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BATON ROUGE – State Representative Regina Barrow (D-Baton Rouge) caught a (CATS) city bus from Earl K. Long Medi-cal Center, located at 5825 Airline Highway, to Siegen Lane, and walking from the Siegen Lane bus stop to the New Women’s Hospital facility, located at 9637 Jefferson Highway. The bus stop on Siegen Lane and marks the closest stop to the hospital via city bus. Rep. Barrow’s walk for awareness is targeted at the lack of accessibility to vital health care facilities through public trans-portation. The struggle to reach proper health care is a serious issue, especially with Louisiana ranking forty-ninth nationally in infant mortality. Rep. Barrow made her journey from Earl K. Long to Women’s Hospital on,
BY GEORGE E. CURRYNNPA Editor-in-Chief
WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Rejecting calls for him to move closer toward his Republican critics, a confident President Barack H. Obama kicked off his second term on Monday by making an impassioned plea for a more inclusive America.
“It is not our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began,” Obama said in his inaugural speech. “For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a liv-ing equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly cre-ated equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.
“Our journey is not com-plete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of op-portunity – until bright young students and engineers are en-listed in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the
streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.”
Obama’s speech repre-sented a clear shift from four years ago when the newly-elected president optimisti-cally thought that he could in-ject civility and common sense into Washington’s contentious politics. After being rebuffed by opponents who placed poli-tics ahead of the interests of the country – including taking it to the brink of a self-inflicted financial cliff – President Obama boldly shifted gears Monday by sketching a progressive vision and signaling a willingness to fight for it.
“For now decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay,” he stated. “We cannot mistake absolutism for princi-ple, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect. We must act, know-ing that today’s victories will be only partial and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years and 40 years and 400 years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia hall.”
Obama, the nation’s first
African-American president, was sworn in on the day the nation observed the annual fed-eral holiday to honor the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was sworn in on a black leather traveling Bible used by King that was topped by a smaller one
owned by President Abraham Lincoln. And he referenced both men as he declared Americans “are made for this moment.”
The direct link between the nation’s first Black president and the observance of King’s birthday underscores how far
this country has progressed since the assassination of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) president and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1968.
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RAINS MAY HURT CRAWFISH SEASONAs Mardi Gras gets closer, many in Louisiana look forward to consum-ing their favorite crustacean, the crawfish. While it is still very early in the season, there have been in-dicators that this year’s supply will be improved...See Page 2
COOKIE PACKAGING GETS NEW FACELIFTThe new packaging showcases the five financial literacy and en-trepreneurship skills that the Girl Scouts Program teaches girls...See Page 4
HOMEGOING OF RICHARD TURNLEYFuneral services are scheduled Sat-urday for Richard Turnley Jr., the first black member elected to the Louisi-ana House of Representatives from Baton Rouge in modern times and a founder of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus....See Page 6
On Saturday, January 19, 2013 New Birth Full Gospel Ministries held a Prayer Breakfast for the Church’s anniversary that coming up on the first Sunday, March 3, 2013...See Page 7
THE NEW BIRTH FULL GOSPEL PRAYER BREAKFAST HEALTH NEWSA report from the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention finds the Baton Rouge metro area ranks second among major United States metro areas for new HIV infection diagnoses....See Page 6
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Councilwoman Ronnie Edwards would like to invite District 5 residents to attend the upcoming Citizens Advisory Council Meeting on Monday, January 28th at 6pm. The meet-ing will be held at the Delmont Service Center, located at 3535 Riley St.
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Obama Opens Second Term with a Bold Return to his Base
President Obama is sworn in for his second term.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the 2013 Presidential Inaugural Ball.
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Regina Ashford Barrow Walks For Awareness
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BY CRAIG GAUTREAUX CROWLEY, LA – As Mardi
Gras gets closer, many in Loui-siana look forward to consum-ing their favorite crustacean, the crawfish. While it is still very early in the season, there have been indicators that this year’s supply will be improved when compared to last year’s.
One potential problem, though, is the recent heavy rain that has struck Louisiana. Flooding can dampen produc-tion several ways, according to Ray McClain, LSU AgCenter crawfish researcher.
“Flooding can lead to increased submerging of the vegetation. Vegetation that normally fragments over time tends to collapse when flooded. As temperatures warm later in the season, this vegetation stock-piled on the bottom starts de-composing, leading to possible low dissolved oxygen,” McClain said.
Excessive flooding can cause other issues that decrease production. Levees being over-topped can allow crawfish to escape the pond and introduce crawfish-eating fish. If heavy winds accompany the flooding rains, levees can be damaged, causing producers to make time-consuming and costly repairs.
Although these flooding incidents may be limited at this time, the extended forecast calls for more rain.
The timely rains over the course of the past summer and fall increased crawfish survival rates in their burrows and fa-cilitated emergence from their burrows. This increased survival generally indicates a better brood hatch in the early fall, McClain said.
“Last year we were not as dry as the previous year dur-ing the hot summer months, and this usually means more young crawfish emerge with the op-portunity to reach market size,”
McClain said.Crawfish supply typically
peaks in mid-April to mid-May when farm-raised production peaks and catches from the wild begin. The wild season is de-pendent upon the spring flood of the Mississippi. With much of the West and Midwest still experiencing dry conditions, the wild season is uncertain.
Warm temperatures in November and December con-tributed to increased growth op-portunity for those hatchlings, McClain said.
“For those farmers actively fishing during this time, the qual-ity of the catch was good for that time of the year,” McClain said. He noted that most producers fishing during November and December were fishing perma-
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Sena-tor Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., has named Donald Cravins, Jr., a for-mer state legislator from South-west Louisiana, as her new chief of staff. Cravins will switch roles on Jan. 15 with current Chief of Staff Jane Campbell, who will take over as staff director of the Senate Small Business and Entre-preneurship Committee.
“Both Don and Jane are ex-cited for their new roles,” Sen. Landrieu said. “Don is a Louisi-ana native who knows and loves our state, brings tremendous expertise as a former elected of-ficial himself and looks forward to serving Louisiana in this new capacity. Jane has done a tremen-dous job as my chief of staff and will bring a fresh perspective to the Small Business Committee where she will be working to de-velop a new tax code designed to help create new small businesses and enable existing small busi-nesses to expand.”
“I am honored by the trust Sen. Landrieu has placed in me in selecting me as her chief of staff. Together, we will continue building on the important work she does everyday, fighting and winning for the people of Loui-siana. We have a great team in place and much work before us, and I’m proud to continue
working with Sen. Landrieu to serve the people of our state,” said Cravins.
“I look forward to serving as Staff Director for the Senate Small Business Committee. As we continue to work to strengthen our economy, the creativity of American entrepreneurs is vital. We look forward to finding com-mon ground with our partners across the aisle to build the best support for small business pos-sible,” said Campbell.
Cravins, who will become the second African American Chief of Staff currently serving in the Senate, joined Sen. Landrieu’s team in 2009 as staff director and chief counsel of the United States Senate Committee on Small Busi-
ness and Entrepreneurship. In that role, he oversaw all activities of the committee including super-vising its staff, developing policy and legislation affecting small businesses throughout America and advising Sen. Landrieu and the 19 senators who sit on the committee about issues before the committee.
Since 1998, Cravins, 40, has been a practicing attorney. In 2004, he was elected to the Louisiana House of Represen-tatives. At that time, he and his father, Louisiana State Senator Don Cravins, Sr., made Louisiana history by becoming the first and only father and son to serve in the Louisiana Legislature at the same time. In 2006, Cravins was elected to the Louisiana Senate for the seat vacated by his father, and reelected in 2008 with more than 70 percent of the vote. In 2008, Cravins ran for Congress in the 7th Congressional District of Louisiana. In March 2012, Don completed five months of active duty officer basic training with the United States Army. Upon completion, Don began service as a Judge Advocate with the Loui-siana Army National Guard.
Don graduated from Loui-siana State University with a degree in political science and attended the Southern University Law Center, where he graduated with honors in 1998. Upon gradu-ation from law school and while studying for the Louisiana bar
exam, Cravins served as the dep-uty campaign manager for former U.S. Senator John Breaux. He and his wife, Attorney Yvette Puck-ett Cravins, have three children: Dominique Claire, 13; Trey, 11; and Chloe Denise, 2. The Cravins reside in Washington, D.C., and Opelousas, La.
Jane Campbell, 59, joined Sen. Landrieu as her chief of staff in January 2009. The two met in 1985 when they were both the youngest women elected to their respective legislatures. Campbell’s public service ca-reer included six terms in the Ohio House of Representatives, where she focused on economic development financing, child welfare and health and human services policy. She was elected in 1995 as the president of the National Conference of State Legislatures. She went on to be-come a county commissioner in Ohio’s largest county and while in office managed the imple-mentation of welfare reform that moved more than 20,000 families from welfare into work. In 2001, Campbell was elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. In ex-tremely difficult financial times, she restored fiscal stability and integrity to the city by reduc-ing the size of the municipal workforce and establishing City Stat—a measurement system to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the work of city government.
Landrieu Names Don Cravins Jr. Chief of Staff Cravins Moving from Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
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Heavy Rains May Hurt Crawfish Season
Although King did not live to see the election of an African-American to the nation’s high-est office, he predicted in 1964 that a Black would be elected president of the United States. In an interview with the BBC, King was asked to comment on a statement by then New York Senator-elect Robert F. Kennedy that it might be possible to elect a Black president in 40 years.
“I’ve seen levels of compli-ance with the civil rights bill and changes that have been most surprising,” King said. “So, on the basis of this, I think we may be able to get a Negro president in less than 40 years. I would think that this could come in 25 years or less.”
Obama’s election came 44 years after King’s statement and four years longer than what Robert Kennedy had envisioned. Standing in the shadows of a U.S. Capitol built by slave labor, Barack Obama expressed much more self-assurance Monday than he had four years ago.
“We do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few,” the president said. “We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us at any time may face a job loss, or a sudden ill-ness, or a home swept away in a terrible storm. The commit-ments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great.”
The reference to a nation of takers was a direct rebuttal to Mitt Romney’s telling a group of donors that 47 percent of Ameri-cans are “dependent on gov-ernment” and would “vote for the president no matter what.” Ironically, Romney received 47 percent of the popular vote in his losing effort against Obama.
The president indicated he plans to move the U.S. away from “perpetual war” and will take on tough issues such as immigration reform and cli-mate change. Obama became the first president to link the 1839 Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights, the 1965 Selma-Montgomery, Ala. vot-ing rights march and the 1969 Stonewall movement that put gay rights center stage.
He said, “We, the people, declare today that the most evi-dent of truths –- that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.”
President Obama used “we the people” — the opening words of the U.S. Constitution — five times during his 18 1/2 minute speech.
Although attendance at the inauguration was expected to be half of the record 1.8 million four years ago, it appeared that Monday’s figures will probably exceed previous estimates. One official said there were prob-ably more than 1 million in attendance on the National Mall. That would still rank ahead of 400,000 George W. Bush drew at the beginning of his second term and more than Bill Clinton’s 800,000 in 1993. Four years ago, Obama exceeded the then-record 1.2 million who saw Lyndon B. Johnson inaugurated in 1965.
After the inauguration, the Obamas led a parade proces-sion that included 59 groups with 8,800 people from the Capitol approximately 1.6 miles down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. The president and the first lady exited their limousine near 9th Street, N.W. and walked for three blocks, returning the waves and cheers of excited onlookers, before re-turning to the motorcade.
President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their families watched the remainder of the parade from the glass-encased official review stand in front of the White House facing Lafayette Park.
Later, they danced at two
private balls in the Walter E. Washington Convention Cen-ter, down from the 10 held in their honor four years ago. At each ball, they slow-danced as they were being serenaded by fellow Chicagoan Jennifer Hudson, who sang Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together,” a tune the president had belted last year at the Apollo Theater in Harlem to display his vocal talent.
As usual, all eyes were on First Lady Michele Obama as onlookers waited to see what fashion designer she would elevate to international atten-tion. She surprised everyone by selecting Jason Wu, the same designer she used for the first inauguration. The first lady came on stage at the Commander-in-Chief’s Ball in a dazzling ankle-length ruby-colored chiffon dress.
Alicia Keyes was no fashion slouch, wearing a red backless dress as she played the piano and sang, “Obama’s on firrrrrre!”
Earlier, Beyoncé Knowles stirred the inauguration crowd with her rendition of the Na-tional Anthem. However, the The Times of London reported — and other news outlets later confirmed — that she lip-synced the National Anthem.
According to the New York Times, a spokesman for the Ma-rine Band said it is routine for musicians to record music for the inauguration in case the weather prevents them from keeping their instruments in tune. The Times said Col. Mi-chael J. Colburn, the band direc-tor, received orders from event organizers to use the backup track just before Beyoncé was scheduled to sing live.
“We don’t know why,” Sgt. Kristin duBois told the New York Times. “But that’s what we were instructed to do so that is what we did. It’s not because Beyoncé can’t sing. We all know Beyoncé can sing. We all know the Marine Band can play.”
The New York Times later updated its story after a differ-ent spokesman for the Marine Band said no one in the band had been in a position to know if Beyoncé had performed live. However, CNN confirmed ear-lier news reports that the singer had lip-synced the National Anthem.
Kelly Clarkson and all other program events were performed live.
On Monday, Obama be-came the second and probably last president to be sworn in four times. In 2009, Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts flubbed his lines at the official swearing in and do-over was completed the next day. This time, Roberts administered the oath of office in a flawless private ceremony Sunday because the Constitu-tion requires the president to be sworn in on Jan. 20; he repeated it in the public ceremony on Monday.
Reciting his oath Monday, it was President Obama’s turn to make a slight error. Instead of “United States,” he said, “United Sta –.” It didn’t mat-ter because the official oath had already been administered the day before.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was elected four times before presidents were limited to serving two terms, was the only other president to utter the presidential oath four times.
“… We, the people, under-stand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it,” Obama said. “We believe that Ameri-ca’s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a ris-ing middle class. We know that America thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work; when the wages of honest labor liber-ate families from the brink of hardship. We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, be-cause she is an American; she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.”
As he prepared to leave the U.S. Capitol, President Obama stopped and turned around. “I want to take a look one more time,” he said. “I’ll never see this again.”
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January 17, between 9-9:30 am. Rep. Barrow said, “This
is a serious issue, many individu-als that rely on our city’s public transportation system to get to, not only to the health care fa-cilities, but also to work, home, visiting relatives, etc…
Baton Rouge needs to be more aware of the need for reli-able transportation for those who count on it, and the first step is to make public transportation more accessible and efficient.
For a woman to walk from Siegen Lane to Women’s Hospi-tal, pregnant or otherwise, is not only excessive, it is also danger-ous, and I hope that this walk shines a light on a situation that has been long overlooked.”
For more information, please call 359-9400 or 359-9932.
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BATON ROUGE, LA – Recently the Twilight Lodge #166 collected over 130 lbs of
food and donated it to The Baton Rouge Food Bank.
The Baton Rouge Food Bank is one of the main serv-ers to the Baton Rouge com-
munity and surrounding area pantry. Because of the hard times people are depending more on the Food Bank for food.
The Louisiana Legislative Youth Advisory Council (LYAC) is now accepting applications for membership from high school students who have an interest in representing the voices of other young people around the state. LYAC is a yearly-appointed body composed entirely of students that address issues affecting the youth of Louisiana.
State lawmakers created LYAC in state law during the 2007 Regular Session. Its pur-pose is to facilitate the com-munication between youth and the legislature and to give students a unique opportunity to be involved in the workings of state government. The coun-
cil studies and addresses issues of importance to young people, including education, community service, employment, strategies to increase youth participation in government, safe environments for youth, substance abuse, underage drinking, and youth health and physical fitness, as well as other issues.
Members of the council are selected from a wide pool of ap-plicants from around the state who display a strong interest in civic involvement. The twenty-one-member body includes two student members selected from each of the congressional dis-tricts and at-large members. Ap-plicants must be between the
age of fourteen and nineteen and enrolled in a public or private high school, a home school, or participating in a GED skills program during the 2013-2014 school year.
The deadline for appli-cations is March 15, 2013. Ap-plicants may apply online or complete the PDF application and mail it to the address listed on the application. Both applica-tions may be accessed at http://civiced.louisiana.gov.
The 2013-2014 Legislative Youth Advisory Council will begin its work in June at the State Capitol. For additional informa-tion regarding the Council’s ac-tivities, call 225.342.6145.
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Shown in the photo from left to right is Kenny Marshal and Roosevelt McKnight kneeling. Standing in the photo from left to right be Donald Huggins; Dorian Demery, Master; Daniel Dukes; Percy Jackson, and Andrew Spears.
BY DEBRA L. EPHRON
BATON ROUGE, LA – Re-cently Delta Sigma Theta Soror-ity, Inc. celebrated 100 years of service to the nation on January 13, 2013. The Baton Rouge Sigma Alumnae Chapter joined chap-ters nationwide in paying trib-ute to their Founders and their commitment to public service. They have chosen to honor each decade by recognizing 10 citizens in each community who have
made a difference in the lives of people through their unself-ish service.
The Baton Rouge Weekly Press has been recognized for the service it has provided to the community for many years. They will celebrate the publica-tion at the their Founders Day program on Friday, February 1, 2013; along with other citizens that are being recognized for community service. The pro-gram will be held at the Baton
Rouge Sigma Life Development Center, which is located at 688 Harding Blvd. (across from the AW Mumford football stadium on Southern University campus), from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
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BATON ROUGE, LA – Loui-siana photographers who want to submit photographs for the LSU AgCenter 2014 Get It Growing Lawn and Garden Calendar have only a few weeks to enter.
February 1 is the deadline for sending their best photos of beautiful Louisiana flowers, plants, lawns and gardens. LSU AgCenter faculty members will select approximately 40 photo-graphs for the calendar, according to Elma Sue McCallum, project coordinator.
A dozen of the photos se-
lected for the 2014 calendar will be featured as full-page, color images for each monthly page in the calendar, and one will be used on the cover, McCallum said. The rest will be used throughout the calendar.
Photographers chosen for the monthly pages will receive 10 copies of the published calendar, and their names will be included with their photos, she said. Other photographers chosen will be credited and receive two copies of the published calendar.
Submissions must be high-resolution digital images on CD and submitted with a 2014 Call
for Entries form. All images must be photographed in Louisiana and the original work of the pho-tographer submitting the image. Photographers may submit up to 25 of their best gardening photographs. CDs will not be returned.
The deadline for submis-sions is Feb. 1, 2013, and the entry form is available online at www.LSUAgCenter.com/GetItGrow-ingCalendar. Entries must be mailed to Elma Sue McCallum, LSU AgCenter, 135 Knapp Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.
For more information, con-tact McCallum at 225-578-2462.
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nent ponds or ponds that were in crawfish production the pre-vious year, and catch at that time represented “hold-over,” or crawfish surviving from the previous season.
More crawfish farmers will
begin fishing as the hatchlings reach harvest size, and this ac-celerates as temperatures warm in early to mid-February in south Louisiana. McClain noted that with the Super Bowl in New Or-leans this year, there could be
even higher demand for crawfish because of the influx of visitors to the city.
Ray McClain can be reached at 337-788-7531 or on his cell at 337-296-6873. His email is [email protected]
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BATON ROUGE, LA – For the first time since 1999, all the boxes of Girl Scout Cookies will have a new look and purpose: to inspire consumers and en-gage them on the important role that Girl Scouts plays’ lives. The new packaging showcases the five financial literacy and entre-preneurship skills that the Girl Scouts Program teaches girls: goal setting, decision-making, money management, people skills, and business ethics. The sale, which is being held throughout southeast Louisi-ana’s 23 parishes from January 18 – March 17, has developed many female entrepreneurs since the program began in the early 20th century.
The new package design captures moments that show the power of girls working together as they engage in activities like greening a park, volunteering at a soup kitchen, and traveling to Paris. It also features the Green-Plam logo, which speaks to the organizational commitment to
addressing conservation and sustainability concerns related to Girl Scout Cookies.
“The Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest girl-led financial literacy program in the country,” said Alisha Moore, Vice President of Sales at Girl Scouts Louisiana East. “Last year, Girl Scouts in our local council sold nearly 1.25 million boxes of cookies, with 200 girls selling 500 boxes or more.”
Girl Scouts sells eight varieties include Thin Mints, Samoas, Trefoils, Tagalongs, Do-Si-Dos, Dulce de Leche, Thank You Berry Munch, and Savannah Smiles. Cookies are $4 per box upon delivery, and are preservative-free, kosher, with zero trans fat per serv-ing.
All Cookie proceeds re-mains within the council’s juris-diction, funding troop activities with the remainder helping the council to maintain properties, train and recruit volunteers, and support council initiatives.
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Are you tired of paying rent and want to own some-thing you can call your own? Call the Homeownership Cen-ter and learn about the process of buying a home.
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WASHINGTON — The In-ternal Revenue Service today announced a simplified option that many owners of home-based businesses and some home-based workers may use to figure their deductions for the business use of their homes.
In tax year 2010, the most recent year for which figures are available, nearly 3.4 million taxpayers claimed deductions for business use of a home (com-monly referred to as the home office deduction).
The new optional de-duction, capped at $1,500 per year based on $5 a square foot for up to 300 square feet, will reduce the paperwork and re-cordkeeping burden on small businesses by an estimated 1.6 million hours annually.
“This is a common-sense rule to provide taxpayers an
easier way to calculate and claim the home office deduc-tion,” said Acting IRS Commis-sioner Steven T. Miller. “The IRS continues to look for similar ways to combat complexity and encourages people to look at this option as they consider tax planning in 2013.”
The new option provides eligible taxpayers an easier path to claiming the home office deduction. Currently, they are generally required to fill out a 43-line form (Form 8829) often with complex calculations of allocated expenses, deprecia-tion and carryovers of unused deductions. Taxpayers claim-ing the optional deduction will complete a significantly simpli-fied form.
Though homeowners using the new option cannot depreciate the portion of their
home used in a trade or busi-ness, they can claim allowable mortgage interest, real estate taxes and casualty losses on the home as itemized deductions on Schedule A. These deductions need not be allocated between personal and business use, as is required under the regular method.
Business expenses unre-lated to the home, such as ad-vertising, supplies and wages paid to employees are still fully deductible.
Current restrictions on the home office deduction, such as the requirement that a home of-fice must be used regularly and exclusively for business and the limit tied to the income derived from the particular business, still apply under the new op-tion.
The new simplified option
is available starting with the 2013 return most taxpayers file early in 2014. Further details on the new option can be found in Revenue Procedure 2013-13, posted today on IRS.gov. Revenue Procedure 2013-13 is effective for taxable years begin-ning on or after January 1, 2013, and the IRS welcomes public comment on this new option to improve it for tax year 2014 and later years. There are three ways to submit comments.
[email protected]. Include “Rev. Proc. 2013-13” in the subject line.
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IRS Announces Simplified Option for Claiming Home Office Deduction Starting This Year
Washington, DC – Lisa Rice, Vice President of the National Fair Housing Alliance, has issued the following statement in response to the Qualified Mortgage and Ability to Repay rule adopted today by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Rice is among
a panel of experts set to discuss the new rule at a Baltimore field hearing this morning sponsored by the Bureau.
“The Consumer Finan-cial Protection Bureau’s intent in drafting this rule is to protect consumers from irresponsible
mortgage lending. We appreciate that the QM is broadly defined and that there are no down-pay-ment or credit score requirements for QM loans.
“But if our nation is to fully recover from our economic crisis we must put an end to the dual credit market which has relegated borrowers of color to nonprime and subprime markets and into higher cost loans, and was the root of the most devastating hous-ing crisis in our nation’s history.
The QM rule has a tiered system – one where some mortgages have a safe harbor and others have a rebuttable presumption. The National Fair Housing Alliance strongly encouraged the CFPB to offer a rebuttable presumption for all mortgages.
“One of the things we are heartened by is the prominence of the Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity which
Statement of the National Fair Housing Alliance on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Qualified Mortgage Rule
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Eligible Home-Based Businesses May Deduct up to $1,500; Saves Taxpayers 1.6 Million Hours A Year
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BATON ROUGE - A report
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds the Baton Rouge metro area ranks second among major United States metro areas for new HIV infection diagnoses.
The report, released Jan. 10, is based on 2010 data of all U.S. metropolitan areas with more than 500,000 people. HIV case rates measure the number of new HIV cases per 100,000 persons.
The Baton Rouge metro area consists of nine parishes: East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Ascension, Iberville,
Pointe Coupee, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Livingston and St. Helena.
Baton Rouge’s rate of people diagnosed with HIV in 2010 is 52.1, meaning about 52 people per 100,000 populations were diagnosed with the virus, the report says. New Orleans’ rate is 44.3, which ranks third in the U.S.
Miami tops the list with a rate of 59.2.
Timothy Young, executive director of the HIV/AIDS Alli-ance for Region Two, or HAART, in Baton Rouge, said HIV diagno-ses are high among homosexual men, especially among young black men living in low-income,
uninsured communities. He said the problem extends throughout the South.
“If you look at the cities with the 10 highest HIV case rates, most of them are in the South,” Young said.
The CDC report says Mi-ami’s rate of 93.1 HIV diagnoses among males ranks first in the nation. Baton Rouge is second at 70.1, and New Orleans ranked third with a 69.8 rate.
Baton Rouge is first in new HIV cases among all females in 2010 with a rate of 35, the re-port says. Miami is second at 27.5, Jacksonville, Fla., is third at 23.1 and New Orleans is fourth at 21.3.
A report by the Louisiana Office of Public Health, based on the CDC data, lists Baton Rouge’s and New Orleans’ ranks among different races.
Among black males of all ages, Baton Rouge ranks third with a rate of 178.6, the Office of Public Health report says. Among white males, Baton Rouge ranks 51st with a 15.5 rate.
New Orleans is 16th among black males and seventh among white males, the Office of Public Health report says.
For black females of all ages, Baton Rouge placed sixth and New Orleans 21st, the report says. Among white females, those ranks are fifth and 35th.
Baton Rouge Second In HIV Cases, New Orleans Third
BATON ROUGE – World-re-nowned interventional cardiolo-gist and inventor Dr. John Simp-son visited Baton Rouge General to tour the hospital’s state-of-the-art heart and vascular facilities. Inventor of the over-the-wire balloon angioplasty catheter, a percutaneous closure device and the SilverHawk Plaque Excision System, Dr. Simpson observed the hospital’s newly expanded surgical suites, equipped with minimally invasive hybrid op-erating capabilities.
During his visit, Dr. Simp-son met with the hospital’s heart and vascular specialists to learn about recent advancements in Baton Rouge General’s program. Proctoring a series of specialized procedures, Dr. Simpson was also on hand to observe local vascular surgeons performing the region’s first endovascular hybrid room procedure using the Ocelot catheter, a revolu-tionary new catheter device for minimally-invasive procedures to help treat completely blocked arteries invented by Dr. Simpson. Compared to traditional surgery space, the General’s hybrid room uniquely allows for the simulta-neous IT integration of sophis-
ticated diagnostic technologies, precise imaging capabilities and multiple surgical therapies – with the goal of maximizing treatment options for cardiac and vascular procedures.
Remarking on his experi-ence, Simpson said, “Baton Rouge General’s comprehensive cardiac and vascular services and facili-ties are truly impressive. They are, by far, the best I’ve seen – beauti-fully designed surgical space and innovative technology combined with top-notch physician exper-tise to offer patients the most ad-vanced, comprehensive heart and vascular care in the area.” Baton Rouge General’s multispecialty physician-led efforts to develop these facilities incorporated Lean Six Sigma principles and stan-dards for the design and flow of clinical care and patient support services.
In addition to the growth of its comprehensive services and facilities, the General’s cardiac and vascular program recently welcomed leading heart, vascu-lar and cardiothoracic physician offices, Baton Rouge Cardiology Center and CVT Surgical Cen-ter, to its Bluebonnet campus. In addition, Vascular Specialty
Center and Baton Rouge General Physicians Lipid Center recently relocated their existing Bluebon-net campus offices to the new tower.
“Our new heart and vas-cular tower, recent surgical expansion and technology en-hancements reflect Baton Rouge General’s and its medical staff’s commitment to providing our community with the most com-prehensive, high quality heart and vascular care,” said Dr. Floyd Roberts, Chief Medical Officer, Baton Rouge General.
Baton Rouge General and its new heart and vascular tower bring together comprehensive cardiac and vascular services all under one roof. Nationally recog-nized for excellence in heart and vascular care as Baton Rouge’s only Joint Commission “Top-Performer” Hospital for Heart Attack and Heart Failure – Baton Rouge General’s expert teams offer leading edge treatment, technology and services:
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Girl Scout’s mission is to build girls of courage, confi-dence and character who make the world a better place. The local council, Girl Scouts Loui-siana East, serves girls 5 to 17 in the parishes of Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jeffer-son, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, Pointe
Coupee, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipa-hoa, Terrebonne, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana.
For more information about Girl Scouts, call the coun-cil office in Baton Rouge at 225-927-8946, or visit its website at www.gsle.org.
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is housed in the CFPB. This Office is charged with ensur-ing that rules like the QM Rule will be implemented in a fair manner and that the CFPB’s supervision and enforcement efforts are comprehensive and diligent so that we do not see an environment where under-served borrowers are steered to higher cost loans.
“The QM rule is being announced in Baltimore, a city that has suffered some of the worst effects of a dual mortgage market. One of the nation’s larg-est cases of discrimination was brought by the City of Baltimore on behalf of its African-Amer-ican and Latino residents who received unsustainable higher cost mortgages when they ac-tually qualified for lower cost, sustainable mortgages.
“It is also important to note that the safe harbor provi-sion in the QM rule does not exempt lenders from discrimi-nation or fair lending claims. Even borrowers who receive a ‘safe harbor’ loan or a Quali-fied Mortgage in general can be discriminated against. The fair housing community urges the CFPB to pay particular attention to the quality of QM products serving communities of color and to ensure these borrowers have access to sustainable and affordable mortgages.
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portant for the CFPB to not sanction any compensation scheme that would encourage or allow lenders to steer bor-rowers to higher cost mortgages when they qualify for lower cost products, even if those higher cost mortgages fall within the parameters of the QM rule.
“Fair housing advocates look forward to working with the CFPB to make sure all borrowers have access to safe, sound and fairly-priced loan products.”
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Please contact Cedric Ricks at 202-898-1661, ext. 119 or by e-mail at
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Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Washington, DC, the National Fair Hous-ing Alliance is a consortium of more than 220 private, non-profit fair housing organiza-tions, state and local civil rights agencies, and individuals from throughout the United States. Through comprehensive educa-tion, advocacy and enforcement programs, NFHA protects and promotes residential integration and equal access to apartments, houses, mortgage loans and in-surance policies for all residents of the nation.
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U.S. women who smoke today have a much greater risk of dying from lung cancer than they did decades ago, partly be-cause they are starting younger and smoking more - that is, they are lighting up like men, new research shows.
Men who smoke have long had higher lung cancer death rates, but now women have caught up in their risk of dying from smoking-related illnesses. Lung cancer risk leveled off in the 1980s for men but is still rising for women, the study found.
“It’s a massive failure in prevention,” said one study leader, Dr. Michael Thun of the American Cancer Society. And it’s likely to repeat itself in places like China and Indonesia where smoking is growing, he said. About 1.3 billion people worldwide smoke.
The research is in Thurs-day’s New England Journal of Medicine. It is one of the most comprehensive looks ever at long-term trends in the effects of smoking and includes the first generation of U.S. women who started early in life and continued for decades, long enough for health effects to show up.
The U.S. has more than 35 million smokers - about 20 percent of men and 18 percent of women. The percentage of people who smoke is far lower than it used to be; rates peaked around 1960 in men and two
decades later in women.In 2009, 205,974 people
in the United States were di-agnosed with lung cancer, in-cluding 110,190 men and 95,784 women, according to the Cen-ters for Disease Control and Pre-vention. That same year, 87,694 men and 70,387 women passed away from the disease.
* Cancer death rates drop 20 percent in 2 decades
* Older heavy smokers should get scanned for lung cancer, says American Cancer Society
* Smoking may take years off lives of HIV patients, study shows
Researchers wanted to know if smoking is still as deadly as it was in the 1980s, given that cigarettes have changed (less tar), many smok-ers have quit, and treatments for many smoking-related diseases have improved.
They also wanted to know more about smoking and women. The famous sur-geon general’s report in 1964 said smoking could cause lung cancer in men, but evidence was lacking in women at the time since relatively few of them had smoked long enough.
One study, led by Dr. Prab-hat Jha of the Center for Global Health Research in Toronto, looked at about 217,000 Ameri-cans in federal health surveys between 1997 and 2004.
Women’s Lung Cancer Death Rate Almost the Same as Men’s
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BY BARRY MEIER
An internal analysis con-ducted by Johnson & Johnson in 2011 not long after it recalled a troubled hip implant estimated that the all-metal device would fail within five years in nearly 40 percent of patients who received it, newly disclosed court records show.
Johnson & Johnson never released those projections for the device, the Articular Surface Replacement, or A.S.R., which the company recalled in mid-2010. But at the same time that the medical products giant was performing that analysis, it was publicly play-ing down similar findings from a British implant registry about the device’s early failure rate.
The company’s analysis also
suggests that the implant is likely to fail prematurely over the next few years in thousands more pa-tients in addition to those who have already had painful and costly procedures to replace it.
The internal Johnson & John-son analysis is among hundreds of internal company documents expected to become public as the first of over 10,000 lawsuits by pa-tients who got an A.S.R. prepares to go to trial this week. The epi-sode represents one of the biggest medical device failures in recent decades and the forthcoming trial is expected to shed light on what officials of Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics division knew about the device’s problem before its recall and the actions they took or did not take.
The trial, which is expected
to begin Friday in California Su-perior Court in Los Angeles, may also provide a guide to the con-sequences of the A.S.R. episode to Johnson & Johnson, both for the company’s finances and its reputation. Last year, the company took a $3 billion special charge, much of it related to medical and legal costs associated with the device. DePuy has offered to pay patient costs for replacement procedures.
The A.S.R. belonged to a once-popular class of hip im-plants in which a device’s cup and ball component were both made of metal. While the A.S.R. was the most failure-prone of those implants, surgeons have largely abandoned using such devices in standard hip replace-ment because their components
can grind together, releasing metallic debris that damages a patient’s tissue and bone.
On Friday, Judge J. Stephen Czuleger, who is presiding over the Los Angeles case, unsealed a number of motions that con-tained portions of pretrial de-positions of DePuy officials as well as related company re-cords. Those disclosures, like the company’s estimate of the A.S.R.’s failure rate, represent only a tiny fraction of the infor-mation that will become public if the trial proceeds. Over the last two years, plaintiffs’ law-yers working on A.S.R.-related lawsuits have reviewed tens of thousands of internal DePuy documents and taken deposi-tions from dozens of company executives.
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BATON ROUGE — Funeral services are scheduled Satur-day for Richard Turnley Jr., the first black member elected to the Louisiana House of Repre-sentatives from Baton Rouge in modern times and a founder of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus.
Tamara Turnley Robinson said Wednesday her father died Jan. 19 at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital after a long illness. He was 79.
Turnley, who represented north Baton Rouge, served three terms in the Louisiana House before being elected in 1984 to District 14 of the state Senate. He was one of the 10 founding members of the Louisiana Leg-islative Black Caucus in 1977.
A wake is scheduled Fri-day from 1 p.m.-6:30 p.m. at Hall Davis and Sons Funeral Home. Funeral services are Saturday at 11 a.m. at Camphor Memorial United Methodist Church.
The Homegoing of Richard Turnley, Jr.
Turnley became CEO and Treasurer of the Southern Teachers and Parents Federal Credit Union in 1959, the oldest black-owned financial institution in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1972, he was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives where he served until 1984 when he was elected to the Louisiana Senate. While in the senate, Mr. Turnley played a key role in orga-nizing the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus. His public service was not limited to his immediate area as he served as a volunteer consultant for the World Council of Credit Unions for the South Africa Credit Union Movement, where he was very instrumental in the development of credit unions there under Mr. Turnley’s leadership.
The Bay area’s Ice King – Ka-fani – is speaking out against gun violence in the wake of the recent Newton, CT school massacre that left 28 children and adults dead. The rapper known for hits such as “Knock `Em Down” and his current single “Swag Swerve” will be live and unplugged on the nationally syndicated “Street Soldiers Radio Program” Sunday, January 20, 2013 @ 8-10 p.m. PST.
He’s been invited on to discuss how gun violence is affecting the urban community and how it also hit him personally.
In November 2011, a Ka-fani music video was being shot in a West Oakland liquor store parking lot when over 50 gun-shots were fired into a crowd of people on the set. Eight persons were hit, including the one-year old son of Kafani’s cousin Hiram
Lawrence.It’s an area that covers less
than 5% of the city in space but accounts for 90% of the city’s shootings and homicides. The baby slipped into a coma and died eleven days later.
Some believe the shoot-ing was retaliation over a beef between Kafani and rapper Lil B but there’s been no evidence to confirm the assertion. “I hate this whole thing happened to my cousin’s son,” says Kafani. “He didn’t deserve that. He was a happy, energetic kid. I don’t glorify violence in my music. It’s about living life – not tak-ing it. We as a country need to do something to change the violent culture in the inner city. I was raised in the hood and I came from the struggle. I was in the streets and made my way to college, although I didn’t fin-ish. Unfortunately, I landed in
prison for robbery; from Penn State to the pen.” However, upon his release, Kafani turned his life around and has built a success-ful career and business off of his rapping skills.
Street Soldiers has been on the air since 1991. The weekly radio call-in show is sponsored by the Omega Boys Club and focuses on the issues of vio-lence, gangs, drugs, teen preg-nancy and other topics related to inner-city youth. The host of Street Soldiers is Dr. Joseph Mar-shall, Executive Director of the Omega Boys Club. The program was syndicated in 1997 and is heard in 12 radio markets with a weekly listening audience of 300,000. Listeners can listen live each week online at www.iheart-radio.com. For the 411 on The Ice King, logon at www.kafani.com or hit him up on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/Kafani.
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BATON ROUGE, LA – The New Birth Full Gospel Ministries pastored by Bishop I. J. Payne held a Prayer Breakfast on Saturday, January 19, 2013 at the Martin Luther King Center on Gus Young Avenue.
Hosted by Sister Melanie McGowen and the breakfast was well attended.
The breakfast was centered on the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Minister Fred Sledge read the scripture, prayer was offered by Evangelist Patricia Hatch, and the welcome was by Sister Barbara Herrion. Minister Olia V. Marshall gave the tribute; Bishop James Grayson was the Keynote Speaker who blessed all that was in at-
tendance. New Revelation Gospel Singers of Baton Rouge, Louisiana rendered the music.
A special thanks goes out to members of Good Shepherd Full Gospel Baptist Church for their support.
I would like to thank Councilwoman of District #2, Chauna Banks-Daniels for her words of encouragement.
The New Birth Full Gospel Ministers Held Prayer Breakfast
pictured from left to right are Councilwoman Chauna Banks-Daniels, and her mother Stella Banks. Bishop James Grayson, the keynote Speaker.
Pictured from left to right are Joy Sledge, Roeshone Dixon, and Courtney Sledge. New Revelation of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Pictured from left to right are Minister Fred Sledge of God’s Redeemed Outreach Ministry; Sister Audrey Sledge; Coun-cilwoman Chauna Banks-Daniels, Stella Banks; First Lady Cassie Payne, and Bishop Ivory J. Payne of New Birth Full Gospel Ministries.
Pictured from left to right are Sister Audrey Sledge and First Lady Cassie Payne.
Pictured from left to right are Geraldine Johnson, Debra Kaglear, Rhonda Terry, Laura Kaglear, and Laura Roberson Pictured from left to right are Sister Martha Jarrell and Blanche Augustine.
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A second study, led by Thun, tracked smoking-related deaths through three periods - 1959-65, 1982-88 and 2000-10 - using seven large population health surveys covering more than 2.2 million people.
Changes in cigarettes since the 1960s are a “plausible ex-planation” for the rise in non-cancer lung deaths, researchers write. Most smokers switched to cigarettes that were lower in tar and nicotine as measured by tests with machines, “but smokers inhaled more deeply to get the nicotine they were used to,” Thun said. Deeper inhalation is consistent with the kind of lung damage seen in the illnesses that are rising, he said.
Scientists have made scant progress against lung cancer compared with other forms of the disease, and it remains the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. More than 160,000 people die of it in the U.S. each year.
The federal government, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the cancer society and several universities paid for the new studies. Thun testified against tobacco companies in class-ac-tion lawsuits challenging the supposed benefits of cigarettes with reduced tar and nicotine, but he donated his payment to the cancer society.
Smoking needs more at-tention as a health hazard, Dr. Steven A. Schroeder of the University of California, San Francisco, wrote in a commen-tary in the journal.
“More women die of lung cancer than of breast cancer. But there is no ̀ race for the cure’ for lung cancer, no brown ribbon” or high-profile advocacy groups for lung cancer, he wrote.
Kathy DeJoseph, 62, of suburban Atlanta, finally quit smoking after 40 years - to qualify for lung cancer surgery last year.
“I tried everything that
came along, I just never could do it,” even while having che-motherapy, she said.
It’s a powerful addiction, she said: “I still every day have to resist wanting to go buy a pack.”
Among the findings:
cancer was more than 25 times higher for female smokers in recent years than for women who never smoked. In the 1960s, it was only three times higher. One reason: After World War II, women started taking up the habit at a younger age and began smoking more.
smoked was about twice as likely as a current smoker to live to age 80. For women, the chances of surviving that long were 70 percent for those who never smoked and 38 percent for smokers. In men, the num-bers were 61 percent and 26 percent.
three times more likely to die between ages 25 and 79 than non-smokers are. About 60 percent of those deaths are at-tributable to smoking.
to quit smoking than men are. Among people 65 to 69, the ratio of former to current smokers is 4-to-1 for men and 2-to-1 for women.
than 10 years off the average life span, but quitting at any age buys time. Quitting by age 40 avoids nearly all the excess risk of death from smoking. Men and women who quit when they were 25 to 34 years old gained 10 years; stopping at ages 35 to 44 gained 9 years; at ages 45 to 54, six years; at ages 55 to 64, four years.
other lung diseases such as em-physema and chronic bronchitis is rising in men and women, and the rise in men is a surprise because their lung cancer risk leveled off in 1980s.
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Baton Rouge - Dawson Odums makes his Southern coaching debut since having the interim tag removed from his title of head coach against the University of Houston to open the 2013 football slate.
“Several intriguing matchups, includ-ing an opener against Houston in the largest Southern University alumni pocket outside of Louisiana, a restoration of the intersec-tional rivalry against Northwestern State, and hosting defending SWAC Eastern Division champion Jackson State are highlights for next season,” said Southern athletics director Dr. William Broussard.
The Jaguars contest against the Cou-gars will be the second consecutive season opener against a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) member for Southern and the second meeting between the two schools. Houston defeated the Jaguars 55-3 in the first-ever meeting in 2008. Two dates, Aug. 29 and Aug. 31, are being targeted for game dates due to Robertson Stadium’s closure to make way for a new state-of-the-art on-campus stadium scheduled to be completed on Aug. 30, 2014.
Southern will also renew a familiar rivalry with in-state rival Northwestern State Sept. 7 in Natchitoches. The Southern-North-western State series began in 1993 and served as the coaching debut and first Southern win for Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame coach Pete Richardson in the Louisiana Superdome. The series is tied at 5-5.
“With the proximity of the first two out of conference schedule games being within a tank of gas, we are thrilled that our adminis-tration was able to successfully accomplish
scheduling games that the Jaguar Nation can travel to and support us with much excite-ment and anticipation for SWAC play,” said Odums.
On Sept. 14, Southern welcomes Prairie View A&M for its 2013 home and South-western Athletic Conference opener in A.W. Mumford Stadium before traveling to Itta Bena, Miss. to face Mississippi Valley State Sept. 21.
Following the Oct. 6 bye week, the Jag-uars will enjoy a two-game homestand when they host Jackson State Sept. 28 and Alabama A&M Oct. 12. Defending SWAC champion Arkansas Pine-Bluff will host Southern in Pine Bluff, Ark. Oct. 19.
“As we transition into SWAC play, it is encouraging to see three of the first four conference games at home, which gives us a great chance - with the kind of crowds and atmosphere we have at Mumford Stadium - to get the Jags headed in the right direction as we head down the final stretch of our schedule,” Odums said.
Alcorn State will serve as the Jaguars’ homecoming opponent on Oct. 26 before Southern concludes the 2013 campaign with four November games. The Jaguars will em-bark upon back-to-back road trips at Texas Southern in Houston and Alabama State in Montgomery, Ala. on Nov. 2 and Nov. 9 respectively.
Clark Atlanta, where Odums served as interim head coach in 2004, will travel to Baton Rouge on Nov. 17 for the first-ever meeting between the two schools.
Southern closes the 2013 campaign looking to extend it Bayou Classic win streak to two over arch-rival Grambling State in the 40th annual Bayou Classic on Nov. 30.
“The energy and excitement around this
program is growing rapidly and, after seeing the 2013 football schedule, I am excited and anxious to see the support of Jaguar Nation buying their season tickets,” said Odums. “We have the opportunity to play five great home games at A.W. Mumford stadium and the 40th Bayou Classic, which always serves as a great Thanksgiving weekend memory,” Odums said.
Season book applications are available at the SU Ticket Office in the F.G. Clark Ac-tivity Center. Contact 225.771.3171 for more details.
2013 Southern U. Football ScheduleAugust29 or 31 at Houston (Houston, Texas)September7 at Northwestern State (Natchitoches,
La.)14 Prairie View A&M (A.W. Mumford
Stadium)21 at Mississippi Valley State (Itta Bena,
Miss.)28 Jackson State (A.W. Mumford Sta-
dium)October12 Alabama A&M (A.W. Mumford Sta-
dium)19 Arkansas-Pine Bluff (Pine Bluff,
Ark.) 26 Alcorn State (A.W. Mumford Stadium
| Homecoming 2012)November2 at Texas Southern (Houston, Texas)9 at Alabama State (Montgomery,
Ala.)16 Clark Atlanta (A.W. Mumford Sta-
dium)30 vs. Grambling State (State Farm Bayou
Classic | New Orleans, La. | Mercedes-Benz Superdome)
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. -- De-rick Beltran posted 24 points as Southern University won its 10th straight game, defeating Alabama A&M 82-68 Monday night in Southwestern Athletic Conference play.
Malcolm Miller tallied his 18th straight game in double figures with 19, and Yondarius Johnson added 10 points for
Southern (14-6, 8-0), which has won 13 of its last 14 games after starting the season 1-5.
Demarquelle Tabb tied the game 11-11 with a jumper but Miller scored Southern’s next 13 points to put the Jaguars up for good, 24-15.
Southern shot 48.3 per-cent (28 of 58) from the field knocked down a season-high
19 free throws and dished out 17 assists. The Golden Tigers are averaging 16.2 assists over their last four games.
Tabb paced Alabama A&M (7-11, 3-4) with 20 points and 13 rebounds. The Bulldogs, who entered shooting 65 per-cent from the line, continued to struggle, hitting just 13 of 23 free throws.
Men’s Basketball Remains Undefeated In SWAC Play
BATON ROUGE, LA – Registration is underway for the second annual Terracon Golf Benefit for Capital Area CASA Association. The four-person scramble will be Mon-day, March 11.
Participants will enjoy a day of golfing at the exclusive University Club Golf Course in Baton Rouge and, at the same time, help CASA reach its goal of providing trained advocates for abused and ne-glected children in need of safe and permanent homes.
For more information about the golf tournament, contact Lisa Smith at Terracon at (225) 344-6052 or [email protected].
CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates. Capital Area CASA Associa-tion’s mission is to advocate for timely placement of children in permanent, safe and stable homes.
Please contact Emily Hebert at (225) 379-8598 or by e-mail at [email protected] for any additional information.
Golf Benefit To Support CASA
Five Home Games Highlight 2013 Football Schedule
The Los Angeles Lakers have had one of the most dis-appointing seasons in team history, but on Wednesday Kobe Bryant confronted Dwight Howard in a team meeting in an attempt to let go of their frustrations.
“Guys went at each other a little bit,” said a person who witnessed the meeting, ac-cording to the Los Angeles Times.
Coach Mike D’Antoni called the early-morning meeting Wednesday because he was irritated about news-paper stories about players demanding more touches and doubting his offensive strategy. Bryant and How-ard have been guilty of each charge.
After the Lakers 95-83 loss to the Chicago Bulls on Monday, Bryant insisted that the offense should run at a slower tempo. Howard complained about only get-ting five shots in the loss. Howard apologized for his remarks after Wednesday’s shoot-around, labeling them “immature.”
Bryant asked Howard directly if he detested playing alongside him, but Howard’s response was unclear accord-ing to the eyewitness.
Kobe Bryant Confronts Dwight Howard in Lakers Team Meeting
The Nevada men’s basket-ball team fell to San Diego State 78-57 on Wednesday night. But it didn’t matter for the fans in-side Lawlor Events Center in Reno.
They had something else to celebrate: Colin Kaepernick.
The former Nevada quar-terback turned into a celebrity this season after taking over as the starter for the San Francisco 49ers. And now, Kaepernick is the starting quarterback in the Super Bowl on Feb. 3.
The Nevada faithful paid
tribute to Kaepernick during Wednesday night’s game by doing what made plenty of sense, “Kaepernicking.’
The crowd sent the record-setting Nevada quarterback off to the Super Bowl with a super-sized sendoff. It was part of the unofficial “World’s Larg-est Kaepernicking Party.”
Since it’s not in the dic-tionary yet, for those who aren’t familiar with the term, “Kaepernicking” is essentially kissing the right bicep after scoring.
Nevada Fans Stage ‘World’s Largest Kaepernicking Party’ at Hoops Game