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Our services range from brakes to timing component replacements. If you are in demand of repair, we surely will be able to fix it. Ryan Gangemi is Truckee BMW mechanic that specializes in the 30k, 60k, and 90k services. He can also provide advisory pre-purchase information to customers that will go beyond what other shops offer. At Ryan GMW, we don't make unnecessary repairs.
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Johnny Depp Will Not Return as Captain Jack Sparrow in Future 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Movies
In a new report from The Hollywood Reporter, they have learned that Disney has ultimately blocked Johnny Depp from making a returning cameo appearance to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
According to the trade, Disney made the decision to distance themselves from Depp before his 'wife beater' libel trial in the UK, despite never formally severing ties. Disney 'balked' at executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer's idea of bringing back Depp for a cameo in the female-centric spin-off of the franchise, rumored to be led by Margot Robbie (The Suicide Squad).
THR goes on to say that Bruckheimer, who has worked with Depp on multiple project at Disney and other studios, has been one of Depp's "biggest champions." However, despite his efforts to get Depp to return to the franchise, Disney said no and his relationship with the actor is said have "frayed" in recent months.
Read: Margot Robbie to Star in New 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Movie
Listen I may be in the minority, but I think it was Depp's time to get away from this franchise. Sparrow was a character that was used properly in the first movie, a supporting character that played off the main characters well, but was the driving force to an overall story, and ultimately earned Depp an Academy Award nomination. Sadly, Disney made the pivot to make Sparrow the main character and while I think it worked for Pirates 2 and 3, Sparrow become a slapstick character that tired really quickly, and I think it showed with the quality of Pirates 4 and 5, which I personally enjoyed.
Like I said, I know I may be in the minority, as there have already been multiple petitions signed by more than a million fans online, that have demanded Depp be reinstated in his role as Sparrow. I don't need to go into all the details on the Depp Heard stuff here, I'm sure you can find that info elsewhere.
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The 6 Biggest Marketing Storylines of 2016
By Dillon Baker December 16th, 2016
Out of everything that happened in marketing this year, perhaps nothing was more symbolic than digital advertising spend overtaking TV ad spend. For more than half a century, TV had been the primary advertising medium for marketers. The internet changed all that—and we'll look back at 2016 as the year that digital officially assumed the mantle.
But it wasn't just spending habits that dominated headlines over the last 12 months. 2016 was a landmark year for the marketing, media, advertising, and tech space. So what happened? Here are the six storylines every marketer should know.
Facebook's controversial domination
We used to talk about social media as a group. Now, there's Facebook, and then there's everyone else.
Facebook's incredible boom continued unabated this year as the company brought in record profits; broke milestones (like 1 billion daily active users); and opened up its subsidiary, Instagram, to a wave of advertising investment.
Facebook also became a key tool for marketers who increasingly use the platform to advertise and boost content because of its unique targeting features.
But Facebook still had a massive list of controversies: Fake news. Censorship. Hyper-partisan content mills. Filter bubbles. Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen. Multiple embarrassing measurement mistakes. India's blockage of Free Basics. Its rocky Marketplace launch. The company's absurd assertion that it "isn't a media company."
It's safe to assume that 2016—despite all of the company's financial successes—is a year founder Mark Zuckerberg would likely not want to repeat.
VR launches, but AR rules the headlines
Playstation VR, Oculus, and HTC Vive—the three big names in the virtual reality (VR) marketplace—all hit shelves this year, but they arrived with a bit of a thud. Playstation VR has done the best by far, at 745,434 projected sales, but none of the new products have exactly stormed the market.
Instead, it was a free augmented reality (AR) app that set the world ablaze: Pokémon Go.
Though Pokémon has fallen far from its perch as the world's collective obsession, there's no dismissing the power of AR (and good old-fashioned nostalgia) after the app's explosive success.
Snapchat, likewise, continued to expand into AR with its first hardware product—Snapchat Spectacles—and improved on its iconic lenses, which can now alter the world around you as well as your face. Other companies started using other AR gadgets like Microsoft HoloLens and Google Glass for exciting commercial applications, such as letting factory workers see diagrams and instructions while they're working.
If 2016 was any indication, VR may end up as a niche market compared to the portability, sociability, and widespread applications of AR.
AI awakens
As a recent article in The New York Times Magazine titled "The Great AI Awakening" suggests, 2016 was the year artificial intelligence began to turn from science fiction to reality.
A number of major tech companies—from Google to Facebook to Amazon—made massive investments in AI. Google's new smartphone, Pixel, featured the company's cutting-edge AI, 'Assistant.' Facebook, meanwhile, has M, which has mostly appeared on its messaging app Messenger. Amazon's Alexa can be found inside millions of homes. And just about every major martech company launched or greatly improved its own AI assistants this year: Adobe has Sensai, Salesforce has Einstein, and IBM has Watson, just to name a few.
It's no exaggeration to say that AI and machine learning represent the next major leap in computing. Marketers, who are reliant on data-heavy platforms, need to pay attention.
Everyone wants to be everything
It used to be that agencies were agencies, publishers were publishers, and consultancies were consultancies. Today, however, it's becoming harder to tell them apart.
Like most trends on this list, this story isn't contained to 2016. But this year confirmed that the melding of traditional identities is here to stay. The Washington Post went heavy into ad tech. Accenture built a 10,000-square-foot content studio in SoHo. The New York Times T Brand Studio grew to more than 100 people and began offering a variety of services typically exclusive to agencies.
To compete in a fractured media landscape, it seems like every major firm is expanding their services to see what sticks. Don't be surprised if 2017 brings more expansions, acquisitions, and innovations that will leave you asking, "Wait, they did that?"
Big martech flirts with big social
Speaking of surprising moves, 2016 saw two of the biggest martech players—Microsoft and Salesforce—suddenly begin to colonize social media platforms.
Microsoft fought off Salesforce in its acquisition of LinkedIn, while Salesforce was the last company standing in a battle for Twitter that ultimately ended up with no winners.
But why? The question left some tech journalists scratching their heads, but there is a simple answer: data. Every social media platform has a treasure trove of personal data on its users, which is a valuable currency in the digital age. Just ask Google and Facebook.
For Microsoft and Salesforce, which builds enterprise software, LinkedIn's massive network of professionals made it an attractive acquisition. The same goes for Twitter, which intrigued Salesforce because of its data and customer service potential. It's unclear whether the trend will continue next year, but it was a strange moment when two very different software worlds came together.
The regulatory crackdown
While the internet economy becomes more reliant on the free flow of personal data, regulators in the EU aren't rolling over to tech giants.
The European parliament approved stringent privacy rules in April, which has made life difficult for global companies and tech giants. National governments have taken action as well, such as France sanctioning Facebook for violating data-collection laws and India booting Facebook's Free Basics project out of the country.
Meanwhile, the FTC began punishing those who violated its native advertising guidelines. The most high-profile case involved a Warner Bros. influencer campaign with PewDiePie and other famous YouTubers, which led to a formal complaint from the FTC that WB hid the paid nature of the content partnership.
China also showed no signs of relenting to tech giants. Uber was forced to give up its incredibly expensive campaign to penetrate the Chinese market. And Facebook remained banned from the market even though it built suppression tools to appease the Chinese government.
For marketers relying on tools that use customer data—which at this point, is basically all of them—2016 should be a lesson that data collection can, at least for now, only go so far.
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Tags: artificial intelligence, artificial reality, facebook, FTC, LinkedIn, MarTech, Salesforce, Twitter, Virtual Reality, year in review


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Older Workers More Fearful Of Unemployment Says Steve Allen Insurance Brokers
Older workers' confidence in their job security has fallen since the start of the year, with only younger people expressing optimism, according to a new report.
Bury,Lancashire (PRWEB UK) 21 March 2013
A study by Legal & General ahead of this week's official unemployment figures showed a marked difference in attitudes between age groups.
Adults aged between 45 and 54 were 10% less confident about their job security since last October and there was a 6% drop among the over-55s. The only increase was in the 18 to 24-year-old category, which was up by 4%.
Steve Allen head of Steve Allen Insurance, said: "Concerns about younger people being able to find employment is consistently making the news but for those who are already employed, it is the older workers who are most concerned about their continued job security. With an increasing number of older workers having to continue to work for longer than they had planned it is understandable to see them becoming increasingly worried about their future job security."
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Georgian painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Ilia Shengelaya in the town of Gagra in Abkhazia (1949). Studied at Sukhumi School of Art (1963–66) and Tbilisi Academy of Arts (1966–71). Member of the Union of Artists (1988). Worked as a freelance artist in Sukhumi (until 1992). Emigrated to Germany (1993), where he joined the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler (1994) and opened a studio at Kunstpark Ost in Munich (1997). Awarded German citizenship (2007). Lives and works in Munich. Contributed to exhibitions (from 1972). Contributed to the Van Gogh Centennial Exhibition at the Palitra Gallery in Leningrad (1990), Georgische Künstler in Bayern in Landshut, Landsberg, Starnberg, Ansbach and Rosenheim (1992–93), 4mal at Kunstpark Ost in Munich (1999), Georgische Kulturtage in Bad Doberan (2000), Abstraction in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02), Bilder, Briefe, Noten LI at the Autoren Galerie 1 in Munich (2004), K06 "siehmalan" at the Haus der Kunst in Munich (2006), NordArt 09 at KiC – Kunst in der Carlshütte in Büdelsdorf (2009), 3 x Heimat Kaukasus in art place berlin at the Park Inn by Radisson in Berlin (2011), Frisch gebügelt at the whiteBOX in der Kultfabrik in Munich (2011), Goldene Zeiten at the Goldberg Studios in Munich (2011), Bunte Hunde at the Goldberg Studios in Munich (2012) and one-man shows at the Max-Plank-Institut in Tübingen (1994), Hewlett-Packard in Böblingen (1994), Alzgalerie in Chiemgau (1994, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2006), Kunstverein Roter Pavillon in Bad Doberan (1994, 2001, 2009), Amtshaus zu Hohenaschau in Aschau im Chiemgau (1995), PC-Print-Gallery in Munich (1996), Jazz Meile Thüringen in Jena (1997), Ost-West Galerie in Riehen (1998), Galerie im Troadkasten at the Schlossmuseum Feldegg in Pram (1998), Galerie Jens Pesche in Munich (1998), Galerie AViVA in Essen (1998), Galerie Toennissen in Cologne (1999, 2001), Hewlett-Packard in Riem and Vienna (2000), Kulturreferat in Munich (2002), Galerie Goethe 53 in Munich (2002), Galerie "Die Schmiede" in Aying (2002), Galerie Jaspers in Munich (2004, 2005), Café GAP in Munich (2007), BBK München und Oberbayern in Munich (2008), Theater Halle 7 in Munich (2009), whiteBOX in der Kultfabrik in Munich (2009) and Kunstforum Troadkastn in Kramsach (2010).
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Q: Shell Exec in Apache sends output to error log I need to run a script from a php script that is run in Apache webserver. I have tried both exec and shell_exec and both times the scripts runs just fine but the output goes to the error log (as if doing error_log($output)).
So my question is how can I capture the output in a variable and not have it be sent to the error log?

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You will have to add 2>&1 at the end of your command to pipe stderr to stdout, then both will appear in the return string from shell_exec.
If you want to capture the file descriptors stderr and stdout separately, you can use proc_open instead.

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My Kickstarter of the Kingdom Builder Big Box Edition finally arrived. It was waiting for me when I arrived home on Monday so I took it straight to Cult, opened it, punched out the pieces and spent the rest of the evening playing it. The box is as big as the name implies, filled to the brim with expansions but we just kept to the base game for now. I got in three games but didn't manage to win any of them. Matt got in a double whammy before ducking out to play Small World and Cathy won the other. For a game that often gets mixed reviews it was very well received by those that played it. How often I can muster the strength to carry a box of that size down to IpBoG is another matter.
A couple of copies of Munchkin were brought along and two games were going on in parallel while the others played Cosmic Encounter which Steve ended up winning. Some Love Letter and half a game of Alhambra (I'm not too sure what happened there) were also played. I left while a few stragglers battled it out for supremacy in Small World.
My plan for the long promised King of Tokyo tournament is to have it in two weeks' time. Pencil it in your diaries and start spreading the word!


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		self.email = data["email"]
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		self.minPrice = data["criteria"]["minPrice"]
		self.maxPrice = data["criteria"]["maxPrice"]
		self.minSqft = data["criteria"]["minSqft"]
		self.maxSqft = data["criteria"]["maxSqft"]
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Enforcement of the mooted ban on Macau casino employees entering any local gaming floor outside work hours will be the responsibility of casino operators via monitoring by their security staff, rather than via use of "technological measures" – at least at first – the local gaming regulator has told GGRAsia.
"In the future, we'll consider establishing a hotline [for reporting purposes]; and in the long run, we'll also consider the adoption of technological measures in assisting the enforcement of the [proposed] law," said the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau – also known as DICJ in the Portuguese acronym – in an emailed statement in response to our enquiry.
The gaming bureau didn't clarify what such "technological measures" might be. On Tuesday, Lei Man Chao, deputy director of Macau gaming labour grouping Professional for Gaming of New Macau, told us the government ought to consider a casino entry levy for Macau residents. Only holders of Macau ID can be dealers in the city's casinos under current rules set by the local government.
Singapore imposes a levy on its citizens and residents wishing to use the two casino resorts there, and requires production of an identity document for all people wishing to enter the gaming areas of the two places. Japan is to impose a levy on locals for its nascent casino industry and says it will use the country's citizen number identification regime – known as the "My Number Card" system – to verify the identity of locals entering casinos.
Macau casino investor Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd, a suitor for a Japan casino licence, has proposed using its proprietary identity check system MelGuard – including facial recognition technology – as a safeguard in any resort it is allowed to build there.
The aggregate number of Macau gaming workers at risk from problem gambling outside work hours is unclear from publicly-disclosed information. According to figures mentioned in March by Macau's Social Affairs Bureau, of 157 requests for assistance in 2017 regarding problem gambling, approximately 30 percent of cases involved casino employees.
The Macau government proposes that any designated casino worker detected on a local casino's gaming floor outside working hours would be liable to a fine of between MOP1,000 (US$125) and MOP10,000.
The government's bill envisages Macau casino workers being allowed to gamble in local casinos only on the first three days of the Chinese New Year holiday period. Casino workers would also be permitted to step onto gaming floors outside work hours if it were related to "learning" – understood to be a reference to professional training or education – or if "participating in an association's event". The meaning of the latter phrase is yet to be clarified.
Some staff not directly involved with gaming operations – including cage staff, food and beverage outlet workers, cleaners and those connected to surveillance operations – will also be included in the ban.
Speaking on Friday at an event organised by the city's Executive Council to announce the legislative proposal, Paulo Martins Chan, director of the gaming regulator, said it would post on its official website the list of casino resort job positions covered by the proposed new casino entry rules.


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ALUMNI CONVERSATIONS - January 12, 2017
Alex: Hofstra, Long Island, NY. Majoring in theatre and film, set and lighting design. Wanted to be near an area he could do things. Didn't want small town. NYC has everything. Visited after being accepted - during April break. Love it, student body is great, accepting. Only 7000 undergrad, good middle ground. Consider other people's opinions, but choose based on what you want and where you want to be. Don't worry about what other people think about where you go. This is an experience just for you.
Antonia - Goucher, Towson, MD. Not my first choice when applying, but experience with my admissions counselor helped solidify my decision. He came out here and spoke with me. Cared about me as a person, my beliefs, etc. Every adult on campus really cares about you as an individual. 1000 people. Diversity and acceptance and scholarship was really important, also generous scholarship. Skyped with admissions and financial aid, and my award was adjusted up. Didn't visit the campus until I moved in. Perfect fit and I love it. Only thing is the cold weather, and there is some culture shock.
Julia - UCBerkeley. I never had one perfect school, and that made deciding hard. Chose UCB, as it is great, but easy to transfer out of if I change my mind. Even if one school doesn't speak to, you can go and be happy there. Biggest reservation was the size of school. Used to smaller learning environment. Best way to deal with big school is join things, dance classes, club volleyball, activist club. Be part of a smaller school in greater campus. UCB was the only school I didn't visit, because it seemed like a fantasy reach so I didn't want to waste time on it. Really pick what fits for you, not what other people say. What do you need? What can you NOT live without?
Rachel - Scripps, Claremont, CA. Women's college. Took a gap year and deferred. Application process was insane, applied to too many schools, had no idea, so took gap year. I ended up choosing between Kenyon and Scripps (two I applied to on a whim) because of good scholarships. I found i really like the people and now realize how important that is too many. Half of my friends are transferring as sophomores. The biggest factors have been weather and people. Be careful. Know yourself and take that into consideration. Wish I had applied to more women's colleges - but no one talked about them. So so supportive. No cattiness, so much love and support. People don't get upset over small things. No guys in the way to complicate your relationship with other girls. Best of both worlds, part of a consortium. Can take classes at any of the 5 in the consortium, and take advantage of any major. 4000 students instead of 400. Taking a science program that speeds up pre-med.
Olivia - Tufts, Boston, MA. Wreck applying. Always thought I would go in CA, but put this on my list when on a vacation. Applied EDII January 1st. Tufts was the one school I really wanted to get in. Got in February. Was a traumatic experience, but my gut told me to go and that I would be happy there. Worth it. Despite being very scary and the fear of leaving home. Excited when I got there. Just do it. I've grown from being on the other side of the country. The way people think is different and that's cool to see.
Emma - Gap Year currently - deferred from Boulder. Always knew I was going to college, applied, visited, but always had gap year in back of my mind. Went to Gap Year Fair, and did it. South America! College is on the path, and gap year was making a decision to push out of comfort zone. Last three months in Ecuador and Bolivia, working and living with host families. Nicaragua coming up! You hear that majority are going to college, but this has been really cool. Great community and connections with other kids doing gap years. I'll start school with connections in US and I know more about what I want to study and where I see my future. Felt like my choice. More in control. Doesn't feel like what I'm supposed to do, but what I want to do. Really wonderful an a cool option to consider. Easy to figure out. Speaking Spanish, but can't call mom whenever. Cool choice.
Jackie - Gonzaga. Starting, was in denial, loved high school, didn't want change. Did EA anyway. Neighbor Megan is in Gonzaga and told me how great it was. Good spirit, great basketball team. I love the east coast, but am in Washington state. Critical to look at - campus life. At UCs, Greek life is prevalent and many of my friends didn't choose that and are struggling to make friends. Gonzaga has no Greek Life, so it is more inclusive. Lifestyle is important.
Academically Prepared? AP Lit - you're good. AP classes prepared me a lot. APUSH - the feeling of never being finished with work, but I have to eat - that is the feeling in all academics. Not in school all day, make your own schedule, so that is better.
Alex has 6-7 classes: staying away from 8 am. Don't expect that every college will have the same standard of work for every class. Every class will be different, expectations, etc.
Goucher and Drake are similar - really involved teachers. Office Hours - go to them. Talk to your professors - they want to help you.
Find a balance with academics and having fun. At Call, it always feels like there is more you could be doing. You may have to sacrifice all A's to have fun. Cal has been humbling - at Drake I was highly ranked, but at Cal everyone is there. Everyone is motivated and hard working, but everyone is struggling. You are not alone in feeling it is challenging.
Social Adjustments: Keep in touch with the friends you care about, not everyone. Don't let that cut. You off from meeting new people. Having friends will help you so much - studying, relaxing, having fun. In courses for my major, I met folks with similar mindset. The welcome events there help you meet people. It's hard to leave your family, but they will always be there. Part of life is to move on and learn how to be by yourself.
Go out and pretend to be drunk, introduce myself to a lot of people, go to bed early and still be productive the next day. It works, no one knows you are not drunk.
I was really scared to leave my parents, but doing pre-orientation program. Went back five days for a program, met a bunch of kids, we have dinner every Sunday, made the transition almost seamless. Gave me people to talk to when I first got there. The backpacking program was awesome and we got really close
Don't let shallow conversations in the beginning deter you. You will make friends as time goes by. I've found so many great people.
Roommate: survey and got paired with a random person and it's fine. You can do either gender at Goucher, but I chose not to pick. All doubles - not complicated. Most randomly based on survey, or can get them from message. 50/50 toss up whether you will like them or not. Really cool online and crazy in person, or lame online and great in person. If you really hate your roommate, you can get out of it. See your RA. Be respectful as a living mate, have respect for your space.
Most visiting parents for the first time or second now. UCB only 3 times. Made a conscious decision to not go home more often, as it was a big adjustment, and I needed time to acclimate. I'm in a whole other world even only 40 minutes away because I choose not to come home.
Good number of schools to apply to: 6 or 7, like 8, not too many, look at the financial aid when deciding where to apply, apply to schools close to an airport.
Izzy Snow - Gap Year. I felt drowned out by all the senior noise. I questioned WHY I was going to college. I needed balance and to b more confident in myself. This year, I have been able to learn from my friends who are already in college. I have been able to work, plan some travel abroad, and get to know myself.
Emma: Gap Year People would ask my why and I said why not?
Jackie: Push through the first week and go with your gut as you meet new people. Don't be swayed by what everyone else is doing.
Don't compare yourself to others.
Make sure you feel you can be yourself on campus - visiting is crucial.
First semester is the time when everyone is open to making new friends so if you don't like the group you're hanging with, look elsewhere.
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Kate Plummer: What makes a successful rebrand?
12 Apr 2019 Voices
With big and small charities shaking up their brands, Kate Plummer goes behind the logos to see what makes a successful rebrand.
"If a brand is weak but the charity has a good programme, it's not selling itself to its audience," says Rob Kelly, communications lead at Frontline AIDS. His charity underwent a major rebrand in February, changing its name, logo and strategy.
From attracting donors to working with beneficiaries, branding plays an important role in cementing a charity's place in the sector and its ability to carry out its objectives. Charities must regularly adjust to reflect internal and external contexts. Sometimes, this means a new strapline is rolled out, or a logo is given a lick of paint. But often, charities will undergo a total rebrand.
Why rebrand?
With the risk of alienating existing support ever present, what motivates a charity to discard their old image in favour of something new? Some charities rebrand to reflect deep structural changes in a charity. When Alcohol Concern and Alcohol Research UK merged in November 2018, it was clear that the resultant organisation was different. Alcohol Concern focused on campaigning while Alcohol Research UK, unsurprisingly, focused on research. So, they became Alcohol Change UK (or ACUK).
"We decided very early on that our new organisation needed a new brand to help us deliver on the new charity's ambition," says Maddy Lawson, communications manager at the charity.
The charitable cause can also lead a charity to change its image. Frontline AIDS rebranded due to changes in the cultural perception of HIV and AIDS. Kelly says that due to progress made in fighting AIDS, the syndrome has fallen off the global agenda and the momentum to "finish the job" has "lost its energy".
Money was also a deciding factor. The charity rebranded to "diversify income", since its income model shifted from aid and government grants to general fundraising.
Once a charity has decided to rebrand, the process is important. Frontline AIDS conceptualised the rebrand in two phases: development and implementation. In the development phase, the charity interviewed 280 stakeholders, including donors and target donors to measure external perceptions of the brand, and to source ideas about what needed to change. Kelly says the quality of this initial research was "absolutely crucial".
Charities can then create their new designs. For some, this means recruiting an external branding agency to further development. Frontline AIDS wanted to work with an agency that would be able to work fast. It chose the branding agency Brandpie as it liked that the agency had mainly worked with corporate clients in the past. Kelly said the charity valued "an outside perspective" from the sector.
ACUK invited various agencies to pitch their ideas to the charity. "We were looking for an agency that would challenge us, keep us realistic and work creatively and collaboratively with our small team," Lawson said.
Like Frontline AIDS, it wanted an agency that was willing to take on a challenge. Unlike Frontline AIDS, it wanted a branding agency experienced with "charity and merger rebranding". The agency Offthetopofmyhead fit the criteria.
With or without agency support, tough decisions on design are then taken, dependant on the needs of the charity. Sue Ryder rebranded in September 2018 because it wanted to raise awareness about its new bereavement services. The charity kept the logo because "it was recognisable and already known by healthcare professionals, people we care for and supporters," said a spokesperson.
LGBTQ+ charity akt, on the other hand, changed its name and logo to lower-case last month due to "a combination of avoiding the acronym appearing too 'corporate' and creating something that visually was a little more unusual," said Matt Horwood, assistant director of communications at the charity.
Then there's phase two: implementation. For akt, this involved creating a teaser campaign on social media to start conversations about what the brand was doing. This "went down really well with our supporters online," said Horwood. Next, the charity notified the media via press releases, and sent newsletters to stakeholders. "We also unveiled a large banner on Canal Street, in Manchester's Gay Village," Horwood said.
The Canal and River Trust underwent a similar process, but kept its new logo a secret from stakeholders until the brand was officially launched. It then decided to roll out the new visuals in a two-to-three-year period, replenishing stock and merchandise as it runs out, rather than replacing it all immediately.
Kelly agrees that implementing a new brand is an ongoing process. "These things are rarely fully done," he says.
In undergoing a successful rebrand, charities must be prepared for the challenges that they may face. The spokesperson from Sue Ryder said a notable difficulty was "getting input from all area of the charity without it becoming design by committee".
Smaller charities may face the inverse issue. Horwood notes that akt started its rebrand before there was a communications director at the charity, and it could not benefit from huge resources.
Meanwhile, as the Canal and River Trust wished to keep their new logo secret, this threw up problems of its own. Reflecting on the experience, Nicky Wakeford, head of marketing and supporter development, says: "This was extremely difficult as we were ordering thousands of new uniform and signs, getting vans rebranded, and organising picnic events across the country for our colleagues and volunteers."
So, what makes a successful rebrand? The charities are united on it being about strategy. Lawson says: "A good brand should be a reflection of and tool to achieve a charity's mission. In that way it's vital – but not for its own sake, and not without the strategy and action to give it substance."
Kelly agrees. "Too often brands are just about logos and colours and this is where they fail to reap rewards," he said.
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One month shy of 30, Rory McIlroy - somehow - remains a boy to us. Still mop-haired and goofy and oddly fragile in our thoughts, still that kid who got lost down in the valley on ten. The one who stood top of the hill, rattled but still leading the Masters. Who walked off a green at the bottom, seventh and aching for home.
He's won four Majors since, putting a torch to some of golf's most famous stretches. He's rewritten how nature built him. He's had more epiphanies than Aristotle, won more money than a single person could ever need or use.
But, in Masters week, muscle-memory cannot possibly be his friend.
This is McIlroy's fifth time heading for Georgia to a soundtrack of the golf world's fixation with whether or not he has what it takes to join those high priests, Sarazen, Hogan, Player, Nicklaus and Woods, as career Grand Slammers.
A year ago, he pulled the curtains on Masters Saturday, talking up his chances and, specifically, the appeal of a Sunday street-fight with Patrick Reed.
"Going to show everyone what I've got..."
"All the pressure's on him tomorrow..."
"Hoping to spoil the party..."
It was as if he'd forgotten the bloodshed of Hazeltine. As if Rory was trying to be someone or something that didn't quite rhyme with what seems to reside within. Then he missed that eagle putt on two; took an iron to the tee on three. And you knew he remembered everything.
McIlroy at his best is extraordinary. His golf can seem fearless, lawless even when confidence is up, a talent glowing like a magnesium flare. Yet the grumbles we have for him run into petty multiples.
Four years and eight months since that last Major at Valhalla, the human instinct is to wonder if the stony kid who blanked Rickie Fowler and Phil Mickelson on a congested sixth tee even exists anymore.
The one who'd won the PGA at Wentworth that May just four days after calling off his wedding to Caroline Wozniacki. Who was Open Champion at Hoylake two months later. Who then won the Bridgestone Invitational at Akron.
The guy who had could sit on that Valhalla bench, blanking everybody around him. Maybe a white man's version of Tiger. Cold. Tunnelled. Unreachable.
When McIlroy went to Sawgrass last month, the only noise in his ears was an audience's obsession with nine final-pairing failures in just over a calendar year. 'Sunday issues' is the industry term. A snapshot?
Last September, we watched that familiar jaunty stride as he chatted amiably to Woods, that great dam of people rupturing behind them on 18 at East Lake. And all a cynic's eye could see was someone maybe happy just to be the legend's friend.
Tiger's 80th Tour victory. Five years and a hundred soap operas after his 79th. Hug time.
Rory shot 74 that day; the same ugly figure posted at Augusta when left watching Reed's heels. Remember the Sentry Tournament of Champions last January? Starting Sunday in second place, three shots off the pace? Shot 72, the worst score of anyone finishing top 20 in a 33-man field.
That's what we'd come to see when looking at Rory McIlroy. Weakness.
Yes, his form heading to Sawgrass carried astonishing consistency (tied 5th at Farmers Insurance Open; tied 4th at Genesis Open; 2nd at WGC in Mexico; tied 6th at Arnold Palmer). Always there, always close. But where was the Sunday edge?
So those birdies on 15 and 16 to squeeze old Jim Furyk out of The Players' Championship? Did they signify the ultimate answer? Just mid-March after all and close to $5 million prize-money already banked on Planet McIlroy.
Asked afterwards in an NBC Golf podcast if he considered himself the best player in the world, Rory didn't equivocate.
"Yes," he told host, Carson Daly, emphatically. "I think when I've got everything firing on all cylinders, you know I believe that I could go up against anyone and beat them!"
W-E-A-K-N-E-S-S. Is it possible to imagine a word of greater audacity lifting from the rippling keyboards of a press-room?
In McIlroy's case, maybe a Ben Hogan line should come to mind. "I am the sole judge of my own standards," Hogan famously once declared.
Persimmon might have long since given way to titanium, but some old truths remain inviolable. One surely is that someone who can win again and again in tournament golf cannot, logically, be weak.
In fact, someone who can do it in an environment so swamped with moral opportunists, sociopaths and the monumentally self-absorbed must have depths unimaginable to the rest of us.
Our frustrations with Rory are, in truth, enduring articles of faith. He is the rarest of shooting stars, the miracle product of a small village in Co Down who outgrew us before he'd even left his teens. The geeky little schoolboy, chipping balls into a washing machine on a UTV chat-show.
The stockpiling adolescent... Irish Boys; Irish Youths; Irish Amateur; West of Ireland; Irish Close; Mullingar Scratch Cup.
A smiling champion in every clubhouse he stood; his dad, Gerry, as chauffeur, wise counsel and - we know now - reluctant intimate of every expletive uttered in the debut Hip Hop album, 'Get Rich or Die Tryin', of that noted philosopher, 50 Cent. That was the soundtrack to their cross-country safaris.
Maybe a bit of Linkin Park too or Blink-182. If Gerry himself preferred The Eagles, the music was decided by his self-confessed "skater dude" son.
Funny, for Rory's first Masters in '09, he found himself missing all of that, missing being at home in Holywood, he and his Da waiting for the theme music to that evening's broadcast from Augusta. Just that simple sense of watching the gods through a long lens as distinct from, now, breathing the same air.
But somewhere along the way, Corporate America signed McIlroy up for Monopoly money and the safe intimacy of that old world became a memory. He grew global. The kid who got lost in that Augusta valley eight years ago became US Open champion just 70 days later. He was taking phone calls from Greg Norman. He had Nike's undivided attention. He became a human oil-well.
It would have been odd if it didn't change him but, maybe, the miracle of Rory McIlroy is just how little it has.
The compelling, four-hour interview he gave Paul Kimmage for the Sunday Independent early in 2017 stands as a model of candour, intelligence and adult self-awareness. It ran contrary to the robotic, soullessly evasive, country club language deployed by so many of his peers in their interaction with media. In fact, in it Rory achieved something remarkable.
He managed to communicate a grown-up understanding of the absurdity of the world around him.
US golf journalists consider McIlroy a virtual rebel in that regard. Because he ventures opinions. He answers questions. He engages with the idea that, maybe, there are more challenging missions to be cursed with in life than trying to solve a hit-and-miss putting stroke.
His stance on the Rio Olympics was a case in point. While so many contemporaries jumped on the Zika virus nonsense as a kind of fire escape, McIlroy did the subversive thing of telling the truth. To be an Olympian, he'd need to stand behind a specific flag with all the convenient spites and prejudices that that would then entangle him in.
"I don't know the words to either anthem," he said flatly. "I don't feel a connection to either flag. I don't want it to be about flags. And I hate that term 'growing the game'.
"Do you ever hear that in other sports?"
In other words, the kid who grew up on the Belfast Road in Holywood, who played Gaelic for a year in St Patrick's Primary School but was always more taken with football and rugby, who never once felt a need to raise his voice about religion in a society so governed by that very noise, chose not to be someone else's symbol.
But, then, that's surely the essence of McIlroy.
It isn't that he's ever been inclined to run from his past, rather that he refuses to allow others define it. In that NBC podcast after his win at Sawgrass, he didn't sound anything like the distant, Americanised, over-logoed human billboard some like to depict. If anything, his words seemed remarkably anchored and sane.
He spoke of a preciously private tableau in the locker-room after, sipping a glass of wine with wife Erica, caddie Harry Diamond, and manager Seán O'Flaherty. "They're the moments that you remember and that you cherish," he said.
He talked of his hopes of starting a family "that would be the biggest win of my life" and of how teenage friendships have survived the blizzard of fame and celebrity.
"I've got a lot of friends outside of the business," he explained. "A lot of friends that knew me before all of this. And I think the more friends you can have like that, the better.
"They know the cocky little kid that grew up in Holywood, Northern Ireland and told everyone that he was going to be the best player in the world. You know, they could tell some stories about me that I wouldn't want being told..."
When you think about it, we want so much of McIlroy today that is impractical, contradictory.
We wanted him to play the Irish Open in Lahinch out of loyalty. But to who or what exactly? To the tournament? To host, Paul McGinley? Without McIlroy, there would be no Irish Open today. And what exactly is it that he owes McGinley?
McIlroy flagged the problem with scheduling a long way out. He is single-minded in his desire to approach The Open at Royal Portrush as he specifically chooses, not as the calendar dictates. And bear in mind his words to Kimmage about that Irish Open win, as tournament host, at The K Club in 2016.
To this day, his Twitter avatar is of him striking that extraordinary five wood to the eighteenth green in Straffan. The Irish Open, he says, was always the one tournament his mother, Rosie, wanted him to win.
"There's other tournaments that people would deem more important but those other tournaments haven't meant as much to me as the Irish Open," he tells Kimmage. "And I was very emotional afterwards for a number of reasons: because of the prize-money and where it was going (he donated the winner's cheque to charity); because of what it meant to me; and because of what it meant to my mum."
McIlroy has, over time, come to recognise how history judges with a cold eye. How a man is measured ultimately on what he wins, not who he humours.
Yesterday it was 2011, that's how is still feels with McIlroy and Augusta.
"I was just gone, completely gone."
All just history and old newsprint today, right?
After all, other than that Saturday 77 in 2016, McIlroy has since always looked relatively comfortable on golf's most precious lawns.
He returns this time as Masters favourite too. The form player. The one most capable of cutting corners around Augusta National. Of shooting low and repeating it.
But the unknowable, for now, is whether or not he can win from a congested leaderboard next Sunday.
We still see him as the guy who can obliterate a field, as he did with that 16-under at Congressional in 2011. But can he win a Major arm-wrestle? Especially in this storied place with so many personal ghosts in the pines?
Sunday, last year, sets you wondering. Rory talked the talk, then unravelled after that missed eagle putt and was gone by the turn.
He picked a fight with a man who'd previously drawn something out of him at Hazeltine that - he admits - left him "a little tired, a little mentally fatigued". Someone who is a natural street-fighter.
McIlroy thrives, not on anger, but momentum. On staying true to himself. On being focused, not edgy; clear-headed, not mean.
On being the kind of guy who could have a smiling lunch with Sergio Garcia immediately before going out with the Spaniard as the final Bridgestone pairing at Akron in 2014 and starting birdie, birdie, birdie.
It's only human to worry, almost five years on from Valhalla, about McIlroy and Majors.
Arnold Palmer, after all, won all seven of his between 1958 and '64. Tiger's 14th and last (thus far) arrived when he was 32. Bobby Jones retired at 28; Byron Nelson at 34. And never before has the game looked so heavily seeded with fearless, young, blank-eyed talents.
So, for Rory to win at Augusta this week, he must chase down our doubts as well as his. Because everything around him will rattle with stories of the past. With memories that can weigh on the chest. Suffocate.
In Sawgrass two weeks back, though, he sounded like someone fully cognisant of all this. Someone ready for that din.
"I don't define myself by who I am as a golfer anymore," he said in a Golf Channel interview.
"I'm very comfortable with who I am as a person and very comfortable with who I am as a golfer. But in no way are these two things ... I used to shoot 65 and be happy; shoot 75 and be sad. You need to have a better perspective than that.
"I think my wife probably had a lot to do with (changing) that. But I've started to spend time with some people and they've ... you know I've figured it out on my own.
"I've read a few books over the last few months, whether you want to call them self-help or psychology or whatever, but I've just gotten to the point where I'm more comfortable with myself.
"And I think a by-product of that is being comfortable with... you shoot 74 or 64 out there... at the end of the day, the people that love me are still going to love me."
Maybe all those words are just in service to some kind of denial mechanism. Aimed at softening the glare of endless scrutiny. But in a sport so in thrall to wooden, wall-motto cliché, they sounded real and plausible and human too.


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LEZLIE LOWE: To combat the climate crisis, we need total war
Lezlie Lowe
Published: Jan 03 at 6:42 a.m.
Students lead the way as protesters participating in the massive global climate crisis strike make their way through downtown Halifax on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. - Nicole Munro
New year. New decade. And as we hit reset, we desperately need a new war.
Because as I see it, we've got the 2020s to engage in a concerted battle against the climate emergency, and not much longer.
So far, we've proven ourselves wholly incapable of doing the society-bending work required to save what we can of the Earth that we now know.
We need total war.
Total war is an old concept, and one I'd argue we would struggle mightily to understand today.
For a couple of years I've been working on a book about women volunteers during the Second World War in Halifax. When it comes right down to it, I've been writing a book about total war. Not in the sense of the enslavement of civilians or the strategic bombing of non-military installations. But, rather, the concept of the war against Germany and the Axis powers as expansive and consuming — the idea that every person, every ounce of energy, every minute of the day was spent in the service, tangentially, of winning the war.
In war, it's a given that combatants' daily lives are changed. In total war, everyone's life is turned upside-down — and those flipped priorities, those sacrifices, are looked upon as a necessary part of the effort.
It's what we need now.
In 1942, Chatelaine magazine reminded its readers that common resources were in life-disruptingly short supply: silk, metal and rubber, among them. It meant no more stockings; fewer umbrellas and a stop to lipstick in metal containers. Gone were rubber gloves, and rubber-lined corsets. Hot water bottles were by prescription.
In their meagre off-hours, Halifax women fed and housed service members; with their extra pennies they bought war stamps. School children would haul scrap; they ran medicine bottle recycling depots where they would receive, wash, sort and pack bottles to supply forces' dispensaries. At the Oxford Theatre on Quinpool Road, sometimes the cost of admission was a can of salvaged fat used to produce military explosives.
All this was simply, as many who lived through it have told me, "the done thing." Every choice and every action was passed through the lens of what it meant in the fight to win the war. I don't want to paint too rosy a picture, but most didn't gripe, they got on with it.
It's what we need to do again. And now.
The good news? Today's narrative is similar: we're facing a clear aggressor — the climate emergency (though "ourselves" is a reasonable stand-in) — and have a dire need for collective action. We have no Winston Churchill and no Mackenzie King and if Mar-a-Lago were under water, Trump would be sending climate-denier tweets from the roof, but we have Greta Thunberg and her brilliant armies of committed protesters.
The big difference between now and then? When it comes to the climate emergency there are no civilians. No non-combatants. We're all in.
Total war, while pushed by government, was achieved by many millions who made daily sacrifices for years upon years.
It sounds like a lot. And it was. But it was also unambiguously necessary. And remember, amid the sacrifice, society chugged forward. People got married and divorced; they had children, and bought groceries and exercised; they gardened and attended school and worked and volunteered and made music and had parties.
Life went on. But it did so under the auspices of a simple idea: that it would not continue to go on in any recognizable way, without everyone doing their part.
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If you've been paying attention to the astro-weather of the past few years, you've heard plenty about the Uranus/Pluto squares and how these patterns are repeating themes from the 1960's when the current cycle began. Aspect cycles begin when two planets come together (a conjunction) in the sky at the very same degree. Like a New Moon, which is when the Sun and Moon conjoin, these patterns begin a new cycle.
The cycles we saw in the 1960's included a huge shift in the how society saw its relationship and responsibilities African Americans in our civil discourse. The dark American history of enslavement resulted in a culture that put huge barriers before people of color attempting to participate in the civil life of our country. The civil rights movements of the '60s resulted in a series of laws that prohibited different treatment of individuals based on the color of their skin.
Also in the 1960's we had the frightening overreach of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI; the controversially released Pentagon Papers exposing the machinations behind the Vietnam War; an increasing awareness of the gap between rich and poor Americans. These are all themes we are seeing repeated–in the Chelsea Manning war whistleblowing, the Edgar Snowdon NSA spying papers release, the huge and growing gap between the rich and poor in this country… and in the horrifying murder and subsequent verdict in the case of Trayvon Martin, coupled with huge roll-backs in civil rights protections for voters.
Today, despite (or perhaps because of) having the first African American President of the United States, a virulent racism is again erupting in the public and private arenas of this land. Frankly, I see it as the last of the roaches coming out from behind the woodwork after the exterminator leaves, but the effect of this ugliness is just as horrible for the individuals and families affected. And the result is that we all can see clearly that 47 years after that sermon was given, we have still not resolved the issue.
Astrology tell me that we will come closer–closer to closure, understanding, and learning how to live with all of these issues. And astrology tells me that 2013 is one of the big turning points in these struggles for fairness and justice.
The next article will address the factors that make this year–even what's left of it–so important to these issues. But first, I wish to stress the underpinnings of my beliefs.


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James Bond Shaken and Stirred by Sex Allegations
By Druids Loom Reporter on November 11, 2017
Fictional character, James Bond has shaken by a string of sex allegations dating back to 1962. The allegations range from sexual misconduct aboard a space shuttle, to directing lewd comments towards a number of female colleagues.
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The fictional British secret agent, James Bond, 007, has been suspended amid a number of salacious allegations dating back to 1962.
GCHQ issued a statement today, explaining why the man, who has saved the world on no fewer than 24 times, will be taking extended leave until investigations have be completed.
Inappropriate Advances
"A number of females have come forward naming Mr Bond, as a person, who in the past has made inappropriate advances towards them," explained the head of MI6, M.
"There have been allegations of gross sexual misconduct when Mr Bond was on duty which is not acceptable in our organisation," he added.
It is understood that M's PA, Miss Moneypenny was the first to come forward.
"James, has been cracking on to me for years," she explained. "He just doesn't give in, with his flirtatious sexual innuendo. I thought I enjoyed it at the time; but reading about similar cases in the press 55 years later; I realised I didn't."
Another victim, Jill Masterson told The Druid's Loom, "James persuaded me to go to a hotel room with him where he took advantage of me. But my boyfriend, Aurius Goldfinger found out, and killed me, by getting Oddjob to paint me gold."
"I hold Mr Bond totally responsible for the disruption caused to my thermoregulatory system. If I wasn't dead, I would be making a formal complaint against Mr Bond," she added.
Caused Offence
We approached Mr Bond for his side of the story.
"It was a different time and I am sorry that I caused offence to these woman. I thought that they enjoyed the attention and they never gave me cause to believe otherwise. If they had said anything at the time I would have stopped," he explained, before slapping one of our female interns on the arse, giving her a sly wink and and jumping into souped up Aston Martin with her.
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Nicky Morgan Jealous of Jeremy Hunt
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Known Liar Says Britain "Doing Great" After Brexit
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The poetry of reality
We must know.
We will know.
A view from the
shoulders of giants.
A comparative guide to science denial
Quantum physics terms
The impact factor is one way of measuring the amount of influence a journal has within the scientific community. It is primarily used by the indexing service provided by the Institute for Scientific Information, known as ISI Web of Knowledge (now part of Thompson Reuters).[1]
1 Calculating the IF
2 Criticisms
Calculating the IF[edit]
The factor is calculated as the number of citations in a given year to the average article published within the previous two-year period. The 2019 impact factor of a particular journal would be calculated as follows:[2]
A = the number of times articles published in 2017 and 2018 were cited by indexed journals during 2019
B = the total number of "citable items" published in 2017 and 2018. "Citable items" are usually articles, reviews, proceedings, or notes; not editorials or Letters-to-the-Editor.
2019 impact factor =
Science and Nature are considered two of the most prestigious journals of all time. These have impact factors of 29.78 and 30.98 respectively. It should be noted, however, that 90% of all the citations to Nature are to do with only a quarter of its published papers. Also, despite these being the "best" journals in the eyes of most researchers, they are not the top ranked according to impact factor, several journals dedicated to publishing reviews come above these two journals - and indeed, the highest ranked journals tend to specialise in publishing reviews as these types of articles tend to attract more citations than normal research papers.
The magnitude of the impact factor is also discipline specific, with certain areas of science attracting more attention. So while the highest ranking journal that specialises in agriculture has an IF of about 2.5, the highest in molecular biology is 33.4.[3]
Criticisms[edit]
While it is a good proxy for the quality of a scientific journal and shows a journal's ability to distribute important information and findings widely, the IF is not a be-all and end-all figure or a completely flawless method of analysis. The IF is open to manipulation, as was seen when the journal Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica published an editorial that cited all of its papers from 2006–2007; thus bumping its IF from 0.66 to 1.44 in a single step. This was primarily a protest against the use of the IF as a pure measure of a journal's quality. Similarly, Mohamed El Naschie's habit of citing his own papers in the rag Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals (of which he was the chief editor) caused that journal to have a higher impact factor than any other mathematics publication.
That many researchers and editors attach too much importance to the impact factor is something that is not denied by Thompson Reuters, and they advise caution in using it because of the number of phenomena that can lead to significant changes in a journal's IF regardless of quality.
↑ ISI Web of Knowledge
↑ Thompson Reuters - Impact Factor
↑ Journals with the highest impact factor by category
Retrieved from "https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Impact_factor&oldid=1937000"


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Q: Confusion Understanding MATLAB ''PLOT'' command? We know digital computer cannot deal with continuous time signals directly. But then how MATLAB "plot" command works?  Does that uses interpolation techniques
Below is link of a MATLAB central  question which is like  this same issue
https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/512043-matlab-deals-only-with-discrete-signals

A: plot(x,y) simply plots a straight line of Y vs X with no interpolation.
Do not confuse the visualization of a straight line on your screen with the actual data in x(:) and y(:). Using plot(x,y,'o'), for example, would plot the points only.


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Q: Install apache2 on ubuntu 17.10 I have problems installing apache2, it does not start, and I can to see
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset:
  Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d
           └─apache2-systemd.conf
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code)


Summertime Nature in New Jersey: Sourland Mountain Preserve.
Rabbit Eating Clover in the Rain. My first day of Retirement. I've been working for Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey; Boulder, Colorado; and West Point, Pennsylvania for the last 27 years. I can now spend more time with my new passion of photography and travel. I took a series of images of this rabbit in the rain. I was sitting in my car in my driveway while listening to "The Race" on SiriusXM. Now that I am not commuting 3+ hours a day I can photograph the local wildlife while listening to books on satellite radio.
Summertime Nature in Colorado. Rocky Mountain National Park.
I found some wild blue Columbine wildflowers while walking around Lily Lake. It wasn't until I processed this image that I noticed a small grey spider lurking in the flower — waiting for a meal.
Red-Tailed Hawk Looking for Dinner. I was wondering why the rabbits and squirrels were being scarce this afternoon. The song birds were making a lot of noise, more than usual late in the afternoon. Then I saw this Red-tailed Hawk keeping watch above the backyard. I grabbed the first camera & telephoto lens I could find to capture it both watching the yard, then as it started a dive. It went behind some trees, so I didn't see if it caught dinner.


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Limnae or Limnai () was a village on the frontiers of ancient Messenia and Laconia, containing a temple of Artemis Limnatis, used jointly by the Messenians and Lacedaemonians. An outrage offered by the Messenians to some Lacedaemonian virgins at the festival of this goddess is said to have been the cause of the First Messenian War. The possession of this temple, and of the Ager Dentheliatis, the district in which it was situated, was a frequent subject of the dispute between the Lacedaemonians and Messenians down to the time of the Roman emperors.

Its site is tentatively located near the modern Volimnos.

References

Populated places in ancient Messenia
Populated places in ancient Laconia
Former populated places in Greece

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Union: Carrier said they will pay Mexican workers $6 an hour
Posted 11:01 PM, February 16, 2016, by Kendall Downing, Updated at 04:30AM, February 17, 2016
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Feb. 16, 2016) – They aren't going down without a fight. The United Steelworkers Union 1999 President didn't hold back Tuesday in the wake of a meeting with Carrier executives.
Carrier announced last week they'd shutter their Indianapolis plant in the coming years and move at least 1,400 jobs to Mexico by 2019. The move drew national backlash.
Tuesday, Carrier told the union that the closure is basically a done deal, explaining that the average worker in Indianapolis makes more than $20 an hour, and that Mexican workers can be paid $6 an hour.
"I've been through this three times," said Lewis Douthitt, a current Carrier employee.
Union representatives, Carrier executives meet Tuesday to discuss relocation
It's an all too familiar scene for Douthitt. He came to Carrier, hoping the stop there would be his last.
"I hate to see Carrier go, because I thought I was going to do my ten years here and get out and retire. Don't look like I'm going to do that. I've got to get out and find another job," he said.
"We've got an experienced workforce, and we can compete on every level there is. But we can't compete when they're paying God-awful wages," said Chuck Jones, President of USW Local 1999.
Jones met with Carrier leadership for about an hour on Tuesday. The company said the first phase-out will be in May of 2017, with full closure likely in 2019.
The west side facility expanded in 2011 and got a six-year tax abatement from the city, clearing Carrier from paying $1 million in property taxes.
City, state governments could try to recoup tax dollars given to Carrier in wake of move
Since 2013, Carrier got almost $200,000 in employee training grants from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation.
"We are reviewing right now all the agreements between the state of Indiana and these companies. And if they do not fulfill the obligations made in these contracts, we'll look to get the taxpayers' money back," said Indiana Governor Mike Pence.
Jones said leadership will meet with the company leadership again to try and bargain extra benefits for let-go workers. He expects employees to be vocal.
"Now, if we go down, we're going to go down with rallies, protests, demonstrations, and everything. So you'll see a lot of visibility probably here on the west side in the months to come," he said.
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"It's sad, but I don't feel sorry because the man upstairs is going to take care of us," he said, "You got to have faith, because if you ain't got faith, you lost."
Tuesday, union leadership said the Bernie Sanders campaign has reached out to them to show support. Donald Trump made comments about the Carrier move over the weekend.
Another facility in northeastern Indiana is closing as well, taking 700 jobs with it. That facility is owned by Carrier's parent company, United Technologies.
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Glessner House Museum Symposium November 10
On Saturday November 10, 2012 Glessner House Museum, in partnership with the Victorian Society in America, will hold a one-day symposium entitled "Glessner House at 125: Richardson's Urban Residential Masterpiece Reconsidered." The event brings together seven scholars who will explore the architect H. H. Richardson, the interior decoration of the home, and its preservation in the mid-1960s. The symposium will be preceded by an opening reception on Friday November 9 at which Richardson scholar Ken Breisch will present a lecture entitled "Situating the Glessner House: Late Richardson and the Romanesque Revival in the American West." An optional walking tour of the Prairie Avenue Historic District will be given by Executive Director Bill Tyre on Sunday November 11. The symposium brochure and registration form may be downloaded at http://www.glessnerhouse.org/Events.htm.
For further information and to make reservations, call 312.326.1480.
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:
9:30am - Welcome
WILLIAM TYRE
Executive Director and Curator, Glessner House Museum
9:45am - Keynote Speaker
JAMES F. O'GORMAN
Professor Emeritus, Wellesley College
"Herkomer's Portrait of Richardson in Iconographical Context"
A look at the place of the likeness in the history of portraying nineteenth-century American architects. A large heliotype copy of the Herkomer portrait displayed in the main hall is one of the few items to remain in the Glessner House continuously since the late 1880s.
MARY ALICE MOLLOY
Architectural Historian
"Richardson's Web: A Client's Assessment of the Architect's Home and Studio"
An analysis of how Richardson used his home and office to encourage his clients to accept his ideas for their projects, based on a first hand account of John and Frances Glessners' visits with the architect during the planning phase for their home on Prairie Avenue.
KEVIN HARRINGTON
Professor Emeritus of Architectural History, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Mies Visits Glessner House: What Was He Thinking?"
When Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, an influential architect, first arrived in American in 1938, he considered conducting his new architecture curriculum in Chicago at the influential Glessner House. This examination provides valuable insight into the relationship between two seemingly different architects.
12:00pm - Lunch
ELAINE HARRINGTON
Former Curator, Glessner House Museum
"Colors, Patterns, and Seasons in the Glessner House"
The Glessners and Richardson used many themes in this significant work of architecture and decorative art, blending them into a cohesive fabric responding to the life within. The colors and patterns of design and life that resulted from the weaving together of these themes created this outstanding seasonal urban home.
ROLF ACHILLES
Curator, Smith Museum of Stained Glass and Adjunct Professor, School of the Art Institute
"Neugotik (New Gothic): A Springboard to Modern in American Furniture and Interior Design"
An examination of the Glessners' evolving tastes during the 1870s and 1880s, from the new Gothic masterpieces designed for them by Isaac Scott, to later furniture by Charles Coolidge and Francis Bacon specifically commissioned for their new home on Prairie Avenue.
MONICA OBNISKI
Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts, Art Institute of Chicago
"The Impact of William Morris on the Arts and Crafts Movement in Chicago"
This talk will locate several examples of William Morris's influence - through his ideals and his designs - in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, including Glessner House, one of the earliest.
TED HILD
Illinois State Historic Preservation Official, 1972-2007
"Historic Preservation in Chicago at Mid-Century"
A description of the principles and practices of historic preservation in Chicago in the mid-20th century and an overview of early preservation battles, in order to place the preservation of the Glessner House in the context of the 1960s.
Optional tours of Glessner House Museum
Tagged: Charles Coolidge, Glessner House Museum, Henry Hobson Richardson, Hubert Herkomer, Isaac Scott, James F. O'Gorman, Mies van der Rohe, Victorian Society in America, William Morris, symposium


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Q: Django DetailView form dont save data I have a DetailView, and need add a form to user contact.
views.py
class ProductView(FormView, DetailView):
    model = Product
    template_name = 'product_detail.html'
    form_class = NotificationForm
    success_url = '/products/'

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return FormView.post(self, request, *args, **kwargs)

forms.py
class NotificationForm(ModelForm):
    ..."""some fields"""
    class Meta:
        model = Notification
        fields = [
            'usernameclient',
            'emailclient',
            'emailclient_confirmation',
            'phoneclient',
            'messageclient',
            ]

The model Notification is where is stored the data from that form
models.py
class Notification(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    product = models.ForeignKey(Product, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    ..."""some fields"""

I dont understand yet how django workflow with forms. After the submition is correct rediretc to success_url, but nothing is save in db... What is missing?

A: A FormView does not save the form, a CreateView does. You can save the form with:
class ProductView(FormView, DetailView):
    model = Product
    template_name = 'product_detail.html'
    form_class = NotificationForm
    success_url = '/products/'

    def form_valid(self, form):
        form.save()
        return super().form_valid(form)


You spend hours crafting the perfect workout plan.
When you're in the gym, you stick to your program religiously.
Every workout, you're in #beastmode. You push yourself beyond your limits. The training hurts, but it's a good kind of hurt. You're making an Odinic sacrifice of self to self.
When it's all done, you snap a pic for Instagram of your sweat angel on the floor to show the world you paid your dues that day. You caption it with "Pain is weakness leaving the body," or if you're feeling philosophical that day, you'll quote Nietzsche about having a why and bearing any how.
And then you do it again the next day and every other day that week and year (including Christmas and Thanksgiving) because you're a disciplined guy.
Yes, you take your training seriously. You're a lion, a wolf, or whatever fierce totem spirit animal you prefer.
After a while, however, you start to notice something funny.
Despite the intensity of your program and despite thrashing yourself every workout, you're not getting stronger.
But because you're a man who takes his training seriously, you seriously start tweaking your program. You change up rep schemes and add supplement lifts. You might even change your entire program if things are really bad.
And then you get back at it with the same level of gusto, because, again, you take your training very seriously.
But to your dismay, you're still not getting stronger.
Easy. Because you failed to understand that you don't get stronger when you train.
You get stronger when you're drinking a protein shake while watching an NCIS marathon on USA.
To understand why sitting on your keister and relaxing is what makes you stronger, and not #beastmoding in the gym, you need to understand the Stress-Adaptation-Recovery Cycle.
When the body is exposed to stress, it will begin a biological process to deal with that stress, recover from it, and then adapt and compensate so that it is better prepared to handle it if exposed to the same stressors again.
When it comes to weightlifting, your training is the stress. And according to the Stress-Adaptation-Recovery Cycle, you're not getting stronger while you're exposed to the stress; in fact, when you lift weights, the stress it produces causes your muscles to tear and break down.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you shouldn't train hard. The stress of training may not itself make you stronger, but it's essential in kickstarting the process that does. It's stress that starts the Stress-Adaptation-Recovery Cycle in the first place, and it has to be of sufficient intensity to put those wheels in motion. That requires working hard in the gym and embracing the grind.
But you only start getting stronger after the stress is over and absent — during the Adaptation and Recovery phases of the cycle. It's during this period that your body starts repairing muscles and tissues, thus making them stronger than they were before, and ready to handle another round of stress.
Bottom line: You get stronger when you recover, not when you're training.
If you get stronger only while you're recovering, then why don't more people take their recovery as seriously as their training?
Probably because they don't know better. Fitness culture, in the United States particularly, puts a premium on thrashing yourself day in and day out. We like the satisfying pain of training our brains out. It's a modern-day hair shirt. In contrast, recovering seems like boring, wimpy, unimportant stuff (not to mention it doesn't show well on social media!).
Even though maxims about badass recovery will never make it onto a t-shirt, it's just as important as your training. Here's how to treat it as such.
Step #1 in taking your recovery as seriously as you do your training is to actually give your body time to recover. This means not training every single day of the week.
So for example, if you're doing the novice Starting Strength program, you only lift 3 days a week.
With the advanced Starting Strength program that my coach Matt Reynolds has me on, I lift 4 days a week.
In other lifting programs, you may be training 5-6 days a week, but you alternate between training your lower body some days, and upper body on the other days. So half your body gets to rest every other day.
The number of training vs. rest days you give yourself each week will depend on your specific training program, but the key is to give yourself at least some rest days.
A rest day doesn't necessarily mean staying completely sedentary. You might do some exercise — but stuff that's lighter and different than your main training routine. For example, on my rest days I'll take a ruck or do MovNat exercises to keep myself limber. You can take a walk, or play some ultimate Frisbee, or roughhouse with your kids. It's okay to throw in some straight up vegging as well, like watching NCIS with your dad, because dads love watching NCIS.
The central guideline is to not push yourself so hard on your rest days that you disrupt your body's recovery process.
If you're training hard, but feel tired, lack energy and motivation, and aren't making progress in the gym, then you're probably violating this guideline and need to dial things back more.
Besides taking it easy sometimes, there are two things you should make a top priority: food and sleep.
Food. To build itself back up and adapt to the stress of training, your body requires plenty of fuel. So you need to eat good food and lots of it.
Whenever I've hit a plateau in my training, the first thing Matt asks me is, "Are you hitting your macro goals?" (Macro goals are the proportions of your daily calorie intake that come from carbs, fat, and protein, respectively.) If I'm not, he scolds me and tells me to do a better job. When I start complying, the plateau is magically broken. If I am hitting my macros, but still stalling in my progress, he'll bump up my calories a bit because my body simply needs more food for recovery. Nine times out of ten that does the trick.
I'd venture to guess that the reason most men stall in their training is that they're not eating enough food. How come? Because they're trying to get shredded and lean. But as we've written before, you cannot get big and strong while getting shredded and lean at the same time. If you're looking to get stronger, you gotta eat. Period.
I recommend following an If It Fits Your Macros (IIFYM) diet because it's easy to implement and stick with. Check out this article for general guidelines on how much protein, carbs, and fat you should aim for each day. If you're specifically looking to gain weight, then follow this guide. Once you've got your macros set, download MyFitnessPal and track everything you eat.
Be especially meticulous about getting enough protein each day: at least one gram per pound of bodyweight.
Train like a champion. Eat like a champion.
Sleep. While researchers are still puzzled about why we even sleep in the first place, we do know that it plays a vital role in our recovery from exercise.
But if you're not getting enough quality sleep, you're missing out on that, your recovery is going to suffer, and, consequently, so is your training.
If I'm good on my diet, but my training is still suffering, it usually means I'm not getting enough shuteye. As soon as I make sleep a priority, I break through plateaus.
To improve your sleep, I recommend reading this guide. But really, there's not much to it. Aim for 7-9 hours. Avoid caffeine late in the day. Avoid screens right before bed. Sleep in a dark, cool room.
But sometimes we stay up late for no good reason — we get pulled into watching a show or surfing the internet longer than we expected. Or we procrastinate a project until completing it will require an all-nighter. In these cases, it's just a matter of setting a higher priority for your sleep, and respecting its vital role in your overall health.
Make your shuteye sacrosanct and your brain, as well as your body, will thank you.
Does Anything Else Work for Recovery?
While food and sleep are the most proven, effective methods for improving exercise recovery, there are increasingly more options and methods being offered these days. While most Americans still fetishize training without adequate recovery, a burgeoning fitness industry has emerged to cater to folks who are starting to take their rest as seriously as their training.
You can find spas dedicated to athletes that promise services that will "speed up" recovery. Deep tissue massages, dry saunas, and cryospas are just a few of the services these places offer.
But do they actually do anything for your recovery?
Starting Strength coaches and medical doctors Austin Baraki and Jordan Feigenbaum have looked at the research on this and found that stuff like massages and cryospas have little or no benefit when it comes to recovery from training.
They concede this stuff feels good (who doesn't like a massage?) and that that good feeling likely offers some psychological benefit in helping reduce cortisol in your system, which in turn may help with recovery. Or it could just be placebo. But should you spend a lot of time and money on this stuff? No.
You'll get more bang for your buck from eating healthy food and getting enough sleep, so focus on that. Once you're taking care of those two things, if you want to get a massage or sit in the cryospa now and then because you like the way it feels, go for it.
Experiment with what seems to work for you, and fits your budget and schedule.
You don't get stronger when you train. You get stronger when you recover. So take the time you spend in bed and at the table just as seriously as the time you spend in the gym!


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ElectionNewsPolitics
Peace Campaign Launch in Bolgatanga
By Henrietta Afful
Henrietta Afful
In the run up to the December 7 General Election, the Church of Pentecost in Bolgatanga has organized the launching of this year's "Agent of Peace Campaign".
It was under the theme "Seek Peace and Pursue it."
The Church's involvement in peace campaigns dates back to the 2016 where it played a pivotal role in the electioneering exercise.
The Church as a stakeholder in National Development Programme, recognizes political authority as an essential element of human society. When well handled, politics can play a positive role in the fulfillment of God's purpose in the world, in our quest to serve humanity.
The launch was witnessed by the Muslim fraternity, the Regional Chairman of the Peace Council Smaila Issaka, the Regional Director of the EC, Williams Adakwa, Parliamentary candidates of the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bolga Central, Madam Fati and Rex Asanga.
They each took turns to advise the congregants on the need to co-exist peaceful before, during and after the December 7 elections.
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Ordinary members: Janet Coy, Cheryl Atterton, Pam Corsie, Yvette Bessant.
Please read our Privay Statement, Professionally prepared by our very competent New Secretary Val Arbon.
We had a very Positive meeting with the New Beach Team headed by Mark Duff.
In order to continue to be an effective body, representing your interests, we need more members.
Can I please ask you all so see if you a can recruit another member?
We have an excellent little quarterly newsletter produced by Julie Snow. If you have something to contribute you would be most welcome.
Join Poole Beach Hut Association and meet fresh faces and make new friends!
I am pleased to confirm that Love Your Hut is now fully "live"!
https://twitter.com/loveyourhut – follow us on Twitter!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-Your-Hut/357704047673024 – like our Face Book Page!
We now have available Membership Stickers to put inside your hut and on your car.
The list is due to be open beginning of January 2014, you can register on BoP's website preference form then.