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Registration open for summer at Northeast Register now for Summer School (first term) at Northeast Mississippi Community College by visiting the college web site at www.nemcc.edu. On site registration for both day and evening classes is set for Thursday and Friday, June 1 and 2 and will remain open through Wednesday, June 7. Classes are being held on the Booneville,
New Albany and Corinth campuses as well as online. Classes begin Monday, June 5. Summer school tuition is calculated at $125 per credit hour. The college is closed Tuesday, July 4 in observance of the Independence Day holiday. Registration for Summer School (second term) is scheduled for Wednesday through
Friday, July 5-7. Classes begin Monday, July 10. Northeast’s Bookstore is now located in Cartwright Hall (formerly Stringer Hall) and opens from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. until noon on Friday. Students not already enrolled at Northeast should report to the Office of Admissions in
Setbacks are setups for success Now you have to determine the root Setbacks are a normal part of life. Not everything you attempt will work cause of the setback. Don’t look to blame other people or circumstances. out as planned. You will stumble Don’t attempt to justify a setback and fall. You will encounter obwith excuses. Doing so prevents stacles, problems, and challengyou from moving forward. You es. The path to success is never need to identify what decisions smooth, but the route of failure you did, or didn’t make which isn’t easy either. Since life recontributed to the setback. quires effort, regardless of your What did the setback teach you? outcome, you may as well have an Bryan How are you prepared to prevent objective of success. Golden the same setback from recurring? You learn more by solving probIf you had to do it over again, what lems than when all goes well. A Dare to Live sailor who only ventures out on Without Limits would you have done differently? Learning from your past is essenthe water in perfect conditions tial for being more successful in has very limited skills. When the wind, waves, tides, and weather are all the future. What changes are required to prevent perfect, sailing is easy. However, if the conditions turn adverse, the sailor has the same setback from occurring in the not developed the skills required to han- future? Doing the same thing over and over, while expecting a different result, dle bad weather. On the other hand, a sailor who prac- is one definition of insanity. Don’t be intices sailing in challenging conditions sane in the way you live. Eliminate bedevelops into a much better sailor. Abil- havior proven to be unsuccessful. It took Thomas Edison 10,000 tries ity grows in response to solving problems. This is why pilots constantly train before he formulated a successful comin flight simulators. It provides an op- mercially viable light bulb. With each portunity to practice solving a wide va- attempt, he incorporated what he had riety of problems they might encounter learned from his previous attempts. Each time he made some adjustment to his when flying. Setbacks are an important learning light bulb. Edison didn’t keep performing tool. They are an indication that some- the exact same experiment, hoping for thing has gone wrong. Setbacks provide success. With each setback, he discovered an opportunity to assess and improve another way a light bulb wouldn’t work. The bigger your goals, the bigger your your strategy. They give you a chance to take corrective action. There are always setbacks. Successful people get that way invaluable lessons to be learned when by becoming experts at using their setbacks as setups for success. This is how something goes wrong. Instead of becoming frustrated in re- they transform negatives into positives. Welcome setbacks for the growth opsponse to a setback, objectively analyze what has happened. You want to ascertain portunities they provide. Squeeze every what went wrong, and then determine drop of knowledge from each setback. what changes need to be made to prevent Apply what you learn to moving forward. With this perspective, setbacks become the same problem from recurring. To get the most value from each set- positive experiences, rather than feared back, determine the answers to the fol- events. lowing questions: What happened? Why NOW AVAILABLE: “Dare to Live did it happen? What can you learn? What do you need to do to prevent the Without Limits,” the book. Visit www. BryanGolden.com or your bookstore. same problem from occurring again? If you don’t know what happened, you Daily Corinthian columnist Bryan Goldwon’t learn anything, you won’t benefit, en is a management consultant, motiand you’ll make the same mistake again. vational speaker, author and adjunct Awareness is the first step to turning a professor. E-mail Bryan at bryan@columnist.com or write him c/o this paper. setback into an advantage.
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Current head of Mississippi Valley is pick for Jackson State JACKSON — The College Board is choosing the head of Mississippi Valley State University as its preferred candidate to lead Jackson State University. Trustee C.D. Smith announced the choice Monday. William Bynum Jr. became president of Mississippi Valley, the smallest of Mississippi’s eight public universities, in 2013. He will meet with members of the Jackson State community on May 31, with a vote by trustees to follow. Higher Education Commissioner Glenn Boyce says trustees interviewed eight candidates. Jackson State alumni and others had voiced concern that trustees would choose someone unacceptable to campus constituencies.
State Board of Health chairman disciplined, license suspended JACKSON — Mississippi’s Board of Medical Licensure has disciplined the chairman of the state Board of Health. Dr. Luke Lampton, who practices in Magnolia, admitted to the board that he had signed extra prescriptions in case his patients who rely on a drug for opioid addition ran out of medication. He told the board Thursday he had done so out of fear a problem would arise while he was on vacation. The Clarion-Ledger reported Lampton told the board he realizes he made a mistake and deeply regrets it. Under a consent order, the board suspended Lampton’s license for six months, but held the order in abeyance. That means he can continue to practice and, if no further problems arise during a year, the order would be dismissed.
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Ramsey Hall to begin the registration process. To expedite the registration process, students are asked to bring with them transcripts from high school and colleges previously attended, as well as ACT score. Students who have not taken the ACT should visit the Northeast Counseling Center, also in Ramsey Hall, regarding the Residual ACT or call
662-720-7313. For additional information about admissions or financial aid, call 662-720-7239 in Booneville or e-mail admitme@nemcc. edu. Students who are uncertain about their career or educational choices should contact the Counseling Center at 662-720-7313. Visit Northeast on the Internet at www.nemcc.edu.
Across the Region Tupelo Police remember fallen law enforcement officers TUPELO — People came together Friday evening at the Elvis Presley Birthplace in Tupelo to remember local law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, reported WTVA. The Tupelo Police Department held its annual memorial service where those in attendance lit candles in honor of the officers. Among those remembered was Gale Stauffer, a Tupelo police sergeant who died when he was shot by a bank robber on December 23, 2013. The most recent officer locally to lose his life is Lee Tartt, a state narcotics agent from Grenada fatally wounded on February 19 of last year while trying to end a standoff with law enforcement at a home near Iuka.
Hardin County Department welcomes new narcotics agent SAVANNAH, Tenn. — Savannah police have expanded their department in a way they believe will help them fight crime, adding a dedicated narcotics agent, reported WBBJ. “I’ve talked to hundreds upon hundreds of people since I got named into this position, and I would say probably 90 percent of them, that was one of things they told me, they felt like Savannah had a problem with illegal narcotic use,” Chief Michael Pitts of the
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Savannah Police Department said. So on May 9, Savannah police decided to promote and train one of their own officers for the position. “When they get into a situation that maybe is a little bigger than they’re used to handling, or they just need an extra set of eyes from someone who is more trained in this specific area, they can call in our narcotics investigator,” Pitts said. The chief says he doesn’t believe the city’s drug problem begins in Savannah, so the new agent is also a trained member of the 24th Drug Task Force. “We didn’t want to get into a situation where our guy had to stop at the city limits and we could only get the little guys here,” the chief said. “We wanted to be able to have that longer reach.” Chief Pitts says since the drug task force agent has been added to the department, he has already made a number of narcotics-related arrests in Savannah. But the chief says, along with his team, he also needs help from the community of Savannah. “We had the sweep a couple weeks ago, and it was very successful, and a lot of things that were going on during that sweep were stemmed out of information that people gave to us,” Chief Pitts said. The chief says Savannah’s drug task force agent will undergo additional training as soon as this summer in areas such as how to manage confidential informants, additional search warrant writing, and working undercover.
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