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6 tips to delivering a power pitch from a newsroom veteran
A former executive editor on how to get the coverage you want.
By Maria De Varenne
After nearly 35 years in journalism, I recently retired as the executive editor of a major Southeast daily and made the switch to public relations. I saw newsrooms change dramatically during my time in the business. I'm now among the PR professionals trying to respond to the new media landscape, a difficult one.
Journalists get hundreds of emails, messages, story ideas and news tips each week from community members, editors and colleagues, as well as PR pros. Most have multiple duties each day in short-staffed, hectic newsrooms – from crafting a story and creating a companion video to posting on social media and monitoring digital audiences. They want to tell compelling stories of interest and importance and welcome great ideas, yet they're often inundated with run-of-the mill pitches.
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You can elevate your strong stories above the mundane and get them told. But first, believe in the value of your ideas and the important part you play in the new media world. You can give today's journalists what they need. You just have to deliver it the right way and with confidence.
Know the result you want. Before you reach out to a journalist, make sure you can articulate in a sentence or two from the start what the story is and why would it be interesting to a reporter and the media company's audience. What is the compelling message you want to share to captivate someone's attention? What is the appeal of the story or the purpose of the event? Is it a topical issue of importance? How is it unique? How does it affect people in the community or in the business trade group?
Read more, listen more, watch more. From print and digital to radio and broadcast. What types of stories does a particular trade publication, digital newsletter or reporter publish? Existing broad media lists, Muck Rack and media company staff directories are a good start to curate a pitch list. But it is imperative to create finetuned lists of the right beat reporters, editors, producers and digital specialists, as well as personalizing your message, so you don't waste a journalist's time and hurt your credibility.
Keep it simple and direct. Summarize and explain, especially complex material, in easy-to-understand language. Write clearly, conversationally and get to the point. Give examples of outcomes. If you can't explain the story angle in a 30-second conversation with a friend or colleague, you don't understand it well enough to pitch it to a journalist who then must turn around and sell it to editors.
Be helpful. Provide video, photos, graphics, social media links, data points and/or research papers to make it easier for a busy reporter or digital/social media producer to create content. Provide sources – not just a spokesperson or a CEO, but a real person with first-hand experience who can make a story more compelling. Factcheck names, dates, and numbers. And if you don't know the answer to a reporter's question, just say you don't know but will find the information. Then get back to the journalist quickly with the answer.
Timing can be everything. Be aware of trends, events and breaking news that journalists are covering in real time. Those can make your story pitch more relevant and helpful to a reporter. Conversely, those also can push your story off the priority list depending on the news cycle. Give a reporter as much advance notice as possible if you have an event or big milestone news coming up. Most good journalists plan ahead to set up interviews, gather background for their pieces and then get into the production schedule. That takes time, which is a luxury in a busy, competitive newsroom.
Be kind. Nurture relationships with emerging media, new outlets and legacy journalists. For reporters you pitch to regularly, follow them on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. They likely look at those platforms more often than they read email. Reach out with a kudos or mention previous stories to acknowledge that you are following their work. Ask what else they are working on. For example, higher education is a broad beat – is the reporter in the next six months focused on the mental health of students, administrative budgets or new scientific research? Ask how you can be a resource to help. And if you are in the city where the journalist works, ask for 30 minutes to have coffee or a soda together to get to know the reporter more as a person – journalists are people too.
Former executive editor of The Tennessean, Maria De Varenne is a senior partner within FINN Partners' Southeast Division.
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AN UPDATE ON WEBSITE ISSUES
Football League Chairman Greg Clarke apologises...
www.gillinghamfootballclub.comAt Gillingham FC we are acutely aware that many of our supporters, and indeed our own media staff, are experiencing tremendous difficulties accessing and navigating around the club's official website
As I'm sure you are aware, Gillingham Football Club are part of the Football League Interactive group and as such our website is run and maintained by the Football League.
Following the re-launch of the website this summer we have experienced major issues with the site and its reliability, problems which are unfortunately beyond our control as explained in the letter below from Football League Chairman Greg Clarke
"I am writing to you on the subject of FLi's new Club Website platform, which was launched in conjunction with our new technical partner, SapientNitro, at the start of this season.
Since early August I have spoken to many of you on this subject both at games and over the phone. To be frank, the new platform has not met our expectations and has fallen far short of the levels of reliability and service that our clubs have every right to expect.
Rollouts of new technology platforms are usually problematic but that is no excuse, as our clubs have enough to deal with in such adverse economic circumstances. It is simply unacceptable.
When I became Chairman of The Football League I made it very clear that I took accountability for the performance of our central organisation.
The performance of our new FLi platform has fallen well short of the high standards I hold our central organisation to and that you have every right to expect. For this failure I take accountability and apologise.
The Football League
Gillingham Football Club would like to reassure our supporters that we are doing everything we can to improve our website service and apologise for the unacceptable problems caused during the recent re-launch.
We would also like to advise supporters having problems with the new site that the best internet browser to view the site in is Mozilla Firefox, which can be downloaded for free from the following linkhttp://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

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The European Commission has approved EUR 377 million of French and German support to the development of the Airbus X6 heavy helicopter.
Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: "The French and German support will stimulate considerable private investment in this project. The support will help bring a new generation of innovative heavy helicopters to the market, without causing undue distortions of competition." Both France and Germany will provide public support for the development of Airbus' X6 helicopter project. The support will amount to a total of EUR 377 million in repayable advances granted over a period of eight years (EUR 330 million by France and EUR 47.25 million by Germany). For the X6 helicopter project, Airbus will undertake significant research, development and innovation to develop a high-technology civil heavy duty helicopter. It aims to simplify access to platforms in the high seas, and also facilitate search and rescue, as well as humanitarian missions. The project is fully in line with the objectives set by the Europe 2020 flagship initiative for an Innovation Union.


The peristyle garden was the visual nexus of the house, a link between the public and private. It ended the public fauces-atrium—tablinium axis and marked the beginning of the private areas, surrounded as it was by dining and reception rooms open to the master's guests.
But even in these private zones used visual displays to emphasize the standing of the owner. For diners in the summertriclinium, the focal point of the view was the ancestral shrine, framed once again by columns. By highlighting the shrine in this way, the master of the house was reminding his guests of his long and illustrious pedigree. For even friends needed reminding of their place within the social hierarchy.
These features, usually found in temples or public basilicas were deliberately placed at key points on the visual axis. Casual passersby in the street, as well as clients waiting in the atrium would be left in no doubt as to the importance of the owner.
Features commonly found in public architecture such as temples and public basilicas were used throughout the house to mark entrances and key views. Through these features placement, both clients and passers—by, expressing to the public the importance of the owner, could see them.
- Dedicated to the worship of the lares and paintings in fourth style.
- The large columns in the peristyle at the House of Menander are representative of the Doric style of architecture.
room) in which a mosaic depicts sea creatures.
The decor of the house was of superior execution. The main areas of the house were decorated in the latest, fourth style frescos. The themes of this decoration varied across the house.
In the atrium were scenes from the Nile while in the wing to the east, various episodes from the Trojan War were portrayed. In the garden rooms, the theme was poetical and theatrical, in keeping with the function of entertaining. One of the poets portrayed, Menander, was used to name the house by its modern excavators.
Main areas of the house decorated in the latest, fourth style frescos.
Garden Rooms — Poetic and theatrical theme.
- The house of Menander gained its modern name from the fresco of ancient Greek Dramatist Menander, found in a niche in the Peristyle. The bold yellow and red colouring of the painting indicates the owner's wealth.
- The house began life in the third century BC as a basic atrium house. In the second century BC, the back horzus or garden was replaced by a newly fashionable Hellenized feature, the central peristyle.
- By the first century AD, the house was at its peak. A seal in the servant's quarters suggests it was owned by Quintus Poppaeus, a relative of the Empress Poppaea. A bath house was added, as well as an entertainment suite and a stable yard and servant's quarters to the south east of the house.
- At the time of the eruption of 79AD, the house was being redecorated. Its valuable silverware was packed away and only a skeleton staff was in residence to oversee the work.
This was because by 79AD, space around the forum, the center of business in Pompeii was at a premium. This prompted a movement outwards towards the city limits where space was readily available. The owner of the House of Menander in all probability maximized on this movement of trade. His house already dominated its insula spatially. It is likely he also rented out local properties that he had acquired to his clients.
The location of the house also emphasizes the importance of business to the owner. Fullers, carpenters and weavers surrounded the area. Despite being on the periphery of town, well away from the forum, the area was a hive of industry and trade.


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Biden to launch plan to fight meatpacking giants on inflation
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Meat prices have been the biggest contributor to grocery inflation.
Bloomberg | Jan 03, 2022
By Mike Dorning
President Joe Biden will announce plans Monday to combat the market power of the giant conglomerates that dominate meat and poultry processing, ratcheting up a months-long campaign that has blamed anti-competitive practices in the industry for contributing to surging food inflation.
Biden will join Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Attorney General Merrick Garland to meet virtually with ranchers and farmers to hear complaints about consolidation in the industry, while a newly launched portal will allow them to report unfair trade practices by meatpackers. The White House will also highlight initiatives it is taking to counter meatpackers' economic power, including $1 billion in federal aid to assist expansion of independent processors and new competition regulations under consideration.
The latest announcement focuses fresh attention on Biden's fight with the meat industry and helps cast him as a president willing to take on powerful business interests over consumer prices. Many Democrats are concerned that months of negotiations over Biden's economic plan have distanced him too much from the most pressing kitchen-table concerns facing Americans.
Inflation has swiftly moved to the top of public concerns as the annual rise in consumer prices hit its highest level in 40 years. Meat prices, which in November were up 16% from a year earlier, have been the biggest contributor to grocery inflation. Meatpacking industry representatives have blamed soaring prices on labor shortages, rising fuel prices and supply-chain constraints.
Biden singled out the meat and poultry processing industries for scrutiny in a July executive order on promoting competition across the economy. His top economic adviser later criticized meatpackers for "pandemic profiteering." The U.S. Agriculture Department also announced plans in June to consider three new sets of regulations on unfair trade practices in livestock and poultry markets, with officials anticipating the proposal of new rules early this year.
The president has placed critics of corporate consolidation in key positions across his administration, including Lina Khan as chair of the Federal Trade Commission and Jonathan Kanter as assistant attorney general for antitrust.
Four large meatpacking companies control more than 80% of U.S. beef processing capacity, with similar levels of concentration in pork and poultry processing.
A fact sheet the White House distributed to reporters asserts that as a result most livestock producers "now have little or no choice of buyer for their product and little leverage to negotiate." Tyson Foods Inc. reported record profits on its beef processing in quarterly earnings released in November.
The aid for independent meat and poultry processors, which will come from Covid relief funds, includes $375 million for gap financing grants and $100 million for guarantees of loans made through private banks, according to the fact sheet.
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Q: Longtable question I made this code but the words from the first column are superimposed:
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\setlength\tabcolsep{2.4pt}
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    \toprule
    \multicolumn{1}{p{3.93em}}{Dataset} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{p{6.645em}}{SLAC} & MEME  & FEL   & \multicolumn{1}{p{6.215em}}{FUBAR} \\
    \midrule
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\cmidrule{2-6}          & sites &       & 1, 6, 13, 85, 99, 149, 154, 200 & 154, 218 &  \\
    \midrule
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{\multirow{2}[4]{*}{\begin{sideways}Strisores\_Aequorlitornithes\_40 \end{sideways}}} & number of PSS & 1     & \multicolumn{1}{c}{6} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{8} & 0 \\
\cmidrule{2-6}          & sites & 276   & 153, 154, 186, 238, 269, 276 & 49, 61, 123, 225, 238, 266, 268, 276 &  \\
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    \midrule
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But I'm new to LaTeX and I wanted to make my table look like this other one I have in my docuemnt, but I don't know how. Can someone help me?
\small
\begin{xltabular}{\textwidth}{c l c X X c}
    \toprule
    \thead{Dataset} &  & \thead{SLAC} & \thead{MEME}  & \thead{FEL}   & \thead{FUBAR} \\
    \midrule
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\cmidrule{2-6}          & sites &       & 1, 6, 13, 85, 99, 149, 154, 200 & 154, 218 &  \\
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    \midrule
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\cmidrule{2-6}          & sites & 276   & 153, 154, 186, 238, 269, 276 & 49, 61, 123, 225, 238, 266, 268, 276 &  \\
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    \midrule
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A: Since you would need quite a lot of empty lines (=wasted space) in order to avoid the overlap of the rotated text, I also included an alternative layout:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{xltabular}
\usepackage{makecell}

\begin{document}
{
\small
\setlength\tabcolsep{2.4pt}
\begin{longtable}{cp{6.645em}cp{7.215em}p{6em}c}
    \toprule
    \multicolumn{1}{p{3.93em}}{Dataset} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{p{6.645em}}{SLAC} & MEME  & FEL   & \multicolumn{1}{p{6.215em}}{FUBAR} \\
    \midrule
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{\multirow{2}[4]{*}{\rotatebox{90}{Basal\_40}}} & number of PSS & 0     & \multicolumn{1}{c}{8} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{2} & 0 \\
\cmidrule{2-6}          & sites &       & 1, 6, 13, 85, 99, 149, 154, 200 & 154, 218 &  \\
    \midrule
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{\multirow{10}[4]{*}{\rotatebox{90}{Strisores\_Aequorlitornithes\_40}}} & number of PSS & 1     & \multicolumn{1}{c}{6} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{8} & 0 \\
\cmidrule{2-6}          & sites & 276   & 153, 154, 186, 238, 269, 276 & 49, 61, 123, 225, 238, 266, 268, 276 &  \\
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    \midrule
  \label{table:Supplemental Table 9}%
\end{longtable}%
}

\begin{xltabular}{\textwidth}{l c X X c}
\caption{caption} \label{table:Supplemental Table 9}\\
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      & \thead{SLAC} & \thead{MEME}  & \thead{FEL}   & \thead{FUBAR} \\
    \midrule
    \multicolumn{5}{@{}l}{Dataset: Basal\_40}\\
       number of PSS & 0                               & \multicolumn{1}{c}{8}                & \multicolumn{1}{c}{2} & 0 \\
       sites &       & 1, 6, 13, 85, 99, 149, 154, 200 & 154, 218                             &  \\
    \midrule
    \multicolumn{5}{@{}l}{Dataset: Strisores\_Aequorlitornithes\_40}\\
      number of PSS & 1                                & \multicolumn{1}{c}{6}                & \multicolumn{1}{c}{8} & 0 \\
      sites & 276   & 153, 154, 186, 238, 269, 276     & 49, 61, 123, 225, 238, 266, 268, 276 &  \\
    \bottomrule
\end{xltabular}%

\end{document}

Update in response to additional requirements mentioned in the comments:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{xltabular}
\usepackage{makecell}

\begin{document}
{
\small
\begin{xltabular}{\textwidth}{c l c X X c}
    \toprule
    \thead{Dataset} & \thead{SLAC} & \thead{MEME}  & \thead{FEL}   & \thead{FUBAR} \\
    \midrule
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{\multirow{4}{*}{\rotatebox{90}{Basal\_40}}} & number of PSS & 0     & \multicolumn{1}{c}{8} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{2} & 0 \\
\cmidrule{2-6}          & sites &       & 1, 6, 13, 85, 99, 149, 154, 200 & 154, 218 &  \\
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    \midrule
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\end{xltabular}%
}

\end{document}

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Q: How to clear log for Log4j 2.3 daily rolling file appender I am currently using log4j2 to write logs for my web application. I have configured a rolling file appender to roll over at midnight each night.
My log4j2.xml is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="WARN">
    <Appenders>
        <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
            <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %c{36} - %msg%n"/>
        </Console>
        <RollingFile
            name="ApplicationLog"
            fileName="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/application.log"
            filePattern="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/application %d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log">
              <PatternLayout>
                  <Pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %c{36} %l: %msg%n</Pattern>
              </PatternLayout>
              <Policies>
                  <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1" modulate="true"/>
              </Policies>
              <DefaultRolloverStrategy/>
        </RollingFile>
    </Appenders>
    <Loggers>
        <Logger name="my.package" level="info" additivity="false">
            <AppenderRef ref="ApplicationLog"/>
        </Logger>
        <Logger name="my.test.package" level="debug" additivity="false">
            <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
        </Logger>
        <Root level="error">
            <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
        </Root>
    </Loggers>
</Configuration>

Currently, this writes to a log called application.log, then at midnight the current application.log file is copied to application yyyy-MM-dd.log (the date in the file name is replaced properly), and logging continues on the next day in application.log.
What I would like to happen is for application.log to be cleared before starting the new day. At the moment, this isn't happening, and as a result my log sizes are ever-increasing. My day 1 log contains all logging from day 1, but my day 2 log contains logging from day 1 and day 2, and so on.
How can I reset the application.log file once the rollover occurs? According to the Log4j 2.x documentation, a new application.log file should be created, rather than the current file being continued, but this is not the behaviour I'm experiencing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Adam
EDIT: Here is the configuration trace requested by rajuGT below. I can't see anything going wrong here...
2015-09-23 08:06:29,931 DEBUG Starting configuration XmlConfiguration[location=C:\apache-tomcat-8.0.23\webapps\myApp\WEB-INF\classes\log4j2.xml]
2015-09-23 08:06:29,931 DEBUG PluginManager 'Core' found 69 plugins
2015-09-23 08:06:29,932 DEBUG PluginManager 'Level' found 0 plugins
2015-09-23 08:06:29,934 DEBUG PluginManager 'Lookup' found 10 plugins
2015-09-23 08:06:29,939 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=layout, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:29,944 DEBUG Found builder factory method [newBuilder]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout$Builder org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout.newBuilder().
2015-09-23 08:06:29,962 DEBUG TypeConverterRegistry initializing.
2015-09-23 08:06:29,963 DEBUG PluginManager 'TypeConverter' found 21 plugins
2015-09-23 08:06:29,979 DEBUG Calling build() on class class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout$Builder for element PatternLayout with params(name="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %c{36} - %msg%n", Configuration(C:\apache-tomcat-8.0.23\webapps\myApp\WEB-INF\classes\log4j2.xml), null, name="null", name="null", name="null", name="null", name="null")
2015-09-23 08:06:29,980 DEBUG PluginManager 'Converter' found 33 plugins
2015-09-23 08:06:29,981 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=layout] OK from builder factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:29,981 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=appender, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.ConsoleAppender]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:29,984 INFO Log4j appears to be running in a Servlet environment, but there's no log4j-web module available. If you want better web container support, please add the log4j-web JAR to your web archive or server lib directory.
2015-09-23 08:06:29,985 DEBUG PluginManager 'Converter' found 33 plugins
2015-09-23 08:06:29,987 DEBUG Jansi is not installed, cannot find org.fusesource.jansi.WindowsAnsiOutputStream
2015-09-23 08:06:29,987 DEBUG Found builder factory method [newBuilder]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.ConsoleAppender$Builder org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.ConsoleAppender.newBuilder().
2015-09-23 08:06:29,994 DEBUG No PluginVisitorStrategy found on annotation [interface org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.validation.constraints.Required]. Ignoring.
2015-09-23 08:06:29,994 DEBUG Encountered type [org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout] which can only be checked for null.
2015-09-23 08:06:29,998 DEBUG No PluginVisitorStrategy found on annotation [interface org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.validation.constraints.Required]. Ignoring.
2015-09-23 08:06:29,998 DEBUG Encountered type [org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.ConsoleAppender$Target] which can only be checked for null.
2015-09-23 08:06:29,999 DEBUG No PluginVisitorStrategy found on annotation [interface org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.validation.constraints.Required]. Ignoring.
2015-09-23 08:06:29,999 DEBUG Calling build() on class class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.ConsoleAppender$Builder for element Console with params(PatternLayout(%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %c{36} - %msg%n), null, name="SYSTEM_OUT", name="Console", name="null", name="null")
2015-09-23 08:06:30,000 DEBUG Jansi is not installed, cannot find org.fusesource.jansi.WindowsAnsiOutputStream
2015-09-23 08:06:30,001 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=appender] OK from builder factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,001 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=layout, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,002 DEBUG Found builder factory method [newBuilder]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout$Builder org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout.newBuilder().
2015-09-23 08:06:30,003 DEBUG Calling build() on class class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout$Builder for element PatternLayout with params(name="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %c{36} %l: %msg%n", Configuration(C:\apache-tomcat-8.0.23\webapps\myApp\WEB-INF\classes\log4j2.xml), null, name="null", name="null", name="null", name="null", name="null")
2015-09-23 08:06:30,004 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=layout] OK from builder factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,004 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,009 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy. Going to try finding a factory method instead.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,009 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy]. Searching for factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,010 DEBUG Found factory method [createPolicy]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy.createPolicy(java.lang.String,java.lang.String).
2015-09-23 08:06:30,016 DEBUG Calling createPolicy on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy for element TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy with params(name="1", name="true")
2015-09-23 08:06:30,018 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy] OK from factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,018 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=Policies, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.CompositeTriggeringPolicy]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,019 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.CompositeTriggeringPolicy. Going to try finding a factory method instead.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,019 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=Policies, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.CompositeTriggeringPolicy]. Searching for factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,019 DEBUG Found factory method [createPolicy]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.CompositeTriggeringPolicy org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.CompositeTriggeringPolicy.createPolicy(org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.TriggeringPolicy[]).
2015-09-23 08:06:30,020 DEBUG Calling createPolicy on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.CompositeTriggeringPolicy for element Policies with params(={TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy})
2015-09-23 08:06:30,020 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=Policies] OK from factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,021 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=DefaultRolloverStrategy, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.DefaultRolloverStrategy]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,023 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.DefaultRolloverStrategy. Going to try finding a factory method instead.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,023 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=DefaultRolloverStrategy, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.DefaultRolloverStrategy]. Searching for factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,024 DEBUG Found factory method [createStrategy]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.DefaultRolloverStrategy org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.DefaultRolloverStrategy.createStrategy(java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configuration).
2015-09-23 08:06:30,024 DEBUG Calling createStrategy on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.DefaultRolloverStrategy for element DefaultRolloverStrategy with params(name="null", name="null", name="null", name="null", Configuration(C:\apache-tomcat-8.0.23\webapps\myApp\WEB-INF\classes\log4j2.xml))
2015-09-23 08:06:30,025 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=DefaultRolloverStrategy] OK from factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,025 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=appender, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,026 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender. Going to try finding a factory method instead.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,026 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=appender, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender]. Searching for factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,026 DEBUG Found factory method [createAppender]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender.createAppender(java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.TriggeringPolicy,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RolloverStrategy,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Layout,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Filter,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configuration).
2015-09-23 08:06:30,029 DEBUG Calling createAppender on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender for element RollingFile with params(name="C:\apache-tomcat-8.0.23/logs/application.log", name="C:\apache-tomcat-8.0.23/logs/application %d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log", name="null", name="ApplicationLog", name="null", name="null", name="null", Policies(CompositeTriggeringPolicy{TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy}), DefaultRolloverStrategy(DefaultRolloverStrategy(min=1, max=7)), PatternLayout(%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %c{36} %l: %msg%n), null, name="null", name="null", name="null", Configuration(C:\apache-tomcat-8.0.23\webapps\myApp\WEB-INF\classes\log4j2.xml))
2015-09-23 08:06:30,041 DEBUG Starting RollingFileManager C:\apache-tomcat-8.0.23/logs/application.log
2015-09-23 08:06:30,044 DEBUG PluginManager 'FileConverter' found 2 plugins
2015-09-23 08:06:30,049 TRACE PatternProcessor.getNextTime returning 2015/09/24-00:00:00.000, nextFileTime=2015/09/23-00:00:00.000, prevFileTime=1970/01/01-10:00:00.000, current=2015/09/23-08:06:30.048, freq=DAILY
2015-09-23 08:06:30,049 TRACE PatternProcessor.getNextTime returning 2015/09/24-00:00:00.000, nextFileTime=2015/09/23-00:00:00.000, prevFileTime=2015/09/23-00:00:00.000, current=2015/09/23-08:06:30.049, freq=DAILY
2015-09-23 08:06:30,050 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=appender] OK from factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,050 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=appenders, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppendersPlugin]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,051 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppendersPlugin. Going to try finding a factory method instead.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,051 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=appenders, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppendersPlugin]. Searching for factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,051 DEBUG Found factory method [createAppenders]: public static java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppendersPlugin.createAppenders(org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Appender[]).
2015-09-23 08:06:30,052 DEBUG Calling createAppenders on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppendersPlugin for element Appenders with params(={Console, ApplicationLog})
2015-09-23 08:06:30,052 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=appenders] OK from factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,052 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=AppenderRef, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,053 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef. Going to try finding a factory method instead.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,053 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=AppenderRef, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef]. Searching for factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,053 DEBUG Found factory method [createAppenderRef]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef.createAppenderRef(java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.Level,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Filter).
2015-09-23 08:06:30,054 DEBUG Calling createAppenderRef on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef for element AppenderRef with params(name="ApplicationLog", name="null", null)
2015-09-23 08:06:30,054 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=AppenderRef] OK from factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,055 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=logger, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,055 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig. Going to try finding a factory method instead.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,056 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=logger, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig]. Searching for factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,056 DEBUG Found factory method [createLogger]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig.createLogger(java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.Level,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef[],org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Property[],org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configuration,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Filter).
2015-09-23 08:06:30,057 DEBUG Calling createLogger on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig for element Logger with params(name="false", name="INFO", name="my.package", name="null", ={ApplicationLog}, ={}, Configuration(C:\apache-tomcat-8.0.23\webapps\myApp\WEB-INF\classes\log4j2.xml), null)
2015-09-23 08:06:30,059 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=logger] OK from factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,059 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=AppenderRef, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,059 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef. Going to try finding a factory method instead.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,060 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=AppenderRef, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef]. Searching for factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,060 DEBUG Found factory method [createAppenderRef]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef.createAppenderRef(java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.Level,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Filter).
2015-09-23 08:06:30,061 DEBUG Calling createAppenderRef on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef for element AppenderRef with params(name="Console", name="null", null)
2015-09-23 08:06:30,061 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=AppenderRef] OK from factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,061 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=logger, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,061 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig. Going to try finding a factory method instead.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,062 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=logger, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig]. Searching for factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,062 DEBUG Found factory method [createLogger]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig.createLogger(java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.Level,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef[],org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Property[],org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configuration,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Filter).
2015-09-23 08:06:30,064 DEBUG Calling createLogger on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig for element Logger with params(name="false", name="DEBUG", name="my.test.package", name="null", ={Console}, ={}, Configuration(C:\apache-tomcat-8.0.23\webapps\myApp\WEB-INF\classes\log4j2.xml), null)
2015-09-23 08:06:30,064 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=logger] OK from factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,065 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=AppenderRef, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,065 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef. Going to try finding a factory method instead.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,065 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=AppenderRef, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef]. Searching for factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,066 DEBUG Found factory method [createAppenderRef]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef.createAppenderRef(java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.Level,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Filter).
2015-09-23 08:06:30,066 DEBUG Calling createAppenderRef on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef for element AppenderRef with params(name="Console", name="null", null)
2015-09-23 08:06:30,066 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=AppenderRef] OK from factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,067 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=root, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig$RootLogger]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,067 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig$RootLogger. Going to try finding a factory method instead.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,067 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=root, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig$RootLogger]. Searching for factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,068 DEBUG Found factory method [createLogger]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig$RootLogger.createLogger(java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.Level,java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef[],org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Property[],org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configuration,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Filter).
2015-09-23 08:06:30,068 DEBUG Calling createLogger on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig$RootLogger for element Root with params(name="null", name="ERROR", name="null", ={Console}, ={}, Configuration(C:\apache-tomcat-8.0.23\webapps\myApp\WEB-INF\classes\log4j2.xml), null)
2015-09-23 08:06:30,069 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=root] OK from factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,069 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=loggers, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggersPlugin]. Searching for builder factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,071 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggersPlugin. Going to try finding a factory method instead.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,071 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=loggers, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggersPlugin]. Searching for factory method...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,071 DEBUG Found factory method [createLoggers]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Loggers org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggersPlugin.createLoggers(org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig[]).
2015-09-23 08:06:30,072 DEBUG Calling createLoggers on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggersPlugin for element Loggers with params(={my.package, my.test.package, root})
2015-09-23 08:06:30,072 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=loggers] OK from factory method.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,074 DEBUG Started configuration XmlConfiguration[location=C:\apache-tomcat-8.0.23\webapps\myApp\WEB-INF\classes\log4j2.xml] OK.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,075 TRACE Stopping org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.DefaultConfiguration@43db0439...
2015-09-23 08:06:30,075 TRACE AbstractConfiguration stopped 0 AsyncLoggerConfigs.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,075 TRACE AbstractConfiguration stopped 0 AsyncAppenders.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,075 TRACE AbstractConfiguration stopped 1 Appenders.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,076 TRACE AbstractConfiguration stopped 0 Loggers.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,076 DEBUG Stopped org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.DefaultConfiguration@43db0439 OK
2015-09-23 08:06:30,083 DEBUG Registering MBean org.apache.logging.log4j2:type=672866478
2015-09-23 08:06:30,087 DEBUG Registering MBean org.apache.logging.log4j2:type=672866478,component=StatusLogger
2015-09-23 08:06:30,089 DEBUG Registering MBean org.apache.logging.log4j2:type=672866478,component=ContextSelector
2015-09-23 08:06:30,092 DEBUG Registering MBean org.apache.logging.log4j2:type=672866478,component=Loggers,name=
2015-09-23 08:06:30,093 DEBUG Registering MBean org.apache.logging.log4j2:type=672866478,component=Loggers,name=my.package
2015-09-23 08:06:30,093 DEBUG Registering MBean org.apache.logging.log4j2:type=672866478,component=Loggers,name=my.test.package
2015-09-23 08:06:30,095 DEBUG Registering MBean org.apache.logging.log4j2:type=672866478,component=Appenders,name=Console
2015-09-23 08:06:30,096 DEBUG Registering MBean org.apache.logging.log4j2:type=672866478,component=Appenders,name=ApplicationLog
2015-09-23 08:06:30,096 DEBUG Reconfiguration complete for context[name=672866478] at null (org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext@655b289) with optional ClassLoader: null
2015-09-23 08:06:30,097 DEBUG Shutdown hook enabled. Registering a new one.
2015-09-23 08:06:30,100 DEBUG LoggerContext[name=672866478, org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext@655b289] started OK.

A: I figured this one out by debugging through the source code as my logs were supposed to roll over.
Apparently, there is an undocumented attribute that can be placed in the RollingFile element called "append", which, when set to false, will write the current log file from the beginning. Unfortunately, the default value for this attribute is true, which causes the current log file to be appended rather than restarted.
So my final log4j2.xml looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="WARN">
    <Appenders>
        <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
            <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %c{36} - %msg%n"/>
        </Console>
        <RollingFile
            name="ApplicationLog"
            fileName="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/application.log"
            filePattern="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/application %d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log"
            append="false">
              <PatternLayout>
                  <Pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %c{36} %l: %msg%n</Pattern>
              </PatternLayout>
              <Policies>
                  <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1" modulate="true"/>
              </Policies>
              <DefaultRolloverStrategy/>
        </RollingFile>
    </Appenders>
    <Loggers>
        <Logger name="my.package" level="info" additivity="false">
            <AppenderRef ref="ApplicationLog"/>
        </Logger>
        <Logger name="my.test.package" level="debug" additivity="false">
            <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
        </Logger>
        <Root level="error">
            <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
        </Root>
    </Loggers>
</Configuration>

Hopefully this helps someone else figure out this problem in less than the 3 days that it took me.
EDIT: So it turns out that this attribute is documented here (the first parameter in the table), but it still doesn't make sense to me why appending is the default behaviour. Why would I want my file size to be forever increasing!? Anyway, not the point, just ranting!
Thanks,
Adam

A: Looks like the same issue you are facing.
Check the folder permissions for the log folder and give write permission to it.
chmod 666 logs


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"Love is life, and Life is love."
—His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917?-2008) San Francisco, 1959 – first world teaching tour
I'm in love with life. I'm in love with people and with nature, with the world and its creatures, with the planet, and the universe. I'm in love with space and time, and with the "womb" of eternal & infinite Love within which this universe of space and time arises, is suspended & submerged. I'm in love with goodness & beauty, with the goodness & beauty of nature, the natural goodness & beauty of human beings, and with the goodness & beauty that we humans create in the world from within ourselves. I'm in love with creativity & the arts. I'm in love with consciousness and conscious evolution, with wisdom, knowledge, learning and understanding. I'm in love with local, regional, and planetary cultures and progressive, life-enhancing, life-nurturing countercultures. I'm in love with the creative imagination and what it manifests.
I'm in love with so much…that when I think of "romantic love" as it applies specifically to the mutual relationship between myself and a woman with whom I have shared, or shall share, a romantic domestic life-partnership, I'm not often inclined to "scope-down" the vision of considerations to that of daily dyadic romantic love-life only, compared to that relationship's own larger nature in the cosmic context of its true existence and identity….
I have enjoyed a very rich romantic love-life, including, above all, an intensely fulfilling ideal love-marriage-&-best-friends life-partnership that lasted many years, ending only in my young beloved's too-early death. But I also have enjoyed some other, less-complete-but-also-wonderful relationships as well, even including some wonderful one-day or one-night-only romantic encounters that were truly beautiful & lastingly meaningful.
And I have also experienced long and short periods when I enjoyed living alone either by choice or circumstance during which I was not involved in any romantic partnership, but was so in love with life itself that I barely missed having a romantic partner. On the other hand, I have also experienced being so overwhelmed by the desire to share the beauty and overflowing joy of my solitary life with a suitable partner, that I felt as if I would explode or expire. Seeing a gorgeous, heavenly beautiful sunrise while alone in the mountains and automatically half-turning to share my overwhelmed delight & appreciation with a best-friend/sweetheart companion next to me, and suddenly remembering I was alone….
I love my own company, and have always required a certain amount of periodic solitude in order to return to feeling wholly sane after too many days among other people. But my decades of blissfully married romance constantly re-confirmed that, for me, even the most deliciously fulfilling silent solitude is even richer when shared with a mutually suitable romantic life-partner.
When not in a relationship, I tend to experience periodic mild and strong crushes, crushes on women who are not always necessarily "celebrities", but typically are women I don't know well. If I already know a woman fairly well, such a crush is really more of a fond friendship or acquaintance, but I guess a somewhat "romantically-wishful" kind of mostly-one-sided fond friendship or acquaintance is precisely a kind of crush… Crushes certainly have their weird delights at times, but they fade completely in comparison to actually experiencing strongly mutual all-round love in a daily relationship of a deeply romantic and companionable sort.
While less-than-total relationships also have their delightful aspects, I'm utterly spoiled by my own history of enjoying a many-years-long married partnership that was as richly full and holistic as possible. So at this point in my life, I'm just not interested in partial romances (I never was, really, except as a poor substitute for, or stepping-stone toward, completely full romantic partnership). I realize that such partial passages are sometimes a necessary preliminary stage, however temporary, toward a much more complete, fully-stable partnership. But other than the function they serve as sometimes-necessary developmental bridges, or stop-gaps, I'm not really interested in partial, conditional romantic relationships (or in dating, by or for itself). Yes, they also can be a lot of fun, of course, and deeply meaningful within the limits of their conditionality. But I'm interested in such partial things only as they may occur in the form of contextual steps in discovering who I will be mutually, ideally suited to be with in life as lasting, all-round equal partners.
I'm not interested in undertaking or undergoing any future "flings" or "love affairs," or in nursing any serious unrequited crushes. I'm not interested in being in a most-likely-temporary-only girlfriend/boyfriend relationship, or in pursuing casual or serious dating—except as any of these sorts of conditional-relatings may lead to a fulfilling life-partnership full of deep romance-&-best-friendship pairing. As they may continue to come along, I may be open to engaging in them, and enjoying them as much as possible, as means to an end, but what I really look forward to is once again being in a richly holistic sweetheart-&-best-friends life-partnership entered into as being of the "happily ever after" sort, whether formal marriage is legally registered at some point or not.
Romantic love has always been a deeply important part of my life. This goes right back to my very early childhood. I have a few memories of the time when I could already mostly understand what adults would say to me, but yet when I was still too young to speak intelligibly. As I have written elsewhere on this blog-site, even as far back as those early days I was aware of women's beauty, kindness, and attractiveness. I was aware of responsive feelings within myself which I later came to understand were the bases of both romantic affection and sexual & aesthetic attraction, appreciation and desire. Before I was old enough to begin attending school I was already experiencing strong crushes on girls and grown women, including some who were in my personal sphere,—friends of my parents, or neighbors living down the street, and others who were celebrities of movies, magazines, TV, etc.
As I have also previously written on this site, things only became richer—both more enjoyably intense and more difficultly complex—when I first started attending school (kindergarten). I had already learned to read and write by then, and one of the first things I remember writing was a love poem & love letter composed to win the affection of my kindergarten crush. It worked. And I never looked back.
Throughout my life I have experienced a great deal of such feelings and have experienced several significant relationships based on such feelings. Most of this has been untellably wonderful, some of it has been unspeakably awful. By and large, I would have to say all the pain of unrequited and failed love seems worth it when I remain duly cognizant of how wonderfully fulfilling true mutual well-suited love is. But all the same, I would certainly simply rather not experience any less-than-full & fully mutual, fully suitable kinds of love-feelings. But I am just not wired that way. I'm almost always crushing more or less strongly on one woman, or multiple women, unless and until I'm actually immersed in an actual active mutual love-relationship. Occasionally I'm simply a happy half-hermit half-boulevadier kind of single man, but most of the time I'm either deeply partnered in love or single-but-looking to be deeply partnered in love.
As I constantly reiterate, the most wonderful romantic relationship in my life was the loving partnership I shared for many years of exquisite happiness with my now late sweetheart-wife. Ours was truly a blessed love-&-partnership, impossible to begin to adequately or accurately summarize or convey in words. Just remarkably wonderful in every way. The only "complaint" I have about this romance, besides the fact that my partner passed away, is that it utterly spoiled me for anything significantly less than what shall be similarly richly full. Any amount and type of honest love is worthwhile, of course. And I shall always be grateful for whatever love is offered by life. But I'm quite spoiled now, knowing that real life on this Earth can daily exceed the wildest fantasies of even so goofily romantic a fool as I had always previously been & remain. Much as I had always implicitly trusted my romantic vision, I had also half-written it off as probably an impossible fantasy. Now, I'm afraid I shall always only be truly fulfilled again by and with The Real Thing, The Whole Thing. Meanwhile, I remain fully open to meeting most anyone on their own terms. No harm in meeting any goodhearted person at any time, you never know what may develop, love is magical in that way. Life is love, and Love is life.
"When people are truly in love, they experience far more than just a mutual need of each other's company and consolation. In their relations with each other they become different people: they are more than their everyday selves, more alive, more understanding, more enduring… They are made over into new beings. They are transformed by the power of their love. Love is the revelation of our deepest personal meaning, value and identity. But this revelation remains impossible as long as we are the prisoners of our own egoism…. My true meaning and worth are shown to me not in my estimate of myself, but in the eyes of the one who loves me; and that one must love me as I am, with my faults and limitations, revealing to me the truth that these faults and limitations cannot destroy my worth in the eyes of that one who loves me; and that I am therefore valuable as a person, in spite of my shortcomings, in spite of the imperfections of my exterior "package." The package is totally unimportant. What matters is this infinitely precious message which I can discover only in my love for another person. And this message, this secret, is not fully revealed to me unless at the same time I am able to see and understand the mysterious and unique worth of the one I love."
— Thomas Merton (1915-1968), from "Love and Need"
Sara Close, on loving, & losing her late partner, Jonny Copp (1984-2009):
"I will always be in love with him, — but that's separate from any other love I'm gonna have. He wouldn't want me to be sitting around crying, or not be doing things to my fullest potential. It's not what our relationship was about, it's not why we fell in love. And that's a gift he gave me, of this capacity to grow, and to look at things positively.
"…You can be madly, passionately, head-over-heels in love with somebody. And when they're not there anymore, think like, "How the heck am I ever gonna love like that again? That was unique! That was once in a lifetime!" And it was once in a lifetime, and you had it, and what a gift! But I think you learn to love different people, because everyone's going to touch your heart in different ways. And your heart's huge.
"There's a lot more areas to be unlocked and a lot more areas to be touched than the way that just one person touched you. And I think it's giving credit to yourself, and knowing your expanse, and your potential. …Taking the time to grow that, I think gives you more ways to love, and to be loved by people. …Yeah, I like love."
from video Wildlove with Sara Close
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Design is all about communication, it's how to incorporate ideas and goals into a product that people love and use. The best way to describe that is that designers are story tellers. We tell stories through our work and this video by Robert Wong shared by the folks of Future of StoryTelling illustrates that extremely well.
He says that this kind of collaboration between art and science, between story and fabrication, is essential for scientific and creative innovation.


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Name: Dolma Choezom
Birthplace: Ganzi, Kham, Tibet
Monk/Nun: No
Categories: Culture and History
Keywords: childbirth, childhood memories, children's games, Chinese -- first appearance of, Chinese Nationalists/Kuomintang, customs/traditions, festivals, Kham, pilgrimage, trade
Dolma Choezom was born in Ganzi in Kham Province. This region of Tibet was under Chinese rule and taxes were paid to the Chinese rather than Tibetan government. Dolma Choezom's father was a trader and traveled to nearby Chinese cities to buy tea in the form of bricks, which he then sold in Tibet. She fondly remembers awaiting his return because he brought candy for the children. She talks about games she played and festivals that she enjoyed as a small child.
Communist Chinese first appeared in Ganzi when Dolma Choezom was 12 years old and she recalls people fleeing to the mountains, though the Chinese did not do anything oppressive during their first arrival. Her mother died when it snowed heavily on the mountain where they were hiding. Dolma Choezom was then cared for by her grandmother and aunts. She decided to run away to Lhasa when she was 20 years old. She describes the difficult journey on foot that took two months and her embarrassment begging for food. Dolma Choezom visited pilgrim sites around Lhasa and Shigatse.
Dolma Choezom then met her husband, a soldier in the Tibetan Government army, and lived in the army camp passing time by knitting sweaters. She describes the birthing process of her seven children, which was done at home often without help. She and her husband chose to visit Kolkata, India, but they instead ended up in other parts of India and never returned to Tibet because in the meantime the Dalai Lama had fled to India in exile.
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Topic: Interview with Dolma Choezom on 5/20/2012


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So tell me, what do you do when you are driving 1100 km, over 2 days, in the rain and in the car for 14 hours. If you're me, you hit the radio and look for songs to Shazam for your blog. I think I found some. The first road tune I heard was a classic blues tune by former Fabulous Thunderbird, Jimmie Vaughn. The song. "Dirty Girl". One of the Texas roadhouse blues guitar players that were spawned in the 70's, Jimmy is a great player, very great. Seems to run in the Vaughn family.
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Under rated as well in mainstream circles.


Talking children are wildly overrated.
Seriously. I prefer them when they just gurgle and you can show interest while talking to someone else.
I had memories of my parents telling me I was a chatterbox. But, upon hearing your statements, I've decided to delete them from my memory and pretend I was silent until I was 8.
Since I was a single mother before I got married, I used to tell people that I had the child first and then got to pick the perfect father! Go ahead and use that one if you want!! Great post.
Nice! I like the whole concept right down to the excuse.
"I just downright hate the idea of having to move any of my books to make room for someone else's lesser tomes." I nominate this as the best Relationship Remark of the year.
Do not underestimate my devotion to Harry Potter.
Little girls still equate brides with fairy princesses.
I am a long time married. Love my man, he gives me plenty of space.
Space sounds like a key to success!
Talking children are so over rated. Mine has taken up requesting a sibling. Often and loudly. See? THEY RECRUIT. Nothing but trouble.
He's totally gonna regret that. Like, siblings are cool for 5 minutes.
I WILL FIND YOU A JAPANESE HUSBAND. Then we can double date every day and have themed dinner parties. I AM SO DESPERATE FOR A FRIEND IN SAPPORO!!!!!! Can I set you up with someone??? Can i find someone??? DONT YOU KNOW SOMEONE?!??! Work harder!
This is completely against the point of this post, i realize this and semi-apologise.
You have made me spit tea over my keyboard. For making me laugh at ill opportune moments you are very much to blame!
when are you back in sapporo? are you back? mail me!
One more week! So long as neither me nor my cat get locked up in quarantine at Narita.


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Studies show that informal learning accounts for between 70 and 95% of workplace learning [USBLS: 70%; Raybould: 95%; EDC: 70%; CapitalWorks: 75%; OISE: 70%; eLG: 70%; Allen Tough: 80%]. Gary Wise extrapolated Josh Bersin's data from 2009 and found that as much as 95% of workplace learning is informal. Offering only sanctioned courses as professional development is completely inadequate in a complex work environment. It is arrogant to think that we can know in advance what people need to learn on the job today. Everyone needs to experiment, learn from experience, and share with colleagues, as part of their work.
PKM is a framework to make sense of the 70%. It helps connect our experiences. It is also a very inexpensive way to promote learning and development. Perhaps that is why PKM and similar practices are not the norm in many workplaces. Nobody will get a big budget to manage them. PKM is personally managed. People just need time, space, some coaching, and organizational support. Tools help, but there are a lot of inexpensive ones available. But quite often the only tools available at work are at cross-purposes with PKM. They are not personal and they do not help people to seek > sense > share.
Smaller companies and young companies appear to be quite open to PKM-like practices. It may just be a matter of time before they become the norm. Most free-agents understand the importance of taking control of their professional development. For the employed, the realization often comes on news of unemployment. People quickly see that their professional network is primarily business contacts from their previous company. Cast aside, they have no support network. Building one takes time.
The foundation of PKM (seek) is participating in professional knowledge networks. From these social networks, one can find the right crew for more focused journeys of sense-making. This is 21st century networking, not the stuff of cocktail parties and passing out business cards of the previous half-century. Creating a diverse network of loose and strong ties takes time. Nurturing these connections takes more time. Part of the 70% of workplace learning should be focused on connecting with others, inside and outside the organization. How much time do you spend? How much time would your organization let you spend? If you are in a position of authority, how much time do you let others spend on participating in professional knowledge networks?
Getting started with PKM is probably the cheapest professional development program that any company can initiate. It requires no special technology or proprietary system. My own objective in promoting PKM is not to sell it, or even teach others how to do it. My objective is to enable people to learn and teach it for themselves. If I can guide people to take the first step, then that is usually all it takes. PKM in 40 Days is one way I try to provide a starting point. I will work on other ways in the coming year.
Jay Cross likened informal learning to riding a bicycle. Maybe that's a good way to look at PKM. It's a bike to get out and explore all those paths and places you do not find on the main motorways.


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At least 12 dead, 134 hurt in China earthquake
Rescue workers are seen on a collapsed house after earthquakes hit Changning county in Yibin, Sichuan province on Jun 18, 2019. (Photo: Reuters)
18 Jun 2019 01:59AM (Updated: 18 Jun 2019 07:27PM )
BEIJING: The toll from a strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest China rose to 12 dead and 134 injured on Tuesday (Jun 18) as rescuers pulled bodies and survivors from wrecked buildings.
More than 4,000 people were relocated as a large number of structures were damaged or collapsed after the quake struck late Monday near Yibin in Sichuan province, according to the city government.
State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of rescuers bringing a survivor out of the rubble of a building on a stretcher overnight. Other images showed a woman being helped out of another collapsed structure.
Rescue workers carry an injured man on a stretcher after earthquakes hit Changning county in Yibin, Sichuan province on Jun 18, 2019. (Photo: Reuters)
Images from Changning county showed an electricity pole knocked down on the roof of a building, a hole in a brick home and broken windows on the street.
Cracks appeared in several roads and a major highway connecting Yibin and Xuyong county was closed, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
Rescue workers carry a casualty on a stretcher after earthquakes hit Changning county in Yibin, Sichuan province on Jun 17, 2019. (Photo: Reuters)
Mud and rock slipped from the side of a hill, blocking a road and wrapping around a truck, according to CCTV footage.
More than 10,000 rooms within an undisclosed number of buildings were moderately damaged while 12 collapsed, according to Yibin authorities. The homes of more than 4,000 families were damaged in Gong county.
6.0-magnitude earthquake rattled Yibin City in Sichuan, China. No casualties reported yet pic.twitter.com/wQR888PU8Y
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) June 17, 2019
6 killed, 75 injured after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake rattled Changning County of Yibin City in Sichuan Province. More: https://t.co/UnoEKHB0hL pic.twitter.com/vakVI6SVcC
The possibility of thunder and showers over the next two days could complicate the rescue efforts, according to Xinhua.
An early warning alarm system was triggered in the provincial capital Chengdu about one minute before the earthquake struck, Xinhua said. The alert rang 10 seconds before it hit Yibin.
A three-second headstart before an tremor hits can prevent 14 per cent of casualties, Xinhua said.
Nine people died in Changning county and three others in Qixian county, the Yibin city government said in its Twitter-like Weibo account, up from an initial death toll of six overnight.
Rescuers pulled six bodies and seven survivors from buildings, it said.
Xinhua said more than 50 people were being treated in two hospitals.
Rescuers search for earthquake survivors in the rubble of a building in Yibin, in China's southwest Sichuan province early on Jun 18, 2019. (Photo: AFP)
More than 500 firefighters have been dispatched to the scene. Rescue personnel were also sent with 5,000 tents, 10,000 folding cots and other emergency supplies, Xinhua reported.
The area was hit by a series of at least four aftershocks, the largest of which had a magnitude of 5.1.
The US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the main quake at 5.8.
Earthquakes regularly strike Sichuan, where a powerful 7.9-magnitude quake left 87,000 people dead or missing in 2008.
A kitchen is seen damaged inside a house after earthquakes hit Changning county in Yibin, Sichuan province on Jun 18, 2019. (Photo: Reuters)
In February, three earthquakes hit Rongxian county in the province, killing two people and injuring 12 others - casualties that residents blamed on fracking.
Local authorities later halted shale gas mining after thousands of residents protested.
Map locating a deadly quake in Sichuan province on Jun 17, 2019. (Graphic: AFP)
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The joy of commissioning your mates.
We've got some extremely gifted mates, and there's nothing like the feeling of asking them to make something for you which employes all of their skills, plays to their strengths and makes you the thing you need while maybe, hopefully, testing them a little bit.
I don't get to collaborate all that much in my day-to-day work - with art directors yes, via email and phone, and if we're doing something on a wall, some help there too. But pooling your ideas and desires to make a new piece of furniture, a garden sculpture, something stitched for the home, or even the architecture of your new home and studio, is quite different, and the pressure's on someone else to deliver - which can be really refreshing!
Spencer Jenkins, who lives with artist partner Alisha Miller in Warwickshire, has been a friend for the best part of 20 years and during that time has eased his creativity into a unique space which embraces woodcraft, weaving, alchemy (I mean, the man pickles oak you know?) and complex self-supporting structures coaxed from nature's shapes using patience, pondering and drawing. Carved and steamed wood forms complex, thoughtful and reaching pieces; they're aspirational, comfortable and sometimes challenging, but they're all uniquely Spencer, and are commissioned by the RHS, Gardener's World, Chelsea Flower Show, Hampton Court, Vertigo Records, gardens and institutions the length and breath of Britain...and Black Sabbath.
We have long needed a big sofa to go into the room on our top floor; a long, pointy room which along with the rest of the house is on a skewed rhombus; not a right angle to be found. Pretty much all furniture and storage has to be custom made, and the top room - my studio for ten years - has additional challenges as it is at the top of a winding, steep, narrow, staircase - you can't get anything up there without huge struggle, least of all a sofa. And we need a sofa - the whole of the ground floor is studio and office, middle is sleeping and washing, which means the top floor has finally become our dedicated TV, movie and film space. When we finally put pens/mice down and chill, we need to feel work's over for the day.
The studio as it was. There's just a big telly there now!
This 'thing to sit on' needed to be wide, deep for Leigh's long legs, and capable of being assembled on-site. No flat backs or right angles. We briefed Spence on all this, Leigh driving the direction with his idea around a metal park bench with slats, like this one he saw on a trip to New York:
Spencer started with drawings of 50s-inspired space rockets, all Festival of Britain angles and aspiring points:
His cardboard and wire maquette was extremely cute too:
This blog will massively simplify the many processes Spencer undertook, and what can't be communicated is the incalculable amount of thinking, problem solving and man hours that went into this beast. But we shall begin here; once all feeding-back and chipping-in and discussion had concluded, Spencer enlarged his drawing of the profile of the sofa and laid it on the ground of his workshop, starting to lay the metal bar over the top:
after which it was a case of 'Let Bending Commence!' (which by all accounts was Bloody Hard Work). For those into detail, the metals are a hybrid of round solid steel bar, hollow steel tubing and flat steel bar:
This centre strut was created to make a frame for the wooden slats which would form the sofa:
The sofa's four dainty feet began to emerge, delicately en pointe where they would meet the new black sheep's wool carpet:
and suddenly, the final form of the piece made itself known at full size:
At this point there was the opportunity to powder-coat the structure, which had been done to slick effect on some of Spencer's other commissioned pieces. We thought about it, but were so enamoured of the texture of the metal and the polychroming of the welded areas that we decided to leave it, the evidence of its construction, and seal it in with lacquer.
Spencer picked up on this and experimented with varying levels of heat treatment along the bar:
Perhaps a little giraffe-like, the effect was appealing, and the colours gorgeous, but we felt it yelled a bit over the simple, clean lines of the structure:
Here are the arms being made, in Spencer's Hellraiser-esque bending improvisation:
Once the wooden arms, metal feet, legs and back - in one piece - were created to bookend the structure, the wooden slats were cut and shaped, one at a time. Calculating the spacing was crucial, so that gaps were consistent. This is Ash, and the arms are made of steamed ash (to allow the bend):
And quietly, towards the end of July, the finished 2m wide construction appeared in Spencer's workshop. We couldn't wait to go and bounce on it; Spencer couldn't wait to get it into our loft and out of his space! It had occupied huge chunks of his brain and workshop for months on end, and although he was pleased, I think he was happy to...
...take it apart and build it again. Because of course, the constructed version in the workshop had to be disassembled and taken up to our loft room, one section at a time, and rebuilt there.
Sorry Spence.
Our beautiful sofa is now upstairs on its black sheep's wool carpet, with only a light, little table and big telly for company (oh and my massive book cover archive which I've yet to decide what to do with). The next step is getting removable upholstery made, but meanwhile it's home to our small but growing collection of Japanese-inspired textiles - a Dan Kitchener cushion and throw, a Tenugui print by Nomoco (currently being adapted into a large soft cushion by my Mum, resident guru of the needles) and a grumpy, squishy Gudetama who's in a constant state of judgement - along with three other creatures and assorted bung-it-all-on-there blankets and soft things.
It's a nice place to be, and it's a one-off - we've told him already, but here's a large and fulsome public thank you to Spencer for his problem solving, inventiveness and dedication during a period of total Sofa Rocket immersion.
It's great to commission a mate.
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Facebook losing out to YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat among US teens
YouTube has stolen Facebook's former dominance over teens, with 85% of them preferring the video-sharing platform. Second and third top social media services among teens are now Instagram at 72% and Snapchat at 69%. The numbers of teens who use Twitter and Tumblr are largely unchanged compared to the results found in 2015. The Pew study, which surveyed nearly 750 teens in one month earlier this year, found that the increase in smartphone ownership played a huge part in teen life. Consistent with previous studies, that while most teens used the same social media platforms as their peers, low-income teens were more likely to prefer Facebook than teens from a higher-income household. The Pew survey could not find clear consensus among teens about the effects of social media on their lives.
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Adiss Harmandian 1945-2019
World-renowned Armenian singer Adiss Harmandian passed away on Sunday, September 1, 2019 at UCLA Santa Monica hospital in California. Harmandian, a Lebanese-Armenian, born to Armenian Genocide survivors on January 14, 1945 in Beirut, began his career as a singer in the 1960s. His first single, "Dzaghigner" (Ծաղիկներ), quickly gained popularity among Lebanese and Diasporan Armenians.
Harmandian is considered a pioneer of the estradayin genre of Armenian music. Songs in the genre, such as Harmandian's own "Nouné" (Նունէ) or "Karoun Karoun" (Գարուն գարուն) were primarily sung in Armenian, and were influential in the formation of the Armenian identity in Lebanon and the Diaspora.
Harmandian released over 30 albums and around 400 songs throughout his career and had received numerous awards, both internationally and within the Republic of Armenia.
Harmandian's family announced his passing after a 15-year courageous battle with cancer. According to his family, Adiss passed away peacefully, surrounded by his children and loved ones.
https://massispost.com/2019/09/adiss-harmandian-1945-2019/
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