player, it's hard to tell.
The recent reported comments from Yaya will leave a slightly bitter taste in the mouth of City fans. To effectively accuse Guardiola of racism for the way that he was treated seems a step too far. He may have been misquoted or misinterpreted? Is he making excuses for his lack of playing time recently?
I think this would have been one of those times where as a player he should have hid behind his extrovert agent. They are a lot easier to blame!
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The Early Papacy: To the Synod of Chalcedon in 451
Author: Adrian Fortescue
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Adrian Fortescue, a British apologist for the Catholic faith in the early part of the 20th century, wrote this classic of clear exposition on the faith of the early Church in the papacy based upon the writings of the Church fathers until 451. No ultramontanist, Fortescue can be a keen critic of personal failings of various Popes, but he shows through his brilliant assessment of the writings of the Church fathers that the early Church had a clear understanding of the primacy of Peter and a belief in the divinely given authority of the Pope in matters of faith and morals.
Referring to the famous passage in Matthew 16:18 where Jesus confers his authority upon Peter as the head of the Apostles, and the first Pope, Fortescue says that, while Christians can continue to argue about the exact meaning of that passage from Scripture, and the various standards that are used for judgments about correct Christian teaching and belief, "the only possible real standard is a living authority, an authority alive in the world at this moment, that can answer your difficulties, reject a false theory as it arises and say who is right in disputed interpretations of ancient documents."
Fortescue shows that the papacy actually seems to be one of the clearest and easiest dogmas to prove from the early Church. And it is his hope through this work that it will contribute to a ressourcement with regard to the office of the papacy among those in communion with the Bishop of Rome, and that it will assist those outside this communion to seek it out, confident that it is willed by Christ for all who would be joined to him in this life and in the next.
John Patti
Good for its purpose
This book is definitely a more concise review of the evidences for Papal Primacy in the Early Church, rather than a thorough articulation. If a non-scholar is interested in a simple demonstration of the tried-and-true evidences for papal primacy, this is the book. If someone is interested in a super thorough read through of all the scholarship surrounding these texts, "The See of Peter" by Shotwell and Loomis, or "The Primitive Church and the See of Peter" by Rivington would be a better choice


Losing the European market is bad business, bad national strategy and a sure way to weaken Israel. Avoiding that requires a smart, less-confrontational resolution.
Erekat: If US rejects request, we might take up the issue with UN Security Council; Israeli official: There is no substitute for direct negotiations.
Grace period ends just after American congressional elections.
Hamas threatens to 'respond through all means' to the raid; Fayyad says 'killing our citizens' doesn't lead to peace.
After 'The Jerusalem Post' reported atomic agency broke EU sanctions, IAEA says helium-leak detector was for medical project approved in 2007.
Veteran diplomat Meron Reuben prepares for his maiden address to the Security Council set for October 18.
Ashkenazi responds to recently released state archives of inner cabinet meetings held before and during 1973 Yom Kippur war.
Number is 3.4 percent higher than last year, with a rise in those studying in academic colleges as opposed to universities.
Couple-swapping website had accused competitors of taking related domain names.
Soldier suspected of secretly returning a handgun Ashkenazi had received as agift from an American officer.
Activists accuse BBC of "a consistently pro-Israel bias"; other publications had refused to publish advertisement.
David Hallam, a Methodist minister from Birmingham, accused his church of using donations to pursue a campaign of discrimination against Israel.
Judge compared Israel's conduct during Operation Cast Lead to the Nazi regime, discussed "colonialization" and "ethnic cleansing."
New Spanish Media Program to battle anti-Semitic sentiment in Latino community; pro-Israel organization making push in Arab world.
Dogs, and not wild animals, are now the main reservoirs of this deadly infectious disease.
Health Scan: Environmental light pollution is linked to cancer; physical qualities may influence on how adult stem cells from bone marrow become differentiated.
Last year marked the 170th anniversary of what may be the area's best-kept secret.
Thus when El Al offered me the opportunity to fly business class for a long weekend to Los Angeles to visit my parents, I felt quite fortunate.
Israeli tennis star climbs to No. 13, earns $1 million for first time.
Report: With help of int'l police bodies, Dubai police unravel identity of man from Mabhouh hit; the suspect: man killed during Yom Kippur War.
An exclusive video interview with Weizmann Institute's Ada Yonath, the first Israeli woman to receive prestigious prize for chemistry.
PA negotiator says Abbas may seek international recognition of territories if Israel doesn't agree to Palestinian state within '67 boundaries.
Tea Party-supported candidate Rich Iott says SS reenactment was part of interest in World War II, meant no disrespect to Jewish community.
Labor leader cancels expected stormy meeting with fellow Labor ministers before heading to cabinet meeting to vote on amending Citizenship Law.
Jundallah group threatens to reveal some of Teheran's nuclear secrets if it does not release 200 "political prisoners" from Iranian jails.
Finance minister meets with OECD head in Washington; says OECD will not be involved with political issues.
North Korean dictator and son appear in public for celebrations commemorating the 65th anniversary of founding of ruling Workers' Party.
On Citizenship Law, PM stresses the need to recognize Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state."
Photo gallery: Both Ismail Haniyeh and Salam Fayyad turn up to be photographed picking symbolic fruit in Palestinian villages.
Young woman in IDF said to have taken home about 600 documents on USB key, including documents with data on Iranian nuclear program.
Cabinet approves law requiring loyalty oath without Labor votes; PM stresses the need to recognize Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state."
Sludge would spill onto town already flooded last week; official says cracks were being repaired but too soon to lower state of alert.
French foreign minister says that Paris prefers two state solution achieved by negotiations between Israel and PA but other options exist.
Erekat also denies rumors of PA president threatening to resign, details 5 "alternatives" which Palestinians will consider if no deal made.
MKs respond to decision on loyalty oath; Livni: "This is politics at its worst;" MK Ben-Ari: "Likud has admitted that Kahane was right."
In acceptance speech, Israeli author says peace will allow Israelis experience something unheard of — "the feeling of a stable existence."
Growing involvement comes despite shaky political relations; Hapoalim still sees Turkey as a major focus for future business.
Holiday is celebrated by mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem; coincides with the 25th anniversary of Operation Moses.
Peres: "We can not give up on peace;" French foreign minister says that Paris prefers two state solution through direct talks.
Artists, intellectuals, MKs express fears that Israel becoming fascist country at protest in front of old Tel Aviv Museum.
"Euromoney" magazine praises Fischer for "taking bold risks" and helping Israel's economy stay afloat during economic crisis.
Finland's first female president says she believes women can play a major role in bringing peace to the region.
Sources say Rabbi Ovadia Yosef will allow 60-day extension if US promises it will be last; Yishai denies report: "Shas opposes any freeze."
Transportation minister says new speed limits will better reflect the safe speed on each road; some speed limits will be decreased.
Since being excavated in 1930s and '40s, mosaic has largely remained hidden under layers of canvas, soil to protect it against sun, rain.
Combining human emotion and the cold maw of computers, Phototaxis will rock the stage at the Tel Aviv Music Festival.
Tel Aviv Music Festival chooses to focus exclusively on home-grown talent, hones in on an alluring array of local music.
ETHICS @ WORK: A real-estate bubble?
If we understand why markets usually work well, we can better understand why sometimes they don't.
The Citizenship Law amendment: Racist, just, or stupid?
It is not unreasonable to ask that new citizens pledge allegiance to the principles upon which this nation was founded.
Could the Stewart and Colbert rallies play a hand in the American political landscape?
The Muslim Brotherhood recently called for jihad on the US and Israel, adopting a view almost identical to al-Qaida's.
FM tells French, Spanish FMs to solve Europe's problems before coming to Israel; Barak, Peres praise European efforts for peace.
Has she seen the video? Did anyone notice all of the cameramen there? They knew in advance they would be getting "juicy" pictures.
Loyalty bill crosses line from what is commonplace in democracies to what is commonplace in countries Israel would not want to associate with.


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FTC sues Kochava for allegedly selling geolocation information from millions of mobile devices
NetChoice vice president and general counsel Carl Szabo responds to the Twitter whistleblower's accusations against the tech giant, discusses Musk's battle with Twitter executives and analyzes Biden's 'discriminatory' student loan handout.
The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against Idaho-based data broker Kochava for allegedly selling geolocation data from hundreds of millions of consumer mobile devices.
Kochava Collective's general manager Brian Cox told FOX Business the agency has a "fundamental misunderstanding" of its data marketplace business and other data businesses and that the firm "operates consistently and proactively in compliance with all rules and laws, including those specific to privacy."
According to the FTC complaint, Kochava allowed anyone with little effort to obtain a large sample of sensitive data and use it without restriction until at least June 2022. The data can allegedly be used to trace consumers' movements to and from sensitive locations, including abortion clinics, places of worship, homeless and domestic violence shelters and addiction recovery centers.
The FTC argues that Kochava's sale of consumers' geolocation data exposes them to "threats of stigma, stalking, discrimination, job loss, and even physical violence". (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images) (Getty Images / Getty Images)
The government's defacto privacy watchdog argues the sale of the data exposes consumers to "threats of stigma, stalking, discrimination, job loss, and even physical violence." The suit seeks to halt Kochava's sale of sensitive geolocation data and require the company to delete the sensitive geolocation information it has already collected.
According to Cox, Kochava is "constantly monitoring and proactively adjusting" its technology to block geo data from sensitive locations. The company recently launched a new capability prior to the FTC's lawsuit that blocks geo data from sensitive locations via Privacy Block.
"Real progress to improve data privacy for consumers will not be reached through flamboyant press releases and frivolous litigation," he added. "It's disappointing that the agency continues to circumvent the lawmaking process and perpetuate misinformation surrounding data privacy."
T-MOBILE SETTLES SUIT OVER MASSIVE HACKING FOR $350M
Kochava acquires consumers' location data from other third party data brokers, complies the information into customized feeds and markets it commercial clients. Kochava typically charges a monthly subscription fee of thousands of dollars to access its location data feed but also offers a free sample.
The data, which is not anonymized, includes timestamped latitude and longitude coordinates which are associated with a Mobile Advertising ID, a unique identifier assigned to a mobile device to assist marketers in advertising to the consumer.
The FTC notes that Kochava's own description of its product claims its location feed "delivers raw latitude/longitude data with volumes around 94B+ geo transactions per month, 125 million monthly active users, and 35 million daily active users, on average observing more than 90 daily transactions per device."
Federal Trade Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C., August 29, 2020. (REUTERS/Andrew Kelly)
SEPHORA TO PAY $1.2 MILLION IN SETTLEMENT OVER CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY LAW
"Consumers are suffering, have suffered, and will continue to suffer substantial injury as a result of defendant's violations of the FTC Act," the complaint said. "Absent injunctive relief by this court, defendant is likely to continue to injure consumers and harm the public interest."
"We hoped to have productive conversations that led to effective solutions with the FTC about these complicated and important issues and are open to them in the future," Cox said. "Unfortunately the only outcome the FTC desired was a settlement that had no clear terms or resolutions and redefined the problem into a moving target."
The litigation follows an announcement earlier this month that the FTC is exploring rules to crack down on harmful commercial surveillance practices that collect, analyze, and profit from information about people.
The FTC voted 4-1 authorizing staff to file the complaint against Kochava in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho.
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When people go on holiday, they often like to visit various islands. Why? Islands are a nice get-a-way. They offer beautiful views, adventure, and relaxation. Where is your favourite island to visit? Italy? France? Greece? What about something a little closer to home? While there are many different islands to visit, one of the best out there is the Isles of Scilly.
The Isles of Scilly is located off the southwest tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. The area has been designated one of outstanding natural beauty. The Isles have a great climate. Because of this, they grow amazing flowers, including many daffodils.
As you might have guessed, the Isle of Scilly is very popular among tourists. However, many people who visit actually come from UK or Europe. The Isle actually produces 85 percent of its income off the people who visit. People want to come because the environment is so favourable. It basically has an extended summer and the culture is definitely more relaxed. When you do visit, you can travel through The Isle easily using the transport links.
If you need somewhere to stay there are a couple of different options. A lot of people stay on St. Mary's. There you will find great holiday accommodations and a lot of amenities. Tresco is another option for your stay. It is run as a timeshare and a lot of tourists stay here. The cottages here are amazing and you will get every accommodation you need. If you want to stay on Bryher or St. Martin's there are some hotels there. St. Agnes, however, is not very developed so you will not find options for your stay there.
Once you get to the Island of Scilly, what are you going to do? Think of it like a retreat from reality. Many people like to fish and boat on Silly's beautiful waters. However, some people prefer to just relax in the sun. The island definitely holds so much beauty. You will want to spend some time and see it. Walk around and explore. You will see the beautiful flowers and coastline. It will amaze you and you might consider relocating permanently to the island.
Plan your trip to the Isle of Scilly today. It really is one of the most incredible places to visit in all of England. If you have not seen it yet, you are missing out. And, if you have already been, the Isle of Scilly is waiting for your return.
This article was written by Tom Sangers on behalf of Isle of Scilly Travel who you can Fly to the Isles of Scilly with for a unforgettable Scilly Island Holiday.


IMO, the logical place to ask would be on the slacko 5.5 thread, or to PM 0micko, the author of slacko, directly.
tried it myself, and got 'no such file or directory' on: "/sbin/makepkg".
i noticed there is no /sbin directory, which would explain the error.
is that because Slackware has an sbin dir, but Slacko does not?
makepkg is a script. Get it here and put it in /sbin (you do have it).
- is makepkg missing from my Slacko because i'm not using the devx kernel?
i built python 3.1.1 using slackbuild. slackbuild said "package created successfully". i am able to install the resulting .tgz package on slacko. puppy dependency checker reports that my python install is not missing any libraries or dependencies.
Only a guess, but try unpacking the .tgz and check it's directory structure. Things may not have ended up where they should have.


Ray and Judy Neier have been married since June 5, 1976. Ray has been a life-long farmer. Judy, now enjoys being a mother and grandmother. Judy spent the better part of 20 years as a CPR (Creating Positive Relationships) Teacher in the local school systems, and is still involved with Melalueca as a Wellness representative.
Ray and Judy are blessed with a growing family, including four daughters, four son-in-laws, and soon to be thirteen grandchildren! The Neier's spend most of their time with family; usually at the Lean-on Lodge.


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Ronaldo close to buying Real Valladolid, say Brazilian reports
By James Kilpatrick 31 May 2018
The Brazil and Real Madrid legend reportedly has his sights set on the Spanish Segunda Division club
As reported by Brazilian newspaper O Globo, the 41-year-old is in advanced negotiations to buy Valladolid for €30m (£26.3m).
The two-time World Cup winner has already gained experience working at boardroom level in a football club. Back in 2014, he was the part-owner of North American Soccer League side Fort Lauderdale Strikers before selling his 20 per cent share in the club last year.
In January, Ronaldo spoke of his ambition to own a second-tier side in either Spain or England.
He told La Folha de Sao Paulo. "It would be a great honour to preside over the Brazil Football Federation, but before I want to have experience managing a great club.
"I am thinking about buying a team in the second division in Spain or England. I want to do something innovative. I think I'm ready for that challenge."
According to Marca, the club's majority shareholder and president Carlos Suarez denies any offer has been tabled, but €30m would be enough to strike a deal.
Valladolid currently sit sixth in the Segunda Division standings. The Castile and Leon side host Osasuna on Saturday, the final day of the regular season, as they look to cement a play-off spot.
Philadelphia Union's Ilsinho scores astunner,embarrasses Bastian Schweinsteiger
Roy Keane says he "hopes John O'Shea is a 'head-case' at home"


Internet has widened horizons for a variety of businesses these days. There are many companies that market their services and products through internet. It has enabled companies to access customers around the globe. Also, internet has made products and services available to potential clients 24/7. Marketing and advertising your business efficiently is now a challenge. Businesses often don't understand what the best way will be for them to market their services and products online and that's where search engine marketing and search engine optimization come in. There are many SEM services available that help promote your business with various tools and services, like Pay Per Click, Article Submission Services, Keyword Research, On-Page SEO, etc.
Search Engine Optimization is an essential tool for helping potential customers find your products and services related website online. The internet, since its beginning, has been a "go to" destination when it is about to finding some products or services or any other details online. It has successfully replaced the telephone directory and the yellow pages. You can easily find almost anything in just a matter of seconds. Therefore, it is essential for almost all businesses to have an existence on the web, so potential customers can find them online. It is also vital that you use the SEM services from the right people, as this could certainly mean more income for your business.
While your prospective customer is making a search for a service or product on Yahoo or Google, you want to ensure that your website is on the first page of the search results. Otherwise, your competitor will be making all the revenue. In order to do this, an increase in your page rank is important. A website or company that has taken advantage of a good SEO & SEM services would definitely be on first page of search results. Figures have proved that the websites on 1st page are viewed by 43% of searchers, while websites on second page are viewed by 20%. Percentage is further low on next pages. Since there are just 10 spots available on the first page, so a lot of work with SEM services, PPC, Article Submission Services, etc. needs to be done.
Here is a tip to help best promote your business: Writing Articles or use Article Submission Services – Write articles on article sites and forums that relate to your services. Leave the URL of your website at the bottom (Normally, called a resource box) of your article along with anchor text, which of course is a keyword. There are several SEM services and Article Submission Services for this purpose, which you can find with a little research online.


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Daniel T. Wise receives
Lobachevsky Medal and Prize 2019
from Kazan Federal University
Prime Minister of Tatarstan Aleksey Pesoshin and Rector Ilshat Gafurov congratulated the winner at a ceremony on 2nd December, 2019.
In his opening speech, Rector Gafurov noted that Lobachevsky's professional activities were multifaceted. He was a rector, an architectural supervisor, a librarian, a publisher, and a science administrator. However, he became famous for his introduction of non-Euclidean geometry.
"Mathematics has been and will be a cornerstone of classical education, and the Lobachevsky Medal and Prize is our token of memory and respect to the man who laid the foundation for mathematical education at Kazan University," said Dr. Gafurov.
Head of the Prize Jury, Professor Marat Arslanov spoke about this year's contest.
Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin shared congratulations, "Thanks to the activities of many generations of scientists, Tatarstan today is a powerful center of mathematical science. There are three institutes at Kazan University specializing in research in this area. In addition, there is the IT Lyceum – one of the best secondary schools in Russia. The President and the Prime Minister of Tatarstan are ready to provide possible support to all the initiatives of our universities in this area. I congratulate Professor Wise and wish Kazan University to continue the glorious tradition of awarding the Lobachevsky Medal and Prize."
"I am proud to be here today. Many thanks to the International Jury for this high opinion of my work," replied Dr. Wise before presenting a brief lecture about his contributions to the virtually Haken hypothesis, the body of work for which he was commended today.
After this, the Kids' Theater of Kazan University showed a short play about Lobachevsky and his time, much to the joy of all the viewers. Finally, the first screening of a documentary, The Lobachevsky Space, was held. According to Dr. Gafurov, the film's goal is to show that the principles laid by Lobachevsky have remained unchanged throughout its history.


I've always been a huge fan of Madison, Ga. My wife and I have been there several times since moving to Georgia, and now one of my logos is just off the square. Thanks to Muzzy's Gifts and More for the opportunity. I hope they've enjoyed a great time so far!
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So every year In Touch has a Christmas tree competition. Ours was a "Giving Tree" concept. It was an amazing and touching sight to see so many people donate and give gifts for people, remembering the true reason for the season, God's greatest gift to us—Jesus Christ.
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This Grinch has been floating around our office for the past couple of days. I think he's working on his Christmas card, right now. haha.
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My coworker Jeff (http://jaggedsmile.wordpress.com) wanted to inspire me for Revelations book I just started. Now I can start designing!
Spent a beautiful fall morning taking photos at Kennesaw Mountain. It's been a while since I was able to get out and enjoy a gorgeous morning like this. There is truly something fantastic about getting out and enjoying God's creation.
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For anyone that grew up on a farm, or in the country, you probably knew that birds have the ability to stabilize their heads to an amazing degree during movement, and this cool Mercedes Benz commercial uses a chicken to tout their "intelligent drive" stability system. Fun stuff!
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I worked on a pitch for Oraquick. This was the site concept for patients looking for answers regarding the oral HIV test.
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The LAN is a news site for the Nation of Israel. They approached the agency I was working at to develop their brand, and a create a new logo. They asked that it convey "communication" first and Israel be subtle, so if you look, you can find certain links to Israel.
Continue Reading "LAN (Leadership Action Network)"
Visiting Nurse Services of New York came to the Agency I was working at to develop a new campaign targeted to care givers who are taking care of a family member who has fallen. They wanted the campaign to have some stopping power.
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La Canadian National Basketball League (CNBL) est une ancienne ligue canadienne de basketball fondée en 2004, située dans le sud de l'Ontario. Elle avait pour objectif d'attirer des joueurs canadiens évoluant à l'étranger. En , la ligue annonce que sa première saison démarrera au printemps-été 2003. Cette première saison fut ensuite repoussée à l'été 2004. La ligue a arrêté ses activités au cours de l'année 2004 en ayant seulement organisé des matchs amicaux.

Équipes
La CNBL comptait 6 équipes, toutes situées dans le sud de l'Ontario :
 Brantford Blaze, Brantford
 Durham Dragons, Municipalité régionale de Durham
 London Orion, London
 Toronto Metro Xpress, Toronto
 Waterloo Wildhawks, Municipalité régionale de Waterloo
 Windsor Drive, Windsor

Lien externe

Compétition de basket-ball au Canada
Ligue nationale de basketball du Canada

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Q: How to plot the 3D-boundary of California or other states I can get the postion with this code
pos = First[
  Flatten[#, 1] & /@
   First[Entity[
      "AdministrativeDivision", {"California", "UnitedStates"}][
     EntityProperty["AdministrativeDivision", "Polygon"]]]]

You can see the postion in the map
GeoListPlot[GeoPosition[pos]]

I can get their elevation
eleData =
 QuantityMagnitude[
  GeoElevationData[
   Flatten[#, 1] & /@
    First[Entity[
       "AdministrativeDivision", {"California", "UnitedStates"}][
      EntityProperty["AdministrativeDivision", "Polygon"]]]]]

Then I get the data
data = Flatten /@ Transpose[{pos, List /@ eleData}]

I can plot its discrete plot
ListPointPlot3D[data]

But how to connected those discrete points to get a smooth boundary?

A: Here's another (slightly hacky) approach. The idea is to take the BoundaryMeshRegion from GeoElevationData, take only the top, then take the topological boundary.
First the BoundaryMeshRegion:
cali = Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"California", "UnitedStates"}];
reg = GeoElevationData[cali, Automatic, "Region"]

To get the top portion of this region, I select the primitives free of a coordinate that's at the bottom of the region:
floor = RegionBounds[reg][[3, 1]];
prims = Select[MeshPrimitives[reg, 2], FreeQ[floor]];

Visualize this:
DiscretizeGraphics[prims]

I then tally the each line segment of each triangle and select the ones with multiplicity one. This will give me the boundary:
segs = Catenate[Partition[#, 2, 1, 1] & /@ prims[[All, 1]]];
boundary = Cases[Tally[Sort /@ segs], {_, 1}][[All, 1]];

To visualize, I exaggerate the z box ratio, assuring the xy ratios are to scale:
ratio = Divide @@ Most[Subtract @@@ RegionBounds[reg]];
Graphics3D[Line[segs], BoxRatios -> {1, ratio, .1}, Boxed -> False]

A: As you geo-polygon has the 2D coordinates you need.  However, the coordinate system ofGraphics and GeoGraphics are not the same.  You need to Reverse the geo-polygon coordinate pairs to make them compatible in graphics. The GeoPosition head must also be removed. Finally a z-axis coordinate should be added (I used MapAt) for the polygon in Graphics3D.
With
geoPoly =
 Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"California", "UnitedStates"}][
  EntityProperty["AdministrativeDivision", "Polygon"]]

Then
Graphics3D@
 MapAt[Append[0], {All, All, All}]@
  Reverse[geoPoly /. GeoPosition -> Identity, 4]

Hope this helps.

A: Here's one possible method:
california = Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"California", "UnitedStates"}];

bounds = GeoBounds[california];
cheights = Reverse[QuantityMagnitude[GeoElevationData[Transpose[bounds],
                                                      GeoZoomLevel -> 4,
                                                      UnitSystem -> "Metric"]]];
crf = RegionMember[MapAt[Map[Reverse[#, 2] &, QuantityMagnitude[LatitudeLongitude[#]]] &,
                         EntityValue[california, "Polygon"], 1]];

ListPlot3D[cheights, BoundaryStyle -> Thick, DataRange -> Reverse[bounds],
           Mesh -> None, PlotStyle -> None, RegionFunction -> (crf[{#1, #2}] &)]

Use Cases[] as usual if you need the actual Line[] objects.

A: Another approach is similar to Yode's answer, but to refine the boundary into smaller segments before calling GeoElevationData.
poly = EntityValue[
  Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"California", "UnitedStates"}],
  "Polygon"
] /. GeoPosition -> Identity;

Refine the boundary by imposing a maximum length:
bd = DiscretizeRegion[RegionBoundary[poly], MaxCellMeasure -> {1 -> .1}];

Now replace each 2D coordinate with it's 3D version. Here we make one bulk call to GeoElevationData to avoid the overhead of many server calls:
raw = GeoElevationData[GeoPosition[MeshCoordinates[bd]], Automatic, "GeoPosition"];
pts3D = First[raw][[All, {2, 1, 3}]];

Now we construct a MeshRegion (or equivalently we could use Graphics3D + GraphicsComplex):
ratio = Divide @@ Subtract @@@ RegionBounds[bd];
MeshRegion[pts3D, MeshCells[bd, 1], BoxRatios -> {ratio, 1, .1}]

A: Considering the J.M and Edmund's answer,I figure out more faster method based on Entity
poly = EntityValue[
    Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"California", "UnitedStates"}],
    EntityProperty["AdministrativeDivision",
     "Polygon", {"ZoomLevel" -> 6}]] /. GeoPosition -> Identity;
shape = MapAt[
   Append[Reverse[#], QuantityMagnitude[GeoElevationData[#]]] &,
   poly, {All, All, All}];
Graphics3D[{FaceForm[], shape}, BoxRatios -> {1, 1, 1/3}]

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"Asexual" as a Pejorative
September 16, 2008 April 26, 2009 / Elizabeth
A little while ago, I was googling aimlessly and stumbled upon this little gem of a blog post, wherein the author tries to insult Barack Obama by calling him asexual. I laughed. It's almost precious, isn't it? The feeble attempt to smear him using a word that she doesn't even know the definition of… I can hardly imagine that a grown woman wrote this. I feel like I'm reading something written by a catty fourteen-year-old girl, except about politicians instead of her classmates. If that's all the McCain camp can come up with, well. That's pretty sad.
I don't know about you guys, but if Obama really were asexual, that'd make me more likely to vote for him, not less. After all, if he's not distracted by scandalous sexual affairs, then theoretically he'd be more likely to actually get some work done.
But still. It got me thinking about non-asexuals using the word "asexual" as an insult—a pretty rare phenomena, but one that may gradually become more common as awareness of asexuality spreads. Obviously, it's not something we want to happen, but to some extent it's inevitable. Rather than getting upset about it, we should take advantage at least of the fact that people are now starting to mention asexuality, by listening to what they say and learning what they think it means, and why they think it's bad.
With this particular example, the closest approximation I can come up with for what this person thinks asexuality is, is some form of emasculation, possibly an intersex condition or the state of being a eunuch, or maybe just impotence in general. Maybe she thought she was coining a term herself, or maybe she's heard of asexuality before and is just severely misguided about its definition. Either way, asexuality here is conflated with gender. Why?
Well, apparently for men, gender identity is closely connected with virility. Because if you're not interested in sex, guys, then you must be a woman. (Right, cause that makes so much sense… and WHY EXACTLY is it an insult to call a man woman-like anyway, hmmm???) There's something wrong with you, you're not fulfilling your proper societal role, which I guess is to be horny all the time. (Whereas women are supposed to be… what, exactly? She can't be implying that women are asexual, can she? Maybe they are supposed to be gossipy and shallow.)
Here we see a very definite sexual-normative prejudice as well as a distinct anti-homosexual bias. She may be too batty to make much of an impact, but that's basically the kind of attitude we're up against. Coming from someone more mainstream, it could very well hurt the community.
So I'm trying to think, now, of any other time I've heard "asexual" used as an insult. The only thing I can come up with is an episode of House from season four, during the survivor arc, wherein one of the contestants complains about Ridiculously Old Fraud's favor with House. I remember it because after it aired, M (obnoxiously) pointed out that "they bashed asexuals!" With a little help from the saved convo and ctrl + find, I was able to find the exact quote (the episode, btw, is "Guardian Angels"):
"Why does he get to be Bosley?"
"You want to be Bosley? Bosley's like the asexual messenger boy."
But other than that… I can't think of any other times I've heard "asexual" used as a pejorative. Of course I've heard people imply that it's bad, but not specifically use it as an insult. If any of you guys can think of any other times when you've heard it used that way, please do comment, because I'd love to get a better idea of why these people think it's insulting! Plus it's always amusing to see people try to make an insult out of a label we wear proudly. ;)
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5 thoughts on ""Asexual" as a Pejorative"
pretzelboy
Sex positive people have been using the word "asexual" as a pejorative for decades (not to say that this particular instance is by a sex-positive person, but that I think they're the ones who started it.) I think that this is one of the reasons I'm a bit more skeptical about sex-positivity than a lot of asexuals. Typically it isn't used explicitly as an insult, though. Rather the idea seems to be that since all people are sexual, assuming that someone person/group is asexual is denying a fundamental part of their humanity. It could be said that making this assumption about sexual people is denying an important part of their humanity, but the way in which such comments are made suggest this isn't what is being said. (For example, claims about how people in the 19th century thought were asexual, how people think the elderly are asexual, how people think people with disabilities are asexual, etc.) It pretty much always carries the idea that being asexual is itself a bad thing. I think that it is this, making the term "asexual" derive a pejorative connotation, that serves as the basis for using "asexual" as an insult. Not a lot of specific examples come to mind of explicitly using "asexual" itself as an insult. I came across this blogpost a while back, which comes close to using asexual as an equivalent to stupid. (Too stupid to interpret things as sexual innuendos that obviously aren't.)
Ily
I've heard it a few times, and noticed that, like "gay" as a pejorative, it rarely makes sense. Since the stereotype is that people lose their sex drives as they get older, it would make more cultural sense to call McCain asexual, although it would, of course, be equally inaccurate. In writing, I remember hearing about an "asexual couch" and also "asexual sweatpants", implying that both these items were ugly. But if someone ever said something like that in my actual presence, I'm all ready with a response: "So, the couch doesn't experience sexual attraction?"
The Gray Lady
Pretzelboy – Yeah, you're right. I don't know why it slipped my mind that the sex-positive crowd uses it as a pejorative word, since that's like the most basic example out there. I blame my sinus headaches. XP I think it's more than just the sex-positive people who do this, though. It seems to be the majority of people, sex-positive or not, think of asexuals as somehow not human.
Ily – LOL, I would sure HOPE that couches and sweatpants are asexual! It'd be a little silly, wouldn't it, for them to have a sexual orientation–not to mention creepy!
But on a more serious note, I don't get the whole asexual = ugly idea. By general consensus, I'm not ugly. Matter of fact, I've had a couple of different artists tell me they want to paint me. Sounds like they're confusing a lack of sex appeal with asexuality, which is pretty dumb, but I guess we can't really blame them too much.
I was just recently re-reading the 1977 paper on asexuality by Myra Johnson. If you get a chance to read it, (especially the opening paragraph) speaks directly to this issue, (but I don't feel like typing it all out.)
theimpossiblek
That reminds me of a response I got from a former co-worker when I "outed" myself as asexual. I could tell he didn't understand what I meant when he said, "Oh, yeah. My friend complained he was asexual- but that's just cuz he couldn't get any." Umm, no… I guess that confused definition fits with the asexual = ugly assumption. If anything, doesn't this just emphasize how little most people really knows about sex, despite being so sex-obsessed?