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BY BOBBY J. SMITH To bring more and better industries to an area, a community must focus not only on providing a quality education — but also on giving its educated residents a reason to stay in the community. That was the message delivered by Northeast Mississippi Community College President Johnny Allen at the Community Forum held by the Commission on the Future of Alcorn County.

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will be part of ACE’s fifth annual Power Energy Expo on Saturday at the MSU Extension Service behind the Crossroads Arena. “The whole expo is about helping people learn how to be more energy efficient,” said ACE Marking/Customer Service Representative Julie Bivens. “Discussions will be held during the expo to

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help individuals be more energy aware.” The 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. event is free to the public. Door prizes will be awarded during the day. A television will be given away at the top of each hour. The grand prize to be awarded will be an enPlease see ACE | 2A

Allen, an Alcorn County native and Biggersville graduate, was a key speaker at the annual event, held Thursday night in the Corinth High School cafeteria. The Northeast president said there is a huge disconnect between how communities evaluate themselves and how they are evaluated by businesses and industries that are scouting locations. Please see FORUM | 3A

Child development expert shares wisdom BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

On Saturday a group of preschool teachers and child care providers attended a training session led by one of the state’s foremost authorities on early childhood development. Dr. Lynn Darling, director the Mississippi State University Early Childhood Institute, instructed a group of almost 30 teachers and child care providers in early learning standards. The all-day event was held in the Corinth

Elementary School gym. “We are very excited to have Dr. Darling training our Pre-K teachers and child care providers in early learning standards,” said Tanya Nelson, the Pre-K director and literacy coordinator for the Corinth School District. “These standards were written by Dr. Darling as a resource for those working with 3- and 4-yearolds.” Child care facilities and prePlease see DARLING | 3A

71-year-old local runner embarks on his 12th Boston Marathon BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Kenneth Williams has done his homework. The 71-year-old runner is now ready for the test that comes Monday in Boston. Williams will be part of close to 30,000 runners in the 117th Boston Marathon -- the world’s oldest annual marathon -- on Patriot’s Day. “There will be a lot of eyes on Boston because it’s such a prestigious event,” said Williams. “I just love this one.” Running Boston is nothing new to the president of Corinth Coca-Cola Bottling Works. He left Friday for Boston and is slated to run the 26.2 mile course that ends in the center of Boston for the 12th time in his career. “In my opinion, the Boston Marathon is one of the greatest participatory events in the world,” said the runner. “It is on the same level with the Masters, Indianapolis 500 and the Final Four … the very name is recognized all over the world.” Williams qualified for his first Boston event in 1991. His second trip to “Beantown” came in 2003 and began a streak of 11 consecu-

tive starts. “It is very difficult to qualify for Boston before you are 45 or 50,” he said. “I ran my first run and it took me 12 more years to qualify again.” The Boston Marathon is open to runners 18 or older from any nation. Runners must meet certain qualifying standards. To qualify, a runner must first complete a standard marathon course certified by a national governing body affiliated with the International Association of Athletics Federations within a certain period of time. “Qualifying is based on age and gender,” said the Boston veteran. “Koach,” as he is referred to by the over 200 marathoners he has trained for free, has run marathons all around the world. He has been to New York, Chicago as well as international events in London and Athens. Monday’s run will be his 57th marathon. “Running has been a huge part of my life,” said Koach. “I am still fairly competitive and I love the feeling … running makes me think young.” Please see MARATHON | 3A

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This time next week Kenneth Williams will have added a 12th Boston Marathon medallion to his collection.

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Rinehart, Inman honored by Phi Theta Kappa BOONEVILLE — Northeast Mississippi Community College sophomores Kody Rinehart of Kossuth and Anna Lauren Inman of Walnut have been honored by the Phi Theta Kappa honor society as members of the All-Mississippi Academic Team. Rinehart and Inman are part of the Mississippi contingency that will be nominated for inclusion on the national academic team. Each year two-year colleges in the Magnolia State may nominate up to two students per campus to the All-USA Academic Team with nominations based on outstanding academic performance and service to the college and the surrounding community.

Students that are named to the All-Mississippi Academic First Team compete for placement on the national AllUSA Academic Team for Community and Junior Colleges, which is sponsored by USA Today, Phi Theta Kappa and the American Association of Community Colleges. At Northeast, Rinehart and Inman have been instrumental in not only the local Iota Zeta chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society but in the college community as a whole. Both were elected as Class Favorites by their peers in 2011-12 as freshmen and then returned to the Class Favorites in 2012-13 after being reelected by the Northeast

student body. Inman and Rinehart have also been pivotal in making Northeast’s Iota Zeta chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society a five-star chapter, the highest rating given any chapter, and has been recognized as an exemplary model. Rinehart and Inman have been instrumental in helping Phi Theta Kappa push it’s Honors in Action topic of “Food for Thought, for Life” which helped viewers realize the effects that certain foods have on the body and the environment around them. In addition to the Honors in Action project, Rinehart and Inman have also helped Phi Theta Kappa produce letters to

Northeast Mississippi Community College sophomore Kody Rinehart of Kossuth was recently honored by the Phi Theta Kappa honor society as a member of the All-Mississippi Academic Team. Joining Rinehart (center) at the recognition ceremony for her honor were chapter advisor Dr. Ray Harris (left) and Northeast executive vice president Ricky Ford (right).

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Northeast Mississippi Community College sophomore Anna Lauren Inman of Walnut was recently honored by the Phi Theta Kappa honor society as a member of the All-Mississippi Academic Team. Joining Inman (center) at the recognition ceremony for her honor were chapter advisor Dr. Ray Harris (left) and Northeast executive vice president Ricky Ford (right). members of the United State military during the holidays, participate in Operation Shoebox and helped to raise funds by selling cheese. Northeast’s Phi Theta Kappa members also donate their time at the Boys & Girls Club of Booneville and the Prentiss County Habitat for Humanity as well as participating in the annual Relay For Life. Rinehart and Inman also help the community at large by assisting in the tri-annual blood drive that the Northeast Phi Theta Kappa hosts each January, April and September with donations going to the United Blood Services to help replenish their supply. Two of the major projects that the organization undertakes each year is

the annual Honors Day where the organization brings in a keynote speaker and honors students from each one of the college’s six divisions for their academic success during the year. Finishing college has also been vital to the organization’s mission, as the Northeast Phi Theta Kappa has participated in College Completion Day where students learn about the importance of receiving a degree and finishing college. Phi Theta Kappa administers the All-State and All-USA Academic Team Programs from its Jackson-based headquarters. The first All-State Academic Team Program was launched in 1994 in Mississippi. This year, 32 states will sponsor All-

State Academic Team programs using the AllMississippi program as a model. Founded in 1918, Phi Theta Kappa is an international honor society composed of 1,100 chapters at colleges in the United States and Canada. International headquarters for the organization is located in Jackson, Miss. Phi Theta Kappa seeks to foster the development of leadership and service, to provide an intellectual climate for the exchange of ideas, and to encourage the establishment of scholarships for advanced education. Northeast’s Iota Zeta chapter has been recognized as a “Five Star” chapter, the highest rating given any chapter, and has been recognized as an exemplary model.

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office manager Sean McGrath. “It’s a tool available to all our customers which allows them to monitor their usage daily.” Customers can manage their electric account by using a iPhone, iPod, iPad, web, text or interactive voice response. McGrath said right around 160 ACE members have gone to the prepaid electricity since it was offered at the end of Jan. “PayWise is an alternative for customers to establish service with ACE,” said PayWise Prepaid Representative Wesley Whittemore. “No deposit

is required of PayWise customers and they do not have to worry about late or collection fees.” In the prepaid method, customers get the flexibility to pay when they want, how they want and the amount they want. Money put into the account goes strictly towards buying electricity. Existing customers can also convert to PayWise. ACE will be able to convert a customer’s existing deposit into a prepaid electricity purchase. “This the best thing we have done for our members,” added McGrath.

Also during the expo, participants will learn about the benefits of installing new windows, insulation, energy efficient appliances and much more. “One reason we started the expo was to pair our customers with vendors who could also help them become more energy efficient,” said the assistant office manager. “The changes people can make on the recommendations from the expo can save them 2030 percent on their bill.” “It’s not that power cost any more today, it’s how we are using it,” said Biv-

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Today in history Today is Sunday, April 14, the 104th day of 2013. There are 261 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington. Lincoln died the next day. On this date: In 1775, the first American society for the abolition of slavery was formed in Philadelphia. In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster’s “American Dictionary of the English Language” was published. In 1902, James Cash Penney opened his first store, The Golden Rule, in Kemmerer, Wyo. In 1910, President William Howard Taft became the first U.S. chief executive to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game as the Washington Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0. In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship’s time and began sinking. (The ship went under two hours and 40 minutes later with the loss of 1,514 lives.) In 1939, the John Steinbeck novel “The Grapes of Wrath” was first published by Viking Press. In 1949, the “Wilhelmstrasse Trial” in Nuremberg ended with 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials sentenced by an American tribunal to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years. In 1960, the musical “Bye Bye Birdie” opened on Broadway. In 1981, the first test flight of America’s first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Ten years ago: Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit fell with unexpectedly light resistance, the last Iraqi city to succumb to overpowering U.S.-led ground and air forces. Five years ago: Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp. announced they were combining. Kidnapped British journalist Richard Butler was rescued by Iraqi troops from a house in Basra after two months in captivity. One year ago: In Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the Titanic was built, thousands attended a choral requiem at the Anglican St. Anne’s Cathedral or a nationally televised concert at the city’s Waterfront Hall to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking.

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kindergartens which use these standards will be preparing their children for the Common Core State Standards which are being introduced in public schools across the nation, Nelson explained. “Dr. Darling has provided an excellent resource that matches the rigor of Common Core Standards while remaining developmentally appropriate to young children,” Nelson pointed out. The training session focused on early childhood brain development; how developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) supports brain development; understanding Early Learning Standards and using them in a classroom; comparing strategies; making smart choices; and developing units of study. All of the attendees at the training session receive contact hours, which help them meet state operation-

al requirements. The event was provided by the Corinth School District in support of the Corinth-Alcorn Excel By 5 initiative. Excel By 5 is an innovative early childhood community certification process focusing on a community’s young children. It emphasizes the important role parents and early childhood educators play in the lives of children during their most formative years — birth to age five. The MSU Early Childhood Institute was established in 1999 to develop and provide research-based practices and policy recommendations that promote high quality early childhood development and learning for all young children in Mississippi. The Institute is funding through a variety of public agencies, private foundation and nongovernmental organizations dedicated to early care and education.

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Dr. Lynn Darling, director of the Mississippi State University Early Childhood Institute, leads a training session from Pre-K teachers and area child care providers at Corinth Elementary School on Saturday.

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“The things we boast about as educators and citizens are often not what the industries are looking for. What’s sad is it’s not often they tell us what they’re looking for — they never tell us what we did right, wrong or could’ve done better,” said Allen. “I want to share a few insights I’ve learned on how industries evaluate communities.” Allen pointed out that the cost-return on education is not good in most communities. While educators love talking about the benefits to society and earning power of a school’s graduates, industries don’t really care about those things. “We’ve been very altruistic in how we evaluate schools and communities,” he said. “We’re notorious for talking about what students did and how they’re doing when they’ve left the community. Industry recruiters want to know who is living here.” Then he came to the main problem — the brighter minds are leaving town while the duller ones stick around.

three years after graduation, and the problem is especially acute in small towns and communities. “We make huge investments in young people. We brag on them wherever they are but we do nothing to encourage them to come back here and be part of the community,” he said. So, what is the solution? The general strategy Allen outlined is to help every student that passes through the school system to attain the highest level of education they can achieve — and to entice the high achievers to come back to Corinth and Alcorn County. “We must give them reasons to come back,” Allen said. Even when a community is working in the right direction, it can be a long, expensive process, he said. Communities that are successful have at least a Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith 10-year history in making investments in all levels of NEMCC President Johnny Allen speaks while Corinth Superintendent Lee Chil- education. dress listens during the Community Forum held by the Commission on the Fu“It’ll really take a decade ture of Alcorn County. to see the results of that,” said the longtime educa“Our most valuable ex- ery one of us, but dropAccording to Allen, half tion leader. “Industry does port in the state of Missis- outs don’t leave. They stay of all students who earn not invest in a community sippi is educated people. here and don’t contribute bachelors degrees will not that does not have a hisAnd it’s a sad fact for ev- much,” said Allen. remain living in the area tory of investing in itself.”

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According to the Corinth Coca-Cola Classic 10K founder, runners have to deal with two long events on race day. “The first marathon is getting to Hopkinton and surviving until the start of the real marathon,” he said with a smile. Runners travel on a school bus from downtown Boston to the little town of Hopkinton for the start of the race. “That event in itself is a remarkable logistical

feat,” he said. Once the 45-minute trip is completed, participants are placed in a corral or athlete’s village with thousands of other runners. “It’s a pretty long wait under less than ideal conditions,” said the marathoner. “The more prepared and the more people you know, the better the situation.” There are three start times for the race. The first wave begins at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Wave two is at 10:20 with the third wave

leaving at 10:40. Williams will be in the final start time. When the final group starts, Williams will have things such as his phone, fuel for the course, Tums and salt pills among other things. He plans to post comments on Facebook and twitter during the 26.2 miles. “It depends on how I’m feeling and how the race is going on how much I will be sending,” he said of his four-hour trek. Three years ago, the

71-year-old had knee surgery and still ran Boston. “My doctor didn’t understand how I was walking, much less running,” he said. Last year, temperatures rose into the 80s which isn’t a good temp for runners. “That was murder,” said Williams. Williams believes the 117th running in Boston is going to be a good one personally. “I am looking to having a good Boston, better than the last two,” he

said. “If I have done my homework, I will be okay … it’s like life. If I’m prepared, I will be fine.”

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The president’s charmless budget President Barack Obama’s latest budget proposal makes a good predicate for a grand bargain -- between the White House and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Granted, the White House Rich envisions a higher level of debt Lowery 10 years from now than in the highly ideological document National Review produced by the most left-wing Democrats in Congress. But if the president is truly open to reason, he’ll listen to the co-chairmen of the caucus and find a way to achieve as much deficit reduction as they do. Then, at least, he’ll be a little closer to Paul Ryan and the House Republicans, who have about $4 trillion to $5 trillion more in deficit reduction than he does over the next 10 years. The new White House budget is supposed to embody the president’s “charm offensive,” during which he has subjected himself to the indignity of occasionally eating meals with members of the opposition. He was forced into this expedient after his posture of the end-is-nigh confrontation in the run-up to the sequester failed miserably. Going out of his way to get to know Republican senators and congressmen in the fifth year of his presidency is certainly charming of him, but if Obama truly wants a “grand bargain,” there’s no substitute for substance. This budget doesn’t provide it, but hey, there’s always the 2015 budget. There are a few constants in the president’s budgeteering. When he isn’t reaching out to Republicans, he proposes more spending and taxes. When he is reaching out to Republicans, he proposes more spending and taxes. He increases spending by $150 billion next year and wants an additional $1 trillion in new taxes over the next 10 years. In fact, he’s so consistent that even when he is making a serious gesture toward deficit reduction, he increases the deficit. He’s proposing a higher deficit than under current policy until 2017, when he’s out of office. In other words, if the president threw up his hands and said, “Let’s keep doing what we’re doing now,” the deficit would initially be lower than under his much-touted budget attempting to meet Republicans halfway. Even the claimed deficit reduction evaporates upon first contact with scrutiny. The Associated Press writes: “Obama claims $1.8 trillion in deficit savings over the coming decade, but the budget tables show the savings are actually $1.4 trillion. And $1.2 trillion of that is devoted to reversing automatic, across-the-board spending cuts required because of Washington’s inability to follow up a 2011 budget pact with further deficit action.” The signature proposal of the new, more winsome and companionable Obama budget is so-called chained CPI, a technical adjustment in the calculation of inflation that reduces Social Security benefits. This was part of Obama’s offer to House Speaker John Boehner in the grand-bargain negotiations. Obama has repeatedly congratulated himself in public for his courage on entitlements behind closed doors, without ever bothering to propose in open view what he advocated in private. Now, he has put it in writing. That’s progress. And he deserves credit for doing what Republicans haven’t dared -- cutting an entitlement benefit for current retirees. But chained CPI is an inherently “balanced” proposal, since it accelerates bracket creep and leads to higher taxes. Regardless, the president says he will jettison it without other tax increases. This is the joke of the Obama charm offensive in a nutshell: He won’t accept his own proposal for what is, in part, a tax increase, unless it is paired with yet more tax increases. If the president thinks Republicans are going to go for this, he hasn’t spent nearly enough time with them. It is hard to imagine a deader-on-arrival budget. More than a herald of a great breakthrough, it is another indication that the entitlement crisis that is a little closer with the retirement of every baby boomer won’t be seriously addressed during his presidency. If this is the best he can do, he should stop trying. (Daily Corinthian columnist and editor of the National Review, Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@)nationalreview.com.)

Prayer for today Watchful and caring God, keep us faithful in prayer, and help us trust you to answer. Amen.

A verse to share The prayer of a good person has a powerful effect. — James 5:16

Thatcher insisted on facing hard truths “Divisive.” That’s a word that appeared, often prominently, in many news stories reporting the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. One senses the writers’ disapproval. You’re not likely to find “divisive” in stories reporting the deaths of liberal leaders, although every politician divides voters. “Divisive” here refers to something specific. It was Margaret Thatcher’s special genius that she systematically rejected the conventional wisdom, almost always wellintentioned, of the political establishment. Instead, she insisted on hard, uncomfortable truths. British Conservatives like Harold Macmillan accepted the tyranny of trade unionism because they had guilty memories of the slaughter of the working-class men who served under them in in World War I. Thatcher, who as an adolescent before World War II saved money to pay for a Jewish girl to escape from Austria to England, felt no such guilt. She could see that strikes of shipyard workers, auto union members, newspaper printers, gravediggers and garbage collectors were ruining Britain’s economy. She worked hard and patiently, building up coal inventories, to prevent the year-long illegal coal miners’ strike led by Arthur Scargill

from shutting down power plants. She rejected the idea, fostered by the great and Michael the good of Barone the British ruling class, Columnist that ordinary people needed public housing. Instead, she let them buy their houses at favorable rates. She rejected the conventional wisdom that government had to pay for money-losing nationalized industries. Instead, she privatized coal, steel, utilities and transport, and let employees and citizens buy shares in them and partake of the profits. When Argentina’s military dictators occupied the Falkland Islands, she was urged to accept the result. The Falklands were far away, and only 1,800 Britons were affected. But for Thatcher, they were part of the British nation. She would no more allow them to be thrust under a dictator’s heel than she would allow Irish Republican Army terrorists to force Britain out of Northern Ireland against the will of the majority there. Much has been made, and rightly, of Thatcher’s closeness to Ronald Reagan -though they did have their disagreements. They both

hated communism and Soviet tyranny. But first Thatcher and then Reagan perceived that Mikhail Gorbachev was, in Thatcher’s words, “someone we can do business with.” The result was anend to the Cold War. When Thatcher became prime minister in 1979, the consensus was that Britain was in inevitable decline. She hated that idea and proved that it was wrong. Continental elites saw European unity as a way to prevent the horrors of another world war. American elites assumed a United States of Europe would be as benign as the United States of America. Margaret Thatcher disagreed. She believed that the nation-state, with its long heritage of shared values, democratic governance and economic practices, was the essential unit in politics and economics. A single European currency, she argued, could not work in a continent whose nations had different economies, cultures and traditions. In her 1993 and 1995 autobiographies, Joe Weisenthal points out in Business Insider, she recounts the arguments she pressed on her successor, John Major. She noted that Germany “would be worried about the weakening of anti-inflation policies” and that the poorer

countries would seek subsidies “if they were going to lose their ability to compete on the basis of a currency that reflected their economic performance.” This has worked out exactly as she warned. Fortunately for Britain, Thatcher’s successors were stopped from ditching the pound and lurching into the euro as the great and good almost unanimously advised. “Crunchiness brings wealth,” wrote the Economist’s Nico Colchester. “Wealth leads to sogginess. Sogginess brings poverty. Poverty creates crunchiness.” By crunchiness he meant “systems in which small changes have big effects, leaving those affected by them in no doubt whether they are up or down.” In contrast, “Sogginess is comfortable uncertainty.” Margaret Thatcher was crunchiness personified. Her death is a reminder that elites revel in sogginess and that every nation needs a dose of crunchiness from time to time. Britain got hers from Margaret Thatcher. (Daily Corinthian columnist Michael Barone, senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.)

Despite racial rhetoric, ‘Tiger Moms’ get results New York City’s Stuyvesant High School is one of those all too rare public schools for intellectually outstanding students. Such students are often bored to death in schools where the work is geared to the lowest common denominator, and it is by no means uncommon for very bright students to become behavior problems. Recent statistics on the students who passed the examination to get into Stuyvesant High School raise troubling questions that are unlikely to receive the kind of serious answers they deserve. These successful applicants included 9 black students, 24 Latino students, 177 white students and 620 Asian Americans. Since this is definitely not the ethnic makeup of the general population of New York City, we can expect to hear the usual sort of comments from those who are in the business of being indignant and offended. The most common of these comments is that the tests are “unfair.” That is of course possible, but it is also possible that the groups

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themselves are different. Yet only the first possibility is allowed to be mentioned, in Thomas an age when Sowell race can be discussed Columnist only with pious hypocrisy and obligatory lies. However shocked some people may be by the ethnic breakdown among students who passed the test to get into Stuyvesant High School, similar disparities can be found among students from different ethnic backgrounds in other countries around the world. What does this mean? That people are different. Would ordinary observation and ordinary common sense not tell you that? Or dare you not even think that, in the suffocating atmosphere of political correctness? These differences are not set in stone. During the First World War, low mental test scores among Jewish soldiers in the U.S. Army led one expert to declare that this tended to “disprove the

popular belief that the Jew is highly intelligent.” But many of the men taking the Army’s mental tests during the First World War were the children of immigrants, and had grown up in homes where English was not the language used. Mental tests in later years showed Jews scoring above the national average. Every study I know of that compares the amount of time that black students and Asian American students spend watching television, and how much time they spend on school work, shows disparities as great as the disparities in their academic outcomes. When teaching at UCLA, years ago, I once went into a library on a Saturday night, noticed how many Asian students were studying -and looked around in vain for any black students. How surprised should I have been when Asian students did better in my courses? A few years ago, Professor Amy Chua of Yale caused a controversy when she wrote a book about Asian “Tiger Moms” who put heavy pressure on their children

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to succeed in school. But a more recent book (“Gifted Hands”) by black neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson shows that his mother was as much of a Tiger Mom as the Asians. Not only did Dr. Carson rise from the ghetto to become an internationally recognized neurosurgeon, his brother became an engineer -- both of them children of a poverty-stricken mother with only three years of education. But Tiger Moms get results. Unfortunately, we are at a stage where the interests of race hustlers is to cry “unfair” at the tests. So long as the rest of us are silenced by political correctness, racial progress on that front is unlikely. Put differently, whole generations of black young people can continue to go down the drain because their fate carries less weight than fashionable racial rhetoric. (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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Newtown mom pleads for gun control WASHINGTON — The mother of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Connecticut school shooting used the opportunity to fill in for President Barack Obama during the weekly radio and Internet address to make a personal plea from the White House for action to combat gun violence. “Thousands of other families across the United States are also drowning in our grief,” said Francine Wheeler, choking back tears in the address broadcast Saturday. “Please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy.” Ben Wheeler was among the 20 first-graders and six adults killed in the Dec. 14 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. Francine Wheeler was the first person to deliver the address other than Obama or Vice President Joe Biden since the two took office in 2009. Her husband, David Wheeler, sat silently next to her as she made the recording in the White House Library. Both wore the small green pins that have become a symbol of the shooting. Obama asked Wheeler to deliver this week’s address, which was taped Friday. The White House said Wheeler and her husband wrote the remarks. “Sometimes, I close my eyes and all I can remember is that awful day waiting at the Sandy Hook Volunteer Firehouse for the boy who would never come home — the same

firehouse that was home to Ben’s Tiger Scout Den 6,” Francine Wheeler said. “But other times, I feel Ben’s presence filling me with courage for what I have to do, for him and all the others taken from us so violently and too soon.”

Obama earned less in 2012 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama made less in 2012 than in any other year since taking office, with about 40 percent of the nearly $609,000 in income that he and first lady Michelle Obama reported coming from book sales. Obama, who renewed his call for higher taxes on the wealthy in the budget he released Wednesday, paid $112,214 in taxes last year, putting his effective federal tax rate at 18.4 percent. The Obamas donated almost one-quarter of their income to charity, helping to lower their overall tax bill, according to tax returns released by the White House. Most of the $608,611 that the Obamas reported in adjusted gross income came from the president’s salary, as he reported $394,840 in wages. An additional $258,772 came from royalties from his books, including his 1995 memoir “Dreams From My Father,” his 2006 political book, “The Audacity of Hope,” and a 2010 children’s book, “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters.” Income from Obama’s books has fallen off since 2009, when his books sales surged

after his inauguration. The Obamas made $5.5 million that year — his first year in office — but the figure dropped precipitously the next year to $1.73 million. In 2011, the Obamas reported about $790,000 in income. The president and Mrs. Obama signed their tax returns on Monday — one week before the April 15 deadline for Americans to file their 2012 returns.

Discharge recommended for Navy officer GROTON, Conn. — A former submarine commander who faked his death to end an extramarital affair should be honorably discharged from the Navy, a panel of officers recommended Friday after a daylong hearing in which the officer said he accepted “full and total accountability” for his behavior. Cmdr. Michael P. Ward II, a married 43-yearold, sent his mistress in Virginia an email in July posing as a fictitious coworker named Bob and saying Ward had died unexpectedly. Ward was relieved of his duties aboard the USS Pittsburgh in August a week after he’d taken command and has received a letter of reprimand for adultery and other military violations. After testimony from Ward’s former superior officers, colleagues and shipmates, Ward, in his dress blues, acknowledged to the panel that he had had an affair and sent the bogus email to the woman in an effort to end it.

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Evans new trial decision stands JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court has turned down a request from prosecutors to revisit its decision that Dante Lamar Evans should get a new trial. The justices ruled in January that a Harrison County judge erred in barring Evans from telling a jury that he feared for his life at the hands of an abusive parent when at the age of 14 he shot and killed his father. On Thursday, the Supreme Court denied a motion from prosecutors to look at the case again. Evans was convicted in 2009 in the death of his father, who prosecutors said was fatally shot in his sleep in 2007. Evans was sentenced to life in prison. The Supreme Court also said Evans was entitled to an adequate expert to assist his defense.

Pascagoula considers smoking ordinance PASCAGOULA — Pascagoula’s City Council is considering a no-smoking ordinance. Two public hearings have been scheduled this month to gather information and opinions on such an ordinance, which could affect workplaces, restaurants and bars. The hearings will be held April 16 at the beginning of the regular City Council meeting and April 18 at the Pas-

cagoula Senior Center. Pascagoula’s Community and Economic Development Director Jen Dearman said her office will receive comments on the topic until April 26, and then the department will review them before the council votes on an ordinance. Mississippi Tobacco Data, a group that provides services for the Mississippi Comprehensive Tobacco Control Program, says the state is one of seven that does not have a statewide restriction on smoking in private workplaces, restaurants or bars.

Fallen tower to hurt Noxubee area farmers STARKVILLE — Agriculture experts at Mississippi State University say some 200 farmers in eastern Mississippi will feel the loss of a 300-foot-tall communications tower that was felled by a recent tornado. A university news release says the tower in Noxubee County provided broadband internet and GPS signals that aided farmers with planting and chemical applications. Dennis Reginelli of the Mississippi State University Extension Service says the loss of the tower in the April 11 storm means farmers will have to concentrate harder to avoid waste that comes when they overlap or miss portions of a field. Teletec Communications of Columbus owns the tower. Company coowner Ralph McLain told the extension service

that his company is examining salvage options and working to determine the best location for a replacement.

Panel upholds corruption conviction JACKSON — A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld the conviction of Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, one of Mississippi’s most prominent attorneys before going to prison on judicial corruption charges. Scruggs has been free on $2 million bond pending the appeal and it’s not clear if the ruling means he will have to go back to prison right now because he could ask the full 5th Circuit to consider his appeal or petition the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case. Scruggs, an architect of the multibillion dollar tobacco lawsuits of the 1990s, pleaded guilty in 2009 to improperly influencing then Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter in a civil lawsuit. Prosecutors say Scruggs told DeLaughter that he would recommend the judge to Scruggs’ brother-in-law, then Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, for an appointment to the federal bench. Lott, who has since retired and was not charged with wrongdoing, said he made a courtesy call to DeLaughter, but recommended someone else for the job. DeLaughter made a name for himself as a prosecutor in 1994 when he helped convict Byron de la Beckwith for the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

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Deaths Winfred Gardner

BOONEVILLE — Funeral services for Winfred Alice McCostlin Gardner, 95, are set for 3 p.m. today at Booneville Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Booneville Cemetery. Mrs. Gardner died Friday, April 12, 2013, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Booneville. Born Nov. 2, 1917, she was a factory worker at Blue Bell and Prentiss Manufacturing, and a Home Demonstration Agent’s Assistant. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Kelly Gardner; her parents, William Franklin McCostlin and Cletra Walker McCostlin; and a sister, Edith McNeece. Survivors include her children, Michael Gardner of Booneville, and Carolyn Bolen (Kimble) of Corinth; her grandchildren, Jason Bolen (Shannon) of Rienzi, Kimble David Bolen (Misti) of Little Rock, Ark., and Kimberly South of Booneville; and four great-grandchildren. Visitation is today from 1 p.m. till service time.

Lacy Foster

Funeral services for Lacy Page Foster, age 18 months, are set for 1 p.m. Monday at Memorial Funeral Home. Lacy died Friday, April 5, 2013, at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis. She was born Oct. 3, 2011. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Joseph Kirby Foster Jr. Survivors include her parents, Raquel Morgan and Adam Foster; her sister, Scarlett Foster; her grandparents, Tammy and Tommy Morgan of Corinth and Vera McGee of Ripley; her great-grandparents; and a great-great-grandfather. Bro. Mickey Trammell will officiate. Visitation is set for Monday beginning at 11 a.m. at the funeral home. Memorial donations can be made to Le Bonheur Children’s HOspital - 848 Adams Avenue - Memphis, TN 38103 or by visiting www.lebonheur.org.

James “Whisper” Joslin

GLEN — Funeral services for James “Whisper” Joslin, 69, are set for 5 p.m. Monday at Spirit and Truth Fellowship Church with burial at Spirit and Truth Fellowship Church Cemetery in

Burnsville. Mr. Joslin died Friday, April 12, 2013. He was preceded in death by his father, Ezra Joslin; and three brothers, Jerry Joslin, Billy Joslin and Tommy Joslin. Survivors include his mother, Louise Thomas Joslin; two sons, James Ezra Joslin of Helfin, Ala., and Justin Lee Joslin of Helfin, Ala.; three daughters, Teresa Fugitt (Brad) of Rienzi, Missy Joslin of Glen, and April Powers (Chris) of Burnsville; four brothers, Charles Joslin (Brenda) of Corinth, Larry Joslin of Michigan, Danny Joslin (Hilda) of Corinth, and Jimmy Joslin of Savannah, Tenn.; two sisters, Doris Joslin of Savannah, Tenn., and Carolyn Fair of Corinth; seven grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. Visitation is today from 5 until 9 p.m. at Spirit and Truth Fellowship Church in Burnsville.

Sue O. Null

Funeral services for Sue O. Null, 83, of Corinth, are set for 3 p.m. today at Brush Creek Baptist Church with burial at Brush Creek Baptist Cemetery. Mrs. Null died Friday, April 12, 2013, at Magnolia Regional Health Center. Born Dec. 31, 1929, she was a homemaker. She was a member of Brush Creek Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Elbert “Boots” Null; a daughter, Mavis Sue Mills; her parents, Perry and Sue Brock; and several brothers and sisters. Survivors include her sons, Teddy Null (Denise), Leland Mills (Lynn), Thomas Mills (Jennie), Paul Mills (Dorothy), Rebon Mills (Shirley) and Lloyd “Junior” Mills; a daughter, Becky Johnson; a sister, Ira Smith of Walnut; her grandchildren, Taqua Moody (Tom), Scotty Mills (Clarissa), Tommy Mills, Jennifer McKee (Hugh), Angie Moss, Tina Wilbanks (Randy), Clayton Mills (Stacy), Benji Mills (Lindy), Eric Mills, Kevin Mills, Jared Mills (Ashton), Johnathan Hodum, Chevy Null (Paige), Justin Null, Chasteddy Null, Lexus Null and Cedee-Beth Null; and 24 great-grandchildren. Bro. Carroll Talley and Bro. Charles (Smiley) Mills will officiate. Visitation continues until service time at the church.

NEMCC science competition winners

Northeast Mississippi Community College mathematics and science division recently held its annual high school mathematics and science competition on the Booneville campus. High schools from across Northeast’s five-county area – Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo and Union – competed in the oneday competition on Thursday, April 4 that tested students on their mathematic and scientific ability. Each school was allowed to send six participants to the competition with competitors scoring on a pair of timed, multiple-choice tests – one in mathematics and one in science. Awards were given to the top 10 students in each category that scored the highest on each of the respective tests and schools were awarded based on their students’ performances for the top overall school in each category and the top three schools with the combine student scores in mathematics and science. Placing in the Top 10 in the science category were (from left-right) Hayden Park of Corinth, Cason Robbins of Ingomar, Tyler Braddock of Walnut, Dillon Barnes of Walnut, Brad Clifton of Walnut, Shelby Lambert of Walnut, Luke Wooten of Kossuth, Kayla Bates of Walnut, Anna Timbs of Belmont and Katie Jones of Corinth.

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Focus week recognizes early childhood years BY SARAH SHIELDS MSU School of Human Sciences

STARKVILLE — To raise awareness that childhood is more than just a time for play, the Mississippi Child Care Resource and Referral Network encourages local communities to celebrate the Week of the Young Child. “What seems like just playing to most adults is children working and learning,” said Ellen Goodman, project manager of the Mississippi Child Care Resource and Referral Network, a program Mississippi State University Extension Service. “Play is children’s work.” The Week of the Young Child recognizes that childhood activities are life skills in development. Studies show that the early years remain the most critical time for

physical, mental, social and intellectual development. Children’s experiences influence how they approach the world and who they become. Simple activities are precursors to reading, math and even conflict resolution. “In early childhood classrooms, you will see children counting objects, putting puzzles together, building with blocks and play dough to develop vital fine motor skills, reading a book with a teacher, or playing together in the dramatic play area and learning how to get along,” Goodman said. “Young children learn best with hands-on active play.” Celebrated April 1420, this year’s Week of the Young Child has the theme “Early Years Are Learning Years.” The week also focuses on embracing diversity and

strengthening families. Sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the week directs the public’s attention to the needs of young children, their families, and early care and education providers. “Child care providers work very hard every day. It is nice to show appreciation and let them know we realize the important role they play,” Goodman said. By building public support for high-quality, early childhood education programs, communities can positively impact children during a critical time in their development. The Week of the Young Child began in 1971 to improve children’s success in school and later life. More than 40 years later, celebration of the week continues with festivals,

free museum visits, banquets for providers and crafts for children. Goodman explained that there are no prescribed requirements for participation. Communities can plan their own events and activities such as fairs, parades and teacher appreciation days to match their interest and involvement. Providers can host open houses and tours for families and local public officials. “Bring in the superintendent or the mayor to experience what a day is like in child care centers,” Goodman said. With the goal to get everyone thinking about early childhood care and education on the community level, celebration options include asking mayors to issue proclamations for the week, inviting families to participate in story time and

other classroom activities, or holding Week of the Young Child celebration picnics. The Mississippi Child Care Resource and Referral Network can help those looking to organize an event. The Network offers resources for free checkout including books, toys, and educational materials. With 15 locations across the state, these resource sites provide information for developing activities for children, families, providers and communities. The Week of the Young Child also provides a time to recognize early care and education professionals. The week helps communities build awareness to improve professional practice and working conditions in early childhood education. “Children are like little sponges who soak up

everything, so it is important that child care providers who are with children so much get professional development and stay educated on the latest trends so that they can help nurture and care for the children,” said Adrienne Mercer, Child Care Resource and Referral Network field technical assistance professional development supervisor. For more information about the Week of the Young Child and childhood development, visit www.naeyc.org/woyc or contact the Mississippi Child Care Resource and Referral Network at 1-800-706-8827. Funded by the Mississippi Department of Human Services, Division of Early Childhood Care and Development, the network is a program of the MSU Extension Service.

MSU Extension coordinates law enforcement class BY LINDA BREAZEALE MSU Ag Communications

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University Extension Service is connecting law enforcement agencies with trainers on a mission to protect innocent citizens from active shooters. Ryan Akers, assistant professor of community preparation and disaster management with the MSU Extension Service, said people do not want to think tragic shooting incidents could happen in their peaceful communities. Unfortunately, crimes involving active shooters occur almost daily somewhere in the United States, challenging local law enforcement to respond aggressively, rapidly and effectively. “We can’t prevent 100 percent of these crimes, but law enforcement can prepare and hopefully minimize injuries and

loss of life by learning how to respond,” Akers said. MSU’s Extension Service coordinated a three-day, active-shooter response course developed and facilitated by the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training, one of the leading training agencies for U.S. Department of Homeland Security initiatives. The course, “Law Enforcement Active Shooter Emergency Response,” was conducted March 13-15 on campus. “This course to train responders and future trainers benefits more than 30 law enforcement officers from Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama,” Akers said. “They will be able to return to their agencies and strengthen their active shooter training programs.”

Akers said train-thetrainer classes are taught by some of the most experienced people in the country. Kit Cessna, a combat-tested veteran of the U.S. Army’s Delta Force and a SWAT officer, served as the lead instructor for the MSU class. “Our goal is to provide the knowledge and skills to rapidly neutralize violent offenders during an active shooter incident to prevent loss of innocent lives,” Cessna said. “The class is about rapid deployment and ruthless pursuit.” Cessna said the class covers past shooting incidents and reviews critical lessons learned in those cases. “For example, Columbine taught us a priority for our actions. First, stop the active shooter; second, rescue victims; third, provide medical

assistance; and fourth, preserve the crime scene,” he said. “The Virginia Tech campus shooting is what really got this course going. One thing we learned from that is that any violent act, such as the double homicide at the dormitory, could be followed by more violence somewhere else,” he said. Cessna commended MSU for hosting the training, which was held during spring break. During the sessions, participants learned methods of breaking down doors and clearing hallways, stairways and rooms, as well as dangers to be aware of and avoid. Mark Ballard is the SWAT supervisor for the Starkville Police Depart-

ment and has been in law enforcement since 1994. He said similar courses in the past also emphasized a rapid response. “Unlike other courses, this one provided recommendations for a twoperson response and allowed that even one person can stop a shooter. Other active-shooter classes have recommended more than two officers before responding. The two-person response is much more realistic due to the need for an immediate response,” he said. Ballard said the quality of the trainers for a class so close to home was exceptional, and they were able to reinforce lessons learned in other classes and give additional recommendations as well.

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“Other classes have provided similar experiences with soap bullets that have a different sound when fired, but the active-shooter exercises they put us through on campus with more realistic-sounding gunfire really got our adrenaline going,” he said. “This class was more intense than normal training classes.” Ballard said an added benefit was working with officers from other nearby agencies. One goal for participants is to teach the material to members of their agencies who did not attend this class. “SWAT members are not the only ones who need to know how to address an active shooter,” he said. “All first responders must be prepared.”

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Big Boys ribbon cutting Big Boys Pawn, Guns & Gold, Inc., located at 802 Hwy. 72 in Corinth, recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate its opening. Joining owners Sammy Green and Jeremy Floyd (center) for the ceremony were employees, Corinth Mayor Tommy Irwin, city officials, representatives of The Alliance, and other civic and community leaders.

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Div

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Div

Last

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Shirley Dawgs Ribbon Cutting

How will you pay for retirement? Letâ€™s talk.

Shirley Dawgs â€” retailer of high school and college apparel â€” recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new 602 Wick St. location in downtown Corinth. Joining owners Brian and Julie Shirley and their children Madeline and Andrew for the ceremony were family, friends, employees, Corinth Mayor Tommy Irwin, city officials, representatives of The Alliance, and other civic and community leaders.

Brian S Langley Eric M Rutledge, AAMSÂŽ, CFPÂŽ Financial Advisor Financial Advisor 605 Foote Street 1500 Harper Road Suite 1 Corinth, MS 38834 Corinth, MS 38834 662-287-4471 662-287-1409

Do you ever wish that your children could experience the tastes from the days of the shotgun house and CLASSIC OLD STYLE the well the bucket on a rope and the grandmother shooting off the chickens with her bonnet? IRON SKILLET

COOKING Come experience Mississippiâ€™s best forgotten tastes revived!

602 South Cass Street â€˘ Corinth, MS 38834 662-287-2323

www.edwardjones.com

AGRICULTURE FUTURES WkHigh WkLow Settle WkChg CORN 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel May 13 Jul 13 Sep 13 Dec 13 Mar 14 May 14 Jul 14

666.75 647.25 577.25 550 560.25 568.25 574

627.50 615.75 546.50 528 539 546.75 552.75

658.50 641.25 577 550 560.25 568.25 574

WkHigh WkLow Settle WkChg CATTLE 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

+29.50 +23.50 +25 +15 +14.25 +14.25 +13.75

Apr 13 Jun 13 Aug 13 Oct 13 Dec 13 Feb 14 Apr 14

127.15 122.42 123.17 127.35 128.67 129.75 130.65

125.20 119.90 120.70 124.82 126.30 127.35 128.60

SOYBEANS 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel

HOGS-Lean 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

May 13 Jul 13 Aug 13 Sep 13 Nov 13 Jan 14 Mar 14

Apr 13 May 13 Jun 13 Jul 13 Aug 13 Oct 13 Dec 13

1419 1383.75 1350.75 1289.75 1248 1253.50 1258.75

1356.25 1337.75 1313.50 1262 1223.50 1229.75 1235.50

1413 +51.25 1379.25 +35.50 1339.25 +22 1273.25 +8.25 1231.75 +3.75 1237.75 +3.75 1243.25 +4

WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel May 13 Jul 13 Sep 13 Dec 13 Mar 14 May 14 Jul 14

716 720.50 727.25 740.50 752.25 758 763.25

688 693.75 702.75 717.50 732.50 739.50 746

714.75 719.50 725.25 738.75 752.25 758 760

82.22 88.25 90.75 90.77 91.05 82.07 79.50

80.17 86.60 89.00 89.12 89.32 80.55 78.07

125.85 120.75 121.40 125.10 126.72 127.80 128.82

-.17 -.75 -.85 -1.60 -1.33 -1.70 -1.55

82.22 87.37 89.90 89.90 89.97 80.95 78.35

+2.20 +.47 +.20 +.35 +.30 -.40 +.05

85.58 87.62 86.34 86.62 86.34 86.12 86.07

-1.21 -.95 -.37 -1.31 -.37 -.51 -.51

COTTON 2 50,000 lbs.- cents per lb. +15.75 +15.25 +13 +13.75 +14 +11.75 +9.25

May 13 Jul 13 Sep 13 Oct 13 Dec 13 Mar 14 May 14

87.39 89.15 ... 88.20 87.48 87.23 86.40

83.46 85.49 ... 85.63 84.67 84.74 85.70

Tables show seven most current contracts for each future. Grains traded on Chicago Board of Trade; livestock on Chicago Mercantile Exchange; and cotton on New York Cotton Exchange.

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CI LB LB LB LB LG MA IH LG LB WS LB CA LB LV LV

Total Assets ($Mlns) NAV 179,913 90,136 75,168 67,969 66,504 63,448 61,520 61,154 59,872 56,766 49,016 47,765 45,597 45,547 44,907 43,024

11.32 39.80 145.60 39.82 146.54 84.65 19.38 56.19 37.70 145.61 40.07 33.43 2.34 39.82 136.46 34.63

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NL 1,000,000 NL 3,000 NL 5,000,000 NL 10,000 NL 10,000 NL 2,500 5.75 250 5.75 250 5.75 250 NL200,000,000 5.75 250 5.75 250 4.25 1,000 NL 5,000,000 NL 2,500 5.75 250

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CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, ES -Europe Stock, FB -Foreign Large Blend, FG -Foreign LargeGrowth, FV -Foreign Large Value, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MV - Mid-Cap Value, SH -Specialty-heath, WS -World Stock, Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. Source: Morningstar. Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late filing with SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee. f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous dayâ€™s net asset value. s = fund split shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week.Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to be listed in tables at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.

Important Message to: Contractors, Excavator Equipment Operators, Surveyors, Public Officials, Homeowners & Associations, Schools, Property Owners, Emergency Responders, Planning & Zoning Offices.

April 2013 has been designated as National Safe Digging Month and Corinth Gas & Water Department is dedicated to increasing the awareness of safe digging practices in our city and county. All persons preparing to dig must call Mississippi 811 two days prior to the beginning of any work. Underground facilities will be marked using the color code system and then work may proceed. Every digging job requires a call whether you are planning to do it yourself or hiring a professional. The depth of utility lines varies and there may be multiple utility lines in a common area. Digging without calling can disrupt service to an entire neighborhood, harm you and those around you and potentially result in fines and repair costs. Calling 811 before every digging job gets your underground utility lines marked for free and helps prevent undesired consequences.

Remember, itâ€™s the law! CITY OF CORINTH GAS & WATER DEPARTMENT 305 W Waldron St. Corinth, MS 38834

Phone: 662-286-2263 www.corinthgasandwater.com

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