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TODAY IN HISTORY 1798: The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits a citizen of one state from suing another state in federal court, is declared in effect

by President John Adams nearly three years after its ratification by the states.

1815: U.S. forces led by Gen. Andrew Jackson defeat the British in the Battle of New Orleans — the closing engagement of the War of 1812.

1918: Mississippi becomes the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which established Prohibition.

1982: American Telephone and Telegraph settles the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.

1987: For the first time, the Dow Jones industrial average closes above 2,000, ending the day at 2,002.25.

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Arkeevian Warfield

20 people home in Kings trailer during attack

By Mary Margaret Halford mhalford@vicksburgpost.com A 4-year-old boy remained in a Jackson hospital Saturday night after being hit four times in a drive-by shooting as he ran to his grandmother in the home they share with 18 people in Kings.

Arkeevian Warfield, like the others in the mobile home, had been told to get down on the floor as a hail of bullets — from at least three weapons, Vicksburg police said — rang through the home at midnight Satur-

Mary Ann Buck, 56, the grandmother of 4-year-old Arkeevian Warfield, sits with grandchild Jamarion Warfield, 2, and day morning. But Arkeevian ran toward his grandmother, Mary Ann Buck, 56, who was in a back bedroom. Along the way, two bullets hit his left leg, one hit his left ankle and one hit his groin.

Later Saturday morning, Arkeevian underwent surgery at University Medical

Center’s Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital in Jackson, to which he was transferred from River Region Medical Center.

None of the other 17 people inside were injured, 19-yearold Sharonda Buck, Arkeevian’s cousin, said Saturday afternoon as she sat on the

other family members in her bedroom while talking Saturday about the shooting. trailer porch with two of her cousins, all of whom live at the home at 20 Water Well Road.

Lt. Sandra Williams said Saturday the Vicksburg Police Department had identified no suspects in the shooting. She declined to disclose the number of bul-

lets that might have been fired or the type of weapons used, but said two vehicles might have been used in the shooting.

Twenty-two bullet holes could be counted Saturday in the doublewide trailer.

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CHILDREN’S LIBRARIAN

Miss Bryan steps up to fill Miss Lottie’s shoes

By Pamela Hitchins phitchins@vicksburgpost.com Story time at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library, a tradition through generations for some local families, has not missed a beat through the transition to a new children’s librarian.

Julie Bryan, formerly a part-timer at the library, took over when Lottie Walker retired June 30 after 31 years in the position.

“I never watched Miss Lottie do story time, so I’m not sure what she did, but I’m loving working with the kids,” Bryan said. “I’m still kind of feeling my way.”

Wednesday, Bryan led a group of toddlers and kids in singing “The ItsyBitsy Spider” and “If You’re Happy” before settling them down to listen as she read

“Happy New Year, Herbie Bear.” Then they all colored and decorated New Year’s hats.

Bryan allows the kids to be comfortable, participating or not. Mothers and grandmothers are on hand to help and chase after straying toddlers.

Holly Loper, 33, said she takes her 22-month-old son, Whitt, each Wednesday. “We love to come,” she said. “It’s usually all boys, and it gets a little bit wild.”

Loper’s husband, Vicksburg veterinarian Tony Loper, grew up listening to Walker read stories at the library, and the Lopers made sure to carry the tradition into the next generation, as has Ashley Mason, 32, with her son, Adler, 5, and daughter Hazel, 2.

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Julie Bryan helps Whitt Loper, 1, and Autumn Rice, 2, with a paper hat project.

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WASHINGTON — Unemployment is higher than it’s been going into any election year since World War II. But history shows that won’t necessarily stop President Barack Obama from reclaiming the White House.

In a presidential election year, the unemployment trend can be more important to an incumbent’s chances than the unemployment rate.

Going back to 1956 no incumbent president has lost when unemployment fell over the two years leading up to the election. And none has won when it rose.

The picture is similar in the 12 months before presidential elections: Only one of nine incumbent presidents (Gerald Ford in 1976) lost when

unemployment fell over that year, and only one (Dwight Eisenhower in 1956) was re-elected when it rose.

Those precedents bode well for Obama. Unemployment was 9.8 percent in November 2010, two years before voters decide whether Obama gets to stay in the White House. It See Election, Page A8.

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Romney brushes off rivals’ barbs in New Hampshire MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney brushed aside rivals’ criticism Saturday night in the opening round of a weekend debate doubleheader that left his Republican presidential campaign challengers squabbling among themselves and unable to knock the frontrunner off stride.

Three days before the first in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, Romney largely ignored his fellow Republicans and turned instead on President Barack Obama.

“His policies have made the recession deeper and his policies have made the recovery more tepid,” he said, despite a declining unemployment rate and the creation of 200,000 jobs last month.

Over the course of the lively 90-minute debate, there were attacks aplenty as Romney’s five rivals vied to emerge as his principal rival in the primaries ahead. The former Massachusetts governor won an eight-vote victory in the Iowa caucuses last Tuesday and is far ahead in the pre-primary polls in New Hampshire.

That leaves his pursuers little time to stop his rise, and, all but conceding New Hampshire to the former governor of next-door Massachusetts, they’re mostly focusing their efforts on the South Carolina primary on Jan. 21 Texas Rep. Ron Paul assailed Rick Santorum as a “big government person,” an allegation the former Pennsylvania senator disputed. Santorum finished a close second to Romney in Iowa this week, with Paul coming in third.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The No Child Left Behind education law was cast as a symbol of possibility, offering the promise of improved schools for the nation’s poor and minority children and better prepared students in a competitive world.

Yet after a decade on the books, President George W. Bush’s most hyped domestic accomplishment has become a symbol to many of federal overreach and Congress’ inability to fix something that’s clearly flawed.

The law forced schools to confront the uncomfortable reality that many kids simply weren’t learning, but it’s primarily known for its emphasis on standardized tests and the labeling of thousands of schools as “failures.”

Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the day Bush signed it into law in Hamilton, Ohio. By his side were the leaders of the education committees in Congress, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.

The bipartisanship that made the achievement possible in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks is long gone.

The same Senate committee approved a revamped education bill last year, but deeprooted partisanship stalled the measure in the full Congress. In this election year, there appears little political

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GOP candidates debating Saturday night are, from left, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry.

Paul, who has called former House Speaker Newt Gingrich a “chicken hawk” who has not served in the military, drew withering criticism in return.

“I personally resent the kinds of comments and aspersions he routinely makes,” Gingrich said.

Paul got the last word, saying emphatically, “When I was drafted I was married and had two kids, and I went.” He was an Air Force surgeon in the Vietnam War era.

Gingrich was fourth in Iowa, Perry fifth and Minnesota rep.

Michele Bachmann, who has since quit the race, was last.

Huntsman did not compete there, hoping to make a splash in New Hampshire.

Romney, who often touts his business background, was attacked in the opening moments of the debate.

Santorum went first, dismissing him as a mere manager. “Being a president is not a CEO. You’ve got to lead and inspire,” he said.

Gingrich followed a few moments later, referring to published accounts that described how some workers were laid off after Bain Capital, the firm Romney once led, invested in their companies and sought to turn them around.

He said Romney should be judged on the basis of whether “on balance, were people better off or worse off by this style of management.”

Unruffled, the former Massachusetts governor retorted that Bain had created 100,000 jobs on balance, and that a businessman’s experience was far better to fix the economy that a lifetime spent in

Washington, D.C. “I’m very proud of the fact that the two enterprises I led were successful,” he said, referring to Bain and another firm.

More than an hour later, Romney turned one question about his vision for the country into an attack on Obama that is part of his standard campaign speech. While his rivals stood by silently, he accused the president of trying to turn the United States into a “European-style welfare state.”

Perry, who flirted with quitting the race after Iowa, emphasized that he was an outsider in the race as he sought to lump his rivals into one, unappealing category.

“I think you’ve just seen a great example of why I got in the race. ... I’m the only outsider,” he said as he watched Santorum, Paul, Gingrich and

Romney clash.

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman dismissed much the backand-forth as “insider gobbledygook ... a lot of political spin,” saying he would focus on more important questions such as national security.

He drew one of the few barbs that Romney directed at a fellow Republican during the evening.

“I’m sorry, Governor. You were the last two years implementing the policies of this administration in China. The rest of us on this stage were doing our best to get Republicans elected across this country and stop the policies of this president from being put forward.”

There were a few light moments.

At one point, Paul was interrupted by a bell meant to indicate his time to speak had expired. “There it goes again,” he said.

Santorum replied instantly: “It knows you’re not telling the truth.”

The intramural skirmishes reflected the state of the race — Romney the acknowledged front-runner under attack from his rivals, who face an increasingly urgent need to emerge as his main conservative challenger.

The debate at Saint Anselm College was the first in more than three weeks, and the first since Bachmann dropped out of the race. The candidates faced a quick turnaround for the second debate, set for this morning in Concord.

10 years after, some ready to leave behind ‘No Child Left Behind’ ‘What we ought to do is set new realistic goals for it so that schools and schools can have those kinds of goals, and most importantly we need to move out of Washington and back to states and local communities decisions about whether schools and teachers are succeeding or failing.’

Lamar Alexander

former Secretary of Education will for compromise despite widespread agreement that changes are needed.

Critics say the law carries rigid and unrealistic expectations that put too much of an emphasis on tests for reading and math at the expense of a more well-rounded education.

Frustrated by the congressional inaction, President Barack Obama told states last fall they could seek a waiver around unpopular proficiency requirements in exchange for actions his administration favors. A vast majority of states have said they will go that route, seen as a temporary fix until lawmakers do act.

Like Obama, Republican presidential candidates have criticized the law.

The law requires annual testing. Districts must keep and publish data showing how subgroups of students perform. Schools that don’t meet

requirements for two years or longer face increasingly tough consequences, from busing children to higher performing schools to offering tutoring and replacing staff.

Under the law, watching movies and assigning irrelevant or no homework was no longer acceptable because suddenly someone was paying attention, said Charles Barone, a former aide to Miller who is director of federal policy with Democrats for Education Reform.

In low-performing urban schools, where teachers and principals once might have thrown up their hands and not known what to do, there was a new attitude along the lines of “we might not know what to do, but we’ve got to do something,” said Eric Hanushek, a senior fellow in education at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.

Both spoke at a recent forum on the law at the Thomas B.

Fordham Institute.

But many teachers and principals started to believe they were being judged on factors out of their control and in ways that were unfair.

Jennifer Ochoa, an eighthgrade literacy teacher in New York who works with lowperforming students, said the law has hurt morale among educators as well as students, who feel they have to do well on a standardized test or are failures, no matter how much progress they make.

“Afterward, it didn’t matter how far you came if you didn’t make this outside goal,” Ochoa said. “We started talking about kids in very different ways.

We started talking about kids in statistical ways instead of human being terms.”

How successful the law has been academically remains under debate.

Scores on a national assessment show significant gains in math among the fourth- and eighth-graders, with Hispanic and African-American fourthgraders performing approximately two grade levels higher today than when the law was passed, said Mark Schneider, the former U.S. commissioner of education statistics who now serves as vice president at the American Institutes for Research.

“You cannot dismiss these gains, and I think ... people just aren’t willing to credit NCLB

or accountability in general because of ideological and political preferences,” Schneider said.

As the years went by, however, the growth has largely plateaued, Schneider said.

Similar large gains were not shown in reading, and some experts say more progress was made in reading before the law was passed. There are still huge differences in the performance of AfricanAmerican and Hispanic students compared with white students.

As the 2014 deadline draws closer, more schools are failing to meet federal standards, with nearly half not doing so last year, according to the Center on Education Policy.Sen. Lamar Alexander, a former education secretary, said he’s hopeful Congress will do what’s right and update No Child Left Behind, which became due for renewal in 2007.

“One of the things we ought to be able to do is fix No Child Left Behind,” said Alexander, R-Tenn. “What we ought to do is set new realistic goals for it so that schools and schools can have those kinds of goals, and most importantly we need to move out of Washington and back to states and local communities decisions about whether schools and teachers are succeeding or failing.”

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CHURCHES Holly Grove M.B. — Business meeting, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday; R.L. Miller, pastor; 746 Johnson St.

CLUBS American Legion Post 213 — “The Hut;” dance, 8 tonight; admission, $3 singles or $5 per couple; DJ “Horseman” Mitchell, cash raffle drawing; Monday: 6 p.m., executive meeting; 8, regular meeting; refreshments.

Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary — Noon Monday; bring a sack lunch; dues are $10; guests welcome; Citadel, 530 Mission 66.

PRAM — Noon Monday; Prism awards; Martin’s of Midtown; Leigh Cook, 601-8021009, to attend.

Mountain of Faith Ministries — “Understanding Transitional Housing for the Homeless” presentation, 5:15 p.m. Monday; 601-661-8990; Public Library, public welcome.

Warren County Republican Executive Committee — Meeting 5:30 p.m. Monday; Warren County Courthouse; visitors welcome.

NAACP Meetings — Monday: 6 p.m., executive board; 7, regular members; final plans for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. program; all are welcome; 601-218-9264; 923 Wal-

nut St. Vicksburg Genealogical Society — 6 p.m. Monday, Shoney’s; genealogical showand-tell, members bring and discuss family treasures.

Ladies Auxiliary and VFW Post 2572 — Meeting 6 p.m.

Monday; 1918 Washington St. Vicksburg-Warren JSU National Alumni Association — Regular meeting, 6 p.m. Tuesday; Jackson Street Center.

Vicksburg Kiwanis — Noon Tuesday, Jacques’ Cafe; Dillon Allen, Entergy, to speak.

Military Order of the Purple Hearts and ladies Auxiliary — Regular meeting 9 a.m.

Wednesday; all Purple Heart recipients are invited to attend; coffee and donuts; Charlie Tolliver 601-636-9487 or Edna Hearn 601-529-2499; Battlefield Inn.

Lions Club — Noon Wednesday; Sara Abraham, executive director, Crosses Across America; Toney’s.

Great River Chapter, American Society of Military Comptrollers — Will award $1000 scholarship to a local high school senior pursuing a business related degree; applications at guidance departments; Carol Watkins 601-8312336.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS Senior Center — ­­­­ Monday: 9 a.m., curtis bridge; 10, chair exercises; 1 p.m., card games and scratch art; 5:30, dance class.

Tuesday Vicksburg AlAnon — Noon Tuesday; second floor, First Presbyterian Church, 1501 Cherry St.; 601634-0152.

Vicksburg Intermediate —

Report card pickup, 6-7 p.m.

Tuesday.

Serenity Overeaters Anonymous — 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, Bowmar Baptist Church, Room 102C; 601-638-0011.

VSO Soccer — Registration now open, ends Jan. 15; forms available at Just Duett, Sports Center or www.vsosoccer.org.

Medicare Wellness Assessments — Noon-4 p.m. Jan. 17; schedule an appointment with one of River Region physicians at no cost; Allen Karel 601-883-5760 or james.karel@ riverregion.com.

Mardi Gras Parade — 4 p.m.

Feb. 18; clubs, churches, organizations, schools, dance/drill teams and businesses are invited; deadline to submit application is Feb. 3; for fee information, Vicksburg Main Street Program, 601-634-4527 or email kimh@vicksburg.org.

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Four Indiana National Guardsmen killed in Afghanistan INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Four soldiers with an Indianabased National Guard unit were killed in Afghanistan and a fifth was injured when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb as they were working to clear a supply route of the improvised bombs, guard

officials said Saturday.

Indiana Adjutant Gen. Martin Umbarger said the four members of the Valparaiso-based 713th Engineer Company died Thursday morning in southern Afghanistan. He said all of the men were combat engineers who specialized in clear-

ing major supply routes.

The blast occurred as their vehicle traveled along a road, scouting for signs of roadside bombs and other potential problems convoys might encounter as the move supplies in the decade-long war in Afghanistan, Umbarger said.

“Their mission is to keep the major supply routes clear of all obstacles for the convoys. And what that means is they’re the first ones to go out to make sure the route can be used, so it’s a very important mission — but it’s also extremely dangerous,” he said.

The four men killed were identified as: Staff Sgt. Jonathan M. Metzger, 32, of Indianapolis, Spc. Brian J. Leonhardt, 21, of Merrillville, Ind., Spc. Robert J. Tauteris Jr., 44, of Hamlet, Ind., and Spc. Christopher A. Patterson, 20, of Aurora, Ill.

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End of cheap gas fuels Nigeria unrest LAGOS, Nigeria — For decades, Nigerians have expected low gasoline prices, one of the few perks seen by residents of an oil-rich nation where corruption siphons billions. Now, that long-cherished benefit has ended, more than doubling prices and fueling a planned nationwide strike Monday by angry labor unions.

Gas prices have risen from $1.70 per gallon to at least $3.50 per gallon since the subsidy ended Sunday at the order of President Goodluck Jonathan. That also spurred a spike in prices for food and transportation across Nigeria, a nation where most live on less than $2 a day.

Grounded cargo ship breaks apart on reef WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A cargo ship grounded off the New Zealand coast since October has split in two, spilling sea containers and debris and sparking fears of a fresh oil spill, maritime officials said today.

The wreck of the Greekowned Rena was described as New Zealand’s worst maritime environmental disaster even before the rear section of the ship, lashed by pounding seas, broke away overnight. The ship previously spilled heavy fuel oil that fouled pristine North Island beaches and killed up to 20,000 seabirds, and despite salvage efforts nearly 400 tons of oil remain onboard.

U.S. save from pirates pleases Iran officials TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s government on Saturday welcomed the U.S. Navy’s rescue of 13 Iranian fishermen held by pirates, calling it a positive humanitarian gesture.

U.S. officials announced Friday that the fishermen had been rescued by a U.S. Navy destroyer on Thursday, more than 40 days after their boat was commandeered by suspected Somali pirates in the northern Arabian Sea. The rescue came just days after Tehran warned the U.S. to keep the same group of warships out of the Persian Gulf in a reflection of Iran’s fear that American warships could try to enforce an embargo against Iranian oil exports.

“The rescue of Iranian sailors by American forces is considered a humanitarian gesture and we welcome this behavior,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying by state TV’s Al-Alam Arabic channel.

Russian patriarch: Listen to protesters MOSCOW — The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has urged the government to listen to protesters demanding free elections.

Patriarch Kirill warned that Russia cannot afford another revolution.

He said “the government should, through dialogue and by listening to society, correct the course and then everything will be fine.”

Tens of thousands of people turned out for two demonstrations to protest vote fraud in last month’s parliamentary election and call for an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s rule. A third demonstration is planned for Feb. 4, a month ahead of the presidential election that Putin hopes will extend his power for six more years.

A fifth soldier injured in the blast, Pvt. Douglas Rachowicz, 29, of Hammond, Ind., was initially treated at a military base hospital in Kandahar before being airlifted to the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, Umbarger said.

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Jaime Gonzalez embraces his wife near the casket of their son, Jaime Gonzalez, 15, at Holy Family Church in Brownsville, Texas on Saturday.

‘Don’t get lost,’ priest tells teen funeral-goers

Hundreds gather to remember boy carrying fake gun BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — With friends and family still demanding justice for a Texas eighth-grader shot by police after he pointed a pellet gun at them, a neighborhood priest struck a different tone Saturday, urging teens at his funeral to learn from the experience and “get out of trouble.”

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Jorge Gomez spoke in English and Spanish to an estimated 500 people who packed a Jaime Brownsville Gonzalez church for the funeral of 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez. Police say Gonzalez was shot twice in the torso Wednesday morning after refusing officers’ repeated requests to drop what was later identified as a pellet gun.

Gomez saved his most poignant remarks during the funeral for Gonzalez’s contemporaries. Dozens of them filled pews at the church just one block from the teen’s home

‘I implore you young people, learn from this experience. It is not easy to be a teenager ... but it does not last forever.’

Rev. Jorge Gomez

and wore matching white T-shirts with his photograph on the back.

The priest thanked them for their generosity — kids from the neighborhood ran a car wash to raise money for funeral expenses — and urged them to continue in that spirit.

“I implore you young people, learn from this experience,” Gomez said. “It is not easy to be a teenager ... but it does not last forever.”

He added, “Young people, I invite you to get out of trouble.

Don’t get lost.”

Gomez and others have said the neighborhood is a tough place to grow up. There are many single-parent homes and some gang problems. Neither was an issue in Gonzalez’s case though, Gomez said earlier in the week.

Gonzalez was a drum major at Cummings Middle School

and active in his church. His parents and former teachers have said he was not perfect, but his problems were more of the mischievous sort — not doing homework, missing curfew. No one has explained why he had a gun in school.

Police say Gonzalez randomly punched another student in the nose and was walking in a hall outside the school office when administrators saw he had a gun. Officers responded within minutes and on a recording of the emergency call can be heard shouting repeatedly for Gonzalez to drop the weapon.

But at the funeral Saturday, Gomez said he would always remember Gonzalez’s generosity. He saved his money and took it to the church to help buy candies for children during holiday celebrations.

He was frequently seen delivering jugs of water on his bike

to neighbors who couldn’t get to the store, Gomez said.

Gonzalez’s friends arrived at the cemetery later packed into the beds of two pickup trucks and chanting “justicia, justicia!”

Graveside, his stepmother, Noralva Gonzalez, who had raised him since he was an infant, shouted “Why? Why?” in Spanish. His father Jaime Gonzalez Sr. carried drumsticks and tapped out a few beats on a snare drum.

When the casket was reopened one final time, Gonzalez’s mother, Irma Ines Cuellar, reached inside and yelled for her son to get up.

Ramiro Rodriguez was a family friend and the father of one of Gonzalez’s close friends.

“I still cannot believe why they had to do that to a kid,” Rodriguez said. “I want there to be justice for the kid.”

Later, standing outside the family’s home, Jaime Gonzalez Sr. said the only thing he had left to say was “justice.”

Asked to explain what he meant, he said, “Justice means finding out why they shot him

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EPA flip-flops on Pennsylvania water delivery ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency abruptly changed its mind Saturday about delivering fresh water to residents of a northeastern Pennsylvania village where residential wells were found to be tainted by a natural gas drilling operation.

Only 24 hours after promising them water, EPA officials informed residents of Dimock that a tanker truck wouldn’t be coming after all.

The about-face left residents furious, confused and let down — and, once again, scrambling for water for bathing, washing dishes and flushing toilets.

Agency officials would not explain why they reneged on their promise, or say whether water would be delivered at some point.

“We are actively filling information gaps and determining next steps in Dimock. We have made no decision at this time to provide water,” EPA spokeswoman Betsaida Alcantara said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

It’s not clear how many wells in the rural community of Dimock Township were affected by the drilling. The state has found that at least 18 residential water wells were polluted.

Eleven families who sued Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. expected water from the EPA to arrive either Friday or Saturday. They say

they have been without a reliable source of water since Cabot won permission from state environmental regulators to halt deliveries more than a month ago.

Cabot, which was banned in 2010 from drilling in a 9-square-mile area around the village, took legal responsibility for the Dimock methane contamination, but contends water wells in the area were already tainted with methane long before the company arrived. The company also says it met a state deadline to restore or replace Dimock’s water supply, installing treatment systems in some houses that have removed the methane.

But homeowners say their wells are tainted with methane gas and toxic chemicals that are used in hydraulic fracturing, a technique in which water, sand and chemicals are blasted deep underground to free natural gas from dense rock deposits.

Dimock resident Craig Sautner said an EPA staffer in Philadelphia told him Saturday the water delivery was canceled.

He said the EPA staffer, onscene coordinator Rich Fetzer, would not explain why.

“You can’t be playing with people’s lives like this,” said Sautner, whose well was polluted in September 2008, shortly after Cabot began drilling in the area.

Sautner and the other hom-

eowners had been relying on deliveries of bulk water paid for by anti-drilling groups, but the last delivery was Monday, and some of them ran out.

After the EPA delivery fell through Saturday, the environmental group Water Defense, founded by actor Mark Ruffalo, said it would send a tanker from Washingtonville, N.Y., today to replenish the residents’ supply.

Dimock has become a focal point in the national debate over the so-called fracking method, which has allowed energy companies to tap

previously inaccessible reservoirs of natural gas while raising concerns about its possible health and environmental consequences. The industry says the technique is safe.

Gas drilling companies have flocked in recent years to the Marcellus Shale, a massive rock formation underlying New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia that’s believed to hold the nation’s largest deposit of natural gas.

Pennsylvania has been the center of activity, with thousands of wells drilled in the past few years.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A one-cent copper coin minted in 1793, the first year that the United States produced its own coins, has been sold for $1.38 million at a Florida auction.

James Halperin of Texasbased Heritage Auctions told The Associated Press on Saturday that the sale was “the most a United States copper coin has ever sold for at auction.”

The final bid by an unknown buyer for the coin was one of the largest sales at the Florida United Numismatists coin show and annual convention.

The newspaper reports that the 1793 penny is rare and in excellent shape, showing no wear on its lettering, its Lady Liberty face or the wreath on its back. It came from the Mint in Philadelphia.

Halperin said the auction had $60 million in transactions. The show runs through today.

Court tosses man’s threat to Super Bowl SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused to reinstate the conviction of an Arizona man accused of planning a Super Bowl massacre, saying his rambling “manifesto” did not constitute a threat to people.

Kurt Havelock, who did not attack, was convicted in 2008 of mailing threatening messages after he sent a disjointed “econopolitical” letter to media outlets that promised to “test the theory that bullets speak louder than words.”

Havelock instead turned himself in to police, saying he changed his mind after sending the statements and taking a semiautomatic weapon and ammunition to a parking lot near University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., where people had begun to gather before the game.

A full 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 9-2 Friday that Havelock’s rambling message did not violate the law because it was addressed to corporations, not individuals.

Judge Betty Fletcher wrote in the majority opinion that the law refers to communications containing “any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of the addressee or of another.”

Those terms mean people, not media entities, she said.

“It simply makes no sense to threaten to kidnap a corporation, or injure ‘the person’ of a corporation,” Fletcher said.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012

The Vicksburg Post

THE VICKSBURG POST

EDITORIAL

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OUR OPINION

Rec complex And it’s one, two, three strikes ....

Nearly 104 years ago, songwriter Jack Norworth penned the lines to the baseball anthem, “Take Me Out To The Ball Game.” For decades in the middle of each seventh inning, fans rise in unison, stretch their legs and sing the timeless classic. The last line declares, “For it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out at the old ball game.”

In the city of Vicksburg, here we are in a new year talking about another shot at a modern recreation complex. Forgive the taxpayers if they are a bit weary of this on-again, off-again saga of getting a recreational park built. It is more than apparent that Halls Ferry Park has outlived itself. That park is equivalent to a big league stadium built in 1976 — it’s new at the time, but 30 years later when others have luxury boxes and modern amenities, how much more use can we get out of it?

The people of Vicksburg and Warren County have done their best in hosting tournaments and running the concession stand at Halls Ferry. But when big, money-generating tournaments look for host cities, they want the proverbial luxury boxes and modern amenities that Vicksburg, right now, cannot offer.

City leaders have had other grand ideas about a new recreation complex for nearly a decade. In 2003, the city spent $325,000 to buy 200 acres off Fisher Ferry Road just south of St. Michael Catholic Church and announced plans to build a sports complex with softball and soccer fields and outdoor basketball courts.

The city dedicated $4 million from a $16.9 million bond issue to pay for dirt work and construction of the complex, but work was halted in 2009 when the city transferred $2.2 million of that money to help cover the $8 million expense of replacing the deteriorating railroad bridge on Washington Street near Clark Street.

So far, the city is in for more than $3 million on the Fisher Ferry property.

Strike one.

In 2007, the city’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen hired USA Partners Sports Alliance of Jacksonville, Fla., for $250,000 to determine the feasibility of a proposed $25 million sports complex at Halls Ferry Park, including Bazinsky Field, proposed by the Aquila Group of Vicksburg.

It would include baseball and softball fields and related amenities, a water park, a baseball stadium/ballpark and facilities for golf, soccer, volleyball, tennis and other activities. The Aquila Group would lead the construction and management of the fields and sports facilities. A study by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality found the site was not suitable because part of Halls Ferry Park was built on what was once the city’s landfill.

Under an agreement between the city and USA Partners, which was hired after Aquila approached the city, the $250,000 feasibility study cost would be returned to the city if the complex did not materialize.

More than four years later, the city has not been reimbursed.

Strike two.

On Dec. 30, Mayor Paul Winfield said he will ask the Warren County delegation to allow the city to increase taxes on hotels, restaurants and bars. The bill would allow the city to borrow as much as $19.5 million to, you guessed it, build a modern recreation facility in an unspecified location in Warren County. Officials are tight-lipped about the location, but North Ward Alderman Michael Mayfield has said a parcel between Culkin Road and River Region Medical Center is being considered.

The increased taxes — from 2 percent to 4 percent on lodging and from 1 percent to 2.5 percent on food and beverages — will hit tourists and locals alike in the pocketbooks.

Ponying up more money for worthwhile projects is something that could be palatable. When asked for increased taxes for a third crack at a recreation park, taxpayers must be skeptical, even that anything will be built.

Vicksburg has an antiquated park that cannot be expanded because part of it is built on a former city landfill. We have a wide-open field south of town, padlocked; and now plans for a modern recreation complex without rival.

With only one strike left before we are “out,” let’s rethink the latest, greatest grand plan for recreation — and tax increases — and make the most of the people’s money.

Another plea to slow down, pay attention The intersection of Halls Ferry Road and North Frontage is one of the most traveled in Vicksburg. The traffic light works on a small delay — when the Halls Ferry side turns red, it is a second or two before the North Frontage side turns to green.

On Monday morning, police and witnesses said, 62-year-old Julius Hebron blew through a red light after two other cars, crossing Halls Ferry, had resumed travel on North Frontage. Hebron’s truck smashed broadside into one driven by 34-yearold Shelly Guider. Her car then struck a Honda. Guider was killed in the wreck. Hebron now faces aggravated DUI charges.

Whether alcohol played a part in the wreck will be decided by the justice system, but something impaired Hebron’s judgment enough to plow through a recognizable stop signal at

a busy intersection. Green means go, yellow means slow and red means stop.

How many times must we be reminded to pay attention? A vehicle is the most readily available deadly weapon. When a child in Mississippi celebrates his or her 16th birthday, the teen becomes eligible to get behind the wheel of a dangerous weapon. We hope training and common sense will assist any driver.

What we cannot tolerate is absolute negligence on the road. Negligence, in this case, led to the death of a young nurse.

It’s not just on the road, either.

How many accounts are published annually about hunting accidents?

Hunters fall from stands when not properly harnessed. Some shoot themselves because they tried to carry a loaded weapon into the

stand. All so avoidable, yet they continue to happen.

It has long been said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

We have implored, almost begged the people of this county to stop, slow down, pay attention. When weapons are involved — a hunting rifle or an old pickup — the consequences to not paying due diligence, for whatever reason, can be catastrophic.

Families were inexorably changed on Monday because, witnesses said, a man in a weapon ignored the most basic of traffic rules and plowed through an intersection, into a jail cell.

Sad. Tragic.

Pitiful.

Avoidable.

Is mayor fully committed to city or self?

Paul Winfield is an opportunistic businessman. After being elected mayor of Vicksburg in 2009 — which came with an $81,000 salary — Winfield said he would continue to be attorney for the City of Port Gibson, $30,000 more a year.

Vicksburg’s charter does not forbid outside employment, but holding two jobs has not been common for city mayors. The charter states that the mayor and both aldermen “shall devote their entire time, or so much thereof as may be necessary to the operation of the civic government and the performance of their respective duties...”

Winfield, after all, had been Port Gibson’s city attorney before he became mayor of Vicksburg. He

stated his professional obligation in staying on as city attorney. Two weeks ago, Port Gibson’s board of aldermen removed Winfield from the city attorney’s post, meaning Winfield has the option to devote his professional attentions to Vicksburg. Since his election, he has been given an $8,000 bump in pay and drives a city-provided SUV. Nearly $90,000 and a car in a town this size in an economy such as ours should require laser-light focus on the tasks at hand.

But in the same story that announced his release from Port Gibson duties, Winfield touted his work with other cities in the state, including Canton and with the Jackson Public Schools, but he wouldn’t

elaborate. He intimated that he plans to serve as a public finance consultant for other cities.

After his election in 2009, Winfield was quoted in a story in this newspaper that he is “fully committed” to being mayor of Vicksburg, but also “fully committed” to attorney for Port Gibson. If one is fully committed to building a model airplane, can one also be fully committed to building a model of the Titanic?

Winfield’s opportunism should raise the collective eyebrows of the people in this city who elected him. It also should beg the question, “What, exactly, are you fully committed to?

The city? Or yourself?”

Here’s one writer’s take on Barbour’s two terms in office: Mississippi was fortunate in the extreme to have Haley Barbour ... as our governor after Hurricane Katrina.

Barbour’s legacy is Katrina and a dominant state Republican party STARKVILLE — Gov. Haley Barbour leaves office on Tuesday with a powerful legacy that means different things to different people.

Democrats will remember Barbour as a political warrior who over his two terms in office led a political revolt that robbed them of the last bastion of power they had in state government — the state House of Representatives.

Advocates for the poor and for the teacher unions will remember Barbour as cold and indifferent to their causes. Many members of the state’s Public Employees Retirement System will remember Barbour as one who tried to take the retirement security they believe they were promised in exchange for some of the lowest state employee wages in the nation. The state’s hospitals will remember him as their worst nightmare.

Trial lawyers will remember him as one who led the charge to break up the “magic jurisdictions” and bring sanity to mass tort litigation in the state while victims seeking to hold big business accountable when they sought compensation in the courts will remember Barbour as one who ignored their interests.

But the majority of Mississippi — a majority that twice elected Barbour govSID ernor — will remember Barbour much as the rest of the country remembers him.

They will remember strong, decisive leadership in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters — and they will remember Barbour who left the state’s Republican Party not merely competitive in the twoparty system, but dominant.

Here’s one writer’s take on Barbour’s two terms in office: Mississippi was fortunate in the extreme to have Haley Barbour — the consummate Washington insider and one of the world’s best lobbyists — as our governor after Hurricane Katrina. Barbour knew where the spigots were in Washington to turn on the federal dollars and knew how to turn them on fast and to get the maximum amount of money possible headed to Mississippi.

That is not to discount the fact that U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran was chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee at the time or the contributions of the rest of the state’s congressional delegation. But Barbour’s mastery of the federal bureaucracy and his personal relationship with former President George W. Bush put Mississippi ahead of the game in terms of relief and recovery from Katrina.

There is an intrinsic value in the governor of a small, poor state knowing exactly what relief to request and to whom to make that request — and to have a relationship in place to ease the transaction. That was Haley Barbour’s great gift as Mississippi governor in times of crisis.

From a political standpoint, Barbour was a force of nature in Jackson, more often than not winning political battles that he didn’t have the constitutional power as governor to win. But Barbour understood party discipline and how to bring pressure to bear against friend and foe alike.

Two moments during his tenure I will remember — first, I remember the quiet rush of tears to his eyes when surveying from the air the enormity of the damage on the Gulf Coast after Katrina. Second, I remember the cold resolve in those same eyes during a particularly contentious moment during the “hospital tax” fight when a political foe threatened dire political retribution if Barbour didn’t relent on a key policy point.

Barbour said: “Look, you be for what you’re for. I can assure that’s exactly what I’m going to do — and we’ll still be friends when this is over with.”

As in most cases over his eight years in office, Barbour won the policy point.

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Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or sidsalter@sidsalter.com

Sunday, January 8, 2012

The Vicksburg Post

WEEK IN Vicksburg Roller coaster temps were back as highs ranged from the 40s to the 70s during the week in Vicksburg. Overnight lows were just as varied, ranging from the 20s to the 50s. No rain was recorded during the week.

The Mississippi River receded slightly on the local gauge, dipping from 37.3 to 34.9 feet. A reading of 35 feet was predicted for today.

Wild hogs are becoming a nuisance in the Vicksburg National Military Park, mainly near dense brush between Graveyard Road and North Union Avenue. Park officials are seeking help from the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to trap the animals.

Martin Crevitt, a manager at Goggin Warehouse on U.S. 61 South, was appointed by Gov. Haley Barbour to the Warren County Port Commission. Crevitt, 51, is a former Chamber of Commerce member and has managed several local hotels.

Vicksburg native Christopher Reid, 35, has traveled to Tanzania, where he and his wife will serve as Maryknoll Lay Missioners. The couple signed on with the Roman Catholic organization for 3 1/2 years and will use their social work background to assist in poor areas of the country.

Andrea Michelle “Shelly” Guider was killed in a wreck at Halls Ferry and North Frontage roads after police said a pickup driven by Julius Hebron failed to stop at a red light and hit Guider’s car broadside. Hebron is facing aggravated driving under the influence charges in the death of Guider, a 34-year-old nurse at River Region Medical Center.

Warren County supervisors chose Marcie Southerland to replace longtime board attorney Randy Sherard. New District 1 Supervisor John Arnold drove home crucial votes for Gerald Bailey as the district’s representative on the recreation board and Wesley B. Jones to replace Tom Hill as the district’s choice on the Vicksburg Bridge Commission.

Angela Brown, elected tax assessor on Nov. 8, opened her office this week with three new employees who will oversee the evaluation of property for taxes. Every employee in the office has quit, retired or been fired since the election.

Additionally, the office has asked the state for more time to assess the taxable value of homes, businesses and farmland.

Project managers for the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Center announced plans for virtual “tinkering” by visitors with the system of floodways and levees used by the Corps of Engineers.

Exhibits will also include an orientation theater and the movement of glass plates to simulate the creation of oxbow lakes.

Twenty dogs and cats that officials said had been neglected were picked up from homes on Possum Hollow Road and Martin Street. The owners may face criminal charges.

Chick-fil-A officials announced plans to construct one of their restaurants off Halls Ferry Road in August.

A building permit is expected once a contractor is hired.

In addition to Shelly Guider, local deaths during the week were Barbara James Newsome, Charles Ray Herrington, Ned A. Vollstedt, Rosie B. Blackmore, Edwin Joseph Carter, Robert “Bob” McCain Sr., Ruth K. Kolb, Walter Chamberland Montgomery Jr. and Bobby Jean “BJ” Carter Smith.

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Charter schools are a means to an end, not magic OXFORD — It is a feel-good week in the state capitol. One topic that has folks chirping is this, that thing called charter schools may become a reality.

The details will matter.

There are 47 new members of the 174-member Legislature, meaning one in four are brand-new to the lawmaking process. There is also new leadership in both lawmaking chambers and at myriad agencies.

Most of these people are dedicated to the proposition that state government can make sense. That’s a good thing. As conservatives, they are eager to end throwing money at perplexing challenges such as K-12 education. That’s a good thing, too.

A lot of these folks — joined by more than a few progressives — are eager to order up structural changes in how Mississippi operates. When it comes to education, the term they use is “charter schools.”

The idea is not new. For decades here and in other states, charter schools have been, as the saying goes, cussed and discussed. The term also covers a lot of territory, myriad variations. Mississippi has a pilot authorization in place, but has not gone whole-hog into the concept.

There’s no telling what the Mississippi Legislature will fashion, but the core idea of charter schools is identical to secession.

Today, the state Department of

For decades here and in other states, charter schools have been, as the saying goes, cussed and discussed.

CHARLIE

MITCHELL

Education oversees 150 or so school districts, most of which are formed using county, city or other political boundaries. Students who reside in a district are required to attend the schools existing in the district or choose a private option, if available.

It’s a take it or leave it kind of thing.

Charter schools depart from this model in that people — parents, teachers or others — may submit a plan to operate a school on their own. If the plan fits whatever criteria legislators fashion and approve during the next four months, the group is issued a “charter.” And the school is theirs.

The most significant aspect is that along with the operational charter comes operational dollars that would have gone to the existing public school system.

So there’s a fear — some say an expectation — that charter schools will result in public funding for what are now private and essentially racially segregated schools,

especially in the Mississippi Delta.

The reality there today and in some other parts of the state is that schools are as all-white or all-black as they were in the 1950s.

In this light, charter schools are seen as a ploy — merely an attempt to open the public treasury to an assortment of all-white or nearly all-white academies.

There’s ample evidence the U.S. Justice Department would stomp down hard on any legislation that would have the purpose or the effect of perpetuating segregation.

As for their purpose, proponents of charter schools insist their aim is to break down the cartels that have locked many districts into consistent underperformance.

Economic decline in rural areas — again, especially in the Delta — has resulted in some school districts becoming the largest employers in their respective counties. That has made them powerful. School officials and board members decide

where to buy bus tires, who will get cafeteria jobs and such. That might not sound like a really big deal, but a $40 million budget in a district with 12,000 people has a tremendous impact.

So it has come to pass that in some districts, the perpetuation of power has become job No. 1. And central to perpetuation of power has been to take care of neighbors, shield a district from outside influences.

Privately, executives of foundations and other programs such as Teach for America will reveal their biggest challenge in trying to improve schools is not recalcitrant students. Their obstacles are suspicious career teachers, principals and superintendents who are comfortable with the nests they have feathered for themselves.

So charter schools could be a means to an end. By “seceding” from a district and forming special schools (and there are multiple templates available), the proverbial rug would be pulled out from under local, established (entrenched might be a better word) leadership.

It could work, with the emphasis on “could.” There’s nothing magic about any education “fix.” Even during a feel-good week, that’s an important fact to remember.

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Charlie Mitchell is a Mississippi journalist. Write to him at Box 1, University, MS 38677, or e-mail cmitchell43@yahoo.com

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Stevens’ commitment to Vicksburg went beyond football field This letter is long overdue. Maybe I put off writing it because I was hoping that by the end of football season Coach Alonzo Stevens would change his mind and decide to stay on as head football coach of the Vicksburg High School Gators.

Maybe I put off writing this letter because I didn’t want to cry.

Before I sat down at my typewriter I purchased an extra large box of tissues. They are within arms reach as I type this note. My friend, Bob Morrison, stated very eloquently in a recent Post all of the wonderful traits that make Coach Stevens the fine man that he is. I could never improve upon his musings and I will not attempt to do that here.

But I will provide a loud echo.

Coach Stevens is a fine man — a finer man you’ll never meet. I have known Coach Stevens personally since 1975 when he was a young assistant football coach, basketball coach, and if memory serves correctly, track coach at Vicksburg Junior High. He has always been an easy man to like. Warm, affable, personable and genuinely caring

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Although he could have portrayed a swagger and an arrogance with his position and accomplishments he never has. He has remained true to himself and those around

him. Coach Stevens has touched the lives of so many. The countless young people whom he mentored and coached are not the only beneficiaries of his generous spirit.

His contemporaries and peers, those who are senior to him, and those who are junior to him have all been graced by his sincerity and friendship.

What an honor it is to be able to count Alonzo Stevens as a friend!

I’m so glad that I do. The Vicksburg Post’s Coach of the Year award was well-deserved and was certainly not unexpected. Congratulations, Coach Stevens.

But more importantly, thank you, Coach Stevens, for just being you.

As I close this letter of gratitude, I am happy to say that I have only used two tissues. This was not a hard letter to write; the words came easy and fast. I didn’t have time to cry — too much.

Oh, and by the way, Coach Stevens, you still owe me a trip to LD’s Kitchen.

Sylvia Gurtowski Vicksburg

Handicapped parker peeved This is about handicapped parking. I have not written to the paper before, but the people in this town have no respect for the handicapped and designated parking spaces.

I have a handicapped sticker and a wheelchair. Going to Walmart or Corner Market, or even Piggly Wiggly and paying the gas people, I see people who don’t need the handicapped space park there.

Once I saw three young girls who parked in a handicapped space and got out laughing and running into the store.

Why do the police not give tickets to owners of cars who are not supposed to be parked in a handicapped space? Instead, you see the police in parking lots talking to each other, or on their cell phones.

They should give tickets for parking in the wrong places.

Linda Pickle Vicksburg

Compassionate conservatism strikes back in 2012 WASHINGTON — The outcome in Iowa was both electorally inconclusive and politically clarifying.

There is a Republican Party, supporting Mitt Romney, that wants to win an election. And there is a Republican Party, supporting Ron Paul, that wants to make a point about limited government.

This division is not entirely ideological. There are rock-ribbed conservatives who believe that the highest political priority is the early retirement of Barack Obama. There are evangelicals — uncomfortable with libertarianism and the foreign policy of Charles Lindbergh — who have nevertheless joined Paul’s protest against swollen government.

Based on recent history, the party of electability will eventually prevail.

But perhaps the most surprising result of the Iowa caucuses was the return of compassionate conservatism from the margins of the Republican stage to its center.

Rick Santorum is not only an outspoken social conservative; he is the Republican candidate who addresses the struggles of bluecollar workers and the need for greater economic mobility. He talks not only of the rights of the individual but of the health of social institutions, particularly the family. He draws out the public consequences of a belief in human dignity — a pro-life view applied to the unborn and to victims of AIDS in Africa.

Electability Republicans can live with Santorum’s populism and moralism. Anti-government activists cannot, and have begun their

MICHAEL

GERSON

Santorum is not engaged in heresy; he represents an alternative tradition of conservative political philosophy.

assault. Santorum is referred to as a “pro-life statist.” David Boaz of the Cato Institute cites evidence implicating him in shocking ideological crimes, such as “promotion of prison ministries” and wanting to “expand colon cancer screenings for Medicare beneficiaries.”

But Santorum is not engaged in heresy; he represents an alternative tradition of conservative political philosophy. Libertarians may wish to claim exclusive marketing rights, but there are two healthy, intellectual movements in American conservatism: libertarianism and religious (particularly Catholic) social thought.

Libertarianism is an extreme form of individualism, in which personal rights trump every other social goal and institution. It is actually a species of classical liberalism, not conservatism — more directly traceable to John Stuart Mill than Edmund Burke or Alexis de Tocqueville. The Catholic (and increasingly Protestant) approach to social ethics asserts that liberty is made possible by strong social institutions — families, communities, con-

gregations — that prepare human beings for the exercise of liberty by teaching self-restraint, compassion and concern for the public good.

Oppressive, overreaching government undermines these valueshaping institutions. Responsible government can empower them — say, with a child tax credit, or a deduction for charitable giving — as well as defend them against the aggressions of extreme poverty or against “free markets” in drugs or obscenity.

This is not statism; it is called subsidiarity. In this view, needs are best served by institutions closest to individuals. But when those institutions require help or protection, higher order institutions should intervene. So when state governments imposed Jim Crow laws, the federal government had a duty to overturn them. When a community is caught in endless economic depression and drained of social capital, government should find creative ways to empower individuals and charities — maybe even prison ministries that change lives from the inside out.

This is not “big government” conservatism. It is a form of limited government less radical and simplistic than the libertarian account.

A compassionate conservative approach to governing would result in a different and smaller federal role — using free-market ideas to strengthen families and communities, rather than constructing centralized bureaucracies. It rejects, however, a utopian belief in unfettered markets that would dramatically increase the sum of suffering.

In a 2005 speech at the Heritage Foundation, Santorum argued that men and women should not be treated either as “pathetic dependents” or as “radical individuals.”

“Someone,” he argued, “always gets hurt when masses of individuals do what is only in their own self-interest. That is the great lie of liberal freedom. ... Freedom is liberty coupled with responsibility to something bigger or higher than the self.

It is a self-less freedom. It is sacrificial freedom. It is the pursuit of our dreams with an eye towards the common good.”

Santorum is far from a perfect candidate. His nomination is unlikely. But his success should not really surprise. Every four years, Republicans eventually realize that they need a hopeful domestic policy agenda — some vision of the common good — that appeals beyond their base. If Santorum does not win the nomination, the winner would be wise to listen to him.

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Michael Gerson’s e-mail address is michaelgerson@washpost.com.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012

The Vicksburg Post

THE VICKSBURG POST

THE SOUTH Karen Gamble, managing editor | E-mail: newsreleases@vicksburgpost.com | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 137

First woman ag commissioner seeing green, not pink

By Jeff Amy The Associated Press

SEAN MURPHY

POST WEB EDITOR

Debt won’t trickle down anytime soon Going through the files of columns written and sometimes published, I stumbled upon one written less than a year ago admonishing the government’s lust for spending OUR money.

The column was written during a debate about whether to increase the debt ceiling. It used statistics provided by the website usdebtclock. org, a constantly changing maze of numbers — red for negative, black for positive. The red numbers dominate.

If you are squeamish, please look away now.

May 26, 2010: The U.S. National Debt was almost at $13 trillion. Each citizen is in debt for $41,000, and each taxpayer is on the hook for $116,000.

Jan. 5, 2012: The debt is at $15.195 trillion, an increase of $2 trillion in 18 months. Each taxpayer’s liability increased $18,000 to $134,000. Each citizen owes $48,000 —up $7,000.

Then: Unfunded liabilities soon will close in on $109 trillion. That includes Medicare, Social Security and prescription drug liability.

Now: Unfunded liabilities have gone up $8 trillion to $117 trillion. Each citizen’s liability is at more than $1 million.

Then: Total U.S. debt is nearly $56 trillion.

Now: In Washington numbers, this one is not that bad. The total has increased only $446 billion.

An old saying exists about lies, damn lies and statistics, and numbers do not always tell the whole story. But by God, these numbers tell a story that cannot possibly have a happy ending. We’re being thrust headlong into national catastrophe and the answers are either tax the rich or cut programs.

There are not enough rich people to tax to cure this. There are not enough programs to cut to cure this. And most importantly, there is not a backbone in Washington that will do either.

Now we enter an election year, and smooth-talking speech writers will have candidates nibbling at the edges of the most pressing issue of our times. But they won’t bite. American voters don’t want to face the realities, and the politicians are quick to oblige.

Ten months minus two days from today, Americans will cast ballots for the lesser of two spending evils. In election years, no politician will suggest raising taxes or cutting programs because the numbers don’t matter to them; re-election does.

Candidates will make promises of getting spending “under control,” but they won’t. And even more numbers on usdebtclock.org will be red.

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Sean P. Murphy is web editor. He can be reached at smurphy@ vicksburgpost.com

JACKSON — Cindy HydeSmith wants to emphasize the “commerce” part of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce.

The Brookhaven Republican, sworn in Thursday as the state’s first woman agriculture commissioner, sees a chance to increase not only the quantity of food grown in Mississippi, but food processed in the state as well.

“There’s always a demand for safe, affordable food,” Hyde-Smith said.

In addition to using her office as an economic development tool, she said she hopes to promote agritourism, make sure farmers have a voice in any state immigration legislation and improve revenue at the state fairgrounds.

Hyde-Smith is one of two women in statewide office, along with new Treasurer Lynn Fitch. But she down-

The associated press

Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith speaks in her Jackson office. plays the gender difference, joking that the state’s gas pump inspection stickers will not be pink.

Hyde-Smith, 52, was first elected to the state Senate in 2000 as a Democrat, and switched to the Republican Party in 2010. She served two

terms as chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and has a close relationship with the Mississippi Farm Bureau, the state’s top agriculture group.

She handily beat Democratic Pickens Mayor Joel Gill and Reform Party candi-

date Cathy L. Toole of Biloxi in November’s election.

She succeeds Lester Spell, a four-term agriculture commissioner. The post pays $90,000 a year.

Hyde-Smith operates a cattle farm and livestock auction in Brookhaven with her

husband, Mike Smith. She says 25 percent of all jobs in Mississippi already are agriculture-related, and she believes the state can build on that strength by working to attract more food processors. Mississippi already has more food processing employees per capita than all but one Southern state, according to the Mississippi Economic Council, although it has been losing those jobs in recent years.

“We have a work force out there who needs those jobs as well,” she said. “Why can’t they be here?”

The incoming commissioner wants to work with the Mississippi Development Authority to recruit industry.

“We will definitely be knocking on doors,” she said.

“Let me show you what Mississippi has to offer.”

One part of her economic development plan is to do more to promote agritourSee Green, Page A7.

READY TO GO

Eli Baylis•The Vicksburg Post

David White, owner of Dave’s Custom Meats, looks into a freezer storing heads of deer and packaged deer meat Saturday. White, who said his business on U.S. 80 processes an average of 10,000 animals a year, attributed his success to “Jesus. We give all the glory to him.”

13,000 Mississippi children homeless in 2010, new report finds

By The Associated Press NATCHEZ — Currently 80 homeless children receive services from the NatchezAdams School District, and the schools have identified 200 other potentially homeless students, district Homeless Coordinator Geraldine Geyen said.

In a district in which nearly 95 percent of the approximately 4,000 students qualify for free and reduced lunches, some school officials said there are likely more than 280 children that would qualify as homeless.

Geyen is one of five employees paid with federal funds whose jobs are to cater to homeless students and their

‘Rural homelessness does not look like urban homeless at all.’

Matilda Stevens

Sunshine Children’s Shelter families.

Geyen said children considered technically homeless might not fit commonly held conceptions of what homeless looks like.

Matilda Stevens, the director of the Sunshine Children’s Shelter said rural homelessness is statistically on the rise.

“But rural homelessness does not look like urban homeless at all,” Stevens said.

Most homeless children in Adams County go to sleep

under a roof at night, but the walls that surround them may frequently change.

Geyen said any child without a fixed residence, or those who are living in a temporary or inadequate trailer, in a motel, in a campground or any other place is considered homeless by the U.S. Department of Education.

The most common type of child homelessness in Adams County occurs in situations where families are living “doubled-up” in residences with other friends or rela-

tives, Geyen said.

Geyen said the district has rarely identified an unaccompanied youth, which is a homeless child living without a parent or guardian.

She said if the district were to encounter an unaccompanied youth, the NASD is required to enroll those children even in the absence of any records such as a birth certificate or proof of residence.

Nearly 13,000 Mississippi children were homeless in 2010, according to a report released in December by the National Center on Family Homelessness.

The report ranks the state 49th in child homelessness, with 50 being the worst.

Only Alabama ranks lower than Mississippi.

The ranking represents four factors — number of homeless children, their well-being and risk for child homelessness and state policy.

The National Center of Family Homelessness found that homeless children are sick four times more often than other children and are three times as likely to have emotional and behavioral problems compared to nonhomeless children.

Violence also plays a major role in the lives of most homeless children, according to national data.

See Children, Page A7.

Exxon gets court go-ahead to continue exploration in Gulf

By The Associated Press NEW YORK — Exxon Mobil Corp. and the Norwegian oil producer Statoil have reached an agreement with the federal government that will allow the companies to continue developing a potentially lucrative oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico.

The government will get more money from Exxon and Statoil as part of the agreement to settle federal lawsuits over their leases in the oil field known as Julia,

which is about 250 miles southwest of New Orleans.

The proposed settlement was filed in federal court Friday but still must be approved by a judge.

Exxon spokesman Patrick McGinn said Saturday that the settlement will allow the company to develop the resource as quickly as possible. The initial phase of the project is expected to produce more than 175 million barrels of oil from six wells.

Exxon has estimated that the oil field may hold bil-

lions of barrels of oil and gas equivalent but it is remote and technically challenging to develop.

Exxon and Statoil have five leases in the field; three signed in 1998 and two in 2003.

Each company owns 50 percent interest in the leases.

The dispute began in October 2008, when Exxon applied to extend the leases but the government refused.

It said the company didn’t present a specific production plan. Exxon and Statoil sued

the government after losing several appeals.

Under the settlement, the two companies will develop their leases in phases as initially planned with the goal of starting initial production

by June 2016.

They also will pay more to the government in exchange for the lease extensions.

For example, the companies will pay $11.2 million each year until the three original leases reach at least 87.5 million barrels of total production, McGinn said in an

e-mailed statement.

The agreement also raises the royalty rate on those three leases to 18.75 percent from 12.5 percent, he said.

Annual rent on those three leases rose to $11 per acre from $7.50 per acre.

The royalty rate for the other two leases is 12.5 percent.

If Exxon and Statoil had lost the lawsuit, the leases would have reverted to the government.

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View from the top Historic photos taken in and around Vicksburg are featured on Sundays in The Vicksburg Post. Many of the photos are from the J. Mack Moore Collection at the Old Court House Museum. Though not all photos were taken by Mr. Moore, they are part of the collection given

to the museum by longtime Vicksburg Post managing editor Charles J. Faulk. Appropriate photos from the public will also be accepted and published. To submit a photo, contact Karen Gamble at 636-4545.

Debbie McDermott submitted this photo believed to have been taken in the 1950s or 1960s. The group had gathered gifts for the needy at Christmastime. They are, from left, Vicksburg Alderman Charles Guion, City Clerk Marie Pantoliano, the

unidentified chaplain of the Salvation Army Mayor John D.Holland, Alderman O.J. Bori and Henry Rollison, supervisor of the city’s street-cleaning and sanitation department and McDermott’s father.

Children Continued from Page A6.

By the age of 12, 83 percent of homeless children had been exposed to at least one serious violent event and nearly 25 percent have witnessed acts of violence within their family.

Child homelessness can be caused by a number of situations — low or no job income, house fires or other accidents, incarceration of parents, domestic violence, parents with drug problems or family illness.

Monica King, a counselor at McLaurin Elementary School, said dealing with child homelessness is part of her job of looking after the emotional welfare of the third and fourth graders at the school.

The majority of the families in these situations are singleparent families, which King said includes at least two single fathers at McLaurin.

“All (of the situations) have been pretty unique,” King said.

Geyen said the recession has contributed to an increase in the number of homeless children in Adams County.

“Even some of those working with two jobs (can’t afford permanent housing),”

Geyen said.

The lack of affordable housing is also a factor, NASD Federal Programs Director Marilyn Alexander-Turner said.

According to the National Center on Family Homelessness, 27 percent of households in Mississippi spend more than half their income on rent.

“Wages aren’t going up, and (parents) can’t afford substantial housing,” Alexander-Turner said.

Minimum wage is $7.25, but statewide data says the income needed to rent a twobedroom apartment is $12.74.

“People are out of work, losing their homes and they’re single parents,” Geyen said.

Geyen and other school officials said most homeless children struggle academically more than other children

because of their unstable home lives.

The district is currently labeled “low performing” based on federal accountability standards under the No Child Left Behind Act.

crime

from staff reports

Louisiana woman jailed on warrant A Louisiana woman was in the Warren County Jail Saturday night charged with credit card fraud, jail records showed.

Jessica Hooker, 23, 1805 Scott St., Winnsboro, La., was arrested on a warrant at 6 p.m. Friday in Franklin Parish, La., after a Nov. 21 complaint filed in Vicksburg.

She was being held on a $20,000 bond.

public meetings this week Monday • Warren County Board of Supervisors, 8:30 a.m., Board of Supervisors building, rear conference room Tuesday • Vicksburg Board of Zoning

Appeals, 5 p.m., City Hall Annex Wednesday • Vicksburg Bridge Commission, 9:30 a.m., Warren County Courthouse, BOS meeting room, third floor

Continued from Page A6. ism, farming operations that supplement their income by welcoming visitors.

“You can see the interest that city folks, city dwellers, have in agricultural production,” Hyde-Smith said. For example, she cited corn mazes, a dairy farm that lets guests help milk the cows, and farm tours for schoolchildren.

Some Mississippi lawmakers are considering efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, an effort that could affect farmers, if last year’s experiences in Alabama and Georgia are repeated. In those two states, fruit and vegetable growers complained that much of their crop rotted in the fields for lack of skilled pickers.

“I think the producers need

A7 to be heard on this. Everyone wants legal immigration,” Hyde-Smith said. “But the process of verification needs to be in tune with how farmers hire your help.”

Hyde-Smith said she supports a federal guest worker program, which would allow people to work legally in the United States on a temporary basis. “Definitely, if that’s what it takes for the farm community to have their needs met.

Hyde-Smith said she’s looking into selling naming rights to the Mississippi Coliseum, the aging arena at the state fairgrounds in downtown Jackson. A 2009 report by the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review suggested that, among other measures, as way to raise more money for the Mississippi State Fair Commission. Hyde-Smith will chair the commission, which relies

on its own efforts for funding, even as it acts as the public face of the Agriculture Department for thousands of visitors.

“A lot of people see the agency through the fairground,” she said.

But Hyde-Smith emphasized that most Mississippians interact with the department through its regulatory efforts, such as inspecting meat and produce or making sure gas pumps and scales give correct readings. She said that many are unaware of other functions such as investigating livestock, equipment and timber thefts, regulating pest-control.

Hyde-Smith said that she aims to spend much of her early tenure shadowing the department’s employees.

“I want to ride with these employees,” she said, “getting to know their jobs.”

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PRECISION FORECAST

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“There’s just not much information right now,” Williams said. “Everything is still under investigation.”

“It’s a miracle no one else got hit,” Sharonda Buck said. “We just all got down on the floor. My heart was beating so fast and I just laid there shaking. Everyone was screaming and crying.”

Arkeevian’s aunt Jakethia Jones was with him at the hospital Saturday night.

She said surgery to remove bullet fragments from his knee and groin lasted about three hours, but by later in the day, he was “sitting up and eating and talking.”

“The rest of us are just all still in shock,” she said.

Arkeevian’s mother, Tasha

Buck, is in the Madison County Detention Center, Jones said. A detention center website shows she is being held on convictions of shoplifting, conspiracy and directing/causing a felony to be committed by a person under the age of 17. The website did not include information on her age or the date her sentence began.

Mary Ann Buck said she has owned the trailer since 1989.

“It was just horrible, we’ve never ever had anything like that happen here, and I can’t calm down,” Mary Ann Buck said. “I was sitting on my bed when I heard what sounded like a bunch of firecrackers and we just got down.”

Brenden Neville•The Vicksburg Post

Keonna Smith, 14, from left, Sharonda Buck, 19, and Davonte Buck, 14, all cousins of Arkeevian Warfield and grandchildren of homeowner Mary Ann Buck, sit on the front porch of their home Saturday.

former kindergarten teacher, has brought her experience with young children, creativity, planning skills and high energy to the position. “Plus she is just a nice person. She has fit in well with our staff,” Mitchell said.

A native of Tylertown, Bryan, 39, is a graduate of Belhaven College and received a master’s of education at William Carey University. She taught at Tylertown Primary School for 11 years before marrying and moving to Vicksburg three years ago.

Her husband, Edward, is a management analyst with the Vicksburg District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who has four children from a previous marriage.

The youngest is a senior in high school, Bryan said.

Before stepping in as children’s librarian, Bryan assisted in both the audiovisual and children’s departments and had filled in when Walker was out on medical leave in 2010, said Mitchell.

“It’s worked out well for us,” she added. “We are very

happy with her and hope she will be with us for a long time.”

In addition to preparing for weekly toddler story time and craft sessions, Bryan is planning 2012 activities.

Summer usually includes a story time for school-age children plus the annual Summer Reading Program that challenges participants to set reading goals and be rewarded with a party.

She hopes to start an evening story time for families, she said, perhaps anchored

on varying themes.

She’s also thinking about enlisting local teachers to display their students’ work at the library. It would help her meet the challenge of keeping the children’s area decorated, but also draw kids in and get them involved.

In the meantime, she’s enjoying her new role.

“Miss Lottie has big shoes to fill,” she said, “but she’s enjoying her retirement so I’m glad for her.”

An Associated Press-GfK poll of American adults last month found that 60 percent of American adults disapprove of Obama’s performance on economic issues.

Obama can take comfort in President Ronald Reagan’s experience. In November 1982, the economy was in the last month of a deep recession, and unemployment was 10.8 percent, the highest since the Great Depression.

A year later, unemployment was down to 8.5 percent. By November 1984, it was still a relatively high 7.2 percent, but the downward trend was unmistakable. Reagan was re-elected that month in a 59-41 percent landslide.

“A sense that things are on the mend is really important to people,” says Andrew

Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center. Three examples: • President Richard Nixon got a boost from falling unemployment, which dropped from 5.9 percent in November 1970 to 5.3 percent when voters went to the polls in November 1972.

• President Jimmy Carter was hurt by rising unemployment — from 5.9 percent in November 1978 to 7.5 percent in November 1980.

• President George H.W. Bush, who seemed invincible after the U.S. drove Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces out of Kuwait in early 1991, wound up losing in November 1992.

The unemployment rate was 7.4 percent that month, up from 6.2 percent two years earlier.

The trend holds up even when the changes in unemployment are slight. President Bill Clinton was reelected handily even though the unemployment rate was only 0.2 percentage points lower in November 1996 than it had been two years earlier and was the same as it had been a year before.

Under Obama, unemployment peaked at 10 percent in October 2009, nine months into his presidency, before it began coming down in fits and starts. Along the way it stayed above 9 percent for 21 straight months.

But unemployment has now dropped four months in a row. And the economy added 1.6 million jobs in 2011, the most since 2006.

Of course, unemployment

isn’t everything.

Obama’s prospects could be changed by the strengths or weaknesses of whoever emerges as his Republican opponent or by a triumph or setback in foreign policy, perhaps in Afghanistan or the Middle East.

Eisenhower no doubt benefited from having an opponent, the high-brow former Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson, who had trouble connecting with ordinary voters. Ford may have been sunk by his unpopular decision to pardon former President Nixon.

President Jimmy Carter’s prospects were surely dimmed by the lengthy hostage crisis in Iran — and a failed attempt to end it with a military rescue.

be at Memorial Park Cemetery with Masonic Lodge rites.

Visitation will be immediately after the service at Parkview Baptist Church in Tallulah.

Mr. Price died Friday, Jan. 6, 2012, at Madison Parish Hospital in Tallulah after a lengthy illness. He was born in Tallulah and was a U.S. Air Force veteran staff sergeant. Mr. Price was a civil engineer technician with the U.S. Waterways Experiment Station. He was a member

of Masonic Lodge No. 308 in Tallulah, the American Legion Post No. 100 and Barak Shrine Temple.

He is survived by his son, David Allen Price of Tallulah; three sisters, Elouise Johnson and Elsie Marshall, both of Vicksburg, and Sherline Hartley of El Dorado, Ark.; three grandchlidren; and one great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Shelley Mae Price; and one son, Thelbert Louis Price.

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deaths Holly Lynn Cessna UTICA — Holly Lynn Cessna died peacefully Friday, Jan. 6, 2012, at her home in Utica. She was 23.

Miss Cessna lived in Utica all her life, and had been a cancer survivor. She graduated from Byram Christian Academy.

Miss Cessna was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Martha Phillips and Will Roy Martin Sr.; and her paternal grandfather, Ella Eugene Cessna.

Survivors include her mother and father, Fred T. Cessna and Sherry M. Cessna of Utica; one brother, Chad Thomas Cessna and his wife, Brittany, of Utica; and his paternal grandmother, Edna Earl Cessna of Utica.

Services will be at 2 p.m.

Monday at Salem Baptist Church with burial following at Salem Baptist Church Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 2 until 4 this afternoon at Glenwood Funeral Home in Utica and Monday from 1 p.m. until the hour of the service at the church.

Pallbearers will be Roy Cessna, Gene Cessna, Jessie James, Cody Cessna, Bill Cessna, Will Roy Martin Jr., Chris James and Cody Adkins.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Mary Jean Peets Services for Mary Jean Peets will be at 11 a.m.

Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, at Glenwood Funeral Home with Dr. Matt Buckles officiating.

Burial will follow at Green Lawn Gardens Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 2 until 5 this afternoon at Glenwood Funeral Home.

Mrs. Peets died Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, at River Region Medical Center. She was 80.

She was a well-respected educator and retired from the Vicksburg Warren County School System after 40 years of teaching.

Born and raised in Duck Hill, Miss., Mary Jean Abel Peets attended Delta State University, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in elementary education, and completed her collegiate studies at Mississippi State University, where she obtained a master’s degree in education.

She was preceded in death by her parents, John Henry Abel and Mary Earl Abel; and two brothers, Cecil Ward Abel and Henry Travis Abel.

She is survived by her husband, Charles Peets; a daughter, Tracey Dellacona (Sal) of Macon, Ga.; a son, Brad Peets (Stephanie) of Madison, Miss.; six grandchildren, Leah, Lindsey, Ashley, Brett, Khaki and Katelyn; and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Buddy Strickland, Calvin Pugh, Dave Madsen, Danny Hester, O.W. Mendrop, Durwood Tadlock, Joe Loviza and Arthur Lagg.

Honorary pallbearers will be John Strange and Pat

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was down to 8.7 percent in November 2011, a year before the vote. It fell to 8.5 percent in December and is expected to fall further by Election Day. Even so, the unemployment rate is still at recession levels. And former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is contending with other Republican candidates to challenge Obama in November, has made the weak economy the centerpiece of his campaign.

In a statement Friday, Romney said Obama’s policies “have slowed the recovery and created misery for 24 million Americans who are unemployed, or stuck in part-time jobs when what they really want is full-time work.”

TONIGHT

Chance of showers with a high in the lower 70s and a low in the lower 50s

Library “They love story time,” said Mason, who has been taking Adler since he was 4 months old. “She loves to sing, and he loves to do the crafts.”

A larger group usually attends the Tuesday session, Bryan said.

“She loves doing stories and has handled the transition beautifully,” said library director Deb Mitchell. “When you step into the shoes of someone who has been there for such a long time, it can be a hard job.”

Mitchell said Bryan, a

TODAY

Tompkins.

Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association at P.O. Box 96011, Washington, D.C. 20090-6001 or www. alz.org.

Sherman B. Price TALLULAH — Funeral services for Mr. Sherman B. Price, age 76, will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, in the chapel of Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home in Tallulah, with the Rev. Clifton Wheat officiating. Burial will

This weather package is compiled from historical records and information provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.

LOCAL FORECAST monday-wednesday Chance of showers and thunderstorms; highs in the upper 60s; lows in the lower 50s

STATE FORECAST TOday Chance of showers; highs in the lower 70s; lows in the lower 50s monday-wednesday Chance of showers and thunderstorms; highs in the upper 60s; lows in the lower 50s

Almanac Highs and Lows High/past 24 hours............. 70º Low/past 24 hours............... 50º Average temperature......... 60º Normal this date................... 47º Record low.................8º in 1886 Record high............77º in 1937 Rainfall Recorded at the Vicksburg Water Plant Past 24 hours.........................N/A This month................ 0.0 inches Total/year.............. 00.00 inches Normal/month......1.49 inches Normal/year...........1.49 inches Solunar table Most active times for fish and wildlife Monday: A.M. Active............................ 4:37 A.M. Most active...............10:50 P.M. Active............................. 5:03 P.M. Most active................11:16 Sunrise/sunset Sunset today........................ 5:13 Sunset tomorrow............... 5:13 Sunrise tomorrow.............. 7:05

RIVER DATA Stages Mississippi River at Vicksburg Current: 34.6 | Change: -0.2 Flood: 43 feet Yazoo River at Greenwood Current: 22.3 | Change: -0.2 Flood: 35 feet Yazoo River at Yazoo City Current: 21.1 | Change: -0.5 Flood: 29 feet Yazoo River at Belzoni Current: 21.7 | Change: -0.3 Flood: 34 feet Big Black River at West Current: 5.3 | Change: -0.2 Flood: 12 feet Big Black River at Bovina Current: 9.4 | Change: -0.9 Flood: 28 feet StEELE BAYOU Land....................................82.2 River....................................82.0

MISSISSIPPI RIVER Forecast Cairo, Ill. Monday.................................. 27.9 Tuesday.................................. 26.1 Wednesday........................... 24.0 Memphis Monday.................................. 17.2 Tuesday.................................. 14.9 Wednesday........................... 12.5 Greenville Monday.................................. 38.0 Tuesday.................................. 37.2 Wednesday........................... 35.8 Vicksburg Monday.................................. 34.7 Tuesday.................................. 34.3 Wednesday........................... 33.6

THE VICKSBURG POST

SPORTS SUNDAY, J anua r y 8, 2012 • SE C TI O N B PUZZLES B6

Steve Wilson, sports editor | E-mail: sports@vicksburgpost.com | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 142

NFL

Prep Soccer

Saints plow through Lions in first round

By Brett Martel The Associated Press

Tigers roll Rebs LSU crushes Ole Miss in SEC opener, 81-55/B4

Schedule PREP SOCCER

Vicksburg at WC Tuesday, 5:30 p.m.

St. Al hosts Madison-St. Joe Tuesday, 5:30 p.m.

On TV 3:30 p.m. CBS - Does Tim Tebow have one more miracle up his sleeve? The Denver Broncos quarterback will try to lead his team to a playoff victory when they host the Pittsburgh Steelers in an AFC wild-card game today.

Preview/B3

Who’s hot NEIL WATSON

Southern Miss basketball player had 16 points, including four in overtime, and five assists as the Golden Eagles beat Tulane 71-66 on Saturday. Story/B4

Sidelines Arkansas routs Mississippi State

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Julyssses Nobles had a point to prove to his home state.

Nobles scored a careerhigh 24 points as Arkansas opened Southeastern Conference play with a 98-88 win over 15th-ranked Mississippi State on Saturday.

Nobles, a Jackson native, scored 15 in the first half as the Razorbacks (12-3, 1-0 SEC) forced 11 turnovers and opened a 43-37 halftime lead. The junior finished 7-of-11 from the field, including 4-of-7 on 3-pointers.

Arkansas freshman BJ Young helped open a 20-point lead and close out the Bulldogs, scoring 18 of his 24 points in the second half. Young scored 10 straight points at one point for the Razorbacks, who scored 23 points off 18 Mississippi State turnovers.

DeVille Smith led MSU (13-3, 0-1) with 25 points, while Dee Bost added 21.

The Bulldogs closed the lead to 11 at 79-68 after a trio of free throws

by Smith, but that was as close as they could get until the closing minute.

LOTTERY La. Pick 3: 7-6-5 La. Pick 4: 0-5-8-8 Easy 5: 6-7-21-29-34 La. Lotto: 13-15-26-27-28-36 Powerball: 3-21-24-38-39 Powerball: 24; Power play: 5 Weekly results: B2

NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees and the Saints keep pouring on the points, rolling up the wins and rewriting the record books, too.

Brees led an unstoppable offense by throwing for 466 yards and three touchdowns, and New Orleans poured it on in the second half for a 45-28 NFC wild-card victory over the Detroit Lions on Saturday night.

New Orleans broke the postseason mark for total yards with 626, beating the record set 49 years ago.

Brees hit on 33 of 43 passes while throwing for the most yards in a regulation playoff game. He highlighted his

NW Rankin hammers Vicksburg

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Saturday, 3:30 p.m.

New Orleans at San Francisco TV: Fox; Radio: 1490 AM

By Ernest Bowker ebowker@vicksburgpost.com

On B3 • Texans top Bengals in AFC wild-card game • Broncos, Steelers take differing roads to rematch night with three completions of at least 40 yards.

“We just focus on winning.

We’re not focused on yards and records,” Saints coach See Saints, Page B3.

The associated press

New Orleans Saints running back Darren Sproles (43) scores a touchdown despite the defense of Detroit Lions safety Amari Spievey in the first half of an NFC wild-card playoff game Saturday. The Saints won 45-28 and advanced to play at San Francisco next Saturday.

Prep Basketball

Gators hold off late rally by Vikings

By Jeff Byrd jbyrd@vicksburgpost.com With just under 4 minutes left, Vicksburg High was cruising to its 15th straight win against archrival Warren Central.

Then all four wheels on the Gators’ wagon nearly came off. Starting point guard Edward Davis was on the bench with four fouls and a heavy bandage on his stitched-up eyebrow. WC went to full-court man pressure, forced nine Gator turnovers, and nearly came all the way back. The Vikings had the deficit down to four with a minute left when Davis returned. The sophomore point guard did enough in the final minute, including a free throw with 3.8 seconds left, to pull out a 61-58 win for the Gators.

“We weren’t doing things we do against the press like we do in practice, but it worked out all right,” said Davis, who took a forearm to the head in the second quarter that opened up a gash above his eye. Davis was patched up by the trainers, then scored seven of his eight points in the third quarter to help Vicksburg keep pace with WC’s Kourey Davis, who had nine of his 20 See Boys, Page B4.

Worn out and banged up from two tough division games earlier in the week, and with two more to come next week, the Vicksburg Missy Gators ran into the wrong team at exactly the wrong time Saturday.

Northwest Rankin exploded for seven goals in the second half, turning a close game into an 8-0 rout at Memorial Stadium. Kayla Thompson and Maria Welch each scored twice for Northwest, which ripped off five goals in the last 20 minutes after VHS coach Kori Babb cleared her bench.

“I appreciated our effort in the first half. The second half was very slow and sluggish.

It’s just like they couldn’t go any more,” Babb said. “We started subbing to prevent injuries.”

Northwest Rankin (15-23) outshot Vicksburg 13-1 in the first half, but only managed to score one fluky goal.

Alexa Johnston’s corner kick was snagged by VHS keeper Robin Cooper, who jumped to grab it. Cooper landed just inside the goal line and it was ruled a goal.

Northwest extended the lead when Thompson scored a minute into the second half, and she added another goal in the 14th minute.

Maddie Edmondson knocked in Northwest’s fourth goal at the 20-minute mark.

Babb pulled Cooper — who made 16 saves — in the 25th minute and the Lady Cougars unloaded on backup keeper Mikayla Banks down the stretch.

(B) NW Rankin 4, Vicksburg 0 Hunter Warren scored two goals, and Matthew Hall and Tanner Dewitt each had one as Northwest Rankin (8-6-2) shut out Vicksburg.

(G) Warren Central 9, Greenville-Weston 0 Brenden Neville•The Vicksburg Post

Warren Central’s K.J. Marshall (2) dribbles past Vicksburg High guard De’Vonta Brisco during Saturday’s game. Vicksburg won, 61-58.

Missy Gators get best of WC

By Jeff Byrd jbyrd@vicksburgpost.com For the first 27 minutes Saturday, the Warren Central Lady Vikes had just 20 points. They matched that total in the last 5 minutes, but it wasn’t enough.

Vicksburg withstood a furious fourth-quarter comeback by Warren Central to escape with a 44-40 win.

It was a big victory for the Missy Gators, who escaped the basement of the Division 3-6A standings. Vicksburg, which has won four straight games, is now 8-8 overall and 1-2 in the division. The loss was the Lady Vikes’ (8-10, 2-1) first in division play. They had beaten the Missy Gators in their first meeting in December.

Much like that earlier game, Warren Central struggled to get anything going on offense. It had just six points at the half, trailed 36-20 with 5:18 to go and was still down by 14 with 2:38 left.

Then the Lady Vikes caught fire. Three-pointers by Symone Stamps and Alexis Daniels, sandwiched between a pair of layups

by Jazmine Walker and Dawn Tuggle, ignited a 10-0 run that cut the deficit to four, 41-37, with 50 seconds to play.

Vicksburg got a free throw from Kailin Young to take a fivepoint lead with 44.6 seconds left.

Rolanda Lovette then airballed a 3-point attempt with 29.5 seconds left.

The Missy Gators gave the ball right back to the Lady Vikes and Walker’s putback made it 42-39 with 20 seconds remaining. WC drew a five-second call to set up a chance at a tie.

WC coach Jackie Martin-Brown did not get the shot she wanted.

The shot by Stamps was rushed.

Vicksburg’s Breanna Foy grabbed the rebound and fed Young for the game-sealing basket.

“The last shot wasn’t the best shot we could have had,” MartinBrown said. “The thing with my team is at times early in games we struggle to score. In the first half, we didn’t execute because they did what they wanted. In the second half, we became much

Taylor Hanes, Lindsey Barfield and Macy Joseph all scored two goals apiece as Warren Central (10-62, 2-1 Division 3-6A) picked up a key division win over Greenville-Weston.

Amanda Boleware, Noel Butler and Drew Barnes also scored goals, and goal keeper Katie Humphries posted her sixth shutout of the season.

(B) Warren Central 2, Greenville-Weston 1

Brenden Neville•The Vicksburg Post

Warren Central’s Alexis Dainiels (30) tries to pass around Vicksburg point guard Ama Arkorful (14).

Arkoful had 12 points and four assists to help See Girls, Page B4. Vicksburg win 44-40.

Chandler Bounds and Alberto Capeleto each had a goal and an assist, as Warren Central (13-3-2, 3-0 Division 3-6A) earned a victory over Greenville-Weston.

The Vikings outshot Greenville 20-8, but couldn’t turn that dominant performance into an easy win. Greenville cut it to 2-1 with a goal late in the game before WC hung on.

“I think our legs were a little rubbery after our third game in a row. We just couldn’t seem to find the net,” said WC coach Greg Head, whose team was playing its third game in as many days.

WC can clinch a playoff berth by beating Vicksburg at home on Tuesday night.

B2

Sunday, January 8, 2012

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NFL PLAYOFFS Noon Fox - Atlanta at N.Y. Giants 3:30 p.m. CBS - Pittsburgh at Denver COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8 p.m. ESPN - GoDaddy.com Bowl, Arkansas State vs. Northern Illinois, at Mobile, Ala. GOLF 8 a.m. TGC - European PGA Tour, Africa Open (tape) 4:30 p.m. TGC - PGA Tour, Tournament of Champions COLLEGE BASKETBALL 11 a.m. Big Ten - Indiana at Penn State 12:30 p.m. CBS - Wisconsin at Michigan 4:30 p.m. FSN - Arizona at Southern Cal 5 p.m. Big Ten - Purdue at Minnesota 5 p.m. ESPNU - Maryland at North Carolina State 6:30 p.m. FSN - California at Oregon WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Noon FSN - Maryland at North Carolina 12:30 p.m. ESPNU - Louisville at St. John’s 1 p.m. Big Ten - Northwestern at Indiana 2 p.m. FSN - Oklahoma at Texas A&M 2:30 p.m. ESPNU - Tennessee at Arkansas 3 p.m. Big Ten - Nebraska at Iowa NHL 6:30 p.m. NBC Sports Network Detroit at Chicago RODEO 1:30 p.m. NBC - PBR, Madison Square Garden Invitational (tape)

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from staff & AP reports

College football SMU romps past Pitt in BBVA Compass Bowl BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — J.J. McDermott ran and threw for first quarter touchdowns and SMU beat Pittsburgh 28-6 Saturday in the BBVA Compass Bowl.

Rishaad Wimbley ran for two scores for SMU (8-5), which tied a school record by playing in its third straight bowl game.

McDermott completed 16 of 26 passes for 239 yards and a touchdown.

Pittsburgh (6-7) was held without a first down and fell behind 21-0 in the first quarter. Kevin Harper kicked field goals of 32 and 34 yards.

North Dakota State wins FCS crown FRISCO, Texas — Brock Jensen threw a touchdown pass right after a fake punt, then had a 1-yard keeper for another score set up by a long interception return and North Dakota State won its first FCS championship with a 17-6 victory over top-seeded Sam Houston State on Saturday.

The Bison (14-1), who won the last of their five NCAA Division II national championships in 1990, were in another title game for the first time since moving to the upper division in 2004.

Sam Houston (14-1) had its lowest-scoring game of the season, 33 points below its FCS-best average, and was denied an undefeated season and its first Football Championship Subdivision title. The Bearkats had only 210 total yards.

North Dakota State wasn’t much better on offense, with only nine first downs and 235 total yards.

flashback

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jan. 8 1972 — The NCAA announces freshmen will be eligible to play on varsity football and basketball teams starting in the fall.

2007 — Second-ranked Florida dominates Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith and No. 1 Ohio State for a 41-14 victory in the BCS National Championship game. The Gators become the first Division I school to hold football and basketball titles at the same time.

2009 — Tim Tebow wins the matchup of Heisman winners as No. 1 Florida beats No. 2 Oklahoma and 2009 Heisman winner Sam Bradford 24-14.

2011 — The Seattle Seahawks stun the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints 41-36 to open the NFL playoffs. Seattle, the first division winner with a losing record at 7-9, advances behind four touchdown passes by Matt Hasselbeck and a brilliant 67-yard TD run

by Marshawn Lynch.

The Vicksburg Post

scoreboard Pacific Division

NFL NFL Playoffs

Wild-card round

Saturday’s Games Houston 31, Cincinnati 10 New Orleans 45, Detroit 28 Today’s Games Atlanta at New York Giants, Noon Pittsburgh at Denver, 3:30 p.m.

Divisional Playoffs

Saturday, Jan. 14 New Orleans at San Francisco, 3:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh or Denver at New England, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 15 Houston at Baltimore, Noon Atlanta or N.Y. Giants at Green Bay, 3:30 p.m.

Conference Championships

Jan. 22 AFC championship game, 2 p.m.

NFC championship game, 5:30 p.m.

Pro Bowl

Jan. 29 At Honolulu NFC vs. AFC, 7 p.m.

Super Bowl

Feb. 5 At Indianapolis AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 5:30 p.m.

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TEXANS 31, BENGALS 10

Cincinnati Houston

7 3 0 0 — 10 7 10 7 7 — 31 First Quarter Cin—Benson 1 run (Nugent kick), 7:34.

Hou—Foster 8 run (Rackers kick), 4:57.

Second Quarter Cin—FG Nugent 37, 7:09.

Hou—FG Rackers 39, 1:48.

Hou—Watt 29 interception return (Rackers kick), :52.

Third Quarter Hou—A.Johnson 40 pass from Yates (Rackers kick), 1:08.

Fourth Quarter Hou—Foster 42 run (Rackers kick), 5:15.

A—71,725.

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Cin Hou First downs................................21........................19 Total Net Yards.......................300......................340 Rushes-yards.......................19-76.................35-188 Passing....................................224......................152 Punt Returns..........................3-20.....................3-12 Kickoff Returns.......................1-22.......................0-0 Interceptions Ret......................0-0.....................3-28 Comp-Att-Int..................... 27-42-3............... 11-20-0 Sacked-Yards Lost.................4-33.......................2-7 Punts...................................3-48.3..................5-50.2 Fumbles-Lost............................1-0.......................0-0 Penalties-Yards......................3-25.....................5-87 Time of Possession.............30:17...................29:43 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Cincinnati, Leonard 3-34, Dalton 3-17, Benson 7-14, Scott 6-11. Houston, Foster 24-153, Tate 9-37, Casey 1-0, Yates 1-(minus 2).

PASSING—Cincinnati, Dalton 27-42-3-257. Houston, Yates 11-20-0-159.

RECEIVING—Cincinnati, Leonard 6-36, Green 5-47, Gresham 5-46, Simpson 3-33, Scott 3-29, Whalen 2-24, Lee 1-36, Hawkins 1-8, Benson 1-(minus 2). Houston, A.Johnson 5-90, Foster 3-29, Daniels 2-29, Walter 1-11.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Cincinnati, Nugent 50 (WR).

SAINTS 45, LIONS 28

Detroit New Orleans

7 7 7 7 — 28 0 10 14 21 — 45 First Quarter Det—Heller 10 pass from Stafford (Hanson kick), 10:58.

Second Quarter NO—Sproles 2 run (Kasay kick), 14:01.

Det—Johnson 13 pass from Stafford (Hanson kick), 9:11.

NO—FG Kasay 24, :00.

Third Quarter NO—Henderson 41 pass from Brees (Kasay kick), 13:09.

NO—Graham 3 pass from Brees (Kasay kick), 4:03.

Det—Stafford 1 run (Hanson kick), 1:08.

Fourth Quarter NO—Sproles 17 run (Kasay kick), 9:53.

NO—Meachem 56 pass from Brees (Kasay kick), 7:29.

Det—Johnson 12 pass from Stafford (Hanson kick), 4:40.

NO—P.Thomas 1 run (Kasay kick), 3:36.

A—73,038.

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Det NO First downs................................22........................34 Total Net Yards.......................412......................626 Rushes-yards.......................10-32.................36-167 Passing....................................380......................459 Punt Returns............................0-0.......................2-4 Kickoff Returns.......................2-41.....................2-54 Interceptions Ret......................0-0.....................2-17 Comp-Att-Int..................... 28-43-2............... 33-43-0 Sacked-Yards Lost...................0-0.......................2-7 Punts...................................3-42.3....................0-0.0 Fumbles-Lost............................0-0.......................2-2 Penalties-Yards......................7-64.....................3-18 Time of Possession.............22:24...................37:36 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Detroit, K.Smith 6-21, T.Young 1-8, Burleson 1-2, Stafford 2-1. New Orleans, P.Thomas 8-66, Sproles 10-51, Ivory 13-47, Henderson 1-4, Brees 4-(minus 1).

PASSING—Detroit, Stafford 28-43-2-380. New Orleans, Brees 33-43-0-466.

RECEIVING—Detroit, Johnson 12-211, Burleson 4-50, Pettigrew 4-49, T.Young 4-33, K.Smith 2-20, Heller 1-10, Scheffler 1-7. New Orleans, Colston 7-120, Graham 7-55, P.Thomas 6-55, Meachem 4-111, Sproles 4-34, Henderson 2-64, Collins 2-20, Arrington 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W Philadelphia...................5 New York.......................4 Boston...........................4 Toronto..........................3 New Jersey...................2

L 2 4 4 5 7

Pct .714 .500 .500 .375 .222

Southeast Division

W Miami.............................8 Atlanta...........................6 Orlando..........................5 Charlotte........................2 Washington....................0

L 1 3 3 6 7

Central Division

W Chicago.........................7 Indiana...........................6 Cleveland.......................4 Milwaukee......................2 Detroit............................2

L 2 2 3 4 6

Pct .889 .667 .625 .250 .000

GB — 2 2 1/2 5 1/2 7

Pct .778 .750 .571 .333 .250

GB — 1/2 2 3 1/2 4 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W San Antonio...................6 Dallas.............................4 Memphis........................3 Houston.........................2 New Orleans.................2

L 2 5 4 6 6

Pct .750 .444 .429 .250 .250

Northwest Division

W Oklahoma City...............7 Portland.........................5 Denver...........................6 Utah...............................4 Minnesota......................2

L 2 2 3 3 5

GB — 1 1/2 1 1/2 2 1/2 4

Pct .778 .714 .667 .571 .286

GB — 2 1/2 2 1/2 4 4 GB — 1 1 2 4

W L Pct L.A. Clippers..................3 2 .600 L.A. Lakers....................5 4 .556 Phoenix..........................3 4 .429 Sacramento...................3 5 .375 Golden State.................2 5 .286 ——— Friday’s Late Games L.A. Lakers 97, Golden State 90 Phoenix 102, Portland 77 Saturday’s Games Atlanta 109, Chicago 94 Indiana 99, Charlotte 77 Miami 101, New Jersey 90 New York 103, Detroit 80 Oklahoma City 98, Houston 95 Philadelphia 97, Toronto 62 San Antonio 121, Denver 117 Dallas 96, New Orleans 81 Utah at Golden State, (n) Milwaukee at L.A. Clippers, (n) Today’s Games Minnesota at Washington, Noon Orlando at Sacramento, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Portland, 8 p.m.

Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Minnesota at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.

Charlotte at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 7 p.m.

New Orleans at Denver, 8 p.m.

GB — — 1 1 1/2 2

College Basketball SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE

Conference All Games

W L PCT W L PCT Kentucky............. 1 0 1.000 15 1 .938 Alabama............. 1 0 1.000 12 3 .800 LSU..................... 1 0 1.000 11 4 .733 Vanderbilt........... 1 0 1.000 11 4 .733 Tennessee.......... 1 0 1.000 8 7 .533 Arkansas............. 1 0 .000 12 3 .800 Mississippi St... 0 1 .000 13 3 .813 Florida................. 0 1 .000 12 4 .750 Auburn................ 0 1 .000 10 5 .667 Ole Miss............ 0 1 .000 10 5 .667 Georgia............... 0 1 .000 9 6 .600 South Carolina... 0 1 .000 8 7 .533 Saturday’s Games Tennessee 67, Florida 56 Vanderbilt 65, Auburn 35 LSU 81, Ole Miss 55 Kentucky 79, South Carolina 64 Alabama 74, Georgia 59 Arkansas 98, Mississippi St. 88 Today’s Games No games scheduled Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games Georgia at Florida, 6 p.m.

Vanderbilt at South Carolina, 8 p.m.

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CONFERENCE USA

Conference All Games

W L PCT W L PCT Southern Miss.. 2 0 1.000 15 2 .882 UCF.................... 2 0 1.000 12 3 .800 Marshall.............. 2 0 1.000 11 4 .733 SMU.................... 1 0 1.000 9 6 .600 Memphis............. 1 0 1.000 10 5 .667 Houston.............. 1 1 .500 8 6 .571 UTEP.................. 1 1 .500 8 8 .500 UAB.................... 0 1 .000 5 9 .357 Rice.................... 0 1 .000 9 7 .563 Tulane................. 0 2 .000 12 4 .750 East Carolina...... 0 2 .000 9 6 .600 Tulsa................... 0 2 .000 7 9 .438 Saturday’s Games Central Florida 81, East Carolina 63 Marshall 63, Rice 61 SMU 57, Tulsa 55 Southern Miss 71, Tulane 66, OT Memphis 62, UAB 59 UTEP 70, Houston 50 Today’s Games No games scheduled Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled ———

SWAC

Conference All Games

W L PCT W L PCT Texas Southern.. 3 0 1.000 4 11 .267 MVSU................. 2 0 1.000 3 11 .214 Southern U......... 2 1 .667 6 10 .375 Alabama St......... 2 1 .667 4 10 .286 Prairie View........ 1 2 .333 5 11 .313 Alcorn St........... 1 2 .333 4 11 .267 Alabama A&M.... 1 2 .333 3 9 .250 Jackson St........ 1 2 .333 3 12 .200 Grambling St...... 1 2 .333 1 12 .077 Ark.-Pine Bluff.... 0 2 .000 1 14 .067 Saturday’s Games Alcorn St. 63, Jackson St. 60 Mississippi Valley St. 67, Alabama St. 60 Alabama A&M 65, Ark.-Pine Bluff 62 Texas Southern 84, Prairie View 49 Southern U. 72, Grambling St. 59 Today’s Games No games scheduled Monday’s Games Mississippi Valley St. at Alabama A&M, 5 p.m.

Ark.-Pine Bluff at Alabama St., 5 p.m.

Grambling St. at Alcorn St., 7 p.m.

Jackson St. at Southern U., 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled ———

Top 25 Schedule Saturday’s Games No. 1 Syracuse 73, No. 20 Marquette 66 No. 2 Kentucky 79, South Carolina 64 No. 3 North Carolina 83, Boston College 60 No. 4 Baylor 73, Texas Tech 60 No. 5 Duke 81, Georgia Tech 74 No. 6 Ohio St. 76, Iowa 47 No. 23 Kansas St. 75, No. 7 Missouri 59 Rutgers 67, No. 8 Connecticut 60 West Virginia 74, No. 9 Georgetown 62 Notre Dame 67, No. 11 Louisville 65, 2OT Tennessee 67, No. 13 Florida 56 No. 14 Kansas 72, Oklahoma 61 Arkansas 98, No. 15 Mississippi St. 88 No. 19 Murray St. 87, Austin Peay 75 No. 21 Virginia 52, Miami 51 No. 22 Harvard 63, Dartmouth 47 No. 25 Gonzaga 82, Santa Clara 60 Today’s Games No. 12 Indiana at Penn St., 11 a.m.

No. 16 Michigan vs. No. 18 Wisconsin, 12:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games No. 8 Connecticut vs. West Virginia, 6 p.m.

No. 9 Georgetown vs. Cincinnati, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games No. 3 North Carolina vs. Miami, 8 p.m.

No. 4 Baylor at No. 23 Kansas St., 7 p.m.

No. 6 Ohio St. at Illinois, 8 p.m.

No. 10 Michigan St. vs. Iowa, 6 p.m.

No. 11 Louisville at Providence, 6 p.m.

No. 13 Florida vs. Georgia, 6 p.m.

No. 22 Harvard at Monmouth, 6 p.m.

No. 24 San Diego St. vs. Chicago St., 9 p.m.

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Mississippi college schedule

Saturday’s Games LSU 81, Ole Miss 55 Hardin-Simmons 82, Mississippi College 75 Southern Miss 71, Tulane 66, OT Alcorn St. 63, Jackson St. 60 Mississippi Valley St. 67, Alabama St. 60 Shorter 73, William Carey 62 Lee University 89, Belhaven 78

2011-12 Bowl schedule

Dec. 17 New Mexico Bowl..................................................................................... Temple 37, Wyoming 15 Dec. 17 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl...................................................................... Ohio 24, Utah State 23 Dec. 17 New Orleans Bowl.................................................................. La.-Lafayette 32, San Diego St. 30 Dec. 20 Beef ’O’Brady’s Bowl....................................................................................... Marshall 20, FIU 10 Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl..................................................................................... TCU 31, Louisiana Tech 24 Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl................................................................................Boise State 56, Arizona State 24 Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl....................................................................................Southern Miss 24, Nevada 17 Dec. 26 Independence Bowl.......................................................................Missouri 41, North Carolina 24 Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl...........................................................Purdue 37,Western Michigan 32 Dec. 27 Belk Bowl.................................................................................North Carolina St. 31, Louisville 24 Dec. 28 Military Bowl.............................................................................................. Toledo 42, Air Force 41 Dec. 28 Holiday Bowl................................................................................................Texas 21, California 10 Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl.....................................................................Florida St. 18, Notre Dame 14 Dec. 29 Alamo Bowl.............................................................................................Baylor 67, Washington 56 Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec.

30 30 30 30

Armed Forces Bowl.......................................................................................... BYU 24, Tulsa Pinstripe Bowl....................................................................................... Rutgers 27, Iowa State Music City Bowl............................................................. Mississippi State 23, Wake Forest Insight Bowl..................................................................................................Oklahoma 31, Iowa

Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec.

31 31 31 31 31

Meinke Car Care Bowl................................................................Texas A&M 33, Northwestern 22 Sun Bowl......................................................................................... Utah 30, Georgia Tech 27, OT Liberty Bowl......................................................................................... Cincinnati 31, Vanderbilt 24 Fight Hunger Bowl........................................................................................... Illinois 20, UCLA 14 Chick-fil-A Bowl............................................................................................Auburn 43, Virginia 24

Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan.

2 2 2 2 2 2

21 13 17 14

TicketCity Bowl...........................................................................................Houston 30, Penn St. 14 Capital One Bowl............................................................................South Carolina 30, Nebraska 13 Outback Bowl............................................................................... Michigan St. 33, Georgia 30, 3OT Gator Bowl..................................................................................................... Florida 24, Ohio St. 17 Rose Bowl.................................................................................................. Oregon 45, Wisconsin 38 Fiesta Bowl...................................................................................Oklahoma St. 41, Stanford 38, OT

Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl...................................................................................Michigan 23 Virginia Tech 20, OT Jan. 4 Orange Bowl...................................................................................... West Virginia 70, Clemson 33 Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl.......................................................................................... Arkansas 29, Kansas St. 16 Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl..................................................................................... SMU 28, Pittsburgh 6 Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl

Arkansas St. (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (10-3)..............8 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 9 BCS National Championship

LSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1).....................7:30 p.m. ESPN

West Florida 84, Delta St. 67 Arkansas 98, Mississippi St. 88 Today’s Game Millsaps at Oglethorpe, 3 p.m.

Monday’s Games Grambling at Alcorn St., 7 p.m.

Mississippi Valley St. at Alabama A&M, 7:30 p.m.

Tougaloo at Fisk, 7:30 p.m.

Mississippi College at Louisiana College, 7:30 p.m.

Jackson St. at Southern, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Game Delta St. at Sheppard Tech, 2 p.m.

LSU 81, OLE MISS 55

OLE MISS (10-5) Henry 4-13 0-0 8, Short 2-3 0-0 4, Buckner 1-5 1-3 3, Williams 1-4 4-4 6, Summers 1-7 5-7 7, Cox 1-3 1-2 3, White 2-4 1-2 7, Aniefiok 2-6 0-0 4, Jones 2-2 1-1 5, Kendrick 3-8 2-7 8. Totals 19-55 15-26 55.

LSU (11-4) Warren 7-16 1-2 15, Hamilton 9-12 5-6 23, Hickey 4-5 0-0 12, Stringer 3-11 3-5 10, Turner 2-9 1-1 6, Bass 2-3 0-0 4, Ludwig 0-2 1-2 1, Courtney 1-6 0-0 3, Isaac 1-4 4-4 6, Del Piero 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 29-68 16-22 81.

Halftime—LSU 44-24.

3-Point Goals—Ole Miss 2-8 (White 2-3, Williams 0-1, Henry 0-1, Aniefiok 0-1, Summers 0-2), LSU 7-16 (Hickey 4-5, Stringer 1-2, Courtney 1-4, Turner 1-4, Isaac 0-1). Fouled Out—Henry, Jones. Rebounds—Ole Miss 40 (Buckner 9), LSU 45 (Hamilton 16). Assists—Ole Miss 5 (Kendrick 2), LSU 16 (Hickey 7). Total Fouls—Ole Miss 24, LSU 19. A—7,176.

ARKANSAS 98, MISSISSIPPI ST. 88

MISSISSIPPI ST. (13-3) Steele 2-6 0-0 6, Bost 6-13 9-13 21, Hood 5-12 5-5 17, Moultrie 4-6 1-1 9, Lewis 1-2 0-0 2, Sidney 2-4 0-1 6, Bryant 1-1 0-0 2, D. Smith 6-8 10-11 25. Totals 27-52 25-31 88.

ARKANSAS (12-3) Wade 5-6 2-3 12, Scott 0-3 1-2 1, Abron 2-6 0-1 4, Nobles 7-11 6-7 24, Sanchez 4-5 4-5 12, Madden 3-6 5-6 11, Young 10-13 2-2 24, Haydar 0-0 0-0 0, Mickelson 1-6 2-2 4, Waithe 3-6 0-0 6.

Totals 35-62 22-28 98.

Halftime—Arkansas 43-37.

3-Point Goals—Mississippi St. 9-20 (D. Smith 3-3, Sidney 2-2, Steele 2-4, Hood 2-5, Bost 0-6), Arkansas 6-15 (Nobles 4-7, Young 2-4, Madden 0-1, Waithe 0-1, Wade 0-1, Scott 0-1). Fouled Out—Moultrie. Rebounds—Mississippi St. 32 (Moultrie 10), Arkansas 28 (Madden 6). Assists— Mississippi St. 9 (Bost 3), Arkansas 22 (Nobles 7). Total Fouls—Mississippi St. 19, Arkansas 23.

A—NA.

SOUTHERN MISS 71, TULANE 66, OT

SOUTHERN MISS (15-2) Bolden 5-12 3-4 15, Pelham 2-5 7-8 11, Page 0-8 0-0 0, McGill 2-2 0-0 4, Johnson 2-8 2-2 8, Dodson 2-4 0-0 4, Watson 4-10 6-6 16, Jenkins 3-5 0-0 7, Mills 1-3 4-8 6. Totals 21-57 22-28 71.

TULANE (12-4) Davis 2-7 2-4 6, Thomas 0-0 0-0 0, Tarrant 5-10 5-5 16, Callahan 5-15 5-6 17, Timmons 4-8 4-4 13, Rogers 2-3 2-6 8, Cherry 0-1 0-0 0, Ziegenhagen 0-1 0-0 0, Nwogbo 0-0 0-0 0, Drye 2-2 2-2 6.

Totals 20-47 20-27 66.

Halftime—Southern Miss 36-26.

End Of Regulation—Tied 60.

3-Point Goals—Southern Miss 7-19 (Johnson 2-3, Watson 2-3, Bolden 2-4, Jenkins 1-2, Dodson 0-1, Page 0-6), Tulane 6-15 (Rogers 2-2, Callahan 2-6, Timmons 1-1, Tarrant 1-3, Davis 0-1, Ziegenhagen 0-1, Cherry 0-1). Fouled Out—Callahan.

Rebounds—Southern Miss 35 (Page 8), Tulane 35 (Davis 8). Assists—Southern Miss 11 (Watson 5), Tulane 10 (Callahan 3). Total Fouls—Southern Miss 23, Tulane 25. A—2,140.

ALCORN ST. 63, JACKSON ST. 60

JACKSON ST. (3-12) Bush 4-7 4-6 14, Howard 2-9 1-2 5, Lewis 0-2 0-1 0, Coleman 2-2 1-2 5, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Taylor 2-2 4-5 8, Stewart 3-8 1-2 8, Williams 6-7 4-4 18, Readus 1-2 0-0 2, Armstrong 0-0 0-0 0, Gregory 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 20-39 15-22 60.

ALCORN ST. (3-11) Rimmer 2-9 8-9 12, Francis 4-6 1-3 9, Starks 0-0 0-0 0, McDonald 2-4 4-6 8, Oakley 5-11 3-5 17, Hawkins 1-7 0-0 3, Moore 2-8 0-0 4, Tufono 0-0 0-0 0, Brand 1-1 0-0 2, Sullivan 3-4 2-4 8. Totals 20-50 18-27 63.

Halftime—Alcorn St. 34-19.

3-Point Goals—Jackson St. 5-14 (Bush 2-2, Williams 2-2, Stewart 1-4, Lewis 0-2, Howard 0-4), Alcorn St. 5-12 (Oakley 4-8, Hawkins 1-4). Fouled Out—Williams. Rebounds—Jackson St. 22 (Taylor 5), Alcorn St. 26 (Francis 6). Assists—Jackson St. 8 (Williams 4), Alcorn St. 8 (McDonald, Moore 2). Total Fouls—Jackson St. 22, Alcorn St. 14.

A—2,500.

MISS. VALLEY ST. 67, ALABAMA ST. 60

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ST. (3-11) Jones 5-8 0-0 12, Studivant 3-6 1-1 7, Crosby 4-11 1-3 9, Joyner 6-14 2-5 17, Burwell 1-5 0-0 2, Pajkovic 0-0 0-0 0, Arrington 4-4 0-1 9, Cox 2-5 2-5 7, Ralling 1-1 2-2 4. Totals 26-54 8-17 67.

ALABAMA ST. (5-10)

White 3-7 5-5 13, Crawford 2-12 2-4 6, Washington 7-12 0-0 17, Middlebrooks 2-6 5-8 10, Butler 3-10 1-2 8, Page 0-2 2-4 2, Mason 0-3 0-0 0, Watts 0-2 0-0 0, Brown 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 19-57 15-23 60.

Halftime—Alabama St. 34-31.

3-Point Goals—MVSU 7-14 (Joyner 3-4, Jones 2-4, Arrington 1-1, Cox 1-3, Crosby 0-1, Burwell 0-1), Alabama St. 7-22 (Washington 3-6, White 2-4, Butler 1-5, Middlebrooks 1-5, Brown 0-1, Watts 0-1). Fouled Out—Crosby. Rebounds— MVSU 41 (Cox, Crosby 8), Alabama St. 37 (Brown 11). Assists—MVSU 17 (Joyner 7), Alabama St. 12 (Middlebrooks 5). Total Fouls—MVSU 21, Alabama St. 18. A—1,912.

Women’s Basketball Women’s Top 25 Schedule

Saturday’s Games No. 1 Baylor 57, Iowa St. 45 No. 3 Notre Dame 74, No. 2 Connecticut 67, OT No. 4 Stanford 67, Oregon St. 60 Michigan 73, No. 8 Ohio St. 62 No. 10 Rutgers 58, Cincinnati 47 No. 13 Texas Tech 69, Missouri 63 No. 15 Georgetown 66, South Florida 56 No. 17 Green Bay 88, Milwaukee 53 Providence 60, No. 20 DePaul 52 Michigan St. 75, No. 22 Penn St. 65 Oklahoma St. 70, No. 23 Texas 51 Today’s Games No. 5 Maryland at No. 25 North Carolina, Noon No. 6 Tennessee at Arkansas, 2:30 p.m.

No. 7 Duke vs. NC St., 1 p.m.

No. 9 Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma, 2 p.m.

No. 11 Kentucky vs. Mississippi St., 2:30 p.m.

No. 14 Louisville at St. John’s, 12:30 p.m.

No. 16 Georgia at Auburn, 1 p.m.

No. 19 Nebraska at Iowa, 3 p.m.

No. 21 Delaware at George Mason, 1 p.m.

No. 24 Vanderbilt vs. Ole Miss, 2 p.m.

Monday’s Game No. 12 Miami at Georgia Tech, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games No. 2 Connecticut vs. Providence, 6 p.m.

No. 3 Notre Dame at No. 15 Georgetown, 6 p.m.

No. 10 Rutgers at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Prep Basketball Girls

VICKSBURG 44, WARREN CENTRAL 40

Vicksburg 10 8 10 16 — 44 Warren Central 4 2 14 20 — 40 Vicksburg (44) Ama Arkoful 12, Aleeshah Smith 9, Kailen Young 9, Foy 6, Vaughn 4, Farris 2, Mayfield 2.

Warren Central (40) Symone Stamps 9, Lovette 8, Shorter 8, Daniels 5, Walker 4, Tuggle 2, Jones 2, Farmer 2.

Boys

VICKSBURG 61, WARREN CENTRAL 58

Vicksburg 8 10 18 22 — 58 Warren Central 19 7 19 16 — 61 Vicksburg (61) DeAngelo Richardson 22, King 9, Edward Davis 8, R. Carter 7, Brisco 6, Dixon 5, Price 2.

Warren Central (58) Kourey Davis 20, Devin Johnson 10, Howard 7, Smith 7, Williams 7, Taylor 2.

LOTTERY Sunday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 8-3-1 La. Pick 4: 9-5-9-2 Monday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 5-0-1 La. Pick 4: 6-8-0-1 Tuesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 7-2-9 La. Pick 4: 1-5-6-0 Wednesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 0-2-4 La. Pick 4: 7-6-6-5 Easy 5: 3-9-11-29-33 La. Lotto: 2-4-8-20-31-40 Powerball: 21-35-46-47-50 Powerball: 2; Power play: 4 Thursday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 2-9-6 La. Pick 4: 7-6-0-1 Friday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 7-9-8 La. Pick 4: 7-6-2-4 Saturday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 7-6-5 La. Pick 4: 0-5-8-8 Easy 5: 6-7-21-29-34 La. Lotto: 13-15-26-27-28-36 Powerball: 3-21-24-38-39 Powerball: 24; Power play: 5

Sunday, January 8, 2012

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Movie night leads to misundertandings

NFL Playoffs

Houston notches first postseason victory HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans turned to their rookies, then to their stars to win the first playoff game in franchise history, a 31-10 rout of the bungling Cincinnati Bengals.

Rookie J.J. Watt’s leaping interception return for a touchdown late in the first half propelled the Texans in Saturday’s AFC wild-card game.

Third-string quarterback T.J. Yates, another first-year player pressed into action, then threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Andre Johnson and Arian Foster followed with his second touchdown of the game, a 42-yard run in the fourth quarter, to finish off the Bengals.

After nine seasons of missing the playoffs, the AFC South champion Texans (11-6) are heading to AFC North winner Baltimore (12-4) next Sunday.

“This is a special day,” Houston coach Gary Kubiak said.

Watt returned the first of

rookie Andy Dalton’s three interceptions 29 yards for a score that broke a 10-all tie with 52 seconds left in the half.

Yates then hit Johnson on a TD pass late in the third quarter, and Foster added his long run to close out the scoring.

Cincinnati was in the playoffs for the third time in seven seasons, but the Bengals (9-8) haven’t advanced since beating the Houston Oilers following the 1990 season.

Foster scored on an 8-yard run in the first quarter to tie the score at 7, and finished with 153 yards on 24 carries.

Dalton was 24-of-42 passing for 257 yards, while Yates was 11-of-20 for 159 yards in the first playoff game in the Super Bowl era matching two rookie quarterbacks.

Houston took Watt with the 11th overall pick in last year’s draft, a cornerstone for the reconstruction of the Texans defense. He started all 16

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Houston Texans running back Arian Foster (23) is grabbed

by Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam Jones (24) in the second quarter of Saturday’s AFC playoff game. games and led the team with 13 tackles for loss. But he’d never picked off a pass.

Watt saw this one coming, measuring his jump when Dalton dropped back and snatching the ball with both hands. He sprinted to the end zone as the capacity crowd

exploded, and he raised both hands after reaching the end zone.

“He’s been exceptional,” Kubiak said. “He’s played like a 4- or 5-year player. That was a huge play. That got us a lot of momentum going into halftime.”

Roads converge for Broncos, Steelers DENVER (AP) — Champ Bailey had the interception in his grasp and the end zone in his sights as Hines Ward began to fall and the fluttering football hung in the air along with the fortunes of two of the NFL’s most storied franchises.

Ward somehow came down with the deflected pass from Ben Roethlisberger, holding on despite a jaw-jarring hit from John Lynch. Bailey pounded the ground with his fist in disgust and the Pittsburgh Steelers commenced with their 34-17 dismantling of the Denver Broncos in the AFC title game following the 2005 season.

That watershed afternoon of Jan. 22, 2006, sent the Steelers and Broncos on divergent paths, and they meet again today in an AFC wild-card game at Sports Authority Field in snowy Denver.

“That game catapulted us to a Super Bowl victory,” Pittsburgh defensive end Brett Keisel said.

It sent the Broncos on a nosedive that took them through three coaches, four quarterbacks, six defensive coordinators and a whole lot of misery before returning to the playoffs this year.

The Steelers are 69-35 since that fateful contest, winning two titles and narrowly missing a third in a 31-25 loss to Green Bay in last year’s Super Bowl, rivaling their run in the 1970s.

The Broncos have gone 44-52 with just one winning season and no playoff appearances.

“You can look at the direction we both headed after that.

They went up, we went down,” Bailey said. “We haven’t been back, they’ve won two since

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We don’t watch much television out here at Brownspur, having made the observation years ago that there’s not much worth watching, at least not for what it costs to get all those channels. The Brownspur TV screen is usually just a venue for watching movies. The GrandBoys, Sir and Crash, are fascinated by the older VCR movies.

But sometimes they find that watching with their elderly Grunk (short for Granddaddy Uncle Bob) can be trying, to say the least. One has to admire the kids’ patience.

For instance, we were watching “The Empire Strikes Back” and the good guys were trying to get away from the waystation planet of Lando Calrissian, and they got split up.

Princess Leia and Chewbacca the Wookie saw Luke Skywalker go off into another corridor, but the Princess cries out to warn him. The Grunk is a little deaf, and I did not catch the warning, so I softly asked Sir, sitting on the arm of my chair, “What did she say?”

Without taking his eyes from the action on the screen, the 5-year-old replied, “We’re trapped!”

Since he said it softly too, I queried, “We’re trapped?”

And the kid looks at me with all the patience in the world for an elderly companion, and explained, “No, Grunk. They are trapped!”

Then right back to the movie, but ready for the next time he has to explain modern technology and language to an older person. In a way, perhaps Sir was trapped, for he was bound to have to watch another movie with The Grunk.

Which happened to be not long in the future. Within two weeks, The Grunk was called upon to grandboy-sit whilst Momma and Daddy went out.

We ate supper, then snuggled up on the sofa with Sir on my left and Crash on my right, to watch “The Lion King.”

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Crash had not been feeling well that day, so he laid across my lap and got comfortable early in the movie. I had been instructed to put him to bed if he drifted off to sleep, so he’d rest better.

Around the time that little lion cub Simba gets rescued by his Lion King daddy from the wildebeest stampede, then daddy can’t get out of the way and gets trampled, I thought I heard a gentle snore from Crash. I looked down, but could not see if his eyes were closed. So I nudged Sir to glance across my lap to see if his brother had drifted off.

“Sean, is he asleep?” I asked softly.

I had to ask twice because Sir was rightly caught up in the cub trying to arouse his trampled kingly father.

“Is he asleep?” I repeated.

And Sir turned to me with an expression that said, “Lord give me patience with my grandfather here,” and replied as a 5-year-old to a 2-year-old, breaking the bad news as gently as possible, “No, Grunk. He’s dead.”

I think the kid even patted my hand.

Actually, Crash was alive and well, not even thinking about going to sleep in the midst of such a good movie. Within a few minutes, all three of us were singing, “Hakuma matata.”

I’ve already said I’m hard of hearing, but durned if I want to ask a 5-year-old or a 2-yearold to translate what dumb animals are singing.

• Bob Neill is an outdoors writer. He lives in Leland, Miss.

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Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow (15) hands the ball off to running back Willis McGahee last week against Kansas City. The Broncos host the Pittsburgh Steelers in an AFC wildcard playoff game this afternoon.

then. It’s funny how it played out. But that was then, this is now. We have a chance to turn things around here and that’s what we expect to do this weekend.”

The Broncos, who won the middling AFC West at 8-8, host the heavily favored Steelers (12-4), who lost the AFC North on a tiebreaker to Baltimore, on what’s expected to be a snowy afternoon in Denver.

The oddsmakers have

installed the Steelers as 8 1⁄2-point favorites despite an injury epidemic in Pittsburgh that has claimed tailback Rashard Mendenhall (knee) and could sideline AllPro center Maurkice Pouncey (ankle). The Steelers’ top tackler, safety Ryan Clark, is sitting out as a precaution because of a blood disorder that’s exacerbated by altitude.

A sprained left ankle won’t keep Roethlisberger on the sideline, though.

Several other members of the league’s best defense are banged up as they prepare for the Broncos’ throwback offense. Asked when he last defended the option, Steelers defensive guru Dick LeBeau

cracked, “Probably when I was playing.”

The Broncos won seven of their first eight starts with Tim Tebow at quarterback, then lost three in a row to end the regular season.

During the skid, Tebow has completed just 30 of 73 passes (41 percent) with one touchdown, four interceptions and 10 sacks to go with three lost fumbles. A two-time national champion at Florida, Tebow is looking to bounce back in a big way in the playoffs.

“The kid does have some special qualities and he rises to the challenge on the big stage, and that’s what the playoffs are all about,” Lynch said.

“Here’s his opportunity.”

playoff record set by Buffalo and Miami on Dec. 30, 1995.

Pierre Thomas rushed for 66 yards and one touchdown, while Sproles added 51 yards, two scores and several other clutch plays.

Marques Colston overcame an early fumble with seven catches for 120 yards, including a 40-yarder to set up Jimmy Graham’s short TD grab. Robert Meachem had four catches for 111 yards, including a 56-yard score.

Devery Henderson added a 41-yard TD reception.

New Orleans showed guts and got a little good fortune on a decisive 14-play, 80-yard scoring drive in the fourth quarter. The Saints ran Sproles around left end on fourthand-2 at the Lions 40 and gained 3 yards. Soon after, Brees’ pass as he was clobbered by Nick Fairley went right through the hands of defensive back Aaron Berry.

Berry would regret that

drop two plays later as Sproles bolted 17 yards to make it 31-21.

Stafford tried to get some of that back quickly, throwing deep for Titus Young, but Greer ran under it and picked it off. Four plays later, Brees spotted Meachem behind blown coverage for his long score to make it 38-21.

The Lions became only the second visiting team all year to lead at halftime in the Superdome, where the Saints were unbeaten during the regular season.

Stafford completed five of his first six throws for 70 yards, starting with a 22-yard completion to Johnson on the second play from scrimmage.

A 10-yard strike to reserve tight end Will Heller gave the Lions a 7-0 lead. The teams traded touchdowns before a short John Kasay field goal as time expired made it 14-10.

“So going into halftime at

a deficit, we just realized, ‘Listen, just bear down, one play at a time, one drive at a time,”’ Brees said, “and I think we scored on every drive in the second half. I guess that’s what you hope for.”

The Saints opened the second half by driving 78 yards to take their first lead on Brees’ 31-yard pass to Henderson. New Orleans then widened its lead to 24-14 with a 92-yard drive that included a risky dive by Brees over the pile on fourthand-1 at the New Orleans 38.

He then found Colston for a 40-yard gain to the Detroit 3 and hit Graham for a score on the next play.

“He’s definitely playing at an extremely high level right now,” Colston said of Brees.

“It’s the way the guy prepares. ... He really just tries to get better on a daily basis and that’s what you see on the field.”

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Chill in the Hills run and walk The Chill in the Hills 10-kilometer run and 5K race walk is scheduled for Saturday.

All races will begin and end at the Guaranty Bank and Trust Co., 1900 Cherry St. The run will start at 8:30 a.m. and the walk at 8:35.

Race day registration

begins at 7 a.m. and concludes at 8. Race packets can be picked up on Friday, from 5 until 8 p.m., at the Grace Christian Counseling Center at 1414 Cherry St., or on-site at registration on race day.

Entry fees are $25 for the 10K Run; $25 for the 5K Walk; and $10 for the 1-mile fun run for children 12 and under.

All race participants will receive a long sleeve shirt, refreshments and door prizes. Shirts are guaranteed for the first 300 registered participants in the 10K and 5K. All fun run participants will receive a participation ribbon rather than the race shirt. Extra shirts will be available for sale.

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Sean Payton said. “I’m serious when I say that.”

As usual, the quarterback had plenty of help from an offense that set an NFL record for yards from scrimmage this season (7,474). The Saints (14-3) will travel to San Francisco (13-3) for next Saturday’s second-round game.

Matthew Stafford threw for 380 yards and three TDs for the Lions (10-7), who could not keep pace in their first playoff appearance since the 1999 season. They have lost seven straight playoff games.

All-Pro receiver Calvin Johnson had 12 receptions for 211 yards and two TDs in his playoff debut for Detroit, but that was not nearly enough as the Saints’ defense responded in the fourth quarter with two interceptions by Jabari Greer.

The teams combined for 1,083 yards, tying an NFL

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College Basketball

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LSU’s Ralston Turner protects the ball against Ole Miss’ Jelan Kendrick Saturday in Baton Rouge. LSU won, 81-55, in the Southeastern Conference opener for both teams.

Tigers thunder past reeling Rebels, 81-55 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — It had been a long time since LSU enjoyed such a performance in its Southeastern Conference opener as it did Saturday against Ole Miss.

The Tigers led from start to finish in a dominating 81-55 victory against the Rebels on Saturday. The 26-point margin of victory was the largest for LSU in a league opener since its 92-66 victory against Florida in the 1980-81 campaign.

Tigers teams with Chris Jackson and Shaquille O’Neal and a Final Four team with Glen Davis and Tyrus Thomas were unable to accomplish what this LSU squad has done.

“We played extremely well,” said Storm Warren, who matched his season-high with 15 points and collected a season-best 11 rebounds. “In practice, we work toward achieving our goals. We try to limit the mistakes we do make. It’s hard to be perfect, but we’re working to be perfect.”

LSU (11-4) received major contributions from four of its five starters. The Tigers were without two members of their normal rotation. Starting power forward Johnny O’Bryant is out with a broken

hand. Backup center Malcolm White missed the Ole Miss game due to the funeral of his grandmother.

Warren replaced O’Bryant in the starting lineup and responded with his best game of the season. Tigers starting center Justin Hamilton did the same as he finished with career highs in points with 23 and rebounds with 16.

“We miss guys like Johnny and Malcolm,” Hamilton said.

“They are a big part of our team. Collectively, I think we all know that when our number is called, we have to be smart and play hard no matter how long we’re in.”

LSU’s starting backcourt of Anthony Hickey and Andre Stringer also contributed to the lopsided victory. Hickey scored 12 points on four 3-pointers and handed out seven assists. Stringer finished with 10 points and five assists.

The 26-point victory was the Tigers’ largest in a SEC game in six seasons. LSU defeated Georgia 81-52 during the 200506 campaign.

“This was probably as good as we have played in terms of execution offensively,” LSU coach Trent Johnson

said. “Storm and Justin were really good when they needed to be. Anytime you can open up league play and play well, I think it is a positive.”

There was nothing positive about the game for Ole Miss (10-5), which has lost four of its last five games. Dundrecous Nelson, the Rebels’ top scorer, was dismissed from the team earlier this week. Murphy Holloway, Ole Miss’ top rebounder, missed his third straight game with an ankle injury.

“It is easy for us to use excuses,” Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy said. “You lose your leading scorer and you lose your leading rebounder, but that doesn’t justify the inability to compete at a SEC level.

All ten guys have to compete at a SEC level for us to have a chance. We did not do that enough today.”

The Rebels had no player score in double figures. Terrance Henry, who was averaging 12 points per game, scored eight. Jarvis Summers, who had a ten-point scoring average, had seven.

“It hurt to lose by the amount we lost by,” said Jelan Kendrick, who scored eight points.

“It was an eye-opener for me and the guys that we have

to get in the gym and work harder. We lacked in hustle and toughness today. We will all have to look in ourselves and find out why we lacked passion today.”

It took LSU less than six minutes to build a doubledigit lead. Three baskets by Warren and a 3-pointer and three-point play by Ralston Turner sparked the Tigers in the opening four minutes. A field goal by Hamilton put LSU on top 14-3 with 15:38 remaining before halftime.

The Tigers extended their lead to 22 points after a 13-0 run. During that stretch, LSU got three 3-pointers. Hamilton and Warren also scored baskets in that time as the Tigers moved ahead 29-7 with 8:54 left in the half.

LSU had a pair of 23-point leads in the final three minutes of the half. Ole Miss committed 10 turnovers that led to 10 LSU points.

“We have to play harder,” Ole Miss guard Nick Williams said. “That was not close to how we are supposed to play.

The slow start was a surprise to me. I thought we were going to come out really excited to start SEC play. It just didn’t happen.”

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points in the same period.

Vicksburg took a 45-36 lead into the fourth quarter, and Edward Davis went to the bench. The Gators (8-8, 2-1 Division 3-6A) responded as DeAngelo Richardson completed a rare four-point play and Romeo Carter followed up with another 3-pointer to hand Vicksburg a 56-42 lead with 3:55 left. A basket by DeAndre King handed the Gators their largest lead of the game, 16 points, with 3:42 to play.

Instead of folding, Warren Central (8-10, 0-2) roared back. A 3-pointer by M.J. Williams fueled a 9-0 run to close the gap to 58-51 with 2:30 to go.

In the final minute, the Vikings trimmed the deficit to a single possession at 60-57 with 25.7 seconds left.

Vicksburg’s defense forced WC to go inside, but Jermaine Smith could not make the layup. The Gators’ Javis Dixon got the rebound, then botched the exchange to Davis. The ball went out of bounds, giving WC one more chance with 8.3 seconds left.

Kourey Davis was unable to get a 3-point look. He drove instead, drew a foul and made one of two free throws for a 60-58 score. Vicksburg’s Edward Davis broke WC’s pressure and went to the line for two shots. He made the first but the second was short, which worked out because the Vikings had to scramble for the rebound.

By the time they corraled the ball, there was only time

more aggressive and got some shots to drop.”

Vicksburg’s Aleeshah Smith, who helped lead a defensive effort that held WC to 9-of-38 shooting and 16 turnovers through three quarters, said her team should have closed the game out cleanly.

“We got caught up in the moment,” Smith said. “We should have beaten them the first time. We just had to pull together late and get the win.”

Vicksburg used a 1-2-2 zone defense for much of the game and it helped the Missy Gators grab an 18-6 lead at the half.

“It helped us contain the big girl (Shegredda Shorter) and we just wanted to make things as hard for them as we could,” Smith said.

Shorter got Warren Central going in the third quarter by scoring all eight of her points. She finished with 13 rebounds and two assists.

Vicksburg countered by getting fast break baskets from Foy and Smith to keep a 28-20 lead going to the fourth quarter. The Missy Gators hit their first four shots of the period to extend the margin to 36-20 with 5:18 left.

Ama Arkoful led Vicksburg with 12 points and four assists. Smith had nine points, six rebounds and three assists. Young had nine points, eight rebounds and two blocks.

Stamps had nine points to pace WC.

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Vicksburg High forward Javis Dixon (12) drives past Warren Central’s M.J. Williams Saturday. for Eric Howard’s desperate mid-court heave, which fell short.

First-year WC coach Chareck Cable was pleased with the fight of his team.

“I liked how we played it out,” Cable said. “We just have to stay with it. We ran 10 guys in there with the hope of wearing them down.

Then we came up with the press and it nearly worked.

We’ll get better at it.”

Vicksburg coach Dellie C. Robinson was glad to get away with just his team’s

second road win of the season.

“Give Warren Central a lot of credit,” Robinson said.

“They played hard and didn’t quit. It showed today that if we don’t have Red (Edward Davis) out there as our floor general, we have a difficult time. He came back with a cut over his eye and got us out of here. He’s a warrior.”

Vicksburg was led by Richardson’s game-high 22 points.

Howard had seven points, six steals and six assists for the Vikings.

Tulane rallied back from a double-digit deficit in the last 101⁄2 minutes Saturday to force overtime, but Southern Miss went 9-for-10 from the foul line in the extra period to beat the Green Wave, 71-66.

Neil Watson led Southern Miss (15-2, 2-0 Conference USA) with 16 points and five assists. Maurice Bolden scored 15 points and Torye Pelham had 11.

Jordan Callahan scored 17 points for Tulane (12-4, 0-2), Ricky Tarrant finished with 16 and Kendall Timmons had 13. Timmons injured his ankle late in the first half and did not return. Callahan fouled out a minute into the overtime period.

Tulane trailed 38-26 a minute into the second half and 52-41 with 10:38 remaining, but chipped away to eventually tie the game 60-60 on a tip-in

by Tre Drye with 1:01 left. Neither team scored in the final minute of play to send the game into overtime.

Southern Miss then scored nine of its 11 points in overtime from the foul line to pull away for the win. The Golden Eagles only made three field goals in the last 10:38 of regulation.

Alcorn St. 63, JSU 60 Ken McDonald scored 17 points to lead Alcorn State over archrival Jackson State.

Alcorn State (4-11, 1-2 Southwestern Athletic Conference) hadn’t trailed until 2:37 remaining, when Derrell Taylor’s three-point play put Jackson State ahead 57-54.

Zavian Rimmer then scored five straight to put the Braves back on top.

After a Jenirro Bush 3-pointer gave the Tigers back the advantage, KeDorian Sullivan made a layup with 19 seconds left to put Alcorn ahead for good, 61-60. Bush then missed a layup 10 seconds later and Ken McDonald made two free throws to seal it for the Braves.

Alcorn State, which shot 50 percent in the first half, led 34-19 at halftime. Rimmer finished with 12 points Christian Williams scored all 18 of his points in the second half for Jackson State (3-12, 1-2), and Bush added 14.

Miss. Valley St. 67, Alabama St. 60

Terrence Joyner scored 17 points, and Mississippi Valley State held Alabama State to 27 percent shooting in the second half to secure a victory on Saturday.

Paul Crosby, who finished with nine points, put Valley ahead with a basket with 10:46 left in the game, and the Delta Devils never trailed again.

Valley went 7-for-14 from 3-point range and shot 48 percent from the field overall.

Kenderek Washington led Alabama State with 17 points, and Ivory White scored 13.

Kentucky 79, South Carolina 64 Terrence Jones hit his first eight shots to finish with 20 points and No. 2 Kentucky beat South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference opener for both teams.

The Wildcats (15-1, 1-0) have won seven straight. They used an 11-0 run to end the first half to take a comfortable lead against South Carolina (8-7, 0-1).

Tennessee 67, Florida 56 Kenny Hall scored a seasonhigh 13 points and Tennessee (8-7, 1-0 SEC) upset No. 13 Florida (12-4, 0-1).

The Gators, who have lost all four of their true road games this year, came in averaging 85.4 points this season, best among SEC teams and fifth in the nation. The Volunteers held them to 35.7 percent shooting while hitting 51 percent of their own attempts.

Alabama 74, Georgia 59 Freshman Trevor Lacey scored a career-high 19 points, all but two of those in the first half, to lead Alabama over Georgia (9-6, 0-1 SEC).

Alabama (12-3, 1-0) got 17 points from Tony Mitchell and Trevor Releford added 12 for the Crimson Tide.

Lacey outdid his previous career-best of 12 points with 17 first-half points as Alabama led 38-26 at intermission.

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TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE “Cedar Rapids” — Three veteran attendees guide a sheltered insurance agent, Ed Helms, through a life-altering weekend at an Iowa convention./6 on Cinemax n SPORTS NFL playoffs — The Atlanta Falcons will travel to play Eli Manning in the New York Giants an NFC wild-card showdown./Noon on Fox n PRIMETIME “The Good Wife” — A couple whose divorce was handled by Lockhart/Gardner accuses the Ed Helms firm of influencing them for financial gain./8 on CBS

THIS WEEK’S LINEUP n EXPANDED LISTINGS TV TIMES — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost. com

MILESTONES n BIRTHDAYS Charles Osgood, CBS newsman, 79; Shirley Bassey, singer, 75; Bob Eubanks, game show host, 74; Stephen Hawking, physicist, 70; David Bowie, rock singer, 65; R. Kelly, singer, 45; Sean Paul, reggae singer, 39; Windell D. Middlebrooks, actor, 33.

peopLE Comic Kathy Griffin gets network talk show Comic Kathy Griffin is never shy about offering her opinions.

Soon she’ll have a weekly outlet for them.

The Bravo network said Saturday that it will premiere “Kathy,” a once-a-week talk show hosted by Griffin sometime this spring.

The network hasn’t decided when it will air regularly.

Bravo promised that “this will be the destination to get Griffin’s thoughts on everything pop culture as she rants on the week’s biggest headlines and tabloid gossip.” The show will also feature stand-up comedy, celebrity interviews and taped segments.

In addition, Griffin will perform two stand-up comedy specials on Bravo this year.

Sheen’s ex wins battle over TV coverage Attorneys for Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife have prevailed in keeping a celebrity-news website from airing her appearance in a Colorado courtroom on drug and assault charges.

The Aspen Times reports that a Pitkin County judge has denied a request from TMZ to air the Jan. 23 proceeding for Brooke Mueller. District Judge Gail Nichols said the live courtroom feed would “unduly detract from the solemnity, decorum and dignity of the court.”

TMZ petitioned the court last month to access Mueller’s first court appearance, where she is to answer to a felony charge of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and a misdemeanor assault offense. Aspen police arrested the 34-year-old on Dec. 3 after a woman reported being assaulted at a nightclub.

Sheen and Mueller divorced last year.

ANd one more Amish horse left at Walmart, needs home Wally the Walmart horse is looking for a new home.

That’s the nickname given to a 9-year-old standardbred horse that a humane society says was left at a store in Ohio by an Amish teenager more than two months ago. Humane Officer Christian Courtwright in Geauga County says the teen apparently unhooked the horse from a buggy, tied it to a rail at the Walmart in Middlefield and never came back for it.

He says store employees noticed the horse the next day Christian Courtwright and and tended to it until police Wally took it to a caregiver.

He says the humane society now has control of the horse and expects it to be available for adoption soon.

TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE

BY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — It’s likely that a number of your substantial targets will be reached.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — You have the ability and expressive knack to capture the imagination and support of others.

Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Although most people are likely to find unexpectedly shifting conditions somewhat traumatizing, you’re apt to thrive on them.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — You should make arrangements to meet with a particular person who is important to your immediate plans.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — A substantial portion of your time might be devoted to helping another sort out his or her affairs.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Keeping busy will be a very pleasant experience for you.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — It would be a good idea to tidy up things in places where you see others have left things dangling.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’re entitled to relax and have some fun time, but make sure you have your work done first.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Be resourceful and enterprising if you’d like to have an especially good day.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Just because others have offered a number of suggestions, don’t hold back your ideas, especially if you think they’re better.

Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — If you get an opening to speak up regarding a debt that is owed you, don’t hesitate to take it.

Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — In many instances, we are inclined to reflect the verve and mood of our companions, which is likely to be the case for you currently. If you’re around a sullen type, take a powder.

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Aim for no-kill policies, pet-lovers say LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seven in 10 pet owners say they believe animal shelters should be allowed to euthanize animals only when they are too sick to be treated or too aggressive to be adopted.

Only a quarter of the people who took part in a recent APPetside.com poll said animal shelters should sometimes be allowed to put animals down as a population control measure.

Gisela Aguila, 51, of Miramar, Fla., believes shelter animals should only be euthanized when there is no chance they’ll be adopted — for example, if they are extremely ill or aggressive. “I don’t think shelters should be euthanizing animals to control the population,” she said.

She’d like to see an end to shelters destroying animals when they run out of room, saying, “We are way too civilized of a society to allow this.”

But Leslie Surprenant, 53, of Saugerties, N.Y., believes shelters should be allowed to control populations. She says nokill shelters that only accept animals with good prospects for adoption or that turn away animals once the shelter reaches capacity do not solve the problem.

“That doesn’t truly mean nokill shelters. It means there are more animals out on the streets being hit by cars and starving and living in Dumpsters,” said Surprenant, who has two dogs and a cat. “It does not mean the general population is lower; it just means that they’ve opted not to kill.”

Surprenant believes spaying and neutering is the way to go.

In fact, higher rates of spaying and neutering in recent decades have cut the number of abandoned puppies and kittens, which in turn has cut euthanasia rates. Before 1970, about 20 million animals were euthanized each year in this country. In 2011, fewer than 4 million abandoned animals were euthanized.

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Stray Moon, left, a boxer, and Patagonia, a hound mix, play at the Best Friends Animal Society in Kenab, Utah.

A cat named Cala Lilly at the Best Friends Animal Society Younger pet owners are most likely to favor no-kill policies, with 79 percent of those under 30 saying shelters should only euthanize animals that are untreatable or too aggressive, compared with 67 percent of those age 50 or over saying that.

The poll results are encour-

aging to leaders of the nation’s no-kill movement, who’d like to see the U.S. become a “no-kill nation” with homes for every adoptable pet, and euthanasia reserved only for extremely ill or aggressive animals.

Any plan will take teamwork between shelters with government contracts that must accept every animal and the no-kill shelters that often only take animals they can help, said Ed Sayres, president and CEO of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Rich Avanzino, president of Alameda-based Maddie’s Fund, pioneered no-kill in San Francisco in the early ‘90s through a pact between the open-admission city shelter and the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

“We are just a breath away from doing what is right for the animals,” Avanzino said.

He believes the country can achieve no-kill status by 2015, partly due to corporate giving to animal causes, which totaled

about $30 million in 2010 and is expected to reach $70 million by 2015. That money can help with spaying, neutering and outreach, he said.

Public attitudes are also changing, with more people saying it’s unacceptable for pets to languish or die in an animal shelter, Avanzino said.

Avanzino pioneered the nokill concept in San Francisco.

Sayres succeeded him and nurtured it, then went to New York and implemented it there in a much bigger way. The model is the same, but instead of two partner agencies like in San Francisco, New York has 155, Sayres said.

About 44,000 animals enter New York City shelters each year. Since Sayres has been there, the euthanasia rate has dropped from 74 percent to 27 percent.

The ASPCA has also teamed up with 11 communities from Tampa, Fla., to Spokane, Wash., in no-kill efforts, Sayres said.

Address book unlocks mother-in-law’s memories Dear Abby: Several years ago my mother-in-law had to be placed in a nursing care residence because of dementia. When I visited her, it became more and more difficult to find things to talk about, until one day I came across her old address book.

The idea struck me to take it with me each time I visited her, and what a success it was!

I started at the beginning of the “A” section, giving her a name and asking her to tell me about that person. She remembered a lot about most of the people in the book and related wonderful stories of friendships in rural America during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Of course, there were hardships, too. She and my father-in-law worked sideby-side on the farm to support their family.

Our “story time” visits continued until full-blown Alzheimer’s disease set in.

I only hope she enjoyed our times together as much as I did. They were special to me, and I’d always leave the nursing home with a smile. — Found a Way in Kansas Dear Found a Way: I’m sure your mother-in-law enjoyed those visits, and what a treasure trove of family history she must have shared with

DEAR ABBY ABIGAIL

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you. Please write down all the stories you remember for the rest of the family because they are priceless. Your idea was brilliant, and thank you for sharing it with me and my readers.

Dear Abby: I have recently become engaged. I have been planning this day since I was a little girl. My problem is my mother. She’s a little bit of a control freak. She plans to pay for the wedding — which is nice and I appreciate it — but at the same time I feel like she’s ignoring my plans and substituting hers. Every time I tell her what I’d like, she tries to persuade me to do what she wants.

I even tried once being rude and telling her that she has had four weddings and this one is mine, but she got defensive when I tried to be frank with her. I feel like nothing I suggest is good enough. I don’t want to spoil this for her because I’m her only daughter, but I don’t want her spoiling it for me because HOPE-

FULLY this will be my only wedding. — Losing Patience in Louisiana Dear Losing Patience: This might not be what you would like me to say, but as long as your mother is footing the bills for your wedding, she will have some say in the planning.

If you prefer to make this a one-woman production — and that’s your privilege — thank her warmly for her generous offer and tell her you can’t accept it, and that you will be planning and paying for your wedding yourself.

Dear Abby: I work in a small, quiet office. My boss sits at the desk across from me and spends a great deal of

time biting his nails. The noise drives me crazy and turns an otherwise pleasant work experience into a stressful one. I’ve tried turning up the radio, to no avail. Do you have any suggestions on how to tell my boss that he has a loud and nasty habit? — Trapped with a Nail-Biter Dear Trapped: No, I do not, and I recommend against you doing it. Be thankful he’s not biting his toenails.

• Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Books tell of homicide, drug cartels and intrigue The Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library reports on new books regularly.

• “Outrage” by Robert K. Tanenbaum features D.A. Butch Karp. Months after a brutal double homicide in uptown Manhattan shocks the city, sensational newspaper headlines herald the arrest and indictment of Felix Acevedo, a shy Bronx teenager who confessed to the horrific crimes. But downtown, in the district attorney’s office, Butch Karp is seething. An ambitious young assistant district attorney, seeking career advancement, cuts corners to indict Acevedo, disregarding Karp’s fundamental rule: Never charge the accused unless the evidence leads inexorably to proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Now, damned by a coerced confession and a frenzied media bent on lynching him Acevedo sits in jail while a vicious killer stalks the city.

• “Allure of the Game” by Danielle Santiago tells about an all-female drug cartel.

Twenty-year-old Arnessa didn’t grow up on the streets.

But when her mentally ill mother abandons her and her older brother is murdered, Arnessa has no choice but to hustle just to keep herself and her little sister alive. Kisa “Kane” Montega and Kennedy took a break from the game.

They’d built a drug empire in Harlem and were living comfortably off its rewards.

Kisa now has a wonderful marriage, two beautiful children, and lives in a stunning home on the outskirts of Charlotte. Her cousin, Kennedy, has spent two years away from the volatile music industry, focusing on her children and building a solid foundation with her rap star fiancé, Chaz. But in spite of their successes, both Kisa and Kennedy are gravitating back to their old ways. They miss Harlem, the money, and the game all together. After a chance meeting, Kane and Kennedy recruit Arnessa as a partner in their cartel. They teach her the ropes and re-establish their control in Harlem. Yet, the bigger their empire grows, the more haters they have to

new on the shelves contend with, and the more each one of them stands to lose.

• “Highway 61”

by David Housewright features former cop and current millionaire, Rushmore McKenzie. He rarely hesitates to help out friends and loved ones, yet when his girlfriend’s daughter comes to McKenzie, he has reservations.

The person she wants him to help is her father, Jason Truhler, the exhusband of McKenzie’s girlfriend. And he’s a man in serious trouble. When he was at a Canadian blues festival he met a girl, blacked out, only to wake up hours later in a strange motel room, with the girl’s murdered body on the floor. Slipping away u n n o ticed and heading home he thought he’d gotten away — until he started getting texts with photos of the body and demands for blackmail payment he couldn’t pay.

It doesn’t take McKenzie long to find out Truhler was setup up in a trap specifically designed to make him vulnerable to blackmail, but Truhler’s version of events wasn’t exactly the truth either. As McKenzie slowly uncovers the story behind the story, he finds himself trapped in the middle of a very dangerous game with some of the most powerful men in the state on one side and some the deadliest on the other.

• “Born to Die” by Lisa Jackson is an Alvarez/ Pescoli novel.

The resemblance between Dr. Kacey Lambert and B-movie actress Shelly Bonaventure is a standing joke in the town of Grizzly Falls, Mont.

So much so, that Kacey is momentarily shocked to read about the fading starlet’s death. Still, it’s not as if there was any real connection between them. And then a fatally injured jogger who bears a striking similarity to Kacey

is rushed into the ER days later; Kacey is ready to rule it another sad, strange accident.

Detective Selena Alvarez suspects otherwise. An autopsy confirms that the jogger had traces of poison in her blood at the time of her death.

Selena and her partner, Regan Pescoli, can find no motive for the murder, but Kacey has just started to notice ties between the dead women’s lives and her own — all close in age, born within miles of each other — and all with links to the man Kacey has just begun seeing, single father Trace O’Halleran. Now, with more look-alikes dying, Kacey must question her judgment, her safety — and everything she’s ever believed ab o u t h e r past.

• “Twice the Temptation” by Francis Ray is a short story collection.

The author takes us on five sexy adventures: From a timid, dowdy duckling whose transformation into a confident, sexy swan sends her into the arms of a handsome artist … to a bridesmaid’s explosive encounter with the best man … to an unproven actress who is being wooed to the stage by a handsome Broadway director. From a journalist’s very steamy night with an old flame … to a woman who pretends that she is dating a wealthy businessman but never imagined he would show up to collect on that claim.

• “Robopocalypse” by Daniel H. Wilson is a tale of the future. In the near future, at a precise moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will spontaneously malfunction. It will unite and begin to turn against us.

A massively powerful artificial intelligence called Archos, taking on the persona of a shy human boy, comes online and can’t be contained; it begins, unbeknownst to humans, to silently take over our smart cars, power grids, aircraft guidance systems and computer networks — the entire global assembly that runs our lives. Most are unaware of the growing crisis until it is too late. At a moment later known as Zero Hour, when the robot war suddenly ignites, humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united.

• “The Ranger” by Ace Atkins is a Quinn Colson novel. Northeast Mississippi hill country is rugged and notorious for outlaws since the Civil War is and killings

are as commonplace as in the Old West. To Quinn Colson its home — but not the home he left when he went to Afghanistan. Now an Army Ranger, he returns to find a place overrun by corruption, and his uncle, the county sheriff, dead—a suicide, he’s told but others whisper murder. In t h e d ays that follow, it will be up to Colson to discover the truth, not only about his uncle, but about his family his friends, his town, and not least of all himself.

And once it is discovered, there is no turning back.

• “The Kid” by Sapphire brings us into the life of Abdul Jones, son of Sapphire’s unforgettable heroine, Precious.

We meet Abdul at age 9, on the day of his mother’s funeral.

Left alone to navigate in a world where love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade, forced to confront unspeakable violence, his history and the dark corners of his own heart, Abdul claws his way toward adulthood and an identity he can stand behind.

• Denise Hogan is reference interlibrary loan librarian at the Warren CountyVicksburg Public Library. Write to her at 700 Veto St., Vicksburg, MS 39180.

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Online gambling fight now about when, who — not if

By The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — The fight to fully legalize online gambling in the U.S. is now less about whether Americans will be able to play and more about who will bring the action to them — and when.

A recent U.S. Department of Justice opinion opened the door for cash-strapped states and their lotteries to bring online gambling to their residents, as long as it does not involve sports betting.

The DOJ memo also enflamed a battle within the industry over how to legal-

ize online gambling that once generated an estimated $6 billion yearly just from poker: Should each state have its own system, or should there be a nationwide law?

While the opinion sent gambling stocks rising, many players who’ve been shut out from top online poker sites since April just want games to restart and don’t care who profits.

“I don’t like this legal limbo.

Is it legal, or is it illegal?” said writer Brian Boyko, who plays poker as a hobby.

Boyko of Austin, Texas, has been using a small offshore site since executives

and others at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker were accused of illegally getting banks to process gambling funds.

Most of the U.S. games disappeared after the indictments.

One lawmaker in New Jersey is pushing to make online gambling legal, citing the DOJ memo. State Sen. Raymond Lesniak said he’ll try to get a bill to Gov. Chris Christie’s desk by next week.

“We can be the Silicon Valley of Internet gaming,” See Gambling, Page B8.

Survey: Newspapers still main source Local newspapers remain the dominant source of news in small towns and rural areas, according to the results of a survey performed by the Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Center for Advanced Social Research and the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism.

The organizations, on behalf of the National Newspaper Association, surveyed 500 people ages 18 and older living in areas served by newspapers with a circulation under 15,000.

Overall, 74 percent said they read newspapers at least once a week.

Locally, 30,765 people read The Vicksburg Post daily, according to the Post’s circulation department.

“I agree with the survey’s findings,” said Post publisher Pat Cashman.

“We have more than 30,000 people every day who look to The Vicksburg Post as their source of information, through the paper, online or sometimes calling us for information. We’ve been here for 129 years and have a proven reputation that we deliver what our readers and customers want.”

Chamber to host after-hours event The Vicksburg-Warren County Chamber of Commerce will host its business-after-hours event Thursday from 5 until 7 p.m. at Rainbow Hotel and Casino.

Refreshments will be served, and members will have a chance to win an overnight stay at a Rainbow suite.

To register for the program, go to www.rainbowhotelcasino.com. For more information, contact Veronica Joerg at vjoerg@ vicksburgchamber.org or call the Chamber at 601636-1012.

State forest council sets February event The Mississippi Urban Forest Council will host the Urban Forestry and Green Infrastructure Conference and the Annual Forestry and Tree City USA Awards Feb. 7 and 8 at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson.

The 21st annual conference will focus on storm preparedness and mitigation, and creating parks, gardens and other green spaces.

The conference will also provide continuing education credits.

Contact the Mississippi Urban Forest Council at 601-672-0755, or visit www. msurbanforest.com.

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One of the decks aboard the Perdido platform in the Gulf of Mexico, 200 miles south of Galveston, Texas

Deep Gulf drilling thrives 18 months after BP spill

By The Associated Press ALAMINOS CANYON BLOCK 857, GULF OF MEXICO — Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean’s surface than ever before.

These pipes, which run nearly two miles deep, are connected to a floating platform that is so remote Shell named it Perdido, which means “lost” in Spanish.

What attracted Shell to this location is a geologic formation found throughout the Gulf of Mexico that may contain enough oil to satisfy U.S. demand for two years.

While Perdido is isolated, it isn’t alone. Across the Gulf, energy companies are prob-

The newfound oil will not do much to lower global oil prices. But together with increased production from onshore U.S. fields and slowing domestic demand for gasoline, it could help reduce U.S. oil imports by more than half over the next decade. ing dozens of new deepwater fields thanks to high oil prices and technological advances that finally make it possible to tap them.

The newfound oil will not do much to lower global oil prices. But together with increased production from

onshore U.S. fields and slowing domestic demand for gasoline, it could help reduce U.S. oil imports by more than half over the next decade.

Eighteen months ago, such a flurry of activity in the Gulf seemed unlikely. The Obama administration halted drilling and stopped issuing new permits after the explosion of a BP well killed 11 workers and caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

But the drilling moratorium was eventually lifted and the Obama administration issued the first new drilling permit in March. Now the Gulf is humming again and oil executives describe it as the world’s best place to drill.

“In the short term and the medium term, it’s clearly the Gulf of Mexico,” says Mat-

thais Bichsel, a Royal Dutch Shell PLC board member who is in charge of all of the company’s new projects and technology.

By early 2012 there will be more rigs in the Gulf designed to drill in its “deep water” — defined as 2,000 feet or deeper — than before the spill.

In November, Perdido began pumping oil from a field called Tobago; the well begins 9,627 feet below the surface of the Gulf. No other well on the globe produces oil in deeper water and that’s about as deep as the Gulf gets. For drillers, that means the entire Gulf is now within reach.

“We are at the point where ... depth is not the primary issue anymore,” says Marvin

Odum, the head of Royal Dutch Shell’s drilling unit in the Americas. “I do not worry that there is something in the Gulf that we cannot develop ... if we can find it.”

From a distance, Perdido looks like an erector set perched on an aluminum can. This can, or “spar,” is a 500-foot-tall steel cylinder that sits mostly underwater, serving as a base for the equipment and living quarters above. It is stuffed with iron ore to lower its center of gravity, keeping the whole operation from bobbing in the water like a cork. The spar is tethered to the sea floor 8,000 feet below with ropes and chains.

See Drilling, Page B8.

Jackson buildings part of $147.5M sale to Calif. firm

By The Associated Press JACKSON — Parkway Properties Inc. is selling 15 buildings in Jackson, Memphis and Richmond, Va., to Hertz Investment Group.

The sale, totaling $147.5 million, is part of a shift from what the firm is calling “noncore” markets.

Parkway will sell four build-

ings and a parking garage in Jackson, four buildings in Memphis and five buildings in Richmond. The company estimates it will incur a noncash loss of $58 million to $60 million.

The buildings have 1.9 million square feet of space and are 76 percent occupied.

Parkway, which has moved its headquarters from Jack-

son to Orlando, Fla., will have one building left in Jackson and one in Memphis, and the company is trying to sell each.

Privately held Hertz, based in Santa Monica, Calif., owns the tallest building in downtown Jackson, Regions Plaza.

It backed out of buying a building in Memphis in 2007.

The sale is expected to close

by the end of March, and Parkway plans to buy new buildings elsewhere.

“A portfolio sale of these assets allows us to quickly realign our overall portfolio and focus our resources and capital on building critical mass in our remaining core markets,” Parkway CEO James Heistand said.Parkway said it had also com-

pleted a sale of nine other buildings from one of its investment funds to its partner, the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System.

The company is in the process of selling four other buildings from the fund. The total sale price for the 13 is $344 million, although Parkway will net much less after paying off mortgages.

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Continued from Page B7. he said. “It’s the wave of the future.”

Online poker boomed in the U.S. over the last decade, but a 2006 law made it illegal to run most online gambling businesses by forbidding financial institutions from processing transactions related to illegal online gambling.

The law, however, didn’t clearly specify what kinds of gambling were illegal.

Some forms of gambling, like fantasy sports and horse racing, got explicit carveouts, while many poker games kept going online as some operators got differing legal opinions about whether the Wire Act of 1961 applied to them.

Since then, poker proponents have argued that the game is different from other casino games like blackjack or slots because it involves significantly more skill.

Even casino companies — which make far more money from luck-based games than poker — began pushing for poker-only legislation under the assumption that poker regulations would be easier for lawmakers to stomach than other games.

Meanwhile, New York and Illinois officials asked the DOJ in 2010 whether the Wire Act or the 2006 law prevented them from selling lottery tickets online to adults within their states.

Last week, the DOJ answered: The Wire Act only prevents players from wagering on sports outcomes — other bets are OK.

The commercial casino industry’s top lobbying group in Washington, D.C., believes the DOJ’s interpretation of the Wire Act was correct, but added more confusion than solutions.

“There’s probably some staffers at work on (Capitol Hill) now taking a real hard look at this as they figure to bring some sanity,” said Frank Fahrenkopf, chief executive of the American Gaming Association.

Fahrenkopf said his group will keep pushing Congress for online poker legislation that establishes baseline rules for Internet poker operators.

Within the gambling world — which includes lotteries, private and publicly-traded companies, American Indian tribes, software manufacturers, offshore sites and others — there are differing visions for ideal online gambling laws.

Mark Hichar, an outside lawyer for the company that runs the Texas lottery, said the memo removes uncertainty and will prompt lotteries to begin running as many different kinds of games as are allowable under state laws.

“This helps lotteries, which are ... determined to remain relevant and to attract a new generation of players,” said Hichar, who represents Rhode Island-based GTECH Corp.

Lotteries have generally opposed federal legislation, pushing for states to retain control of gambling laws.

I. Nelson Rose, a gambling law expert, said the opinion’s timing and deference to states could mean trouble for commercial casinos that want an inside track on running licensed online gambling.

“They’re going to have problems because when the states legalize, their natural inclination is to give it to the locals,” said Rose, who regularly writes about online gambling developments at his blog, Gambling and The Law. And that, he said, is the big question: Who’s going to get the license?

“If you’re a Nevada casino operator, you don’t want to be competing in more than 50 separate jurisdictions against connected, politically powerful operators,” Rose said.

Rose said new federal laws are a longshot in 2012, while states could choose to enter into compacts with other states to pool players, making games more lucrative.

U.S. lotteries could emulate counterparts in Canada that run limited online gambling sites in the provinces, he said.

Recreational player Mark Gorman of Austin, Texas, said he’s skeptical, because different DOJ officials under a future president could change their opinion, forcing lawmakers to start over again.

“I wasn’t terribly excited that this would change the landscape,” Gorman said.

In Nevada, where gambling regulators adopted online poker regulations the day before the DOJ opinion, it’s not clear whether casinos will try to let gamblers wager on more than just poker online.

Michael Gaughan, owner of the South Point casino in Las Vegas, said his lawyers are looking at how the opinion has changed legal situation as he tries to become the first Nevada casino operator to run legal online poker in the state.

“I don’t know what happens,” Gaughan said. “This opens up a whole can of worms, now.”

He said he’ll wait for their analysis before deciding whether to ask Nevada regulators to expand his plans.

Poker may be a baby step, legalized before other games as states argue that gambling creates jobs, said Alexander Ripps, a legal analyst in Washington for independent gambling market analysis firm Gambling Compliance.

“I think you’re going to see it coming down to what they think can get through,” Ripps said. “Once you’re in with one thing, then, in theory, down the line you can always get something else in.”

Meanwhile, Boyko said, he just wants to be able to trust his money online.

“All I want is a safe place to play poker,” he said.

Thanks to more accurate imaging technologies, drillers are able to see under geologic formations that used to confound geologists.

In June, ExxonMobil Corp. said it found 700 million barrels of oil — one of the biggest discoveries in the Gulf in the last decade. In September, Chevron and BP also announced major finds, thought to be in the hundreds of millions of barrels of oil.

Many of the Gulf’s recent discoveries are in a geologic formation known as the Lower Tertiary, formed between 23 million and 65 million years ago.

Perdido, which is operated

by Shell and owned jointly

by Shell, Chevron and BP, is the first to produce oil from this formation. Analysts say it could hold 15 billion barrels of oil.

As the BP disaster made clear, drilling in deep water presents difficulties and dangers. Last month a Chevron well in the deep waters

off of Brazil ruptured and spilled 2,400 barrels of oil into the Atlantic after Chevron underestimated the pressure of the oil field it was tapping.

Perdido only recently reached its monthly production target after a year of operation because of difficulties getting oil and gas from the seabed to the platform.

New devices designed to separate oil and gas on the sea floor have not performed as well as Shell hoped.

It has taken months of adjustments made by underwater robots and other equipment on the platform to fix the problems.

Challenges like this have helped push the average cost of producing oil in the deepwater Gulf to $60 a barrel, according to IHS CERA, near the highest level ever. But with oil close to $100 a barrel, the expense is well worth it.

After all 35 wells are drilled for Perdido, its owners will likely have spent $6.2 billion on the project.

But along with the risks,

the Gulf offers great rewards: Perdido could ultimately generate $39 billion in revenue and $16 billion in profits.

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Oil and natural gas are pumped to Perdido from nearby wells drilled by an onboard rig and from faraway wells drilled by satellite rigs. Water and other impurities are then removed from the oil and gas, which gets sent hundreds of miles through an undersea pipeline to terminals and refineries along the Gulf coast.

Perdido, which pumps the equivalent of 60,000 barrels of oil and natural gas a day, will eventually yield 100,000 barrels per day from 35 wells in a 30-mile radius, according to Shell.

It will likely produce oil for decades — in all, as much as 360 million barrels of oil and 750 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

As global oil demand climbs past 89 million barrels a day and traditional onshore and shallow water fields are depleted, the deep waters of the Gulf and off the coasts of South America, West Africa and Australia are playing an increasingly important role.

In 2000, 1.5 million barrels of oil per day were produced from deepwater fields around the globe, or 2 percent of global production. In 2011, that number grew to 5.5 million barrels, or 6 percent of global production. By 2020, deepwater oil will account for 9 percent, according to IHS CERA. The Gulf is attractive for many reasons. Its oil fields are enormous; it straddles the world’s biggest consumer of oil; it’s in a politically stable part of the world; and drillers can easily tap into a vast network of pipelines and refineries. Also, despite industry complaints, the cost of royalties, taxes and regulation in the U.S. are among the lowest in the world.

“Everybody wants to be there,” says Mohammad Rahman, the lead Gulf analyst for Wood Mackenzie.

By early 2012, there will be 40 deepwater rigs in the Gulf, up from 37 before the BP spill, according to Cinnamon Odell of ODS-Petrodata.

BP received its first permit to drill in late October.

The Gulf produces an average of 1.5 million barrels of oil per day, according to Wood Mackenzie. That’s 27 percent of U.S. output and 8 percent of U.S. demand.

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sales tax revenue The City of Vicksburg receives 18.5 percent of all sales taxes collected by businesses in the city limits.

Revenues to the city lag actu-

al sales tax collections by two months, that is, receipts for April reflect sales taxes collected on sales in February. Here are the latest monthly receipts:

October 2011.............$602,012 Fiscal year 2010-11 to date... $602,012

October 2010.............$568,617 2009-10 fiscal year to date..... $568,617

casino tax revenue Vicksburg’s five casinos pay a 3.2 percent revenue tax to the State of Mississippi that is divided — with 10 percent going to schools, 25 percent to Warren County and 65 percent to the city. A second revenue tax is a 0.8 percent share of the state’s 8.8 percent revenue

tax. It is split based on population proportions between Vicksburg and Warren County. Each casino is also required to pay $150 for each gaming device annually to the city. To date, two casinos have paid the gaming device fee.

These are the latest receipts:

November 2011 City...................................$399,225 County............................$194,764 Schools..............................$51,811

November 2010 City...................................$461,095 County............................$217,574 Schools..............................$59,015

Fiscal year 2011-12 to date City...................................$907,451 County............................$446,287 Schools...........................$118,925

Fiscal year 2010-11 to date City...................................$922,828 County............................$405,843 Schools...........................$110,500

land transfers No commercial land transfers were recorded in the

Chancery Clerk’s Office for the week ending Jan. 6, 2012.

River City PRAM to meet Monday The Public Relations Association of Mississippi’s River City Chapter will meet at noon Monday at Martin’s at Midtown on Belmont Street.

PRAM’s Prism awards will

be discussed.

Call Leigh Cook, president, at 601-802-1009 for information.

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TOPIC SUNDAY, j anua r y 8, 2012 • SE C TIO N C

LOCAL EVENTS CALENDAR C2 | WEDDINGS C3 Karen Gamble, managing editor | E-mail: newsreleases@vicksburgpost.com | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 137

THIS & THAT from staff reports

Mardi Gras parade set to roll Feb. 18

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The 11th annual Vicksburg Mardi Gras Parade will roll along Washington Street at 4 p.m. Feb. 18.

The fee is $25 for nonprofit and civic groups and $50 for businesses by Feb. 3. Afterward, the fees are $50 and $100.

Call 601-634-4527, e-mail kimh@vicksburg.org.

Dancing, carnival art on SCHC calendar The Southern Cultural Heritage Center has announced programs.

• From 5 to 6 p.m.

Jan. 15 and Jan. 29, the West Coast Swing will be taught by instructor James Frechette, owner of Applause Dance Factory in Ridgeland. The cost is $10 per person.

• From 5:30 to 7 p.m. Feb. 2, Beau Lutz will teach a Mardi Gras wreath workshop. The cost is $55 for SCHC members and $60 for nonmembers. Bring wire cutters.

• From 4 to 5:15 p.m. Feb. 17, Karen Biedenharn will teach a Mardi Gras mask workshop for children 6 and older. Cost is $10.

Reservations are required. Call 601-631-2997 or e-mail info@southernculture.org.

Tumble, cheer into the new year FITZONE PowerKidz & Elite Cheer, located next to Tan Tastic in the Big Lots shopping area, has set its 2012 schedule.

Classes running through May 24 are: • Handspring — 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. Mondays, for ages 6 and older. Cost is $65 per month, and the registration fee is $25 per session.

• Cheer and tumble — Mondays through Thursdays at various times.

The cost is $55 and $25 for registration.

• POWERKIDZ — 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. Mondays for ages 4 to 9. Classes include cardio warm-up, core stabilization and strength, motor skills units and teamwork games. The cost is $35 per month and $25 for registration.

• Open gym play — 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. Wednesdays for ages 3 to 11.

• Drop in free play — Cost is $9.

Also offered will be a: • Six-week cheer tryout prep class — 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. Thursday through Feb. 16 for 11 and older. The cost is $125. Get a $10 discount for bringing a friend.

Call 601-638-3778 or visit www.fitzonegym.com.

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Fredrick Slater works on one of his cuto

Paper, scissors are his keys to creativity Don’t be fooled by Fredrick Slater’s walker or wheelchair, or that he’ll be 77 in March.

He’s really a cut-up, but not in the manner one might think. He makes paper sculptures. All that is needed is a pair of scissors and some paper.

And a keen imagination.

Slater developed the skill and talent about 40 years ago, and he gives TV part of the credit —he doesn’t like to watch it so he found something else to do.

During a long hospital stay in Yuma, Ariz., he asked for a pair of scissors and some paper — and started cutting.

“First I was going to do what I did when I was a child,” he said, describing the string of little people children would cut from folded paper.

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When Slater folded his paper in the hospital room and cut it “and opened it up, I had ’em flying all over the place. I did it wrong, and I said, ‘shucks,’ and started something else. It wasn’t great cutting, but I got better through practice.”

His paper cutouts have come a long way since that day when he tried his hand at making what looked like gingerbread men. He might make silhouettes of birds or animals or butterflies or characters from literature like Don Quixote.

His works aren’t limited to a flat surface. Many are threedimensional, such as an Ameri-

can Indian eagle dancer amid a backdrop of mountains and trees, or it might be a family of ducks or geese. Often as he creates a scene he tells a story to go with it.

Any pair of scissors will do though Slater’s favorite is a pair discarded by a surgeon. There

are no specs about the paper — any weight, any color, even a gum or candy wrapper that has been discarded. He also has used thin copper.

With a piece of paper folded several times and ways so that See Slater, Page C2.

‘Everyone deserves to be recognized’

Photos of dead aim to revive cold cases

By The Associated Press

Dogs celebrate Mardi Gras, too The second annual Mardi Gras Cluster all-breed dog show will be Jan. 26-29 at the Rapides Parish Coliseum, 5600 Coliseum Blvd., Alexandria.

The Baton Rouge Kennel Club and the Alexandria Kennel Club will host the free show, with judging to begin each day at 8 a.m. At least 160 of the 173 breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club will be in attendance.

For more information, visit www.akc.org or www. onofrio.com.

Bird cutouts by Fredrick Slater

The associated press

Milwaukee County forensic investigator Michael Simley, who has established a website of unidentified corpses

MILWAUKEE — The corpses’ faces are mostly bloated, their skin pale and discolored. One man’s lips are stiffened into a grim frown and he stares with half-open eyes. Another man appears to be sleeping, his color natural enough that he almost looks alive.

Forensic investigator Michael Simley knows some people will find the photographs unsettling, but he said he decided to post them online for an important reason: the bodies are unidentified. All were found

Online • NamUs — www.namus. gov • Milwaukee County unidentified list — http://bit. ly/rruTAx • Clark County, Nev., unidentified list — http://bit. ly/rsirtt in Wisconsin’s most populous area, Milwaukee County, and have been without names for years — decades, in some cases — and Simley said he’s desperate to find answers.

“We’re not doing these people justice to let them

go unidentified. These are family members, friends, people who are missed,” Simley said. “Everyone deserves to be recognized as who they were in life. Being buried as a Jane or John Doe doesn’t sit well with me.”

Investigators nationwide use a variety of tools when asking for the public’s help identifying corpses. Many release sketches or 3-D clay models, along with photos of tattoos, clothing or jewelry of the deceased. But a handful are now taking the more extreme step of releasing See Remains, Page C3.

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Coast gallery highlights ancient art form at monthly event Gallery 220 in Old Town Bay St. Louis is gearing up for its Second Saturday Artwalk.

The free event will run from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, and the featured artist will be Julie Nelson, a clay artist who specializes in the raku firing process. Nelson is a regular participant in shows in Louisiana and Mississippi and was featured in a documentary about Mississippi Gulf Coast artists.

She has created large wall installations from handmade raku tiles that she designed, formed, fired and assembled.

The raku process was developed in the 1600s in Japan.

Nelson’s works are at Twin Light Creations in Bay St. Louis, Brown’s Fine Art in Jackson, the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum Sore in Biloxi and at www.nelsonpottery.com.

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from staff reports The gallery, at 220 Main St. in the Mississippi Gulf Coast town, is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5. Call 228-4666347.

Nonprofit seeking conservationists Wildlife Mississippi is seeking members.

The nonprofit conservation group has protected, restored and enhanced more than 315,000 acres.

Members will receive the quarterly Wildlife Mississippi magazine, a membership card and a decal. The cost is $35.

Call 662-686-3375 or visit www.wildlifemiss.org.

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A raku work by Julie Nelson, who will be the featured artist at the Second Saturday Artwalk in Old Town Bay St. Louis

local happenings In town Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. events Eighth annual parade: 2 p.m. Saturday along Washington Street; 601-678-8263; Scholarship breakfast: 8:30 a.m. Jan. 16; Vicksburg Convention Center; $20; 866-822-6338, 601-6302929, www.vicksburgevents.com.

Fourth annual Chill in the Hills 8:30 a.m. Saturday; Guaranty Bank, 1900 Cherry St.; $20 in advance, $25 week of the race; 601-636-5703, www.active.com, www.gracechristiancounselingcenter.com.

Southern Cultural Heritage Center Spinning fiber workshop: 10 a.m.-noon Wednesday, Jan. 18, and 25; Brenda Harrower, instructor; $90 members, $100 nonmembers; Gold leaf workshop: 8:30-noon Saturday; Teri Taylor Roddy, instructor; $90 members, $95 nonmembers; Book signings: 2-4 p.m. Jan. 21; Dwain Butler, “Einstein Redux“; Donna Clark, “The Lone Horseman”; Monotype printing workshop: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 28; Leah Johnson, instructor; $30 members, $35 nonmembers; Contact: 601-631-2997, info@southernculture. org, www.southernculture.org, also on Facebook.

Vicksburg Theatre Guild Performances: “Forever Plaid,” 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20-21 and 27-28 and 2 p.m. Jan. 22 and 29; “Ten-Minute Play Project,” Feb. 3-4; “Gold in the Hills,” March 16-31; “The Foreigner,” May 4-13; Auditions: “The Foreigner,” Feb. 11-12 for May 4-6 and 11-13 shows; “Fairy Tale Theatre,” to be announced, for June shows; Tickets for main-stage plays: $12 for adults, $10 for 55 and older, $7 for students and $5 for younger than 12; tickets for “Gold in the Hills,” other shows vary; Contact: Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; 601-636-0471 or www.vicksburgtheatreguild.com.

Lorelei Books book-signings 4-6 p.m. March 1; Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian, authors; 1103 Washington St.; 601-634-8624, www.loreleibooks.com.

25th annual Riverfest 6 p.m.-midnight April 20-21, downtown; www.frontgatetickets. com; www.riverfestms.com.

25th annual Riverfest Arts & Crafts Show 8 a.m.-4 p.m. April 21; South, Walnut and Crawford streets; www.riverfestms.com.

out of town 26th annual Northeast Louisiana Antique Dealer’s Association’s Show 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Jan. 15; $5 for three days; 318-323-3188; Monroe Civic Center.

Narratives: Inside and Out 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays through Feb. 18 at Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center of Arts and Education; works by local artists Ellen Langford, Earl Wayne Simmons, Kennith Humphrey, Lesley Silver and Jean Blue; Duckett Gallery, 1600 Government St., Ocean Springs; free; 228-369-4967, mhardycre8@cableone. net.

Mississippi Invitational winners 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays and noon-5 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 5; Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 S. Lamar St., Jackson; $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students, free for museum members; 601-960-1515, 866-843-9278, www.msmuseumart.org.

Grant-writing workshop 6 p.m. Jan. 17 at Quisenberry Library, Clinton; free; Mississippi Arts Commission; 601-359-6030, morrisey@arts.state.ms.us.

Vicksburg Convention Center 1600 Mulberry St., 601-630-2929 • Ron White Moral Compass Tour — 7 p.m. Jan. 28; tickets: $40.75, $52.75, $184.75 for VIP pass with meet and greet; ticketmaster.com, VCC box office, 800-745-3000.

Beechwood Restaurant & Lounge 4451 Clay St., 601-636-3761 On stage, with a cover charge, at 9:15 p.m.: • Snazz — Friday-Saturday.

• Back 40 — Jan. 21.

• Ratchet — Jan. 28.

• Crossin Dixon — Feb. 4.

Ameristar Casino, 4116 Washington St. 601-638-1000, www.ameristar.com

Winter soup workshop

Free at Bottleneck Blues Bar: • The King Beez — R&B/Blues; Friday-Saturday.

• Mustang Sally — Country Rock; Jan. 20-21.

• Hoosier Daddies — Variety; Jan. 27-28.

Free at Cabaret Lounge: • Doug Allen — Variety; Friday-Saturday. and Jan. 27-28.

• LaNise Kirk — Variety; Jan. 20-21.

• Doug Allen — Variety; Jan. 27-28.

5:30-7:30 p.m. Jan. 17 at the Southern Cultural Heritage Center; William Furlong, instructor; $30 members, $35 nonmembers; 601-631-2997, info@southernculture.org, www.southernculture.org, also on Facebook.

Eddie Monsour’s at the Biscuit Company 1100 Washington St., 601-638-1571

Arts Center of Mississippi LEGO display Through Jan. 15; 210 E. Pascagoula St., Jackson; 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays, noon-5 p.m. Sundays; 601-960-1557.

For foodies

For kids

• 8-11 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays — Karaoke.

• 8 p.m. Wednesdays — Biscuit & Jam; open mic.

• Thursdays — Ladies night.

3:45-5 p.m. Thursdays beginning Jan. 19 for 13 weeks; Karen Biedenharn and Regina Renot, instructors; first-sixth grades; free; Southern Cultural Heritage Center; 601-631-2997, info@southernculture.org, www.southernculture.org, also on Facebook.

Jacques’ Cafe at Battlefield Inn 4137 N. Frontage Road, 601-661-6264

River Kids

Intro to Spanish for Kids 4:15-5:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Jan. 31-March 6; Olivia Foshee, instructor; $70 members, $75 nonmembers; Southern Cultural Heritage Center; 601-631-2997, info@southernculture.org, www. southernculture.org, also on Facebook.

16th annual Pasta Tales writing contest Through Jan. 29; 50-250 word essay; first-12th grades; 954-7761999,www.olivegarden.com.

Mississippi School for the Arts Applications accepted through Feb. 1; 355 W. Monticello St., Brookhaven; 601-823-1300,www.msa.k12.ms.us.

Mississippi Museum of Art Music in the City: 5:45 p.m. Jan. 17; Jacke McGinnis and John Paul, featured musicians; free, donations welcome; 5:15 p.m., hors d’oeuvres, cash bar; Look and Learn with Hoot: 10 a.m.

Jan. 20 for children ages 4-5 and parents; art activity and story time; 380 S. Lamar St., Jackson; 601-960-1515, www.msmuseumart.org.

Nightlife

Jackson Zoo Safari Slumber Sleepover 7 p.m.-9 a.m. Feb. 24-25; $25 members, $30 nonmembers, registration required; 2918 W. Capitol St.; 601-352-2580, www.jacksonzoo.org; zoo admission: $9 for adults, $6 for ages 2-12, $8.10 for over 65, free for younger than 2.

• 9 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday — Karaoke.

LD’s Kitchen 1111 Mulberry St., 601-636-9838 • 8:30 p.m. each second and fourth Tuesday — Central Mississippi Blues Society Band, local artists; free.

• 8:30 p.m. each first and third Tuesday — Soul Unlimited and Sounds Unlimited; free.

Roca Restaurant & Bar 127 Country Club Drive, 601-638-0800 • 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays — Ben Shaw.

• 7-10 p.m. Fridays — Dustin.

The Upper End Lounge 1306 Washington St., 601-634-8333 With a $3 cover charge: • 7-11 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays — Karaoke.

• 7-9 p.m. Thursdays — Ladies night.

• 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays — D.J.

Slater Continued from Page C1. it’s about the size of a post card, Slater begins a silhouette. There is no pattern, no drawing, no sketch.

“It’s just in my mind,” he said. “I just think of a butterfly” and with precision he begins cutting the paper.

How you fold the paper is very important, he said, and “it’s not the scissors that makes the sculpture.” He seldom takes the scissors out of the form he is cutting.

“The main secret is I move the paper as I cut, moving the scissors and cutting at the same time,” he said.

The result was four butterflies whereas in a drawing you have only one.

He might start a sculpture which he said “isn’t special

yet, but it’s going to become special, which is the beautiful thing about this. I can change it around.”

He uses his talent in different ways and for different occasions and remarked that he might be around some people who aren’t nice at all, “and I start doing this and their whole attitude changes.”

When he lived in California, he attended a church where the pastor had a special talk with the children, telling a Bible story, and as he talked Slater illustrated the account with a paper sculpture such as Jesus praying on the Mount of Olives.

Slater said he’s known some people who were afraid to go

into certain neighborhoods, but with his scissors and paper he can immediately break the ice.

Thinking back to when he started, he said, “it didn’t look good at all. The main thing is you have to practice.”

When someone tells him they have no artistic ability, he will ask them to sign their name and date it, then do it again with the other hand.

The difference is practice.

“In writing your name and date, you’ve used every line there is in art,” he said.

“Art is fun, but you’ve got to practice.”

Slater doesn’t know anyone else who does paper sculptures other than those he has taught, and he’s never had

any lessons. A man of spiritual values, he said unequivocally, “God has been my teacher.”

He was born in the Catskill Mountains in New York but most of his life has been spent in the west, mainly Arizona and California.

He came to Vicksburg about six months ago with his son, who is an engineer at the nuclear plant at Grand Gulf.

He’s had more ups and downs in life than most, and when life began it almost ended. He was born March 22, 1934, but he couldn’t breathe and was turning black and a death certificate was filled out for him. His father had gone to the barn

to find something to put the baby’s body in. The temperature was way below zero, and when he came back to the house (he had no gloves and his hands were freezing) he picked up the child, “and I started screaming. His cold hands! That’s how I came into the world!”

Since then, he’s had 24 episodes where he cheated the Grim Reaper — once when he fell 45 feet but instead of his head splitting like an overripe watermelon that fell off the table, the concrete cracked instead.

As he was falling, he prayed, “God he....that’s all I got out.

I was trying to say, ‘God, help me,’ but I never finished the prayer,” but God answered

his unfinished plea.

Slater’s talents aren’t confined to paper sculptures.

When his eyesight was better, he learned bead work and weaving from his American Indian wife, who is now deceased. Patterns in Indian art are among his favorite designs.

Because of a brain injury years ago, Slater can no longer read, but that isn’t a great concern.

“There are things I can do that other people can’t,” he said — like creating art with a pair of scissors and a scrap of paper.

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Gordon Cotton is an author and historian who lives in Vicksburg.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

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Huff, Malone are wed Nov. 5 in Arkansas

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Barry White The bride is the former Mary Margaret Miller

Miller, White are wed Mary Margaret Miller of Greenwood and Kenneth Barry White of Jackson were united in marriage at 2 p.m.

Oct. 1, 2011, at the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle in Jackson. The ceremony was officiated by the Rev. Brian Kaskie.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Parks Miller of Ridgeland, formerly of Drew. She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

Herbert Tucker Miller Sr., the late James Zebedee Whatley Sr. and the late Mary Ward Gordin Whatley, all of Drew.

The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Kenneth White of Jackson. He is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Joseph Swan Jr. of Vicksburg and the late Mr. and Mrs. Sidney White of Jackson.

The couple is at home in Jackson.

James Evan Huff Sr. and Elizabeth Pogue Malone were married at 5 p.m. Nov. 5, 2011, at The Smith House, historic home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Smith in Birdeye, Ark. The Rev. Brent Powell, director of chaplain services at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, officiated at the ceremony.

The bride is the daughter of Dr. Philip and Sharon Malone of Vicksburg. She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Fleck and the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Malone, all of Louisville, Ky. The groom is the son of Bonnie Sue Huff of Wynne, Ark., and Michael Dwight Huff Sr. of Sikeston, Mo. He is the grandson of the Hon. James Levesque Shaver Jr. and the late Bonnie W. Shaver of Wynne and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hartzog of Sikeston.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride’s chosen colors were deep purple, red, gray and cream, among others, in a vintage theme.

A program of music was offered by The Little Rock String Quartet.

Maid of honor was Mary Louise Malone, sister of the bride, of Denver, Colo.

Flower girl was Stella Scarlett Smith of Birdeye.

The groom’s brother, Michael Dwight Huff Jr. of Ada, Okla., served as best man. Junior best man was James Evan Huff II, son of the groom, of Wynne.

Special wedding assistant was Leigh Lusk of Little Rock,

Mr. and Mrs. James Evan Huff Sr. The bride is the former Elizabeth Pogue Malone formerly of Vicksburg.

A reception followed the ceremony at The Smith House.

Guests were entertained by the Memphis Soul Revue.

For a wedding trip, the couple traveled to Costa Rica.

They will make their home in

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Clothing maker Liz Claiborne unveils new name NEW YORK (AP) — Liz Claiborne Inc. is changing its name to Fifth & Pacific Cos. now that the clothing-maker has sold its namesake brand and plans to concentrate on its Juicy Couture, Lucky Brand and Kate Spade labels.

The name change, which the New York company previously announced was coming, is just the latest step that Liz Claiborne is taking as it tries to become a more profitable business. In November the company completed the sales of its Liz Claiborne and Monet brands to JC Penney. Other fall deals included selling its Mexx business to a joint venture led by the private equity

The name change, which the New York company previously announced was coming, is just the latest step that Liz Claiborne is taking as it tries to become a more profitable business. firm The Gores Group, and selling its Kensie and Dana Buchman brands.

Liz Claiborne has said that it plans to focus on its Juicy Couture, Lucky Brand and Kate Spade brands that appeal to well-heeled shoppers. Wealthier consumers are spending more freely than middle- and low-income shoppers as economic uncertainty continues to cast a shadow on U.S. con-

sumer spending.

In the third quarter, Liz Claiborne’s net loss widened and its adjusted net income from continuing operations missed analysts’ expectations. Thirdquarter revenue slipped 9 percent.

Liz Claiborne said Wednesday that its name change will likely take effect around May 15, when it will start trading on the New York Stock

Exchange under the “FNP” ticker symbol.

“While it’s difficult to replace an iconic name like Liz Claiborne, we believe that Fifth & Pacific Companies telegraphs who we are today — taking inspiration from New York and California, while describing our reach and our potential,” CEO William McComb said in a statement.

McComb said Fifth & Pacific Cos. is now “financially stronger, with a healthy balance sheet and significantly reduced operating risk and complexity.”

The company’s new corporate web site will be www. fifthandpacific.com .

Remains Continued from Page C1. photographs of faces.

The practice has helped Las Vegas’ coroner identify dozens of bodies. Other medical examiners seem hesitant to embrace it but are generally supportive of their colleagues’ intentions.

Simley’s website, up and running for about a month, has not led to any identifications yet.

It lists the cases of 17 unidentified bodies along with facial pictures of six of the adults and one infant.

Simley said there have been no complaints, and he noted that several of the pictures were touched up to remove evidence of decomposition.

Users must navigate through a series of warnings that advise viewer discretion before the pictures become viewable. Once there, many of the images are disconcerting.

“We did take into consideration the concern about kids viewing them,” Simley said.

“Even though these pictures are of a graphic nature, the main thing is to get these people identified.”

Some medical examiners said they understand Simley’s reasoning, but others said the tactic is ill-conceived.

Nici Vance, a forensic anthropologist for the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Oregon, said she would never publicly release photographs of the dead.

She said sketches are far better, because artists can

Figuring out what images to make public can be tricky.

Some photos are simply too gruesome. In other cases, a body is bloated or partially decomposed, enough that a photo or sketch might be unrecognizable even to close relatives. leave out wounds or other signs of violence and draw the face with eyes and mouth closed.

“A photo could be pretty traumatic for the family to see,” she said. “A sketch allows a family to focus on the features rather than see a half-lidded, pale, pasty visualization of their loved one.”

Each of the Milwaukee County entries links to a broader profile in the national database NamUs, or National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.

The website lists more than 8,000 open cases, allowing law enforcement agencies to search a single site rather than thousands of disconnected ones.

Most of the publicly viewable images are limited to sketches and maps of where the bodies were found.

A recent search by The Associated Press turned up several dozen photos of faces of the deceased, though they rarely showed signs of trauma. Among those that did was a photo from Riverside County, Calif., of a woman with small bloody scrapes on her cheek and forehead.

Figuring out what images to make public can be tricky.

Some photos are simply too gruesome. In other cases, a body is bloated or partially decomposed, enough that a photo or sketch might be unrecognizable even to close relatives. Three-dimensional clay models of a head might be easier to recognize, but those artists often base their interpretations on a skull, so guesswork is involved.

One of the most favored options is the sketch, which can be expensive or take a long time. Plus, some sketches are left somewhat vague so viewers aren’t too quick to conclude they don’t know the person.

That’s why Mike Murphy, the coroner in Nevada’s Clark County — home to Las Vegas — is a strong supporter of photographs. He started posting photos online shortly after he was appointed to the job in 2003 — when, Murphy admits, he was too inexperienced to realize the potential backlash.

The website launched amid controversy and plenty of media coverage, but Murphy received quick validation: Within 24 hours, a correc-

Wynne.

The bride is the corporate partnerships patient liaison at ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. The groom is a trust officer for the First National Bank in Wynne and serves as an

alderman on the City Council of Wynne.

Bridal brunch On the morning of the wedding, the groom surprised the bride with a brunch for her and her close family and friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Terry Westmoreland of Wynne. Hosts were the groom, Brenda Slabaugh and Mr. and Mrs. Terry Westmoreland.

Rehearsal dinner On the eve of the wedding, the groom’s parents entertained the wedding party and close family and friends with a rehearsal dinner at JB’s Steakhouse in Wynne.

Announcement party The couple was honored with an engagement party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Killough of Wynne. Co-hosts were Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Blanton, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Boone, Drs. Beth and Stan Bradshaw, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Huff Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Ken Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Killough, Mr. and Mrs. Mike King, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Mick Raffety, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Slabaugh, Dr. and Mrs. Harmon Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. Harmon Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Stacy, Mark Smith, Cozette Vaught and Mr. and Mrs. Wes Westmoreland.

Weekend getaways Friends of the bride and the groom hosted separate weekend getaways in Memphis to treat the bride and groom.

Jan. 14

• April Glover and John Farrell 6 p.m. at B’nai B’rith Literary Club Reception to follow

military

released by armed services Maj. Angela Weathers Williams has been promoted to lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Army. She serves as chief of anesthesia services at Moncrief Army Community Hospital at Fort Jackson, S.C. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, she was reared in Port Gibson. She is the daughter of Frank Sr. and Cleoria Weathers.

Angela She received Williams a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Prairie View A&M University. She received Masters

of Science degrees in anesthesia nursing from the University of Texas Health Science Center and in nursing management from the University of Texas at El Paso.

She has completed various nursing assignments, including anesthesia nursing at Fort Campbell and operating room nursing at Fort Bliss.

Her decorations include Meritorious Service medals, Army Commendation medals, Iraq and Afghanistan Campaigns medals and numerous service medals and ribbons. She also received the 2005 Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock Distinguished Honor Graduate Award in anesthesia nursing.

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tions officer recognized one unidentified body as that of a frequent inmate, and a second body was identified 48 hours later.

Since then, the online photos have led to nearly 50 identifications, he said.

Another 200 or so remain unidentified.

Murphy said he’s motivated by seeing how painful life becomes for relatives of the missing, and he said families helped by the public photos are grateful.

“They’re searching for their loved one 24 hours a day, seven days a week — going shopping, driving their car, they’re always looking,” he said. “When you can give them resolution, you give them peace.”

Atlanta-based medical examiner Randy Hanzlick, who helps moderate NamUs, predicted that computerimaging technology would eventually improve enough that it could replace the need for sketches or photographs.

But until then, Simley is sticking with photographs in Milwaukee County.

He calls it a necessity.

“We’re desperate at this point,” he said. “These are cold cases that have been collecting dust in our archives, and we’re trying to bring them new life. If I had a family member missing, I wouldn’t want someone to give up. We’re not giving up.”

forms proviDed through the vicksburg post Jeremy M. and Tracie Diane Herring announce the birth of a 7-pound, 14-ounce daughter, Analeigh Jane, on Dec. 12, 2011, at River Oaks Hospital in Jackson.

Grandparents are Marvin and Mary Ann Weast, Ken and Anita Sue Lumbley and Homer and Kathy Herring.

Are you planning a wedding?

The Vicksburg Post will publish an engagement announcement before the wedding date. The Sunday before the wedding, we will list your wedding in a roundup of those planned for the week. The wedding writeup and photo will run, as space allows, as soon as possible after the wedding.

Wedding information submitted more than two months after the ceremony is too late for use.

There is no charge to publish any of the announcements submitted within our time limits. Brides who submit information past the deadline or who wish to include additional details not requested on our forms (such as dress descriptions or decorations) may do so at a cost of 50 cents per word. A $100 fee will be charged to include a photo if the information is posted after our deadline.

Information for engagement and wedding announcements should be submitted on forms provided by The Vicksburg Post.

They are available at the newspaper office, 1601 N. Frontage Road, or online at vicksburgpost.com.

Forms should be filled out in full, typewritten when possible or legibly written. A phone number on the form is required.

Photos of the bride or couple should be close-ups when possible; unfiltered, glossy images in 5-by-7 or 4-by-6 reproduce best. Inferior quality photos will be refused.

For more information, call 601-636-4545, ext. 131.

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‘it’s the cream of the crop’

New England Journal documents 200 years of medical history

By The Associated Press Unhappy with today’s health care? Think of what it was like to be sick 200 years ago.

No stethoscopes, antibiotics, X-rays or vaccines. Bloodletting was a common treatment.

If you had a heart attack or a stroke, doctors put you in bed and hoped for the best. If you needed surgery, you got a few shots of whiskey and a bullet to bite.

Into this medical dark age, two Boston doctors brought a beacon of light. They started what is now the New England Journal of Medicine with the idea that science should guide care — not whoever argued loudest or had the most persuasive theory.

The first 100 copies in January 1812 were delivered by horseback. Today, 2 million people read the journal online every month. It is the oldest continuously publishing medical journal in the world, and it has touched lives in more ways than you might know.

Some examples: • Stroke victims now get clot-busting medicine, not dark rooms to ride out their brain trauma, because a 1995 study in the journal proved its benefit.

• Heart attack patients have arteries unclogged without surgery, then go home on medicines that studies in the journal showed could prevent future attacks.

• Women with early stage breast cancer can have just the lump removed followed by radiation instead of losing the whole breast, thanks to a 1985 study that found the lesser surgery just as good.

• Bone marrow and organ transplants — radical ideas when first tried half a century ago — are now routine. Even face transplants are becoming more common: three were described in last week’s issue.

• Rehydration is now recognized as the main treatment for many diarrheal diseases. A journal article warned against bloodletting in 1832 as cholera ravaged New York City.

• People no longer suffer surgery without anesthesia, a field that grew from Henry Jacob Bigelow’s 1846 report on the first successful use of inhaled ether.

• Medicine is more ethical, and study participants have

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Editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazem, holds a copy of the Journal’s 200th anniversary edition in the magazine’s editorial offices in Boston.

The entrance to the editorial offices of the New England Journal of Medicine in Boston more protections, because of a 1966 report in the journal about researchers failing to get informed consent. Another top journal had rejected the article as too controversial.

The New England Journal started decades before the American Medical Association was founded in 1847 and is widely credited with promoting evidence-based care.

“It has been very good for society,” said Pat Thibodeau, head librarian and associate dean for the Medical Center Library at Duke University.

“When I go in, I’m hoping my doctor has read the New England Journal of Medicine or something similar and is following that information.”

“It’s the cream of the crop,” said Dr. Barron Lerner, a Columbia University physi-

cian and medical historian.

“They get the best research submitted to them, and they do an extremely good job of peer reviewing” to make sure it is solid, he said.

That’s what Boston surgeon John Collins Warren and James Jackson, who helped found Massachusetts General Hospital, hoped for the journal, which is now published weekly. It got its current name in 1928, seven years after it was bought by the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Warren’s father, John Warren, surgeon to George Washington’s troops, wrote the first article, on chest pain.

Doctors had been debating whether it was caused by plaque — “the cement that builds up in arteries” — or blood clots, said Dr. Jeffrey

Drazen, the journal’s editor-inchief since 2000. Both proved correct — the “cement” fractures and allows a clot to form that blocks an artery, he said.

Heart care has been a journal specialty, and two prominent doctors — Elizabeth Nabel and Eugene Braunwald of Brigham and Women’s Hospital — trace its evolution in this week’s issue. Nabel is former director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and now is president of the Boston hospital.

They describe the first human cardiac catheterization — now a common diagnostic procedure — that Werner Forssman performed on himself in 1929. Under local anesthesia, he put a catheter into his arm and maneuvered it into his own heart.

For a heart attack, “it used to be that all we did was put people to bed for five weeks,” but studies in the journal showed “that that was the worst thing you could do,” said Dr. Jerome Kassirer, its top editor from 1991 to 1999.

The journal also helped prove “germ theory” and the nature of infectious diseases.

“People didn’t realize you could infect people when you were using your dirty gloves or not using gloves. People didn’t realize tuberculosis was communicable. They thought it emanated from clouds they called miasma, clouds of dirty

More U.S. women having twins; rate at 1 in 30 babies ATLANTA (AP) — The number of twins born in the U.S. soared over the last three decades, mostly the result of test-tube babies and women waiting to have children until their 30s, when the chances of twins increase.

In 2009, 1 in every 30 babies born in the U.S. was a twin, an astounding increase over the 1 in 53 rate in 1980, according to a government report issued last week.

“When people say it seems like you see more twins nowadays, they’re right,” said Joyce Martin, an epidemiologist who co-authored the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

Some increase was expected as more women are delaying starting a family until they are over 30. For some unknown reason, mothers in their 30s are more likely to have twins than younger or older women.

As much as a third of the increase can be attributed to that, Martin said.

The rest of the rise is due to fertility drugs and treatments.

“You have a double whammy

In 2009, twin rates increased in all 50 states, though the jumps were highest in lower New England, New Jersey and Hawaii. In Connecticut, twins now account for nearly 5 percent of births. going on. There are more older moms and more widespread use of fertility-enhancing therapies,” Martin said.

Starting in the early 1980s, couples who had trouble conceiving began to benefit from medical advances like fertility drugs and in vitro fertilization and other procedures. These treatments became fairly widespread in the 1990s but are expensive, and availability and insurance coverage varies.

The twin birthrate rose by more than 2 percent a year, on average, from 1980 through 2004. It leveled off to less than 1 percent annually although the rise from 2008 to 2009 was nearly 2 percent.

In 2009, twin rates increased in all 50 states, though the jumps were highest in lower New England, New Jersey and Hawaii. In Connecticut, twins now account for nearly 5 per-

cent of births.

That’s high. Nationally, 3.3 percent of all births were twins in 2009, up from 2 percent in 1980.

Over the last three decades, rates rose for white, black and Hispanic women, but the increases were not uniform.

Rates doubled for whites, rose by half for blacks and by about a third for Hispanics. Historically, black moms have twins most often, but white moms have almost caught up.

“That’s changed with infertility treatments,” said Barbara Luke, a Michigan State University expert on twin births.

The greatest increase in twin rates was for women 40 and older. They are more likely to use fertility treatments and to

have two embryos implanted during in vitro fertilization, whereas younger women are more likely to get just one.

About 7 percent of all births for women 40 and older were twins, compared to 5 percent of women in their late 30s and 2 percent of women age 24 or younger.

While a lot of attention is focused on the impact of fertility treatments, that’s not the only factor. Before fertility treatments existed, about 2.5 percent of the babies born to women in their late 30s were twins, compared to under 2 percent for younger and older women. Some research has suggested women in that age group are more likely to produce multiple eggs in a cycle, increasing their chances of twins.

Clearly, there are more older moms. In recent years, more than a third of all births have been to women 30 and older, up from just one-fifth in 1980.

A diagram of a human heart in the article “Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart and Lungs” by John C. Warren in the April 1, 1812, Issue of the journal smoke in cities,” said Lerner, the Columbia historian.

Not all was grand in the journal’s history, though, as Allan Brandt, a Harvard University medical historian writes in this week’s issue.

When Harvard Medical School debated admitting female students in 1878, the journal expressed concern about men and women mingling during surgeries normally witnessed only by one sex. The school didn’t admit women until 1945, when World War II caused a shortage of men.

The journal also agreed with mandatory sterilization of “mental defectives” in the early 20th century. “Most alarming,” Brandt writes, was its declaration in 1934 that “Germany is perhaps the most progressive nation in restricting fecundity among its unfit.”

The journal later condemned Nazi medicine.

In recent years, it has tracked health policy, from the Clinton health care plan and the advent of managed care to current debates about Medicare.

There were oddball reports

along the way, like the 2007 account of a cat named Oscar that had a knack for predicting when patients at a Providence, R.I., nursing home were close to death by curling up to them in their final hours.

The journal has printed few studies on alternative medicine because so little good research has been done on it, Drazen said. Unlike some other journals that like controversial research, the New England Journal tries to avoid it.

“People think the cutting edge is sharp. The cutting edge is very dull. It’s very foggy and you don’t know what the right answer is,” so editors try to pick studies that are definitive enough to affect care, Drazen said.

That’s why it publishes very few observational studies, the kind that in the 1990s led to pronouncements like “margarine is better than butter” only to be reversed by the next such study.

“Some of those are papers that we’ve seen and turned back,” Drazen said. “I’m looking for a higher evidence standard.”

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Dreamlike ‘Pariah’ shows teen’s coming-out

By Christy Lemire AP movie critic “Pariah,” writer-director Dee Rees’ feature debut, achieves a difficult, intriguing balance.

It’s at once raw and dreamlike, specific to a particular, personal rite of passage yet widely relatable in its message of being true to oneself.

Adepero Oduye gives a subtly natural performance as Alike, a 17-year-old Brooklyn girl who’s struggling to come out as a lesbian. Each day at school, she dresses the way that makes her feel comfortable in baggy T-shirts and baseball caps, and she pals around with her brash best friend, Laura (Pernell Walker), who’s already happily out.

But on the bus ride home, she must transform herself into the young lady her mother, Audrey (Kim Wayans), approves of and loves. You can see the weight of resignation hanging on her shoulders, the sadness in her eyes as she catches a glimpse of herself in the window.

Audrey hopes arranging a new friendship with a colleague’s daughter, Bina (Aasha Davis), will set Alike down a traditionally straight, female path, but this budding relationship only complicates matters further.

While the two girls don’t exactly bond at first, Bina eventually becomes beguiling to Alike on a number of levels; their mutual fascination with each other would be believable even if they’d forged a simply heterosexual connection.

But nothing is ever simple with girls at this age, and so there are gray areas, a phenomenon Rees herself clearly understands. “Pariah” isn’t exactly an autobiographical tale for the filmmaker, but the struggle Alike endures is obviously quite personal to her.

Simultaneously, Alike’s home life is deteriorating, as her police officer father (Charles Parnell) begins keeping suspiciously late hours; it’s a sub-

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The growing rift between mother and daughter certainly provides enough angst already, with Audrey remaining fiercely closed-minded, even as Alike finally begins

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Her story is inspiring to see, whether you’re gay or straight and regardless of age or race; she’s searching for her place in the world at a difficult, transitional time, something we’ve all experienced.

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Models chart new runway with social media outlets

By Samantha Critchell AP fashion writer NEW YORK — Social media is giving a voice to models who, for the most part, have built their careers as pretty, non-speaking faces.

They’ll tweet what they had for breakfast, post behindthe-scenes photos on Tumblr and use Facebook to cultivate “friends” around the world.

Tech-savvy fashion followers are eating it up, gaining entry to a world that is so often behind velvet ropes.

“I realized there was an audience interested in what I had to say, not just the images from my work,” said model Coco Rocha, who alternates personal posts and lighthearted tidbits with a more businesslike platform to highlight brands and magazines she’s shooting for as well as her favorite social and charitable causes.

At age 23, Rocha is no longer the new girl in town, but her fan base of more than 200,000 Twitter followers and 66,000 Facebook friends (plus Tumbler, Google Plus and Instagram accounts and blog readers) gives her “longevity,” she said. “Because I have a voice and I’m sticking to having that voice, I feel like I have extended my career.”

Name recognition increases a model’s value, said Sean Patterson, president of the Wilhelmina agency. Models who become celebrities, online or otherwise, might even help reverse the trend of movie and pop stars with “relatable” personal stories taking the A-list advertising jobs and magazine covers that used to go to models.

With the day of the supermodel over, models have become more “interchangeable and disposable,” Patterson said. But social media may

Model Coco Rocha’s Twitter page

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‘If you can’t walk and talk, you can’t really be a successful ambassador of a brand.’

Michael Flutie TV personality

change that by letting models define themselves: “With fan sites, blogs and Facebook, all of a sudden you can follow a model and know who she is.”

Models with online followings can also create extra buzz for brands they represent. “I imagine, for example, that Victoria’s Secret likes that Doutzen (Kroes) has so many Twitter followers and that she tells them, ‘Watch the Victoria’s Secret show I’m in at 9 p.m.,” Patterson said.

In addition, social media lets models show the interesting lives they lead off the runway, and it’s a way for chatty, likable personalities to shine.

That could tip the balance of who makes it big and who doesn’t, said Michael Flutie, of the E! show “Scouted.”

“If you have 10 beautiful girls, all diamonds in the rough to be the next Christy Turlington or Cindy Crawford, you have to narrow it down somehow and you’re going to narrow it down to the four who can communicate really well digitally,” he said.

Flutie, a veteran agent and manager, added that being photogenic is no longer the only requirement: “If you can’t walk and talk, you can’t really be a successful ambassador of a brand. You have to be able to communicate.”

Models should also know how to Google. There’s no excuse for a model with thousands of cyber followers to not know the name of a company’s CEO when she shows up to shoot its catalog, Flutie said.

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CLASSIFIEDS PHOTOS BY OUR READERS Sam Andrews

Joseph Jackson

Joseph Jackson said the weeks of late have been busy ones for hawks in his yard. Here, he has a male on a power line and a female on a power pole.

Sam Andrews of Vicksburg was checking out this deer while he was being checked out at a hunting camp in Issaquena County.

Martha Williams Martha Williams of Vicksburg said she knew it was going to be a beautiful sun in the early morn of a recent day.

Allen Hill In front of the red glare of fireworks on New Year’s Eve, Allen Hill saw the United States flag “was still there,” near his home in Vicksburg.

GIVE US YOUR BEST SHOT! The Vicksburg Post will accept for publication photos submitted by readers. The photos should be current and of interest to the public, either because of their subject matter or their oddity, or the photographic skill shown. These are the criteria that will be used in determining which photos will be published. Submitted photos should be accompanied by complete caption information and include a phone number for the photographer, which will not be published. Photos may be submitted electronically at newsreleases@vicksburgpost.com, in person at Post Plaza or by mail to The Vicksburg Post, News photos, P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182.

02. Public Service

05. Notices

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· Education on All Options · Confidential Counseling Call 601-638-2778 for appt www.vicksburgpregnancy.com Classified Advertising really brings big results!

A non-profit volunteer agency organized to provide for the unmet needs of the Warren County victims of the 2011 flood.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Volunteers experienced with construction and design are needed to assist the LTRC in various projects supporting 2011 Flood victims in Warren County.

Please call 601-636-1788 to offer support.

READ THE CLASSIFIEDS DAILY!

07. Help Wanted

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Working knowledge and familiarity with PLC’s and electronics along with working knowledge of all local and national electrical codes.

Excellent pay and benefits along with a great working environment.

Send your resume to: Human Resources P. O. Box 38, Vicksburg, MS 39181 Fax: (601) 629-3626 Email: mikem@andersontully.com

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Haven House Family Shelter 601-638-0555 or 1-800-898-0860 Services available to women & children who are victims of domestic violence and/or homeless: Shelter, counseling, group support.

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06. Lost & Found

06. Lost & Found

REWARD!!

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Brown and White Male Sheltie (About 11 inches tall) Looks like Lassie.

Last seen at hunting Club property MT Alban/ Warriors Trail about 5pm 1/1/12 (near trailer park and concrete bridge) PLEASE CALL 601-618-5457

Call if you see him (leave message as to where you saw him and your phone) Call if you catch him or find his body!

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07. Help Wanted

07. Help Wanted

GROUP SERVICES MANAGER The Vicksburg Convention & Visitors Bureau is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Group Services Manager. The position solicits the group tour and meetings/convention markets to generate overnight visitation. Weekends, evenings and out-of-market travel required. Salary based on experience. Send resumes to Executive Director, Vicksburg Convention & Visitors Bureau, P.O. Box 110, Vicksburg, MS 39181.

07. Help Wanted

FOUND! MALE POODLE MIX. Black and brown, Camelot area.

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CAGE CASHIER The minimum requirements for this position includes: ·Minimum one (1) year cash-handling experience ·High school diploma or general education degree (GED) ·Passing company math test ·Ability to work at a fast pace with large amounts of currency ·Available to work weekends, holidays and/or any shift assigned ·Mississippi Gaming License required Candidates who submitted an application more than 90 days ago should complete a new application If you want to be part of the excitement and are an experienced customer service professional, visit our website at www.riverwalkvicksburg.com and click on “work for us” to complete an application or stop by our Human Resources office at 200 Warrenton Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180 (next to Waffle House & Days Inn) Monday-Friday 9:00am–4:00 pm

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CATS: Male . .$25 Female ........$35 DOGS (UNDER 40 LBS): Male . .$55 Female ........$65 • For the above category of animals, pick up applications at the Humane Society DOGS (OVER 40 LBS): Male . .$70 Female ........$80 • For dogs over 40 lbs, call 866-901-7729 for appt.

If you are feeding a stray or feral cat and need help with spaying or neutering, please call 601-529-1535.

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10. Loans And Investments

Finding the pet you want in the Classifieds is easy, but now it’s practically automatic, since we’ve put our listings online.

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COUNSELOR NEEDED FOR a juvenile group home.

Must have a Master's degree in counseling, social work or related field. Must have experience working in the substance abuse field. Please fax your resume to 318-5744093, attention Janet.

PECAN PICKERS NEEDED. Keep half of all you pick.

Call 601-630-5439.

LOCAL COMPANY LOOKING for a qualified individual who is seeking long-term employment. We have a full-time position for an experienced and dependable HVAC technician.

2 or more years experience required. Please fax your resume to 601-636-1475.

EXPERIENCED MECHANIC NEEDED Apply in person only at:

Sheffield Rentals 1255 Hwy 61 South Vicksburg.

REWARD! PIG TAKEN! Family pet pig taken from Warriors Trail home. $50 reward for return or for information leading to the return of the pig.

Call 769-232-5496.

07. Help Wanted “ACE�

Truck Driver Training With a Difference Job Placement Asst.

Day, Night & Refresher Classes Get on the Road NOW! Call 1-888-430-4223 MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124 APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENTLY BEING ACCEPTED FOR A PRESSMAN. Experience helpful but may be willing to train the right person.

Some nights and weekend work required.

Position includes benefits.

Applications taken at the front desk of The Vicksburg Post, Monday- Friday, 10am until 2pm ONLY! No phone calls, please.

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APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENTLY BEING ACCEPTED FOR A PRESSMAN. Experience helpful, but will train the right person.

Some nights and weekend work required.

Position includes benefits.

Applications taken at the front desk of The Vicksburg Post, Monday- Friday, 10am until 2pm ONLY! No phone calls, please.

EXPERIENCED FRONT DESK and house keeper needed. Apply in person. No phone calls. Battlefield Inn.

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17. Wanted To Buy

17. Wanted To Buy

LEVIS USED QUALITY furniture and household goods. Pays cash! Please call Marilyn at 601-638-3070.

WANTING TO PURCHASE all types of used construction equipment.

Call Mark at 337-439-6608.

WE BUY ESTATES. Households and quality goods. Best prices. You call, we haul! 601-415-3121, 601-661-6074. www.msauctionservice.com

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PLEASE CALL THE Gentleman of Junk for all your junk vehicle needs.

Just in time for extra Christmas cash, Please leave message if no answer. 601-868-2781.

CLOSET PHOBIA? Find a Honey of a Deal in the Classifieds...Zero in on that most wanted or hard to find item.

07. Help Wanted

07. Help Wanted

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WE HAUL OFF old appliances, old batteries, lawn mowers, hot water heaters, junk and abandoned cars, trucks, vans, etcetera. 601940-5075, if no answer, please leave message.

07. Help Wanted

Convenience Store Manager:

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Candidates submit your resume, including salary history to payrollhr@cox.net or fax to Human Resources at (866) 477-3298.

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24. Business Services

24. Business Services

PART-TIME OPTICIAN. Candiates must possess excellent communication skills, reliability, responsibility, intelligence, and personality qualities.

Duties include but are not limited to: • Optical sales • Frame selection • History of Retail Sales, • Cutting and edging • Billing optical sales through vision service plans • Computer Skills • Contact lens training • Availability to work on Saturdays.

Mail Cover letter, Resume, Compensation History and Expectations to: Dept. #3775, The Vicksburg Post P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182

24. Business Services

24. Business Services

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11. Business Opportunities

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Call Michele or Allaina

This well maintained 3BR/2 BA, one owner Custom Built home has many features, including hardwood floors, carpeted bedrooms and tray ceiling in living room.

Home features a room heated and cooled accessed through garage which could be used as an office, gameroom, or guest room.

601-218-7318

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AUTO • HOME • BUSINESS Jason Barnes • 601-661-0900

Every day is bright and sunny with a classified to make you

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FULL BLOODED AUSTRALIAN Shepherd puppy.

Small type, black tri-colored male. $100. 601-4151373.

PART TIME ON-SITE apartment manager needed for small local apartment complex. Must be honest, dependable, work well with public, must have good clerical skills, experience a plus. Serious inquiries only, fax resume to: 318-3521929.

REWARD $100+ FAMILY loved pet. Female black Labrador- Large, very friendly. Blind in one eye. Needs medication. Has been treated for red mange. Spayed, was wearing pink collar when she went missing.

Chases deer, not traffic smart. Always sleeps inside.

Missing from Timberlane area. Was seen on Halls Ferry. If seen please call 601-415-2284, 601-6368774.

1280 Warrenton Rd - 2.3 acres with view of MS River – can be subdivided - $275,000 Exclusive Turning Leaf Neighborhood Lot 7 – Golding Blvd - 2 acres, cleared homesite, woods & lake views on 2 sides, adjacent to park - $115,000 Lot 6 – Lyon Tree Way - 2+ cleared acres on lake & cul de sac, adjacent to park - $69,000 Forest Oaks Drive in Littlewood Lot 33 – 1.18 acres and only lake lot left - $65,000 2.9 acres on Porters Chapel Road Private and convenient to ERDC - $59,000 .87 acre lot on Windy Lake Drive On lake in Openwood - $37,500 .89 acre lot in city near Chambers & Glenwood Circle Area Located at end of Baum Street - $25,000 Choctaw Boundary in Bovina Lot 18 – 2.11 acres - $26,375 • Lot 25 – 4.26 acres - $53,250 Lots 7, 8, 16 – 6.46 acres - $64,600

Vicksburg Warren Humane Society & MS - Span Low Cost Spay & Neuter Program

CEDAR GROVE MANSION Inn & Restaurant, Vicksburg MS Now hiring a front desk clerk. Part time position. Hours and Days vary.

Must be willing to work weekends and Holidays. Experience with customer service, computers, phones, reservations and lodging.

Send resumes to: info@cedargroveinn.com

LOST! MALE RED Merle Australian Shepherd and Female Yellow Labrador/ Pit Bull mix. Hwy 27 area.

601-529-0116.

Beverly McMillin

Ready to build your dream home? I have the lot for you!

14. Pets & Livestock

LOST DOG!

GRAY AND WHITE male Tabby kitten. Wearing a teal collar with a bell, missing from the Dana Road, Deerfield Drive vicinity. 601-6340560, 601-529-0690.

NINA ROCCONI

601-415-4503 • 601-636-5947

14. Pets & Livestock

07. Help Wanted

LOST!

Real Estate McMillin And

3 bedrooms, 2 baths, updated kitchen, hardwood floors.

601-415-6868

07. Help Wanted

LOST DOG!

REDUCED TO $80,000!

REALTOR ASSOCIATEÂŽ

06. Lost & Found

GROWN WHITE MALE Foxhound. Chapel Hills area. 601-415-1504.

4.2 acres 3 bedroom, 2 bath with screened porch on lake.

Extra lot for garden included, covered shed for boat.

1491 CULKIN ROAD

Marianne May Jones

601-636-5947

9 POUND CHIHUAHUA. “Justin� is an all white male lost on Clay Street/ First North Street area. REWARD. 601-630-3276.

118 Singing Hills Cove

www.leechrealestateofvicksburg.com

REALTORÂŽ GRI

Andrea Lewis • 601-218-0644 Nina Rocconi • 601-415-4503 Mindy Hall • 601-631-4144 Tommy Shelton • 601-415-2507 Richard Engel • 601-831-2597 Cathy Mitchell • 601-218-2763

www.leechrealestate.net

5 Dogwood Heights County location on quiet cul-de-sac 3 bedrooms 2.5 baths. Home has been recently remodeled with a new kitchem, floors and paint. 1.1 wooded acres with workshop.

2010 Realtor Associate of the Year LEECH REAL ESTATE OF VICKSBURG, INC.

Vanessa Leech, Broker • 601-415-4114

Happy New Year from A Reputable Real Estate Company with Proven Results

This beautiful quality custom built home features an open floor plan with a fabulous kitchen. Home has 4 BR, 3 BA and 1 half bath. There is a formal dining, fireplace in family room. Heart pine floors. Rinnal hot water heater, life time warranty on frames on Garrell windows and 50 year warranty on windows. Stainless appliances with built in ice maker and granite counter tops.

& Coldwell Banker All Stars, LLC

Over 34 years of experience put to work for you!

Start 2012 with any of our reliable realtors for all your housing needs:

REDUCED • A STEAL OF A DEAL !

203 CHARLESTON DRIVE

Kellye Carlisle, GRI

Call Andrea at

EMAIL: ANDREA@JONESANDUPCHURCH.COM Andrea Upchurch WWW.VICKSBURGHOMES.COM

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CONSTRUCTION

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Framing, Remodeling, Cabinets, Flooring, Roofing & Vinyl Siding State Licensed & Bonded

Jon Ross 601-638-7932

ROCKET TAXICAB

601-636-0491

FREE

Rides for Children 4 & Under

SPEEDIPRINT & OFFICE SUPPLY • Business Cards • Letterhead • Envelopes • Invoices • Work Orders • Invitations (601) 638-2900 Fax (601) 636-6711 1601-C North Frontage Road Vicksburg, MS 39180

Simmons Lawn Service

Professional Services & Competitive Prices • Landscaping • Septic Systems • Irrigation: Install & Repair • Commercial & Residential Grass Cutting Licensed • Bonded • Insured 12 years experience Roy Simmons (Owner) 601-218-8341

All Business & Service Directory Ads MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE !

To advertise your business here for as little as $2.83 per day, call our Classified Dept. at 601-636-7355.

601-636-SELL (7355)

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• Something New Everyday •

18. Miscellaneous For Sale 18 INCH cut seasoned Oak firewood, all split. $70- ½ cord, $130- cord.

Delivered. 601-415-8970.

24. Business Services LOOK! AFFORDABLE TREE CUTTING and trimming.

601-415-8970.

D & D TREE CUTTING HOME COMPUTER SERVICE and repair. Reasonable prices. Pick up available .601502-5265, 601-636-7376.

OAK FIREWOOD $70 ½ cord, $40 ¼ cord. Free Delivery and Stack. 601-2187579.

THE PET SHOP “Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique” 3508 South Washington Street Pond fish, Gold fish, Koi, fish food aquarium needs, bird food, designer collars, harnesses & leads, loads of pet supplies!

Bring your Baby in for a fitting today!

Stacy Douglas Antiques.

New shipment from New Orleans!

619 Crawford Street (beneath Cinnamon Tree). 504-427-4071.

TANNING BED. 16 bulb Suntanna, one owner, new bulbs, 110 outlet. $800.

601-218-1458.

THE BEST WAY to bargain hunt is to check the Classifieds Daily. We make it easy with our convenient home delivery.

For details call 601-636-4545, Circulation.

TWIN MATTRESS SETS $175, Full sets $199. New sofa love seat $675. 601638-7191. Discount Furniture Barn.

USED TIRES! LIGHT trucks and SUV's, 16's, 17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A few matching sets! Call TD's, 601-638-3252.

19. Garage & Yard Sales

•Trimming • Lawn Care • Dirt Hauled • Insured For FREE Estimates Call “Big James” 601-218-7782 D.R. PAINTING AND CONSTRUCTION. Painting, roofing, carpentry service. Licensed, bonded. Free estimates! Call 601-638-5082.

DIRT AND GRAVEL hauled. 8 yard truck. 601638-6740.

DIRT, SAND, CLAY gravel, 6/10. Anywhere and Anytime.

601-218-9233, 601-638-9233.

STILL HAVE STUFF after your Garage Sale?

Donate your items to The Salvation Army, we pick-up!

Call 601-636-2706.

What's going on in Vicksburg this weekend?

Read The Vicksburg Post!

For convenient home delivery call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.

20. Hunting

Call our Circulation Department for CONVENIENT Home Delivery and/ or our On-line Subscription.

Monday- Friday, 8am-5pm, 601-636-4545.

21. Boats, Fishing Supplies What's going on in Vicksburg?

Read The Vicksburg Post!

For convenient home delivery, call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.

24. Business Services CLARK’S CONSTRUCTION

Dozer, Track hoe, Form setting, Concrete, Demolition work.

State licensed and Bonded 601-218-9233 • 601-638-9233

Toni Walker Terrett Attorney At Law 601-636-1109 • Bankruptcy Chapter 7 and 13 • Social Seurity Disability • No-fault Divorce

Remember...

CLASSIFIEDS REALLY GO THE DISTANCE! Call 601-636-SELL

To Place Your Ad.

24. Business Services

26. For Rent Or Lease

29. Unfurnished Apartments

STEELE PAINTING SERVICE LLC

RICHARD M. CALDWELL BROKER SPECIALIZING IN RENTALS

BEAUTIFUL LAKESIDE LIVING

Specialize in painting/ sheet rock.

All home improvements Free Estimates 601-634-0948.

Chris Steele/ Owner

ALL MOBILE HOME OWNERS! Single or double wide.

Insulate with a new mobile home roof over kit.

2" foam insulation on top of your home with 29 gauge steel roofing.

Guaranteed to save 25- 30% on heating/ cooling bill.

20 colors to choose from.

Financing available with no money down. Also custom insulated mobile home windows. Free estimate.

Donnie Grubbs.

Toll free 1-888-339-5992 www.donniegrubbs.com

FREE ESTIMATES

✰✰FOR LEASE✰✰

TREY GORDON

I-PHONE REPAIR. Buy, sell and repair. Arcue Sanchez - 601-618-9916.

PLUMBING SERVICES24 hour emergency- broken water lines- hot water heaters- toilets- faucetssinks. Pressure Washingsidewalk- house- mobile homes- vinyl siding- brick homes. 601-618-8466.

River City Lawn Care You grow it - we mow it!

Affordable and professional. Lawn and landscape maintenance.

Cut, bag, trim, edge.

601-529-6168.

34. Houses For Sale

(INCLUDING CORPORATE APARTMENTS) CALL 601-618-5180 caldwell@vicksburg.com

29. Unfurnished Apartments

THE COVE

Commodore Apartments 1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms

• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.

• Beautifully Landscaped

605 Cain Ridge Rd. Vicksburg, MS 39180

601-638-2231

www.thelandingsvicksburg.com

501 Fairways Drive Vicksburg

Classified Advertising really brings big results!

Finding the home you want in the Classifieds is easy, but now it’ practically automatic, since we’ve put our listings online.

Ask about our Holiday special!

601-638-5587 1-601-686-0635

CROSS OVER

1911 Mission 66

INTO THE GOOD LIFE!

Suite B-Apprx. 2450 sq. ft.

Suite F-Apprx. 1620 sq. ft.

Office or Retail!

Great Location!

BRIAN MOORE REALTY Connie - Owner/ Agent

Apartment Homes

318-322-4000

29. Unfurnished Apartments

• Pool • Fireplace • Spacious Floor Plans 601-629-6300

Stop looking, Start living!

Paid cable, water and trash. Washer, Dryer and built-in microwave furnished.

Hours: 8a.m. -5p.m., Mon. - Fri., Closed Saturday & Sunday Post Plaza 1601F North Frontage Rd. Vicksburg, MS 39180

29. Unfurnished Apartments

• Lake Surrounds Community

26. For Rent Or Lease

CALL 601-636-SELL AND PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.

Ask us how to “Post Size” your ad with some great clip art! Call the Classified Ladies at 601-636-Sell (7355).

Call Direct: (601)636-SELL Online Ad Placement: http://www.vicksburgpost.com

ELVIS YARD SERVICES. General yard clean-up, rake leaves, grass cutting, tree cutting, reasonable. 601415-7761. Quick response.

ROOFING & RESTORATION •Roof & Home Repair (all types!)

•30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref Licensed • Insured 601-618-0367 • 601-456-4133

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CLOSET PHOBIA? Clear out the skeletons in yours with an ad in the classifieds.

601-636-SELL

NEED AN APARTMENT? Enjoy the convenience of downtown living at

The Vicksburg Apartments UTILITIES PAID! 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments Studios & Efficiencies 801 Clay Street 601-630-2921 www.the-vicksburg.com

Spacious 1, 2, and 3 bedroom apartment homes!

• CABLE FURNISHED • HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS AVAILABLE • NUMEROUS LAVISH AMENITIES • SPARKLING SWIMMING POOL • BASKETBALL COURT • VOLLEYBALL COURT www.gfprop.com

601-636-0503

• 2160 S. Frontage Rd.

29. Unfurnished Apartments

30. Houses For Rent

CYPRESS HILL APARTMENTS- 402 Locust- 1 bedroom- $250 bi-weekly with lights. 601-456-3842.

3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths.

Formal dining/ living, den, hardwood floors, 2000 square feet, $1150. 601-831-0066.

DOWNTOWN, BRICK, MARIE Apartments. Total electric, central air/ heat, stove, refrigerator. $520, water furnished. 601-636-7107, trip@msubulldogs.org GATED, HAS IT ALL. 1 bedroom/ 2 bedroom, $450/ $550.

Washer/ dryer included. 1115 First North. 512-787-7840.

Classifieds Really Work!

Finding the home you want in the Classifieds is easy, but now it’s practically automatic, since we’ve put our listings online.

29. Unfurnished Apartments

MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTS Elderly & Disabled 3515 Manor Drive Vicksburg, Ms. 601-636-3625 Equal Housing Opportunity

Please call one of these Coldwell Banker professionals today: Valorie Spiller 601-618-6688 Tim DeRossette 601-301-0625 Reatha Crear 601-831-1742 Polly Vinzant 601-415-5001 Marianne Jones 601-415-6868 Kellye Carlisle 601-529-4215 John H. Caldwell 601-618-5183 John Arnold 601-529-7376 Jimmy Ball 601-218-3541 Kim Steen 601-218-7318 Katherine Crawford 601-218-0020 Hyman Steen 601-218-8821 Herb Jones 601-831-1840 Caffie Ellis 601-415-7010 Bruce Hartfield 601-278-9929 Brenda Love 601-415-2039 Harley Caldwell, broker 601-634-8928 2170 I-20 S. Frontage Rd www.homesofvicksburg.com

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Classified • S O M E T H I N G N E W E V E R Y D A Y • We accept: e y r w • Call Direct: (601)636-SELL Online Ad Placement: http://www.vicksburgpost.com

We Write Thousands Of Best Sellers Every Year...

We’re The Vicksburg Post Classified Advertising Department . . . our job is to help you write effective classified ads so you can have best sellers too!

Give us a call . . . we’ll write one for you!

Call (601) 636-SELL.

Hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, Closed Saturday & Sunday. Post Plaza, 1601-F North Frontage Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180 • P. O. Box 821668 Vicksburg, MS 39182.

Classified Information Line Ad Deadlines Deadlines Ads to appear Deadline Ads to appear Monday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday Friday Friday Saturday Saturday Sunday Sunday

Deadline 2 p.m., Friday 55p.m., p.m.,Thursday Friday 35p.m., Friday p.m., Monday 3 p.m., Monday p.m.,Tuesday Tuesday 35p.m., 5 p.m., Wednesday 3 p.m., Wednesday 11a.m., a.m.,Thursday Thursday 11 11 11a.m., a.m.,Thursday Thursday

30. Houses For Rent

30. Houses For Rent

EAGLE LAKE HOME practically furnished.

Hardwood floors, 1500 square feet, 1 ½ story, on the water, $750 month. Call 601218-1899.

EAGLE LAKE. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, furnished, largest pier on lake. Beautiful view. $1,250 monthly, DirectTV included.

601-218-5348.

29. Unfurnished Apartments

29. Unfurnished Apartments

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Great Staff Great Location, Location, Hard-Working Hard-Working Staff

601-638-7831• •201 201Berryman Berryman Rd 601-638-7831 Rd. READ THE CLASSIFIEDS DAILY! DAILY!

Classified Display Deadlines Ads to appear Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Deadline 5 p.m., Thursday 3 p.m., Friday 3 p.m., Monday 3 p.m., Tuesday 3 p.m., Wednesday 11 a.m., Thursday 11 a.m., Thursday

Classified Ad Rates Classified Classified Line Line Das Ads: Starting Startingatat1-4 1-4Lines, Lines, 11 Day Day for for $8.32 $8.28 Classified line ads are charged according to the number of lines. For complete pricing information contact a Classified Sales Representative today at 601-636-SELL. Ads cancelled before expiration date ordered are charged at prevailing rate only for days actually run, 44line lineminimum minimumcharge charge.$8.32 $8.28minimum minimumcharge. charge.

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31. Mobile Homes For Rent

31. Mobile Homes For Rent

32. Mobile Homes For Sale

1 BEDROOM, and RV's for rent Some with utilities furnished, no pets, deposit required. 601-301-0285.

MEADOWBROOK PROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bedroom mobile homes, south county. Deposit required.

601-619-9789.

16x80 singlewide. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, fireplace, central air. $18,375. 601916-9796, 662-417-2354.

118 RIDGEVIEW. COUNTRY lot. Nice, 3 bedroom 2 bath. $575 plus deposit and references. 601-638-6660.

Classified Advertising really brings big results!

29. Unfurnished Apartments

29. Unfurnished Apartments

S HAMROCK A PA RT M E N T S SUPERIOR QUALITY, CUSTOM CABINETS, EXTRA LARGE MASTER BDRM, & WASHER / DRYER HOOKUPS. SAFE!!

SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT

Internet

32. Mobile Homes For Sale

KEEP UP WITH ALL THE LOCAL NEWS AND SALES...

SUBSCRIBE TO THE VICKSBURG POST TODAY! CALL 601-636-4545, ASK FOR CIRCULATION. NEED A HOME? Credit been a problem? Call the Credit Experts “Guaranteed Credit Approval!” 601-9169796, 662-417-2354.

LOOKING FOR YOUR DREAM HOME?

OWNER FINANCE, NO CREDIT CHECK! 5 bedrooms, 3 baths with land. Must have $5,000 deposit. Call Buddy, 601-941-2952.

Place your classified line ad at

http://www.vicksburgpost.com

Errors In the event of errors, please call the very first day your ad appears. The Vicksburg Post will not be responsible for more than one incorrect insertion.

Mis-Classification No ad will be deliberately mis-classified.

The Vicksburg Post classified department is the sole judge of the proper classification for each ad.

34. Houses For Sale

34. Houses For Sale

5000 GIBSON ROAD. 2500 square foot brick, 3 bedroom, 2 bath with 2 car garage on approximately 1 acre of land. Large den with built in bar, dining and living room with a office adjacent to master bedroom. Central heat and air, all electric. $157,000. 601-529-5376.

1803 Clay Street www.jonesandupchurch.com

34. Houses For Sale

BY OWNER. 100 Freedom Lane, 5 bedroom, 3 full baths. Spacious living room with fireplace.

Large kitchen, central air/ heat, large lot. 601-415-5693.

Mary D. Barnes .........601-966-1665 Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134 Jill WaringUpchurch....601-906-5012 Carla Watson...............601-415-4179 Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490

3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths.

South county, carport, basement. $35,000. 601529-0829.

CARY, MS. 3 bed, 2 bath home, 4.5 lots. Shown by appointment only. Asking $115,000. 601-824-0270.

USED DOUBLE WIDE. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, central air, will deliver and set-up.

Only $30,000. 662-4172354, 601-916-9796.

Check the real estate listings in the classifieds daily.

CALL 601-636-SEL AND PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.

29. Unfurnished Apartments

29. Unfurnished Apartments

601-661-0765 • 601-415-3333

Jones & Upchurch Real Estate Agency

Broker, GRI

601-636-6490 Kay Odom..........601-638-2443 Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512 Jake Strait...........601-218-1258 Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274 Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318 Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549

Open Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm

601-634-8928 2170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd.

Bradford Ridge Apartments

Licensed in MS and LA

www.ColdwellBanker.com www.homesofvicksburg.net

Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869 Catherine Roy....601-831-5790 Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893 Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211

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ARNER

REAL ESTATE, INC

JIM HOBSON

Live in a Quality Built Apartment for LESS! All brick, concrete floors and double walls provide excellent soundproofing, security, and safety.

601-638-1102 • 601-415-3333

HOUSES FOR SALE 1862 MLK 807 First North LAND FOR SALE 801 First North Farmer St. Bl. 3 Call 601-942-1838 gspencerprater@aol.com

29. Unfurnished Apartments

Bienville Apartments The Park Residences at Bienville 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms and townhomes available immediately.

REALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER

601-636-0502

35. Lots For Sale 5.9 ACRE CORNER lot in Silver Creek Subdivision for sale by owner. 601-6367800 8am- 4pm MondayFriday.

BEAUTIFUL 3.03 ACRES, ready for building.

Bill Strong Road. Price reduced to $17,000. 601-2187816 , 601-218-9984.

37. Recreational Vehicles

and

VICKSBURGS NEWEST, AND A WELL MAINTAINED FAVORITE. EACH WITH SPACIOUS FLOOR PLANS AND SOPHISTICATED AMENITIES. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

FOR LEASING INFO, CALL 601-636-1752

www.parkresidences.com • www.bienvilleapartments.com

4 WHEEL DRIVE Electric hunting golf cart. Rough and tough. 48 volt, street legal. All accessories.

Must see!! $5,500. Sacrifice. 60-4152224.

40. Cars & Trucks YEAR END SPECIAL!!

2003 Buick Rendevous $955 Down $176 Bi -Weekly Gary’s Cars 601-883-9995 Garyscfl.com

1985 JEEP RENEGADE 4 wheel drive, 6 cylinder, soft top. Runs Great!! 601415-2224. $5,500 Sacrifice.

1996 CROWN VICTORIA. Loaded, good condition. $4,000. 601-218-2030.

2005 NISSAN PATHFINDER LE. Fully loaded, 73,000 miles, white, 20 inch rims, tan leather, new tires, sunroof, tinted windows. $13,700. 601-2185336, 601-636-7737.

2008 HONDA ACCORD EXL 14,000 Great condition very clean highway miles 97500,leather, new 70k tires new breaks 256309-9759 or 601-529-9921

Go Public in the

CLASSIFIEDS Announce it in the Classifieds...

•Merchandise for sale •Garage & Estate Sales •Pets for Adoption •Household Services •Position Available •Wanted to Buy •Real Estate and/or Apartments •Vehicles for Sale Call

601-636-SELL

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State voters go to the polls, there will be a bunch of names besides Barack, Mitt, and Newt to choose among—like Bear Betzler, Craig “Tax Freeze” Freis, and Vermin Supreme (right). In fact, 14 Democrats and a record 30 Republicans are on the ballot, from the bold to the bizarre. Welcome to the quirky world of the New Hampshire primary, where basically all you need to run for president is a $1,000 filing fee and a dose of chutzpah. So what inspires these candidates to enter the political fray? Some feel strongly about a particular issue, like Joe Robinson, who thinks the U.S. should refine gasoline from domestic coal. “Frankly, I don’t have the money or the means [to win],” he says, but he wants candidates to talk more about energy independence. Then there’s Supreme, whose issues include mandatory toothbrushing, zombie preparedness, and federal funding of time travel research so he can “kill Hitler with my bare hands.”

Though the chances of a President Supreme are slim, the state is committed to granting everyone, from the president to the political novice, an equal voice. “Rather than someone screening New Hampshire 9-year-old Ari Garnick the candidates for the asked the top candivoters,” Secretary of dates about their favorite superheroes.

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Is it flattering? Then, by all means, fess up. If, for example, you know that the person interviewing you for a job just won an award or helped the company reach a new benchmark, say, “Oh, I read online that you did such and such.” You’re showing interest in both the person and the company. But if the news you’ve gleaned is in any way questionable or could be a source of pain (like a foreclosure), keep it to yourself.

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Arrange according to use.

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Determine how many towels you really need.

The number will depend on space and how often you do laundry, but two sets per person is fine for most families. Hold on to matching towels; turn the rest into rags and move them to the laundry room. Slip a bar of scented soap into your closet to keep towels smelling fresh.

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Stow sheets inside pillowcases. This spacesaving trick also makes them easy to grab. Two sets of sheets per room is standard.

If you have more than that, rotate them: Put the freshly cleaned ones on the bottom so they all get equal use.

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Store toiletries in baskets or small bins. This will make items easily visible and help you avoid wasting money on things you already have.

Put first aid supplies in one bin, cough and cold treatments in another, travel items in a third. (And be sure to dispose of any expired medications.)

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DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON FAME, SELF-DOUBT, AND FALLING IN LOVE

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aniel radcliffe has elegant hands, which he uses often to make a point as he speaks in his gentle English accent. We are sitting backstage at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre, three hours before a matinee of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, in which for 10 months Radcliffe has starred as the sweetly conniving mail room employee turned executive. It’s his first musical, and it has won him critical praise, in part because his character is so very different from his role as Harry Potter, protagonist of the $7.7 billion–grossing, 10-year film franchise that made this 22-year-old one of the richest actors of his generation.

When I ask Radcliffe how he is, he enthusiastically replies, “I am happy!”—his cheeks dimpling as he grins broadly. The source of his happiness today?

Someone he loves has flown to New York just to be with him.

Charming, serious, and surprisingly open, Radcliffe seems more like a bright college student relaxing between classes than a world-famous actor. At 5-foot-5, wearing a blue shirt, fitted jeans, and white sneakers, he has a dancer’s tight, wiry body and a Visit us at PARADE.COM

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The thing I’ve realized this year is that all that matters at the end of the day is that I’m happy with my life and the people around me.”

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that all actors—no matter their status or brilliance—still feel like fools.

boyish face dominated by large, blue, deeply expressive eyes. With his run in How to Succeed winding down (his last performance was slated for New Year’s Day), he is eager for the release of his first postPotter film, on Feb. 3: The Woman in Black, a character-driven supernatural thriller. “While it’s very frightening,” Radcliffe says of the movie, in which he plays a widowed lawyer, “it’s also about love, grief, and longing. It’s beautifully written and very compelling.”

He is well aware that he has entered the second stage of his career and faces a task that has derailed many former child stars: the transition to adult roles. With candor and humor, he discusses that challenge— as well as his boyhood, his fears, his hopes, and what it means to really be in love—on this winter morning.

Fools?

Above, Radcliffe in his new movie, The Woman in Black. Left, with Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in 2000, after the trio had been cast in the first Harry Potter film.

Then I started to see the potential for acting as storytelling, as being part of something fundamental to human existence. Working with Gary Oldman was a big part of that.

How would you have been different if you had not been Harry Potter?

PARADE When did you know you were interested in acting?

I was 5. I turned to my mom and said, “Mom, I want to be an actor.”

And she said, “No, no.” My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director. [Radcliffe is their only child.]

Growing up, did you have the sense of being an outsider?

Totally! I remember being 6 years old and knowing that I saw the world differently from the rest of the boys in my class. I have always said to myself there must be a reason for me being this weird. There’s got to be a payoff at some point.

Your dad is a Protestant from Ulster and your mom is English and Jewish. Were you raised in a particular religion?

There was never [religious] faith in the house. I think of myself as being

Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I’m English.

My dad believes in God, I think.

I’m not sure if my mom does. I don’t. I have a problem with religion or anything that says, “We have all the answers,” because there’s no such thing as “the answers.” We’re complex. We change our minds on issues all the time. Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

In 2000, a friend of your parents, producer David Heyman, asked you to audition to play Harry Potter, and your parents agreed.

You won the role and your life changed completely.

Yes. I got very lucky at the age of 11 and had this great job. For the first two films, I was just having fun.

[When I was cast] I was at a private school—an almost exclusively white, very privileged place—and I was put into a film set with people from 100 different backgrounds, races, classes, everything. Suddenly, because of Potter, my worldview got much wider than it would have been.

Yes, like we’re conning people and we’re not really any good at it.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage. I’m at the point in my career where I should be learning a huge amount from every job I do, and unless something’s going to give me that, I’m not really very attracted to it.

I have quite a rich inner life, and I’m constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven’t found it yet in acting. When you’re playing a character, you’re only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world. Self-expression is something that I love and yearn for.

I need it, absolutely.

Is that why you write poetry?

You’ve published a few poems and written short fiction.

Poetry is something I love to do.

Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it’s even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words. I write best at night, and I haven’t written nearly as much this year, because after being onstage I get into bed and fall asleep. When filming, normally I sit for an hour and try to write when I get home.

At 17, when you played the deranged, sometimes naked stable boy onstage in Equus, or this past See and hear Daniel! year starring in your Are you a romantic?

View exclusive video first musical, did you Yes. I don’t know and listen to excerpts from the interview worry that the critics where my romanticism at Parade.com would be gunning for comes from. My mom /radcliffe you because you’re a and dad would read to young, successful movie star? me a lot. Treasure Island, Robinson

[laughs] I knew they would. But I’ve worked out recently that I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, “You can’t do that—that’s going to fail,” for me to prove myself wrong. What I’ve learned, particularly this year, is

Crusoe, tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up. I still see something very romantic in the world that perhaps isn’t there. I suppose I want it to be the place of knights and that kind of stuff.

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Yes, absolutely. When growing up, I thought of marriage as being very official, drawing up a contract. It seemed slightly clinical to me. But then you meet somebody that you really love and you think, “Actually, I wouldn’t mind standing up in front of my friends and family and telling them how much I love you and that I want to be with you forever.”

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Knights marry princesses. Do you want to get married?

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I have always said there must be a reason for me being this weird.”

Have you met anyone like that?

Yes, I have. The person I’m with now is pretty wonderful—my girlfriend, Rosie Coker, who I met on the last Potter film. She is a production assistant. We’ve been going out for just over a year now. She landed in New York on Sunday and she’s in my dressing room right now, actually.

Are you in love with her?

Yes, absolutely. When Rosie’s here, every day seems better.

Ultimately, I think, it comes down to that—having somebody in your life who makes you happier than you thought you could be. When you find somebody like Rosie, who is smart, kind, loving, and not crazy, you hang on to her.

Love is also like having a cap on your own happiness, because you continued on page 18

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not uncommon at Becker’s: “If a widowed young woman had a good marriage, she’ll remarry fast,” remarked Shelley Becker Mueller, a friend of Julie’s.

When Dean proposed and Julie accepted, her kids were furious.

There were tears, screaming matches, and cries of “How could you?” Julie thought through how she, as well as her children, felt.

“I’ll always love your dad,” she finally told them. “I love Dean, too, but he won’t go certain places in my heart that remain reserved only for your father.”

For his part, Dean told me he knew Julie was still in love with her first husband. “Still is and always will be. But I’ve also figured out that Julie has an amazing capacity to love. And so I’ve told her: ‘If I can have a little sliver of that heart of yours, you can keep the rest for Jeff.’ ”

LESSONS IN L0VE From a Bridal Shop

In an adaptation from his new book, The Magic Room, a father of three daughters shares some of the sweet truths he learned amid the tulle and lace

By JEFFREY ZASLOW

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is the Magic Room, an 8-by-10foot space with mirrors that carry a person’s image into infinity.

There, I saw women and their mothers weep as they reflected on what had led them to that moment.

Fathers, too, were often overcome, excusing themselves to go outside, pace up and down the street, and wipe their eyes.

In my career, I’ve done reporting at places where I expected to hear touching anecdotes, like maternity wards and nursing homes. But during the year I spent at this shop on Main Street, I heard stories that were every bit as heartfelt and

When I met Courtney Driskill, 29, she was recovering from rheumatic fever, an inflammatory disease that had dominated her 20s, forcing her to routinely sleep 20 hours a day. In order to pay for health insurance, her mother, Susan, took a $6.75-an-hour job at a department store.

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Most shoppers at Becker’s show up with an entourage of bridesmaids; Courtney arrived with just her mom. And Susan, so used to seeing her daughter prone on the couch, wept as Courtney stepped onto the Magic Room’s pedestal. “I didn’t think I’d ever see this day.”

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He got me the Kindle Fire for my birthday, and I can’t put it down.

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You started your career with a Barbie commercial.

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I carry this teeny bottle of sanitizer.

I’m totally weird about it, but Jim [Parsons, her BBT costar] is kind of a germophobe, too.

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Ashley [Tisdale] asked me to go to hers. It was during my first year on 8 Simple Rules and I wore something plain to be understated. But these horribly mean girls said, “Oh, you think you’re going to the Academy Awards in your classy black dress?”

Honestly, it just made me happy to know I wasn’t in that school.

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Rules. What did you learn from him?

He told me secretly that he screwed up his lines all the time because the [live] audience loved to see him make fun of himself.

And I’m not going to lie: There are moments every once in a while when I do it, too. That’s totally John sitting on my shoulder, saying, “Okay, throw one in. Make a mistake and let them see that you’re normal.”

Do you still play PingPong on the set?

Later this month we’ll see you play the missing Stacy Peterson in the Lifetime movie Drew Peterson: Untouchable [Jan. 21, 8 p.m. ET]. What was that like?

We have tournaments, and nd there the h re have been lots of fights. I’m the most competitive person you’ll ever meet.

I wanted to do something more serious, and I had been obsessed with the story. I could understand being wide-eyed and in love with the wrong guy. Don’t watch if you want to keep having a crush on Rob Lowe [who plays Drew]!

But you all get along otherwise?

Before every taping, we do a little huddle and say, “I love you,” and give each other a giant squeeze.

We’ve done it since day one. If someone’s in a bad mood, once we do that, we’re back on track.

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✱ Prevents migraines.

People who exercised three times a week for 40 minutes over three months staved off migraine attacks to the same degree as people who took the migraine medication topiramate.

* Do 30 minutes of cardio exercise five-plus days a week. * Strength-train major muscle groups two to three times weekly. * Stretch at least twice a week.

✱ Eases depression.

Just 30 minutes of treadmill walking boosts mood in people who have major depression, according to a study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.

✱ Lowers blood fats.

Short bouts of exercise help lower triglycerides after you eat. If you can’t commit to 30 minutes or more of exercise at a time, aim for three 10-minute sessions a day.

✱ Fights breast cancer.

Women who were active for more than seven hours a week for 10 years reduced their risk for breast cancer by 16 percent. A brisk half-hour walk five days a week is enough to gain a benefit.

✱ Reduces colon cancer risk.

Washington State University-St. Louis researchers report that people who exercised the most are 24 percent less likely to develop colon cancer than those who exercise the least, and that those who exercised regularly had a lower risk of dying from colon cancer than those who didn’t exercise regularly.

✱ Makes day-to-day life easier.

Older people who walked at a moderate pace for 2 1/2 hours per week and did strengthening and stretching exercises for leg muscles scored better on tests measuring balance, walking speed and the ability to get out of a chair, according to a study in the Journal of Gerontology.

They got moving—now, it’s your turn!

“My whole goal has not been to reach a certain size or weight but about functional fitness. If I have to bend down and pick something up, I can do it now. I can go from point A to point B without getting winded. If I want to hang out with friends, I don’t have to worry whether I can stand that long.”

—Emily Sandford does aerobics, Zumba and weight workouts, going from 455 to 342 pounds in her quest to get fit.

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—Dr. Becky Eleck, a family doctor and former couch potato, started running in 2010 and completed her first marathon last fall.

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Drop “exercise” from your vocabulary. Often when we hear that word, we immediately connect it to “weight”—it’s no wonder so many people have such a fraught relationship with the concept.

Instead, use a word that’s joyful and playful. (I prefer “movement.”)

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2 movement, gardening is movement, playing Frisbee and walking the dog are ways of moving. You don’t have to wriggle into Spandex and sweat among a group of strangers to get the benefits of exercise.

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feel. Our fitness culture measures success solely on numbers—how many pounds you’ve lost or calories you’ve burned. Instead of stepping on the scale, rate how energized and motivated you are on a scale of one to five after a workout. If, on most days, you’re more of a two than a five, you may need to try something else.

4 Banish black-and-white thinking.

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A little movement is better than no movement; just do the best you can and don’t look back.

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WATER, WITH A TWIST. Aqua fresca—beverages infused with herbs and fruit popular in Latin cuisine—are all-natural, lower-calorie alternatives to soda. You can get them at your local market or make your own “fresh water”: Blend water with mashed whole fruit, a little sugar and a splash of lime juice.

IMMUNE BOOSTERS—IN A SHOT GLASS. Probiotics, those beneficial bacteria that give yogurt its good-for-your-gut reputation, are showing up in shotsize servings of fruit juices and soy, rice and oat beverages. Available at Whole Foods MORE HOT TRENDS! Get and some supermarkets, these them at Spryliving. drinks also reportedly boost com/foodtrends your immunity.

3 slices turkey bacon, chopped 3 ½ lbs. chicken pieces, skin removed 1 onion, chopped 2 celery stalks, chopped 1 head garlic, cloves peeled 1 tbsp tomato paste ½ lb. cremini mushrooms, sliced 1 cup frozen small onions 1 (14 ½-oz) can reduced-sodium chicken broth ½ cup dry white wine ½ lb. small red potatoes, quartered 4 carrots, cut into 2-inch lengths 2 tbsp all-purpose flour 2 tbsp water 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley 1. Heat nonstick Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add bacon and cook until crisp, about 5 minutes; transfer to paper towels to drain.

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Reduce heat and simmer, covered, until vegetables are tender and juices run clear when chicken thigh is pierced, about 25 minutes.

5. Meanwhile, whisk together flour and water in small bowl. Stir in about 1⁄4 cup of hot stew liquid until blended. Add liquid to pot and cook, stirring occasionally, until liquid bubbles and thickens, about 3 minutes. Serve sprinkled with parsley.

Serves 6.

PER SERVING: 295 cal, 7g fat, 96mg chol., 33g prot., 22g carbs., 4g fiber, 360mg sodium.

Weight Watchers; 2012. Used by permission of John Wiley & Sons.

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Spry: How has The Biggest Loser helped with your own weight loss journey?

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Alison: I’ve learned to look at portion size, after finding out that most people eat 2 ½ times as much breakfast cereal as the serving size listed on the box. I also eat slower now—I used to be the first person done eating. And I find that I eat less and stop when I’m full rather than eating everything on my plate.

Spry: What seems to be the best motivator for contestants on the show?

Alison: People can feel very alone in the weight loss process and having a support system makes a huge difference. I’ve seen how contestants motivate each other, and how important having a support system is for continuing to lose or maintaining their weight loss after they leave the ranch.

Alison: Some contestants have said they feel uncomfortable going to a gym. I don’t think going to a gym is mandatory to get fit. Instead, find an activity you enjoy, even if that means taking a walk with a friend or working out at home with a DVD. Spry: Many people focus exclusively on their diet when they’re trying to lose weight.

How does exercise contribute to weight loss success both physically and emotionally?

Alison: For me, exercise is a way to release stress. I can burn through negative energy in a healthy way. I see so many women who put everyone else in their family first, but if your loved ones are relying on you, you owe it to yourself and to them to stay healthy. Taking care of yourself isn’t being selfish, it’s being smart.

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