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CHS going ‘xtreme’ for run

Schools plan fete

BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com

“That’s the easiest way for everyone to know when they will speak,” said Watson.

“The newspaper is the one thing most accessible to everyone.”

The event will only be altered when a candidate for a state or federal position shows up to speak.

“We will work them in as they arrive because they

The streets of Fillmore, Childs and Waldron will fill with music as the Corinth School District presents their Fine Arts Fête from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 7.

“The Fine Arts Department held a similar event last year at the Courthouse which was great, but we were looking to spice it up a little,” said Corinth School District Data and Marketing Manager Taylor Coombs.

“So, we had a meeting of minds in the department and came up with the idea of the fête which will give each department of the arts their time to shine.”

“We are hoping for a great turn out and planning on growing the event each year,” she added. “Our classes are excited about sharing their talents with the community as well as possibly teaching some children skills which might spark their interest in the fine arts at a young age.”

Free and open to the public, the exciting event will feature performances by the Corinth Beginner Band, Corinth Middle School Band, Corinth High School Band, Corinth Middle School Chorus, Corinth High

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BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

An annual fundraiser is getting a new twist.

Event organizers with the Corinth High School Cross Country Booster Club are excited to offer another color run option with the upcoming Warrior Run 5K Xtreme Color event.

The run will replace the booster club’s annual Mango Madness event.

“Booster club members decided last fall to try to do something different. The color races have become so popular that they thought adding this aspect would increase participation,” said Alesha Knight, who is the team’s assistant coach. “We’re also going to change the theme each year. This year the theme is Xtreme Color.”

The race is set for an 8 a.m. start on Saturday, May 16 with registration beginning on the high school campus at 7 a.m.

Entry fee is $20 per person through May 13 with age group divisions ranging from 10 and under to 60 and over. Each

Staff photo by Steve Beavers

American Legion Post 6 Commander Tommy Watson hangs decorations for Saturday’s political rally. Post 6 is giving area candidates an opportunity to get their messages out by hosting the rally, which begins at 9 a.m.

Post 6 hosting political rally

BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Candidates will have a chance to get their message across.

American Legion Post 6 is giving those running for political office a chance to address the public with a political rally Saturday.

The rally begins at 9 a.m. with 40 candidates having eight minutes to speak.

“We realized there was no

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opportunity for candidates to speak to the public and the public to meet the candidates,” said Post 6 Commander Tommy Watson.

“We thought this would be a good opportunity to let Alcorn County candidates speak and invited all of them to Saturday’s event.”

Order of speaking will follow the classified ad listing in the Daily Corinthian, according to Watson.

School goes blue for autism Tucker strung blue lights on a tree in the CES foyer and throughout the building.

Blue bows were also placed at the end of each hallway.

“We provided staff members blue ribbons and stickers to wear throughout the day,” Tucker said. “We also provided snacks for staff members in the front office.”

All snacks were blue and included blueberry muffins, dip with blue corn chips, blue cupcakes and blue punch.

The group also encouraged staff members to donate loose change to the Autism Speaks’ Kids and Coins for Autism initiative.

CES staff raised more than $200, which will be used to provide 10 families with the Autism Speaks 100 Day Kit. “The kit provides important information and resources to parents of children who have recently been diagnosed with autism,” she added.

BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

Corinth Elementary School has gone blue for autism.

Speech Therapist Kate Tucker spearheaded the month-long celebration to bring awareness to one of the fastest growing developmental issues.

“I wanted to do something to help promote inclusion and acceptance in our classrooms by educating our staff,” said Tucker.

Counselor Tracy Gardner, first grade inclusion teacher Lynn Roach and school nurses Danielle Wright and Haley Moore also helped Tucker’s vision come true.

The group capitalized on Autism Speaks’ World Autism Awareness Day held April 2, when events and buildings around the world decorate with blue lights to raise autism awareness.

“I did some research to find ideas on how I could help bring awareness to CES,” she said. “On the Autism Speaks website, I learned how schools can promote the LIUB or Light It Up Blue Campaign.”

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Corinth Elementary School self-contained assistant teacher Deborah Porter, self-contained assistant teacher Julia Gilliland, 1st grade inclusion teacher Lynn Roach, self-contained teacher Melanie Mills, principal Brian Knippers, 1st grade teacher Anita Mills and speech therapist Kate Tucker stand for a photo while joking around with CES student Nathan Wilhite at the World Autism Awareness Day held at the school on April 2. Nathan has an autism diagnosis and is in CES’s 1st grade self-contained class.

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On this day in history 150 years ago

Alcorn County supervisors declare Teachers’ Day in the county in appreciation of the work done by educators.

A truce is held a few miles north of Mobile, Alabama, where Gen. E.R.S. Canby and Confederate Gen. Richard Taylor discuss the terms of surrender for troops in Mississippi and Alabama.

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Boys Scouts raising money for summer camp

BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com

Raising money to help with expenses for their summer camp, the replacement of tents and camping equipment and to fund their many service projects, Corinth Boy Scout Troop 123 will hold a fund-raiser from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, April 30 at McAlister’s Deli.

“We teach our Boy Scouts to be very serviceoriented. Our boys will be volunteer servers at this event so please come out and help support them,” said Scoutmaster Kevin Roberts. “While they cannot accept ‘tips, all are welcome to make a donation to the troop. It would be very much appreciated and put to good use.”

McAlister’s Deli of Corinth has pledged to donate 10 percent of all the night’s sales to the troop.

Tents and equipment purchased by the troop are used by all members making Scouting more accessible and affordable for all. These items are used in the course of service projects, general camping, community

Corinth Boy Scout Troop 123 is holding a fundraiser today to raise money for summer camp. events and summer camp activities. Summer camp offers the opportunity to travel, earn merit badges, make new friends, visit historic places and experience the diversity of our country. The boys

learn to share, communicate and work together as a group while working on individual leadership skills and specialty skills associated with earning merit badges.

“We are very proud of

our Scouts and their willingness to help others in the community with many service projects from putting out hundreds of American flags on veterans graves, updating flower beds at the Lighthouse

Foundation this past weekend and assisting other Scouts with various Eagle projects benefiting the community. We have had many camping weekends working to restore and improve the camp-

grounds at the Jacinto Courthouse that were destroyed by a storm several years back with a goal of making them operational again,” said Roberts.

“Naturally our troop has many expenses we need help with such as the cost of merit badges for rank advancement, tents and camping supplies, and help with gas costs to take our scouts everywhere from summer camps to merit badge colleges. Our troop has been chartered for over 25 years by the Christ United Methodist Church where we meet every Monday night from 6 to 7:30 pm. We have seen over 50 plus scouts achieve the rank of Eagle Scout while performing hundreds of service projects for the community throughout the years.”

Boy Scout Troop 123 of Corinth was founded in 1985.

(For more information visit the troops ‘T123 Corinth’ Facebook page or contact McAlister’s Deli at 662-286-9007.

McAlister’s Deli is located ay 1510 S. Harper Road in Corinth.)

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School Chorus, Corinth Middle School Art, Corinth High School Art and Corinth High School Theatre.

“The choruses and bands will be performing, but there will also be facepainting by art students as well as demonstrations by the theatre and art classes,” explained Coombs.

“The Corinth Artist Guild Gallery will be open for patrons to view current works on display by students from the Corinth School District.”

Weather permitting, the guild will display a piano, painted by local student artists from Corinth High School on the sidewalk in front of the gallery.

Guests are invited to tickle the ivories as the sign clearly reads “I’m yours. Sit down and play me.”

While everyone is in-

Schedule of performances 5:30 p.m. – Corinth Beginner Band 5:40 p.m. – Corinth Middle School Chorus 5:55 p.m. – Corinth Middle School Band 6:05 p.m. – Corinth High School Chorus 6:20 p.m. – Corinth High School Band 6:40 p.m. – Cont. Theatre demostration/workshop for kids 6:40 p.m. – Cont. Art class demonstration vited to stand or walk around as they enjoy the entertainment, those wishing to sit and enjoy the music and festivities are encouraged to bring lawn chairs.

“I am really excited about having this event in downtown Corinth.

We hope this can be the beginning of a great partnership with the city, school district, local businesses and restaurants,” said Coombs. “As a product of the CSD and being involved in fine arts, I think it is outstanding to

be able to showcase them for our community.”

“After our event, Pickin’ on the Square will take place as well as a Corinth Music Club Visiting Artist Concert at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary of First United Methodist Church,” she continued. “We want to encourage everyone to make plans to stay downtown and enjoy dinner at Smith., Pizza Grocery, Vicari, Martha’s Menu, Blazing Noodlez, Jin Jin, Corner Slice or one of our other wonderful local restaurants in downtown.”

actually kick off the training season for the team.

They will participate in this event along with anyone else who would like to enter, then from AugustNovember, they’ll run in 5K meets almost every Saturday.”

Funds raised from the event will be used to purchase items for the team.

“The coaching staff and school has a great working relationship with the booster club and parents,” added Knight. “We never lack for help from the parents. They are always so supportive and

want to see this organization succeed.”

Success is the easy part.

Both the girls and boys cross country teams enter the 2014-15 season on top.

The Lady Warriors team won the Class 4A State Championship last year while the boys team finished runner-up.

“It has renewed excitement that this may be the beginning of a winning streak,” said Knight.

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participant will receive a t-shirt and a pair of neon sunglasses to wear during the race.

Registration will also be open on the day of the event for $25 per person.

Medals will be given to the top finishers in each age division. Trophies will be presented to the top male and female finishers along with a pair of premium sunglasses donated

by Garrett Eye Clinic.

“This is a special day for our cross country kids,” said Knight. “This run will

(To register or for more information, contact chswarrior5k@gmail. com.)

Corrections The pictures of The Dutchess and The Queen of Hearts were misidentified in Tuesday’s Page 2A

photo caption about the “Alice in Wonderland.”

The Dutchess is played

by Della Miller while

June Plaxco portrays The Queen of Hearts. Additional performances of Alice in Wonderland are set for 7:30 p.m. tonight, Friday and Saturday. A matinée will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

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An error appeared in the Page 3A headline Wednesday about the “ONE Northeast” iPad initiative at Northeast Mississippi Community College. NEMCC will make iPads available to all students this fall, but they are not free as the headline implied.

Northeast’s mission is to be at the forefront of technology innovation in higher education in the state.

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Today in History

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Across the Region ATV theft leads to arrest of Corinth man

Today is Thursday, April 30, the 120th day of 2015. There are 245 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On April 30, 1945, as Soviet troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.

On this date: In 1789, George Washington took the oath of office in New York as the first president of the United States.

In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about $15 million.

In 1812, Louisiana became the 18th state of the Union.

In 1900, engineer John Luther “Casey” Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a train wreck near Vaughan, Mississippi, after staying at the controls in a successful effort to save the passengers.

In 1939, the New York World’s Fair officially opened with a ceremony that included an address

by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1968, New York City police forcibly removed student demonstrators occupying five buildings at Columbia University.

In 1973, President Richard Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean, who was actually fired.

In 1975, the Vietnam War ended as the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.

In 1988, Gen. Manuel Noriega, waving a machete, vowed at a rally to keep fighting U.S. efforts to oust him as Panama’s military ruler.

In 1990, hostage Frank Reed was released by his captives in Lebanon; he was the second American to be released in eight days.

BOONEVILLE – On Saturday, April 25, around 2:30 p.m., Prentiss County deputies received the report of the theft of a 2002 Honda Foreman Yellow in Color from a CR 3200 residence.

Deputies determined that the complainants father witnessed a White Pickup with a ladder rack going East on CR 3200 followed Ellis shortly thereafter by a Yellow Four Wheeler, he believed to be his son’s. The owner went to check and found his Four Wheeler and a Pole Saw had been stolen from his shed.

Investigators, deputies and North Half Constable Sammy Henderson began canvassing the area and obtained informa-

6:39 p.m. He is identified as Christopher Blair Ellis, 35, of CR 237 in Corinth. Ellis is charged with Grand Larceny in the case and his bond was set at $25,000.

Investigators are still trying to identify the second suspect.

If anyone has information that would aid in the identification and arrest of the second suspect or other related information, please go to www. crimestoppersms.com and report the information for a cash reward or call the Prentiss County Sheriff’s Office at 662728-6232.

“This is a prime example of how neighbors and family can look out for one another and be observant of suspicious activity in our neighborhoods and communities, as both a deterent and a crime solving method,” said Sheriff Randy Tolar. “We want to thank those in the community that were responsible for passing along valuable information that helped lead to the arrest and recovery of the ATV.”

Prentiss County Sheriff Randy Tolar stands by an ATV that was stolen in Prentiss County and later recovered by the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department. tion from other witnesses in the community, a more detailed description of the white truck that aided in the identification of the person in possession of the truck.

Prentiss County authorities requested the Alcorn Sheriff’s

Office to assist in locating the truck, driver and ATV. Within a short matter of time Alcorn County deputies located the ATV and took the suspect into custody.

The suspect was transported to the Prentiss County Jail at

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NATCHEZ — The Natchez-Adams County Metro Narcotics division may soon dissolve after nearly three decades of existence.

Natchez Mayor Butch Brown tells The Natchez Democrat a lack of communication exists between the city and county regarding Metro Narcotics.

The result, Brown said, is that Natchez may be best served by opting out of an interlocal agreement that allowed the city and county to work together to battle illegal drugs. Metro Narcotics was created in 1987.

Instead, Brown suggested the city might partner with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.

Because the city and county are often investigating different cases, Brown said a lack of transparency has developed between the departments, leading him to consider a new arrangement.

“A lot of times, we’re working cases, and they don’t know about it,” Brown said.

Through partnering with the MBN, Brown said he thinks the city would have a more thorough and effective narcotics unit.

MBN Enforcement Commander Mike Perkins said these types of partnerships are common throughout the state. Currently, he said Franklin, Wilkinson and Jefferson counties all partner with the MBN for drug task force assistance.

To date, Brown said he has met twice with representatives from the MBN’s McComb office to discuss a possible partnership.

“What we’re looking at, is taking our crew and partnering with MBN so we can have a better internal program for the city of Natchez,” he said.

The Natchez aldermen have not set a date to discuss changing the inter-local agreement.

HOLLY SPRINGS — A huge, quirky collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia is about to be auctioned off piece-by-piece.

More than 450 Elvisrelated items from the collection of the late Paul MacLeod, operator of the Elvis Too home and museum in Holly Springs, Mississippi, will be put on the auction block once again Saturday on the grounds of the local landmark, The Commercial Appeal reports.

The entire collection had initially been sold off in February, but the online auction was cancelled because of a mis-

understanding. The winning bidder from Georgia mistakenly thought he was also bidding on the 161-year-old antebellum home when he bid $54,500.

The property was actually being sold separately and is still on the market, Greg Kinard of Meridianbased Spur K Auctions said.

“It was just a bad mixup,” Kinard said.

The Graceland Too museum, its walls covered floor-to-ceiling with a mishmash of photos, records, figurines, cardboard cutouts, clocks and other random kitsch featuring Elvis, was not af-

filiated with Graceland or the Presley estate. People could arrive at any hour, pay $5 and get a tour from the animated MacLeod, who said in 2009 that he drank 24 cans of Coca-Cola a day.

MacLeod, 71, was found dead on his front porch last July.

The items in the auction include albums, guitars, ceramic figurines, commemorative plates, lamps, polyester rufflefront dress shirts, leather jackets and beaded jumpsuits. They are being sold in order to pay off the roughly $20,000 to $25,000 of debt MacLeod left.

speak on Saturday.

The August ballot is littered with candidates.

The election of a new sheriff is a hot-button field with seven candidates vying for the position. Slots for chancery clerk, constable and supervisors are also highly competitive with three Democrats running for clerk, 12 candidates lobbying for two constable slots and 20 candidates for supervisors in five districts.

“There is a lot going on that day,” said Watson.

“But this is a good chance for the public to meet candidates and we feel eight minutes is enough time for them to say what they need to say.”

The concession stand at the legion hall will be open throughout the day.

The party primary election is slated for Tuesday, Aug. 4 with the general election to be held on Tuesday, Nov. 3.

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probably have other places to go,” said Watson.

Candidates can still be added to the agenda through Friday at 5 p.m.

The American Legion is open from noon to 5 p.m.

Thursday and Friday for other candidates to register. Cost is $15 per candidate. Candidates who haven’t signed the agenda prior to Friday’s deadline will be charged $20 to

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Hillary’s policies hurt average Americans

BY DICK MORRIS AND EILEEN MCGANN Columnists

Hillary announced her candidacy proclaiming that she would be the spokesman for “everyday Americans” struggling to live the American Dream.

Yet we must remember that three key policy planks of the Democratic Party are diametrically opposed to her supposed goal: immigration, Obamacare and the refusal to curb China’s currency manipulation.

Immigration keeps wages down and unemployment among Americans up. The Center for Immigration Studies says that, according to U.S. Census information, “since 2000 all of the net gain in the number of working-age (16 to 65) people holding a job has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal). This is remarkable given that native-born Americans accounted for two-thirds of the growth in the total working-age population.”

The Center found that the number of immigrants (legal and illegal) holding jobs rose by 5.7 million from 2000-2014 while the number of native born Americans holding jobs dropped during the same period by 127,000.

As long as immigrants prevent Americans from getting jobs, how can they possibly increase their income?

And immigration also holds down wages and incomes among Americans.

Though there has been some recovery from the Great Recession, there were still fewer working-age natives holding a job in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000, while the number of immigrants with a job was 5.7 million above the 2000 level. A total of 17 million fewer native-born Americans had jobs in 2014 than in 2000 – virtually the entire increase in population over that period is unemployed.

There is also no more destructive a program of good jobs than Obamacare. Its requirement that employers offer health insurance to full-time workers or face a steep penalty has driven down full-time employment.

There are now 7 million Americans officially listed as working part-time who want to work full-time. That rate of part-time employment is almost twice pre-Obamacare levels.

From EPA, IRS, FDA and other alphabet soup agencies come almost weekly announcements of new regulations; each one further crippling job creation.

The third impediment to upward job mobility among “average” Americans is massive imports from China. The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, estimates that the U.S. has lost 2.7 million jobs as a result of Chinese trade practices since 2001, 2.1 million in manufacturing alone. The think tank notes, “Wages of American workers have also suffered due to the competition with [China].

A typical two-earner household loses around $2,500 per year from this dynamic.”

Some of the Chinese advantage comes from cheaper labor. But much stems from currency manipulation to which Obama, as president, and Hillary, as his secretary of state, turned a blind eye and a deaf ear.

President Obama recently opined that we needed “to make sure our goods are not artificially inflated in price and their goods are not artificially deflated in price; that puts us at a huge competitive disadvantage.”

The Economic Policy Institute says eliminating China’s currency manipulation would expand U.S. employment by 2.3 million to 5.8 million jobs, 40 percent of which would be in manufacturing.

Yet in all of her dealings with China, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did nothing to curb Chinese currency manipulation.

Could the fact that Bill Clinton have gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees for appearing before Chinese organizations, often sponsored by their government, have anything to do with this inaction?

Hillary’s policies have had a major hand in developing the income inequality, which she is so fervent in condemning.

(Dick Morris, former advisor to the Clinton administration, is a commentator and writer. He is also a columnist for the New York Post and The Hill. His wife, Eileen McGann is an attorney and consultant.)

Prayer for today My Father, I pray that I may not be indifferent to the call of my soul. May I not seek to serve the disappearing and neglect to make life worthy. Acquaint me with the permanent values of life. Make clear the way of strength, that I may not be misled by ease and carried to weakness. May my life be ennobled by the power of my possessions. Amen.

A verse to share “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

— Jeremiah 17:9

‘Last (white) Democrat in Dixie’ still chugging along OXFORD — Former Gov. Haley Barbour, whose pristine pedigree in Republican America is unmatched, inspired a headline a few of weeks ago with a speech on Mike Espy Scholars Day at Jackson’s historically black Tougaloo College. Mississippi, Barbour said, would benefit from two “salt and pepper” political parties.

Former U.S. Rep. Mike Espy, a Democrat who is African-American, was in the audience. Espy endorsed Barbour for a second term in 2007 and endorsed the speech at Tougaloo.

It’s just not healthy to have, as Mississippi does, a Democratic Party with which 95 percent of blacks and a smattering of whites identify and a Republican Party with which 95 percent of whites and a smattering of blacks identify.

Politics should be ideadriven, not identity-driven, both said. Ideas, at least in the abstract, are race-neutral.

There’s no better illustration of being idea-driven than Jim Hood. Two years go, Governing magazine dubbed him the “last Democrat in Dixie,” a reference to all other statewide offices, majorities of the state House and Senate seats, three of the state’s four seats in the U.S. House and both U.S. Senate seats being held by Republicans.

Hood, who is seeking a fourth term in November, is a Bible-believing, pistol-

toting, deerhunting, drawl-speaking 52-yearold from New Houlka, population Charlie now steady Mitchell at 611. Governing noted Columnist that Hood wears his hair “Conway Twitty” style, which is in more line with Republican Gov. Phil Bryant than the rakish styles of modern, “with it” barristers.

It’s no surprise that a former district attorney who became the state’s top attorney is a sincere prosecutor.

Hood has been relentless against cybercrime, child pornographers and their customers. He has worked diligently and effectively to combat domestic violence.

But while he packs a 9 mm and shares much with conservatives, Hood parts ways, too: • He interceded when a gay couple was denied permission to rent a state facility for their commitment ceremony. (The planned use was not against state law, he said. Mississippi doesn’t license same-sex marriage, he reasoned, but the couple wasn’t seeking the state’s building, not its blessing.)

• He, along with Republican state Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, tried to prevail upon Bryant that fighting against the Medicaid eligibility expan-

sion in the Affordable Care Act was not in the state’s best interest.

• Earlier in his tenure, he was aggressive in pursuing “cold case” files from the Civil Rights Era, winning in 2005 a conviction of Edgar Ray Killen in the 1964 Neshoba County triple homicide. (Much of white Mississippi would be happier if the past remained in the past.)

• And while a lot of Mississippians profess disdain for “ambulance-chasing” lawyers, Jim Hood has become known nationally and internationally for empowering private lawyers to sue the pants off corporations.

It was former Attorney General Mike Moore who started this ball rolling by suing Big Tobacco in 1994.

The result was a 25-year payout to total at least $4.1 billion that was to create a “trust” to invest in health care. The Legislature soon decided to spend as opposed to invest, but the revenue stream continues and adds tens of millions to the state treasury every year.

Hood has OK’d similar suits. Often, he attracts sniffs of disdain when deals are made with private lawyers to sue drug companies or to haul investment firms suspected of fraud into court. Hood has sued Entergy, Google and just about every insurance company known to mankind.

Hood’s newest case is another against State Farm,

which professed “surprise” and believed that all its liability stemming from Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago had been resolved.

Not so, the new lawsuit says. Mississippi taxpayers gave a lot of money to property owners. That money should have come from their insurance policies, the suit says. So justice demands State Farm reimburse the public treasury.

Private lawyers pitch their ideas about who should be sued to Hood, who chooses whether to allow them to use the state’s name. The lawyers stand to walk away wealthy, or with nothing. The state has banked more than $500 million from Hood’s cases, so outrage among conservatives in the Legislature has been, well, muted.

Hood will have a Republican opponent on the November ballot. Veteran former Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, who lives in Madison, will challenge the incumbent. Hurst is certainly a competent and compelling adversary.

But the fact that Hood’s tenure has been about ideas as opposed to following a scripted party line has kept this lonely Democrat in good stead with voters in one of the reddest of red states.

Too bad that’s not contagious.

(Charlie Mitchell is a Mississippi journalist. Write to him at cmitchell43@yahoo. com.)

Anti-trust law and lawlessness We all make mistakes and some of us learn from them. What is even better is to learn from other people’s mistakes, where they pay for those mistakes while we learn free of charge.

Many Americans who say that we should learn from other people, especially Europeans, mean that we should imitate what they did. That may make those who talk this way feel superior to other Americans.

But let us never forget that the most disastrous ideologies of the 20th century — Communism, Fascism and Nazism — all originated in Europe. So did both World Wars.

More recently, Europe has been belatedly discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to import millions of people from cultures that despise Western values, and which often promote hatred toward Western people.

Maybe that is a mistake that we can think about when Congress finally decides to do something about our open borders and our immigration laws that we refuse to enforce.

European anti-trust regulators are giving us another free lesson in confused thinking by filing anti-trust charges against Google, on grounds that its searching

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Columnist The European Union’s commissioner for competition explained the basis for the complaint against Google: “We have a focus on a certain conduct, a certain behavior which, if our doubts are going to be proven, we would like to change because we believe that it hampers competition.”

Some of us think laws should be clear-cut statements of what you can and cannot do. Indicting people under laws that can lead to fines in the billions of dollars over what “we believe” or what international bureaucrats have “doubts” about is not really law.

The history of American anti-trust law shows too many similar vague and confused notions masquerading as law. The idea that the accused must prove their innocence, under the “rebuttable presumptions” of the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936, was a forerunner of the same mindset un-

der later “disparate impact” theories in civil rights law.

What such fancy words boil down to is that very little evidence is required to shift the burden of proof to the accused, in defiance of centuries-old legal traditions that the accuser has the burden of proof in criminal cases and the plaintiffs have the burden of proof in civil cases.

Such violations of the legal standards used in most other cases are usually inflicted on those who have already been demonized and whose guilt has been assumed and punishment is fervently desired, such as big business, employers accused of discrimination or men accused of rape.

Google is accused of running its Internet search programs in such a way that they are more accessible to the public than other search programs available through Google. Since people can search through other sources besides Google, it is not at all clear why Google cannot run its own operation for its own benefit, while others run their operations for their own benefit.

The whole point of competition in the market is to create economic efficiency which, by its very nature, means eliminating the less

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efficient producers. Confusion about the difference between maintaining competition and maintaining competitors has long plagued anti-trust law on both sides of the Atlantic.

But Americans seem in recent years to be recognizing the difference.

In Europe, there still seems to be a notion that big companies with many customers should help their smaller competitors survive -- especially if the big companies are American and the smaller companies are European. In other words, Google should be run in such a way that competing search programs are as prominently featured as Google’s own search program.

Whatever the case that could be made for this argument, as a matter of manners, noblesse oblige or whatever, people in charge of anti-trust law are not in charge of manners or noblesse oblige. Law is too serious to be subordinated to fashionable notions or political expediency.

(Daily Corinthian columnist Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.)

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Gunman’s trial eyes his stoic behavior CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The courtroom where the Colorado theater shooting trial is unfolding is awash with emotion as survivors recount the horrors of dodging gunfire and stumbling over loved ones’ bodies as they fled.

But the man tethered to the floor at the defense table seems impervious to it all, hardly moving as witnesses share details of his carnage.

Interpretations of James Holmes’ stonefaced, nearly catatonic demeanor cut to the heart of the case. His attorneys say he seems aloof because of antipsychotic medications he has taken since he killed 12 people and injured 70 more in the packed movie theater.

But prosecutors hint of something dark and calculating below that emotionless exterior.

Holmes has remained unaffected in the opening days of his death penalty trial, stoic even as attorneys revealed the most intimate details of his personal life, from his failures in romance to his family’s history of mental illness. He stares blankly ahead, rarely turning his head to glance at jurors or the crowded gallery.

He doesn’t speak to the attorneys by his side.

Not even the sight of his parents seated two rows behind him gives him any noticeable rise.

He’s so impassive that, even before his trial began, defense attorney Tamara Brady asked prospective jurors if they would read anything into his appearance, searching for those who wouldn’t study him too hard.

Coast Guard IDs 3rd sailboat victim DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Authorities on Wednesday identified the third person killed when a powerful storm struck a sailboat race on the Alabama coast, and the search continued on water and land for three boaters who remained missing.

The body of William Glenn Massey, 67, of Daphne was found near a gas platform in Mobile Bay, the Coast Guard said. An angler spotted the body Tuesday and notified officials.

Massey was the third person confirmed dead since the boating disaster happened Saturday afternoon.

The other victims were Kris Beall, 27, of Pineville, Louisiana, and Robert Delaney, 72, of Madison, Mississippi.

Searchers have covered more than 5,600 square miles of water looking for possible survivors and victims, and volunteers walked shorelines looking for any signs of the missing.

The families of two of the boaters who are still missing say they’re thankful for the continuing search. They held a news conference Tuesday at Dauphin Island to thank emergency responders and others. They identified the missing as Adam Clark, 17, of Mobile and Jimmie Charles “J.C.�

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8th graders score poorly in history WASHINGTON — Time for another history lesson.

Only about a quarter of eighth graders showed solid performance or better in U.S. history, civics and geography on tests known as the Nation’s Report Card.

The 2014 results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress released Wednesday were similar to those four years ago when the assessments were last administered.

Students did better overall in U.S. history and civics than their peers in the 1990s when the tests were first given, but geography scores have remained stagnant since 1994.

Among the findings: Less than half — 45 percent — of eighthgrade respondents were able to correctly interpret time differences using an atlas with time zones. Only about a third knew that “the government of the United States should be a democracy� is a political belief shared by most people in the U.S. Michelle Herczog, president of the National Council for the Social Studies, said the results “point to a need for immediate action.�

Tackling issues like terrorism, human rights, race relations and poverty require a deep understanding of the historical and geographic context, she said. “How do we, as a nation, maintain our status in the world if future generations of Americans do not understand our nation’s history, world geography or civics principles or practices?� Herczog said.

Only 18 percent of students demonstrated solid performance or better in U.S. history.

The results for geography and civics were slightly better, 27 percent and 23 percent, respectively.

A large share of the eighth graders who took the test scored at the “basic� level, meaning just partial mastery of the subjects. Only 1 percent of test takers in U.S. history, 3 percent in geography and 2 percent in civics scored in the advanced level.

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drugs used in lethal injections.

But the hour-plus session featured broader complaints from conservative justices that death penalty opponents are waging what Justice Samuel Alito called a “guerrilla war� against executions by working to limit the supply of more effective drugs.

Among the court’s liberals, Justice Elena Kagan said the way states carry out most executions amounts to having prisoners “burned alive from the inside.�

The unusually combative words came on the court’s last argument day until the fall, and a year to the day after a problematic execution in Oklahoma gave rise to a lawsuit from death row inmates over the use of midazolam.

The outcome itself could turn on the rather narrow question involving the discretion of the federal trial judge who initially heard the lawsuit. He ruled against the inmates, and a unanimous three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in Denver affirmed that ruling.

Officer indicted for crash deaths MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A West Tennessee police officer is facing two charges of vehicular manslaughter stemming from a crash last year.

A statement from Shelby County prosecutor Amy P. Weirich says a grand jury handed down an indictment on Tuesday charging 33-year-old Lucas Hines, who is an officer for the City of Bartlett.

The crash killed 63-year-old Danny Floyd and 49-year-old Michelle Sloyan, both of Millington.

The prosecutor says Hines was traveling at a high rate of speed in pursuit of a reckless driver when the crash occurred last October.

A Tennessee Highway Patrol investigation found that Hines was in a marked patrol car, but did not have his emergency lights or siren activated and had been notified by a supervisor to disregard the pursuit.

Court debates execution drug issue WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices engaged in an impassioned debate Wednesday about capital punishment — part of arguments over a single drug that has been used in several botched executions.

The justices heard arguments over the plea of death row inmates in Oklahoma to outlaw the sedative midazolam.

They say it is ineffective in preventing searing pain from the other

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Former casino site to become resort BILOXI — Developers say the site of the former Casino Magic is being reinvented as a resort and water park. The casino has been closed since Hurricane Katrina damage the property in 2005.

Cono Caranna III, one of the developers of the project, told the Biloxi City Council on Tuesday the resort will have restaurants, 373 hotel rooms and a water park. “We should be open with phase 1 within the next year,� he said. He expects a second phase to open a year after that.

Caranna, who also was part of the development team that restored the White House Hotel in Biloxi, said the ownership group is still developing a name for the resort and finalizing plans for the project. He said the owners plan to develop the area west of the tower.

Crews started work Tuesday on the steel frame that was left intact after the rest of the abandoned casino project was demolished by Caesars Entertainment last year. Â

in prison with two years suspended, and three years house arrest.

Page was indicted in October on eight counts of felony tax evasion and eight counts of fraudulent statements and representations.

The indictment alleged Page significantly underreported his gross retail taxable sales for an eight-month period spanning parts of 2012 and 2013.

Page reported to have sold only $10,800 in the average month during that period, when in reality the restaurant actually sold an average of $35,720 per month. Â

Man arrested in theft of singer’s glasses SOUTHHAVEN — The man who police say stole Elton John’s iconic heartshaped glasses from a Memphis museum is behind bars.

Matthew Colvin, 26, was arrested Tuesday in Southhaven and was extradited back to Memphis on Wednesday.

The Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum reported April 21

that an employee discovered the glasses, valued at more than $2,000, had been taken out of a display case during business hours. An investigator lifted prints and matched them to Colvin.

Police said Tuesday investigators called Colvin on Monday and he told them where the glasses were. They were able to retrieve them. Â

Men rescue elderly woman from fire ESCATAWPA — Two Mississippi men helped to rescue a 102-year-old neighbor and her dogs from a fire at her home.

Octavius Kirkland and Matthew Taylor entered a burning home in Escatawpa early Tuesday morning after a man staying at the home ran over and said his grandmother was trapped inside.

Kirkland and Taylor went inside and carried the woman out of the home. They returned to save two dogs.

The woman is in good condition at Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula.

Tupelo voters ratify school bond request TUPELO — Voters have approved a $44 million bond request from the Tupelo Public School District.

School officials say over 85 percent of the voters approved the request Tuesday. It required 60 percent to pass.

Voters cast 3,276 ballots, with 2,800 supporting the request to issue the bonds to fund infrastructure upgrades, security features and added technology. The issue had at least 80 percent support at each of the 14 voting precincts. Â

Restauranteur pleads guilty to tax evasion BRANDON — The owner of Flowood restaurant has pleaded guilty to two of eight counts of tax evasion in Rankin County Circuit Court.

A judge on Monday sentenced Steve Page, the owner of Fannin Mart Restaurant, to five years

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said the Baltimore riots show that police departments need to hold officers accountable for wrongdoing “instead of just the closing-ranks approach that all too often we see.”

In an interview broadcast Wednesday morning on “The Steve Harvey Morning Show,” Obama said his heart goes out of the Baltimore officers who were injured by rioters. He said there’s no excuse for that kind of violence and Baltimore

police showed “appropriate restraint.”

But he said police departments have to build more trust in minority communities by building accountability and transparency.

“It’s in their interest to root out folks who aren’t doing the right thing, to hold accountable people when they do something wrong, instead of just the closing-ranks approach that all too often we see that ends up just feeding greater frustration and ultimately, I think, putting more police officers in danger,” Obama said

in the interview taped Tuesday and broadcast on black radio stations nationwide.

Obama said Attorney General Loretta Lynch is reaching out to mayors to let them know what resources are available for retraining police and providing body cameras to hold them accountable. But he said solving the problems is going to require a broader political movement that addresses problems like poor education, drugs, absent fathers and limited job opportunities.

“If all we’re doing is fo-

cusing on retraining police but not dealing with some of these underlying issues, then these problems are going to crop up again,” Obama said, while acknowledging those problems require sustained focus that might be hard to muster. “People have a tendency once the fires have been put out, the cars aren’t being tipped over, you know, there’s not some media crisis, then folks want go back and focus on whatever reality TV thing is going on.”

“Unfortunately we’ve seen these police-related killings or deaths too of-

ten now,” Obama said.

“And obviously everybody is starting to recognize that this is not just an isolated incident in Ferguson or New York, but we’ve got some broader issues.”

“I’ve seen this movie too many times before,” he added.

Asked whether he would visit Baltimore, Obama said he didn’t want to draw resources away from addressing the violence. “Once things have been cleared up, I think there’s going to be a time I go back to Baltimore.”

FAA chief: Gyrocopter ‘indistinguishable’ from birds

BY MATTHEW DALY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A small gyrocopter that flew through miles of the nation’s most restricted airspace before landing at the U.S. Capitol was “indistinguishable” from other non-aircraft such as a flock of birds, a kite or a balloon, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday.

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told a House committee that the slow-moving gyrocopter appeared as an “irregular symbol” on radar monitored by air traffic controllers.

Huerta and other officials said the small, unidentified object did not pose an apparent threat before landing on the Capitol’s West Lawn April 15.

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traveled about 70 miles from Gettysburg, Pa., to the U.S. Capitol. Officials now believe that was the gyrocopter. A dot representing the gyrocopter “appeared only intermittently throughout the flight,” Huerta said.

Navy Adm. William Gortney, commander of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, said small aircraft such as gyrocopters represent a “technical and operational challenge” for the military to detect and defend against.

The gyrocopter incident “has further confirmed the need to continue to improve our ability to identify lowaltitude and slow-speed aerial vehicles” operating in the skies above the nation’s capital, Gortney told the House Oversight Committee.

Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine said police

were contacted just before 1 p.m. EDT by an employee of the Tampa Bay Times, who said a local man was flying a gyrocopter to the Capitol as a form of protest. No time or date information was provided regarding the flight, Dine said.

The newspaper employee later identified the pilot as Douglas Hughes and said that Hughes told the newspaper he had received permission for the flight from the U.S. Secret Service and Capitol Police, Dine said.

No such permission was granted by either agency, he added.

The newspaper employee said Hughes was providing a live feed of the flight on his website, but officials were unable to find the feed if it existed, Dine said.

At 1:21 p.m., just before the landing, a reporter approached a Capitol police officer and asked

if he had seen a “helicopter” yet, Dine testified.

He was told no.

The vehicle landed at 1:23 p.m.

“The extremely short time frame” between a lockdown order issued after the gyrocopter was identified and the vehicle’s landing made it impossible to notify members of Congress in advance, Dine said.

Paul Irving, the House Sergeant at Arms, said he has ordered Dine to use an official notification system to alert lawmakers, staff and visitors of “events that could potentially be a threat” to the Capitol.

Capitol police notified senators but not House members of the lockdown, Irving said. “I have ordered the chief never to allow this to happen again,” he said.

Hughes, 61, of Florida, was arrested upon landing and charged with vio-

lating restricted airspace and operating an unregistered aircraft. His next court appearance is May 8.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the Oversight panel, has said that Hughes is “lucky to be alive” and “should have been blown out of the air.”

A combination of “lack of communication and some human error” by Capitol police and other officials allowed Hughes to steer his tiny aircraft across 30 miles of restricted airspace to within a few hundred feet of the Capitol before landing on the West Lawn, Chaffetz said after a closed-door briefing last week.

Chaffetz and other lawmakers want security officials to explain how they determined that the gyrocopter piloted by Hughes did not pose a threat.

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MICHIE, Tenn. — A memorial service for Manuel Gaylord Orlich, 77, is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, at Magnolia Funeral Home. Visitation is Tuesday, May 12, from 4 p.m. until the service.

Mr. Orlich died Tuesday, April 28, 2015, at Magnolia Regional Health Center.

Rebecca Sellars MIDDLETON, Tenn. — Rebecca Jule Sellars, 59, died Wednesday, April 29, 2015, at her home.

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Fraud inquiry gets 3rd person Associated Press

GULFPORT — The third of 21 people charged in an international fraud ring has pleaded guilty.

Olutoyin Ogunlade of New York pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden in Gulfport. He had faced additional counts of money laundering and conspiracy to commit fraud.

Prosecutors say that the 41-year-old Ogunlade was part of the Yahoo Boys, a west African gang.

Criminal charges say that the gang would buy bank account and personal information from hackers, steal money, and then send cash or goods to Africa.

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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — Few of the tourists who drive old Route 66 through this rural Illinois town are aware of its true economic engine: a booming business in asbestos lawsuits that attracts law firms from across the country.

Since 2005, those lawsuits have generated a $14 million surplus for Edwardsville and solidified Madison County’s place at the center of a long-running national debate over personal-injury claims.

A decade after former President George W. Bush came here to tout classaction lawsuit limits, the number of asbestos suits has reached record levels, with caseloads that surpass specialized courts in far larger cities such as New York, Chicago and Baltimore.

Lawsuits have also proliferated in smaller industrial communities such as Beaumont, Texas, and Charleston, West Virginia, but Edwardsville is the smallest and perhaps most unlikely of the bunch, with just 24,000 residents. The

“THE POWER OF THE TONGUE” “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” (Proverbs 25:11) “A word spoken in due season, how good is it!” (Proverbs 15:23) The right word said at just the right time is indeed a blessing isn’t it!? Aren’t we grateful for the kind words of a friend when things go wrong in our life, or words of comfort at the loss of a loved one: the encouragement and confidence instilled in us by the re-assuring words of a faithful brother or sister in Christ when I have failed to be what God would have me be? These are priceless treasures. How often have we given our undivided attention to a speaker who was able to move us to tears or jubilation with just a word or a phrase? The New Testament writer James puts it in perspective for us when he says “the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.” (James 3:5) The tongue can also cause great pain in the lives of others.

How often is the harmony and beauty of a marriage damaged or destroyed by the unkind, spiteful, angry words of one spouse to another, or the humiliating, and degrading language used by a parent to a precious child. James says “the tongue is a fire. A world of iniquity,” and that “it defileth the whole body.” (James 3:6) How often is the Christian’s power to influence others in a positive way damaged by the careless use of the tongue, and instead of drawing people to Jesus and his will by the life we live, we cause them to wonder how Christ can live in us if we use filthy words and speech every time we open our mouth.

The power of the tongue is seen in the imagery used by James.

He likens the tongue to bits placed in a horses mouth, enabling the rider to turn the large animals with the relatively small bit, and the large ships that are turned about by the relatively small rudder. (James 3:3,4) The lesson is magnified by the imagery.

The tongue is indeed small but very, very powerful. “The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”

(James 3:8) It behooves us then to resolve, as David did in the long ago, to “sin not with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle.” (Psalm 39:1) James says “If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect, (mature) man, and able also to bridle the whole body. (James 3:2) Let us strive to clean up our mouth and use its power for good and not evil!!

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From 2012 through 2014, an average of 1,500 lawsuits claiming injury or death from asbestos were filed in Madison County — a nearly threefold increase from just five years earlier. By comparison, a Philadelphia court that specializes in personal-injury complaints involving birthcontrol devices, denture creams and other consumer products averaged a little more than 300 asbestos lawsuits over the same time period — in a city nearly 65 times larger than Edwardsville.

Madison County has the highest rate of lawsuits filed in Illinois, 8.2 per thousand residents in 2013, according to a report issued this month

by the Illinois Civil Justice League. That’s twice as many as filed in Cook County, home to Chicago.

The group Illinois Lawsuit Abuse Watch rallied Wednesday at the state Capitol to highlight concerns about the legal system, including the asbestos courts. They will find a sympathetic ear in Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, who is pushing legislation to make it more difficult for plaintiffs to “venue shop,” saying people should only file lawsuits in the county where a company has an office.

Currently, asbestos plaintiffs don’t have to live in the jurisdiction where the suit is filed — or even in the state. They just have to show that the corporation being sued did business in heavily industrial communities that surround Edwardsville and line the Mississippi.

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Pyramid seeks old glory with new Bass Pro Shops

BY ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shaped like an Egyptian wonder, the Memphis landmark known as the Pyramid stopped being a regular venue for basketball games and concerts in 2004.

The 32-story structure, with its sleek, angular exterior and prime location along the Mississippi River, has sat largely unused for 11 years, a symbol of the fate of obsolete architectural curiosities like Houston’s Astrodome — cool-looking buildings with no real purpose.

It’s time for the Pyramid to be reborn.

To the delight of outdoorsmen, tourist officials and local politicians, the Pyramid opened Wednesday as the newest location for Bass Pro Shops.

The outdoor goods retailer has converted the building into a stunning ode to commercialism and a promising tourist attraction. Aside from

the tens of thousands of hunting, fishing and boating items for sale, visitors can walk through a manmade cypress swamp, go bowling or shoot arrows at the archery range. A 105-room hotel designed like a hunting lodge has balconies overlooking the indoor swamp. There are also live ducks, alligators and fish.

An observatory at the top offers stunning views of Memphis’ downtown and the wide river.

Tourism officials believe the site could attract 2 million people a year and generate muchneeded economic activity if travelers come to view it on par with other mustsee Memphis destinations like Graceland, Stax Records, Sun Studio and the National Civil Rights Museum. And city leaders hope a $100 million investment in the project will turn the moribund neighborhood known as the Pinch into a thriving commercial area.

“The Pyramid over the last couple of decades has become our iconic symbol for the downtown skyline — it’s to Memphis what the (Gateway) Arch is to St. Louis,� said Kevin Kane, president and CEO of the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau . “With an opportunity like this, it will become an attraction that will bring millions of people to its doorstep.�

Opened in 1991, the Pyramid lost its luster when the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA and the University of Memphis Tigers basketball team left for the new FedExForum, located on Beale Street.

Before then, it hosted Southeastern Conference and NCAA tournament games and was a concert stop for Billy Joel, the Rolling Stones and many others.

Bass Pro and the city agreed on a 55-year lease in 2010. Construction to convert the 535,000-square foot building from arena

to megastore began four years ago. About 700 people worked construction.

Another 600 people have been hired as Bass Pro employees.

The result of the makeover is impressive. The cypress swamp covers most of the ground floor. Moss dangles from fake trees, and the watery bog is dotted with stuffed wild pigs and other animals.

Surrounding the swamp are various retail sections with hand-painted wall murals of idyllic outdoor scenes. The fishing section contains about 30,000 items. A general store will sell homemade fudge. The 13-lane bowling alley has a water motif with fish dangling from the ceiling and ball returns shaped like alligator mouths.

There’s also an interactive duck hunting game.

An elevator takes visitors up to the Cat House Sky Club, a restaurant and bar with an observation deck providing panoramic views of the river and city.

Rooms at the Big Cypress Lodge were inspired by hunting camps. They have a rustic feel, with dark wood trim and private porches with rocking chairs.

But there are also modern amenities, like flat screen TVs, electric fireplaces and room service, according to hotel manager Lana McDonald. The hotel also has a fitness center and spa.

McDonald estimated in early April that the lowend price for a regular room will start at around $259, depending on demand and availability.

David Hagel, general manager of the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid, did not disclose expected sale figures or how much the private company spent on construction. But he did describe it as the company’s largest financial endeavor outside of its Springfield, Missouri, location. “If you can’t be happy to see something like

this, then you don’t have a pulse,� he said. “We’re more than retail.�

In a 2011 report, real estate consultant RKG Associates estimated that a 300,000-square-foot retail space would generate $350 in sales per square foot, or $105 million, per year.

City officials hope the new Pyramid generates a large economic impact to justify what The Commercial Appeal newspaper says is a $102 million investment in the project. The neighborhood near the Pyramid, already home to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, stands to benefit from the Pyramid’s reincarnation. “When the Pyramid closed, it had a major impact on restaurants and nightclubs in that area,�

Kane said. “With the revival of the Pyramid into the new Bass Pro, you will see that the market will naturally begin to fill in those areas that were shuttered.�

Cargo capsule bound for International Space Station a total loss

BY MARCIA DUNN Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A Russian supply capsule that went into an uncontrollable spin after launch was declared a total loss Wednesday, but astronauts at the International Space Station said they will get by without the delivery of fresh food, water, clothes and equipment. “We should be OK,�

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly assured The Associated Press. “I think we’re going to be in good shape.�

Kelly and Russian Mikhail Kornienko, the space station’s one-year crew members, told the AP during an interview that flight controllers had given up trying to com-

mand the cargo carrier.

NASA and the Russian Space Agency later confirmed the news.

The unmanned Progress vessel, bearing 3 tons of goods, began tumbling when it reached orbit Tuesday, following launch from Kazakhstan.

The head of Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, Igor Komarov, cited a lack of pressure in the main block of the propulsion system in the decision to abort the mission.

Kelly said the craft will fall out of orbit and reenter the atmosphere.

Russian reports indicated a re-entry possibly next week.

The capsule is expected to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere, as is the case for all Progress carri-

“The program plans for these kinds of things to happen. They’re very unfortunate when they do.

This important thing is hardware can be replaced.�

Scott Kelly NASA astronaut ers, once they have delivered their shipments and are filled with trash. “The program plans for these kinds of things to happen. They’re very unfortunate when they do,� said Kelly, one month into a yearlong mission, which will be a record for NASA. He added: “The important thing is hardware can be replaced.�

Kornienko called it “a big concern.� But he expressed “100 percent confidence� that operations will continue as planned until the next shipment arrives.

Supplying the space station is mostly handled by the United States and Russia. NASA hired SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corp. to provide regular shipments, once

the shuttle program ended in 2011.

SpaceX plans to send up a load of supplies in June; its most recent shipment arrived less than two weeks ago.

This is the second cargo ship lost in the past half year.

In October, Orbital Sciences suffered a launch explosion in Virginia that destroyed a station supply ship.

NASA officials want a six-month supply of food on the space station, but because of the Orbital Sciences accident, the reserves are down a month or so. The Japanese Space Agency also periodically sends up cargo; it is aiming for a summer shipment Six people currently live

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Last month’s most popular fund by inflows March +.18 months was an ETF that holds European exporters and hedges against the -.10 euro, for example.

-7.22 -.27 Some of March’s most popular foreign-stock funds, Net investment (in billions) -1.19 +.01 Vanguard Deutsche Strategic WisdomTree -.03 Total X-trackers Advisers Europe -.67 $3.54 International MSCI EAFE $2.57 Emerging $2.30 Hedged $5.04 -.44 Stock Market Hedged Markets Equity -.52 Index Equity +.64 -.28 Stan Choe; Jenni Sohn • AP Source: Morningstar -.21 -.19 -.17 -.02 NDEXES +.04 52-Week Net YTD 52-wk +6.73 High Low Name Last Chg %Chg %Chg %Chg -.25 -11.37 18,288.63 15,855.12 Dow Industrials 18,035.53 -74.61 -.41 +1.19 +8.77 -.78 9,310.22 7,521.18 Dow Transportation 8,701.47 -108.88 -1.24 -4.80 +13.42 +.24 657.17 524.82 Dow Utilities 593.56 -1.10 -.19 -3.97 +7.22 +.05 11,248.99 9,886.08 NYSE Composite 11,154.12 -48.97 -.44 +2.90 +4.96 +.55 5,119.83 4,014.17 Nasdaq Composite 5,023.64 -31.78 -.63 +6.07 +22.09 +1.06 2,125.92 1,820.66 S&P 500 2,106.85 -7.91 -.37 +2.33 +11.83 -.95 1,543.48 1,269.45 S&P MidCap 1,518.59 -8.38 -.55 +4.55 +11.99 -.86 22,522.83 19,160.13 Wilshire 5000 22,277.02 -90.17 -.40 +2.80 +11.61 -.06 1,278.63 1,040.47 Russell 2000 1,246.95 -12.41 -.98 +3.51 +10.66 +.65 +.36 -.69 18,200 Dow Jones industrials -.22 +.03 Close: 18,035.53 17,960 -2.64 Change: -74.61 (-0.4%) -.04 17,720 10 DAYS +.06 18,400 -.94 +.34 +1.97 18,000 +.78 -.07 -.20 17,600 -.92 -1.36 17,200 -.03 +.47 -.68 16,800 +1.83 N D J F M A +1.06 -.14 +.01 TOCKS OF OCAL NTEREST +.09 -.01 YTD YTD -3.78 Name Div PE Last Chg %Chg Name Div PE Last Chg %Chg -.05 1.00 31 46.89 -.20 +5.6 1.56 10 63.86 -.56 +4.5 MeadWvco +.04 AFLAC 1.88 32 34.76 -.10 +3.5 OldNBcp -.10 AT&T Inc .48 16 13.78 +.19 -7.4 AerojetR ... ... 20.31 -.39 +11.0 Penney ... ...

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6 43.28 -1.06 -14.3 +.25 -2.07 -.08 +1.03 -.60 +.63 MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) AINERS ($2 OR MORE) OSERS ($2 OR MORE) +.49 Vol (00) Last Chg Name Last Chg %Chg Name Last Chg %Chg -.92 Name -1.86 BkofAm 5.20 -2.75 -34.6 1229452 15.98 +.33 ChinaYida 4.50 +1.72 +61.9 IGI Labs -1.13 Twitter 9.03 +1.21 +15.5 Stratasys 39.93 -11.37 -22.2 1150203 38.49 -3.78 Corium -.32 S&P500ETF 1145675 210.57 -.87 QKL Strs 2.73 +.36 +15.2 AsteriasB n 10.57 -2.77 -20.8 -.31 CSVLgCrde 942272 3.50 +.24 XPO Logis 48.83 +6.38 +15.0 SyngyP un 8.00 -1.99 -19.9 +3.58 Apple Inc s 576678 128.64 -1.92 Contango 24.91 +2.88 +13.1 LumberLiq 26.76 -6.66 -19.9 -21.71 11.23 +1.30 +13.1 Novadaq g 10.37 -2.10 -16.8 Microsoft 469697 49.06 -.10 BBarrett -.08 108.77 -21.71 -16.6 -.40 B iPVixST 460325 21.24 +.47 BelFuse A 20.43 +2.35 +13.0 Wynn -.47 -14.5 437971 20.72 +.19 RockyBr 22.60 +2.60 +13.0 PlasmaTch 2.77 -.10 MktVGold 20.80 +2.38 +12.9 BuffaloWW160.25 -23.45 -12.8 427778 43.54 -.55 Inphi +6.38 iShEMkts 7.75 -1.12 -12.6 410434 7.26 -.43 LogMeIn 66.11 +7.49 +12.8 DHI Grp -.19 Vale SA -.04 +.06 YSE IARY ASDA IARY -.59 1,056 Total issues 3,220 Advanced 860 Total issues 2,871 -.09 Advanced 2,067 New Highs 53 Declined 1,851 New Highs 61 -.51 Declined 97 New Lows 26 Unchanged 160 New Lows 53 -.45 Unchanged Volume 3,993,560,952 Volume 1,833,289,156

V $67.34 Visa’s latest quarterly results $75 should offer insight into $50.35 spending by U.S. consumers.

60 As the world’s largest processor of debit and credit card ’15 payments, Visa benefits when 45 consumer spending rises. Its est.

Operating $0.63 $0.62 results are closely watched EPS because they can be a 2Q ’14 2Q ’15 window into the buying habits Price-earnings ratio: 30 and financial health of conbased on past 12-month results sumers. Visa reports fiscal Dividend: $0.48 Div. yield: 0.7% second-quarter earnings today.

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Pain at the pump?

In transition

Financial analysts predict that Exxon Mobil’s first-quarter earnings fell from a year ago.

The energy giant, due to report its latest financial results today, has been investing more on oil exploration and other capital expenses. That, plus the impact of falling oil prices and a decline in oil production, contributed to the company’s lower earnings in the fourth quarter.

Dreamworks Animation delivers its first-quarter report card today.

The studio behind animated films such as “How To Train Your Dragon� and “The Penguins of Madagascar� is projected to deliver a loss for the quarter. Dreamworks is coming off a tough 2014, during which it had some box-office misses. Management has said that 2015 would be a transitional year for the company. It has also announced plans to restructure its feature film business.

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Mom questions how to protect her son WIZARD OF ID

DILBERT

GARFIELD

FORT KNOX

PICKLES

Dear Annie: My son’s marriage broke up after 10 years. Twice they attended counseling because his wife wanted to see other men. The third time, she was actually dating another guy. He and “Mandy” share custody of their three children.

Mandy had a troubled upbringing. Her mother neglected her, and she ended up in state care. At 18, she lived with a cousin in exchange for baby-sitting. This only worked until the cousin discovered Mandy was sleeping with her husband.

Mandy has a college degree, which she obtained while married to my son, but even while he paid alimony, along with her rent and utilities, she never made any effort to find work. She then took the money she received from my son’s retirement account and moved to another state to live near some guy she met on the Internet, leaving the kids with their father. The children were devastated. My son now works 12-hour days while his current girlfriend (a saint) watches the children.

Mandy is now emailing our relatives, claiming my son beat her and the girlfriend is beating the children. She says she is broke and suicidal, has autism and PTSD and cannot live a decent life. If that’s true, however, she would be

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efit of your grandchildren, who need their mother to be stable and loving.

eligible for disability benefits, but she refuses to apply or seek counseling.

Mandy drinks and smokes pot and obviously has some mental health issues. She threatens to sue for sole custody so my son will have to pay her child support. She has alienated her entire family and most of her friends. She has no one other than the current boyfriend, who lives with his mother and has no job.

Should we send her money? How do we protect our son? — Worried Mom Dear Worried: Your son needs to document every instance of Mandy’s erratic behavior and keep copies of her harassing emails in case she follows through with her threats. Do not send her money as a consequence of her blackmailing efforts.

It will only reward her negative behavior and ramp up the demands.

Instead, if you choose to do so, you could offer to pay for therapy sessions (sending the money directly to the therapist after verifying credentials). This would be for the ben-

Dear Annie: I disagree with your advice to “Too Many Grandmas,” whose mother doesn’t want her ex-husband’s fiancee, “Kitty,” to be called “Grandma Kitty.”

While bitterness and a grudge may play a part, the bigger issue is that “Kitty” did not give birth to or raise these children.

It is inappropriate to give her the title of “Grandma.”

To do so is a discredit to the biological grandmas.

Grandma Edna should not be expected to share the honor of the title with her ex-husband’s fiancee, because it is hurtful to her. They can find another term that shows respect but doesn’t take away from those who have earned the title. — Rapid City, S.D. Dear Rapid City: It is counterproductive to put so much emotional weight on a title.

Kitty has known the granddaughter just as long as Edna has. The girl loves both of these women and shouldn’t be stuck listening to Grandma Edna cry over Kitty. If “Too Many” chooses to have her daughter call Kitty something else, that’s up to her. It’s not up to Edna.

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Life of contentment doesn’t seem normal by comparison D E A R ABBY: I’m 45, employed and earning plenty of money. I’m in a great relationship, Abigail my kids and dkids Van Buren garer a n healthy and happy, Dear Abby and my parents are alive and well. I enjoy the small things in life, fishing, reading, the beach, mini vacations, bowling, etc. I raise funds to feed the homeless.

So what’s my problem, you ask? Abby, I’m not really sure what my purpose is in life or if the way my life is, is normal. I feel content -- even happy at times -- but I’m troubled because it seems a lot of people do the exact opposite of what I am doing and they all have a purpose. Some of them are going to school, raising kids, having relationship problems, money issues, etc. They seem to be doing so much, and I feel like I’m doing so little.

What is normal for my age?

Should I be doing more? Most times I feel happy, but on a day like today I feel unfulfilled. Do I need to do more? -- WHAT IS NORMAL?

DEAR WHAT: Doing so little?

Count your blessings! You hold a job, have a family I presume you regularly interact with, have a great relationship, hobbies you enjoy and contribute to those who have less than you. I would say you are productive and successful.

However, if YOU think you need to do more, then it’s possible you do. Take some time, decide what it is and reallocate your time if you feel you need something more to fulfill you.

But please stop measuring yourself by anyone else’s yardstick because people who do that are rarely happy.

DEAR ABBY: I fell in love with “Alex” during my last year of college. We had known each other for 18 months. One month before our wedding, he broke up with me. He says I was verbally abusive.

I admit I had anger issues. I had to plan most of the wedding alone because we were four hours apart. When we argued, he would say one thing and then something different later.

He would also tell his mom stuff about me and our relationship that I considered private. After the breakup, I found out he had lied to me about his religion.

I had a hard time with the breakup. I tried hard to reconcile or find solutions, but he rejected

all of them. Now he’s blaming me and throwing things in my face.

I am heartbroken and depressed. I don’t know if I should be mad at him for the lies and the heartache he has caused me, or mad at myself for messing up. I have lost my confidence and self-esteem. What do I do?

-- STILL IN LOVE DEAR STILL IN LOVE: Take off the rose-colored glasses for a moment and consider what the reality of a marriage to Alex would have been like. You would have had a mama’s boy for a husband, one you couldn’t count on to tell the truth and who blamed you for anything that went wrong.

Don’t you realize you dodged a bullet? If things had turned out differently, you’d be writing me as an unhappy wife, probably with children to support.

Let it go, get help for your anger issues and don’t waste more time brooding. There are times it is better that we don’t get the things we wish for, and this may be one of them.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19).

You won’t understand everyone’s perspective. It’s natural to gravitate toward the ones you do understand, but you’ll only improve and broaden yourself by pursuing insight from the ones you don’t understand.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You’re feeling inquisitive, and you’re in the mood to collect things like facts, words, books and the tangible items that intrigue you. Follow your muse without worry of the practicalities.

You can work them out later!

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

You are an artist. The proof of this won’t be in your work so much as in your ability to find the beauty and sense the deep significance of inconspicuous and overlooked details.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

A relationship gets interesting when you get beyond the standard exchanges and dip your toe into the murky depths. This is best accomplished with a casual air, a light heart and a lack of agenda.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You may have trouble explaining things in a rational way today, but that’s only because you’re leading with your emotional IQ. You have a talent for picking up on subtleties of mood, vagueness and the logic of the heart.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Technicalities might hang you up, and there’s an opportunity in this.

Don’t wish for fewer problems; get more skills. Getting better at solving one issue will help you with many more.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

People suspect the one who never has a negative word to say.

Complaining can be fun. Sharing gripes is one way many people connect. Alas, the guilty pleasure of complaint is also immature.

Mature people do something about it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

You’re not genuinely interested in all subjects, but you still enjoy carrying on conversations about whatever comes up, because you’re genuinely interested in all people.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your changing priorities and resources will have you looking at certain goals differently.

Some goals are not meant to be achieved. Let your goals evolve with your life circumstances.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Once upon a time, you made an agreement you didn’t properly understand. If you had known, you wouldn’t have agreed, and yet today things are working out just fine. Next time around, though, seek total comprehension.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Seize the opportunity to get in front of people to talk about what you’re selling. Whether it’s a product, an idea or a relationship, you will be extraordinarily persuasive in your own laid-back way.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

People who show up to help you will need your leadership. Don’t assume that the others know what they are doing. You can be an attentive guide without micromanaging.

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Danks, and the Philliesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cole Hamels has been the subject of trade Can the Cardinals recover and still contend for the Narumors for six months now. The price for Hamels is probtional League pennant? The short answer is yes. But as ably too high for St. Louis at this point. And while itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with any major loss, the margin of error for making the too early to draw meaningful conclusions about playoff playoffs just shrunk appreciably. position, the Cardinals have the luxury of some time to The Cardinals have one of the deepest rotations in baseallow their existing rotation to prove itself before trading ball and are well-equipped to handle such a loss, probably away prospects for a run this season. more than any other organization, with the exception of 0DNLQJ 0R]HOLDNÂśV MRE D ELW PRUH GLIÂżFXOW DUH WKH Washington. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little doubt that general manager LQMXULHV WR FDWFKHU <DGLHU 0ROLQD DQG RXWÂżHOGHU -DVRQ John Mozeliak has already begun the search for a replaceHeyward. Molina hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t played since taking a foul ball ment through the trade market. But the club may have directly to his right knee on April 24. He hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been Charlie Miller an answer already in the organization. Lefthander Marco moved to the disabled list yet, and is still considered dayAthlon Sports Baseball Editor Gonzales, who narrowly missed making the roster out of to-day after the weekend. Heyward left Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game @AthlonCharlie VSULQJ WUDLQLQJ ZRXOG EH WKH ÂżUVW RSWLRQ 7KH &DUGLQDOV at Milwaukee in the third inning with a groin injury after ZRQ WKUHH RI KLV ÂżYH VSRW VWDUWV ODVW VHDVRQ DQG KH SLFNHG FKDVLQJ GRZQ *HUDUGR 3DUUDÂśV WULSOH LQ ULJKW ÂżHOG ,W LV QRW up two wins in his six postseason appearances last year. believed to be serious, but the injury certainly makes the But Gonzales wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share the load of replacing Wainwright alone. &DUGLQDOV OHHU\ DERXW WUDGLQJ RQH RI WKHLU H[WUD RXWÂżHOGHUV 5DQGDO Michael Wacha is the ace-in-waiting and is poised to have a breakGrichuk, who is currently on the disabled list, or Stephen Piscotty. out season, and Lance Lynn has shown remarkable consistency Other teams would most likely inquire about St. Louis prospects over the past few seasons.

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Mark Teixeira, New York The aging ďŹ rst baseman of the Yankees was able to call back several years last week with ďŹ ve home runs and 10 RBIs. The Yankees won ďŹ ve of seven games behind Teixeiraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bat. He was especially good against the crosstown rival Mets, going 5-for-11 in the series, with a pair of home runs and four RBIs in the opener, ending the Metsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 11game winning streak.

Chris Archer, Tampa Bay The young righthander ran his streak of no earned runs allowed to 27.1 innings with outings against Boston and Toronto. In 5.2 innings vs. Boston, he gave up an unearned run in a 1-0 loss. In his next start, he tossed seven innings and allowed just two hits and a walk to the Blue Jays. His totals for the week were nine hits, two walks and 16 strikeouts in 12.2 innings.

Adeiny Hechavarria, Miami The Marlinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shortstopâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;certainly not known for his batâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;owns a nine-game hitting streak and ended the week with four multi-hit games in his last ďŹ ve. For the week, he batted .500 with a 1.270 OPS, 10 RBIs and eight runs, helping the Marlins to a season-best ďŹ ve-game winning streak. In 335 games entering this season, Hechavarria had just six homers. He already has a pair in 2015.

Jake Arrieta, Chicago So far in 2015, Arrieta is the Chicago Cubsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ace, not Jon Lester, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not even close.

Last week, the young righthander won twice, defeating the Pirates and Reds, both on the road. In 13 innings, he walked three, yielded eight hits and whiffed 13. He is now 3-1 with a 2.03 ERA on the season. He has given up only six runs in his four starts this season.

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Alfredo Simon emerging as teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ace.

Will ďŹ nd out soon about life without ace Adam Wainwright.

Best on-base percentage and slugging in National League.

Bullpen as good as 2014 version, even without injured Greg Holland.

Jeurys Familia has ďŹ lled closerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role nicely.

Despite a 1.80 ERA, A.J. Burnett has one decision in four starts, a loss.

Mark Teixeira, Alex Rodriguez ďŹ nd fountain of youth with power.

Starting pitchers have 5.75 ERA. Scoring runs is not Baltimoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s problem.

Starters have allowed only 78 hits in 104.1 innings.

Winter makeover results: Highest scoring offense in National League.

Cubbies could surge if Jon Lester (6.43 ERA) gets on track.

ERA more than a run better at home (4.25) than on road (5.45).

Opponents batting .158 with runners in scoring position and two outs.

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Batted just .207 last week.

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Batting .250, with .683 OPS vs. LH, .250/.682 vs. RH. Leadoff spot on-base percentage is .237, only Oakland is worse.

Prince Fielder hitting .361, rest of team .192.

Batting just .194 with a .229 on-base percentage vs. lefties.

Cleanup hitters yet to homer this season.

Dominant Aroldis Chapman has allowed four hits, three walks with 15 Ks. Batting .324 during current ďŹ ve-game winning streak.

Struck out 78 times with 72 hits over last nine games.

Yet to be caught stealing in 11 attempts.

Fewest runs in majors.

Only one home run in seventh inning or later.

The San Diego Padres lead the National League in runs so far this season. That is unfamiliar territory for the club to be sure. The offseason acquisitions of outďŹ elders Matt Kemp, Justin Upton and Wil Myers have thus far reaped beneďŹ ts. Perhaps the most telling stat is the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s .318 batting average with runners in scoring position, the best mark in the majors...

The season-ending injury to starting pitcher Adam Wainwright is a serious blow to the St. Louis Cardinals. As of Sunday, the Redbirdsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rotation led the majors with a 2.39 ERA, and opponents were batting just .159 with runners in scoring position against the entire staff. The Cardinals are the only team holding foes under .200...Kansas Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bullpen is as dominant this season as in 2014, even without injured closer Greg Holland. Opponents are slugging just .194 off of Royals relievers, who own a 0.78 ERA...No player has a hit with the bases loaded this season against the Los Angeles Angels pitching staff...Even with the trade of top hitting catcher Derek Norris to the Padres over the winter, Oakland catchers lead all backstops with a .324 average and .554 slugging percentage. Although it must be noted that Norris has eight doubles and a pair of homers this season. Oakland catchers have eight extra-base hits...Detroit hitters have strode to the plate 28 times with the bases loaded this season. The major league average is 16. The Tigersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; total equals that of Washington (8), Philadelphia (8), Cleveland (7) and Milwaukee (5) combined... The New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays have each swatted 10 home runs in the seventh inning or later this season. The Milwaukee Brewers, struggling to ďŹ nd any offense, have hit just one in the late innings...

Veteran catcher A.J. Pierzynski signed with the Atlanta Braves over the winter in hopes of getting rare starts behind the plate while being used primarily as a pinch-hitter. But with Christian Bethancourtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s struggles, Pierzynski has found himself in the lineup about half the time. Both catchers had 34 at-bats at the end of the week. Pierzynski is batting .382 with a 1.138 OPS. Bethancourt is scufďŹ&#x201A;ing at .147/.400...During the New York Metsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recent 11-game winning streak, the team didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly overpower with their bats. The Mets hit just .273 with only eight home runs, averaging 5.2 runs per game. However, their pitchers had a 1.091 WHIP and 2.73 ERA, giving up 3.7 runs per game.

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The batting average for the Detroit Tigersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; inďŹ eld, led by shortstop Jose Iglesias (.379) and ďŹ rst baseman Miguel Cabrera (.377) (below). Second baseman Ian Kinsler and third baseman Nick Castellanos round out the quartet.

TURN BACK THE CLOCK April 30, 2005 Commissioner Bud Selig proposes harsher penalties for PED use. His plan calls for a 50-game suspension for the ďŹ rst offense, 100 games for the second and a lifetime ban for a third positive test. His proposal also includes a ban on amphetamines for the ďŹ rst time.

TRIVIA CORNER The Houston Astros ended the week with a 2.5-game lead in the American League West. Can you remember the last season that the Astros were in ďŹ rst place as late as April 26?

Written and compiled by Charlie Miller.

Follow Charlie on Twitter: @AthlonCharlie.

Email: Charlie.Miller@athlonsports.com

TRIVIA ANSWER: You have to go all the way back to 2006 when the Astros were in ďŹ rst place as late as April 27. During the 2004 season was the last time the club was in ďŹ rst place in May.

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Yankees pitcher Tanaka out at least a month

BY HOWIE RUMBERG AP Baseball Writer

NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka is going to be out at least a month because of tendinitis in his right wrist and a mild right forearm strain.

General manager Brian Cashman said Tuesday night during New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4-2 win over Tampa Bay that tests showed no change in Tanakaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partially torn elbow ligament.

The Japanese star last year chose not to have Tommy John surgery and missed

21â &#x201E;2 months rehabbing the injury. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to make sure this doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lead to the more horrific problems that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all trying to avoid,â&#x20AC;? Cashman said.

Tanaka is 2-1 with a 3.22 ERA and was superb in his last two starts, alleviating fear about the elbow. But he complained of pain in the side of his wrist Tuesday when he arrived at Yankee Stadium â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even though pitching coach Larry Rothschild said Tanakaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bullpen session

between starts was â&#x20AC;&#x153;fantastic,â&#x20AC;? according to Cashman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I woke up the next morning and I felt it a little bit in the wrist area, but I thought it would be fine,â&#x20AC;?

Tanaka said through a translator. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went out and played light catch on that day, which was yesterday. I woke up this morning and felt it a little more than the day before, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I went over to Steve (Donohue) our trainer, and told him about it.â&#x20AC;?

Tanaka had MRIs on both the wrist and elbow,

and the test on the wrist showed no issues, but it hurt to the touch. While the elbow was clear, Cashman said Yankees team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad identified a â&#x20AC;&#x153;very mildâ&#x20AC;? forearm strain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was shocked,â&#x20AC;? manager Joe Girardi said when he learned of Tanakaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s injury, which came on the pitcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bobblehead night.

The Yankees placed Tanaka on the 15-day disabled list, and he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t throw at all for seven to 10

days. New York recalled infielder Gregorio Petit from Triple-A Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre, where he had been optioned Tuesday. Cashman acknowledged the forearm protects the elbow and that this â&#x20AC;&#x153;could beâ&#x20AC;? a precursor to reconstructive elbow surgery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has nothing to do with my elbow,â&#x20AC;? Tanaka said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out of the question for me.â&#x20AC;?

Michael Pineda will start in Tanakaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place Wednes-

day against Tampa Bay on regular rest. Tanaka was originally slated to pitch Tuesday night but was bumped back a day for extra rest. Chase Whitley pitched well in a spot start Tuesday and should get at least one more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in our rotation,â&#x20AC;? Girardi said.

The Yankees signed Tanaka to a seven-year, $155 million contract before last season after he went 24-0 with a 1.27 ERA for the Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan.

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Baseball Class 3A Playoffs Humphreys Co. @ Kossuth, 5 Softball Class 1A Playoffs Biggersville @TBD

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two months after his arrest on allegations of sexually assaulting two women at an off-campus apartment party, former Louisville basketball player Chris Jones and two other men were cleared Wednesday of rape and sodomy charges by a grand jury.

Jones was facing two counts of rape and two counts of sodomy. The two other men, 21-year-old Jalen Tilford and 19-year-old Tyvon Walker, were charged with sexually assaulting one of the women. Those two men also were cleared of rape and sodomy

charges.

Scott Drabenstadt, an attorney for Tilford, said Wednesday that surveillance video seen by the grand jury showed the two women, ages 19 and 20, “frolicking in the stairs and in the hallway” after the alleged incidents. The video from the apartment complex, near campus, shows the women arriving, leaving the party, returning and leaving again.

“And this is after they were supposedly, one of them raped by three men and the other raped by Chris Jones.

Just ridiculous. Thank God that video existed,” Drabenstadt said.

Jones, a senior, was kicked off the basketball team for violating curfew a day after scoring 17 points in a 55-53 win over Miami. The party where the alleged incident occurred was held Feb. 22, the day after the Miami game.

Jones and the other men were charged in the case a few days later.

Dina Bartlett, an attorney for the women, said she was disappointed in grand jury’s decision. She said the women were “heinously assaulted.”

Bartlett has maintained that Jones was given special treatment because he was a basketball player.

Prosecutors said extensive

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Youth Baseball/Softball Registration for 13-15 boys’ baseball at Crossroads Regional Park will run through May 1. Cost is $45 per child. Proof of residency and birth certificate for new players required.

Softball Tournament The Heart of a Champion Scholarship Tournament will take place Saturday, May 16 at the Selmer Patriot Park. There will be five divisions: Adult Open Co-Ed, Adult Church Co-Ed, Youth Co-Ed (grades 7-12), Children’s Co-Ed (up to 6th grade) and School Co-Ed. Proceeds will fund Kelly Clayton Amerson Heart of a Champion Scholarships and Teacher Grants. Contact Kelsey Hutcherson 731-610-0098, Stacey Moore 731610-3976 or Chris Whitten 901-8260923 with any questions.

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Corinth Area Baseball Camp The 29th Annual Corinth Area Baseball Camp for ages 6-13 is set for June 1-4 at Crossroads Regional Park. Cost is $90 for entire session and includes noon meal each day along with camp T-shirt. Accident insurance is included. Discount will be given if more than one family member attends. Camp is from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. A $40 deposit is required with the remaining balance due on the first day of camp.

Each camper will need their own bat. Bat needs to be marked in some manner with their name. Shorts are not recommended. Uniform pants should be worn if possible.

Checks should be made payable to Diamond S/Baseball Camp, 3159 Kendrick Road, Corinth, MS 38834.

For more information contact John Smillie at 808-0013.

Corinth Area Softball Camp The 4th Annual Corinth Area Softball Camp for ages 6-12 is set for June 8-11 at Crossroads Regional Park. Cost is $75 for entire session and includes noon meal each day along with camp T-shirt. Accident insurance is included. Discount will be given if more than one family member attends. Camp is from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. A $40 deposit is required with the remaining balance due on the first day of camp.

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The Carson Herrin Memorial 4-man scramble will be held May 16 at Shiloh Golf Course in Adamsville, Tennessee. Cost is $200 per team for the 8 a.m. shotgun start. Putting contest, long drive and closest to the pin will also be held. For more information contact Keith Herrin at 643-5910.

• The Corinth Professionals’ 3rd Annual Golf Scramble will be held May 28 at Hillandale. Cost for the nine-hole scramble $25 per person or $100 per team, which includes greens fee, cart and reception dinner. Singles are welcome, first come, first serve. Registration is at 5 p.m. with 5:30 shotgun start. To sponsor or for more information, please contact Andrea Rose at The Alliance at 287-5269 or Andrea@corinthalliance. com

evidence was presented to the grand jury. Tilford told police in a statement that he “never thought anything was wrong” after the girls left. A few minutes later, he said one of the women was cursing at Jones in the hallway but then calmed down and returned to the party.

Jones was released from home incarceration earlier this month as prosecutors prepared to present the case to the grand jury.

Jones’ attorney Scott Cox left after the hearing without commenting. He had maintained that Jones was falsely

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Corinth Lady Warrior catcher Maddy Oaks looks to the CHS dugout for the signal to give.

Corinth saw its season come to an end on Tuesday as the Lady Warriors were eliminated from the postseason by Senatobia.

Jones arrested for domestic violence Associated Press

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama cornerback Cyrus Jones was arrested on domestic violence charges for allegedly damaging a woman’s cellphone and threatening her.

Officers arrested the 21-year-old Jones at about 10:20 p.m. Tuesday after responding to a domestic call, Tuscaloosa Police said in a statement Wednesday.

Jones had taken and damaged a 22-year-old woman’s phone earlier in the day and threatened to assault her in front of a witness, police said.

Jones was charged with two domestic violence misdemeanors: third-degree ha-

rassment and third-degree criminal mischief.

“We don’t ever condone any behavior that shows any kind of disrespect,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said in a statement.

“There was no physical contact in this situation. Once we get the facts, we will take the necessary steps to correct this behavior in the future.”

It’s the fourth arrest of a Crimson Tide player since March. Defensive lineman Jonathan Taylor was dismissed from the school after his second domestic violence arrest, the first leading to his dismissal from the University of Georgia.

The accuser has since recanted her allegations, but charges are still pending.

Running back Tyren Jones was dismissed after his arrest for marijuana possession while on suspension.

Safety Geno Smith was arrested on a charge of drunken driving for the second time in his college career.

In January, linebacker Ryan Anderson and a woman were both charged with domestic violence in another incident allegedly involving property damage.

Jones is Alabama’s most experienced cornerback.

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Right call? Orioles take field with no fans Associated Press

BALTIMORE — With tempers still smoldering in riottorn Baltimore and nearby neighborhoods clearing out rubble and debris, the Orioles played a baseball game on Wednesday.

This wasn’t for the fans, because there weren’t any at Camden Yards.

The game was held behind closed doors, and the Orioles and Chicago White Sox played because it was considered to be the best way to fill out the schedule for both teams.

The timing worked for baseball, not so much for Baltimore. It was an unusual move by Major League Baseball, which usually errs on the

side of caution in the wake of tragedy.

Baseball games were cancelled after riots ignited in Los Angeles and terrorists attacked New York and Washington. Baseball put off the World Series in 1989 after an earthquake hit San Francisco.

In Baltimore, after a drug store was set on fire about four miles from the ballpark and the National Guard was summoned to restore order, they played a game because this was the only planned visit by this season by the White Sox. The postponed games on Monday and Tuesday were to be made up as part of a doubleheader on May 28, but there was seemingly nowhere to go on the schedule with

Wednesday’s game.

So they moved up the starting time by five hours to 2:05 p.m. to beat the 10 o’clock curfew and had the teams go at it before 47,000 empty seats.

“We have a schedule so we’ve got to get games in,” Chicago second baseman Gordon Beckham said. “We can’t just miss all three games and expect to make them up down the line. I mean we’ll have no off days for the rest of the year. So, we at least have to get this one in.”

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ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals have filed a lawsuit against a nonprofit charity, accusing it of breaching a contract and committing fraud by selling hundreds of tickets over face value.

The Leagues of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which runs the Lewis & Clark Baseball League, last year was allotted 3,500 tickets at a discounted price through the team’s Cardinals Care program, according to the lawsuit filed last week in St. Louis Circuit Court.

The suit alleges the charity sold tickets for high-demand games online, including a May 26 matchup against the New York Yankees during Derek Jeter’s final season, instead of selling them for up to face value in fundraisers to support youth participating in amateur baseball.

The lawsuit seeks to recover $40,475, which it claims the charity obtained from selling tickets above face value, so it can be used for charity as intended, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

It also asks the court to award any additional amounts, including attorney fees.

Nicholas Mahrt, who’s listed as president of the St. Louis-based nonprofit and seller of the tickets, declined to comment to the newspaper Tuesday.

Paul Grote, an attorney representing the Cardinals in the lawsuit, declined to comment but said “the allegations speak for themselves.”

Alabama adds guard transfer TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Memphis transfer Nick King has signed to play for Alabama.

New Crimson Tide coach Avery Johnson announced the signing of the forward/ guard on Wednesday, the second signee since his hiring in April.

King will sit out next season under NCAA transfer rules and then have two years of eligibility remaining.

The 6-foot-7, 225-pounder averaged 7.2 points and 4.8 rebounds per game last season for Memphis.

Johnson says he likes King’s “experience and savviness on the court, along with his versatility.”

King was ranked among the nation’s top 50 prospects by several recruiting services coming out of high school.

Johnson had already signed Alabama’s Mr. Basketball, Dazon Ingram, out of Theodore High School.

Starting guard Ricky Tarrant has left the Tide and is transferring to Memphis.

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accused.

Louisville coach Rick Pitino has said he was “blindsided” by the allegations.

He said that his problems with Jones revolved around “sulking, emotional outbursts in practice” but that he always was on time and worked hard.

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The converted receiver has started 19 games in two seasons, leading the team with three inter-

ceptions and 16 pass deflections as a junior.

He earned secondteam All-Southeastern Conference honors from The Associated Press.

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no property around the ballpark was damaged, the city was hurting and here they were, playing a baseball game to preserve the integrity of the schedule.

“It is strange. The commissioner of baseball made a decision,” said Gov. Larry Hogan. “I’m glad that we don’t have tens of thousands of fans down there. Even though things appear to be calm, having tens of thousands of people in that part of the city, that’s where our command center is operating.”

On a scale of what was significant to Baltimore on this day, the Orioles’ 20th game of the season wasn’t exactly at the top of the list.

“It makes you realize how unimportant really in a lot of ways this is compared to some things that are going on,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said.

“You try to keep that mind and look at things realistically, where this fits in the scheme of things. You prioritize what’s important and we tried to do that.”

Their intentions may have been in the right place, but seemingly not much else.

Playing the game without any fans in attendance was both a good and a bad thing.

The team didn’t divert any police from doing their job around the city, but the people of Baltimore didn’t get a chance to turn the page by watching the home team

play at Camden Yards.

“Sports brings people together — black, white, or any different,” Orioles center fielder Adam Jones said. “For those three hours, you can have beers, nachos and some Boog’s (barbecue) and forget about our daily lives.”

“But today, we’re just going to have to play a Major League Baseball game without fans. I think that’s first time in history.”

Must the game go on?

“We’ve thought about that, and we’ve actually talked about that,” Orioles first baseman Chris Davis said. “Obviously the decision was out of our hands.

But the thing that makes it so tough is that this is an out-of-division opponent.

We would have had to basically make up three games.

“We’re doing the right thing. I’m not real happy about playing in an empty stadium. That’s one of the reasons that we look forward to coming home so much, playing in front of our fans. But we also understand that there’s a bigger picture here.”

That’s true, but the bigger question is whether they should have been playing at all.

“There are a lot more important issues going on outside the stadium,” Orioles left-hander Zach Britton said.

“It kind of makes you realize how small baseball is compared to some of the other issues in the U.S. and around the world.”

Poythress preparing for senior season Associated Press

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Alex Poythress will return next season from a knee injury and give Kentucky coach John Calipari something he’s never had with the Wildcats: A four-year player who is a major contributor.

Poythress suffered a season-ending injury in December, tearing his left anterior cruciate ligament during practice.

The injury turned Calipari’s platoon system into a nine-man rotation and the junior starting forward into an observer during Kentucky’s 38-0 start that ended with a Final Four loss to Wisconsin. Poythress considered joining seven Wildcats teammates in the NBA draft, but instead he is now poised to set a precedent by completing his eligibility in a program best known

for developing “one-anddone” players.

“I looked at my options like everybody else did,” Poythress said Wednesday. “I felt like the best decision was to come back.” The 6-foot-8 Poythress will add experience to a roster that will need it next season.

He’ll be joined by 6-9 junior forward Marcus Lee and 5-9 point guard Tyler Ulis, who will step into starting roles after playing in reserve roles last season. Ulis was fourth on the team with 33 3-pointers, made 135 assists and averaged 5.6 points per game.

Lee averaged 2.6 points and 2.7 rebounds per game last year with 27 blocks.

Forward Derek Willis and guard Dominique Hawkins also return for their junior seasons and will be counted on for bigger contributions.

Through April 26 POINTS 1. Kevin Harvick, 357; 2. Joey Logano, 324; 3. Martin Truex Jr., 315; 4. Jimmie Johnson, 299; 5. Brad Keselowski, 283; 6. Kasey Kahne, 275; 7. Matt Kenseth, 273; 8. Dale Earnhardt Jr., 271; 9. Jamie McMurray, 264; 10. Jeff Gordon, 263.

11. Aric Almirola, 250; 12. Denny Hamlin, 245; 13. Paul Menard, 239; 14.

Clint Bowyer, 235; 15. Ryan Newman, 234; 16. Danica Patrick, 230; 17. Carl Edwards, 228; 18. Kurt Busch, 222; 19.

David Ragan, 218; 20. Kyle Larson, 205.

MONEY 1. Kevin Harvick, $3,351,237; 2. Joey Logano, $2,989,187; 3. Jimmie Johnson, $2,374,995; 4. Dale Earnhardt Jr., $2,020,370; 5. Jeff Gordon, $1,820,409; 6. Brad Keselowski, $1,813,074; 7.

Matt Kenseth, $1,778,994; 8. Denny Hamlin, $1,696,593; 9. Martin Truex Jr., $1,682,333; 10. Ryan Newman, $1,593,883 11. Jamie McMurray, $1,541,179; 12.

Clint Bowyer, $1,498,222; 13. Aric Almirola, $1,464,009; 14. Trevor Bayne, $1,436,490; 15. David Ragan, $1,430,226; 16. Casey Mears, $1,425,134; 17. Greg Biffle, $1,423,955; 18. Austin Dillon, $1,420,652; 19. Kasey Kahne, $1,367,564; 20. AJ Allmendinger, $1,331,838J Allmendinger, $1,208,930.

Baseball N.L. standings, schedule East Division W L Pct GB New York 15 6 .714 — Atlanta 10 10 .500 4½ Miami 9 12 .429 6 Philadelphia 8 13 .381 7 Washington 8 13 .381 7 Central Division W L Pct GB St. Louis 13 6 .684 — Chicago 12 7 .632 1 Pittsburgh 11 10 .524 3 Cincinnati 10 11 .476 4 Milwaukee 5 17 .227 9½ West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 12 8 .600 — Colorado 11 9 .550 1 San Diego 11 12 .478 2½ Arizona 9 11 .450 3 San Francisco 9 12 .429 3½ ___ Monday’s late games Colorado 5, Arizona 4 Houston 9, San Diego 4 L.A. Dodgers 8, San Francisco 3 Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati 4, Milwaukee 2 Miami 4, N.Y. Mets 3 Washington 13, Atlanta 12 Chicago Cubs 6, Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis 11, Philadelphia 5 Arizona 12, Colorado 5 Houston 14, San Diego 3 San Francisco 2, L.A. Dodgers 1 Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee 8, Cincinnati 3 Houston 7, San Diego 2 N.Y. Mets at Miami (n) Washington at Atlanta (n) Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs (n) Philadelphia at St. Louis (n) Colorado at Arizona (n) San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers (n) Today’s Games Philadelphia (Buchanan 0-4) at St. Louis (Cooney 0-0), 12:45 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 0-1) at Atlanta (S.Miller 3-0), 6:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 1-2) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 2-2), 6:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 1:20 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 6:10 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Atlanta, 6:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at San Francisco, 9:15 p.m.

A.L. standings, schedule New York Tampa Bay Boston Baltimore Toronto Kansas City Detroit Chicago Minnesota Cleveland Houston Los Angeles Seattle Oakland Texas

East Division W L 13 9 12 10 11 10 10 10 10 11 Central Division W L 14 6 15 7 8 10 9 12 6 13 West Division W L 14 7 9 11 9 11 9 12 7 13

Pct .591 .545 .524 .500 .476

GB — 1 1½ 2 2½

Pct .700 .682 .444 .429 .316

GB — — 5 5½ 7½

Pct .667 .450 .450 .429 .350

GB — 4½ 4½ 5 6½

___ Monday’s late games Seattle 3, Texas 1 Detroit 5, Minnesota 4 Houston 9, San Diego 4 Tuesday’s Games Kansas City 11, Cleveland 5 Toronto 11, Boston 8 N.Y. Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 2 Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, ppd., public safety Seattle 2, Texas 1 Minnesota 3, Detroit 2 Oakland 6, L.A. Angels 2 Houston 14, San Diego 3 Wednesday’s Games Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Yankees 2, 13 innings Detroit 10, Minnesota 7 Baltimore 8, Chicago White Sox 2 Houston 7, San Diego 2 Cleveland 7, Kansas City 5 Boston 4, Toronto 1 Seattle at Texas (n) L.A. Angels at Oakland (n) Today’s Games L.A. Angels (Richards 1-1) at Oakland (Kazmir 2-0), 2:35 p.m.

Toronto (Da.Norris 1-1) at Cleveland (House 0-3), 6:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 2-0) at Minnesota (May 1-1), 7:10 p.m.

Detroit (Simon 4-0) at Kansas City (D.Duffy 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Seattle (Paxton 0-2) at Houston (Feldman 2-2), 7:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Tampa Bay vs. Baltimore at St. Petersburg, FL, 6:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 6:10 p.m.

Toronto at Cleveland, 6:10 p.m.

Oakland at Texas, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m.

Detroit at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m.

Seattle at Houston, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at San Francisco, 9:15 p.m.

Basketball NBA playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Saturday Golden State 109, New Orleans 98, Golden State wins series 4-0 Sunday Cleveland 101, Boston 93, Cleveland wins series 4-0 Washington 125, Toronto 94, Washington wins series 4-0 Monday Brooklyn 120, Atlanta 115, OT, series tied 2-2 Milwaukee 94, Chicago 88, Chicago leads series 3-2 Portland 99, Memphis 92, Memphis leads series 3-1 Tuesday Houston 103, Dallas 94, Houston wins series 4-1 San Antonio 111, L.A. Clippers 107, San Antonio leads series 3-2 Wednesday Brooklyn at Atlanta (n) Portland at Memphis (n) Today Chicago at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. x-Houston at Dallas, 6 or 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 8 or 8:30 p.m.

Friday Atlanta at Brooklyn, 7 p.m. x-Memphis at Portland, 9: or 9:30 p.m.

Saturday x-Milwaukee at Chicago, TBA x-Dallas at Houston, TBA x-San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, TBA Sunday, x-Brooklyn at Atlanta, TBA x-Portland at Memphis, TBA

Golf PGA: FedExCup leaders Through April 26 Rank Player Points 1. Jordan Spieth 2,072 2. Jimmy Walker 1,680 3. J.B. Holmes 1,233 4. Patrick Reed 1,173 5. Dustin Johnson 1,132 6. Bubba Watson 1,117 7. Jason Day 1,063 8. Charley Hoffman 1,037 9. Ryan Moore 952 10. Hideki Matsuyama 939 11. Brandt Snedeker 934 12. Sang-Moon Bae 929 13. Robert Streb 927 14. Ben Martin 860 15. Justin Rose 839 16. Brooks Koepka 826 17. Bill Haas 811 18. Daniel Berger 797 19. Brendon de Jonge 781 20. Matt Kuchar 763 21. James Hahn 745 22. Jim Furyk 742 23. Shawn Stefani 734 24. Cameron Tringale 709 25. Matt Every 688 26. Scott Piercy 686

YTD Money $5,087,996 $3,509,349 $2,942,520 $2,344,556 $3,013,887 $2,720,950 $2,351,128 $2,240,915 $2,171,580 $2,156,046 $2,029,667 $1,942,781 $1,808,680 $1,707,822 $2,252,000 $1,747,981 $1,655,606 $1,602,258 $1,293,964 $1,361,334 $1,503,442 $1,544,661 $1,258,214 $1,356,279 $1,399,532 $1,244,269

27. Kevin Na 28. Harris English 29. Paul Casey 30. Henrik Stenson 31. Russell Knox 32. Brendan Steele 33. Nick Watney 34. Kevin Streelman 35. Sean O’Hair 36. Ryan Palmer 37. Alex Cejka 38. Kevin Kisner 39. Russell Henley 40. Justin Thomas 41. Ian Poulter 42. Padraig Harrington 43. Gary Woodland 44. Boo Weekley 45. Jason Kokrak 46. Sergio Garcia 47. Brendon Todd 48. Martin Laird 49. Matt Jones 50. Daniel Summerhays

Thursday, April 30, 2015 681 681 673 660 649 625 625 620 617 611 610 600 596 579 552 537 526 525 520 518 515 513 510 507

$1,458,022 $1,189,525 $1,565,580 $1,537,100 $1,179,839 $1,032,218 $1,284,689 $1,171,947 $1,110,933 $1,191,658 $1,029,407 $1,079,867 $1,229,380 $1,092,517 $1,170,332 $1,161,139 $1,067,031 $1,174,501 $895,615 $1,144,131 $950,473 $962,201 $1,045,992 $759,859

LPGA Money leaders Through April 26 Trn 8 9 8 8 9 9 7 9 9 9 10 7 8 8 9 10 9 10 9 8 8 10 7 9 9

1. Lydia Ko 2. Sei-Young Kim 3. Stacy Lewis 4. Inbee Park 5. Brittany Lincicome 6. Amy Yang 7. Hyo-Joo Kim 8. Morgan Pressel 9. Mirim Lee 10. Cristie Kerr 11. Na Yeon Choi 12. Shanshan Feng 13. Ha Na Jang 14. Anna Nordqvist 15. Ariya Jutanugarn 16. Ilhee Lee 17. Sandra Gal 18. Jenny Shin 19. Jessica Korda 20. Carlota Ciganda 21. So Yeon Ryu 22. Chella Choi 23. Lexi Thompson 24. Mi Hyang Lee 25. Pornanong Phatlum

Money $908,810 $742,306 $706,660 $615,261 $531,488 $528,685 $453,493 $416,643 $390,834 $369,146 $364,171 $305,294 $292,907 $271,162 $259,416 $249,838 $222,597 $217,506 $198,649 $195,905 $193,461 $190,001 $181,820 $176,904 $175,068

Champions: Schwab Cup leaders Through April 26 Points 443 431 391 365 349 309 304 292 284 276 274 272 240 227 192 191 175 168 155 147 146 145 137 133 130

1. Olin Browne 2. Bart Bryant 3. Mark O’Meara 4. Joe Durant 5. Miguel Angel Jimenez 6. Marco Dawson 7. Colin Montgomerie 8. Paul Goydos 9. Billy Andrade 10. Bernhard Langer 11. Rocco Mediate 12. Lee Janzen 13. David Frost 14. Tom Pernice, Jr. 15. Kevin Sutherland 16. Gene Sauers 17. Tom Lehman 18. Wes Short, Jr. 19. Esteban Toledo 20. Tommy Armour III 21. Michael Allen 22. Jeff Sluman 23. Scott Dunlap 24. Fred Couples 25. Sandy Lyle

Money $492,399 $458,092 $448,242 $383,131 $365,792 $329,308 $329,737 $385,900 $349,054 $290,400 $358,317 $320,920 $323,109 $338,925 $262,245 $236,629 $252,984 $212,534 $238,475 $177,120 $235,631 $194,940 $221,541 $163,890 $194,491

Hockey NHL playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Sunday Wednesday, April 22 Anaheim 5, Winnipeg 2, Anaheim wins series 4-0 Friday N.Y. Rangers 2, Pittsburgh 1, OT, N.Y. Rangers wins series 4-1 Saturday Chicago 4, Nashville 3, Chicago wins series 4-2 Calgary 7, Vancouver 4, Calgary wins series 4-2 Sunday Minnesota 4, St. Louis 1, Minnesota wins series 4-2 Montreal 2, Ottawa 0, Montreal wins series 4-2 Monday Washington 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, Washington wins series 4-3 Wednesday Detroit at Tampa Bay (n) SECOND ROUND (Best-of-7) Thursday Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Friday Tampa Bay or Detroit at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 11:30 a.m.

Sunday Tampa Bay or Detroit at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Calgary at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Monday N.Y. Rangers at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

Transactions Wednesday’s Deals BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Selected the contract of RHP Ryan Webb from Columbus (IL). Designated OF Jerry Sands for assignment.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled INF Gregorio Petit from Scranton/WilkesBarre.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Voided the option of RHP Kirby Yates to Durham (IL) and placed him on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 15.

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Selected the contract of RHP Michael Lorenzen from Louisville (IL). Placed LHP Manny Parra on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 24.

Transferred RHP Homer Bailey to the 60day DL. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled LHP Sammy Solis from Harrisburg (EL) and OF Michael A. Taylor from Syracuse (IL). Placed OF Reed Johnson on the 15day DL. Optioned RHP A.J. Cole to Syracuse.

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Traded INF Mikey Reynolds to York for a player to be named.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed C Matt Koch.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Signed LHP Josh Blanco.

QUEBEC CAPITALES — Signed RHP Derek Dubois.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Released OF Ryan Stovall. Traded OF Byron Wiley to Laredo (AA) to complete an earlier trade.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed OF Jon Smith and OF Sasha LaGarde.

FOOTBALL Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Acquired LB Matangi Tonga from Spokane for the third overall claim order. Signed DB Emanuel Cook.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned RW Martin Frk from Grand Rapids (AHL) to Toledo (ECHL).

American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Assigned D Scott Czarnowczan to Toledo (ECHL).

SOCCER North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Signed MF Carl-Oscar Andersson, MF Fernando Marques, F Miguel Herlein and D Dani Evuy and assigned them on loan to Cosmos B (NPSL).

COLLEGE LEES-MCRAE — Named David Gaudioso men’s and women’s assistant volleyball coach.

Television Today’s Lineup BOXING 9 p.m.— ESPN2 Junior middleweights, Ishe Smith (26-7-0) vs. Cecil McCalla (201-0), at Las Vegas 10 p.m.— FS1 Lightweights, Jeffrey Fontanez (14-1-0) vs. Jose Hernandez (15-9-1); super lightweights, Mercito Gesta (28-1-1) vs. Carlos Molina (17-2-1), at Indio, Calif.

GOLF 10:30 a.m.— TGC LPGA, North Texas Shootout, first round, at Irving, Texas 1:30 p.m.— TGC Web.com Tour, United Leasing Championship, first round, at Newburgh, Ind. 4 p.m.— TGC PGA Tour-WGC, Cadillac Match Play, day 2, at San Francisco HORSE RACING 4 p.m.— NBCSN Thoroughbreds, races TBA, at Louisville, Ky. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1:30 p.m.— MLB Philadelphia at St. Louis 8 p.m.— MLB Regional coverage, Detroit at Kansas City or Chicago White Sox at Minnesota NBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m.— TNT Playoffs, first round, game 6, Chicago at Milwaukee 9:30 p.m.— TNT Playoffs, first round, game 6, L.A. Clippers at San Antonio NFL 8 p.m.— ESPN Draft, first round, at Chicago NHL 7:30 p.m.— NBCSN Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 1, Washington at N.Y. Rangers

Hayne finding way with 49ers

BY JANIE MCCAULEY AP Sports Writer

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Jarryd Hayne has found himself discussing snakes, kangaroos and koalas — all things Aussie — in the middle of San Francisco’s locker room right along with the routes and responsibilities from his daunting new NFL playbook.

One 49ers teammate asked the former rugby star-turned-running back about “the deadliest animals in Australia” and all other creatures from Down Under.

He is good-natured about it all.

“With Australia being so far away as well, there’s always a bit of misconception of what it’s like from an animal perspective,” Hayne said Wednesday.

“A couple of the boys, with snakes, lizards, spiders, there have been a whole bunch of questions what Australia’s like. I kid around sometimes, kangaroos, koalas, we’re always feeding them.”

The Niners are getting a kick out of his thick accent, too. Not to mention all the great expressions he brings.

“Rubbish shot,” Hayne hollered recently while

playing a little pingpong in his new surroundings.

A couple of his teammates, cracking up, repeated the phrase in good fun.

Hayne is living in a hotel for now, but plans to soon start looking for an apartment. He will look to lease his own car, too, and turn in the rental.

“I’ve just really been embracing it, every situation I’ve been in,” he said.

“Most of the time you can’t prepare for it. You have to go with it and do your best.”

The 27-year-old Hayne decided last year to give up his career in the Australian National Rugby League to chase his NFL dream across the world.

He will compete for a job as a running back and return man on special teams.

Hayne already considers American coffee to be rubbish and told wide receiver Jerome Simpson he would soon bring his own “real coffee” from Australia to share.

Hayne has been training with the 49ers for a few weeks now, but is on the field with the coaching staff this week for a voluntary minicamp.

On Tuesday, he woke up

at 6:30 a.m. and finally went to bed at 11:30 p.m. to dedicate himself to football and the hours of studying that come with it.

“I’ll get comfortable one day and the next day it completely changes.

Those are the things I’ve got to get used to, that’s part of the journey,” he said, with a dozen or so Australian journalists eagerly soaking up his every experience in the U.S. “Physically that’s not a concern.

It’s just the playbook and knowing where to be at the right time. I know what I’m here for.”

Hayne spent the past nine years - from 200614 - with the Parramatta Eels.

He accumulated a long list of achievements, winning several Dally M Awards given to the best and most fair player in the National Rugby League for the regular season. He was named Player of the Year, Best Fullback, Top Tryscorer and Representative Player.

No accolades or nickname yet in his new home.

“I thought I was going to get Skippy or Aussie, but it’s just Jarryd, which

is even unique because at Parra everyone had a nickname,” he said with a chuckle. “The Aussie slang is so much different. Here in America I just get Jarryd.”

They do know he has some credentials to fall back on as he undertakes the challenge of a new sport.

A “couple of the boys,” as he refers to them, have caught some highlights on YouTube.

“I didn’t really know, but he’s the man out there. It’s pretty cool,” wideout Torrey Smith said. “Everyone loves him around here. He’s a great guy, so it’d be hard not to.”

NOTES: LB NaVorro Bowman returned to the practice field Tuesday for the first time since his devastating left knee injury in the NFC championship game following the 2013 season.

Bowman said he didn’t have many limits to what he could do.

LB Michael Wilhoite said there’s no update on a contract extension mentioned publicly by general manager Trent Baalke. “I’m going to be here, so I’m always hopeful,” Wilhoite said.

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WHEREAS, default having been made in the payments of the indebtedness secured by the said Deed of Trust, and the holder of Deed of Trust, having MOBILE HOMES said 0955 LEGALS requested the undersigned 0675 FOR RENT so to do, on the 21st day of May, 2015, I will during the lawful hours of between REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., at public outcry, offer for sale and will sell, at the south front door of the AlHOMES FOR corn County Courthouse at 0710 SALE Corinth, Mississippi, for HUD cash to the highest bidder, PUBLISHERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S the following described NOTICE land and property situated All real estate adver- in Alcorn County, Missistised herein is subject sippi, to-wit: to the Federal Fair Housing Act which Lying and being in the makes it illegal to ad- Northwest Quarter of Secvertise any preference, tion 9, Township 2 South, limitation, or discrimi- R a n g e 8 E a s t , A l c o r n nation based on race, County, Mississippi, more color, religion, sex, particularly described as handicap, familial status follows: or national origin, or intention to make any Commencing at the Northsuch preferences, limi- east corner (railroad spike tations or discrimina- found) of the Northwest tion.

Quarter of Section 9, TownState laws forbid dis- ship 2 South, Range 8 crimination in the sale, East, Alcorn County, Misrental, or advertising of sissippi; thence run South real estate based on 381.00 feet; thence run factors in addition to West 586.00 feet to an iron those protected under pin; thence North 123.04 federal law. We will not feet to an iron rod set for knowingly accept any the Point of Beginning; advertising for real es- thence North 60 degrees tate which is in viola- 51 minutes 06 seconds tion of the law. All per- West 103.55 feet to an iron sons are hereby in- rod set; thence North 03 formed that all dwell- degrees 55 minutes 33 ings advertised are seconds West 32.73 feet to available on an equal an iron rod set in the cenopportunity basis. ter of a ditch; thence North 44 degrees 54 minutes 43 East 88.52 feet, 0734 LOTS & ACREAGE seconds along the center of a ditch 14.9 Acres- County Road to a chain link fence line; 620. Kossuth Schools. thence South 86 degrees $3000 an acre, will not 05 minutes 16 seconds separate. 662-286-7067, East 30.25 feet to a chain link fence corner; thence after 5 on weekdays.

South 143.72 feet to the Point of Beginning, containFINANCIAL ing 0.21 acres, more or less, being Lot 2 of Saddlebrook Subdivision, an unrecorded subdivision.

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STATE OF MISSISSIPPI $500 665-1474 COUNTY OF ALCORN VOLKL POWER Bridge V1 MidPlus tennis racquet, WHEREAS, on the 2nd 9.8/10, 10.5 oz., strung day of April, 2008 and acto your tension. $80.00- knowledged on the 2nd day of April, 2008, Emma J 665-1474 Breitbarth and Dude BreitWALL BATHROOM Mirror. barth, wife and husband, 44W x 40L- $20 260-6722 executed and delivered a certain Deed of Trust unto Recontrust Company, Trustee for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc as nominee for Countrywide Bank FSB, Beneficiary, to secure an indebtedness therein deWANT TO make certain scribed, which Deed of your ad gets attention? Trust is recorded in the ofAsk about attention fice of the Chancery Clerk getting graphics. of Alcorn County, Mississippi in Instrument YOUTH GOLF clubs w/ # 2 0 0 8 0 1 8 5 9 ; a n d carry/ stand bag- driver, f a i r w a y w o o d , I r o n s WHEREAS, on the 19th 5/7/9/SW, and Putter. day of June, 2012, MortGood Condition, $50.00. gage Electronic Registra665-1474 tion Systems, Inc, assigned said Deed of Trust Bank of America, NA REAL ESTATE FOR RENT unto successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing LP fka Countrywide UNFURNISHED Home Loans Servicing, LP, 0610 APARTMENTS by instrument recorded in WATER PAID. 2BR 1BA, the office of the aforesaid Stv.& Frg. furn. $425m, Chancery Clerk in Instrument #201202973; and $300d Call 603-4127

Together with a perpetual non-exclusive easement and right-of-way for the following purposes, namely: the right to enter upon the hereinafter described land and to do any and all work necessary to build, maintain and repair a road and to install and maintain public utilities incident to the use of the property described above, together with the perpetual right to use said road and said utility easement all over, upon, across, and under the following described property:

way the following six (6) calls: North 49 degrees 07 minutes 29 seconds East 58.36 feet; North 54 degrees 39 minutes 52 seconds East 169.69 feet; North 39 degrees 26 minutes 46 seconds East 13.40 North 03 deLEGALS 0955 feet; grees 55 minutes 33 seconds West 20.37 feet; North 05 degrees 34 minutes 38 seconds West 68.42 feet; North 01 degree 19 minutes 15 seconds West 106.95 feet to the southern right-of-way line of Alcorn County Road No. 200; thence along said right-of-way South 84 degrees 49 minutes 55 seconds East 30.19 feet to the Point of Beginning, containing 0.31 acres, more or less.

(662) 286-5591.

The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any irregularities in the bids.

Done by order of the Alcorn Board of Education.

0955 LEGALS

Gina Rogers Smith, Superintendent 2t. April 23rd and April 30th, 2015 14831 IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF ALCORN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI

I will only convey such title IN THE MATTER OF THE as is vested in me as Sub- ESTATE OF LAURA MASSENGILL STRICKLAND, stitute Trustee.

DECEASED WITNESS MY SIGNACAUSE NO. TURE, this 13th day of 2014-0416-02-L April, 2015.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Michael Jedynak Substitute Trustee 855 S Pear Orchard Rd., Ste. 404, Bldg. 400 Ridgeland, MS 39157 (318) 330-9020 /F14-0684

PUBLISH: 4.30.15/5.7.15/5.14.15 14828 LEGAL NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the Alcorn Board of Education, Alcorn School district, Alcorn County, Mississippi will receive until 2:00 p. m. on Friday, May 8, 2015 at the Alcorn Education Center located at 31 CR 401, Corinth, MS sealed bids from banks for the privilege of keeping Alcorn School District funds, or any part thereof, effective July 01, 2015, pursuant to the provisions of Sections 37-7-333, 27-105305, and 27-105-315, Mississippi Code Annotated, 1972, recompiled, as amended.

The depository bid or proposal shall designate the kind of security as authorized by law which the bank proposes to give as security for funds. It is the intention of this board to cause all school district funds to be deposited in the bank or banks proposing the best terms, having in view the safety of such funds, the cost of the deposit accounts, and meeting the requirement of Section 27-105-315, Mississippi Code Annotated, 1972, recompiled, as amended. The terms made with each depository shall remain in force for one (1) year, two (2) or three (3) year period, effective July 1, 2015, in the discretion of the district, and until a new arrangement shall be made according to law.

TO: The unknown heirs at law and devisees of Laura Massengill Strickland, deceased.

You have been named as Defendants in the civil action filed by this Court by James Lester Strickland seeking the judicial determination og heirship of Laura Massengill Stickland, deceased.

YOU ARE COMMANDED TO APPEAR AND DEFEND THIS ACTION AT 9:30 A.M., ON THE 2ND DAY OF JUNE, 2015, AT THE CHANCERY COURTROOM OF THE ALCORN COUNTY COURTHOUSE, CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI, and in case of your failure to appear and defend, a judgement will be entered against you for the money or other things demanded in the Complaint.

You may mail or hand deliver a copy of a written answer either admitting or denying such allegations in the Complaint to the attorney for the Plaintiff, Rhett R. Russell, P.O. Box 27, 204 North Spring Street, Tupelo, MS 38802.

You must also file the original of your answer with the clerk of this Court afterward, but no later than 9:30 a.m., on the 2nd day of June, 2015.

This the 13 day of April, 2015.

BOBBY MAROLT Commencing at the NorthCHANCERY CLERK east corner of the Northwest Quarter of Section 9, BY: KAREN DUNCAN, D.C. Township 2 South, Range 8 East, Alcorn County, Mis3tc:04/16, 04/23, 04/30/2015 sissippi; thence South 89 14830 degrees 33 minutes 50 seconds West 663.97 feet NOTICE OF SALE BY to the eastern edge of a SUBSTITUTE gravel roadway on the TRUSTEE southern right-of-way line of Alcorn County Road No. 200 for the Point of Begin0260 RESTAURANT ning; thence along the PART TIME Help Wanted eastern edge of said roadat Cindy's Place. Apply way the following six (6) WHEREAS, ROBin person at 603 Tate St., calls: South 01 degrees 19 BIE G. MICHAEL, made, Corinth. 665-9063. minutes 15 seconds East executed and delivered to 102.42 feet; South 05 deThe bidder HAROLD S. JACKSON g r e e s 3 4 m i n u t e s 3 8 should take into considera- as Trustee for the benefit of PETS seconds East 67.74 feet; tion in preparing its bids the CENTRAL BANK, in each S o u t h 0 3 d e g r e e s 5 5 possibility that the school dis- of the these Deeds of Trust: minutes 33 seconds East trict will deposit all receipts 0320 CATS/DOGS/PETS 32.73 feet; South 39 de- into a money market demand A) Dated December 8, 2008, g r e e s 2 6 m i n u t e s 4 6 accounts and will invest from recorded January 8, 2009 as GERMAN SHEPARD PUPseconds West 29.34 feet; time to time surplus funds in Instrument No. 200900104; PIES, 10 Weeks Old. S o u t h 5 4 d e g r e e s 3 9 certificates of deposit in those $175.00. Parents on Siteminutes 52 seconds West depositories which will give 662-462-4193 172.96 feet; South 49 de- the highest yield for the WHEREAS, CENTWHEREAS, on the 27th g r e e s 0 3 m i n u t e s 1 5 amount to be invested. RAL BANK, legal holder PARTS/SERVICE MANAGER day of June, 2014 the Hold- seconds West 55.18 feet; and owner of said Deed of Bid proposal Trust and the indebtedness er of said Deed of Trust thence North 42 degrees Looking for motivated individual with substituted and appointed 48 minutes 36 seconds forms and specifications may secured thereby, substituted skills and experience to manage parts Michael Jedynak by instru- West 30.02 feet to the be obtained by contacting the W. JETT WILSON as department and supervise shop. ment recorded in the office western edge of said road- Alcorn School District Super- Substitute Trustee, by instruExperience in this area a strong plus. of the aforesaid Chancery way; thence along the intendentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office, 31 CR 401, ment dated April 7, 2015 and Will consider individual who has worked C l e r k i n I n s t r u m e n t western edge of said road- Corinth, MS 38834 or calling recorded in the Office of the way the following six (6) (662) 286-5591.

Chancery Clerk of Alcorn as mechanic and exhibits management # 2 0 1 4 0 2 7 0 0 ; a n d calls: North 49 degrees 07 County, Mississippi, as Instruskills and motivation to learn.

The Board re- ment No. 201501352; WHEREAS, default hav- minutes 29 seconds East ing been made in the pay- 58.36 feet; North 54 de- serves the right to reject any Send resume to: ments of the indebtedness g r e e s 3 9 m i n u t e s 5 2 and all bids and to waive any Daily Corinthian secured by the said Deed seconds East 169.69 feet; irregularities in the bids.

WHEREAS, default of Trust, and the holder of N o r t h 3 9 d e g r e e s 2 6 Done by order of the Alcorn having been made in the ATTN: Box #2727 said Deed of Trust, having minutes 46 seconds East Board of Education. terms and conditions of said P.O. Box 1800 requested the undersigned 13.40 feet; North 03 deDeed of Trust and the entire Corinth, MS 38835 so to do, on the 21st day of g r e e s 5 5 m i n u t e s 3 3 debt secured thereby, having May, 2015, I will during the seconds West 20.37 feet; been declared to be due and lawful hours of between N o r t h 0 5 d e g r e e s 3 4 payable in accordance with SERVICES 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., minutes 38 seconds West the terms of said Deed of at public outcry, offer for 68.42 feet; North 01 deTrust, and the legal holder of Gina Rogers Smith, said indebtedness, CENTsale and will sell, at the g r e e 1 9 m i n u t e s 1 5 GRISHAM Superintendent RAL BANK, having requessouth front door of the Al- seconds West 106.95 feet INSURANCE corn County Courthouse at to the southern right-of-way ted the undersigned SubstiCorinth, Mississippi, for line of Alcorn County Road tute Trustee to execute the cash to the highest bidder, No. 200; thence along said 2t. April 23rd and April 30th, trust and sell said land and the following described right-of-way South 84 de- 2015 property in accordance with Complete Package land and property situated g r e e s 4 9 m i n u t e s 5 5 14831 the terms of said Deeds of in Alcorn County, Missis- seconds East 30.19 feet to Trust for the purpose of rais$295.00 the Point of Beginning, consippi, to-wit: the sums due thereunder, 1. Cleaning off Entire Roof taining 0.31 acres,Pressure more orWashing together with attorney's fees, 2.

Thorough Inspection Structure demolition & Removal Lying and being in the less.

Substitute Trustee's fees, and Residential & Crushed Quarter Lime Stone (roof and fascias) Northwest of (any Sec-size) expense of sale.

Commercial tion 9, Township South, Iuka Road 2Gravel 3. Replace any missing â&#x20AC;˘ Driveways title R a n g e 8Washed E a s t , gravel A l c o r n I will only convey such shingles NOW, THERELoans $20-$20,000 â&#x20AC;˘ Walk-ways as SubCounty, Mississippi, Pea gravel more as is vested inâ&#x20AC;˘me F O R E , pipes, NOTICE IS 4. Seal around Air Conditioner Pads particularly Fill described as stitute Trustee.

HEREBY sand chimneys, andGIVEN sky that I, â&#x20AC;˘ House Exteriors (Vinyl, follows: the undersigned Substitute brick, stucco) Masonry sand lights WITNESS MY SIGNACHRIS GRISHAM Trustee, on the 8th day of â&#x20AC;˘ Pool Decks Black Magic mulch 5. Locate and Stop Leaks Commencing at the North- TURE, this 13thâ&#x20AC;˘ day Boatof Houses Final Fin Fi all Expense Expense May, 2015, at the South front Natural brown mulch 6.

Clean out ofgutters Life Insurance east corner (railroad spike April, 2015. â&#x20AC;˘ Patios and Patio Furniture door the Alcorn County Long Term Care TopNorthwest soil found) of the We can also install H.D. leafCourthouse, in the City of References Available Medicare Supplements Quarter of Section 9, TownLicensed & Insured. guards.Corinth, JIMCOAlcorn is your full MisPart D Prescription Plan County, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let us help with your projectâ&#x20AC;?

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662-665-1849 40 Years 381.00 thence run Harper Square Mall. Corinth, MS 38834 4:00 p.m.), will offer for sale G.E.feet; 284-9209 FREE ESTIMATE Michael Jedynak West 586.00 feet to an iron and sell, at public outcry to Substitute Trustee pin; thence North 123.04 the highest bidder for cash, 855 S Pear Orchard Rd., feet to an iron rod set for the following property conSte. 404, Bldg. 400 the Point of Beginning; veyed to me by said Deed of Ridgeland, MS 39157 thence North 60 degrees Trust described as follows: (318) 330-9020 51 minutes 06 seconds /F14-0684 West 103.55 feet to an iron Full Horse Boarding rod set; thence North 03 degrees 55We minutes 33 & Training Haul: Beginning at the Southwest seconds West 32.73 feet to corner of theOut* Southwest t -JNF 3PDL *Stalled or Turn â&#x20AC;˘Pool Openings an iron rod set in the cen- PUBLISH: Quarter of Section 3, Townt *VLB (SBWFM Warm weather is right around English & Western ter of a ditch; thence North 4.30.15/5.7.15/5.14.15 ship 2 South, Range 8 East, t .BTPOSZ 4BOE â&#x20AC;˘Inground & Above 44 degrees 54 minutes 43 14828 the corner, remember us for lessons forCounty, all ages Alcorn Mississippi; t 5PQ 4PJM seconds East 88.52 feet, thence run North 30 feet, all of your pool needs. t 3JQ 3BQ Ground Pool Bring your own horse along the center of a ditch more or less, to the North t 8BTI HSBWFM to a chain link fence line; or rent one ofline ours right-of-way of FarmingLiners Installed thence South 86 degrees ton Road; thenceof run East â&#x20AC;˘ New Installsâ&#x20AC;˘ Custom Shapes for over 12 miles 05 minutes 16 seconds along the North right-of-way â&#x20AC;˘Above Ground self guided or guided â&#x20AC;˘ In Ground & Above ground â&#x20AC;˘ Liners East 30.25 feet to a chain line of said road 1223.75 feet link fence corner; thence trail rides. to an iron pin, being on the pools installed â&#x20AC;˘ Salt Systems â&#x20AC;˘ Pumps & Filters South 143.72 feet to the East side of a gravel road and 8F BMTP EP 1st Saturday Point of Beginning, contain20 years the North right-of-way line of Give us a call, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got it all! %P[FS ingt 0.21 acres, more or April-October the Farmington Road; thence Experience t #BDL )PF less, being Lot 2 of North@2 5PM degrees 13 Horserun Show 79 State Line Road Saddlebrook Subdivision, t 5SBDL IPF minutes West 433.9 feet; ant unrecorded subdivision.

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WHEREAS, default having been made in the terms conditions of said 0955 LEGALS LEGALS 0955 and /s/ W. Jett Wilson Deed of Trust and the entire debt secured thereby, having been declared to be due and W. JETT WILSON MSB# payable in accordance with 7316 the terms of said Deed of Trust, and the legal holder of SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE said indebtedness, CENTRAL BANK, having requesWILSON & HINTON, P.A. ted the undersigned Substitute Trustee to execute the Post Office Box 1257 trust and sell said land and property in accordance with Corinth, MS 38835 the terms of said Deeds of (662) 286-3366 Trust for the purpose of raising the sums due thereunder, together with attorney's fees, Substitute Trustee's fees, and Publish 4 times: expense of sale.

April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 2015 NOW, THERE- 14832 FORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, IN THE CHANCERY the undersigned Substitute COURT OF ALCORN Trustee, on the 8th day of COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI May, 2015, at the South front door of the Alcorn County RE: ADMINISTRATION OF Courthouse, in the City of THE ESTATE OF DORIS M. Corinth, Alcorn County, MisBORDEN, DECEASED sissippi, within the legal hours for such sales (being between NO. 2015-0221-02 the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), will offer for sale NOTICE OF CREDITORS and sell, at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, NOTICE is hereby givthe following property conen that letters of adveyed to me by said Deed of ministration have been Trust described as follows: on this day granted to the undersigned, Rachel Kozlowski, on the estate of Doris M. Beginning at the Southwest Borden, deceased, by corner of the Southwest the Chancery Court of Quarter of Section 3, TownAlcorn County, Missisship 2 South, Range 8 East, sippi, and all persons Alcorn County, Mississippi; having claims against thence run North 30 feet, said estate are required more or less, to the North to have the same proright-of-way line of Farmingbated and registered by ton Road; thence run East the Clerk of said Court along the North right-of-way within ninety (90) days line of said road 1223.75 feet after the date of the to an iron pin, being on the first publication of this East side of a gravel road and notice or the same shall the North right-of-way line of be forever barred. The the Farmington Road; thence first day of the publicarun North 2 degrees 13 tion of this notice is the minutes West 433.9 feet; 30th day of April, 2015. thence North 7 degrees 54 minutes East 103 feet; thence WITNESS my signature North 36 degrees 34 minutes on this 27th day of April, East 116 feet to an iron pin; 2015. thence North 18 degrees 18 minutes East along the East RACHEL KOZLOWSKI, ADside of a gravel road 536.09 MINISTRATRIX OF THE feet to an iron pin; thence ESTATE OF DORIS M. North 77 degrees 00 minutes BORDEN, DECEASED. West 40 feet to an iron pin on West side of a gravel road, BOBBY MAROLT, CLERK this being the point of beginKaren Duncan, D.C. ning; thence North 77 degrees 00 minutes West 292.5 3 tc feet; thence North 4 degrees 4/30, 5/7, 5/14/2015 53 minutes East 100.9 feet; thence South 77 degrees 00 14848 minutes East 311.37 feet to an iron pin on the West side of a gravel road; thence South 15 degrees 39 minutes West 100 feet to the point of beginning.

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF ALCORN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI

0955 LEGALS IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF ALCORN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EMMA JONES WELLS MCKINNEY, DECEASED

0955 LEGALS

NO. 2015-0218-02 NOTICE TO CREDITORS

RE:ADMINISTRATION OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES Notice is hereby given C A S S I E C A S T I L E , D E - that Letters Testamentary CEASED were on the 20th day of April, 2015, issued to the unNO. 2015-0236-02 dersigned by the Chancery Court of Alcorn County, MisNOTICE TO CREDITORS sissippi, on the Estate of Emma Jones Wells McKinney, NOTICE is hereby giv- Deceased, and all persons en that Letters of Ad- having claims against said esministration have been tate are hereby notified to on this day granted to present the same to the the undersigned, Emily Clerk of said Court for proEssary, on the estate of bate and registration accordJames Cassie Castile, ing to law within ninety (90) deceased, by the Chan- days of April 29, 2015, the cery Court of Alcorn date of first publication or County, Mississippi, and they will be forever barred. all persons having claims against said esTHIS the 9th day of April, tate are required to 2015. have the same probated and registered by Rebecca Wells McKinney the Clerk of said Court Frischhertz,Executrix of the within ninety (90) days Estate of Emma Jones Wells after the date of the McKinney, Deceased first publication of this notice or the same shall 3tc: 04/30, 05/07, 05/14/2015 be forever barred. The 14850 first of the publication CITY OF CORINTH of this notice is the 30th day of April, 2015.

WITNESS my signature on this 27th day of April, 2015.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The matter of considering the Application for RezonEMILY ESSARY, ADMINISing of property located at the TRATRIX OF THE ESTATE corner of Gaines Road and OF JAMES CASSIE Jobe Street from R-2 to R-3 CASTILE, DECEASED. submitted by Jason "Todd" Talley so as to enable the BOBBY MAROLT, CLERK construction and siting of Karen Duncan, D.C. multifamily residences on said property be and the same is 3tc hereby scheduled for public at 4/30, 5/7, 5/14/15 the meeting of the Board of Mayor and Alderman of the 14849 City of Corinth at 5:00 p.m. on May 19, 2015 in the Board Room in the City Municipal Building at 300 Childs Street.

0955 LEGALS

0955 LEGALS IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF ALCORN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EMMA JONES WELLS MCKINNEY, DECEASED NO. 2015-0218-02

Members of the public are invited to attend, participate and comment.

CITY OF CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI BY: JERRY FINGER, CHAIRMAN 1tc: 04/30/2015 14851

Although the title to said property is believed to be good, I will sell and convey only such title in said property as is vested in me as Substitute Trustee.

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Notice is hereby given that Letters Testamentary were on the 20th day of April, 2015, issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court of Alcorn County, Mississippi, on the Estate of Emma Jones Wells McKinney, Deceased, and all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same to the Clerk of said Court for probate and registration according to law within ninety (90) days of April 29, 2015, the date of first publication or they will be forever barred.

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NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, the United States of America, acting by and through the United States Department of Agriculture, is the owner and holder of the following real estate deed(s) of trust, securing an indebtedness therein mentioned and covering certain real estate hereinafter described located in Alcorn County, Mississippi, said deed(s) of trust being duly recorded in the Office of the Chancery Clerk in and for said County and State:

Grantor(s)

Date Executed

Nellie M. Wilbanks

Dec. 20, 1988

Trust Deed Book Page 322

471

WHEREAS, default has occurred in the payment of the indebtedness secured by said deed(s) of trust, and the United States of America, as Beneficiary, has authorized and instructed me as Substitute Trustee to foreclose said deed(s) of trust by advertisement and sale at public auction in accordance with the statutes made and provided therefor.

THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that pursuant to the power of sale contained in said deed(s) of trust and in accordance with the statutes made and provided therefor, the said deed(s) of trust will be foreclosed and the property covered thereby and hereinafter described will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the South front door of the County Courthouse in the city of Corinth, Mississippi, in the aforesaid County and will sell within legal hours (being between the hours of 11:00 AM and 4:00 PM) on May 18, 2015, to satisfy the indebtedness now due under and secured by said deed(s) of trust.

I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substitute Trustee.

The premises to be sold are described as: Situated in the County of Alcorn, State of Mississippi, to wit: Commencing at the NE Corner of the SE ¼ of Section 10, Township 3 South, Range 6 East, Alcorn County, Mississippi; thence run West 22.89 feet to a point on the West right-of-way line of a paved public road; thence run South 1 degree 33 minutes West 204.7 feet along said West right-of-way line to the POINT OF BEGINNING; thence continue South 1 degree 33 minutes West 404.29 feet along said West right-of-way line to the intersection with the North right-of-way line of another public road; thence run North 79 degrees 54 minutes West 102.44 feet along the North right-of-way line of said public road; thence run North 386.16 feet; thence run East 111.84 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING, containing 1.0 acre, more or less.

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Date: April 23, 2015 Clifton F. Russell, Substitute Trustee Duly authorized to act in the premises by instrument dated April 2, 2012, and recorded by Instrument Number 201202163 of the records of the aforesaid County and State.

Publish: 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14; (4t)

NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, the United States of America, acting by and through the United States Department of Agriculture, is the owner and holder of the following real estate deed(s) of trust, securing an indebtedness therein mentioned and covering certain real estate hereinafter described located in Alcorn County, Mississippi, said deed(s) of trust being duly recorded in the Office of the Chancery Clerk in and for said County and State:

Grantor(s)

Date Executed

David E. McKee March 2, 2007 And wife, Mary L. McKee

Instrument #200701353

WHEREAS, default has occurred in the payment of the indebtedness secured by said deed(s) of trust, and the United States of America, as Beneficiary, has authorized and instructed me as Substitute Trustee to foreclose said deed(s) of trust by advertisement and sale at public auction in accordance with the statutes made and provided therefor.

THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that pursuant to the power of sale contained in said deed(s) of trust and in accordance with the statutes made and provided therefor, the said deed(s) of trust will be foreclosed and the property covered thereby and hereinafter described will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the South front door of the County Courthouse in the city of Corinth, Mississippi, in the aforesaid County and will sell within legal hours (being between the hours of 11:00 AM and 4:00 PM) on May 11, 2015, to satisfy the indebtedness now due under and secured by said deed(s) of trust.

ATTN: CANDIDATES List your name and office under the political listing for only $190.00. Runs every publishing day until final election. Come by the Daily Corinthian office at 1807 S. Harper Rd. or call 662-287-6111 for more info. Must be paid in advance.

POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT This is a paid political advertisement which is intended as a public service for the voters. It has been submitted to and approved and submitted by each political candidate listed below or by the candidate’s campaign manager or assistant manager. This listing is not intended to suggest or imply that these are the only candidates for these offices.

4th District Election Commissioner Bill Gatlin Sandy Coleman Mitchell

Chancery Clerk Karen Burns Duncan Kevin Harvell Greg Younger

Constable Post 1 Scotty L. Bradley Johnny Butler Wayne Maddox Landon Tucker

Constable Post 2 James Bryant Daniel Cooper Paul Copeland Wayne Duncan Jason Willis

Coroner Jay Jones Ron Strom

Justice Court Post 1 Luke Doehner Chris Grisham George Haynie Steve Little

Justice Court Post 2 Lashunder Blanchard Randle Castile Aneysa “Neicy” Mathews Jimmy McGee

Sheriff Billy Clyde Burns Ben Caldwell Ned Cregeen David Derrick Mike LaRue David Nunley Keith Settlemires Roger Voyles

State Representative District 1 Lester “Bubba” Carpenter Lisa Benderman-Wigginton

State Representative District 2

I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substitute Trustee.

Nick Bain Billy Miller

The premises to be sold are described as: Situated in the County of Alcorn, State of Mississippi, to-wit: Commencing at the SW corner of Section 33, Township 1 South, Range 8 East, Alcorn County, Mississippi, at the intersection of the North rightof-way line of Kendrick Road with the West line of said section; thence run East along the North right-of-way line of Kendrick Road 340 feet; thence run North 630 feet for a true POINT OF BEGINNING; thence run East 145 feet; thence run North 150 feet; thence run West 145 feet; thence run South 150 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING.

State Senate District 4

Date: April 16, 2015 Clifton F. Russell, Substitute Trustee Duly authorized to act in the premises by instrument dated April 2, 2012, and recorded by Instrument Number 201202163 of the records of the aforesaid County and State.

Publish: 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7; (4t)

Rita Potts-Parks Eric Powell

Superintendent of Education Larry B. Mitchell Gina Rogers Smith (Inc)

Supervisor District 1 Jeremy “Jerry” Fields Lowell Hinton Jerry Miller

Supervisor District 2 Rufus “Jaybird” Duncan, JR. Scotty Little Brodie McEwen Jon Newcomb J.C. Parker James Voyles

Supervisor District 3 Tim Mitchell (Inc) Shane Serio

Supervisor District 4

Mike Coleman Keith “Dude” Conaway (Rep.) Steve Glidewell Danny “Shorty” Mincey Reed Mitchell Gary Ross

Supervisor District 5 Jimmy Tate Waldon

Tax Collector Jeff Rencher Larry Ross

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2011 Chevy Equinox LT

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1250

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$31,000

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662-415-9461 or

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872-3070

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603-1290

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662-284-9487

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$4295 OBO 662-212-2451

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2B • Thursday, April 30, 2015 • Daily Corinthian

Biodiversity and beauty can coexist in the landscape

BY SUSAN COLLINS-SMITH MSU Ag Communications

Photo by Susan Collins-Smith/MSU Ag Communications

Horticulturist Rick Darke signs copies of his latest book for audience members after his presentation on balancing beauty and function in the home landscape recently in Picayune.

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PICAYUNE — Beauty and biodiversity can coexist in the landscape, and it is not that hard to accomplish.

Rick Darke, a horticulturist, published author, lecturer and photographer, discussed balancing beauty and function in the home landscape with an emphasis on conservation during the Mississippi State University Crosby Arboretum’s Lecture Series recently.

Darke offered ideas for transforming the home garden into a sanctuary for wildlife while also offering privacy and enjoyable spaces for the family.

A living landscape includes more than just lively colors and neatly arranged raised beds. In fact, landscapes should be just a little untidy, Darke said.

“As gardeners, we’ve been taught that a dead branch has no place in the garden, and we feel like lazy gardeners if they are there,” he said. “But dead branches serve a very important purpose, including giving certain species of birds a safe place to perch, with a clear view of predators.”

Darke recommends imitating nature in home gardens for a more natural, low-maintenance design. It is the approach he and his wife use in their one and a half acre Pennsylvania landscape.

“Our garden is a love, not an obsession,” he said.

“We are busy people. We work. We travel a lot. We are very social. And we have a demanding golden retriever. So gardening doesn’t have to take up a lot of time if you make the right plant choices.”

Native and adapted plants are better than exotics that struggle in foreign climates. Darke suggested first thinking about how a plant should function in the landscape.

“What do you need or want the plant to do?” he asked the audience.

“Will it provide food or shelter for wildlife while shielding the yard from the neighbors? Once you decide what purposes it will serve, then you can make an educated decision about what to put in that spot.”

“Gardening doesn’t have to take up a lot of time if you make the right plant choices.”

Rick Darke Horticulturist Plants make great structural pieces in the landscape and can be more inexpensive than building outdoor rooms with wood or concrete.

Space constructed in this way can begin small and be expanded later. These spaces also are more easily changed, he said.

“Work with the site that is available,” Darke said.

“You don’t have to flatten it out or build it up. Gardening isn’t about control; it’s about opportunity. By observing, strategizing and then acting on it, you can have a beautiful yard that is wildlife friendly and that works the way you want it to.”

Darke discusses this topic in-depth in his latest book, “The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden,” which is co-authored by Doug Tallamy.

The Crosby Arboretum, a unit of the MSU Extension Service in Picayune, is a 104-acre native plant conservatory dedicated to educating the public about their environment.

It also maintains 700 acres of off-site natural areas preserved for scientific study.

“There are small things we can do in our yards that can make a big difference in the health of our gardens,” said Crosby Arboretum Director Pat Drackett. “Simple plant choices can increase the biodiversity exponentially in the yard. For example, an oak tree can support more than 500 species that birds feed on. But a crepe myrtle attracts only three species of caterpillars that baby birds will eat.”

(For more information on Darke or the book, visit http://www.rickdarke. com. For more information on the arboretum, visit http://www.crosbyarboretum.msstate. edu/.)

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Much like the upkeep on your car, tackling home maintenance on a regular basis will prevent problems from developing and save you from larger repair costs down the road. Some projects should be left to the professionals, but there are plenty of weekend jobs that any homeowner can easily handle, like these: ■ Inspect your roof and make minor repairs.

Winter can be especially hard on a roof. Look for ice, hail or water damage. Replace any cracked or missing shingles and clear any debris.

■ Clean your gutters.

It’s not glamorous work, but your home’s gutters play an essential role in moving water away from your home and preventing damage. Consider installing gutter guards to ensure your gutters remain functional and free from debris.

■ Inspect windows and doors and re-caulk where necessary. Because a proper seal is essential in both heating and cooling, this job should be performed twice a year to protect against drafts

Consider installing gutter guards to ensure your gutters remain functional and free from debris. and moisture, and to keep insects out. Replace worn weather stripping.

■ Check your insulation.

Attics should be insulated to R50, which can usually be achieved with an insulation depth of at least 16 inches. Top up with an insulation product that is water repellant and fire resistant, like Roxul Comfortbatt. Don’t forget to ensure that your basement headers are insulated properly to prevent overworking your furnace and air conditioner.

Other simple jobs include fixing leaky faucets, repairing and resealing decks, inspecting the foundation and scheduling a check-up for your HVAC system. The key is being honest about what you can handle and, when in doubt, call in the pros.

Daily Corinthian • Thursday, April 30, 2015 • 3B

Avoid ‘crape murder’ with limited pruning

BY BONNIE COBLENTZ MSU Ag Communications

STARKVILLE — Efforts to prevent people from committing “crape murder” are reducing the number of unsightly, knobby-knuckled branch ends but may leave people wondering how to correctly shape crape myrtles.

Gary Bachman, a horticulturist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service and Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, said many crape myrtles are pruned back to the same spot every year. This causes the cut ends to swell into a fist-like shape. Bachman works from the MSU Coastal Research and Extension Center in Biloxi.

“Homeowners see professional landscape maintenance people do that and think they’re supposed to cut their crape myrtles back like that,” Bachman said. “It’s really the result of folks wanting a certain size plant, so they’re pruning it back to the same spot because they know at the end of summer, the plant will be only so big.”

Bachman, who hosts Southern Gardening on television and radio and writes a newspaper column by the same name,

said the problem comes down to the fact that the wrong crape myrtle variety is growing in that spot.

“Find a species with different growing characteristics and use it there,” Bachman said.

“For example, people love a white crape myrtle.

Natchez is a very popular variety people choose, but it’s a 30-foot tree if you let it go. When people try to use it in their landscapes, it’s often too large for the space that they have.

“A more appropriate tree would be an Acoma crape, which is also white, but it only gets to about 10 feet high at the most,” he said.

Crape myrtles are resilient trees and grow back from just about any pruning given to them in the spring. By summer, they are full of new growth and blooms, but in the winter when the leaves have fallen, the damaged ends are visible.

Those who have crape myrtles with damaged ends can overcome them in time. Bachman said to let the tree grow unpruned one year, then prune it back the next year at a point past the trouble spot. Crape myrtles will bloom in the summer even if they have not been pruned.

Jeff Wilson, Exten-

sion regional horticulture specialist working from the North Mississippi Research and Extension Center in Verona, said planting a variety that is the right size for the location prevents most pruning.

“Research has shown that if you cut crape myrtles, you do get more blooms,” Wilson said.

“My experience is that it works best to train the plant with careful, light pruning the first two or three years, and then let it grow. The prettiest crape myrtles are the ones left to grow into their natural shape.”

Wilson called correct pruning an art and said any pruning that is done should take into consideration the tree itself and where it is growing. He had encouragement for those who have done it wrong in the past or who have come into possession of crape myrtles that have the unsightly, knotted ends.

“No matter how bad you butcher the crape myrtle, it’s going to come back this summer,” he said.

(Find more information about pruning crape myrtles in MSU Extension Service publication P2007, “Crapemyrtle: Flower of the South.”)

Photo by Kat Lawrence/MSU Ag Communications

Crape myrtles that are pruned each year at the same spot develop unsightly, knobby branch ends. This practice is known as “crape murder.”

5 signs your home’s insulation is not working as it should For the Daily Corinthian

Some insulations can lose performance over time, sustain damage or simply no longer meet updated building codes.

It’s an issue that can be costly, because if your home’s insulation isn’t doing its job, you could be wasting money and resources.

You don’t have to be a trained professional to know you have a

problem. Here are several signs that your insulation is lacking: 1. Energy bills — High energy bills are the biggest red flag, especially relative to the size, age or condition of the home. If you have a run-away energy bill, your insulation may need to be upgraded.

2. Drafts — Do you need to put on a sweater even with the heat on, or does your air condi-

tioner run incessantly without making enough of a difference?

That’s a sign of a deficiency in your building envelope.

3. Inconsistent temperatures — Is it warm in one room, but cold in another? Are your walls or interior closets cold to the touch? It’s possible that while your whole home may not need attention, certain rooms may need to be addressed.

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4. Condition of insulating materials — Consider the age of your insulation. Would it stand up to today’s building codes?

Is it in good shape? If your insulation has degraded or isn’t performing, it’s time for an upgrade. But be careful, as certain types of older insulation, such as Vermiculite insulation, may contain asbestos. If you’re unsure, do not disturb it and hire a

professional to conduct testing and/or removal.

5. You detect pests and/or moisture — Insulation — and your building envelope — can be compromised by the presence of pests. Moisture is an even bigger obstacle, as some types of insulation can sag or collapse when damp, causing air to flow in and out of the building envelope.

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4B • Thursday, April 30, 2015 • Daily Corinthian

Add upcycling to your home improvement tools Gloves, Lori applied Light Blue Donjer Flocking, using a Donjer Mini Flocker.

Reassembly of the armoire required System Three 5-Minute Epoxy and a Bessey K-Body REVO Jr. 24” Single Parallel Clamp.

A few repairs, a new coat of paint, sparkly new pulls, and interior flocking turned this piece into a stylish, modern jewelry armoire.

For the Daily Corinthian

Upcycling is not just for craft projects — it offers lots of possibilities to make changes in your home décor, especially cabinets and furniture that will save money and reduce your contribution to the local landfill.

Woodcraft can help you with upcycling ideas, products and advice.

For the past year, Woodcraft retail stores have hosted upcycling demonstrations on the third Saturday of the month to help customers discover the potential for upcycling in their home projects.

“To support this upcycling effort, Woodcraft. com added an Upcycling Resource Center to our website (http://www. woodcraft.com/media/ upcycling.aspx) to introduce viewers to upcy-

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cling and announce demo topics and dates,” Vince Grlovich, vice president for sales and marketing, said. “Viewers can also watch a segment of Lifetime’s Designing Spaces where Woodcraft prod-

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craftsupply/upcycling) and Instagram gallery (http://instagram.com/ woodcraftgallery) include upcycling ideas, and the blog, Woodworking Adventures (http//:blog. woodcraft.com) has featured upcycling several times.

Jewelry armoire makeover Inspired by the upcycling trend, many Woodcraft employees have completed projects, including marketing manager Lori Haught, who transformed a 1980s Jewelry Armoire (see photo) into a more stylish, modern piece for her bedroom. She gave it a new coat of paint, new silver/glass pulls and flocking on the drawer interiors. You can see the entire process by visiting Woodworking Adventures and searching for “The Jewelry Armoire Makeover.”

An Irwin Marples Blue Chip Chisel was used for the disassembly that was required to add new hardware and make other changes to Lori’s armoire.

To remove the residue from old finishes and polish, Lori chose Norton Soft Touch Medium 120180 Grit Sanding Sponges for the contour detailed

Soy-Gel is a 100 percent biodegradable, virtually odorless coating remover.

Restor-A-Finish can be used to clean and restore the luster to a clear finish, as well as hide minor issues like scratches. It will also remove water rings.

Milk paint is a popular coating, especially for furniture. General Finishes Milk Paint is premixed and available in 28 colors that can be mixed to make custom colors and lend themselves to decorative effects such as distressing and antiquing. Old Fashioned Milk Paint is a powder that comes in 20 colors and is good for use on porous surfaces such as bare wood and raw masonry. A special effect Old Fashioned Milk Paint Crackle Finish provides a weathered look.

The 23-lb. portable QuikBENCH is a lightweight, easy-to-set-up workbench capable of holding up to 300 lbs. Convert two QuikBENCHES to sawhorses, and together they will hold up to 2,000 lbs.

Two or more benches can be connected together to form a workstation. Each bench has a 24”-wide by 31⁄2” opening vise and a 15-amp, circuit protected, three-outlet power strip, plus four plastic bench dogs.

areas and Preppin Weapon Sanding Blocks, loaded with Mirka Abranet 23⁄4” x 8” Sanding Sheets, for flat areas. Once the sanding was finished, all the pieces were cleaned with General Finishes Furniture Cleaner using handy Star Wipers rags.

Three coats of General Finishes Black Gel Stain were applied to the armoire. Although each coat was allowed to dry overnight because of other commitments, the actual time required between coats is two to four hours. (Gel stains come in 12 other colors including the popular java.) Two coats of General Finishes High Performance Satin Water-Based Top Coat were applied next.

To prep for the new hardware, Golden Oak Water-Base Famowood Filler was used to plug screw holes. More chiseling was required before a pair of 11⁄2” X 11⁄8” Satin Nickel Stop Hinges could be installed.

Before reflocking the drawers, Bulls Eye Sealcoat Universal Sanding Sealer was applied to the interior of the drawers and the dividers. Wearing an Anti Microbial Dust Mask and 6 mil Medium Powder Free Nitrile

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Call it subversive stitchery. Alternative embroidery. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home samplers include everything from Kanye West tweets to tattoo designs.

Jamie Chalmers, a burly, bearded fellow who lives in Bedford, England, calls himself a â&#x20AC;&#x153;manbroiderer.â&#x20AC;? He runs a blog and wrote a book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Push Stitchery: 30 Artists Explore the Boundaries of Stitched Artâ&#x20AC;? (Push Stitchery/Lark Crafts, 2011). â&#x20AC;&#x153;About 12 years ago, I bought a cross-stitch pattern as something to do while on a long plane journey. I was motivated by the juxtaposition of being a big man doing a tiny little cross stitch, but once I got into it, I really enjoyed

it,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I started Mr. X Stitch as a way of showcasing contemporary embroidery from around the world, challenging the common paradigm that stitching is just for little old ladies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the reasons people like learning from me is that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m big, bald, straight and tattooed, and if I like embroidery, then anyone can like it,â&#x20AC;? he says. (www. mrxstitch.com ) Pop culture translated into cross stitch may be edgy, irreverent and funny.

Picture a sampler stitched with lyrics from Stephen Sondheim or Snoop Dogg; scenes from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Poltergeistâ&#x20AC;? or Harry Potter; portraits of Lena Dunham or Grumpy Cat; cross-stitched burgers, as-

paragus, cupcakes or kimchi. You get the idea.

Singapore-based artist Teresa Lim stitches scenes from her travels â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a bridge in Prague, a park in Tokyo, a field of German sheep. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Embroidering a place instead of taking a photo makes a difference. When you take a photo, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t notice the small details.

But when you draw or embroider, your eye picks out so much more detail,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After I complete a piece, I feel like I actually KNOW the place.â&#x20AC;? (www. teeteeheehee.com ) Jacqueline and Christopher Gable of St. Catherines, Ontario, run a blog called Wee Little Stitches.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found a niche rendering the casts of movies and TV series like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Wars,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Lord of the Ringsâ&#x20AC;?

and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Big Bang Theoryâ&#x20AC;? into pixels for cross stitching.

Why pixels? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The neat thing about pixels is that they translate exactly in to cross-stitch designs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in fact, it could be said that cross-stitching is the original pixel art,â&#x20AC;? laughs Jacqueline. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think my favorite is the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Golden Girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pattern.

I have such fond memories of watching the show with my grandmother,â&#x20AC;? she says. (www.etsy.com/ shop/weelittlestitches ) Emily Peacock stitches alphabets and phrases like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Think Happy Thoughts,â&#x20AC;? using colorful, groovy typefaces with a happygo-lucky vibe. The artist, based in Buckinghamshire, England, says her background in graphic de-

fering with the home structure or utilities.

The type of plant determines Gary the pruning Bachman s t r a t e g y .

Broadleaf Southern Gardening evergreens like hollies, boxwoods, azaleas and camellias can tolerate everything from light pruning to very aggressive renovation pruning because the branches have structures called latent buds that will generate new growth.

Narrowleaf evergreens, such as junipers, arborvitae and pines, tolerate light pruning or shaping but wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recover if severely pruned.

Many questions about pruning revolve around landscape shrubs that produce beautiful flow-

British Columbia, also has riffed on â&#x20AC;&#x153;National Lampoonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas Vacationâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mad Men.â&#x20AC;? (www.etsy.com/shop/ randomlygenerated) There are lots of downloadable patterns like these online for a nominal cost â&#x20AC;&#x201D; designers provide color and measurement guidelines. Online tutorials show how to design your own chart.

Hungarian artist Zsanett Szirmay uses cross stitch to create multimedia art. Using a laser, she transfers old-style, Eastern European, folk-art embroidery patterns onto fabric strips, which can then be â&#x20AC;&#x153;playedâ&#x20AC;? in an old punch-card music box.

She calls it â&#x20AC;&#x153;soundweaving.â&#x20AC;? (www.soundweaving.hu)

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Correct pruning helps plants thrive Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a lot of attention paid to the matter of pruning, especially with the crime against horticulture known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;crape murder.â&#x20AC;? But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also in early spring, when many gardeners want to tidy up their landscape plants, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m no different.

One common question Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m getting via email (gary.bachman@msstate. edu) and phone (228546-1009) is â&#x20AC;&#x153;When is the best time to prune my (fill-in-the-blank)?â&#x20AC;? The fact is, there are many factors to consider in determining when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best to prune a plant.

First, why do we need to prune landscape plants? The reasons can be condensed to a few purposes: to maintain a specific size and/or form, to remove growth that has become unruly or to prevent a plant from inter-

sign, and fascination with fonts and uplifting themes inform her ideas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the vibrancy of folk art and the simplicity of mid-century design.

I have an idea, sketch it out and then turn up the volume so that the effect is eye-catching and immediate â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I like designs that demand your attention as you enter a room,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I play a lot with color and can feel a sort of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;yesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; moment when the color balance is right.

Then I know I can start stitching.â&#x20AC;? (www.etsy. com/shop/emilypeacocktapestry Want the entire â&#x20AC;&#x153;Game of Thronesâ&#x20AC;? Westeros map in cross stitch? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the top-seller at Jen Egglestonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Etsy.com shop.

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ers. Pruning these at the wrong time can ruin the colorful show.

Flower buds on springflowering plants like azaleas and Indian hawthorn are formed the previous year. This means any pruning done late in the year probably removes next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flowers. Prune spring-flowering plants immediately after the colorful show ends. I like to use July 4 as the pruning deadline for spring-flowering plants.

For summer-flowering plants, the flower buds develop on the current seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growth. Pruning these plants in the spring does not impact flowering.

For more information, see the Mississippi State University Extension Service Information Sheet 204, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pruning Landscape Plants,â&#x20AC;? available at msucares.com.

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Ask a designer: Decorate with spring pastels other interior designers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Betsy Burnham of Burnham Design in Los Angeles and Toronto-based designer Meredith Heron â&#x20AC;&#x201D; offer advice on making spring pastels work in your home. â&#x20AC;˘ Consider your light The natural light in a room impacts how a pastel color actually appears, says Heron. East-facing windows bring a cool, blue light during the day, while west-facing windows bring in a redder light in the afternoon and at sunset. Heron says south-facing windows tend to offer a yellower light. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My rule of thumb is to avoid the pastels that correspond to the direction of the light,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So no pinks in a westernfacing room or they will look like something out of an antacid commercial.â&#x20AC;?

Likewise, avoid pastel yellow in a south-facing room and blue in an eastfacing one. â&#x20AC;˘ Shop cautiously The names of paint

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After a long winter, the pastel colors of spring look pretty appealing right now. Cheerful pastel pinks, yellows, greens and blues can seriously brighten up a room.

Decorating with these potentially too-sweet shades can be tricky, but worth it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pastels get a bad rap for being super-girly, sometimes being kind of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s, and for even skewing babyish. But they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be any of those things if you apply them in fresh ways,â&#x20AC;? says designer Brian Patrick Flynn, founder of Flynnside Out Productions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pastels are like Sandra Bullock or a little black dress. They are always going to be in fashion and will remain classic for the masses. I say, use pastels however, whenever, and just be sure to put your own spin on them.â&#x20AC;?

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Consider picking one of the grayer, less saturated shades.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s useful to look through design magazines for inspiration, but Burnham notes that what looks great in a photo might not in real life.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s especially true if the photo depicts a â&#x20AC;&#x153;show houseâ&#x20AC;? designed to highlight a designerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talent, rather than a home that people actually live in. â&#x20AC;˘ A little goes a long way â&#x20AC;&#x153;One pastel is really great,â&#x20AC;? Burnham says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It stands out and shines on its own.â&#x20AC;? But the effect is lost when you bring in additional pastels; you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want the room to feel like a basket of Easter eggs.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having trouble choosing just one shade, Flynn suggests blue: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Robinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s egg blue is probably the most iconic pastel used for interiors,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Believe it or not, robinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s egg is almost like a neutral. It works with almost any color in the spectrum. I like putting a

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I say, use pastels however, whenever, and just be sure to put your own spin on them.â&#x20AC;?

Brian Patrick Flynn Founder, Flynnside Out Productions swatches can tell you a lot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If something has â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in front of it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; baby blue, baby pink â&#x20AC;&#x201D; be careful,â&#x20AC;? says Burnham.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re safer â&#x20AC;&#x153;if you see â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;pale blue.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The interpretation can be all kinds of things, from periwinkle to a gray-blue.â&#x20AC;?

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re drawn to a true baby pink or baby blue on a swatch, consider going with a slight variation on it. Often, on one paint-swatch card youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find four or five variations on the same color, some very saturated and others with more gray mixed in.

ers are always the key.â&#x20AC;?

The safest way to layer a pastel is by mixing in neutral colors like taupe, Burnham says, and organic materials like natural wood. â&#x20AC;˘ Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget the edge In spaces where Flynn uses pastels, he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m all about adding a ton of edgy elements to make the overall look fresh and anything but sweet. My biggest tip is to balance the Easter tones with street art or modern furnishings, which create excellent tension between the soft sweetness and whatever elements are used to give it more of a masculine, urban or fresh edge.â&#x20AC;?

Heron often does the same, using animal prints, say, or art deco furniture to â&#x20AC;&#x153;include some bold statement.â&#x20AC;?

Her goal: â&#x20AC;&#x153;to inject a little bit of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;uglyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; into a room, to keep it from being overly saccharine. ...

Ugly makes a room look and feel lived in, like it has evolved over time.â&#x20AC;?

transitional spin on it by layering it upon itself in different shades and tints.

It creates a classic, timeless look thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s applicable to all ages, styles and both genders.â&#x20AC;?

Once youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve chosen your pastel, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safest to bring the color in gently through an accent piece, such as a lampshade or artwork. Or paint your walls a white or gray shade that has just a dash of your favorite pastel mixed in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always warn clients that pastel shades can get about 20 percent brighter when you paint them on a wall, so opting for something that appears to be a white with a hint of color is often your best bet,â&#x20AC;? says Heron. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think people often choose colors that are too literal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; too bright, too saturated, when just a dash will do you. If you want to dabble in pastels, start with a grayed series and then ease your way into something a bit brighter. Lay-

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If you’ve lived with your kitchen for a while, chances are you’ve got drawers full of stuff you rarely use and cupboards you just hate. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a well-organized kitchen that makes food preparation a pleasure?

Some of the latest ideas and products for whipping a kitchen into shape: ■ Divide and conquer Kitchens function best when divided into work zones, says Josee Berlin, an interior designer for Ikea USA. She cites three: storage, washing and cooking.

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If space is tight, consider a stainless-steel cart with lockable wheels for portable storage and extra prep space.

■ Cabinets and drawers Experts suggest taking an inventory of your kitchen tools, and then outfitting cabinets and drawers so they work for you.

Use adjustable drawer dividers and shelf inserts at different depths.

■ Tools

and gadgets You don’t need a lot of stuff, says Craig Norton, director of operations at the Prince George Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

“Buying a pot and pan for every dish is a mistake.

One good large Dutch oven, one sauté pan, one 4-quart saucepan, one omelet/crepe pan, one cast-iron pan and that’s it,” he advises. He stores lids on the door to free up shelf space.

If you’re a baker, consider consolidating those components. “I put all baking ingredients in one bin — flour, sugar, baking soda, etc. — and just haul it out when making something,” Norton says.

Invest in a slab of cool marble to make pastry rolling easy.

“Gadgets are the biggest waste of space — egg slicers, green bean cutters, all that stuff. Just use a knife,” laughs Norton.

However, if you’re a proud collector of small tools, consider a rolling mechanic’s tool cart with shallow drawers that can be tucked in a closet when not in use.

■ Space savers House Beautiful’s editor in chief, Sophie Donelson, likes OXO’s stackable Greensaver containers, which have carbon filters in the lid to reduce spoilage. But her favorite small space storage solutions are from Joseph Joseph.

“Just about everything they make either folds, collapses or nests to save room in the drawer. I wanted to toss all my ex-

isting tools and start fresh when I saw these,” she says.

Measuring cups, a whisk and nesting utensils are part of the colorful collection.

Some experts suggest checking out restaurant supply houses for highquality, affordable items.

Commercial-kitchengrade, stainless-steel pans come in a variety of squares and rectangles that you can stack to save space.

If your kitchen’s a workhorse, don’t worry about keeping it “showroom ready.” Your food processor, scale, utensils and blender should be right out where you need them.

Norton likes to keep a lazy Susan next to the

stove with olive oil, a dish of salt and a pepper grinder.

Hanging rails with “S’’ shaped hooks provide extra storage without taking up real estate. Sturdy racks can hold pots and pans, plates, utensils, sieves and even a small herb garden.

Liberate even more space by using zipper plastic bags and stacking containers for things like tea bags, pet treats and dried foods, eliminating bulky packaging.

And for those items you use only a couple of times a year?

Norton advises getting them out of the kitchen altogether. “Put the turkey roaster in the basement with the tree ornaments,” he says.

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The National Garden Bureau has declared 2015 to be the Year of the Sweet Pepper. Sweet bell peppers are cultivars of Capsicum annuum. Sweet peppers are called sweet because they lack the gene that produces capsaicin — the chemical that gives hot peppers their heat.

While the 3-4 lobed, blocky, bell-shaped peppers are most common, sweet peppers come in many shapes, sizes and colors. Other shapes of sweet peppers include elongated banana, round cherry, tapered horn and flattened “cheese” types.

Most all peppers are green when they are immature but ripen to red, yellow, orange, white or purple as they mature. Some cultivars may show all of these

colors at various stages of ripening. And many cultivars are both ornamental and edible!

Pepper plants are easy to grow and are quite compact, making them a good fit for limited-space gardens and containers.

Peppers are warm-season crops and should be planted after danger of frost has past.

Pepper plants thrive in full sun and well-drained soil. You want plants to concentrate first on growing healthy foliage and roots; flowers and fruit will follow. Give the plants adequate space to grow with good air circulation, a minimum of 18 inches between plants.

Fertilize similar to other fruit-bearing vegetable such as tomatoes, eggplant and beans.

Depending on cultivars and weather condi-

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Peppers will continue to bloom and set fruit up until fall frost, but fruiting may decrease during cold spells (temperatures below 55 degrees F) or hot days (above 85 degrees F).

Sweet peppers can be harvested early while still immature green, which encourages the plant to produce more peppers.

However, full flavor and color require waiting until the fruits ripen, thus signaling the plant to slow down production of flowers and subsequent fruit.

Sweet peppers can be stored for 2-3 weeks in the refrigerator in plastic bags. Peppers can also be frozen or dried for longer storage.

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How to help azaleas thrive in Mississippi gardens

BY MSU EXTENSION SERVICE For the Daily Corinthian

Most Mississippi gardens have contained an azalea at some point.

Azaleas are in the genus Rhododendron, which has more than 900 species. Azaleas are native to many parts of the world, but the most colorful varieties come from China, Japan, and the eastern United States.

There are many characteristics that make the azalea a beloved plant.

They flourish with beautiful blooms that can provide an array of colors from mid spring through early summer. Many varieties also offer colorful fall foliage. With dwarf, intermediate, and large varieties available, gardeners have a wide selection to choose from.

Azaleas are hardy from USDA climate zones 5 to 9. North Mississippi is in zone 7, and the extreme Gulf Coast area is in zone 9, making azaleas hardy throughout the state.

Planting Azaleas can be used many ways in the landscape/garden area. They may be used as facer/border plants along a boundary, as background plantings to frame an area, as foundation plantings to build the design around, or in mass-planted groups to brighten up a landscape room.

Some azaleas can grow in full sun, but most are best suited for a landscape area that has partial shade. They do best in an acidic soil that has a pH between 4.6 and 6.0.

Azaleas prefer welldrained soil that has an abundant supply of peat moss. If the native soil is poorly drained, you should make raised beds.

Azaleas will not tolerate wet feet (roots)!

Most azaleas are container-grown and can be planted any time of the year. However, planting in the fall or early spring allows time for roots to establish before summer heat arrives. Plant bareroot plants during the winter dormant season.

To plant: Prepare a hole two to three times as wide as the root ball. Set plants in the hole at the same depth or slightly higher than where they grew in the nursery or container. Backfill with amended soil and water thoroughly. Adding lots of peat moss, leaf mulch,

well composted sawdust, or other compost can make the soil more acid, if needed. Finally, mulch the planting site with 3 to 4 inches of a mulch product or 6 to 8 inches of pine straw. Taper the mulch/straw to only 1 inch deep at the base of the plant.

in early spring and again in early summer just after plants have finished flowering. Late or over-fertilization can result in little or no flowering, excessive vegetative growth, and possible winter damage if the plants do not harden off.

Fertilizing

Azaleas grow and set their bloom buds during the fall months. For this reason, prune them immediately after they have finished their spring bloom period. The best method is to use handheld pruners and only remove one-third of the overall plant.

Have the soil tested and follow the fertilizer recommendations provided. If your soil has not been tested, apply 2 to 4 pounds of an acid-based fertilizer with a 2-1-1 ratio per 100 square feet of bed area.

Fertilize individual plants with one-fourth to one-half cup of fertilizer in a uniform circle no closer than 1 foot from the base of the plant. Fertilize

Pruning

Watering Azaleas have an extremely fibrous root system that stays relatively

shallow. A good watering schedule is essential during the growing season.

Azaleas need the equivalent of 1 inch of rain every 7 to 10 days. It is best to water as deeply and infrequently as possible. The timing and amount will depend upon the soil type and drainage.

For more information, see MSU Extension Information Sheet 1670 The Plant Doctor: Watering and Plant Disease (http://msucares.com/ pubs/infosheets/ is1670. pdf).

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Newlyweds should save, plan before buying home

BY NATHAN GREGORY MSU Ag Communications

MISSISSIPPI STATE — Newlywed couples face numerous questions when considering the purchase of their first home.

Finances, mobility, career stability, credit and the state of the housing market are all important factors to think about before making that investment.

Rita Green, Mississippi State University Extension Service assistant professor and family financial management specialist, said couples that opt to buy homes should do so based on what they can afford and not how much they are qualified to borrow.

“Lenders don’t use the amount of cash you have on hand to determine whether or not they will grant a loan,” Green said. “Let’s say a

lender approves a couple to purchase a home for $150,000 with a mortgage that requires a $1,100 monthly payment, and they are currently paying $850 in rent. The couple should consider whether they can comfortably assume the additional debt. If you are not financially stable, prepare for home ownership by checking your credit score and working on resolving any negative accounts.”

Susan Cosgrove, an Extension agent in Newton County specializing in financial management, said couples generally prefer buying, but this is not always the most responsible path to take.

The simplest and most practical way to arrive at the best option after tying the knot is to learn about the home-buying process and plan ahead.

“Couples should have a written spending plan,”

“They need to know how much their expenses will be before purchasing a home. ... The general rule of thumb is to spend two and a half times the annual income on a home.”

Susan Cosgrove Mississippi State University Extension Service agent Cosgrove said. “They need to know how much their expenses will be before purchasing a home. They should do some research to estimate the costs of utilities, insurance and taxes. The general rule of thumb is to spend two and a half times the annual income on a home. This would be especially true for couples who expect to increase their income.”

Green said external circumstances, such as the Great Recession of 2007-09, have made and continue to make some

couples more careful before committing to a longterm house payment.

“Some effects attributed to the Great Recession have become a part of the new economic normal,” Green said. “Part of that new normal may be that new couples are waiting to achieve a level of career stability and pay down student loan obligations before they purchase a home.”

Housing market status varies widely from state to state, Green said, but the market is favorable

for newlyweds in Mississippi.

“During the height of the recession in 2009, there were tax incentives of up to $8,000 for firsttime homeowners,” she said. “It was a great time to buy a house if you were in a position to do so. The same is true right now.

Interest rates for mortgage loans are low, and since some homes have lost equity, it may be a great time to get a good deal on a nice property.”

Green said couples who are financially ready to purchase a home should do so, provided they are prepared for the responsibilities of home ownership. One of those responsibilities is expecting the unexpected. Repairs and maintenance needs are recurring events, which is why first-time homeowners should save as much money as possible both before and after they

move in.

“Very few financial institutions loan 100 percent of the cost of a house,” Green said. “If you qualify for a 95-percent loan, the lender will expect you to pay 5 percent. You will also need money for the cost of moving and deposits for cable, Internet and utility services.

“Home ownership is not for everyone,” she added.

“If you like the ability to move every two years to live in different neighborhoods, then renting affords you a greater measure of mobility.”

(The MSU Extension Service offers homebuyer education courses to help those who want to buy a home prepare for that process. To find out more about these opportunities, visit http://msucares.com/departments/ fcs/index.html.)

Say goodbye to keys: ‘Smart locks’ let you in without them

BY DIANA MARSZALEK Associated Press

When Christy and Joe Affrunti bought their Long Island, New York, house last year, one of their first projects was replacing the traditional front-door lock with one that opens using a pass code. They were tired of the hassle of “jiggling with a key.”

Now, when they need to give someone like a repairman temporary access, they give a temporary code to get in. They share their permanent code with friends; those who arrive at the house before they do, for instance, can “come in and be comfortable instead of sitting in their car,” Christy Affrunti says.

“And when we feel too many people have the code, we create a new one and start again,” she says.

“It’s perfect.”

High-tech door locks — typically controlled by keypads, phone apps or even the swipe of a finger — could be pushing house keys into oblivion after centuries of trusty service.

“For homeowners, being free from having to carry a key every time they go outside is a lot more liberating than you realize,” says Christopher DeSchamp, of the lock company Schlage.

Many lock companies are ramping up their electronic-lock offerings in response to consumer interest.

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“People are expecting connectivity and 24/7 accessibility,” says Keith Brandon, Kwikset’s director of residential access solutions. “Smart locks of whatever variety are becoming more what people are expecting and are interested in.”

Michael Tierney, standards coordinator for the Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association, which certifies home products, says keyless locks are also safe. “Keyless locks have been in the marketplace for some time now — stand-alone units for decades, and the connected products for more than 10 years — and have been proven to be safe and reliable,” he says.

But choose wisely. Tier-

ney recommends buying only from manufacturers that follow industry standards for security. Protect any passwords connected to the devices, and change batteries as needed.

Schlage has a “kick” sensor that warns customers when someone is trying to break in, DeSchamp says.

Today’s smart locks basically fit into three categories: 1. The most basic are opened by pushing a button or keypads. More sophisticated models allow homeowners to change codes or relegate them to particular users. Entrylevel locks cost roughly $70 — about twice as much as a traditional deadbolt.

2. Other keyless locks are operated by phones, either using push-button pads, an app or simply holding a connected phone near the lock. Although it looks like a traditional lock, Kwikset’s Kevo is opened with a swipe of the finger.

3. Then there are locks that operate as part of larger “smart home” systems, from home-security systems to thermostats.

Offshoots of the smartlock industry are cropping up as well. KeyMe, a New York-based company, operates kiosks around the country that let customers make copies of digital keys and store them in the cloud.

Which speaks to the fact that going keyless

doesn’t totally eliminate the possibility of getting locked out.

DeSchamp says his company offers call-in technical assistance to those who have “lost” their digital keys. Kwikset customers can manage them through the company’s website, Brandon says.

And electronic locks are becoming common enough that many traditional locksmiths now know how to service them.

But when all else fails, there’s still an old standby: Kwikset’s Kevo can be opened with a key.

(For more information, visit kwikset.com, schlage.com or https:// key.me/.)

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