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THE BOYS is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It's the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about "The Seven," and their formidable Vought backing.
Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, and executive produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), and Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files), The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Starring Rufus Sewell (John Adams), Luke Kleintank (Pretty Little Liars), and Alexa Davalos (Mob City).
After Midge's triumph at the Gaslight, the fallout from her takedown of Sophie Lennon looms large, making her climb up the comedy ladder more challenging than ever. As the actual grind of being a comic begins to take its toll on Midge, the pressure to come clean to her family weighs on her – especially as her choices have a ripple effect on everyone around her.
The End of the World is coming, which means a fussy Angel and a loose-living Demon who've become overly fond of life on Earth are forced to form an unlikely alliance to stop Armageddon. But they have lost the Antichrist, an 11-year-old boy unaware he's meant to bring upon the end of days, forcing them to embark on an adventure to find him and save the world before it's too late.
A woman's search to uncover the mystery of the disappearance of her husband leads her to the Congo, where she's forced to seek the truth about what happened to the man she loved.
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Q: Can I create a vscode extension that is able to display variable names in a translated way without modifying the original souce code file? is it possible to create a visual studio code extension that is able to display variables in a different way than stored in the original source code file. The idea is to translate the variables on programmer's side but obviously without changing the original source code file. By using the extension, the programmer should be able to see the variables in his preferred language (obviously the translation part gets done by an auxiliary algorithm/tool) and for example when hovering the "translated" source code line, the original code line gets displayed. In this way, the readability of source code could be improved, but source code files remain untouched.
Example:
A spanish-speaking programmer wrote the following code line:
const número_de_personas: number = 10;
For an english-speaking programmer it would be nice to see the previous code line as following:
const number_of_persons: number = 10;
This visual modification however should only take place locally on the english-speaking programmer side, without changing/translating the original source code file.
Is something like that possible to create as a vscode extension and how?

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IBM To Acquire Bluewolf, Enhance Cloud Consulting And Implementation Services
IBM announced it will acquire cloud consulting and implementation services provider Bluewolf, known as one of Salesforce's top strategic partners. Financial details for the acquisition were not disclosed, but Re/Code reported the deal at about $200 million, according to sources.
Silverpop's Amplify 2014: IBM Acquisition Offers International Expansion Opportunities
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He stressed that under the IBM umbrella, Silverpop will have the ability to extend its reach to customers in more than 170 countries.
IBM To Invest $100M To Grow Its Marketing Consulting Business
IBM announced its plans to invest $100 million to globally expand its marketing consulting services. As part of the investment, the company plans to 10 new IBM Interactive Experience labs, which are designed to provide clients with the opportunity to work with experts in mobile and digital marketing.
In a separate effort to bolster its marketing offerings, the vendor is said to be in talks to acquire marketing automation vendor Silverpop.
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Speakers from Adobe, IBM, Cigna and Avaya have been added to the agenda at this month's B2B Content2Conversion Conference, taking place April 22-23 in New York at The TimesCenter.
"It's an honor to us that key marketing leaders from companies large and small are recognizing the B2B Content2Conversion Conference as a must-attend event," said Andrew Gaffney, Editor-In-Chief at Demand Gen Report, which is hosting the event. "These new speakers add an extra level of excellence as we strive to create an event that provides great networking opportunities, top-notch speakers and business-changing marketing tactics."
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According to the IBM 2010 Global CEO Study, 95% of top performing organizations identified getting closer to customers as their most important strategic initiative over the next five years. This is especially true for IBM, as the company's approach to value creation required an extraordinarily deep knowledge of customer business processes that can only built upon intimate, trusted relationships.
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The acquisition, which is subject to Unica shareholder approval, applicable regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2010.
The IBM announcement emphasized the growing role automation is playing in today's business world, stating: "Marketing professionals are increasingly investing in technology to automate and manage marketing planning and execution to help them better analyze customer preferences and trends and in turn, predict buying needs and drive relevant campaigns."

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Last Friday evening many of us were shocked to our very core. A hasty decision, an unexpected sacking and swearing in - no one expected and no one, not even me a 'mother who tends to be more focused on her children and their upcoming year-end exams' could get over.
I am a mother who often gets caught up in all my children's activities and needs and leaves the world (and government) to do their thing. But on Monday I put aside everything normally thought important in my world and went to stand in solidarity for the future and country my children I hope can live in.
Why am I terribly upset over last Friday's decision, well for starters it teaches that something done the wrong way can be eventually justified as right. I strive to teach my children that wrong is wrong no matter how you try to justify it. A rule is a rule and bending it will only lead to a long road of pain and regret. The billboards, the many posters and TV debates, they all sadly oppose my teaching.
I teach my children that we all make mistakes but we learn, say sorry and move on bettering ourselves. Today I see my children learn that sorry is a sign of weakness and defeat.
I teach my children that money is not everything and the pursuit of that is not happiness. My children are seeing that money talks and that honestly scares me.
I teach my children to be kind, compassionate and to treat others the way they like to be treated. They watch today's TV and see people running each other down, calling each other names with a complete disregard of loyalty and respect.
I look at what my children and the children of this nation are seeing and I wonder can my voice outcry their example? Can they learn simple life principles that I believe are vital for their success?
Oh, Sri Lanka, I moan so much for you. I love you so much and no matter how much well-meaning parents advise me to move to 'greener pastures' I will not because you are my country. The country of my birth. I love you. I am so proud you topped the list on Lonely Planet because I know the awe of standing on top of Sigiriya and imagining the majesty of yesteryear, I have seen the beauty of your waterfalls, tea plantations and the stag standing aloof in Horton Plains. I love the beaches and my road of solace, my Marine Drive. I love that whilst other countries may have better roads and cheaper food, there is no place like my Sri Lanka.
I love you so much that I moan for the little boy who believes aggression is the way forward, that shouting and demanding is the way to win the battle. I moan for the little girl who backs down in confusion because right seems wrong and wrong is right. I moan for her because I know the day will come when she feels she has to let go of her gentle, quiet ways and instead demand, shout and push her way through if she wants to achieve her goals. I moan for the boy who thinks quick fixes and a little bit of cheating is better than plain hard work and determination. I moan for the loss of not learning from the wrong of yesterday but believing wrongs can be made right or else forgotten. I moan for the child who places his trust in power and money, disregarding the value of humanity and fair play.
Oh, my beautiful and precious country I pray for a day when we will birth a different citizen. A citizen who will place their own interests aside and work for the common good of others. A citizen who will walk in love irrespective of ethnicity and religion, compassionate, slow to anger, kind and not malicious, serving their peers with the quiet confidence of the knowledge of their own strengths and not feel threatened or insecure.
Sri Lanka, oh, Sri Lanka I pray for a nation who will truly walk as one nation with one mother proud and confident to be all we can be!


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Public high school teachers in Toronto, 8 other boards to hold strike day Wednesday
Chris Herhalt And Chris Fox	, CP24.com
Published Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:14AM EST
Last Updated Wednesday, December 11, 2019 5:23AM EST
Striking teachers of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation walk the picket line outside of Northern Secondary School in Toronto, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
Public high school teachers in Toronto and eight other districts across Ontario are scheduled to walk off the job Wednesday amid deadlocked negotiations with the province on a new collective agreement.
The one-day strike comes one week after Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) members held a similar one-day strike that resulted in the province-wide closure of schools.
No bargaining was planned for today, though the OSSTF has previously offered to delay the one-day strike in exchange for the province removing a number of legislated preconditions.
While the two sides failed to talk to each other Tuesday, they did spar in the public eye.
Accepting the terms of an offer made by Ontario's public high school teachers in labour talks with the province and extending them to all other education workers could cost taxpayers $3 billion more per year by 2022, the Ford government said.
On Tuesday, Education Minister Stephen Lecce's office released the terms of an offer made by the OSSTF during bargaining rounds on Nov. 28 and Dec. 1, saying it would cost taxpayers far more than what his office previously estimated.
In the offer, the government says, the union did not just ask for cost-of-living salary increases, an end to mandatory e-learning and reverting class size averages to where they were during the last years of the Wynne government; but also wanted to improve sick time language, provide eight weeks of paid paternity leave, and add hundreds of millions more in funding for education support workers.
"I just think it is important for those data points to be publicized – I am not commenting on the merits of them," Lecce said of releasing the OSSTF offer.
Speaking on background, education officials said that if accepted by the government, some of the requests would automatically be given to the other education unions currently negotiating with the government, such as Catholic teachers or public English elementary teachers, through what is called a "me-too clause" found in most labour agreements in the sector.
The officials would not confirm exactly what is and what is not covered by a "me-too clause."
But Lecce suggested at least wages would be covered.
"With CUPE (support workers) there is a 'me-too'clause – if the compensation is above one per cent, let's say two, then the 'me-too'clause lifts them to two," Lecce said.
Even in areas not covered by a me-too clause, it is plausible that what is granted to one union will be asked for by the others.
Altogether, the ministry estimates the offer would increase costs in the education sector as a whole by $1.7 billion this year, $2.35 billion next year and $2.98 billion by 2021-2022, for a total of approximately $7 billion.
The figure is nearly double what Lecce has said granting teachers and education workers a two per cent per year wage increase and maintaining their benefits for the next three years would cost.
Speaking after Lecce, OSSTF President Harvey Bischof said he was baffled about how he could be blamed for costs incurred by unions not connected to his.
"It applies for the whole education sector who we don't negotiate for."
He said that Lecce's continued mention of his members' pay was an attempt to demonize them.
"It concerns me very much that his priority right now is to demonize my members, including my support staff who on average make $38,000 per year, and instead of taking that into consideration, is trying to inflame the rhetoric in a very unhelpful way."
Lecce responded that the nature of public sector bargaining in Ontario means Bischof doesn't operate in a vacuum.
"They choose not to consider the impacts outside of OSSTF, as if they live inisolation from the other education unions, and you know from negotiating that (two per cent) would become the floor."
Bischof also said he had no idea how the Ford government had arrived at the $3 billion per year figure.
Bischof has said that some of the major stumbling blocks in negotiations have included the province's refusal to abandon plans to raise class sizes and to introduce mandatory E-learning courses in high schools.
Lecce, however, has said that the dispute has mostly revolved around the union's opposition to accepting an annual one per cent wage hike.
Neither Bischof nor Lecce had previously disclosed other OSSTF bargaining asks made public Tuesday, such as paternity leave or improved sick time provisions.
NDP leader Andrea Horwath said Tuesday that the latest figures from the Ford government are farcical.
"Mr. Lecce's moving numbers are meant to confuse and worry people."
Education support union EWAO reaches deal
Also on Tuesday a union that represents education assistants and other support workers in Halton, Dufferin-Peel and all throughout the French system said they had reached a deal with the province.
The Educational Workers' Alliance of Ontario represents approximately 6,000 employees in the provincial school system.
The OSSTF says high school teachers in these boards will walk off the job if a deal is not reached by Wednesday:
Grand Erie District School Board
Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board
Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board
Near North District School Board
Rainy River District School Board
Trillium Lakelands District School Board
As with last week's strike, the TDSB said the job action would mean that all TDSB schools are closed to students.
"As with the walkout that took place last week, if this job action commences as expected, the Board will have no other option but to close all secondary schools (Grades 9 to 12) to students on Wednesday, December 11 as there would not be sufficient supervision to ensure their safety," the TDSB said on its website.
All affected schools are expected to reopen on Thursday.
A striking teacher of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation pickets outside of the Toronto District School Board head office on Yonge St. in Toronto, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The union representing Ontario's public high school teachers says it will hold another one-day strike on Dec. 11. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston


Val Heliski focuses solely on providing backcountry skiing / snowboarding adventures (with or without the aid of a helicopter) and all types of heliskiing / heliboarding, reverse heliskiing, multi day packages (with or without accommodation), helicopter airport transfers and heli scenic tours for guests staying in the Tarentaise area of the French Alps (including the 3 Vallees, Espace Killy, St Foy and Paradiski), landing in both France and neighbouring Italy, often skiing back into France.
For those Skiers and Snowboarders who are looking to try Heliskiing for the first time or those who are looking for a quick Heliski hit away from the crowds without breaking the bank. It includes a single heli drop, guide & your avalanche safety equipment – not including ABS Packs.
2 drops for those that have a little more fitness, off-piste experience and money to spend. This package includes 2 helicopter drops, UIAGM Mountain Guide & your avalanche safety equipment – not including ABS Packs.
3 longer flights allow us to get higher and further into the backcountry to find THE best snow and best terrain far away from lifts, roads and other people. This package includes 3 helicopter drops, UIAMG Mountain Guide & your avalanche safety equipment – not including ABS Packs.
Additional Drops on your Heliskiing/Heliboarding day are possible, if everybody in the group agrees to it.
Legal in France, so accessible from your doorstep, it's the perfect way to combine helicopters, skiing / snowboarding and huge vertical meterage without bearing the brunt of full Heliski day prices. We use ski lifts to reach the summit of resort, then ski backcountry reaching terrain often inaccessible without a helicopter where you'll get picked up and taken back to resort. Including guide and safety kit. No ABS pack included.
You can extend your reverse half day to a full day with your guide off-piste around the Espace Killy for an extra 50€ per person.
A private ski or snowboard session with our Heli guides and ski professionals catering for skiers and snowboarders of all ability levels – on and off-piste. It's all about fun, improvement and discovering new off-piste terrain.
Includes safety kit - ABS packs are additional.
1-5 persons 495€ (99€pp). Private groups only.
Depart from your resort and circle the parameter of the nature reserve, with views around your resort and surrounding mountains.
1-5 persons 1.245€ (249€pp). Private groups only.
Departing from your local resort and adventuring further afield to surrounding glaciers, resorts and national parks.
1-5 persons 2.245€ (449€pp). Private groups only.
Not only is this a fantastic experience giving you time to really take in the moment and the scenery, it allows us to fly low over some simply stunning glaciers and down to the base of Mont Blanc for a tour of this awe-inspiring mountain range before completing a loop of Italy and heading back into France.
Ski touring at 70° north inside the Arctic Circle in northern Norway. The Lyngen Alps and the fjords in the north of Norway is THE best area to be based in late on in the ski touring season due to its wild and remote setting sitting in the Arctic Circle.
The spring in the Lyngen Alps frequently offers excellent snow conditions, nice weather for climbing peaks, and the chance to admire the mystic beauty of the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) at night. With summits varying between 800 and 1800 meters, climbs will vary between 800 and 1400m each day straight from sea level.
This package is limited to our most experienced clients, with an extremely high drop-zone at 4000m on the Italian side of Mont Blanc – a mountain that usually takes ski tourers 2 days to reach the summit of – this flight will take us a total of 30 minutes, flying directly from Val d'Isère.
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On February 6, 2019, the twenty-nine member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) signed the Accession Protocol to allow the state that will be known as the Republic of North Macedonia to join NATO. The Accession Protocol will allow North Macedonia to take part in NATO activities as an invitee, and each NATO member will now have to ratify the protocol according to domestic procedures to finalize the process. This follows an agreement last month with Greece through which the two states agreed to change the name of the territory to the Republic of North Macedonia, ending a twenty-seven year dispute over Macedonia. Greece argued the name implied territorial ambitions and had blocked North Macedonia's membership in NATO until the agreement over the name was reached and approved by Greek lawmakers.


So it seems my servers have been updating since last night. I have submitted 2 tickets and no response. Anyone else having issues?
Good to know I'm not the only one.
One of mine is completely unresponsive, cant get it to come online at all, put in a ticket this morning 12 hours ago just to be told oh all our servers are updating. I get back from my job to see its still offline, how wonderful nothing has been done all day.
Mine last night were going on 2 hours updating so I hit restart all and then they updated and finished 20 minutes later. Just FYI.
General rule of thumb here is that if the server not done completing an update after 30 minutes (usually only takes mine like 3-5 minutes on average) then try doing a Restart for the server to kick it again.
Now if that doesn't work, you might have a Mod coming into play here. Remove all Mods, then Restart to see if that works. If it does, then that means you have a Mod that is going to interfere with updates. You can then add them back in one at a time to test which one is being goofy, then stop using that one.
If it doesn't work after all that, the Support tab and Write a Ticket is your best bet. They're pretty good at getting back a response in less than 2 hours. Keep an eye on spam folders and such in case the reply gets routed there somehow, or check your tickets too from time to time, since their response will be directly into the ticket you submit.


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After spending much of 2017 in hibernation in preparation for a busy period ahead, Nils Frahm, the accomplished German composer and celebrated performer, will commence 2018 with his first tour since 2015, and will embark on the beginning of a long worldwide tour. Nils is bringing his All Melody tour to Durham on March 22, 2019.
Today Nils Frahm continues to work as an accomplished composer, producer and celebrated performer from his Berlin-based studio at the renowned Funkhaus. His unconventional approach to an age-old instrument, played contemplatively and intimately, and on a mesmerizing scale through his vast stage shows, has won him many fans around the world. Nils has gained global notoriety for his highly developed sense of control and restraint in his work, as well as a breath-taking level of emotion and personality.
Tickets to see Nils Frahm in Durham start at $29.50 - $39.50 and go on sale on Friday, July 13 at 10 a.m. at the Carolina Theatre box office, the venue's website — www.carolinatheatre.org — and through Ticketmaster.com.


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STB (letter S)
You are secretive, self-contained, and shy. You are very sexy, sensual, and passionate, but you do not let on to this. Only in intimate privacy will this part of your nature reveal itself. When it gets down to the nitty-gritty, you are an expert. You know all the little tricks of the trade, can play any role or any game, and take your love life very seriously. You don't fool around. You have the patience to wait for the right person to come along.
STB (letter T)
You are very sensitive, private, and sexually passive; you like a partner who takes the lead. Music, soft lights and romantic thoughts turn you on. You fantasize, but do not tend to fall in and out of love easily. When in love, you are romantic, idealistic, mushy, and extremely intense. You enjoy having your senses and your feelings stimulated, titillated, and teased. You are a great flirt. You can make your relationships fit your dreams, oftentimes all in your own head.
STB (letter B)
You give off vibes of lazy sensuality. You enjoy being romanced, wined, and dined. You are very happy to receive gifts as an expression of the affection of your lover. You want to be pampered and know how to pamper your mate. You are private in your expression of endearments and particularly when it comes to lovemaking. You will hold off until everything meets with your approval. You can control your appetite and abstain from sex if need be. You require new sensations and experiences. You are willing to experiment.
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Q: Is there a way to force the write command to block until all bytes have been written? Per the man pages, the write command "writes up to count bytes" and then returns the actual number of bytes written. Thus if I wanted to ensure all bytes were written to the file descriptor, I would need to put the write within a loop and monitor that all bytes have been written.
However, is there a way to configure the file descriptor such that writes block until all bytes have been written?
Edit* I'm writing to pipes if that makes any difference.

A: You only mention the system call, so I'm assuming you only want to have all the data passed to the operating system through the system call interface, nothing more.

Thus if I wanted to ensure all bytes were written to the file descriptor, I would need to put the write within a loop and monitor that all bytes have been written.

Yes.
Though as far as I've tested (on Linux), in practice most writes do block until everything is written. That includes at least writes to regular files and (as far as I remember) pipes. Of course if you set the file descriptor in non-blocking mode, that might not happen (not sure if it works on regular files), and you might get a signal in the middle of the system call, interrupting it. The exact behaviours here probably depend on the system.

However, is there a way to configure the file descriptor such that writes block until all bytes have been written?

No.
And if the system call is interrupted by a signal, and control passes back to your program, it might not even want to continue. So it's up to the application to decide if to continue.

A: You have two options:
Use open with the O_SYNC flag.  From the Manpage:
       O_SYNC Write operations on the file will complete according to the  re‐
              quirements  of  synchronized  I/O  file integrity completion (by
              contrast with the synchronized  I/O  data  integrity  completion
              provided by O_DSYNC.)

              By  the  time write(2) (or similar) returns, the output data and
              associated file metadata have been transferred to the underlying
              hardware  (i.e.,  as though each write(2) was followed by a call
              to fsync(2)).  See NOTES below.

Or use the fsync(2) call after the write call which will flush the data explicitly.
Depending on your performance and guarantee  needs, you may prefer one way or another.
As your question is about pipes, then there is no need.  all writes go to the pipe and are considered written unless there is an error (e.g. pipe full with non blocking mode), no need for sync/direct or any flags or special calls.   If you are talking about delaying returning from write until the pipe reader has read the data, then you should examine the requirements carefully.  it is possible to craft a pipe with a limited buffer such that a write will always block until a reader accesses it, but why go through the effort to design and test such a scenario?  If you truly need feedback from the reader then maybe you should get it explicitly.  The reader could always just die right after calling the read on the pipe, so blocking the pipe to create a scheme seems worthless.


"A Colne Valley Walk Beside the Canal"
This Colne Valley Walk is one of many walks around here but you'll find this to be the easiest of the Colne Valley Walks. It's one of my favourite canal walks in Yorkshire. Taking us through some really delightful countryside we also get to see old and crumbling mills - relics of the industrial revolution. This is an easy walk as it follows the Huddersfield Narrow Canal through Marsden, Slaithwaite and Milnsbridge. There are no hills except around the locks as they lift the canal, stage by stage up the valley.
The full length of this Colne Valley Walk is just eight miles - from Huddersfield to the Standedge Tunnel above Marsden. You could, of course walk both ways - up and down the valley - but I would suggest you park your car at one end or the other, walk one way and take a train or bus back to the start point.
Of course, being lazy, I would opt to park the car near the railway station in Marsden. You're onto the canal towpath right outside the station and as we're now at the top of the valley, it's downhill all the way from here!
Enjoy your visit to the tunnel? Right - if you're fit - it's time to head off down the towpath along the Colne Valley Walk, through some great scenery. By the way, did I tell you? One of the good things about this walk is that you have so many options. We'll be walking through the villages of Slaithwaite (about three miles) and Milnsbridge (about six miles) en route. There's a railway station at Slaithwaite and bus connections from both Slaithwaite and Milnsbridge. So if you feel the need to cut short your walk – time running out – feet killing you – kids off the rails, you do have options – always nice to have!
Ease your way down the steep little hill by the lock and under the bridge – mind your head, it's a bit low in places! This takes us to a steadily dropping section of the canal as it passes through a number of locks close together. Across to the right are good views over Marsden and to the hills beyond. There are still working mills here. Along the towpath we'll pass over an old wharf. One of the buildings here was the lock-keeper's cottage. The next lock is hard by the lane as it crosses the canal. If you need a shop for water or snacks - just cross the wooden bridge and go out onto the lane through a little gate. There's a shop about 150 yards along the way.
A little further along the towpath the canal passes between a canal storage reservoir and a large mill pond. The Sparth Reservoir stores water to help keep the canal full. There were originally ten of these reservoirs along the length of the valley, capable of holding almost 340 million gallons of water between them. Even so, there were times of long dry spells when the boats couldn't get through because the canal dried out. Both of these expanses of water are popular with anglers. In hot weather, the peace and quiet will, as likely as not, be shattered by shouts and laughter as youngsters cool off in the water. As we pass by a picturesque row of mill cottages, across from the Cellars Clough Mill, be sure to look out for a flock of Canada Geese. Most migrate north for the summer months, but there are usually a good few remaining year round. From here the locks are further apart as the valley drops less steeply. You'll find benches have been placed along the wayside – nice to rest awhile and savour the tranquillity. Over to the right we catch glimpses of the River Colne as it rushes over rocks and man made weirs.
Approaching Slaithwaite (pronounced Slathwaite or Slawit by locals) we pass the only working guillotine lock gate in the country. Upper Mill's weaving shed doors may be open as we pass by. We might just catch a glimpse inside and hear the clatter of the looms. With Slaithwaite in sight, the permanently moored Moonraker Floating Tearoom offers a welcome break with ice creams and hot snacks. You'll find other cafes and tea shops along the canal side in the village. Since the Huddersfield Canal Society's restoration of the canal, Slaithwaite is the only town in England to have a canal running alongside its main street.
Continuing our Colne Valley Walk along the towpath, cross Britannia Road by the pedestrian crossing and onto the towpath on the other side of the road. If there's time, though, Slaithwaite has some good pubs and cafes for refreshment and nourishment to see you through the remainder of your Colne Valley walk.
Resuming our Colne Valley Walk alongside the main street we pass through the shadow of the Globe Mill as it towers over the village. The towpath passes through an industrial estate as we leave Slaithwaite - but you would hardly know it. The way takes us under mature trees and hedgerows that very effectively hide most of the modern day warehousing and small factory units. We will soon emerge, once more, into beautiful open countryside with long distance views of villages sitting high up on the valley sides.
We pass the massive bulk of the old Titanic Mills - opened in 1912 and named for the ill-fated liner that was sunk on its maiden voyage. Dominating the surrounding landscape, the mill provided work for valley dwellers and survived its namesake into the 1970's - before succumbing to the rapid decline of the UK textile industry. Coming out of retirement it is now being restored and converted into a spa hotel, shopping complex and modern apartments – once more bringing much needed work to the folk of the Colne Valley.
Look out for old weavers cottages clinging to the valley side as it climbs away from the valley bottom. Their many mullioned, top storey windows give them a very distinctive appearance. The weaver's hand loom was housed at the top of the cottage - where the windows captured as much daylight as possible. This allowed work to start early and continue until all daylight was gone – important when the only light was by very expensive candle and payment was by finished woven length.
Before we reach Milnsbridge on our Colne Valley Walk the canal makes an "S" bend as it crosses a restored aqueduct – leaping over the River Colne. Here, below us, the river tumbles over a semi-circular weir – you can see it if you look down through the trees. A few more locks lower the canal still more, before it passes under the main road leading into Milnsbridge.
Another option to cut short our Colne Valley Walk presents itself at Milnsbridge. You could catch a bus on Manchester Road to take you back to your start point. Walking from Marsden and Slaithwaite, leave the towpath before it passes under the main road. If you're walking from Huddersfield pass under the main road before leaving the towpath. Once on the main road, climb the hill to Manchester Road. You'll find a bus stop on this side of Manchester Road for buses into Huddersfield and another on the other side for buses to Slaithwaite, Marsden and Oldham.
Milnsbridge has shops, cafes and pubs to take your mind off the walking for a while. Leave the towpath and walk down the main road into the village.
Walk under the low bridge at the end of the campus - before the ramp up to the busy Wakefield Road. This will bring us to the end of our Colne Valley Walk at the Aspley Marina on the Huddersfield Broad Canal. You will find a Pub/Restaurant - "The Aspley" - near to the marina. The railway and bus stations are a five minute walk through Huddersfield town centre. You'll be able to catch a train or bus that will take you up the valley to your starting point in Marsden, Slaithwaite or Milnsbridge.
I hope you enjoy your Colne Valley Walk alongside the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and have found this article to be useful - Happy Wandering!


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1. In a large mixing bowl, combine the crab meat, scallions, and hard-boiled eggs.
2. In another bowl, combine the celery, saltines, eggs, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, Tabasco sauce, and salt and lots of pepper. Mix well.
3. Add the celery mixture to the crab meat and fold all the ingredients together until well blended.
4. Divide the mixture into 12 equal parts and shape into round cakes. Dredge them lightly in the bread crumbs.
5. Heat the oil in a 10-inch frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the crab cakes and saute gently for about 3 to 4 minutes on each side. Drain and serve with Remoulade Sauce or Tartar Sauce.


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Santa Rosa, CA — February 26, 2003. Following hot on the heels of last year's award-winning debut of the world's first completely waterproof soft-sided camera backpack — the DryZone 200 — Lowepro unveils the DryZone 200's "little brother," the DryZone 100. The DryZone 100's unmatched combination of outstanding features is certain to continue Lowepro's cutting-edge reputation as the leader in photographic carrying case design.
Like its larger twin, the DryZone 100 represents the latest in innovative, practical camera bag technology. Its patented TIZIP™ EasySeal zipper and rubber-coated nylon drypod with heat sealed seams lock moisture out and keeps expensive equipment secure. Exterior mesh pockets and an integrated drain let water fall away to keep travel light. Drop the DryZone 100 overboard and it floats — even when fully loaded. A cushioned compartment customizes easily to accommodate a variety of photographic gear, including SLR and medium format camera systems. Away from the water, the DryZone 100's convenient inner zipper and top clip offer smooth, quick access, so the outdoor photographer never misses a crucial shot.
The DryZone 100's harness is ergonomically engineered with padded CollarCut™ shoulder straps. The bag's mesh-covered DryFlo™ back pad affords comfort on long hikes. The DryZone 100 comes equipped with a slip-resistant rubber handle for a sure grip, even with wet hands. Photographers will appreciate such specialized features as a hide-away tripod holder, and external loops for attaching any of Lowepro's modular SlipLock™ accessories and pouches.
As stylish as it is functional, the DryZone 100 is available either in high-visibility yellow with black accents, or in gray with black accents. At an affordable suggested retail price of $299, Lowepro anticipates the DryZone 100 will be the company's next sales success.
Recognized worldwide for innovation, value, and superior quality since 1967, Lowepro leads the field in the design, manufacture, and distribution of protective cases for photographic and electronic equipment.
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The battle for digital disruption: startups vs incumbents
Which do executives perceive as their main threats?
By Professor Michael R. Wade and Jialu Shan
The Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, an IMD and Cisco initiative, surveyed nearly 1000 executives across 15 industries about their attitudes and behaviors towards digital disruption. One objective for this research was to identify the source of digital disruption – startups or incumbent firms. Many of the popularized stories of digital disruption come from startups, like Uber, Skype, iZettle, and Spotify. However, there are also plenty of examples of incumbents pursuing digitally disruptive strategies, like GE, Disney, Nike, and BBVA. We were interested to learn what executives regarded as the main threats of digital disruption.In general, executives saw a bigger threat from incumbent firms than they did from startups, but this difference varied substantially by industry. As Figure 1 shows, more than half of the executives in media and entertainment, consumer packaged goods, telecommunication, and retail sectors regarded startups as the most likely source of digital disruption. By contrast, startups were seen as a much smaller threat for companies within the healthcare, utilities, oil and gas, and pharmaceuticals sectors, perhaps due to high entry barriers in these industries.
Figure 1: Large differences in the perceived source of disruptive threats across industries
Source: DBT Center, 2015
The relative advantages of startups vs incumbents
Respondents were asked about the relative advantages of startups vs incumbents. The results are shown in Figures 2 and 3. Not surprisingly, the advantages differed significantly. The top 5 advantages for startups were: faster innovation capability; greater agility; a culture of experimentation and risk-taking; highly digitalized products and services; and the vision of company leaders. By contrast, the advantages of incumbents were: greater access to capital; strongly trusted brands; a large customer base; high quality of customer relationships; and faster innovation capability.
Figure 2: The top 5 relative advantages of startups
Figure 3: The top 5 relative advantages of established companies
These advantages are largely off-setting. Startups compete by being agile, innovative, and active experimenters. Unencumbered by legacy systems and heavy bureaucracies, they adapt and move quickly. Incumbents may be less agile or innovative, but they compete due to strong asset bases, well established brands, along with deep and longstanding relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Ironically, when we talked to incumbents, they were envious of the agility of the startups; when we spoke with startups, they were envious of the stability of incumbents.
Recently, however, this relative balance has shifted in favor of startups. They are maintaining their advantages in innovation and agility, while quickly gaining in the areas of traditional strength for incumbents. Let's take each of the three top incumbent advantages in turn.
Traditionally, access to capital has been the domain of large, established companies with solid balance sheets, stable revenues, and large asset pools. These organizations are able to tap into debt and equity markets with relative ease. Startups, on the other hand, have traditionally struggled to access capital. This is changing.
We have seen a dramatic rise in venture capital (VC) funding over past decade. According to CB Insights, $100 Billion of VC funding deals were made just in the first three quarters of 2015. The number of Unicorns – private companies valued at US$1 Billion or more – has jumped dramatically in the past 5 years, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: A sharp rise in the number of unicorns
Source: CB Insights and Credit Suisse, 2015
For startups, access to capital is not as much of a constraint today as it was in the past. Low interest rates, large pools of available capital, and competition among lenders lead to generous funding opportunities. While this level of investment is probably not sustainable in the long term, at least for now, the access to capital is not a big constraint for startups.
Strong brands
Brands have traditionally taken decades to build. Yet, today this is changing. New brands are appearing all the time, and it is not taking them long to become household names. Most people had not heard of WhatsApp 5 years ago, Uber 3 years ago, or WeChat 1 year ago, and yet these brands are now global powerhouses. The speed by which brands can rise is paralleled by the speed at which they can fall. Iconic brands in the 1990s like Dell, Nokia, Morgan Stanley, Avon, and Sony have seen their reputations and valuations fall dramatically.
Large customer base
The speed at which new companies are acquiring customers is astonishing. It took Snapchat and Instagram only three years to reach 200 million users and 30% penetration of smartphone users, according to ComScore. Fast customer acquisition and instant brands are not just restricted to Internet companies. Witness the rapid rise in brands such as Uniqlo in fashion, Tesla in automobiles, Xiaomi in telecommunications, and Square in financial services.
The encumbered incumbent
All in all, our analysis does not paint a pretty picture for large, legacy businesses. The strengths that traditionally protected them from smaller and more agile competitors are being whittled away. Startups are maintaining their agility edge, but with easier access to capital, strong brands, and rapid customer acquisition.
However, the future does not need to be bleak for incumbents. In many industries where they are under threat of digital disruption, like financial services, telecommunications, retail, and technology, incumbents lead from a position of strength. They are mostly well capitalized, strongly managed, and profitable. At the moment, many of them struggle to appropriate the advantages traditionally reserved for startups, such as being agile and innovative. However, this need not be the case. If they are able to improve their sensing capability for digital treats and opportunities, their digitization of products, services, and processes, and their speed of execution, then they should be well placed to compete with startups.
Michael Wade is the Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation, and Professor of Innovation and Strategic Information Management at IMD. His interests lie at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and digital transformation.
He is Director of the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation and co-Director of IMD's new Leading Digital Business Transformation program (LDBT) designed for business leaders and senior managers from all business areas who wish to develop a strategic roadmap for digital business transformation in their organizations.
He is also co-director of the Orchestrating Winning Performance Program (OWP).
Jialu Shan is a Research Associate at the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation.
The digital business agility imperative
How companies can fight digital disruption
By Professor Michael R. Wade and Andrew Tarling
Digital disruption has the potential to overturn incumbents and reshape markets faster than at any time in history.Many companies will benefit enormously from digitization. Others will not. The real question then is which organizations will succeed. More than anything, agility and speed of innovation determine 'digital business agility'.
Disruption for all
The difference between the digital disruption of the Vortex and traditional competitive dynamics comes down to two main factors: the velocity of change and the high stakes involved. Disruptors employ their digital business agility to innovate rapidly, and then use their innovations to gain market share and scale far faster than challengers still clinging to predominantly physical business models.
Digital disruption though is not just an issue for firms in high-technology sectors. The impact of digital disruption is being felt across industries. The relatively traditional high-end fashion sector, for example, has been disrupted by digitally savvy incumbents such as Burberry, as well as new entrants such as Net-A-Porter. Meanwhile, the hospitality and travel business has been disrupted by upstarts like Airbnb, LiquidSpace, and trivago. Re-intermediators such as Kayak and RentalCars have rapidly established huge businesses without the necessity of acquiring physical assets.
To counter these potentially existential threats companies need to change, but not just change, they need to transform. Digital business transformation is a journey to adopt and deploy digital technologies and business models to improve performance quantifiably. The first step of this journey is to grasp the need for transformation – an imperative driven by the inevitability of digital disruption.
This is the issue that preoccupies market incumbents today as they contemplate digital disruption. The three most common questions leaders ask about digital disruption are: 1) "How are digital disruptors going to attack my company?"; 2) "What steps should I take?"; and 3) "What capabilities do I need, not only to respond but to go on the offensive and disrupt others?"
The answer, difficult though it may be, is that no single strategy will guarantee success. Why? Because individual moves tend to focus too much on tweaking the company's existing value chain in order to compete with traditional foes, rather than transforming how the company delivers customer value.
Meanwhile, digital disruptors focus on precisely that: supplying the cost value, experience value, and platform value customers want – frequently, and most dangerously, in combination. When a company's most formidable competitor might be a start-up or a firm from another industry that uses digital technologies and business models to create 'combinatorial disruption', minor changes to existing processes and models will not be sufficient.
To win, companies must be dynamic enough to understand and respond to the risks disruptors pose. As margins from core models decline, the percentage of revenue from new businesses needs to increase. This puts pressure on companies to improve the 'hit rate' of marketable innovation, an area in which nearly all incumbents struggle. Incumbents are frequently less able to innovate and adapt at speed than the start-ups that are disrupting their core businesses.
Digital business agility
Companies need to develop 'digital business agility.' Companies that possess digital business agility respond quickly and effectively to emerging threats to their business, and seize new market opportunities before their rivals even notice them.
Digital business agility has three main pillars: hyperawareness, informed decision-making, and fast execution. These pillars are not technologies, but rather technology-enabled capabilities. Moreover, while they can be understood as discrete, they actually build upon one another.
Hyperawareness is a company's ability to detect and monitor changes in its business environment. By 'business environment', we mean both the internal and external factors that impact the company's opportunities and risks.
Hyperaware companies are less likely to be taken by surprise and are hard to disrupt because they can sense their vulnerabilities and adjust models and processes accordingly. For example, hyperaware companies understand when their customers are dissatisfied and why – zeroing in on what customers truly value about their products, as opposed to how those products are delivered through the current value chain. Likewise, when a company is hyperaware of its competitive landscape, it understands the strength and weaknesses of traditional rivals, and the potential impact of new lines of business or acquisitions. They also anticipate which non-traditional competitors could threaten their market position, and the models they could use to disrupt.
Informed decision-making is a company's ability to make the best decision possible in a given situation. To do this, data collected as part of company hyperawareness processes must be analyzed, scaled, packaged, and distributed throughout the organization. To excel in informed decision-making, companies must develop mature data analytics capabilities that augment human judgment. However, many companies fail despite having the information they need to make the right moves. Often, this is because assumptions held by top management were not tested or questioned. Decisions based purely upon "gut feeling" or past experience have little chance of success.
Instead, companies must make decisions based on insights gleaned from data analysis, and ensure that experts from within and outside of the organization have access to these insights. Experts must be brought into the decision-making process at appropriate stages, regardless of their location, role, or rank. Diversity of perspective is a major contributor to informed decision-making but is only one element of a larger imperative of corporate inclusion.
Fast execution is a company's ability to carry out its plans quickly and effectively. Unfortunately, it is a rare capability, especially in large companies where execution is slowed by organizational complexity, cultural inertia, turf wars and a reluctance to invest in resources needed to get the job done.
As it grows, complexity becomes the bane of the incumbent. Time and again that start-ups out-execute incumbents in areas such as time to market, experimentation, and risk-taking that are essential to success. To cut through complexity and accelerate execution, incumbents can emulate the strategies of start-ups. For example, while most large firms struggle to launch innovative new products and services at speed, GE operates lean start-up principles in its FastWorks program. FastWorks accelerates the time from concept to 'minimum viable product', which customers can test.
Digital business agility – creating hyperawareness, informed decision-making, and fast execution capabilities is at the heart of competitive success in the Digital Vortex.
Younger companies are not inherently more competitive than older companies. As disruptors themselves mature, and take on the encumbrances of incumbents, they too fall prey to the next generation of disruptive players who benefit from the relentless march of technology-driven innovation. And as innovation costs plummet, agile disruptors of all stripes—and this includes incumbents—get more opportunities to create disruptive offers and business models. As a result, incumbents can tap into exciting new paths to customer value. Whether this is good or bad for an individual firm comes down to how effectively and efficiently it can create these models. And this in turn hinges on the level of digital business agility it possesses: the more it has, the greater its ability to "reset" its position and survive.
Andrew Tarling is Research Associate at the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, an IMD and Cisco initiative.
Four types of businesses where technology is speeding up change
By Professor Knut Haanaes
In most industries, the competitive landscape is rapidly changing and as a result, companies speed through their life-cycles at an unprecedented pace (actually twice as fast as 20 years ago, according to recent BCG research).Not only are whole industries being disrupted – media and entertainment, energy and retailing, to mention a few – but the changes within industries are also faster than ever.The figure below shows the massive changes in the media industry in North America from 1950 to 2010. It illustrates a more general picture of what we see across most industries. We see that companies are jostling within industries at an ever-increasing pace.
Digital is the main driver of the current changes upending the business world. Digitization affects all aspects of our lives; the way we work, the way we live and the way we consume. Much has already been said about digital. However, in the midst of all the technological hype/fantasizing/speculation, we believe that business leaders need to clearly understand how digital enables more effective business models.
A business model articulates how a company creates value for its customers and manages the costs of production and delivery. There are many different business models out there. In some way every business has its own. However, there are four important archetypical business models that are most affected by digital:
Resource sharing platforms
First, resource sharing platforms insource physical, informational, and human resources. Classical examples include shared facilities or labor pools, but this is a current fast growing set of services covering all business functions ranging from IT and HR to facility management and contract manufacturing.
The logic of resource sharing is compelling – by leveraging the total scale in the delivery of a given process across clients, the provider can drive up value through reliability, development and quality at the same time as they can drive down costs through shared technology platforms. Digital is a major enabler because the firm can build global delivery at scale, while also offering relevant data and higher delivery quality. Services through resource sharing is a scale and platform game where the winner will be the one who is able to drive scale in customers and utilize technology platforms to deliver. IBM has been there for a long time, so has ISS, Securitas and all large Enterprise Resource Planning players. Whereas the early 20th century was the era of mass production of products (from cars onwards), the early 21st century is the time of mass "production" of services. Digital is the game changer as it enables scale, quality, data processing, machine to machine communications and sensor based surveillance. And we are just seeing the beginning!
Networking services
As interesting, and perhaps even more important, is the explosion in networking services enabled by digital technologies. Networking services are often found in established industries such as transportation, banking, and the operation of market places and exchanges. But now, digital technologies have enabled incredibly effective development and operations for these types of services. Networking services is probably the business model most often associated with disruption because it allows for completely new ways of delivering value. Think about the following famous disruptors: Spotify, Netflix, Uber, AirBnB, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, and Google – to name a few. Despite appearing at different times, they all have many similarities. They all outcompeted incumbents without producing end products or services. They created highly efficient networking mechanisms that allowed for large scale sharing and involvement by multiple product or service suppliers. In a way, they created clubs that became huge and whose network effects are a key part of their value. They connected people, companies, and places. Their users, or "members", wanted to be part of the largest network because it provided the best connectivity, the richest offerings, access to the most people and places. These network service firms also all completely outcompeted the incumbents in the technology arena, providing platforms that reach huge global scale fast and drive cost to deliver equally fast. And finally, don't be surprised that Uber subsidizes drivers. Network rollout is the largest investment in networks, and they know so well that these are "winner takes all" games!
Problem solving companies
Another group of service firms known as problem solving companies, is also being transformed by digital. These are the law firms, the management consultants, the architects, the engineers, the health care services, the certifiers, the analysts, and more. All these professional services are becoming much more efficient through the use of digital tools, global databases, collaboration platforms, and communication solutions. Digital technologies can augment, and in some cases, replace professionals. But more often, they allow one-man firms to be efficient, by allowing virtual networks to form instantly and enhance the efficiency of the operations of global players like EY and Deloitte in area of auditing, consulting and taxes, McKinsey and BCG in top management consulting, as well as DLA Piper and Baker & McKenzie in the law and compliance sector. They all know that if they don't quickly become fully digital, they will decline rapidly and be overtaken by competition and become irrelevant. Digital is a necessity inside such firms and a requirement in their markets. Their clients expect to be working with companies that are one step ahead, not two steps behind.
Manufacturing firms
Finally, are manufacturing firms less influenced by digital? Not at all. Most would say that manufacturing, robotics, automation, 3D printing, sensors and digital platforms will allow for a fourth industrial revolution that brings about mass customization – an economy that transcends the traditional trade-off between scale and customization. This revolution also breaks down the traditional ideas driving globalization, allowing for instant local production and development at low cost. The challenge for industrial firms is twofold. First they need to embrace digital fast, like GE is doing. Second, they need to embrace disruption and not be defensive, like the car producers were with electric and self-driving cars.
These are the four business models which will be the most affected by digital. In other sectors we also see that digital allows firms to develop new business models (like Amazon branching out into cloud services), or transform business models entirely (as IBM did in moving from products to services and now again into analytics). We also see that digital allows firms to disrupt themselves (Netflix continuously moving to the next delivery platform is a good example).
In sum, the overriding challenge for all firms is to recognize that digital will transform the way they create value very fast, not "hope it will pass" or "not be that important". We need to recognize that:
All Business models will be digital.
Digital will accentuate the core logic and make business models even more important.
Digital will also affect the organizational design in different business models in specific ways.
Finally the process of digitization has to be aligned with the logic of the business.
Knut Haanaes is Professor at IMD.
Øystein D. Fjeldstad is professor and Telenor Chair of International Strategy and Management at BI Norwegian Business School.
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The suspect, 23, "is being investigated over suspected preparation for [committing] a grave violent offense threatening the state," regional public prosecutor, Lorenz Haase, told the local Leipziger Volkerszeitung newspaper. The identity of the man has not yet been revealed.
The announcement followed a police raid on four apartments in Leipzig's western district of Gruenau, media report, citing the regional Public Prosecutor's Office. Officers also seized "objects and documents" that are now being assessed by the police.
Officials have not disclosed any details concerning the suspect's specific attack plans or his links to any terrorist organizations. "The investigation is still ongoing," Haase said.
Germany has been on high alert since the 2016 Christmas market attack, in which 12 people were killed and hundreds of others injured. In December 2017, the country's domestic intelligence chief, Hans-Georg Maassen, said that Germany is facing a record number of Islamists.
In later December last year, local police detained a man who was allegedly plotting a car-ramming attack near an ice-skating rink in the city of Karlsruhe and had links to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). A month earlier, six Syrian asylum seekers were also detained in Germany on suspicion of being IS members and plotting an attack on a "public target" including a Christmas market.


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Q: Hosting multiple domains in Apache2 - how? Although I've found related articles on stackoverflow, I have seen various suggestions which I've tried out but I still experience problems, so that's the reason why I'm posting this.
I have a question which involves DNS, Debian, Apache2 and Wordpress. I've been struggling with this for some time now and haven't been able to solve it. My current conclusion is that 2there is something with my dns and apache virtual host definitions", but, as I said I'm far from sure.
This is what my config looks like:

*

*two domains which I "own" hosted by moniker.com  - let's call them domaina and domainb

*a hosted vps with Debian, apache2 and wordpress. The vps has ip x.y.z.t

*each domain has three 'A' records defined: '*', '@' and 'www'

*URL rewrite enabled (a2enmod rewrite)

*Wordpress installed and links created to the wordpress directory for both document directories specified in the virtualhost directives below

Both 'domaina' and 'domainb' point to my vps and this is working ok. However, what I've been unable to solve is to have the vps handle "multiple virtual hosts". I thought I would be able to handle this by using virtual hosts in Apache. For that purpose I've defined two sites under /etc/apache2/sites-available which looks like this:
(file: /etc/apache2/sites-available/domaina.com)
<VirtualHost x.y.z.t:80>
ServerName domaina.com
ServerAdmin me@domaina.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/domaina.com
DirectoryIndex index.php
<Directory /var/www/domaina.com/>
  AllowOverride all
  Order deny,allow
  Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

(file: /etc/apache2/sites-available/domainb.com)
<VirtualHost x.y.z.t:80>
ServerName domainb.com
ServerAdmin me@domainab.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/domainb.com
DirectoryIndex index.php
<Directory /var/www/domainb.com/>
  AllowOverride all
  Order deny,allow
  Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Now, when I try to address the sites above from a web-browser I end up at the default apache directory with the index.html file rendered in the browser instead of arriving at the two different wordpress configurations. Obviously there's something wrong with my thinking around "VirtualHosts" and/or DNS-configurations…
I forgot to mention that I've made loads of /etc/unit.d/apache2 restarts... Sorry...
Frankly speaking I'm lost here and any help on this would be very much appreciated.
Cheers

A: If you did restart apache and its still not working please respond, as I have experienced similar issues with Apache, especially when getting the virtual host to work. I realise your running on Debian which is different to WAMP, but this is what I do when opening a new virtual host.
First I add the domain to the windows system 32 drivers etc hosts file, it allows for intranet
127.0.0.1 domainname and this stops the url from looking to the web.
Then I have to add the corret directories to the www/your folder.
Just inside the root folder there ought to be a directory called vhosts,
I had to make totaly empty instances of the conf files with just the  filename of the virtual hosts inside it so that the changes you made to the httpd-vhosts.conf works.
So what you will need to do is find the wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.21/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts makes sure that you have the one from the conf/axtra and not conf/orginal.
<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/**name of the folder**"

ServerName **as_inserted_in_hosts**

<directory "c:/wamp/www//**name of the folder**">

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride all

Order Deny,Allow

Deny from all

Allow from 127.0.0.1

</directory>

</VirtualHost>

Save. Apache stop all services, I also have to restart the service running the intranet in windows to update the changes to the hosts file and then restart apache.
This is what I have to do so that when I open localhost from Apache it allows me to see the links appear under virtual hosts as well as the directories appearing under your projects.
Have a look at this tutorial... Explains how to set up virtual hosts

A: Do you have a NameVirtualHost directive in your apache2.conf anywhere? You'll need that to enable virtual hosting. It can go in apache2.conf or any file included by apache2.conf. On my server I've got it in ports.conf.
NameVirtualHost *:80

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html#using