The Titanic Quarter, Michelin-starred dining, and more in the Northern Irish capital.
These are good times for Belfast. As the shadow of the sectarian violence of decades ago recedes further and further into the background, the capital of Northern Ireland continues to transform itself into a European hotspot with Michelin-starred restaurants and hipster hotels — not to mention that the city is ground zero for both Titanic and Game of Thrones fans. Here are the best places to stay and things to do in Belfast. Sláinte!
In the Titanic Quarter, housed on the site of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard, visit Titanic Belfast, a state-of-the-art museum that tells the story of the city's heyday as a shipbuilding powerhouse, culminating with the Titanic's construction, sinking in 1912, and subsequent rediscovery. There are also Titanic-themed boat tours on the waterways surrounding the complex, offering views of the museum's futuristic exterior.
Start on Donegall Square, dominated by City Hall, an imposing Renaissance pile dating from 1903. Soak up the art-house vibe in the Cathedral Quarter, filled with galleries, pubs, and boutiques, and browse among the Irish art in the Ulster Museum. You can also take a Black Taxi tour to see the famous political murals in the Catholic and Protestant areas of West Belfast.
As most GoT fans know, much of the HBO series is filmed in Belfast — most interiors, including King's Landing scenes, are shot in Titanic Studios, located within the Titanic Quarter (but not open to the public). You can, however, take a Game of Thrones tour that'll show you filming locations like Old Castle Ward (Winterfell) and Dark Hedges Road (King's Road), as well as a visit to the famous Giant's Causeway coastal rock formation.
Themed around the classic 1968 Steve McQueen movie, the Bullitt Hotel (from $120 per night, priceline.com) exudes an effortless cool, much like the man himself. The budget-minded hotel has 43 minimalist rooms (many feature photos of McQueen on the wall, along with original artwork) and the buzz-worthy Bullitt Bar and Taylor & Clay restaurant.
The Titanic Quarter's latest addition is the long-awaited Titanic Hotel Belfast (from $192 per night, expedia.com), housed in the former headquarters of Harland & Wolff, creators of the White Star Line. The 119 rooms have maritime accents, and the bar, a stunning all-white domed space with skylights, is in one of the former drawing rooms.
The former Ulster Bank mansion has been transformed into the the exclusive Merchant Hotel (from $236 per night, travelocity.com). Rooms come with canopied beds and clawfoot bathtubs, and The Great Room restaurant, featuring a beautiful stained-glass domed ceiling, was the former main banking hall (afternoon tea, also served here, is not to be missed).
Though only two years old, the farm-to-table The Muddler's Club has become one of Belfast's most popular restaurants. Located in a hard-to-find lane in the Cathedral Quarter (it takes its name from a secret society that used to meet in the building), menu highlights include spiced loin of lamb and filet of turbot with zucchini and olives.
Howard Street, chef Marty Murphy's hotspot, features industrial-chic interiors and dishes like crispy pork belly with a cider purée and beer-battered fish with chips and mushy peas. After your meal, be sure to stop into the landmark Crown Liquor Saloon for a pint — try to snag one of its private wooden booths called "snugs."
Owned by Michael Deane, one of Belfast's culinary giants, Eipic has only been open for two years, but it's already been awarded a Michelin star. Northern Ireland-born head chef Alex Greene's tasting menus (which include a vegetarian option) feature smoked mackerel, quail in a sherry vinegar sauce, and halibut with Jerusalem artichokes.


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Vail Daily guest column: Dog rescued from shelter now saves humans' lives
K9 companion rescued from shelter saving humans' lives -Retires after 9 years of service
Mere hours before euthanasia, a dog got his calling — to become a superhero! Superheroes come in all forms, and for the Eagle County Sheriff's Office, it came as a lovable mutt named Jake. For nine years, he put his life on the line, with an almost psychic ability to detect danger. In addition, Jake is a money-maker, helping to seize over $250,000 in assets, which more than pays for his training and upkeep.
How did Jake become the most lovable protector of Eagle County? He started out as an unlikely hero. As a rescue dog, he was overlooked at the training facility because he lacked the pedigree of an elite police dog, but he instinctively knew he had to work harder. He had to be faster, more intuitive, precisely accurate, totally adaptable, and possess greater awareness than any other dog. He had to be the best to compete with the purebreds.
Enter Deputy Jake Best, looking for a K-9 for the Eagle County Sheriff's Office. As an experienced handler, he knew that he would be making a lifelong commitment to the dog he selected. This was not just a business decision, but a personal commitment for the dog's entire life. He would be living with this dog and spending more time with him than his own family.
After spending the day, meeting with each dog at the facility, as he was about to leave, the owner of the training facility mentioned another option; a dog he was training personally. In came Jake, floppy ears and a big smile, coincidently sporting the same name as his soon-to-be handler. Fate was at work!
The trainer hid drugs in the other room, then brought Jake in. The excitement was barely containable, as Jake was ready to work. Within minutes, he discovered the hidden drugs and was ready for a treat — his toy. All training is positive reinforcement; thus, when a dog on the job is searching for drugs, it's really a search for their favorite toy. This is why police dogs must have a strong interest in playing with toys; an indifferent dog is not a good candidate. Work and training are the only times a K-9 is allowed to play, so their main focus throughout the day is seeking that toy or treat, which is why they are so eager to jump out of the car and begin the search.
A K-9 dog costs an average of $10,000. Their first two to three years of life are spent in basic training. A handler, generally spends about the same amount of time in preparation for that role. Once both are ready, the search for a perfect match is on. It's instinctual, not quantifiable.
Full training takes about three months, with additional monthly training, daily practice, and intense recertification. This program must be completed with the dog's handler, as their communication is unique and can mean the difference between life and death.
Certifications for multi-use dogs encompass multiple fields, where an 85 to 95 percent accuracy is required. Tracking includes missing persons, crime evidence, arson accelerants, cadavers, even cash. Dogs learn the language of hand signals and verbal cues. A selection is made between drug or bomb detection because while a dog can tell the difference, they are unable to communicate that distinction to their handler, and you don't want an anticipated drug package opened, only to have it explode.
Living adjacent to Interstate 70, we are close to those who seek to cause harm, including smugglers, human traffickers, terrorists, drug dealers, thieves, and even murderers. They've got to go somewhere and I-70 gets them there; making a normally safe community, highly vulnerable.
Jake and Jake are on-call and off to the rescue at a moment's notice. As part of the Gore Range Task Force, Jake has been an essential part of the drug interdiction team.
After nine years of service, Jake began to show signs of physical ailments, and is now being retired. Jake gets up every morning with his handler, and runs to the door, ready to jump in the car, but instead, stares as the door closes in front of him. What did he do that his buddy is leaving him behind? That sadness extends to the Eagle County Sheriff's Office, where his joyful presence is greatly missed. This rescue dog has spent his entire life rescuing others, and for that we are forever grateful.

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Washington Post Gets Its Leg Tingling Over Obama's Christian Faith
By streiff | Dec 26, 2015 10:48 AM ET
It really makes you want to gag.
Earlier in the week, the Washington Post, the same paper that published a cartoon representing [mc_name name='Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)' chamber='senate' mcid='C001098′ ]'s two young daughters as organ-grinder monkeys, wrote a lengthy, fawning, fellating story titled: The quiet impact of Obama's Christian faith. Long story short — you'd be excused for not reading the piece — is that Obama failed because Americans just aren't good enough to deserve him.
Obama did not grow up in a religious household and became a practicing Christian as an adult. He has written more extensively about his spiritual awakening than almost any other modern president, addressing it in two books before he was elected to the White House and in more than a dozen speeches since.
His faith had been central to his identity as a new kind of Democrat who would bring civility to the country's political debates by appealing to Republicans through the shared language of their Judeo-Christian values.
With just one year left in his second term, Obama now holds a different distinction: No modern president has had his faith more routinely questioned and disparaged. Recent polls show that 29 percent of Americans and nearly 45 percent of Republicans say he is a Muslim.
He has repeatedly said in recent months that one of his biggest regrets is that he will leave behind a country that has grown more polarized and distrustful during his two terms in the White House. "There's all this goodness and decency and common sense on the ground, and somehow it gets translated into rigid, dogmatic, often mean-spirited politics," Obama said in a recent interview.
It is really hard to conceive of a man so conceited and so bereft of self-reflection (this being opposed to reflection of self, on that point he really has no equal) that he is puzzled at the state of the nation.
I'll be the first to say that I really have no idea what Obama's faith is or if he even has a faith that extends beyond self-adulation. In fact, I think that his self-worship is of such an intensity that it might very well constitute its own monotheistic religion. He joined the hate-factory that Jeremiah Wright runs under the guise of a tax exempt church because that was the church that prominent black political figures in Chicago attended so they could get their weekly dose of "hate Whitey" in a socially acceptable forum. And the up-and-coming young opportunist had to be seen at the right places.
One of our earliest introductions to Obama was during the 2008 Democrat primary in which he derided professing Christians as losers who were "cling[ing] to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them" because, get ready for it, they weren't supporting him. Even Hillary Clinton commented on the unfair caricature he was painting.
To Obama, however, this view was not a caricature. It is how he sees religious people. Take, for instance, this video of a much younger Obama expounding on the limits of the role of religion in society:
The video is worth the watching because what he says here underscores the policies his administration has undertaken. He has gone to court to force religious schools to hire staff who were at odds with the teaching of the school. He has gone to court to force orders of religious women — who are bound vows of chastity, celibacy, and continence — to carry insurance policies that provide contraceptive measures.
Whenever he mentions Christianity in public, it is nearly without fail in a negative way. Christianity is the root of slavery and Jim Crow (ignoring that people of faith were the prime movers in eradicating both those evils). Christianity was responsible for the Crusades (no mention of the destruction of the ancient Christian communities in what is now the Arab world and the forcible conversions to Islam). In the first quote from the article, this stands out:
"There's all this goodness and decency and common sense on the ground, and somehow it gets translated into rigid, dogmatic, often mean-spirited politics," Obama said in a recent interview.
Because, of course, there is nothing rigid, dogmatic, or mean-spirited about claiming legal gun owners are responsible for shootings. Or blaming a terrorist attack on an internet video. Or simply ignoring the law when the law is inconvenient. The real ill will is on the part of anyone who objects to your actions. (If you are interested, look up the clinical definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorder sometime)
The article offers this:
The reasons for the country's divisions are long and complicated and include a fragmented media, economic uncertainty and rapid social change. Sometimes, Obama has appeared to single out conservative evangelical Christians for special blame, saying in an interview with the New York Review of Books that "it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously sometimes are also those who are suspicious of those not like them."
Not suspicious of those not like them, suspicious of those who claim to be like them but act in ways that are unalterably hostile to religious faith. In short, they Christians who see their faith as more than a cultural trapping view Obama through the prism of Matthew 7:16-20:
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
And you have to ask yourself that if Obama had set out to drive Christianity from the public square what would he have done differently? The answer, sad to say, is nothing.
There is no evidence that Obama possesses a "Christian faith" or that that faith has had any impact on the policies of his administration. In fact, the only examples of his faith in the article is where he, allegedly, stopped attacking other people, particular pro-life Christians and people in favor of gun ownership.
He understands Christianity in the same way a Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins understand Christianity. To him it is nothing but a set of proof texts, carefully excised from context, that he hurl at his opponents ("Let him cast the first stone…) to accuse them of hypocrisy.
In fact, the only vaguely Christian reference one can get from eight years of Obama's prevarications, deceits, and overt criminality is that he has succeeded in setting people against each other for the sake of himself.
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Весьего́нский муниципальный о́круг — муниципальное образование на севере Тверской области России.

В рамках административно-территориального устройства области на его территории находится административно-территориальная единица, соответствующая категории округ, а сам город Весьегонск как территориальная единица получает статус города окружного значения.

Административный центр — город Весьегонск.

История
Самые ранние письменные сведения о селе Весь Егонская, по мнению историков, относится к 1447 году. Также село Весь-Егонское впервые упомянуто в 1524 году в жалованной грамоте князя Василия Ивановича Симонову монастырю. Во владении монастыря село находилось вплоть до секуляризации монастырских земель в 1764 году, после чего стало экономическим. В 1776 году Весьегонск стал уездным городом Тверского наместничества. Тогда же был утверждён план города. В 1781 году Екатерина II утвердила герб Весьегонска: «В верхней части герб Тверской. В нижней — рак чёрный, в золотом поле, которыми воды, окружающие сей город, весьма изобилуют». Таким образом, значение герба предельно ясно из описания. С современного герба Весьегонского района убрана верхняя часть с тверским гербом, а рак развёрнут так что обращён не вниз, как ранее, а вверх.
Большое значение в жизни города приобрели Богоявленские ярмарки. Сюда приезжали купцы из Москвы, Ярославля, Вологды, Астрахани. Кроме них наибольшее значение в экономической жизни уезда играли рубка леса и сплав плотов по реке Мологе. Сам Весьегонск был очень маленьким городом. Здесь к 1902 году было застроено всего восемнадцать улиц.

Весьегонская земля связана со многими интереснейшими людьми: П. А. Дементьев — предводитель уездного дворянства и основатель американского города Санкт-Петербург; В. А. Серов — известный художник; военачальники П. Ф. Жигарев, В. М. Андреев, И. М. Афонин, А. И. Тодорский и другие. В период Великой Отечественной войны отличились многие весьегонцы. Пять человек — полные кавалеры ордена Славы: фронтовые разведчики С. К. Ларин и С. А. Кузьмин, пулемётчик В. Ф. Сергеев, сапёры В. П. Бобошин и Н. И. Киселёв. Гордость района — орденоносцы А. Т. Шакин и А. С. Цветков. За мужество и отвагу высоких правительственных наград были удостоены партизаны А. Д. Гришин, П. М. Обманов и другие.

В 1929—1940 и 1949—2019 гг. эта территория входила в Весьегонский район.

Весьегонский муниципальный округ образован 31 мая 2019 года на месте Весьегонского муниципального района с упразднением всех входивших в его состав городских и сельских поселений в соответствии с Законом Тверской области от 17 мая 2019 года.

В рамках административно-территориального устройства области на его территории образована административно-территориальная единица, соответствующая категории округ, а сам город Весьегонск как территориальная единица получает статус города окружного значения.

Он стал первым в России муниципальным округом, созданным в рамках начала действия Федерального закона от 1 мая 2019 г. N 87-ФЗ.

Населённые пункты
В муниципальный округ входят 264 населённых пункта:

Примечания

Муниципальные округа Тверской области
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A suburban survival at risk: Braunstone Hall, Leicestershire
May 29, 2010 June 5, 2011 Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat
Braunstone Hall, Leicestershire (Image: East Midlands Oral History Archive)
Two of the most important aspects of campaigning to save country houses are vigilance and visibility – and yet sometimes even this doesn't always seem to bring about restoration any quicker when faced with a slow-moving owner. Braunstone Hall, a Georgian gem still with significant grounds but now swallowed up in the sprawl of Leicester, has been empty for over ten years but despite a vigorous campaign both in the media and online it still remains very much at risk.
Braunstone Hall, now grade-II listed, was built in 1776 (date on rainwater head) for the Winstanley family by the architect William Oldham (b. 1737 – d. 1814) who also designed an early Leicester racecourse grandstand (1770), Master's House at Alderman Newton's School (1789) and the New House of Correction (1803) – all though now demolished. The red-brick house is two and a half storeys tall by five bays wide with a cornice and hipped roof. The relatively simple front is enlivened with stone bands marking the ground and first floors with an impressive tripartite doorway with fluted columns, a small pediment and an elegant fanlight with arched glazing bars. One further very distinctive feature is the giant blind recessed arch in the central bay – an architectural device which seems quite popular in Leicestershire with examples in Burbage, Belgrave House (also 1776), and the beautiful rectory at Church Langton (by William Henderson – 1760). The interior is largely complete with some impressive detailing.
The Winstanley family bought the estate from the Hastings family in 1650 and remained there until forced out in the 1920's by the pressure to build houses following the First World War. Estates on the edge of existing towns and cities were eagerly eyed-up by local councils. For some families, already facing financial hardships following the war this was a perfect opportunity to sell the family seat and relocate. Others, including the Winstanleys in the shape of Major Richard Norman Winstanley, fought the prospect of compulsory purchase arguing that this was still a family home and the building work would undermine the value of his recently modernised house. However, he was unsuccessful and so the house, gardens, parkland and further 949-acres were compulsorily purchased in 1925 for £116,500 (equivalent to £5.2m – 2008). Most of the land was built over except for the house and 168-acres surrounding it which became a public park. The house remained in council ownership and was first a secondary school, opening in 1932, before becoming a primary school a year later until it closed in 1996.
Since then the Leicester City Council has failed to either find a viable long-term use or adequately protect Braunstone Hall with the house falling victim to repeated acts of vandalism and arson. The latter is the most worrying as the incidents have not only included fires outside the building but also now inside. Over the last few years the Council have been making very slow progress towards finding a solution but, as always, they are claiming poverty when it comes to heritage projects. A very active campaigning group has been set up on Facebook with the members regularly corresponding with councillors and reporting any damage or deterioration at the hall – effectively a dedicated 'Neighbourhood Watch' for the house.
The Council put the house up for sale on a 125-year lease in 2007 and had recently been negotiating to sell the house to a local businessman for conversion to a hotel, conference centre and wedding venue. However this has been delayed by changes to what's being offered in relation to the land for enabling development. Each delay increases the risk that the local yobs will finally succeed in their mindless vandalism and burn down this elegant and important part of Leicester's heritage. If this happens the blame can be laid firmly at the feet of Leicester City Council and their apathy and indecisiveness over the last 14 years.
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Detailed history of the house: 'Braunstone Hall' [Leicester City Council]
Detailed description of the house: 'Braunstone Hall' [English Heritage]
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9 thoughts on "A suburban survival at risk: Braunstone Hall, Leicestershire"
saracrofts February 16, 2011 / 11:14
Do you know if the Council have been asked if they would consider transferring the hall to a charitable trust via the new asset transfer mechanism. There's help at http://www.dta.org.uk/
Andrew February 20, 2011 / 12:29
Sara, I'm sure the council would consider transferring the Hall's 125 year lease to a charitable trust. The issue is not the legal structure of the recipiant, but rather whether it has sufficient funding to restore the Hall, and a sustainable business plan to maintain the building into the future without further draining council funds. Ideally it would be wonderful if a trust could obtain a grant of £1.5m from the Heritage Lottery Fund, £1.5m from council land sales and £1m from local supporters and other heritage charities, to restore the top floors as rentable office space and the ground floor as a resturant, cafe, gallery and community centre. But in these difficult economic times, funding is hard to come by, as well as commercial tenants. Even the current plan to use the Hall as a hotel depends on whether the area can sustain another high-end venue.
Mark March 8, 2011 / 15:52
Why has know one considered turning the building into a working history museum used to teach locals and other Leicestershire people what life was like in a period house such as this. Not only would this provide valuable employment opportunities to local people but also teach them about their heritage. The stables could be converted into workshops rented out to craft enterprises and have a thriving cottage industry working in them, this would not only give a rentable income but again offer employment and low cost business premise. There is also a very nice walled garden which if marketed correctly could be used for summer partys ect again an income oppurtunity. The people just need to think outside the box!!
john June 29, 2014 / 23:00
We have one Belgrave hall and it's shut down now
Lee Clarke July 31, 2011 / 22:44
Latest Update:- Leicester City Council manages to delay making a decision on Braunstone Hall again: http://braunstonehall.net/?p=272
Lee Clarke April 2, 2012 / 02:36
A final preferred bidder has now been chosen to renovate Braunstone Hall and is currently in the final stages of negotiations with the Leicester City Council to turn it into a wedding venue and conference centre (possible with community use). It is hoped, and anticipated the selected preferred developer will enter into a 125-year lease, submit a planning application and apply for Listed Building consent shortly. For further information see: http://www.braunstonehall.net/
Best regards, Lee Clarke, of the Restore Braunstone Hall campaign group.
Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat April 3, 2012 / 22:13
Thanks for the update Lee. It's encouraging to hear that your tireless campaigning has begun to pay off and hopefully the next, more positive, chapter in the history of the house can begin.
Lee Clarke October 18, 2012 / 10:11
Work to revamp historic Braunstone Hall could start early next year (Leicester Mercury) http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Hall-revamp-start-early-2013/story-17108003-detail/story.html
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Q: G-Wan uses all available memory I've installed the latest at the moment g-wan web server (4.3.14 x64) on a KVM VPS with Ubuntu 14.04.02 x64 server edition provided by Vultr ( 1GB RAM, 1 CPU core and 2GB swap ).
The VPS setup is absolute barebones - just Ubuntu and g-wan. I've copied g-wan to /opt/gwan/ and started it as a service by using the init scripts provided in the g-wan documentation. I've also disabled the csp folder (by renaming it to _csp) and haven't installed any additional scripting languages to work with it because I need it only as a static file server. Other than that I haven't made any additional customizations (except to enable the access and error logs).
Initially g-wan starts with a very low memory footprint - just a little above 4MB but only after a few hours it grows a lot more (7 hours after the last restart and now it's taking around 360MB) - the more time passes the more it grows and the machine becomes non-responsive (I suppose due to swapping) and the only solution is to reboot it.
Also I must note that this happens while the server is mostly idle as it is not used yet into production - I've seen only a few bot requests in the access and error logs.
I can provide additional info if required, just don't know what else to mention at this point.
//EDIT:
Here are the last 30 lines of the trace log:
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:08:55 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:08:56 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:08:57 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:08:58 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:00 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:01 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:02 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:03 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:04 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:06 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:07 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:08 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:09 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:10 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:11 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:13 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:14 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:15 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:16 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:18 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:19 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:20 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:20 GMT: signal 15: Termination
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:09:40 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:45:05 GMT: signal 2: Ctrl-C
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:45:41 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:56:47 GMT: signal 15: Termination
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:58:15 GMT: start
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:59:00 GMT: signal 15: Termination
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:59:11 GMT: start

And some explanation about them:
I've checked the whole log and it's filled only with lines containing the timestamp and start for each second. The first termination is when I stopped the service and started the server manually via ./gwan. The second termination Ctrl-C is for when I stopped the previous command (which didn't showed anything on the terminal while was running) and this time started it with ./gwan -d:www-data:www-data - again no problems whatsoever. I killed it again and started it as a service - again no start entries in the log on each second, though it has been running only for an hour so far.
The gwan.log file also had nothing different than the start/stop information and the memory consumption printed every second like this:
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:32 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:32 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:32 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 188.71 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:33 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.56 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:33 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:33 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:33 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 189.10 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:34 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.58 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:34 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:34 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:34 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 188.72 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:35 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.61 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:35 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:35 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:35 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 190.40 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:36 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.61 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:36 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:36 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:36 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 188.75 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:37 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.63 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:37 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:37 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:37 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 190.32 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:38 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.66 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:38 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:38 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:38 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 188.79 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:39 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.67 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:39 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:39 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:39 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 190.61 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:41 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.69 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:41 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:41 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:41 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 188.83 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:42 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.70 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:42 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:42 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:42 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 190.10 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:43 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.71 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:43 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:43 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:43 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 188.86 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:44 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.73 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:44 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:44 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:44 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 190.13 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:45 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.76 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:45 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:45 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:45 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 188.91 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:46 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.74 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:46 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:46 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:46 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 188.90 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:47 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.79 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:47 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:47 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:47 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 188.92 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:48 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.79 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:48 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:48 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:48 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 190.17 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:50 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.82 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:50 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:50 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:50 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 188.95 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:51 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.84 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:51 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:51 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:51 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 190.21 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:52 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 187.84 MiB.
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:52 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:52 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Tue Jul 28 03:29:52 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 188.10 MiB.

//EDIT 2:
It seems that for some weird reason it starts logging the weird start events each night exactly at midnight. I started it as a service last night at Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:31:22 GMT: start and it worked without a problem until midnight. Will test it later with changing the system date while running as a normal app.
Also, forgot to mention that there are no cronjobs defined at all in case any of them might interfere with g-wan.
//EDIT 3:
I've tried manually changing the system date while g-wan was running as a service and as a normal app (also disabled the ntp service before that) but it seems that g-wan doesn't recognize the changes because there is no log rotation in the folder where gwan.log is stored. Also there are no new entries in the trace log.
All of this made me think that the problem might be related to the ntp service somehow but this still doesn't explain why it occurs only at midnight while the ntp service updates the system time more frequently.
//EDIT 4:
Here's the hardware detection part from the last start of the web server (with the IP address and domain name altered). The server was started with service gwan start,though I suppose the log entry would've been the same if I started it with ./gwan
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] ------------------------------------------------
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] G-WAN 4.3.14 64-bit (Mar 14 2013 07:33:12)
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] ------------------------------------------------
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] Local Time: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:37:56 GMT+0
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] RAM: (474.11 MiB free + 0 shared + 92.90 MiB buffers) / 993.92 MiB total
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] Physical Pages: 474.11 MiB / 993.92 MiB
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] DISK: 15.65 GiB free / 19.70 GiB total
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT]  Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT]  /dev/vda1      ext3       20G  4.1G   15G  22% /
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT]  none           tmpfs     4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT]  udev           devtmpfs  487M  4.0K  487M   1% /dev
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT]  tmpfs          tmpfs     100M  372K  100M   1% /run
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT]  none           tmpfs     5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT]  none           tmpfs     497M     0  497M   0% /run/shm
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT]  none           tmpfs     100M     0  100M   0% /run/user
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] 80 processes, including pid:2542 './gwan -d'
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] Page-size:4,096 Child-max:7,780 Stream-max:16
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] CPU: 1x Virtual CPU e7da7129d3ee
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT]  0 id: 0     0
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] Cores: possible:0 present:0 online:0
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] L1d cache:   32K line:64     0
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] L1i cache:   32K line:64     0
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] L2  cache: 4096K line:64     0
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] NUMA node #1 0
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] CPU(s):1, Core(s)/CPU:0, Thread(s)/Core:2
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] Bogomips: 4,799.99
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] Hypervisor: KVMKVMKVM
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT]   using   1 workers 0[1]0
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT]   among   2 threads 0[]1
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] 64-bit little-endian (least significant byte first)
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS \n \l (3.13.0-58) 64-bit
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] user: root (uid:0), group: root (uid:0)
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] system  fd_max: 1,024
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] program fd_max: 1,024
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] updated fd_max: 500,000
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] Available network interfaces (2):
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] 127.0.0.1
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] 1.2.3.4
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 1.33 MiB.
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] Host /opt/gwan/0.0.0.0_80/#domain.com
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] log files enabled
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] memory footprint: 3.93 MiB.

//EDIT 5:
Tonight I left it running as a normal process (with ./gwan) and there were no problems at midnight so the problem might be from the daemon mode.
Guess I can run it this way at startup with cron if no fix exists for the service mode.

A: CPU: 1x Virtual CPU e7da7129d3ee
[Wed Jul 29 11:37:56 2015 GMT] Cores: possible:0 present:0 online:0
CPU(s):1, Core(s)/CPU:0, Thread(s)/Core:2
Hypervisor: KVMKVMKVM
using   1 workers 0[1]0
among   2 threads 0[]1

Look no further, one day the KVM hypervisor might get CPU virtualization right by updating the /proc/sys kernel variables correctly...
In the meantime, KVM will break every multicore application, like G-WAN.
The "fix" is to run G-WAN like this: # ./gwan -g -w 1 -d
This will force using 1 CPU Core, despite bogus system information.

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Some of the designs look like they could be aligned a little differently, Like the blue ones coming off his skates. But its a very excellent wallpaper.
:D Its good, some changes could be made, but overall its good.
This is when Ikki's sliding down the building with his traction skates?
Thanks is a good pic !
nice shot & is very Different & stylish from Ikki wallpapers .


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Sally Ann Grossman (née Buehler; August 22, 1939March 11, 2021) was an American model and the wife of Bob Dylan's one-time manager, Albert Grossman. According to some Dylan biographers, she introduced Dylan to his first wife Sara (although this claim is disputed by Dylan's stepson, Peter Lownds). She operated the Woodstock-based Bearsville Records following the death of her husband in 1986.

Early life
Grossman was born Sally Ann Buehler in Manhattan on August 22, 1939.  Her father worked as an actuary; her mother was the executive director of the Boys Club.  She attended Adelphi University and Hunter College, but became more interested in the folk music scene in Greenwich Village.  She consequently dropped out of school to work as a waitress in establishments such as Cafe Wha? and The Bitter End.

Bringing It All Back Home
Sally is best known as the young woman languorously stretched out on the cover of Dylan's 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home.  She also appeared briefly in the D.A. Pennebaker documentary, Dont Look Back, which covered Dylan's 1965 concert tour in England.  The album photograph came about after Dylan spent the summer writing and recording at the Grossmans' home.  Grossman stated in a 1996 interview that she took part because "I was around, and Bob just asked me to do it". The photograph was taken by Daniel Kramer in the Woodstock, New York, home.  The chaise longue in the photograph was a wedding gift to the Grossmans from Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary.  As for the red jersey dress, Grossman said, "I don't think I've worn it again."  Grossman said, "It's amazing to be on an album cover that people remember 30 years later."

Career
In 1971, Grossman provided a voiceover to the documentary film Luxman Baul's Movie, a documentary about two Bengali musicians (Bauls) which was financed by her husband; Sally Grossman was also credited as producer.

After the death of her husband Albert in 1986, Grossman took over the management of Bearsville Records, the record company he founded in 1970, as well as the two restaurants they had established together.  She was also responsible for refurbishing his barn and transforming it into Bearsville Theater, thus realizing a dream of her late husband.  Grossman recounted that she was compelled to carry out the renovation sooner than she had anticipated due to amendments to the municipal zoning bylaw that would have prevented her from starting a music venue.  The theater opened in 1989; she eventually sold it and the other businesses in 2004.  She was noted for being an "imposing businessperson" while eschewing media publicity. Towards her final years, she worked on a documentary about Albert Grossman.

Personal life
Grossman married Albert Grossman in 1964.  They met while he was organizing folk music acts that performed at the establishments where she was waitressing.  They moved to Woodstock, New York, and remained married until his death in 1986.

Grossman died on the night of March 10–11, 2021, at her home in the Bearsville area of Woodstock.  She was 81; the cause of death has not yet been determined.

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FILM REVIEW: Ghost in the Shell – Painfully Average
Nick Monahan· April 1, 2017
Source: denofgeek.com
Ghost in the Shell is my least favorite type of film, but it should not be. I love science fiction. I love sci-fi about robots and AI. I love action. I love Scarlett Johansson.
And yet here we are, stuck with a bog-standard sci-fi action movie that squanders what little promise it has by focusing on the wrong things.
Before we get too far, let's address the whitewashing (pre-release article there, no film spoilers); it is here, and it is done to more than one character. I can't say much about it you haven't already heard without getting into spoilers (and follow that rabbit hole at your own peril, because the film is out and spoilers abound in recent articles), but let me just say that one of the primary things that really hurt this film for me was that in one particular scene, one conversation, the film showed an awareness of this issue. It proceeded to, for just a moment, look like it was going to say something surprisingly meta and contemplative, like it was going to acknowledge what it had done and turn it around as an actual critique of the practice at large.
Source: Collider
Instead this glimmer of intelligence and self-awareness falls away, buried for good under the rubble of the frustratingly-standard final battle.
I have only a passing familiarity with the source material for Ghost in the Shell, as while I enjoy Japanese cinema and other cultural creations from the island nation, anime and manga are not among them. Nonetheless, I am well aware of the original works' importance to fans around the world and its influences on media since then, so this film was important to me in a way as well.
Johansson's performance as The Major (they just say "Major" but dropping the article feels weird to me) is one of the better parts of the film. She brings with her equal parts human fragility and robotic coldness, evident especially in her eye movements. During lighter scenes with people she trusts and likes, such as her creator Dr. Ouellet (Juliette Binoche) or her second-in-command Batou (Pilou Asbaek), she relaxes a little, expresses herself through her movements, even smiles a bit. When she's on the job or on the table getting repaired and running through mechanical functions, she has a way of staring unmoving through the camera that is noticeable enough to enhance her synthetic nature while not being too obvious.
Source: Baltana Wallpapers
The actor I was most excited to see in this, and perhaps the second-largest disappointment of the film, is my man Takeshi "Beat" Kitano. Relegated primarily to sitting in a chair and delivering exposition, I couldn't help but be frustrated at such a treasure being so misused. He does get a couple of scenes that are worthwhile, late in the film, and I'm always happy to see the man in anything, it's just a shame that the most interesting thing he does revolves around shooting some people. It almost feels like he was there mostly as the token Japanese anchor, as he has by far the most screentime and things to do than any of the other bit characters of Asian descent.
The largest issue for me relates back to the whitewashing awareness thing I mentioned earlier. The film has a pattern of these sorts of things, asking or bringing up questions and themes and then taking them in the wrong direction. Again, this would require spoilers to hash out fully, but I will say that the issue that gets brought up in every film about androids and AI surfaces here, and instead of taking the actually-intriguing route that the film seems to be building to, The Major instead ends up in the most painfully generic and disgustingly tidy of places by film's end. It come so maddeningly close to saying and doing a couple of really neat things, but opts instead to retread old ground.
This issue is especially egregious when you consider just how distilled this film is. To get here, we first have to take Blade Runner and cyberpunk, mix it with some creativity and originality to get the original manga and films, then rip those apart to get back to this live action film. Extra effort was going to need to be put in here to get back to something unique and meaningful; the excellent visuals and atmosphere are nonetheless something we've seen before in better things, so they can't hold the film together without being the backdrop for something worthwhile.
This scene was pretty cool though. Source: Inverse
This is not to say Ghost in the Shell's visuals are without merit; one particular chase with The Major and an enemy agent involves them both using active camouflage that shimmers and glitches in the water-logged environment they are moving in, making for some neat spectacles, and there a couple of fairly well-done close-quarters shoot-outs and fistfights, with Johansson once again flexing her Black Widow muscles for some slick acrobatic takedowns (when it wasn't her stunt double, of course).
If you're a die-hard fan of the source material, you've probably already made your decision either way, so nothing I say as an ignorant outsider will matter. For those of you who are like me, I can only recommend Ghost in the Shell if you really just want to see Scarlett kick ass in some stylish locales and give a good android performance in the process, or you're just really into cyberpunk and have to see everything.
Propped up by a good effort from Johansson and a few decent action scenes, this otherwise painfully average movie is let down further by the glimmers of more interesting ideas poking through its shell and its inability to say anything new.
Nick Monahan
Gaming/Film writer with an affinity for first-person shooters, science fiction and action cinema. Wishes he had a dollar for every hour of ArmA 3 he has played.


This actually looks good. I usually can't stand most American cole slaws, but the idea of have cabbage, carrots, and some light additions is a fundamentally good idea. Germans can do this stuff right every time.
What's your recommended way to cut carrots into matchstick form?
Thanks for the feedback. My German roots do kick in from time to time. I hope you try and enjoy this!
Due to time, I can't take many step-by-step photos. I apologize and hope to get better in the future, but Chef Doughty does a great job here. Hope this helps!
This looks delicious! I don't do mayo- so I love seeing alternatives. Thanks for sharing!