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A girl struggling with asthma is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured. After some time she decides to get out of this hell (that's how she feels about asthma) and soon she'll meet a new friend. Together they try to reach the peak of a mountain where, according to an old custom, she can be healed.
Wiemann was born on 1981, Greifswald. He completed a vocational training as a media designer for image and sound at the Institute for New Media in Rostock. He also worked as video operator for 1½ Knights - In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde and Zweiohrkuken. As part of the 67th Berlinale , his film Amelie runs a world premiere in the "Generation Kplus" competition and received an honorable mention for the Crystal Bear. At the German Film Award 2018 he was honored as Best Children's Film.


Did You Ever Notice the Way Friends Foreshadowed All of These Celebrity Guest Stars?
Friends was known for having a constant stream of amazing A-list guest stars. But we bet you never realized how sneaky the show was when it came to foreshadowing which bold-face names would one day hang with the gang. Thanks to one savvy Reddit user who connected the dots, let's take a look at how Friends dropped those major hints.
In "The One With Frank, Jr." (season three, episode five), Chandler reveals a list of celebrities that he's allowed to sleep with—and it wouldn't count as cheating (he was dating Janice at the time). His list includes: Kim Basinger, Cindy Crawford, Halle Berry, Yasmine Bleeth, and Jessica Rabbit.
It's also worth noting that Baywatch star Yasmine Bleeth makes the cut on Chandler's list too. And, just 16 episodes later in "The One With the Chick and the Duck," Chandler names his new pet chick, yep, "Yasmine."
For a hot minute, Chandler's roommate was the very creepy Eddie (because Joey was living large via his newfound Days of Our Lives fame). Chandler and Eddie have one brief moment of bonding before Chandler realizes that Eddie is truly insane in "The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies" (season two, episode 18). But during that one lucid convo, Chandler admits he once broke up with someone because she thought that "Sean Penn was the capital of Cambodia." Neither knows the actual capital of Cambodia—but they both know it's absolutely not Sean Penn (for the record, it's Phnom Penh). Sean Penn later guest-stars on "The One With the Halloween Party" (season eight, episode six). He's Phoebe's twin sister Ursula's fiancé turned love interest for Phoebe!
To love Ross Gellar is to know that he loves being a paleontologist and loves dinosaurs even more. So it wasn't shocking that he tried to convince a roomful of students that he came up with the idea for Jurassic Park during a lecture. This was in "The One With Rachel's Book" (season seven, episode two)—you gotta love it when Phoebe walks in and catches Ross in his lie. But was this perhaps a nod to Jurassic Park star Jeff Goldblum's turn on Friends in "The One With The Mugging" (season nine, episode 15)? He plays a director that Joey accidentally pees on!


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From first base: The sequence of the tip of the X-chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, a comparison of two sequencing strategies.
Benos, P. V., Gatt, M. K., Murphy, L., Harris, D., Barrell, B., Ferraz, C., et al. (2001). From first base: The sequence of the tip of the X-chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, a comparison of two sequencing strategies. Genome Research, 11, 710-730. Retrieved from http://genome.cshlp.org/content/11/5/710.full.pdf+html?sid=660593cb-ed75-42bf-a715-ae5cd35d9d71.


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Kashmir running short of Life Saving Drugs: Srinagar district magistrate dismissed the Wire report
District Magistrate of Srinagar Shahid Choudhary denied the claim that the local life-saving drugs shops have run out of supplies in the district. The office of the Medical Superintendent of the SMHS Hospital, Srinagar have also refuted the claim.
Since the government of India repealed Article 370 and 35A which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, the fake news is continuously coming.
On 22 August, The Wire published an article claiming that Kashmir is running short of life-saving drugs.
According to the report, the Valley's drug stores are running short of stocks as the region continues to grapple with restrictions and communication blockade for 18th straight day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government scrapped its autonomous status on August 5. Though the Valley's markets are shut, drug stores remain open. However, they are not able to replenish exhausted stocks
Shahid Choudhary, District Magistrate of Srinagar, along with The Wire's story tweeted a clarification that there was no interruption in supplies.
"All concerns and worries are deeply appreciated but we were not low on medical stocks even for a single day. No interruption in supplies. Still open to help individual cases, if any".
Last week also, Shahid Chaudhary tweeted to deny reports of widespread drugs shortage in Kashmir.
"As many as 1166 medical shops are open. Cash machines have disbursed Rs 243.44Cr in last 4 days. All sorts of stocks being replenished as demanded. Agree, some people are still facing difficulties. We are trying to address every single problem flagged. Trust. #Srinagar."
Medicines stocks available for the next 5-6 weeks
Following the rebuttal by Shahid Choudhary, the founding editor of The Wire, Siddharth Varadarajan tweeted a story by News 18 which claims that the doctors have told the reporter that the Valley is running out of Lifesaving Medicines.
The Twitter handle of Srinagar District administration tweeted to give an update on the availability of the life-saving drugs. They have listed down all the medicines and their availability as of 26th Aug.
The tweet further claims that none of the doctors have spoken to the reporter and asked the reporter to come clear on the mischievous headline.
The SMHS quoted in the story has reported availability of medicines for 5-6 weeks. Medical Superintendent has expressed concern about doctors of hospitals being quoted wrongly, notwithstanding their efforts for 24×7 health services delivery.
None of the Doctors at SMHS spoke to said reporter. Hospital has requested the Reporter to come clear on this mischievous headline. Details of stocks availability already posted above.
The office of the Medical Superintendent of the SMHS Hospital, Srinagar issued a notice to refute the reports of a shortage of life-saving drugs and have clarified that the sufficient quantity of life-saving drugs are available for more than a month.
Conclusion: We will leave our readers here without giving any conclusion as it is not possible for us to independently verify the claims and counter-claims.
Unknown sources have always been the key to reporting against the government's lackluster attitude towards poor and officials will always try to hide their failures. So, we have decided to refrain ourselves from giving any conclusion in such stories. Instead, we will present both sides of the story and will leave it to the readers to draw a conclusion.
Article 370 and 35A which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir
The Wire published a story on Kashmir which reported that the local life-saving drugs shops have run short of supplies in the district
District Magistrate of Srinagar??????? Shahid Choudhary
Shahid Choudhary himself denied the claim and said that there was never any shortage of medicine in the state for even a day

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The British Monarchy & the Royal Trumps Remind Us All of the Importance of Democracy
Mar. 10, 2021 2:09 pm
By Thom Hartmann A...
The world is getting tired of overdressed cranky billionaire families
Americans of pretty much every race, class and political persuasion are recoiling in disgust that the British royal family would even seriously discuss refusing to give security protection or a title to Harry's and Megan's son because of concerns about "how dark" his skin might be.
Since our country allied with Great Britain in World Wars I and II, Americans have generally held a favorable view of the British Royals. Books, magazines and even TV shows about them are perennial and predictable best-sellers.
But America just finished a four-year experience with a would-be royal family of our own, which is, no doubt, coloring our perspective on the billionaire Windsors "across the pond."
Trump not only bragged about his "great genes" (the essential quality of a genetically-based royalty), but installed his utterly unqualified daughter, son-in-law and sons in actual and advisory government and campaign positions as if they were princes and a princess.
And then he tried to overthrow the democratic government of our country, which was birthed in defiance of royalty, so he could establish his own line of royal succession, with Prince Junior thinking out loud about the Senate in North Carolina and Princess Ivanka musing about storming Florida and taking Marco Rubio's scalp.
From the founding of our republic, conservatives have had a love affair with the idea of royalty. Before the Revolution, we called them Loyalists and Tories. They've never quite trusted "mob rule," also known as democracy.
And now they're piling on Meghan Markle, whether to defend the British royal family or to attack her because she's Black…or both.
Hating on Megan is happening all over Fox News, from their news shows to their opinion shows, as Don Lemon laid out in detail on CNN last night.
An article at the rightwing site Townhall, reported by TheRighting.com, notes: "Like a good woke American, Ms. Markel charged that the royal family was bothered by the skin color of her son. When you don't have a legitimate grievance, you always play the race card… For Prince Harry to allow his wife to make such a scandalous charge without naming names is cowardly. But it's also very telling – I suspect the Mrs. was spewing fake news."
Over at the conservative NationalPulse, TheRighting.com reports their headline is, "The Many Lies Of Megan and Harry," and the headline at NewsBusters is, "Morning Network News Shows Spent 91 Minutes Fawning Over Harry and Megan."
Generally, though, these conservative freak-outs about the first Black member of the British royal family are outliers across American public opinion.
And it appears that Americans aren't the only ones who have lost patience with self-absorbed, narcissistic, absurdly wealthy "royal" families: witness British television yesterday dropping Piers Morgan - with widespread public support - after his relentless attacks on Megan Markel and his support for the institution of British royalty.
Back in 1651, when Thomas Hobbes published his book Leviathan that arguably kicked off the Enlightenment, there was a serious debate about whether democracy was even possible, given the stability and permanence of royalty in Europe.
Hobbes argued that people should be able to choose their own leaders and government, although he continued to believe that the "original state" of humankind was essentially evil and therefore, lacking "the iron fist of church or state," we would revert to our original nature and life would become "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
By 1689, when John Locke published his Two Treatises of Government, the idea of democratic self-governance was beginning to take hold. Locke argued that all men should be entitled to "life, liberty and property."
Almost 100 years later, Thomas Jefferson would borrow the phrase but substitute "happiness" for "property," as by that time property rights were fairly well established across Europe and certainly in North America.
Although democracies across the world are under assault today by international oligarchs and theocrats, there's little doubt that democracy is a viable form of government. Which is why, when Donald Trump attempted to overthrow ours, the entire world stood aghast.
Many European countries have done away with their monarchies altogether, and others have kept them as, essentially, ornamental or decorative features of their tourism landscapes.
While America girds herself to prevent a future Trump wannabe from overthrowing our democracy and installing him- or herself as an anti-democratic pseudo-populist monarch, a debate is again breaking out in the UK over the role of the British monarchy.
Stripping the British royal family of their power over government and simply letting them live as fancy, ornamental billionaires like many other European royal families is, of course, something for the British to decide.
But watching the spectacle from this side of the Atlantic, the drama should remind us all once again of how important the idea of rule by We the People actually is.
Originally posted on hartmannreport.com.
Paulacci The Clown • 44 weeks 6 days ago
Time to shut down the royal palace permanently. Why do the British people suffer under this ignominious oligarchical parade of fools? The people are in poverty, yet Piers Morgan could care less? The Queen needs to either dress down or become a contestant on RuPaul's drag race.....so out of touch with humanity, she channels Sean Inshannity!
djgilbert • 44 weeks 6 days ago
Monarchies represent a continuation of a feudal era but are with us in much more than the British Royal Family. Several Western European countries have monarchies and layers of royalty such as dukes/duchesses, counts/countesses, etc. Interestingly enough, many of the former Soviet states have more completely shed royalty than the Western European democracies.
We should not forget that the workplace in all of these countries is by and large a feudal state. The operative term is CXX, starting with CEOs. Perhaps we should focus on democracy in the workplace rather than being distracted by interviews of royals.
In terms of the U.S. system, the modern scope and scale of government is far beyond the neo-monarchy of an elected president set up in the U.S. Constitution. A healthy dose of federalism is perhaps the only hope of saving the American experiment from fascism.
There are successful models such as the Swiss Federal Council, with an annually revolving presidency and members serving as liaisons to the major federal administrative departments. Using a regional approach of electing a non-partisan "Federal Council of the United States" by region for single terms may be worth considering. Members could be elected in a primary, top-two non-partisan election with a balanced proportional model.
In such a model, the Senate may not be needed. One State, Nebraska, managed to abandon the bi-cameral legislature so it is possible. Nebraska legislators are elected in a primary, top-two final election system to a non-partisan legislature. The legislature functions without political parties in committee assignments and seniority.
DrRichard • 44 weeks 6 days ago
Democracy works in some countries, not others, not now anyway. Tribalism, historical feuds, no tradition of sharing power...all those work against it in many states. India found a way to make this more-or-less work, elsewhere it quickly devolved into dictatorships or wars. Anyway, western Europe found ways to integrate monarchies into parliamentary systems and in Britain the royals do bring in some money with tourism and the like. The deeply bureaucratic state that is Britain would survive without a "living flag", but traditions do run deep there. It will be interesting to see if after Elizabeth dies some countries leave the Commonwealth, and if Scotland uses this as a time to pull out and rejoin the EU. (With the centennial of the establishment of Northern Ireland coming up that place could get interesting too.)
djgilbert, I agree about Nebraska. What might work in the US is a non-partisian system of apportioning Congressional districts in each state, with (the Nebraska and Maine systems) electoral votes going to whichever candidate gets a pluraity of each district, plus the 2 senate electroral votes going to whoever gets a pluairty in the whole state. That would not abolish the electoral college but would make it more responsive to popular votes. Not likely to happen though....
DrRichard,
The history of the Nebraska unicameral offers some lessons. The change took place in 1934 during the Depression. A chief proponent, Republican Senator George W. Norris, criticized the bi-cameral system as inconsistent with ideals of American equality. He is quoted as saying,
"The constitutions of our various states are built upon the idea that there is but one class. If this be true, there is no sense or reason in having the same thing done twice, especially if it is to be done by two bodies of men elected in the same way and having the same jurisdiction."
There was also a clean government backdrop. The lore of the bi-cameral in Nebraska is that each chamber was controlled by one of the two railroads. Norris would have known this well as he came from a city very influenced by one of the railroads, including hosting the railroad's orchestra. The circumstances also hint at concerns over corruption with the help of political parties. The move to a non-partisan unicameral was not an accident.
Legend • 44 weeks 5 days ago
Wyoming has less than 600000 population. They get 3 electoral votes (1 Congressman and 2 Senators) or 200000 persons per electoral vote. California has 40000000 and has 55 electoral votes. It is 727272 persons per electoral vote. This has to change! This is not Democracy! About as fair as China.
Worn out door knobs • 44 weeks 5 days ago
As of March 8, Biden has issued 38 executive orders, has not given a single press conference, and doesn't intend to give a State of the Union Address. Those aren't the traits of a Democracy. We have a dictator, a monarch, who places himself above the representives of "we the people".
The latest attack Du Jour from the right wing media!
We remember the lack of press briefings from the White house under King Trump. 300+ days without a press briefings. We get daily briefings now. Or the press question sessions. With Trump answering questions next to the waiting helicopter. Where he could not hear the questions. How did you forget?
You watch too much right wing media.
There is a new tape of Trump trying to get more votes in GA.
Presidential news conferences from the last 16 presidents according to the University of California at Santa Barbara. Check them out. During his 4 years in office, President Trump gave 88 press conferences for an average of 22/year. President Biden has went longer than any President in the last 100 years without giving a press conference, also, no President has failed to give a state of the Union address either in person or in writing.
BTW, I use actual references in my post. I don't 'cut an paste' unsourced articles and pretend it's a source.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/presidential-news-conferences
How about NPR? There are plenty more.
Again, you are just repeating the right wing attack of the day. At least what you get in daily breifings is honest. All that you got from Trump was lies. 33000 by last count I saw.
Mr Legend:
Here's a news flash for you, Trump is no longer President. We are talking about Democracy, and presidential transparency today, March 11, 2021. 38 Executive orders are not democracy in action. It's dictatorial. Please address that issue, and quit trying to divert it to something else.
cuz • 44 weeks 5 days ago
Worn out door knobs, I really think it is better than President Biden stay sequestered. Speaking off the cuff is no longer in his arsenal. His continual gaffes and lapses of memory presented on national television would not be helpful and cause the right to beat the drums even louder.
I believe he is speaking tonight and I predict it will be very short and to the point. Questions will likely not be an option and that is fine.
In trying to figure out who is actually telling Joe where to go, what to say, and who to pick for whatever, I am wondering if it is not Susan Rice. She is competent and has the experience to keep things somewhat on track. She is also a very powerful individual with good contacts and credentials.
As for the never-ending line of executive orders, I consider them and the two trillion dollar stimulus(?) to be nothing more than paybacks for help in winning the election. The actual covid relief in the bill is a small percentage of the total package which is mostly pork and gifts owed to cronies. That crap is nothing more than politics in general and has gone on a smaller scale for decades. Both sides do it and the public continues to look away.
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Yup, during four dull, painful years, what good were Trump's interminable, illiterate, unenlightened, and unintelligible press conferences when all he did was lie his pompous fat ass off in front of the American people? The result: over 500,000 dead citizens, a ruined economy, shocked allies betrayed, and a gleeful Putin.
And, as always, every other wing-nut talking point mentioned above is nothing but pure, pointless bullshit and shameless hypocrisy. "Figures don't lie, but liars do figure." Here, take this statistic and stick it squarely up...
Meanwhile, once again, a Democratic president with a working brain and a human heart is helping working-class Americans and their families instead of wasting two trillion on Wall Street fat cats. (No, nothing "trickled down" to the little people who will be paying for the Republican tax giveaways to the rich for a generation.)
Once again, a real president is busily cleaning up the horrible mess left by worthless, fascist Republicans who can't even govern their own way out of the sewer they inhabit. Proven over and over, most of the voters, sans the truly deluded, have finally figured out who the bad guys really are.
So good luck, fuckers, in 2022, 2024, and beyond. It's a thing of beauty -- the traitorous Republican Party is shriveling up and dying, fading away into obscurity like the Whig Party before them. Maybe the survivors can re-invent themselves someday in the distant future when the old guard is rotting in the grave. That should be an interesting journey.
Hi Cuz,
I agree with you. It would be nice to know who the 'Puppet Master' is, but my guess is we'll never know. It would be refreshing to get away from the my side wins no matter what the cost, and have some honest dialogue between Democrats and Republicans.
If you are saying that he listens to his Cabinet and aids. Then evaluates based on their opinion and his own personal opinion. Then I would say that is good. Because Trump always claimed that he knew more than anybody else and made his decisions based on that only. By the way his approval ratings are higher than Trump ever had.
How can you have an "honest" dialogue with people who constantly lie?
You don't mean Republicans?
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rostasi • 44 weeks 4 days ago
Biden has revoked 60 prior, awful orders with 17 orders.
Many cases, those having potentially deadly consequences, being revoked.
Nobody has had to clean up such a mess.
I don't think you really believe that you care about any of your B.S.
concerning news conferences - especially when it's clear that the
people in charge have huge lifting to do. Nice to see some actually
work being performed for a change instead of having a serial liar
in the media talking about how great he is all of the time.
Oh, I'm getting ready to watch him on TV right now.
Oh, the irony!
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But if people incorrectly perceive their interests, then the legislator may be misled in constructing the appropriate Betham ethics.
His later works on political economy followed the laissez-faire principle, though with modifications. They are in strictness to be deemed in properties only of the act, or other event, by which such pleasure or pain has been produced; and Betham ethics are only to be taken into the account of the tendency of such act or such event.
These readings are designed to stimulate personal reflection. The drafts he wrote in —10 provided the outlines for his first public statement in support of representative democracy in Plan of Parliamentary Reform Betham ethics the Form of a Catechism with Reasons for Each Article Internet Encyclopedia of Philisophy: He realized, however, that not to swear, and thereby to disqualify himself from receiving his degree, would destroy his relationship with his father, who expected him Betham ethics pursue a brilliant legal career, and even rise to the office of Lord Chancellor at the pinnacle of the profession.
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In seeing this, the legislator should devise a punishment that is useful in deterring theft. Pleasure Betham ethics, and the avoidance of pains, are the ends which the legislator has in view: He nevertheless stopped short of publicly advocating parliamentary reform in Britain and at this stage was very far from the republicanism he adopted in later life Dinwiddy ; Crimmins ; Schofield JS Mill also believed that the "pursuit of happiness" required a political and cultural environment wherein freedom of expression and choice of lifestyle was unimpeded as long as no immediate harm to others was involved.
In these and other early writings we see Bentham striving to emulate in the moral world the great advances made in physical science. This tended to undermine the aggregative dimension of the theory laid down by Bentham.
It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
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Explain his analysis of motives. Bentham recognised that neither the individual nor the legislator could strictly follow the process he described. His analyses of the concepts that used to describe and explain human behaviour are too simple.
He gathered around him a group of congenial friends and pupils, such as the philosopher James Millfather of John Stuart Millwith whom he could discuss the problems upon which he was engaged.
And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
Suitably impressed by the progress made in this department of knowledge, Bentham carried over into moral science the basic principle that people can only know, in any certain or scientific sense of that term, that which can be observed and verified.
For Bentham, the most important elements of the external environment in which a person imagines outcomes are the penalties and rewards laid down by law and those deriving from other educative and moral institutional arrangements and practices, including the sanction exercised by public opinion.
Mill supposed that behavior as well as thought often deserves protection against social encroachment. To a person considered by himself, the value of a pleasure or pain considered by itself, will be greater or less, according to the four following circumstances: He viewed the Oxbridge colleges as seats of privilege, prejudice and idleness, and his Oxford experience left him with a deep distrust of oaths and sparked a general antipathy toward the Anglican establishment35— A further catalyst came from his association with James Mill, whom he met in lateand who for many years thereafter acted as his philosophical and political aide-de-camp.
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He requested that his own mummified head and skeleton, dressed in his habitual garments, be displayed, and it can still be viewed today at University College Betham ethics. Some of the factors are quantifiable such as duration, certainty, and extent, but most of the factors are not quantifiable.
Philosophers express this with greater precision: An introductory overview of utility and game theory, including a discussion of its limitations. Jeremy Bentham: Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher, economist, and theoretical jurist, the earliest and chief expounder of utilitarianism.
At the age of four, Bentham, the son of an attorney, is said to have read eagerly and to have begun the study of Latin. Much of his childhood was spent happily at his two. Introduction to Ethics. The British Utilitarians. Jeremy Bentham () It is helpful to see Bentham's moral philosophy in the context of his political philosophy, his attempt to find a rational approach to law and legislative action.
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U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel was booed by a live MSNBC audience at Ole Miss on Friday morning after he said African-American Mississippians should stop "begging for federal government scraps."
Republican McDaniel and other Senate candidates were interviewed on the "Morning Joe" show from its live broadcast in Mississippi. Interview panelist Eddie Glaude Jr., a Moss Point native and chairman of African-American studies at Princeton University, asked McDaniel about his support for the controversial state flag, comments about hip-hop music contributing to gun violence and praise of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
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McDaniel responded: "I am going to ask them, after 100 years, after 100 years of relying on big government to save you, where are you today? After 100 years of begging for federal government scraps, where are you today?"
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McDaniel faces appointed Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, former U.S. Rep. Mike Espy and military veteran Democrat Tobey Bartee in a Nov. 6 special election to fill out the remaining two years of longtime Sen. Thad Cochran's term.
In light of all the political correctness and leftist hysteria, I'm curious about what you think: How should Robert E. Lee be remembered?


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Q: Why does the httpd process consume so much memory?
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I am using Linux with Koloxo panel for site management. My database server went down, and I think it happened because of a lack of memory. This is even though the machine has 8GB memory and there aren't many users on the system (maybe about 20 to 50 users maximum at any given time). One thing I see in process is that one apache process is consuming round about 325MB of memory.
Output of process http://apniworld.com/process.png
Is it normal for the processes to consume this much memory? If not, how can I set reduce the memory consumption per user to a normal level?

A: See Server refuses to use swap partition for some details on memory usage and how you may be mis-interpreting usage.
Here's more info I grabbed from an idle test system:
#snippet from running `top`
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
19545 www-data  20   0  148m 3744  264 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 apache2
19546 www-data  20   0  148m 3696  244 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 apache2
19547 www-data  20   0  148m 3696  244 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 apache2
19548 www-data  20   0  148m 3696  244 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 apache2
19549 www-data  20   0  148m 3696  244 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 apache2
22396 www-data  20   0  148m 3660  204 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 apache2

You're notice they all show 148MB of usage much like your processes all show 325MB of memory. That's virtual memory, though. The real number to watch here is RES -- resident memory. Each process is actually using about 4MB of space. Notice that %MEM is reported as .1% on this 4GB box.
In short, things are probably fine and you need to use better tools to investigate than what that control panel is providing you with.

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The winners of the 5th Annual Coming-of-Age Movie Awards were announced on 2-March-2013. For the past couple of years, in the week following the announcement, we have sought to contact a filmmaker or an actor who worked on a film selected as a winner by the readers of the site. Past interviews have included the Canadian actor Robert Naylor [Best Newcomer and Best International Film (10 ½) – 3rd Coming-of-Age Movie Awards] and Kevin Callies [Director of the 2011 short film The Man in the Red Suit – Best Short Film for the 4th issue of the awards].
This year we are honored to present an interview with the Belgian filmmaker Gert Embrechts, who wrote and directed the Flemish film Allez, Eddy – voted Best International Film. The movie's lead actor, Jelte Blommaert, also won the Best Newcomer category with his immaculate performance in the film.
Interview with Gert Embrechts
Hello Mr. Embrechts and thank you for accepting the invitation to be our guest at TheSkyKid.com. First of all, please let us congratulate you on the recognition your film, Allez, Eddy!, received in this year's Coming-of-Age Movie Awards.
There were two wins in two different categories: Best Internationl Movie and Best Newcomer for Jelte Blommaert who played the lead role in the film. What was your reaction when you found out about the support your film had gotten in the voting process?
First of all Jelte was really happy that he got nominated among all these fine international young actors. And, like young boys do, he dreamed about winning the award. He had already won Best Upcoming Talent in the Schlingel Film Festival in Chemnitz (Germany), but winning in the US is beyond his dreams.
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In the past, you've held various positions on various movie sets, but Allez, Eddy! is the first feature film you've written and directed. It features a Coming-of-Age narrative. Where did you get the inspiration for the story of Allez,Eddy!?
When my first son was born, I asked myself: "What is important in life that I can pass on to him?" Well, nobody is perfect, that's for sure. I think you can do two things: concentrate on your imperfections and be very unhappy, or concentrate on your talents and have the chance for happiness. That's why the title is Allez, Eddy! (Go, Eddy!). It's an encouragement for young people to go for their dreams and talents and that they shouldn't be stopped by people who concentrate on the imperfections of someone. Go out. Dare to live. Like the people in the little village in the film should go out and be part of the bigger world.
Jelte Blommaert
According to an article published at nieuwsblad.be, almost five thousand young actors competed for the role of Freddy in Allez,Eddy!. What set Jelte Blommaert apart from the rest of the kids that were auditioned for the film?
Jelte Blommaert was the most authentic of them all. Everything he did in the different stages of the casting was truthfull and 'in the moment'. When we improvised, he immediately stepped into the reality of the assessment. When he got written dialogue to read, he gave a fresh and honest performance every time. He had never played in a TV series or film. That was the most scary thing for me in choosing Jelte. Would he be able to perform at a high standard day after day for seven weeks? Would he still like it after the first week? But because he was so talented, we took a leap of faith and I'm so glad we did: Jelte is great!
Allez,Eddy!
Allez,Eddy! has been shown at a variety of festivals and in cinemas across Europe. Subsequently, it has been made available on DVD and Blue-ray. I can`t resist asking if you, as a European filmmaker, find the distribution and promotion of films made in Europe somewhat more challenging than those produced in the USA?
Yes, it is more challenging! They'd rather make a foreign language film and then dub or subtitle. But for three weeks we have had an international sales agent and we have high hopes that Allez, Eddy! will be shown around the world. There's no doubt that these Skykid Coming-of-Age Movie Awards will help! The warm welcome and the excellent reception Allez, Eddy! got at the Palm Springs Film Festival (awarded Best of the Fest) and at the Cienquest Film Festival (won the 'Encore' Best of the Fest selection) means that overseas audiences love seeing this movie…
As TheSkyKid.com mainly focuses on Coming-of-Age films, it would be interesting to know if you have a favorite Coming-of-Age movie that you'd recommend to the readers of this interview.
My Life As A Dog (Lasse Hallstrom), Toto, le hero (Jaco van Dormael) and Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry) are my favorite Coming-of-Age films.
Thank you for taking the time to talk with our readers about your film and best of luck on your future projects!
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What an excellent movie and What an excellent interview! Thanks theskykid. I think "Allez, Eddy" is one of the best coming of age movies in this year.
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Clare Bigger's sculpture is all about movement. With subjects ranging from athletes and dancers to race horses, cats and birds of prey, her sculptures can be anything from 10cm – 10m high. She works in stainless steel which allows her to create light airy structures which are both strong and weather resistant.
Clare has always had a keen interest in sport (which includes a black belt in Tae Kwon Do) and her work often reflects this, its dynamic nature capturing a dancer balancing on point or a sprinter in full flight. Clare Bigger's sculpture is a revelation, a celebration of life and the spontaneity of movement.
She was born and brought up in Africa and has since traveled extensively with destinations including Solomon Islands, Bhutan and Costa Rica.
Clare Bigger's sculpture could enhance your living space. These small sculptures are perfect for the mantlepiece, a coffee table or window ledge. Clare has also made several wall mounted sculptures. This wall art includes climbers and swimmers. Interior designers love Clare Bigger sculptures for the final touches to rooms. Further examples can be seen here.
Clare Bigger's sculpture can make an exciting focal point in your garden. Full of energy and movement, they can be any size and subject to suit your location.
Using stainless steel which is weather resistant allows a colour range from silver to bronze. Her sculptures have featured in several award winning RHS show gardens, private and corporate gardens. A gallery of garden projects and photos can be seen here.
Clare Bigger's large exterior corporate sculpture is a real celebration of her work. It is very exciting on this scale and her artistic style suits the size of the sculptures. All are made of stainless steel which makes them very resistant to the weather and also fairly vandal proof. Many companies have commissioned one of Clares' large exterior sculptures to enhance retail parks and new/old office centres. Companies such as Birmingham Midshires Building Society, Akeler and Gazeley Properties are among her clients. For further examples of her large scale sculptures, corporate and public art, click here.


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Nestled high in the mountains of Garret County, Maryland, Deep Creek Lake is only a 2- to 3-hour drive from the metropolitan areas of Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At 12 miles long with 65 miles of shoreline, Deep Creek Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the state of Maryland. Often called the "Lake Tahoe of the East" because the climate is so similar to the famous lake straddling the Nevada and California borders, Deep Creek Lake has become one of the premiere four-season resorts of the mid-Atlantic seaboard.
Deep Creek Lake is fed by natural underground springs, and as result it has some of the clearest water of any lake in the Eastern United States. Deep Creek Lake has an average depth of 25 feet with the deepest point in the lake reaching roughly 75 feet. With an elevation of 2,462 feet above sea level, the temperatures at Deep Creek Lake will generally be 5 to 10 degrees cooler than the lower surrounding metropolitan areas.
From March through May the average daytime temperature reaches approximately 45-degrees Fahrenheit with lows dipping into the 30s. Rainfall during the spring months averages approximately 10 inches.
Summer temperatures, from June through August, will generally range from the lower 70's to middle 80's with an average water-surface temperature of 73 degrees Fahrenheit. This makes the lake a great spot for people looking for a place to beat the summer heat and humidity of the city. Deep Creek Lake receives approximately 4 1/2 inches of rain per month during the summer. The average warmest month is July and the highest temperature every recorded was 97 degrees Fahrenheit in August of 1988.
From September through November the temperature averages 62-degrees Fahrenheit during the day with lows dropping into the upper 30s to lower 40s at night. Rainfall during the fall totals approximately 3 1/2 inches per month.
In December, January and February the average daily high temperature is 37 degrees Fahrenheit with an average nightly low of 17 degrees Fahrenheit. The area sees an average snowfall of 105 inches per year, almost twice that of Fairbanks, Alaska! In fact, some years Deep Creek Lake can experience over 200 inches of snowfall. Deep Creek Lake is also a popular spot for ice fishing, with the lake developing over 18 inches of ice cover during the winter months of January and February.
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Moody pays more in property taxes than what the other candidates earn in a year
by Darren Fishell October 16, 2018 October 16, 2018
PORTLAND, MAINE -- Republican candidate for governor Shawn Moody participates in a candidate forum in Portland, in this file photo.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Shawn Moody and unenrolled candidate Alan Caron have both poured hundreds of thousands of their own dollars into their race for the Blaine House.
But the finances of the two most monied candidates in the race appear to diverge from there, based on tax filings and public disclosures that show Moody's wealth far outstrips the other candidates in the race.
It's hard to say by exactly how much. But it is clear that Moody and his wife pay more in annual property taxes than any of the other candidates' households earn in a year.
Moody, who founded his auto repair business in 1977, said the business had record revenues in August. Public records show the company's value shot up sharply last year.
But Moody was the only candidate who didn't provide tax returns to the Bangor Daily News, so it's not possible to fully compare his income to the other candidates'. He said he wished to keep private financial details about Moody's Collision Centers, in which employees own a 34-percent stake.
However, Moody's Collision Centers does have to disclose the overall value of that employee ownership plan in filings with the U.S. Department of Labor. The latest audited valuation completed in August indicates Moody's stake in the company is worth roughly $32.8 million, based on the value of the employee-owned shares and Moody's public statements that he owns 66 percent of the company.
Moody's campaign declined to confirm the Bangor Daily News' assessment of the company's value.
Moody's property records are also telling.
For example, while Caron and his wife's home in Freeport is valued at $452,500, Moody and his wife purchased their second home in December. Located on eight shoreside acres on Brassua Lake in Somerset County, it's valued at $417,570.
Property records show that Moody's real estate — in property he holds personally and through a company, Real Estate Holdings LLC — is worth $14.8 million. That includes 24 different parcels in 11 different communities across the state, most in Moody's hometown of Gorham.
Add in his other ventures, and his total business and real estate empire is worth at least $48.5 million.
That means Moody and companies he and his wife own also pay a significant amount in annual property taxes, at about $236,000. It's more than any of the other gubernatorial candidates' households earn in a year.
It's also just slightly more than a $224,500 mortgage Democrat Janet Mills took out last year to buy her own lake house in Industry. Aside from that property, she owns $422,700 in real estate. That includes her home in Farmington, where she also rents out space, and two rental properties in Farmington and Augusta.
As governor, Moody has said he would prioritize lowering property taxes, using incentives for communities and school systems to regionalize services and reduce costs.
Moody said he intends to keep his stake in his companies and real estate, if elected, and his political strategist Brent Littlefield questioned whether media inquiries about Moody's businesses, earnings and taxes seek to inspire "class warfare."
"Is this a class warfare issue? Are you guys trying to create a narrative of class warfare?" Littlefield said.
[As governor, Moody would keep hold of rapidly growing business interests]
Federal tax data show that the other candidates — Caron, age 67; Mills, age 70; and unenrolled Terry Hayes, age 60 — are all relatively well-off compared with the rest of the state, but they are all well above the median age, and none is among the IRS' highest category of earners making $200,000 or more a year.
In 2017, Caron and his wife had an unusual windfall, as they cashed out more than $800,000 in investments, giving about a fourth to charity and using the bulk of the money to fuel his campaign. Caron declined to state specifically what investments he sold. It was not real estate.
For Mills, her adjusted gross income as Maine's attorney general lands her in the top batch of individual filers in her home of Farmington. As attorney general, Mills made $119,344 in wages last year, according to the state's Open Checkbook website.
Less than 2 percent of individual filers there make as much, based on 2016 records.
Caron and his wife, who reported about $130,000 in federal adjusted gross income in 2016, are among more than one-third of the joint filers in Freeport who made as much.
Hayes and her husband are among about one-fifth of Buckfield joint filers who made between $75,000 and $100,000. Hayes made $86,858 last year, not including benefits.
Caron, Mills and Hayes all paid about 20 percent of their income toward federal and state taxes in their most recent tax returns. Moody won't say.
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Darren is a Portland-based reporter for the Bangor Daily News writing about the Maine economy and business. He's interested in putting economic data in context and finding the stories behind the numbers.	More by Darren Fishell


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Cameron Park is a gem—one of the largest and best municipal parks in Texas. The 416-acre park is located in the heart of Waco, next to downtown, and is a great site for kayaking and fishing. Cameron Park features scenic overlooks, wildlife, and playgrounds, plus approximately 20 miles of nationally recognized trails that weave through the natural landscape. The park runs along towering limestone bluffs and overlooks the Brazos and Bosque Rivers. We love hiking, mountain biking, playing disc golf, hammocking, and just plain old relaxing here!
Cameron Park Zoo
Cameron Park Zoo rests on 52 acres adjacent to the Brazos River. With natural habitats and close-up encounters, the animal collection housed at Cameron Park Zoo includes more than 1,731 animals representing 300 species. In August of 2009, Cameron Park Zoo opened the Asian Forest, featuring critically endangered Orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and Komodo Dragons. Our families love their zoo passes and spending time at the massive tree house and play area.
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Lake Waco is just the closest of many area lakes that are popular for world-class fishing and water sports.
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Offering a wakeboarding cable park, competition-grade surf pool, the traumatic-pneumo-inducing Wedge Slide, a lazy river, beachfront, and cabins, Waco Surf has it all—and is only a 20-minute drive from Waco.
Waco Downtown Farmers Market
Open every Saturday, the Farmers Market has provided Waco with fresh produce, meats, and meals since 2011. We love to sip our Bare Bucha and stroll the market…
Downtown Waco and Cultural District
Waco's vibrant Downtown Cultural District offers unique, locally owned shops, restaurants and bars, live music, food trucks, a food hall, a world-award winning distillery, craft brewers, loft apartments, museums, art galleries, public art, and performance venues.
Magnolia Market at the Silos
Hosting almost 30,000 visitors weekly, the Silo District created by Fixer Upper hosts Chip and Joanna Gaines is the hottest attraction in Waco. (Interview season note: the market is closed on Sundays, so be sure to plan your visit for Monday afternoon.)
Waco Mammoth National Monument
Declared a national monument in 2015 and incorporated into the National Park System, the paleontological site represents the nation's only recorded discovery of a nursery herd of Columbian mammoths. The park includes a breathtaking dig shelter that creates an atmosphere of an art gallery. Natural light floods into the shelter from all directions, and a suspended walkway provides a stunning overhead view of the mammoths. The site also features a scenic trailway complete with benches and rest areas where visitors can reflect on what life was like during the age of the mammoths.
Dr Pepper Museum
Dr Pepper is a "native Texan," originating at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store in Waco. It is the oldest of the major brand soft drinks in America. The museum is housed in the 1906 Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company building located in downtown Waco. The 100-year-old building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the "Home of Dr Pepper." The museum operates an old-fashioned soda fountain where Dr Pepper floats are very popular.
Texas Ranger Hall of Fame
The Texas Ranger is one of the most cherished symbols of the Lone Star State. This museum offers patrons a look at the history of the Texas Rangers as well as law enforcement in Texas. It is located next to the Baylor campus along the Brazos River, directly across from McLane Stadium
Mayborn Museum Complex
The 143,000 square foot building offers visitors a look at geological history as well as traveling exhibits from around the world. In addition, it houses an outstanding children's museum. The Mayborn Museum is located on the Baylor campus.
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Texas State Technical College Waco
TSTC Waco is the flagship campus of the TSTC System, which comprises four separately accredited, two-year, state-supported technical colleges. TSTC utilizes its state-of-the-art labs to produce the highest number of associate degree graduates in the nation for engineering technology, and the second highest for computer science among two-year colleges in the United States.
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Gloucestershire police are closing most criminal investigations without identifying a suspect, new figures reveal.
Officers probed 8,421 crimes from April to June, 51 per cent of which were marked 'investigation complete, no suspect identified', according to Home Office data.
Some 92 per cent of reported bike thefts fell into this category, as did 87 per cent of domestic burglaries.
One of the cases closed by police with no suspect identified was a homicide - but a force spokesman said this offence dates back to the 1970s and "there was insufficient evidence to support the allegation that a death had occurred".
Only 980 cases resulted in someone being charged or summonsed.
A further 116 adults and four youths received a caution, and there were 52 cannabis and khat warnings.
A total of 16 prosecutions were prevented because the suspect was too ill, and nine because the suspect was younger than 10 - the age of criminal culpability.
Across police forces in England and Wales, 48 per cent of criminal investigations are being closed with no suspect identified - lower than the Gloucestershire figure.
Police Federation's Simon Kempton said: "Since 2010 we have lost almost 22,000 officers with 80 per cent of those being taken from the frontline.
"Policing has had to adapt to the altered landscape created by the government's austerity policies.
"As such it is increasingly becoming a reactive service which has to focus on the most serious offences and those with the highest associated risk.
"Increasingly offences which may have previously been priorities have had to be replaced by others and which are considered to carry higher risk such as serious violent crime and child sexual exploitation."
Mr Kempton thinks the situation is as "frustrating" to officers as it is to the "short-changed" public.
"What is needed is an honest conversation with society about what service they want their police to be able to provide, and for Government to invest - and invest now - to ensure that officers are able to continue to help victims of all types of crime," he added.
A force spokesman said: "Gloucestershire Constabulary is committed to keeping people safe and remains determined to deter and detect as many reported crimes as possible within the resources available to us.
"Like all other police forces we have had to adapt to cuts in funding by finding new ways of working and concentrating on those crimes which pose the greatest risk of harm.
"The force has five operational priorities - CSE and Abuse, County Lines, Domestic Abuse, Missing and Mental Health, and Modern Day Slavery and Trafficking - all of which threaten individuals' lives and welfare.
"We still investigate other crimes but have to prioritise based on the harm they cause, the evidence available to us and the likelihood of a successful prosecution."
Gloucestershire police also addressed the homicide investigation which the Home Office data reveals was closed this year.
The alleged incident was alleged to have taken place in Berkeley.
The spokesman said: "In January 2015 an allegation was made to Gloucestershire Constabulary regarding the possible murder of a child in the county some time between December 1972 and December 1973.
"Detectives carried out a thorough investigation but concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support the allegation that a death had occurred.
"In April this year the case was closed with no suspect being identified, which is why it was included in the recent Home Office data.
"The complainant has been kept fully informed."


Using a mobile phone while driving can significantly increase the chances of an accident. Now a dashboard cam can spot when drivers pick up the phone.
By some estimates, 85 percent of drivers in America use a mobile phone while at the wheel. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that during daylight hours, 5 percent of cars are being driven by people making phone calls.
That's not good news. It takes about five seconds to dial a telephone number during which time a car traveling at 60 miles per hour will have moved 140 meters. And according to the Virginia Tech transportation Institute, almost 80 percent of crashes involve drivers who were not paying attention in the three seconds before the event.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that using a mobile phone while driving significantly increases the chances of an accident. Which is why various research teams are studying ways of identifying when drivers are on the phone and warning them of the increased danger.
Today, Rafael Berri at Santa Catarina State University in Brazil and a few pals reveal their approach to the problem using a small dashboard camera that watches for the tell-tale signs that the driver is on the phone.
Their approach is relatively straightforward. Berri and co point out that drivers usually scan the road ahead while driving but when on the phone, they tend to fix their gaze straight ahead. This means that a dashboard camera in front of the driver is well-positioned to spot cell phone use.
Their system processes the images from this camera in three steps. First, it locates the driver and crops the image to show just the face and area to each side of the face. The idea is to see the driver's hands should they be raised next to the ear in holding a mobile phone while making a call.
Next, it identifies any skin pixels in the image and assesses the position of these pixels. It then segments the image into areas showing face and hands. Finally, it assesses the likelihood that the driver is on a call and issues a warning accordingly.
Berri and co have tested their algorithm in real time on a set of five videos of a driver taken using a dashboard camera at 15 frames per second with a resolution of 320 by 240 pixels. Each video is divided into periods of three seconds and these are then classified as to whether the driver is using a phone or not.
The team identified a number of situations in which the accuracy of the algorithm drops dramatically. For example when sunlight falls directly on the driver's skin creating images of particularly high contrast.
But they say that in general it works well. "Periods of three seconds were correctly classified at 87.43 per cent of cases," say Berri and co.
Just what this system would do to warn the driver is not yet clear. It could, for example, generate warning noises that might drown out a conversation. And, of course, it would have to know whether the car was moving or not.
A broader question is whether such a system would actually prevent drivers from making phone calls. It is not hard to imagine drivers who might continue to make calls regardless of the warnings they receive. Nor is it difficult to think of ways to fool such an algorithm, using gloves, for example.
And a crucial question for manufacturers is whether anybody would buy a car that spies on them in this way. If not, it's hard to see a system like this gaining much traction.
A better approach might be to find ways of convincing drivers that using a handheld phone while driving significantly increases the risks of an accident and persuading them either to stop or to make the call later.
Not an easy task but clearly one worth pursuing.