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Foul shooting lifts Flowers past Roosevelt
by Ted Black
Staff Writer

With his team trailing visiting Charles H. Flowers by 10 points midway through the fourth quarter, Eleanor Roosevelt High School boys basketball coach Brendan O’Connell could no longer allow his players to sit back in a zone defense and watch the Jaguars pass the ball around the perimeter for 40 seconds or more on each possession.
After Roosevelt junior guard Trevor Evans hit a 3-pointer to narrow the Raiders’ deficit to 36-29 with a little less than 4 minutes to play, Roosevelt applied serious pressure to the Flowers guards. Within a matter of minutes the Raiders had reduced the Jaguars’ lead to a single point at 36-35 on a steal and breakaway dunk by Tiwain Kendley that brought the crowd noise to a crescendo.
But over the last 2 minutes of play, Flowers’ David Barnes, Brandon Green, Darret Gorham and Kyle Jones-People combined to hit 11 of 14 foul shots to lift the Jaguars to a 47-42 victory in a Prince George’s County 4A League game in Greenbelt. Flowers (6-3 overall, 6-1 in the league) kept Roosevelt’s Chaun Miller in check and weathered the Raiders’ defensive pressure to hand the Raiders (7-3, 5-2) their first league loss since a 71-67 setback at DuVal last month.
“When you play a good team like Flowers you can’t wait that long to get started,” O’Connell said. “I thought their guards were a lot bigger and a lot tougher than our guards. They’re just a really good defensive team. We still have a lot of work to do. We felt pretty good at halftime [down 20-17]. They hit three jumpers to start the game, but they didn’t hit too many shots in the second quarter. We didn’t make many shots in the third quarter and you can’t wait that long to start playing when you’re facing a good team like that.”
During the last four minutes of the contest, as the Raiders continued to chip away at his team’s advantage and the crowd noise became much more vociferous, Flowers coach Billy Lanier became considerably more animated during each time out. But one thing he continued to stress to his players was they had to remain calm when they got to the foul line. Jones-People proceeded to hit all four of his free throws before Evans connected on another 3-pointer for Roosevelt to bring the Raiders within 44-42 with seven seconds remaining. But Green hit two foul shots with 6.5 seconds left to seal the win for Flowers.
“I thought we could have done a better job of taking care of the basketball in the last 4 minutes,” Lanier said. “We made some mistakes and had a few turnovers and they got back in it. But anytime you can beat the defending region champions on their home floor it’s a nice win. It doesn’t get any easier for us [Thursday] when we host Suitland because [Roddy] Peters is probably the best guard in the county.”
“I just knew I had to stay calm,” Green said of his last two free throws. “I made the first one and then I didn’t take a good shot on the second one but it went in. It was a big win for us. The defense was the key. We didn’t give up too many easy baskets.”
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Flowers 47, Roosevelt 42
Flowers 13 7 14 13 — 47
Roosevelt 7 10 7 18 — 42
Flowers: David Barnes 7, Brandon Green 8, Kyle Jones-People 12, Darret Gorham 8, Kofi Andoh 8, Reggie Sidbury 4.
Roosevelt: Chaun Miller 4, Tiwain Kendley 11, Malachi Alexander 7, B.J. Antoine 6, Trevor Evans 9, Jesse Ason 5.

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JACKSON — DeSoto County is perfectly positioned to benefit from new Gov. Phil Bryant’s emphasis on education and its influence on job creation, state Sen. Merle Flowers said Tuesday.

Flowers, an Olive Branch Republican and early supporter of Bryant’s gubernatorial campaign, said DeSoto County has everything it needs to attract new jobs.

During his inaugural address Tuesday, Bryant stressed, among other things, the importance of education and a skilled work force in attracting economic development projects and associated jobs.

“First, our most important work is making sure that Mississippians have work,” Bryant said.

Flowers noted that DeSoto County has the state’s largest school district, a new hospital under construction in the eastern part of the county, has the Interstate 69 and I-55 highways and is well-suited as a distribution and warehousing center.

“With all those factors in place, we are ripe for a major manufacturing company to locate in DeSoto County. And I believe it’s coming,” Flowers said following Bryant’s speech.

“The governor’s committed to DeSoto County job creation. We’re in that top tier. When they look at the 82 counties, DeSoto County is full of bounty for new jobs.”

It doesn’t hurt that DeSoto County strongly supported Bryant, a Republican.

“Our people are skilled and well-educated, and I believe DeSoto County will be one of the top tier locations in the next couple of years as companies locate and the governor directs traffic of where those companies ought to take a look,” Flowers said.

DeSoto County’s unemployment rate was 6.9 percent compared to the statewide rate of 9.7 percent in November, the latest figures available.

“With the governor making jobs his No. 1 priority, DeSoto County is well positioned to be the recipient of some of these Mississippi Development Authority projects in the private sector and recruiting and retaining jobs in north Mississippi,” Flowers said.

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BY MARTHA COERS

For years, red poinsettias have brightened Christmas seasons. There are other colors that those blossoms offer, but red and the holiday have long gone together.

Many potted ones have been used as gifts. No one thinks they should ever toss a gift, so what happens to those plants? People struggle to keep them watered and sitting in sunny windows.

Since red hearts connect with Valentine’s Day, which follows Christmas, I leave my outside fake poinsettias in place until Valentines give way to St. Patrick green.

But lots of folks try to plant the plants outside when it becomes warm or hang on to them another way. Once I peered into a nursing home’s greehouse. Guess what! It was full of ratty-looking poinsettias that had been given to the patients.

I have seen them in home windows when tulips start to brighten flower beds. When my guy and I went north for spring fishing, I saw those red blossoms sitting in windows in Wisconsin.

Coers, a lifelong resident of Shelby County, has recorded many historical events in her memoirs, “When Lit Goes Off With A Bang!” which is available at Grover Museum, 52 W. Broadway St.

For a while, I tried using Christmas cactus plants, but my timing would be off. Mine would always bloom just in time for Easter, looking odd beside lilies.

Professionals have timed the growth of their plants to a science. They want them blooming just as Thanksgiving gives way to the big time.

After I gave up on cactuses, I bought pink or white poinsettias to carry further into the year.

But maybe we should all think as we do about Christmas trees. We do not keep them when they shatter. Can’t we let ourselves pitch the plants at the same time, or else use fake flowers in the first place?!

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Dear Ted: Now that Beyoncé and Jay-Z ‘s baby girl is finally here, do you think the rumors surrounding her fake pregnancy will die down? Was Hollywood questioning this baby bump as much as the public? —BD2

Dear Postpartum Blue(s): People will keep whispering for a while—especially if Bey drops the baby weight likethat, which I bet seriously moolah she will. But it’ll die down eventually, especially after B and Blue make a few trips out on the town doing normal mama-daughter stuff. As for the rumors, yes, Hollywood was in on that action.

Dear Ted: Would you consider Leonardo DiCaprio and Erin Heatherton to be serious? Or is he just trying to make Blake Lively jealous since she replaced him with a younger and hotter actor? I think it’s the latter… —e

READ: Beyoncé and Jay-Z Welcome a Baby Daughter—and Her Name Is…

Dear On to the Next One: Serious?! Ha! Don’t make me laugh, babe. And as for the jealousy factor, even though Blakey is definitely winning this split—what with her smoochin’ on Ryan Reynolds and whatnot—this model biz is just par for the course for Leo. It’s got nothing to do with B.L.

Dear Ted: Maybe I’m the only one who thinks this, but Britney Spears does not look like a happily engaged woman to me. Her smiles seem forced and her body language is stiff. That and her fiancé looks awkward next to her. Do you think this engagement is for real? Do you think she will go through with the wedding? My rescue golden retriever Harley says hi! —Lola

Dear Shotgun Wedding: Brit-Brit never looks as comfortable as she once did when she’s forced to show off her pearly whites for the camera. Which is what’s happening here, I think. Because all I’ve heard from sources close to Camp Spears is how happy Britster is and how good the twosome is together .

Dear Ted: You’ll probably think I’m a perv but I was bummed to read here on E! that Magic Mike will have no full-frontal. Women have been showing it off forever and it’s about time that the men do it too. Is this sudden shyness due to the studio’s fear of an NC-17 rating or is it because we ladies would get to see who’s got the right stuff and who doesn’t? Just wondering. —Bryn

Dear Don’t Give Up Yet: One source said there isn’t going to be any full-frontal in Magic Mike, B, but I’ve heard contrary . So I’m keeping my hope alive that the days of gals showing it off while guys gets to be all modest and covered up are over. It’s about damn time, after all.

Dear Ted: What do you think of the news that TomStu and Sienna Miller are preggers? Do you think they’ll get married? The baby will be lucky to have an Aunty Kristen Stewart and Uncle Robert Pattinson! —Sue

Dear First Comes Love: Then comes baby… then comes marriage? That’s not how the old nursery rhyme goes but it’s certainly not unusual these days in T-town. But just because Sienna is apparently preggo does not mean these two are rushing down the aisle.

Dear Ted: I was wondering if there are any gay PR reps who ask their gay but not out clients to stay in the closet. If so, the hypocrisy burns my shorts. —Sun Flower

Dear Of Course: This town was built on hypocritical crapola like that.

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The film was shot in Jeffersonville and Memphis, Ind., and Sonora, Ky., over the course of 13 months, ending in April 2011.

“We shot primarily on Sundays, three times a month,” he said. The film takes place over a three-week period, “but we went through three different seasons while we were filming. We just worked with whatever obstacles we had.”

Holding down a full-time job, Brewer also had to work around his actors’ schedules. “They’ve got other activities — stuff you’ve got to deal with, especially when you’re not paying these people.”

“You brought us McDonald’s and pizza,” chimed in Meadow Ryann Drollinger, 12, one of the three young actresses in the film.

Brewer said he was amazed at the connections he was able to make while creating his film. “I met a lot of people who were happy to offer advice or help out in some way.”

One of those people was violinist and composer Noah Sorota, who has written and performed for feature films including “Clash of the Titans,” “X-Men: First Class” and “The Three Musketeers.”

Mark Maxwell of Mom’s Music encouraged Brewer to contact Sorota.

“I figured the worst thing that can happen is I’ll get a ‘No,’ ” Brewer said. Instead, he got six pieces of music for his film, with Sorota asking only for screen credit. “I feel very fortunate to be associated with somebody of that caliber.”

“This thing’s gone a lot farther than we thought it would,” said Brewer’s wife, Shonna. “Once it was finished and I saw the finished product, it was so much better than I could have imagined. I thought he was playing with his buddies making a home movie of sorts. It’s awesome.”

About 300 guests turned out to the premiere, and Brewer also answered questions from the crowd.

Meadow and Ray performed a duet of “Nothing in the Flowers” by Company of Thieves, a song that appears in the film but was not written for it.

Brewer came across the song while searching the Internet to make sure his title was available after changing it from “Lost But Not Found.”

“The first thing that came up was their song,” he said. “The chorus says, ‘lost and found and nothing’s in the flowers.’ I was blown away.”

To cap off the evening, Demi Demaree, founding member of the Villebillies, made his first appearance as a solo artist.

Brewer said he was pleased with the audience’s response to his film. “I got the response I was looking for,” he said. “It was a little overwhelming because of the amount of people coming up to me after.”

“I think he did great,” Ray said. “He surrounded himself with some really smart, creative people. More than anything, I think it’s (the film) going to be a calling card for all of us.”

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The Grinch better stay near Whoville, because he’s got nothing on South Heights Elementary School.

Why’s that? Well, let’s just say that the school on Madison Street was alive with the Christmas spirit on Tuesday.

And that’s why second-grader Chance Bentley was standing with a basketball on his hip and an ornament in his hand in the school’s gym.

Ahem. Sorry. The gym, on Tuesday, was Santa’s Treasure Island Mall, and that’s where staff members like Audra Coursey, a music teacher, and Nancy Toombs, custodial supervisor, worked to help the students purchase Christmas gifts with “Dolphin dollars” the kids had earned with good behavior.

Take Taegan Kelchner, 6, who was standing in line to have her gifts wrapped when she was spotted holding a beautiful artificial flower bed in a basket that she planned to give to her mother.

“It has pink and purple flowers” and her mother loves those colors, the first-grader said.

Kelchner had earned a total of 600 Dolphin dollars to use on Christmas gifts this year. Dolphin dollars, it turns out, aren’t just given away for nothing, either. Students who earn Dolphin dollars do so after scoring well on Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) tests and for behaving in class, among other things.

Madeline Smith, 6, purchased a

bear, makeup, a bag for her makeup and a slushie with the 800 Dolphin dollars she had earned. All but the slushie are gifts she plans to give to her parents and two cousins, but don’t tell anyone, OK?

Besides, when a kindergartner tells you what she got her loved ones for Christmas and she does so while wearing an orange-and-pink slushie mustache, you can’t help but smile.

“It’s been great,” Coursey said. “The students have learned to budget their money.”

She said the first thing the students did when they arrived in Santa’s Treasure Island Mall on Tuesday was to walk through all the little “stores” with items for sale.

Then they identified what they wanted to purchase and staff members and volunteers helped the students figure out if they had enough money for everything on their list.

These items, which included ornaments, toy trucks and more, were gently used and/or donated by staff and community members, said Principal Rob Carroll. One Life Church was a major partner this year.

The students were encouraged to purchase items for their family members first and then to shop for themselves.

“This is our Christmas economics lesson, but it’s great fun,” Coursey said.

Carroll added that Treasure Island sales like this usually take place every two weeks at the school to give students a chance to make use of the Dolphin dollars they earn.

But the Santa’s Treasure Island Mall was much bigger and more elaborate because it was the first one since around Thanksgiving.

Carroll said that gave students a chance to save up their Dolphin dollars to buy Christmas gifts.

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At first glance, Personhood USA seems like the perfect vehicle to boost Republican turnout just like banning gay marriage did in 2004. But Sarah Flowers, the lead consultant to the campaign that stopped Personhood USA in Mississippi last November thinks she’s found the silver bullet to stop them: having honest conversations with voters.

I know. At first I thought she was crazy, too.

In an effort not only to ban abortion but also to defeat Barack Obama, Personhood USA is working in 17 states to bestow civil rights on fertilized eggs and to protect them in the criminal code. Initially, this idea appeals strongly to pro-life voters, but that support quickly fractures when people start talking to each other about what it would mean.

“They think that it could be a good turnout model, but it actually isn’t,” Flowers told me recently in between conference calls. “The more conversations you have, the more it’s person to person, the stronger it is on our side.”

Flowers spends a lot of time on conference calls these days trying to replicate her success in Mississippi, which is the last place in America you’d expect a pro-life initiative to fail. Initiative 26, backed by Personhood USA, went from a 31-point lead in early polling to a 16-point loss two months later.

Personhood USA losing a pro-life ballot initiative in Mississippi was the biggest upset since the Miracle on Ice in 1980.

The “No on 26″ campaign did something rare in American politics. They ignored traditional partisan fault lines and respected the religious views of voters. Instead of paternalistic badgering bent on making voters submit, the “No on 26″ campaign struck up conversations “to meet them where they were,” said Flowers.

This required the “No on 26″ campaign in Mississippi to train every volunteer not only in non-confrontational conversation techniques but also to equip them to have informed discussions about human reproduction. What resulted from all of these conversations was what Flowers proudly called “the most sophisticated, largest sex-ed conversation Mississippi has ever seen.”

“No on 26″ sent trained volunteers to evangelical churches and the state fair to start conversations about sex. They would talk not in contrived town halls but in pews and checkout lines. Sometimes people would call them baby killers and stomp off. But other times they would get people out of their partisan trenches and into the unclaimed territory of mutual understanding and respect. Like I said, groundbreaking stuff.

“What pro-life means to every person who says they’re pro-life is different,” said Flowers. “This is personal. It’s about what happens in doctors rooms, in bedrooms, in marriages.”

While conservative voters approached personhood as an abortion issue, conversations got them thinking about their lives. Doctors worried about committing a crime if they didn’t know whether an unconscious patient was pregnant. Religious leader opposed the idea of the criminal code interfering with their counseling.

“This issue brings out a lot of protectiveness that fathers feel toward their daughters and husbands feel for their wives,” said Flowers who cited a nightmarish list of what-ifs that included detached placentas and ectopic pregnancies. These men did not want the criminal code to prevent doctors from saving the lives of their daughters and wives.

But the personhood movement has also exposed how much hormonal birth control has become an established part of life. Flowers cited statistics that 80% of women use the pill or other forms of hormonal birth control at some point during their reproductive years. The personhood movement pegs the start of life at an egg’s fertilization, and because some types of hormonal birth control prevents that egg from implanting in the lining of the uterus, passing the personhood amendment would probably ban birth control.

Flowers said their polling showed this was an “incredibly unpopular” idea. The prospect of banning the pill even struck pro-life Mississippians as big government run amok. Among women, it struck a “you have got to be kidding me” note.  Pro-life men hated the government intrusion.

Husbands, said Flowers, had another reaction that dealt with “the condom part. In some cases, men would make the association that no birth control pills mean condoms or no sex.”

Losing in Mississippi has not slowed Personhood USA. Flowers has to devote a big chunk of her professional life to playing “whack-a-mole” everywhere this comes up.

“In state after state we’re going to have to do that same education effort,” said Flowers.

And that means a lot more honest conversations with real people.

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Reno, NV– (KRNV and mynews4.com)– Expert gardeners say they’ve
never seen anything like it: Daffodils and irises are already
poking through the soil, months before they’re supposed to.

Not surprisingly, the unseasonably warm weather is to
blame.

“It’s very strange,” said Wendy Hanson Mazet, a master gardener
program coordinator with the Cooperative Extension. “I’ve lived
here 25 years and I’ve never seen Slide Mountain without snow in
January.

“It’s very odd.”

She says gardeners should water flowers every few weeks in an
effort to make up for the moisture they would normally be
receiving at this time of year. John Bruyn, “The Plant Doctor” at
Moana Nursery, says gardeners should put a layer of mulch over
sprouting plants in order to regulate the temperatures around
them, and add some much-needed moisture.

For more information, contact the Cooperative Extension at (775)
784-4848.

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Jan 10, 2012; 2:08 PM ET

All-America Selections is a non-profit organization that tests newly developed seed-grown varieties of bedding plants and vegetables in garden plots all across the United States. Duplicating conditions in the average home garden, the testing program is independent and unbiased. AAS Winners have been introduced each year since 1933, and AAS continues as the oldest, most established international testing organization in North America.

Dan Gill shares some of his thoughts on the up and coming flowers and veggies to try…

As always, the 2012 AAS Winners were judged in side-by-side comparison tests with standard varieties and were selected based entirely on the plants’ performance. Only those few varieties that demonstrate unique new characteristics, exceptional productivity and superior garden performance make the All-America Selections list each year.

So when it comes to bedding plants and vegetables, those that are All-America Selection Winners are generally considered good choices. That’s not to say that every winner is going to be an outstanding choice for Louisiana, and we may use them differently than gardeners in other parts of the country. For 2012, four winners have been named.

AAS Flower Award Winner: Ornamental Pepper Black Olive

The AAS Judges said Black Olive ornamental pepper (Capsicum annuum Black Olive) was a standout, especially in the southern trial gardens where heat was a major presence during the 2011 trials. The plants grow to be about 18 to 20 inches tall and 12 to 15 inches wide.

All season long this beauty keeps its upright habit with nicely draping leaves and dark purple/black fruit that appear in small clusters along the stems. As summer progresses, the fruits mature to red, giving a beautiful contrast against the dark purple foliage and bright purple flowers. The fruit is edible, but be careful. Like most ornamental peppers, the fruits are fiery hot. I think they make a nice hot pepper vinegar to go with cooked greens. Plants will perform best in full sun and can be grown in garden beds or containers. You can even cut branches to use as cut flowers in mixed bouquets.

AAS Bedding Plant Award Winner: Salvia Summer Jewel Pink

Last summer, Summer Jewel Red salvia was an AAS winner. Summer Jewel Pink salvia (Salvia coccinia Summer Jewel Pink) is similar with delicate pink flowers. Both of these salvias have performed very well in trials at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station. This salvia will thrive in beds or containers in full to part sun. Once established, they are fairly drought tolerant.

Summer Jewel Pink salvia is a dwarf-sized, compact plant that is notable for its prolific production of spikes of delicate pink flowers throughout the growing season. The plants grow to be about 15 to 20 inches tall and about 10 to 15 inches wide. The foliage is an attractive mid-green and is slightly fuzzy.

You can purchase transplants from local nurseries this spring or grow transplants yourself from seed. As a bonus, when grown from seeds, the blooms appear almost two weeks earlier than the other pink salvias used as comparisons. Its compact growth and early blooming are major reasons it is the Bedding Plant Award Winner for 2012.

The flowers are rich in nectar, and the hummingbirds love pink just as much as they do red! Summer Jewel Pink, along with Summer Jewel Red, is an excellent choice for hummingbird and butterfly gardens.

AAS Vegetable Award Winner: Pepper Cayennetta F1

If you love the spicy flavor of peppers but don’t want so much heat, consider growing the new Cayennetta pepper (Capsicum annuum Cayennetta). It is an excellent tasting, mildly spicy pepper that is easy to grow. This variety produces chili peppers about 3 to 4 inches long on a compact, well branched upright plant. The tapered, bayonet-shaped fruit start off green, mature bright red and are produced in great quantities.

Plants produce best with eight hours or more of direct sun (full sun) and grow to be about 24 inches tall and about 20 inches wide. The plants generally require no staking, which would make Cayennetta pepper a great choice for container or patio gardens.

A unique character of this variety is that it has good cold tolerance. This is important for gardeners planting as early as possible in spring and a good characteristic for late-summer plantings for fall production. Also notable is the dense foliage cover that protects the fruits from sun scorch. And it handled extreme heat very well.

This pepper is an all-around good choice no matter where you’re gardening. Market growers will benefit from the heavy yield and prolific fruit set from each plant. Everyone will love the excellent pepper flavor that outshone all the comparison varieties.

AAS Vegetable Award Winner: Watermelon Faerie F1

Faerie is a non-traditional watermelon because of its appearance. It has an unusual creamy yellow rind with thin stripes instead of the more traditional green or green-striped varieties. Yet it still yields sweet pink-red flesh with a high sugar content and crisp texture. Home gardeners will like growing something unique in their garden and the fact that the vigorous vines spread only to 11 feet means it takes up less space in the garden. Each 7- to 8-inch fruit weighs only four to six pounds, making it a perfect family-size melon. Gardeners will appreciate the disease and insect tolerance as well as the prolific fruit set that starts early and continues throughout the season.

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