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Shelby County Democrats, who couldn't scare up a candidate for county mayor in 1998, apparently are going to have a fright wig of a contest for 2002. At least two prominent state legislators are now involved in serious commitments to a Democratic primary race for mayor, and a third may not be far behind.
State Representative Carol Chumney, who has hankered for a higher office for some time, held a meeting of supporters Saturday evening at Garibaldi's restaurant in the University of Memphis area and has already filed the required papers with the state Election Registry to form an exploratory committee. And state Senator Jim Kyle -- who, as the Flyer has reported, is actively seeking the nomination and several weeks ago hired a staff -- insisted Sunday that he would not be deterred by Chumney's entry.
"I think it bodes well for us as a party to have a spirited contest for county mayor," Kyle said, in words similar to those used by Chumney, who also said a contested primary would benefit Democrats.
Meanwhile, a third legislator, state Senator Steve Cohen, noted that his name has received some mention as a possible candidate and would not rule out seeking the office of county mayor himself.
As all three Democratic legislators pointed out, the political strength of incumbent Shelby County mayor Jim Rout, a Republican, has waned considerably since his uncontested re-election to a second term three years ago. Well-publicized problems with the county jail and with a burgeoning financial deficit are at least partly responsible for that.
Chumney, who said she intended to have another meeting with supporters "in about three weeks," pointed to three bills she has introduced -- dealing with mental health, jail conditions, and debt policy -- as evidence of her commitment to county issues. "I don't fool around," Chumney said about her commitment to the race.
Potential opponent Kyle professed some bemusement at the idea of Chumney's having formed an exploratory committee. "It's not legal for us [legislators] to raise money while we're still in session," he pointed out, referring to laws passed in the 1990s restricting state lawmakers' ability to hold fund-raisers during a session of the General Assembly.
Although she characterized the fact as a coincidence unrelated to her race, Chumney noted that a longtime ally, state Representative Mike Kernell, has introduced legislation in the current session that would permit modest in-session fund-raising efforts by legislators in their home districts. Kernell was in the group that met with Chumney at Garibaldi's.
Chumney also acknowledged that she had also given some thought to running in 2002 for sheriff -- a position that at least one of her Shelby County legislative colleagues had been talking her up for in Nashville last week. But she said she had settled on a county mayor's race instead.
Kyle, who has something of a head start organizationally, in that he has hired two aides -- Jeff Sullivan and Bob Kellett -- to assist him in researching both county and state issues, has kept open the campaign headquarters he used in his Senate reelection race last year. Kyle said he would be preoccupied during the session with his legislative duties, which include his supervision of patients' rights legislation.
Though he has not formalized his 2002 plans to the extent that Chumney and Kyle have and shied away from any commitment to a race, Cohen indicated that he was still considering running for county mayor. And he, too, said that the reawakening of interest among several potential candidates was a good sign for the Democratic Party.
Several observers, meanwhile, have pointed out the obvious -- that it is a given that a strong black candidate will probably emerge to contest for the nomination, too. And the name of Bartlett banker Harold Byrd still gets frequent mention among Democrats, especially suburban ones.
State Senator Steve Cohen (D-Memphis), a sometime maverick who has nonetheless evinced an ability to create ties with members of the political opposition, has done it again -- this time with President George W. Bush.
And in the present case the tie that binds is quite literal. While attending a meeting of the National Conference of State Legislators in Washington last week, Cohen exchanged conversation with the president about the need for a state sales-tax deduction on federal income-tax forms, at the end of which Bush said, "I like your tie." Cohen then offered to give the tie he was wearing -- a light-green one with a floral pattern -- to the president.
Subsequently, he arranged to have the tie -- or a duplicate -- sent to Bush at the White House. Cohen, a member of the conference's executive committee, attended NCSL's annual "Leader to Leader" meeting along with state Rep. Matt Kisber (D-Jackson), co-chair of an NCSL task force on a "uniform voluntary sales tax agreement."
In addition to their scheduled tasks at the conference, both Cohen and Kisber had been asked by Lt. Governor John Wilder (D-Somerville) to do missionary work on behalf of the sales-tax deduction, which was permitted prior to 1986 for states, like Tennessee, which have no income tax. Kisber was a featured speaker on the subject at the conference.
Wilder, who likes to say "Uncle Sam taxes taxes," is a fervent evangelist on the subject of restoring the deduction and has talked up legislation that would remove the state sales tax altogether and replace it with a 6 percent flat income tax. The "6-0" plan, in fact, may get a vote during the current session of the General Assembly.
Both U.S. Rep. Bob Clement (D-Nashville) and U.S. Senator Fred Thompson (R-Tennessee) have introduced legislation supporting the idea of allowing a sales tax deduction on the income tax.
Next month Shelby County's Democrats will have their biennial caucuses, followed by a formal convention, to select a new executive committee and a new chairman. Usually the identity of the latter can be surmised, or at least narrowed down to two or three names, by this point of the cycle. Not so this year.
Not up until now. But, in fact, the mystery of the Democratic chairmanship, circa 2002, may have moved far toward resolution last week, when a conversation at the bar of the Sheraton Hotel in Nashville (formerly the Hyatt Regency and the Crowne Plaza and site of many a consummation over the years, political and otherwise) ended with lawyer Percy Harvey, a member of the blue-chip firm of Stokes, Bartholomew, Evans, and Petrie, telling a group of visiting Memphians that he was interested in the chairmanship.
Since Harvey, an elegant man whose lifetime began in the rough-and-tumble world focusing on the South Memphis intersection of Trigg and Lauderdale, gets along easily with all the various factions of a highly diverse and factionalized party, and since he has already served as vice chair of the Shelby County Democrats at least twice, and since he says he's willing to serve, he may, ipso facto, be drafted ahead of all other comers.
Other names -- those of activist Mal Hooker and longtime party stalwart Gale Jones Carson, for example -- have been mentioned, but Harvey is far better known than relative newcomer Hooker, and he has been toiling in the party vineyards even longer than Carson, and he is at home with the Democrats' Ford and Herenton factions as well as with the party's residual Midtown and suburban whites.
Moreover, Harvey is connected to several ends of the social and governmental establishment by virtue of his main calling these days -- legislative lobbyist for a wide range of clients that include the Memphis school board, Shelby County government, and assorted components of the county's and the state's health care establishment.
It ain't over yet, but until someone better comes along (if, indeed, there is one such), Percy Harvey may be just what the Shelby County Democrats, always on the edge of disintegration as an organized unit, need to get themselves focused on the electoral challenges of a new millennium. (Overshadowed by the Republicans of late, they haven't been the county's dominant party since a decade or so back in the old millennium.) Had not a certain recent presidential contender already appropriated the slogan "I'm a uniter, not a divider," Harvey could arguably lay claim to it. And he may have the opportunity to do just that at East High School, where the local Democrats gather next month for their reorganization. -- JB
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Austerity protest swings Portugal vote
In Portugal, three years of painful austerity under a eurozone bailout contributed to a defeat for the governing right-of-centre coalition, but failed to hand the opposition Socialist Party a resounding victory of the kind it wanted.
There is 18 months to go before the next general election.
With 99.5% of votes counted - including those from all domestic polling stations - the Socialists had a 31.5% share, against 27.7% for the joint list of candidates put up by the centre-right Social Democrats and the People's Party - an almost exact reversal of the result in 2009.
But with results from 15 of 71 consulates still to come in - and the ranks of voters abroad swelled by mass emigration - the final allocation of Portugal's 21 European Parliament seats remains to be determined.
One major upset is confirmed - at least one seat will go to the MPT - Partido da Terra (Earth Party), founded in 1993 as a conservative ecological movement. Now it is known to voters above all thanks to its high-profile lead candidate, Antonio Marinho e Pinto. The party polled 7.2%.
A former head of Portugal's lawyers' association, with no previous links to the party, Mr Marinho e Pinto built a reputation as a critic of the country's establishment, lambasting judges, the police and politicians in interviews.
In the campaign, he called for a return to the "purity" of European ideals such as justice and solidarity, but dismissed the idea of Portugal giving up the euro. In parliament, he said, the MPT would "strengthen the environmentalist camp", but in any second round of voting for the president of the European Commission it would back the Socialist candidate.
The night's other big winner was the Communist Party, which added two points to 12.7%, after campaigning for a referendum on leaving the euro.
Turnout hit a record low of 33.9%, down from 36.9% in 2009 - undoubtedly hurt by the fact that many voters who have gone abroad to seek work are still registered in Portugal.

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Have you ever wondered how the Pink Garter Theatre, The Rose and Pinky G's became what they are today?
Here is the legend of the Pink Garter Theatre, Pinky G's and the matriarch Rose who watches over the plaza.
Rose is the name of the matriarch of the Pink Garter when it was a house of ill repute. She was a beautiful but tough woman, and as respected as anyone in town. She had some big assets, and of course was not afraid to show them off.
This was the first sight that welcomed every customer, which put every man at ease. No man ever dared to mistreat one of her ladies, or they had to deal with Rose's thorns. In the center of every pink garter is a rose, which graced the leg of every girl who worked under her. Hence, Rose was the heart right in the center of the Pink Garter.
Pinky G was the nickname of Rose's daughter. Although Pinky G's father is unknown, no one dared to ask Rose. Pinky G was a handful as a child and that rolled right into being a young adult. As a result of growing up at the Pink Garter, Pinky G took on her mother's good looks and strong will.
After Rose passed, Pinky decided that she was tired of the rough and tumble world her mom had created at the Pink Garter, and wanted to move the business in a different direction. She soon was courted by an Italian man who swooned her with his charm and his passion for fine food and drink. He brought a worldly knowledge of wine and food to her and together they opened the Italian restaurant and bar we all know today as — Pinky G's.
Now, the Pink Garter Theatre, The Rose and Pinky G's still stand together in the Pink Garter Plaza in Jackson.
Disclaimer: The story above is the legend of The Rose, The Pink Garter Theatre and Pinky G's. What we do know is that the The Pink Garter Theatre was the original name of the now Jackson Hole Playhouse, which is the oldest framed building in Jackson Hole — built 1916. The building used to be a blacksmith, a buggy shop and once even a brothel.
From the 1950s through the 1970s, the Pink Garter lived at 145 West Deloney, then the Garnick's took over and called it the Jackson Hole Playhouse and the name moved over to 50 West Broadway, which is now the Pink Garter Theatre, The Rose and Pinky G's.


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One night nearly two decades after Hennessey, I plotted to corner Hilton at a Christmas party. He was deep in his cups and settled onto the sofa by the tree, when I sat beside him with a couple of glasses and a bottle of exceptional Oregon Pinot Noir. Hilton is wary of cops, even me, but he knew who I was and could appreciate my wine. He is a man who likes to spin yarns, especially to women.
I said, "Tell me something about Paul I don't know."
He tasted wine, smiled, nodded, and rubbed his graying stubble of a beard, considering his story. He said, "Did you know he hired me at The Open Door?"
I shook my head, a detail I'd missed, and Hilton went on. "He was nineteen, been in town a week. I was interviewing for whitey, three of 'em sitting around a table like I had applied for a cabinet position, all in suits, Mitchell in plaid pants with that stupid fake afro and widest tie I've ever seen. They was looking at each other like ain't no way this nigger fronting my restaurant but talking like, 'Well, Mr. Beaudre, tell us about your experience in sauté.' I didn't have much hope."
In the year of the murder, 1979, Hilton was thirty-five, six-four about two-ten with a shaved head, many tattoos, a short scraggly beard and a gold tooth right up front. In the middle of his interview, this kid walks into the banquet room and slouches in a chair behind the others, the only guy in the room in a chef's coat and kitchen shoe, brown eyes serious and sad. He listened for a while then whispered to Mitchell, 'Hey, can I see his application?' He looked it over and said, "When you were aboard ship, you cooked for the officers?"
Hilton nodded. "That was my job for two years."
"And what did you take away from your Navy experience?"
Hilton said, "I can cook anything for anybody anywhere in the world."
Paul stared him down for a second and said to the others, "That's the guy," and to Hilton, "Weekend night sauté. You and me. You up for it?"
Paul was the only one smiling. He was their boy, an up and coming company hotshot, groomed for management the minute he turned twenty-one. In the new Scottsdale restaurant, he had proposed design modifications in the kitchen and menu that allowed a shift from four cooks to three. He had pitched his ideas, sold them, drew the scheme for architects, and a star was born. So, management nodded at his shenanigans, and Paul shook Hilton's hand. "Come on, I'll show you around."
Hilton said, "He had that look in his eyes – like he knew he'd won and felt pretty damn good about it. The thing about Paul, he's always the most determined man in the room. A couple of days later, he got my cousin Ernie hired the same way, just jumped in on the interview, 'She's a great waitress, we should hire her.' He'd seen her at my house twice, hardly knew her. And Ernestine, ain't no mischief on her radar she don't know all about. She tracks him down, says, 'Thanks for the job; why'd you do it?'
"And he say, 'My dad joined the Marines cause if you're heading into trouble, you want to be surrounded by the best people you can find.'
"Ernie called, 'Bullshit.' Paul leaned in close, 'Kinda bullshit, but kinda not. Mitchell's okay, but I don't trust the rest of management. Gotta have folks to watch my back.'"
The Open Door was slick: chrome and black leather with dark ceilings and spotlights hanging low over each white clothed table. The service staff, dressed in black, moved like shadows through the dim light. "Our customers are stars," management would say, "and employees the supporting cast." They were out of LA, Hollywood money, stores scattered in upscale beach towns, Santa Barbara, Malibu, Newport, Del Mar, with water views and a vigorous bar scene. They had two out of state properties, one recently opened in Scottsdale and the newest in Portland. Paul Tomaso had served stints them all. The firm had used him as a troubleshooter because he was tough and smarter than he looked. He kept his mouth shut, understood how things worked and could figure out why when they didn't. At The Door, as everyone called it, he was grillman on weekend nights - the man - because the menu featured dry-aged beefsteaks and 21 different cuts of fresh fish, most of them grilled.
Paul had started in the Hollywood flagship store with Mitchell as GM. He had gotten in some sort of trouble of which there is no record. Hilton said a fight. So, the company got him out of town to train the opening team in Scottsdale and then to Portland, where during construction, they put him up at Motel Six. As far as Hilton could tell, Paul's life consisted of working, reading and wandering the city alone, so one day, the older man invited him to play basketball, and when that went well, to dinner. The two men, different in so many ways, liked each other.
Next stop for Paul was supposed to be the new Aspen restaurant, except that as training ended, he decided to stay in Portland. Paul told me he liked the river through the middle of town and all the bridges, but Hilton knew the real reason. On the first day of training, he fell topsy-turvy in love with a woman who called herself Djuna Novak (pronounced by her with a breath of a "D"), the long-time girlfriend of a bartender named Johnny Urbino.
"He had it bad," Hilton said. "She started coming on to him big time at the first staff meeting. No place he could go in that restaurant, she wouldn't find him." Djuna was a petite thing with dark curly hair, striking gray eyes and a politician's smile. I interviewed her several times over the course of the investigation and didn't like her a bit. She was neat and well groomed, but she broadcast something unclean with her pale skin, her decadent mouth painted bright red, her hungry eyes. The women I like best have a will, a drive, a strong inner fiber. Not Djuna.
Hilton went on. "She was wild, lots of pain in those eyes, that strained smile. She was older, too, and Paul wanted someone to take him places he'd never been." He stopped then, waiting on my reaction, but I gave him nothing. I already knew intimate tales of Paul and would not have been embarrassed by anything Hilton was likely to tell. Contrary to reputation, I always knew Hilton to be a gentleman.
In the course of our investigation, a cocktail waitress named Lisa Peel put it this way: Djuna "…caught Paul in that vulnerable position of simultaneously wanting to pursue her and hold himself back." She and her man, Johnny, styled themselves 'swingers' and were well-known at bars and parties where that sort of night sport was practiced.
Hilton again, "Paul wanted a girlfriend, wanted to be in love, but he was kinda stupid expecting it to be Djuna. I tried to tell him but he was all fired up, wasn't really listening. She thought she had him wrapped around her little finger, but then Raina snagged him, and oh baby." Hilton shook his head. "Bad blood between those two.
"Portland was still kind of a small town, then. Most of us had been working restaurants for years and knew each other from the late night bars and clubs. I knew Johnny, Djuna, Raina, all them people, at least a little. Yvonne was someone Ernie knew. They hired a lot of old pros at The Door.
"Now Raina. People see pretty and get the wrong idea. She grew up in honky-tonks, and she was smart and tough and the girl could talk. She was the kind, if she didn't like you, it was just way easier to leave her alone. I guess you've heard she looked a lot like you – not so skinny or so many freckles. But her and me got along fine. She'd tip you in person, come sit with you, buy you a drink if she'd sold a lot of appetizers. Most of those pretty ones don't want to be drinking with no stinky cooks."
Raina was first to sink a hook. She was twenty-four, strawberry blond and blue-eyed. Paul knew nothing about her, but she had something he desperately needed, a room. She had rented a ramshackle house on Corbett Hill and filled it with restaurant people, a party house commonly called 'Hell Hole'. As a trainer, the company had been paying for Paul's room at Motel 6, but when he decided to stay in Portland, in a fit of corporate pique, they gave him forty-eight hours to find a place or he'd have to pay his hotel bill on a cook's wages. So, she had a vacancy and Paul filled it. By one account, on his first night there, she'd got him drunk and seduced him. True or not, she lived a life filled with men and alcohol. Of course there was more to her: books, her basement room was lined with them and Paul loved to read; an "A" in nearly every class she had taken in college; a glowing letter of recommendation from one professor; and a recently completed real estate course. She was also known to drink at work and to carry in her purse a bottle of prescription diet pills, speed, commonly called Black Beauties.
Paul hadn't done drugs much, drank a little, smoked a little pot. I asked Hilton, "Why would he go for a girl like that?"
"Probably needed to get laid. Djuna got that boy so hot, always comin' on then pulling away. My guess, it was the pulling away bothered him most."*
For the month or so he lived at Hell Hole, Paul spent most nights after work with Raina in her basement room, but on nights she worked late, she liked to drink and would explain, "You get off work at ten, but I get off at two-thirty, and I want to do something. I don't want to go home and sleep." So, he would wait as the night expired, trying to read, pacing, filled with jealousy and longing. One Friday night he waited in vain. Still awake at eight in the morning, he saw her dropped off by a construction worker with whom she'd been flirting in the bar. She was still so drunk she had to navigate downstairs one careful step at a time. Saturday night, it happened again. Hilton explained, "That was it for Paul. He's big on loyalty. If you're his friend, he'll stand by you come hell or high water, but cross him and he's done with you."
Djuna Novak, another smart girl with bad habits, snagged him a week later, a drippy Sunday afternoon in early spring. Paul often ate in the restaurant on his days off because employees received a fifty percent discount on food. Better yet, because he was the grillman, often "a mistake" would be made on a dish he enjoyed that "somebody really ought to eat." When Paul arrived, Djuna and Yvonne were perched at the bar, having a free drink (for which they would tip lavishly – the karma of tipping) before a yet to be defined night on the town. It was, after all, their Saturday night. The women sat with Paul while he ate a steak sandwich, then the three of them left. Things must have gone well because Djuna called him early Tuesday morning. "Hey, I found a place for you to live. It's near my house, very cool, and a great deal if you take it before it goes on the market."
Hilton told the following story. Djuna and Yvonne picked up Paul in Yvonne's decrepit grey Oldsmobile, "The Battlewagon", and drove him across town to a four-story brick building in Northwest Portland. The apartment was old and funky but had wonderful views: Mount Hood, downtown, and three Willamette River bridges. It had two rooms with Murphy beds, a kitchen and a bath, but the rent was three times what he had been paying. Desperate to be out of Raina's, he wrote a check that emptied his bank account. Then he, Djuna and Yvonne went back to Raina's and, shoes off, moved his few possessions while Raina slept off her previous night's debauch in the basement. The women thought it a great ruse, but it was not an episode that made him proud. Glad to have escaped without a scene, he dreaded Tuesday, when all the principals would be working.
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In 1944, Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots in Italy made a lot of success for the United Stated by protecting bomber planes during missions. The fact is these men were brave and essential factors to winning World War II. This movie takes a story that should already be dramatic and hams it up making it needlessly cheesy. Not that I don't mind cheese in my movies some times. But this is just bad. The dialogue is rotten. The characters are painfully one dimensional and there is a romance so forced that you'd think George Lucas actually put it in there simply to annoy us.
The story follows a squadron of pilots in the Tuckegee experiment. They are all written in the most cliché "war movie" stock characters you can find. You have:
The drunk
The religious nut (Who believes in "Black Jesus" I might add. Going so far as to keep a picture of him; but I digress).
The angry guy who only plays his own rules
The racist(s)
The tough leader who has confidence in the men.
Plus, since this is a Lucasfilm production set in WWII don't forget the cartoonish Nazi stereotype. The scar face glaring gargoyle of a man that wants nothing more than to drink the blood of his enemies and sleep in Valhalla upon the skulls of those he has vanquished. The characters give no gravitas to the scenes they are in. When best friends die they just look like someone dinged their car with a shopping cart and yell an expletive. The worst thing is that everything said in this movie is a quip. After every plane is shot every airman has to say some stupid funny line like it's going to be printed on a shirt one day.
Like I mentioned earlier the characters are all stock cliché characters that you can find in any war movie. They have brought nothing new to the table. If only the director gave a crap about making something even halfway decent they should have maybe attempted to follow the story from maybe one man's perspective. Maybe you could see these people as he does and grow to care about them rather then get several different plots ranging from bombing runs to an escape plot out of Stalag 18.
There is also a romance between "Lightning", one of the airmen, and an Italian girl named Sophia. They fall in love with all the stupid banal chatter you would expect in a Lucas movie. Out of the blue she tells him she loves him and it's almost as if he forgets his lines. What the hell? Next time they are together he asks her to marry him and she says she has to think about it. I expected him to make up a line about hating sand. It's stupid and pointless and adds nothing but filler to the movie which is already pretty emotionally lackluster.
The only good thing about it is that the dog fights look pretty cool. However, since it's all CGI you may as well be watching the cut scene from a videogame. There is no sense of reality to any of the explosions and the threat is not really there. The whole time I know no matter how neat it is I am essentially watching a cartoon. I really just didn't get into it. The movie was dull and cliché and really think it wasn't worth it at all. I can't possibly recommend this. I am sure it meant well during the writing process but it failed when it came to completion.


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At 9.05am on the 14th of July 2005, I recorded that:
Some United Nations [UN] and Council of Europe [CoE] staff agree that there are three classes or types of status: 'in towns, in Trepca, they say, "we're Kosovan and we're Serbian"; in settlements, in Mitrovica, they say, "we're Kosovan and we're Yugoslavian"; but in the enclaves they say, "we're not Kosovan, we're not Serbian, we're not Yugoslavian - we're nothing - we're fucked"'.
According to those UN and CoE sources:
'the Serbian government says that "if you're in Mitrovica, Trepca or Bresovica, we'll protect you, if not..."'.Those sources say that:
'Kosovo doesn't have a status - it's nothing - it's not independent, it's not Serbia"'.They continued:
'it's like Ireland - it was in the Irish constitution that Northern Ireland was a part of southern Ireland and [as part of the peace process] they said, "well, we'll change the constitution, make an amendment, relinquish our claim over the north", so they say, "okay, we don't own it", but they don't say, "okay, it's independent" - it's nothing'...Participants have been afforded anonymity. Formatting has been changed to make it easy to read in a blog.
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HIS PRESENCE Thursday 26 January
Open Heavens Devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye
Memorise: And he said unto him, if thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. Exodus 33:15
Read: Exodus 33:13-16
If you must prosper, you cannot ignore having God's presence. The presence of God brings prosperity like nothing else. Joseph prospered because of God's presence (Genesis 39:2), and so did all the saints before us. Even the Lord Jesus Christ needed God's presence in order to succeed in life and ministry (Acts 10:38). Beloved, you cannot do without God's presence. Do you really want to prosper in life and ministry? Then what you need more than anything else is God's presence in your life. When you are born again, you have the presence of God inside of you in some measure. But as you cultivate His friendship, relate with Him daily, praise and worship Him, feed on His Word and obey Him, that presence grows. You need the presence of God to deal with enemies and every situation or challenge that comes your way. The problems you can solve will be determined by the amount of God's presence upon you. What level of God's presence are you carrying?
One person who knew the value of God's presence was Moses. As long as God was with him: he could stretch his hands over the Red Sea and God would put a highway in the sea, he could smite the nation of Egypt with plagues of judgement, he could cause his rod to swallow the magic wands of the sorcerers of Egypt. In today's reading, we see Moses frantically asking for God's presence. Never seek a position that God has not given to you because God will not honour what He has not commanded with His presence. If you dethrone others so that you can take their place, you have just dug a pit for yourself. God's presence cannot go with you there. Lobbying for positions may deliver your desire, but without God. Moses was not ready to go up without the assurance of divine presence. When God's presence goes with you, it means you are favoured of God. Is God with you in all you do? Or do you do things with your own solo effort?
Father, anything that will take Your presence away from me, take it out of my life.
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Issue No. 11 - November (1994 vol. 5)
pp: 1185-1196
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/71.329670

In a distributed context, mutual exclusion algorithms can be divided into two familiesaccording to their underlying algorithmic principles: those that are permission-based andthose that are token-based. Within the latter family, a lot of algorithms use a rooted treestructure to move the requests and the unique token. This paper presents a very generalinformation structure (and the associated generic algorithm) for token- and tree-basedmutual exclusion algorithms. This general structure not only covers, as particular cases,several known algorithms, but also allows for the design of new ones that are well suitedfor various topology requirements.

Index Termsdistributed algorithms; tree data structures; topology; token-based distributed mutualexclusion algorithms; tree-based distributed mutual exclusion algorithms;permission-based mutual exclusion algorithms; rooted tree structure; informationstructure; generic algorithm; topology requirements; distributed algorithms
M. Raynal, A. Mostefaouni and J. Hélary, "A General Scheme for Token- and Tree-Based Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithms," in IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, vol. 5, no. , pp. 1185-1196, 1994.


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The headline is all over the place: ADHD Is on the Rise. ADHD has increased 1997-2006. A new survey from the CDC/National Center for Health Statistics says it's so.
I can't and won't believe the conclusions of this survey.
I'm not saying that ADHD is or is not on the rise (in fact, soon I'll talk about how common ADHD is!), but I am frustrated by headlines and so-called "national studies" that are inaccurate and weak.
This study found:
- 9% of children have ADHD
- Boys had ADHD more often than girls
- White and Black children have ADHD more than Hispanic children
- Children with Medicaid have ADHD more than uninsured or privately insured children
This study (and the headlines) forget to emphasize that they consider a child as suffering from ADHD if "a doctor or health professional ever told the parent that their child had ADHD….
I think that is crazy.
Just because a doctor SAID a youth has ADHD in no way means the youth ACTUALLY HAS the disorder. In fact, they aren't even saying that a "mental health professional" said the youth had ADHD.
In this day and age of managed care, the burden on pediatricians and family physicians to assess and treat mental health disorders during brief time-limited visits, and health professionals lack of training in psychological testing-the rate of over, under and mis-diagnosis of mental health disorders among youth is becoming epidemic.
Anxiety looks like ADHD. Drug use can look like ADHD. The manic phase of Bipolar Disorder can look like ADHD. Hyperthyroidism can look like ADHD. Chronic lack of sleep can look like ADHD. A child who is being abused or neglected can look as if they have ADHD. Some children are more hyperactive or distractible than their siblings or peers-they don't necessarily have ADHD.
Did each of these doctors rule out all these other potential causes? Did they interview the child, the parents, teachers, school counselors and other adults familiar with the youth's behavior?
We don't know.
This survey tells us what percentage of youth have been DIAGNOSED with ADHD. Many of them may not truly have the disorder. And there are likely plenty of youth walking around suffering from ADHD, but nobody has diagnosed them yet. So this survey tells us nothing about the how many youth TRULY HAVE ADHD.
1) Doctors DIAGNOSE ADHD more often in boys (What about all the girls with ADHD walking around undiagnosed and untreated—the survey doesn't mention them)
2) Hispanic youth DIAGNOSED with ADHD less. Due to the stigma related to mental illness in the Hispanic community, is it possible parents are not seeking help from "doctors" for their child's emotional or behavioral problems? (this study tells us nothing about the true rate of ADHD among Hispanic youth)
3) Surprise, surprise…..children with Medicaid are DIAGNOSED more often with ADHD "Uninsured" youth aren't getting diagnosed with ADHD because they aren't seeing doctors. Privately insured youth are more likely to receive comprehensive mental health evaluations that accurately diagnose ADHD only when appropriate. With Medicaid, doctors are often limited regarding the amount of time they can spend assessing all the potential mental health disorders that mimic ADHD. Receiving a diagnosis of ADHD and a prescription for stimulant medication is much easier than addressing the complex issues that often make low-income youth distractible and impulsive.
If a government agency reports on the number of youth SUFFERING from the mental health disorder ADHD, the answer should not be based on "parent's report of what a doctor or health professional said." Even if this current survey accurately reflects the true prevalence of ADHD, using this method is misleading and fails to communicate to families, schools, and policy-makers the importance of a comprehensive mental heath evaluation for accurately identifying which youth truly have a mental health disorder, exactly which one(s) they suffer from, and which youth are displaying typical behavior for their age. Without quality control in this area, over, under, and mis-diagnosis will continue to plague families and schools across our nation.


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On the windswept hills at the south end of Arran a new vision is rising on the site of the last legal distillery, which closed there 180 years ago.
The new £10 million Isle of Arran distillery may not look much yet, but in a few short months all that will have changed.
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Contractors BHC Ltd have been on site since February 6 and work is progressing well on the first phase of the distillery development. The 26-week contract will see the road infrastructure for the site put in place and the construction of the first three of six bonded warehouses, each of 1,000 square metres. The work will create 25 to 30 construction jobs.


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Jane isn't built for country life. Stuck on her parents' farm in Ireland, she longs for Dublin. "Swap the tractors for tour buses," she commands, "the quiet for noise, the slowness for speed, the loneliness for no space to think." Yet as Lisa Tierney-Keogh's "Four Last Things" progresses, Jane's rural exile seems less and less the problem. Jane may not be built for life at all.
"Four Last Things," which is having its American premiere at the American Globe Theater, is made up of three intertwined monologues. The college-age Jane (Elizabeth A. Davis) speaks of the emptiness she feels. Her father, Brendan (Victor Verhaeghe), describes his inability to help her or confront her depression directly. The family dog, Bob (Justin Hagan), talks of strange smells and a feeling of fear. (Not only can this dog chat, he also wears boots, slacks and a comfortable sweater: He seems quite evolved.) As they do in works by other contemporary Irish playwrights like Conor McPherson and Mark O'Rowe, the characters speak in turns. Their speeches weave a larger narrative.
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She urged lawmakers to pass an extension as quickly as possible to prevent a drop in production and potential layoffs.
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El Bahariya Oasis is one of six oases found in Egypt. It is located about 360km South-West off the capital city of Cairo and is easily accessible by coach or private car. The journey to El Bahariya is a 4-hr drive through the desert. For the most part of the journey, one is greeted only by the sight of golden sand and sand dunes.
The first pit stop was at a local Inn for lunch. The food (chicken, rice and bread) served was simple and delicious. After lunch, guests were split into groups of four and each group was assigned a 4WD Jeep to start the desert exploration. First stop on the list was the Black Desert. The landscape is a combination of orangey sand mixed with layers of black volcanic rocks. These black rocks are scattered all over the desert giving it a unique characteristic.
Next, we drove off to the Crystal Mountain. The small mountain is actually a ridge formed with a large proportion of quartz crystal. As the quartz crystals are not found elsewhere in the desert, some locals believe that the Crystal Mountain was actually formed by meteoroids falling from the sky. However geologists' studies show that the mountain could actually be an eroded limestone cave complete with stalactites and stalagmites.
After leaving the Crystal Mountain, we traveled across to the white desert. The contrast from black to white is quite distinct. The naturally occurring collection of chalk and limestone boulders combined with the soft powdery sand makes the place so beautiful. The White Desert is like a masterpiece by Mother Nature. Through the years, the white limestone boulders are etched into different shapes and sizes by the wind and other elements. With a little imagination, you can even see shapes of birds and animals. After a tiring day, we were rewarded with an excellent view of the sunset at the white desert.
The next day, the journey continued with a trip to the magic spring, salt lake, and black mountain (English Mountain). We were also brought to a high point to have a panoramic view of the oasis vast vegetation. Somehow, it's mind boggling to see such a huge plot of green vegetation in the middle of the desert. Nature is indeed amazing. Besides the natural forming phenomenon, there are many ancient monuments to attract tourists to visit the region. The temple of Alexander the Great located in the El Bahariya Oasis has the distinction of being the ruler's only known temple in Egypt. The Valley of the Golden Mummies discovered by Dr. Zahi Hawass in 1996 is also a major attraction.
Taking a journey through the desert was definitely not easy. The 4WD ride across the sand dune was bumpy and made worse by a mini sand storm stirred up by the vehicles moving in front. To maintain your camera in the best condition, always keep it in a sealed bag, even when you are inside the jeep. I placed my camera on the seat and I ended up with a super dusty camera. The weather is hot and dry so always stay hydrated. For those who can weather the "hardship", you will be rewarded with a collection of great pictures and fond memories of the oasis.
Lastly, a special desert snow gallery :D
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Please, I have spent countless hours searching on google, the forums after spending a whole week on this issue, Please if you can help would be appreciated as this problem is not found on the web
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I previously had a duel boot of xp and windows 7 ( xp was installed on my MAIN harddrive when I formated it. After MANY fail attempts I realised I had to change the harddrive priority in BIOS to make the harddrive that had the windows 7 instalation number 1. When I start my computer it loads up normally until it says NTLDR missing Ctrl + Alt + Delete to restart. So I put in my windows 7 disk in hoping to be able to repair the installation. At first when I tried this no OS would be found to repair in the System Recovery Options but after putting the hardrive in a higher priority it now appears as
WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE (Recovered)
Each time i click Next it says "This Version of System Recovery Options is not compatible with the version of Windows you are trying to repair. Try Using a Recovery disc that is compatible with this version of Windows"
That however is impossible since it the only Installation Disc I used to Install Windows 7!!
I know there is a problem with how the computer is booting up but if I cant select the operating system I cannot go any further please assist me , Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED
|My System Specs
|20 Dec 2010
Hello, and welcome!
Start out by marking your Windows 7 partition as Active. See this tutorial: Partition - Mark as Active
Then, run a startup repair on your Windows 7 installation.
Startup repair should do the trick for you; if not, post back, and we'll go from there.
Good luck!
|My System Specs
|20 Dec 2010
Thank you so much Johnathan King,
We HAVE made Progress!! Using Method 2,
After making the partition active I was ABLE TO FINALLY!!! go into the repair utility (Although nothing was listed as a windows OS, I clicked next and clicked the first option , which i think was repair ) and it said it had been successful upon clicking finish I now get the following response
boot0: GPT
boot0: test
boot0: error
Do you know where to go from here?, I Finally feel like i'm making progress!
thank you so much thus far :)
|My System Specs
|20 Dec 2010
Sorry for Double posting >_<
I repeated the whole process again and its now back to the BOOTMGR is missing problem :s (the previous disk0: GPT etc no longer appears) so back to square one i suppose
and i have tried bootrec.exe
/fixboot and /rebuildbcd do not work at all
I hope I have given you guys all the information you need
|My System Specs
|20 Dec 2010
For now, remove the XP drive; just disconnect it from your computer, and let's focus on getting Windows 7 working right. Then, we'll add XP into the mix.
Make sure the Windows 7 drive is the #1 hard drive, in the BIOS.
Now is there a 100MB "system reserved" partition on the Windows 7 drive? If so, follow these directions to remove it: System Reserved Partition - Delete
You can also try writing a new boot sector to the drive. From the command prompt, enter the following:
diskpart list vol
exit //that just exits Diskpart bootsect /nt60 C: bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot
|My System Specs
|20 Dec 2010
I dont see that partition of 100MB on the windows 7 hard drive ( I dont think I have because I cant see it when i check the partitons in the windows 7 hard drive under list partitions ) , Just to clarify your 2nd set of instructions is what I should follow if I DONT have that partition?
Sorry if its a obvious answer I just want to get it right , thank you for all your help thus far
|My System Specs
|20 Dec 2010
Yep, that's right. If you had the 100MB partition, you would remove it, before commencing on the second part.
|My System Specs
|20 Dec 2010
Ok Just so I inform you of exactly what I do so you can see if theres something I am doing wrong
The harddrive that has win 7 is placed at a Higher priority then the blank hard drive I have ( I removed the one that USED to have xp on it Until I formated it )
Then I boot the DVD from the Bios then Click Shift F10 and inputed all the commands which you listed and was successful, Then I clicked the X above to close the console command, Then just to try and run the windows Repair while i was there I tried but the
Windows 7 Ultimate ( Recovered ) came up again and I could not select it to attempt to click next and repair it
So I clicked Restart on My computer and The same problem appears
BOOTMGR is missing
|My System Specs
|20 Dec 2010
once again sorry for the double post
I WAS able to get into WIndows 7 by installing a new copy of windows on another hard drive, my question is Can i format this new instal of windows 7 so i can just load the old one or what do u think i need to do?
When i boot up the comp the NEW windows 7 is installed in what is now C:
and my old windows is instaled in E:
So what do I do now please help almost finished now
|My System Specs
|20 Dec 2010
If you'll post back a screenshot of your new Disk Management drive map and listings (using Snipping Tool in Start Menu) we can see what might have been blocking your Repairs, or if your new install placed it's boot-critical files on E if it was still plugged in during install.
Be sure to copy over your files.
Then you can wipe the old HD of possible infected or corrupt code from an elevated Command Line: Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command
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Description of problem:
Fairly regularly, xfce4-panel will segfaults during a vnc server startup. It
can be started afterwards without problem. Not sure if this is really a
xfce4-panel issue or a library issue, but here goes. Stack trace (may or may
not be valid):
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
#0 0x0000003f2ea3ac58 in IA__g_ascii_strcasecmp (s1=0x4165d6 "xfce",
s2=0x21 <Address 0x21 out of bounds>) at gstrfuncs.c:1753
#1 0x00000000004116d6 in notify_cb (
name=0x220000002e <Address 0x220000002e out of bounds>,
channel_name=Variable "channel_name" is not available.
at mcs_client.c:109
#2 0x0000003ae3302bf6 in read_settings (client=0x5e3370, channel_name=Variable
"channel_name" is not available.
at mcs-client.c:250
#3 0x0000003ae3303132 in mcs_client_process_event (client=Variable "client" is
not available.
) at mcs-client.c:792
#4 0x0000000000411747 in client_event_filter (xevent=Variable "xevent" is not
) at mcs_client.c:129
#5 0x0000003a06d3d326 in gdk_event_apply_filters (xevent=0x7fffffd86850,
event=0x6ecc00, filters=Variable "filters" is not available.
) at gdkevents-x11.c:328
#6 0x0000003a06d3e8bc in gdk_event_translate (display=0x537b30, event=0x6ecc00,
xevent=0x7fffffd86850, return_exposes=0) at gdkevents-x11.c:872
#7 0x0000003a06d40078 in _gdk_events_queue (display=0x537b30) at
#8 0x0000003a06d400df in gdk_event_dispatch (source=Variable "source" is not
) at gdkevents-x11.c:2253
#9 0x0000003f2ea24a9e in IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x546c80) at
#10 0x0000003f2ea27734 in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x546c80, block=1,
dispatch=1, self=Variable "self" is not available.
) at gmain.c:2565
#11 0x0000003f2ea27c20 in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=0x6f89f0) at gmain.c:2769
#12 0x0000003a06802145 in IA__gtk_main () at gtkmain.c:1009
#13 0x00000000004113d2 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffd86cd8) at main.c:501
(gdb) up
#1 0x00000000004116d6 in notify_cb (
name=0x220000002e <Address 0x220000002e out of bounds>,
channel_name=Variable "channel_name" is not available.
at mcs_client.c:109
109 if (g_ascii_strcasecmp (CHANNEL, channel_name))
(gdb) list
104 /* event handling */
105 static void
106 notify_cb (const char *name, const char *channel_name,
107 McsAction action, McsSetting * setting, void *data)
108 {
109 if (g_ascii_strcasecmp (CHANNEL, channel_name))
110 return;
112 switch (action)
113 {
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. startup vncserver with the following xstartup:
ulimit -c unlimited
if [ -f $HOME/.Xresources ]
xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
xfwm4 &
xfce4-panel &
Greetings. I don't have a x86_64 test box, so it might be difficult to duplicate
this here. ;(
Can you try a few things:
- rpm -ivh
(assuming you are running the latest version from extras). Then re-run your gdb
traces? This should hopefully provide more information.
- Running xfce4-panel & in your xstartup is not the prefred way to start xfce,
(although it should work). can you try:
exec startxfce4
and see if it makes any diffrence?
The debuginfo package is installed (otherwise you wouldn't see line number info).
We'll try startxfce4 and see if that helps.
Just got access to a fc4 x86_64 box to test with.
I used your ~/.vnc/xstartup file from above.
The first time I ran vncserver everything was fine, but after that I was able to
see xfce4-panel die like you were. ;)
It looks like it's a race condition if you try and start xfwm4 and xfce4-panel
at the same time. If I put a 'sleep 2' between them I can't get it to fail.
It also always works for me if I use the 'exec startxfce4' (which needs
xfce-utils installed, BTW).
I did some tracing on xfce4-panel, and it dies when it's trying to talk to
xfce-mcs-manager it looks like.
I will mention this issue on the upstream lists, although they may well say
"don't do that then".
If you could confirm if startxfce4 works that would be good.
Any news on if using startxfce4 works around the issue for you?
I posted to the upstream list, but didn't get any response.
I can file an upstream bug on it...
So far no problems with startxfce4. I think that will work for us.


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Editors' note: Be mindful that this article is from early 2016, but know that your mindfulness helps your mind and body.
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This technique gets its name from Skimming, where first cream is withdrawn and later the thinner liquid. Here also first the surplus is tapped and later other customers who are willing to wait are catered to.
A very interesting example is when Harry Potter Books are first launched only hardbound books are sold which are relatively higher in price. Gradually as the initial consumer surplus is captured and pirated versions become available at lower prices, the price is decreased and normal bound books are launched to capture the price sensitive consumers.
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