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Martha Stewart PETS Simple creations for the summer 3E Dogs can get heat stroke, sunburn CLARIONLEDGER.COM THE CLARION-LEDGER JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2003 BBBimH MMpOfc- VM8JHB 1 IlL Faulkner Col. Rebel Oh, did Mr, ifaulkner Jb jA i if 1 hBbmmJH iS mMf JUS Bi Br I jLVt fiWfli B. mr' mm BE jB if jdrTfe SHimm bvIbb make you all write Last week's column about the Ole Miss mascot Mr. Faulkner, make Ole Miss prompted kind messages from several readers. In it, I proposed to end the controversy swirling around Oxford this way: ki'i'ii ili irii'l Hffwl on the field, rip out J.O.Schwalm Th Clarion Ledger Leigh White, co-owner of Mississippi Granite and Marble in Pearl, says the variety of colors, applications.

Samples of product lines are displayed in the store to provide ideas for many textures and designs make the product a natural choice for residential and commercial homeowners choosing to redecorate. LIKE A ROCK Natural stone latest craze in home -decorating market By Shrry Lucas lucMctartoniedger com his goatee and rename the team the Fightin' Faulkners, after, of course, the town's greatest writer: Ernest Hemingway. I also offered a team cheer, in the style of Faulkner. The underlying implication of the column, however, eluded others. The underlying implication is: I don't care.

I don't care if they keep the Colonel. I care if they throw him out like 3-day-old fish. I don't care if they crown him Queen of the May. I don't care if they shave his head, whip him, beat him, make him wear lipstick and call him Mavis. Fightin' Mavises" has a nice ring to it, too.) But maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe those less-amused readers did understand, and what they were saying was they couldn't care less that I couldn't care less. Maybe that was thei'runderiying implication. Comma-tose Anyway, here are some of the responses, a mix of favorable and unfavorable ones, followed by notes from me. No names, just initials: "I'll vote for that. Makes lots more sense than the 'official' idea.

The 'officials' better listen to the alumni and friends rather than that PR firm in New Yawk City." P.J. DearP.l: You have a point. How would Yankee fans like it if suddenly they had to root for the New York Grits? "Real funny but then again I expect as much from someone from The Clarionlxtlger" R.C. DearR.C: I'm from Pascagoula. "Too many commas in the faux Faulkner, but otherwise great fun.

Thank you." C.J. Dear No. thank, you! "Gary, Great piece of work. Certainly not on the same level as dear ole William but as least it makes sense! Given the opportunity. I'll cast my vote for the 'FIGHTING FAULKNERS" TS.

Thank you very much, hut I'm sorry to hear that I made sense. Once again, my writing has tilled. Letter from Dogpatch deah Kitchen costs You can get a cosmetic upgrade for a 10x12 kitchen for as little as $2,500 in products (new cabinet doors, laminate countertops, vinyl flooring, a stainless-steel sink and a chrome faucet). A mid-level do-it-yourself kitchen could bump the starter cost to over $6,500. (Better-grade hardwood cabinets, ceramic tile countertops and flooring, a coated-steel sink, a faucet with pullout head, new appliances and track lighting.) Premium materials can push your expenditures from $2 1 ,000 to nearly $40,000.

A larger kitchen could mo ve the price up to 1 5 000 (Pricier semicustom cabinets, laminate or ceramic tile flooring, a cast-iron sink, a designer faucet, better appliances, and canister lighting. Granite or solid-surfacing countertops could also make it into this budget, but neither is a do-it-yourself feature). If money is no object, costs could easily reach $38,000 to $75,000. Source www houseandhom com Becky Nelson's new kitchen rocks. She's been in it less than a week and not a stitch of clutter clouds the smooth surface of her verde butterfly granite countertop.

Instead, look down and get lost in the texture, where shades of green, gray, tan and black meld in the rich rock. The backsplash and the floor are a neutral, cream travertine (a limestone) tile with granite inserts. "It's beautiful so airy and light. I wanted all just clean lines," said Nelson, who phased out the country craze years ago, then craved a redo on blue Formica countertops and red brick linoleum from the 1980s, "which was popular then, but was really outdated now." "From powder blue Formica to verde butterfly granite we took a huge leap," said Leigh White, co-owner, with Perry Marshall, of Mississippi Granite Marble in Pearl. Welcome to the 21st century, where the hottest thing is stone cold: natural stone.

"People are just spending more money in the homes, and people want their kitchens to be cool," White said. "People are refinancing, and they 're redoing especially Rick Guy The CW ion -Ledger Becky Nelson of Clinton recently had the kitchen floor granite that matched the hand-painted walls of her and counters in her home topped with marble and halfway. granite first, and if they can't afford that, they start going down the list," Parker said. Several factors are feeding America's growing love affair with natural stone, said Nancy Epstein, See ROCK, 3E the master baths and the kitchens." Granite is the best option in countertops now, said Keuy Parker, whose husband, Chris Parker, co-owns Custom Granite Marble in Ffowood. "Everyone wants a solid surface without seams I love it in the kitchen.

You can take something out of the oven and put it directly on the stone. It's a natural trivet. And it doesn't scratch. "Everyone wants to choose Ratings: WAPT-Channel 16 gains ground how much bettah you'd rest unite if you rest tonight if you only knew how very tittle we really give a shxx what you thought about ouah mas-I cot or university: Youd draw somewhat moah interest tryin to pencil down some of the death penalty san- By Gary Pttut gBBM0BBlBBB com Rating Share Station Network Rank Program Mid-Mississippi 1 csi 2 Friends 3 BR 4 CBS Movie 5 Law A Order SVU (tie) 5 Judging Amy (tie) 5 JAG (tie) 5 Law A Order (tie) 6 CSI Miami (tie) 1220 1118 1117 1018 917 917 917 917 915 915 WJTV WLBT WLBT WJTV WLBT WJTV WJTV WLBT WJTV WJTV ardy! beat out WJTVs newscasts (412 to 39). The overall ratings: WLBT, 618; WJTV, 516; WAPT, 310; WDBD-Channel 40,13.

Prime-time: WJTV. 714; WLBT. 612; WAPT. 48; WDBD. 24.

Fox affiliate WDBD has no local newscasts. Elsewhere in the mid-Mississippi ratings: WJTV aired the top two daytime shows: The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful WJTV also turned in the No. 1 afternoon program: The Oprah Winfrey Show. HneW of Fortune (WAPT) was first in the highly prized "prime access' slot pm). NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leoo was the choke of late tions thaLs fixin' to be imposed on yo' Bull pups and Jeckyl.

You 11 nevah be a Erik Strangfefler, but at least that might draw moah chuckles than what you scribbled down this mawnin. eat yo' dinnah an keep yo stranglh later hon." -(Unsigned) Dear Mammy Yokum WeU scorch my gritz and stuff my face with corn pone and mush, hooey chile! I ain't no Bulldog, sho nuff. I'm a Goldenish Eagle Varmint, or caint you tell? Boy hidey! I doahn gnr a dym (hp bout no mu kuhmw (which you mispehed) nuther But ldokytrboatym.hmmmnPSe.Aad thaaa why Ittha bound to te you. you ever need a job. Ibeah that Hee Haw's making a kumback.

Yee hi! PS Erik sends his-uns hn WLBT-Channel 3 remained the No. 1 news station in mid-Mississippi's latest ratings battle, but WAPT-Channel 16 made inroads in the scuffle for second place. Nielsen Media Research declared NBC affiliate WLBT first in news and in the overall, sign-on to sign-off (6 a.m. to 2 a.m.) ratings during the May period (actually. April 24-May 21).

WJTY-Channel 12 was first in prime time, posting six of the top 1 0 network shows. The CBS affiliate's noon newscast was No. 1 in that slot (WAPT airs All My Children). WAFT, the perennial No. 3 news station, this time dosed in on No.

2 WJTV. WAPT tied WJTV for the 6 p.m. weekday news slot. The ABC affiliate also tied WJTV at lOp.m Saturdays, and was in a virtual tie The No. 1 prime-time network show was also No.

1 in the nation: CSon CBS (WJTV). How ratings work TV stations measure viewership two ways: by ratings and by share. A rating measures the number of people with TV sets who are watch-ing a certain program; the rating is a percentage: If there are 100.000 households in a TV market and a show receives a 10 rating, that means that 10,000 households are watching it. A share, on the other hand, is the percentage of sets actually in use tuned to that program. If 50,000 of those 100,000 TV sets are in use when that program is on.

then a 10 rating also means a 20 share (1020). TV stations use ratings to sell advertising. They use shares to determine programming. The four ratings periods are February, May, Jury and November. The mid-Mississippi viewing area 6 Survivor (lie) National 1 CSI CBS 15 524 2 Amencan Idol Wed FOX 15 2724 2 Friends NBC 14 224 4 EP NBC 13 923 5 Amencan Idol Tue FOX 13 722 6 Everybody Loves Raymond CBS 13020 7 Law A Order Wed NBC 12 120 8 WB A Grace NBC 11918 9 CSI Mam CBS 11 318 10 Survivor Amazon CBS 11018 tor the- weekda Contact Staff Gary PvttM (WJTV.

8 16; WAPT. 815). Of the network evening news i I M1.7ni7.