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At least they admit it (now): Economists reverse claims that $15 Seattle minimum wage hurt workers, admit it was largely beneficial
One would, on the face of it, think that raising the minimum wage would help workers (more money). But if economists just go with the obvious, what does their job amount to? So they have to be counter-intuitive, which—oddly—is not always correct.
Barry Ritzholtz writes in Bloomberg:
The dire warnings about minimum-wage increases keep proving to be wrong. So much so that in a new paper, the authors behind an earlier study predicting a negative impact have all but recanted their initial conclusions. However, the authors still seem perplexed about why they went awry in the first place.
Seattle, like some other thriving West Coast cities, a few years ago passed an ordinance raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour in a series of steps. The law was a partial response to rising income inequality and poverty in the city, which began its post-crisis economic boom well before the rest of the country.
The reaction was immediate, strident — and deeply wrong. The increase was an "economic death wish" that was going to tank the expansion and kill jobs, according to the sages at conservative think tanks. The warnings were as unambiguous as they were specific: Expect restaurants to close in significant numbers and unemployment to rise, all because of this foolish attempt to raise living standards.
Those ideologically opposed to mandated minimum-wage increases freaked out when a Seattle pizza parlor closed. Meanwhile, they ignored data showing Seattle-area employment in the restaurant industry on the rise. The critics even blamed Seattle's minimum wage law for unemployment in suburbs not covered by Seattle's laws. Despite their dire forecasts, not only were new restaurants not closing, they were in fact opening; employment in food services and drinking establishments has soared, as the chart [above] shows.
Alas, if only the critics has done their homework first, instead of using scare tactics.
Much of the hand-wringing was based upon a deeply flawed University of Washington study. As we noted in 2017, the study's fatal flaw was that its analysis excluded large multistate businesses with more than one location. When thinking about the impact of raising minimum wages, one can't simply omit most of the biggest minimum-wage employers in the region, such as McDonald's and other fast-food chains, or Wal-Mart and other major retailers. These are the very employers that were the main target of the minimum-wage law; indeed, the law established an even higher minimum wage of $15.45 an hour for companies with 500 or more employees.
There were two other glaring defects in the first study that are worth mentioning. The first is that its findings contradicted the vast majority research on minimum wages. As was demonstrated back in 1994 by economists Alan Krueger and David Card, modest, gradual wage increases have not been shown to reduce employment or hours worked in any significant way. Ignoring that body of research without a very good reason made the initial University of Washington study questionable at best.
Second, there potentially is a problem with having a lead researcher — economist Jacob Vigdor, whose affiliations among others include the right-leaning Manhattan Institute — whose impartiality is open to question. I don't wish to suggest people cannot have opinions, but researchers need to be open-minded. This especially true in fields like economics and public policy, where belief systems and political affiliations can have an outsized impact on objectivity.
Now of course, we should consider the argument that Seattle's economic growth has been so strong that it overwhelms any negative effects from the higher minimum wage. No one should ignore that possibility and we will be among the first to acknowledge that this could be the case. We may never know for sure, because in economics you don't get a chance to run control experiments; you only have the facts at hand.
But we can't emphasize enough just how wrong many of the initial analyses of the wage increase have been. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful force. If your ideology includes the belief that all government attempts at raising living standards are doomed, then of courseyou are going to be against mandated minimum wages. . .
"I live among the neo-Nazis in eastern Germany. And it's terrifying"
A report in the Guardian from a person who understandably remains anonymous:
Media coverage of racist riots in the east German city of Chemnitz earlier this year showed just the tip of the iceberg: what lurks beneath the surface remains hidden.
I'm a university student and an antifascism activist living in Saxony, not far from Chemnitz. For a long time I underestimated the extent of rightwing extremism in Germany. Before I moved to this area a few years ago I didn't know Saxony, and took antifascism for granted. I'd never come across "real" Nazis or violent racists.
I grew up in Berlin, I'm the child of a metropolis where it is normal not to be white or have a German name. My French grandfather fought for the Allied air force – that's how my father came to Germany. My mother, a German, was born in West Berlin, that western enclave in the middle of the German Democratic Republic, a refuge for "alternative" people, punks and conscientious objectors.
For a long time I told myself that the east-west divide didn't concern me. I was born after the Berlin Wall came down. But when I moved to the east, I started thinking more deeply about my western upbringing. I also tried to dispel my prejudices and started thinking more critically about how Germany handled reunification.
I want to stand up against discrimination everywhere and at any time, but in these small towns that can be hard, and exhausting. You'd think Germany's history would be enough to ensure that fascism and nationalism are denied even the slightest encouragement. That should matter to everyone, shouldn't it? Unfortunately that's not how things are.
When the far right Pegida movement suddenly appeared, with crowds of up to 20,000 people marching through Dresden chanting Islamophobic and racist slogans, there was an initial sense of shock among the public. But soon enough the media discourse swerved, and there were voices saying we should try to understand those among the protesters who were "of good will". Pegida held similar rallies in many other cities and they were largely met with a degree of complacency. Then came talk in the press of the "asylum question" as a problem, and the need for a cap on refugee numbers. Pegida was given yet another boost.
Next came Alternative für Deutschland, a new party in the political landscape, Eurosceptic, xenophobic, nationalist. Panic spread among mainstream parties as they lost voters, and "the asylum issue" became the pivotal issue in the 2017 general election. Asylum law was tightened. As a counter-reaction, some groups organised themselves to demonstrate the "wilkommenskultur" or "welcome culture". Refugees were greeted in Munich with tea and biscuits. People began to take action against discrimination. And the media loved showing images of Germans reacting to a crisis with love and harmony.
But what remained largely unnoticed were the attacks on foreigners and asylum hostels. More than 4,000 have occurred since 2015, some involving the use of molotov cocktails, baseball bats, and with armed neo-Nazis even raiding children's rooms. In 2016, an average of 10 hate crimes each day against migrants was officially registered.
What does that mean for daily life in the places where these attacks happened? To take the full measure of it, you have to live here. There's the conversation at the bakery where an old woman complains about the "bad" foreigners, and the woman serving her agrees. There's the conductor on the tramway who deliberately checks only the tickets of the black passengers. And there are the attacks on leftwing cultural projects or community centres – stones thrown, beatings, the violence you experience when you try to get involved. And there's the passivity of the so-called civilian population – locals who stand by when a black person is beaten up in the town centre. Racist, fascist normality sets in.
Youth centres and social workers are rare. People who try to act against far-right groups by launching "alternative" projects live dangerously, in daily confrontation with hatred. You struggle to set up a school workshop against extremism, and have to look hard to find people who would even consider this kind of work in rural areas. After all, who wants to live in a Nazi village? Those with German passports can choose to stay away from these towns where car tyres get punctured and homes are subjected to arson attacks just because some people don't like who you are, where you come from, or what your political position is. But not everyone can leave easily. Asylum seekers have a residency obligation if they want to receive benefits or work permits.
The towns and villages that have a Nazi problem form a seemingly endless list now. It doesn't stop at Chemnitz or Dresden. Looking at Europe more generally, it's clear that fascism must be fought at a grassroots level – and that means being there, physically. . .
Continue reading. There's more. Is it coming to the US as well?
Social Media Is Making the World a Better Place. Quit Griping About It.
Kevin Drum has an interesting take (and that's his heading):
Frank Bruni expresses today what I think is a common opinion:
Nora Ephron once wrote a brilliant essay about the trajectory of her and many other people's infatuations with email, from the thrill of discovering this speedy new way of keeping in touch to the hell of not being able to turn it off. I've come to feel that way about the whole of the internet.
What a glittering dream of expanded knowledge and enhanced connection it was at the start. What a nightmare of manipulated biases and metastasized hate it has turned into. Before he allegedly began mailing pipe bombs to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others, Cesar Sayoc found encouragement online — maybe not in the form of explosives instructions, but in the sense that he could scream his resentments in a theater that did the opposite of repudiating them. It echoed them back. It validated and cultivated them. It took something dark and colored it darker still.
….I don't know exactly how we square free speech and free expression — which are paramount — with a better policing of the internet, but I'm certain that we need to approach that challenge with more urgency than we have mustered so far. Democracy is at stake. So are lives.
I realize that this might not be the most opportune moment to persuade you otherwise, but I'd like to offer a far different take.
I once wrote that the internet makes smart people smarter and dumb people dumber. Likewise, it might very well make good people better and bad people worse. But on average, that doesn't mean the world is a worse place. So why does it seem so much worse?
That's pretty easy: the internet boasts an immediacy that allows it to pack a bigger punch than any previous medium. But this is hardly something new. Newspapers packed a bigger punch than the gossipmonger who appeared in your village every few weeks. Radio was more powerful than newspapers. TV was more powerful than radio. And social media is more powerful than TV.
Contrary to common opinion, however, this has little to do with the nature of these mediums. Sure, they've become more visceral over time: first words, then pictures, then voice, then moving images, and finally all of that packaged together and delivered with the power of gossip from a trusted friend. But what's really different is how much time we spend on them—and by this I mean the time we spend on news, not crossword puzzles or Gilligan's Island. We are addicted to our smartphones, and that means we spend far more time absorbing news than we used to with TV or radio. There's the news we actively seek out. There's the news we get after acccidentally clicking on something else. And then, just to make sure we don't miss one single thing, there's the news that's forced on us because we've set up our smartphones to buzz and beep at us when something happens.
Does all this mean that there's more news than ever before? Of course not. Does it mean that there seems to be more news than ever before? Oh my, yes.
And that brings me circuitously to my point: broadly speaking, the world is not worse than it used to be. We simply see far more of its dark corners than we used to, and we see them in the most visceral possible way: live, in color, and with caustic commentary. Human nature being what it is, it's hardly surprising that we end up thinking the world is getting worse.
Instead, though, consider a different possibility: the world is roughly the same as it's always been, but we see the bad parts more frequently and more intensely than ever before. What has that produced?
Well, sure, it helped produce Donald Trump. There's a downside to everything. But what it's also produced is far more awareness of all those dark corners of the world. And while that may be depressing as hell, that awareness in turn has produced #MeToo. It's produced #BlackLivesMatter. It's produced a rebellion among the young. It's produced the #Resistance. It's produced more awareness of extreme weather events. It's produced an entire genre of journalism, the health care horror story, that in turn has produced a growing acceptance that we need something better.
I could go on, but the point I want to make is simple: . . .
DOJ investigation of Zinke follows possible administration efforts to thwart probe
Miranda Green reports in the Hill:
he Interior Department's internal watchdog referred its investigation of Secretary Ryan Zinke to the Department of Justice (DOJ) more than two weeks ago, just days before it was announced that Interior would be getting a Trump political appointee to replace its acting inspector general, two sources confirmed to The Hill.
Ben Carson, head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), told his staff on Oct. 12 that Suzanne Tufts would be leaving HUD to replace Interior's longtime acting inspector general (IG) Mary Kendall — after the watchdog referred its probe to DOJ, according to two government sources with knowledge of the timeline.
One source described the timing as "incredibly circumspect" and raised questions about whether the plan to have Tufts fill a position traditionally occupied by a career staffer was in reaction to the investigation that was referred to DOJ.
"That is exactly what we were concerned about two weeks ago," said Elizabeth Hempowicz, director of policy at the Project on Government Oversight.
"The IG office is not only in charge of investigating the secretary but keeping the entire agency kind of in check. The movement of a political appointee with no oversight experience into that role kinda makes it look like that move was to stymie that investigation or keep an eye on what was going on internally."
Tufts would have overseen all investigations at Interior, including at least four known open investigations into Zinke, and she would have been authorized to end investigations that were already underway. The watchdog's investigations, once referred to DOJ, remain ongoing, meaning Tufts would have had some influence over the one sent to DOJ shortly before her move was announced.
The specific nature of the investigation into Zinke, referred to the DOJ and reported this week, has not been made public.
A week after Carson emailed staff about Tufts's planned departure, HUD announced that she was not joining Interior and had instead resigned. The housing agency chalked it up to a miscommunication.
Zinke said this week he was unaware of the DOJ investigation and has not been contacted for it. In a statement Tuesday, his lawyer said in a statement, "The Secretary has done nothing wrong."
DOJ is not commenting on the matter. HUD and the Interior Department did not immediately respond on Wednesday to requests for comment from The Hill.
Earlier this month Interior's Office of Inspector General released a report that said Zinke had violated department travel policies by bringing his family members in government-owned vehicles. The investigation also said Zinke and his wife brought a Park Police security detail on a vacation, costing more than $25,000, though there was no policy prohibiting it. After investigators started looking into the issue, Interior changed the travel policy to allow family members on official trips.
Other investigations the IG is looking into include a real estate deal Zinke was reportedly poised to benefit from financially that's backed by the chairman of oil services giant Halliburton in the secretary's hometown of Whitefish, Mont., and a decision Zinke made last year to not approve a casino project in Connecticut following heavy lobbying from competing casino giant MGM.
IG is required to establish legal grounds for a case, criminal or civil, before referring matters to the DOJ. The watchdog is also required to refer cases to DOJ when it has reasonable grounds to believe there is a violation of federal criminal law. DOJ is not obligated to take up every case it receives. . .
This election is important. If the Democrats hold a majority of the House, Zinke's conduct can be investigated through hearings. The GOP House members do not take their responsibilities seriously.
A suitable shave for Hallowe'en: Organism 46-B
Organism 46-B was an enormous 33ft (10m) long, 14-tentacled squid-like creature which lived in Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake located under two miles of ice beneath Vostok Station in the Antarctic. The animal had limbs which were animate and aggressive even after amputation, could release a toxin into the water to immobilise its prey from a distance of up to 150 feet, displayed an astonishing degree of shapeshifting, and showed a considerable degree of both hostility and intelligence.
An imaginary dreadful creature is just right, and the soap and its fragrance are excellent: "Scent Notes of burnt sugar – bitter orange – brandy – Hedione – tobacco absolute – benzoin resin – ambergris." An unusal fragrance, but very pleasant.
Mr Pomp made a terrific lather, and my RazoRock stainless Mambe delivered a perfect shave. A splash of Organism 46-B aftershave, and I'm ready for the day (and evening).
Can pot save the pumpkin farm?
Damian Paletta reports in the Washington Post:
John Muller steered his tractor left onto Main Street, four Atlantic Giant pumpkins in tow, and thousands of people at the pumpkin parade screamed with delight.
But there were many others, spread throughout the festival that day, who feared the famous farmer had led the city down an uncertain path, demanding changes that couldn't be undone and attempting to enrich himself in the process.
They are determined to stop "Farmer John," even if it means putting him — and his pumpkin patch — out of business.
On Nov. 6, residents of this small, coastal city will vote on whether Muller, 72, can use a section of his 21-acre farm to grow thousands of young marijuana plants.
Muller and his wife, Eda, said they need this revenue to save their property, Daylight Farms. If voters don't approve Measure GG, the Mullers could be forced to sell everything before next year's harvest.
"If that doesn't pass, there won't be a pumpkin farm," Eda Muller told critics at a recent city council meeting, muttering under her breath, "Put that in your pipe and smoke it."
U.S. farmers last year harvested 2 billion pounds of pumpkins, many of which were later carved into spooky or silly faces for Halloween. The economics behind these Jack-o'-lanterns can be as messy as their gunky guts, though, with everything hanging on six weeks of sales. But these and other iconic American holiday symbols exist in an often overlooked economy with hidden pressures and pain.
For California farmers — many struggling like the Mullers — the state's legalization of marijuana has offered the prospect of raising a lucrative crop that could keep them on their land. They must first win the approval of their communities, and the debate dividing Half Moon Bay has also paralyzed other parts of the state.
Local governments, particularly in remote rural areas, are deciding whether cannabis should be treated like any other crop or banned, out of concern that it could lead to crime and other unwanted social change. Calaveras County, for instance, allowed the cultivation of cannabis, collecting millions of dollars of taxes, only to backtrack. Now growers are suing.
Here in Half Moon Bay, 130 miles west, John Muller's plans are straining the entire city, pitting neighbor against neighbor, past against future. The choice is about more than farming and economics, reaching into the community's sense of values. Voters must decide whether to welcome commercial cannabis inside their community and help the farm or stand firm against marijuana and possibly smash the Mullers' pumpkin business.
In a city that calls itself the World Pumpkin Capital, losing the Mullers' pumpkins could be a devastating turn of events. Their iconic roadside plot draws wealthy visitors from San Francisco and Silicon Valley for more than a month each autumn.
And the Mullers are the only local farmers who have shown the ability to raise Atlantic Giants, pumpkins that can gain 40 pounds each day and grow to the size of small cars. These orange boulders give the city a connection to its agricultural past, something many residents are scrambling to protect.
Some competitors have boosted revenue by adding haunted houses, hayrides, and corn mazes to their farms, but the Mullers have eschewed such agritourism, describing themselves as purists.
Giant-pumpkin farmers, though, are known for being secretive and wily, and many residents don't trust the Mullers' motives despite their increasingly desperate pleas.
Opening Half Moon Bay to commercial cannabis could change the city forever, they worry, normalizing pot for teenagers, luring outside investors with nefarious motives, and drawing federal scrutiny upon farm laborers, many of whom are undocumented Mexican workers.
"To say there are no other crops that a farmer could grow in Half Moon Bay is ridiculous," said Virginia Turezyn, who works at a business advisory firm and is running for city council on the same ballot as Measure GG. "They could grow Brussels sprouts. They can grow other stuff. . . . Everybody thinks [cannabis] is a cure-all and a panacea, but I've read tons of research that highlights tons of negative implications for the community, for crime, for youth and for the stench."
Eda's father, Al Adreveno, purchased Daylight Farms in the 1950s, growing flowers for buyers in San Francisco, just 30 miles away. He built glass greenhouses to protect some of the plants, a decision that is central to November's vote.
His daughter Eda married John, a Vietnam War veteran, in 1969, and they went to work in the family flower business. Adreveno served three terms on the city council and four years as mayor.
During one of those stints, Adreveno challenged the leaders of another pumpkin town, Circleville, Ohio, to a weigh-off. The California community put up the biggest plant, and it has proclaimed its pumpkin dominance ever since.
The family's flower business relied on the San Francisco market, and they lost roughly 25 percent of their customers by the mid-1990s because of the AIDS crisis. California flower growers were also becoming crowded out by foreign competition.
In the late 1990s, the Mullers pivoted to pumpkins as a way to save their farm. This quickly made them local legends, in part because the Mullers moved in when others were moving out.
In 2008, San Mateo County growers raised pumpkins on 263 acres. By 2017, pumpkins grew on just 167 acres. There were fewer pumpkin farms but still plenty of buyers, particularly each October during Half Moon Bay's Art & Pumpkin Festival, a two-day celebration that can draw 200,000 people, clog roads for miles and raise millions of dollars for nonprofit groups and vendors.
Pumpkins, which local farmers call "punkins," are difficult to grow profitably on a small farm. They must be farmed on different plots every two to three years, or they can become diseased. Seeds are planted after Mother's Day in May, and harvest comes four or five months later. Buyers typically want pumpkins only during a six-week stretch, leading up to Halloween. That puts enormous pressure on growers to cash in during a small window.
The Mullers grow 60 varieties of pumpkins, gourds and squash, including Cinderellas, Fairytales and Tonda Padanas. They plant 80,000 seeds each spring, and each seed can produce up to four pumpkins. Harvest takes one month, and then the pumpkins are sold at a plot called Farmer John's Pumpkins on the Pacific Coast Highway, where visitors can see the ocean peeking across a crest of trees.
Muller has always been more than just a farmer, though. In 2008, he served his first of two terms as mayor, helping steer the beleaguered city away from bankruptcy. He also served in other local government posts and advised the U.S. Agriculture Department during the Reagan administration.
At his pumpkin patch, he's a dusty blur, working as greeter, cashier, wheelbarrow pusher and parking director. He's five-and-a-half feet tall and wears a deep tan on his face from farm work.
On a recent Friday, he was constantly in motion, sporting torn green coveralls and a sweat-stained hat, hugging visitors and pulling wagons and directing people to a tepee past the hay bales.
He looked at times joyful and at times exhausted, saying he had been up at 4 a.m. discussing the farm's future with Eda. The Mullers still care for Adreveno, now 95, and his wife, who is 90.
"The family estate is dwindling — we'll have to make some very, very life-altering decisions," he said. "We worked hard all our lives, but our little bodies are slowing down a bit."
A lifelong Republican, John Muller voted against the statewide measure in 2016 that legalized the recreational use of marijuana by adults. He was an outlier in Half Moon Bay, where 69 percent of voters backed it.
Shortly after that vote, Muller was approached by Eric Hollister, a chef and acquaintance from the local farmers market. Hollister wanted to refurbish the Mullers' dilapidated greenhouses, grow cannabis "starts" — young, non-flowered plants — and market the products to individual consumers and other commercial growers.
The Mullers were strapped for cash. Health care for Eda's mother was nearing $10,000 a month. Hollister said he planned to pay the Mullers nearly $1 million a year in rental fees and spend around $3 million rehabbing the greenhouses, which they would still own. Hollister said he could sell between 100,000 and 150,000 plants a month, grown in 65,000 square feet of greenhouse space. Each plant would fetch between $5 and $10, perhaps more.
Because the plants would be "starts," they wouldn't have an intense odor and could not be immediately used as recreational marijuana. For struggling pumpkin farmers, Hollister's offer made it appear their financial rescue was imminent. And it nearly was. . .


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They're in for a major disappointment if they try to smoke it.
Since the legalization of industrial hemp, farmers across the country have eagerly planted the crop.
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Perhaps the most lucrative use is in producing cannabidiol, or CBD, a newly trendy extract from industrial hemp.
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Expecting that the hitchhiking would be hard, we decided to ride a bus to the nearest small town in our direction and hitch from there instead. Small towns are always better than big cities. It took us quite some logistics to get there and ended up on the actual road, thumbs up, a little past midday. The spot was good, tacticwise: a slow onramp, with visibility to the highway as well, in case someone on there would want to pick us up from top speed, as it happened plenty of time in Chile (Yes! The side of the highway is hitchable in Chile!). It wasn't too confortable given that there was no shadow available and the sun was pretty punishing.
We stayed there two hours. We saw more than a thousand car pass us without stopping, without a look. More than a hundred at slow speed on the on-ramp. One of them slowed down a little and started blubbering excuses like : "I'm only going not far at all, right-there-not-interesting-for-you". Weirdo almost jumped in his path : "That's where we're going too!" He hesitated a bit before stopping.
Unsurprisingly, the dude was on his way to drive a whooping 20 kilometres. More than what we needed to get to a decent gas station. A wine maker! Weirdo being from France, they couldn't help talking about wine the whole time. What's so special about this foul-smelling drink anyways? They won't let me taste it…
The gas station had a truck with Brazilian ID. Weirdo pounced on the poor driver like a rabid hyena. Only a foreigner could save us from the evil evil Argentinians. Off we went with Mr trucker for 150 kilometres!
A really cool dude. He told us the coolest trucker-stories. It was a bit sad when we had to leave him. In particular with the context of night having fallen and us being in this shitty place called Argentina where hitchhikers are transparent to everyone.


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The Weeknd samples Portishead without permission on new single (listen); Geoff Barrow calls it "a load of bollox"
The Weeknd at Coachella 2012 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)
Canadian R&B singer The Weeknd, whose tour includes two Radio City shows in October (tickets), just released the second single from his upcoming LP, Kiss Land. It's an almost-8 minute track titled "Belong To The World" that prominently samples Portishead's "Machine Gun," which he apparently did without permission.
Shortly after the song hit the internet, Pitchfork reports that Portishead's Geoff Barrow took to twitter, saying:
I think it's a load of bollox. When someone asks to sample you and you refuse they should have the respect as a fellow artist to not use it. We usually give sample clearance to tunes we like. its got fuk all to do with money! As most of them are hiphop artist that are skint.
Eventually Geoff ended by saying, "Feels like I'm being used to promote the track now… I'll shut up now." You can watch the video for "Belong To The World" below.
In sort of related news, 90s UK trip hop act Morcheeba (no offense Portishead!) have announced a new album, which like Tricky's latest (which features a member of the Antlers), features some special guests: Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, James Petralli of White Denim, Rizzle Kicks, Ana Tijoux and Nature Boy (not to be confused with Natureboy). Head Up High, their eighth studio album, is due for release on October 14. Morcheeba hop the pond for a couple of California shows in September and then tour Europe later in the fall.
Tricky will also tour behind his new album this fall.
The Weeknd – "Belong To The World"
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EXCLUSIVE: Two gov'ts were in talks to buy a stake in Branson's space firm.
Both the Qatari and Bahraini governments were interested in buying a stake in Richard Branson's space tourism company Virgin Galactic, industry sources have revealed.
A Saudi Arabian party and another private group from Abu Dhabi were also in talks with Branson, Arabian Business has learnt.
"There was a very competitive process going, where, at one point, there were four different groups bidding to be his [Branson's] partner," said one well-placed industry source.
Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic said: "We had discussions with lots of people, but we are not commenting on who we had discussions with."
Last month Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments bought a 32 percent stake in Virgin Galactic for $280m, valuing the company at $900m.
Aabar also said it would provide an additional $100m for the development of a satellite launching vehicle.
But news that Qatar and Bahrain threw their hat into the ring for a stake in the space travel group shows how keen the Gulf region is to invest in space technology.
In addition to its one third equity stake, the deal gives Aabar exclusive regional rights to operate Virgin Galactic space flights.
The Abu-Dhabi based group is to build a spaceport in the emirate within the next five years.
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The next day, the cheftestants arrive at the French Culinary Institute. Padma tells them that the Elimination Challenge was created by the deans and master chefs of the FCI. They created a challenge that they feel is the ultimate French culinary test. "They consider working with these ingredients to be the ultimate test of skill, technique, and creativity," Padma says. She whips the lid off a silver plate to reveal chicken, potatoes, and onions on a bed of parsley. Brian tells us, "Our very last and final Elimination is chicken, a russet potato, and a yellow onion." And a stick of butter. Hung brags, "Those are perfect flavor combinations, classics. Score for me." Given all his lip about "average" palates, Hung never struck me as the type that would cotton to a classic challenge. Are we going to get another lecture from him about how people have been roasting chicken and mashing potatoes for thousands of years? Padma explains, "The deans and master chefs believe that the simpler the ingredients, the greater the test of the chefs skill and imagination. You must take these basics and make them no less than sublime." Hung, as the Quickfire winner, will get an extra thirty minutes to cook and also gets to serve first.
The cheftestants shop at the Greenmarket in Union Square. The Brians talk about making a shepherd's pie using just the three ingredients provided, but then he gets excited over artisanal pheasant sausage. ["Well, who doesn't?" -- Miss Alli] Sara stops at a cheese booth and talks to the purveyor about her stinky wares. Sara tells us that she's trying to open her own cheese dairy, and if she wins Top Chef, she's going back to Jamaica and use the prize money for a farm. Dale and Casey shop together. Dale tells us that he and Casey have gotten really close. Uh-oh, does that mean Dale will be the next to be struck by the Casey Curse and get sent home tonight? Dale tells Casey he's going "balls out" on his dish. Casey exclaims over ramps and tells us she's pretty certain she's going to make coq au vin the way her French grandmother made it. Didn't your French grandmother also teach you that it's pronounced "coq au van" not "coq au von"? And also that "coq" means "cock," not chicken?


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Picture: 'The Bachelorette' Emily Maynard Celebrities at The Grove to appear on entertainment news show 'Extra' Los Angeles, California - 22.05.12
The latest episode of hit dating show The Bachelorette marked the visits of spinster Emily Maynard, to the hometowns of her four potential suitors still in the competition. As viewers familiar with the show will already know, these meet-and-greets with the family can tend to be a breaking point for most potential grooms.
Following a reunion with her daughter Ricki, Emily's first stop off was in Chicago, home of suitor number one, Chris and his family. Although his sisters showed some concern that their brother may get hurt, the word from his parents were all positive, with his mother even stating that he needs to fight for his woman! Next stop was Utah to see suitor number two, Jef, who after taking Em on a tour of his family's ranch, went shooting with her in a bid to calm their nerves. It was then time to meet Jef's siblings and their other halves, as well as his nieces and nephews - his parents were not around because they were away on missionary duties. After a grilling from the present family members, Emily was all but given the green light by the Jef clan, which meant it was time to fly to Scottsdale, Arizona for a grilling from Arie's family and then to Dallas for Sean.
To cut a long story short, the rose this week went to Chris, who was visibly shocked to find that he had been given his marching orders. Who knows who'll be next for the boot?


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The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a committee set up by administrators in the Appleton Area School District to assess a book list used in a high school communications arts course should have been subject to the State's open meetings law. The decision overturned earlier court rulings that found that the committee was not a governmental body subject to public notice and other requirements.
The Court's decision held that since the committee was formed and its membership was appointed using , in material respects, committee procedures that had been authorized by the school board for the purpose of reviewing and making recommendations on the district's curriculum and instructional materials, it was a governmental body subject to the open meetings law:
"Where a governmental entity adopts a rule authorizing the formation of committees and conferring on them the power to take collective action, such committees are "created by . . . rule" under § 19.82(1) and the open meetings law applies to them. Here, the Board's Rule 361 provided that the review of educational materials should be done according to the Board-approved Assessment, Curriculum, & Instruction Handbook (the "Handbook"). The Handbook, in turn, authorized the formation of committees with a defined membership and the power to review educational materials and make formal recommendations for Board approval. Because CAMRC was formed as one of these committees, pursuant to authority delegated to it by the Board by means of Rule 361 and the Handbook, it was "created by . . . rule" and therefore was a "governmental body" under § 19.82(1)."
Note: The WASB filed an amicus curiae brief along with other local government and school administrator groups in support of the school district's position.
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Now Enroll For Atal Pension Yojana or APY Online on e-NPS
Time and again, PFRDA or Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, the body administering the APY scheme in India has been taking several steps to increase the penetration of the benefits of APY to all citizens. On similar lines, the authority has eased the process for individuals wishing to subscribe to the scheme with online enrollment on the e-NPS platform, doing away with the need to submit the physical copy of the application form.
The e-NPS platform already operational for subscribing to NPS schemes and other pension related functions shall now on be used for subscribing to Atal Pension Yojana scheme introduced by the government in its Union Budget 2014-15.
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At present the total subscriber base under APY schene is over 5.4 million and fund managers managing the corpus under the scheme have succeeded in providing a return of 13.91%.
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Stanford Matches Up Against Boise State And California This Weekend
Feb. 20, 2008
STANFORD, Calif. - The No. 37 Stanford men's tennis team will finish out their seven-game home stand this weekend - weather permitting - at the Taube Family Tennis Center with two matches against No. 28 Boise State on Friday and No. 29 California on Saturday. Friday's match against the Broncos is scheduled for a 1:30 p.m. start time, and Saturday's match against Pac-10 rival Cal will take place at 1 p.m.
The newest ITA team rankings were released today, and the Cardinal found itself rising three places to No. 37. New individual rankings were also released, with the last ones being dated January 5. Freshman Alex Clayton remains the second-ranked player in the nation behind Virginia's Somdev Devvarman, while sophomore Richard Wire moved up 13 places to No. 62, and junior Matt Bruch increased from No. 96 to No. 72.
Stanford last faced then fourth-ranked Baylor in the HP Cup. The Cardinal fell 5-2 in that match, winning the doubles point by capturing No. 1 and No. 3 doubles, and the No. 2 singles match in which Bruch defeated the No. 10* player in the nation, Denes Lukacs, 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-7).
Clayton leads the Cardinal with a 15-3 overall record, while Wire has posted 12 victories on the season. Wire, along with freshman teammate Greg Hirshman have been a force at No. 3 doubles, going 8-3 overall.
Boise State currently holds a 6-6 overall record (5-4 in dual-matches) heading into Friday's match after starting the season hot, going on a six game losing streak, and finally breaking the slump at the National Team Indoor Championships last weekend in Seattle. Their last two dual matches, against No. 8* UCLA and No. 6* USC on February 8 and 9, resulted in 7-0 and 5-2 losses respectively. Boise St. then went on to lose their first two matches in Seattle, but beat No. 10* Alabama in the consolation rounds to finish out tournament play.
The Broncos are led by brothers Luke and Clancy Shields. Luke, a senior, is ranked No. 64 in singles, while Clancy, a junior, checks in at No. 60. Together, they make the No. 55 doubles team in the country.
Cross-bay rival Cal is 4-3 overall, having played only dual matches and not yet participated in any tournaments this spring. The Golden Bears, like Stanford and Boise State, have also lost to UCLA and USC this season, but most recently defeated No. 70* Utah, 5-2, at home on February 9.
The Bears are highlighted by freshman Bozhidar Katsarov who holds a 17-7 overall record in singles and senior Ken Nakahara at 13-6. Cal's top doubles team is the pair of junior Geoff Chizever and freshman Pedro Zerbini who hold a 12-2 record.
Admission to this weekend's competitions are free. After this weekend's matches, the Cardinal will travel to La Jolla, Calif. for the Pacific Coast Doubles Tournament beginning on February 23.
*NOTE: All previous rankings were current at the time the match was played
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I am one of those romantics who find myself in love as often as possible, feeling those high frequency vibrations that accompany the force of attraction. That's how I can sense, from the inside, how the whole world fits together. I am like the mountain climber who keeps going higher despite the dangers, because it is only at the summit that the whole view spreads out before him.
The current focus of my attentions are two young cellists from Croatia who have never heard of me, but whose music – available to all of us on YouTube – makes me cry. I listen to these young men every day – they play everything from Bach to hard rock – and I fall asleep to them at night, reassured that there is still beauty in this world gone mad.
I am a woman in love.
But it goes deeper than just having a crush on two beautiful young men on the other side of the world; in some way, I recognize them, as if I've known them before from somewhere at some other time. It's hard to explain.
I pore over maps of Croatia; I study people's faces in their audiences; I listen to the cadences of the language they speak in interviews; I laugh at their sense of humor.
I've never been to Croatia, but I came close once many years ago when I was in Ancona, a coastal city on the Italian side of the Adriatic, where I could look across the water and see the outlines of Yugoslavia. It was a windy day and walking along the beach with an Italian friend, we staggered against winds strong enough to knock us over.
The land on the other side of the water looked peaceful from a distance, but we knew a nasty war was raging there at the time. Knowing there were people being shot and killed beyond our sight as we walked there hand in hand, I broke down, feeling somehow that I was crying for my land, my people.
I had no idea why.
I still don't know, but something odd that might be relevant happened several years ago in my studio when a few of us were trying out ways of using dance and sound as techniques for altering consciousness without drugs. We were exploring ancient healing practices by dancing into trance states to induce a state of relaxed concentration, a kind of meditation through movement. We kept surprising ourselves with what was coming through, from long forgotten dreams, to singing in the syntax of languages we did not speak.
One day I was shocked by something I had no frame of reference for, just the experience – a violent death scene from another place, another time. My death.
I am being dragged over cobblestones behind a pony cart with a rope around my neck. I stagger and fall and am pulled through the village to the sea, scraped and bleeding. My progress is witnessed by people on either side, all of them known to me. I am male, epileptic – the village idiot, as it were. I've stolen something and I will die for it.
It was vivid. I could feel the rope tightening around his throat, see the villagers watching from their doorways, feel the jar of rough stones on his body, see the pony driver's expressionless face when his body is dumped on the beach.
It shook me up for days.
I'd never heard of this form of torture, so I did some research and learned that death by dragging was in fact practiced in parts of Europe during the 15th century, especially around Eastern Europe, including the land more recently known as Yugoslavia.
Then I tried to forget about it.
I wonder – was that 'me' in another lifetime? Was it pure fantasy or a real memory? Is reincarnation a literal fact or not? And what does the word "reincarnation" actually mean?
I've learned that almost every culture in the world – indigenous as well as Judeo-Christian – tells a version of the Myth of Eternal Return and in each case the story goes something like this:
Before we come into physical existence we are the 'not-yet-born,' and once born we are the 'living-on-earth' where we reside for a human lifetime to receive the lessons and trials of the physical world. At "death" our souls – the eternal part of our nature – return Home to absorb the lessons of our lifetime on Earth before cycling back in for our next set of experiences in a material 'form.' The cycle continues for as many lifetimes as it takes to mature into full awareness of the Divine aspect of existence.
In other words, Death only exists at the level of our bodies, which do indeed wear out sooner or later. (Ask me – I'll tell you all about my aging knees…) But our souls are immortal, our consciousness intact and our hearts full of feeling even after our forms have let go. We do not disappear from the world!
There is nothing to fear, really.
We belong to the world by definition; there is nowhere else to go. When an earth-life is over, 'Life' and consciousness remain. In Aramaic the word for Death means "not here, present elsewhere."
I figure I'm a student in the fancy boarding school of Earth and my curriculum is to learn how to love. That's probably why I've kept on trying it out with cellists from Croatia and flutists from India; my dear husband; the two little girls across the street, my sweet land-mates at the Wild and Radish Farm and all the uncountables from a long life of many adventures in many places.
An adventure I would not have missed for the world!
I have no idea what graduation from this school will look like, but I'll find out when it's time.
As we all will.


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Honiton launch new league season with Saturday home game
PUBLISHED: 09:35 06 September 2019
There is a double-header of action at Honiton RFC on Saturday (September 7) with both the Lacemen's 1st and 2nd XVs in action.
The 2nd XV kick-off first with their match against Cullompton 2nds starting at 2.30.
The 1st XV, who have moved up a level to play in the Tribute Western Counties Division, begin a new campaign at home to St Austell with that game kicking off at 3pm.
The first month of the new league campaign also sees Honiton entertain Tiverton, w2ith that game at Allhallows taking place on September 21 and there are also two away games in the first month with the Lacemen first visiting Teignmouth on September 14 and then, on the final Saturday of the month, Honiton travel to Cornwall to meet Wadebridge Camels.


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As 2015 comes to a close, PAPER's own head-boo-in-charge, Mr. Mickey, rounds up his favorite moments from this incredibly exciting year in fashion.
Take it away, Mickey!
Kim Kardashian's Halloween Costume
In the frenetic culture of the red carpet, only a handful of frocks have made the media ripples that Kim Kardashian West's 2013 Givenchy gown wore to the Met Ball, when she was über-pregnant with daughter North. The nicest tweets about the dress compared it unflatteringly to Mrs. Doubtfire (including the late Williams, himself.)
Fortunately, Mrs. Kanye West got her sweet revenge, AND showed off a razor sharp wit, by dressing up this year for Halloween as her 2013 Met Ball self. Suddenly, the gown that inspired a million memes and insults was the punchline of K.K.W's own fashion joke. She hit it home by tweeting this:
Creative Director Shifts at Top Tier Brands
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eaving Balenciaga, Raf Simons saying au revoir to Dior, and Alber Elbaz getting the boot at Lanvin, it was a year of top-level exoduses. Demna Gvasalia of Vetements was named Creative Director of Balenciaga, while Dior and Lanvin's C.D. spots remain empty. With JW Anderson as a favorite for the Dior slot (which would make his current position at Loewe available again) and rumors of Phoebe Philo growing restless at Celine, more spikes in the creative director richter scale are likely.
Gucci's Global Takeover
Alessandro Michele
Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele spent 2015 making the revered brand the most important barometer of global fashion. Suddenly his nerdy, non-sexy, vintage inspired take of style has eclipsed all other visions as the driving force of fashion, making anything that's not Gucci seem...well, old.
Rihanna's Continued Red Carpet Dominion
Although no one will probably ever create the red carpet hysteria created by Rihanna's basically-naked Adam Selman dress for last year's CFDA Awards, in 2015 plenty of A-list ladies took on see-through approach, particularly at the Met Ball; Beyonce, Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez served variations of the motif.
Rihanna (and stylist Mel Ottenberg), meanwhile, took a different direction at this year's event, with a super covered up couture gown and mile long cape by Chinese designer Guo Pei, proving (again) that BadGalRiRi is always one step ahead.
Zoolander at Valentino
Few fashion brands can top Valentin's icy-chicness, so it truly was a surprise at the brand's 2015 Paris Fashion Week show, when the finale walk was followed not by a designer bow, but a walk-off between the stars of Zoolander (and its upcoming sequel), Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. The usually too-cool-for-school fashion crowd lost their minds, and social media was awash in glee for the next twenty-four hours.
Tom Ford and Lady Gaga's Collaborative Music Video
Combating the growing consensus that runway presentations are growing antiquated, Tom Ford tapped Nick Knight--the genius photographer--to show off Knight's pioneering belief that film is the most appropriate way to demonstrate fashion. It helps that Knight and Ford had pop goddess Lady Gaga belting out a stellar cover of disco anthem "I Want Your Love," as she dances with a parade of top models dressed in Ford's new collection.
Givenchy and Balmain Take New York City
While Paris continues to the be the undisputed capital of global chic, New York City reminded people it's no slouch either, with guest cameos by two of the biggest names in fashion. Riccardo Tisci presented his Spring 2016 collection outdoors in Tribeca in the shadow of the Freedom Tour, as an homage to NYC on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks. The beautiful show was a collaboration with artist Marina Abramovic, and was one of the most star-studded events of the year.
Meanwhile, Rousteing was the latest design star to do a collaboration with fast-fashion mega-brand H & M, and he chose NYC to present the collection which included a celebrity-laden soiree, and a performance by the Backstreet Boys, no less!
Caitlyn Jenner Debuts in Vanity Fair
No magazine in 2015 made the splash that Caitlyn Jenner's stunning debut in Vanity Fair magazine made this year.
Caitlyn was given the full Annie Leibovitz treatment, with Jessica Diehl styling. Her corset style onesy will go down in fashion history as one of the most legendary editorial looks ever, along, of course, with her stepdaughter Kim's "
Break the Internet" dress, and VF's Demi Moore's painted on "birthday suit."
Rick Owens: Peekaboo Dicks and Human Backpacks
Paris-based designer Rick Owens gets two spots on the countdown this year because he knocked our socks off not once, but twice. Owens started the year off with a floppy bang in January, when his Fall/ Winter 2015 show featured male models wearing ensembles made with pelvic cut-outs, revealing their bare penises.
The fashion world can be a jaded bunch, but social media exploded photos, and debate over full frontal masculinity, a topic that, along with "Free The Nipple" and bare buttocks Insta-censoring, are major points of contention.
The designer ended the fashion year in October by presenting models literally carrying other models in a series of graceful, gravity-defying postures, including some models serving as literal human backpacks.


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Higher-than-expected numbers of female soccer fans helped reduce levels of hooliganism at this year's World Cup in Germany, a trend that may continue at the 2008 European Championship, organizers said.
The Berlin Senate said violence in the city was less severe than anticipated because more women than foreseen were among the 3 million people who attended the 64 matches and the 2 million tourists who traveled to Germany during the tournament. "The real problem of the World Cup was going to be how we'd cope, but there were no incidents worth mentioning," Senate spokesman Michael Donnermeyer told the International Football Arena conference in Zurich this week. "The attendance of women had a de-escalating effect." Ruling body FIFA, which organized the monthlong tournament, said in July that the number of women among the 18 million people who gathered in the 12 host cities to watch games on giant screens had helped temper the behavior of male fans. More than 1 million people viewed Germany's semifinal defeat to Italy by Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. FIFA couldn't give specific figures on the number of female supporters. A record number of women watched live television coverage of the tournament, according to Initiative, a unit of Interpublic Group, the world's third-largest advertising company. About 41% of the cumulative 5.9 billion audience in 54 selected countries were women, it said. "More women means less aggression and usually that men drink less," Hans-Juergen Schulke, professor of sport sociology at the University of Bremen, said in an interview.
German authorities took measures including granting English police the power of arrest to prevent trouble at the four-yearly event. The country's interior ministry said after the tournament that as many as 2,000 people had been arrested or held in "preventive detention." Clashes between German and Polish supporters at a first- round game in Dortmund led to 400 arrests, while 400 fans were detained before England's second-round match against Ecuador in Stuttgart. Martin Kallen, the chief operating officer for the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland, wants the trend for diversity among fans to continue. "More family members are going to matches -- sons, daughters and wives -- and that brings down the potential of conflicts," Kallen said in an interview. German police and FIFA praised supporters for their conduct at this year's World Cup, in contrast to previous tournaments. England fans went on the rampage in Marseille at the 1998 edition and 945 were arrested and expelled from Belgium following riots in Charleroi and Brussels at the 2000 European Championship.
"We're not looking at hooligans any less, but since 1992 there haven't been many incidences at European Championship games," Kallen said. "There was a small one in 2000 in Belgium, but it wasn't as big as made out." Kallen said the eight cities that will host matches in 2008 will seek to get across the message that they're safe, clean venues in which to watch soccer and take a vacation. "We're really focusing on making matches and events that people really believe are secure," Kallen said. "Women will go when they believe it's a safe place." Kallen said he's concerned that security may be harder to arrange in Switzerland because the host cities don't have the open spaces of German venues such as Berlin or Stuttgart. "In Germany they had the luxury of space around stadiums," Kallen said. "In Switzerland the stadiums are in the middle of downtown. We have to work with less space." (Bloomberg)


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This wikiHow teaches you how to disable voicemail on your iPhone temporarily with the No More Voicemail app, or permanently through your carrier.
Method 1 of 2:
Using No More Voicemail
1Install No More Voicemail from the App Store. Use this free app to temporarily send unanswered and rejected calls to endless ringing.[1] X Research source
- Open the App Store on your iPhone and search for No More Voicemail. When you find it, tap Get, then tap Install.
- No More Voicemail works with all standard plans on most US carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, MetroPCS, US Cellular). It will not work on prepaid plans.
2Open No More Voicemail. It's the blue icon with a white broken voicemail image on your home screen.
- If you're still in the App Store, you can launch it for the first time by tapping Open.
3Tap Get Started.
4Sign up for No More Voicemail. Do this by entering your email address into the field, then tapping Sign Up & Continue.
5Tap Copy. This copies the on-screen number to your clipboard.
6Press the Home button. It's the round button at the bottom of the screen.
7Open the Phone app. It's the green phone receiver icon at the bottom of the home screen.
8Paste the copied number. To do this, tap and hold the blank area at the top of the screen, then tap Paste.
9Tap Call. This is the round green button with a phone receiver at the bottom of the keypad. Your phone will quickly dial and then disconnect.
10Return to No More Voicemail. You can tap the No More Voicemail app on your home screen, or double-press the Home button to select it from the app list.
11Tap I Confirm I Followed These Steps. Your unanswered and declined calls will now be forwarded to a number that rings indefinitely.
12Restore your voicemail. If you want to re-enable your voicemail, dial your provider's specific code in the Phone app and then tap Call:
- T-Mobile: ##004#
- Verizon: * 73 (if that doesn't work, dial *900, then *920).
- Sprint: *730
- US Cellular: *920
- You can also re-enable your voicemail by following the instructions at http://www.deactivatemyphone.com.[2] X Research source
Method 2 of 2:
Contacting Your Carrier
1Open the Phone app. It's the green phone receiver icon at the bottom of the home screen.
- Because this method will delete your saved greetings, messages, and settings, it should only be used to disable your voicemail permanently.
2Dial your carrier's customer service phone number. You can dial *611 from your iPhone, or your service's toll-free number from any device:[3] X Research source
- T-Mobile: 1-877-453-1304
- Verizon: 1-800-922-0204
- Sprint: 888-211-4727
3Ask the agent to disable your voicemail. You may have to explain your reason to the representative (e.g. you're on extended travel, you don't use it, etc), but it shouldn't be a problem.
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Mrs. Charlotte Ferrell Bonner Dudley, wife of the late James William Bonner and wife of the late Frank Thomas Dudley, passed away in Charlotte on June 28. She was a life-long resident of Durham and received her education in the Durham City School system and at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Charlotte was a former member of Temple Baptist Church, where she sang in the choir and taught Sunday School. At the time of her death, she was a member of Epworth United Methodist Continue Reading »
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Linda Lou Satterwhite Alligood
Mrs. Linda Lou Satterwhite Alligood, age 75, a resident of Washington, died Tuesday June 27, 2017 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville. Funeral services will be 3:00 pm Saturday July 1, 2017 at Gentry-Newell & Vaughn Funeral Home in Oxford and will be conducted by Rev. Lennie Rogers and Rev. Jim Shelley. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery in Oxford. Danny Roberts, Tony Cozart, Ralph Newton, Ed Adcock, Bobby Blackley and Randy Green will serve as pallbearers. Memorial services will Continue Reading »
James "Jim" Muldowney
James "Jim" Muldowney passed away on June 27, 2017 at Hock Hospice Family Pavilion in Durham, North Carolina. He was born on August 28, 1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Joseph and Katherine (Lang) Muldowney, both of whom predeceased him. He is survived by his wife of 44 years Patricia (Zancewicz) Muldowney; two daughters, Alanna Messimore and partner Tim Graham of Raleigh, NC; Teresa and husband John Beardsley of Hertford, NC; and a son, John and wife Jessica Muldowney of Jefferson, Continue Reading »
Dr. Nirmala Mathew Amaldoss, M.D.
Chapel Hill- Dr. Nirmala Mathew Amaldoss, M.D., age 55, of Chapel Hill died June 23, 2017 surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Kerala, India to Philomena Joseph and the late Dr. Thomas Mathew. Nirmala was a member of St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Chapel Hill. Dr. Nirmala Amaldoss was an Attending Physician at the Emergency Department of the Durham VA Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine at Duke University. In addition to her mother, Continue Reading »
John King Nelms
John King Nelms, 95, passed away on June 22, 2017 after a brief illness. He was born on September 14, 1921 in Granville County to the late John Henry Nelms and Daisy Hobgood Nelms. He was preceded in death by his wife of 60 years, Mary Ruth Clark Nelms, in 2009. He was a graduate of Oxford High School and North Carolina State University where he earned a BS in mechanical engineering. After college, he served his country during WWII as a Captain in the United States Air Corps where he earned a Continue Reading »
William Allen Huters, Sr.
Durham- William Allen Huters, Sr., age 88, passed away on June 20, 2017 at his home in Durham, N.C. Bill was born in Sikeston, Missouri on May 18, 1929, the son of William Louis Alvin Huters and Vera Stevenson Huters. Bill attended Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri for two years before graduating with a Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1952 from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War. Bill married Continue Reading »
Mark Reese Sumner, Sr.
Chapel Hill - Mark Sumner was born July 19, 1923 in Asheville, North Carolina where he grew up and attended school, completing two years at Asheville Biltmore Junior College (now UNC-Asheville). He became an Eagle Scout in 1938 with Troop 8 in Asheville. As a teenager he demonstrated an early interest and aptitude for theatre, winning three State prizes for playwriting from the Carolina Dramatic Association. Sumner was drafted into the US Army at the age of 19. He served three years and was Continue Reading »
Tammy Andrews Wilson
Tammy Andrews Wilson, 56, of Oxford, North Carolina, passed away unexpectedly at her home on Monday morning June 19, 2017. Tammy was born in Augusta, Georgia to Lalah and Richard Andrews on August 26, 1960. She attended Durham Public Schools and began her career as a pet groomer. She opened her shop, Soap 'N Suds Dog Grooming and Boarding, in Durham, and subsequently moved her business to Butner where she has enjoyed her passion for pets and her many customers that have become lifelong Continue Reading »
Robert "Bob" Allen Mularczyk
On June 12, 2017, the world lost a believer in the value of positive thinking with the death of 76-year-old Robert (Bob) Allen Mularczyk. A retired guidance counselor and teacher from Adams, Massachusetts, Bob moved to Brick Landing Plantation in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, and became a loving friend to many. He could always put a positive spin on any situation and made lemonade out of lemons in even the toughest of circumstances. Bob was born on May 7, 1941, in New Bedford, Continue Reading »
Bruce Pennybacker
Bruce Pennybacker of the Forest at Duke, Durham , NC died on June 15. Born in Boston, MA, on July 8, 1929, Bruce received an undergraduate degree from Oberllin College, did graduate work at Columbia University and State University of New York. He taught English for a combined 25 years at Beacon High School and at Newburgh Free Academy before retiring in 1984. He is survived by his wife Mary Forrestal Pennybacker, daughter Mindy Wallace of Honolulu, son Robert Pennybacker of Honolulu, Continue Reading »


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How can I kill English Ivy?
Here in Medford, Oregon, I have sprayed English Ivy with Round Up at the highest label rate. I have also sprayed a different section of English Ivy with Brush B Gon also at highest label rate. Both times I added spreader to the spray mix. Both times I thought I was spraying new leaves. I am not getting a kill of the Ivy. How can I kill English Ivy?
I understand your frustration - English Ivy is not easy to get rid of! This article will give you some good suggestions on how to eradicate english ivy, such as lacerating or cutting the plant's stems prior to herbicide application:
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Traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall
It was an emotional day being part of the Vietnam Veteran's Traveling Wall escort. Peter van Sluis and his wife Virginia, along with Kirk Mansfield did an outstanding job in coordinating the event. Mike Gramse and I were fortunate enough to be able to escort the Traveling Wall in a 1952 Willy's Jeep that was donated to the event by Mike Gilbertson. Please remember ALL the veterans who serve in the military or lost the lives defending our country, especially the more than 52,000 who lost their lives in Vietnam.


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Brown and Green are great colors for a fall wedding. Check out this wedding inspiration board.
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Ottawa, KS Bike Rental
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We are a small local business that is built on a passion for cycling and a belief that outdoor adventures bring joy to our lives. We do everything in our power to provide the best possible customer service. Our shop stands by our products and services and we will serve you with a smile. If you're not happy, or if we fail to live up to our standards, we want to know about it so that we can make it right. We are the premier Ottawa KS bike rental shop – book your bike online with us today!
We believe that the key to enjoying cycling is having a bike you are comfortable riding and a safe place to ride. Our services are geared toward getting you on your bike and making it easy for you to access the trials, roads, and prairie scenery that Kansas is famous for.
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Ready for the Worst? Korean Talks Needed
Are we ready for the worst? I am concerned with the idea of a Third World War starting with a counter-attack by America. If we do take such drastic action to stop the Korean President from using nuclear bombs, we will not be able to save our own people from being killed. I still feel that diplomatic and friendly mutual talk can stop the aggression of other powers.
We have to establish good relationships with other neighboring countries. Our policies should help us, as well as our neighbors, in every of aspect of growth and development. They should not feel fearful because of our preparation for counter-attack. We are trying to control other nations by advertising that America has the most powerful nuclear weapons resources to intervene in other countries affairs.
We have lost so many brave men and women by attacking other countries in an attempt to create a better world for them. But in the bargain we have made those countries less secure, less fertile, less peaceful.
War can never bring peace. It will never make us safe from future attacks. The more we advance our tools to destroy others, those others will think of the ways to destroy us.
Science has given us the knowledge to have chemical weapons. Any weapons exchange will result in untimely deaths not only of thousands of defense forces but also the innocent civilians who will likely meet an untimely death.
We must use other tactics to build friendly relationships with our neighbors.
We think that war will bring peace. We are really not ready to face a third world war. Let us revise our policies. We are already in an economic crisis. Just pay attention to the outcome of advance weapons.
Let us follow the golden rule of living with peace.
Our policies should be based on respecting other nations and helping them in creating peace and happiness in their own way without pressing them to follow our dictated rules.