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February 1, 2013 • Vol. 35, No. 5 • $2 • 36 pages

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LEGISLATURE

Bills: Move state offices to Capitol Complex >> Blount’s consolidation plan is state purchase of vacant Landmark Center

By TED CARTER I STAFF WRITER ted.carter@msbusiness.com

kill the sale and ensure the DOR remained in Raymond through the end of its mid2014 lease.

Gunn, a Republican, has said he won’t block a DOR move from its metal warehouse headquarters again this session.

Blount, a Democrat, said his SB 2763 proposing purchase of the Landmark is identical to one that failed last year, though this one reflects the near halving of the building’s price tag.

Blount’s other bill, SB 2472, would put the state’s Department of Finance & Administration in charge of negotiating leases, a task now handled by individual state agencies.

Downtown Jackson would see hundreds of new workers and a whittling of its office space vacancies through proposals from Senate Public Property Committee Chairman David Blount to consolidate more state agencies into space available in the Jackson Capitol Complex.

In support of a pair of bills he has introduced, Blount produced an analysis from Millsaps College’s Else School of Management that shows consol- State Agency Leases - Capitol Complex idating state offices that are scatTotal sqft/acre Adjusted tered around the tri-county area Institution/Agency Name Address of Property (Gross) Cost per SF into the Capitol Complex would Department of Corrections 25,600.00 $15.80 save the state $5 million a year. 723 N. President Street Consolation would also move Department of Corrections 14,089.00 $13.00 state government closer to the 510 George Street federal benchmark of 218 square MS Office of Capital Defense Counsel 3,520.00 $12.00 feet of space per worker from its 510 George Street, Ste 300 current 323 square feet, the Mill- State Board of Barber Examiners 1,200.00 $12.50 saps study said, and noted by 510 George Street, Ste 400 Department of Human Services 171,717.00 $14.98 comparison that Virginia has 222 750 North State Street square feet of rentable space per Mississippi Secretary of State 24,747.00 $18.80 worker and Texas 225 square feet. 700 North Street Getting Mississippi to the fed- MS State Board of Dental Examiners 4,459.00 $16.98 eral standard of 218 square feet 600 E. Amite Street, Ste 100 42,130.00 $12.50 would be a 33 percent reduction Department of Finance & Administration that translates to the $5 million a 210 E. Capitol Street, Stes 1300 & 1400 Mississippi State Personnel Board 26,021.00 $12.19 year savings after a phase-in pe- 210 E. Capitol Street riod, said Dr. Bill Brister, a pro- Department of Education 16,600.00 $11.00 fessor in the Else School of 500 Greymont Avenue Management who led the office Oil and Gas Board 13,200.00 $13.00 500 Greymont Avenue, Ste E space study.

5,056.00 $12.50 The space and cost calculations MS Soil & Water Conservation Commission include build-out expenses and 680 Monroe Street, Ste B parking but not actual moving Total 348,339.00 $14.41 costs, which the study puts at Weighted Average Cost per SF about $3 a square-foot amortized over 10 years.

The bill calls for the phased-in office Neither the study nor Blount’s bills inspace consolidation of state agencies occuclude the relocation of state satellite offices pying 198,286 square feet of space through or social service offices such as Medicaid that 28 private sector leases. This count does not serve clients directly. include the Department of Revenue.

The cornerstone of Blount’s consolidaThe 28 leases carry a weighted average tion plan is the state purchase of the vacant rent of $14.51 a square foot, according to the Landmark Center, an East Capitol Street Millsaps College study. office building of 345,000 square feet whose A sampling of five office properties within price has dropped in the last year from $14.1 the Capitol Complex — the Landmark, million to $7.6 million. Blount, a commer- Capitol Towers, Regions Plaza, Lamar Life cial real estate professional who represents Building and State Street Building — shows Hind County’s District 29, proposes having the buildings only 23 percent occupied with the 500-employee Department of Revenue 789,089 square feet to fill. At today’s lease occupy about 210,000 square feet and the rates, the state could achieve a weighted avother state agencies the remaining space. erage cost per square foot of $13.71, Millsaps’ The state, acting on a recommendation Brister said. from international real estate firm Cush“There’s a lot of space available for lease man & Wakefield, came close to buying the at very reasonable rates,” he added, and cited Landmark last legislative session for the further cost savings through state agencies $14.1-million price, but House Speaker sharing common areas such as break rooms, Philip Gunn of Clinton and other legisla- rest rooms, meeting rooms and parking.

Excluding the Department of Revenue, tive leaders stepped in at the last minute to

the state leases 681,294 square feet of office space from the private sector for $8.9 million a year, at an average of $13.13 a square foot.

The 28 leases for space outside the Capitol Complex total 198,286 square feet with combined annual rent of $2.87 million, or $14.51 a square foot, according to Millsaps.

The business school’s analysis showed the state leases 348,339 square feet from private landlords within the Capitol Complex at an average of $14.41.

Brister said acquisition of the Landmark Center at its current asking price represents a “unique opportunity” at the moment.

“You could put a whole bunch of these agencies in there, including the DOR,” he said.

He calculated the purchase could shave $30 million off the Adjusted Annual Rent state’s office space expenses over $404,480 the next 20 years. “You’ll save the $30 million plus own the build$183,157 ing,” Brister said.

The Landmark Center, which $42,270 became 100 percent vacant with AT&T’s departure late last year, $15,000 received top ranking in the Cushman & Wakefield study that ana$2,572,321 lyzed options for a new $465,244 headquarters for the Department of Revenue, which has been oper$75,714 ating out of a former Mississippi Power warehouse in Raymond for $526,625 more than a decade and a half. $317,196 The lease on the warehouse expires at the end of June next year. $182,600 Should Blount’s bill to buy the Landmark Center fail, the state $171,600 would move ahead with a RFP process that has narrowed candi$63,200 dates for the new home for the DOR to three – The Landmark $5,019,376 Center, South Point Business Park in Clinton and Ergon Properties’ Diversified Technologies complex in Ridgeland.

The Department of Finance & Administration says representatives of the three properties are to submit their final offers as early as the end of February. A selection would be made soon after, the DFA says.

The building owner who wins the competition to lease 175,000 square feet to the DOR must also be willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to ready the building for move-in by spring 2014.

Meanwhile, advocates for downtown Jackson are keeping their fingers crossed that Blount’s bills to buy the Landmark Center and to consolidate other state agencies and departments into the Capitol Complex meet with success. The consolidation alone could bring 400 or so new workers downtown, said Ben Allen, president of Downtown Jackson Partners, a public-private entity that works to promote and enhance downtown.

SPORTS

(Courtesy of Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum)

An artist drawing depicts the new inside entrance to the museum.

New kiosks make for a better visit at sports hall

By FRANK BROWN I STAFF WRITER frank.brown@msbusiness.com

The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum (http://msfame.com) in Jackson is full of stories — and now it has a new way to tell them.

The first of four new kiosks is operational, and three more are scheduled to be online by the end of this week, said Rick Cleveland, the museum’s executive director.

The museum also is presenting a new exhibit on Olympic star Bianca Knight of Ridgeland. It includes her red shoes and the flag that she draped herself with after winning a gold medal in the 4x100 meter relay event in the 2012 London Games.

And more changes are coming quickly to the museum at 1152 Lakeland Drive. Cleveland said the Olympic Room — last updated in 2004 — will become current by the end of February. A new inside entrance, which will focus on the current state hall of fame inductees, should be completed in 60 days.

The new touch-screen kiosks replace the original kiosks that were installed when the museum opened in 1996. The original kiosks were limited to video of one sport each, but the new ones will incorporate all of the video sports footage in each machine. Cleveland estimates the project cost the museum about $40,000.

(Frank Brown/Mississippi Business Journal)

The new kiosks have high-definition touch screens and combine all sports footage into each kiosk.

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Most of last Monday’s hour-long Kemper coal plant hearing at the Mississippi Supreme Court centered on two questions: If the Mississippi Public Service Commission allows Mississippi Power Co. to charge its ratepayers for the facility’s construction, will it constitute a tax, or will it simply be a rate assessment?

If it is a tax, does it render the Baseload Act unconstitutional?

Mike Adelman, an attorney who represents Thomas Blanton, says the Baseload Act — a 2008 law that authorized utilities, with PSC permission, to collect construction-work-in-progress funds from ratepayers — is unconstitutional because it violates the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which prevents confiscatory taking of property without due process. “It’s a tax on electricity that has not yet been provided,� said Adelman, whose client is a Hattiesburg resident and one of Mississippi Power’s roughly 186,000 ratepayers.

Blanton’s claim was originally part of the rate dispute between commissioners and Mississippi Power. The dispute arose over the summer when commissioners denied a 13 percent rate increase that would have generated about $58 million to put toward the coal plant’s construction.

Commissioners said then they would not entertain anymore rate increase requests related to the plant until the Mississippi Supreme Court had ruled on litigation brought against the plant by the Mississippi Sierra Club. That litigation is separate from last Monday’s proceedings.

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EDUCATION / MARKETING

Fear the Okra

>> Delta State reintroduces toughest vegetable in higher education

By STEPHEN McDILL I STAFF WRITER stephen.mcdill@msbusiness.com

>> VIEW VIDEOS OF ‘FEAR THE OKRA’ ADS

The biologists may call it “abelmoschus esculentus” but down here in the South its better known as okra.

A native of West Africa that is cousin to cotton and popularly served up fried or in Creole gumbo, okra is now getting talked up

by ESPN and David Letterman thanks to a Bolivar County university and a Madison County advertising firm.

The burly “Fighting Okra” of Delta State University is punching its way to even more notoriety in a series of web-based commercials produced in the last year by Ridgelandbased Mad Genius. The humorous spots are putting the grumpy face of the school’s longtime unofficial mascot back on the radar.

DSU’s dean of student affairs Dr. Wayne Blansett said the response has been very positive. “The students love it. Its unbelievable the number of hits we’ve had on the web page,” Blansett said.

First introduced by a few rogue DSU students in the 1980s, the “Fighting Okra” is a concept that has since been accepted by the school’s establishment and built into the school’s fabric in overall marketing and recruitment.

Mad Genius CEO Rick Moore took a special interest in the scrappy “Fear the Okra” campaign, knowing full well what the 5,000 students and their faculty are up against in a region of the country plagued by unemployment, shrinking population,

poverty and health care challenges.

“They don’t have the media budget of a Mississippi State or Ole Miss,” he said.

“They fight for every dollar.”

All the scenes for “Fear the Okra” were filmed on the DSU campus with a cast of real Fighting Okra students. Even Nashville singer/songwriter and DSU alumnus Steve Azar has a cameo as a Delta Music Institute instructor.

At last check, the “Don’t Get Sacked” video has racked up more than 28,800 views and is the most viewed “Fear the Okra” video on YouTube. The spot features the surly Fighting Okra putting a Ray Lewis-inspired tackle on an unsuspecting student in the middle of the Cleveland campus’ beautiful quad.

Moore had done freelance work for ESPN earlier in his career and said the “Fear the Okra” shooting style is partly inspired by the sport channel’s popular “SportsCenter” mockumentary spots.

While the snarly okra with boxing gloves may have struck a chord with younger alumni and new students at DSU, Blansett said the older generations had to be coaxed.

Blansett said alumni that remember themselves as Statesmen and Lady Statesmen were worried that the campaign was an effort to change the official mascot. He

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Mad Genius created a special effect to simulate a live alligator being dropped on a Lady Statesmen swimmer by the fearsome Fighting Okra. Moore said the baby gator wasn’t actually dropped into the chlorinated pool but rather back into its own special carrying case.

assured them that no replacement would take place and that the campaign was purely promotional.

Moore said his research began with interviewing students about campus life and then pitching a focus group made up of students and faculty. Ideas ranged from promoting the Mississippi Delta to emphasizing a crossroads theme.

“They came to us and said we wanna do something that will get attention and expresses us in a unique way,” Moore said.

The physical comedy was important whether it was a music student getting hit in the face with a guitar or another one trying to outswim an alligator in the aquatic center — both victims of the morbid mischief of the Fighting Okra.

“When you think of okra you don’t necessarily think aggressive,” Blansett said.

“When I sat in the meeting pitching this to the president his very first comment was,

‘Does he actually have to hit the student,’” Moore said. “I said he’s got boxing gloves on.

Trust me its gonna be better if he hits him.”

“Physical comedy isn’t predictable. Those are some of the things that take you by surprise so they are more memorable.”

Moore hopes “Fear the Okra” is just the start of more work with DSU. “These kids are trying to figure out what they’re gonna do with their college life,” he said. “Let’s rally behind this vegetable. Let’s embrace this underground, cool factor.”

The Fighting Okra of Delta State is flashy and formidable enough to surely join the ranks of Purdue Pete, Mike the Tiger and Puddles the Duck.

Blansett remembers the first time he took “Fighting Okra” T-shirts to a global higher education symposium hosted by Harvard University. “People were fighting over it. I took 50 orders,” he said. “We took a vegetable and made it aggressive.”

INSIDE MISSISSIPPI

Childhood lessons

Experience in family business leads Meridian’s Goldman to ideal situation

By WALLY NORTHWAY I STAFF WRITER wally.northway@msbusiness.com

David Goldman has a competitive advantage that he has exploited to earn clients across the nation and overseas, and grow his company from a husband-and-wife act to a business that employs approximately 50 and growing.

Goldman established Ideal Software Systems Inc. in his hometown of Meridian way back in 1983 with nothing more than programming he wrote while a college student, his wife, Amy, to handle the books and some hope.

“Sure, I envisioned this success when I started out — only after one year,” Goldman said with a wry laugh. “As I’ve grown older, I’ve gotten wiser.”

Goldman literally learned the rent-to-own and family entertainment center (FEC) industries from the ground level. Growing up in Meridian,

one of his early jobs was driving a delivery truck for a rent-to-own company owned by his parents, Dennis and Edna Goldman. Active entrepreneurs, the Goldmans also were successful in the FEC industry, owning and operating video arcades in malls.

“I learned the needs and challenges of the business — even down to making change for a dollar,” Goldman remembered. “I think one of our keys to success is we develop software to meet specific needs. We don’t just write software then try to sell it. We listen to clients, then develop a product to meet the need.”

Leaving home, Goldman attended the University of Texas, earning a degree in electrical and computer engineering while developing his original software program.

Back in Meridian, he started peddling his product. The early days were spent traveling, cold-calling, pitching his product written for the rent-to-own industry. Goldman said there were no large accounts or milestone events in the early days, just a lot of hard work that resulted in steady growth.

Steady, but today the growth is obvious. Ideal creates software and hardware-based business management systems, operating two product divisions: Ideal Amusement Software serves the amusement and FEC marketplace with comprehensive POS systems and e-commerce products; and, Ideal Financial Software serves various financial markets, most notably lease-purchase (rent-to-own).

The firm touts Ideal N-Site as the most comprehensive business

management system for the amusement industry, encompassing the latest cashless, wireless and mobile technologies, for admission and ticketing, restaurant service, redemption games, party scheduling among others.

Still tapping into cutting-edge technology, Ideal has created Blink Cloud Services to offer cloudbased e-commerce and e-ticketing services.

Goldman admitted Ideal felt the recent economic Goldman downturn as properties closed or downsized and few new facilities opened.

However, the company not only survived, but also has thrived. Goldman said Ideal enjoyed its best year in 2012.

Even more is expected. Not only has Ideal unveiled new products, the firm is focused on an area Goldman admits has lagged — marketing.

“We haven’t done a very good job of getting our name out there,” he said flatly.

To that end, Ideal recently brought in Jim Beaugez, a seasoned PR/marketing professional who spent approximately a decade at Peavey Electronics serving as public relations manager and communications manager.

Goldman believes Beaugez will have even more to promote in the future.

“At one time, I worried that we would run out of things to do,” said Goldman, pointing to cloud-based technology and new markets. “Now, I see lots of growth ahead.”

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Money Talks. Come Listen.

Wireless carriers plan for Super Bowl Sunday

By STEPHEN McDILL I STAFF WRITER stephen.mcdill@msbusiness.com

A dropped call from your smartphone can leave you with a sinking feeling equivalent to witnessing a dropped pass by your favorite NFL receiver: shock, disbelief and maybe some frustration and anger mixed in for good measure.

Whether its a dropped call, a text fail or a buffering browser, two of the country’s leading wireless carriers are making sure its customers don’t experience any of this while attending Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans.

As the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens take the field Sunday and thousands of ticket holders fill the 72,000-seat Mercedes-Benz Superdome, it will be the climax of months of technical preparation by the employees of Verizon Communications and their top rival AT&T Inc. More than a million visitors and 5,000 media personnel are expected in New Orleans for the game and the simultaneous Mardi Gras celebrations, according to one estimate.

“We’ve been preparing for quite a while,” said Verizon spokesperson Gretchen Whitaker. “When you have that kind of influx in the city you have capacity strains.”

With Verizon being the official NFL wireless sponsor and enjoying its first year on the Super Bowl host committee, the biggest concern for the nationwide provider is that its customers are able to use their devices in and around the Superdome and that the coverage stays seamless amid all that steel and concrete.

According to a recent report from the Pew Internet Project, more than 45 percent of Americans own a smartphone and 25 percent own a tablet device like the Apple iPad or Samsung Galaxy.

The glut of new gadgets and their family of apps has dovetailed with a second

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Verizon uses cell on wheels or COW vehicles to boost signal strength inside the Superdome at this year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, La..

generation of social media where people who are already connected to each other want to digitally share events and experiences. “These robust devices take lots of bandwidth,” Whitaker said.

Verizon turned on its latest 4G LTE spectrum for the Big Easy in 2010 and has grown its capacity since then.

Since the Superdome’s successful renovation following Hurricane Katrina, the 52-acre complex has undergone numerous upgrades. Verizon recently built an antenna into the dome itself and the entire building has WiFi capabilities that will be free to customers during the game.

They will also have a “cell on wheels” or COW vehicle parked outside the Superdome that acts as a mini cell tower to boost coverage ability.

Whitaker said that people lucky enough to attend the game will want to share the moment with their online community. “In years past if you couldn’t get a signal then oh well,” she said. “(Customers today) want to be connected 24/7.

AT&T spokesperson Sue Sperry said the

“We’ve been preparing for quite a while. When you have that kind of influx in the city you have capacity strains.”

Gretchen Whitaker Verizon spokesperson

wireless carrier will also deploy COW and COLT (cell on light truck) vehicles outside the stadium. The company activated a distributed antenna system or DAS inside the Superdome last year that worked well during the 2012 national college football championship between the LSU Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide.

The DAS project covered the Superdome, Champion Square and the New Orleans Arena and now includes all seven-convention hotels and the convention center itself.

Since New Orleans is a “walking city” and millions of tourists visit the Riverwalk and French Quarter annually, an AT&T stealth DAS system operates throughout the area. “You can’t even put a rooftop antenna there because of the historic district,” Sperry said. The stealth system instead includes hundreds of tiny white boxes that are miniature cell sites.

“You’d have to have a pretty bad weather day to affect the network. A really heavy rain,” Sperry said.

Coverage isn’t flawless and Sperry likes to use a simple transportation analogy when explaining wireless technology: picture a highway covered with many lanes and thousands of cars. Now picture the same highway with a few extra lanes but with the same amount of traffic. That is what happens to the radio frequency spectrum when it’s all concentrated at one event. Coverage can be boosted but sometimes is still congested.

“Customers shouldn’t have any trouble in the Superdome- its certainly going to spike during halftime show or trophy ceremony,” Sperry said.

Sperry suggests texting rather than calling in the stadium during the game. Messages are queued by the network so there is a delay but it uses a lot less bandwidth.

Sperry said if your phone is buffering or your data session is slowing down that if you keep trying it doesn’t help. “Just wait till the crowds thin out,” she said. If all else fails, it’s also good to have a designated meeting place so you aren’t relying on your phones to locate someone.

LEGISLATURE

Relocation tax credit bill back for another try

By CLAY CHANDLER I STAFF WRITER clay.chandler@msbusiness.com

One of the pieces of Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann’s 2013 legislative agenda is a repeat from last year.

A bill that would have extended tax credits to corporations that move their national or regional headquarters to Mississippi died in a Senate committee last year.

Two bills that would do the same thing currently sit in the House Ways and Means Committee.

Each would offer companies relocating their headquarters here a tax credit that equaled whatever they spent on moving expenses. Terms of the legislation would require a minimum of 20 new jobs be created by the move. Hosemann said in a recent interview that the bill targets specific areas of the state he says are ripe to land such a project.

“Our set asides are hopefully to get a corporate headquarters to come to one of our metropolitan areas — Tupelo, Jackson, Hattiesburg, the Coast.

The biggest expense we saw that (prospects) didn’t have were the moving expenses. This allows us to pay for some of their moving expenses to a new location.”

Hosemann said a handful of states have similar credits, including Tennessee, a state with which Mississippi is often in direct competition for large economic development projects.

The amount of credits the state could issue in a fiscal year could not exceed $1 million. Companies could not take advantage of the credit for relocating the same employee more than one time in a 12-month period.

Ways and Means chairman Rep. Jeff Smith, R-Columbus, authored one of the bills that sit in his committee.

“This is something a lot of economic development people have pushed for, including the MDA,” he said, referring to the Mississippi Development Authority.

Smith said the need for a relocation tax credit goes back to the 1990s, when former Gov. Kirk Fordice tried unsuccessfully to convince Weyerheuser to move its corporate headquarters to Mississippi.

“We’ve got parts of this state that could really use this as part of their pitch to companies,” Smith said.

With exceptions like the phasing out of the inventory tax, tax credits of any kind did not fare well last year if and when they made it to the Senate. Some of Hosemann’s various bills that offered tax credits — including the headquarters relocation credit — died there.

Smith said last week he was unsure how similar legislation would be treated this year. “I just don’t know who’s going to be on board and who’s not,” he said. “As for my committee, we look pretty good. We should at least get them to the Senate.”

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OUR VIEW

Madison mayor, Tulane wrong to bully Jackson State

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adison Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler would never tell McDonald’s it can be the only fast-food franchise in her queendom. Wendy’s and Burger King wouldn’t hear of it.

Yet, it appears that is what has happened recently as she and Tulane University have asked the state College Board to rescind what they’re calling the “premature” approval of Jackson State University’s plans to open a Madison campus this summer.

According to multiple reports, Hawkins Butler “wants to make sure that Jackson State will

not be competing for students with Tulane, which opened a Madison branch in 2010.”

This is a free-market society, and Hawkins Butler has no serious right to give an education monopoly to one school or another.

On Jan. 17, the College Board approved a 10-year, $1.5-million lease for 8,600 square feet in an office building in Madison for Jackson State to hold classes.

Hawkins Butler has used her strongarmed, mafia-type techniques through the years to get her way. For the most part, it is hard to argue with the results as Madison is

often held up as an ideal community in Mississippi. However, no matter how you slice it, this smacks of, at best, elitism.

The mayor has no legitimate gripe against a state school trying to give more opportunities for education in Mississippi.

JSU president Carolyn Meyers has said the university’s move to open a branch in Madison is designed to make its classes more convenient for nontraditional students who live and work in the area.

We say JSU should have the option of competing in the marketplace.

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iser heads — surely there must be some — in the Mississippi Legislature should put the quietus on a tea party-backed proposal by two Columbus lawmakers to establish a state agency designed to defy federal

law.

Republican state Reps. Gary Chism and Jeff Smith filed a bill to form the Joint Legislative Committee on the Neutralization of Federal Laws.

Supposedly the committee — consisting of the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the House and six lawmakers from each branch of the Legislature — would be charged with reviewing existing federal laws and executive orders and recommending those to be "neutralized." Then if the majority of the Legislature backs the recommendation, Mississippians wouldn't be obligated to "live under the statute, mandate or federal order."

It's the same old 10th Amendment argument that says powers not specifically reserved for the federal government are reserved for the states. The trouble, so far as states' rights are concerned, is that when federal laws and state laws are in conflict, the federal laws always prevail.

This has been shown repeatedly across history, including the Civil War and the civil rights movement 100 years later.

What has brought on the latest resurgence of the idea — also invoked by Gov. Phil Bryant — that states' rights can trump federal law and executive orders in Mississippi is the unpopularity of President Barack Obama's health care initiatives and his proposals on gun control.

The only constitutional way these can be challenged is in the federal courts and in Congress. Once a federal law is passed and upheld by the courts, residents of states have no alternative but to follow the law or become lawbreakers.

Legal scholars from Mississippi College to the University of Mississippi have pointed out the proposal by Chism and Smith is futile.

The only thing it will accomplish, if it is pursued, is hold Mississippi up to further ridicule in the national media, including satirical barbs from the late-night comedians. Some Mississippians don't seem to mind that, but it does nothing to attract business and industry to the state. ...

— Greenwood Commonwealth

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>> RICKY NOBILE >> MIND OVER MONEY

The beneficiary of great health insurance, governor is obtuse

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>>FROM THE GROUND UP

The value in keeping score

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s your team winning or losing? How do you know?

Do you keep score? Keeping score, or measuring, is one of the keys to accomplishing goals.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution, a popular productivity book by Sean Covey, Chris McChesney & Jim Huling, lists the following keys to successful goal execution: (1) Focus on the “wildly important” rather than on what is urgent; (2) Act on the “lead measures” (what is being done) rather than “lag measures” (what has been done); (3) Keep a “compelling” scoreboard; and, (4) Create a “cadence” of accountability.

Yes, keeping score and reporting is critical. However, that activity took on special meaning when this writer read “The Saturday Essay” in the Jan. 25, 2013, Wall Street Journal titled, “Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems.” In the article Gates discusses the importance of measurements, especially appropriate measurements, to solve the big problems of the world. He says that good measurements and a commitment to follow the data are what is missing.

But it’s not just measuring, and measuring things that are important. Sometimes it can be HOW you measure. A case study provides a good example.

Several years ago a convenience store chain wanted to learn more about the effect of positive reinforcement by their managers on their employees. The company psychologist devised a way to test the idea. On Monday of each week a certain district manager, who was responsible for 12 stores, would call each of the stores and ask the store manager, “What were your sales last week?” For six of the responses the district manager was to simply reply, “Thank you.” For the other six stores the manager was to give some positive message regardless of the response.

On the appointed first Monday the district manager called the stores. The typical response by the store managers was “We Phil Hardwick sent that in with our weekly sales report last Friday.” The district manager replied that he was aware of that, but he was just following up. Grudgingly, many of the store managers provided the sales figures. The next week the district manager called again and engaged in the same conversation. By the third week the store managers had suspected that the district manager would be calling so they had their sales figures ready. The district manager followed the protocol.

By the fifth week some of the store managers, especially those that had received positive reinforcement, were calling the district manger to report their sales. After only seven weeks, sales had increased by almost 15 percent in the stores that the district manger called and asked for the sales figures. In the stores where positive reinforcement was given sales increased by over 30 percent.

This project illustrated the value of positive reinforcement.

It also revealed that merely asking for the sales figures — keeping score — resulted in an improvement in sales.

One of the country’s more successful community and economic development programs is that of the Mississippi Main Street Association. It does a lot of scorekeeping and measuring. And it makes the measurements public. Consider these numbers that were taken at random from Mississippi Main Street’s web site, www.msmainstreet.com: See HARDWICK, Page 9

y first husband was 32 when he was diagnosed with cancer. Eighteen months later, he took his last breath. As sad as that is, it could have been worse. At the time, he worked for Packard Electric and was a GM employee. Thankfully, it was the old GM with great health benefits.

Looking back, I marvel that, although he didn’t survive, my family did. During his illness, the pharmaceutical bill was enormous. Each Nancy Anderson prescription only cost us $3. Even after his death, the bills kept coming. When the dust cleared from the insurance payments, there was little for me to pay. I was able to pick up and go on unencumbered by a mountain of medical debt.

Dick Williams of The Associated Collectors of Mississippi estimates that about 65 percent of debt placed with collection agencies in this state is the result of a medical issue. These are not deadbeats. These are folks with limited health coverage faced with a health crisis.

After I remarried, I lost that wonderful GM health plan. As selfemployed people, my husband and I have struggled many years to find good coverage for ourselves and to provide coverage for our employees. Small business owners know how difficult it is to compete for employees when you can’t offer decent health coverage. We recognize that many small businesses are stifled before they even begin because would-be entrepreneurs can’t afford to take the risk on an idea without the safety net of quality health insurance.

Ultimately, the health care issue is an economic issue. Yes, uninsured people can go to the emergency room and get stabilizing care to allow them to limp through another day. The care is limited, and the hospital is left holding the bill. The costs get passed on to those of us with good coverage, and everybody loses, but for me, it goes beyond economics. It’s personal.

The governor is a lifelong bureaucrat. He has been the beneficiary of generous health insurance courtesy of Mississippi taxpayers. It’s no wonder he is so unsympathetic. With his rigid mindset, he just doesn’t get that Mississippi’s economy is hampered by our lack of health coverage. With little personal experience, he can’t understand why this is such a big deal to families.

So we sit at an impasse. On one side is the possibility of decent coverage for individuals, relief for small businesses, a reduction in debt problems, and a boon for health care facilities caring for Mississippi citizens. On the other side is the governor.

Personally, I’m offended.

Nancy Lottridge Anderson, Ph.D., CFA, is president of New Perspectives Inc. in Ridgeland — (601) 991-3158. She is also an assistant professor of finance at Mississippi College.

Her e-mail address is nanderson@newper.com, and her website is www.newper.com.

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>>UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME: AN ANALYSIS

Medicaid could boost Mississippi health jobs

By Emily Wagster Pettus / AP Republican Gov. Phil Bryant wants to create more health care jobs in Mississippi, one of the poorest and most medically under-served states in the nation.

He also opposes putting more Mississippi residents on Medicaid under the federal health care law that Democratic President Barack Obama signed in 2010, even with the federal government paying most of the cost.

Are these two positions contradictory?

Bryant says they’re not.

Yet, even the toughest fiscal conservatives in the Legislature could start feeling pressure from health care providers who see Medicaid expansion as a way to pump money into the state to support their livelihoods and improve people’s well-being.

“I absolutely think the state should proceed with expanding Medicaid,” Chris Anderson, CEO of the Pascagoulabased Singing River Health System, said at the Capitol last week after he and administrators of other hospitals appeared before a Senate Public Health panel.

“If we do not expand, we are taking taxpayer dollars from the state of Mississippi and we’re giving it to other states,” Anderson said.

Health care as economic development — just what the governor says he wants. But Bryant has dug in so strongly against Medicaid expansion that turnabout is practically unthinkable.

A new study shows that for every $1 Mississippi would spend on Medicaid expansion, the federal government would spend $14 in the state, on everything from colonoscopies to blood pressure medication to nursing home care. The study was conducted by the Urban Institute for the nonpartisan Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.

Rachel L. Garfield, senior researcher and associate director of the Kaiser Commission, discussed the findings last week in Jackson at a breakfast hosted by the Mississippi Health

HARDWICK

Continued from Page 8

April 2012 - June 2012 » 40 Net New Businesses » 127 Net New Jobs » 5 Business Expansions » $1,169,936 Public Dollars Invested » $4,313,151 Private Dollars Invested » 7 Buildings/Facades Rehabilitated » 3 Downtown Residential Units added » 7,219 Volunteer Hours logged Note what Main Street is measuring. It is measuring those things that it considers important to its mission and values.

What are you measuring? Most busi-

Advocacy Program.

The study estimates about 288,000 newly eligible people could be expected to enroll in Medicaid if Mississippi does an expansion. More than 600,000 are enrolled now, in a state just shy of 3 million. The study says another 57,000 who are eligible for Medicaid under current standards could be expected to sign up.

The study estimates that with expansion, Mississippi would pay about $1.2 billion more for Medicaid, stretched over 10 years, and would collect more than $15 billion in federal money.

Medicaid eligibility is based on income, and each state sets its own threshold. The federal poverty level is around $11,000 a year. In Mississippi, an adult’s income must be less than half of that to qualify — one of the lowest levels in the nation.

Federal law says states have the option of expanding Medicaid eligibility to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $15,000.

“There’s a very large body of research that shows that having health insurance makes a big difference in how people interact with the health care system,” Garfield said. “When they have coverage, they are more likely to seek preventive care, they are more likely to catch a diagnosis of a serious illness early on.”

Rep. David Baria, D-Bay St. Louis, called the Kaiser numbers “eye popping.”

“I don’t know how we can say no to this,” Baria said.

Bryant spokesman Mick Bullock said the governor’s staff hadn’t seen the Kaiser study. Bryant relies on research from the Milliman firm, which shows larger potential enrollment and substantially larger state expenses.

“The federal and state costs associated with the health mandate come from the same place — taxpayers’ pockets,” Bullock said. “Gov. Bryant does not support a huge tax increase, which a Medicaid expansion would necessitate, or directing additional state resources to the program that could otherwise be spent on core government functions like public safety and economic development.”

nesses measure financial measurements.

Nonprofits tend to measure people served.

Cities measure sales tax revenues. What is measured is really different for every organization – and those measurements should be related to the goals of the organization.

Many measurement deficiencies begin with ambiguous and undefined goals. MerriamWebster defines goal as “the end toward which effort is directed.”

What’s the problem with these actual corporate goals (names withheld to protect the guilty): “Our goal is to be a truly great energy business.”

“Our goal is to provide our customers with the highest quality products and serv-

“If we do not expand, we are taking taxpayer dollars from the state of Mississippi and we’re giving it to other states.”

— Chris Anderson

CEO of the Pascagoula-based Singing River Health System

ices at (the region’s) most competitive(sic) rates. We will continue to maintain high energy efficiency standards for our customers, and within our company, to reduce costs and help protect our environment.”

“Our goal is to help you realize yours.” A mortgage company.

“One goal at (the company) is to be among the most socially responsible food companies.”

One wonders how the companies above know when they have met their goals.

Now let us consider some goals that are a bit more specific: “Our goal is to eliminate all personal income tax and all corporate income tax in a revenue neutral manner,” announced

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal at a Republican event.

“Our goal is to get to the 90 percent of users who don’t need to have the most advanced features of Office,” says Google (GOOG) enterprise chief Amit Singh.

“Our goal is to go out of business.” Caleb’s Hope Society In conclusion, select the goals that are important to your team, measure the things that will most influence the achievement of those goals and report the goals to everyone concerned. The results should make you proud.

Phil Hardwick is coordinator of capacity development at the John C. Stennis Institute of Government. Pease contact Hardwick at phil@philhardwick.com.

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TORNADO AFTERMATH

Smithville transitions from devastation to setting vision for future >> Mayor Gregg Kennedy sees the expected adoption of a 20-year comprehensive land-use plan as a key accomplishment of his third term

By TED CARTER I STAFF WRITER ted.carter@msbusiness.com

On April 27, 2011, the people of Northeast Mississippi’s tiny farming town of Smithville could hardly see a future beyond the next 24 hours.

Today, the survivors of one of the deadliest tornadoes to strike Mississippi are looking nearly 20 years ahead at the Smithville of 2030. The one-time trading post has been framing a picture of its future as it rebuilds from the devastation of the EF-5 tornado that tore through Main Street on April 31 2011, killing 16 townspeople and destroying nearly half its homes and all but two of its businesses.

As could be expected, deciding how land will be used over the next two decades has not been without resistance in a region where the same land has customarily passed undisturbed from one generation to the next. The prospect of designating land uses can be unsettling for the folks who own the land, land planners say. Equally unsettling, they say, can be the prospect of encroachment of incompatible land uses.

Mayor Gregg Kennedy sees the expected adoption of a 20-year comprehensive land-use plan on Feb. 7 as a key accomplishment of a third term in which the town has seen the tragedy of nearly two years ago, followed by departure of a couple hundred residents and then a slow revival as new houses and businesses replace ones claimed by the tornado.

Kennedy sees the land-use plan giving Smithville the direction it had been lacking. “It’s basically a road map to our future,” he said in an interview last week.

Kennedy said the town — which had a pre-tor-

nado population of about 850 people — has wanted to create a comprehensive land-use plan for years but could not afford the cost of the professional planning help it would require. That changed with a posttornado grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission that covered the nearly $70,000 cost, Kennedy said.

While the plan will remain a loose blueprint until the town adopts a zoning map and ordinance based on the land-use features, it offers the immediate benefit of making Smithville eligible for infrastructure grants and for expansion through annexation.

The State of Mississippi requires incorporated communities to prepare and adopt comprehensive plans that address goals and objectives, housing, land use and public facilities. However, the state has not aggressively enforced the mandate, according to Craig High, a municipal planner with the regional engineering and strategic planning firm of Neel Schafer & Co. Smithfield contracted with Neel Schafer & Co.’s Jackson office to help prepare the plan and guide the town in its land-use policymaking. High brought to the assignment his experience in helping his hometown of Biloxi come back from Katrina. Just as with Biloxi after Katrina, gaining a consensus on how and what to rebuild has not always been easy, High said.

“It’s been tough to get everybody to agree on a plan,” he added, attributing some of the friction to disagreements on where mobile homes and other lowcost housing will be allowed in a community that has seen insurance pay outs fund the placement of new, larger homes on expanded acreage.

The people who stayed and bought up surrounding lots and put houses on them “want compatibility,” High said.

They don’t see that with mobile homes on small lots, whether the homes are on wheels or affixed to a foundation, he added. “If you don’t want that trailer park to go back to where it use to be you have to do

SMITHVILLE BYPASS UNLIKELY ANY TIME SOON >> Town longs for a grocery store as its rebuilds from spring 2011 tornado

By TED CARTER I STAFF WRITER ted.carter@msbusiness.com

Smithville need not fret over the prospect that a Mississippi Highway 25 bypass will leave the town’s Central Business District to decay and die.

At least not for a couple more decades, says Bill Jamison, Northern District engineer for the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

Federal and state money is unlikely to be available for realigning and widening the highway in Monroe County, he said. “With the way funds have gotten now, to say in the next 20 years would probably be as good a guess as any," he said in an interview this week.

Should the routing of the widened road take it a mile or so outside

something different from having it come back.”

In the big picture, Smithville’s struggle will lie in “creating an identity,” he said.

“Because so many structures are gone” it’s almost like starting over in “deciding what you want it to look like.”

For instance, along the main roadways, do you want commercial and institutional buildings to be back off the road or near the road? High said.

“What I’d like to see them do is pull the buildings up and be 15 feet off the road with all the parking in the rear and landscaping in front,” he added.

For now, the town should wait to enact zoning ordinances based on the land-use designations in the comprehensive plan, High said.

Let consensus build over time, he advised. “There has been some difference of opinion. Some people are concerned about other people telling them what they can do with their property,” he said.

In the meantime, the community has sufficient cooperative spirit to make it unlikely “someone is going to put in stuff you don’t want,” High said.

What’s more, zoning administration and enforcement doesn’t come cheap, he noted. “Once you pass it you have to have a zoning administrator.”

He said he has advised Kennedy and the town aldermen to “take this slowly. Decide what you can afford to do. For now, they might be better off encouraging people to build in certain places. They may not be ready for zoning.”

Absence of zoning won’t prevent Smithville from expanding, though.

High and Mayor Kennedy do see a catalyst for growth in Smithville: a newly built K-12 school that will open in August.

“I think they’ve got a good thing with that school there,” High said, explaining the school gives Smithville an opportunity to build an image that it’s all about “education and having a good family atmosphere.”

of town, in 20 years Smithville will have annexed the route and stand to benefit from the businesses that grow up along it, said Mayor Gregg Kennedy.

Legislators last year waived a requirement for controlled access along the Smithville stretch of the bypass - should it ever be built. The waiver would allow motorists to have access to whatever businesses spring up along a set portion of the bypass.

Kennedy hasn’t given up on the state running the widened highway along its current route through Smithville’s downtown. The right of way is already there — and the EF-5 tornado of April 27, 2011 cleared most of the structures from the right of way, he noted..

More immediately, Kennedy and his neighbors hope that a grocery will open to replace the Piggly Wiggly the tornado destroyed.

“It’s just a matter of time before somebody comes in,” he predicted.

However, the wait could be longer than many in Smithville think, according to Craig High, a Neel Schafter & Co. strategic planner who helped the town with its recently completed comprehensive plan.

While the Piggly Wiggly enjoyed the benefit of having already paid for the building it occupied, a new owner would have to bear those building costs as an operations expense, High said. “You can’t replace a building that was costing $12 a square foot with a building that will cost $25 a

That’s why the town can focus on annexation, he said.

Even now, you won’t find a house for sale in Smithville. Kennedy said. “What started this spirit is that people are seeing the school going up. People want their kids in the Smithville school.”

The town has a couple of other trump cards on the annexation front: water and sewer services.

A $460,000 sewage system reconditioning project starts next week that will stop groundwater from getting into the sewage system, according to Kennedy.

Smithville’s water well is about seven miles from town, making hookups convenient to landowners in the countryside.

A landowner outside the city must put in his own sanitary sewage system, an expensive proposition under current state environmental rules, he said. “Our real selling point is that the state requires 100 linear feet of field line for every bedroom in a house,” the mayor said, referring to the draining and leach fields necessary for a septic tank system.

“So if you have a four-bedroom house on a oneacre lot, you have to figure out how to put in 400 feet of field line. That’s almost impossible” without having a septic field scattered across the yard, he said.

On the other hand, the town can offer landowners the option of hooking up to its system, Kennedy noted. At the moment, the town has capacity for about 200 new homes and “350 if you count vacant homes from the tornado,” he said.

With the comprehensive plan in place, a modern new school set to open and plenty of water and sewer capacity to offer, Smithville is positioned to expand its borders.

Kennedy, who works a factory job outside Smithville and comes to the town hall on his way home each afternoon, wants to help guide Smithville’s expansion. For that to happen, he’ll need to win reelection on June 4, he said.

square foot. That is what the struggle is."

High said he doesn’t see a grocery chain coming to Smithville anytime soon. “The only way you are going to get a grocery is if someone wants to run a local grocery store,” he said.

A new store may even require a public subsidy of some sort, High added.

Meanwhile, Smithville residents will have to continue to rely on a Dollar General for food and household items. “It’s the number two Dollar General in sales for the entire Southeastern U.S.,” Mayor Kennedy said.

“Any time of day the parking lot is full.”

Meanwhile, the town will continue to see new construction replacing the mobile units businesses have occupied since the tornado, he added.

He expects to break ground on a new town hall in early spring and last week Access Family Medical awarded a $1.9 million contract for construction of a new clinic.

Like Access Family Medical, Renasant Bank has been operating out of temporary trailer facilties. The bank said last year it intends to build anew.

The comprehensive land-use plan contemplates Smithville’s population increasing three- to four-fold over the next 20 years, according to Mayor Kennedy.

The stage been set for that by the work that will either be getting underway or completed in the coming months, he said.

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GAMING

Reworking the way casinos are made in Mississippi >> Existing casinos will not be affected

By FRANK BROWN I STAFF WRITER frank.brown@msbusiness.com

“You need more than just casinos. Slot machines are slot machines. You need to have a reason to come.”

That basic logic by Executive Director Allen Godfrey is the impetus behind a sweeping proposal by the Mississippi Gaming Commission to modify regulations for new casinos in the state.

Among the new regulations are requirements that properties have at least 40,000 square feet of gambling space, at least 300 hotel rooms (an increase from 250) and space to park at least 500 vehicles. Other requirements include a restaurant that can seat at least 200 people and a fine-dining restaurant seating that would 75 or more. It also calls for the hotel quality to increase from two-star to four-star.

Regulators could vote the proposal, which is awaiting any written comments, on in March.

Existing casinos are not affected by the proposed regulations, but if they were, the only 10 of the state’s 30 casinos would meet the first three requirements of 40,000 square feet, 300 rooms and 500 parking spots. Five of those casinos are in Tunica County and four are on Gulf Coast and one is in Lula.

But the proposal does have flexibility that allows exceptions, based on what’s best for the community. More importantly, the commission has flexibility in making decisions based on what new amenities casinos bring the community.

The commission says new developments need “an amenity that will be unique to the market and will encourage economic development and promote tourism.”

“The gaming commission is tasked with making sure a certain project encourages economic development and promotes tourism,” said Godfrey.

“What we’re attempting to do is encourage developers to not only bring more slot machines and restaurants, but to bring an amenity that will promote tourism and draw people to Mississippi who might not otherwise be coming to Mississippi.

“Consider post-Katrina and look at all of the amenities just on Highway 90 that are no longer there. Putt-putt, water park, oceanarium – they didn’t return. A lot of these type places are reasons people came to the Gulf Coast, and they’re not there anymore.

“So we’re trying to encourage people to invest in something that is going to draw people back to the Gulf Coast because its such a pretty place to visit.”

Tunica has been hurt by competition from gambling in other states, and especially by Southland Race Park, a dog track in West Memphis, Ark., that offers reel games, blackjack and video poker.

“That area is going through some pains right now,” said Godfrey. “Lot of it has to do with Southland Race. It is really hurting them a lot. There have been a number of properties up there that have changed hands and are struggling.

“Five years from now, it could be a different story, and I hope it is. There are some nice properties up there. But they’ve got to find a way to get people to visit their properties.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS TUNICA

Bally’s Fitzgerald’s Gold Strike Harrah’s Hollywood Horseshoe Resorts Sam’s Town Tunica Roadhouse

LULA

Isle of Capri

GULF COAST

Beau Rivage Boomtown Grand Hard Rock Hollywood IP Casino Island View Isle of Capri Margaritaville Palace Silver Slipper Treasure Bay

VICKSBURG

Ameristar Diamondjacks Lady Luck Riverwalk

GREENVILLE Trop Harlow’s

NATCHEZ

Isle of Capri Magnolia Bluffs

Gaming Square Feet

Hotel Rooms

Casino Parking

46,535 38,457 46,798 136,000 54,000 63,000 42,902 66,000 31,000

238 506 1,133 1,356 494 507 201 842 135

1,699 1,795 2,412 7,000 1,801 1,776 2,738 4,308 4,265

63,500

485

1,500

75,744 51,665 31,275 53,800 58,900 81,733 82,935 57,819 25,300 38,000 36,826 24,557

1,740 0 494 325 291 1,088 565 710 0 234 0 179

3,959 1,490 2,705 1,802 1,700 3,300 4,200 1,370 900 1,556 1,700 1,096

72,210 28,000 25,000 25,000

149 122 89 80

3,063 631 948 748

21,300 33,000

0 105

386 1,500

17,634 43,000

140 0

908 n/a

“But they will figure it out because there are some very good business people up there who have the knowledge to work this thing out.”

When casinos first opened in 1992, there wasn’t an infrastructure requirement. That came about in 1992 and it stated that casinos must make a 25 percent match. “That meant if you had a $10 million casino, you had to invest $2.5 million in the infrastructure of the property. That was because a lot of riverboats came in almost overnight. We wanted something to still be there when the riverboats left.

“A few years later we went to a 100 percent match. Generally speaking most of the casinos were built by then. The first one under the 100 percent match, if memory serves me, was the Beau Rivage, which was a $750 million project.

Then Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, followed by a economic recession.

And throughout all this period, competition all around us has increased dramatically,” said Godfrey. “In the meantime, the feeder markets we once had now have gaming in their back yard. We’re more of a drive-in market, so it’s been more of an issue of what’s it going to take to create to make more people to the state.”

“We set these bars and numbers, but we would reduce that number if you’re going to bring an amenity like a water park that would bring people to the Gulf Coast,” said Godfrey. “If all were looking for is more slot machine and more food courts, we would have reduced the regulations.”

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LEGISLATURE

Section 42 dispute in a familiar place

Bills move through Capitol while litigation awaits ruling

By CLAY CHANDLER I STAFF WRITER clay.chandler@msbusiness.com

The dispute over the methods used to calculate tax liabilities for Section 42 housing developments is essentially where it was this time last year.

The litigation brought by cities and counties against the Department of Revenue awaits a court ruling, and bills designed to clarify the situation circulate through the Capitol.

The disagreement over how to assess tax value for Section 42, or what are commonly called affordable rental housing, developments began when tax assessors in some of the 40 counties that have them did not include revenue developers get from selling the federal tax credits they receive.

Currently, under Department of Revenue rules, tax assessors can only count tenant rent as income. Because the federal government caps the rent on Section 42 housing, the tax liability for developers, many of whom are from out of state, is limited.

The Mississippi Association of Supervisors, the Mississippi Municipal League and dozens of towns and cities have sued the Department of Revenue, in an attempt to force that agency to allow tax assessors to include the tax credit revenue.

That litigation has made its way to the Mississippi Supreme Court, which has yet to rule one way or another.

Two bills dealing with the assessment rules have been filed. Each sit intheHouseWaysandMeansCommittee,andeachtakeadifferentapproach.Onewouldclarifytherulestoincludethetaxcreditsalerevenue.

One, authored by Ways and Means chairman Jeff Smith, R-Columbus, would precludetaxcreditsalerevenue,and exempt65percentofwhat tax assessors were allowed to calculate from tax liability.

Smith, though, isn’t married to that number.

“We just kind of threw 65 percent out there,” he said in an interview last week. “That’s actually an attempt to get the ball rolling. I can’t say that it will end up being 65 percent.”

Smith said the bill was “good to go” as far as making it out of his committee before the Feb. 5 deadline for committees to report bills originating in their chamber.

Smith said removing the tax credit revenue from the tax-calculation equation is the fairest approach. “Their rent is locked in,” he said.

“They can never go up on it. Where a comparable apartment would get $1,000 a month, these can only bring maybe $500 a month. If you tax them at the full rate, they’re a thing of the past.”

Bills that would have brought tax credit revenue into the equation died in committee last year.

Derrick Surrette, executive director of the Mississippi Supervisors Association, has told the Mississippi Business Journal in multiple interviews the past year that precluding the tax credit revenue costs counties and municipalities huge sums in ad valorem tax money. Especially vulnerable, he said, are poorer counties, where Section 42 developments are heavily concentrated.

Thecruxofthelawsuit,though,centersonabillthatpassedtheLegislature and was signed by then-Gov. Haley Barbour in 2005.

That bill directed tax assessors to use the income capitalization approach when figuring the ad valorem tax bills for Section 42 developments.Theincome capitalization method takesinto account all income derived from a development, including the revenue from tax credits.

Shortly after Barbour signed the bill, the then-State Tax Commission amended its Land Appraisal Manual to preclude tax credit-sale revenue from the assessors’ calculations. The only income they could count was whatever rent tenants paid.

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MANUFACTURING

Ashley Furniture adds Verona plant to Mississippi operations

By TED CARTER I STAFF WRITER ted.carter@msbusiness.com Ashley Furniture Industries is expanding its manufacturing in Mississippi with the start of operations in a 275,000-square-foot facility in Verona, and will create 60 jobs at the new plant.

Ashley Furniture has been in the state for nearly 20 years and has plants in Ecru and Ripley. It will use its new Verona facility, which is situated on a 35-acre site in the Tupelo-Lee Industrial Park South and was formerly occupied by Morgan Fabrics, to manufacture sleepers and mattresses.

The plant will also serve as a state-of-the-art replacement part and customer support center.

“This decision was the result of several years of global strategic and grass roots analysis,” said Ashley president & CEO Todd Wanek.

The Verona facility, he said, is in close proximity to Ashley’s existing facilities in Ripley and Ecru, is serviced by a rail line and is located in a Foreign Trade Zone.

The Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) provided assistance for infrastructure improvements through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program in support of the project.

Ashley Furniture began operations in the Mississippi in 1994 and says it has created more than 3,000 jobs in the state.

MANUFACTURING

Paper products maker von Drehle takes over shuttered Natchez plant

By TED CARTER I STAFF WRITER ted.carter@msbusiness.com Paper products manufacturer von Drehle Corp. is taking over the former Mississippi River Pulp plant in Natchez and will begin operations there with a workforce of at least 100 people.

Hickory, N.C.-based von Drehle provides paper products to commercial and industrial consumers nationwide. The company says it will make investments in additional converting equipment and subsequently will install a paper machine at the Natchez plant.

The former Mississippi River Pulp facility closed in November. From its new Natchez location, von Drehle will manufacture paper products formerly produced by Mississippi River Pulp, as well as its own product lines.

Established in 1974, von Drehle has manufacturing operations in North Carolina, Nevada and Tennessee.

Through an international network of more than 400 distributor partners, the company sells towel, tissue and dispenser products to industrial, commercial and institutional distributors, contract cleaners and building-maintenance service providers.

EMPLOYMENT

State severs some compensation after jobless rate dips

By TED CARTER I STAFF WRITER ted.carter@msbusiness.com A sustained drop in Mississippi’s jobless rate has led the state to cut off emergency unemployment compensation to some unemployed workers who had previously qualified for the benefits.

The reason: Mississippi’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has fallen below the 9 percent level for a three-month period, triggering off Tier 4 Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) benefits.

Triggers for each tier of EUC benefits are predetermined by the legislation that established the program.

Emergency Unemployment Compensation is provided in four tiers as a claimant exhausts his regular compensation benefits. >> Tier 1 is available in all states to claimants who exhaust their regular unemployment benefits.

Eligibility for the other tiers is based on a state’s 3month Total Unemployment Rate (TUR). >> Tier 2 triggers on when a state’s 3-month TUR is at least 6 percent.

>> Tier 3 triggers on when a state’s 3-month TUR is at least 7 percent. >> Tier 4 triggers on when a state’s 3-monht TUR is at least 9 percent.

Anytime a state’s 3-month TUR falls below one of the thresholds, that tier triggers off as is the case for Tier 4 for Mississippi.

As a result of the change, claimants who did not establish Tier 4 eligibility on or before Jan. 13 will no longer establish Tier 4 eligibility. Claimants already eligible for Tier 4 EUC on or before Jan. 13 will receive the balance of their Tier 4 benefits.

AUTOMOTIVE

Union backers: Officials threaten to close Nissan plant CANTON — Pro-union workers say Nissan Motor Co. has threatened to close its Canton assembly plant if workers vote for the United Auto Workers to represent them, though the company denies such threats.

Such threats would violate federal law, which bars managers from telling employees they’ll close a plant in retaliation for a pro-union vote.

“I think the UAW’s allegation that we’ve threatened and intimidated our Canton employees is simply not truthful,” spokesman David Reuter said. “Nissan follows the law and always has.”

Union supporters, aided by prominent black ministers and actor Danny Glover, held a rally yesterday at Tougaloo College to criticize the company. The UAW has been trying to unionize the 5,200-worker plant for years, but no petition for an election has been filed.

In the meantime, the union is trying to push the Japanese automaker to allow it inside the plant to present its case to workers, saying Nissan is running an unfair anti-union campaign. American unions have increasingly focused on such calls for fairness or company neutrality in union elections as they struggle to stanch member losses.

Morris Mock, a Pearl resident who works at Nissan, said that in group meetings, company managers implied the factory might close. However, he said that a manager was more direct in a oneon-one meeting, saying “They’re going to move this factory away.”

“In the one-on-ones, they can say it,” Mock said.

It’s just their word against mine.”

If the allegations were true, Reuter asked, why hasn’t a UAW supporter filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board? That body is charged with enforcing federal labor law.

Kathleen McKinney, the director of the NLRB’s New Orleans office, said the board received two unfair labor practice complaints in late summer.

Neither of them dealt with a threat of closing the plant. McKinney said both complaints were investigated and dismissed in September after the board found no proof. No other complaints are pending.

Displaying their collection of cans for Stewpot Community Services are, from left, Mike Stack, chairman, Eat Here Brands; Frank Spencer, executive director, Stewpot; Bill Latham, cofounder, Eat Here Brands; Nate Delaware, general manager, Babalu. (Photo courtesy of Eat Here Brands)

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Babalu Restaurant donates 1,000 cans to Stewpot

By FRANK BROWN I STAFF WRITER frank.brown@msbusiness.com Diners’ donations have allowed Babalu Tacos & Tapas in Jackson to donate more than 1,000 cans of food to Stewpot Community Services, a Jackson-based social services organization.

During December, customers were offered a $10 Babalu gift certificate for five or more cans donated.

“Being active in the community is something that’s very important to all of us at Babalu,” said cofounder Bill Latham. “We wanted to say ‘thank you’ for all the support we’ve received from our customers, friends and community partners in Jackson. And, at the same time, we wanted to help the less fortunate among us, people who are struggling in these difficult economic times.” Babalu, which is operated by Eat Here Brands, is celebrating its second year in business.

Frank Spencer, executive director of Stewpot, collected the donated cans earlier this month and expressed his appreciation to all who took part in the food drive. Stewpot Community Services began as a simple soup kitchen, but has now expanded to offer 17 different programs, providing shelter, clothing, counseling, children’s programs and many other critical services to the community.

AUTOMOTIVE

Toyota reclaims its title as the world’s top automaker Toyota Motor Manufacturing sold a record 9.75 million vehicles last year, according to an official tally, roaring past General Motors and Volkswagen to reclaim its title as the world’s top automaker.

The Japanese automaker which opened a Corolla plant in Mississippi’s Blue Springs in 2011 had a 27 percent increase in U.S. sales in last year, the New York Times reports.

General Motors, which held the top spot in 2011, mustered 9.29 million vehicles in global sales last year. The U.S. company had been the top-selling

automaker for decades before losing its lead to Toyota in 2008.

A sharp slowdown in exports during the global economic crisis led to Toyota’s biggest loss in decades, while controversy over its handling of recalls greatly tarnished its image for quality and reliability.

In 2011, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, as well as widespread flooding in Thailand later that year, severely disrupted production, weighing on sales in important markets like the United States and pushing Toyota to No. 3 in global sales.

Toyota had a bumper year in 2012, however, as production rebounded and the automaker went on an offensive to win back market share. Toyota sales in the United States surged 27 percent, to 2.08 million vehicles.

— from MBJ staff and wire services

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GAMING

LEGISLATURE

BIPEC rankings released, contain few surprises

By CLAY CHANDLER I STAFF WRITER clay.chandler@msbusiness.com The Business and Industry Political Education Committee’s annual Jobs Report Card for lawmakers, contains few surprises.

For the most part, Republicans did better than Democrats. On the A-F grading scale, only two members of the GOP — Rep. Mark Baker from Brandon, and Sen. Briggs Hopson from Vicksburg – scored lower than an ‘A.’ Baker got a ‘C,’ and Hopson was given a ‘B.’ A handful of Democrats scored either ‘A’ or ‘B.’ Most, though, scored ‘C’ or worse. Baker getting a ‘C,’ which denotes average business support, could be an issue in determining if he runs against Attorney General Jim Hood in 2015. Baker, chairman of the House Judiciary A Committee, hasn’t confirmed or denied that he’ll seek the AG’s post in two years, but is one of perhaps a half-dozen Republicans considered likely challengers.

BIPEC graded lawmakers according to their votes on nine bills, all of which passed and were signed by Gov. Phil Bryant, during the 2012 legislative session.

The selected legislation dealt with workers’ compensation reform, tax and insurance issues, establishing medical zones and the like.

HEALTHCARE

Stands on health care put Bryant, Jindal in spotlight

By TED CARTER I STAFF WRITER ted.carter@msbusiness.com Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal are both making national health care news, with Bryant declaring that no one in Mississippi or elsewhere in the nation is without health care and Jindal for cutting off Medicaid funding that provides hospice care for the terminally ill.

— Page 9 Jindal expects his state to save from $1 million to $3 million annually by forcing the dying to die somewhere other than a Medicaid funded hospice (in neighboring Mississippi, perhaps?).

Bryant, in an interview with Kaiser Health News, defended his opposition to expanding Medicaid in the state and allowing the state to set up a health care insurance exchange. Mississippians, he told Kaiser, can always go to hospital emergency rooms for treatment.

Bryant said his fear is that a health care insurance exchange in Mississippi could drive up Medicaid enrollment by 300,000 people. However, he opposes accepting billions in federal dollars to help cover Medicaid expansion, arguing the state’s estimated multi-year share of $400 million to $500 million would be impossible to fund without raising taxes.

» See financial analysis of Medicaid.

A change in luck?

State stops slide in casino revenues, but it’s just a numbers game

By FRANK BROWN I STAFF WRITER frank.brown@msbusiness.com

Mississippi casinos have halted their four-year slide in annual gross gaming revenues — or have they?

In records released recently by the Mississippi Department of Revenue, gaming revenue in 2012 showed an increase of $12 million over 2011. That stopped a streak of four consecutive years where gaming — Page 11 revenues dropped by an average of about $160 million per year.

“Yes, technically, that’s true,” said Allen Godfrey, executive director of the Mississippi Gaming Commission. “But we have to be realistic. We did have the floods in 2011.”

It was in May 2011 when the rising Mississippi River affected almost every casino on its banks. Some casinos were flooded, and others were forced to close for as many as three weeks.

“If you compare numbers for May 2011 and May 2012, the floods probably cost those casinos more than $60 million in revenue,” said Godfrey. “And that was up and down the river, not just in Tunica.”

» See related story.

Adjusting the ledger for that loss means, realistically, that 2012 would have been a fifth consecutive year of revenue declines since casinos hit an all-time high of $2.892 billion in 2007. Since then, revenues have been in a steady decline each year since -$2.721 billion in 2008, $2.465 billion in 2009, $2.389 billion in 2010 and $2.239 billion in 2011. Casinos took in $2.251 billion dollars in 2012.

But even with the adjustment for the floods, last year’s revenue decline would have been about $48 million, the smallest drop of the five-year span, and an indication the downward movement may be leveling.

“I think the trend is slowing,” said Godfrey. “And I think it is a positive that we still have lot of interest from developers coming to Mississippi.”

There are projects or interest in projects in various stages of development along the Gulf Coast, including the Back Bay. Also, Magnolia Bluffs casino opened in December in Natchez.

BANKING AND FINANCE ROUNDUP

Metropolitan Bank continues its sustained earnings growth through Q4 Metropolitan BancGroup Inc., holding company for Metropolitan Bank, ended the year with its 13th consecutive quarter and fourth consecutive year of increased earnings, the bank, co-headquartered in Ridgeland and Memphis, said in a press statement.

The privately held Metropolitan Bank reported pre-tax, full-year earnings of approximately $5.02 million for the year ending Dec. 31, 2012.

The $720-million bank, formed by a group of veteran Mid South bankers during the midst of the national banking slump, had another “extraordinary year,” during “unprecedented economic times − and in a very low interest rate environment,” said Curt Gabardi, Metropolitan president & CEO. Metropolitan reported 2012 pre-tax earnings 102 percent higher than 2011 results, along with a 22 percent increase in total assets, ending the year at $722 million. The fourth quarter of 2012 was particularly strong, with the bank reporting pre-tax earnings of $1.678 million, a 286 percent increase over the same quarter last year, the bank said.

Strong mortgage lending boosts BancorpSouth Tupelo’s BancorpSouth closed the final quarter of 2012 with net income of $17 million and earnings of 18 cents s share, a two-penny increase over the same quarter a year ago.

BancorpSouth attributed its 4th quarter showing to stronger mortgage lending and improved asset management, particularly in the disposal of Real Estate Owned properties.

However, the fourth quarter earnings failed to live up to the multi-state regional bank’s Q3 2012 earnings of 25 cents a share on net income of $23.8 million.

For all of 2012, the $13.4 billion reported total net income of $84.3 million, or 90 cents a share, compared with $37.6 million, or 45 cents a share, for 2011.

“Results for the fourth quarter reflect yet another quarter of strong mortgage production and asset quality improvement,” said Aubrey Patterson, BancorpSouth chairman. “Mortgage production for the quarter was $549.4 million, contributing to total mortgage lending revenue of $17.2 million. This level of production resulted in a record annual production volume of almost $2 billion for 2012.”

Regions beats estimates as margin widens Regions Financial (RF) reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates as its net interest margin, a gauge of lending profitability, widened.

Net income was $265 million, or 18 cents a share, compared with a loss of $548 million, or 48 cents, a year earlier, when the lender posted a non-cash charge tied to the sale of the Morgan Keegan brokerage, the Birmingham-based bank said in a statement. Excluding some one-time items, profit was 22 cents, compared with the 21-cent average estimate of 26 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.

Regions’ net interest margin, the difference between what it pays on deposits and charges for loans, widened to 3.1 percent from 3.08 percent in both the third quarter and a year earlier. told investors in November the bank’s margin could widen or narrow

by two basis points. Loan growth is expected to be in the low single digits in 2013, Regions said.

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KEMPER

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Act has not been applied.

Justin Matheny, representing the PSC, echoed Cox’s assertion that ratepayers do receive a tangible benefit in exchange for paying CWIP. “In this case, they’re helping to build a new plant and helping to continue to provide electricity into the future.”

The small amount of back and forth between justices and lawyers related to the original rate dispute centered on whether the settlement was final, and rendered the case closed.

Presiding Justice Jess Dickinson during the hearing expressed skepticism that it was, since the settlement kicked proceedings back to the PSC. Any dispute arising out of the new proceedings, Dickenson said , would likely land back before the high court.

Justices will issue a written decision, something Dickinson told lawyers he hoped would happen soon.

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EDUCATION

Entrepreneurial training held

by Madison County group Madison County Economic Development Authority recently partnered with Holmes Community College in Ridgeland to offer an entrepreneurial training program called Operation JumpStart. Operation JumpStart was a hands-on, 36 hour training program designed to help aspiring and existing entrepreneurs determine the feasibility of their business ideas while building essential business planning and preparation skills. Skills learned include business concept development; market research and analysis; and pricing and financial projections.

BANKING AND FINANCE

Trustmark gets approval to acquire Alabama bank JACKSON — Trustmark Corporation and Mobile, Ala.based BancTrust Financial Group Inc. has received full regulatory approval in connection with the proposed merger of BancTrust into Trustmark.

Subject to customary closing conditions contained in the merger agreement, the transaction is expected to be effective as of the close of business Feb. 15.

LAFAYETTE COUNTY

Oxford sees building permits soar, driven by students

OXFORD — A new report shows the number of permits issued for single-family homes in Oxford more than tripled in 2012, jumping from 61 in 2011 to 224 in 2012.

Chris Carter, building inspector for the city, says much of the increase was due to student-geared housing developments with cottages that are rented out per bedroom.

Carter said since the units are stand-alone homes, they are counted as single-family homes.

The value of the single-family-homes was approximately $25.8 million in 2012, which brought $136,909 in permit fees to the city. In 2011, permits totaled approximately $9.3 million, which brought in $42,623 in fees.

Condominiums and apartments also showed jumps with 94 permits issued for condos with a value of approximately $9.2 million and $52,024 in permit fees in 2012 compared to 41 permits issued in 2011 with a value of approximately $3.8 million with $21,633 in fees brought in.

BIG BUSINESS

Entergy assesses cost of 2012 Christmas ice storm

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Entergy Arkansas has compiled preliminary damage estimates following the Christmas Day ice storm that gripped Central Arkansas and left more than 194,000 customers without power and caused extensive damage due to ice, snow and high wind.

Total restoration costs for the repair and/or replacement of Entergy Arkansas’ electrical facilities in areas damaged from the winter storm are estimated to be $55 to $65 million.

— from staff and MBJ wire services

AN INSIDE LOOK

Kemper county energy facility — a wise decision was made

Glenn McCullough

T

he Mississippi Public Service Commission unanimously determined in 2009 that Mississippi Power would need additional baseload electric power generation to meet consumer demand in 2014. Baseload generation provides electricity that’s needed every hour of every day, 365 days a year.

By 2014 with increasing demand for electricity and no additional baseload generation, Mississippi Power customers would face volatile and high costs of electricity purchased from the open market or experience blackouts. Those prospects were not options.

Mississippi Power needed new baseload generation of electricity from fuel that was abundant, environmentally clean and available to deliver 40+ years of affordable, reliable power and economic opportunity.

Mississippi Power chose the Kemper County energy facility, which will achieve these goals through Mississippi lignite as the fuel and 21st century generation technology providing a win on energy, the environment and economic development.

Opponents of the Kemper facility led by the Sierra Club criticize the $2.88-billion project capital cost suggesting that a combined-cycle natural gas plant would have been cheaper to build and fuel with today’s low cost natural gas. But that fails to recognize that Mississippi lignite is cheaper than natural gas. The Kemper facility’s fuel savings, plus sales from captured carbon dioxide ($50 million each year) and rate stability over 40 years, will more than compensate for the capital cost and provide better long-term value to customers.

The Kemper County energy facility is a wise decision for the following reasons.

1. Fuel Diversity — The Public Service Commission stated, “Fuel diversity matters because fuel stability matters.” By bringing online the 582MW Mississippi lignite-fueled Kemper facility in 2014, Mississippi Power is on track to 25 percent lignite, 25 percent coal and 50 percent natural gas energy mix in 2020.

Mississippi Power’s current energy mix is 75 percent natural gas and 25 percent coal. A balanced energy mix protects customers from dramatic increases in fuel cost like the natural gas price spike five years ago.

Today, thanks to abundant supplies of natural gas produced through shale to gas, hydro fracturing and horizontal drilling, the price of natural gas is in the $3.50 MMBtu range. However in 2008, U.S. natural gas prices exceeded $12.00MM Btu before falling to $2.27 MMBtu in 2012. The U.S. Department of Energy Information Administration forecasts natural gas in the U.S. to be $3.12 MM Btu in 2014, $4.13 MMBtu in 2020 and $5.40 MMBtu in 2030.

These forecasts do not assume change in U.S. energy trade policy which will likely happen. A 2012 Department of Energy report determined that exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) would benefit the U.S. through increased income, jobs and energy security. A shift in U.S. policy to export LNG would increase domestic natural gas prices while reducing natural gas cost for our trade allies such as the U.K. and Japan where natural gas prices are $10 and $15 MMBtu, respectfully.

Compared to natural gas, Mississippi lignite coal prices are lower and more stable. The variable cost of lignite coal today is $1-

The Kemper County Coal Plant under construction. $1.25 MMBtu. The Kemper facility fueled by lignite coal purchased under long-term contracts will benefit ratepayers from stable, low-cost fuel prices over the next 40 years.

2. Clean Air and Water — The Kemper facility is the nation’s model for “clean coal” technology. Through converting lignite coal to synthesis gas, 95 percent of pollutants are removed. The facility will be a “zero liquid discharge” plant protecting neighboring streams. At least 65 percent of carbon dioxide produced in the gasification process will be captured and sold for enhanced oil recovery.

3. Power for Customers — The 582 MW’s of clean, reliable baseload electricity generated by the Kemper facility can power more than 37,000 homes in an affordable way for the next 40 years, meeting the mandate of baseload electricity called for by the Public Service Commission.

4. Jobs for Mississippians — Currently, 270 Mississippi companies work on the Kemper facility. Nearly 12,000 direct and indirect jobs will be generated and 3,000 men and women have good jobs on site today.

Once in operation, more than 1,000 people will have direct and indirect jobs supporting the facility.

5. Expanding the tax base — During the current construction phase, the Kemper facility is contributing nearly $75 million in local and state taxes. Once in operation, the facility will pay $30 million in taxes each year for more than forty years.

6. Making Mississippi and America energy secure — The Kemper facility uses Mississippi lignite coal mined by Mississippians. The carbon dioxide captured from the gasification process will be sold for use in enhanced oil recovery, increasing U.S. oil production by 2 million barrels each year reducing our dependence on foreign oil.

Through fuel diversity and affordable electricity, making use of Mississippi lignite, innovative technologies for clean air and water, thousands of good jobs for Mississippians and expanding the tax base: the Kemper County energy facility is a win for customers, the environment and Mississippi’s economy.

Opponents of the Kemper facility led by the Sierra Club criticize the $2.88-billion project capital cost suggesting that a combined-cycle natural gas plant would have been cheaper to build and fuel with today’s low cost natural gas.

Glenn McCullough, Jr. is the former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and a past mayor of Tupelo. He is chairman of Advance Mississippi, a coalition advocating for sound energy policies that will benefit consumers, the environment and economy.

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AN MBJ FOCUS:

HEALTH CARE

To the rescue — swiftly

CARE IN THE AIR

>> Hospital helicopter transports are saving lives

By BECKY GILLETTE I CONTRIBUTOR mbj@msbusiness.com

T Courtessy of UMMC

Two AirCare helicopters fly over University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. CareFlight logs between 400 and 500 flights a year, mostly in response to vehicle accidents and emergency room transfers.

Not just different.

RANSPORTING critically ill or injured patients by helicopter from hospital to hospital or from the scene of an accident is commonplace in Mississippi’s urban centers and rural communities.

Today about a dozen helicopters operate in Mississippi, flying heart transplant recipients, accident victims and premature babies to lifesaving care. The service is available throughout the state and the hel-

icopters are based in locations from Corinth to Hattiesburg. “It definitely is a life-saving resource to have in the region simply because it provides an advanced level of care in a speedy form. As rural as Mississippi is in general air medical transportation can be a big benefit,� said Josh Wenzel, administrative director of patient placement and transportation for North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo.

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The color you eat can keep you healthier How many times growing up did your mom tell you to eat your vegetables whether you liked them or not? Perhaps you had to clean your plate before you were excused from the table, too. Now that you are an adult you realize that your mom was trying to promote healthy eating.

New information is always coming out about how important vegetables are to increase and maintain good health and stave off disease. The key is to eat more crucif-

erous vegetables, for example, broccoli, asparagus, cauliflower, peppers, cucumbers and zucchini. The benefits of eating vegetables include: » They help to preserve bone mass and muscle tissue. » They help the body to maintain more of an alkaline state than acidic. It will also increase proper digestion, metabolic rate and energy. This will also reduce acid reflux. » They are rich in antioxidants, vitamins,

minerals and phytonutrients. They reduce free radical damage and aging. Many plant antioxidants are stored in the leaves, where oxygen is active in photosynthesis. Others appear in plant pigments (for example, the anthocyanins that make the blue-purple colors of blackberries and blueberries) and the chemical defenses of plant skins (for example, quercetin in apple skins). Fat-soluble antioxidants are most likely to concentrate in the fatty plant material – such

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as within the germ. » They contain lots of water to help you stay hydrated. » They contain high fiber content.This will increase proper digestion and elimination. Eating them on a regular basis can Melinda Duffie result in a higher volume of food intake which is important in reducing body fat. » They’re lower on the glycemic index and won’t raise blood glucose or insulin levels.

Studies suggest that consuming a diet rich in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties, like those found in fruits and vegetables, may lower age-related cognitive declines, such as Alzheimer’s and the risk of developing neurodegenerative disease.

Studies show that eating plenty of vegetables can reduce disease such as cancer and heart disease. For instance, by simply increasing vegetable and fruit intake, experts predict that we could prevent 20 percent or more of all cancer cases and avoid approximately 200,000 cancer-related deaths annually. Eating plenty of vegetables can also lower risk of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, stroke, eye disease, asthma, COPD and osteoporosis.

Most Americans get only a total of three cups a day of fruits and vegetables. The latest dietary guidelines suggest five to thirteen servings of fruits and vegetables a day which is two-and-a-half to six-and-a-half cups. This depends on your caloric needs.

Your vegetable intake should be higher than your fruit intake, as well. It is also important to note that eating organic vegetables are a better alternative as they are not immersed in pesticides and are more natural. The fresher your produce the better, for instance, buying from a local farmer.

Frozen is also a good alternative to fresh given some vegetables are not available during certain times of the year.

I always tell my clients, “If you don’t like some foods, don’t eat them.” Even if you are picky there are usually a few vegetables that you will eat. Maybe you haven’t tried some, either. Take a chance and try them, you might just find some new foods to eat.

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decades. Medicine at the time was basic but as the needs of the county grew, the hospital grew with it. We started with no cardiologist and now we have a dozen with a CATH lab, sophisticated technology and a full array of cardiac services, including cardiothoracic surgery.

I’m proud to be part of a team of doctors committed to advancing heart care in North Mississippi. We’ve come a long way in a few years: Our response times for heart attack treatment are faster than most hospitals around the country; we participate in national clinical device and medical trials; we offer free screenings in the community, so people can be healthier. We invest continuously in new advancements to make procedures less invasive and recovery times shorter. It’s why we were the only hospital in MS rated 5 star for the treatment of heart attacks

by HealthGrades. As a Dr. Stevan Himmelstein Cardiologist and Medical Director of the Baptist DeSoto CATH lab

cardiologist, that’s exciting.

I can’t wait to see where we are a decade from now.”

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ISSISSIPPI IS once again at the forefront of cardiovascular medicine with the significant milestone of the country’s first drug eluting bioabsorbable vascular scaffold placed in the heart artery of a patient at the North Mississippi Medical Center Heart Institute in late December 2012.

The device for opening blocked arteries to restore blood flow to the heart is similar to a permanent metal stent, but the bioabsorbable vascular scaffold dissolves into the body. The Absorb de-

vice, which is currently undergoing trials in the U.S., shows promise for having advantages over permanent metal stents because it may allow the treated vessel to resume more natural function and movement. “This is a milestone not just for Mississippi, but for the entire U.S.,� said interventional cardiologist Barry Bertolet, M.D. “I think this is an honor for Mississippi to be at the forefront of cardiovascular medicine yet again. Dr. James Hardy started if off a long time ago with the first heart transplant in the U.S. being done in Mississippi. Here we are nearly 50 years down the road doing the first bioabsorbable scaffold in the U.S. As I go around the U.S., Mississippi still has a negative connotation as being a

backward state. “This should reassure people who live in Mississippi that they do have access to cutting edge medical care.�

The placement of the first bioabsorbable scaffold in a U.S. patient is part of a research study looking in its feasibly.

The scaffold is made of polylactide, a naturally dissolvable material that is commonly used in dissolving sutures.

The device made by Abbott Vascular received FDA approval in December 2012 to begin the ABSORB trial in the U.S. The device shows a lot of promise. “This is going to be a game changer,�

Bertolet said. “The thought is this will

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Nurse practitioners fill void in state health care

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The number of nurse practitioners is increasing in Mississippi. Their role in health care is also increasing as these highly trained nursing professionals are specializing and giving patients a higher level of care.

According to Gayle Harrell, president of the Mississippi Nurses Association, there are 3,300 advanced practicing nurses and approximately 2,800 to 2,900 of those are nurse practitioners. “Most of our nurse practitioners are family care providers, but many work in different areas of health care,� she said. “The newest specialty that’s been given legislative approval is clinical nurse specialist.�

Harrell, who has been a nurse practitioner since 2003 and is a wound care specialist, lists the nurse practitioner practice areas as family, acute care, midwifery and certified nurse anesthetist,. All types of nurse practitioners require training at the Master’s degree level or above.

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be a major step forward and help us all move toward better patient care. It has been used in several clinical trials worldwide. Initial data shows that, at least in the shortterm, the drug eluting bioabsorbable scaffold is at least as safe as the present drug eluting metal stents. In the present study, we are looking more towards long-term safety, as well as exploring other things like the artery dilating properly after the scaffold has been in place for a while.”

When Bertolet started Bertolet practicing medicine, stents had not yet come into use. Arteries could be opened with angioplasty balloons, but those had a lot of problems. The next development was metal stents that were not drug treated. Three or four generations of development later, metal stents were longer, more flexible and easier to use. But the bare metal stents, which keep the artery, could cause problems long term because of scar tissue growing into the artery. That was when drug-eluting stents were developed to prevent the growth of scar tissue.

Metal stents are not as flexible as natural arteries.

“The artery is only as big as the stent put in,” Bertolet said. “The way God made you and I is that arteries can dilate at times. The stent doesn’t allow the artery to dilate when more blood flow is needed. And if you put metal in an artery, it eliminates the possibility of doing a bypass in that particular area. You might be able to do it further downstream, but it may take away future revascularization possibilities.

“The third thing is that with metal stents, some people require long-term blood thinner therapies. We have seen some people four and five years out who have blood clots form at that stent site. Now the question is, ‘If you put in a drug- coated stent, how long do you have to keep on blood thinner therapy?’”

The bioabsorbable scaffolds appear to have the advantages of providing support for the heart artery just like a metal stent while allowing the artery the opportunity to heal naturally. The bioabsorbable scaffold starts to break down in nine to 12 months, and is gone within two years. The bioabsorbable scaffolds also have drugs that prevent the growth of scar tissue into the artery.

“There is a natural healing process in the artery called remodeling,” Bertolet said.

“That process occurs usually in the first six months or so. After that the heart artery doesn’t need the additional support given to it by a stent. The scaffold starts to disappear after the artery begins its healing process. An analogy may be if you cut your

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leg and got sutures, the sutures have to stay in for a certain amount of time to help the body heal. But after the body heals, you don’t need sutures anymore. There is support when needed, but then it goes away after that.”

Because the stent disappears, it doesn’t take away future bypass options. And patients don’t have to be on long-term blood thinner therapy. When the stent disappears, the artery begins to act like a normal artery again.

“With the bioabsorbable scaffold, the heart artery starts to act like a normal heart artery,” he said. “It dilates when the heart needs more blood.”

Bertolet said it took the work of many

people to bring this significant milestone in cardiovascular surgery development to Tupelo. There is a research department within Bartolet’s cardiology practice called Cardiology Associates Research (CARE).

“It is due to the efforts of that research office that made this possible,” he said.

“That is the business entity portion of our practice that brought this research study to our practice and our state. We have about 20 other research studies ongoing. CARE brings those research studies to our practice and our state. To do the first bioabsorbable scaffold surgery in Tupelo took a lot of hard work from a lot of people within that organization.”

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Flight program celebrated 25 years of operation and more than 7,300 flights. CareFlight is a division of North Mississippi Health Services. The helicopter is staffed by hospital employees, and its pilots and mechanics are contract employees.

Wenzel said CareFlight logs between 400 and 500 flights a year, mostly in response to vehicle accidents and transfers from emergency rooms to the medical center.

The number of lives that medical helicopter missions save is unknown but the results are widely acknowledged. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do make a difference,â&#x20AC;? said Todd Perry, chief flight nurse for the University of Mississippi Medical Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AirCare service, which has operated under the umbrella of the medical center since 1996.

UMMC also has operated a helicopter in Meridian since 2009. Training for both operations is done through the medical center.

If one of the helicopters is on a flight, the other fills in. Most of the UMMC flights, about 85 percent, pick up and deliver patients between hospitals but the crews also take calls to the scenes of accidents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We respond statewide,â&#x20AC;? said Perry.

Perry said on a typical mission, the UMMC helicopter crew consists of a pilot, flight nurse and flight paramedic. The staff, which includes 25 medical personnel working 12-hour shifts, is available around the clock. Pilots, most with military backgrounds, work on contract.

Since the program began, the AirCare teams have transported more than 16,000 adult, pediatric and neonatal patients almost 2 million miles.

Hattiesburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical helicopter service dates back to the late 1960s when the city took part in the federal air rescue test program. Jackson and Greenwood also participated but only Hattiesburg organized a local operation after the government program ended.

Now, Forrest General has two air ambulance helicopters to transport patients to and from the hospital for emergency care.

Rescue 7 has been operated by the Southeast Mississippi Air Ambulance District since 1971 with Forrest General serving as its medical control Base. Its crews have transported more than 15,000 patients. In 2008, SEMAAD partnered with Baptist LifeFlight, based in Pensacola, Fla., to expand its service. LifeFlightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coverage area includes South Mississippi.

Dr. John Nelson, Medical Director for Forrest Generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Emergency Services, said that Rescue 7 is the longest continually operating non-hospital based helicopter ambulance service in America.

As technology and training have advanced, the medical helicopters have evolved from a basic flying ambulance to a sophisticated airborne version of the hospital emergency room.

The early medical helicopter flights were basic transportation with no attendants but now patients receive critical care much as they would in ICU and the emergency room.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;We use aircraft nobody else in the state uses,â&#x20AC;? Perry said. Both are flown under instrument rules that allow flying in marginal weather conditions. With top of the line color weather radar, anti-collision instruments and night vision goggles among other equipment, the only conditions that keep the crew on the ground are dense fog, freezing rain and thunderstorms.

Depending on conditions, the helicopter can travel at an altitude of 7,500 to 8,500 feet and cruise at an average 155 mph.

And as technology improves, the price increases. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It costs millions of dollars a year to operate an aircraft,â&#x20AC;? said Wetzel. Instead of

buying its own multimillion helicopter, Tupelo leases one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very expensive tool,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The cost of a new helicopter like the one UMMC flies is around $7 million, Perry said.

UMMCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s companion helicopter based in Meridian comes with a $5.5 million price tag.

The industry average is â&#x20AC;&#x153;probably $12,000 to $20,000 per flight,â&#x20AC;? Perry said, including the basic liftoff fee, mileage and any medicine and equipment used.

Still, Wetzel said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;in the grand scheme of things. EMS transport is such a small number when you look at the total cost of health care but it has a very big impact.â&#x20AC;?

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The state has five nursing schools with nurse practitioner programs, graduating about 150 nurse practitioners each year.

Compare that to only 20 medical students graduating in family practice specialties each year.

Higher-level trained medical specialists are not as likely to act as collaborating physicians for nurse practitioners.

Harrell says the acceptance of nurse practitioners as valuable health care pro-

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sented next year that will allow more nurse practitioners to work in rural areas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to work with the State Medical Association,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all trying to move forward.â&#x20AC;?

She lists the positives that nurse practitioners Murphy bring to the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health care. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very holistic in their care; they keep up with continuing education; and they give good economic value to com-

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munities because they buy buildings, employ others and pay taxes,â&#x20AC;? she said.

George Murphy and his wife, Rebecca, are both nurse practitioners. He works on a rotating schedule in two rural hospitals â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Edwin Ozua Hospital and Jagannath Sherigar Smith Hospital â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that are part of Northwest Regional in Clarksdale. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a family nurse practitioner for 16 years, worked in a private clinic in Rosedale and has been a hospitalist the past seven years. He gets a lot of satisfaction by helping people in their time of need. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was born in Clarksdale, lived away and came back because there is such a need here,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of health care professionals wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come here, but I find it rewarding. I spend time with patients and approach them like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re my family members.â&#x20AC;?

Lamenting the need for more physicians in rural areas, Murphy said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody deserves health care, but who will come set up a medical practice in Clarksdale and Rosedale? We have trouble recruiting doctors. All the ones we have, except two, come on visas and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay.â&#x20AC;?

Murphy believes nurse practitioners are filling the void in health care but would like to see the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collaborating-physician law changed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It should be changed,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nurse practitioners will send patients to specialists as needed so they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to have a collaborating doctor.â&#x20AC;?

Mary Smith is a Starkville-based nurse practitioner who makes geriatric house calls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It started from a need I saw, beginning with my own grandparents,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I began the program on my own but recently had an opportunity to collaborate with the Golden Triangle Planning District.â&#x20AC;?

Smith is now an employ of this economic development organization and covers seven counties as she serves the elderly with house calls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can draw on the Planning Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resources and programs, and we can bill Medicaid and Medicare,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Patients are extremely happy with the service we provide. They like the amount of time we spend with them.â&#x20AC;?

She points out that her service does not compete with home health care, which does not provide skilled nursing care as she does. Her service has a collaborating physician as required by law, but is different in that it refers patients to their own physicians as needed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The doctors in the area have been very positive and supportive,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes we realize patients need hospice care, or we may see hazards in the home that we can point out.â&#x20AC;?

Smith, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a nurse practitioner since 1999, sees this specialized nursing as making a big contribution to health care in the state by providing access that many patients have never had before. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quality care,â&#x20AC;? she added.

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24 â&#x2013; Mississippi Business Journal â&#x2013; February 1, 2013

November 2012 Incorporations

4799 Sunningdale Dr 11/9/12 The Crowe's Nest of Fulton LLC LLC 4684 Sunningdale Dr 11/14/12

This is the November 2012 list of the state’s newly incorporated businesses from the Secretary of State’s Office. Listed are towns from Aberdeen to Yazoo City.

Listings include business name, type, date formed and location. Addresses reflect legal entity for service of process, not necessarily the new business entities’ operating address.

Belzoni

Aberdeen

LLC Little B's Used Car Sales LLC 11/30/12 309A Hwy 145 N LP MFL Enterprises, L.P. 20606 Egypt Road 11/21/12

Ackerman

C & C Services of Choctaw LLC LLC 11/6/12 56 South Union Rd

Amory

LLC Amory Heating & Air, LLC 106 2Nd Ave. S 11/13/12 Dalrymple Old Armory Foundation Inc

NP

Independent Insurance Services LLC

LLC

11/7/12

204 First Avenue

1712 Robert Hill Road 11/5/12 Kerko Klean LLC LLC 11/19/12 803 Maple St LLC RTC Group, LLC 600 Meadowbrook Circle 11/13/12 The Patrick Law Firm, P.A. PA 11/14/12 63043 Highway 25N W & M Enterprise LLC LLC 11/5/12 201 6Th Street South

Ashland

LLC A New Development LLC 11/9/12 177 Court St BUS Ashland Hardware, Inc. 11/19/12 16925 Boundary Dr

Baldwyn

Busy Bee Janitorial Service LLC LLC 11/20/12 120 West Main St MPHJ, LLC LLC 11/27/12 1225 Carrollville Road Nebo Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Outreach Ministries NP 11/13/12 633 Cemetery Road

Bassfield

S & G Services LLC 11/9/12

LLC 21 Hawkins Ave

Hill Country Cattle LLC LLC 11/14/12 102 Graves St Hinton's Rides & Rods, LLC LLC 11/20/12 185 Highway 35 South R & R Xpress LLC LLC 11/7/12 204 Pamela Street Thai Hut, LLC LLC 11/29/12 325 Lakewood Dr

Bay Springs

Jamie Valentine Logging LLC LLC 11/13/12 736 Cr 1725

Bay St Louis

Derek's Boat & Engine Repair LLC LLC 11/8/12 1540 Quail Cove (39520)

Impact Building and Renovations LLC

LLC

311 Seventh St LLC 1000 Hwy 90

The Crooked Letter Coffee Company LLCLLC

11/23/12 4050 Blue Jay St The Esperanza Project NP 11/20/12 210 Bay Oaks Drive The French Potager, LLC LLC 11/8/12 325 Citizen St

Beaumont

EH&H Logging LLC 11/13/12

Belden

LMM Holdings III LLC

Biloxi

LLC 2668 Beach, LLC 11/26/12 2668 Beach Boulevard, Unit 1501 626 Octave, LLC LLC 11/26/12 2668 Beach Boulevard, Unit 1501 LLC 9g Technologies LLC 11/8/12 2439 Castille Place Back Bay Casino Holding, Inc. BUS 2598 Pass Rd., Suite A 11/9/12 LLC Big Fish Charters LLC 1680 Vine St 11/1/12 Changes Salon and Spa LLC LLC 13377 Rocky Mountain Dr. 11/13/12 Christian Cultural Center Fellowship

LLC 333 Wingate Rd

NP

11/26/12 2135 Floyd Dr Elliott Security Solutions LLC LLC 11/6/12 14510 Lemoyne Blvd Apt 2403 Informing Veterans And Dependents Limited Liability Company (LLC) LLC 11/8/12 1972 Bayside Drive Jackson and Diplomat LLC LLC 2598 Pass Rd., Suite A 11/26/12 JHS Real Properties LLC LLC 11/26/12 2668 Beach Boulevard, Unit 1501 King Wok Lin Inc BUS 921 Cedar Lake Rd Ste M 11/14/12 Last Five Acres LLC LLC 11/1/12 1077 Tommy Munro Dr McGlock Precision Components, LLC

LLC

1282 Beach Blvd #102 11/9/12 N.A.C. Realty LLC LLC 183 McDonnell Ave #103 11/15/12

New Age Construction Builders LLC

LLC

183 McDonnell Ave #103 11/15/12 Ocean Springs Garden Club NP 11/20/12 14024 Birchwood Dr LLC Seal Internet Services LLC 11/1/12 1955 Popps Ferry Rd Apt # J1050 Sew Dat LLC LLC 11/15/12 16018 Karen Road Shoreline Construction LLC LLC 11/8/12 2545 River Place Blvd Weaver Solutions LLC LLC 11/20/12 859 Ravenwood Court Whitney Way, LLC LLC 11/26/12 2668 Beach Boulevard, Unit 1501

Blue Mountain

Batesville

11/21/12 Pedagogy LLC 11/30/12

NP Hidden Treasures Inc 204 Sunflower St. 11/20/12 Integrity 1, Inc. BUS 204 Sunflower St. 11/20/12

Cotton Plant Clinic, LLC 11/14/12

LLC 100 Cr 714

Blue Springs Team Member Activity Assocation Inc

11/21/12

NP

1200 Magnolia Way

Booneville

EVCON Designs LLC LLC 11/13/12 201 West Market Street Scales Construction of Baldwyn, LLC

LLC

11/15/12 201 W. Market Street Square 1 Outdoors, Inc NP 11/6/12 29 Cr 1250

Bouge Chitto

Law Firm of F Gregory Malta PC PA 11/30/12 402 Monticello St

Brandon

All Kleen LLC LLC 11/20/12 301 Deer Hollow Anderson Plumbing, LLC LLC 11/7/12 1029 Windrose Dr Aurora Solutions, Inc. BUS 11/7/12 168 Summit Ridge Dr Brownstone Geologic & Environmental Consulting LLC LLC 11/14/12 210 Evergreen Dr Catahoula Ventures, LLC LLC 11/9/12 403 Port Arbor Daniels Business Services LLC LLC 11/8/12 114 Redbud Dr Deep South Environmental LLC LLC 11/7/12 762 West Government St Gary's Grill at Eagle Ridge LLC LLC 11/27/12 680 Parker Place

Houndstooth Commercial Properties LLCLLC

LLC

11/27/12

200 East Government Street

OTH J. Marsh & Associates DBA 11/26/12 117 Redbud Trail OTH Jerry D. Marsh DBA 117 Redbud Trail 11/26/12 LLC JLC Investments LLC 11/6/12 266 Lighthouse Lane LLC JRS Florence, LLC 20 Eastgate Drive, Suite D 11/19/12 BUS KBF Resources Inc 18 Bastille Street 11/15/12 Keith Russell DBA 216 Mallard Dr 11/15/12 LLC Krisean Hospitality, LLC 280 Old Hwy 80 11/19/12 LLC Maingram Properties LLC 503 Avalon Way, Suite B 11/20/12 Mississippi Sports Academy Foundation Inc NP 11/2/12 1033 Stump Ridge Rd LLC MS Enterprises LLC 101 Swallow Drive 11/9/12 Necaise Solutions LLC LLC 11/27/12 721 Tortoise Ridge LLC PGC, LLC 205 Pear Orchard Dr. 11/19/12 PPM Consulting LLC LLC 11/26/12 410 Port Arbor BUS Prime Site Properties, Inc 307 Gladeview Place 11/20/12 R2R Construction Inc BUS 11/14/12 712 North Haven Pl Red-Box-Games, LLC LLC 110 Hunters Oak Place 11/15/12 Richard P. Noel III, Attorney and Counselor at Law, PLLC PLLC 821 Zane Dr 11/15/12 Russell Construction Company of Mississippi DBA 11/15/12 216 Mallard Dr S. Stryker Johnson Law, PLLC PLLC 231 Magnolia Trail 11/9/12 Searcy Properties LLC LLC 503 Avalon Way, Suite B 11/20/12 Snap-On Tools Franchisee DBA LLC 11/9/12 101 Swallow Drive Southern Reign Marketing LLC LLC 213 Overlook Cove 11/14/12 ST JOT LLC LLC 11/30/12 2607 Highway 80 East Tea Rental Properties LLC LLC 11/2/12 181 Stull Rd The Muscadine Village Consignment Shop, LLC LLC 11/29/12 20 Eastgate Drive, Suite D Truck It - Impound & Recovery IncBUS 11/27/12 26 Ashland Ave Unity Chapel Assembly of God, Inc.NP 11/6/12 999 South College Street Veronica's Cleaning Service & Construction LLC LLC 11/15/12 450 Overby St. Lot 27 Wytot, LLC LLC 11/2/12 418 Thorngate Dr

Braxton

Precise Electric, LLC LLC 11/30/12 521 Magnolia Drive

Brookhaven

BV Oilfield Service & Supply LLC LLC 11/1/12 963 Hwy 550 Oak Hill Investments, LLC LLC 11/30/12 810 Lida Land Reed's Metals of Benton, AR, Inc.BUS 11/15/12 136 East Chippewa Street Resting Acres LLC LLC 11/16/12 559 West Lincoln Dr SW Sweet Panda Frozen Yogurt DBA LLC 11/9/12 910 Brookway Blvd Sweet Panda LLC LLC 11/9/12 910 Brookway Blvd Whittington Berard LLC LLC 11/20/12 112 W. Monticello St

Bruce

2 Cousins Construction, L.P. LP 11/27/12 363 County Road 125 West Calhoun Fire Department NP 11/6/12 506 Highway 330

Byhalia

Noble Investigations LLC LLC 11/19/12 583 Watson Rd Promise Delivery, Inc. BUS 11/8/12 3350 Highway 309 North

Byram

A.B. Oil Trans LLC LLC 11/26/12 4705 Brookwood Place

February 1, 2013 LLC Burton's Investments LLC 11/1/12 204 Johnston Cove Educare Services and Associates NP 4005 Torry Pines Street 11/2/12 NP Helping Every Living Person 11/9/12 703 Olive Branch Cove LLC Keith's Racewalkers LLC 2227 West Ridge Road 11/8/12 LLC Martin & Martin & Martin LLC 5750 I-55 South Suite 100 11/20/12 Strategic It Consulting Group LLC LLC 268 Austin Circle 11/8/12 LLC Talk To Me, LLC 1136 BullRun Dr 11/1/12 Uncle Carver's Honey Bees LLC LLC 1424 Forbes Dr 11/27/12 LLC Williams & Wells Group LLC 11/9/12 878 Prisock Road

Calhoun City

C & H Rentals, LLC 11/27/12

LLC 307 E Veterans

Canton

Canton Depot Wine & Spirits L.L.C.LLC 11/7/12 479 West Peace St Donnie Sanders, LLC LLC 151 West Peace 11/19/12 Forest Haul LLC LLC 11/15/12 1170 Old Jackson Rd Fresh Market Fish & Seafood LLC LLC 104 Harvey Watkins Dr 11/28/12 Jap Jay Jalaram Bapa, LLC LLC 11/9/12 3390 North Liberty St Maurice Johnson Distribution BUS Company Inc 11/13/12 113 Marshas Way MS & Company of Canton LLC LLC 11/16/12 1554 W Peace St LLC Rockin Chair IV, LLC 11/19/12 220 Rocking Chair Road The Wohner-Olden Foundation Inc NP 11/28/12 229 East Center Street LLC Vener Marine, LLC 11/14/12 170 Deerwood Xing WAM Properties LLC LLC 279 Soldier Colony Rd 11/5/12 Yazoo Bumpers Drive In LLC LLC 11/13/12 1554 W Peace St

CharmLife Designs LLC LLC 11/23/12 6 Windance Drive Devereux and Nguyen, LLC LLC 11/7/12 6420 Highway 11 North, Suite C EmBROIDME of GULFPORT DBA LLC 11/13/12 1525 Ceasar Road In Loving Arms DBA OTH 11/15/12 83 White Chapel Road Jay's Truck & Dozer Service, LLC LLC 11/29/12 92 Burgetown Rd Johnsons Seafood and Market LLC.LLC 11/13/12 32 Bramblett Cir. K. Lee's Trucking LLC LLC 11/2/12 92 Burgetown Rd KMTMS, LLC LLC 11/13/12 1525 Ceasar Road Marvene Augustus DBA OTH 11/15/12 83 White Chapel Road Melissa Bond-Real Estate Appraisals LLCLLC

11/9/12 15 Hanna Drive The Citadel Storehouse LLC LLC 11/27/12 1517 Ceasar Rd

7 Pines LLC 11/16/12

Allen Hamer Sledge Home Place LLC

LLC

215 North Pearman Avenue 11/21/12 E&W Investment Properties LLC LLC 11/14/12 606 Conrad Garrett Investment Properties LLCLLC 606 Conrad 11/14/12 Lo-Flyer 235, LLC LLC 11/9/12 215 North Pearman Avenue LLC Old Rosedale, LLC 600 Frederick 11/13/12 Sharpe Avenue Development Company LLC LLC 11/26/12 150 N Sharpe Ave Sharpe Avenue Management LLC Company LLC 11/26/12 150 N Sharpe Ave

Clinton

AllTech Systems, Inc. BUS 710 E Northside Dr 11/15/12 Baird Land Development, LLC LLC 11/14/12 130 Bellemeade Drive Cornerstone Concepts Marketing, LLC

LLC

104 Edinburgh Lane 11/26/12 Devin D. Boone DBA OTH 11/16/12 327 Cascades Circle East Family First Behavioral Health, BUS Incorporated 11/14/12 434 Sylvan Trail GS Investments, LLC LLC 11/29/12 127 Lake Forest Lane LeSure Health Solutions, LLC LLC 11/26/12 510 Hathaway Dr Lighthouse Assembly of Believers DBA OTH 327 Cascades Circle East 11/16/12 Litigation Support Services LLC LLC 11/2/12 103 E. Leake Street NP Northside Elementary PTO 11/14/12 306 Monterey Drive Our Moment Entertainment, LLC LLC Strategic Contractors, LLC LLC 11/19/12 801 East Northside Drive Stuff By Lauren LLC LLC 11/15/12 423 Warwick Rd Ten Studios LLC LLC 11/8/12 129 Choctaw Bend The Mississippi Leadership Group NP 11/14/12 310 Monterey Drive (39056)

Coldwater

DC Arms LLC LLC 11/14/12 104 Oak Tree Cv Precision Industries Inc. BUS 11/8/12 489 Peyton Rd Yellow Leaf, Inc. BUS 11/8/12 489 Peyton Rd

Collins

DTR Holdings, LLC LLC 11/29/12 25 E. Williamsburg Rd. Rogers Land & Timber, LLC LLC 11/29/12 25 E. Williamsburg Rd.

Collinsville LLC 15311 Highway 82

Carthage

Ben's Lock Service, LLC LLC 11/14/12 450 Singleton Rd PRV LLC LLC 11/30/12 713 Highway 16

Charleston

Commercial Grain Marketing LLC LLC 11/7/12 409 West Cypress Street St. John Youth Outreach MinistriesNP 11/5/12 409 North Church Street

Clarksdale

Cleveland

11/26/12 2080 Dunbarton Dr. Ste. 5 (Jackson 39216)

Carriere

Carrollton

BUS Drew Brown, Inc. 11/13/12 500 Viney Ridge Rd Dupree Education Associates LLC LLC 1016 Page Ave 11/8/12 Proffer Wholesale Produce, Inc BUS 11/30/12 143 Yazoo Ave

Charity Begins at Home Adult Day Service LLC LLC 11/30/12 1010 McKinley St David Taylor Funeral Home LLC LLC 11/2/12 2307 Reinhart Avenue

Advanced Cardiac Imaging Solutions, LLCLLC

11/1/12 9575 Collins Drive Martin Mini Storage, LLC LLC 11/26/12

11030 Martin Kemper County Road

Columbia

D'Nat LLC LLC 11/7/12 911 Elm Drive DHAMA MS, LLC LLC 11/20/12 326B Second Street Duff Capital Investors LLC LLC 11/9/12 702 Main Street Elements Catering and Floral Design LLC LLC

11/16/12

523 Lumberton Rd

Jones Companies Corporate Offices, LLC LLC

11/1/12 2438 Hwy 98 East Mexico City Restaurant, LLC LLC 11/27/12 33 Columbia Purvis Lot 22 New Zion United Methodist Church Activity Center NP 11/20/12 160 Rankin Road Sandstone Investments, LLC LLC 11/20/12 326B Second Street

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LLC W E Gardner, LLC 11/30/12 326B Second Street

Columbus

LLC D & D Services LLC 56 Alomar Rd 11/2/12 LLC East End Properties, LLC 11/14/12 2900 Bluecutt Rd LLC EJP Properties, LLC 419 Main St 11/27/12 First Steps Child Development Center LLCLLC

11/14/12 908 14Th St N Haworth & Puckett, LLC LLC 410 Main Street (39701) 11/20/12 LH Nickels & Associates LLC LLC 11/5/12 2900 Blue Cutt Rd Suite One LLC Nickels Holdings, LLC 2900 Bluecutt Rd Suite One 11/6/12 Patty Cake Children's Boutique DBA

LLC

Patty Cake Children's Boutique, LLC

LLC

11/2/12

410 Main Street

410 Main Street 11/2/12 Petty’s Rental Property - 806 Hwy 45 N LCC LLC 1615 6Th Ave. South 11/16/12 LLC Potters Drive In LLC 4068 Jess Lyons Road 11/9/12 Sarah Rose Interiors, LLC LLC 319 Park Creek Dr 11/19/12 PLLC Smith Law, PLLC 501 7Th Street North, Suite 7 11/14/12 The Dermatology Clinic of Columbus, LLCLLC

11/1/12 410 Main Street (39701) Three Monkeys Pizza Shack LLC LLC 910 Tuscaloosa Road Suite 3 11/11/12 Tibbee Bluff Homeowners Association Inc NP 11/16/12 132 Creekside Drive

Como Executive Tax Services of Senatobia LLC LLC

5735 Pleasant Grove 11/9/12 Laurel Rose Publishing, Inc. BUS 1930 Holston Road 11/15/12 Promised Land Crops LLC LLC 11/20/12 231 Main Street Speedway Auto Racing Tour of America, LLC LLC 11/19/12 110 Sycamore St V.P. Enterprises, LLC LLC 11/9/12 424 Blue Room Road

Corinth

All-Stars Auto Glass, LLC LLC 11/28/12 203 Highway 72 West Corinth Symphony Orchestra CSO NP 11/9/12 56 CR 238 Grandaddy Apts LLC LLC 11/1/12 1407A Harper Rd Herford Internal Medicine PLLC PLLC 11/6/12 404 Waldron Street PASD, LLC LLC 11/30/12 3233 N. Polk Street SJ & H Enterprises, LLC LLC 11/20/12 511 Jackson St Werner Air Freight LLC LLC 11/23/12 810 Cardnial Dr Zina D. Lee MD LLC LLC 11/9/12 2613 East Richman Circle

Crawford

Beverly Denise Hairston DBA OTH 11/21/12 1397 Starkville Rd Taylormade Tax Services DBA OTH 11/21/12 1397 Starkville Rd

Crystal Springs

Clear Water Backflow Services LLCLLC 11/28/12 1045 Dry Grove Rd Rock Church NP 11/27/12 3400 Dry Grove Road Skybridge Management LLC LLC 11/26/12 304 N Bennett St

Diamondhead

ARA LLC LLC 11/9/12 6336 Kalipekona Way Felicity Event Management LLC LLC 11/6/12 5715 Anoai Way Heirs of Chatwin M Jackson Jr. LLCLLC 11/28/12 73711 Diamondhead Drive North HOPE Adult Learning Center NP 11/16/12 10760 Linohau Way Kays ASEA Works LLC LLC 11/9/12 8846 Kailua Place Sonland Ministries DBA OTH 11/20/12 1089 Apua St

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OTH Terri Denise Breland DBA 11/20/12 1089 Apua St LLC Trinity Business Solutions LLC 7720 Moanalua Way 11/30/12

D’Iberville Bradford's Jewelry and Repair, Inc.

BUS

11/5/12 10122 Central Avenue LLC DeBerry Finishers LLC 4594 Laurelwood Dr 11/13/12 JPD Enterprises LLC LLC 11/5/12831 Cedar Lake Rd # 1102 (Biloxi 39532) LLC Murphy's Monuments LLC 11/5/12 10096 Gorenflo Road YMR Enterprises LLC LLC 3586 Sangani Blvd., Suite L 11/6/12

DLO

OTH 2 God Be the Glory DBA PO Box 514 11/13/12 Metricus Strickland-Sanders DBAOTH PO Box 514 11/13/12

Drew

LLC Ann's Southern Hoops, LLC 109 W. Shaw Avenue 11/5/12

Duck Hill JRMS LLC 11/6/12

LLC 2046 Highway 404

Edwards

VcoleBodywear LLC 11/29/12

LLC 107 Edwards Dr

Ellisville

LLC Abston Long Haul LLC 11/5/12 50 Hal Crocker Rd Breaking Boundaries Speech Therapy LLCLLC

11/1/12 The Practice Tee, LLC 11/30/12

471 Hwy 590 LLC 7 Flinstone Rd

Enterprise

Bliss Acres Farm, LLC LLC 11/19/12 11745 Meenhan Savoy Rd West Shear Perfection LLC LLC 11/13/12 115 County Rd 3671

Etta

2C Trucking, LLC LLC 11/14/12 1008 CR 320 Darden Fish & Steak House LLC LLC 11/14/12 1182 CR 47

Eupora

The Bent Can LLC LLC 11/8/12 2777 West Roane Avenue

Flora

Mamaw's LLC LLC 11/30/12 578 Stokes Rd The Goodwin Group LLC LLC 11/19/12 9 Devonshire Way

Florence

2 Happy Cooks LLC LLC 11/28/12 145 Laird Ln. C.P. Renovations LLC LLC 11/6/12 615 Southern Oaks Dr C.P. Renovations LLC 11/6/12 615 Southern Oaks Dr Heritage Hardwood LLC LLC 11/2/12 164 Carol Ave Petra Fitness, LLC LLC 11/1/12 125 East Main Street Phoenix Milcham LLC LLC 11/26/12 109 Kingdom Rd. Pro Trucks Hauling, LLC LLC 11/19/12 175 Singleton Ln Speed Auto Sales LLC LLC 11/16/12 2702 Highway 49 S. Swain Automotive Repair, Inc BUS 11/14/12 2873 Highway 49 South

Flowood

AC Plastiques USA, LLC LLC 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 AECOM Design, a Professional Corportion BUS 11/9/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 American Spirit Media, LLC LLC 11/2/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101

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INCORPORATIONS

Assigned Credit Solutions, Inc BUS 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 LLC ATS Wholesale, LLC 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 LLC Attix Pharmaceuticals LLC 11/6/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 LLC Barnett Place Properties LLC 11/28/12 2950 Layfair Drive, Suite 101 BAYADA Home Health Care, Inc. BUS 11/9/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS Becision, Inc. 11/19/12 3720 Flowood Drive LLC Biotek Labs, LLC 11/26/12645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS Bridgeway Towers, Inc. 11/27/12 232 Market Street Brookhaven Newsmedia LLC LLC 11/21/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS C. T. Electric Inc 11/28/12 5 River Bend Place Suite A Caddell Construction Co. (DE), LLCLLC 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS Cam Connections, Inc. 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 CCS Medical, Inc. BUS 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 LLC CCTMO LLC 11/19/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Celco, LLC LLC 11/15/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 LLC Celco, LTD. 11/15/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Cetera Financial Specialists, LLC LLC 11/30/12645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS CHS Hedging, Inc. 11/20/12645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Conco Industrial Services Corp BUS 11/19/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Consolidated Spectroscopy & LLC Instrumentation, LLC 11/7/12 645 LAKELAND EAST DR #101 Constance Avenue LLC LLC 11/27/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Covidien Sales LLC LLC 11/2/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 CPG Solutions, LLC LLC 11/5/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Credit Control LLC LLC 11/2/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Cupples International, Inc. BUS 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Cynthia D. McClary DBA OTH 11/15/12 2945 Layfair Drive 1127 Daughters of Charity Ministries, IncNP 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Dove Oil Corporation BUS 11/8/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 EFACEC USA, Inc. BUS 11/19/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Endress + Hauser Inc BUS 11/27/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Faith Place LLC LLC 11/1/12 241 Huntington Hollow, Brandon, Ms 39047 Family Christian Stores DBA LLC 11/30/12 232 Market Street Family Christian, LLC LLC 11/30/12 232 Market Street FC Operating LLC LLC 11/30/12 232 Market Street Fiedler Group BUS 11/13/1210 Cranebrake Boulevard Suite 200 Fiedler Group Corporation BUS 11/13/1210 Cranebrake Boulevard Suite 200 FleetNet America, Inc. BUS 11/16/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Flora Land and Timber LLC LLC 11/28/12 2950 Layfair Drive, Suite 101 Folz Vending LLC LLC 11/5/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Generator Service Company, Inc BUS 11/16/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Green Mechanical Construction Inc.

BUS

11/7/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 GTP Financial, LLC LLC 11/14/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Gullett & Associates, Inc. BUS 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 H.B.D. Construction, Inc. BUS 11/16/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 HH Southaven Hotel, LLC LLC 11/28/12645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Hicks Jr. Towing LLC LLC 11/13/12 1319 Giles St Indian Motorcycle Company BUS 11/7/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Industrial and Marine Equipment Co., Inc. BUS

11/29/12645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Inland Diversified Canton DG LLC LLC 11/21/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Inland Diversified Real Estate Services LLC LLC 11/27/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101

BUS Intech, Inc. 11/5/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 J. L. Allen Exploration Ventures, LLC

LLC

11/2/12 1368 Old Fannin Road, Suite 300 LLC JC3 Properties LLC 11/20/12118 Hampton Chase, Madison, Ms 39110 Jefferson Avenue Properties, LLC LLC 11/9/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS Joe Funk Construction, Inc 11/14/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS JW Marketing, Inc. 11/14/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS KA, Inc. 11/30/12645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 PLLC Lalor Bailey & Aby, PLLC 11/15/12 2506 Lakeland Dr., Suite 203 Landau Casino, Inc BUS 11/14/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS Landau DBA 11/14/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Lawson Products, Inc. BUS 11/2/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Lazarus Finance Company, LLC LLC 11/27/12 5719 Grants Ferry Road Lazarus Finance Company, LLC 5719 Grants Ferry Road 11/5/12 OTH Living Life on Purpose DBA 11/15/12 2945 Layfair Drive 1127 Lokion Interactive, LLC LLC 11/16/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 LLC LSREF2 Apex (MS), LLC 11/15/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Lusardi Construction Co BUS 11/14/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS Marathon Health, Inc. 11/14/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 McHugh Fuller Leasing Company, LLC

LLC

11/1/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101

Medford Roofing and Construction LLC LLC

11/9/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 MJF Marketing Inc BUS 11/1/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Moss Point Properties LLC LLC 11/9/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 MTS Systems Corporation BUS 11/5/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Nexant, Inc BUS 11/20/12645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 NHI Properties, LLC LLC 11/21/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Nucor Saturn Holding Inc BUS 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 On The Spot Detail, Inc. BUS 11/29/12 100 Carlton Park, Apt #703 Parts and Repair Technical Services, Inc.BUS

11/27/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Parts and Repair Technical Services, Inc. 11/28/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101

Party City Corporation BUS 11/14/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Phoenix Insurance Group, Inc BUS 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Pierce-Pacific Manufacturing, Inc.BUS 11/5/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Pieworks Magnolia LLC LLC 11/29/12645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Plains Exploration & Production Company BUS 11/19/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 PosiGen Custom Solar of Mississippi, LLCLLC

11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 PosiGen Energy Efficiency of Mississippi, LLC LLC 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101

PosiGen Green Grants of Mississippi, LLCLLC

11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 PosiGen Solar Hot Water of Mississippi, LLC LLC 11/13/126456 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Power Performance Inc BUS 11/5/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Psychiatric Resource Partners BUS 11/5/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 RCT Holdings, LLC LLC 11/14/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Regional Finance Company of Mississippi, LLC LLC 11/8/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Reliant Pro Rehab, LLC LLC 11/27/1210 Cranebrake Boulevard Suite 200 RPS Corporation BUS 11/21/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Ruan Transportation Management Systems, Inc. BUS 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Ryan's Restaurant Group, LLC LLC 11/8/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 SBA Steel LLC LLC 11/20/12 232 Market Street SBA Towers IV, LLC LLC 11/20/12 232 Market Street

LLC SDLT Investments VII, LLC 11/30/12645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Selectquote Auto & Home Insurance Services, LLC LLC 10 Canebrake Blvd 11/27/12 LLC Shaw Constructors Two, LLC 11/6/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Shenberger & Associates, Inc. BUS 11/19/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 LLC Springhouse, LLC 11/5/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Stone & Webster Construction Two LLC LLC

11/9/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS Surgical Synergies, Inc 11/27/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 TARSCO, Inc BUS 11/28/12645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS Tato Pork Inc. 11/1/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 TCWA, Inc. BUS 11/8/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS TDR Contractors, Inc 11/14/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 The Consultants Consortium Inc BUS 11/19/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS The Hyman Companies, Inc 11/14/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 The Infusion Network of Louisiana Inc BUS

11/16/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 LLC The Inn at Brandon Ms LLC 11/2/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 The Lalor Firm, PLLC PLLC 11/15/12 2506 Lakeland Dr., Suite 203 The Recess Club Homeowners NP Association, Inc. 11/9/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Thielsch Group, Inc BUS 11/7/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 BUS Transfermate, Inc. 11/26/12645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Transtar Insurance Brokers Inc. BUS 11/29/12645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Tundra Process Solutions USA Ltd.BUS 11/15/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 LLC TWA Erectors, LLC 11/21/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 LLC Union Aviation LLC 11/26/12 582 Lakeland East Dr Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies North America, Inc. BUS 11/16/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Village Investors, LLC LLC 11/15/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 VLN Inc. BUS 11/21/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Voceva, Inc. BUS 11/19/12 3720 Flowood Drive W. J. Bradley Mortgage Capital, LLC

LLC

11/8/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 WDBD, LLC LLC 11/2/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Westlake Flooring Company, LLC LLC 11/19/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Wikia, Inc. BUS 11/13/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101 Woodline Capital LLC LLC 11/29/12 219 Katherine Drive ZorWare LLC LLC 11/2/12 645 Lakeland East Drive, Suite 101

Forest

Bluejay's Trucking LLC LLC 11/15/12 1218 W Third St BSPC, LLC LLC 11/19/12 5501 Old Hillsboro Road Clays Auto Repair, LLC LLC 11/19/12 869 West Third Street Deep South Poultry Supply Inc BUS 11/13/12 1910 Highway 35 Down Home Ideas, LLC LLC 11/14/12 2774 Culpepper Rd Educational Consultants of America LLC LLC

11/5/12 511 North Broad St J D Harrell Trucking LLC LLC 11/20/12 19065 Hwy 80 E OB1 Properties LLC LLC 11/27/12 1407 Melwood Drive

Foxworth

Frontier Choice Steaks, LLC LLC 11/13/12 119 Webb Road Lagniappe Beef, LLC LLC 11/26/12 1148 Shiloh Firetower Rd R J Ryals & Company LLC LLC 11/23/12 932 New Hope Church Rd

Fulton

Crown Financial Services LLC LLC 11/16/12 100 Access Rd

LLC J & J Land Company LLC 103 Woodson St 11/9/12 LLC Jeffrey's Auction LLC 11/1/12 304 Kennedy St

Gautier

NP Church At The Square 2400 Stine Rd 11/14/12 LLC Edible Bouquets, LLC 11/2/12 2429 Southern Drive Gautier Middle School PTSO NP 1920 Graveline Road 11/16/12 Global Perspectives Research and Consulting, LLC LLC 11/2/12 8641 Bayou Castelle Drive LMOW Properties, LLC 11/16/12 1420 Magnolia Bluff Dr LMOW Properties, LLC LLC 1420 Magnolia Bluff Dr 11/16/12 Mississippi Gulf Coast Model NP Railroad Club 11/9/12 2800 Hwy 90 W St. Pe'/Graham Family Limited LP Partnership 806 Powells Point Drive 11/14/12 St. Pe'/Graham Family of MS LLC LLC 806 Powells Point Drive 11/7/12

Glen Allan

Glen Allan Community Development Corporation NP 11/9/12 18 3Rd Street Lake Washington Historical and NP Preservation Association 11/6/12 1230 Lake Jackson Road

Golden

Golden Logistics, Inc. BUS 11/15/12 34595 Hwy 25 N

Greenville

Domina, LLC LLC 11/30/12 1866 Lake Manor Drive JE-IL Development, LLC LLC 432 Carrie Stern Lane 11/26/12 Sassy Sister Snack Shack LLC LLC 11/1/12 557 North 7th Street Wise Medical Group, Inc. 11/9/12 564 N Colorado St Wise Medical Group, Inc. BUS 11/9/12 564 N Colorado St

Greenwood

Bowlin A/C & Heating, LLC LLC 11/21/12 1511 Highland Avenue Cambridge Commanist LLC LLC 11/16/12 1013 E. Lee St Dax Evan Thornburg DBA OTH 11/2/12 79 Meadowbrook Rd Gary Land, LLC LLC 11/19/12 900 Robert E. Lee Hardeman-Steele Farms, L.P. LP 11/5/12 903 Robert E. Lee QuickMed LLC LLC 11/7/12 705 Crockett Avenue Stroud Welding Service, Inc BUS 11/5/12 343 Hwy 82 West Tenn Thom Realty LLC LLC 11/30/12 1808 Hwy 82 W Tricky Dicky Publishing DBA OTH 11/2/12 79 Meadowbrook Rd Unlimited Enterprises, Inc BUS 11/16/12 1000 Cypress Lane

2218 18Th Street 11/6/12 LLC Cook Transport, LLC 11/2/12 4715 Old Pass Road Covington Land & Abstract LLC LLC 2200 25Th Avenue Suite A 11/15/12 LLC Cresson Investments, LLC 11/13/12 2701 24Th Avenue Crown Building Maintenance Co. BUS 11/1/12 12435 Plunkett Road (39503) LLC Cut N Up with Robyn LLC 11/27/12 11157 Allen Rd David Stanford & Associates LLC LLC 2218 18Th Street 11/20/12 LLC Golconda Holdings LLC 1720 22Nd Avenue Suite C 11/20/12 Gold Guys LLC LLC 15373 Northwood Hills Drive 11/29/12 Goldbender Incorporated BUS 11/19/12 212 47Th Street GRT Professional Consulting LLC LLC 11/8/12 2218 18Th Street LLC GSM Lake Charles II, LLC 11/13/12 1617 25Th Avenue Gulfport CrossFit LLC LLC 11/13/12 14285 Christina Michelle Ct. HB Holdings, LLC LLC 11/27/12 1605-23Rd Avenue Heart NP, L.L.C. LLC 11/14/12 11495 Briarstone Place Heart of Gold Academy NP 11/9/12 12235 Summer Place Heritage Unlimited, LLC LLC 11/29/12 2218 18Th Street J Alex Thompson Investments LLCLLC 11/5/12 3503 Belmede Dr J Clark Holdings LLC LLC 11/27/12 1605-23Rd Avenue J-Boogie's Tasty Creations LLC LLC 11/26/12 205 Tandy Dr J-Tel Denham Springs, LLC LLC 11/30/12 12287 Highway 49 Jazz Quarters LLC LLC 11/9/12 1816 30Th Avenue LND, LLC LLC 11/30/12 12 Old Oak Lane Major Fitness, LLC LLC 11/16/12 1310 Twenty Fifth Avenue Mattcon General Contractors, Inc BUS 11/2/12 12435 Plunkett Road (39503) MediProp LLC LLC 11/8/12 2218 18Th Street Melissa Lowery Accounting Services LLC LLC

13236 Sandy Brook Dr

Mississippi Psychiatric Services LLC

Ashmore Wrecker Service LLC LLC 11/9/12 1944 Highway 51 South Crossing Over Community Education Foundation NP 11/21/12 2105 Sweethome Rd Executive Administrative Services, LLC LLC

Gulfport

Conservation, Genetics & Biotech, LLC LLC

11/13/12

Grenada

11/29/12 Jay C, LLC 11/21/12 Pawn Smart, LLC 11/15/12

LLC Aviator Gang, LLC 2218 18Th Street 11/13/12 LLC BAP Consulting LLC 11/13/12 2218 18Th Street LLC Black Sands Construction LLC 1506 Mill Road 11/26/12 Black Sands Entertainment LLC LLC 11/26/12 1506 Mill Rd LLC Black Sands Sales LLC 1506 Mill Rd 11/26/12 LLC Blue Heaven LLC 11/5/12 38 Old Oak Lane LLC Blue Star LLC 38 Old Oak Lane 11/1/12 LLC C & T Distribution LLC 11/20/12 2218 18Th Street CARRYGYM LLC LLC 2218 18Th Street 11/7/12 LLC Chillin Charlies, LLC 11/14/12 16101 Hwy 49 CMB Services LLC LLC 13064 Oakberry Ln 11/28/12 Columbia Parachute Company, Inc.BUS 11/29/12 12221 Ashley Drive, Suite A & B

959 Sunset Drive LLC 1162 Line Street LLC 22 Sunset Drive

Able Building Maintenance DBA BUS 11/1/12 12435 Plunkett Road (39503) Aegis USA Inc BUS 11/1/12 12435 Plunkett Road Apple Innovations, LLC LLC 11/20/12 19221 Champion Circle ArmorLock Industries LLC LLC 11/20/12 1720 22Nd Avenue Suite C

LLC

11/26/12 2218 18Th Street New Deals Online Mall LLC LLC 11/15/12 1229 24Th St Apt K41 Nicholson Real Estate III, LLC LLC 11/13/12 2019 23Rd Avenue P.E.A.C.E. of Mind Inc. BUS 11/7/12 #3 Heather Lane Poppsferry Development L.L.C. LLC 11/20/12 C/o John Monzingo ProLumin LLC LLC 11/30/12 435 East Pass Road Pruitt's A/V Solutions LLC LLC 11/8/12 2218 18Th Street Quality Septic Systems LLC LLC 11/20/12 2218 18Th Street Rebecca Jex Photography, LLC LLC 11/13/12 2218 18Th Street RebSed LLC LLC 11/6/12 2218 18Th Street Red Ventures Insurance, LLC LLC 11/30/12 15276 Dedeaux Road RTS All American Garage Doors of MS IncBUS

11/13/12

10585 Rivers Rd

LLC Rumba Night Clud LLC 82 Holly Circle 11/7/12 LLC Sean Spencer Salon II LLC 11/16/12 1301 26Th Avenue Ste 101 Shaw-Day Insurance Agency, LLC LLC 440 Courthouse Road 11/21/12 BUS Soil Nail Launcher, Inc 11/7/12 12435 Plunkett Road BUS Southern Kutters Inc. 21555 D'herde Rd 11/6/12 BUS Success Church, Inc. 11/13/12 12221 Ashley Drive, Suite A & B LLC The Clever Nook, LLC 11364 Oakleigh Blvd 11/13/12 BUS The Elaris Network, Inc. 11/8/12 12260 Amanda Way The HUSTLE Movement Enterprise, LLC LLC

14571 Canal Trace 11/20/12 BUS Titan (APEX), Inc. 11/21/12 12435 Plunkett Road (39503) Titan Engineering, Inc BUS 12435 Plunkett Road (39503) 11/21/12 LLC TJB Holding LLC 11/20/12 14492 Dedeaux Road Trash, Inc. BUS 14367 Big Creek Rd 11/29/12 LLC TRI Hard Sports LLC 11/8/12 2218 18Th Street United Builders Construction and BUS Supply, Inc. 12435 Plunkett Road 11/27/12 Valley View Agri, LLC LLC 11/5/12 12435 Plunkett Road Vintage Vault Co., LLC LLC 12353 Herring Road 11/6/12 Violet & Lilly LLC LLC 11/6/12 2218 18Th Street LLC Welcome Homes, LLC 15407 Woody Drive 11/20/12 LLC YCP Technologies LLC 11/15/12 12435 Plunkett Road

Guntown

D & F Transport LLC LLC 11/21/12 307 Long St LLC Fast Cash Wireless LLC 11/29/12 115 Saint Thomas Drive

Hamilton

Ferraro Enterprises LLC LLC 11/20/12 40089 Old Hamilton Rd JJE Holdings LLC LLC 11/19/12 40502 Highway 45 South

Hattiesburg

A+ Educational Solutions LLC LLC 11/2/12 16 Cabin Road (39401) Air Filter Services LLC LLC 11/21/12 217 West Pine Street Anna Richards DBA OTH 11/6/12 2 Amur Lane ASHMAC, LLC LLC 11/13/12 6555 U.S. Hwy 98 W, Ste 13 ATM Investments LLC LLC 11/30/12 401 Rawls Springs Loop Road (39402) B J Consulting LLC LLC 11/14/12 300 South 25th Ave. Bill Pace Foods LLC LLC 11/2/12 300 South 25th Ave. Carlstedt's LLC LLC 11/30/12 600 Bouie St CED'S "The Center for Hope & Where Deams Come True" NP 11/9/12 3202 Moye Ave Changing Looks Hair Salon LLC LLC 11/2/12 2624 Lincoln Rd Ste 30 CMR LLC LLC 11/21/12 3702 Hardy St Connecting Markets, LLC LLC 11/20/12 2000 Evergreen Lane Creative Mobilities, LLC LLC 11/20/12 147 Red Roan Road Cross Creek Multifamily LLC LLC 11/8/12 112 Sheffield Loop, Suite D DB Inspections Inc. BUS 11/1/12 103 North 19th Avenue DB Vantage, LLC LLC 11/30/12 21 Lasalle St Dossett Property Management OTH 11/30/12 1058 W Pine Street Family First Adult Daycare, LLC LLC 11/19/12 112 Scotland Cir Family First Transportation LLC LLC 11/19/12 112 Scotland Cir. Firefly Interiors LLC LLC 11/26/12 900 South 34th Ave. Foxwell, LLC LLC 11/13/12 938 Richburg Rd G&B Contracting, LLC 11/14/12 163 Ralston Rd

LLC Goldie Locks Boutique LLC 72 North of Fields 11/1/12 Griffith Family Properties, LLC LLC 11/16/12 1317 Concart Street Henderson & Braswell Properties LLC

LLC

Real Life Christian Counseling Center

NP

6654 US Highway 98 11/26/12 LLC J. O. Magee Enterprises, LLC 11/27/12 12 Twin Oaks Circle LLC JIC-TDM LLC 17 Tuna Circle 11/8/12 Kent Williamson Construction LLC LLC 11/28/12 130 Memory Ln LLC L Plus, LLC 8 Buccanneer Drive 11/8/12 Majestic Aviation Services LLC LLC 11/28/12 4900 Old Highway 11 Ste 2 MEL Investments, LLC LLC 7 Brookline Drive 11/14/12 LLC New Polymer Systems LLC 11/19/12 46 Shelby Thames Dr Oil Spill Economic Recovery LLC LLC 300 South 25th Ave. 11/7/12 LLC Pace Investments, LLC 11/16/12 19 Bridgefield Turn Razors Edge LLC LLC 4700 Hardy St Ste 7 11/21/12 11/19/12 2020 Hardy Street Suite B Royal Cleaning Services, LLC. LLC 1004 Frances Street 11/8/12 OTH Ruffles & Ridges DBA 11/6/12 2 Amur Lane Scott Edmiston, CPA PLLC PLLC 11/1/12 6068 Us Hwy 98 W LLC Shapiro Dimitri Medical LLC 11/30/12 6 Medical Blvd Smason Drilling Consultants, LLC LLC 21 Cutlass Point 11/21/12 LLC Solution Capital, LLC 1033 Johnston Street 11/13/12 The Gould Group LLC LLC 97 Crystal Creek 11/30/12

Hazlehurst

Central Mississippi Transportation LLC Service LLC 11/20/12 1020 Kemp Lane LLC Harris Investments LLC 11/19/12 1049 George Harris Lane

Hernando

Fins and Grill LLC LLC 11/21/12 2631 McIngvale Rd Ste 103 Pine Oak Development LLC LLC 11/19/12 1818 Danas Cove Shackleford Professional Services LLC LLC

11/30/12 1314 Gaines Rd Wadsworth Properties, LLC LLC 11/16/12 1861 Tara Drive WyncrestMS LLC LLC 11/28/12 180 West Commerce Street

Hollandale

Simmons Land Company, L.P. LP 11/29/12 64 Leo Williams Road

Holly Springs

Desoto County DJ's LLC LLC 11/6/12 2334 Hwy 7 South Fant Properties LLC LLC 11/8/12 802 East Salem Ave G Xpress LLC LLC 11/14/12 360 West St Apt 19 Hope For the Midsouth Inc NP 11/6/12 1435 McAlexander Road Mid South Photo Booth LLC LLC 11/6/12 2334 Hwy 7 South

Horn Lake

Custom Woodcrafts USA, LLC LLC 11/30/12 2204 Cole Rd Custom Woodcrafts, LLC LLC 11/30/12 2204 Cole Rd Desoto County Social Services Coalition NP 11/28/12 3380 Carroll Drive Flyway Express LLC LLC 11/28/12 6430 Hurt Road KK Trucking LLC LLC 11/8/12 5157 Karen Dr L & L Trucking Inc BUS 11/28/12 6285 South Bridge Cr

Houston

MSI Logisticals LLC LLC 11/9/12 111 East Washington Street Princess & Paris Publishing LLC LLC 11/29/12 1043 Highway 389

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26 ■ Mississippi Business Journal ■ February 1, 2013

NP Regional Global Network 228 Highway 32 E. Ext 11/14/12 Rhyne Properties LLC LLC 104 Hillcrest Drive 11/8/12

Indianola

LLC Eastwood Holdings, LLC 1304 Bayou Drive 11/6/12 Visions of Excellence NP 74 Beaverdam Road 11/27/12

Inverness Capital Investment Enterprises, LLC

11/29/12 Tidy Truck Wash, LLC 11/29/12

Jackson

LLC

707 Davis Ave LLC 707 Davis Ave

LLC $oss Entertainment LLC 11/6/12 506 South President Street 1st Class Kickz LLC LLC 2822 Gretna Green 11/29/12 LLC 2857 Greenview LLC 11/15/12 1058 Ridgewood Place Suite A 3TC, LLC LLC 1425 Terry Road 11/7/12 LLC 4Kids & 4Kids2, LLC 11/9/12 5025 Oak Leaf Dr 609 Patton LLC LLC 3317 North State Street 11/13/12 LLC 66th Street Investments, LLC 506 South President Street 11/15/12 A Plus Signs and Creative, Inc BUS 4147 - A Northview Dr 11/13/12 LLC A&D Wholesale, LLC 11/16/12 409 Briarwood Dr., Ste 306A Adara Watch, LLC LLC 11/30/12 125South Congress Street Suite 1600A LLC AIIA, LLC 11/2/12 506 South President Street LLC AK Employer Services LLC 11/16/12 840 Trustmark Building Alpha and Omega Entertainment LLC Center LLC 11/30/12 1726 Fairwood Dr Ammara LLC LLC 11/21/12 5271 Harrow Dr Angels Sitting Service Inc BUS 11/8/12 645 Avalon Rd Arbee Associates BUS 11/19/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Arbee Associates Inc. BUS 11/19/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. ARC FDGPTMS002, LLC LLC 11/21/12 506 South President Street ARC FDKLNMS001, LLC LLC 11/21/12 506 South President Street Argent Properties 2012 LLC LLC 11/8/12 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Baker Express, Inc BUS 11/28/12 506 South President Street Beacon of Light LLC LLC 11/2/12 305 Nearview St Beavers Inc BUS 11/8/12 1 Glen Eagles Dr BHW Energy Mississippi, LLC LLC 11/13/12 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Big D of Jackson LLC LLC 11/13/12 339 Red Oak Dr BLT Tanks LLC LLC 11/14/12 6055 Hwy 18 W Blu Acquario Prima S.P.A. BUS 11/9/12 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Bottero Flat Glass Incorporated BUS 11/29/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Bridgetown Strategies LLC LLC 11/1/12300 W South Street, Ste 14 (39203) Brown Entertainment LLC LLC 11/2/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. C. A. R. S. Protection Plus, Inc. BUS 11/8/12 506 South President Street CAC Warehouse Funding LLC IV LLC 11/27/12 506 South President Street Calvary Properties, L.L.C. LLC 11/26/124268 I-55 N (Meadowbrook Office Park) Canyon Ridge, LLC LLC 11/7/12 400 East Capitol Street Capitol Tax Services LLC LLC 11/19/12 413 S. President Street, Suite 203 Caring Hands LLC LLC 11/27/12 4422 Terry Rd Cash Register Services, Inc. BUS 11/15/12 506 South President Street CBHH, LLC LLC 11/8/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Cellular Surgeons LLC LLC 11/13/12 339 Red Oak Dr Chef Rayfords Famous Gumbo, LLCLLC 11/5/12 1625 Bailey Avenue

Chemical Products & Systems Inc BUS 124 West South St 11/15/12 Chris Sortina, LLC LLC 506 South President Street 11/6/12 BUS Clark Reder Engineering Inc 506 South President Street 11/8/12 Coldwell Banker Heritage Homes DBA LLC 11/8/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St.

Colonial Construction, Concrete, LLC Precast, LLC 11/28/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Comfort Revolution Manufacturing of LLC Mississippi, LLC 506 South President Street 11/13/12 LLC Complete Holdings LLC 11/8/12 200 Rolling Meadows LLC Copper Salt Timberlands LLC 506 South President Street 11/26/12 OTH CORNELIUS WALKER DBA 11/15/12 PO Box 2685 LLC County Recording, LLC 11/16/12230 Christopher Cove (Ridgeland 39157) CPI VSC Norwich Oxford LLC LLC 11/27/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. CPI VSC Oxford LLC LLC 11/27/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. CPI VSC Oxford Saugus LLC LLC 11/27/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2011-1

11/27/12

LLC

506 South President Street

Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2012-1 LLC

11/27/12

506 South President Street

Credit Acceptance Funding LLC 2012-2 LLC

506 South President Street 11/27/12 LLC CRH Nursing Agency LLC 11/27/12 4422 Terry Rd Daniel Floors, Inc. BUS 11/15/12 511 Greenhead Cir. Brandon, Ms. 39042 David & Bessie Lee Brewington, Inc

BUS

11/16/12 3725 Edwards Ave LLC Discovery Outsourcing LLC 11/28/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Dude Truck, LLC LLC 11/5/12 6628 Geo. Washington LLC Eiko Jones LLC 506 South President Street 11/5/12 Eliassen Group, LLC LLC 11/13/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Ellis and Johnson Family Reunion DBA OTH

11/30/12 1523 E. County Line Rd. Apt. E38

Emerging Technology Business Center IncBUS

11/9/12 805 East River Place Enviro-Ag Engineering, Inc BUS 11/29/12 506 South President Street Even Fairways NP 11/8/12 737 Hawthorne Green Dr. ExxonMobil Sales and Supply LLC LLC 11/8/12 506 South President Street Favor in 4, LLC LLC 11/27/12 1693 Lakeover Rd FirstService Residential Realty, LLC

LLC

11/26/12 506 South President Street Five Happiness Restaurant Inc BUS 11/27/12 2931 McDowell Rd Five Stars Multiservices LLC LLC 11/15/12 5330 North State St. Lot 157 Fleur De Lis Orleans, LLC LLC 11/29/12 1485 Livingston Lane Flooring Solutions, Inc. BUS 11/7/12 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Focus 10 Life Inc. BUS 11/2/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Fordham Electric Southeast Inc BUS 11/30/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Framers of Tennessee LLC LLC 11/21/12 405 Briarwood Dr Ste 103 A FSH Trucking, Inc. BUS 11/9/12 1120 Deer Park Street FSRR, LLC LLC 11/26/12 506 South President Street Fulton Construction LLC LLC 11/2/12 2029 Southwood Rd FVE Managers, Inc. BUS 11/28/12 506 South President Street Gaming Arts LLC LLC 11/6/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. George Harris Holdings LLC LLC 11/19/12 2325 Raymond Road Goat Rand Properties, LLC LLC 11/13/12 1546 Fairwood Dr GPSPS, Inc. BUS 11/30/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Graham Hall, LLC LLC 11/16/12 2 Carlyle Place Gregori C&E, Inc. BUS 11/7/12 405 Briarwood Dr STE 103A Gregori Construction & Engineering, Inc.BUS

11/7/12 405 Briarwood Dr STE 103A H & W Cleaning Service LLC LLC 11/20/12 2115 Flowers Drive

February 1, 2013

OTH Haberdashery 1727 Meadowbrook Road 11/30/12 HealthFirst Medical Management, Inc. BUS 11/16/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St.

BUS Healthy Achievers, Inc. 506 South President Street 11/1/12 Henderson Auctions & Property LLC Services LLC 1765-A- Lelia Dr 11/15/12 Herbalife International of America, Inc. BUS

840 Trustmark Building 11/29/12 Holloway & Ross Tax and Accounting LLC Services LLC 210 Lakeshore Dr 11/27/12 OTH Holly Nails DBA 11/28/12 5115 Old Canton Rd. #E8 Honda Dealers of Mississippi, Inc NP 802 Harding Street 11/13/12 Hunter's Investment Group Limited Liability Company LLC 506 South President Street 11/28/12 i See Success Learning Center, LLCLLC 11/19/12 475 ROLAND STREET Imobile LLC LLC 11/16/12 61 Copperfield Ct. BUS Indilal Inc 11/27/12 516 Cooper St ING., Incorporated (Innovative NP Network Group) 145 Lambuth Court 11/30/12 Institutional Pharmacy Solutions LLC LLC 11/1/12210 E. Capitol St. Suite 2180 Regions Plaza

InterContinental Holdings LLC LLC 506 South President Street 11/5/12 LLC Iron Horse Tools LLC 11/5/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. J. Dell Wilson, LLC LLC 290 Parks Road 11/21/12 LLC J.J. Liberty, LLC 11/16/12248 E. Capitol Street, Suite 840, Trustmark Building LLC Jackson I-20 Paint LLC 11/16/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Jackson's First Personal Care Center

NP

3238 Touglaoo St 11/7/12 PA Jamey W. Burrow, M.D., P.A. 11/29/12 1325 East Fortification Street Jason A. Craft, M.D., P.A. PA 11/29/12 1325 East Fortification Street JC's BBQ DBA LLC 11/5/12 506 South President Street JCD Properties LLC LLC 11/7/12 1425 Terry Road Jenn Tech Placement, LLC LLC 11/14/12 506 South President Street John F Hawkins, P.A. PA 11/8/12 628 N State Street John Michael Manning Investments, LLC LLC

11/26/12 3003 Lakeland Cove Suite E JTB Collins LLC LLC 11/6/12 451 Brookwood Estates Dr JTB Enterprises LLC LLC 11/28/12 506 South President Street JWH Holding LLC LLC 11/2/124450 Old Canton Road Suite 200 (39211) K & C Holdings, LLC LLC 11/27/12190 E Capitol St., Suite 800 (39201) La Dolce Far Niente, LLC LLC 11/5/12 1062 Highland Colony Pkwy (Ridgeland 39157) Legalinc Corporate Services Inc BUS 11/19/12 405 Briarwood Dr Ste 103 A Linium, LLC LLC 11/27/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Little Rays of Sunshine Daycare LLC

LLC

11/27/12 4420 Terry Rd Lone Star Pet Supply LLC LLC 11/7/12 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Love Vets Ministries NP 11/26/12 750 Boling St #2 LS Development, LLC LLC 11/26/12 One Jackson Plaza, 188 E. Capitol Street, Suite 400 Lydia Enterprises, LLC LLC 11/20/12 427 E. Fortification Street M Properties LLC LLC 11/7/12 1017 Pinehurst Place Mark V Williamson Co., Inc BUS 11/30/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Marquis Inc BUS 11/2/12 506 South President Street McLaurin Design and Construction L.L.C.LLC

11/13/12 351 Edgewood Terrace MCM Statistics, LLC LLC 11/9/12 213 South Lamar Street Meddie Smith, LLC LLC 11/16/121883 Highway 43 South / Canton 39046 Merchant Card Services, LLC LLC 11/13/12 1002 Hallmark Drive

LLC Meth Lab Cleanup LLC 11/9/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Metrocenter Mall LLC LLC 11/2/12 4450 Old Canton Road, Suite 200, Jackson, MS 39211

LLC MGMAPA DBA 6138 Whitestone Rd 11/21/12 Millstone Medical Outsourcing LLCLLC 506 South President Street 11/6/12 Ministering God's Ministries Academy of Performing Arts LLC LLC 11/21/12 6138 Whitestone Rd BUS Minute Key, Inc 506 South President Street 11/30/12 LLC miso LLC 11/26/123100 North State Street, Suite 100 LLC Mitchell & Company LLC 210 E. Capitol Street, Ste 100 11/13/12 BUS MM Solutions, Inc. 11/16/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. LLC Morris Consulting LLC 130 Magna Carta Place 11/15/12 Ms. C's Do u right cleaning service LLC LLC

11/13/12 2013 Gaites Lane Musa Family Properties LLC LLC 820 Cooper Road 11/15/12 Myreon Networks LLC LLC 11/26/12 1203 Woody Drive (39212) NP NACM Gulf States DBA 4268 I-55 North 11/26/12 National Association of Credit Management of South Texas NP 11/26/12 4268 I-55 North LLC Nature Blinds of MS LLC 40 Northtown Dr 11/26/12 NetStructures, Inc. BUS 11/16/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. LLC New American Mortgage, LLC 11/5/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Next Level Pro Detail/Tire Repair LLC LLC 11/14/12 3165A Robinson Rd., Jackson Ms 39209

OTH Nguyet Nguyen DBA 11/28/12 5115 Old Canton Rd. #E8 North jackson Mini Storage LLC LLC 11/27/12 1058 Ridgewood Place Suite E LLC NRTC Rural Broadband, LLC 11/30/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Oden Hardy Construction Inc NP 11/14/12 405 Briarwood Dr Ste 103 A Okees Used Auto Sales, Inc BUS 11/29/12 1820 Hwy 80 W Old Waverly Properties, LLC LLC 11/27/12 4755 Old Canton Road Omnia Holdings LLC LLC 11/19/12 4500 I-55 N, Highland Village, Suite 241 Oversight, LLC LLC 11/1/12901 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39202 Oxford House, Inc. NP 11/27/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Parent and Parenting Nurses DBAOTH 11/15/12 PO Box 2685 Path to Victory LLC LLC 11/19/12 401 E South St Peace of Mind Security Services LLC

LLC

11/19/12 5249 Brookview Dr. Percy Haggard DBA OTH 11/30/12 1523 E. County Line Rd. Apt. E38 Perry Consulting Inc BUS 11/28/12 318 South State Street Pipeline Protective Services, LLC LLC 11/28/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Pitts Enterprises Incorporated of Jackson BUS 11/5/12 6240 Tanglewood Drive Pro Construction Group LLC LLC 11/28/12 307 Duncan Ave Professional Precision Maintenance Services LLC LLC 11/21/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. PTC Charleston LLC LLC 11/27/12 4755 Old Canton Road PTC Dunn, LLC LLC 11/27/12 4755 Old Canton Road PTC Hope Hull LLC LLC 11/27/12 4755 Old Canton Road Quadrant Soul Publishing LLC LLC 11/29/12 4106 Oakhill Drive R & S Resale DBA OTH 11/6/12 834 McDowell Rd r2 Real Estate, LLC LLC 11/14/12 1608 Linden Place RBS Holdings, LLC LLC 11/2/12 190 East Capitol Street, Suite 800 Red Oak Unlimited, LLC LLC 11/15/12 405 Briarwood Dr Ste 103 A Republic Airline Inc. BUS 11/5/12 506 South President Street Resolution Recovery Service LLC LLC 11/19/12 506 South President Street Riggins Consulting, Inc. BUS 11/28/12 318 South State Street

Ring Container Technologies LLC LLC 840 Trustmark Building 11/30/12 RMO Investments LLC LLC 405 Briarwood Dr. 11/19/12 PA Robert K. Mehrle, M.D., P.A. 1325 East Fortification Street 11/29/12 LLC Roxbury Place II, LLC 4205 Brussels Drive 11/21/12 LLC Roxbury Place III, LLC 4205 Brussels Drive 11/21/12 Russell Construction Company BUS 11/2/12 840 Trustmark Building LLC S & K Management, LLC 5025 Oak Leaf Dr 11/9/12 LLC Sage LLC 11/5/12 239 East Northside Dr BUS Sal Mannino Painting, Inc 11/15/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. BUS Sartoris Literary Group Inc. 11/1/12 318 S. State Street LLC SBD of Mississippi, LLC 506 South President Street 11/6/12 Seaborn Health Care, Inc. BUS 11/16/12 405 Briarwood Dr Ste 103 A Segal Select Insurance Services, Inc

BUS

506 South President Street 11/28/12 Shared Systems Technology Inc BUS 11/15/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. OTH Sharon Bevens DBA 834 McDowell Rd 11/6/12 Shorty Foundation Inc. NP 11/20/12 153 Plummer Cir SJH Holding LLC LLC 11/2/12 4450 Old Canton Rd., Suite 200 (39211) BUS SJR Wholesale Inc 11/1/12 2615 Robinson Street Skyscrapers and Trees L.L.C. LLC 321 Valley St 11/13/12 Smith Plumbing Services, Inc. BUS 11/26/12 506 South President Street LLC SMP, LLC 11/29/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. SNH SE Tenant TRS, Inc BUS 11/28/12 506 South President Street LLC So Shek Beaute Parlour LLC 2460 Terry Rd Suite #600 11/5/12 Social Work P.R.N.., Inc. BUS 11/29/12 409 Briarwood Drive, Suite 303 Software Paradigms International Group LLC LLC 11/1/12 506 South President Street South Industries Inc. BUS 11/26/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Sparrow Arts NP 11/30/12 5490 Brairfield Rd SPI Resources, LLC LLC 11/13/12 506 South President Street Springs Brands, LLC LLC 11/13/12 506 South President Street SRA Insurance Agency LLC LLC 11/27/12 506 South President Street SRJ Holdings - Mississippi, LLC LLC 11/20/12 506 South President Street STM Trucking LLC LLC 11/8/12 506 South President Street Strategic Management Partners LLC

LLC

11/29/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Sub-Floor Solutions DBA BUS 11/7/12 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Summit Technologies, Inc BUS 11/2/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. Susan Barclay International LLC LLC 11/9/12 140 Peninsula Drive ( Brandon 39047) T & R Bradley Construction, LLC LLC 11/19/12 11 Dogwood Hill Drive Tabernacle of Spirit and Truth, Our Strength Daily Ministry NP 11/27/12 3919 Slayton Ave Targray Industries, Inc. BUS 11/26/12 405 Briarwood Dr Ste 103 A TDM Franchising, LLC LLC 11/9/12 506 South President Street TDS Telecom Service CorporationBUS 11/6/12 506 South President Street Templar Inc BUS 11/14/12 405 Briarwood Dr Ste 103 A Teresa Birks Attorney at Law PLLC

PLLC

11/5/12 170 E Griffith St. Apt. 202 (39201) The Can Man Trucking, LLC LLC 11/9/12 1819 Valley Street The Chicken Den LLC LLC 11/6/12 4312 North State St. The Cosmetic Executive Women Foundation Ltd. NP 11/6/12 506 South President Street The CRS Group, Inc BUS 11/21/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. The Furr Group LLC LLC 11/8/12 5 Sheffield Court

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The Law Offices of Christinia C PLLC Townsend, PLLC 11/5/12 6 Greenwing Court (39211) LLC The Quarter Jackson L.L.C. 11/29/12 102 Business Park Drive, Suite A Ridgeland, Ms 39157

BUS Thomas Drywall, Inc. 11/13/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. LLC Tri-Quad Marketing LLc 140 Ramada Circle 11/14/12 Triggs Professional Cleaning & Private Care DBA OTH 1359 Sharon Dr 11/6/12 BUS Unity II, Inc 6110 Highway 18 West 11/16/12 VCM Real Estate LLC LLC 11/16/12 406 Briarwood Drive, Suite 200 OTH Vera Triggs DBA 1359 Sharon Dr 11/6/12 Village Concept Hair Care Center LLC

LLC

4500 I-55 N Ste 147 11/28/12 LLC VREC Olive Branch LLC 11/26/12248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 VuCon, LLC LLC 11/2/12 840 Trustmark Bldg 248 E. Capitol St. LLC W-2 Pros, LLC 11/6/12 1015 Laura Ave Ware Consulting, Inc. BUS 318 South State Street 11/28/12 LLC WB Investments, LLC 11/21/12 2906 N. State St., Ste. 106 West End Development, LLC LLC 11/7/12 1431 Lyncrest Ave LLC WHGLH Management LLC 11/30/12248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Wilkins, Patterson, Smith, Pumphrey & Doty, P.A. PA 4735 Old Canton Road 11/27/12 WillCo Management Group, LLC LLC 11/7/12 4345 Meadowland Drive LLC Willys Investments, LLC 5420 Saratoga Drive (39211) 11/30/12 Wimberly and Wimberly Woodworks LLCLLC

11/29/12 117 Meadow Oaks Lane BUS Wood Group PAC, Inc 506 South President Street 11/13/12 Workadoodle LLC LLC 11/29/12 405 Briarwood Dr. WRB Refining LP LP 11/8/12 506 South President Street WSF LLC LLC 11/6/12 4251 North Honeysuckle Lane

Kessler

Roller's LLC 11/26/12

LLC 119 Pelosi Dr

Kokomo Tim's Automotive and Auto Body, LLC LLC

11/28/12

380 Darbun Road

Kosciusko

Newsom Trucking LLC LLC 11/27/12 3916 Attala Rd 1010

Robinson Properties of Kosciusko, LLC LLC

11/15/12 3077 Attala Road 1154 Veterans of Foreign Wars Department Post 5051 NP 11/5/12 2122 Attala Rd 1146

Lake

U-Neek Trucking LLC LLC 11/19/12 1407 Hazel County Line Road

Laurel

262 Dyess Bridge, LLC LLC 11/27/12 805 West 5th Street 515 N. 8th Avenue, LLC LLC 11/28/12 805 West 5th Street Dyess Bridge Properties, LLC LLC 11/27/12 805 West 5th Street Empty Nest LLC LLC 11/16/12 330 N 14th Ave Erata Properties, LLC LLC 11/27/12 805 West 5th Street JRP Family Properties, LLC LLC 11/27/12 805 West 5th Street L&N Farming, LLC LLC 11/9/12 75 Tom Windham Road Liquid Gold, LLC LLC 11/30/12 39 East Ridge Road Matherville Properties, LLC LLC 11/27/12 805 West 5th Street NDB Investment LLC LLC 11/14/12 1118 North 6th Ave Vara Auto Sales LLC LLC 11/5/12 218 Strengthford Bankston Rd

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Leakesville

BUS ARC Energy Services, Inc 544 Murdock Walley Lane 11/19/12

Leland Home Insurance Acquisition Co., LLC

LLC

11/16/12 126 Third Street LLC Home Insurance Agency, LLC 126 Third Street 11/16/12

Lexington

I Will NP 11/9/12 102 Andrews Street BUS OMNI Cares Incorporated 1942 Ebenezer Coxburg Road 11/2/12 Paladin Interprises LLC LLC 11/9/12 3962 Sand Hill Rd

Liberty

Energy Land Management LLC LLC 11/6/12 4334 Old 24 Compromise Road T & R Dairy Farm OTH 11/9/12 2296 River Rd

Long Beach ABSLE 9, LLC 11/20/12

LLC 130 Destiny Oaks

Chita Entertainment and Enterprises LLCLLC

826 East Railroad Street 11/30/12 Gulf Coast Girl Photography LLC LLC 326 E Third St 11/28/12 J.L. Lord LLC LLC 11/20/12 338 Arbor Station LLC Stone Properties of MS LLC 11/16/12 23166 Woodland Way Pass Christian 39571

Louisville

NP Flophetic International 204 Ivy Ave Apt. A5 11/26/12 H&H Housing Group, LLC LLC 11/13/12 1659 Highway 15 South Bypass BUS JDB Properties Inc 1790 Old Robinson Road 11/5/12 Neil Harrell Construction LLC LLC 11/26/12 205 North Poplar Dr Suttle Investment Properties, LLC LLC 11/19/12 212 Ackerman Street Winston Medical Associates LLC LLC 11/5/12 562 East Main Street

Lucedale

Hadley Cabinets LLC LLC 11/5/12 109 Pete Pitts Rd Robert W Barber LLC LLC 11/9/12 2181 Shipman Rd

Lumberton

Braceco Logistics, Inc. BUS 11/6/12 46 Big Bay Boulevard C & M Transport LLC LLC 11/7/12 119 Floren Lee Rd PLUG Inovations LLC LLC 11/1/12 22 Bass Lane

Maben Doss Electric Service Company, LLC

LLC

11/20/12 6060 5th Street (Bay Saint Louis 39520) RTC Recovery LLC LLC 11/6/12 1409 Barnett Road

Macon

Castleton Irrigation LLC LLC 11/5/12 20983 Hwy 14 World Air Duct Cleaning Inc BUS 11/1/12 975 Cedar Creek Rd

Madison

A&P Investments LLC LLC 11/2/12 113 Sunset Lane Ashford Leasing LLC LLC 11/14/12 208 Sunset Circle B. R. Fox Properties, LLC LLC 11/19/12 166 Belle Pointe Drive BA Solutions LLC LLC 11/2/12 122 Lakeway Dr Barak LLC LLC 11/21/12 105 Hawks Nest Cove BlackThorn Properties LLC LLC 11/16/12 533 Florence Dr (39110) Blue Heron Investments LLC LLC 11/26/12 207 Belle Pointe Dr. Boone Family Properties LLC LLC 11/6/12 250 Geneva Boulevard

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INCORPORATIONS

LLC Cafe' Ole' Of Fondren, LLC 11/9/12 218 Baytowne Row LLC Camellia Village SQ LLC 116 Oakmont Drive 11/13/12 LLC Capitol Solutions LLC 11/8/12 381 Kingsbridge Rd. LLC Carlsen Properties LLC 1169 Windrose Circle 11/30/12 LLC Glam Media LLC 956 Hwy 51, Suite 92 11/2/12 LLC J & B Designs, LLC 905 Keswich Court 11/7/12 Jennifer King Laxson D.M.D., PA PA 139 Memory Lane 11/20/12 LLC JMB Assoc., L.L.C. 141 Whisper Lake Blvd.

11/13/12 LLC JMJ, LLC 11/16/12 190 North Castle Drive KA Boom LLC LLC 134 Weisen Berger Rd Ste B 11/2/12 LLC Le Roux Properties LLC 11/16/12 105 Whisper Lake Blvd Madison Jazz Society NP 647 Highleadon Place 11/23/12 Mid-State Quality Services, LLC LLC 11/30/12 409 Treles Drive Mimi's Properties, LLC LLC 11/14/12 7716 Old Canton Rd., Ste. A, Madison, Ms 39110 LLC Mississippi 7 LLC 11/6/12 105 Cedar Woods MRB Consulting LLC LLC 11/6/12 870 Wellington Way LLC NTICF, LLC 11/15/12 455 Pebble Creek Drive Providence Fiber LLC LLC 732 Magnolia Street 11/2/12 LLC R and R Consultants LLC 1532 Rice Rd 11/6/12 RDD IRA, LLC LLC 207 Belle Pointe 11/8/12 REZ Properties 2 LLC LLC 11/30/12 373 Kingsbridge Rd Southeast Strategic Capital LLC Management LLC 11/2/12124 One Madison Plaza, Suite 1500 Sports & Entertainment, LLC LLC 214 Key Drive 11/7/12 Structures Custom Homes LLC LLC 11/1/12 1304 Highway 51 Worth Avenue Design LLC LLC 11/2/12 176 Saint Augustine Drive

Magee

Brown Electric Services LLC LLC 11/19/12 405 Skyview St. NE D&W Miller Transit LLC LLC 11/5/12 606 9Th Ave SE

Magnolia

JD Trucking LLC LLC 11/5/12 3078 Claude Smith Rd

Marks

The Law Office of Azki Shah LLC LLC 11/16/12 519 Cotton St

McComb

Agent 4 Agency LLC LLC 11/15/12 102 Laurel Street Suite A Depot Enterprises LLC LLC 11/20/12 515 West Ave N Fiber Plus LLC LLC 11/19/12 200 Lacy St ( Magnolia 39652) Goodwin and Slipher, PLLC PLLC 11/28/12 101 Main Street TRV Security LLC LLC 11/8/12 1040 Rolling Oaks Drive WGR Aviation LLC LLC 11/30/12 2051 John E Lewis Dr

Mendenhall

Hux Air Conditioning OTH 11/13/12 PO Box 185 Pandda LLC LLC 11/2/12 295 Pine Lane What's in Store LLC LLC 11/26/12 807 Everett Church Rd

Meridian

22nd Avenue Building, L.L.C. LLC 11/14/12 2120 Front Street Anderson Hospital Providers Inc NP 11/13/12 2124 14Th Street Ballew Distribution LLC LLC 11/14/12 2365 County Rd 379 Blackwell Sand & Gravel, LLC LLC 11/30/12 1724-A 23rd Avenue

LLC Butler's pest control LLC 11/28/12 1627 23Rd Ave Ste D Cedric D Clark Memorial Funeral BUS Home, Inc 3709 Newell Rd 11/2/12 Country View Investments LLC LLC 5325 16Th Avenue 11/8/12 LLC Grand Peble, L.L.C. 609 Elmwood Drive 11/14/12 LLC J&A Management Co., LLC 1020 D Street 11/8/12 BUS Jaswant Singh Inc. 5603 N Avenue 11/8/12 LLC JMH Ventures LLC 4513 8Th Ave 11/28/12 Kewanee Baptist Church Memorial NP Cemetery, Inc. 11/14/12 1000 20Th Avenue Mid-State Land & Timber Co., Inc.BUS 609 Elmwood Drive 11/14/12 Mississippi Paint Sandblast & Welding LLCLLC

11/14/12 3236 Russell Camp Road New Hope Land Services, L.L.C. LLC 2120 Front Street 11/20/12 LLC Newco Grand Peble L.L.C. 11/14/12 609 Elmwood Drive

Newco mid-State Land & Timber Co., IncBUS

609 Elmwood Drive 11/14/12 LLC Newco Sowashee Venture LLC 11/14/12 609 Elmwood Drive Priester Consulting, LLC LLC 11/20/12 6947 South Anderson Road LLC Ramsey Trucking LLC 11/28/12 1635 Hwy 19 S Redsky Investments, LLC LLC 210 Grand Cypress Dr 11/7/12 Robert Shane Pugh VFW Post 12124

11/6/12

NP

6425 Bounds Rd.

Merigold

Gertie's Place, LLC 11/7/12

LLC 36 Bayou Cove

Mooreville

Blue Moon Enterprises, LLC LLC 11/21/12 109 Drive 1347

Moss Point

Iglesia Bautista Fuente de Vida NP 11/14/12 17003 Highway 63 Los Dos Compadres LLC LLC 11/29/12 17003 Hwy 63 M & M Group Inc. BUS 11/8/12 4613 Sawmill Rd. Marion Place Trading LLC LLC 11/16/12 3613 Marion Place

Mound Bayou Global Direct & Freight Brokerage DBA OTH

11/16/12 248 Hackett Road Tryiokasus W. Brown DBA OTH 11/16/12 248 Hackett Road

Mount Olive

Duckworth Well-Site Services LLC LLC 11/5/12 701 Gilmer Road Kelly Plantation, LLC LLC 11/9/12 470 Calhoun Road

Myrtle

N & J Ward Enterprises LLC LLC 11/9/12 1155 Cr 72 Turner Backhoe & Dozer Service, LLC

LLC

11/30/12 1875 Cr 478 Whittington Metal Services LLC LLC 11/9/12 1097 Cr 56

Natchez

Alpha Air, LLC 11/8/12 ARGYLE, LLC 11/16/12

LLC 107 Park Place LLC 319 Market Street

Bramlette Property Management, LLC LLC

11/16/12 109 South Pearl Street Catahoula Properties LLC LLC 11/8/12 717 North Union Street CN Properties, LLC LLC 11/27/12 412 South Commerce Street Daecon Enterprises, LLC LLC 11/20/12 162 1/2 East Franklin St. Eidt Properties LLC LLC 11/21/12 149 Kaiser Lake Road Jefferson-Pacific, LLC LLC 11/9/12 15 Bluff Hills Place Krueger Oil Company LLC LLC 11/19/12 102 Linton Ave

LLC Lewis Family, LLC 11/30/12 319 Market Street LLC Maverick Oil, LLC 316 Main Street 11/16/12 OTH ParaLaw DBA 11/21/12 601 Old Washington Road #14E OTH Patricia David DBA 11/21/12 601 Old Washington Road #14E LLC Rock Bottom Properties, LLC 319 Market Street 11/19/12 Sunflower Baptist of Natchez, Inc NP 209 Lynda Lee Drive 11/7/12 The Art of Trapping LLC 500 South Commerce Street 11/15/12 NP The Descendants 22 Beach St 11/15/12 Welcome M.A.T. Properties LLC LLC 11/5/12 529 W. Stiers Lane

Nesbit

Gerald W Chatham, Sr Family LP LP 580 Fogg Rd N 11/13/12 LLC Global-Vision Brands, LLC 11/19/12 2160 Park Place Cove LLC MAG Farms, LLC 2799 Grove Meadows Drive 11/30/12

Nettleton

BAARDZ LLC LLC 11/28/12 4686 Highway 371 South Cowpena Creek LLC LLC 325 Road 1411 11/1/12 Dyslexia Testing Solutions L.L.C. LLC 11/6/12 102 Parkway Ave The Diamond Rose Ranch LLC LLC 816 County Road 1205 11/26/12 The Diamond Rose Ranch LLC 11/26/12 816 County Road 1205

New Albany

LLC Double Fault LLC 11/7/12 113 W Bankhead Street LLC J Alexander & Company LLC 11/9/12 1518 County Road 107 J and C Commercial Services LLC LLC 11/26/12 309 Adams St Least of These Ministries NP 11/20/12 119 A W Main St The Secret Art Society NP 11/2/12 401 N Glenfield Rd

New Hebron

StoreReport LLC LLC 11/28/12 205 David Sherman Rd

Newton

Miller's Agency, LLC LLC 11/14/12 105 Bolton Avenue Newton County Farmers Market LLC

11/7/12

LLC

3529 Pine Bluff Road

Noxapater

Ted Hartness Farms LLC LLC 11/28/12 612 Hartness Rd

Ocean Springs

Cigars El Puro's Perfecto LLC LLC 11/5/12 3827 Bienville Blvd Ste 6 GLOBAL-AIM, LLC LLC 11/1/12 13296 Larue Rd Green Tech Realty LLC LLC 11/9/12 6324 Landland Dr Ground Up Consulting LLC LLC 11/1/12 3613 Reeves Lane H & G Holdings LLC LLC 11/15/12 13920 Puerto Dr Holiday Foods LLC LLC 11/7/12 511 Shadowlawn Ln J Harlan Heating and Air Conditioning LLCLLC

11/15/12 10617 Maple St JDP Online Solutions, Inc BUS 11/16/12 329 Mincheck Rd KGB Properties LLC LLC 11/14/12 3112 Breakwater Lucid Beacon, LLC LLC 11/7/12 1911 Stuart Ave Med Source Solutions, LLC LLC 11/30/12 1919 Stuart Ave Melinda O Johnson, PLLC PLLC 11/13/12 2900 Government St MSJ & M LLC LLC 11/8/12 1520 Government St O'Keefe Financial Services LLC LLC 11/26/12 911 Porter Ave Southern Union Construction LLC LLC 11/29/12 6520 Lake Geneva Dr.

LLC TAYTAY Properties LLC 11/29/12 7 Schooner Lane LLC The Shepherd Group LLC 15421 Allie Byrd Rd 11/21/12

Okolona

LLC KBM Farms LLC 11/1/12 327 West Main Street NP Okolona Masonic Bodies 236 West Main St 11/13/12

Olive Branch

LLC 3J and K Apparel, LLC 11/1/12 8845 Lezlarken Lane Advanced Distribution Services LLC (Memphis) LLC 11/26/12 11168 Willow Ridge Cove BHC Automotive, Inc. BUS 9570 Highway 178 11/30/12 BUS Darling Flowers, Inc. 1350 Oxbourne North 11/16/12 Direct online Products Inc BUS 6933 Crumpler-Suite B 11/8/12 Healing Hands In Home Care LLC LLC 11/9/12 8910 Cameron Dr Jonathan Hunter McMurry DBA OTH 11/19/12 10272 Palmer Dr LLC L F R Enterprise LLC 11/6/12 3528 Debbie Ln. Lee's Trucking LLC LLC 11/20/12 6864 Phillips Place Men of Vision Empowering Fitness in Teens NP 11/8/12 7784 Allen Ridge Lane Nerren Agricultural Ventures LLC LLC 4986 Nail Rd 11/23/12 North Mississippi Fireams Association Inc. NP

11/5/12 10525 College Rd OB Shooter DBA OTH 10272 Palmer Dr 11/19/12 Selah Entertainment LLC LLC 4120 Arbor Circle 11/5/12 Stubblefield, PLLC PLLC 8019 Betty Browning Pass 11/2/12 Triple C Logistics, LLC LLC 11/20/12 5330 Martin Cove LLC Unleashed Dog Grooming LLC 11/21/12 4120 Arbor Circle

Ovett

C&S Consulting LLC 11/30/12

LLC 93 Monarch Rd

Oxford

Advanced Medical Reviews, Inc BUS 11/29/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C American Management Technologies IncBUS

11/7/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C Arizona Resource Specialists, LLC LLC 11/27/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C Artist Spirits LLC LLC 11/14/12 1109 Van Buren Ave Attain Med, Inc BUS 11/13/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C Barry Williams Electric LLC LLC 11/9/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C BGH Baywood, L.L.C. LLC 11/20/12 1102 Van Buren, Unit 205 Blue Streak Cable & Telecommunications, LLC LLC 11/20/12 405 Galleria Lane Suite C Blue Streak, LLC LLC 11/20/12 405 Galleria Lane Suite C Buddy's Newco, LLC LLC 11/14/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C CB Holdings, LLC LLC 11/13/12 1300 Access Road, Suite 100 CHM Baywood, L.L.C. LLC 11/20/12 1102 Van Buren, Unit 205 Classic Clean, LLC LLC 11/13/12 138 Cr 471 Combs Retail Group, Inc. BUS 11/30/12 916 Battle Ln Davis/Apple 10s, LLC LLC 11/29/12 835 Maplewood Dr. DZ Realty LLC LLC 11/2/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C Eagle Systems and Services Incorporated BUS 11/21/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C Fornea Construction Group LLC LLC 11/6/12 121 Heritage Dr Hooper Properties, LLC LLC 11/14/12 299 South 9th Street Suite 101 Huddleston Land Company, LLC LLC 11/6/12 2653 West Oxford Loop, Suite 104-A Hurt Farm Hunting Club, LLC LLC 11/27/12 428 North Lamar Boulevard, Suite 112

LLC IT Assurance LLC 11/14/12 818 Deerfield Dr LLC JS Love Holdings, LLC 218 Combs Street 11/13/12 LLC Kate Griffin Place LLC 11/6/12 2330 University Avenue LLC Keep Oxford Square, LLC 11/8/12829 North Lamar Boulevard, Suite 1 NP Lafayette Middle School PTO 100 Commodore Drive 11/20/12 LLC Maggie B, LLC 11/27/12 299 South 9th Street Suite 101 LP Memphis Mitchell East, LP 1739 University Ave Suite 116 11/13/12 LLC MGA Roofing LLC 405 Galleria Lane Suite C 11/13/12 Moneydart Global Services Inc BUS 11/15/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C Oxford Cleaning Company LLC LLC 85C CR 104 11/16/12 LLC Oxford Gift Company LLC 11/26/12 307 Bramlett Boulevard 24 Oxford Handmade LLC LLC 121 Victory Hill Ln 11/6/12 LLC Oxford Original LLC 11/6/12 103A Courthouse Square Pamela K Capik, A Professional LLC

PLLC

405 Galleria Lane Suite C 11/19/12 LLC Parnassus Management, LLC 11/29/12 130A Courthouse Square Parnassus Properties, LLC LLC 11/29/12 130A Courthouse Square LLC Prepaidworx LLC 11/8/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C Rebel Volleyball Academy LLC LLC 9002 Bristol Cove 11/20/12 Residential Acceptance Corporation

BUS

405 Galleria Lane, Suite C 11/1/12 Rosedale Limited Development LLC Company TN, LLC 1739 University Ave Suite 116 11/14/12 Russell Precision Mapping, Inc BUS 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C 11/15/12 BUS Safety First Technologies Inc 11/27/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C SchoolStatus, LLC LLC 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C 11/26/12 Sinhatech LLC LLC 11/21/12 3607 Lyles Drive Southern Comfort Home Design LLC

LLC

11/1/12 76 Cr. 1061 Summit General Contractors Inc BUS 11/21/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C The Bureaus Inc. BUS 11/1/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C The Quarter Condominium Association NP 11/15/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C Total Fleet Solutions, LLC LLC 11/21/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C Total Fleet Solutions, Ltd LLC 11/21/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C United Health Solutions LLC LLC 11/8/12 405 Galleria Lane, Suite C V2, Inc. BUS 11/9/12 1516 South 10th Street Vino Wholesale of Mississippi LLCLLC 11/6/12 299 South 9th Street, ste 103 Watson's Country Store LLC LLC 11/13/12 103 County Road 213

Pascagoula

Community Church of God NP 11/7/12 1218 12Th Street Hattiesburg Employment Professionals LLC LLC 11/19/12 4304 Shadowood Circle Larry Whitehead Properties, LP LP 11/27/12 2303 Denny Avenue LBC Properties LLC LLC 11/13/12 1706 Convent Avenue Southern Living Services, LLC LLC 11/21/12 734 Delmas Avenue Templet Towing & Transport LLC LLC 11/9/12 1803 Prospect Ave

Pass Christian

1 Over F Inc BUS 11/7/12 126 Elva Ave Advancas Technologies LLC LLC 11/23/12 712 East Second Street Beau's Creative Color LLC LLC 11/2/12 1071 Schoenfeld Road DDM Group LLC LLC 11/5/12 1100 W. Beach Blvd., Suite 505 Dixie Auto Lift & Equipment LLC LLC 11/16/12 13470 Rockies Rd Harbor House, LLC LLC 11/20/12 11244 Hidden Valley Rd

LLC Jakes Pub N Grub LLC 11/15/12 215 East Second St. Apt. 4

Pearl

American Tactical Martial Arts & LLC Survival Equipment LLC 2016 Country Haven Rd 11/21/12 Chicos Tacos DBA LLC 218 Clubview Circle 11/27/12 NP Christ Calvary Church 11/6/12 248 Clubview Circle dicdochas2 DBA OTH 11/13/12 577 Oak Park Circle OTH Dudley E. Sykes DBA 11/13/12 577 Oak Park Circle Evans Wholesale LLC LLC 3107 Colony Park Dr. 11/20/12 BUS Exxon Food Mart, Inc. 11/29/12 510 Patrick Farms Drive Jackson Zoo Food Mart, Inc. BUS 11/29/12 510 Patrick Farms Drive LLC Jades of MS LLC 218 Clubview Circle 11/27/12 Lock Down Vinyls LLC 775 N. Bierdeman Rd 11/6/12 NP Mississippi Zen Center 465 El Dorado Rd 11/19/12 MS - K9 Specialties LLC LLC 210 Oak Park Crossing 11/2/12 LLC NOOR'S LLC 3121 Hwy 80 East 11/30/12 Sandy Sansing Brookhaven LLC LLC 11/20/12 380 Eldorado Lake Drive LLC Southeast Future Feeds LLC 445 Silver Hill 11/15/12 Teck-E NP 11/19/12 318 E Magnolia Place Thornton Properties LLC LLC 47 Summerwood Drive 11/20/12 Yolanda Wooten DBA OTH 11/29/12 1106 Colony Park Drive

Pelahatchie Ever Reaching Community Outreach

NP

11/19/12 291 Rehobeth Road Lee Knight and Son, LLC LLC 3274 Shiloh Road 11/21/12 Phelps Trailer Park LLC LLC 11/20/12 110 Shirley Drive Sharp Family Properties LLC LLC 11/20/12 110 Shirley Drive Wire Road, LLC LLC 11/21/12 3274 Shiloh Road

Perkinston

J Ladner Companies LLC LLC 11/28/12 3311 Highway 53

Petal

AW Williams, LLC LLC 11/7/12 40 Corinth Rd Briarwood Estates, Inc. NP 11/27/12 828 Hwy 11 Christian Fellowship Home Assisting Living NP 11/8/12 53 Trailwood Circle

Philadelphia

Dunaway Music, LLC LLC 11/6/12 11424 Road 387 Hong Kong Resturant Inc BUS 11/21/12 1011 Ingram St Li Properties LLC LLC 11/16/12 914 West Beacon St Ste #1

Picayune

Just Teezin, LLC LLC 11/16/12 1701 Hwy 43 N Ste 5A Miss, Ms., Mrs., Master Gulf Coast DBA LLC

11/19/12 253111 Karly Dr. Miss, Ms., Mrs., Masters Pearl River County DBA LLC 11/19/12 253111 Karly Dr. Miss., Ms., Mrs., Master Picayune Street Fair DBA LLC 11/19/12 253111 Karly Dr. Moon Rise Shining Publishing LLC LLC 11/19/12 12 Easy Street More Than A Crown Productions LLC

LLC

11/19/12 253111 Karly Dr. Pray Ground Inc BUS 11/13/12 781 Memorial Blvd Ste 7 Techforce Technology, Inc. BUS 11/9/12 25030 Katie Drive Vintage Collectables LLC LLC 11/1/12 1310 Sixth Avenue

Pontotoc

Buzzard Bayou Hunting Club, LLC LLC 50 Liberty Street 11/2/12 Family Motors LLC LLC 2727 Harmony Loop 11/8/12 LLC Gillespie Properties, LLC 2568 Highway 9 South 11/6/12 Gillespie Ventures, LLC LLC 127 Cruise Dr 11/20/12 LLC Gillespie Water, LLC 11/6/12 2568 Highway 9 South Midsouth Clinical Staffing, LLC LLC 11/14/12 112 Warren St LLC Pettey Holdings, LLC 11/13/12 271 North Brooks St.

Poplarville

BChilds Consultant Services, LLC LLC 891 Dupont Harts Chapel Rd 11/13/12 LLC BCS Properties LLC 6230 Highway 53 11/9/12 Chicken And More LLC LLC 1113 S. Mail St 11/21/12 LLC Hawkins Rentals, LLC 11/14/12 201 Dogwood Street Leland D Stanford Post No 4196 VFW

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My First Impressions Boutique, LLC

LLC

11/21/12

65 Country Heritage Rd

11/8/12 209 South Jordan Street Nearly New & Uniforms Too, LLC LLC 11/13/12 395 Buck Stuart Rd LLC Red Gravy LLC 11/29/12 1971 Hwy 26 West RMH Construction Services Inc BUS 11/29/12 1728 Dupont-Harts Chapel Road LLC Keith Palmer Trucking, LLC 11/30/12 8643 Highway 498 East

Potts Camp

D's Contracting LLC 11/29/12

LLC 36 Reids Ave

Prairie

LLC L & K Farms LLC 830 Clay Chickasaw CLR 11/8/12

Puckett

J&J Limited LLC 11/9/12

LLC 670 Cato Rd

Purvis

All State Refrigeration LLC LLC 11/9/12 229 Windridge Lane DH Development LLC LLC 11/6/12 40 Deep South Lane Golden Eagle Consulting LLC LLC 11/14/12 38 Windy Hill Dr. Parents Using Resources Vision & innovation for Students, Parents Teacher Organization NP 11/30/12 705 Main Street Polymer Science Learning Foundation

NP

11/1/12 7 Mathias Hollow Qchair's Traveler NP 11/23/12 1 Southern Oaks Dr S Walker Consulting LLC LLC 11/6/12 5 Lamplighter Lane Southern Title Services, LLC LLC 11/13/12 6374 Highway 98 West Ste A TB Sales and Service, LLC LLC 11/7/12 40 Deep South Lane Thompson Masonry LLC LLC 11/19/12 121 Simmons Lane Tic Toc Diner LLC LLC 11/14/12 2745 Little Black Creek Rd

Quitman

Valentine Consulting, LLC LLC 11/7/12 1060 County Road 440

Raymond Lydia Haynes Consulting Company LLC LLC

11/26/12 1099 Butts Rd Quality Craftsmen LLC LLC 11/5/12 160 Justin Lane The W & W Group, LLC LLC 11/27/12 1342 Suzanna Drive The W & W Group, LLC 11/27/12 1342 Suzanna Drive Timber Creek Properties LLC LLC 11/5/12 200 Cedar Valley Rd WBF, Inc BUS 11/9/12 2090 Suzanna Dr Wright Properties, LLC LLC 11/15/12 1194 Seven Springs Drive

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Redwood

G.C. R. Farms, LLC 11/1/12

LLC 1515 Redwood Rd

Richland

Rissa to Heart Productions LLC LLC 120 Oakwood Road 11/19/12

Called for Such a Time As This Ministries NP 11/7/12 540 M & M Road Paw Paws Country Catfish, LLC LLC 169 Evon Loop 11/19/12

Ridgeland

117 NVA LLC LLC 441 Northpark Dr. Suite A 11/27/12 Advantage Communications, LLC LLC 11/13/12750 Woodlands Parkway, Ste. 209 Ambassadors Trucking Inc BUS 298 Planters Grove 11/14/12 LLC Arrant Construction LLC 11/15/12 222 Eastpark Street Avid Hospitality LLC LLC 11/15/12 222 Eastpark Street LLC Broaddus Edwards LLC 992 Northpark Drive, Ste A 11/7/12 LLC

11/19/12 368 Highland Colony Parkway LLC Burns Investments LLC 11/5/121076 Highland Colony Pkwy., 600 Concourse, Ste. 100 C. L. Jack Stelly & Associates, Inc BUS 700 Avignon Drive, Suite C 11/13/12 Country Squire LLC LLC 11/27/12 5774 Highland Colony Parkway Diane Morse & Associates LLC LLC 11/14/12 587 Highland Colony Parkway LLC Eco-Lighting Solutions LLC 11/20/12 4B Professional Parkway Guthrie Communications LLC LLC 11/20/12 300 Indian Gate Circle HarborWalk Condominiums, Phase 1 LLC LLC

111 Harbor Drive 11/26/12 Hernando Hotel Group LLC LLC 11/2/12 222 Eastpark Street Holmes Business Services, LLC LLC 11/8/12 711 Lake Harbour #1233 Hope Services DBA LLC 11/7/12 571 Highway 51 Suite G Hypnotic Fragrance Body Oils, LLCLLC 11/13/12 303 Autumn Crest Dr Inter Mountain Management, L.L.C.

LLC B Trucking LLC 130 Mockingbird Lane 11/26/12 BKR Farm LLC LLC 143 Montana Street 11/28/12 LLC Paula Childs Consulting LLC 1320 County Road 530 11/16/12

Robinsonville

Richton

Broadway Construction Company LLC

Ripley

LLC

11/8/12 1016 Highland Colony Parkway Jack Enterprises LLC LLC 11/7/12 571 Highway 51 Suite G Lansdale Investments, LLC LLC 11/9/12 600 Crescent Blvd Ste B M Homes, LLC LLC 11/20/12 700 Avignon Drive, Suite C Mississippi Vascular Center PLLC PLLC 11/28/12 321 Highway 51, Suite D Monogram Mills LLC LLC 11/27/12 305 Autumncrest Drive Oxford Imaging Associates, LLC LLC 11/29/121018 Highland Colony Parkway, Suite 800 P&L Holdings LLC LLC 11/14/12 231 Bellewether Pass PC Hotel Group LLC LLC 11/8/12 222 Eastpark Street Pepper & Odom, P.C. PA 11/14/12 571 Highway 51, Suite B Pepper Mill Holdings LLC LLC 11/9/12 617 Renaissance Way, Suite 200 PGM Properties, LLC LLC 11/7/121062 Highland Colony Parkway, Suite 222 PS Labs, LLC LLC 11/1/12800 Woodlands Parkway, Suite 107 R. Hobson LLC LLC 11/13/12 750 Avignon Dr Ste. 5 Science MAC, LLC LLC 11/6/12 761 Rice Rd. Apt 810 Sleep Professionals LLC LLC 11/13/12 204 Squirrel Hill Dr SSNP Investments, LLC LLC 11/1/12 350 Arbor Drive Sweet Daddy's Kettle Corn, LLC LLC 11/20/12 311 S. Pear Orchard Road UAV Investments LLC LLC 11/13/12795 Woodlands Parkway Suite 220 Washington St Development LLC LLC 11/15/12 200 Agency Burn WRY Energy, LLC LLC 11/30/12 300 Concourse Blvd, Suite 101 Zips R Us LLC LLC 11/16/12 595 Northpark Dr. #A

Power Tech Farm LLC LLC 24506 Highway 3 Lot 2 11/30/12

Rolling Fork

LLC R D Russell Trucking, LLC 11/19/12 314 Walnut Street

Rosedale

Estes and Estes Properties, LLC LLC 408 Railroad St 11/27/12 Rosedale Distilling and Brewing Company LLC LLC 104 Terrene Road 11/6/12

Sallis

BUS Hightower Trucking, Inc. 2067 Attala Rd 4147 11/7/12

Saltillo

LLC 3ComfyChairs 141 County Road 1806 11/13/12 Bulldog Institute of Business and Technology Inc. BUS 11/15/12 1811 Birmingham Ridge Road D & D Masonry Contractors L.L.C. LLC 11/20/12 102 Cedar St Kids World of Tupelo Inc BUS 156 Union Belle Blvd 11/19/12 LLC Spray South, LLC 11/8/12 241 Little Harpe Trail

San Benito

OTH Albert Rendon Welding DBA 11/26/12 715 East Hudson Road Alberto Rendon DBA OTH 11/26/12 715 East Hudson Road

Saucier

A and L Enterprise, LLC LLC 11/28/12 15019 DILL ROAD Innovative Realty Inc BUS 11/1/12 23515 Central Drive Petro Farms LLC LLC 11/30/12 24181 Turan Rd R & D Pharmacy, LLC LLC 11/30/12 23457 Central Drive, Suite A The Shelbylu, LLC LLC 11/6/12 20545 Pearl St Waltco General Contractors LLC LLC 11/13/12 25061 Clarke Road

Scooba Charlie Roberson Contract Hauling LLC LLC

11/5/12 12096 Sanders St Kemper Regional Outreach Cooperative A. A. L. INS 11/2/12 121 Cross Rd

Senatobia

112 Orange Drive, LLC LLC 11/26/12 214 S. Ward Street Baker Spears LLC LLC 11/20/12 303 Cochran Place C & M Dozer Service, LLC LLC 11/26/12 208 Joseph Drive

Smithdale

Adams Methodist Cemetery Association NP 11/16/12 16961 Hwy 98

Southaven

Agilitas USA Inc. BUS 11/20/12 3964 Goodman E. Rd., Ste #111 Capital Express, Inc. BUS 11/13/12 8830 Center St., Suite 3 Education Support Services, Inc 11/15/12 3857 Cherry Lake Cove International Breachers Group LLCLLC 11/21/12 187 Stateline Road E, Suite 15 Mata, Inc BUS 11/14/12 1602 Stonehedge Dr Midsouth Bungy LLC LLC 11/6/12 4788 Briarton Dr

February 1, 2013

LLC PDG Properties of MS LLC 11/13/12 7734 Airways Blvd LLC S3 of Brandon, LLC 5069 Pepper Chase Dr 11/2/12 LLC Sirius Realty LLC 11/26/12 5699 Getwell Road G-2 LLC The SCI Group, LLC 8849 Centre St 11/23/12 LLC Tyler-Phillips Group LLC 2500 Bethany Drive 11/13/12 LLC Upside Properties LLC 2228 Plum Point Cove 11/6/12

Starkville Abundant Life Childcare Center, Inc.

BUS

11/9/12 137 Akers Hill Rd LLC D.U. Why? LLC 302 Scales St 11/1/12 GMS Exterior Services LLC LLC 11/9/12 58 Risdge Crest Dr Hallberg Enterprise's Inc BUS 104 South Primrose 11/2/12 BUS Hallberg Enterprises, Inc. 11/2/12 104 South Primrose LLC I Hunt Extreme Outdoors LLC 535 Lincoln Drive 11/9/12 Infinity Project Management Inc. BUS 11/15/12 101 South Rosebud Lane LLC LGMK Properties LLC 224 East Main Street 11/2/12 LLC Love by Kalise LLC 11/16/12 68 Natchez St Sensei Mobile LLC LLC 500 Louisville St Apt 117 11/28/12 LLC Starkville Wet N Wild LLC 11/8/12 819 Sunnyland Drive Stewart Ear, Sinus & Allergy, PLLCPLLC 11/7/12 #4 Professional Plaza

Steens

Edna's Cleaning Severces Inc. BUS 935 Billy Kidd Road 11/8/12

Stewart

Bill Howell LLC 11/20/12

LLC 3590 Hwy. 82

Stringer

Lori Woodruff, Child Welfare Consulting Services LLC LLC 11/19/12 33 Cr 715

Polka Tots LLC 11/19/12

LLC 502 York Rd

Summit

Cloud 9 Salon and Gifts OTH 11/20/12 708 B Robb St Mae Dae, Inc BUS 11/27/12 1017 Indian Hills Drive Riddle & Associates LLC LLC 11/21/12 145 Freeman Rd SE Sumerall Logging LLC LLC 11/26/12 6156 Upperglading Road

Sumrall

Taylorsville Joey Robinson Cleaning Service LLC

LLC

278 SCR 12

The Eye Pipeline Inspection Service LLC LLC

501 Norris St

Terry

David Rankin Distributing Corp. BUS 11/27/12 18349 Midway Road Lazar's Heating & Air Conditioning LLC LLC

11/27/12 1230 Craig Dr Mid State Sales LLC LLC 11/8/12 211 Pecan Creek Dive Todd & Associates of Mississippi, LLC

11/27/12

Tunica

LLC Be No Ordinary Gal, LLC 11/20/12 1450 Tate Ave Flora Pecans, LLC LLC 1245 Main Street 11/7/12 LLC Jatten, LLC 1195 Bailey Road 11/9/12 McDonald Services, LLC LLC 1245 Main Street 11/5/12

LLC

205 W Cunningham Ave.

Tylertown

LLC CDL Trucking LLC 3 Union Creek Road 11/9/12 Jason Lee Trucking, LLC LLC 1208 Meadowbrook Lane 11/8/12 LLC Luter, LLC 104 South Adams Street 11/13/12 LVL Rental, LLC LLC 157 Old Highway 98 East 11/19/12 LLC Mo Chickens, L.L.C. 11/14/12 571 Hwy 583 N Sharp Shooters Gunsmith LLC LLC 11/6/12 09 Lee Magee Road LLC Walthall Motor Company, LLC 11/28/12 156 Old Hwy 98 West Ya'Neq Creations Beauty Academy Inc BUS

11/26/12

Tupelo

Antler, LLC LLC 11/14/12 117 North Broadway Street Barrow1, LLC LLC 131 Lakeover Dr. 11/13/12 LLC BTFranks Investments LLC 11/1/12 146 Country Oaks Circle Chesnut Financial Planning, LLC LLC 359 North Broadway Street 11/13/12 LLC City Pawn of Tupelo, LLC 11/20/12 793 South Gloster Street Corbett Trucking LLC LLC 102-A West Franklin Street 11/1/12 PLLC Direct Care PLLC 11/19/12 105 South Front Street Dyamonds & Pearls Social Club Inc.NP 1121 Terry Rd 11/7/12 Elzie's Floor Care and Janitorial Services, LLC LLC 11/23/12 1324 Lambard Dr LLC Enegen LLC 208 N. Spring Street Suite 11 11/13/12 Falcon Compliance Services Incorporated BUS 817 Locust Lane 11/28/12 Hurst Medical LLC LLC 1906 Lakefield Dr 11/6/12 Hutchinson Family, LLC LLC 11/15/12 105 South Front Street JRJGC Investments LLC LLC 11/19/12 3983 N. Gloster Street JTMC II, LLC LLC 11/8/12 336 N. Green Street Junior Achievement of Greater Birmingham, Inc. NP 11/13/12 North Mississippi Health Services 830 Just In Time Services, Inc. BUS 11/14/12 2738 Eason Blvd Ste C Kantack Farms, LLC LLC 11/15/12 359 North Broadway Street KeyPoint Communications, LLC LLC 11/20/12 1836 Rachel St Keystone Hospitalist Services of MS, Inc BUS 11/9/12 201 South Spring Street, Seventh Floor Mark Prince Realty LLC LLC 11/14/12 108 Brookside Court McTolo Properties, LLC LLC 11/20/12 218 South Thomas St. Ste 115 MedDevCo, LLC LLC 11/19/12 105 South Front Street Oaktree Manor Assisted Living, Inc

Cuppa Crew Tea Company, Inc. BUS 11/30/12 280 Hickory Grove Church Rd DIVA Race and Timing Services LLCLLC 11/21/12 1220 Grantham Rd. ELS Consulting LLC LLC 11/5/12 23 Magnolia Crossing Road HCLJ Company, LLC LLC 11/30/12 334 Munn Road Hosey Hills Farm LLC LLC 11/6/12 111 Railroad Avenue

11/28/12

BUS HT's Enterprise Inc 3545 Knox Road 11/26/12 Singleton Holdings LLC LLC 5652 Dogwood Drive 11/23/12

South Gloster Street

Sturgis

11/7/12

Toomsuba

BUS

11/20/12 218 South Thomas St. Ste 115 Pegues Brothers Logistic LLC LLC 11/14/12 1724 N Gunclub Road Prime Hospitality Group LLC LLC 11/5/12 95 Old Runway Road R.L. Chesnut, LLC LLC 11/13/12 359 North Broadway Street Robert D Pilgrim & Associates, PA PA 11/2/12 1041 Cliff Gookin Blvd S & S Real Properties LLC LLC 11/30/12 210 E Main St Suite 2A SaltilloMed, PLLC PLLC 11/8/12 336 N. Green Street (38804) Selfish, LLC LLC 11/5/12 3260 Highway 145 Shakemuptomtom & Pwindom LLCLLC 11/14/12 3196 Monterey Dr St/Bethany Properties, LLC LLC 11/29/12 5221 Cliff Gookin Blvd., Suite A Tri-State Provider Network, LLC LLC 11/15/12 105 South Front Street Troxell Communications, Inc. BUS 11/19/12 1020 N Gloster St Unlimited Fidelity Warranty Inc BUS 11/26/12 3983 N. Gloster Street Vision LED Rental, LLC LLC 11/30/12 1701 Martin Hill Dt William's Truck LLC LLC 11/6/12 202 North Spring St (38804)

1522 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.

Union

BUS Philadelphia Cleaners Inc 10231 Road 248 11/20/12 The Carleton Group, PLLC PLLC 112 Main Street 11/16/12 LLC Union Tobacco Mart LLC 11/8/12 121 Lakeview Dr.

Utica

Platinum Backline LLC LLC 601 West Main St 11/21/12

Vancleave

Bluffcreek Bluegrass Gospel LLC LLC 11/26/12 5901 Waltman Rd Delta System Sales DBA OTH 17200 Spring Lake Dr. W. 11/21/12 Delta System Sales LLC LLC 11/9/12 17200 Spring Lake Drive West Future Starts Now NP 11/30/12 15807 Chickadee Cir LLC In the Black, LLC 11/20/12 4304 Whisper Dr Ira Bryce Groff DBA OTH 11/21/12 17200 Spring Lake Dr. W. BUS R.L.E. Survey, Inc. 14085 Oakview Circle 11/6/12 South Gulf Disaster Relief LLC LLC 11/26/12 18005 Moungers Rd Triple P and J Feed, LLC LLC 11/1/12 18901 Busby Road

Vardaman

Hollyswitch Rentals LLC LLC 11/6/12 25 Cr 472 Jak N Mag, LLC LLC 11/5/12 909 Highway 8 East

Vicksburg

Abundance of Love Daycare Learning Center NP 11/29/12 1207 First North Alkchemie Arts, LLC LLC 11/19/12 6250 Jeff Davis Rd Chambers Pasta & More LLC LLC 11/19/12 3200 Washington St Clayton Wilson DBA OTH 11/19/12 2550 Grange Hall Rd Davcon Properties, LLC LLC 11/13/12 1485 Warrior's Trail Fast Food Delivery Corporation BUS 11/14/12 2310 Washington St. Five Star Nails, LLC LLC 11/7/12 3401 Halls Ferry Road Unit #2 Five W, LLC LLC 11/19/12 4 Shoreline Drive Gibson Roofing/Construction LLC LLC 11/7/12 6455 Hwy 27 S. Go Holdings LLC LLC 11/29/12 3425 Wisconsin Ave #49 Krazy K Ranch LLC LLC 11/30/12 1990 S Frontage Road Ste D Lanyard & Celia Armstrong OTH 11/14/12 1201 Culkin Road LaSalle LaSalle LLC LLC 11/1/12 103 Bering St McNelly Timber Company, LLC LLC 11/16/12 136 Business Park Drive Mid-South Power Sports, LLC LLC 11/9/12 3427 Halls Ferry Road, Suite F Shiva Southaven, Inc. BUS 11/8/12 1110 Jackson St Tire Technology DBA OTH 11/19/12 2550 Grange Hall Rd Tire Technology LLC LLC 11/14/12 2550 Grange Hall Rd Triple B Trucking LLC / Johnny E. McCool, II. LLC 11/19/12 72 Lakeside Drive

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NP Welcome Home NP 11/30/12 2632 Hanna Avenue

Walls

LLC Cafe Xpresso LLC 6620 Hickory Crest Dr. 11/6/12 OTH John E. Cosper DBA 11/13/12 7230 Black Oak Dr New Creature Consulting DBA OTH 7230 Black Oak Dr 11/13/12 Prayosha Hospitality, LLC LLC 11/14/12 6821 Ranch Ridge Cove

Walnut Grove

LLC Fleamageddon LLC 2705 Pine Grove Road 11/5/12 Flossie's Attic LLC LLC 11/11/12 1194 Highway 487 East LLC Hall Business Services, LLC 3380 Pine Grove Road 11/8/12

Water Valley

Crow Band Instrument Repair, LLC LLC 203 Wagner Street 11/9/12 LLC Stokes ViP Catering, LLC 509 Wood St 11/26/12

Waynesboro

Buddy 's Food and Fuel LLC LLC 11/8/12 4863 Highway 84 PA Edwin Strickland DDS PA 11/16/12 806 Spring Street High Noon Lounge LLC LLC 11/16/12 1428 Mississippi Drive LLC Scc Family Farm, LLC 11/8/12 2295 Waynesboro Shubuta Rd. The 411 Building Inc BUS 11/15/12 38 Chestnut

Wesson

LLC C ans S PAINTING LLC 1044 Dear Lane 11/9/12 LLC Heads Up Enterprises LLC 11/21/12 3008 Monticello Rd

West Point

Bostick Construction LLC LLC 11/28/12 767 Lummus Rd Elite Barber and Beauty LLC LLC 11/6/12 639 West Main St King City, LLC LLC 11/30/12 110 Hwy 45-Alt Litho, LLC LLC 11/1/12 2206 Rosewood McBrayer Development LLC LLC 11/13/12 1401 Sycamore Drive US Quality Fuel Inc BUS 11/13/12 421 Cul-De-Sac St

Winstonville

Southern Hospitality Hospice & Palliative Care, LLC LLC 11/19/12 103 South Blake Ave

Woodville

Baldwin Redi-Mix Co., Inc. BUS 11/16/12 413 Old Hwy 61 Crosby Ms 39633 Creek Cottage Condominiums LLC LLC 11/8/12 569 1St South St Daddy Mac's, LLC LLC 11/19/12 312 Wallace Drive Faithful Distribution Inc BUS 11/6/12 185 Prison Lane Netterville Lumber, LLC LLC 11/2/12 3695 Buffalo Rd

Yazoo City

Action Dyersburg, LLC LLC 11/21/12110 North Jerry Clower Boulevard, Suite W

Action Nicholasville, LLC LLC 11/21/12 110 North Jerry Clover Blvd., Suite W JML Investments LLC LLC 11/26/12 106 Wildwood Terrace Ext

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Hassell added to staff Dr. Bradley Hassell, M.D., is a new provider to Behavioral Health Services of Singing River Health System. He received his medical degree from University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, Ala. Hassell completed his residency in adult psychiatry as well as a fellowship in forensic psychiatry at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Hassell Center in Dallas. He is board certified in adult psychiatry.

Since 1998, Hassell has worked in various locations in Mobile and south Mississippi with his practice concentrating in geriatric psychiatry. Hassell provides psychiatric consultation at various nursing facilities, structured outpatient programs and on the med-psych inpatient unit for Singing River Health System Behavioral Health Services.

ASCE honors Prestwood

ACCOUNTANTS MAKE NEWS

Hutcheson

MIller

David Miller, CPA, has been reappointed to the Mississippi State Board of Public Accountancy by Gov. Phil Bryant to a five-year term.

Miller is currently serving on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Auditing Standards Board, and is past president of the Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants. He currently serves as president of Nail McKinney Professional Association, where he is a shareholder of the firm.

Miller is a graduate of the University of Mississippi, and currently resides in Tupelo with his wife, Ellen.

In addition, Nail McKinney has promoted Josh Hutcheson, CPA, Matthew Oaks, CPA, and Amanda Spencer, CPA, to senior accountant.

Oaks

Spencer

Hutcheson is a graduate of Mississippi State University with a bachelor of accountancy and a master of taxation. A native of Booneville, he currently resides with his wife, Kelly Williams Hutcheson, in Tupelo.

Oaks is a graduate of Mississippi State University with a bachelor of accountancy and a master of taxation. A native of Booneville, Oaks joined the firm’s New Albany office in 2010.

Spencer earned her bachelor of accountancy from Mississippi State University and her master of accountancy from the University of Mississippi. A native of Houston, she currently resides with her husband, Justin, and their daughter, Lily, in Tupelo.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recently selected Deanna Prestwood for the Young Engineer of the Year Award. Prestwood serves as chief of the river stabilization section of the engineering and construction division at the Corps’ Vicksburg District. Prestwood was selected for the award not only for her expertise in the field of Prestwood engineering, but also for her continuing promotion of engineering, science, and technology. She teaches engineering classes at the Corps’ Engineering Research and Development Center. She further encourages the advancement of the civil engineering profession through her teaching and mentoring to students at local school districts and the Boy Scout and Girl Scout organizations.

She received the 2011 Department of the Army Achievement Medal for Civilian Service for her design efforts involving the Mississippi River 2011 Flood of Record.

Prestwood, a native of Vicksburg residing in Clinton, earned her civil engineering degree from Mississippi State University, and is a licensed professional engineer in Mississippi.

She is married to Craig Prestwood, and they are the parents of two children. She is the daughter of Larry and Jean Calloway of Raymond, formerly of Vicksburg.

MSS taps Vance

Simmons, Young promoted

Methodist Senior Services has selected Christie Vance as the new Vice president for finance and will serve as the CFO for Methodist Senior Services in Tupelo. Vance is a 14-year veteran employee with MSS, serving as director of accounting and Interim vice president for finance on two occasions. Prior to joining MSS, Vance was an accountant with Vance Watkins Ward and Stafford, CPA, and worked on the MSS audit for four years.

Vance received her bachelor of accountancy from the University of Mississippi. She is married to Cory Vance and they have two daughters, Abby, 11, and Olivia, 5. She is active in her local church serving as Sunday School teacher and on the building and activities committees. In her spare time she enjoys running, reading and baseball.

Helen Simmons has been promoted to vice president of accounting with Telapex Inc. She came to Telapex in 1994 as accounting manager and in March 1997 was promoted to director of accounting. Simmons received her master of accountancy from Millsaps College and her certified public accountant license for the State of Mississippi.

Also, Kimberly Young has been promoted to director of human resources. She began her career with Telapex in 1999 after her graduation from Mississippi University for Women where she received her bachelor of science in family and human development that year.

Young went back to school for the next several months before returning Telapex in 2000. Since then she has held the positions of payroll and benefits administrator, human resources supervisor, employee benefits manager and manager of payroll and benefits.

Association elects directors

Steiner earns license

The Mississippi Gulf Coast Attractions Association has elected its 2013 board of directors. The elected officers are: Louis Skrmetta of Pan Isles Inc./Ship Island Excursions, retaining his seat as president; Rhonda Roberts of Gulfport Premium Outlets first vice president/advertising and public relations;’ Janice Jones of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau, second vice president/membership; Nancilee Bodine of Bodine Pottery, treasurer; Sonja Gillis of the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center, secretary; and, Tom Becker of the Mississippi Charter Boat Captains Association, past president.

Three new members are: Denny Mecham of the Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art; Rachael Austin of South Coast Paddling Company; and, Robin Krohn-David of the Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum.

Ryan P. Steiner of Terracon Consultants Inc. has earned his license as a professional engineer from the Mississippi Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Surveyors. Steiner graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering. He is a staff engineer based out of Terracon’s Ridge- Steiner land office and provides geotechnical services to clients throughout Mississippi.

Hospital honors service Mississippi State Hospital recently honored employees with January anniversary dates for their years of service to the hospital. Award recipients include: Cynthia Davis, one year; Sandra Lott of Mendenhall, one year; Virginia Crozier of Pearl, 10 years; Jenika Williams of Brandon, one year; Chana Johnson of Jackson, one year; Ella Thomas of Bolton, 15 years; Sherri Proctor of Brandon, 15 years; Renee Todd of Clinton, 15 years; Carnelia McAllister of Lena, 30 years; Kathryn Boyer of Hattiesburg, one year; Marie Davis of Brandon, 15 years; Debbie Jenkins of Pearl, 20 years; Sarah Ballow of Hazlehurst, one year; Betty Hammett of Brandon, one year; Marilyn Bailey of Brandon, one year; Charles Givens of Jackson, one year; Robert Mendrop of Edwards, one year; Charles Stevens of Pearl, 30 years; and, Alisha Oliphant of Jackson, one year.

Kasper chosen as director Chase Kasper will become the director of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Office of Technology Development, effective Feb. 1. Before accepting the Southern Miss post, Kasper served as associate director of the Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer at Mississippi State University. He has been involved with technology licensing, intellectual property management and technology transfer in a university environment for almost 10 years. Prior to his work in a university setting Kasper spent more than 13 years honing his skills in the private sector. His experience includes successfully managing multi-million dollar product lines, product planning and execution, assessing partnership opportunities, designing corporate identity guidelines, developing international pricing structures, launching new products and assessing customer requirements and meeting customer satisfaction goals.

A native of Oxford, Kasper received his bachelor of business administration and MBA degrees from Mississippi State University.

Peavey marker erected Hartley Peavey, founder and CEO of Peavey Electronics, now has a marker on the Historic Mississippi Blues Trail. In addition, the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center honored Peavey with a bronze on the Walk of Fame at Dumont Plaza in downtown Meridian.

Peavey heads one of the world’s largest and most diversified manufacturers of musical-instrument and professional-audio products, boasting more than 180 patents, a product line exceeding 2,000 products, and distribution in 136 countries.

BankPlus promotes Williams BankPlus has promoted Karma Williams to senior vice president in the bank’s Private Client Group.

Williams has over 25 years of experience in the banking industry and has been with BankPlus for 12 years. A native of Madden, she holds a bachelor of science degree in banking and finance from the University of Mississippi and is a graduate of the Louisiana State University School of Banking.

Williams In the community, Williams serves as a member of the Junior League of Jackson, Women’s Fund of Mississippi and Panther Creek Homeowners Association. She has served as a board member of the Assisi Learning Center and was recently named one of Mississippi’s 50 Leading Business Women of 2012 by the Mississippi Business Journal.

Williams and her husband, Scott, have two daughters, Parker and Swayze.

For announcements in Newsmakers; Contact: Wally Northway (601) 364-1016 • wally.northway@msbusiness.com

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SMALL BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: KIRKLAND HAIR STUDIO

Photos by Stephen McDill / MBJ

Left: Jim and Lisa McFadden run a fullservice salon with an old-time family barber feel. Below: The downtown Jackson studio offers regular salon services along with specialty hair restoration products like Virtual Reality and Virtuesse.

Staying on cutting edge >> From governors to movie stars, Kirkland Hair Studio keeps Jackson hair lookin’ good

By STEPHEN McDILL I STAFF WRITER stephen.mcdill@msbusiness.com

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im McFadden still chokes up when he tells the story of Jackson barber Jeri Kirkland’s funeral.

“She was a great lady,” he says of his motherin-law. “She had a congressman be her pallbearer. She had some of the top Jackson businessmen carry her to her grave. Kings carrying their servant to her grave.”

Business would go on at Kirkland Hair Studio, thanks to McFadden, his wife Lisa Kirkland McFadden and her father Kirk Kirkland.

“When I married a barber, I didn’t know what I was getting into,” Jim says.

It was a learning process. Jim used his background in manufacturing and interest in product and purchasing logistics to keep the shop organized while Lisa, a stylist herself, helped him learn what a barber stands for in a person’s life.

“How many people that you’re not intimately close to do you let touch your body,” Jim says. “Maybe a doctor and a wife. After that it only leaves your barber.”

While Jim is behind-the-scenes he is proud of his inlaws’ impact on the salon industry. Jeri was the first woman to graduate from barber school in the state of Mississippi and Kirk won national recognition for his work and was a pioneer in hair replacement services.

The Kirklands married in high school and started working together in 1969 at a shop on Lamar Street in downtown Jackson then opened their own shop in the newly built 22-story Deposit Guaranty Plaza, now owned by Regions Financial Corp.

Being raised in the industry, Lisa spent her whole life in downtown Jackson but says she is more than happy carrying on the business her mother and father started.

She inherited many of her customers from her mother and some include more than one generation.

What makes Kirkland Hair Studio stand out among its area competitors is the shop’s specialization in Hollywood-based hair replacement products and services including the only virtual reality hair studio in the state.

“For anybody with hair loss its traumatizing and unsettling,” Lisa says. “I love being able to change that side of it and give them hope to see a happier ending.”

Customers have come from as far away as Dallas and Baton Rouge. “We’ve got artists not just stylists,” Jim says. “We concentrate on quality not quantity.”

For women battling cancer and going through chemotherapy treatments, they just want to look normal and often don’t want the office and friends to know that they are sick. “Its like they are losing their identity and if I can help them change that focus then they can focus on getting well,” Lisa says.

Jim said most work days at the salon go past twelve hours and there are no sick days.

Sound money management has helped the studio stay afloat in a rattled economy. Jim says salons are like restaurants and many new ones fold quickly because they start out with the best equipment or facility but don’t follow it up with quality service and repeat customers.

The McFaddens moved their business across the street to One Jackson Place after their lease expired with Regions Plaza in 2012. Foot traffic had lagged in recent years after major businesses left the plaza for the suburbs and were replaced by state offices. The business has grown 20 percent since the move thanks to customers from the nearby King Edward and Marriott hotels and the McCoy Federal Building.

Stylist Melissa Bishop once cut Scott Caan’s hair when the “Hawaii Five-0” star was passing through town but didn’t recognize him at first. Southern rock group ZZ Top’s backup singers also visited once for a tanning session.

“We cut former governors, former mayors, a ton of lawyers,” Jim says. “You couldn’t stir them with a stick if you put them all in here.”

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Hammers, saws and Rembrandt

>> Laurel’s Lauren Rogers Museum of Art multi-million dollar renovations near completion

By WALLY NORTHWAY I STAFF WRITER wally.northway@msbusiness.com

Images from the LRMA Collection

When it comes to delicate logistics, one South Mississippi renovation project tops the list. A miscue here, and an irreplaceable world treasure could be compromised.

The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art is nearing completion of construction that includes a new gallery, additional storage space and an expanded loading dock. Funded by a $5-million fundraising campaign ($3 million for the project, $2 million for the museum’s endowment), the museum broke ground on the project in January 2012.

LRMA director George Bassi admitted he went into the project concerned with the security of the Winslow Homer, 1836-1910 museum’s holdings. He said he and the Fisherman’s Wife, 1873 museum’s board use the word Oil on wood panel, 8” x 6 ½” “charmed” in describing the project that got underway in earnest last February.

“It is hard to imagine it going any better. We’re beyond pleased,” he said.

Charmed, perhaps, but the museum staff was proactive and took no chances. All of the galleries except one were stripped and the artifacts, which Jean Francois Millet, French, 1814-1875, First include everything from Native Steps, c. 1856-1858 Pastel on paper, 12 ¾” x 17” American baskets to Rembrandt, were safely tucked away in storage before construction began.

Perhaps the most important part of the project, which was partially funded by a $250,000 Building Fund for the Arts grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission, is the least visible. The museum’s roof was never insulated, and an audit revealed approximately 55 percent of LRMA’s utility bill was for energy that went through the roof.

Another key component of the job is lighting. Crews replaced the museum’s skylights, replacing them with lighting that approximates sunlight.

The new gallery, encompassing 3,400 square feet, will offer new space for meetings, special events, lectures, etc.

Bassi stressed the importance of the expanded shipping and delivery area and storage vault. He said museum’s today must offer a loading dock large enough to handle an 18-wheeler in order to efficiently handle exhibits.

The design work was executed by Foil Wyatt Architects & Planners, PLLC, of Jackson, and the general contractor is Laurel-based Chris Abritton Construction Company Inc. The museum, which opened in 1923 and sees more than 30,000 visitors annually, is set to jointly celebrate completion of the renovations as well as the museum’s 90th anniversary this spring. Marketing director Holly Green details are still being developed, but a dedication ceremony will be held May 1 for the new space followed by a short concert by the Laurel High School Gospel Choir and then a reception. The public will be invited.

For more information on the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, visit www.lrma.org.

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>> MISSISSIPPI LEADERS by Martin Willoughby

Shared experiences

Henry shows others by reaching back and giving from what others have given to him

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ulius Caesar is quoted as saying, “Experience is the teacher of all things.” For leaders, this means that each day is the opportunity to learn, grow, and become a better leader. We can learn from the examples of good and bad leaders and improve upon our own style. We are all leading and extending influence at some level. The question is whether we recognize that fact and whether we are intentional in our growth as a leader.

Mark Henry, executive director of the Mississippi Department of Employment Security, shared with me that his real training as a leader came from “watching other leaders as they interacted and taking mental notes.” Henry has enjoyed a very distinguished career and worked with some very impactful leaders. A native of Louisville, he graduated with honors from Mississippi State University where he was named to the hall of fame.He went on to earn his law degree from the University of Mississippi and clerked for the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and former Gov. J. P. Coleman. After practicing law in Hattiesburg, he joined the Reagan Administration where he served first in the Office of the General Counsel at the Department of Agriculture and later as the special assistant to the deputy general counsel at the Department of Energy.

Up Close With ... Mark Henry Title: Executive director, Mississippi Department of Employment Security Favorite Books: ”The Lord of the Rings by J RR Tolkien. I have read it four times, twice for myself and once to each of my children; The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk” First Job: “I worked on the assembly line making boxes for Spartus Clock Factory in Louisville — a few weeks of that job inspired me to take the FCC exam and work for the local radio station.”

Favorite place to visit: Williamsburg, Va. Hobbies/Interests: Reading, travel, and politics

After coming back home to Mississippi, Henry returned to private law practice for a season before entering a life of public service. He served in several roles for the Fordice Administration including as chief legal counsel and chief of staff. Henry also went on to serve for eight years as a Judge at the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission before serving as Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant’s chief of Staff in 2008.

In 2012, Gov. Bryant appointed Henry to his current post with MDES where he leads an organization focused on helping

Mississippi residents get jobs. I learned that in 2012, MDES assisted 40,000 Mississippians get jobs through 55 job centers and computer database programs.

Henry noted that he learned a lot from Fordice’s leadership style about how to be straight forward and decisive as a leader. He also shared, “Gov. Fordice stood up for and supported his staff, which I try my hardest to do today.” Gov. Fordice was known for his occasional emotional outburst, and Henry said, “although Gov. Fordice never raised his

“Although a leader can be dissatisfied, civility in the workplace will get you a lot further than running a dictatorship.”

voice to me, showing anger with employees is typically counterproductive.” He has observed that, “the more emotional I become, the more emotional the other Martin Willoughby employees become.”

Henry added, “Although a leader can be dissatisfied, civility in the workplace will get you a lot further than running a dictatorship.” While leaders don’t have to be zombies, I strongly agree with Henry’s point and have found that great leaders are calming forces and encouragers to those around them.

Henry advises leaders to be on the lookout for new ideas throughout the organization. He wisely noted, “Not all ideas must come from top management.

Any employee may sometimes have the million-dollar answer, so it is important to listen.” He also reminds leaders that they set the tone and vision for the organization. Henry believes Ronald Reagan was a great example of this leadership quality. He said, “President Reagan would present a clear vision, identify the goal to be reached, and lastly ask the team ‘how do we reach that goal.’”

Henry and other dedicated public servant leaders like him make a difference day in and day out in our state. His story is a great reminder of how we can learn and develop as a leader throughout our careers and extend leadership and positive influence in multiple venues.

Martin Willoughby, a business consultant in Jackson, is a regular contributing columnist for the Mississippi Business Journal. Willoughby can be reached at martin.willoughby@ butlersnow.com.

— Mark Henry

Prize-winning investigative reporter’s memoir released this month

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Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter

By Jack Nelson; edited by Barbara Matusow Published by University Press of Mississippi $26.00 hardcover

his book is another fine example of a Mississippi publishing house presenting a book written by and about an outstanding Mississippian. It’s Jack Nelson’s memoir and was edited after his death by Matusow, his wife of 35 years. She will be at the 20th-annual Oxford Conference for the Book March 22. Nelson died in 2009 at age 80.

Nelson is legendary among journalists. His first reporting job began in 1947 at The Daily Herald in Biloxi. That’s where he earned the nickname Scoop as a cub reporter. He went on to become an investigative reporter for The Atlanta Constitution and Los Angeles Times where he was also the Washington Bureau chief.

Among the honors Nelson received were a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, the Pulitzer Prize and the Drew Pear-

son Award for Investigative Reporting. He authored and co-authored five books on history-making events.

Hank Klibanoff, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation and a journalism professor at Emory University, says Nelson was a seeker of truth. “That’s the highest praise you can give a journalist,” he said, “and he (Nelson) didn’t let people

stop him, even though they tried — on the Mississippi Coast, in Georgia, in Bogalusa, La., and Washington, D.C. — everywhere Jack had a byline.”

Klibanoff, who also worked as a young reporter at The Daily Herald, notes that Nelson’s memoir is a lesson on journalistic propriety. “And it isn’t just seeking the truth but seeking it honestly, honorably and ethically, and being able to look in the eyes of the person about whom you are writing the day after publication,” he said.

Nelson witnessed and reported on historic events during turbulent times, and he interviewed many news makers, including presidents and ambassadors. His memoir, released this month, should be fascinating reading.

— Lynn Lofton, mbj@msbusiness.com

“... he (Nelson) didn’t let people stop him, even though they tried — on the Mississippi Coast, in Georgia, in Bogalusa, La., and Washington, D.C. — everywhere Jack had a byline.” Hank Klibanoff Co-Author of the Pulitzer Prize winning The Race Beat

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RACHEL CANTER, Director, Mississippi First

Doing the right thing Canter on a mission to help make Mississippi a better place

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achel Canter is executive director of Mississippi First. A Starkville native, she has a B.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Q —How did Mississippi First get its start?

A —In 2002, Sanford Johnson, my co-founder, and I each had summer internships in Jackson. We would meet for lunch and discuss all the things we saw wrong with our state and how frustrated we were with the lack of progress.

Those conversations slowly changed from what we didn’t like to what we were going to do about it. In the next few years, we would both join Teach For America and witness first-hand the tremendous impact that a nonprofit could have. That experience inspired us to form a public policy nonprofit that could work on the issues that we most cared about — like education — in a systemic way.

I wrote the business plan for Mississippi First while I was in graduate school, and we were lucky enough to secure a start-up grant the day I graduated. We have been fighting for education reform ever since our official launch in October 2008.

Q —What is the organization’s mission?

A —The mission of Mississippi First is to advocate for the best public policy solutions and to revitalize Mississippi’s democracy.

Q —What are some of Mississippi First’s priorities as far as policy issues in the state?

A —Pre-Kindergarten — We support collaborative pre-K programs.

Charter Schools — We support high-quality charter schools.

School Turnaround — We support a variety of policies that help low-performing schools improve. These include accountability reforms, teacher and leader quality policies, a longer school day/year and better accessibility and use of data in education, to name a few.

Q —What are some of your other immediate goals?

A —Mississippi First wants to see the recent appetite for education reform grow and expand; much of our work consists of pushing these conversations and then turning talk into action.

First, we would like to see a major piece of education legislation debated every session. Although many important education bills are filed each year, they don’t often elicit the intense interest and debate that the charter bill has for the last two sessions. We’d like it to become the norm for legislators and the public to know there is going to be at least one really big idea before the legislature each spring.

Secondly, we want the public to become more knowledgeable about education reform ideas and to embrace the notion that Mississippi has the power to change its education system if we get smarter about our policies.

Finally, we would like to see the State Board of Education get a little bit bolder in their approach to education reform. We have been seeing good signs from them in the last several months on important accountability issues. We want that trend to continue and to grow.

More on Canter:

Must-have Mississippi food: “I’m a dessert gal, so I’d say strawberry cake. I’m not sure the nation has caught up with us yet on how delicious strawberry cake is.”

Favorite movie: “Gosh, this is a hard one as I’m more likely to read than to watch movies! I really love the Jennifer Ehle/Colin Firth version of Pride & Prejudice.”

Last book read: “The last book I read for fun was The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.”

Website: mississippifirst.org Twitter: @mississippi1st

Q —You say on your website that “broken public policy” has prevented Mississippi from making progress. What are some examples of that?

A —Every year, we hear legislators and others lament the fact that we pass new policies and law and nothing changes. However, many times those efforts, while earnest, are flawed from the start or are never implemented.

Take the Children First Act of 2009 that was passed with much fanfare as a new tool to take over and turn around failing districts. Although the law included an idea for a Recovery School District like the ones in Louisiana and Tennessee (whose is called the Achievement School District), that section of the bill has never gotten off the ground.

The Department of Education has several districts under conservatorship and has used some of the granted powers, but the Recovery School District was never created as a formal entity with policies and procedures adopted by the State Board of Education.

A Mississippi Recovery School District could be a powerful step toward building statewide capacity for school turnaround; it is unfortunate that the human capital and policy infrastructure required to manage turnaround efforts at scale has never been assembled.

Q —What do you hope is the future for Mississippi First?

A —We want Mississippi First to be a prominent, respected, research-based voice for education reform in Mississippi. We look forward to a long history of working for children in Mississippi and improving educational outcomes.

>> See the complete unabridged interview with Canter at www.msbusiness.com/blog/category/q-a/

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>> JEFFREY GITOMER

Words to live by for the next 12 months. What are yours?

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am sick of reading claims hyping me to â&#x20AC;&#x153;have my best year ever.â&#x20AC;? FYI: The trend of â&#x20AC;&#x153;best year everâ&#x20AC;? was originated more than a decade ago by the late, great Jim Rohn. His seminars were earthshattering and life-changing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it has inspired many, albeit lesser, duplicators.

Rohnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seminars should have been titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Have your best LIFE ever.â&#x20AC;?

What about your needs and desires this year?

Let me ask you a few questions about where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re intending and hoping to do: > How are you expecting this year to be for you? > What are your immediate (within 30 days) goals? > What are your present hopes and dreams? (They have a way of changing over the years. Some dream of marriage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; others dream of divorce.) > What are your genuine intentions to make your goals, hopes, and dreams a reality? > Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your game plan to ensure success?

SUCCESS CONCEPT: What three or four words, and associated actions, could you come up with as a guiding light to help you stay focused and on track to get you there? Not to have â&#x20AC;&#x153;your best year ever,â&#x20AC;? rather, have a great year. A fulfilling year. A profitable year. A healthy year. A happy year. A year of wander, wonder and fun.

Many people, like my almost sister-in-law, and blogger extraordinaire, Ali Edwards (www.aliedwards.com), pick one word to focus on for the entire year. Her word this year is â&#x20AC;&#x153;open.â&#x20AC;? She focuses blog posts and actions around the word. The process works.

I believe that picking a few meaningful words that apply to your vision will help you take DIRECTED actions. Words you can post in plain sight that will keep you in the groove of daily achievement. Key words that you burn into your psyche so that your goals become your driving force. Not just words on a paper, rather beacons of understanding, determination, and intentions. Ever-mindful, laser-focused, bright light.

Here are my 3.5 words for 2013 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I hope they inspire you to think about and select yours: 1. Write Write every day. Tweet every day. Post every day. I have been writing almost every day for the past 21 years. Why should I let up now? This year I will publish at least two e-books and one major hardbound book (also available on kindle and iBook). I will write 52 new weekly columns, and post a variety of new ideas and thoughts both in text and in video. I selected the word write for 2.5 basic reasons: 1. It has been and continues to be the core of my success. Every penny I have earned since March 23, 1992 (when my first column appeared in print), I can trace back to something I wrote. Writing has provided me with both purpose and process, both discipline and drive, both achievement and attraction, both success and fulfillment, and both lessons and legacy.

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2. Finish Finish what I start. I have more projects and opportunities than I can say grace over. I intend to see each one through to fruition (not just completion).

In my experience, there are very few things more frustrating than the mental nag of a project undone.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m speaking for myself, and challenging myself, at the same time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m speaking to you and challenging you.

Finish what you start. It sounds so simple, yet time seems to fly away during the course of a day, a week, a month, or a year.

The process I try to employ is that of â&#x20AC;&#x153;time allocation.â&#x20AC;? Rather than manage my time (something I have always found both impossible and improbable), I will allocate 30-minute time segments to projects and tasks in order to ensure I have allotted time for completion.

3. Shape This is by far my most difficult word. It has several connotations.

1. Get in shape: This year for sure (even though I said that least year, and the year before). Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fundamental link between physical well being and mental freedom to create. My intention this year is to put them in balance and harmony.

2. Shape up: There are several aspects of business and life that need Jeffrey Gitomer shaping and re-shaping.

They range from organization to money to personal skills to relationships to sales.

3. Shape the future. My age now demands I make plans that include me and exclude me. Succession is not just a word or a plan, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a reality.

These are three huge elements in leadership, life, and quality of living. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m taking personal responsibility for both actions and outcomes.

3.5 YES! YES! is the ultimate attitude word, thought, reaction, response, expression of joy, expression of achievement and recovery. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dedication to positive thought, expression, transference of message, and resilience. YES! must envelop all thoughts at all times in order to focus on the positive side of â&#x20AC;&#x153;what ifâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;?

NOTE: I have posted my words for the year on my bathroom mirror. This way I face them twice a day.

Post yours.

Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sales Bibleâ&#x20AC;?, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Customer Satisfaction is Worthlessâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Customer Loyalty is Pricelessâ&#x20AC;?, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Little Red Book of Sellingâ&#x20AC;?, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Little Red Book of Sales Answersâ&#x20AC;?, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Little Black Book of Connectionsâ&#x20AC;? and others. His website, www.gitomer.com, will lead you to more information about training and seminars, or email him personally at salesman@gitomer.com.

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SALES MOVES

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