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NEWS SHORTS
by Staff Reports April 18, 2007
"That's how we have giraffes, hippopotami, and the clap."
Kurt Vonnegut on the existence of a divine being. Vonnegut died last week at age 84.
Riley defends suspension
The news from last week's City Council meeting was supposed to be the amendments to the city's carriage animal ordinance (given initial approval), but council members weren't done talking about the video of a skateboarder getting pushed in to a bush. Seen that one? Of course you have.
The altercation, which occurred more than a year ago, involved a skateboarder and his brother illegally riding on (and likely damaging) the benches in Waterfront Park. The short video starts with Corey Dowds riding the bench and ends with Pfc. Willie Simmons pushing him into the bushes before giving the cameraman a talking to. She did not ticket the kids, possibly realizing this could come back to haunt her. But after a recent crackdown on downtown skaters, the two brothers released the video that's now been viewed by a national audience on CNN, ABC, and elsewhere.
An investigation following the video's release led to a 10-day suspension without pay for Simmons, angering some City Council members who think she was just doing her job.
"There's a difference between a push and a shove — streetwise," said Councilman Wendell Gilliard. "She did not use extreme force."
Councilman James Lewis said he has seen officers ignoring nearby skaters since Simmons' suspension.
"This incident is going to make officers scared to say something," he said.
Mayor Joe Riley, who has spoken fondly of Simmons throughout the video drama, said he felt "compelled" to respond to Lewis, Gilliard, and others who questioned the penalty.
"She made a mistake," he said. "There is no circumstance when the city will condone an officer using extreme force."
A suspension was appropriate because of the severity of the offence, Riley said.
"Push, nudge, shove, or whatever — they can't do it," he said. —Greg Hambrick
"We have different sensitivities and at different times we're going to come to different decisions, and I think that is best left to the states."
Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, defending the flying of the Confederate flag. Source: The Associated Press
Finally able to hoist a high-gravity beer?
South Carolina may be on its way to getting swilly on less. House Bill 3624, essentially a repeal of Prohibition-style blue laws making beers containing over 5 percent alcohol illegal in our state, passed subcommittee last week and goes to the full Ways and Means committee this week. A similar bill passed the Senate last week as well. The organization Pop the Cap SC has been pushing the bill for years and may finally see success, allowing microbreweries and homebrewers to openly enjoy their tasty 7 percent stouts. —Stratton Lawrence
That's the total number of homicides so far this year in the city of Charleston after an upper peninsula shooting last week. Source: Post and Courier
That's the hourly rate planned for public beach access parking on Folly Beach, set to begin next month.
School Board takes on transfers, charters
Tensions were high at the School Board meeting last week, with two board members accusing white parents of transferring their students out of minority schools. Meanwhile, the lines grew clearer between supporters and opponents of the Charleston Charter School for Math and Science, with some board members suggesting they'll oppose granting use of the former Rivers Middle School campus to the group.
The district routinely takes on a list of transfers every meeting. Members will occasionally oppose the transfers with little comment about their particular displeasure, but last week Ruth Jordan let it be known that she was tired of white families running from schools because of an influx of minority students.
"I don't want to be a part of segregating our public schools," she said.
She noted one concern that students were requesting transfers from Laing to Moultrie (both in Mt. Pleasant) because students from struggling North Charleston schools were transferring to Laing.
Gregg Meyers said he didn't think that was what was going on, but that the district should study it. But Hillery Douglas said that he has seen just such circumstances in West Ashley.
"The board has done a terrible job of assigning pupils," Douglas said. "She (Jordan) is absolutely right."
The ire of Jordan, Douglas, and others then turned to the proposed charter school. The district has been in discussions with the charter school parents about the shared use of the presently vacant Rivers Middle School. The district has its own ideas for the campus, including a high tech high school program.
But several board members said they were wary of providing the use of the building, or of a proposal to provide trailers for the charter school while the building is rehabbed, considering the other needs facing District 20 schools.
"We need to take care of district needs as a first priority," said board member Toya Hampton Green.
David Engelman, a frequently isolated voice on the board, provided his support for the charter school.
"It's a community group trying to found a school that does something other than fail," Engelman said.
Board member Arthur Ravenel Jr., who is an outspoken supporter of charter schools, noted that whether or not the school will come to fruition is the state's decision, not the board's. The only thing the district can decide is whether or not it provides the charter school a roof. —GH
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Get you some good books, people.
It's already been a good time for the King of Wakanda lately, with the Black Panther movie earning some historic Oscar nominations, and heading back to theaters to celebrate. But Marvel's keeping the celebration going, and highlighting Black History Month, with a sweet deal on some of the best comics Wakanda has to offer.
By going over to Marvel.com and using the code—of course—"FOREVER," you can pick up free digital copies of five very good slices of Black Panther comic storytelling: Black Panther #1 (2005), Black Panther: World of Wakanda #1, Marvel's Black Panther Prelude #1, Black Panther #1 (2018), and Shuri #1. These are not just great comics, they're also specifically great jumping-on points for the fans of the movie to dip their toes into stories of Wakanda that play on elements they know and love from the movie. And in the case of Black Panther Prelude, it's actually set within the world of the MCU, telling a tale of how T'Challa actually first donned the Black Panther mantle before the events of Captain America: Civil War.
Suffice to say, it's a pretty good mix—and hey, no harm in trying them all out for the low price of nothing at all, right?


Add Button with ALV Standard Toolbar.
Standard toolbar? When I add Pf-status for alv output , standard alv toolbar is not displayed.
On the toolbar event of your alv grid, all the button as shown in the code below.
FORM handle_toolbar USING i_object TYPE REF TO cl_alv_event_toolbar_set .
MOVE 'Payment in Other Currencies'(202) TO ls_toolbar-quickinfo.
MOVE ' ' TO ls_toolbar-text.
PERFORM handle_toolbar USING e_object e_interactive .
DATA gr_event_handler TYPE REF TO lcl_event_handler .
SET HANDLER gr_event_handler->handle_toolbar FOR gr_alvgrid .
MOVE '<write text here for button>'(100) TO lv_toolbar-text.
MOVE '<wrte text here>'(100) TO lv_toolbar-quickinfo.
SET HANDLER gv_event_receiver->handle_toolbar FOR gv_alv_grid.
Check out page 33 of this PDF link.
It will solve ur problem.
in to u should give ur progarm name and ur own status name.
After u copied u can include ur button in application toolbar which u have copied status.
now u can assign the pf-status in ur ALV program.
Firstly pass the PF-status from in which you will be having PF-status.
FORM set_pf_status USING rt_extab TYPE slis_t_extab.
SET PF-STATUS 'PFSTATUS' EXCLUDING rt_extab.
excluding rt_extab command will exclude SAP button,if you require SAP buttons to then remov ethe command.
Click on the 'PFSTATUS' and put your button in APPLICATION toolbar.


We've been busy with the end of yet another school year and the start of summer vacation. So far; we already have under our belt a girls' trip to Los Angeles, a couple of rides out to Eastern Oregon, our annual Fourth of July block party and fireworks, Sauvie Island berry-picking, and lots and lots of ice cream cones! I hope that you too, have been enjoying this glorious Portland sunshine!
Here's a video, made by my daughter Jo, of our SoCal trip with her BFF. I think she did a great job. Enjoy!


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from django.urls import reverse

from django_extensions.db.models import TimeStampedModel

from market.apps.core.models import (RandomSlugModel,
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from market.apps.board.models import Post

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    sender = models.ForeignKey(UserProfile, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='sender')
    recipient = models.ForeignKey(UserProfile, default=1, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='recipient')
    subject = models.CharField(max_length=128)
    referenced_post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    body = models.TextField(max_length=5000)

    def get_absolute_url(self):
        return reverse('messaging:detail', kwargs={'slug': self.slug})

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A heavy duty construction means that this hinge will provide long lasting elegance. Finished in antique brass. This hinge measures 3 1/2 inches tall by 3 1/2 inches wide with 1/4 radius corners. Comes complete with mounting hardware.


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The 10 Best Disney Themed Watches Money Can Buy
Watches do come in handy as they help you track and manage your time well. They can also help accentuate your personal style. If looking for the best timepieces to add to your collection you may want to consider Disney themed watches. They are authentic, stylish and timeless classics. Below are 10 of the best Disney themed watches money can buy.
10. Disney Women's MK2128 Mickey Mouse Rhinestone Watch
This timepiece is highly precious and loved by many people worldwide. It's a silver-tone watch whose bezel features inset rhinestones. It also has a 37mm metal casing, a glass dial window, and an applied Mickey Mouse on the white Mother-of-Pearl dial. Its analog display has quartz movement. Additionally, this watch features a metal alloy link bracelet that has a jewelry clasp closure. It displays Arabic numbers 12,3,9, is slick, and excellent for regular wear. It is retailing on Amazon at $22.30.
9. Disney Minnie Mouse Women's MCK624 Moving Hands Watch
This timepiece features moving minute and hour hands with Arabic numbers. Additionally, it has a brown and black woven strap with a black and silver casing. This case supports a Minnie Mouse whose hour and minute hands move around the dial. This watch also has a red-colored second hand and a 3-hand quartz accuracy. It is retailing on Amazon at $24.95.
8. Disney Men's MM0060 Two-Tone Mickey Mouse Watch
This watch is one of the world's most exceptional timepiece imported by Disney and manufactured by Ewatchfactory company. It features different whimsical styles with a stainless-steel adjustable bracelet that has a fold-over clasp. This timepiece has a mineral crystal, is scratch-resistant, and water-resistant up to 30meters. Its sporty design features a circular case and a gold-tone dial with an official Disney logo engraved on its stainless-steel back case. Furthermore, it has a Japanese quartz movement that also has a date window. After purchasing this watch, you receive a 1-year manufacturer's warranty. It's retailing on Amazon at $59.99.
7. Disney The Princess & The Frog Women's W002517 Jasmin Watch
Manage your time effectively with this fully licensed timepiece. The Disney CZ alloy bracelet is designed by Ewatchfactory and features your favorite Disney character on its dial. It is an excellent pick for kids since it has well-labeled 'minute' and 'hour' hands to help them quickly tell time. The watch has a polished, matte steel finish and Japanese Analog quartz movement for precision timekeeping. It is water-resistant up to 99 feet and features a 40mm diameter case. This classic timepiece meets and even exceeds all the US regulations for adult watches. Although it's currently unavailable on Amazon, it's retailing on eBay at $70.50 and comes with a 1-year warranty.
6. Disney Men's W000507 Mickey Mouse Honor Rubber Strap Watch
You don't want to miss the opportunity to purchase this W000507 Mickey Mouse Honor watch from Disney. It features a white dial with Arabic numbers and minute track. Additionally, it has a metal case and a black rubber strap with a buckle clasp. Its analog display has an enhanced Japanese quartz movement. This unique timepiece is mineral crystal scratch-resistant and water-resistant up to 30meters. It is retailing on Amazon at $71.99 and comes with a 1-year manufacturing warranty.
5. Invicta Men's Disney Limited Edition, Stainless-Steel Quartz Watch (Model: 23764)
This timepiece features a 17mm thick, 48mm full yellow gold-plated stainless-steel case that has a unidirectional accented, blue bezel as well as a textured push-pull crown. The 23764 model has a TMI-VJ43 Japanese powered quartz movement and textured blue dial imprinted with the official Mickey Mouse logo. It also has white accents, luminous gold-tone hands, dot hour markers, as well as day& date display functions. This watch is flame fusion crystal, scratch-resistant, and water-resistant up to 200meters. Additionally, it comes with a 26mm wide stainless-steel and blue silicone strap with a buckle clasp. It is retailing on Amazon at $99.95 and comes with a 5-year warranty.
4. Invicta Women's Disney Limited-Edition Quartz Watch (Model: 22731)
This iconic Invicta timepiece features a luminous 18k ion-plated stainless-steel bezel with 120 white1.5mm zirconia stones. Its White Mother of Pearl Dial features an official Mickey Mouse logo with the date window at 3:00. What's more, it has white and gold-tone hands, as well as gold-tone Mickey Mouse markers. This limited-edition quartz movement watch has an 18k Gold stainless-steel case, bracelet, and a screw-down crown. It has a case diameter of 40mm. If you are into water sports or marine activities, this timepiece is the perfect choice since it's water-resistant, up to 200meters. According to Amazon, it's retailing at $138.83 and comes with a 1-year warranty.
3. Citizen Collectible Watch (Model: FE7060-05W)
This watch brings to light the notable characteristics of a timeless Mickey Mouse; love, fun, and optimism. Now, the modern unisex Mickey Mouse timepiece by Citizen featuring a friendly Mickey Mouse face embossed on the dial. It also features a black leather strap, a black dial, and a 40mm diameter stainless steel case. The strap has a bright red inner lining. Another impressive feature that makes this watch unique is the eco-drive technology, meaning it's powered by any light and doesn't require any battery in its lifetime. It also features a precise quartz movement. This watch is retailing on Amazon at $215.81 and comes with an impressive 5-year warranty.
2. Citizen Watches Mickey Mouse (Model: AP1053-15W
According to Citizen Watch, this model features a white dial with an accented Mickey Mouse logo. It has a moon phase with analog day and month/ date display. A rose gold-tone stainless-steel casing, and a black leather strap. Furthermore, this model uses an Eco-Drive technology, meaning it uses any light. It is retailing on Amazon at $ and comes with a 5-year warranty.
1. Citizen Watches Women's Mickey Mouse (Model: GA1051-58W)
We saved the best for last with this Citizen Mickey Mouse GA1051-58W watch. It features advanced eco-drive technology meaning it doesn't require any battery. It also has a 29.5mm diameter stainless-steel case and bracelet featuring a double push, fold-over button release. A quartz movement powers its 3-hand analog display, and its black dial has silver-tone hands, a Disney logo, and diamond embellished markers. This timepiece is water-resistant, up to 165 feet. It retails on Amazon at $337.50 and comes with a 5-year limited warranty.
If you are a Disney aficionado, then you'll probably love to own a Disney timepiece. Well, this list gives you the best Disney Watches you can find online. Go through the list to choose one watch that best suits your tastes.

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El distrito era la mayor subdivisión territorial de Luxemburgo. Existían tres distritos que a su vez se dividían en 12 cantones y 116 comunas. En el año 2015 estuvieron suspendidos.

Administración
Cada distrito era administrado por un comisario de distrito, nombrado por el Gran Duque.

Las comisarías de distrito vigilaban de un modo general la gestión de las administraciones municipales, los sindicatos de municipios y los establecimientos públicos. La competencia de los comisarios de distrito se extendía por todas las ciudades y comunas de su ámbito, con la excepción de la ciudad de Luxemburgo, que era bajo autoridad directa del ministro del interior, salvo en los casos previstos por leyes especiales.

A cada comisario le correspondía un secretario de distrito que es nombrado por el Gran Duque por proposición del comisario de distrito.

Lista

Los cantones fueron creados en la década de 1840. En 1857 se creó el distrito de Mersch a partir de los cantones de Mersch y Rédange, pero fue abolido en 1967.

Enlaces externos

Mapa

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The period leading up to a PET scan and the time spent waiting for results are often fraught with what people in cancer-land dub "scanxiety." I don't really know how to describe the feeling except to say you try really hard not to get your hopes up, but there they go, imagining your future - one in which you have hair again and that new house you've been shopping for. One in which you've sat at a sidewalk cafe sipping red wine and fattening yourself up on freshly made pasta in Italy itself, maybe as the Mediterranean breeze blows through that new hair of yours. It's a future in which you teach your little boy how to tie his shoes and cheer him on at his first baseball game. Your hopes take on a mind of their own during this period, and you panic at every thought in which the outcome might not be what you want. I can go on and on about how none of us really knows our future and how important it is to live in the present, but when it's time again for my scans every third month, all those platitudes fly straight out the window.
Last week, as I drove to pick Quinn up from daycare the afternoon after my PET scan, I got a call from my oncologist's office confirming my appointment for the following day. No word about scan results, just a matter-of-fact, all-business call to confirm an appointment. Routine, I'm sure. But it set me off--my heart started racing, my palms got all sweaty on the steering wheel, and I convinced myself that it must mean bad news, since last December, when it had been good news, they'd called and told me over the phone.
I immediately called Chris to see if he could calm me down. "They probably don't even have the results yet," he tried to comfort me. My throat was closing up and I was contemplating how I would pull over on the exit ramp leading from one freeway to another since I was not sure I could safely drive. "Worst case scenario, they've got lots of other drugs they can try," he said. He was right--as usual when it comes to these things--but rational thought isn't at the forefront of my head in the midst of a panic attack.
So when we hung up, I called my oldest friend, Alana, who was in the middle of her own craze trying to pack for a weekend trip with twenty minutes until she had to leave for her flight. Her frenzy took my mind off my own stress and she even made me laugh a bit. I promised her I'd call as soon as I had any news.
Less than a minute after our call ended, my phone rang. It was my oncologist, calling to tell me that my PET scan was completely clear. "They don't see anything," he said.
"Totally clear?" I asked. "There's nothing at all?" I checked again. I wanted to make absolutely certain I'd heard him correctly before I told anyone.
I hugged Quinn extra hard at pick-up that day. "We did it again," I whispered in his ear.
I still have another three months of this chemo cocktail, as my oncologist wants to be absolutely certain this time we knock out each and every one of these cells. But assuming another clean scan mid-January, he'll take me off the chemo component and leave me on the other two maintenance drugs. If our luck continues, this will put me into long-term remission. On the other hand, I'll continue to have scans every three months, so if anything does come up, we'll catch it early again and I'm confident I'll continue to respond well to treatment.
Chris and I celebrated our four-year wedding anniversary and my clean scan this weekend. And I feel like I have another lease on life, even if I have to renegotiate this contract every three months. Turns out, I'm a pretty good negotiator.
The members of the Delta Epsilon Chapter of Theta at ASU want to express how incredibly happy we are to hear this news! Congratulations.
Yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Way to go, killer! You can't be stopped. You're like Cal Ripken, just getting up and doing it every single day. That might have to be your new nickname - Iron Woman.
Also, your talent with the written word ceaselessly impresses this lawyer with an English degree from Hopkins. It is truly a mastery of expression to which I have always aspired. I look forward to the day when you write a book.


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Urban Eden Cedarcroft Garden Attracts Birds, Pollinators and People
Kathy Hudson
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The 19th-century home is a bird-friendly oasis.
Photography courtesy of Paula Simon
The Cedarcroft garden of Neal Naff and Nate Hubler is proof positive that native gardens can be both artistic and attractive. Theirs is not only attractive visually, but also irresistible to birds, pollinators and people.
The couple, already organic gardeners and bird lovers in Fells Point and Bolton Hill, seized the opportunity 14 years ago for a larger garden on 1.3 acres around their 19th-century home. "We wanted more birds," Hubler says. "That's why we chose natives. We want plants that are pollinator- and bird-friendly. Most are natives, not all."
The gardens provide year-round interest to the birds.
When they plant a tree, shrub or plant, Hubler and Naff consider how each will benefit their green space. Birds, on average, eat one-quarter to one-half of their body weight per day. That's a lot of berries, seeds and insects, so productive plants and trees are key.
Their first move when they bought the house in 2006 was to cut down invasive Norway maples and remove some overpowering English ivy as well as massive and diseased English boxwoods that hid the house.
"The neighbors seemed worried," Hubler says, "but we assured them we knew what we were doing."
Indeed they did. "We had a plan," Naff says. "It's important to do the hardscape first."
What they kept
Drystack stone walls, brick paths and patio installed by the previous owner gave structure to some of the garden. So did the carriage house, the swimming pool and a tiny house, which the couple later restored as a combination potting shed and train garden.
They left standing the American hollies full of berries along with sculpture-esque weeping hemlock and Southern magnolia the birds love. Their next step was to work on perimeter plantings to create shade as well as insect and bird habitat.
"Shade is good for weed control," Hubler says. It also cools temperatures (important as temperatures rise) and preserves moisture. In their place they planted native white oak, paw paw, dogwood, blackgum, sweetgum, yellow poplar, river birch and more American holly trees.
"I thought in terms of layers," says Hubler, whose artistry informs this four-season garden. Native shrubs, both deciduous and evergreen, provide attractive foundation planting, as does the colorful and textured understory below the tree canopy. Among the shrubs are coastal azaleas, clethra, several varieties of inkberry, sumac, Southern blueberries, itea, red twig dogwood and pussy willow, which offers the first food of spring to birds and insects.
Below the shrubs are hundreds of different perennials. Among them are joe-pye weed, cone flowers, black-eyed Susans, wood asters, goldenrod, American coral bells, blue cardinal flower, mayapple, bluestar and monarda.
Islands of lawn connect individual gardens and hardscaping at the front entrance.
"When the inkberry bushes become leggy, I under-plant with ferns, often Christmas ferns," Hubler says. Ferns also vary the geometry and texture in the garden, as do native grasses of all heights.
Sea oats and many varieties of sedge are among the grasses, which add movement, year-round interest and food for birds and insects.
And then there are the vines.
While English ivy no longer winds through the property, the couple now battles porcelain berry, which strangles trees, shrubs and plants citywide. Showy, native honeysuckle, however, is a colorful vine and attractive to hummingbirds, too. Native wisteria, Carolina jasmine and Bigonia crossvine are among other attractive climbers.
What they added
Covering the ground is key to blocking weeds. "Eureka!" is how the couple felt on discovering this groundcover: native, golden groundsel. "It's also our version of daffodils," Hubler says. Stems with yellow clusters of blooms fill the beds in early spring; evergreen, lavender under-sided leaves at their base remain throughout the rest of the year.
For late-spring-to-autumn color and bird attractors, annuals line the walkways and punctuate the gardens. "Zinnias aren't native, for example," Hubler says. "But they draw the birds." Native annuals and biennials self-seed and bring colorful surprises throughout the gardens in plants such as native phlox and tickseed.
To further the artistry, Hubler sits and looks at the garden from various angles. Sometimes he sees a spot that needs a focal point or visual punctuation, like the pink, fall-blooming camellia bush
he recently planted in an already full bed by the potting shed.
Welcoming kitchen garden planting provides habitat for insect visitors.
"We focused on this bed one summer." He nods toward a bed by a corner of Neal's vegetable garden. "Do a garden piece by piece." Doing one section at a time keeps enthusiastic gardeners from being overwhelmed and makes for a polished product.
"You then may not work in an area for seven years," Hubler adds, "When you come back, you see what works, and what doesn't work. We're always testing to see what works."
Not only birds and pollinators benefit from these extensive gardens. The couples' many guests also frequent the garden. Naff's 11-bed fruit and vegetable garden is filled with selections not found in local grocery stores and ones that taste better than those in stores. Heirloom tomatoes and cucumbers are at the top of their list, plus dozens of other selections such as strawberries, black raspberries, zucchini, carrots, squash, kale, endive and green beans. On first glance, it seems that the charming rose-lined, white picket fence is to keep critters out of this garden.
"No," Naff says. "That's to keep me from going farther into the front lawn."
Every inch of the gardens around the property is planted. The lawn, which is never sprayed or fertilized with chemicals, is used as green islands, like gigantic steppingstones, or lakes, among the gardens.
A shady corner with a pond offers quiet and repose in the garden.
Hubler's project for the year is to tackle the invasive grass that sends out long runners, moves into the beds and forms huge patches in the lawn. "I'm thinking about putting down tarps to block the weeds," he says.
Naff remembers their early days in this garden, after the ivy and Norway maples came out, and before new trees had gained enough height to block weeds. "We used big sheets of corrugated cardboard to block the weeds." They then covered them with layers of soil enriched with the compost made from their leaves. "We never used hardwood mulch," Hubler says. "Only pine fines, and when we plant, we add some Leafgro."
Key to the success of this city garden is its soil. Unlike their previous Baltimore gardens, heavy clay was not found when they arrived. That made replanting easier. The soil has only become richer with an annual infusion of leaf compost and organic fertilizers.
Even in periods of drought, underground springs keep much of it from drying out. In the few areas that are too wet, trees like river birch are planted.
And for the next project in a garden that already feels like Eden? "I want to add a natural pond and a carnivorous plant bog," Naff says.
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package org.apache.cassandra.utils;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

/**
 * A freely adjustable clock that can be used for unit testing. See {@link Clock#instance} how to
 * enable this class.
 */
public class FreeRunningClock extends Clock
{
    private long nanoTime = 0;

    @Override
    public long nanoTime()
    {
        return nanoTime;
    }

    @Override
    public long currentTimeMillis()
    {
        return TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toMillis(nanoTime());
    }

    public void advance(long time, TimeUnit unit)
    {
        nanoTime += unit.toNanos(time);
    }
}


Johannes Grützke, born 1937 in Berlin, studied at the "Hochschule für bildende Künste" in Berlin from 1957 to 1964. There, he was a pupil in a master class of Peter Janssen. In addition to that, from 1962 on, he studied with Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg. In 1965, Grützke became a founding member of the "Erlebnisgeiger", and also set up Berlin's "Schule der neuen Prächtigkeit", together with the painters M. Bluth, M. Koeppel and Karl Heinz Ziegler. Grützke gave guest lectures at the "Hochschule für Bildende Künste" in Hamburg for one year in 1976, and designed several stage sets, with Peter Zadek as producer, at the "Deutsche Schauspielhaus" in Hamburg. As a painter and graphic designer Johannes Grützke has been creating works since the sixties, which impress by his irony, selection of motifs and brilliant technique.
We don't know any related artists to Johannes Grützke. Do you?


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Equipment, instruments
Equipments for oil and gas extractions
KCA Deutag Caspian
KCA Deutag Caspian on map
Baku, Nasimi district, Nizami street, 69 AZ1000 *** 2 voted
www.kcadeutag.com/Pages/default.aspx
About KCA Deutag Caspian
The company "KCA Deutag" is a subsidiary of Abbot Group plc. In 2008, First Reserve Corporation was acquired by Abbot Group plc, after which the company re-registered as a private company under a new name Abbot Group Limited. Company First Reserve is the largest company in the world due to its stock investment, as well as the experience and practice in the energy industry. In order to create opportunities of the development in the priority areas of the world, the company is investing the finance in the company Bentec, which is its partner, and "Kca deutag". This project has allowed it to increase the number of drilling rigs in order to meet customer requirements, improve productivity, customer support. Head office "Kca deutag" is located in Scotland in Aberdeen. In addition, the company has a head office located in Germany in Bed Bentheim. There is a central system of engineering support in the same city. And there are regional offices in key production areas - Russia, the Caspian region, the Middle East, Norway. The company "Kca deutag" – is one of the some companies that have their own technical equipment, have their own team of technical services, RDS (Radio Data Service) working with a team of 500 people, and have 30 years of practice and experience. Due to the presence of these advantages, the company occupies one of the leading positions in the supply of design platforms, and mobile installations for Brownfield and Greenfield. Today "Kca deutag" deals in more than a hundred plants for cattle and drilling and is responsible for more than 30 offshore platforms located in the Caspian Sea, the North Sea, Sakhalin, in Angola. In addition, the company owns a single block drilling rig in the North Sea cattle and more than a dozen offshore mobile drilling units (MODU), which include four towers, three jack-up floating drilling rigs, drilling platforms with 3 floating tower base.


Diogenes, the ancient Greek philosopher of Stoicism, is famous for carrying a lit lamp around town, claiming to be looking for just one honest man. Well, we have found that man, and he is Arizona Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Because the POS's Department of (In)Justice tried to intimidate and harass him by launching a criminal investigation into Arpaio's alleged financial misconduct. But on Friday, August 31, 2012, the federal government closed its investigation of nearly two years. More than that, the U.S. Attorney's Office said no charges will be filed against the good sheriff.
According to NBC News, the investigation had begun in November 2010 at the behest of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to examine alleged financial improprieties by the county sheriff and his deputies.
However, a separate federal investigation since 2008 relating to allegations of civil rights abuses by Arpaio's office is continuing. Arpaio has denied any wrongdoing and said he would cooperate with investigators.
In July of this year, Arpaio denied in testimony in a class-action lawsuit that his deputies targeted people because of the color of their skin. He was testifying whether police can target illegal immigrants without racially profiling Hispanic citizens and legal residents. "I am against anyone racial profiling … today as in my 50 years in law enforcement," Arpaio told the court during cross-examination.
Arpaio is also known for outfitting county jail inmates in pink underwear, claiming the pink shorts are less likely to be smuggled out of jail and sold on the black market, and for housing inmates in a Tent City jail in Phoenix, even when Sonoran Desert summer temperatures soar to 115 degrees.
First voted into office in 1992 and reelected five times, Arpaio is seeking re-election to a sixth term as sheriff in November.
None of that made any difference because both the media and Congress ignored his team's findings.
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The POS should be made accountable to prove his eligibility NOW!!
Republicans are doing nothing to hold his feet to the flames and the timing of this announcement by the feds is a cause for concern. The Sheriff has long been a hero of mine but is he now going to back off?
Hasn't anyone noticed that the last election was given to Obama? The Main Street Media will not say one bad word against Obama, while digging into his opponants dirty laundry. Any thing you say about him is turned around to mean You are a racist. I wish I could find a place to where all this doesn't exist. I guess I still believe in fairytales.
NAZISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN AMERICA!
I am very glad that the charges against Arpaio's have been dropped but I am still waiting for the judges and Congress to fulfill their oaths of office. It is truly frightening to look at all of the court cases with Taitz, Kreep and Apuzzo with none of them granted discovery.
If I were Sheriff Joe, I'd be sleeping with one eye open, two guns under the pillow, and three guns under the bed.
-And that's just so I could make it to the closet.


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Justice systems have been put in place in order to ensure that citizens follow the rules and regulations that have been set up. Proponents of the death penalty have spoken of it as a tool for preventing crime and other related social effects that come with it. Heated debate has taken place all over the world as to whether it should be continued or abolished. Proponents have argued that countries or states that enforce the death penalty are compelled to do so as the rate of crime and murder is high and that no form of punishment can justify the intensity of the crimes that have been committed. Research on death penalty has continuously shown that crime tends to be minimal where the death penalty is enforced (Hood, 2005). Criminals have been shown to fear the consequences of the crime that they are about to commit, they therefore think twice before acting. Criminals are human beings and are not immune to fear and in trying to solve the decade long question of how to reduce crime, we should look at how we can influence and discourage criminals from committing crime.
The judicial system has by large used the threat of the death penalty as way of coercing criminals to give up their colleagues hence a good tool in crime prevention. It has been used many times as a plea bargain for criminals. It further ensures that offenders do not repeat the crime and so a reduction from crime in societies. Opponents of death penalty have argued that the death penalty discriminates against the minority in the society including the poor. The question that should be raised here is why the poor are liable to commit crime. In doing so, we will be able to answer rather than condemning the whole process of the death penalty. The process of retribution is emphasized and that life imprisonment is not the best deterrent to crime (Hood, 2005). Death penalty has been argued as 100% effective because crime offender will not be able to commit the crime again once executed. Research has shown that people who have committed vicious crimes tend to re-do the act again once they have been pardoned. A case study carried out in the United States showed that out of 164 paroled Georgians, who had committed the crime of murder, eight of them repeated the same crime once released. Those who were not released were shown to have committed the same crime again even when serving life sentence in prison. In a society where nobody is killed then no death penalties will take place, it is this simple.
The death penalty has been in existence as a form or way of punishing offenders for a long time since the creation of justice system. It has long been viewed that Justice could only be enforced through the death penalty justice. Many opponents have stated that many innocent people are being executed. Many times the number of innocent person has been exaggerated as no conclusive count or study has been done to this effect. Opponents have used the number of people being released out of prison as an estimate as to the number of people being executed. An example of this is how it was purported that forty eight inmates had been released from death row with the view that they were charged on flawed counts. Proponents of the death penalty have rubbished claims that the innocent people have been executed. According to the United States law, there has been distinction between the innocent natures of any accused person. In the court of law, there are two categories, namely, the legally innocent person and the actual innocent person (Bodenhamer, 2004). A person can be judged to be innocent besides all the facts showing that he/she is guilty of murder. Cases such as this continue to be displayed all around, where murderers are known to be walking away scot free. There is the actual innocent person where the facts show very correctly that the person is not responsible for any crime. Acquittal of suspects in a court of law does not justify that a person is innocent but rather that the court lacked sufficient evidence that would lead to convictions. In courts around the World murderers have been acquitted because of bogus reasons. Some cases have been blamed on inconsistencies of the police yet the same policemen and women came under direct attack from the murderers. An acquittal simply means that the court could not establish the truth and does not directly men that an individual is innocent. It is worth mentioning that out of the few supposedly innocent people that have been executed cannot in any way be quantified by the number of the free person that have been paroled and let free back to the same environment that they committed the crime (Bodenhamer, 2004).
The court system is today coming up with reasonable outcomes. The justice system is continuously becoming more and more effective due to the technology being used today. A fact that was stated before said that since the use of DNA , there have been only 174 suspects who have been exonerated and 90% of these cases were not even related to murder at any one point. This is a drop in the ocean when compared to the number of innocent lives that are taken away through acts of murder. Many nations have taken a backseat in upholding the right of its citizens by ignoring the moral duty of defending the rights of its citizens who abide by the law. The nations don't see this as a priority of defending a human right (Bodenhamer, 2003).
In conclusion, I would like to add that it can be conclusively said that handling criminal offenses is crucial in ensuring justice. The process of punishment should be done swiftly in order to ensure that such crimes are not repeated. It has also been shown that murder rates would have even been higher in countries that enforce the death penalty, if they had neglected this mode of punishment in the first place. Death penalty plays a pivotal role in ensuring that such crimes are mitigated or completely eliminated. A life free of such crimes is the aim of all countries in the world.
Bodenhamer, D. (2004). The Bill of Rights in modern America: after 200 years, New York: Indiana University Press
Hood, R. (2005). The death penalty: a world-wide perspective, San Diego, CA: Clarendon Press.
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Williamson County votes to cut ties with 'Live PD' TV show
Commissioners voted Aug. 20 to sever their contract with the show.
Author: Tony Plohetski (KVUE/Austin American-Statesman)
Published: 5:13 PM EDT August 16, 2019
Updated: 7:16 PM EDT August 20, 2019
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas — Williamson County commissioners have unanimously decided to sever their contract with the show "Live PD," according to the county.
The Williamson County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to terminate the contract between the county and Big Fish Entertainment, the producer of the show, on Aug. 20. The show must stop recording on Williamson County property in 30 days.
The vote came amid new questions by the KVUE Defenders and others about whether the sheriff's office has a duty to collect video from "Live PD" producers so that it can be used in criminal cases.
It also follows months of scrutiny on the participation in the show by the Williamson County Sheriff's Office.
District Attorney Shawn Dick and a group of defense lawyers sent several emails and memos in June – soon after commissioners agreed to renew the contract – about a provision in the document that said the video is owned by Big Fish Entertainment and that it will be destroyed within 30 days.
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The dispute resulted in no action at the time but intensified in recent days.
"I had always assumed that the footage was available if someone wanted to get it. I didn't realize that apparently the footage is being destroyed," Dick said in an interview last week.
Dick and defense lawyers said that the videos should be preserved because they can help bolster an investigation – or prove a suspect's innocence.
However, an attorney representing the sheriff's office said that because "Live PD" crews are not law enforcement, they have no duty or legal obligation to keep the video.
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Attorney Jason Nassour said in an email in June that the footage taken by "Live PD" crews is no different than a citizen filming and that Dick is attempting to place an inappropriate regulation on sheriff's deputies to collect the video.
The president of the Williamson County Defense Lawyers Association also objected in June to Dick about the lack of preservation of the video.
"The sheriff cannot contractually sign away his duty to collect and retain evidence made during an investigation of an alleged criminal act," Hesse wrote.
Big Fish Entertainment provided the following statement on Tuesday:
"It is disappointing that 'Live PD' became embroiled in an issue of Williamson County politics, especially with our last scheduled appearance there already slated for this weekend. We thank the Williamson County Sheriff's Office and the community for their participation and wish everyone of Williamson County the best, as we shift our attention to the many other agencies around the country asking to work with 'Live PD.'"
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His playing always made her weep. He couldn't bear her tears, this she knew; so she gazed out the window, tracing the contours of the swans outside on the windowpane with her tiny finger. Note after flawless note, his bow swayed majestically, tracing the contours of her heart across time in aching rhythm. She would try not to speak until evening, covetously savoring the echoes in her mind, committing each note to sacred memory. She had a perfect memory.
She allowed the sunlight to caress and dry her cheeks and she closed her eyelids; a temptation she rarely allowed herself. The concentration of such perfect music, undistracted, overwhelmed her too easily. Today, though, she would indulge just a little, for she knew that soon he would go.
She ran her finger delicately along the pane of glass; around the elegant wings, the back of the long necks; her hand following them expertly as they glided. It seemed strange to her that for as many times as she had traced these creatures, marveling at their magnificence, she could not remember once running her finger over their beaks, their breasts, their glistening eyes. As if they were constantly drawn away from her.
Each morning she left food at the lakeside, but the swans never came. Every once in a while it would appear as though they were about to turn toward her, and she would hold her breath, and wait; but they always sped away at the last moment.
The far shore where they played was dismal and hazardous with tangled roots and fallen logs. And no flowers. Whereas the shore before her glistened vibrantly with every hue of blossom, carefully planted one by one. Diligently, she tended to vast lawns that stretched, lush and green, in every direction. She never gave up hope. One day, she knew, they had to raise their elegant heads and see, at last, her many offerings.
Abrupt silence ripped through her. She sucked her breath in violently and spun on him. He flinched at her tears and his kind eyes brimmed with concern.
"I can't take it. What's wrong?" He rested the cello carefully on its side.
She turned to the window again to hide the irony in her eyes. How could he understand? She nodded, her face still turned away. Her tears were not born from sadness entirely. In fact, much of her weeping expressed joy. But her grief was whole nonetheless.
Even if she could explain, she wouldn't want to. He'd come to understand soon; she knew that. Then, it would be merely a matter of time before he left. He would feel as if his eyes had opened to color for the first time; his delicate musician's ears tasted their first true tone and all the possibilities that could follow. He would drift away from her as if she were a burden he bore too long, and she would be alone again, stranded with her perfect memory.
She cried because she felt she finally understood. She had believed herself pardoned, forgiving. She understood now that forgiveness wore a new face, perhaps in the same way she did. In the long hours, she often thought on how delightedly she had leapt on this post, as she traced the delicate wings across the windowpane with her finger. She would guide the way. Easy.
But it hadn't been easy. Somehow they found the way on their own while she could no longer remember that one thing. She felt the most alone in the moment of their understanding.
She loved him differently, this one. She had come to love all of them so. Time and again they far surpassed the majesty and grace she imagined possible. Every one. There was a strange beauty behind the weakness she'd once despised; and though it frightened her, and she could never look at it long enough to see it clearly, it fed her somehow when she drew near.
To this one she was a kid sister. To the last one, she was father. Before that, she was husband, daughter, niece. It never ended. It never became easier. And once they understood, it was not long before they left her. Even were it possible to hold on to them, it would be cruelty to do so. Their pain overwhelmed and terrified her, and in the end she always released her grip.
Desperation set in, in those moments between – moments or ages, she wasn't sure – they were both. And in those awful spans of time without time, she hated. She wandered aimlessly in her garden, unmoved by the rich colors, unable to comprehend their delicate fragrances, her head spinning as if falling repeatedly from unfathomable heights. Yet with every new arrival, every amazing, unique one, she came to love again, so joyously and completely that she could imagine no end to her peace.
She couldn't help herself. They echoed something she'd lost; something missing from her perfect memory. Every moment was a collision of joy and pain. And she thought, as she traced her illusive swans, that were she pressed to name this state of being, this torture with bliss, it would be called love. For what else could hurt her so terribly?
She turned again and smiled sadly.
He ceased tracing her illusive form, that form which he had traced so many times before, to wipe the tears away; and sighed deeply, for He had hoped that this time she would turn and see.


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Q: Is there a complex surface into which every Riemann surface embeds? Every Riemann surface can be embedded in some complex projective space. In fact, every Riemann surface $\Sigma$ admits an embedding $\varphi : \Sigma \to \mathbb{CP}^3$. It follows from the degree-genus formula that the same is not true if we replace $\mathbb{CP}^3$ with $\mathbb{CP}^2$; for example, no Riemann surface of genus two can be embedded in $\mathbb{CP}^2$.
Said another way, there exists a compact complex manifold of dimension three into which every compact Riemann surface embeds (namely $\mathbb{CP}^3$), but the natural two-dimensional candidate (namely $\mathbb{CP}^2$) does not have this property. So my question is

Is there a compact complex surface into which every compact Riemann surface embeds?

The only other surface I have checked is $\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^1$. My hope was that every Riemann surface $\Sigma$ admitted an embedding $\varphi : \Sigma \to \mathbb{CP}^3$ with $\varphi(\Sigma)$ contained in the image of the Segre embedding $\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^1 \to \mathbb{CP}^3$. Many more Riemann surfaces embed in $\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^1$ than in $\mathbb{CP}^2$ - in particular, every genus can be realised. However, not all Riemann surfaces can be embedded in $\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^1$: any genus three Riemann surface which embeds in $\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^1$ must be hyperelliptic, but one can show using a dimension counting argument that there exist non-hyperelliptic genus three Riemann surfaces.

A: This question was asked and answered on MathOverflow. The accepted answer by Olivier Benoist has been replicated below.

The answer is negative. Suppose for contradiction that $S$ is such a surface, and let me first assume that it is smooth and projective.
Fix $g\geq 24$. Then the coarse moduli space of genus $g$ curves $M_g$ is of general type (this is due to Harris, Mumford and Eisenbud, see for instance [The Kodaira dimension of the moduli space of curves of genus $\geq 23$]), hence a fortiori not uniruled. Let $H$ be the Hilbert scheme of smooth curves of genus $g$ in $S$ and let $(H_i)_{i\in I}$ be its irreducible components: the index set $I$ is countable. By hypothesis, the classifying morphism $H\to M_g$ is surjective at the level of $\mathbb{C}$-points. By a Baire category argument, there exists $i\in I$ such that $H_i\to M_g$ is dominant.
Suppose that the natural morphism $H_i\to \operatorname{Pic}(S)$ is constant. Then $H_i$ is an open subset of a linear system on $S$, hence is covered by (open subsets of) rational curves. By our choice of $g$, $H_i\to M_g$ cannot be dominant, which is a contradiction. Thus, $H_i\to \operatorname{Pic}(S)$ cannot be constant, which proves that $\operatorname{Pic}^0(S)$ cannot be trivial. Equivalently, the Albanese variety $A$ of $S$ is not trivial.
Consider the Albanese morphism $a:S\to A$. The curves embedded in $S$ are either contracted by $a$ or have a non-trivial morphism to $A$. Those that are contracted by $a$ form a bounded family, hence have bounded genus. Curves $C$ that have a non-trivial morphism to $A$ are such that there is a non-trivial morphism $\operatorname{Jac}(C)\to A$, but this is impossible if $\operatorname{Jac}(C)$ is simple of dimension $>\dim(A)$. Consequently, a smooth curve with simple jacobian that has high enough genus cannot be embedded in $S$. This concludes because a very general curve of genus $g$ has simple jacobian (there even exist hyperelliptic such curves by [Zarhin, Hyperelliptic jacobians without complex multiplication]).
As pointed out in the comments, the argument needs to be modified if $S$ is non-algebraic or singular. I explain now these additional arguments.
If $S$ is smooth but non-algebraic, we can use the following (probably overkill) variant. We can consider the open space $H$ of the Douady space of $S$ parametrizing smooth connected curves in $S$. It is a countable union of quasiprojective varieties by [Fujiki, Countability of the Douady space of a complex space] and [Fujiki, Projectivity of the space of divisors on a normal compact complex space]. It has an analytic morphism to the analytic space $\operatorname{Pic}(S)$ parametrizing line bundles on $S$ [Grothendieck, Techniques de construction en géométrie analytique IX §3]. The dimension of $\operatorname{Pic}(S)$ is finite equal to $h^1(S,\mathcal{O}_S)$. The dimension of the fibers of $H\to\operatorname{Pic}(S)$ is at most $1$. Indeed, otherwise, we would have a linear system of dimension $>1$ on $S$ consisting generically of smooth connected curves, hence a dominant rational map $S\dashrightarrow\mathbb{P}^2$, showing that $S$ is of algebraic dimension $2$, hence that $S$ is algebraic. It follows that every connected component of $H$ has dimension $\leq h^1(S,\mathcal{O}_S)+1$. Now choose $g$ such that $\dim(M_g)>h^1(S,\mathcal{O}_S)+1$, and let $H_g$ be the union of connected components of $H$ parametrizing genus $g$ curves. A Baire category argument applied to the image of $H_g\to M_g$ shows that there are genus $g$ curves that do not embed in $S$, as wanted.
Finally, if $S$ is singular, consider a desingularization $\tilde{S}\to S$. The hypothesis on S implies that every smooth projective curve may be embedded in $\tilde{S}$, with the exception of at most a finite number of isomorphism classes of curves (namely, the curves that are connected components of the locus over which $\tilde{S}\to S$ is not an isomorphism). The arguments above apply as well in this situation.


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Q: Process synchronization - Critical section I am studying for my final in OS. Currently on process sync chapter.
Our book is offering the following algorithm to deal with Critical Section.
It claims that the algorithm solves the problem of starvation and offers bounded wait. Here is the pseudocode
var flag: array [0..1] of Boolean;
Turn: 0..1;

Repeat
    flag[i] := true;
    turn := j;
    while (flag[j] and turn=j) do no-op;
       critical section
    flag[i] := false;
       remainder section
until false;

From my understanding, starvation occurs when a process is in its Critical Section and another process needs an access to it, but the first process won't finish. So the second process has  to wait forever. I remember from CPU scheduling that implementing aging in the algorithm, for example, would solve starvation. But I don't see how that would happen here.
Am I wrong? Is there something that I'm not seeing here? Thank you.

A: imagine that we have 2 processes: 1 and 2,
process1 wants to go to the CS:
Let's start with the first process:
Repeat
    flag[1] := true;
    turn := 2;

I want to explain the "while" in your code:

*

*if falg[2] was equal to true: it means that the the process2 has
already ran the blow line of it's code
flag[2] := true;

*but another question: did process2 run the next line? I mean: did it ran:
"turn := 1;" ?
if yes:
it means that both of them want to enter to CS at the same time.
which one should go to CS first?
if the turn value is equal to number 2 it means that process1 ran the "turn:=2" code after process2, because turn variable is the value process1 set it means that process2 ran it earlier, so it's process2 turn.
the n while process2 is in CS we do nothing

while (flag[2] and turn=j) do no-op;
       critical section
    flag[i] := false;
       remainder section
until false;

process2 was in CSand process1 was waiting, process2 false his flag exactly after finishing his CS section.
So process1 will go to CS.
 Does Starvation Happen In This Solution?
Starvation is a resource management problem where a process does not get the resources it needs for a long time (maybe unlimited) because the resources are being allocated to other processes.
But at this solution process2 cant get the resource again, because it set's its flag to value 0, and it should run "flag[2]=1" again to enter the CS, but process1 is in CS at that time, and process2 should wait FOR getting into CS.
What Happens When One Process Don't Finnish it's CS?
if process2 can't finish CS, process1 will wait for ever,But There is no solution for this one when we say that a solution don't have starvation, we don't mean this situation. we mean if both processes work correctly and don't have any problem in there critical section code, NOW THE STARVATION WONT HAPPEN

How The Algorithm Works?
there are two people, they want to enter to a room, this room is CS.
both should up there flag, to tell that we want to enter the CS
But, only one person can enter
they both have one ticket, on their ticket a number has written. this number is the id of another person.
there is a packet that has space just for ticket.
when person1 want to enter, he should put his ticket there.
so now there is a ticket with number "2"
at this time person2 will come
he must put his ticket on that packet, because there isn't any space. he will put it on the first ticket
So now when you look at the packet, you just see the second ticket
on the second ticket the number 1 has written
So, person1 can enter.
and he cant enter again because person2 is standing in front of the door and when person1 came out its flag will be false (after the cs his flag will be false) and the while (for the person2) will stop so he can enter

if it's not clear tell me, I will explain more


Exactly one month ago, I published a post titled "116 Days Left and $786,426.44 to Go". As I write this post, we have 85 days left till our money for Finic is out.
You might be wondering why I don't have an income column above; the reason is pretty straightforward: we didn't have income in May. We've had a few orders from friends, but these don't count, and they were just test trials.
What did we accomplish in May?
We launched "Get a Free Print Experiment" in Portland, which I shared in a separate post.
I believe I mentioned before that we are preparing to run a Kickstarter campaign. We've been working long and hard on it and are now 85 percent ready to launch it. I'll write about this in detail in a different post closer to the launch.
We ran a Mother's Day giveaway campaign in our hometown, where we asked Portland residents to upload a photo that they would like to give to their mom. We would print and hand deliver the canvas to their mom, all wrapped in a gorgeous package on Mother's day. It didn't take too much time or many resources on our end, but the 30 people who won the contest were very thankful and happy. Yay!
I realized something very critical this past month: we should stop building and start selling. It doesn't mean we decided to stop building our product altogether. All it means is that our primary focus for the month of June and going forward will be to sell our existing MVP (minimum viable product).
We put together a rather aggressive goal for our sales; we started selling prints on June 1, 2015, and we plan to double our sales every month.
Until now we had no sales people on our team, but we are grateful for Philipp, who came on board just a few days ago; he will lead our sales efforts.
Some of you might wonder how we plan to sell prints without a fully featured website for customers to pick and order prints. All we have is an MVP, and I think it's plenty to start selling our product based on our new business model.
We need to start earning money, and the profit margin for the commercial market is significantly larger than residential.
The commercial market is much easier to target.
We are starting to work with local businesses here in Portland, Oregon, such as hotels, restaurants, cafes, offices, apartments, hospitals, art studios, stores, etc.
Construction firms that develop the buildings.
Property firms that manage and rent space to businesses.
We decided to go after No. 2 because they are the ones directly responsible for decorating the interior of the buildings they operate.
In my next post, I'll share our failures and maybe some successes (I hope). I'll share how we target our prospective customers, how we sell our product, and how we deliver our service offerings.
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Johann Moritz (Nassau-Siegen)
Johann Moritz around 1668 (by Jan de Baen )
Johann Moritz Prince of Nassau-Siegen , Dutch Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, called: "The Brazilian", (born June 17 or June 18, 1604 in Dillenburg , † December 20, 1679 in Berg und Tal in the district of Hau in the municipality of Bedburg-Hau) was a Dutch field marshal . Born as the son of Count Johann VII. Von Nassau-Dillenburg , he came from the extensive Nassau princely family , from which the House of Orange also emerged . In 1652 he was raised to the rank of imperial prince .
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4 The official acts of Johann Moritz in Dutch Brazil
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Moritz entered the service of the Republic of the United Netherlands in 1621 and distinguished himself under the leadership of Prince Friedrich Heinrich of Orange in 1626 at the siege of Groenlo and in 1632 at Maastricht .
Appointed Governor General of the possessions of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil ( Dutch Brazil ) in 1636 , he conquered a large part of the country and managed it so admirably that it flourished . Its extensive natural history and ethnographic collection, which was brought together in Brazil, changed the image of the New World through its dissemination at the European royal courts. Impressive visual evidence of this expedition has been preserved by the painters Frans Post (1612–1680) and Albert Eckhout (1610–1665; Theatrum rerum naturalium Brasiliae ) as well as by the twelve-volume work Historia Naturalis Brasiliae sponsored by Moritz von Nassau .
Portrait from 1637
Johann Moritz (with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. John) by Pieter Nason (1675)
In 1637 he sent an expedition with nine ships and around 800 soldiers to the African coast, which conquered the Portuguese fortress and most important trading post on the coast of Guinea , São Jorge da Mina , for the Dutch . In the spring of 1638 he penetrated the Brazilian coast south, but besieged Bahia in vain.
After the Portuguese and Spanish fleets were almost completely destroyed by the Dutch off Itamaracá (January 12-17, 1640), the war in Brazil began again and was fought with great cruelty. In order to employ the large number of adventurers under his banner, he went on an expedition to Chile (1643).
In Brazil, two places he founded were named after him, the Moritzschloss fortress at the mouth of the Rio São Francisco and the city of Mauritsstad (Moritzstadt, today Recife ).
Returned to Holland in 1644, he was appointed governor of Wesel and general of the cavalry. His friendship with the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm , whom he had met in 1635, was strengthened when he married Louise Henriette , the eldest daughter of the Dutch governor Friedrich Heinrich von Orange, in 1646 . In 1649 the elector appointed him governor in Kleve and Mark , and from 1658 also from Minden . As the Dutch commander of the fortresses on the right bank of the Rhine and as the Brandenburg governor, Johann Moritz had a double function that made him a guarantor of the stability of the western territories of Brandenburg.
His experience, his negotiating skills and the good contacts predestined him for high-ranking diplomatic missions in the service of Brandenburg. In 1652 Emperor Ferdinand III raised him . in the imperial princes. On this occasion, Johann Moritz gave "his" city Siegen the famous little crown on St. Nicholas' Church in 1658 . Also in 1652, at the request of the Great Elector, he was appointed Lord Master of the Order of St. John of the Brandenburg Ballei and previously hurriedly made a Knight of St. John by Order Senior Georg von Winterfeld . Johann Moritz also held this office with great success. He managed to develop economically and culturally the area devastated by the Thirty Years War . This also included the new construction of the Johanniter Castle in Sonnenburg (Neumark) .
In 1658 he worked as the Brandenburg envoy to the election of Emperor Leopold I in Frankfurt, concluded the defensive treaty between England and Brandenburg in 1661, received command of the Dutch troops against Münster in 1665 , became the first field marshal of the Netherlands in 1671, commanded the Dutch in the war against Louis XIV. (1672- 74 ) and took a prominent part in the battle of Senef on 11 August 1674.
In 1674 he became governor of Utrecht and in 1676 he retired into private life. He died on December 20, 1679 in the mountains and valleys near Kleve.
He was particularly passionate about building and gardening, and even more so to large-scale landscaping. When Johann Moritz died in 1679, the prince, whose motto was Qua patet orbis (As far as the globe extends) from a young age, had designed numerous residences and landscapes thanks to his geographically wide-ranging offices from Brazil to Neumark.
His contribution to the spread of Palladian-classical architecture north of the Alps is of far-reaching art and cultural historical importance. During his stay at the governor's court in The Hague , Johann Moritz had Jacob van Campen (1595–1657) build a representative city palace, the Mauritshuis (now a museum), right next to the Binnenhof from 1633 . This building was the first in the Netherlands to be a purely classicist building based on Italian architectural theory.
Johann Moritz also exported the new Dutch classicism to Brandenburg. From 1662 to 1667 he brought in the Dutch master builder Cornelis Ryckwaert for the Sonnenburg Castle ; the castle burned out in 1973.
Mauritshuis in The Hague (built 1633–1644)
Ordensschloss Sonnenburg , Neumark (built 1662–1667)
From the beginning he devoted himself to the modernization and expansion of the governor's residence in Kleve , where he moved into the old swan castle of the Dukes of Kleve . In a splendid way, he incorporated their hilly and wooded surroundings into a system of avenues, canals and lines of sight that connected blooming gardens and small castles, including the old park, old zoo, the Freudenberg hunting lodge , the moated cattle castle and the lookout point the Papenberg. Since 2007 the Prinz-Moritz-Weg has connected the gardens at the Schwanenburg with the tomb at Papenberg. From there, it continues as the Voltaire Path to Moyland Castle .
Without a doubt, the Klever plants were the model for the beautification of the island of Potsdam planned by the Great Elector. The lines of sight laid out in Berlin since 1646, which were oriented towards the city palace (including the later avenue Unter den Linden ), were designed under the direction of Johann Moritz, who also advised the Great Elector on all questions of architecture and garden design. He placed master builders, fortress engineers, painters, sculptors and craftsmen at the Berlin court and, alongside the Electress, Luise Henriette von Oranien , was the most important mediator of Dutch art in Brandenburg.
He began in 1668 with the expansion of the "Nassauischer Hof" (originally a monastery, later used as a school) to the Lower Castle in Siegen . In the new building he also had the princely crypt laid out as a burial place for himself and his successors. The lower castle was destroyed in the town fire of 1695 except for the gate and the princely crypt and was only rebuilt from 1698 onwards.
Panoramic view of the Lower Siegen Castle (18th century)
Lower Castle (Corps de Logis)
In his park in the Hau district of Bedburg-Hau , in 1678, he had a grave tumba laid out in the open air next to his house, an idea that was extremely unusual for the time and almost unlikely for a Baroque prince. From Papenberg, three avenues radiate into the forest in the shape of a "buttercup". At the end of the western axis is the tomb , which consists of the cast-iron , richly decorated tumba and quarter-circle walls, in which ancient Roman works of art were embedded, which were brought to the newly founded Antiques Museum in Bonn in 1820 and replaced with copies. Johann Moritz had last decreed to be buried there (and not, as originally decreed, in the Siegen Princely Crypt), which initially happened. On November 24, 1680, however, his body was transferred to the royal crypt. Frederick II of Prussia, who owned the nearby Moyland Palace , explicitly referred to the model of Johann Moritz when he - even before the construction of Sanssouci Palace - had a crypt built for himself on the edge of the future palace terrace in 1744; However, contrary to his testamentary decree, he was not buried there, but in the Potsdam Garrison Church and did not find his final resting place until 1991 in Sanssouci Park.
Entrance to the Princely Crypt in the Lower Castle
Tumba near Kleve
Prince Moritz tomb near Kleve
The city of Kleve awards the Johann Moritz Culture Prize, which Fritz Getlinger , Friedrich Gorissen and the XOX-Theater Kleve received , among others . A Bundeswehr barracks was named after him in the town of Emmerich am Rhein , near the town of Kleve . Since 1948, a rectorate school founded in 1886 in what is now the Siegen district of Weidenau has been called the " Fürst-Johann-Moritz-Gymnasium ". In 2004 the asteroid (11238) Johanmaurits was named after him. The plant genera Mauritia L.f. from the palm family (Arecaceae) and Nassavia Vell. from the soap tree family (Sapindaceae) are named after him.
The official acts of Johann Moritz in Dutch Brazil
Ioan Maurits, Prins van Nassouw, in: Adrianus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (1671)
Very quickly after landing in Recife on January 23, 1637, after a 91-day crossing with a sailing ship, Johann Moritz began to clarify the political situation. He set out on his first campaign against the city of Porto Calvo, from where the Dutch settlements were attacked by the Portuguese. In April 1637 he was able to record a victory at Porto Calvo in the south of Pernambuco. Johann Moritz pushed the Luso-Brazilian troops back across the Sao Francisco River. On the left bank of the river, the southern border of the Dutch property was secured by a fort.
Johann Moritz recorded further victories in 1637 in the province of Ceará in the north and across the Atlantic the Portuguese fort El Mina on the African gold coast, which was important for the slave trade . Thus, the Dutch controlled half of all Portuguese provinces in Brazil. In 1638 Johann Moritz suffered a defeat in the conquest of São Salvador, which was the capital of Portuguese Brazil. Due to the insufficient number of troops, he was unable to do this in April / May 1638. Two years later, Johann Moritz managed to fend off the reconquest of Pernambuco, although he was outnumbered by the Spanish / Portuguese Armada.
In addition to military security, Johann Moritz's task was to reorganize the administration of the colony . One measure was the establishment of an at least somewhat functioning local administration. He decreed the establishment of local magistrates, as in the Dutch state constitution. Dutch and Portuguese were represented in the local magistrates . In order to be represented there, they had to take the oath on the government in Recife. The fact that both Dutch and Portuguese were represented in the magistrates should help the Portuguese and Dutch to live together peacefully. However, that didn't work in the long run.
Copper engraving by the elderly Johann Moritz
After Johann Moritz had militarily consolidated Dutch rule, he set about rebuilding the sugar industry. However, Johann Moritz had a different idea of it than the West Indian company. They demanded ever larger quantities of sugar that should be exported so that they could finance the colony company. Johann Moritz initially demanded more support from the West Indian company so that the colony could be pacified and sugar production could be increased. These different views could not be resolved during the entire term of office of Johann Moritz. The local sugar industry was badly affected by war and the flight of the plantation and mill owners. He tried to revive the sugar industry through an official proclamation in which he had invited all the refugees to return.
He promised the people freedom of belief. They could pursue their Catholic faith and carry out processions. He also promised them the return of their old property and equality with the Dutch. Johann Moritz implemented this by issuing an ordinance. This ordinance stated that all disused sugar mills should be confiscated and auctioned off to the public again. Luso Brazilians and Dutch bought the sugar mills, which they rebuilt and brought up to date with the latest technology. The money for the auctions, for the reconstruction of the sugar mills and for the purchase of slaves they got from the West India Company, from merchants, finance brokers and Sephardic Jews in the form of loans. The borrowers repaid these loans by giving up the profits of the sugar mills over several years. First there was an economic upswing. Sugar production and trade were greater than ever before until 1641/1642. The problem, however, was that this upswing was financed by loans and with it the high debt of the sugar mill owners, the economy plunged into a crisis again in a few years.
The fact that the colony was doing so well financially was ultimately also achieved through the slave trade and the work of the slaves. When the work in Brazil began, the idea was to use Dutch colonists to work in the sugar mills. Since these were not available in sufficient numbers, the shortage was made up by African slaves. Johann Moritz was of the opinion that you couldn't do work in Brazil without slaves. Before Johann Moritzen's stay in Brazil, there had been next to no Dutch slave trade. That changed with the colony in Brazil. The West Indian company had ordered slaves to be brought to Pernambuco from the west coast of Africa at regular intervals. Between 1636 and 1645, more than 23,000 African slaves were brought to Brazil. It is not entirely clear how large Johann Moritz was in the slave trade itself.
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Georg Friedrich Prince of Nassau-Siegen
1674–1679 Wilhelm Moritz
Adam Count von Schwarzenberg Master of the Balley Brandenburg of the Order of St. John
1652–1692 Georg Friedrich Prince of Waldeck
SURNAME Johann Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johann Moritz the Brazilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Nassau-Siegen and Dutch field marshal
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1604
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1679
Place of death Mountain and valley near Kleve
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