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B1Logging clearing bluffs of ChickasawBy Danny Barrett [email protected]

Robert “Boo” Keyes Jr. has some heady plans for his 85 acres of land that tower above North Washington Street, which divides the high bluffs once known as Walnut Hills from the swampy lowlands gener-ally defined as Chicka-saw Bayou.

“I plan to build me a house one day up there,” said Keyes, who pur-chased extra land from Anderson-Tully Co. last year after dirt was used from his land to protect the company’s lumber yard and sawmill from the Mississippi River Flood of 2011. Some of Keyes’ land is being cleared for eventual development, he said.

“(Anderson-Tully) reserved the right to cut timber on it for 12 months,” Keyes said. “I’ll just be left with a dirt pit and the ground once they’re done.”

But he might also have history.

The area is where Maj. Gen. William T. Sher-man led a charge against Confederates in Decem-ber 1862, covering areas between the present-day Yazoo Diversion Canal and North Washington Street, along both sides of the highway and up what is now U.S. 61 North to the Mississippi 3 exit, said Terry Winschel, historian for Vicksburg National Military Park.

None of the battlefield is in the park’s footprint and won’t be anytime soon — short of an act of Congress. Clearing trees on private property in the vast Chickasaw Bayou Battlefield on the park’s periphery is fine in the government’s eyes, regardless of how the his-tories of the winter and spring of 1862-63 are tied together.

“It’s private property,” park superintendent Mike Madell said. “They can do what they want.”

On Dec. 26, 1862, Sher-man led three Union divi-sions down the river as part of Maj. Gen. Ulysses

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Robert “Boo” Keyes Jr., above, talks on his phone as he stands with his dog, Big Boy, on the bluffs of his Chickasaw Bayou property overlook-ing the historic site of the Chickasaw Bayou Battle off North Washington Street; at left, a clearing from logging by Anderson-Tully Company; and below, vehicles on North Washington Street pass a marker explaining the his-toric significance of the area.

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WASHINGTON — Just how rich is Mitt Romney? Add up the wealth of the last eight presidents, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Then double that number. Now you’re in Romney territory.

He would be among the rich-est presi-dents in American history if elected — probably in the top four.

He couldn’t top George Washington who, with nearly 60,000 acres and more than 300 slaves, is considered the big daddy of presidential wealth. After that, it gets com-plicated, depending how


WASHINGTON — Fuzzy math, Illinois State University’s president called it. “Political theater of the worst sort,” said the University of Wash-ington’s head.

Presi-dent Barack Obama’s new plan to force colleges and uni-versities to contain tuition or face losing federal dollars is raising alarm among education leaders who worry about the threat of government overreach. Particularly sharp words came from the presi-dents of public universi-ties; they’re already frus-trated by increasing state budget cuts.

The reality, said Illinois State’s Al Bowman, is that simple changes cannot easily overcome deficits at many public schools. He said he was happy to hear Obama, in a speech Friday at the University of Michigan, urge state-level support of public univer-sities. But, Bowman said, given the decreases in

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A crude method of making metham-phetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get any-where near the drug: It is fill-ing hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiring millions of dollars in advanced treatment — a burden so costly that it’s contributing to the closure of some burn units.

So-called shake-and-bake meth is produced by combining raw, unstable ingredients in a 2-liter soda bottle. But if the person mixing the nox-ious brew makes the slight-est error, such as removing the cap too soon or acciden-tally perforating the plastic, the concoction can explode, searing flesh and causing per-manent disfigurement, blind-ness or even death.

An Associated Press survey of key hospitals in the nation’s most active meth states showed that up to a third of patients in some burn units were hurt while making meth, and most were uninsured. The average treatment costs $6,000 per day. And the average meth patient’s hospital stay costs $130,000 — 60 percent more than other burn patients, according to a study by doc-tors at a burn center in Kala-mazoo, Mich.

At least seven burn units across the nation have shut down over the past six years, partly due to consolidation but also because of the cost of treating uninsured patients, many of whom are connected to methamphetamine.

Burn experts agree the annual cost to taxpayers is well into the tens if not hun-dreds of millions of dollars, although it is impossible to determine a more accurate number because so many meth users lie about the cause

of their burns.Larger meth labs have been

bursting into flame for years, usually in basements, back-yard sheds or other private spaces. But those were fires that people could usually escape. Using the shake-and-

bake method, drugmakers typically hold the concoction up close, caus-ing burns from the waist to the face.

“You’re hold-ing a flame-thrower in your hands,” said Jason Grellner

of the Franklin County, Mo., Sheriff’s Department.

Also known as the “one-pot” approach, the method is popu-lar because it uses less pseu-doephedrine — a common component in some cold and allergy pills. It also yields meth in minutes rather than hours, and it’s cheaper and easier to conceal. Meth cooks can carry all the ingredients in a backpack.

The improvised system first emerged several years ago, partly in response to attempts by many states to limit or forbid over-the-coun-ter access to pseudoephed-rine. Since then, the shake-and-bake recipe has spread to become the method of choice.

By 2010, about 80 percent of labs busted by the federal Drug Enforcement Admin-istration were using shake-and-bake recipes, said Pat Johnakin, a DEA agent spe-cializing in meth.

So instead of a large lab that supplies many users, there are now more people making meth for their personal use. The consequences are show-ing up in emergency rooms and burn wards.

“From what we see on the medical side, that’s the pri-mary reason the numbers seem to be going up: greater numbers of producers making smaller batches,” said Dr.

Michael Smock, director of the burn unit at Mercy Hospi-tal St. Louis.

It’s impossible to know pre-cisely how many people are burned while making shake-and-bake meth. Some avoid medical treatment, and no one keeps exact track of those who go to the hospital. But many burn centers in the nation’s

most active meth-producing states report sharp spikes in the number of patients linked to meth. And experts say the trend goes well beyond those facilities, easily involving thousands of drug users.

Researchers at the Univer-sity of Iowa found that people burned while making meth typically have longer hospi-

tal stays and more expensive bills than other burn patients — bills that are frequently absorbed by the hospital since a vast majority of the meth-makers lack insurance.

Medicaid provides reim-bursement for many patients lacking private insurance, but experts say it amounts to pen-nies on the dollar.

Doctors at Bronson Meth-odist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich., performed a five-year study of meth patients in the early 2000s, then a follow-up study in 2009-2010. Their inves-tigation concurred with the Iowa findings. The Kalama-zoo study also found that meth burn victims were more likely to suffer damage to the lungs and windpipe, spent more time on ventilators and needed sur-gery more often.

That report also found that only about 10 percent of meth patients had private insurance coverage, compared with 59 percent of other patients. And in many cases, their injuries leave them unable to work.

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Meth explosions taking toll on hospital resourcesSome burn centers forced to close due to high cost of treatment

SHAKE-AND-BAKE

The associaTed press

The average treatment costs $6,000 per day.

And the average meth patient’s hospital stay costs $130,000 — 60

percent more than other burn patients

BOIL wAtER

Eagle LakeThe Eagle Lake Water Dis-

trict has lifted a boil water alert for customers who get their drinking water from the district.

Tests performed by the Mississippi Department of Health’s laboratory indi-cate that the water is safe to drink.

Firefighters in Franklin County, Mo., battle a blaze from a shake-and-bake meth lab explo-sion in January 2010

The interior of a home in Clarksville, Tenn., after being damaged by a shake-and-bake meth lab explosion in December.

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — On the weekend before the pivotal Florida primary, Newt Gingrich vowed Saturday to stay in the race for the Repub-lican presidential nomination until the national convention this summer even if he loses Tuesday. Front-runner Mitt Romney poured on the criti-cism of his rival in television ads airing across the state.

Gingrich’s pledge, followed several hours later by an endorsement from campaign dropout Herman Cain, raised the prospect of an extended struggle inside the party as Republicans work to defeat President Barack Obama in the fall. “You just had two national polls that show me ahead,” he said. “Why don’t you ask Gov. Romney what he will do if he loses” in Florida.

The former Massachusetts governor countered a few hours later while in Panama City. “I think we are going to win here, I sure hope so,” he said.

As the two rivals made their appeals to Hispanic, Jewish and tea party voters, veter-ans of the armed forces and others, all known indicators pointed to a good day for Romney in the primary.

He and his allies held a 3-1 advantage in money spent on television advertising in the race’s final days. Robust early vote and absentee ballot totals followed a pre-primary turnout operation by his cam-paign. Even the schedules the two men kept underscored the shape of the race — mod-erate for Romney, heavy for Gingrich.

Campaigning like a front-runner, Romney made few ref-

erences to Gingrich. Instead, he criticized Obama’s plans to cut the size of the armed forces. “He’s detached from reality,” the former Massachu-setts governor said.

“The foreign policy of ‘pretty please’ is not working terribly well,” he added. Romney said he wants to add 100,000 troops, not cut them.

If his personal rhetoric was directed Obama’s way, the television commercials were trained on Gingrich, whose victory in last Satur-day’s South Carolina primary upended the race for the nom-ination. A new ad released as the weekend began is devoted to the day in 1997 when Ging-rich received an ethics repri-mand from the House while serving as speaker and was ordered to pay a $300,000 fine.

Nearly the entire 30-second ad consists of NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw’s nation-

ally broadcast description of the events on the evening news. “By an overwhelming vote, they found him guilty of ethics violations; they charged him a very large financial pen-alty, and they raised — sev-eral of them — raised serious questions about his future effectiveness,” Brokaw said that night, and now again on televisions across Florida.

Both NBC and the former newsman registered objec-tions. The network called on the campaign to stop using the footage and Brokaw said in a statement, “I do not want my role as a journalist com-promised for political gain by any campaign.”

A Romney adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, said the cam-paign wasn’t likely to stop running the ad. “We believe it falls within fair use,” he said. “We didn’t take the entire broadcast; we just took the first 30 seconds.”

Whatever its impact, the ad represented part of a bar-rage that Gingrich could not match.

A second Romney ad said Gingrich had “cashed in” as a Washington insider while the housing crisis was hitting Florida particularly hard.

Figures made available to The Associated Press showed Romney was spending $2.8 million to air television com-mercials in the final week of the Florida campaign. In addition, a group support-ing him, Restore Our Future, was spending $4 million more, for a combined total of $6.8 million.

By contrast, Gingrich was spending about $700,000, and Winning Our Future, a group backing him, an additional $1.5 million. That was about one-third the amount for the pro-Romney tandem.

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Obama to senators: Changethe way you do business

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is pressing his case for changes in how the Senate does busi-ness, hoping to ease the parti-san gridlock, and he wants to bar lawmakers from profiting from their service.

In his radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama said many people he met during his five-state tour after his State of the Union address were optimistic but remained unsure “that the right thing will get done in Washington this year, or next year, or the year after that.”

“And frankly, when you look at some of the things that go on in this town, who could blame them for being a little

cynical?” Obama said.The president reiterated his

calls for government reform made in Tuesday’s address, saying he wants the Senate to pass a rule that requires a yes-or-no vote for judicial and public service nominations after 90 days. .

Obama said he also wants Congress to pass legislation to ban insider trading by law-makers and prohibit lawmak-ers from owning securities in companies that have business before their committees.

In addition, the president is seeking to prohibit people who “bundle” campaign con-tributions from other donors for members of Congress from lobbying Congress.

Gingrich vows to stay in race until conventionHerman Cainthrows supportbehind Newt


Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich gestures as he campaigns in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Saturday.

Justice Department turns over docs in Fast and FuriousWAS H I NGT O N (A P )

— Newly released Justice Department e-mails sent to Capitol Hill for a congressio-nal inquiry into a gun-smug-gling operation indicate that the head of the department’s criminal division suggested letting some illicit “straw” weapons buyers in the U.S. transport their guns across the border into Mexico where they could be arrested.

According to the e-mails turned over to the House Over-sight and Government Reform Committee, the Justice official, Lanny Breuer, made the sug-gestion to Mexican officials because it “may send a strong

message to arms traffickers.”Mexico has stringent gun

control laws with long prison terms as opposed to the U.S., where small-time “straw” buyers working for major traf-fickers seldom face jail time.

Breuer made the remarks in February 2011, around the time that agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were telling congressional inves-tigators that the ATF had allowed hundreds of illicitly purchased guns in the opera-tion known as Fast and Furi-ous flow into Mexico — a con-troversial tactic known as “gun-walking” aimed at fol-

lowing gun buyers to major traffickers.

In Fast and Furious, the ATF lost track of the guns and many were eventually recov-ered from crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico, including one

location near Nogales, Ariz., where U.S. border patrol agent Brian Terry was slain on Dec. 14, 2010. Two guns found at the murder scene were con-nected to Operation Fast and Furious.

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EDITORIALTHE VICKSBURG POST

Karen Gamble, managing editor | E-mail: [email protected] | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 123 | Letters to the editor: [email protected] or The Vicksburg Post, P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182Founded by John G. Cashman in 1883 Louis P. Cashman III, Editor & Publisher • Issued by Vicksburg Printing & Publishing Inc., Louis P. Cashman III, President

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STARKVILLE — During his “State of the State” address, Gov. Phil Bryant unveiled a merit pay plan for teachers, saying he would “recommend a ‘Pay for Performance’ program for our teachers based on student attainments and not on subjective evaluations. It is time we started paying for quality, not longevity.”

Merit pay is performance-related pay for teachers based on outcomes or based on the performance of their students — usually in the realm of standardized tests. Teachers and teacher unions have resisted merit pay both nationally and in Mississippi based on claims that there is little evidence that the incentives improve performance beyond “teaching to the test,” that administering such programs are expensive and that such programs produce low teacher morale.

While the topic is as politically sensitive as ever among the state’s teacher unions and for individual educators as well, the concept is gaining momentum in the political arena from the top down. The U.S. government has long been in the performance-pay experiment. The feds provided significant funding for school

systems to pilot programs that offered incentive pay for teachers. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Educa-tion reported that 62 school districts and nonprofit groups received $442 million in funding from the federal Teacher Incentive Fund.

State governments have also been in the perform-ance or merit pay mix, along with individual school dis-tricts. In the past, Alaska,

Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Min-nesota, North Carolina and Texas have uti-lized varied performance pay programs either as pilot or regular programs in their public schools. Within the last year, Kentucky, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maine and Nevada state governments have debated similar plans.

That Bryant would embrace merit pay for teachers is not surprising. When Bryant was a freshman state representative from Rankin County in 1996, the Democratic leadership in state government — House Speaker Tim Ford, Lt. Gov. Ronnie Musgrove and House Appro-priations Committee chairman Rep. Charlie Capps — had an ambitious $52 million teacher pay hike plan on the agenda as the 1997 session took shape.

One of the mightiest voices opposing that plan was then-Gov. Kirk Fordice. Fordice was a proponent of merit pay for teachers, writ-ing in a 1997 veto message: “Philosophically, I do not believe that spending more money on public education will automatically result in higher student test scores. Even the most ardent promoters of increased education fund-ing must admit that a district’s funding level is only one factor that influences the success of its students.”

Fordice was Phil Bryant’s Republican political godfather. The merit pay concept is one that’s been a favorite of legislative conservatives for more than 20 years in Mississippi politics. Now, Republicans control both houses of the Legisla-ture and the Governor’s Mansion. Bryant’s pro-posed education reforms line up with reforms proposed by other GOP governors across the country.

During the administration of former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, the Legislature passed a six-year phased, $336 million comprehen-sive teacher pay hike. The Legislature loosely linked performance of the school districts to that pay hike bill.

Back when Bryant was a freshman state leg-islator in the minority in the House, merit pay was little more than a throwaway line in Kirk Fordice’s veto messages — vetoes that were routinely and almost summarily overridden. But the legislative numbers, an ailing state budget and public sentiment finely attuned to accountability make merit pay an issue that may well get traction during the 2012 session.

•Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or [email protected]

Merit pay is perfor-mance-related pay

for teachers based on outcomes or based on

the performance of their students — usu-

ally in the realm of standardized tests.

Gov. Bryant’smerit pay plan hasa long-standingpolitical pedigree

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Economic news a boon to the cityThe American Queen soon will be

docked at Vicksburg’s City Front, while the nation’s largest off-price clothing and housewares franchise will occupy space in the former Kroger building on Pemberton Square Boulevard.

Both will be a boon to the city and their upcoming presence shows that, despite a faltering economy, business is happening in Vicksburg.

The American Queen is scheduled to dock in the city on April 17, nearly four years since it last docked in the River City. The Great American Steam-

boat Company purchased the boat in August and will offer day excursions in Vicksburg. Plans are for Civil War excursions beginning in August, com-memorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Vicksburg, referred to then as “The Gibraltar of the Con-federacy,” surrendered in July 1863, but Vicksburg became a focus for the Union in the winter of 1862.

Getting the Queen — and the visitors onboard — to make the city a desti-nation can only have a positive effect on the local economy. The city should immediately prepare by making the

city as aesthetically beautiful and wel-coming to visitors as possible.

Also pleasing to see is the T.J. Maxx announcement. That will put three substantial retailers — Citi Trends, Petsense and T.J. Maxx — at the old Kroger. Improvements to the Vicks-burg Mall and retail stores along Pem-berton Square Boulevard show a com-mitment to Vicksburg.

We applaud the recent moves and are anticipating the sweet sounds of the calliope as the American Queen eases up and down the river.

‘Pardon-gate’ shows no signs of letting upIt could be a case of when did the

attorney general’s office know and what did he do? Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, under fire for issuing about 200 pardons to con-victed felons in his final days in office, is claiming that a member of Attor-ney General Jim Hood’s staff not only knew about the upcoming pardons, but gave advice to assist the convicts in securing their release.

In response, Hood spokeswoman Jan Schaeffer said the claims had, “abso-lutely no merit” and that they would be argued in court at a proper time. Hood’s refusal to address the claims directly has to open the possibility that his office knew in advance. If the AG’s office was aware before the par-dons were issued, could Hood’s fre-quent press conferences and outrage be politically motivated?

It is no secret that Hood, the state’s only Democratic statewide office-

holder, and Barbour, the former two-term Republican governor, have butted heads for years. Their political battles certainly call into question the political motivations behind both the pardons and the outrage that followed.

While the political mudslinging shows no signs of letting up, Hinds County Circuit Judge Tommie Green is mulling a Hood challenge based on the constitutionality of the pardons. Hood is taking on the provision that requires placement of legal notices in a newspaper in the county in which the crime was committed. The notice has to be placed for 30 days in daily news-papers or five times in a weekly news-paper, Hood has said. He has said that of the 203 pardons Barbour granted, 168 had no publication or insufficient publications.

Many of those released have claimed that they received vague instruc-tions from the state parole board

and local newspapers. Parole Board spokeswoman Shannon Warnock said she “informally” told people to publish notices in the paper “for a month.” Convicts claim, though, that many weekly newspapers told appli-cants they could publish once a week for four weeks. Hood said, “The law clearly says 30 days. Four weeks is 28 days.”

Hood wants those who were freed returned to prison. Green has sched-uled a hearing on Friday to consider the motions.

We hope the attorney general — the top law enforcement agent in the state — is not playing politics with such an issue. To know that, though, the people need to know what those in his office were saying and when. So far, Hood has refused to answer direct questions from The Associated Press as to what, if any, advice his office gave.

We have not heard the last of this

Moving forwardIn a four-hour span on Tuesday night,

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant delivered his State of the State address and Pres-ident Barack Obama held forth on the State of the Union. How the two execu-tives see governing shows the chasm in a divided country where many want limited government interference and free-market solutions against the nanny-state, government-knows-best solutions.

Among the most defining topics were energy, jobs and taxes.

EnergyBryant advocated for offshore drilling

for natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico. He unveiled an ambitious plan to begin converting the state’s vehicle fleet to natural gas. Bryant said he wanted Mississippi to be a national leader in energy production.

Obama wants to double-down on clean energy solutions. But to get to the day when clean energy is viable and affordable, the use of fossil fuels, especially oil, will be paramount in making the transition. He did not men-tion his denial of a permit for the Key-stone XL Pipeline that would stretch from Canada to Texas.

With escalating tensions in Iran and threats to close a key waterway for oil, his denying the permit is vexing. Not only will it create jobs immediately, it will provide America a consistent source of oil from our closest ally for years to come.

Jobs

Bryant said his first goal is to make sure every Mississippian has a job. With a state unemployment rate at more than 10 percent, that will be a dif-ficult sell. Bryant’s predecessor, Haley Barbour, made job creation one of his top priorities and attracted several large corporations to the state.

Obama offered incentives to busi-

nesses to return to the U.S. jobs lost overseas. “Ask yourselves, ‘What you can do to bring jobs back to your coun-try,’ and your country will do every-thing we can to help you succeed,” he said. The federal government should not be in the game of picking winners and losers. If Obama had a more busi-ness-friendly climate, the corporations might return. With the federal health care law set to ratchet up in 2014, many businesses are wary of expand-ing here because of the unknowns involved in the massive legislation.

TaxesBryant thanked the taxpayers in

attendance — likely the more affluent Mississippians who would attend such an event. He expressed a desire to create an executive budget recommen-dation that would take 2 percent of the state’s revenue to replenish the rainy day fund. He also lauded fiscal conser-vatives in the House and Senate whose goal is to keep spending in check. That

thinking flies in direct contrast with that of the president, who has racked up incredible federal debt in his three years and with few signs of the spend-ing binge slowing.

Obama again played the class-war-fare card in pushing for a 5.4 percent “millionaire’s surtax.” The top 1 per-cent of all taxpayers pay 37 percent of the freight, while the bottom 50 per-cent of earners pay 2.25 percent. Is that equal?

No matter the issue, the president’s view and the governor’s view of the future just do not jibe. November’s presidential election will be a refer-endum on whether America as it was founded — land of opportunity where anyone can make it or fail on one’s own accords — will continue, or if the push for “economic equality” will continue this country on a path toward a social-istic society, much the same as Greece.

The election is just over 11 months away. It is sure to be a wild campaign season.

Bryant, Obama speeches highlight nation’s divide

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OXFORD — Mississippi can cata-pult out of the doldrums, Gov. Phil Bryant says.

One emphasis he suggests, as he did while a candidate, is assisting the growth of Jackson’s impres-sive array of medical facilities. St. Dominic, Baptist and University medical centers could be the core of a regional health care supercen-ter. Bryant has seen the numbers on Houston’s hospitals and clinics and their economic impact in Texas. We’re talking thousands of jobs, bil-lions of dollars.

Another, he said, should be off-shore energy exploration, which could be almost as big.

In his first State of the State mes-sage, Bryant also paraded the usual suspects. He said he wants to address the lingering issues that hold Mississippi back — too little education, too much wel-fare, too many teen pregnancies. All who served before him had the same goals, but there are no rapid, sweeping governmental solutions for what are, in many ways, per-sonal problems. If progress comes at all, it’s incremental.

Not so with energy.“To enhance and grow our energy

economy, we should look no fur-ther than our own Gulf of Mexico,” Bryant said. “We are proceeding on a thoughtful, steady course for offshore energy recovery in a lim-ited area primarily southeast of Mississippi’s barrier islands. This recovery effort could produce 350 billion cubic feet of natural gas to help fuel America and Mississippi’s economy.”

Any specific steps toward opening the area will attract opposition and, perhaps, litigation.

People have an affinity for the oceans and there’s instant hostility toward human intrusion — espe-cially when that intrusion means derricks in the sunset.

While natural gas fields do not pose the same risks of pollution that crude rigs do — and with which Gulf Coast residents and businesses are very familiar — it is hazardous work. The chance of fires and explosions is higher with the more volatile gas.

It’s worth the risks, Bryant said. He pointed out that Louisiana and Alabama have long had rigs off-shore, but didn’t mention that pro-posals to explore off other scenic coasts, including Florida, have been shouted down time and again.

To prove he’s learned from politi-cians past, he tossed in the kiddies. Taxes on gas from the Gulf would “generate hundreds of millions of dollars ... is critical to our children’s

future,” he said.Bryant called for a calm and ratio-

nal discussion of opening up new areas for energy exploration, but he made no attempt to mask his belief that government has gone too far with job- and business-killing regulations.

His proposed Mississippi Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Act demonstrates that. If enacted, every state agency would review and eliminate meaningless regulations and regulations found to be neces-sary for a legitimate government purpose would have to be measured against the impact on jobs.

Bryant pounced on President Barack Obama’s tacit veto earlier this month of plans for the Key-

stone XL pipeline that would funnel oil from Canada to refineries in Oklahoma and Texas. “Last week Americans saw the largest poten-tial economic development project in America terminated by regula-tors and politicians in Washington. In Mississippi, I won’t stand for job-killing regulations,” Bryant said. “I believe we can modify many gov-ernment rules to be more business friendly without destroying our planet or endangering lives.”

In terms of broad-based planning, leading Mississippians have not been sitting on their hands regard-ing America’s energy future and, more specifically, how to position Mississippi. Almost three years ago, a coalition dubbed Advance

Mississippi was formed to engage in analysis and planning. Its chair-man has been Glenn McCullough Jr., former mayor of Tupelo and former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority board.

Among findings is that coal is just about the only resource rare around here. Other resources, including nuclear and biomass — which Bryant also mentioned in his State of the State message — have great potential. Even using the flow of the Mississippi River to spin tur-bines (pardon) is not dead in the water.

Mississippi environmental preser-vationists are not as well-funded or vocal as those on the East or West coasts, but the reach of big organi-zations is national. Serious trac-tion toward more offshore gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico, especially if they are in view of land, will attract their attention.

Bryant might see his goal of riches from the sea, but not without a fight.

•Charlie Mitchell is a Mississippi journalist. Write to him at Box 1, University, MS 38677, or e-mail [email protected].

Is it just me or doesn’t anyone care about this deal with the new tax asses-sor? I read an article a week or so ago titled, “Tax assessor seeks OK on $550K for hired help.”

Does Brown, after working in that office for 12 years, not know how to run it? It would appear to me that you voters — and I say you voters because I did not vote for Brown — have just put someone in office who doesn’t know pea turkey about how to do the job.

I would think after 12 years of work-ing in that office something would have stuck with her, but evidently it didn’t. It’s going to cost taxpayers thousands and thousands of dollars to teach this person how to be a tax assessor. This isn’t the first article in the newspaper about Brown. She’s hired people, from another county, to come in and set the office up for her so that it will run “effectively and effi-ciently.” Again I say to you, what’s wrong with this person who has run for an office she can’t set up and run herself “effectively and efficiently?”

In all my years, I can’t remember ever electing an official who had to have someone come in and show him or her how to do his or her job. Why would she want to run for a post that she knew she couldn’t do? Was this just for spite? I certainly hope not.

All of her colleagues who worked with her either retired or were fired. What’s her problem? Ms. Brown, I wish you the best of luck because you’re really going to need it.

People please pay attention when you vote. It’s not a popularity contest, vote for the person who can do the job, not just because you like someone.

Peggy Stokes Vicksburg

WEEK INVIcKsburg

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Vicksburg tasted spring during the week as high temps were steady in the 60s and 70s. Overnight lows ranged from 40 degrees to the low 60s. Nearly 2.5 inches of rain fell during the week.

Ed Claypool, one of 80 civilian employees of the Corps of Engineers’ Vicks-burg District supplementing forces in the Middle East, has returned from his fourth trip to the war zone. He served mainly as a technical adviser on building bases to military specifications.

Jeralyn Stuart, 19, was crowned Miss Vicksburg and Alexis Stevenson, 16, was crowned Miss Vicksburg Out-standing Teen. Also winning titles at the pageant held at the Vicksburg Auditorium were Julie Falgout of Hatties-burg, who was named Miss Riverbend, and Clinton’s Katie Pinkard, who was named Miss Riverbend Outstanding Teen.

The Warren Central Vikings won the Red Carpet Basketball Classic with a win over Bailey Magnet. It was the Vikings’ first win in the annual tournament since 2006.

The nation’s largest off-price retailer of brand-name clothing, T.J. Maxx, plans to lease space in the old Kroger grocery complex on Pember-ton Square Boulevard, accord-ing to the property’s owners. The store would be flanked by Citi Trends and Petsense and is tentatively scheduled to be open by May.

Wyn Pratt and Jennifer George Grey were named the Chamber of Commerce’s Educators of the Year at the Chamber’s annual member-ship banquet and awards ceremony. Pratt is Redwood Elementary’s music teacher, and Grey is a government and history teacher at Vicksburg High School.

The drive to erect a transi-tional shelter for homeless at the former ParkView Regional Medical Center has been scrapped, though organizers say they will look for another site. Representatives of Moun-tain of Faith Ministries, which proposed the center, said owners of the former hospital property advised they were no longer interested in making the site available.

Steven J. Jones, a parale-gal and Jones County native, was appointed by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen as the sixth member of the Vicks-burg Board of Zoning Appeals. He was selected to fill the spot left vacant with Casey Fisher’s resignation in 2010.

Joseph H. Poindexter of Newton was killed when he was struck by a pickup as he walked along Interstate 20 near Bovina. Poindexter is believed to have been walk-ing to get help for his broken-down car.

Rodney Smith, suspended in November from his posi-tion as Warren Central High School principal, was denied reinstatement by the Vicks-burg Warren School Dis-trict Board of Trustees. Smith told the board that he was the target of retali-ation and lies after he filed a complaint against a dis-trict employee; board mem-bers voted for Smith to con-tinue in his reclassified position as “administrator on assignment.”

The Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau kicked in $10,000 in support of the city’s 25th Riverfest spring festi-val. The money, double the amount offered last year, will be paid from the VCVB’s local event sponsorship fund.

Local deaths during the week were Anita Ahner Riddle, Edwin Robert “Bob” Copeland, James “Joker” Jackson Jr., Fred Douglas Shields, Dyanna Lee Miles and Nancy B. Walker.

Voters fouled upby electing Brownto tax assessor post

Bryant will head efforts to harvest offshore energy

Newt Gingrich: FundamentalistWASHINGTON — Some per-

sistence is merely dogged. Newt Gingrich’s persistence is a form of confidence — the firm belief that, given enough time and enough debates, his skills will prevail. He knows how to probe an oppo-nent’s weakness, how to humili-ate a journalist and how to parry an uncomfortable question. The anti-Romneys who came before him were chosen at random. Ging-rich has earned his surge that pro-duced a 13-point victory in South Carolina on Saturday.

Yet Gingrich is more than a per-former. He is the GOP’s chief diag-nostician, specializing in the vivid explanation of public challenges. The ability to think in public is a rare political gift — more common in Britain than in America. Bill Clinton would shine during prime minister’s question time. So would Gingrich.

But Gingrich regularly gets into trouble when moving from analy-sis to prescription. Nearly every problem that crosses the thresh-old of his attention becomes his-torically urgent, requiring a fun-damental solution. This is the reason for his most revealing verbal habit. Systems are “fun-damentally broken” and require “fundamental change.” Oppos-ing views are “fundamentally a lie” and “fundamentally alien to American tradition.” Only the big-gest ideas are sufficient to his self-regard.

So Gingrich diagnoses the genu-ine threat of terrorism and radical Islam. Then he calls for a federal law against Shariah, which would address a nonexistent crisis while stigmatizing an entire faith.

He makes a strong case for early work experience in low-income communities. Then he goes fur-ther to dismiss child labor laws

as “truly stupid” and urges the employment of students as assis-tant janitors.

Gingrich acknowledges the prob-lem of climate change — or at least he once did. But he proposed to combat it through geoengi-neering — the risky manipulation of the planet’s environment by pumping nitrogen into the oceans or deflecting the sun’s rays with vast mirrors.

Gingrich’s proposals for fun-damental change are generally dismissed as Newt being Newt — the hits and misses of a fertile mind. But his misses are frequent, revealing a pattern of poor judg-ment. And eccentricities in a can-didate become troubling when considered in a president.

The former speaker’s challenge to judicial supremacy is a case in point. As usual, Gingrich diag-noses a real problem. Judges are perfectly capable of serious overreach. They have sometimes encroached on legislative func-tions or imposed an intolerant theology of public secularism.

Also as usual, Gingrich presses several steps too far in both rheto-ric and policy. Judicial activists are “grotesquely dictatorial” and “radically anti-American.” They should be subpoenaed by Con-gress and compelled by marshals to testify. The president should

have the right to ignore their rul-ings and abolish circuit courts entirely.

When Gingrich was called out by conservative legal scholars on the radical implications of his proposal, his response was both typical and alarming. He doubled down. After all, he said, “I taught a short course in this at the Univer-sity of Georgia Law School.” And this: “I would suggest to you, actu-ally as a historian, I may under-stand this better than lawyers.”

This is not just a presiden-tial candidate using a strident applause line. This is a presiden-tial candidate promising a con-stitutional crisis, then arrogantly dismissing the criticism of his recklessness.

Currently many conservatives are exercising not just their fran-chise but their imaginations. They picture a debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and they yawn. They envision Ging-rich going after the president, the media and the fundamental failures of liberalism — and their pulses race.

But Republicans need to imag-ine just a little further — elect-ing a president with no history of prudence.

•Michael Gerson’s email address is [email protected].

MICHAELgErsON

Yet Gingrich is more than a performer. He is the GOP’s

chief diagnostician, specializ-ing in the vivid explanation of

public challenges.

People have an affinity for the oceans and there’s instant hostility toward human intru-sion — especially when that intrusion means derricks in

the sunset.

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Arab League halts mission in SyriaBEIRUT — The Arab

League halted its observer mission in Syria on Saturday because of escalating vio-lence that killed nearly 100 people the past three days, as pro-Assad forces battled dissident soldiers in a belt of suburbs on the eastern edge of Damascus in the most intense fighting yet so close to the capital.

The rising bloodshed has added urgency to new attempts by Arab and West-ern countries to find a reso-lution to the 10 months of violence that according to the United Nations has killed at least 5,400 people as Assad seeks to crush persistent protests demanding an end to his rule.

The United Nations is hold-ing talks on a new resolution on Syria and next week will discuss an Arab peace plan aimed at ending the crisis. But the initiatives face two major obstacles: Damascus’ rejection of an Arab peace plan which it says impinges on its sovereignty, and Rus-sia’s willingness to use its U.N. Security Council veto to protect Syria from sanctions.

Syria’s Interior Minister Mohammed Shaar vowed the crackdown would go on, telling families of security members killed in the past months that security forces

“will continue their struggle to clean Syria’s soil of the outlaws.”

Government forces launched a heavy assault on a string of villages near Damascus, aiming to uproot protesters and dissident sol-diers who have joined the opposition, activists said.

Peru: 26 killedin rehab center fire

LIMA, Peru — A fire swept through a two-story pri-vate rehabilitation center for addicts in a poor part of

Peru’s capital on Saturday, killing at least 26 people as firefighters punched holes through walls to rescue resi-dents locked inside.

The “Christ is Love” center for drug and alcohol addicts was unlicensed and over-crowded and its residents were apparently kept inside “like prisoners,” Health Min-ister Alberto Tejada told The Associated Press.

Six men rescued from the building were hospitalized in critical condition, said Peru’s fire chief, Antonio Zavala, adding that most of the vic-tims died of asphyxiation. All the victims appeared to be male.


Syrian army defectors stand guard on a rooftop to secure an anti-Syrian regime protest in the Deir Baghlaba area in Homs province on Saturday.

worldBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Private investors near deal on Greek debtATHENS, Greece (AP) — A

disorderly and potentially dev-astating Greek debt default is looking much less likely.

Greece and investors who have bought its bonds have reached a tentative deal to sig-nificantly reduce the country’s debt and pave the way for it to receive a much-needed $172 billion bailout.

Under the agreement, the $272 billion worth of Greek bonds that investors own would be exchanged for new bonds worth 60 percent less.

The deal would reduce Greece’s annual interest expense on the bonds from about $10 billion to about $4 billion. And when the bonds mature, instead of paying

bondholders $272 billion, Greece will have to pay only $136 billion.

Without the deal, which would reduce Greece’s debt load by at least $158 billion, the bonds held by banks, insur-ance companies and hedge funds would likely become worthless.

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THE SOUTHKaren Gamble, managing editor | E-mail: [email protected] | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 137

THE VICKSBURG POST

SEAN MURPHYPOST WEB EDITOR

Maybe ‘fair’should be‘an excuse’

Here’s a prediction — at the end of this year when the word of the year is announced, it will be “fair.”

Over the next 10 months, especially in the world of perpetual presidential cam-paigning, the word will be ballyhooed around thou-sands of times. It will be used as a dividing tool to pit one against another. It will be used the bring “justice” to this America that, if we listen hard enough, just isn’t very fair anymore.

But what is fair? In base-ball, if the ball lands on the field side of the white line, or the line, it’s in play. If the ball hits the big pole down each baseline, it is fair.

Unlike baseball, though, the definition in life is not so cut and dry.

Picture a track meet with 10 runners. Each lines up in the blocks for a 100-yard dash. Each runner has to cover the same distance wearing basi-cally the same equipment. That is fair.

Now, if the runner in Lane 1 has been consistently faster than the runners in the other lanes, should the Lane 1 runner have to run 110 yards? Well, if the others can’t keep up, wouldn’t it be fair to make the faster runner run farther to give everyone a chance at win-ning? Absurd.

So the runner in Lane 1 fin-ishes first and receives a gold medal. Maybe the second two get medals, as well. The losing seven do not deserve medals, even though many will say that it is fair to rec-ognize the others for “trying just as hard as the rest.”

Did they? Maybe runner 1 ran up and down muddy levees in boots, or through a swimming pool with weighted arms and legs. Maybe he trained three hours longer each day, or worked — not tried — harder than everyone else. So why would anyone want to punish that hard work?

America has been, and always will be, the land of opportunity — not the land of fairness. For many years, opportunities for cer-tain groups were denied for myriad reasons, but in today’s society, the oppor-tunity to succeed is there. Is it difficult at times? Cer-tainly. But think of how much more satisfying it is to climb a mountain on foot rather than driving up the slope in a car. Climb the mountain and the air is dewey sweet and the sense of satisfaction is beyond words. Drive up the mountain, though, and it’s little more than a great view.

We will hear about eco-nomic fairness and want-ing everyone to be winners. With fairness, failure is not an option, but if anything can motivate a person to win it’s failure. That motivation is being stripped under the guise of fairness.

No one can fail. Everyone gets a medal. And if you are faster than your competitors, you have to run 110 yards.

•Sean P. Murphy is web editor. He can be reached at [email protected]

Post ad department wins 14 press association awardsThe Vicksburg Post

advertising department is the winner of 14 awards from the statewide Missis-sippi Press Association.

The awards, including four first place honors in competition with news-papers of similar circu-lation across the state, were announced Saturday during the MPA’s annual mid-winter conference in Jackson.

“I think this again is an indication of the reach that this newspaper has for our advertisers and the quality produced by our staff,” said publisher Pat Cashman.

“These are judged by

out-of-state peers and it’s exceptional to be judged so highly by others in our business,” he said.

Winners of first-place awards were: creative ser-vices representative Quin Geary and retail sales-woman Angela Ross in the Service category for a Mothers Day ad placed by the Center for Pregnancy Choices; creative services director David Girard in the Institutional category for an entry advertising Vicks-burg Catholic School; to Girard and sales rep Sheila Mantz for an ad in the Ser-vice category for United Rehab Associates. For

the same advertisement, Girard and Mantz took a first place in the Magazine category.

Winning second-place awards were: Geary and Ross in the Retail Black & White category; retail saleswoman Janet Rantisi in the Grocery or Restau-rant Black & White cat-egory; Girard and Rantisi in the Magazine category; Girard and Mantz in the Retail category; and Geary in the Theme Page category.

Third-place awards went to: the advertising staff in the Editorial Special Sec-tion category; Geary and

advertising director Barney Partridge in the Editorial House Ad category; Girard and Mantz in Retail Adver-tising; and Rantisi and Geary in Grocery or Res-taurant Color category.

In addition, the advertis-ing department received a third-place award in the Advertising Excellence cat-egory for daily newspapers of about the same size.

The Mississippi Press Association is the trade group for more than 120 newspapers in the state.

This year’s president of the organization is Jimmy Clark, general manager of The Vicksburg Post.

Controlledburns plannedat military parkFrom staff reports

The Vicksburg National Military Park and work-ers from the Natchez Trace Parkway will be conducting a series of controlled burns involving about 56 acres in the military park Monday and Tuesday, weather permitting.

In addition to Fort Hill, con-trolled burns will be set in the vicinity of Fort Garrott and the Railroad Redoubt on the park’s south loop, and Graveyard Road and Thay-er’s Approach on the north loop, said Rick Martin, chief of operations at the park.

Martin said National Park Service wildfire specialists supervised by a specialist from the Natchez Trace will conduct the burns.

The controlled fires are used to help maintain the park, eliminate invasive plant species and provide a more historically accurate view of the park.

E-mailsreveal BPveiledspill rateBy The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — On the day the Deepwater Horizon sank, BP officials warned in an internal memo that if the well was not protected by the blow-out preventer at the drill site, crude oil could burst into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of 3.4 million gallons a day, an amount a million gallons higher than what the government later believed spilled daily from the site.

The e-mail conversation, which BP agreed to release as part of federal court pro-ceedings, suggests BP man-agers recognized the poten-tial of the disaster in its early hours, and company officials sought to make sure that the model-developed information wasn’t shared with outsiders. The e-mails also suggest BP was having heated discus-sions with Coast Guard offi-cials over the potential of the oil spill.

The memo was released as part of the court proceedings to determine the division of responsibility for the nation’s worst offshore oil disaster, which began when the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, 2010, kill-ing 11 men about 50 miles southeast of the Louisiana coast. The first phase of the trial is set to start Feb. 27.

BP officials declined to

See Spill, Page A8.

Alisha Creel, top left, and Twisted Sisters teammate Sherrie Williams dish up some of their team’s fin-ished product during the third annual Chili for Chil-dren cook-off on Saturday morning at Guaranty Bank and Trust on Cherry Street. At left, Bill Fleming, left, his son Bryce Fleming, 14, right, and his friend, Austin Muirhead, 14, pour their chili into a serving bowl. Austin is the son of Angie Brown and Kevin Muirhead. Bryce is the son of Keely Fleming and Bill Fleming. The event, sponsored by K-Hits 104.5 FM and Guar-anty Bank, raised $4,250 for the Warren County Chil-dren’s Shelter. Jo Jo Gram-mar won first place and donated his $150 prize to the shelter. The Voodoo Blues took second place and Oasis Pools and Spas captured third place.

BrEndEn nEvillE•The Vicksburg PosT

Chili Cook-off

Felon out on bond charged with gun possessionBy John [email protected]

A convicted felon was back in jail Saturday night accused of possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.

Vicksburg police Capt. Bobby Stewart said officers arrested Albert Brisco Jr., 23, 900 Wabash Ave., about 1:21 p.m. Saturday after they found a .357 Magnum revolver on the back floor of his car during a traffic stop

at Confederate Avenue and Halls Ferry Road for a seat belt violation. He was in the Issaquena County Jail Satur-day night without bond.

District Attorney Ricky Smith said a Warren County grand jury in October indicted Brisco for man-slaughter in the Feb. 20 death of Latoshia Haggan, 31. He said Brisco was released on $75,000 bond after his arraignment, which was earlier this month.

Haggan was killed when Brisco, driving her Dodge Durango, sped through a roadblock set up by Warren County deputies, careened off a hill near Old Highway 27 and North Frontage Road and landed on Kansas City Southern Railway tracks.

Brisco and two passen-gers, Nicholas M. Smith and Jerome M. Massey, were taken to River Region Medi-cal Center. Brisco was taken to a Jackson hospital.

Brisco, who was on parole for a 2007 burglary convic-tion at the time of the acci-dent, was charged after the accident with possession of a weapon by a convicted felon after a .25-caliber hand-gun was found in the car. He was returned to prison to complete his sentence.

Smith said Brisco was not charged with manslaugh-ter immediately after the accident because authorities were waiting for an accident

reconstruction report by the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol.

Brisco pleaded guilty in August 2007 in Warren County Circuit Court to residential burglary and received a suspended six-year sentence on the condi-tion he complete the Drug Court program. The sen-tence was revoked and he went to prison in 2008. The reason for the revocation was not clear.

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comment. The official amount of oil

that flowed from the well was pegged at 206 million gallons from at least April 22 until the well was capped on July 15, a period of 85 days. That’s a daily flow rate of about 2.4 million gallons — two-thirds of the way to BP’s projection of what could leak from the well if it was an “open hole.” BP has disputed the govern-

ment’s estimates. Having an accurate flow

rate estimate is needed to determine how much in civil and criminal penalties BP and the other companies drilling the well face under the Clean Water Act.

In the memo, a BP official urges not to share the flow-rate projections and refers to the “difficult discussions” the company was having at the time with the Coast Guard.

Gary Imm, a BP manager, told Rob Marshall, BP’s subsea manager in the Gulf,

to tell the modeler doing the estimates “not to communi-cate to anyone on this.”

“A number of people have been looking at this we already have had difficult discussions with the USCG on the numbers,” Imm said in the e-mail string, referring to the Coast Guard and flow estimates.

On April 23, 2010, the Coast Guard, relying on BP’s remotely operated vehicles, said no oil was leaking from the well a mile under the sea. A day later, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry

saidoil was leaking an esti-mated rate of 42,000 gallons a day. In the second week, the official flow rate was increased to 210,000 gallons a day, an estimate the feds con-tinued to use until May 27.

On May 24, BP told Con-gress they used an “undis-closed method to generate much higher figures” than the official estimates, accord-ing to a report from a presi-dential commission investi-gating the spill. BP estimated that the flow rates were between 210,000 gallons and 1.6 million gallons a day.

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Monday• Warren County Board of

Supervisors, 8:30 a.m., Board of Supervisors building, rear conference room

Tuesday• Grand Gulf Nuclear Sta-

tion License Renewal meet-ings; Port Gibson City Hall; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

public meetings this week

localState of the City addressTuesday at Auditorium

Mayor Paul Winfield will give his State of the City address at 6 p.m. Tuesday at City Audito-rium, 901 Monroe St.

Winfield said the address will include a PowerPoint pre-sentation covering the board’s accomplishments over the past three years.

4th suspect in Jan. 9 armed robbery arrestedA Vicksburg man, one of

four men suspected in the Jan. 9 armed robbery of two men in an apartment com-plex parking lot, was in jail Saturday facing robbery and drug charges, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said.

Jeffery Tyrone Langs-ton, 22, 800 Hickory St., was arrested at 8:30 Satur-day morning as deputies served an arrest warrant at the home he shared with relatives.

While looking for Langston, Pace said deputies smelled and saw marijuana in Langs-ton’s bedroom. They secured the room, sent another deputy to get a search war-rant from Justice Court, then returned to find less than an ounce of marijuana, pack-aging materials, scales and

$5,400 in cash, Pace said. Pace said relatives were at

the home when the mari-juana was found, but no other arrests were made.

Langston and three others — Jacoby Johnson, 22, Bryant Kevin Williams, 19, and Domonic Rashard Turner, 20 — are accused of robbing two men in the park-ing lot of the Apple Orchard Apartments, 902 Blossom Lane, on Jan. 9 in which two gold chains, two cell phones and $15 were reported stolen, Pace said.

During a traffic stop Jan. 9, Johnson, Williams and Turner were arrested, but Langston fled on foot, Pace said. The cell phones and one of the chains were recovered

from the vehicle. The other chain reported stolen was recovered in the parking lot.

Johnson and Williams are out of jail on bond, while Turner remains in the Warren County Jail on $10,000 bond, records showed.

Morning traffic stopleads to drug arrest

A Saturday morning traf-fic stop for a seat belt viola-tion at Cherry and Harrison streets led to the arrest of a Vicksburg man for posses-sion of cocaine, Vicksburg police Capt. Bobby Stewart said.

David Burden, 27, 2532 Oak St., was arrested at 9:24 after officers stopped the car and saw cocaine on the front pas-senger seat, Stewart said.

Burden was released on $15,000 bond.

16-year-old facesstatutory rape charge

A 16-year-old boy is charged with statutory rape involving an incident with a girl under 14 years old, Vicksburg police Capt. Bobby Stewart said.

He said Demarequette Foster, 118 Kendra Drive, accompanied by his mother, turned himself in at the Vicksburg Police Depart-ment at 11:23 a.m. Saturday. Foster was later released on $5,000 bond.

Stewart said Foster was charged in an affidavit filed on Dec. 19 by the girl’s mother.

crimefrom staff reports


TODAY

Sunny with a high in the upper 50s and a low in the

upper 20s

59°

PRECISION FORECASTBY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST

BARBIE BASSSETTTONIGHT

28°

WEATHERThis 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 FORECASTmonday-wednesday

Chance of showers and thunderstorms beginning

on Wednesday; highs in the lower 70s; lows in the

mid-40s

STATE FORECASTToday

Sunny; highs in the upper 50s; lows in the upper 20s

monday-wednesdayChance of showers and

thunderstorms beginning on Wednesday; highs in

the lower 70s; lows in the mid-40s

ALmAnACHigHs and Lows

High/past 24 hours............. 57ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 39ºAverage temperature ........ 48ºNormal this date .................. 48ºRecord low .............14º in 1966Record high .80º before 1886

RainfaLLRecorded at the

Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ........................N/AThis month .............4.28 inchesTotal/year ................4.28 inchesNormal/month .....5.13 inchesNormal/year ..........5.13 inches

soLunaR TabLeMost active times for fish

and wildlife Monday:A.M. Active .........................10:21A.M. Most active ................ 4:10P.M. Active ..........................10:44P.M. Most active ................. 4:32

sunRise/sunseTSunset today ....................... 5:32Sunset tomorrow .............. 5:33Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:58

RIVER DATAsTages

Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg

Current: 29.3 | Change: 1.3Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 20.9 | Change: NC

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo CityCurrent: 16.5 | Change: 0.4

Flood: 29 feetYazoo River at Belzoni


Big Black River at WestCurrent: 8.9 | Change: 0.3

Flood: 12 feetBig Black River at Bovina


sTeeLe bayouLand ...................................76.6River ...................................76.4

mISSISSIPPI RIVER FORECAST

Cairo, Ill.Monday ................................. 40.8Tuesday ................................. 41.6Wednesday .......................... 42.3

MemphisMonday ................................. 22.4Tuesday ................................. 23.3Wednesday .......................... 24.4

GreenvilleMonday ................................. 37.9Tuesday ................................. 38.7Wednesday .......................... 39.5

VicksburgMonday ................................. 31.9Tuesday ................................. 32.9Wednesday .......................... 33.6

DEATHS

ChickasawContinued from Page A1.

S. Grant’s initial order to move on Vicksburg, a prime Confederate stronghold. They disembarked on the Yazoo River at Johnson’s Plantation — burned by Union forces three days ear-lier — and approached from the northeast; a fourth divi-sion landed farther upstream a day later. Confederate defenses just 6,000 strong compared to Sherman’s 32,000 men held Walnut Hills during two days of fighting that ended in Confederate victory Dec. 29, 1862. Casual-ties mounted to 1,776 for the Union forces, while Confeder-ate forces lost 207, according to the National Park Service.

“The Confederates had a defense of depth all the way up the east side (of mod-ern-day North Washington Street),” Winschel said.

Logging on seemingly hal-

lowed ground won’t create problems for ATCO or Keyes, as the legislation that cre-ated the park in 1899 lim-ited the park’s mission to that which commemorates “the campaign and siege and defense of Vicksburg.”

“Campaign, siege and defense are the operative words there,” Winschel said.

In essence, it’s a defini-tion that starts with Grant’s orders on March 29, 1863, to move downriver to take Vicksburg. The city was sur-rendered by the Confeder-ates on July 4, 1863.

“Consequently, the signifi-cant action that took place along the banks of Chicka-saw Bayou, in December 1862, did not fall into the time range of the campaign as established by the War Department,” Winschel said. “Thus, the battlefield

at Chickasaw Bayou was not included in the legislation.”

Grant’s Canal site, behind the mainline levee near Delta, La., also was excluded from the park’s reach because work on the con-cept, a canal for Union boats to cross DeSoto point, was abandoned before March 29, 1863. In 1990, Public Law 101-442 expanded the inter-pretive mandate of the park “from April 1862 to July

4, 1863, and the history of Vicksburg under Union occu-pation during the Civil War and Reconstruction.”

No similar effort has ever been afforded to the vast Chickasaw Bayou battle-ground, Madell said.

History has a way of unearthing itself despite boundaries, political or oth-erwise. Pottery, artillery and projectiles of all sorts have been dug up for years around

where Keyes wants to build a home, he said.

Clearing land anywhere near important battle sites comes with caution, said Norman Davis, president of Anderson-Tully, the firm’s land and timber arm.

“There’s quite a lot of prop-erty we cut around those,” Davis said. “But, we keep an eye out for cemeteries, trenches, those things.”

ELI BaYLIs•The Vicksburg PosT

Equipment and vehicles dot the North Washington Street spot where loggers are based while cutting timber at the bluffs near Chickasaw Bayou.

state aid, tying federal sup-port to tuition prices is a product of fuzzy math.

Illinois has lowered public support for higher education by about one-third over the past decade when adjusted for inflation. Illinois State, with 21,000 students, has raised tuition almost 47 per-cent since 2007, from $6,150 a year for an in-state under-graduate student to $9,030.

“Most people, including the president, assume if univer-sities were simply more effi-cient they would be able to operate with much smaller state subsidies, and I believe there are certainly efficiency gains that can be realized,” Bowman said. “But they pale in comparison to the loss in state support.”

Bowman said the under-graduate experience can be made cheaper, but there are trade-offs.

“You could hire mostly part-time, adjunct faculty. You could teach in much larger lecture halls, but the

things that would allow you achieve the greatest levels of efficiency would dilute the product and would make it something I wouldn’t be will-ing to be part of,” he said.

At Washington, President Mike Young said Obama showed he did not under-stand how the budgets of public universities work.

Young said the total cost to educate college students in his state, which is paid for by both tuition and state govern-ment dollars, has gone down because of efficiencies on campus. While universities are tightening costs, the state is cutting their subsidies and authorizing tuition increases to make up for the loss.

“They really should know better,” Young said. “This really is political theater of the worst sort.”

Obama’s plan would need approval by Congress, a hard sell in an atmosphere of par-tisan gridlock.

In his State of the Union address Tuesday, Obama described meeting with university presidents who explained how some schools curtailed costs through technology and redesign-

ing courses to help students finish more quickly. He said more schools need to take such steps.

Obama said at Michigan that higher education has become an imperative for success in America, but the cost has grown unrealistic for too many families and the debt burden unbear-able. He said states should properly fund colleges and universities.

“We are putting colleges on notice,” Obama told an arena packed with cheering students. “You can’t assume that you’ll just jack up tuition every single year. If you can’t stop tuition from going up, then the funding you get from taxpayers each year will go down.”

Obama is targeting only a small part of the financial aid picture: the $3 billion known as campus-based aid that flows through college admin-istrators to students. He is proposing to increase that amount to $10 billion and change how it is distributed to reward schools that hold down costs and ensure that more poor students complete their education.

The bulk of the more than $140 billion in federal grants and loans goes directly to students and would not be affected.

The average in-state tuition and fees at four-year public colleges this school year rose 8.3 percent and with room and board now exceed $17,000 a year, according to the College Board.

Rising tuition costs have been attributed to a vari-ety of factors, among them a decline in state dollars and competition for the best facilities and professors. Crit-ics say some higher educa-tion institutions are attempt-ing to wait out the economic downturn and have been too reluctant to make large-scale changes that would cut costs such as offering three-year degree programs.

The federal government’s leverage to take on the rising cost of college is limited because higher education is decentralized, with most student aid following the student.

The response to Obama’s plan wasn’t all negative. Many university presidents said they welcome a conver-

sation about making college more affordable and efficient.

In Missouri, where Gov. Jay Nixon has proposed a 12.5 percent funding cut for higher education in the coming fiscal year, Obama’s proposal could put even more pressure on public col-leges and universities to limit tuition increases. By state law, schools must limit such increases to the annual infla-tion rate unless they receive permission for larger ones. Nixon has warned schools that he doesn’t want to see a tuition increase of more than 3 percent, the latest Con-sumer Price Index increase.

“The president’s mes-sage isn’t inconsistent with the agenda that we’ve been pursuing here in Missouri,” said Paul Wagner, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Higher Edu-cation. “It’s good to see him put the focus on the same things.”

one rates Thomas Jefferson’s plantation, Herbert Hoover’s millions from mining or John F. Kennedy’s share of the vast family fortune, as well as the finer points of factors like inflation adjustment.

But it’s safe to say the Roosevelts had nothing on Romney, and the Bushes are nowhere close.

The former Massachusetts governor has disclosed only the broad outlines of his wealth, putting it somewhere from $190 million to $250 mil-lion. That easily could make him 50 times richer than Obama, who falls in the still-impressive-to-most-of-us range of $2.2 million to $7.5 million.

“I think it’s almost hard to conceptualize what $250 mil-lion means,” said Shamus

Khan, a Columbia University sociologist who studies the wealthy. “People say Romney made $50,000 a day while not working last year. What do you do with all that money? I can’t even imagine spending it. Well, maybe ...”

Of course, an unbelievable boatload of bucks is just one way to think of Romney’s net worth, and the 44 U.S. presi-dents make up a pretty small pond for him to swim in. Put alongside America’s 400 or so billionaires, Romney wouldn’t make a ripple.

So here’s a look where Romney’s riches rank — among the most flush Ameri-cans, the White House con-tenders, and the rest of us:

• Within the 1 percent: “Romney is small pota-

toes compared with the ultra-wealthy,” said Jeffrey Winters, a political scien-tist at Northwestern Univer-sity who studies the nation’s elites.

After all, even in the rar-efied world of the top 1 per-cent, there’s a big difference between life at the top and at the bottom.

A household needs to bring in roughly $400,000 per year to make the cut. Romney and his wife, Ann, have been making 50 times that — more than $20 million a year. In 2009, only 8,274 federal tax filers had income above $10 million. Romney is solidly within that elite 0.006 percent of all U.S. taxpayers.

At the top of the wealth pile sits Bill Gates, worth $59 billion, according to Forbes magazine’s estimates.

• As a potential president: Romney clearly stands

out here. America’s super rich generally don’t jockey to live in the White House. A few have toyed with the idea, most notably New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whom Forbes ranks as the 12th richest American, worth

$19.5 billion. A lesser billion-aire, Ross Perot, bankrolled his own third-party cam-paigns in 1992 and 1996.

Many presidents weren’t particularly well-off, espe-cially 19th century lead-ers such as Abraham Lin-coln, James Buchanan and Ulysses S. Grant. Nor was the 33rd president, Harry Truman.

“These things ebb and flow,” said sociologist Khan. “It’s not the case that all presidents were always rich.”

A few former chief execu-tives died in debt, including Thomas Jefferson, ranked in a Forbes study as the third-wealthiest president.

Comparing the landlocked wealth of early Americans such as Washington, Jef-ferson and James Madison, with today’s millionaires is tricky, even setting aside the lack of documentation and economic changes over two centuries.

Research by 24/7 Wall St., a news and analysis web-site, estimated Washington’s wealth at the equivalent of $525 million in 2010 dollars.

• How does Romney stand next to a regular Joe?

He’s roughly 1,800 times richer.

The typical U.S. house-hold was worth $120,300 in 2007, according to the Census Bureau’s most recent data, although that number is sure to have dropped since the recession. A typical family’s income is $50,000.

Calculations from 24/7 Wall St. of the peak lifetime wealth (or peak so far) of Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clin-ton, George W. Bush and Obama add up to a total $128 million — while Romney reports assets of up to $250 million.

RomneyContinued from Page A1.

CollegeContinued from Page A1.

Herbert CurryHerbert Curry of

Brookhaven, a former resi-dent of Vicksburg, died Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 at Kings Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven. He was 54.

Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

Magaret B. HiteMargaret B. Hite died

Friday, Jan.27, 2012, at her home. She was 85.

Born in the Oak Ridge com-munity, she was the daugh-ter of the late Herman Bryant and Josie Bigby Bryant. Mrs. Hite was a Budget Analyst for the Vicksburg District Corps of Engineers, retiring in 1995. She was a member of the Presbyterian faith.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, John E. Hite Sr; a son, Lawrence “Larry” Hite; a sister, Chesley Bryant;

six brothers, Marvin Bryant, Jimmy Bryant, Bill Bryant, Wes Bryant, Floyd Bryant and Goff Bryant.

Survivors include a daugh-ter, Deborah Hubal (Joseph) of Ocean Springs, Miss.; two sons, John E. Hite Jr. (Cheryl) of Vicksburg and Richard Hite of Ridgeland, Miss.; six Grandchildren, Joseph Hubal III, Lauren Wallace, Andrew Hite, Philip Hite, Christopher Hite and Daryl Hite; a great-granddaughter, Avery Wal-lace; a sister, Judy Hallberg of Memphis, Tenn.; a brother, Kelly Bryant Sr. of Vicksburg; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Services will be 2:30 p.m. Monday in Greenlawn Gar-dens Cemetery with the Rev. Tim Brown, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Visitation will be at Riles Funeral Home from 1 p.m. until the hour of the ser-vice. Memorials may be made to charities of choice.


Thousands salute troops in St. LouisST. LOUIS (AP) — Thou-

sands of people lining down-town streets cheered wildly as veterans, some wiping away tears, marched through St. Louis on Saturday during the nation’s first big welcome-home parade for Iraq War veterans.

Several hundred veterans, many dressed in camouflage, walked alongside military vehicles, marching bands and even the Budweiser Clydes-dales. People in the crowd held signs reading “Welcome Home” and “God Bless Our Troops,” and fire trucks with aerial ladders hoisted three huge American flags along the route.

“It’s not necessarily over-due. It’s just the right thing,” said Maj. Rich Radford, who became a symbol of the event thanks to a photo of his young daughter taking his hand while welcoming him home from his second tour in Iraq in 2010.

Since the war ended, there has been little fanfare for returning veterans aside from gatherings at airports and mil-itary bases — no ticker-tape parades or large public cel-ebrations — so two friends from St. Louis decided to change that.

They sought donations,

launched a Facebook page, met with the mayor and mapped a route in a grass-roots effort that raised about $35,000. More than half came from Anheuser-Busch and the Mayflower moving company, which both have St. Louis ties.

On Saturday, the work paid off — and the biggest cheers clearly were for the veterans. People standing along the route waved small American flags and wildly cheered as groups of troops walked by, with some veterans wiping away tears as they acknowl-edged the support.

Gayla Gibson, a 38-year-old Air Force master sergeant, was proud that her hometown was the first to honor Iraq War veterans. Gibson spent four months there in 2003 working as a medical technician.

“We saw some horrible things,” she said. “Amputa-tions. Broken bones. Severe burns from IEDSs.”

Gibson said she was moved by the turnout and the patri-otic fervor.

“I think it’s great when people come out to support those who gave their lives and put their lives on the line for this country,” she added.


Spectators line a downtown street as a parade to honor Iraq War veterans passes Saturday in St. Louis.

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S u n d a y, J a n u a r y 29, 2012 • S E C T I O N B

On B2Complete Pro Bowl results

On TV6 p.m. NBC, todayPro Bowl

SChEdulEPREP BASKETBALLVicksburg hosts Yazoo CityTuesday, 6 p.m.

St. Aloysius at Hinds AHSTuesday, 6 p.m.

Warren Central at MurrahTuesday, 6 p.m.

ON TV6 p.m. NBC - New Orleans Saints stars Drew Brees and Jimmy Graham get a chance to shine in the sun in the NFL’s all-star game, the Pro Bowl. Preview/B4

WhO’S hOTBEN WELPSt. Aloysiusguard scored 18 points in a loss to University Christian on Saturday.

SIdElINESAzarenka winsOpen in rout

MELBOURNE, Austra-lia (AP) — Victoria Aza-renka started celebrating, then suddenly did a dou-ble-take to ask her coach, “What happened?”

The answer: She had just produced one of the most lopsided Australian Open final victories to capture a Grand Slam title and the No. 1 ranking for the first time.

Azarenka routed three-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-0 in 1 hour, 22 minutes on Saturday night, winning 12 of the last 13 games after dropping her first service game and falling behind 2-0.

“It’s a dream come true,” she said. “I have been dreaming and working so hard to win the Grand Slam, and being No. 1 is pretty good bonus. Just the perfect ending and the perfect position to be in.”

Azarenka had won 11 straight matches, including a run to the Sydney Inter-national title, and reached her first Grand Slam final. Her previous best perfor-mance at a major was a semifinal loss to Petra Kvi-tova at Wimbledon last year. Sharapova had all the experience, being in her sixth major final and hav-ing won three — dating to her 2004 Wimbledon title.

But it didn’t unnerve the 22-year-old Azarenka, the first woman from Belarus to win a singles major.

college basketball

prep basketball

lOTTERYLa. Pick 3: 2-4-0La. Pick 4: 3-0-6-2Easy 5: 2-3-7-22-36La. Lotto: 9-14-32-35-37-3Powerball: 5-33-41-54-59 Powerball: 13Weekly results: B2

Golden Eaglesroll overKnightsBy The Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — Neil Watson scored 23 points and Darnell Dodson added 22 to lead Southern Miss a 78-65 victory over Central Florida on Saturday night.

Southern Miss (19-3, 6-1 Conference USA) ended UCF’s 16-game home win streak. Keith Clanton led the Knights (15-6, 5-3) with 21 points and six rebounds. Marcus Jordan was the only other UCF player to score in double figures with 11.

Watson and Dodson, both reserves, provided the spark as Southern Miss rallied from a 12-point deficit to win easily. The two combined to hits 11 of 22 shots, including five of nine from 3-point ter-ritory. Watson had six assists and Dodson eight rebounds.

“Neil and Darnell obvi-ously were very, very good tonight,” Southern Miss coach Larry Eustachy said. “We haven’t seen that kind of production from them, but we knew they were capable of it, so it was really nice to see.”

Watson hit four 3-pointers, three in the second half. He and Dodson were a combined 12-14 from the free throw line in the final two minutes of the game.

UCF ran off 14 straight points during a stretch of the first half and led 31-19 after P.J. Gaynor’s drive in the lane with 2:45 left in the half. Southern Miss closed the half with an 11-0 run to make it 31-30 at halftime.

“I thought we were play-ing with a nice rhythm in the first half,” UCF coach Donnie Jones said. “But we didn’t respond in the second half and Southern Miss did. That’s why they’re sitting at the top of our league.”

The Golden Eagles gained control with a 19-7 run midway through the second

Flashes fall in home finaleBy Jeff [email protected]

Both University Christian and St. Aloysius were with-out its best players Saturday.

The visiting Flames found enough scoring from other players to turn back St. Al 58-45 in the final home game for the Flashes.

University Christian (9-11) was playing its third game without its top scorer, K-Shun Evans, who was out with a knee injury. Last year, Evans helped the Flames beat Porters Chapel Acad-emy in three of the team’s four meetings.

St. Al has been without Elliott Bexley, its leading scorer, since Jan. 13 with a knee injury. The Flashes were humbled last week by PCA in the Red Carpet Clas-sic, but against the Flames, they found some spark from Ben Welp.

The sophomore guard hit three 3-pointers in the first quarter and then added a conventional 3-point play a minute into the second quarter to make it a 19-16 game. St. Al went ice cold. The Flashes (1-20) made just two of their next 27 shots.

University Christian, while missing Evans, managed to get layups from Javous Nicks and Caleb Shufelt to ease out to a 39-22 lead after three quarters.

University Christian coach John Dorman said his team made do without its star forward.

“He (Evans) leads us in so many ways, but we still have to lace it up and go out there,” Dorman said. “We shot free throws well enough and made enough early shots to get a lead.”

Unlike against PCA, St. Al battled down to the end. Charles Pendleton made a pair of free throws and Welp’s fifth 3-pointer with 1:06 left made it 54-43.

A layup by Shufelt and two free throws by Graham Yeatman sealed it for the Flames.

St. Al coach Delvin Thomp-son said his team showed some heart.

“They gave me effort

today,” Thompson said. “Ben made some shots and, as a team, they keep improving.”

Welp finished with 18 points and two steals. Kam-eron Reed had seven points and 11 rebounds. Connor Smith had seven points and three assists.

Shufelt paced the Flames with 20 points while Nicks

and Yeatman had 16 apiece.

(G) Univ. Christian 45,St. Aloysius 39

Futility at the free throw line doomed St. Aloysius. The Lady Flashes (8-13) shot 34 free throws, but made just nine and it cost them in their final home game of the

season.“We were just horrible

with our free throws,” St. Al coach Cookie Johnson said. “It’s something we practice every day on, and yet we missed 30 free throws.”

It was actually 25. Ann Garrison Thomas

Bulldogsfall flatto GatorsBy The Associated Press

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In close games on the road against good teams, there are two things Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury believes teams just can’t do.

Commit turnovers and miss free throws.

The No. 18 Bulldogs did both in a 69-57 loss at No. 14 Florida on Saturday.

Arnett Moultrie and Dee Bost scored 12 points apiece, but it wasn’t nearly enough to overcome 14 turnovers and six missed free throws.

Stansbury gave Florida all the credit. But he also blamed his team for causing some its own woes.

“When you’re on the road fighting against a real qual-ity team like Florida, you have to take advantage of all those situations,” Stansbury said. “It’s a fine line on the road as the visiting team.”

Coming off a physical game Thursday night at Ole Miss, the Gators (17-4, 5-1 Southeastern Confer-ence) started a little slug-gish Saturday, but really got

things rolling in the second half. An 11-0 run sparked by Bradley Beal’s third 3-pointer and highlighted

Rebels fend offGamecock surgeBy David BrandtThe Associated Press

OXFORD — Terrance Henry scored 15 points, Murphy Holloway added 14 points and Ole Miss edged South Carolina 66-62 on Sat-urday night.

Ole Miss (14-7, 4-3 South-eastern Conference) led for most of the night, but had to fend off a late South Caro-lina rally to win. Henry made a 3-pointer from the corner with 16 seconds left that sealed the victory.

Nick Williams scored 12 points and Jelan Kendrick added a career-high 11 off the bench.

South Carolina (9-11, 1-5) was led by Malik Cooke’s 17 points. Brenton Williams added 15 as the Gamecocks lost for the fifth time in six games.

As expected, it was a half-court, deliberate game featuring two teams that specialize in defense and struggle to put the ball in the basket.

Ole Miss had 18 turnovers, but made up for that ugly number by shooting 49 per-cent from the field (24 of

ThE aSSociaTEd PrESS

St. Aloysius forward Max Loving knocks the ball from University Christian’s Caleb Shufelt Saturday.

Eli Baylis•The Vicksburg PosT

Florida’s Will Yeguete (15) and Bradley Beal (23) try to stop Mississippi State’s Arnett Moultrie from shooting Saturday. Florida won 69-57.

Ole Miss forward Reginald Buckner dunks against South Carolina’s Anthony Gill Saturday. Ole Miss won 66-62.

See MSU, Page B3. See Ole Miss, Page B3.

See USM, Page B3.See St. Al, Page B3.

B1 Sports

nflnfl Playoffs

Wild-card roundJan. 7

Houston 31, Cincinnati 10New Orleans 45, Detroit 28

Jan. 8N.Y. Giants 24, Atlanta 2Denver 29, Pittsburgh 23, OT

Divisional PlayoffsJan. 14

San Francisco 36, New Orleans 32New England 45, Denver 10

Jan. 15Baltimore 20, Houston 13N.Y. Giants 37, Green Bay 20

Conference ChampionshipsJan. 22

New England 23, Baltimore 20N.Y. Giants 20, San Francisco 17, OT

Pro BowlToday

At HonoluluNFC vs. AFC, 6 p.m.

Super BowlFeb. 5

At IndianapolisN.Y. Giants vs. New England, 5:30 p.m.

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Pro Bowl MVPsMost Outstanding Player Award-winners since the Pro Bowl began in 1971 (in 1971 and 72, an outstanding back and an outstanding lineman were chosen):2011 — DeAngelo Hall, CB, Washington2010 — Matt Schaub, QB, Houston2009 — Larry Fitzgerald, WR, Arizona2008 — Adrian Peterson, RB, Minnesota2007 — Carson Palmer, QB, Cincinnati2006 — Derrick Brooks, LB, Tampa Bay2005 — Peyton Manning, QB, Indianapolis2004 — Marc Bulger, QB, St. Louis2003 — Ricky Williams, RB, Miami2002 — Rich Gannon, QB, Oakland2001 — Rich Gannon, QB, Oakland2000 — Randy Moss, WR, Minnesota1999 — Keyshawn Johnson, WR, New York Jets, and Ty Law, CB, New England1998 — Warren Moon, QB, Seattle1997 — Mark Brunell, QB, Jacksonville1996 — Jerry Rice, WR, San Francisco1995 — Marshall Faulk, RB, Indianapolis1994 — Andre Rison, WR, Atlanta1993 — Steve Tasker, WR, Buffalo1992 — Michael Irvin, WR, Dallas1991 — Jim Kelly, QB, Buffalo1990 — Jerry Gray, CB, Los Angeles Rams1989 — Randall Cunningham, QB, Philadelphia1988 — Bruce Smith, DE, Buffalo1987 — Reggie White, DE, Philadelphia1986 — Phil Simms, QB, New York Giants1985 — Mark Gastineau, DE, New York Jets1984 — Joe Theismann, QB, Washington1983 — Dan Fouts, QB, San Diego, and John Jefferson, WR, Green Bay1982 — Lee Roy Selmon, DE, Tampa Bay, and Kellen Winslow, TE, San Diego1981 — Ed Murray, PK, Detroit1980 — Chuck Muncie, RB, New Orleans1979 — Ahmad Rashad, WR, Minnesota1978 — Walter Payton, RB, Chicago1977 — Mel Blount, DB, Pittsburgh1976 — Billy Johnson, WR, Houston1975 — James Harris, QB, Los Angeles1974 — Garo Yepremian, PK, Miami1973 — O.J Simpson, RB, Buffalo1972 — Back-Jan Stenerud, PK, Kansas City; Lineman-Willie Lanier, LB, Kansas City1971 — Back-Mel Renfro, WR, Dallas; Lineman-Fred Carr, LB, Green Bay

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Pro Bowl Results2011 — NFC 55, AFC 412010 — AFC 41, NFC 342009 — NFC 30, AFC 212008 — NFC 42, AFC 302007 — AFC 31, AFC 282006 — NFC 23, AFC 172005 — AFC 38, NFC 272004 — NFC 55, AFC 522003 — AFC 45, NFC 202002 — AFC 38, NFC 302001 — AFC 38, NFC 172000 — NFC 51, AFC 311999 — AFC 23, NFC 101998 — AFC 29, NFC 241997 — AFC 26, NFC 23, OT1996 — NFC 20, AFC 131995 — AFC 41, NFC 131994 — NFC 17, AFC 31993 — AFC 23, NFC 20, OT1992 — NFC 21, AFC 151991 — AFC 23, NFC 211990 — NFC 27, AFC 211989 — NFC 34, AFC 31988 — AFC 15, NFC 61987 — AFC 10, NFC 61986 — NFC 28, AFC 241985 — AFC 22, NFC 141984 — NFC 45, AFC 31983 — NFC 20, AFC 191982 — AFC 16, NFC 131981 — NFC 21, AFC 71980 — NFC 37, AFC 271979 — NFC 13, AFC 71978 — NFC 14, AFC 131977 — AFC 24, NFC 141976 — NFC 23, AFC 201975 — NFC 17, AFC 101974 — AFC 15, NFC 131973 — AFC 33, NFC 281972 — AFC 26, NFC 131971 — NFC 27, AFC 6

nBaEaSTERn COnfEREnCE

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBPhiladelphia ..................14 6 .700 —Boston ..........................9 9 .500 4New York ......................7 13 .350 7New Jersey ..................7 13 .350 7Toronto .........................6 14 .300 8

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami ............................14 5 .737 —Atlanta ..........................14 6 .700 1/2Orlando .........................12 7 .632 2Washington ...................4 16 .200 10 1/2Charlotte .......................3 18 .143 12

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago ........................17 4 .810 —Indiana ..........................12 6 .667 3 1/2Milwaukee .....................8 11 .421 8Cleveland ......................7 11 .389 8 1/2Detroit ...........................4 17 .190 13

WESTERn COnfEREnCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBHouston ........................12 8 .600 —San Antonio ..................12 8 .600 —Dallas ............................12 8 .600 —Memphis .......................10 8 .556 1New Orleans ................4 15 .211 7 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City ..............16 3 .842 —Denver ..........................14 5 .737 2Portland ........................12 8 .600 4 1/2Utah ..............................10 7 .588 5Minnesota .....................9 10 .474 7

Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers .................10 6 .625 —L.A. Lakers ...................11 9 .550 1Phoenix .........................6 12 .333 5Golden State ................6 12 .333 5Sacramento ..................6 13 .316 5 1/2

Saturday’s GamesWashington 102, Charlotte 99

Philadelphia 95, Detroit 74Houston 97, New York 84Milwaukee 100, L.A. Lakers 89Memphis at Phoenix, (n)Sacramento at Utah, (n)

Today’s GamesChicago at Miami, 2:30 p.m.Cleveland at Boston, 5 p.m.Toronto at New Jersey, 5 p.m.Indiana at Orlando, 5 p.m.San Antonio at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.Atlanta at New Orleans, 6 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Minnesota, 6 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Denver, 7 p.m.

Monday’s GamesChicago at Washington, 6 p.m.Orlando at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.New Orleans at Miami, 6:30 p.m.Minnesota at Houston, 7 p.m.San Antonio at Memphis, 7 p.m.Detroit at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.Dallas at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Portland at Utah, 8 p.m.Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

COllEgE BaSkETBallSOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE

Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTKentucky 7 0 1.000 21 1 .955Florida 5 1 .833 17 4 .810Vanderbilt 5 1 .833 16 5 .762Mississippi St. 4 3 .571 17 5 .773Ole Miss 4 3 .571 14 7 .667Arkansas 3 3 .500 15 6 .714Alabama 3 4 .429 14 7 .667Tennessee 2 4 .333 10 11 .476Auburn 2 5 .286 12 9 .571LSU 2 5 .286 12 9 .571Georgia 1 5 .167 10 10 .500South Carolina 1 5 .167 9 11 .450

Saturday’s GamesAlabama 72, Arkansas 66Florida 69, Mississippi St. 57Vanderbilt 84, Middle Tennessee 77Kentucky 74, LSU 50Tennessee 64, Auburn 49 Ole Miss 66, South Carolina 62

Today’s GamesNo games scheduled

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CONFERENCE USA Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTSouthern Miss. 6 1 .857 19 3 .864Memphis 5 1 .833 14 6 .700Tulsa 6 2 .750 13 9 .591Marshall 4 2 .667 13 7 .650UCF 5 3 .625 15 6 .714Rice 3 4 .429 12 10 .545Houston 3 4 .429 10 9 .526UTEP 3 4 .429 10 11 .476Tulane 2 5 .286 14 7 .667SMU 2 5 .286 10 11 .476UAB 2 5 .286 7 13 .350East Carolina 1 6 .143 10 10 .500

Saturday’s GamesTulsa 66, SMU 60Southern Miss. 78, UCF 65Rice 88, Tulane 74Houston 81, UTEP 76, OTEast Carolina 73, UAB 66Marshall at Memphis, (n)


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SWAC Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTMVSU 8 0 1.000 9 11 .450Southern U. 7 2 .778 11 11 .500Texas Southern 6 2 .750 7 13 .350Prairie View 5 3 .625 9 12 .429Alabama St. 4 4 .500 7 13 .350Jackson St 3 5 .375 5 15 .250Grambling St. 3 5 .375 3 15 .167Alabama A&M 2 6 .250 4 13 .235Alcorn St. 2 7 .222 5 16 .238Ark.-Pine Bluff 1 7 .125 2 19 .095

Saturday’s GamesSouthern U. 65, Alcorn St. 54Miss. Valley St. 60, Jackson St. 54Texas Southern 73, Alabama A&M 61Prairie View 64, Alabama St. 57Grambling St. 60, Ark.-Pine Bluff 55


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Top 25 ScheduleSaturday’s Games

No. 1 Kentucky 74, LSU 50 No. 2 Missouri 63, Texas Tech 50No. 3 Syracuse 63, West Virginia 61 Iowa St. 72, No. 5 Kansas 64No. 6 Baylor 76, Texas 71 No. 8 Duke 83, St. John’s 76Pittsburgh 72, No. 9 Georgetown 60No. 11 Murray St. 73, E. Illinois 58No. 12 UNLV at Air Force, (n)Colorado St. 77, No. 13 San Diego St. 60No. 14 Florida 69, No. 18 Mississippi St. 57No. 15 Creighton 73, Bradley 59No. 17 Marquette 82, Villanova 78No. 19 Virginia 61, NC State 60No. 21 St. Mary’s 80, BYU 66Oklahoma 63, No. 22 Kansas St. 60

Today’s GamesNo. 4 Ohio St. vs. No. 20 Michigan, NoonNo. 7 North Carolina vs. Georgia Tech, 5 p.m.No. 16 Indiana vs. Iowa, 5 p.m.No. 24 Connecticut vs. Notre Dame, 11 a.m.

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Mississippi college scheduleSaturday’s Games

Florida 69, Mississippi St. 57William Carey 56, Union University 55Texas-Tyler 58, Mississippi College 57Belhaven, 79, Spring Hill 62sSouthern U. 65, Alcorn St. 54 Christian Brothers 75, Delta St. 46Miss. Valley St. 60, Jackson St. 54 Ole Miss 66, South Carolina 62 Southern Miss. 78, UCF 65

Today’s GameMillsaps at Trinity University, 2 p.m.

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flORIDa 69, MISSISSIPPI ST. 57MISSISSIPPI ST. (17-5)Sidney 2-7 1-2 5, Moultrie 4-10 4-8 12, Bost 4-7 2-2 12, Hood 3-6 0-0 7, Bryant 5-6 0-0 11, Steele 3-9 0-0 9, Lewis 0-3 1-2 1. Totals 21-48 8-14 57.FLORIDA (17-4)Yeguete 2-3 0-2 4, Murphy 5-9 0-0 14, Boynton 1-6 0-0 2, Walker 4-10 0-1 10, Beal 6-9 4-4 19, Rosario 2-5 0-0 5, Young 6-11 0-0 12, Wilbekin 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 27-56 4-7 69.Halftime—Florida 30-27. 3-Point Goals—Missis-sippi St. 7-16 (Steele 3-6, Bost 2-4, Bryant 1-1, Hood 1-3, Sidney 0-2), Florida 11-24 (Murphy 4-7, Beal 3-4, Walker 2-6, Rosario 1-2, Wilbekin 1-2, Boynton 0-3). Fouled Out—Moultrie. Rebounds—Mississippi St. 34 (Moultrie 13), Florida 26 (Yeguete 7). Assists—Mississippi St. 10 (Bost 4), Florida 15 (Boynton 5). Total Fouls—Mississippi St. 14, Florida 11. A—12,045.

SOUTHERn MISS 78, UCf 65SOUTHERN MISS (19-3)Bolden 4-7 0-0 8, Mills 3-4 1-3 7, Page 1-7 0-0 3, McGill 0-0 0-0 0, Johnson 4-11 0-1 9, Dodson 6-11 9-11 22, Watson 5-11 9-12 23, Jenkins 1-2 0-0 2, Pelham 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 26-56 19-27 78.UCF (15-6)Sykes 2-8 3-4 7, Clanton 9-12 2-2 21, Crittle 1-3 6-6 8, Rompza 3-11 0-0 8, Jordan 4-11 3-4 11, Spurlock 1-8 2-2 5, Gaynor 2-2 1-2 5, Wilson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-55 17-20 65.Halftime—UCF 31-30. 3-Point Goals—Southern Miss. 7-21 (Watson 4-7, Johnson 1-2, Dodson 1-2, Page 1-6, Jenkins 0-1, Pelham 0-1, Bolden 0-2), UCF 4-14 (Rompza 2-6, Clanton 1-3, Spurlock 1-4, Jordan 0-1). Fouled Out—Clanton. Rebounds—Southern Miss. 35 (Dodson 8), UCF 33 (Spurlock 8). Assists—Southern Miss. 13

(Watson 6), UCF 13 (Sykes 5). Total Fouls—Southern Miss. 18, UCF 21. Technicals—Pelham, Southern Miss. Bench. A—7,790.

OlE MISS 66, SOUTH CaROlIna 62SOUTH CAROLINA (9-11)Gill 4-5 2-2 10, Cooke 6-14 2-3 17, Harris 3-3 0-0 6, Ellington 4-16 0-0 9, Leonard 1-8 0-0 3, Wil-liams 5-9 2-2 15, Jackson 0-2 0-0 0, Slawson 0-2 0-0 0, Geathers 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 24-60 6-7 62.OLE MISS (14-7)Henry 4-6 6-6 15, Buckner 3-6 1-2 7, Holloway 4-7 6-13 14, Williams 5-14 0-1 12, Summers 1-3 0-0 3, Cox 1-1 0-2 2, White 1-2 0-0 2, Aniefiok 0-1 0-0 0, Kendrick 5-9 0-0 11. Totals 24-49 13-24 66.Halftime—Ole Miss 31-28. 3-Point Goals—South Carolina 8-21 (Cooke 3-3, Williams 3-6, Ellington 1-5, Leonard 1-7), Ole Miss 5-13 (Williams 2-6, Summers 1-1, Henry 1-2, Kendrick 1-3, White 0-1). Fouled Out—Harris. Rebounds—South Caro-lina 28 (Cooke 7), Ole Miss 38 (Holloway 11). Assists—South Carolina 15 (Ellington 5), Ole Miss 15 (Summers 5). Total Fouls—South Carolina 17, Ole Miss 12. A—7,396.

MISS. VallEY ST. 60, JaCkSOn ST. 54JACKSON ST. (5-15)Taylor 3-5 4-6 10, Howard 8-18 3-4 21, Williams 5-13 0-0 13, Lewis 0-3 0-1 0, Jones 2-5 0-0 4, Stewart 0-1 0-0 0, Coleman 0-1 0-0 0, Readus 3-10 0-0 6. Totals 21-56 7-11 54.MVSU (9-11)Joyner 2-12 2-5 8, Studivant 2-4 2-4 6, Jones 1-6 0-0 3, Burwell 1-5 2-2 4, Crosby 4-6 4-6 12, Pugh 1-4 2-2 4, Pajkovic 0-1 0-0 0, Arrington 2-4 4-5 8, Cox 6-11 2-2 15. Totals 19-53 18-26 60.Halftime—MVSU 24-23. 3-Point Goals—Jackson St. 5-14 (Williams 3-5, Howard 2-8, Stewart 0-1), MVSU 4-21 (Joyner 2-11, Cox 1-2, Jones 1-4, Pajkovic 0-1, Arrington 0-1, Pugh 0-2). Fouled Out—Crosby. Rebounds—Jackson St. 33 (How-ard, Taylor 7), MVSU 44 (Crosby 12). Assists—Jackson St. 9 (Readus 4), MVSU 9 (Burwell 4). Total Fouls—Jackson St. 19, MVSU 16. Techni-cals—Taylor, Arrington. A—5,301.

SOUTHERn U. 65, alCORn ST. 54ALCORN ST. (4-16)McDonald 1-6 3-4 5, Oakley 0-6 4-4 4, Nieves 3-16 5-8 11, Rimmer 4-12 6-7 14, Sullivan 0-5 4-4 4, Hawkins 3-8 0-0 7, Moore 0-0 0-0 0, Tufono 0-1 0-0 0, Sanders 0-0 0-0 0, Francis 4-6 1-1 9, Starks 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 15-60 23-28 54.SOUTHERN U. (11-11)Beltran 4-9 4-6 14, Grace 3-8 3-4 10, Monroe 1-7 0-0 2, Doggett 4-6 1-2 9, F. Coleman 6-10 0-2 12, Marshall 1-3 4-4 6, Celestin 5-10 0-0 12, Hill 0-2 0-0 0, Bol 0-2 0-2 0, Webb 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 24-58 12-20 65.Halftime—Southern U. 31-13. 3-Point Goals—Alcorn St. 1-14 (Hawkins 1-4, Tufono 0-1, McDon-ald 0-1, Rimmer 0-2, Nieves 0-2, Oakley 0-4), Southern U. 5-11 (Beltran 2-2, Celestin 2-5, Grace 1-2, Hill 0-1, Bol 0-1). Fouled Out—Sullivan. Rebounds—Alcorn St. 38 (Sullivan 10), Southern U. 47 (F. Coleman 14). Assists—Alcorn St. 1 (Sullivan 1), Southern U. 11 (Celestin, Doggett, Grace, Monroe, Webb 2). Total Fouls—Alcorn St. 18, Southern U. 20. A—2,282.

Saturday’s Scores EAST

Albany (NY) 72, Hartford 60 American U. 69, Lafayette 61 Bucknell 66, Navy 51 CCSU 69, Fairleigh Dickinson 62 Cornell 65, Columbia 60 Drexel 71, Delaware 55 Fordham 63, George Washington 58 Harvard 68, Brown 59 Holy Cross 76, Colgate 60 LIU 97, St. Francis (Pa.) 76 La Salle 71, Duquesne 68 Louisville 60, Seton Hall 51 Maine 67, Binghamton 59 Marquette 82, Villanova 78 Monmouth (NJ) 78, Bryant 68 Mount St. Mary’s 81, Sacred Heart 80, 2OT Northeastern 58, Hofstra 51 Pittsburgh 72, Georgetown 60 Rutgers 61, Cincinnati 54 St. Bonaventure 62, Richmond 47 St. Francis (NY) 81, Robert Morris 68 Syracuse 63, West Virginia 61 Temple 78, Saint Joseph’s 60 Towson 66, UNC Wilmington 61 UMass 72, Saint Louis 59 Wagner 51, Quinnipiac 50 Yale 62, Dartmouth 52

SOUTH Alabama 72, Arkansas 66 Appalachian St. 81, Elon 66 Austin Peay 92, UT-Martin 73 Belmont 85, Jacksonville 71 Charleston Southern 75, Presbyterian 64 Clemson 71, Wake Forest 60 Coastal Carolina 70, Gardner-Webb 56 Coppin St. 73, Hampton 70 Delaware St. 76, NC Central 70 Duke 83, St. John’s 76 East Carolina 73, UAB 66 Florida 69, Mississippi St. 57 Florida A&M 68, Bethune-Cookman 62 Florida Gulf Coast 92, Kennesaw St. 74 Furman 67, The Citadel 58 George Mason 89, James Madison 79 Georgia Southern 75, Chattanooga 72 High Point 52, Winthrop 47 Jacksonville St. 76, SIU-Edwardsville 65 Kentucky 74, LSU 50 Liberty 67, Radford 65 Louisiana-Lafayette 67, Louisiana-Monroe 60 MVSU 60, Jackson St. 54 Maryland 73, Virginia Tech 69 Mercer 75, Stetson 64 Ole Miss 66, South Carolina 62 Morehead St. 56, Tennessee Tech 50 Murray St. 73, E. Illinois 58 NC A&T 91, Md.-Eastern Shore 66 Nevada 65, Louisiana Tech 63 Norfolk St. 76, Morgan St. 59 North Florida 71, Lipscomb 59 Northwestern St. 55, SE Louisiana 38 Old Dominion 68, William & Mary 44 Prairie View 64, Alabama St. 57 Samford 77, Davidson 74 Savannah St. 71, Howard 50 Southern Miss. 78, UCF 65 Southern U. 65, Alcorn St. 54 Tennessee 64, Auburn 49 Tennessee St. 91, E. Kentucky 85, 2OT Texas Southern 73, Alabama A&M 61 UNC Asheville 95, Campbell 84 UNC Greensboro 89, W. Carolina 86, OT VCU 59, Georgia St. 58 Vanderbilt 84, Middle Tennessee 77 Virginia 61, NC State 60 W. Kentucky 61, FIU 51 Wofford 68, Coll. of Charleston 59 Xavier 74, Charlotte 70

MIDWEST Akron 74, Cent. Michigan 64 Buffalo 74, N. Illinois 59 Cleveland St. 67, Youngstown St. 47 Creighton 73, Bradley 59 E. Michigan 55, Bowling Green 50 Green Bay 80, Butler 68 Illinois St. 60, S. Illinois 40 Iowa St. 72, Kansas 64 Kent St. 77, Toledo 61 Minnesota 77, Illinois 72, OT Missouri 63, Texas Tech 50 Missouri St. 63, N. Iowa 51 N. Dakota St. 78, Oakland 75 North Dakota 71, Chicago St. 61 Ohio 59, Ball St. 55 Oklahoma 63, Kansas St. 60 Purdue 58, Northwestern 56 Rhode Island 86, Dayton 81 S. Dakota St. 74, IPFW 43 Valparaiso 55, Milwaukee 52 W. Illinois 57, IUPUI 55 W. Michigan 73, Miami (Ohio) 64

SOUTHWEST Baylor 76, Texas 71

Grambling St. 60, Ark.-Pine Bluff 55 Houston 81, UTEP 76, OT Lamar 80, Nicholls St. 56 North Texas 76, Arkansas St. 64

Oral Roberts 77, UMKC 67 Rice 88, Tulane 74 Stephen F. Austin 64, Texas A&M-CC 49 Texas A&M 76, Oklahoma St. 61 Texas-Arlington 82, Texas St. 79 Texas-Pan American 81, Houston Baptist 71 Tulsa 66, SMU 60 UALR 64, Denver 57 UTSA 78, Sam Houston St. 66

FAR WEST Arizona St. 71, Washington St. 67 Colorado St. 77, San Diego St. 60 Idaho St. 64, Weber St. 62 New Mexico 71, TCU 54 UC Irvine 65, UC Riverside 57 UC Santa Barbara 56, Pacific 53 UCLA 77, Colorado 60 Utah St. 82, San Jose St. 65 Washington 69, Arizona 67 Wyoming 75, Boise St. 64

WOMEn’S BaSkETBallWomen’s Top 25 Schedule

Saturday’s GamesNo. 1 Baylor 74, Kansas 46No. 2 Notre Dame 71, St. John’s 56No. 3 Connecticut 77, South Florida 62No. 4 Stanford 74, California 71No. 12 Green Bay 65, Valparaiso 37Iowa 59, No. 13 Purdue 42No. 16 Louisville 62, Villanova 58No. 21 Texas Tech 75, Texas 71No. 22 Gonzaga 75, Saint Mary’s 70No. 23 BYU 74, Santa Clara 64No. 23 DePaul 71, Seton Hall 59

Today’s GamesNo. 6 Kentucky vs. Alabama, 1 p.m.No. 7 Tennessee at No. 17 Georgia, 4 p.m.No. 9 Ohio St. at Minnesota, NoonNo. 10 Miami at Boston College, 4 p.m.No. 11 Rutgers at No. 20 Georgetown, 12:30 p.m.No. 14 Texas A&M vs. Iowa St., 1 p.m.No. 15 Delaware at James Madison, 1 p.m.No. 18 Penn St. at Michigan St., 2 p.m.No. 19 Nebraska at Illinois, NoonNo. 25 North Carolina at Wake Forest, 1 p.m.

PREP BaSkETBallgirls

UnV. CHRISTIan 45, ST. al 39UCS 12 12 12 9 — 45St. Aloysius 2 12 11 14 — 39University Christian (45)Lauren McDaniel 16, Rachel Wilson 12, Brown 6, Cantrell 4, Parkman 2, Moore 2.St. Aloysius (39)Ann Garrison Thomas 12, Willis 8, Alexa Engel 7, Welp 4, Parman 4, Embry 3, Miller 1.

BoysUnV. CHRISTIan 58, ST. al 45

UCS 19 10 10 19 — 58St. Aloysius 13 6 3 23 — 45University Christian (58) Caleb Shufelt 20, Javeous Nicks 16, Graham Yeatman 16, Elliott 4, Warner 2, Davis 1.St. Aloysius (45)Ben Welp 18, Reed 7, Smith 7, Pendleton 4, Lov-ing 2, Smithhart 2.

nHlEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAN.Y. Rangers ..47 31 12 4 66 132 96Philadelphia ....48 29 14 5 63 162 142Pittsburgh .......49 28 17 4 60 152 127New Jersey ....48 26 19 3 55 129 136N.Y. Islanders .48 19 22 7 45 115 143

Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston ............47 31 14 2 64 171 102Ottawa ............52 27 19 6 60 157 160Toronto ...........49 25 19 5 55 151 147Montreal ..........49 19 21 9 47 130 134Buffalo ............49 20 24 5 45 119 149

Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAWashington .....48 26 19 3 55 136 137Florida .............48 22 15 11 55 122 136Winnipeg .........50 22 22 6 50 124 143Tampa Bay .....48 21 23 4 46 136 165Carolina ..........51 18 24 9 45 130 159

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GADetroit .............50 33 16 1 67 160 117St. Louis .........49 29 13 7 65 124 102Nashville .........50 30 16 4 64 140 127Chicago ..........50 29 15 6 64 162 144Columbus .......49 13 30 6 32 115 163

Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAVancouver ......49 30 15 4 64 158 122Minnesota .......49 24 18 7 55 115 126Colorado .........51 26 23 2 54 131 144Calgary ...........50 23 21 6 52 120 137Edmonton .......49 18 26 5 41 122 142

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GASan Jose ........47 27 14 6 60 131 110Los Angeles ...50 24 16 10 58 111 111Dallas ..............48 25 21 2 52 126 136Phoenix ...........50 22 20 8 52 130 134Anaheim .........48 18 23 7 43 124 144NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for over-time loss.

Saturday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Today’s GameAll-Star Game, at Ottawa, 3 p.m.

Monday’s GamesNo games scheduled

B2 Sunday, January 29, 2012 The Vicksburg Post

SIDElInESfrom staff & aP rePorts

flaSHBaCkBY tHe assoCIateD Press

On TVBY tHe assoCIateD Press

scoreboardAUTO RACING

8 a.m. Speed - Rolex Sports Car Series, 24 Hours at Daytona

BOWLING11:30 a.m. ESPN - PBA, USBC

MastersEXTREME SPORTS

1 p.m. ESPN - Winter X Games8 p.m. ESPN - Winter X Games

FIGURE SKATING2 p.m. NBC - U.S. Championships

GOLFNoon TGC - PGA Tour, Farmers

Insurance Open2 p.m. CBS - PGA Tour, Farmers

Insurance OpenCOLLEGE BASKETBALL

Noon CBS - Michigan at Ohio St.5:30 p.m. FSN - Oregon St. at

Oregon7:30 p.m. FSN - Stanford at

CaliforniaNBA

2:30 p.m. ABC - Chicago at Miami5:30 p.m. ESPN - San Antonio at

DallasNFL

6 p.m. NBC - Pro Bowl, at HonoluluNHL

3 p.m. NBC Sports Network - All-Star Game

SOCCER8 p.m. NBC Sports Network-

Women’s, Olympic Qualifying Tournament

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL11 a.m. FSN - Marshall at Tulane1 p.m. FSN - Iowa St. at Texas A&M2 p.m. ESPN2 - Penn St. at Michi-

gan St.3 p.m. FSN - UCLA at Colorado4 p.m. ESPN2 - Tennessee at Georgia

Jan. 291958 — The St. Louis Cardinals

give Stan Musial a contract for $100,000, making him the highest paid player in the National League.

2000 — Utah’s Karl Malone becomes the third player in NBA history to score 30,000 points when he makes a layup with 8:53 left in the third quarter of a 96-94 loss to Minnesota.

2007 — Kevin Garnett almost single-handedly snaps the Phoe-nix Suns’ 17-game winning streak, scoring 44 points and grabbing 11 rebounds in Minnesota’s 121-112 victory.

2009 — Serena Williams, by reaching two finals at the Austra-lian Open, breaks golf star Annika Sorenstam’s record for career prize money by a female athlete with nearly $23 million. Williams pairs with older sister Venus to win the Australian doubles title, surpassing Sorenstam’s total of $22.5 million.

lOTTERYSunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 9-5-0La. Pick 4: 7-4-0-9Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 1-5-7 La. Pick 4: 9-9-5-0 Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 2-4-1 La. Pick 4: 3-6-5-1Mega Millions: 10-22-24-36-49Megaball: 33; Megaplier; 4Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 0-8-0La. Pick 4: 0-3-3-2Easy 5: 2-10-13-19-35La. Lotto: 9-10-13-31-37-39Powerball: 4-19-28-29-47Powerball: 5Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-2-4La. Pick 4: 5-0-8-6Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 9-8-8La. Pick 4: 7-0-0-1Mega Millions: 3-5-30-36-48Megaball: 23; Megaplier; 4Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 2-4-0La. Pick 4: 3-0-6-2Easy 5: 2-3-7-22-36La. Lotto: 9-14-32-35-37-3Powerball: 5-33-41-54-59Powerball: 13

POWERlIfTIngWarren Centralwins first meet

The Warren Central power lifting team won the first meet in school history Saturday.

The Vikings totaled 51 points to slip past Clinton’s 47 point effort. Vicksburg was third with 30 and Greenville-Weston had 27.

Warren Central had five weight division winners led by super heavyweight Gary Williams. Other winners were Greg King (165 lbs.), Taylor Thompson (114), Joseph Davis (275), Brandon Smith (308).

Weight division winners for the Gators were Darius Youngblood (181) and D’Shea Harris (148).

MlBSelig to decide Epstein compensation

CHICAGO — Commissioner Bud Selig will decide what compensa-tion the Boston Red Sox will receive for Theo Epstein’s move to the Chi-cago Cubs. Epstein left as Boston’s general manager with a year left on his contract to become president of baseball operations for the Cubs.

nBaBucks’ Stephen Jackson suspended

NEW YORK — Milwaukee Bucks forward Stephen Jackson was sus-pended for one game by the NBA on Saturday for verbal abuse of a game official and failure to leave the court in a timely manner.

Jackson was sanctioned for his actions at the end of the Bucks’ 107-100 loss at Chicago on Friday night.

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The Vicksburg Post Sunday, January 29, 2012 B3

college basketball

Alabama snaps four-game losing streak

Kentucky pulls away late from LSU


Trevor Releford scored 18 points and Alabama snapped a four-game losing streak, beating Arkansas 72-66 on Saturday.

JaMychal Green finished with 14 points and eight rebounds for Crimson Tide (14-7, 3-4 Southeastern Con-ference), who won their 500th game in Coleman Coliseum. Tony Mitchell and Andrew Steele each scored 11 points. Steele also had a career-high six assists and six rebounds.

The four players who scored in double-digits were the most this season since Alabama put five players in double digits during an 82-45 victory over Alabama A&M on Nov. 23.

Ricky Scott had 18 points for the Razorbacks (15-6, 3-3) remain winless on the road. Mardracus Wade 12 points

and BJ Young 11 points and six assists.

After trailing by five points on four occasions, Alabama grabbed its first lead 28-26 at the 7:11 mark when Releford made a three-point shot from the corner.

“The way we closed the first half with a seven point lead (enabled us) to have good momentum,” Alabama coach Anthony Grant said.

The Crimson Tide stayed in front for the remainder of the half, extending their lead to 37-30 at halftime when Rele-ford scored on a driving lay-up.

The Razorbacks went on a 17-8 run to take a 47-45 lead on a score by Devonta Abron with 13:41 remaining, after Abron had tied the game on a dunk. Trailing 56-54 with 6:59 left to play, Alabama out-scored Arkansas 18-10 down

the stretch to secure the win. “I think we had better

energy on the defensive end. We executed and made some plays down the stretch,” Rel-eford said. “We played with a sense of urgency. We were on a four-game losing streak and I think just to get our confi-dence back we needed to win.” Steele said,

Alabama connected on 25-of-50 shots from the field, mark-ing the seventh time this season the Crimson Tide has shot 50 percent or better in a game. Alabama scored 40 of its 72 points in the paint, while connecting on 20-of-25 free throws (80.0 percent) — the third most the Tide has registered from the foul line this season.

“Obviously they must have wanted it more than we did,” Arkansas coach Mike Ander-son said. “They did a good job

making free throws down the stretch, and we didn’t execute down the stretch. The game went as scripted. They made more plays than we did. That’s life on the road.”

Tennessee 64,Auburn 49

Tennessee struggled to hit its shots against Auburn, so it relied on its defense and rebounding efforts to pull it through instead. It worked.

By the end of the game, the Volunteers had a season-high 53 rebounds — four more boards than the number of points scored by the Tigers — and came away with a win.

“Like I told the guys, we shot under 40 percent from the field and won the game because we rebounded and defended,” Tennessee coach Cuonzo Martin said.


Terrence Jones highlighted a 27-point performance with a 13-0 run on his own and No. 1 Kentucky pulled away in the second half for a 74-50 win over struggling LSU Saturday night.

Anthony Davis had 16 points and 10 rebounds despite briefly leaving the game when he hurt his right shoulder in a scramble for a loose ball.

Darius Miller added 13 points including three 3-pointers for Kentucky (21-1 7-0 South-eastern), which has won 13 straight games.

Johnny O’Bryant III had 12 points and nine rebounds for LSU (12-9, 2-5), which has lost four of its last five.

Storm Warren had 11 points for the Tigers, including an alley-oop dunk that briefly got the Tigers within a point at 25-24 late in the first half, before the Wildcats pulled away.

Jones scored the last four points of the first half, then helped Kentucky break the game open by scoring the first nine of the second half on two dunks, a fastbreak layup and another basket inside as he was fouled.

His last of 13 straight points in the game gave Kentucky a 44-26 lead. A few minutes later, Jones made his ninth field goal in 11 shots on a short jumper in the lane that gave him 21 points and put the Wildcats up 51-30.

LSU missed its first five shots, and 11 of its first 15.

Davis went down hard on his back during a scramble for a loose ball in the first half and remained down after the play before getting up gri-macing and holding his right shoulder.

While he was gone, LSU went on an 8-1 run capped when Warren finished a fast break by taking lob from Hickey to cut Kentucky’s lead to a point.

Southern U. 65,Alcorn State 54

Derick Beltran led four Southern University players in double figures with 14 points and the Jaguars defeated Alcorn State.

Frederick Coleman tallied a double-double with 12 points and 14 rebounds, Mike Celes-tin scored 12 points and Jameel Grace added 10 for Southern (11-11, 7-2 Southwestern Ath-letic Conference).

The Jaguars led the entire way after scoring the game’s first six points, four by Quin-ton Doggett.

Southern led 31-13 at half-

time after holding the Braves (4-16, 2-7) to just 3-of-27 shoot-ing in the first half. Alcorn made it 6-2 on Ian Francis’ layup with 16:16 left in the first half and wouldn’t hit another field goal for 10:44, when JaM-ichael Hawkins’ layup made it 19-7.

Southern took its biggest lead, 40-17, on Beltran’s 3 with 14:35 to play.

Xavian Rimmer led Alcorn State with 14 points, Anthony Nieves added 11 and KeDor-ian Sullivan chipped in 10 rebounds.

Missouri 63,Texas Tech 50

Kim English scored 19 points in the first half, Marcus Denmon added 13 after the break and second-ranked Mis-souri had just enough to avoid a second straight upset with a shaky victory over Texas Tech.

Jaye Crockett had 11 points and 11 rebounds and Ty Nurse

scored 13 for Texas Tech (7-13, 0-8 Big 12), which shaved a 15-point deficit to seven on Clark Lammert’s 3-pointer off the glass at the shot-clock buzzer with 2:36 to go.

Syracuse 63, West Virginia 61

Brandon Triche had 18 points, including a pair of free throws that broke the final tie with 88 seconds left, and third-ranked Syracuse beat West Virginia.

Iowa State 72,Kansas 64

Royce White had 18 points and nine rebounds as Iowa State upset fifth-ranked Kansas, snapping the Jay-hawks’ winning streak at 10 games.

Melvin Ejim added 15 points for the Cyclones (15-6, 5-3 Big 12), who had lost 13 straight to Kansas since their last vic-tory in 2005.

Baylor 76, Texas 71Perry Jones III scored 22

points and grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds, Pierre Jack-son hit the go-ahead 3-pointer and No. 6 Baylor withstood a second-half rally to beat Texas.

Baylor (19-2, 6-2 Big 12) led by 12 early in the second half before J’Covan Brown led a charge that helped the Long-horns tie the game.

Duke 83, St. John’s 76Mason Plumlee had 15 points

and a career-high 17 rebounds to help No. 8 Duke hold off St. John’s.

Pitt 72, Georgetown 60

Nasir Robinson scored 23 points and made all nine of his field goal attempts to lead Pittsburgh past ninth-ranked Georgetown.

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LSU guard Andre Stringer drives to the basket past Kentucky forward Terrence Jones Sat-urday. Kentucky won 74-50.

by Patric Young’s two dunks turned a tight game into a double-digit affair.

Mississippi State (17-5, 4-3) trailed 62-47 after the spurt and never got the lead to single digits. The Gators made enough plays down the stretch to secure their second win in six games against the Bulldogs.

Florida also improved to 5-1 in short-turnaround games (Thursday-Saturday) over the last three seasons. Mis-sissippi State is the only con-ference team better, posting a 5-0 mark in those kind of games.

“It is difficult,” Stansbury said. “It’s better when you’re at home. ... As a coach, none of us likes that scenario. But it’s part of it. Most of us in this league have to do it.”

Moultrie added 13 rebounds, notching his league-leading

13th double-double of the season before fouling out with 2:04 remaining.

Beal led the Gators with 19 points. Young finished with 12, many of them coming on crowd-rousing plays in the second half.

Florida used a pressing, trap-ping defense to dictate tempo and force the Bulldogs into all those turnovers.

“They had a lot to do with us not playing our best,” Stans-bury said.

Florida trapped Bost on every pick-and-roll play, often forcing the ball out of his hands and trying to wear him down.

“They were communicat-ing with each other and were out there on defense talking amongst themselves,” Bost said. “That’s a sign of a really good team.”

49) and outrebounding the Gamecocks 38-28.

The Rebels led 60-53 with 5:55 remaining, but South Carolina made a run. The Gamecocks pulled within 63-62 with 48 seconds left, but Cooke missed a free throw that could have tied the game.

On the next possession, Ole Miss point guard Jarvis Summers found Henry in the corner for a wide-open 3-pointer, and it splashed through the hoop to seal the win.

Holloway added 11 rebounds for a double-dou-ble against his former team. In a strange odyssey, he left Ole Miss after his sophomore season in 2010, transferring to South Carolina to be closer to his family which lives just outside of Columbia, S.C. He

sat out last season because of NCAA transfer rules and then decided that he wanted to transfer back to Ole Miss.

It wasn’t clear if Holloway would be allowed to play this season until the fall, when the NCAA and SEC cleared his return to the Rebels.

He’s been outstanding this season, epitomizing the Rebels’ hard-nosed approach. He came into the game aver-aging 10.2 points and 9.3 rebounds despite an unorth-odox left-handed shooting stroke, relying instead on relentless energy around the basket.

Against the Gamecocks, he made 4 of 7 shots from the field but shot just 6 of 13 from the free-throw line. Ole Miss led by as many as 10 points in the first half, but had to settle for a 31-28 halftime lead.

half. Watson started the run with a 3-pointer, Dodson fol-lowed that with a 3-point play and finished it with a free throw after being fouled hard on an offensive rebound.

Watson contributed another 3-pointer during the run and had three of his assists during the stretch that gave the Golden Eagles a 56-44 lead with 9:03 left in the game.

UCF did cut the deficit to

seven on four occasions after that, but never got closer.

“We’ve been searching for an identity all season and I think we found one tonight,” Eustachy said. “We were really physical and showed the kind of toughness we’ve been talking about all year. Winning in a place where they won 16 straight isn’t easy so I’m really happy with what our guys did tonight.”

missed 11 of 12 in the first half, but did come back to make three of four in the second half. The misses spoiled an otherwise solid game for Thomas. She fin-ished with 12 points, 11 rebounds and six assists.

St. Al trailed by 10 after one quarter, but cut the spread to five in the third quarter after a basket by Avery Parman.

Down nine with 3:09 left, Allie Willis hit a 3-pointer and a basket by Thomas off a steal made it 43-39 with 16 seconds left. Two free throws by Rachel Wilson sealed it for the Flames (6-14).

Lauren McDaniel had 16 points for the Flames. Wilson added 12. Alexa Engel had seven points and seven rebounds for St. Al.

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YMCA Biddyballregistration open

The Vicksburg YMCA is accepting registrations for its Biddy Basketball program until Feb. 4. The six-week introductory program is for children in grades K-2 and focuses on fundamentals.

There will be four sessions available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 4:15 to 5 p.m. and 5:15 to 6 p.m. The sessions will be held at the Purks YMCA.

To register, visit the Purks YMCA or go online to www.vicksburgymca.com. For information, call 638-1071.

Clear Creek Women’s Golf Club

The Clear Creek Women’s Golf Club will be register-ing players for a nine-hole golf league through Feb. 27. The spring league will begin March 5 and end June 10. Registration fee is $10 per player. Handicaps and flights will be established by April 1. All ages welcome. To reg-ister, sign up at the Clear Creek clubhouse, call Karen Carroll at 601-831-1522 or e-mail her at [email protected]

Parks and recreationsoftball umpires

The Vicksburg Parks and Recreation Department is looking for softball umpires for both the youth fast-pitch and adult slow-pitch season. Prospective umpires need to fill out city employment

forms, which can be picked up at the parks and recre-ation office on 100 Army-Navy Drive.

For information, call Joseph Graves at 601-634-4514.

AJGT Oak WingJunior Golf Classic

Junior golfers ages 11-18 are invited to compete in the Arrowhead Junior Golf Tour Oak Wing Junior Clas-sic in Alexandria, La. on Feb. 25-26 .The two-day, 36-hole tournament is ranked by the National Junior Golf Scoreboard and hosted by the Arrowhead Junior Golf Tour. The entry fee includes two days of green fees, tee gifts, and trophies in four age divisions.

The tournament registra-tion deadline is Feb. 22 at noon. To enter the event, call 318-402-2446 or enter online at www.arrowheadjgt.com.

Run Thru Historyregistration

The 33rd annual Run Thru History is scheduled for March 3 at the Vicksburg National Military Park at 8:30 a.m.

The fees are $25 for the 10K run, $25 for the 5K walk and $12 for the one-mile fun run for ages 15 and under before Feb. 27. After that, it is $30 for the 10K and $30 for the 5K walk. Raceday registra-tion begins at 7 a.m. and con-cludes at 8 a.m.

Race packets can be picked up from 5 until 8 p.m. at the Battlefield Inn or at registra-tion on race day. Runners and walkers will receive a T-shirt, refreshments and live music.

For information, visit run-thruhistory.org, call Casey Custer at 601-638-1071 or e-mail him at [email protected].

Country expressions starting to lose their meaningThe grandboys spent the

night last Friday, and woke up Saturday morning ready for juice and scones in bed whilst they educated their Grunk (short for Granddaddy Uncle Bob) on the pleasures of watching a cartoon character called Scooby Doo.

This is an aside, but I never did that as a kid. We didn’t watch much TV, although some Mule Gypsies came through one summer putting up TV antennas, the which offer Big Robert took them up on, though it was three years later before we got a TV. But folks would drive by the house and remark in admiration, “Well, the Neills have got TV!” Because there was an antenna on our house, see?

Sean sat up at one point to reach for another scone, and I noticed a lock of hair standing up on the back of his head.

“You’ve got a cowlick,” I declared. He had no idea what I was talking about.

When I was a shirttail boy, there were times when I was sent out to milk the cow, whenever Coney, our yard-man, might be off visiting somewhere else. I learned early on to wear a cap turned backwards (before it became fashionable) to keep the cow from turning to lick the back of my head, making my hair stand up.

When’s the last time you saw a milk cow?

We still live in the country, but haven’t had a milk cow since I was in high school, I guess. I do remember that the first time I ever drank pasteur-ized milk from a carton was when they built a new junior-high cafeteria after the old school burned down. Our milk came straight from the cow, set up whilst the cream rises to the top, which was then skimmed off for Momma to churn our butter from.

Times have changed, which I reckon ain’t all bad. However, kids of today will never be fully

able to visualize “he’s runnin’ around like a chicken with his head cut off,” or “mad as a wet hen,” or “scarce as hen’s teeth.” Modern kids’ idea of chickens is that they’re fist-sized pieces of meat covered with brown crunchy crust that come in red-and-white buck-ets. Try telling them that chickens used to be covered in feathers, pecked bugs out of the garden, and laid eggs.

A reader recently actually wrote to thank me for using the “country vernacular” expression “wanted to get shut of” something.

The language must change, to mean anything. “He’s grin-nin’ like a mule eatin’ briars” doesn’t convey any image to someone who has never seen a mule nor a sawbriar patch. Troy and I once actu-ally peeled and tasted a length of sawbriar, to see why a mule would draw his lips back to avoid the thorns. Still don’t know.

In the old days country folks had chickens, cows, mules, pigs, and poultry around the house and yard — and we lived off of them. Eggs and milk were daily products that entailed taking care of the ani-mals and birds involved, but for bacon, ham, steaks, roasts, and southern fried chicken, termination was required before table fare, even though the family often had gotten attached to the (gulp) pet.

Yet “clumsy as a hog on ice” brought to mind the winter the

stock pond froze over and the pigs, desperate for water, ven-tured onto the ice. A pig was raised to be fattened before conversion to bacon and ham, therefore it had a permanent smile, so “happy as a dead pig in the sunshine” meant something!

Country vernacular may be passing from the scene, yet that may not entirely be a cause for mourning. After all, who amongst us modern Americans can really miss the image conveyed by the coun-try expression, “built like a brick outhouse”?

Flush toilets, electric lights, microwave ovens, computers, surround sound CDs, eggs in foam cartons, fried chicken in red-and-white buckets: better times?

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

Pro Bowl is a numbers gameKAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) —

The Pro Bowl has turned into a numbers game.

The AFC features five play-ers who wear No. 24, includ-ing three corners, which has caused some confusion with autograph seekers and pho-tographers leading up to today’s all-star game.

The quintet of 24s include New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis, Denver Bron-cos cornerback Champ Bailey, Houston Texans cornerback Johnathan Joseph, San Diego Chargers running back Ryan Mathews and Jacksonville Jaguars special teamer Mon-tell Owens.

They all posed for photos together after Friday’s practice.

So will real No. 24 please stand up?

“They’re all the real No. 24s on their own team,” Mathews

said. “On the Chargers, I’m the real No. 24.”

Mathews wore No. 21 at Fresno State, but changed to 24 when he arrived at San Diego.

“(LaDainian Tomlinson) was No. 21, so I had to change my number,” he said. “I’m sure he wouldn’t have minded if I wore it, though. But that’s L.T.’s number. I wanted to make my own brand.”

Numbers often become a part of a player’s brand or identity, especially for super-stars in their respective sports. Michael Jordan is 23, even though he also wore 45. Besides serving as a player’s brand, numbers often carry a

story behind it and can repre-sent something they’ve carried since childhood, the number of a player they admired or simply a special number. Or it could mean nothing at all.

“It’s my first year wearing 24 and I made it to the Pro Bowl,” said Joseph, who switched from 22 when he left the Cin-cinnati Bengals after five sea-sons and joined the Texans.

“I wouldn’t say it’s my lucky number, but it’s working for me.”

Bailey, on the other hand, is making his 11th Pro Bowl and has worn 24 since joining the NFL 13 years ago. He wore No. 4 at Georgia. Bailey acknowl-edges having so many 24s may create some confusion with fans, but not with the coaches or players.

“We all know each other and we’re all going to repre-sent the number real well,”

he said.At Friday’s practice on the

grounds of the players’ hotel at the Ko Olina Resort, Revis played the left side while Bailey was on the right.

Revis said there are some similarities between the 24s.

“All of us are great at we do and that’s play great football,” he said.

While some are selective about their numbers, Owens was willing to take whatever he could get after playing his collegiate ball as No. 33 at Maine.

“I noticed all the 24s out here, but for me, it wasn’t even the number I selected at Jackson-ville. It was given to me,” he said. “I was a guy who came out undrafted and so when you come out undrafted, you better take any number they give you.”

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Wilfork clogs middlefor Patriots’ defense

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Try to shove massive Vince Wilfork out of the middle. Tough to do, isn’t it?

The 325-pound Pro Bowl tackle keeps sticking around.

Wilfork is the only defen-sive starter left from the New England Patriots last Super Bowl team four years ago. This season, he’s rarely come off the field. And why should he?

He’s earned all that playing time by crunching runners, charging quarterbacks and clogging holes that offensive linemen struggle to open.

“He’s been huge,” coach Bill Belichick said. “Vince has had a great year for us. He’s had obviously a great career, had an outstanding year last year, but this year it’s even gone a step higher.”

Now he has a chance to reach the top in one climac-tic game.

Wilfork, as usual, will be in the center of the action at the Super Bowl against the New York Giants on Feb. 5.

“I don’t care how many Super Bowls you’ve been to or won. Every chance (you) get to play at this level is the biggest game of your career,” he said, but “it’s still a foot-ball game and they’re going to have to line up between the lines and play.

“I think the more we can focus on that end and just block everything else out the better we’ll be as a team. But it’s no question in my mind, these guys will do that.”

The leadership and inspi-ration Wilfork provides as a captain — with his hard-hit-ting play as much as his soft voice — pushes teammates to compete despite season-long criticism of their defense that allowed the second most yards in the regular season.

But runners who challenge the heart of that defense encounter Wilfork’s wide body.

“He is defi-nitely hard to move,” Giants running back Brandon Jacobs said. “He is strong and he is quick for his size. You can’t (figure out) one way where he is going to this or he is going to that. He is not one-dimensional. He makes it really hard for people to figure out how they are going to block him.”

In the 23-20 win over Balti-more in the AFC champion-ship game, Wilfork had one sack and six tackles, includ-ing a stop of Ray Rice for a 3-yard loss that might have pushed the Ravens out of field-goal range with about 3 min-utes left.

Wilfork has been primar-ily a nose tackle since being drafted out of Miami with the 21st pick in 2004. But this season he also lined up at end and tackle in a 4-3 alignment. And he has developed into an every-down player.

“You rarely see a defensive lineman playing 90 percent of the snaps,” linebacker Jerod Mayo said. “He’s one of those guys, I don’t want to say his weight on camera, but he’s a big guy, you can all see that. That’s very impressive in its own right.”

So are his imitations of fleet, 180-pound cornerbacks.

Wilfork, athletic and fast despite his size, had the first two interceptions of his career in the first four games this season. He rambled 36 yards with the first to set up a field goal on the last play before halftime of a 35-21 win over San Diego. Two weeks later he grabbed another pass, return-ing it 19 yards in the fourth quarter of a 31-19 win over Oakland.

“Legendary,” Belichick called those picks.

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TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE“Jumanji” — A magic board-game brings forth African perils and a guy, Robin Williams, who disappeared in 1969 while play-ing it./6:30 on Hallmarkn SPORTSNFL — The NFL’s best — or, at least, the best that aren’t in-jured, playing in next week’s Super Bowl, or have anything better to do — hit the field in Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium for the annual Pro Bowl./6 on NBCn PRIMETIME“Undercover Boss” — Presi-dent Rick Tigner of Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates goes un-der cover to see what it is like on the front lines of the luxury wine company./7 on CBS

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

MILESTONESn BIRTHDAYSTom Selleck, actor, 67; Bettye LaVette, rhythm-and-blues sing-er, 66; Ann Jillian, actress, 62; Tommy Ramone, rock musician, 60; Oprah Winfrey, talk show host, 58; Nicholas Turturro, ac-tor, 50; Edward Burns, actor-director, 44; Heather Graham, ac-tress, 42; Sara Gilbert, actress, 37; Jonny Lang, blues musician, 31; Adam Lambert, pop-rock singer, 30.

n DEATHDimitra Arliss — Actress who played a hired killer alongside Robert Redford and Paul Newman in the caper comedy "The Sting," was 79. Arliss died Jan. 26 at the Woodland Hills facility of complications from a stroke. After appearing as a "hit lady" in the 1973 hit "The Sting," she was seen in "Xanadu," starring Ol-ivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly.

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Etta James remembered as a trailblazerRev. Al Sharpton says Etta James should be remembered as a

woman and an artist who “turned her pain into power.”Sharpton eulogized the rhythm and blues singer at a memo-

rial service Saturday in which he highlighted James’ vocal talent but also her bluntness and ability to break down racial and cul-tural barriers.

James died Jan. 20 after battling leukemia and other ailments.

Jackson doctor seeks early releaseThe doctor convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael

Jackson’s death asked a judge Friday to release him from jail pending his appeal.

Dr. Conrad Murray, who is serving a four-year jail sentence, said in a declaration that he should be released either on his own recognizance or on bail with electronic monitoring.

His lawyer, J. Michael Flanagan, said Murray knows he cannot work as a doctor but would find other employment. He sug-gested the sentence and Murray’s mode of confinement is ex-tremely severe for a man with no prior criminal record.

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N.Y. inmate guilty of tax fraudA jury has convicted a New York prison inmate of falsely filing

tax returns seeking $890 million in refunds.Prosecutors said the man filed the bogus returns from 2006 to

2010 while at various state prisons. They say he even was issued a refund for $327,000 — but prison officials intercepted the check and returned it to the Internal Revenue Service, which led the investigation. The man was convicted Thursday of 11 counts of filing false claims and one count of helping another inmate file bogus returns.

He was serving two to four years for possession of stolen prop-erty when he was charged last February. He faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 on each count.


Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — It’s erroneous to believe, as oth-ers say, that a very important arrangement is slipping from your control.Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — You’re presently in a very good cycle for fulfilling your desires and expectations, but good things can only happen if you believe in yourself.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Although initially you might not believe it, the odds are slanted in your favor.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Your powers of observation are extremely astute, so carefully observe a role model handle a sit-uation similar to one of which you must take care. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — For whatever reason, your deal-ings with male pals will be easier to handle than any involve-ments you might have with the ladies.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — The proof you’ve been looking for regarding the loyalty and/or support of your associates will be made clear to you.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Any sincere effort you put forth to protect a critical matter for another will work well.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Someone who is in a position of power is apt to sense a kinship with you.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Normally it isn’t too smart to have too many irons in the fire simultaneously, but your case might be an exception.Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — It won’t be because you’ll be more forceful or assertive than usual that you’ll have a greater impact on others; it will be because your enthusiastic manner is so uplifting.Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Don’t be indifferent about sit-uations that are running smoothly and producing good results for you.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Your ability to evaluate and use information so well is likely to be the envy of all your associates.

TOMOrrOW’S HOrOSCOPEBY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION

Man wants to cook up storm without thunder from wifeDear Abby: I’m fortunate

to be married to an amazing woman. There’s just one prob-lem. She’s convinced that I’m going to burn down the house. She constantly nags me when I’m cooking, even when I’m lit-erally standing over the pots. I find her tone — and the idea that I don’t know how to use a stove — insulting.

She insists I have the burner on too high when I’m making spaghetti, and it will some-how result in a catastrophe far worse than a ruined meal. I find it extremely annoying because I am 30, served my country honorably in Iraq, have been making spaghetti since I was 12 and have never caused any sort of kitchen fire.

My wife hasn’t cooked for me in more than a year. That doesn’t upset me because I know she works hard to earn money for our family. But if she doesn’t cook for me and I’m not allowed to cook for me, then how am I supposed to eat?

Is there anything I can do to make my wife understand that I can be trusted to make a simple meal on a simple stove? — Pasta Guy in Philly

Dear Pasta Guy: Probably not, if you haven’t been able to convey that message in more than a year. So insist that she stay out of the kitchen while you’re cooking, or prepare your meals after she has left for work. Or expand your rep-ertoire beyond spaghetti and make a salad instead.

Dear Abby: I’m a 15-year-

old high school student with a wonderful life, but I’m not happy. I get good grades, have many great friends, a week-end job and an amazing boy-friend. (He’s 17.)

The problem is I’m bored. I have had only one technical boyfriend besides the one I have now. I had two “flings” where I got involved with guys without an official or physi-cal relationship. I know most teenagers would kill for a boyfriend like mine who buys them things and tells them they’re beautiful. But I want a relationship with ups and downs — drama and fight-ing. Am I crazy to want to date other people, or is this normal? — Lost in Love

Dear Lost in Love: You’re not crazy. It is normal for some teenage girls to want variety.

However, please don’t equate the kind of drama you see on TV and in films with what real life is supposed to be about. Relationships filled with drama and fighting do not have happy outcomes. They can lead to bruised hearts and sometimes violence.

If you want to end the rela-tionship with your boyfriend, by all means do so. But before you become involved in the kind of relationship you think would be exciting, please dis-cuss it with your mother or another trusted adult, because a mature person with insight should share some of it with you.

Dear Abby: My mother gives gifts — sometimes very generous ones — but always with strings attached. She also keeps a record of which recipients have responded with appropriate gratitude (cards, phone calls) and those

who have not. Those individ-uals on the “not” list are ridi-culed behind their backs and slighted in other ways.

My mother considers her-self a “good Christian,” but I believe her actions are self-ish, and I have conflicting emotions when I receive gifts from her. What do you think? — Conflicted in Wisconsin

Dear Conflicted: I think you should always thank your mother graciously and appro-priately for her generosity when she gives you a gift, if only because it is considered good manners.

•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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‘Portlandia’: A state of mind, laughs on IFC By Lynn ElberAP television writer

LOS ANGELES — When Fred Armisen of “Saturday Night Live” and musician Carrie Brownstein found themselves with time and creativity on their hands, the longtime friends decided to conspire on a few videos.

“Our goal wasn’t to be funny, just to make these odd little pieces,” Armisen said. It was the two of them, a cam-eraman and no particular expectations.

“Then some ambition did start to creep in,” Armisen recalled. “We said, ‘Wait a minute, this has the elements of what a TV show would be,’” Armisen recalled.

The result is “Portlandia,” the IFC series that’s in its second season (9 p.m. Fridays). It’s a collection of sketches set in a partly real, partly mythic version of Portland that stands in for a certain mindset and community.

Think of “a cool, weird book store” and a record shop, a restaurant with “really, really good seafood” and a movie theater dedicated to indie films, suggests Armisen.

With that backdrop, and with its stars taking on a variety of roles (and sometimes wigs), “Portlandia” sends up city life, pop culture, success-ori-ented parenting and slivers of obsessive behavior that veer from charming to unnerving — such as the smiling couple who decorate every available surface with bird designs.

In one episode, “Cool Wed-ding,” militant bike messen-ger Spyke and his fiancee seek a unique ceremony, and a gro-cery store shopper (guest star Jack McBrayer of “30 Rock”) is scorned when he forgets his reusable bag. A must-see

repeat is highlighted by Port-land’s annual Allergy Pride Parade — all allergy sufferers welcome — and Jeff Goldblum as a knot store owner.

The series has quickly devel-oped a small but avid follow-ing, with two important fans at the front of the pack: Jen-nifer Caserta, IFC’s executive vice president and general manager, and mega-producer Lorne Michaels (“Saturday Night Live,” ‘’30 Rock”).

“Portlandia” is “a perfect fit for IFC,” said Caserta. The channel had been expanding its original programming and “an alternative comedy was something we were honing in on, something that our audi-

ence wanted from us,” she said.

Co-created by Jonathan Krisel, the show and its stars “felt very right for us and dif-ferent from any sketch show we’ve seen before,” Caserta said. It’s a match for IFC’s pro-gramming that is “irresist-ibly on the fringes of what of what you would normally find elsewhere.”

Michaels, executive pro-ducer of “Portlandia,” calls it “so inventive” and applauds IFC for letting the creative team keep the show’s concept pure and laser-focused.

“They’re only doing it for the audience that wants it. No other audience need apply,” he said, laughing. “And it found an audience: It’s a little hit. I notice that, because people will go out of their way to mention the show to me.”

And that includes the city and its residents, who provide

the starting point for parody.“You have to see it in Port-

land! They love it,” Michaels said. “I went out there this summer and spent a few days with (the production team). The show soaks up what’s hap-pening there and celebrates it and has a nice way of being funny about it without betray-ing anything.”

Season two was crafted with more emphasis on relation-ships, Armisen said, espe-cially on couples who “work as a unit” and speak in the same voice. There’s Portland-style bicycle action, of course, including bicycle movers and a bicycle valet.

Brownstein and Armisen, who met in 2003, share indie-rock music roots. The two also have a similar “fear of stillness,” said Brownstein, which set them on the path to “Portlandia.”

‘a cool, weird book store’


“Portlandia” creators and co-stars Fred Armisen, left, and Carrie Brownstein perform with actor Kyle MacLachlan in New York.

On TV“Portlandia” is shown on IFC at 9 p.m. on Fridays.

Robin Williams

Mississippi teen in ’American Idol’ top 40JACKSON (AP) — A

17-year-old Brandon girl is one of the top 40 candidates on Fox’s American Idol.

Skylar Laine Harden was one of the top 40 contestants who advanced to the singing com-petition’s Hollywood round, placing her one step closer to making her debut on a stage that has launched the careers of stars such as Kelly Clark-son and Carrie Underwood.

Skylar’s mother, Mary

Harden, has been with her daughter during the entire Idol process — from her first time meeting judges Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler to her recent venture to Tinseltown.

“She’s ready for this,” her mother said said.

And so far, Skylar’s blend of country and Southern rock has helped push her forward as the competition has nar-rowed from thousands. Sky-

lar’s grandfather, Malcolm Massey, raised her on coun-try legends like Marty Stuart and Patsy Cline, Harden says. But her childhood years were spent on stage, belting out tunes in traveling productions of hit Broadway shows.

“She could sing when she was 2,” said Skylar’s grand-mother, Carolyn Massey. “She toured with Annie for a while, and then with Les Miserables when she was 6.”

The Masseys are owners of a Jackson mainstay, Beatty Street Grocery. And custom-ers can see photos of Skylar throughout the years from her time working with the touring musicals.

“She traveled to China and all sorts of places,” Carolyn Massey said. “She’s got a really strong voice. She has to be good to have been sing-ing all this time.”

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Low-speed Israel sets its sightson next-generation Internet

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is often referred to as a “Startup Nation,” thanks to its long history of high-tech breakthroughs produced by scrappy little companies. But in one critical area, the speed of Internet connections, Israel has fallen behind other tech-savvy countries.

In the coming months, Isra-el’s state-owned electric com-pany hopes to change this by rolling out a nationwide, high-speed broadband net-work. Exploiting the small size of the densely populated country, the effort aims to put Israel at the forefront of the next generation of Internet technology.

Experts say the fiber-optic lines can provide connections of 10 times to 100 times cur-rent speeds, transforming the way the Internet is used in such areas as entertainment, business and health care.

“All the developing countries that have a vision for 10 years ahead, or 20 years ahead, understand that the name of the game will be communica-tions, broadband communica-tions, very fast communica-tions,” said Tzvi Harpak, the electric company’s senior vice president for logistics.

The technology is known as “fiber to the home,” or FTTH. Using fiber optic lines, it can provide connection speeds of 100 megabits to a blazing 1 gigabit per second. Today, the typical broadband user in the developed world connects at five megabits to 10 mega-bits using older cable and DSL connections.

Oliver Johnson, chief execu-tive of British research firm Point Topic, said FTTH tech-nology is the “gold standard” of the next generation of broadband service. Although cable and DSL lines can be upgraded to higher speeds, FTTH has smoother transmis-sion of data and a much higher upside in terms of speed, he said.

“It’s easier to go higher. It’s future-proofed,” he said.

The added bandwidth could transform the way the Inter-net is used. Massive video files will be downloaded instantly, opening the door for high-def-inition and 3D movies to be delivered more easily.

Since the system will have equally fast upload speeds, individuals or businesses will also be able to deliver pictures, videos and other large files. In South Korea, where FTTH lines are common, users rave of the lightning fast down-loads and crystal clear Skype connections.

This could mean much-improved videoconferences in the workplace, easy shar-ing of information in compli-cated engineering tasks, doc-tors monitoring their patients or assisting in operations by long distance. It will also likely speed up the migration of information, photos and video from personal comput-ers to the “cloud,” making it easy for users to access their information from any Internet connection. Around the world, decision-makers are reaching the conclusion that faster con-

nections will be essential for economic growth. A number of countries are engaged in a gold rush of sorts as they build new networks with FTTH technology.

“Everyone feels that band-width will be this commod-ity down the road. If you don’t have it, you’ll be out of luck,” said David St. John, spokes-man for the FTTH Council, an industry trade group based in the U.S.

FTTH technology was intro-duced more than a decade ago, but adoption has gener-ally been slow because of its high costs. As costs have grad-ually come down, particularly in densely populated areas, it has begun to take off. And

when new networks are rolled out, it makes more sense to go with the new technology.

According to the coun-cil, heavily urbanized South Korea leads the world with just over half of households connected to FTTH lines, fol-lowed by Japan and Hong Kong, both at about 40 per-cent. In the U.S., about 7.1 million homes, or 6.6 percent, have the technology through services like Verizon’s FiOS.

Not surprisingly, South Korea leads the world in aver-age broadband connection speed at 13.8 mbps, followed by Hong Kong and Japan, accord-ing to Akamai Technologies Inc.’s closely watched “State of the Internet” report. The U.S. is ranked 16th.

Israel, dominated by DSL and cable broadband services, is No. 28, with an average connec-tion speed of about 4.5 megabits per second. According to Point Topic, 92 percent of Israeli homes have broadband connec-tions, a respectable number but only about 19th in the world.

An employee views a computer screen at the Israeli Electric Company headquarters in Tel Aviv.

Around the world, decision-makers are

reaching the conclusion that faster connections

will be essential for economic growth.

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Health, sleep among book topics this weekThe Warren County-Vicks-

burg Public Library reports on new books regularly.

• “Ask Me Why I Hurt” by Randy Christensen with Rene Denfeld discusses the kids nobody wants and the doctor who heals them. Trained as a pediatri-c i a n , h e works not in a typi-cal hos-pital set-ting but, rather, in a 38-foot Winne-bago that has been refit-ted as a doc-tor’s office on wheels. His patients are the city’s homeless adolescents and children. In the shadow of one affluent American city, Dr. Christiensen has dedicated his life to caring for society’s throwaway kids — the often-abused, unloved children who live o n t h e streets with-out access to proper health care, all the while fending off constant threats from thugs, gangs, pimps, and other predators. With the Winnebago as his moveable med-ical center, Chris-tensen and his team travel around the outskirts of Phoenix attending to the chil-dren and teens that need him most.

• “Tired but Wired” by Dr Nerina Ramlakhan is the essential sleep tool kit on how to overcome your sleep prob-lems. Sleep problems such as difficulty in falling asleep, waking up through the night, lying awake worrying about all the things you have to do tomorrow are universal and with the pressure of new technology it can seem as if you will never sleep prop-erly again. This book describes the science behind sleep and how to find your natu-ral sleep rhythms and pro-vides the Sleep Tool-kit Pro-gramme that anyone can use, adjust-ing i t for your own life-style, needs and personal-ity to provide all the essential habits and routines you need for brilliant sleep.

• “Final Jeopardy” by Ste-phen Baker discusses man vs. machine and the quest to know everything. For centu-ries, people have dreamed of creating a machine that thinks like a human. Scientists have made progress: computers can now beat chess grandmas-ters and help prevent terror-ist attacks. Yet we still await a machine that exhibits the rich complexity of human thought — one that doesn’t just crunch num-

bers, or take us to a relevant Web page, but understands us and gives us what we need.

That vision has driven a team of engi-neers at IBM. Over three years, they cre-ated Watson and pre-p a r e d i t for a show-down Jeop-ardy!, where it would take on two of the game’s all-time champi-

ons, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, in a nation-ally televised event. “Final Jeopardy” is the entertaining, illuminating story of that com-

puter and that epic match.

• “The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Lost” by R a c h e l Friedman is a memoir of three conti-nents, two friends, and one unex-pected adven-ture. Rachel Fried-man has

always been the con-

sum-mate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the col-lege grad surprises n o o n e more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions),

she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has never visited. There she forms an unlikely bond with a free-spir-ited Aus-tralian girl, a born adventurer who spurs Rachel on to a yearlong odyssey that takes her to three conti-

nents, fills her life with newfound f r i e n d s a n d gives birth to a previously unrealized passion for adventure.

• “Check-out Girl” by Ana Sam tells of life

behind the register. Millions of people work in supermarkets throughout the world, and you’re about to meet one of them. The wise and witty voice of the college-educated, underpaid retail worker, Anna Sam offers an insider’s peek at what really goes on at the grocery store. Meet the customer look-ing for a sympathetic soul (read: captive audience) to hear her latest plight; the jovial drunkard who

thinks he’s Santa Claus; the

excessively communi-cative God boss; the neurotic Open-ing Time couple; the slug-gardly Clos-ing Time couple; and the notorious coupon-hoard-ing, receipt inspecting Bar-gain Hunter. Sam also warns newbie cashiers about line-cut-ting tactics, dif-ferent types of thieves on the prowl and snarky “comedi-ans.”

•“Card-board Gods” by Josh Wilker is his memoir of his uncon-ventional and heartbreak-ingly comic childhood. T h e 1 9 7 0 s were marked by Vietnam, Watergate, countercul- ture, sexual liberation and sta-dium rock. For Josh, it was a time spent navigating a challenging childhood i n wh i c h his only real comfort came from his prized baseball card collection, which offered him the hope that his own

winning season would one day pres-ent itself.

• “When Gadgets Betray Us” by Robert Vamosi explores the dark side of our infat-uation with new technologies. He uncovers a secret world of privacy loss that most of us never con-sider — that is,

until something goes terribly wrong. From iPads to BlackBerry devices, online banking to keyless entry systems, we’re increas-ingly giving over the manage-ment of our crucial informa-tion to the latest and greatest gadgets. Vamosi helps us com-prehend the technology in our everyday lives and develop a commonsense approach about how to protect ourselves.

• “Johnny Appleseed” by Howard Means tells of the man, the myth and the Amer-ican story. No American folk hero — not Davy Crockett, not even Daniel Boone — is better known than Johnny Apple-seed, and none has become more trapped in his own leg-ends. The fact is, John Chap-man — the historical Johnny Appleseed — might well be the best-known figure from

our national past about whom

most

people know

almost noth-

ing real at all. One

early histo-rian called

Chapman “the oddest character

in all our history,” and not without

cause. Chapman was an animal whis-

perer, a vegetarian in a raw country where it was easier to kill game than grow a crop, a pacifist in a place ruled by gun, knife and fist. Some settlers considered Chapman a New World saint. Others thought he had been kicked in the head by a horse. And yet he was welcomed almost everywhere, and sto-ries about him floated from cabin to cabin, village to vil-lage, just as he did.

• “ B i r d , Bee, & Bug Houses” by Derek Jones explains all you need t o k n ow about how to create the perfect house for a whole host of crea-tures, includ-i n g a bonus section

on bat boxes. You can transform your garden into a wildlife haven with this book of simple and attractive nest-box projects. Only basic woodwork-ing skills are needed to create these unique and quirky houses, all of which are explained and illus-

trated clearly. Detailed information is given on tools and where to

find source materi-als, many of which can be recycled or scavenged. You will also find out where and how to hang each different type of house to give it the best chance of being inhabited.

•Denise

Ho g a n i s reference interlibrary

loan librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. Write to her at 700 Veto St., Vicksburg, MS 39180.

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WASHINGTON — The federal government’s plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans’ civil liberties.

In a report for release Friday, The Constitution Project warns that as the Obama administration part-ners more with the energy, financial, communications and health care industries to monitor and protect net-works, sensitive personal information of people who

work for or communicate with those companies could be improperly or inadver-tently disclosed.

While the government might have good intentions, it “runs the risk of establish-ing a program akin to wire-tapping all network users’ communications,” the non-partisan legal think tank said.

Cybersecurity has become a rapidly expanding priority for the government as fed-eral agencies, private com-panies and everyday people come under persistent and increasingly sophisticated computer attacks. The threat

is diverse, ranging from computer hackers going after banking and finan-cial accounts to terrorists or other nations breaching gov-ernment networks to steal sensitive data or sabotage critical systems such as the electrical grid, nuclear plants or Wall Street.

Privacy has been a hotly debated issue, particularly as the Pentagon broadens its pilot program to help defense contractors protect their net-works and systems. Several companies, including critical jet fighter and drone pro-grams, have been attacked, although the Pentagon has

said that no classified infor-mation was lost.

And there are plans for the Homeland Security Depart-ment to use the defense pro-gram as a model to prevent hackers and hostile nations from breaching critical infra-structure. Officials have sug-gested that Congress needs to craft legislation that would protect companies from cer-tain privacy and other laws in order to share informa-tion with the government for cybersecurity purposes.

DHS spokesman Matt Chandler said the legislative proposals reflect the admin-istration’s commitment to

privacy protections and con-tain standards to minimize contact with personal infor-mation while dealing with cybersecurity threats. “DHS builds strong privacy pro-tections into the core of all cybersecurity programs and initiatives,” Chandler said, adding that the agency real-izes that providing assis-tance to private compa-nies is a sensitive task that requires “trust and strict confidentiality.”

The Constitution Project report recommends that offi-cials limit the amount and


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Average regular unleaded self-service prices as of Fri-day:Jackson .............................$3.18Vicksburg .................$3.20Tallulah .............................$3.25Sources: Jackson AAA, Vicks-burg and Tallulah,Automotive. com

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Get ready for some planting: It’s time for the tree giveawayWell, these six years sure

blew by in a hurry. How come nobody told me time goes by faster during relaxed retire-ment years than decades of going to the job every day?

Anyway, it is nice to be back in The Vicksburg Post. This time my weekly writing is on behalf of the Warren County Soil and Water Con-servation District. My plan is for this column to be a lot like the one I had before: to write about agriculture and natural resources and to often narrow those big topics down to our yards and gar-dens. I might start out one week with worldwide soil erosion and wind up naming an ugly plant fungus or grip-ing about armadillos. For the

record, deer are no longer my main nemesis. I fenced ’em out.

I couldn’t have asked for an easier first week’s topic. That’s because Friday is the local annual tree seedling giveaway to celebrate Arbor Day. Each year, the Soil and Water Conservation District purchases tree seedlings in bulk. Students from the FFA Chapter spend hours putting one each of the six tree spe-

cies in bags to give to county residents who want a few trees to plant. It’s a freebie to promote residential tree-planting.

This year’s packet will contain one each of South-ern magnolia, live oak, red maple, river birch, crape myrtle and native persim-mon. Additionally, residents can get a handful of Loblolly Pine seedlings. The limit of one of each species, except pine, is the only practical and fair way to convert huge bundles of seedlings for dis-tribution. Residents wanting a packet may get it Friday morning at the United States Department of Agriculture parking lot, 2660 Sherman Ave. Seedlings will be avail-

able from 8 a.m. until noon or until they are gone, which-ever comes first.

After the handout, Dis-trict personnel and volun-teers will conduct Arbor Day plantings at several elemen-tary schools. Our official Mis-sissippi Arbor Day is Feb. 10, but observances will be going on around the state this week and next. National Arbor Day is not until April 27, but I am confident I know the reason for the different dates. You see, Arbor Day began in Nebraska, and they won’t thaw out for a while. And late April is way past the best time to plant trees here.

The best we can tell, this is the 30th year that the Soil

and Water Conservation has conducted the program. I wonder if there are those among us who have 30-year-old Arbor Day free trees in the yard they recall planting.

My best advice for handling the seedlings is to immedi-ately rehydrate the roots. Whether you take them home or back to the office until quitting time, get the roots some moisture. Wrap-ping the whole wad of roots snuggly in wet paper will do, as will setting them in water in an empty, plastic, jumbo, fruity drink cup fetched from the trash.

•Terry Rector writes for the Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District, 601-636-7679 ext. 3.

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Port shipments drop for third straight yearBy Danny Barrett [email protected]

Raw material unloaded at the Port of Vicksburg dropped for the third straight year in 2011, but the last five months outperformed the same time in 2010.

Loads of ore, steel coils, lumber and soybeans reached 145,390 tons for the year, down from 161,222 in 2010. In 2008, loads totaled 203,699 after activity ceased for much of 2007 after the T-dock loading platform was replaced.

In December, shipments of steel, ore and grain amassed 41,319 tons, dwarfing the

15,700 tons that came off barges during the same time in 2010. Cargo from August through December aver-aged nearly 24,800 tons, more than double the 10,397 for the same time frame in 2010. April, May and June produced a scant 2,908 tons, including zero in May when

Mississippi River’s historic flood shuttered the port.

“We’ve come a long way the last few years, with the completion of a new T-dock and rail improvements up there,” Warren County Port Commission executive direc-tor Wayne Mansfield said. “The flood set us back, but

we continue to move forward with it.”

Mineral ore shipments from DuPont are expected to continue through next fall, as part of a contract with port operator Kinder Morgan. Company officials have cited the DuPont deal for the upshot in cargo to close the year. It was key to the port authority extending the chemical products and ser-vices company’s operating lease through June 2013.

Base rent paid by the termi-nal operator equals $135,000 annually with tonnage incen-tives built in. If revenue sur-passes $1 million, the firm kicks in 8 percent. If it ever

tops $1.4 million, they pay 15 percent.

Revenue in 2011 surpassed $900,000, above last year’s $810,979. It last topped $1 mil-lion in 2009. Rates are vari-able by material types and travel routes.

Flood damage to two office spaces and restrooms in a terminal warehouse is esti-mated around $30,000. Repair quotes have been slow in coming, but are expected to come up for a vote in Febru-ary. An extensive reconstruc-tion of Industrial Drive is also in the works this year, funded by a federal highway grant.

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Mineral ore shipments from DuPont are expected to continue through next fall, as part of a contract with port operator Kinder Morgan. Company officials have cited the DuPont deal for the upshot in cargo to close

the year. It was key to the port authority extending the chemical products and services company’s operating

lease through June 2013.

U.S. cybersecurity efforts trigger privacy concerns The government ‘runs the risk of establishing a program akin to wiretapping’

A barge unloads at the Port of Vicksburg building.

Johnson certifiedin Defense at Corps

Teresa Johnson, a security spe-cialist with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Develop-ment Center in Vicksburg, has received her security fundamentals professional certification from the Defense Security Service.

The certification is awarded for successfully completing a 100-question exam.

Johnson, who works with foreign disclosure and indus-trial security issues, received her certificate and a com-memorative coin from ERDC commander Col. Kevin Wilson.

Wall-breaching workgets GSL team award

A five-member research team from the Geotechnical and Struc-tures Labo-ratory at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Develop-ment Center in Vicksburg has been selected for the 2011 Army Modeling and Simulation Award.

The team, Dr. Stephen A. Akers, Dr. Jay Q. Ehrgott, Denis D. Rickman, Timothy W. Shelton and Dr. Ramón J. Moral, developed a one-step, contact wall breaching method.

Shields is top chefat Ameristar Casino

James Shields has been named executive chef for Ameristar Casino Hotel in Vicksburg.

Shields will work in food and beverage operations and oversee all restaurant and banquet events.

Shields studied at the Culinary Institute of America in New York.

He was the executive chef at Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville, La. He also worked for ITT Sheraton, the former Fair-mont (Roosevelt) Hotel and Harrah’s Hotel and Casino, both in New Orleans.

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sales tax revenueThe City of Vicksburg receives 18.5 percent of all sales taxes collected by businesses in the city limits. Revenues to the city lag ac-tual sales tax collections by

two months, that is, receipts for April reflect sales taxes col-lected on sales in February. Here are the latest monthly receipts:

November 2011 .......$610,313Fiscal year 2010-11 to date... $1,212,325

November 2010 .......$563,7862010-11 fiscal year to date ....$1,132,403

December 2011City ..................................$454,021County ...........................$211,911Schools .............................$58,213

Fiscal year 2011-12 to dateCity .............................. $1,361,472County ...........................$658,198Schools .............................$58,213

December 2010 City ..................................$404,244County ...........................$190,925Schools .............................$51,754

Fiscal year 2010-11 to dateCity .............................. $1,327,072County ...........................$596,768Schools ..........................$162,254

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 War-ren 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:

casino tax revenue

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new officerS

Members of the 2012 Warren County Forestry Association Board of Directors are , above, from

left, Mike Mikell, vice president; Thurman Nel-son, immediate past president; Randy Sherard,

treasurer; and Marcez Mitchell, president. Advi-sory Committee officers are, top right, from

left, Wesley Purvis, Mississippi State University Extension Service co-director; Jim Horan, Rob

Riggin and Raymond Joyner, and right, from left, Landman Teller, Glen White, Judge Jim

Chaney and Glynn Brown.

nature of personal informa-tion shared between the public and private sectors. And it calls for strict over-sight of the cyber programs by Congress and indepen-dent audits, to ensure that privacy rights have not been violated.

“The government should not be permitted to conduct an end-run around Fourth Amendment safeguards by relying upon private compa-nies to monitor networks,” it said.

The following commercial land transfer was recorded in the Chancery Clerk’s Office for the week ending Jan. 27, 2012:

• Blair J. Plaisance to C.J. Christina Inc.; parts of Sec-tions 13, 18 and 19, Township 17N, Range 5E; 155.6 acres off Redwood Road

land transfer


NEW YORK — Paula Deen’s diabetes revela-tion pretty much sums it up: Kitchen pros

at all levels struggle with obesity and its dangerous aftertaste in the high-pres-

sure, high-calorie world of food.The queen of Southern comfort cook-

ing, now a spokeswoman for a diabe-tes drugmaker’s health initiative, recently

announced that she hid her Type 2 diabetes for about three years while continuing to cook up deep-fried cheesecake and bacon-and-egg burgers between doughnuts on TV.

Choosing to digest her ill health privately all those years, Deen’s story is familiar to those in chef’s jackets who already had gone public with the ques-tion few in their world love to talk about: How do you stay healthy while trying to earn a living making food?

A dozen obese chefs, restaurant owners, caterers and others will search for the answer as the Food Network’s “Fat Chef” follows participants for 16 weeks as they struggle to lose weight and learn

a healthier way of life with the help of trainers, nutrition-ists and therapists.

“You have this abundance of food all around you,” said pastry chef Michael Mignano, who’s one of the dozen. “You’re doing parties, you have weddings. There’s always a lot of food left over. You’re constantly tasting, working late hours, eating late.”

Mignano, 36, owns a bakery in Port Washington, N.Y. At 6 foot 2, he weighed about 500 pounds soon after he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabe-tes in 2010, before “Fat Chef” went into production last October. His resolve to do something about his weight grew stronger as the result of a differ-

ent Food Network show on which he appeared in September, “Sweet Genius.”

“I wasn’t nervous about that show, but I was nervous about whether the jacket would fit

me,” said Mignano, who now weighs about 400 pounds and has a long road ahead to

reach his goal weight of 250. “Watching myself on that show, I was the fat guy.

That’s all I saw. I felt almost like a drunk seeing himself on the floor

passed out.”Going public with his

weightloss journey hasn’t been easy for Mignano and others in similar unhealthy dire straits. As chefs, the constant food stimulation by sight, smell and taste was com-

pounded by personal strug-gles and family obligations.Art Smith, who doesn’t

appear on the show, is a child of fried chicken and other South-

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THIS & THATfrom staff reports

Cooking with Herbscoming to SCHC

The Southern Cultural Her-itage Center has a Cooking with Herbs Workshop sched-uled for Feb. 21, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Participants will learn simple techniques and reci-pes with herbs including washing, drying and freez-ing. William Furlong, who serves as the food and bev-erage manager at Diamond-Jacks Casino, will be the instructor.

Registration is $20 for members and $25 for non-members, and supplies are included. Space is lim-ited, and reservations are required. The workshop is the first in a series of events included in the Hobbs Free-man Arts and Nature Festi-val in 2012. For information, call 601-631-2997 or e-mail [email protected]. The SCHC is located at 1302 Adams St.

Mardis Gras carnavalplanned for Feb. 18

The Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation has planned Vicksburg’s first Carnaval de Mardi Gras for Feb. 18 at the Southern Cul-tural Heritage Center from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.

The festival will include a Cajun gumbo cook-off, live music, dancing and chil-dren’s activities. Admission is $5 and may be paid at the door.

Teams for the gumbo cook-off are now being accepted. The entry fee is $40 and includes three team mem-bers. The first-place winner will receive $200.

For information, call 601-636-5010.

Miss. College to hostEvangelism Lectures

The Evangelism Lectures at Mississippi College are scheduled for Feb. 6-7.

Dr. Gene Wilkes, pastor of Legacy Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, will be the guest speaker. Wilkes gradu-ated from Baylor University with a masters of divinity and a doctorate in philoso-phy and New Testament Studies from Southwestern Baptist Theological Semi-nary. He also has authored numerous books, including “Jesus on Leadership.”

The lectures are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Feb. 6 in Provine Chapel, 200 W. Col-lege St., Clinton. Wilkes also will speak at the spring 2012 chapel lineup at 10:50 a.m. Feb. 7 at First Baptist Church in Clinton.

For information, call 601-925-3292.

Campbell plans benefitconcert in Jackson

Country Music Hall of Famer Glen Campbell is scheduled to perform a ben-efit concert at Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson.

The show, set for 6:30 p.m. on Feb.26, is one of Camp-bell’s final performances in his “Goodbye Tour” and is planned to benefit the Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Demen-tia Research Center, which is a cutting-edge Alzheim-er’s disease research center located at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Campbell announced in June that he had Alzheimer’s.

Tickets are $39, $49 and $59, plus fees, and are available at ticketmaster.com. Thalia Mara Hall is located at 255 E. Pascagoula St.


LOS ANGELES — Want to earn stuff by watching TV? An app for that is set to debut Wednesday.

When you tap the screen, Viggle’s software for iPhones and iPads listens to what’s on, recognizes what you’re watching and gives you credit at roughly two points per minute. It even works for shows you’ve saved on a digital video recorder.

Rack up 7,500 points, and you’ll be rewarded with a $5 gift card from retailers such as Burger King, Star-bucks, Apple’s iTunes, Best Buy and CVS, which you can redeem directly from your device.

With some back-of-the-napkin math, you can figure

that it would take three weeks of watching TV every night for three hours to earn enough for a latte at Starbucks.

But the company plans to offer bonus points for checking into certain shows such as “American Idol” and 1,500 points for signing up. You can also get extra points for watching an ad on your device. The beta version awarded 100 points for watching a 15-second ad from Verizon Wireless.

“Viggle is the first loyalty program for TV,” said Chris Stephenson, president of the company behind Viggle,

Function (X) Inc. “We’re basically allowing people to get rewards for doing some-thing they’re doing already and that they love to do.”

The idea behind Viggle is that by giving people an added reason to watch TV, the size of the audience will increase, thereby allowing makers of shows to earn more money from adver-tisers. Advertisers such as Burger King, Pepsi and Gatorade have also agreed to pay to have point-hungry users watch their ads on a mobile device.

In exchange, users earn points, which Viggle con-

verts into real value by buying gift cards at a slight discount from retailers.

If the company gets the point-count economy right, it can end up making more money from advertis-ers and networks than it gives away in rewards.

The app will also give the company valuable insight into who is watching what, as redeeming rewards requires putting in your age, gender, email address and

With some back-of-the-napkin math, you can figure that it would take three weeks of watching TV every night for three hours to earn

enough for a latte at Starbucks.

App for iPhone, iPad rewards being a couch potato

Chef Art Smith inFebruary 2011.

Chef Art Smith in 2007.

On TVFat Chef can be seen

on the Food Network

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See Rewards, Page C4.

Celebrity chef Paula Deen recently announced that she has Type 2 diabetes.

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Dr. Seuss celebration at Jackson museumThe Mississippi Children’s

Museum in Jackson is sched-uled to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ Silly Birthday March 3, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The event will include a visit from a few of Dr. Seuss’ characters, including the Cat in the Hat, Thing One and Thing Two.

Various activities will be set up in the museum’s gal-leries and children can make Oobleck, learn about the crazy rhyming vocabulary used by Dr. Seuss and watch a local chef demonstrate the art of green eggs and ham. For information, call 601-709-8964.

The museum is at 2145 Highland Dr.

Monroe art galleryseeking artists

The Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, La., will offer exhibitions, activities and is seeking artists for the 49th Annual Juried Exhibition.

The exhibits are scheduled for Feb. 10 through April 21. The work will reflect the his-toric importance and power of murals as an expression of societal change.

Other events at the gallery are:

• Feb. 23, 5:15 p.m. - Panel discussion on The Power of Murals with exhibiting art-ists from Outside In, along with Curator Benjamin Hickey and Director Evelyn Stewart. The program is free.

• Feb. 11, March 3 and April 7, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. each day. - Free Children’s Drop-In Activities, an opportunity for parents and children to inter-act creatively while making an art project.

• March 18: Submis-sions for 49th annual Juried Exhibition

For entry forms visit www.

masurmuseum.org. For more information, call

318-329-2237, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.masurmuseum.org.

The museum is located at 1400 S. Grand, Monroe. The gallery hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday

Oxford eaterysets wine pairing

Oxford restaurant The Ravine has scheduled a wine pairing on Wednesday as a training for Valentine’s Day.

The Ravine, 53 Pea Ridge

Road, will offer a five-course, five-wine dinner featuring aphrodisiacs including oys-ters and chocolate paired with wines.

The event is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. and the cost is $30 per person.

Early reservations are sug-gested. For more informa-tion, call 662-234-4555.

MSU seeks studentsfor med program

Mississippi State Univer-sity is seeking applications for a five-week Rural Medical Scholars summer program

for high school juniors con-sidering medical careers.

The program is sched-uled for May 30 through July 2 and applications must be submitted by March 21. Applicants must have an ACT composite score of at least 25. Selected students will receive tuition, hous-ing and textbooks during the program. A $60 registration fee is required after accep-tance and students will be responsible for their food expenses. For information, visit www.RMS.msucares.com.

take notefrom staff reports

ern staples like his old pal Deen. Like Deen, he was diag-nosed with Type 2 diabetes about three years ago.

Also 6 foot 2, Smith bal-looned to 325 pounds while gorging on refined sugar, caf-feine, PB&Js — anything that gave him an instant energy boost or filled him up at the end of an exhausting day as a chef for Oprah Winfrey.

Exercise? He could barely walk a block, until he decided to turn it all around and lost 118 pounds. Now 51, the Jasper, Fla., native, restau-rant owner, cookbook author and food TV personality has kept the weight off.

Smith has run marathons, eats oatmeal and egg whites for breakfast, drinks plenty of water and has expanded Common Threads, his healthy eating initiative for low-income kids. He declares:

“I’ve got my sexy back!”Obviously not all chefs

struggle with obesity and serious health threats like diabetes, but most do think about weight and how to hold back the extra pounds.

Allison Adato, a senior editor and former food beat writer for People magazine, is out in April with a book, “Smart Chefs Stay Slim,” offering insights and tips from three dozen of the big-gest names in the industry.

“Paula Deen’s revelation may mark a turning point for some viewers and diners,” Adato said. “My hope is that this moment creates a broader awareness that the way a person eats does have an impact on his or her health. Fortunately, there are a lot of chefs who have already thought about how to balance a healthy lifestyle with enjoying food.”

Surrounded by rich, deca-dent food and their need to earn a living from it, Ada-to’s chefs stay fit by keeping

hyper-aware of every calo-rie. Some balance out their food excesses over a few days, indulging one day, but “eating clean” the next. They know the difference between tasting the food they prepare without gorging, and exactly how much dessert to enjoy.

As a pastry chef, Mignano said his problem wasn’t so much the chocolate he was surrounded by. It was the junk food he’d slam down before and after work.

Ally Vitella, 41, a New York City caterer, discovered she had Type 2 diabetes at the first health check-in for “Fat Chef.” At 5-9, she weighed 345 pounds and was forced to sit by as her husband and mother-in-law lugged cater-ing ovens and other equip-ment up and down the stairs of their Manhattan clients.

After a job, “You’re kind of a scavenger. I was eating hors d’oeuvres for lunch and dinner. I would scoop up half a tray of food and eat it. We were ordering pizza and Chi-

nese food at home because we were exhausted all the time,” she said. “We cook things you’re supposed to eat once in a while, but I was eating them every day.”

Vitella, who lives in North Caldwell, N.J., dropped from a size 28 to a size 16 during the show, losing nearly 60 pounds. Her goal weight is 190, but the important thing, she said, is she can play again with her 7-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter.

“I’ve learn that tasting means tasting, not tasting the same dish five times,” Vitella said.

Escalation of Type 2 disease in the U.S. has been tied to obesity. Roughly 23 million Americans are believed to have the most common Type 2 diabetes; patients’ bodies either do not produce enough insulin or do not use it effi-ciently, allowing excess sugar, or glucose, to accumulate in the blood.

Deen, who’s made a lucra-tive living as a TV chef by

going over the top with butter, cream and sugar, faced a torrent of criticism when she disclosed her dia-betes diagnosis and her con-tract to lend her face and recipes to “Diabetes in New Light,” a project of the drug-maker Novo Nordisk. The campaign’s website includes detailed information about Victoza, the drug Deen has taken for nearly five months.

Smith calls Deen’s endorse-ment deal “a mistake, ill advised” but said her per-sonal health and her style of cooking “are her own busi-ness.” He said he dropped the weight and redefined his life-style for himself, but also to show the public that it CAN be done.

“At this moment, chefs in America, particularly those fortunate enough to be embraced by the public as celebrities, have enor-mous influence,” he wrote in the foreword to Adato’s book. “I’ve tried to use mine responsibly.”

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Chef Michael Mignano in October 2011.

local happeningsin town

Southern Cultural Heritage CenterWest Coast Swing: 5-6 p.m. Sunday; James Frechette, instruc-tor; $10 per person; Mardi Gras wreath workshop: 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday; Beau Lutz, instructor; $55 for members, $60 for non-members; bring wire cutters; 4-day beginner stained glass workshop: Rev. Mark Bleakley, instructor; 5:30 beginning Feb. 6; Mardi Gras mask workshop: 4-5:15 p.m. Feb. 15; Karen Bieden-harn, instructor; $10; reservations required. For information, contact 601-631-2997, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.southernculture.org.

Warren Central High School“Music Man” production 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 p.m. Saturday; $7; tickets can be purchased by cast members or at the door; Warren Central High School, 1000 Mississippi 27; 601-638-3372.

Lorelei Books book-signing and receptionBook-signing: 4- 8 p.m. Feb. 10; Leslie Criss, author; 1103 Wash-ington St.; Reception: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Attic Gallery; 1101 Wash-ington St.; 601-634-8624.

Arbor Day Foundation free treesThrough Wednesday for members; $10 membership; 100 Arbor Day Foundation, 100 Arbor Ave., Nebraska City, NE 68410, ar-borday.org; 888-488-7337.

Battlefield Inn seeking vendors for shows83rd semi-annual Vicksburg Coin Show: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 5; free; vendor tables, $100; space is lim-ited; 601-638-1195; 20th annual Civil War Show of Vicksburg: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 14; admission $2; vendor tables $35; 601-879-8196, 601-638-1195; 4137 North Frontage Road.

Warren County Extension Office one-day computer classesComputer classes: Dr. John Giesemann, instructor; $20, prereg-istration required; Adobe Photoshop elements, Feb. 16-17; Intro to Word & Graphics, April 19-20; Merge in Word, May 9-10; Intro-duction to Excel, June 4-5; Data Management in Excel, July 11-12; Powerpoint, Aug. 8-9; Photos in Powerpoint, Sept. 6-7; Mi-crosoft Publisher, Oct. 17-18; File and Folder Management, Nov. 14-15; 1100 C Grove St., 601-636-5442, [email protected].

11th annual Mardi Gras Parade 4 p.m. Feb. 18; $25 for nonprofit and civic groups, $50 for busi-nesses by Feb. 3; $50 and $100 after Feb. 3; 601-634-4527, [email protected].

Vicksburg Theatre GuildPerformances: “Forever Plaid,” 2 p.m. today; “Ten-Minute Play Project,” Friday and Saturday; “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 an-nounced, for June shows; Tickets for main-stage plays: $12 for adults, $10 for 55 and older, $7 for students and $5 for young-er than 12; tickets for “Gold in the Hills,” and other shows vary; Contact: Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; 601-636-0471 or www.vicksburgtheatreguild.com.

FoR FooDies52nd annual Lebanese Dinner11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. Feb. 6 at St. George Anitochian Or-thodox Christian Church, 2709 Washington St.; cabbage rolls, kibbee, Lebanese green beans, tabooli and Lebanese pastries; $10; tickets, from church members, 601-636-2483, at the door for the first serving; 601-638-5779, 601-415-7273;

out oF townAudubon Society bird watch8 a.m.-noon Saturday; Lefleur’s’ Bluff State Park, 2140 Riverside Dr.; free, but there is a $3 per car park entrance fee; 601-956-7444, or jacksonaudubonsociety.org.

Poverty Point 4th annual Health walkAfternoons through May 31; West Carroll Parish on Louisiana 577; 888-926-5492.

Narratives: Inside and Out10 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, [email protected].

Mississippi Invitational winners 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Feb. 5; Missis-sippi 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, or www.msmuseumart.org.

FoR kiDs River Kids3:45-5 p.m. Thursdays through May 10; Karen Biedenharn and Regina Renot, instructors; first-sixth grades; free; Southern Cul-tural Heritage Center; 601-631-2997, [email protected], www.southernculture.org, also on Facebook.

Intro to Spanish for Kids4:15-5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through March 6; Olivia Foshee, instruc-tor; $70 members, $75 nonmembers; Southern Cultural Heri-tage Center; 601-631-2997, [email protected], www.southernculture.org, also on Facebook.

FitZone Elite Cheer Spring ScheduleThrough May 24; cheer and tumble: various times Mondays-Thursdays; fee $55, registration $25; POWERKIDZ: 4:15-5:15 p.m. Mondays for ages 4-9; fee $35, registration $25; Handspring: 6:15-7:15 p.m. Mondays for ages 6 and older; fee $65, registra-tion $25; Open gym play: 4:15-5:15 p.m. Wednesdays, for ages 3-11; fee $9 per session; Thursdays-Feb. 16; cheer tryout prep class: 6:15-7:15 p.m. for ages 11 and older; fee $125; Location: next to Tantastic in the Big Lots parking area; 601 638-3778, www.fitzonegym.com.

16th annual Pasta Tales writing contestThrough today; 50-250 word essay; first-12th grades; 954-776-1999, www.olivegarden.com.

Mississippi School for the ArtsApplications accepted through Wednesday; 355 W. Monticello St., Brookhaven; 601-823-1300, or www.msa.k12.ms.us.

nightliFeBeechwood Restaurant & Lounge4451 Clay St., 601-636-3761On stage, with a cover charge, at 9:15 p.m.: • Crossin Dixon — Saturday. • U.S. — Feb. 11.• Snazz — Feb. 17-18.• Trade Mark — Feb. 24-25.• Stone Cold Country — March 2-3.• Easy Eddie — March 9-10.• Snazz — March 23-24.• Back 40 — March 30-31

Ameristar Casino4116 Washington St.601-638-1000, www.ameristar.comFree at Cabaret Lounge:• Terry Mike Jeffrey — Variety; Friday-Saturday. • Area Code — Variety; Feb.10-11.• Nu Corp — R&B/Variety; Feb. 17-18.• Sinamon Leaf — Variety; Feb. 24-25.

Eddie Monsour’s at the Biscuit Company1100 Washington St., 601-638-1571• 8-11 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays — Karaoke.• 8 p.m. Wednesdays — Biscuit & Jam; open mic.• Thursdays — Ladies night.

Jacques’ Cafe at Battlefield Inn4137 N. Frontage Road, 601-661-6264• 9 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday — Karaoke.

LD’s Kitchen1111 Mulberry St., 601-636-9838• 8:30 p.m. each second and fourth Tuesday — Central Missis-sippi Blues Society Band, local artists; free.• 8:30 p.m. each first and third Tuesday — Soul Unlimited and Sounds Unlimited; free.

Roca Restaurant & Bar127 Country Club Drive, 601-638-0800• 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays — Ben Shaw.• 7-10 p.m. Fridays — Dustin.

The Upper End Lounge1306 Washington St., 601-634-8333With 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.

The Vicksburg Post Sunday, January 29, 2012 C3

Mr. Hall, Miss Beard exchange vows Dec. 10Christopher Robert Allen

Hall and Candis Marie Beard were married at 6 p.m. Dec. 10, 2011, at Highland Bap-tist Church. The Rev. Brian Joseph Ivey Sr. officiated at the ceremony.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Michael Beard of Vicksburg. She is the granddaughter of Shir-ley Doyle of Vicksburg and the late Allyn Ralph Doyle, Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Harris of Waynesboro and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie McNeil Beard of Cuth-bert, Ga.

The groom is the son of Ladora Hall and the late Wil-liam Elliot Hall of Brandon. He is the grandson of Doris Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hall, all of Brandon, and Mr. and Mrs. Alton Parker of Camden.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride’s chosen colors were silver, black and white. Nuptial music was pre-sented by Dr. Lara Teal Clem-ent, violinist; Mr. and Mrs. Steve Bennett, handbells; and a pianist and soloists.

Maids of honor were Crystal Noel McAllister of Athens, Ga., and Kimberly Ann Dowe of Vicksburg. Bridesmaids were Janet Elias Rantisi, Lynsey Danielle Smith and Susan Whittenburg, all of Vicks-burg; Lindsey Junkin O’Nan of Starkville; Destin Walker Westmoreland of Hernando; Valerie Boyd Pate of Pearl; and Megan Margaret Walker of Brandon.

Jeffrey Ryan Reed of Bran-don served as best man. Groomsmen were Joshua Davis Tyrone and Timothy Paul Williams, both of Bran-don; Kevin Douglas Eskew of Alexandria, Va.; Kyle Sinclair Dodson of Nashville, Tenn.; Zachary Charles Carr of Jack-son; Bernard James McLeod of

Pearl; and Alvin James Beard of Vicksburg.

Ushers were Warner Lee Wiles, Shaun Robert Stan-ton, Curtis Richmond Rob-ertson and David Austin Henry, all of Vicksburg; Bryan Andrew Wiles of Starkville; and Garret Alton Parker and Brayden Michael Parker, both of Brandon.

Flower girl was Kinsley Rose Doyle of Northport, Ala. Ring bearer was William Tanner Carlisle of Brandon.

Amanda Nicole Smith of Bir-mingham, Ala., served as the bride’s proxy. Program atten-dant was Carla Mackenzie Parker of Brandon.

Special wedding assistant was Mrs. Coy Flanagan.

A reception followed on the lower level at the Vicksburg Convention Center. Hosts were Mr. and Mrs. Michael Nassour, Mr. and Mrs. Mickey

Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gordon, Alice Jones and Ellie Sills.

For a wedding trip, the couple traveled to Sandals Grande Rivera Beach Resort and Villa in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. They will make their home in Brandon.

The bride is a radiology technician for River Region Health System and Mississippi Baptist Medical Center. The groom is regional manager for Reed Food Technology.

Groom’s lunchThe groom’s family enter-

tained his attendants with a barbecue lunch at Courtyard by Marriott on the day of the wedding.

BrunchOn the morning of the wed-

ding, the bride’s family hon-ored her attendants with a brunch at Willingham’s and

pampering by the staff of A Wild Hair.

Rehearsal dinnerOn the eve of the wedding,

the groom’s mother enter-tained the wedding party and their guests with a rehearsal dinner at Roca restaurant. The bride and groom chose this time to present gifts to their attendants.

Bachelorette partyFriends and attendants of

the bride hosted a bachelor-ette weekend in Panama City Beach, Fla.

Bachelor partyThe groom was honored by

his attendants with a week-end at the Ultimate Man Cave in Biloxi.

ShowersThe bride was honored

with a miscellaneous shower at Highland Baptist Church. Hostesses were Janice Nas-sour, Donna Simmons, Carla Ivey, Tracey Boyd and Linda Wainwright.

Laura Wells, Dale Junkin, Nancy Warnock, Martha Pettway and Sherri Smith hosted a kitchen shower at The Crossings clubhouse.

The bride and groom were honored with a couples cook-out at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jones. Hostesses were Anna Jones, Betsy Bailey, Karie Lynch, Gwen Robertson, Christina Wiles, Katie Robertson, Cindy Noble and Dixie Henry.

The bride was honored with a miscellaneous shower at the Vicksburg Suites. Hostesses were Mary Rantisi, Bo Whit-tenburg, Jennifer Coulter, Susan Mims, Judy Nasif and Dianna Balthrop.

An around-the-house shower was held at the home of Lana Cox. Hostesses were Pat Randal, Laronda Parker, Jamie Carlisle and Pat McLeod.

Dr. Angela Adell Briggs and Dr. Emmett Chase Atwood, both of Cordova, Tenn., were married at 6 p.m. Aug. 27, 2011, at Potomac United Methodist Church in Potomac, Md. The Rev. Carol Armstrong-Moore officiated at the ceremony.

The bride is the daughter of Carol and Bill Briggs of Poto-mac. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Yates of Needmore, Pa., Mr. and Mrs. Monte Loeb of Potomac and Mr. and Mrs. William Law-rence Briggs of Waldorf, Md.

The groom is the son of Val-erie and Ray Atwood of Vicks-burg. He is the grandson of Joy Dupuy and the late Don McVan Sr., Vivian Atwood and Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Ray Atwood Sr., all of Vicksburg.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride’s chosen colors were navy and silver. Wedding coordinator was Mrs. Becky Green and organ-ist was Mrs. Rosemary Dyer.

Maid of honor was Danielle Marie Briggs of Rockville, Md. Bridesmaids were Britt-ney Joy Atwood of Starkville; Kimberly Ann Wright of Bal-timore; Dr. Elizabeth Blanche Ezelle of Baton Rouge; Nancy Carson Dennis of Charles-ton; Dr. Jodi Rochelle Gris-wold of Nashville; Dr. Melissa

Mae Healy of Memphis; and Pamela Jean Servello Briggs of Frederick, Md.

Emmett Ray Atwood Jr. of Vicksburg served as best man. Groomsmen were Jonathan Baxter Wing of Dayton, Ohio; Benjamin Terrell Smith of Charleston; Dr. Mark Hayes Crawford of Baton Rouge; Thomas Blakely Miller of Starkville; William Joseph Briggs II of Frederick, Md.; Jason Abbott Noffsinger of Memphis; and Dr. Ben Hunter Butler of Nashville.

Ushers were Matthew Colton Briggs of Potomac; James Wil-liam Weaver of Gulfport; and John Michael Pela and Patrick William D’Addabbo, both of Memphis.

Lisa Marie Allen and Kris-tina Nicole Allen of Urbana, Md., served as book and pro-gram attendants. Readers were Maria Moreno of Tacoma Park, Md., and Don McVan Jr. of Vicksburg.

A reception was held at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda, Md.

They will make their home in Cordova. The bride is a veterinarian at Southwind Animal Hospital in Memphis, and the groom is a surgical resident at Memphis Veteri-nary Specialists.

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Robert Allen HallThe bride is the former

Candis Marie Beard

Drs. Chase and Angela AtwoodThe bride is the former

Angela Adell Briggs

Dr. Briggs, Dr. Atwoodare wed in Maryland

arrivalsforms proviDeD through the vicksburg post

Bobby and Catherine McComas announce the birth of an 8-pound, 8-ounce daugh-ter, Vivian Grace, on Jan. 11, 2012, at River Oaks Woman’s

Hospital.Grandparents are Nick and

Karen Jones and Richard and Dinah McComas.

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 al-lows, 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 sub-mitted 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 decora-tions) 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 offi ce, 1601 N. Frontage Road, or online at vicksburgpost.com.Forms should be fi lled 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 pos-sible; unfi ltered, 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.

Are you planning a wedding?

Maggi Lauren Boone and Joshua Wade McCarthy, both of Vicksburg, will be married at 2 p.m. Feb. 11, 2012, at St. Alban’s Church. A reception will follow at Unique Impres-sions Banquet Hall, 4226 Mis-sissippi 27. All relatives and friends are invited to attend.

Miss Boone is the daughter of Kenny and Tammi Boone of Vicksburg. She is the granddaughter of Margaret Andrews of Vicksburg.

Mr. McCarthy is the son of Jerry and Debbie McCarthy of Vicksburg. He is the grandson of Ottie and T.W. Saucier.

The bride-elect is a 2003 graduate of Warren Central High School. She received an associate degree in graphic design from Antonelli College and is employed at Kroger. The prospective groom is a 2008 graduate of Vicksburg High School. He is employed at Kroger.

The engagement of Sheryl Cameron Rawlings to George Patterson Jr., both of Vicks-burg is announced today. Vows will be exchanged at 4 p.m. Feb. 18, 2012, at Kings Community Empowerment Center, 224 R.L. Chase Circle. A reception will follow. All rel-atives and friends are invited to attend.

Ms. Rawlings is the daughter of Deloris Gooden of Vicks-burg and Willie Cameron of

New Orleans.Mr. Patterson is the son of

George Sr. and Barbara Pat-terson of Vicksburg.

The bride-elect attended Vicksburg High School and Hinds Junior College. She is employed at Sherman Avenue Elementary.

The prospective groom attended Vicksburg High School and is employed with the Vicksburg Warren School District.

Maggi Lauren BooneEngaged to marry

Joshua Wade McCarthy

Boone to wed McCarthy

Sheryl Cameron RawlingsEngaged to marry

George Patterson Jr.

Rawlings to wed Patterson

Mike and Alice Jones of Vicksburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Holly Cathryn of Hattiesburg, to Ronald “Ron” Lee Horne, also of Hattiesburg.

Mr. Horne is the son of Darryl and Phyllis Horne of Fairhope, Ala.

Miss Jones is the grand-daughter of Hazel Myers and Troy Myers Sr. and Mar-lene Jones and the late David Jones, all of Vicksburg.

Mr. Horne is the grandson of the late Lee and Ethel Parker of Fairhope and the late Ronald “Ron” and Marie Horne of Brit-ish Columbia.

The bride-elect is a 2006 grad-uate of Vicksburg High School, where she was a member of the National Honor Society, Key Club and swim team. She was a member of the Vicksburg Cotillion Club and Rebelettes service club.

She received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing

from the University of South-ern Mississippi, where she was a member of Phi Mu sorority.

Miss Jones is a registered nurse at Forrest General Hospital.

The prospective groom is a 2004 graduate of Bayside Acad-emy, where he served as presi-dent of the Boys Service Club and was a member of the inau-gural varsity football team.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in construc-tion engineering technology from the University of South-ern Mississippi, where he was a member of USM Student Constructors and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Mr. Horne is assistant proj-ect manager for W.G. Yates & Sons.

The wedding will be at 5:30 p.m. March 24, 2012, at Cedar Grove Mansion. A reception will follow at the B’nai B’rith Literary Club.

Jones to marry Horne at Cedar Grove Mansion

Holly Cathryn JonesEngaged to marryRonald Lee Horne

C3 Events

By Mesfin FekaduThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — Ne-Yo has a dream: He believes the record industry is segregated, and has hopes of changing that as the new senior vice president of artists and repertoire for Motown Records.

Even though Motown’s legend is rooted in black music, it was music that appealed to everyone, help-ing to unite a nation in some-times divisive times. As a top exec at Motown, Ne-Yo wants to unite people musically once again.

“I want to get back to a place where everybody’s listening to the same thing no matter what race, color, creed you are,” the Grammy-winning singer said in an interview Wednesday after Universal Music made the announcement. “(Now) there’s music that’s specifi-cally for black people and there’s music that’s specifi-cally for white people, and I feel like the essence of ... music is lost when you do that.”

The 32-year-old Grammy winner, who has multiple hits of his own and has also writ-ten smashes for others like Rihanna and Beyonce, says

he is looking to sign artists that have a drive and a tre-mendous work ethic, not just

one-hit wonders.“I definitely plan on making

sure the people I bring to

the industry are going to be an asset to the industry as opposed to a liability,” said Ne-Yo, who also has his own label imprint called Com-pound Entertainment. “It’s more than ‘She looks good in a short skirt’ or ‘He looks good with his shirt off’ — it’s about somebody that has a talent.”

Ne-Yo, who is planning to release his fifth album this summer, will also move to the Motown Records roster. He has released his four albums on Island Def Jam Music Group; both Motown and Def Jam are subsidiaries of Uni-versal Music.

He’s also an actor: Ne-Yo appears in the new George Lucas film “Red Tails” about the Tuskegee Airmen, who were the first black fighter pilots to serve in the U.S. mili-tary. It debuted at No. 2 with $19.2 million last weekend, despite some concerns that a black-themed film would not appeal to a mainstream audience.

“It always feels good to beat the odds,” he said.


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ZIP code.“It really shows what

social TV is going to evolve into,” said Michael Garten-berg, a technology analyst at research firm Gartner. “For folks behind the scenes, this is a great way of seeing who really is watching.”

The company hopes that user activity will grow by word of mouth, especially by offering a 200-point bonus to people who successfully get their friends to try out the service.

The app made its debut in Apple Inc.’s app store on Wednesday. Versions for Android devices and comput-ers are in the works.

The company has put in some safeguards. You must watch a show at least 10 min-

utes to earn bonus points. And you can’t watch the same ad over and over again to earn more points; there’s a one-ad-view-per-person rule.

Function (X) is owned and led by entertainment entre-preneur Robert F.X. Siller-man, who once owned a big stake in “American Idol” owner CKx Inc. That gives the company deep and broad connections in the entertain-ment business.

Function (X) has brought in $100 million in invest-ment capital, and its stock trades on the Pink Sheets, a platform that allows people to buy shares but doesn’t require the company release its financial results. Function (X) currently has a market value of about $1 billion.

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Teens migrating to Twitter — sometimes for privacyCHICAGO (AP) — Teens

don’t tweet, will never tweet — too public, too many older users. Not cool.

That’s been the prediction for a while now, born of num-bers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.

But then their parents, grandparents, neighbors, parents’ friends and anyone in-between started friending them on Facebook, the social networking site of choice for many — and a curious thing began to happen.

Suddenly, their space wasn’t just theirs anymore. So more young people have started shifting to Twitter, almost hiding in plain sight.

“I love twitter, it’s the only thing I have to myself.cause my parents don’t have one,” Britteny Praznik, a 17-year-old who lives outside Milwaukee, gleefully tweeted recently.

While she still has a Face-book account, she joined Twit-ter last summer, after more people at her high school did the same. “It just sort of caught on,” she says.

Teens tout the ease of use and the ability to send the equivalent of a text message to a circle of friends, often a smaller one than they have on crowded Face-book accounts. They can have multiple accounts and don’t have to use their real names. They also can follow their favorite celeb-rities and, for those interested in doing so, use Twitter as a soapbox.

The growing popularity teens report fits with findings from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a nonprofit orga-nization that monitors peo-ple’s tech-based habits. The

migration has been slow, but steady. A Pew survey last July found that 16 percent of young people, ages 12 to 17, said they used Twitter. Two years ear-lier, that percentage was just 8 percent.

“That doubling is defi-nitely a significant increase,” says Mary Madden, a senior research specialist at Pew. And she suspects it’s even

higher now.Meanwhile, a Pew survey found that

nearly one in five 18- to 29-year-

olds have taken a liking to

the micro-blog-ging service, which

allows them to tweet, or post, their thoughts 130 char-

acters at a time.Early on, Twitter had a repu-

tation that many didn’t think fit the online habits of teens — well over half of whom were already using Facebook or other social networking ser-vices in 2006, when Twitter launched.

“The first group to colonize Twitter were people in the

technology industry — con-summate self-promoters,” says Alice Marwick, a post-doctoral researcher at Micro-soft Research, who tracks young people’s online habits.

For teens, self-promotion isn’t usually the goal. At least until they go to college and start thinking about careers, social networking is, well, social.

But as Twitter has grown, so have the ways people, and communities, use it.

For one, though some don’t realize it, tweets don’t have to be public. A lot of teens like using locked, private accounts. And whether they lock them or not, many also use pseudonyms, so that only their friends know who they are.

“Facebook is like shouting into a crowd. Twitter is like speaking into a room” — that’s what one teen said when he was participating in a focus group at Microsoft Research, Marwick says.

Other teens have told Pew researchers that they feel “social pressure,” to friend people on Facebook — “for

instance, friending everyone in your school or that friend of a friend you met at a foot-ball game,” Pew researcher Madden says.

Twitter’s more fluid and anonymous setup, teens say, gives them more freedom to avoid friends of friends of friends — not that they’re saying anything particularly earth-shattering. They just don’t want everyone to see it.

Praznik, for instance, tweets anything from complaints and random thoughts to angst and longing.

“i hate snow i hate winter.Moving to California as soon as i can,” one recent post from the Wisconsin teen read.

“Dont add me as a friend for a day just to check up on me and then delete me again and then you wonder why im mad at you.duhhh,” read another.

And one more: “I wish you were mine but you don’t know wht you want. Till you figure out what you want I’m going to do my own thing.”

Different teenagers use Twit-ter for different reasons.

Some monitor celebrities.“Twitter is like a backstage

pass to a concert,” says Jason Hennessey, CEO of Everspark Interactive, a tech-based mar-keting agency in Atlanta. “You could send a tweet to Justin Bieber 10 minutes before the concert, and there’s a chance he might tweet you back.”

A few teens use it as a plat-form to share opinions, keep-ing their accounts public for all the world to see, as many adults do.

Taylor Smith, a 14-year-old in St. Louis, is one who uses Twitter to monitor the news and to get her own “small points across.” Recently, that has included her dislike for strawberry Pop Tarts and her admiration for a video that features the accomplishments of young female scientists.

She started tweeting 18 months ago after her dad opened his own account. He gave her his blessing, though he watches her account closely.

“Once or twice I used bad language and he never let me hear the end of it,” Smith says. Even so, she appreciates the chance to vent and to be heard and thinks it’s only a matter of time before her friends realize that Twitter is the cool place to be — always an important factor with teens.

They need to “realize it’s time to get in the game,” Smith say, though she notes that some don’t have smart phones or their own laptops — or their parents don’t want them to tweet, feeling they’re too young.

Pam Praznik, Britteny’s mother, keeps track of her daughter’s Facebook accounts. But Britteny asked that she not follow her on Twitter — and her mom is fine with that, as long as the tweets remain between friends.

“She could text her friends anyway, without me know-ing,” Mom says.

Marwick at Microsoft thinks that’s a good call.

“Parents should kind of chill and give them that space,” she says.

Still, teens and parents shouldn’t assume that even locked accounts are com-pletely private, says Ananda Mitra, a professor of commu-nication at Wake Forest Uni-versity in North Carolina.

Online privacy, he says, is “mythical privacy.”

Someone with a public Twit-ter account might, for instance, retweet a posting made on a friend’s locked account, allow-ing anyone to see it. It happens all the time.

Mitra has coined the term “narb” to describe the narra-tive bits people reveal about themselves online — age, gender, location and opin-ions, based on interactions with their friends.

So true privacy, he says, “lit-erally means withdrawing” from textual communica-tion online or on phones — in essence, using this technology in very limited ways.


Vicksburg girls among 23 Mississippi debutantesThree Vicksburg girls were

among 23 debutantes intro-duced at the Debutante Club of Mississippi’s annual pre-sentation held in November at the Hilton Jackson Hotel.

• Ann Avery Burrell is the daughter of Jack L. Jr. and Virginia Wilkerson Burrell of Vicksburg. She is a sopho-more anthropology major at Columbia University, where she serves as vice president of the Canterbury Club and a health educator with Peer Health Exchange. She is a member of the Columbia ball-room dance team and Alpha Chi Omega sorority. A gradu-ate of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, she is the granddaugh-

ter of Mrs. Robert Crump Wilk-erson III of Vicksburg and the late Mr. Wilkerson and James

E. Day Jr. of Dallas and the late Harriet Boedeker Burrell

Day. • Katharine Halpin DeRos-

sette is the daughter of Timo-

thy Q. and Lucy Halpin DeRos-sette of Vicksburg. She is a sophomore pre-nursing major at the University of Missis-sippi, where she is a Provost Scholar and Ole Miss Ambas-sador. She serves as an Ole Miss orientation leader and a Freshman Focus mentor. She is a member of Gamma Beta Phi honor society, Car-dinal Club and Kappa Delta sorority. An honor graduate of St. Aloysius High School, she is the granddaughter of Mrs. John Francis Halpin III and the late Mr. Halpin and the late Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Casebolt DeRossette Sr., all of Vicksburg.

• Caroline Derivaux Kemp

is the daughter of William T. III and Diane Derivaux Kemp of Vicksburg. She is a soph-omore accounting major at Millsaps College, where she received the Presidential and Mississippi Legacy scholar-ships. She serves as co-edi-tor of the “Bobashela” and is a member of Kappa Delta sorority and the Catholic Stu-dent Association. An honor graduate of St. Aloysius High School, she is the granddaugh-ter of Mrs. William Thomas Kemp Jr. of Noxapater and the late Mr. Kemp and the late Mr. and Mrs. John Allen Derivaux Sr. of Vicksburg.

Taylor Smith checks her Twitter feed at her home in Kirkwood, Mo.

Teens tout the ease of use and the ability to send the equivalent of a text message to a circle of friends, often

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have to use their real names. They also can follow their favorite celebrities and, for those interested in doing

so, use Twitter as a soapbox.

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‘War Horse’ star one of Hollywood’s equine elitesACTON, Calif. (AP) — One

star of Steven Spielberg’s latest epic likes to end his workday by rolling around in the dirt, kicking his legs in the air and flaring his nostrils.

Finder, a 12-year-old thor-oughbred, is among more than 150 equine performers featured in the Oscar-nomi-nated “War Horse,” and one of 14 who play the scene-steal-ing Joey. He lives on a ranch about 45 miles northeast of Hollywood with veteran horse trainer Bobby Lovgren, who oversaw all the equine action on “War Horse.”

“Plowing, riding, chasing — you name it, it’s in there,” said Lovgren, who calls the film “the biggest horse movie ever made.” Lovgren is the pro-tégé of legendary Hollywood horseman Glenn Randall, who trained Roy Rogers’ Trigger.

Thanks to the enduring appeal of horses on screen, Lovgren, Finder and “War Horse” continue a longtime tradition of Hollywood horses that began with the earliest motion pictures.

“Bobby and his team lit-erally performed miracles with the horses on this film,” Spielberg said. “I wanted it to feel like the horses were per-forming their parts as much as (actors) Emily Watson or Peter Mullan, and that is what happened. There were times during production when the horses reacted in ways I had never imagined a horse could react. You just sit back and thank your lucky stars that these horses are so cogni-zant that they are able to give everything to a moment.”

Those moments took months of training and a 22-member

team of trainers, handlers and yes, equine makeup artists.

Set in England during World War I, “War Horse” centers on the enduring relationship between Joey and the farm boy who trained him. When Joey is sold to soldiers heading into battle, the horse begins a jour-ney that brings him through various fighting factions and into the lives of soldiers and civilians who are moved by his strength and spirit.

The film has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including cinematography and best picture.

As the film’s “horse master,” Lovgren oversaw everything horse-related. His team pre-pared the equine actors for their various duties. Some became expert jumpers, others learned to stumble or feign a struggle. There were horses for riding and horses for pulling, and even stand-ins for the star horses while shots

were being set. Lovgren’s team was also responsible for teach-ing the actors how to ride and handle the animals.

“We all became incredibly attached to the horses,” said cast member Patrick Kennedy. “Getting to know these horses and learning to ride them was the greatest privilege I’ve ever had.”

None of the horses are cred-ited by name in the film, and the filmmakers wouldn’t say why. Lovgren said it’s not uncommon: “Sometimes they’ll put a few of the horses’ names, but you know it’s very difficult to say that there was one hero Joey.”

Though Lovgren doesn’t typically work with his own horses on set (he owns three, including Finder), he said he was lucky on this film that Finder was the right color. (Finder and the other horses playing Joey relied on makeup to make them look identical, with four white socks and a white star on their heads.)

Lovgren met Finder while working on “Seabiscuit” and loved him so much that he bought him. The thorough-bred is more expressive than most horses, Lovgren said, which makes him an ideal movie star.

Plus, he can play both gen-ders. Finder played the mother in an early scene in the film showing the birth of Joey. That sequence and working with a foal was among the most dif-ficult, Lovgren said. “They’re very young, so you don’t have much time to train them.”

Almost everything in “War Horse” was shot with real horses, except for a few scenes that would have caused injury to the animals. Lovgren praised Spielberg’s team for their respectful approach to the horses.

The toughest part of Lovgren’s job isn’t working with the animals, but com-municating with filmmak-ers and other workers on set about what the horses need and what they can and can’t do. Once filming begins, “it’s more about communication skills than it is about training. That’s something I’ve had to really learn,” he said. “Obvi-ously, I started working with animals because I don’t work well with people (laughs), so that’s been very important to learn to do that.”

So with all the challenges of “War Horse,” is it harder working with four-legged per-formers or two-legged Holly-wood types?

“I’m not going to answer that!” Lovgren said with a smile. “We all know that answer, but I’m not going to answer that.”

RFK’s wife stars in daughter’s ’Ethel’ at SundancePARK CITY, Utah (AP) —

Ethel Kennedy prefers coming to the Sundance Film Festival when she’s not the star of a movie.

She has been to Sundance in the past to see films by her daughter, documentary film-maker Rory Kennedy. This time, the widow of U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy is the focus of her daughter’s film, the Sun-dance premiere “Ethel.”

Ethel Kennedy said she likes it better coming to Sundance “just to see Rory’s films.”

Though reluctant when her daughter proposed the docu-mentary, Ethel Kennedy opens up on screen with candid rec-ollections about the family, including falling in love at first sight with her future husband on a ski trip to Canada.

“He was standing in front of an open fireplace,” she said in an interview alongside her daughter. “I walked in the door and turned and saw him, and I thought, ‘whoa.”’

In the film, Ethel Kennedy discusses campaigning for her husband and his brother, Pres-ident John F. Kennedy, the similarities and differences between her family and the Kennedy clan, and raising 11 children after her husband’s assassination in 1968.

At the time, she was preg-nant with Rory, her young-est, who was born six months after her father’s death.

As a widow with such a big family, Ethel Kennedy said she coped simply by going about what she needed to do in tend-ing her children.

“After Rory was born, it was — life just happened to take care of daily living, which almost had practically noth-ing to do with me,” she said. “I just started taking carpools in the morning, and by the time I was finished dropping the last child off, I’d pick up the first one. And then, you know, I’m putting on all the galoshes. Well, you get the idea.”

In “Ethel,” airing later this year on HBO, Rory Kennedy coaxes sweet, sad and funny anecdotes out of her mother and her siblings. The Kenne-dys recollect their mother’s devotion to steeping the chil-dren in world affairs, her mis-chievous sense of humor and her rebellious streak that led to run-ins with the law, such as the time she was charged with rustling horses after free-ing some mistreated animals.

Through photos and home movies, the film offers an inti-mate look at the life of the Kennedys, the family relating how Robert Kennedy and his children slid down a bannis-ter in the White House after his brother was elected and how the president once cau-tioned his fun-loving sister-in-law not to push his Cabinet

members into the swimming pool anymore.

In front of her daughter’s camera, Ethel Kennedy is unable to discuss the grief over her husband’s death.

“When we lost Daddy ...” she begins, then tears up and tells her daughter, “Talk about something else.”

‘I wanted it to feel like the horses were performing their parts as much as (actors) Emily Watson or Peter

Mullan, and that is what happened.’Steven Spielberg

Movie director

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Call 601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.

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Call 601-634-0640 any-time or 1-800-793-8266

We can help!One child,

one day at a time.

SHOW YOUR LOVE!!Messages to your sweet-heart will be published onValentine's Day, Tuesday,February 14th. Cost is $1per word, and $7 per pic-ture. Come in to The Vicks-burg Post Classifieds de-partment today and showyour love!!! 1601-F NorthFrontage Road, Vicksburg.

11. BusinessOpportunities

06. Lost & Found

REWARD $150 FAMILYloved pet. Female blackLabrador- Large, very friend-ly. Blind in one eye. Needsmedication. Has been treat-ed for red mange. Spayed,was wearing pink collarwhen she went missing.Chases deer, not trafficsmart. Always sleeps inside.Missing from Timberlanearea. Was seen on HallsFerry. If seen please call601-415-2284, 601-636-8774.

06. Lost & Found

LOST A DOG? Found a cat? Let The

Vicksburg Post help! Run a FREE 3 day ad!

601-636-SELL or e-mail classifieds@vicksburg

post.com


07. Help Wanted

$2,000Sign-On Bonus

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AVON- NEED INCOMEnow? Start your Avon Busi-ness! Earn good money!Call 601-259-2157.

BECOME A CERTIFIEDpharmacy technician today!Call 601-540-3062 for more

information.

CHEF/ COOK FOR fullservice restaurant. Experi-ence required. Send re-sumes to: Dept. 3780, TheVicksburg Post, P.O. Box821668, Vicksburg, MS39182.

DRIVER. LOOKING For anew job for the New year?Tango has immediate open-ings for Regional and OTRDrivers! Top Pay, ExcellentBenefits and Great Home-time. CDL-A and 15 monthsOTR experience required.Apply by phone. Monday-Friday 8am- 5pm and Sun-day 1pm- 5pm CST. 877-826-4605 or online at www.-drivefortango.com. Pleaseemail resumes to: [email protected]


07. Help Wanted

BODYMAN NEEDED. ATLEAST 2 years experience.Must have own tools. Applyin person at Jerry's CollisionCenter. 601-638-9248.

EXPANDING $15 HOUR+ bonus. Retailer needs 6individuals in our Displayand Advertising Depart-ment. No experience re-quired. Must have reliabletransportation. High schooldiploma required. Part andFull time available. Call 601-936-0133 Monday – Friday,between 11am-3pm.

FRONT DESK CLERKneeded at best Western.Applications taken 10am-2pm Monday – Friday at2445 North Frontage Road.Absolutely NO phone calls!

GROWING INDUSTRIALCOMPANY is looking for anHR Assistant to assist withrecruitment, new hire devel-opment and employeescheduling. Excellent bene-fits, 50 hour work week.Send resumes to: Dept.3777, The Vicksburg Post,P.O. Box 821668, Vicks-burg, MS 39182.

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TEMPORARY FISHFARM WORKERS (30)Phillips Brothers Farm, Ya-zoo City, MS & Dutch BrakeFisheries, Isola, MS. Workoutside in 4 foot- 4.5 footwater in catfish pond, han-dle live fish, seine ponds,feed fish, observe condition,monitor/ correct oxygen lev-els, typical farm maintene-nace, levee repair, pullweeds, mow grass, cleanand s tre equipment. Useseins, dip nets, waders.Work outside, heavy lifting,¾ of work period guaran-teed, tools/ equipment pro-vided, housing provided atno cost and transportation/subsistence expenses tothe work site reimbursed af-ter 50% contract time toworkers out of commutingarea. 01/30/2012 -11/22/2012. Monday- Friday7am- 4pm. $9.30 per hour.EOE Proof of eligibility towork in U.S. Apply localState Employment Office,Fax applications to Y.Deleeuw 601-321-5429, JobOrder Number MS 43736.

07. Help Wanted

HEAVY EQUIPMENTMECHANIC needed. En-gine experience required.Sam Estis, 318-348-7947.

SEATRAX MARINECRANES now hiring fieldservice technicians, ma-chinists and electricians.Apply at 218 Gunther Lane,Bell Chasse, LA 70037 orcall Cindy at 504-394-4600extension 233.

TO BUY OR SELL

AVONCALL 601-636-7535

$10 START UP KIT

VICKSBURG VIDEOHAS a job opening for a

part-time Field Technician(20 hours per week). Applicants can come to

our office, 900 Highway61 North, to fill out applications or fax a

resume to 601-636-3797.

07. Help Wanted

10. Loans AndInvestments

“WE CAN ERASE yourbad credit- 100% guaran-teed.” The Federal TradeCommission says the onlylegitimate credit repairstarts and ends with you. Ittakes time and a consciouseffort to pay your debts.Any company that claims tobe able to fix your creditlegally is lying. Learn aboutmanaging credit and debt atftc.gov/credit

A message from TheVicksburg Post and theFTC.

07. Help Wanted

14. Pets &Livestock

Vicksburg WarrenHumane Society& MS - Span

Hwy 61 S - 601-636-6631

CATS:Male . .$25 Female ........$35

DOGS (UNDER 40 LBS):Male . .$55 Female ........$65

• For the above category ofanimals, 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.

Low CostSpay & Neuter Program

VICKSBURG WARRENHUMANE SOCIETY

Hwy 61 S. • 601-636-6631

Call the Shelter for more information.

HAVE A HEART, SPAYOR NEUTER YOUR PETS!Look for us on www.petfinder.com

DON’TDON’T SHOPSHOP......Adopt Today!

07. Help Wanted

14. Pets &Livestock

8 WEEK OLD 100% RazorEdge puppies. Purple ribbonbred. UKC registered. 3males, 1 female, $600. 601-638-6711, 601-529-9149.

MALTESE/ POODLEPUPPIES (Malti-Poos).White and white/ cream. 6weeks old, $200 each. 601-529-6608.

07. Help Wanted

14. Pets &Livestock

www.pawsrescuepets.org

If you are feeding a strayor feral cat and needhelp with spaying orneutering, pleasecall 601-529-1535.

PART TIME CUSTOMERSERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

NEEDEDMust be computer literate, have a

pleasant telephone manner and be good with customers.

Please send resume to:Dept. 3779,

The Vicksburg Post,P.O. Box 821668

Vicksburg, MS 39182 or e-mail to [email protected] note Dept. 3779 in the

subject line.

Applications Being Taken for

Room AttendantsExperience PreferredEnergetic Personality

Competitive PayNonsmoking Environment

Applications AvailableMonday - FFriday

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Quality Inn & Suites3332 Clay Street

No phone calls.

The

Olive Branch

32 Crothers Drive • Tallulah, LASENIOR CARE CENTER

Applications are now beingtaken at The Olive Branch

Senior Care Centerin Tallulah, LA for a

BILLING CLERK POSITION. Applicant must have computer

skills in Word and Excel, preferably with accounting

experience.

LPN’s & CNA’s NEEDED!Call 318-574-8111

Barnes GlassQuality Service at Competitive Prices#1 Windshield Repair & Replacement

Vans • Cars • Trucks•Insurance Claims Welcome•

AUTO • HOME • BUSINESSJason Barnes • 601-661-0900

ROSSCONSTRUCTION

New HomesFraming, Remodeling,

Cabinets, Flooring,Roofing & Vinyl Siding

State Licensed & BondedJon Ross 601-638-7932

Simmons Lawn ServiceProfessional Services &

Competitive Prices• Landscaping • Septic Systems• Irrigation: Install & Repair• Commercial & Residential

Grass CuttingLicensed • Bonded • Insured

12 years experienceRoy Simmons (Owner)

601-218-8341

BUFORDCONSTRUCTION CO., INC.

601-636-4813State Board of Contractors

Approved & Bonded

Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt,Rock & Sand

All Types of Dozer WorkLand Clearing • Demolition

Site Development& Preparation Excavation

Crane Rental • Mud Jacking

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MUST BE PAID

IN ADVANCE!

To advertise yourbusiness here for as

little as $2.83 per day,call our Classified Dept.

at 601-636-7355.

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• Business Cards• Letterhead• Envelopes• Invoices

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1601-C North Frontage RoadVicksburg, MS 39180

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PAINTINGDEAN CO •Residential & Commercial

•Pressure Washing•Sheetrock repair

& finishing

Dean Cook • 601-278-4980

35 years experienceFree Estimates

Announcement of Job OpeningFor

Warren County Road ManagerThe Warren County Board of Supervisors is seeking a qualified person for the position of Road Manager.

Those interested in this position are requested to submit a detailed resume’ to Donna Hardy, Warren CountyChancery Clerk, located on the first floor of the Warren County Courthouse, 1009 Cherry Street, Vicksburg,MS 39183. Her office is open Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Resumesshould be sealed and marked “Resume- Position of Road Manager” on the outside of the envelope.

The deadline to submit your resume’ is Friday, February 3, 2012 by 5:00 PM. The resume’ must arrive in theChancery Clerk’s Office by the deadline. Any resume’ received after the deadline will not be considered.

This position is employed by and works under the direction of the Warren County Board of Supervisors.Qualifications include a minimum five (5) years experience in all phases of maintenance and construction ofroads, bridges, and drainage. You must have good working knowledge of repair and maintenance of roadequipment. Engineering experience is preferred but not essential. Personnel Management experience isrequired due to managing a work force of approximately 70 employees. You must be capable of maintainingschedules, reports, and operating within a set budget. You must be capable of dealing with the general publicin a courteous and professional manner. A college degree is preferred. You must be computer literate(Digital Photo experience preferred). You must be bondable.

Resume’ should include job history and salary requirement.

If you wish to obtain a copy of the complete Job Description for the Warren County Road Manager,please contact the Chancery Clerk’s Office at (601) 636-4415. If you have any questions, please contact John C. Smith, County Administrator, at (601) 634-8073.

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ProudGrandparents

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Just bring or mail your grandchildsphoto by February 9th, along withcompleted form and $20 per child to:

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17. Wanted ToBuy

PLEASE CALL THEGentleman of Junk for allyour junk vehicle needs.Make like a magician andturn your junk vehiclesinto cash. Please leavemessage if no answer.601-868-2781.

WE HAUL OFF old appli-ances, old batteries, lawnmowers, hot water heaters,junk and abandoned cars,trucks, vans, etcetera. 601-940-5075, if no answer, pleaseleave message.

WE BUY ESTATES.Households and qualitygoods. Best prices. Youcall, we haul! 601-415-3121,601-661-6074. www.msauc-tionservice.com

WE PAY CASH forjunk. Cars, trucks. Vans,SUVs, and old dumptrucks. 601-638-5946 or601-529-8249.


18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

BANDSAW BLADES.ONE ¼ inch x 80 inch metalcutting, one 3/16 inch x 80inch skip raker 4 TPL woodblade, one ½ inch x 80 inchhook rake 3 TPL woodblade. Brand new, all threefor $25. 601-634-6121.

CEMETERY PLOT.GREEN Lawn GardensCemetery (1 space). 225-294-3061 or e-mail: [email protected]

THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”3508 South Washington Street

Pond fish, Gold fish, Koi, fish foodaquarium needs, bird food, designer collars, harnesses & leads,loads of pet supplies!Bring your Baby in for a fitting today!

18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

MATCHING COUCHAND love seat. Black cloth,good condition $200. 601-831-0248.

THE BEST WAY to bargain hunt is to

check the Classifieds Daily. We make it easywith our convenient

home delivery. For details call 601-636-4545, Circulation.

TWIN MATTRESS SETS$175, Full sets $199. Newsofa love seat $675. 601-638-7191. Discount FurnitureBarn.

USED TIRES! LIGHTtrucks and SUV's, 16's,17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A fewmatching sets! Call TD's,601-638-3252.


19. Garage &Yard Sales

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great clip art! Call theClassified Ladies at 601-636-Sell (7355).

19. Garage &Yard Sales

SALE! AUNT WENDYS thisand that. 43C Fisher Ferry Road50% off clothing Some excep-tions apply. January 18th- 31st.Monday-Thursday 10am- 6pm.Friday 10am- 4pm. Closed Sat-urday and Sunday.

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 inVicksburg this weekend?Read The Vicksburg Post!

For convenient home deliv-ery 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. BusinessServices

D & D TREE CUTTING•Trimming • Lawn Care

• Dirt Hauled• Insured

For FREE EstimatesCall “Big James”

601-218-7782



DIRT AND GRAVELhauled. 8 yard truck. 601-638-6740.

FREE ESTIMATESTREY GORDON

ROOFING & RESTORATION•Roof & Home Repair

(all types!)•30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref

Licensed • Insured601-618-0367 • 601-456-4133

I CLEAN HOMES! Over20 years experience. Ex-cellent references. 601-631-2482, 601-831-6052.

LEAVES, GUTTERS,HEDGES, exterior windowcleaning, and mowing. Gen-eral yard, patio and drive-way clean-up. Good rates.Free estimates. 601-218-4415.

PLUMBING SERVICES-24 hour emergency- brokenwater lines- hot waterheaters- toilets- faucets-sinks. Pressure Washing-sidewalk- house- mobilehomes- vinyl siding- brickhomes. 601-618-8466.

STEELE PAINTINGSERVICE LLC

Specialize in painting/ sheet rock.

All home improvementsFree Estimates 601-634-0948.

Chris Steele/ Owner

ALL MOBILE HOMEOWNERS!

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home roof over kit. 2" foam insulation on top ofyour home with 29 gauge

steel roofing. Guaranteed to save 25- 30%

on heating/ cooling bill. 20 colors to choose from.

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insulated mobile home windows. Free estimate.

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[email protected]

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111 BRANDI LANE

2735 Washington Street, Vicksburg, MS 39180 • 601-638-6243

Great location. Brick. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,living/dining, separate den with wood

burning heater. Hardwood floors undercarpet. 1 car carport. RReedduucceedd -- $$111155,,000000..

8 Crestwood Drive

Bette Paul Warner601-218-1800

McMillin Real Estate [email protected]

11120 Eagle Lake Shor120 Eagle Lake ShoreeBeautiful, tastefully

decorated home, largemaster bedroom and bath,

walk-in closets, newwood floors, wonderful

lakeview, pier, deck,large open living area, kitchen/bar, huge

bathroom and washroom, doors leading to deckfrom masterbedroom, metal roof, many

amenities and completely furnished. $240,000.Call Bette 601-218-1800 to show anytime.

REALTOR® GRI

Kellye Carlisle, GRI& Coldwell Banker All Stars, LLC

601-529-4215

Large family home in county! Features largefamily/ media room, kitchen has been updated with

new cabintry and granite slab countertops, hasbreakfast nook, living/ dining room, guest and

master bath updated with new vanity and granitecountertops. Large master bedroom which leads

out to new deck and pool!! $179,900.

150 SIMMONS ROAD

Over 34 years of experience put to work for you!EMAIL: [email protected] Upchurch

JONES & UPCHURCH, INC.Call Andrea at

601-831-6490

418 Melrose AvenueDEAL FELL THROUGH!Immaculate home decorated toperfection with 3BRs/2B,Living/dining room, den.Updated, fenced backyard, lots of charm. Elevation Certificateavailable! No Flood Insurance Required. MLS 21042.

11661122 BBrrooaaddhhiillll DDrriivveeKitchen remodeled and updated,

refinished hardwood floors, totallymodern baths....just a precious home in

very nice area close to everything.Ideal for the first time homebuyer or

the professional wanting their ownplace in a great area!

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11441155 BBaauumm SSttrreeeettGracious family home built at the

turn of the century has beenrenovated to perfection! High

ceilings, hardwood floors, formaland casual areas, sunroom, office,

arched doorways, remodeledkitchen & bathrooms, 4 large

bedrooms. Porches span front ofhouse on 1st and 2nd levels. Located in Chambers Street area on

private setting on brick street. Call me at 601-415-6868.

Home for Sale? Show it to the world at www.vicksburgrealestate.com

Beautifully renovated 4 bedroom,2 bath home. Hardwood floors,new kitchen and baths.

McMillinBeverly McMillin

601-415-9179

And

RealEstate

2368 Old Hwy 27

Better than new 3 bedroom 2bath in north county area. Builtin 2007 with a wonderful splitfloorplan. Privacy fenced yard

with covered porch.

113 Emerald Way

601-636-5947www.leechrealestate.net

A Reputable Real Estate Companywith Proven Results

Vanessa Leech, Broker • 601-415-4114Andrea Lewis • 601-218-0644Nina Rocconi • 601-415-4503Mindy Hall • 601-631-4144

Tommy Shelton • 601-415-2507Richard Engel • 601-831-2597Cathy Mitchell • 601-218-2763

Leech Real Estateof Vicksburg, Inc.

MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTSElderly & Disabled3515 Manor Drive

Vicksburg, Ms.601-636-3625

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52 INCH RCA HDTV, widescreen, $285. 52 inch RCAstandard definition TV, $175.Call 601-634-6898.

Classified Advertisingreally brings big results!CALL 601-636-SELL AND

PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.

Finding the home youwant in the Classifieds iseasy, but now it’s practi-

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online.


I-PHONE REPAIR. Buy,sell and repair. ArcueSanchez - 601-618-9916.

26. For RentOr Lease

RICHARD M. CALDWELL

BROKER

SPECIALIZING IN RENTALS(INCLUDING CORPORATE

APARTMENTS)CALL 601-618-5180

[email protected]

For lease-10,000 SFWarehouse/ Office 165

North CorridorSterlington LA

5.6 Acres- Fenced Owner/ Agent 318-345-3450

27. Room s ForRent

ROOM FOR RENT. Spe-cial rate for out of towner's.Cable, washer/ dryer, com-munity kitchen. 601-429-5031, 601-529-7146.


1 BEDROOM, UP-STAIRS in antebellumhome near downtown, riverview. All electric, off streetparking, alarm. $500 month-ly, $250 deposit. 504-427-4071.

2 BEDROOM ALL elec-tric. Water furnished, $450

monthly.4 BEDROOM duplex

Both $200 deposit, $500monthly. Refrigerator, stove

furnished. 601-634-8290.

BEAUTIFULLAKESIDE

LIVING

• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.• Beautifully Landscaped• Lake Surrounds Community

• Pool • Fireplace• Spacious Floor Plans

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501 Fairways DriveVicksburg

Call for Details

601-638-0102

CONFEDERATE RIDGE

780 Highway 61 NorthFall In

LOVE WithOur 2 Bedroom

SPECIAL!

CommodoreApartments

1, 2 & 3Bedrooms

605 Cain Ridge Rd.Vicksburg, MS

39180

601-638-2231

30. HousesFor Rent

1455 PARKSIDE, 3/ 2.1865 Martin Luther King, 3/1. 123 Roseland 4/ 2. 2606Oak Street, 2/ 1. $750 andup! 732-768-5743.

3/ 4 BEDROOMS, 2.5baths. Kid friendly neighbor-hood. $1400 monthly, de-posit/ references required.601-218-6301.

EAGLE LAKE. 3 bed-rooms, 2 baths, furnished,largest pier on lake. Beauti-

ful view. $1,250 monthly,DirectTV included.

601-218-5348.

31. Mobile HomesFor Rent

HILLVIEWESTATES

“Vicksburg’s PremierRental Community”

Hillview Estates is afamily oriented

community featuring an ON

SITE MANAGER for24/7 response toyour every need.The grounds are

meticulously maintained by our professional staff.

Please call our residentmanager Bobby Allen

601-941-6788

WITH ONLY A FEWHOMES AVAILABLE NOW,PLEASE COME TOUR OUR COMMUNITY AND MEETYOUR NEW NEIGHBORS.

MEADOWBROOKPROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bed-room mobile homes, southcounty. Deposit required.

601-619-9789.

34. HousesFor Sale

32. Mobile HomesFor Sale

½ ACRE LAKE frontproperty with 2 decks, andcovered back porch. 4 bed-

room, 2 bath fixer upperhouse. $45,000. 601-572-

5300, 601-573-5029.

16x80 3 BEDROOM, 2bath. Assumable loan, $308per month. Very good con-dition. 601-415-1206.

2005 28x64. 4 bedrooms,2 baths. Tons of upgrades.

$34,900. 601-572-5300,601-573-5029.

KEEP UP WITH ALLTHE LOCAL NEWS

AND SALES...SUBSCRIBE TO

THE VICKSBURG POSTTODAY! CALL

601-636-4545, ASK FORCIRCULATION.

OWNER FINANCE,NO CREDIT CHECK!Nice homes with land.

Must have $5,000 depositTotal payments from $750.

Call Bobby601-941-6788.

33. Commercia lProperty

7800 SQUARE FOOT of-fice/ multi purpose building.On-site parking. $6.75/square foot. 601-634-6669.

960 SQUARE FOOTDeluxe office space on

Wisconsin Avenue.$675 monthly.

Call 601-634-6669.

FOR LEASE. WARE-HOUSE space, 12,000square feet, south county,zoned for manufacturing.601-638-3214.

34. HousesFor Sale

CARY, MS. 3 bed, 2 bathhome, 4.5 lots. Shown byappointment only. Asking$115,000. 601-824-0270.

Open Hours:Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm

601-634-89282170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd.

www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net

34. HousesFor Sale

Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134Jill WaringUpchurch....601-906-5012Carla Watson...............601-415-4179Mary D. Barnes .........601-966-1665Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490Broker, GRI

601-636-6490

Licensed inMS and LA

Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency

1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com

Kay Odom..........601-638-2443Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512Jake Strait...........601-218-1258Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549

Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869Catherine Roy....601-831-5790Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211

AARRNNEERRRREEAALL EESSTTAATTEE,, IINNCCVJIM HOBSON

REALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER

601-636-0502

34. HousesFor Sale

EAGLE LAKE. 1120 Ea-gle Lake Shore Road, 3

bedrooms, 2 large baths,furnished, lake front!

$240,000. 601-218-1800.Bette Paul Warner, McMillin

Real Estate.

1600 Highway 61 N4800 Sq Ft - $250,000

100 Wigwam4BR, 2 BA - $82,900

3350 Eagle Lake Shore3BR, 2BA, pier, boat liftCall Jennifer Gilliland

601-218-4538McMillin Real Estate

34. HousesFor Sale

36. Farms &Acreage

21.5 ACRES/ BARN - Northeast of Edwards. 5.5 acres- 3 bedroom

home, deck, greenhouse,lake, lots of extras,

near Edwards. 376 acres- hunting

land – Holmes County. Joan Vickers Real Estate,

601-969-20422.

39. Motorcycles ,Bicycles

2007 HONDA SPIRIT1100. Garage kept, 2000miles. MUST SELL. $5500or best offer. 601-301-0432.

34. HousesFor Sale

40. Cars & Trucks

1996 CROWN VICTORIALT. Good condition, Auto-matic, key-less entry, heat/air. $3,000. 601-636-5838.

2002 DODGE DURAN-GO. Only 35,000 originalmiles! One-of-a-kind! Call601-218-9654 days, 601-636-0658 nights. Dealer.

2002 LINCOLN TOWNCar. Driven by elderly cou-ple. Fine Car! Call 601-218-9654 days, 601-636-0658nights. Dealer.

40. Cars & Trucks

2000 STRETCH LIMOU-SINE. Seats 8, has 1000miles. $12,000 firm. 601-661-9747.

2005 DODGE RAM 1500.Black, one owner, 80,000miles. Excellent condition!$9,900. 601-415-0883.

2005 NISSANPATHFINDER LE. Fully

loaded, 73,000 miles, white,20 inch rims, tan leather,new tires, sunroof, tinted

windows. $13,700. 601-218-5336, 601-636-7737.

AUTO WORLD. Come see us at George

Carr Rental building. Buyhere, pay here. Call

601-831-2000 after 3pm.

40. Cars & Trucks

1995 Chevy II Blazer.$1600. 601-529-1195.

2006 BUICK LACROSSELocal trade-in, great car!Call 601-218-9654 days,601-636-0658 nights. Deal-er.

FIXER-UPPER SALE.1992 Ford F-150, $750,

needs shift cable, batteryand bond. 1995 Ford Ex-plorer, $700. Needs headgasket. 1995 T-Bird, $700.Needs transmission. 1994Cadillac DeVille, $1200.Needs fuel pump. AUTOWORLD. Come see us atGeorge Carr Rental build-

ing. Call 601-831-2000after 3pm.

Please call one of theseColdwell Banker

professionals today:

601-634-89282170 I-20 S. Frontage RdVicksburg, MSwww.homesofvicksburg.com

Jimmy Ball 601-218-3541Carl Carson 601-218-3375Gidget Comans 601-529-5654Reatha Crear 601-831-1742Tim DeRossette 601-301-0625Caffie Ellis 601-415-7010Herb Jones 601-831-1840Connie Norwood 601-415-3738Valorie Spiller 601-618-6688Kim Steen 601-218-7318Harley Caldwell, broker

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CASH CARS1992 Ford Truck XLT (Brown)...... 1999 Ford Truck (Tan).................. 1999 Dodge Dakota...................... 1997 Mercury Mountaineer.......... 1994 Chevy Tahoe (extra nice!)....1996 Chevy Tahoe (4dr. green).....2000 Ford Taurus (Red).................2002 Ford Taurus (Red).................2003 Ford Taurus (Gray/Green)....2005 Chevy Malibu (White)...........1998 Chevy Lumina (Cream)........1992 Mitsubishi Eclipse (Red).....1995 Hyundai Elantra (Silver).......2001 Mazda 626 (Blue)...................1995 Mercury Grand Marquis.....1995 Ford Crown Vic (Tan)...........2003 Ford Focus..........................

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