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South Shore's the Sierra Drifters bring their tribute to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground to the North Shore this week.
The four-piece band will play a set of original sonngs and a second set of Lou Reed and Velvet Underground songs at a free show on Friday. The show represents the band's Crystal Bay Casino Red Room debut.
The Drifters includes Chris Seal (guitar, harmonica and vocals), Andy Hatch (guitar, mandolin and vocals), Nate Alcorn (upright bass and vocals) and Ryan Kronenberg (drums).
The group has been together for more than a year. Their original songs blend rock, Americana and bluegrass.
The Sierra Drifters has paid tribute to Reed at previous shows. Their repertoire to the late songwriter includes a rootsy Americana take on the Velvet Underground classic "I'm Waiting for the Man."
Other notable Lou Reed and the Velvet Undergound Songs include "Sunday Morning," "Venus in Furs," "Pale Blue Eyes," "Walk on the Wild side" and "White Light/White Heat."
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BRENTWOOD -- Over the next decade, the Brentwood Union School District's energy management program is projected to pay for 30 full-time teaching positions through daily energy saving measures, according to district officials.
Just 14 months into the energy program, which includes a strong educational component, the district has saved $251,771. According to district Energy Education Specialist Derrick Bullington, a majority of the savings have been accomplished through training employees to change their habits, such as turning off lights and computers when not needed in classrooms or computer labs.
"A lot of people are in the habit now of shutting things off," he said.
One effective cost-saving measure has been to initiate blackouts after 10 p.m. on all of the district's campuses, including the exterior and parking lot lights. Bullington noted that this has led to a reduction in vandalism and loitering by students after hours as well as significant savings.
The district spends almost $2 million annually on utilities, Bullington said. Bullington said that he visits each campus every three weeks to communicate and collaborate with principals, school site employees and maintenance and operations staff.
"We have been able to identify leaks at different school sites," said district Chief Business Official Liz Robbins of the program.
The district collaborates with Cenergistic, an energy conservation company, on reducing its energy usage and avoiding related costs. Energy usage can be monitored 24 hours per day and seven days per week and Bullington noted that the main goal is to achieve 20 percent savings at all of the school sites.
"This is part of our world that we need to be aware of," said Brentwood school board member Emil Geddes regarding efforts to educate students about energy conservation through the program.
BUSD Interim Superintendent Doug Adams emphasized that Brentwood's Pioneer Elementary School was the first California elementary school to utilize a solar energy system and Adams Middle School was one of the largest campuses to implement a similar system.
"This is really an easy money-saver," Adams said.
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PARKERSBURG - The three-member C8 Science Panel has announced two upcoming public meetings for people to ask questions.
The meetings will be held 6 p.m. Sept. 26 at Blennerhassett Junior High Auditorium in Parkersburg and 6 p.m. Sept. 27 at Meigs Local Middle School Auditorium.
They will be conducted by the members of the C8 Science Panel and will allow the public to ask about results from tests and research on the potential impacts of C8 on human health; how much more will need to be done; and more.
C8 is the common name given to perfluorooctanoic acid (sometimes called PFOA), a man-made chemical used in manufacturing non-stick cookware, protective finishes on carpets and water-resistant clothing.
A class-action lawsuit brought by the affected communities against the Washington Works DuPont plant resulted in a settlement agreement.
Brookmar Inc., an independent company, conducted a year-long survey (August 2005-July 2006) called the C8 Health Project. The project gathered information through interviews and questionnaires and collected blood samples from 69,069 people who lived, worked or attended school in the six affected local water districts.
The three-member science panel, with members agreed upon by both sides, was appointed to determine if there is a probable link between C8 and disease.
Members of the C8 Science Panel are Dr. Tony Fletcher, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Dr. David Savitz, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Dr. Kyle Steenland, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.
The Science Panel is expected to deliver its final report on any probable link between C8 and disease in July 2012.


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Fruit extracts like papaya are packed with enzymes that help correct uneven skin tones, says Tammy Fender, a celebrity facialist in West Palm Beach, Florida. And milk's lactic acid acts as a powerful hydrator, smoothing skin.
Mix ingredients in a bowl and apply to clean skin. Rinse off after 5 minutes.
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Here's the perfect pick-me-up. The grape seed oil in this concoction is a powerful antioxidant and the honey hydrates, reducing breakouts and plumping skin to reduce the look of puffiness and fine lines, says Joanna Vargas, a celebrity facialist in NYC.
Mix all ingredients in a bowl, apply to face and leave on for 20 minutes. Then rinse.
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The antidote to stubborn zits: Thyme. It acts as an antiseptic, killing acne-causing bacteria and decongesting pores naturally. Use a thyme-based cleanser two to three times a week to calm overactive oil glands, says Fender. We like Dr. Perry's CleanThyme Cleansing Bar for Face and Body.
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Vargas does this hydrating mask when she's off-duty. Avocado's B vitamins and fatty acids hydrate like crazy, enough for all skin types, Vargas says.
Mash the avocado and mix the ingredients together in a bowl. Leave on the skin for 20 minutes, then rinse.
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Huge pimple? Beat it with this anti-inflammatory mask from Vargas. The malic acid in the strawberries tightens pores and the almond powder is like a gentle scrub to remove dirt. Just DON'T wipe your face with a hand towel after washing, because germs linger there. Use a clean paper towel to dab instead.
Rub a cotton ball with raw apple cider vinegar on the area that is breaking out. Use the almond powder to scrub your T-zone, where skin tends to be oilier (and where you probably have the most blackheads).Mix the strawberries and yogurt together, apply and let sit for 15 minutes before rinsing.
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The secret to glowing skin is good circulation. So before a big event, take a warm bath with Epsom salts and gently scrub skin to boost blood flow, says Elena Rubin, an aesthetician in NYC. Then, mix equal parts sugar and used coffee grinds (the caffeine helps tighten tired skin) and gently rub onto a damp face in circular motions for two minutes, then rinse. You'll look great all night long.
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Partied a little too hard last night? Rubin's cure: Brew two tea bags (black tea and chamomile work best because they're loaded with caffeine and skin-soothing tannins), then pop them in the freezer for 10 minutes to chill. Press the cold tea bags onto puffy eyes, lie down, relax, think happy thoughts. Important to note: Be sure the tea does not contain chrysanthemum—it can temporarily stain skin!
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Ugh, sunburn. Beat it with this fast-absorbing aloe vera mask that won't irritate sensitive skin. Rose helps boost circulation and will reduce redness, says Vargas.
Combine and apply to face with a cotton ball.
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Eat foods that are high in essential fatty acids, like olives, almonds and wheat germ for smooth, supple skin, says Fender. Hint: When shopping for oils, make sure that they are cold pressed, which preserves skin-saving benefits.
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Scrub out stress with this fruit-infused recipe from Vargas. The cornmeal will remove dead skin cells without causing irritation, and the grapefruit juice contains salicylic acid that'll prevent breakouts (plus, it smells good!)
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Welcome to the Elwha Nearshore. -the critical nursery area for all our iconic species that are the focus of largest implemented-and publicly funded-dam removal watershed restoration project in the nation. See anything amiss? Note the post apocalyptic shoreline armoring (complete with brand new large rock placed EXACTLY where upwards of 7,000,000 cubic meters (that's 355,000 dump truck loads) of habitat nourishing sediment could otherwise be delivered and forage fish spawning would otherwise occur-(just behind biologist Nicole Harris). Over 60 percent of this drift cell is armored-with more rock being added regularly. This is wrong. The Coastal Watershed Institute is working hard to focus work on this highly impaired and clearly sediment starved nearshore to promote tractable restoration actions. Join us.


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Dekha Ibrahim Abdi
|Dekha Ibrahim Abdi
دخا إبراهيم عبدي
Wajir, Kenya
|14 July 2011 (aged 47)
Nairobi, Kenya
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|Nairobi, Kenya
|Sunni Islam
|4 Children
|Right Livelihood Award (2007)
Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (Somali: Deeka Ibraahiim Cabdi, Arabic: دخا إبراهيم عبدي) (1964 - 14 July 2011) was an ethnic Somali peace activist based in Mombasa, Kenya. A Kenyan citizen, she worked as a consultant to government and civil society organisations.
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Dekha was born in 1964 in Wajir. She was married to Dr. Hassan Nurrow Abdirahman with whom she had four children. The couple divorced in 2007 and in 2009, she married Abdinoor, a Somali ophthalmologist.[1]
Dekha was a trustee of Coalition for Peace in Africa (COPA) and of NOMADIC, a pastoralist organisation based in Wajir. She was also a founding member of the Wajir Peace and Development Committee, the Coalition for Peace in Africa, ACTION (Action for Conflict Transformation), and the Peace and Regeneration Oasis (PRO).
Dekha worked as a consultant trainer on peacebuilding and pastoralists' development with many local and international agencies in various countries, including Cambodia, Jordan, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Africa, Netherlands, Israel, Palestine, Zimbabwe, the UK, Uganda and Kenya. She was also an Associate of Responding to Conflict and previously worked as RTC's Trainer and Learning Coordinator.
In 2007, Dekha was honoured with the Right Livelihood Award. The Jury commended her "for showing in diverse ethnic and cultural situations how religious and other differences can be reconciled, even after violent conflict, and knitted together through a cooperative process that leads to peace and development".
She was also honoured with Hessian Peace Prize of Germany in 2009.
On 7 July 2011, Dekha, her husband Abdinoor, and their driver were on their way to a peace conference in Garissa, when their car crashed into a truck. Her husband and driver died instantly. Dekha sustained heavy injuries and was airlifted to Nairobi. She died shortly afterwards at the Aga Khan Hospital at 11.45 am, 14 July 2011. She was 47 years old.[2]
See also[edit]
- ^ Kenya: Taking to Men´s Role as Peace Builders Not a Bed of Roses
- ^ "Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Acclaimed Kenyan Peace Builder and DAI Colleague, Dies from Injuries". DAI. July 14, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2011.


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Epsya Clanton
Known as "Eppie" to her college and World War II friends. Born Aug. 25, 1923, to Robert Carl and Eunice Spencer Vance. Martha Epsya Vance Clanton died July 11, 2013, at NMMC in Tupelo.
Survivors include one son, Sonny Clanton of Calhoun City; three daughters, Melissa Clanton and Margaret Deavenport of Calhoun City, Candy Clanton of New Orleans; one granddaughter, Emily Rennie of Calhoun City; one stepgranddaughter, Rebekah Cruice of New Orleans; one great-granddaughter, Margaret Taylor Rennie of Calhoun City; one sister, Otye Vance Hitt of Corinth.
Epsya attended Mississippi College, worked at the Army Air Corps base in Greenville during WWII, was an elementary school teacher, a homemaker and an employee of the accounting department at Kellwood Company.
She became a member of Springhill Baptist Church at the age of 8. At the time of her death, she was a member of First Baptist Church, Calhoun City.
Her visitation will be held Saturday, July 13, 2013, from 9:30 am until service time at First Baptist Church in Calhoun City. Her funeral service will be at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Jimmy Vance and Dr. Jon Doler officiating. Burial will be at Vance Cemetery near Slate Springs. Pryor Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Pallbearers are J.R. Denton, Eddie Helms, Wood Spencer, Sidney Weddle, Willie Jobe West and Mike Wright. Honorary pallbearers are Stanley Criss, Harry Davis, Buddy Doler, Stephen Farmer, Braxton Franks and Jimmy Taylor.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Mississippi Baptist Children's Village, P.O. Box 27, Clinton, MS 39060-0027 or Vance Cemetery Fund in care of Jody Doler, P.O. Box 286, Calhoun City, MS 38916.
A message from Epsya:
"When someone dies and funeral services are held, the speaker or speakers always tell how wonderful, good or great that person was. I don't want that done. I was just a normal person and whatever good I may have done was balanced by some unkind or thoughtless deeds I may have done, whether I was aware of them or not.
God was good to me. He gave me godly parents and four wonderful children who were always there when I needed them. He also blessed me with two beloved grandchildren, Emily and Rebekah, and the best, my great-granddaughter Maggie. And of course, all of my friends.
Billy Graham once said that no matter how old you live to be, life is too short! That is so true.
This is what I would like everybody to remember…There are no second chances. Try to live so there will be few regrets. Try to forget your mistakes and move on. Make someone happy everyday. And don't forget to hug people – some may not like it, but most will and it will probably bring a lot of smiles."
Online condolences may be left at Pryorfuneralhome.com.
Gary Crawford
GUNTOWN – Gary Cushman Crawford, 75, died Thursday, July 11, 2013, at his residence. He was born in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 9, 1937, to Evertt Cushman and Ruth Lillian Tripp Crawford. He retired as manager of Hodges Printing of Booneville after 30 years of service. An avid sports fan he loved watching the Green Bay Packers, Ole Miss Rebels and Atlanta Braves. Solving crossword puzzles and reading were among his favorite hobbies. He loved his family and will be greatly missed.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 14, at The Saltillo Chapel of W.E. Pegues with the Rev. Marquitta Dulaney and the Rev. Melvin Crowley officiating.
Survivors include six daughters, Cindy Sue Cavanaugh (Patrick) of Milwaukee, Wis., Frances "Sissy" Wren of Guntown, Mary Lou Wages (Mancell) of Pontotoc, Debbie "Tater" Williams (Rodney) of Pontotoc, Patty Tackitt (Mike) of Guntown and Nancy "Baby Girl" Crawford Smith (Jeremy) of Pontotoc; one son, Gary Crawford Jr. (Maria) of Norfolk, Va.; 17 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; six great-great-granchildren; and special caregiver, Jeana Norman of Tupelo.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Pat and Barbara; and two grandchildren, Tyler Dabbs and Jeremy New.
Honorary pallbearers will be his grandsons, James Crawford, Charles "Bo" Strickland, Steven Strickland, Chris Wardlow, Tommy Wardlow, Kendall Tackitt, Michael Tackitt and Thomas "Bubba" Keith.
Visitation will be from 1 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Saltillo Funeral Home.
Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com.
Paris Cunningham
SALTILLO – Paris Lockridge Miller Cunningham, 82, died Thursday, July 4, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born Dec. 15, 1930, in Lee County to Roy Lockridge Sr. and Hattie Lee Lockridge. She was a member of Mud Creek M.B. Church. She worked more than 27 years at Marshall-Durbin-Purnell's Pride in Tupelo.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 13, at Mud Creek M.B. Church with the Rev. H.B. Sadler officiating and the Rev. Kenneth Miller delivering the eulogy. Burial will be in Red Hill Cemetery at Blue Springs. Agnew & Sons Funeral Home of Verona is in charge of arrangements.
She is survived by her sons, Johnny Miller (Wanda F.) of Milwaukee, Wis., and Lamar Miller (Amanda) of Tupelo; her grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Troy Lee Miller and Bill Cunningham; two sons, Steven Miller and Alfonzo Miller; her sisters and brothers, Margaret Reed, Annie McGee, Vetrice Hickman, Detrice Owens, Mary Dean Peavey, Elie Lockridge, Joe Lee Lockridge, Roy Lockridge Jr., Eddie Lee Lockridge and Rex Lockridge.
Visitation is from 3 to 6 p.m. today.
Family and friends may sign the guest registry at www.agnewandsons.com.
Alta Varner
TUPELO – Alta Marie Ledbetter Varner passed away Tuesday, July 9, 2013, in Tupelo. She was born Aug. 10, 1953. On Feb. 21, 1960, she married Gordon Varner.
She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Gordon Varner; her children, Charlotte V. Hester (Tom), Dennis W. Varner, and Cheryl Marie Travis; grandchildren, Daniel Palmer Hester (Hannah), Lauren Elizabeth Hester and Ryan Matthew Travis; brothers, Marvin Ledbetter, Marlon Ledbetter (Joan); sister, Audrey Ledbetter McCormick (Paul); and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at Valhalla Funeral Home in Huntsville, Ala. Interment will follow in Valhalla Memory Gardens.
The family will receive friends one hour prior to service at the funeral home.
Dudley Reedy
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas – Dudley Harold Reedy died on Saturday, June 8, 2013, at his residence. Born on March 22, 1929, in Smithville, he was a son of the late Alvin Carlos and Winna Mae Cheek Reedy. He graduated from Smithville High School in 1947. He was class president in 1946 and Mr. Smithville in 1945. In 1951, he graduated from Mississippi State College with a B.S. degree in agriculture and dairy husbandry. He honorably served as a Med Tech in Germany for the U.S. Army during World War II.
Beginning to work for Borden Dairy Company in Jackson during his junior and senior years of college, he worked for the company in Corpus Christi, Texas, or 18 years, in Dallas for 10 years and for Borden Specialty in Sulphur Springs for 12 years, retiring in 1991. Hard-working, dedicated, innovative and witty with a dry humor, he was a perfectionist and family-oriented. He was guided by his job, family and health. An outdoorsman, he enjoyed fishing, hunting, golf in his younger days, cutting and baling hay, farming, being a rancher, repairing fences, traveling, new challenges and experiences, and old, traditional country and bluegrass music. He was a member of the Rotary Club, Quarter Century Club and Manufacturer's Association. He was a Baptist.
He is survived by his wife, Kay Wells Reedy; four daughters, Gail Reedy Powell of Royse City, Texas, Leigh Ann Reedy of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Lisa Jane Reedy Beattie (William V.) of Humble, Texas, and Linda Ellen Reedy (Ron) of Rosharon, Texas; two stepdaughters, Kristy Wells Steger (Jeff) of Rockwall, Texas, and Tori Wells of Greenville, Texas; stepson, Casey Wells of Sulphur Springs, Texas; sisters, Carolyn Kisner (Byron) of Olive Branch and Ann Shelton (Richard) of Memphis; grandchildren, Clint Powell, Amanda Powell, Billy Beattie, Holly Beattie, Danny Beattie and Heather Reedy; great-grandchildren, Ethan Powell and Blake Beattie; and nephew and niece, Rick Shelton and Carla Shelton Fletcher.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Lara Lynn Reedy Reiner; son-in-law, Mark Powell; sister, Doris Reedy; and niece, Donna Shelton.
A double graveside inurnment service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 13, in Maxey Cemetery with Bro. Tommy Whaley officiating. Everyone is asked to meet at the cemetery at 12:50 p.m.
Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at eepicklefuneralhome.com.
Jewel Wells
TUPELO – Jewel Lean Wells died Wednesday, July 3, 2013, at her home. She was born Aug. 3, 1937, to Robert and Ada Loftis.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 13, at Lane Chapel CME Church. The Rev. Dr. Cheryl Penson will officiate. Burial will be in Porter's Memorial Cemetery. N.L. Jones Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
She is survived by her children, Darlene Lipsey (Larry), Johnnie Shannon (Lucious), Floyd Wells Jr. and Eddie A. Wells, all of Tupelo, and Robert W. Wells (Angie) of Chicago; a special daughter-in-law, Carolyn Wells of Tupelo; 10 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a daughter-in-law, Helen Wells.
Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. today.
Mildred Bradley
TUPELO – Mildred L. Bradley died Saturday, July 6, 2013, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. She was born June 5, 1937, to Willie L. Bradley and Beatrice J. Bradley.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at White Hill M.B. Church. The Rev. Jeffery Daniel will officiate. Burial will be in Porter's Memorial Cemetery. N.L. Jones Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
She is survived by two children, Anthony Bradley of Tupelo and Pamela Bradley (Joel Howard) of Guntown; her sisters, Verna Wheeler of Las Vegas, Ruthie Agnew of Tupelo, Lee Merri Weather of Jackson, Tenn., Joann O'Neal of Tupelo, Debra Bradley of Tupelo, Rhonda Ross of Tupelo; her brothers, Willie (Wilma) Bradley, John (Mary) Bradley, Larry (Eartha) Bradley, Michael (Flora) Bradley, all of Tupelo; three aunts, Mae Pearl Johnson of Mt. Clement, Teresa Baldwyn and Ruby Clark of Chicago; three grandchildren, Joel Howard, Takiva Howard and Porche Howard; and four great-grandchildren, Jarquez Howard, Jarkavis Howard, Ja'Kylyn Armstrong and Jaelyn Armstrong.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Stephanie Bradley.
Visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m. today with the family hour from 5 to 6 p.m. today.
Cynthia Bond
DUMAS – Cynthia "Cyndi" Bond, 50, died Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born Nov. 9, 1962, in North Carolina to Jo Sprinkle Wilde and the late Dwight Wilde.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at Wesley Congregational Methodist Church at Dumas. Serenity Funeral Home of New Albany is in charge of arrangements.
She is survived by her companion of 29 years, Lawrence Bond Jr.; four sons, Lawrence "Trey," James and William Bond, all of Saltillo, and Keith Burgess of North Carolina; her mother, Jo Wilde; her siblings, Mark and Fredrick Wilde and Elaine Griffin, all of Saltillo; two grandchildren.
Rosie Crumb
HOLLY SPRINGS – Rosie M. Crumb, 65, died Monday, July 8, 2013, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 13, at Hopewell No. 2 M.B. Church in Holly Springs. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Serenity Funeral Home of Holly Springs is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation will be from noon to 6 p.m. today with the family hour from 5 to 6 p.m. today. The body will lie in repose at the church one hour prior to service time Saturday.
Jonathan Malone
OXFORD – Jonathan Roves "Jon Jon" Malone, 24, died Saturday, July 6, 2013, in Oxford.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 13, at Springfield M.B. Church Community Life Center in Abbeville. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Hodges-Freeman Funeral Home of Oxford is in charge of arrangements.
Indiana Price
OXFORD – Indiana Cancer Price, 93, died Friday, July 5, 2013, at Graceland Care Center in Oxford.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at Providence United Methodist Church in Abbeville. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Hodges-Freeman Funeral Home of Oxford is in charge of arrangements.
Charley McAnally
BECKER – Charley J. McAnally, 73, died Thursday, July 11, 2013, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by E.E. Pickle Funeral Home.
Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at eepicklefuneralhome.com.
Peggy Essary
CORINTH – Peggy Sue Essary, 75, died Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at Mississippi Care Center.
Services were Thursday, July 11, at the Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories. Burial was in Union Cemetery.
Online condolences can be left at www.magnoliafuneralhome.net.
Eunice Pardue
DENNIS – Eunice Pardue, 79, died Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at Iuka Hospital. She was born Nov. 5, 1933, in Alabama. She was a factory worker. She attended Highland Baptist Church at Tishomingo.
There will be no funeral services. Deaton Funeral Home of Belmont assisted the family.
Survivors are one son, Kenneth Clingan (Ann) of Dennis; one daughter, Deb Clark (Dave) of Paducah, Ky.; grandchildren; great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.
Thomas Gilder
COLUMBUS – Thomas Earl Gilder, 87, died Tuesday, July 9, 2013, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle in Columbus. He was born July 14, 1925, in Vardaman. A Graduate of Vardaman High School, he received his degree from Mississippi State University in electrical engineering, He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was a retired aerospace/electrical engineer for Rockwell International in Los Angeles. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Los Angeles.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at Parker Memorial Funeral Home Chapel in Vardaman. Bro. Jeff Gilder will officiate. Burial will be in Midway Cemetery at Vardaman.
He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Elizabeth Edmondson Gilder of Columbus; two daughters, Dr. Jamison Gilder Hoff (Dr. Nicholas Hoff Sr.) of Hollis, N.H., Lynne Gilder Hartel of Charleston, S.C.; one son, Dr. Earl Edmondson Gilder (Edie) of Medford, Ore.; four Grandchildren, Dr. Nicholas Hoff III, Alex Hoff, Thomas Gilder and Hannah Gilder; and three sisters, Sarah Edmondson of Memphis, Bessie Fleming of Jackson and Jacqueline Gilder Eastridge of Memphis.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Rufus Rivers Gilder and Wilker Inmon Gilder; a sister, Alma Edmondson; and three brothers, Rufus Gilder, Jasper Gilder and Gene Gilder.
Pallbearers will be Dr. Henry Edmondson, Thomas Gilder, Alex Hoff, Dr. Nicholas Hoff III, Frank Wicker and Bobby Wiggs. Honorary pallbearers will be Carter Edmondson, Martin Edmondson and Hannah Gilder.
Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to service time Saturday at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Midway Baptist Church, P.O. Box 72, Vardaman, MS 38878.
For online condolences, visit www.parkermemorialfuneralhomes.com.
Larry Coats
BOONEVILLE – "Larry Tom" Coats, 58, died Thursday, July 11, 2013, at home. He was born Aug. 24, 1954, to Minister Lester Beal and June McDonald Coats. He was the owner of Gopher-it Productions and The Sound Stage. He was a member of Ripley Church of Christ. He was the production manager for Jonathan Singleton and The Grove, he was the bass player and vocalist for Kennedy International and had the opportunity to play bass guitar with Collin Raye on the Grand Ole Opry in 2011.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at McMillan Funeral Home with Minister Doug Greenway and Minister Donnie DeBord officiating. Burial will be in Oak Ridge Church of Christ Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Regina Gandy Coats; his mother, June Coats of Booneville; two sons, William Thomas Coats II and Samuel Keith (Stephanie) Coats, both of Nashville, Tenn.; and one sister, Cheryl (Greg) Moss of Michie, Tenn.
He was preceded in death by his father, Minister Lester Beal Coats; and his wife of 33 years and the mother of his sons, Sharon Kay Coats.
Pallbearers will be Jonathan Singleton, Josh Smith, Andy Dixon, Dustin Nunley, Justin Dudley and David Duncan.
Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. today and until service time Saturday at the funeral home.
Condolences may be left at www.mcmillanfuneralhome.com.
Raymond Highsmith
OXFORD – Raymond Carl Highsmith, 72, died on Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at his home in Oxford.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today, July 12, at Waller Funeral Home in Oxford. Dr. Alice Clark will officiate. Burial will take place at a later date in Woodlawn Cemetery in Orlando, Fla. Visitation will be from 12:30 to 2 p.m. today.
A native of Estate Center, Iowa, he was the son of the late Lewis Carl and Ruth Mary Collins Highsmith. He earned his B.A. degree in zoology at the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in marine biology at the University of Washington. He was a former professor of marine biology and a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for 20 years. An area of his life in which he never wavered or compromised was his honesty. An advocate for those treated unfairly, he believed that all races and ethnicities should be treated fairly.
He is survived by his wife of 26 years, Luz Hernandez Highsmith of Oxford; two daughters, Terry Highsmith and Dawn Ferguson of Hailey, Idaho; three sons, Jun Ueki of Japan, Jeanpierre Saldarriaga of Orlando, Fla., and Bryant Saldarriaga of Fairbanks, Alaska; seven grandchildren; and a special niece, Dayni Padilla of Texas.
Memorials may be made to American Cancer Society, 1800 W. Main St., Tupelo, MS 38801.
To sign an online guestbook, visit www.wallerfuneralhome.com.
Jean Morgan
SMITHVILLE – Martha Jean Lewis Morgan, 79, died on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, at Riverplace Nursing Center in Amory. Born Feb. 26, 1934, she was a daughter of the late Claude and Ethel Guin Lewis. She married James Hollis "Pot" Morgan. She was a homemaker for many years and before her retirement, she worked as a CNA and in laundry services for Beverly Enterprises. She was a member of the Smithville Baptist Church where she was active in WMU. A member of the Homemakers' Club, she enjoyed gardening and canning, cooking, crafts, sewing and crocheting.
A Celebration of Life Service will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 13, at the E.E. Pickle Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Chuck Herring, Bro. Robert Earl Fowlkes and Bro. Norm Morgan officiating. Burial will be in the Smithville Cemetery.
Survivors include one daughter, Tina Morgan of Columbus; two sons, Jeff Morgan (Judy) of Smithville and Tom Morgan (Janet) of Valley Stream, N.Y.; five grandchildren, Liza Morgan, Jay Morgan, Jameson Morgan, Cameron Morgan and Dylan Morgan; two great-grandchildren, Annie Brooke Morgan and Gus Morgan; and a host of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; two sisters, Olva Knight and Pat Sanderson; and one brother, Tom Lewis.
Pallbearers will be Jay, Jameson, Cameron and Dylan Morgan and Michelle Mitchell. Honorary pallbears will be the staff of Riverplace Nursing Facility.
Visitation will be 5 until 8 p.m. today at the funeral home and will continue until service time on Saturday.
Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, www.heart.org ; American Diabetes Association, www.diabetes.org; or to the COPD Foundation www.copdfoundation.org.
Memories and condolences may be expressed at eepicklefuneralhome.com.
Roger Deaton
IUKA – Roger Dale Deaton, 54, died Sunday, June 23, 2013, at Pickwick Lake in Tennessee as the result of an accidental drowning.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 13, at Cutshall Funeral Home in Iuka. Interment will follow in Cypress Grove Cemetery. Cutshall Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
An online guestbook can be accessed at www.cutshallfuneralhome.com.
Iris Gattis
RIPLEY – Iris Crestman Gattis, 83, died Thursday, July 11, 2013, at Rest Haven Nursing Home in Ripley. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Ripley Funeral Home.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Stanley Dellapenna
RICHLAND – Services for Stanley Lavell Dellapenna, 68, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 13, at Calvary Baptist Church in Braxton. Burial with military honors will be in the Braxton Cemetery. Holland Funeral Directors, Tupelo Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to service time Saturday only at the church.
Annie Millard
LAGUNA NIQUEL, Calif. – Annie Louise Ford Millard, 88, formerly of Okolona, died Sunday, July 7, 2013, in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico.
Services will be at noon Saturday, July 13, at Snowtown Church. Burial will be in Oddfellows Cemetery in Okolona. Williams Memorial Funeral Home of Okolona is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. today with a wake from 6 to 7 p.m. today.


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"More important than anything else is the look on people's faces when you cross paths with them in the street, or in the store, or in the grocery line. You can always tell that you were — maybe still are, maybe always will be — a part of their family." -- Matt LeBlanc, Joey Tribbiani
January 17, 2013
"More important than anything else is the look on people's faces when you cross paths with them in the street, or in the store, or in the grocery line. You can always tell that you were — maybe still are, maybe always will be — a part of their family." -- Matt LeBlanc, Joey Tribbiani
17 comments:
- simone said...
I absolutely love Friends, LOVE IT!! I completely know what you mean.
Still one of the funniest shows ever....and I cried at so many episodes!! Phoebe marrying lovely Mike in the snow, Chandler proposing to Monica in the candlelit apartment. Rachel coming back from the airport....that actually brings a lump to my throat right now. "I got off the plane"!! Sob!
At the final episode, when they all put their keys down. Sob!
My brother & I still laugh about Ross a) getting his teeth whitened and b) getting the spray tan....definitely 2 of the funniest episodes!!
I never can decide who my favourite character is, they were all just so good....it may just be Ross though. And I really love Monica.
I watched every episode, we'd just got married and were pre-children, there's something special about that show that I really associate with good times.
I could go on all day!! :)
- January 17, 2013 9:17 AM
- Delightfully Awkward Brittany said...
Ok, found you through the Southern Bloggers link-up. Going to go ahead & subscribe because 1) love your blog title, and 2) the first post I see is about FRIENDS, which I am also obsessed with. Looking forward to reading more from you :)
- January 17, 2013 9:33 AM
- Heather said...
I completely and whole-heartedly agree! I think any day I can watch an episodes of Friends can't be all bad.
- January 17, 2013 10:01 AM
- Natalie said...
You know how I feel about Friends. I adore it and I DEMAND a reunion show/movie/SOMETHING.
B/c the world needs to know what happened to Emma and the twins. What was Ross & Rachel's wedding like?
- January 17, 2013 10:16 AM
- MiMi said...
I'm with Natalie!
- January 17, 2013 10:58 AM
- Shelley said...
I fell the same way. I watch them all the time and never get tired of it!
- January 17, 2013 11:47 AM
- SHUG IN BOOTS {Beth} said...
Yeah, I'm with Natalie too ... we need more closure!
And I LOVE that shot of Central Perk! :)
- January 17, 2013 11:57 AM
- Angie said...
ME TOO!!! Still my all time fave show! Somehow I am still missing 4 of the seasons on DVD, I would like to have them all but can't find them around anymore! We had friends over the other night and it was on Nick and they were laughing at me because I knew exactly what was coming next in every scene and knew all the lines haha It will never get old :)
- January 17, 2013 11:59 AM
- Christina said...
Ditto!! If someone says they don't like or don't "get" Friends, I don't want to know them.
- January 17, 2013 4:05 PM
- Peace Love Applesauce- Terri said...
Loved it!!
- January 17, 2013 4:38 PM
- Jill said...
That show was the best. Period.
- January 17, 2013 5:46 PM
- Mrs. Match said...
There are very few days that go by where I don't quote Friends. When it's not Friends, it's the new version, How I Met Your Mother.
- January 17, 2013 9:07 PM
- Deals, Steals and Heels said...
my sis and i quote friends ALL THE TIME. best show.
- January 17, 2013 10:17 PM
- Kelly @ turned UP to ELEVEN! said...
I was always a huge fan of Friends. Mike doesn't like the show, he claims it ruined comedy... that's his opinion ;)
I did however give up on the show at the end. When Rachel started falling for Joey I just couldn't take it anymore. I was like YOU LIVE IN NYC, you can't date the friend of your ex in a huge city like that!
Needless to say it took me almost a year after the show ended, while on vacation in Costa RIca on a rainy day to finally catch the final episode of Friends. It was sad but I'm glad I had distance. No one wants to cry in paradise!
I quote friends a lot - my office has 2 women that love the show in it.
- January 18, 2013 9:23 AM
- Teri M said...
One of my all time favorites too!
- January 18, 2013 1:16 PM
- Karen Peterson said...
I "love" this "show" too!
Misused air quotes will never get old.
- January 21, 2013 12:31 PM
- Amber Laha said...
I live this show!! I own all 10 seasons and yet I still wanna get the big collectors edition box set. I still watch it everyday at 3 on tbs and at 10 on nickelodeon. The DVD cases are so worn from me watching them so much. I still can't watch the final episode (or think about it) without crying
- January 26, 2013 8:04 PM


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Target Takes Another Hit; Shares Drop to 52-Week Low
Target massive breach of customer data has prompted one analyst to slash her investment rating on the stock, saying the big-box retailer's buyback program could be in jeopardy.
Target's data breach over the holidays — in which data from 40 million credit and debit cards and the personal information of 70 million customers were stolen — will likely prompt "material labor and infrastructure costs" as the company upgrades its systems, says Faye Landes, an analyst at Cowen & Co.
Between replacement cards and terminals, legal and settlement fees and other breach-related issues, Ms. Landes says Target will have numerous costs on its plate in the coming months. As a result, she expects Target will suspend its buyback, which has acted as "a key support for the stock."
"We don't know how much money we're talking about, but it's a lot," she said, while slashing her rating to underperform from market perform and cutting her price target to $47 from $66. "We therefore expect Target to err on the side of prudence." The first step in behaving prudently, she said, is for Target to suspend its buyback program.
Shares recently fell 1.8% to $59.16, a fresh 52-week low. The stock, which last traded below $60 in January 2013, has dropped 19% since July.
UPDATE: A Target spokesperson said the company's approach to share repurchases has not changed.
"We remain committed to share repurchase over time and have consistently maintained that we will govern the pace of repurchases with the goal of maintaining our strong A credit rating," Target said in an email.
Through the first three quarters of 2013, Target invested $1.47 billion in its share repurchase program, the company said.
On Tuesday, Target shut down remote access to two websites used by employees and suppliers in a move to tighten security, WSJ reported.
Buybacks can have a direct effect on companies' share prices. They can boost earnings-per-share – a closely watched measure of profitability – by reducing shares outstanding, although some companies use the stock they buy to deliver shares to executives who exercise stock options.
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But skeptics deride buybacks. They say the cash could be deployed in a more efficient manner; investing in research and development or buying an existing company are two options.
In 2010, Target resumed a $10 billion share-buyback program that it had suspended in 2008 due to the financial crisis. The company bought back stock every quarter until the third quarter of 2013, when it cut its profit outlook ahead of what it anticipated would be a tough holiday season. That was also before the breach issues manifested.
In order to maintain its credit rating, Target will want "to be conservative with its cash until the magnitude of the financial of the fallout from the breach becomes clear, which could literally take years," Ms. Landes said.
In other words, that could mean "bye, bye buyback," she said.


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Tony Ortiz started at WXYT in 1986 working as an intern from Specs Howard School of Broadcasting. After landing a position with the station, the Detroit native and Cooley High graduate, worked as a producer for Spartan basketball and football. Ortiz moved to WWJ Newsradio 950 in 1991 and went on to produce Detroit Lions football. Three years later Ortiz left Detroit to pursue work in Houston at KTRH. As a reporter and talk show host Ortiz covered everything from college football to gymnastics, including 2 NBA championship runs with the Houston Rockets. In 1999 Ortiz left KTRH to join Houston's all sports station KILT.
Ortiz returned home to Detroit in 2001 and re-joined WWJ/WXYT. He is currently the morning drive sports anchor for WWJ Newsradio 950 and the Lions Beat Reporter and Sideline Reporter on 97.1 FM The Ticket.
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U of M will take on the Volunteers of Tennessee on Friday night in Indianapolis, while Michigan State will clash with Virgina in New York City.
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The Detroit Lions are in the national spotlight Monday night, with a spot in the postseason on the line.
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Mr.C on his early years, family and the future
I have very distinct memories of being an 11-year-old, watching The Shamen's video for Ebeneezer Goode and being completely hooked by the vocals of the group's rapper, Mr.C. I remember my uncle cracking me up by repeating the infamous line, 'Naughty, naughty veeerrrry naughty', this was a very early introduction to rave culture (that and a copy of a compilation called Rave 92, which came out on Cookie Jar Records the same year). At the time I was, obviously, completely unaware of the euphemisms 'hidden' in the song's lyrics – years later I found it amusing that the song had made it to number one with such naughty (veeerrry naughty) lyrical content. I was a big fan of The Shamen, but what I didn't know was that Mr.C had already been around as a DJ and MC for a good few years before the group hit the charts. Fast forward 21 years and he's still involved in rave/underground culture – travelling the world as a DJ, hosting his Superfreq parties, running a label of the same name (which he recently relaunched) and maintaining a lifestyle based around meditation, creative visualisation and positive thinking. Here's the outcome of a recent chat we had…
First of all I wanted to ask you about where you grew up and what your childhood was like, because I read that you come from quite an impoverished, one-parent family?
I was born in Mile End, in Whitechapel Hospital – so within the sound of the Bow Bells. At the time my mother lived in Clissold Park in Stoke Newington, so the first six months of my life I was there. We moved to Holloway when I was six months old, my mum and dad split up when I was five – we then moved into my mum's friend's place, so it was two families in one flat.
How many people were living there?
Well, there was me, my twin sister, my brother and my mum and then there was my mum's friends and their three kids, so it was two full-on families in a three-bedroom flat – which was quite hard work for a year. After that, my mum managed to get on the Circle 33 Housing Trust, which was basically for problem families, so you'd get in ahead of people on the council list because it's an issue. We moved into this rundown old house in Camden Road, it was almost derelict so it was pretty hardcore – we were a one-parent family for a couple of years until my mum met my stepfather, he immediately went to work to support us, but it was really hard work, we're from a very very poor family, always on the welfare.
What was he doing for work?
Roofing. But he never interfered in any way with the bringing up of us lot, he left it to my mum to do – he never reprimanded us or anything. Amazing man, he fathered me in a way, even though my real father was an East End publican from a line of East End publicans, proper bad boys.
Was your actual father involved in your life as well as your stepdad?
Not really, my mum would always make us go and see him, every month or so we'd go and spend the day at his pub in Bethnal Green, just off Shoreditch actually.
How was that?
It was great, he used to have a DJ in there, who played disco and soul and funk… and there were strippers. So, as a kid, at 10, 11, 12, that was always good. So I always had music around me, my mum was into music.
What were you like as a kid?
I was a naughty kid, very intelligent, which I think was a lot of the problem. When I was in Primary School – I went to Hungerford School, which was off York Way (Camden, Brecknock that area) – I was top of the class in everything, Maths, English, Arts… everything.
I had a similar thing when I was a kid – you get bored and start acting up..
That was the thing and I was a naughty kid anyway, I was very easily led. If anyone said, 'Let's do this', I'd be the first one in. I'd even plant seeds so that other people would suggest it and then I'd be egging everyone on. When I was in the fourth year of Primary School I won an art competition for the whole of Islington, I had my poster up all over Islington – it was a 'Keep Britain Tidy' poster. I got presented with a gift at Islington Town Hall! I was very gifted in every way and was doing music in Primary School when no one else was, playing the piano…
Did you have someone teaching you?
It was self-taught, I started off with one of those Rolf Harris Stylophones, they were brilliant! Then I went to Holloway Boys – thirteen-hundred Arsenal fans – so that was a challenge being a Chelsea supporter. Straight away, in the first year, I was way ahead of everyone, academically – even when you go back to my first year at Primary School, at six years old I was reading The Times, when other kids were reading Peter & Jane books, I was that far ahead. So, when I went to Holloway I was immediately mixed up with the wrong kids. 11 years old; playing truant, sniffing glue, robbing the milk float – a proper urban tyke. By the end of the first year my mum was being called up to the school about my truancy, called to the school about my behaviour – we set fire to the Science lab, we set fire to the maths room, we set a fire waiting in line to get BCG injections, which I ran away from and wouldn't do. I didn't want to be immunised, so I was the only one in my school that didn't get it… thankfully, that's why I look so young! All that forced immunisation to give us cancer, not that I knew it then. In the second year my mum was like, 'Can't you put him up a year or two but it was a comprehensive school so they were like, 'No, we can't do that kind of thing'. This led to more truancy, more getting in trouble. By the time I got to the third year I was 50% truant, it was in the third year we moved from Brecknock Road down to the other end to Tufnell Park, still Circle 33 Housing Trust, still always on the 'Never Never'. In the fourth year I picked my options but I was 90% truant, I think I went to six Maths lessons in the whole year and the last one was the end-of-term mock exam – I got a 92% CSE pass and they put me into the O Level group. I went to the Deputy Head and said, 'Look, don't put me in this group, you're depriving another child of an O-level place'. One of my mates didn't get in the group and I was depriving him of a place, so I told the Deputy Head, 'I'm not gonna go, put my mate in, he's gonna work and get O Levels'. But he was like, 'Oh no, you've got to go in the group', I didn't go once. I was completely absent and that was it, the end of my schooling at the age of fifteen, done!
So no qualifications at all?
I didn't get any qualifications and I was still always in trouble. I started going out to pubs; my first proper pub experience was when I was 13. By the age of 14 I was going to disco pubs on Hackney Road, hanging out in Hoxton. By the time I was 15 I was going to Busby's and The Lyceum, getting in trouble outside those places – at 16 I was going to the Hippodrome & Xenon's, hanging out with rich Jewish kids in Golders Green and Edgware. By the time I was 17 I was going to the Titanic in Mayfair, hanging out with debutantes. I did everything early, but it was a tough upbringing, I was a street kid. My mum was a very strong, very beautiful woman – she was the community mum, not just my mum, she helped everyone, always had a house full of kids all the way up until she died seven years ago, community mum, house always full. Always helped everyone, never had anything, gave away what she didn't have… she even sold a bit of weed because me and my mates puffed it. At 17 years of age, my mum found out I was puffing and got a bit concerned, so I went out and got a book on marijuana and said, 'Read that'. After she read it, she was like, 'Ok, I'd rather have you upstairs with your mates having a puff and listening to music, than going out to pubs, drinking alcohol and fighting'.
That's a fair point.
Yeah, she was a brilliant mum, absolutely brilliant, an angel, I'm getting watery thinking about her. Amazing, amazing upbringing.. I started rapping when I was 16.
Yeah, where did the inspiration come from to get into that?
When I was 14 years old I was listening to a lot of early rap, 1979 Sugar Hill Gang, that kind of thing. I started doing Robot Dancing then Jeffery Daniels from Shalamar started doing Body Poppin' moves, so we started to imitate that. I was a pretty good popper, then breakdancing started coming through – by the time I was 15/16 there were 11 year olds coming through who were amazing breakdancers, that was a no no for me. I was never really that supple and my hair's a bit thin, so spinning on my head was out! So I thought, 'How can I stay a step ahead?', so I started rapping and writing my own lyrics with a friend, Robert Brown his name was. We'd rap together and play records at his place in Archway and he called himself Buster Rhymes and I called myself Mr.C – there was already a Mr.C in New York but I wasn't aware of him. I was writing all my own lyrics, but my mate was using all of Buster Rhymes' lyrics! He was getting all these tapes from New York and learning the lyrics, and I was keeping up with him with my own lyrics! Because of that I was getting really good and it kept me ahead of the game, so while the other kids were breaking to Planet Rock, I was on the mic. That was how the whole street rap thing started for me, and I took it into the clubs when I was 16/17 – that was the first time I rapped in Camden Palace.
How did you get yourself into a position where you could rap at places like that?
The first time I ever rapped in a club, I was 16 and I was on my first ever holiday in Tenerife with my girlfriend at the time, her name was Marcella, a girl from Ladbroke Grove – I had girlfriends all over the place, I was fond of the girls. I think it was probably to prove to myself that I wasn't gay – I was sexually abused from the age of 10 to 13 by a guy – so I was always keen on girls, which I think was a subconscious thing…
Yeah, to reaffirm your sexuality.
Yeah yeah, it was a psychotic problem that I had – it was something that helped me confirm to myself that I wasn't gay, so I was always around a lot of girls, spent a lot of time with girls. My twin sister and I were partners in everything, partners in crime, literally… we got in a lot of trouble my sister and I.
So, anyway, when I was with my girlfriend in Tenerife I went to this nightclub right in the middle of the Veronicas, I can't remember the name of it now but it was the biggest club there. There was a guy playing music, he spoke on the mic and got everyone gee'd up, playing disco songs. I went to him and said, 'Can I rap?' and he said, 'What do you wanna rap along to?'. I told him I had all my own lyrics and I started rapping in his ear, 'I'm slick, bad, check me out. I've come to show you what rappin' is all about…', very old school style: 'Rockin' on the mic seven days a week, to let the people know that I reached my peak. You see London is my place of birth, where the people are rockin' all down to earth' – that kind of groove. He loved it and said get on the mic, 'What do you wanna rap to?', he asked. One of my favourite songs to rap to was Heavy Vibes by Montana Sextet, classic disco song but it was an instrumental and it had this big breakdown… so he's introduced me and put the song on from the beginning – but when I was practicing, I'd wait for the breakdown which came after a couple of minutes, then after that I'd kick in. So, I'm standing with the mic in my hand for two minutes! By the time the breakdown comes, people are shouting, booing and I'm standing there with a smile on my face knowing what's about to happen. The DJ's panicking, I'm telling him not to worry – then it kicks in and I've started; 'Well I'm slick, bad, check me out…' and the place has gone OFF! I was just giving it for five minutes, continuous rap – everyone was going mad, so I was in there every night for the week, free booze, me and my girlfriend treated like royalty. That was my first actual experience as a club rapper.
What happened after that?
I got back from there, went up to Camden Palace – Chris Forbes was playing, he was a Capital Radio DJ at the time – I managed to blag on the mic with him, he was playing with Colin Faver. Then I was carrying on at breakers clubs, street stuff… then I got in a bit of trouble, I ended up spending my 19th year in jail.
Really? How long were you in for?
Seven months, I did a lot of lyric writing and meditation while I was inside. I started meditating when I was only 17.
How did you get introduced to that?
My stepfather went inside and, when he came out, he was meditating and smoking weed. He started skinning up next to me, I was like, 'What are you doing?!' and he goes, 'Skinning up!'. So I went up to my bedroom, got my hashish and my Rizla and started skinning up next to him, he goes, 'What do you think you're doing?!' and I said, 'Same as you!'. My mum walked in and that was when I went and got the book.
So I was in trouble a little bit, a naughty boy – I spent most of my 19th year inside. The thing is, when I was 18, I was meditating and using the power of positive thought but to do bad things and Karma came back and kicked me in the arse and taught me a lesson and put me in jail. I was already mentally quite powerful by that time, I was making things happen by thinking about them and knowing they would come to pass, very very powerful – the sort of power people don't have until their fifties, I had at 18 years of age. I was meditating every day and it was working – creative visualisation, going into the Quantum Field and I was making it work. So, when it kicked me in the arse, I turned my life around, I was like, 'I'm never going to do anything wrong ever again'. I was always a worker, I was a motorcycle courier, despatch riding, I had no qualifications but I did roofing for my stepfather, then I'd get bored of that and go back and forth between the biking and roofing.
How did your rap career progress?
When I came out, I came out with a vengeance – I started rapping with the LWR Soul Syndicate, I sent jingles into Jasper The Vinyl Junkie, I was rapping with Ron Tom on LWR and Tosca on the then illegal Kiss FM events at the New Ambassador's Club down in Holborn. It was hard work when rapping with the LWR Sound Syndicate, being the only white kid in there, but I always stood my ground. I was a hooligan anyway, I didn't give a fuck, I'd always stand up for myself. Ron Tom, who I rapped for, was a big cunt as well, and we were buddies so people would back off.
I went back to the Camden Palace as well, around mid '86, Eddie Richards was playing there with Colin Faver – they were playing house music, the early 'Jack Your Body' stuff, Nitro Deluxe along with a bit of electro, first wave New Wave. I went and reminded Colin who I was and he said, 'If you wanna get on the mic I can pick out something slow for you', and I went, 'Nah, I've changed my style, I don't rap on hip hop anymore I rap on house music'. This was like '86 and he was like, 'Really?! People don't even know what house music is.' So I was like, 'Yeah, all my raps are about jackin' your body', so I rapped in his ear and he was blown away. I asked him to play Nitro Deluxe – This Brutal House, he put it on, I rapped and the place went off – they were well impressed and I ended up being the rapper on Colin Faver's Kiss FM show, rapping with Eddie Richards at his parties and, before you know it, I was in the studio with Eddie.
Yeah, you made Page 67 with him right?
We made that in late 1986, it came out in '87 – I was originally supposed to go into his studio and do a rap. If I'd have done that, it would've been the first hip-house tune ever released. Instead, I thought it was more important to talk about the power of positive thinking, creative visualisation and meditation because nobody knew about that back then – all my mates thought I was mad. I'd talk about it and they'd think I was a lunatic, even now people think I'm a bit mad and it's thirty years on. But Human consciousness is changing, it's shifting now – everyone wants to know now whereas, in the mid-eighties.. forget about it! I really thought it was important to help people, and that was my first song. It came out in August 1987 and I'm very very proud of that song – I've actually done a song on my new album called Synchronicity, that's an updated version of Page 67.
I really enjoyed the album actually. What's the aim with the rebirth of your label Superfreq's?
All the artists on there are crew and I've created a very solid platform for a lot of new talent, mostly Americans.
There's only a few Europeans on the label, there's me, Affie Yusuf, Bea (one half of Dollz At Play with Xo Chic), Luke Vb. It's very America-centric, I live in America, the label's American, I want to do it for it American music. I want to represent America as well as Britain, I'm proud to be living in Los Angeles – everybody's talking about Europe, but so much music in my box is American. When you think about a lot of the good artists that are in Berlin, they're American; Magda, Troy Pierce, Richie Hawtin – north American. I prefer American music over a lot of the German stuff because it's got more black influences in it, it's got soul, it's got funk, it's got disco and that's what I grew up on. That is where my roots are, not Eurobeat. I thought Kraftwerk were alright, but I much preferred Afrika Bambaataa, Newkleus, Captain Rock, Egyptian Lover and Cybertron – that was my game, and that's what I've always represented as a DJ from back in the late eighties when we first started rave culture – and rave culture comes from north London, make no mistake, that's where it was born. When it kicked off in London, we were doing it with Detroit techno, Chicago house and acid and New York house and garage – that was where the music came from, it was American and black American. Us Londoners embraced that and took it and run with it, and that's what I'm still representing in a modern, innovative, forward-thinking way. That's what Superfreq is all about, it's a hybrid; London and America.
You mentioned that Francis Harris gave you the idea to re-launch the label and called you one the 'grandfathers' of the scene, but how do you see yourself within this culture?
I'm an elder, I'm one of the community elders and I take my position of responsibility seriously, I have a duty to the youngsters, especially in the Superfreq community. They look up to me for advice, I'm very much a father figure and I look after my boys – I feel that I've got a lot to give. That's why the album is called Smell The Coffee, there's a lot of spiritual, political, sociological and human evolution issues in the album because it's my duty as an artist and an elder to share the information and the love and to stand up as an example. I'm one of the people that helped make this thing happen, I'm one of the founding members of the rave community and I don't take that lightly. Because of that I'm very excited, I'm just as excited now as I was 25 years ago, I'm excited about the label, I'm excited about my friends doing their labels, I want to help everyone, I'm excited about doing Superfreq internationally, I'm excited about using local talent, I'm excited about pushing the new kids. I'm buzzing on it! Thriving on it! Because I'm so turned on by everything right now.
I can tell! And did you ever have a point where you weren't excited anymore?
Never. I've always been really excited about everything I do! I've always been passionate. My passion has often been mistaken for arrogance, which is very understandable. Many people hate me because they think I'm an arrogant cunt, a lot of trolls out there that don't like me and wanna stick the boot in but I don't care, what they think is up to them – it's not my business what anyone thinks of me, it's my business what I think of myself and I understand. I understand dislike for me, I understand jealousy of me and if there is a little bit of arrogance there, then so what?
True, what are you going to do? Walk around looking at the floor all the time?
Exactly, I look up at the sky. I walk with my head high, I do it because I know the importance of what I'm doing and the effort, dedication and passion I put into this. I don't care if some people don't like me because there's many that love me and actually understand what I'm about.
You've come from a tough background and you're succeeding, which is something to be proud of.
Indeed, it's a proper success story. Even with the whole Shamen thing, I was like, 'I'm not into pop music and, if I make it as a pop star, every penny I earn I'm going to put back into the underground', and that's what I did. I didn't buy a house, I didn't buy a car, I didn't buy anything. What I did was set up a record label for £200,000, I set up a recording studio to the tune of £150,000, the label employed and opened up the doors for people. I've opened up doors for so many DJs in this town, lots of DJs will stand up and say, 'Yeah Mr.C brought me in, Mr.C helped me out'. I'm still doing that today. Every penny I earned from The Shamen I put back into the underground.
The last of my money I put into The End and, because I was the first one to put my money where my mouth was, that got the ball rolling and got other people to invest their money – the bank said, if we got to a certain amount, they'd match it. It was me putting my money in that got it all started. Now how many people did The End develop? What kind of a legacy has The End got? The End changed the blueprint of clubbing the world over and the amount of talent that came out of that club… because I put my money where my mouth was, that was Shamen money that got the ball rolling and I was still driving around in a fucking Nissan Sunny, still living in rented accommodation, struggling. I never had no money. Everyone thought, when The End was going, I was rolling in dosh. I wasn't! It took us nine years to break even on that project – I was living off my DJ money. I was broke, I was always broke. The only time I wasn't broke was when we sold The End, and I was delighted because I gave my poor family; my brothers, my sister, my mum (who passed it on to my aunty and cousins) 30% of the money and it sorted them all out. That's why I was delighted to close The End, because my poor-as-fuck family got some money and were able to pay their debts and get back onto a level pegging. That filled my heart with so much joy. The rest of what I had I used to put down a 50% deposit on my house in LA, the first house I've ever owned, and furnish it – now I'm back to square one and living off my DJ money! Wicked. I'm not a gatherer, I'm a spender, I know you can't take anything with you and, as long as I earn, it will be as much as I spend and help others – that's a life-long dedication until the day I die. I've got dreams that will blow your mind, I've got dreams that I'm not gonna discuss now but, when they come to fruition in a few years time, people will be like, 'What?!'. Their jaws will drop. It's about helping the Third World, the poor countries – I've got things that I'm going to do, not dreams, facts. That have already happened. It's down to this time-space continuum dissolving for it to work, I am going to help the world's poor to create a world of leisure.
You will do it as well, won't you.
I will, I will continue to be a conduit for universal love. I knew I would be a big rapper, I knew I would be a big DJ, I knew I would be a pop star. When I was in jail, I was telling the COs [Custody Officers] that I was going to be on Top Of The Pops and they were laughing at me, I was like, 'I'm gonna be on Top Of The Pops and you're still gonna be here swinging your chain, mate!'. I did Top Of The Pops eight or ten times, I can't even remember how many times. All those screws would've been watching me, going, 'The fucking cunt done it, he said he was going to!'. It's the same with everything, I knew I would own the best club in the world, I said I would have record labels and it's all happened, with extremely hard work and a certain knowing… I've said I would be an actor and I would be A-list. It's when I become A-list that I will really have the power to help change the world. That's all in the future and that future is now.
How are all your family?
My family are amazing. Sadly I lost my mum, to cancer… My family's great, we're really tight, my cousins, my twin sister, my two brothers, my stepfather.
Is your sister still in London?
Yeah, still in Holloway, they're all still there! My brother's daughter comes out to party at Superfreq. I love my family. I've got my wife's family in Mexico, I love all of them dearly. I'm a very family-orientated guy.
I can see that, it's been with you since you were a kid. Do you still get to go on tear-ups with your sister?
She's at every party, she's one of the inner-circle of Superfreq. She was organising warehouse parties in back in '91, she's also a bit magical – she has a white witch thing going on. Her first parties were called Abracadabra and then she held parties called Bewitched; they were like deep house, New York garage parties, that was her bag. My mum organised a few parties because she used to sell 40% of my tickets from her house! She thought, 'Fuck it, I'm gonna do it myself'. She did three parties called Transcendance. It's all the same thing as well, Transcendance, Bewitched, Abracadabra…
Have you ever looked into your family history and worked out if there's been anything related to that magic in the past?
There hasn't been – my mum came from a family of two boys and two girls from Brecknock, York Way, so we're an Islington/Camden family through and through. My dad came from the Westies, publicans, I lost him 12 years ago through a heart attack. I'm still in touch with that side of my family, especially more recently we're really bonding – my nephew Timmy is like a brother, we're really tight. He's a proper east end boy, proper proper – Poplar, Bow, West Ham – staunch. He's just like my dad, lairy cunt, flash Harry… hard-as-nails though! My family are still there, we're tightening it all up with the Westies again and it's good.
Nice one. Going back to music, how did you make the transition from rapping to DJing?
In my teenage years I always said I didn't want to be a DJ, even though people tried to encourage me because I had such vast musical knowledge. I thought, 'Why do I need to spend all my hard-earned money from work on records when I can spend it taking girls out?! All my mates are buying records so I can listen to theirs!'.
So, at the time, you weren't a record digger?
I would just buy two or three records a week, which wasn't much, and they were the records I really loved. I had a decent disco collection, a bit of reggae, soul, funk – I had a collection like everyone did, all my manor, all my mates mixed, they all had records. It wasn't until I made my first record that I thought, 'I want to do more than just rap now, I want to make records'. I wanted to DJ as well, I knew what this magical journey is all about and thought I might be the only person in the world who understands the power of rhythm and what that does to the brain waves and with the information I had about meditation, positive thinking, changing the world – I might be the only person in the dance music world with this information, it's very important for me to transmit that. I can take people on a magical journey knowing what I'm doing, where I'm taking them.
I guess if you have that knowledge it gives you more power when DJing.
That's it. So I was already working with Eddie Richards, Colin Faver, Ron Tom, all those guys – I threw my own party in the autumn of '87, proper shebeen, house party style. I got all my mates to play and I played myself.
Did you find it easy learning how to DJ?
I could mix immediately. I knew all the breaks, I was a rapper, I knew where to come in, where to stop. I was learning to mix records on a player that had no pitch control before I was a DJ, so when I got on a pair of Technics it was easy. I started promoting my own real club party in February 1988, it was called Fantasy, that was a bi-weekly at HQ in Camden Lock – I got Eddie Richards and Kid Batchelor to come and play with me, Colin Faver, Ian B.. by the summer I was massive all around England. I was a huge DJ within six months of starting. I started at top level because I created that for myself, I threw my own parties, I got my own crew involved.. I didn't wait for anyone to help me out, I stuck my neck out and went for it. I'm still doing that today.
That's what you have to do. I'm the same, I've never wanted other people to do things for me and to be carried by other people – if you really want to be a success, and a success with substance, fucking do it yourself.
There are too many people who think the world owes them a living.
I've got mates that I've grown up with that have got this sense of entitlement and I should be booking them, why don't they go and do their own parties? I've got mates that want to be booked and they don't even go out and get involved! How can you want to be booked if you don't even go out? What value is it if you don't bring anything? Even though they're amazing, that don't mean jack shit. You've got to be out there doing it, like I still am. I never rested for a second, a lot of people do. A lot of people have a sense of entitlement, there's a lot of bitter twisted cunts out there. But fuck 'em!
My mum was on the dole all my life, but I've always worked as hard as I could to get somewhere and never sat on my arse expecting the world to owe me a living.
I remember having a barney with my mum. I earned some money and went out and bought some records, she said, 'We can't fucking eat records!'. But I went out and earned some money from DJing and, in her death, she was well proud of me – and my dad, well proud. My parents are looking down on me now saying, 'That's my boy!'.
Yeah, you can walk around with a swagger in your step.
And I do!
It's funny talking about positive thinking – I never knew anything about it when I was a kid, but I can remember being about 11 or maybe younger and thinking to myself, 'I know I will do well if I'm a good person, I do right by people and I work hard to achieve what my mind is focused on'. And now, I'm doing exactly what I want to be doing...
The definition of doing well is being happy, it doesn't matter what you accumulate. It's not about hunting and gathering, it's about happiness – the purpose of every human is to be happy, and if you're happy you're doing well. That's it, there's no more than that. Status is nothing. There are people that are loaded and they're the most miserable cunts on the planet. That's not doing well, doing well is being happy, pure happiness. Letting go of your attachments, doing things because they need to be done not because of what you can gain, that brings happiness. Helping others, that brings happiness. Doing what's true to your heart, that brings happiness and happiness is why we're here. We're all here to bathe in bliss, that's the purpose of mankind, and that means divine happiness. Ultimate supreme happiness and that's what I have. I'm so happy, I couldn't be happier and I'm still struggling. I'm struggling to pay my property tax next week because I've been spending money on the label. But I'm happy, I don't care – I don't need anything more than what I've got; I've got a beautiful family, a loving wife, a lovely house, a nice car, nice clothes, I travel the world, I play music, I've got loving friends everywhere I go – that's happiness. That right there is happiness.
How would you say Richard West now differs from Richard West aged 16?
Obviously I'm a lot older and wiser but, as a 16-year-old, I was all about me – it was arrogance, ego. How many birds I had wrapped round me, how good looking I was, what clobber I was wearing, it was all to be at the centre of attention. Now, whereas it seems like I'm an attention-seeker, I really don't care. I'm good at marketing, that's why it seems like I'm an attention-seeker. I'm good at putting myself out there, I'm good at promotion, I know what I'm doing. I've worked on my ego, I don't want anything for myself, I'm not interested – I have it all. I have the connection to the universe, something very special I didn't have when I was 16, it's like a different life. I look back to myself at 16, it's a different entity, it's like a previous life. Now my ego is dissolved, everything I'm doing is not about me, it's about my loved ones, my family, my friends, art, human evolution and the world's poor. That's what my life is dedicated to and I don't care about myself at all, I'll always put everyone else before me – my mates are always like, 'Why did you bring on that person when they're not contributing enough? You should put that energy into yourself'. I'm like, 'They're not contributing enough now, because they don't know how to. They will learn'. I don't need anything for myself, I have it all.
Nice one. And lastly, speaking of perceived arrogance and trolls, I've been talking with a few people recently about how sterile the music industry is, and how there aren't many people who are willing to put themselves out there and, not necessarily be controversial for the sake of it, but they're just not being themselves. Even in so-called 'underground music', everyone's so safe and image-conscious…
That's because of their ego and their fear. That's why I have an advantage and that's why I relaunched Superfreq. I saw a lot of my peers being safe and obvious – in both house and techno – I saw this huge wide space opening up in the middle for some real content, for someone who's not scared to put their neck on the line and that someone is me. I've never been scared to tell is as it is and I'm putting my neck on the line with Superfreq and filling that space. I'm not alone, there are loads of good new labels and kids who are filling it with me, that's the music I'm going to go and buy now in Phonica. New music on new labels from new kids, that are amazing, that's what I'm supporting. They're the kids that have got balls and haven't got to be careful and sit on the fence, fuck the fence! I'm gonna jump off the left hand side of that fence and I'm gonna dig my trenches. I'm going into battle and I don't care what anyone thinks.
Mr.C's album Smell The Coffee is out now and his Smell The Coffee Tour kicks off this weekend – for more information, visit his Facebook page HERE.


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Mother Teresa: A Life to Live By
A Mother to Many
The Higher Road
'The Saint of the Gutters'
It's an image known to many the world over: An elderly nun of unremarkable size, dressed in a white sari, takes into her arms a sickly child from the gutters of Calcutta.
The nun carries the child to a bed in an overcrowded room, where she, aided by sisters in her order and other volunteers, spend the coming hours nursing the sick, feeding the hungry and comforting the dying.
In her 87 years, Blessed Mother Teresa's mission to help the poorest of the world was a pounding thirst she tried urgently to quench. With hands gnarled by time and a face weathered by age, Mother Teresa—who founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950—braved the polluted and overcrowded streets of India and beyond, embracing people whom many feared to touch, advocating for the world's most forgotten citizens.
A true visionary, Mother Teresa saw past the wounds of lepers and comforted the sick as they wrestled with death. Simply, no person was beyond her capacity for love and assistance.
She thought herself to be in no better company than when she surround-ed herself with the poor. Not only did she align herself with those living on the barren outskirts of society; she made a home there.
A Mother to Many
When Mother Teresa died in September of 1997, the defeated of this world lost their greatest champion. The legacy of her work, however, is still with us. By 1996, 517 missions in more than 100 countries functioned under her supervision. Still, she exhibited humility at every turn.
Case in point: In 1964, Pope Paul VI, moved by her efforts, gave Mother Teresa a Lincoln Continental as a gesture of his gratitude. She accepted the car, sold it and used the profits to establish a leper colony in West Bengal.
She sought neither praise nor reward, though she earned both. Unimpressed with her own celebrity, Mother Teresa—winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979—was single-minded in her pursuit to help the less fortunate. In their tattered faces, she saw the image of God.
"I see God in every human being," she once said. "When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?"
Others have been eager to share her mission. In 1984, the Lay Missionaries of Charity was founded for those inspired by the spirit and generosity of Mother Teresa.
There are approximately 1,000 members in the organization, each one sharing in her ideal: to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and tend to the sick.
It was evidence of Mother Teresa's influence that volunteers assembled in the first place. Alongside the Lay Missionaries of Charity are several orders and communities that bore her touch, such as the Brother Missionaries of Charity, the Contemplative sisters, brothers and priests.
Perhaps only she could influence such diverse people. Volunteers from different countries and different religions convened to achieve a greater good. People who had no reason to share their lives nevertheless joined hands and walked alongside a holy woman whom they loved.
The Higher Road
Mother Teresa's life was a textbook of lessons we'd all be wise to study. In our lives, we should look to her as the model of patience and goodwill. Her ability to see the beauty in each person and the commonalities that bind the human race are gifts that we should attain.
Yet in our modern society, much is judged solely on what the eyes can show us. Mother Teresa—ever the revolutionary—looked at the world and its people with the eyes of her soul. She reminded us, in word and in action, that each of us is part of a whole and that all life is to be honored and protected.
For our nation—indeed for all nations—her lessons are just as timely. World leaders who praised her abundantly while she was alive, and even after her death, need only look to their own actions to see the glaring contradictions.
To be certain, integrity and goodness can still be found in the world today, yet we are living in an era familiar with violence and war. It is an age of distrust, discrimination and diminished understanding.
In her life, Mother Teresa showed us a nobler way to look at our neighbors, both nationally and internationally. In her death, it should be our task to put those examples to use. Her tireless love of all people, from every culture, should be the standard by which we live.
'The Saint of the Gutters'
Edging just past five feet in height, Mother Teresa was not a physically imposing figure. Yet her arms were long enough to embrace the thousands she saw as her own children.
To this blessed woman, no person in need of help was turned away, and anyone with an able body and a willing heart could join her family of workers. In her eyes, we were all children of God—the crippled, the healthy, the weak and the strong. We are all one body, one family.
In the sores of the lepers, she saw the wounds of Christ; in the hearts of the workers, she saw salvation. To those who felt called to such work, regardless of their nationality, religion or worldview, Mother Teresa—the "Saint of the Gutters"—took them each by the hand and seemed to say, with unwavering hope, "Come with me."C.H.


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HUL bucks trend as investors take shelter in
Hindustan Unilever, or HUL, lived up to its image of the defensive bet as the stock bucked the downtrend despite extremely choppy market conditions on Thursday. In a declining market, investors tend to take shelter in shares of FMCG and pharmaceuticals companies on belief that these sectors are unlikely to be affected much by adverse eco-nomic situation arising out of soaring inflation and the consequent hardening of interest rates, according to analysts. HUL shares ended flat at the weighted average price Rs 280 against a 3% fall in the Sensex on Thursday. The stock, in fact, has been outperforming the broader market for the past many days on the back of open market purchases by the company under its ongoing buyback offer. According to BSE statistics , the multinational company has so far acquired 1.3 crore shares under its Rs 630-crore buyback programme which will close on July 25, 2011.


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Definition of competent in English:
1Having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully: a highly competent surgeon make sure the firm is competent to carry out the work
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- But it may be some time before they do their part to teach young people all the skills necessary to become competent, successful adults.
- As a result, colleges of agriculture must ensure that graduates are competent in computer skills necessary for success with regard to these trends.
- Please approach a general surgeon who is competent to do both forms of surgery.
1.1(Of a person) efficient and capable: an infinitely competent mother of three
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- Use words that show her that she is competent, capable, and talented.
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capable, able, proficient, adept, adroit, accomplished, complete, skillful, skilled, credentialed, gifted, talented, expert;
good, excellent
informal great, mean, wicked, nifty, ace
1.2Acceptable and satisfactory, though not outstanding: she spoke quite competent French
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adequate, acceptable, satisfactory, reasonable, fair, decent, not bad, all right, average, tolerable, passable, moderate, middling
informal OK, okay, so-so, 'comme ci, comme ça'
1.3(Chiefly of a court or other body) accepted as having legal authority to deal with a particular matter: the governor was not the competent authority to deal with the matter
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- In other words, this is a finding of fact for the competent authority dealing with the case in the first instance and which, for reasons we give hereunder, we should not interfere with.
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- It is a question of fact and degree in respect of which the court will only interfere with the decision of the competent authority if its conclusion is plainly wrong.
fit, suitable, suited, appropriate;
qualified, empowered, authorized
1.5 Biology & Medicine Capable of performing the normal function effectively.
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- 'This work challenges the view that neonates are not immune competent at birth,' said Dr Griebel.
- The corrected reticulocyte index should be elevated in patients with an acute anemia but a competent bone marrow.
- Thirdly, simvastatin inhibits endothelial cell apoptosis and preserves ischaemic vasculature, perhaps maintaining a competent vascular supply to the macula.
Late Middle English (in the sense 'suitable, adequate'): from Latin competent-, from the verb competere in its earlier sense 'be fit or proper' (see compete).
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European-Algerian Natural Gas Pipeline Deal is Delayed Again
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By Charles Kennedy
In an effort to reduce reliance on natural gas reserves from Russia and the high prices charged by Gazprom, Europe has been looking to invest in alternative pipeline projects to diversify the supply. One option being considered would see natural gas from Algeria, in North Africa, piped via Sardinia to Northern Italy; however the fate of this project is now up in the air as the date for making a decision regarding its viability has been delayed once again.
The pipeline would provide an 8 billion cubic metre link between Algeria and Europe, and grant the African nation the ability to increase its production and start fracking for shale gas, without worry of looking for a new market. However a series of delays have haunted the progress of the project since its conception ten years ago.
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High-Profile Plagiarism Prompts Soul-Searching in German Universities
Rarely do political scandal and academe collide so publicly as they have now, in Europe. In February, Germany's education minister stepped down after Heinrich Heine University, in Düsseldorf, revoked her doctorate because her thesis lifted passages...
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Ranger didn't participate in Toronto's practice Friday but went on the ice for a team photo. Toronto coach Randy Carlyle says Ranger wasn't treated for a concussion.
Ranger's head struck the glass on a hit from Tampa Bay Lightning's Alex Killorn. He remained on the ice for seven minutes before leaving on a stretcher.
He was released from a Toronto hospital Wednesday night after the Leafs' 5-3 loss.
Ranger says he immediately felt neck pain after the hit and went into "preservation mode."
The 29-year-old Ranger says he's thankful the injury wasn't worse.