Wisdom10A • Daily Corinthian Saturday, November 26, 2011

DEAR ABBY: I’m 14 and I’m terrifi ed that I won’t know what to do once I’m in college and have to decide on a long-term job. I have a lot of interests, but none that would lead me toward a career. My teachers and the books I read say I should fi nd my passion and follow it for the rest of my life. My problem is, I don’t have a stand-out passion I love intensely.

I have an amazing fam-ily who would support me in any direction I choose, but I don’t know what that would be. I get good grades and work hard, and I believe I could achieve anything I choose. The problem is, I don’t know what I want to do.

I know I’m young, but I worry all the time about my future and being stuck in a job I hate. I’m involved in lots of activities — stu-dent government, piano lessons, sports, service clubs and more — and I enjoy all of them. But none of them inspire a burning passion. Do you have any suggestions on how to fi nd my passion? — NEEDS A DIRECTION, ATLANTA

DEAR NEEDS A DI-RECTION: Yes. And the fi rst one is to re-lax and quit worry-ing about not having found your “passion” at 14. This isn’t the Middle Ages, when young people would apprentice themselves to a guild in which they would spend the rest of their lives. You are intelligent and only

beginning to explore your vari-ous tal-ents.

Y o u may excel in several d i f f e r -ent areas, which is good, be-

cause workers no lon-ger necessarily stay in one kind of job for a lifetime. People are usually good at the things they enjoy, so slow down. Give your-self time to see where you excel. I am positive that if you do, you’ll fi nd your passion(s) in a fi eld you enjoy.

DEAR ABBY: Four years ago my best friend’s mother lost her husband after a battle with cancer. She joined a grief support group and met a man who had lost his wife to cancer, too. Love blossomed and they will be married soon. Everyone is thrilled they have found each other.

Along with a wedding gift, would it be appro-priate to make a dona-tion to a cancer charity in memory of their deceased spouses? I would like to honor the struggle that led the couple to each oth-er, but don’t want to of-fend. What do you think? — DEVOTED FRIEND IN KENTUCKY

DEAR DEVOTED FRIEND: I think you have come up with a beautiful idea that will be deeply appreciated, and you should do it.

Young teen fearfulof future has lots of time on her side

Abigail Van Buren

Dear Abby

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You will maintain your solid stance at the calm center of a swirl of activity. You’ll love the show. It’s like there’s a parade go-ing by just for your entertainment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Messages get mixed up, but that doesn’t have to stop you. A surge of creativity will help you do what traditional methods of communi-cation will fail to accomplish.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You are sincerely invigorated by the presence of others. Be bold enough to show just how thrilled you are to interact with people, and they’ll be charmed by your enthusiasm. You will make them feel important.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You are receptive to trying new things, though you want to know that the risk will be worthwhile. You’ll take steps to avoid feeling “ripped off,” such as investigat-ing further, reading testimonials and looking out for bad reviews.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There are family members you would love to connect with more often, but life and distance stand be-tween you. Bridging the gap is a matter of planning. Set aside some time to sort out the details of your next visit.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You want a person to possess cer-tain qualities so badly that you may see these qualities regard-

less of whether they really exist. There’s a chance the individual in question will grow into the role you’ve cast.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). In spite of Mercury’s retrograde, you have “mad-skills” in the con-versation department, and you’re determined to use them. You’ll engage in the kind of talks that will stir your soul and nourish your imagination.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Though a big project is now sat-isfactorily “in the can,” you still have a great deal ahead of you that needs tending. You’ll gather up your forces and look to the future.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Because you are so honest with yourself, you’ll see through the facade that people try to present and into the way they actually are. You’ll note the frailty all around and turn your tender attention where it’s needed most.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). When you are specific and unambiguous, you will get the results you seek. Also, make it easy for others to help you. A simple question will get a simple answer. A compound question will get no answer.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Much is going unsaid that could complicate matters. Identify and verbalize what you need to get

out of a transaction to make you consider it a success.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There will be a bit of a mystery to solve, and it will come together like a puzzle, one piece at a time. Your persistence and a willing-ness to experiment will be key to resolving this one.

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What has been trying in the past will now be much easier for you to accomplish. Next month, you’ll be shown favor by those who are difficult to impress. January brings important financial transactions. You’ll shift your business strategy in February. Lifestyle upgrades come in May. Gemini and Virgo people contribute generously to your life. Your lucky numbers are: 20, 1, 4, 44 and 18.

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Sagittarian siren Katherine Heigl confessed, “People who know me well know that I have an opinion about pretty much everything.” With four natal lumi-naries in Sagittarius, perhaps all those opinions are based on the wide range of experiences Heigl has acquired by following her in-tense sense of curiosity. Jupiter in Leo, the sign of children, sug-gests that Heigl’s playful daugh-ter brings her luck.

■ 1901 — Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek conces-sions in Korea.

■ 1914 — German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans’ 35,000 in two weeks of fighting.

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■ 1921 Hirohito becomes re-gent of Japan.

■ 1923 — Transatlantic broad-

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■ 1930 — An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people.

■ 1939 — Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim.

■ 1946 — The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government.

■ 1947 — The Big Four meet to discuss the German and Euro-pean economy.

■ 1951 — A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea.

■ 1955 — The Interstate Com-merce Commission bans segre-gation in interstate travel.

■ 1963 — The body of assassi-nated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

■ 1964 — Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency.

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Time is running out for those in need to register for help from the annual Lighthouse Founda-tion Toy Store program.

Monday and Tuesday will be the last days to register for assistance from the annual program which helps provide Christmas presents for chil-dren in Alcorn County whose families are going through dif-fi cult times. Registration ses-sions will be held Monday and Tuesday from 9 a.m. until noon

and Monday from 6 p.m. until 7 p.m. at the foundation’s head-quarters on South Johns Street.

Those registering need to bring photo identifi cation and proof of residency for themselves, along with a birth certifi cate and social security card for each child they are registering for assistance.

Foundation Executive Direc-tor Gary Caveness said they’ve seen a huge outpouring of need from the community since they began registering people for this year’s program.

“This is by far the largest need we’ve ever seen. People are hurting. This year the need

just seems so big,” he said.Donations and volunteers are

needed to make this 15th annual effort a success. Caveness said he feels blessed to live in a com-munity that believes in the proj-ect and he’s seen time and time again how the community will come together to make the pro-

gram successful each year. He said they’re counting again on the generosity of the people of Corinth to help them help others during this special time of year.

Those interested in volunteer-ing to work with the program must attend a volunteer training session. Sessions are set for 6 p.m. on Dec. 5 and Dec. 6.

For more information on the project and how to donate or vol-unteer, call 286-0091. Monetary donations may be mailed to The Lighthouse Foundation, P.O. Box 2121, Corinth, MS 38835.

Toy store registration deadline nears“This is by far the largest need we’ve ever seen.

People are hurting. This year the need just seems so big.”

Gary CavenessLighthouse Foundation Executive Director

BY BRANT SAPPINGTONbsappington@dailycorinthian.com

An American classic is getting a unique makeover for a limited time to help protect one of nature’s most magnifi cent creatures.

The iconic Coca-Cola red can has been reimagined in arctic white as part of a campaign to raise funds to protect the habitat of the polar bear, which has long been a key part of Coca-Co-la’s image and advertising.

This marks the fi rst time the Coca-Cola company has changed the color of its signature bright red cans. The new can features the iconic Coca-Cola script logo in traditional Coca-Cola red against an arctic white backdrop with im-ages of the polar bear.

Ken Williams with Coca-Cola of Corinth said the new cans are already available in stores throughout the area and will only be available for the next two to four weeks. He said they’re already get-ting a lot of feedback from customers who seem to like the new packaging. He said it’s a very unique promotion and they’re excited to be a part of it.

“It’s really kind of a fun thing,” he said.

Williams said the fact the company has never

produced a white Coca-Cola can will also make the limited edition pack-aging a very special item for the many collectors of Coca-Cola memorabilia.

The new look is part of a campaign launched by the Coca-Cola Company in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund. The bever-age producer has commit-ted up to $3 million to the WWF’s polar bear conser-vation efforts and the com-pany is also asking others to join in the effort by donat-ing to the fund by texting the package code found on their Coke package to 357357 for a $1 donation or visiting www.arctichome.com. Coca-Cola will match all donations made through March 15, 2012 up to $1 million, in addition to a $2 million initial donation made by the company.

According to the World Wildlife Fund, the habitat of the polar bear is shrink-ing quickly and the fund is working to protect the area including working with residents of 500,000 square mile area high in the Arctic to protect a habitat for the polar bear today and in the future.

For more information on the polar bear and efforts to protect its habitat, visit www.arctichome.com.

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Staff photo by Mark Boehler

Coca Cola of Corinth RED Coordinator Amy Smith displays the new white Coke cans which feature the polar bear.

BY BRANT SAPPINGTONbsappington

@dailycorinthian.com

The Crossroads Muse-um has one of the area’s biggest vintage doll col-lections, and it’s putting some of them on display.

A new exhibit slated for Dec. 1 through the end of January will fea-ture more than 100 vin-tage china and bisque dolls from a collection that was donated to the Crossroads Museum some 20 years ago.

“There are some very rare pieces,” said Mu-seum Director Brandy Steen, who has been sorting through boxes of highly detailed and well-dressed dolls donated by Robert Lee.

The newest doll in the collection is from 1961, while the majority are believed to be more than 100 years old.

Lee’s mother, an avid doll collector, purchased

the collection from a woman in Murray, Ky., in 1976.

“They were stored

until 1978 when they moved into their house and built cabinets and put the dolls on display,”

said Steen. “A lot of the doll clothes are original.”

Museum plans vintage doll exhibitBY JEBB JOHNSTON

jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Staff photo by Jebb Johnston

Crossroads Museum Director Brandy Steen shows some of the vintage dolls fea-tured in an exhibit beginning Dec. 1. The collection includes china and bisque dolls.

Talented vocalists and musicians are set to take the stage at the Corinth Coliseum Civic Center Tuesday night for the fi fth annual community Christmas concert.

The Corinth Area Arts Council has fi nalized the lineup for “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” which begins at 7 p.m.

The concert is a fund-raiser for the historic

coliseum, with proceeds helping the arts council to maintain the building and make improvements.

“Over the last fi ve years, we have probably raised close to $10,000 with these concerts, which has helped with painting and new chairs and parts of the sound system,” said Chad Dickerson, arts council president.

Dickerson, who has worked with recording art-ists in Nashville, will sing with young Cole Clark. Other vocalists include

Ben Mathis, Ben Ricketts, Shelby Pratt, Maty Noyes and Addie Page Pratt.

Other young tal-ent who will lend their voices to the show are members of the Corinth Middle School Choir and the Corinth Elementary School Second-Grade Challenge Class.

Hannah Rogers on violin will perform a duet with pianist Caro-line Sleeper. Other mu-sicians include pianists Mollie Grace Williams and Ben Tomlinson,

Cindy Mathis on harp and Maurice Weatherall on Clarinet. The chiming bells of the First Baptist Church and First Presby-terian Church handbell choirs will also be part of the show.

The concert includes dance by the Creative Arts Center Dancers.

With an auditorium described as “acousti-cally perfect,” the theater was built in 1924 and is a Mississippi Landmark.

Tickets are $10 and free for ages 12 and under.

Staff photo by Jebb Johnston

Shelby Pratt (left), Cole Clark and Chad Dickerson get in some practice for the upcoming concert as Cindy Mathis plays the piano.

Local talent takes the stage at Christmas concertBY JEBB JOHNSTON

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The original owner was a seamstress, and she handmade clothing for some of the dolls. Many of the china dolls are clothed in elaborate dresses.

The collection includes a few male dolls, which were less common, and a few female dolls with blond hair, an uncommon trait at the time. The fe-male dolls commonly had dark hair and blue eyes.

Produced mainly in Germany, china dolls were most common from 1840 to 1940 and typically had a porcelain head and shoulders and a cloth body. The hair and face is molded and painted.

Bisque dolls are made of bisque porcelain and typically have a more skin-like appearance. Most were fashion dolls having hair that is not painted on as with china dolls and peaked in popularity in the late 1800s.

Steen said it’s an exhibit that would make for a great afternoon out with grandma.

In other museum happenings, the gift shop now of-fers the 1996 book detailing the life of aviator Roscoe Turner. It is currently available only at the museum.

Also, the museum website (crossroadsmuseum.com) will soon feature a virtual exhibit including thousands of photos from the museum’s holdings.

Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

JACKSON — When Amber Henson equated her 8 a.m. classes at the University of Mississippi as opportunities to mix li-quor with orange juice, she knew she needed help but didn’t know where to get it.

Her alcohol addiction had progressed untreated after years of denial and poor decision making, and she found herself forced to sit out for a semester at Ole Miss, the third college she attended.

“I fi nally was just to a point where I hated my-self, and I hated everybody around me,” the Marks native said. “I prayed to this God that I wasn’t even sure could hear me. I prayed, ‘Just please get me out of this.’ I would do whatever it took.”

At just the right time for Henson, Ole Miss’ Coun-seling Center launched a collegiate recovery com-munity for people like her — students, faculty and staff in recovery from ad-diction. Henson attended the program’s fi rst meet-ing in fall 2010.

“What those people had, I wanted it,” she said. “I knew that I wanted to

be happy and alcohol-free and in school, and all those things worked to-gether. So I stuck with it.”

Ole Miss’ recovery com-munity joins a growing number at universities nationwide, ranging from small support groups like at Ole Miss to programs including sober housing, scholarships and academ-ic guidance.

The University of Southern Mississippi is in the planning stages for its own program, and staff hope to offer on-campus meetings for Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Eating Disorders Anonymous by the end of this semester.

Shortly after Ole Miss’ launch, Eileene McRae, who retired after 20 years as an alcohol and drug counselor at Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services in Hat-tiesburg, called a meeting with university leaders in January to discuss this apparent need.

“I saw people coming out of treatment who re-ally wanted to go back to college but were scared to death,” said McRae, who now works from her home as an outreach co-

ordinator for Cumberland Heights, a treatment cen-ter in Nashville. “They’d be going back to old play-mates, old playthings and old playpens — and it just doesn’t work. They would usually end up relapsing.”

McRae said students who are biologically pre-disposed to addiction of-ten have experience with alcohol or drug abuse be-fore they leave for college, but today’s campuses pro-vide an ideal environment for the disease to emerge.

“Students leave home and are really indepen-dent for the fi rst time in their lives, and most of them have more freedom to drink or use drugs than they did when they were at home,” she said. “So many students drink and party ... It’s the American way.”

Amy Fisher, substance abuse services coordina-tor for Ole Miss, present-ed the early success of her program’s launch at the meeting, which took place before the recovery community movement gained national momen-tum. Twenty schools this summer formed the As-sociation of Recovery in Higher Education, an or-

ganization aiming to en-courage further develop-ment of these programs nationwide.

“Mississippi always seems to be behind in everything, and we really are not behind in this,” McRae said. “We are one of the forerunners, and I really am proud of that.”

Fisher created the re-covery community with support from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, where the fi rst pro-gram of its kind in the na-tion was founded in 1986.

Texas Tech’s Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery has offered guidance to other pro-grams across the country, though no two programs look alike.

Ole Miss’ Recovery Community is small, with just three active student members and three alum-ni, and consists mainly of weekly meetings and so-ber activities, like a sober tailgating tent at the Oct. 15 football game against the University of Alabama.

While Texas Tech at-tracts students from around the country who choose the school specifi -cally for its recovery pro-gram, Ole Miss’ program

is structured differently, as so far it has served only students who were al-ready at Ole Miss.

Also, Fisher said the students in her group are older than traditional college students, in their mid- to late-20s. So while Texas Tech includes so-ber housing, a residential component at Ole Miss wouldn’t quite fi t.

Fisher’s dreams for the program’s include secur-ing an offi ce space that stu-dents could access 24/7, as well as offering scholar-ships to those maintaining good grades while staying clean and sober.

Fisher’s wish list won’t be addressed until she can secure funding for the program, and many of the nation’s recovery com-munities rely on private dollars, she said.

Texas Tech is adminis-tering surveys through-out several universities, including Ole Miss, in an attempt to prove the programs are making a positive difference in stu-dents’ lives. The research might demonstrate the le-gitimacy of future funding requests.

Jodi Ryder, health edu-cator at USM, said the

Hattiesburg campus is in a particularly good po-sition to benefi t people coming out of Pine Grove who wish to attend school and possibly live in sober housing.

“This would be an op-portunity for them to be offered a scholarship and continue their education and pursue a career,” she said. “They’ll see there’s hope for the future.”

But that’s far off, Ryder said. She just secured a space for 12-step meet-ings and is generating interest among current students.

Since Henson joined Ole Miss’ recovery com-munity last year, she no longer feels unsafe on campus, which she said before felt like a scary place where easy access to alcohol lurked around every corner.

“I know that when I shut that front door to the Counseling Center, I don’t have to worry about anyone there tempting me with anything because they all know who I am and where I’ve been in my life,” the senior said. “It’s a place where I can walk in and shut out the rest of the world.”

Ole Miss program among first to assist addictsBY JESSICA BAKEMAN

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CONTINUED FROM 1AAssociated PressMEMPHIS, Tenn. —

Soil defi ciencies along the Mississippi River are the latest hurdle for a planned park at Mem-phis’ Beale Street Landing project, which is already behind schedule and mil-lions of dollars over initial cost projections.

First envisioned in 2002 as a $10.4 million docking terminal along the river, plans for Beale Street Landing now in-clude a park allowing pedestrian access to the river, a fl oating dock for large riverboats and a ter-minal building that also will house a restaurant. Cost estimates have risen to nearly $42 million, ac-cording to The Commer-cial Appeal.

Benny Lendermon, president of the Riverfront Development Corp., now says soil defi ciencies at the site are so severe that architects must fi nd a way to simplify the layout for

the terraced park that will be built next to the nearly completed docking facility. Without the changes, the park’s walkways, terraces and islands would require an expensive number of pilings and structural sup-ports to compensate for the poor soil, he said.

Offi cials at the River-front Development Corp. — which manages Mem-phis’ riverfront ameni-ties — haven’t identifi ed the extent of the required changes. But, the basic concept of the original design will remain intact, and the total costs of the project won’t rise any fur-ther, offi cials said.

“We have to use a sim-pler solution that doesn’t require as much structur-al support,” Lendermon said. “We’re looking at everything.”

International compa-nies competed for the de-sign of the landing eight years ago, when the cost was projected at no more

than $20 million. The winning design, by RTN Architects of Buenos Ai-res, Argentina, featured the series of islands de-scending toward the water and connected by walk-ways and bridges to allow for varying river levels.

Offi cials initially hoped the landing could be completed in 2006, but a prolonged approval pro-cess and city budget con-straints pushed back the timetable. Meanwhile, projected costs grew due to a spike in higher steel prices and the rates charged by contractors af-ter Hurricane Katrina.

Projected construction costs for the entire landing had risen to $38.1 million by the time City Council approved the nearly $9.75 million slated for the park phase six months ago. Adding a $3.85 million price tag for architecture and engineering, the to-tal cost comes to at least $41.95 million.

Soil at the site is com-posed largely of the mucky alluvial material deposited by the river, but it’s not deposited in a “uniform manner,” Lend-ermon said. As a result, it has a tendency to settle much more than other soil types.

Signifi cant settling along the walkways wind-ing down the riverbank could put the project out of compliance with the Americans with Disabili-ties Act of 1990. Should that happen, contractors would have to make the costly move of driving ex-tra pilings into the ground to shore up the walkways.

Still, much of the land-ing project, including the building, dock and park-ing lot, should be complet-ed by the end of this year.

Lendermon said he’s optimistic the modifi ca-tions can be fi nished in time for a contractor to begin work on the park next spring.

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Faye Switcher BondsFuneral services for Faye Switcher Bonds, 76, of Corinth,

are set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Wheeler Grove Baptist Church with burial at Forrest Memorial Park Cemetery.

Ms. Bonds died Friday, Nov. 25, 2011, at her resi-dence. Born March 18, 1935, she was a retired factory worker. She was a member of Wheeler Grove Baptist

Church.She was preceded in death by her

father, Claudie Lee Switcher; her mother, Mabel Inez Gammill Switch-er; and two brothers, Charles Switch-er and Sammie Switcher.

Survivors include two sons, Mike Bonds and wife Rhonda of Belmont, and Shelia Harris and husband Lynn of Corinth; nine grandchil-dren, Shaun Harris and wife Feli-cia of Corinth, Whitney Kilgore and husband Doug of Burnsville, Con-

ner Bonds and wife Gina of Rienzi, Chelsea Bonds of Belmont, Austin Bonds of Belmont, Wendy Fowler and husband John of Twin Cities, Ga., Sonya Voyles and husband Bobby of Russelville, Ala., Jennifer Johnson and husband Jeremiah of Booneville, and Heather Es-sary of Corinth; 15 great-grandchildren; 3 great great-grandchildren; one brother, Larry Switcher and wife Pat of Corinth; other relatives and a host of friends.

Bro. Kara Blackard and Bro. Ray Bennett will offi ciate.Visitation is today from 6 until 9 p.m. and Sunday

from 11:30 a.m. until service time at Wheeler Grove Baptist Church.

Magnolia Funeral Home is in charge of arrange-ments.

Thomas Horton

WALNUT — Funeral services for Thomas Reece Horton, 91, were held Friday morning at Memorial Funeral Home with burial at Ebenezer Methodist Church Cemetery.

Mr. Horton died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, at Mag-nolia Regional Health Center in Corinth. He was born in Prentiss County on July 2, 1920. He served his coun-try honorably in the US Army and fought in the Euro-pean Theatre of World War II. He was a graduate of Jumpertown High School and retired from Memphis Transit Authority as a bus drive.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Wesley Harbert and Ella Lee Wilemon Horton; one brother, Harbert Horton; and three sisters, Evie Gino, Ethra Smith and Glen English.

Survivors include his wife, Nila Fay Bell Horton; one daughter, Carol Green and husband Johnny; one brother, A.J. Horton of Booneville; one grandson, Dow Green and wife Ginger; and two grandchildren, Maggie and Brantley Green.

Bro. Joe Spencer offi ciated the service.

Donald Albert “Don” StoneSLAYDEN — Funeral services for Donald Albert

“Don” Stone, 77, are set for 3 p.m. Sunday at the Slayden Baptist Church.

Mr. Stone died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, at St. Fran-cis Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Born Oct. 17, 1934, in Memphis, Tenn., he was a retired store manager for Sears and a retired insurance agent for Shelter Insurance.

Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Doris S. Stone; a daughter, Darla Taylor (Billy) of Corinth; a son, Dana A. Stone (Sherri) of Olive Branch; seven grandchildren; and one great granddaugher.

Visitation is today from 5:30 until 9 p.m. at the Holly Springs Funeral Home.

Holly Springs Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.Memorials may be made to the Slayden Cemetery fund.

Deaths

Bonds

(Editor’s Note: For how sales went on the local level, see staff writ-er Bobby J. Smith’s ac-count in Sunday’s Daily Corinthian.)

Big crowds on Black Friday can be both a blessing and a curse.

Early signs point to big-ger crowds at the nation’s malls and stores as retail-ers like Target and Ma-cy’s opened their doors at midnight on the most anticipated shopping day of the year and a few oth-ers opened on Thanksgiv-ing Day. Shoppers were mostly peaceful across the country, but a few vi-olent incidents broke out as millions of shoppers rushed into stores and tensions fl ared.

It started on Thanks-giving, when Los Angeles authorities say 20 people at a local Walmart store suffered minor injuries when a woman used pepper spray to gain a “competitive” shopping advantage shortly after the store opened.

Then, early Friday in Fayetteville, N.C., gun-fi re erupted at Cross Creek Mall and police say they’re looking for the two suspects involved. Separately, police say two

women have been injured and a man charged after a fi ght broke out at an up-state New York Walmart. And a central Florida man is behind bars after a fi ght broke out at a jew-elry counter in Walmart in Kissimmee, Fla.

Later Friday morn-ing, a Phoenix television station KSAZ reported that witnesses say police slammed a grandfather in a Walmart in Buckeye, Ariz., to the ground after he allegedly put a game in his waistband so that he could lift his grandson out of the crowd.

The incidents are the result of two converging trends on Black Friday. The crowds continue to get bigger as retailers of-fer more incentives and longer hours. At the same time, shoppers are com-peting for a small group of products, instead of years past when there were sev-eral hot items from which they could choose.

“The more the people, the more the occurrenc-es,” says Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst with market research fi rm The NPD Group.

Indeed, a record num-ber of shoppers are ex-pected to head out to stores across the coun-try this weekend to take advantage of discounts of up to 70 percent. For three days starting on

Black Friday, 152 mil-lion people are expected shop, up about 10 per-cent from last year, ac-cording to the National Retail Federation.

“I came here for the deals,” said Sidiki Traore, 59, from Roos-evelt Island, N.Y. who was among about 10,000 people who were stand-ing outside of Macy’s store in New York’s Her-ald Square for its mid-night opening.

The crowds are good news for retailers, many of which depend on the busy holiday shopping season for up to 40 per-cent of their annual reve-nue. To draw in shoppers this year, they pulled out of their bag of tricks. In addition to several retail-ers opening much ear-lier than previous years, some began offering to match the prices of com-petitors and rolling out layaway programs.

Shoppers on Friday, though, say they most-ly are being lured into stores by the deals, in-cluding discounts of 20 to 60 percent on many items at The Gap and a $400 Asus Transformer 10-inch tablet computer for $249.99 at Best Buy.

After showing up at Best Buy in New York on Wednesday at 3 p.m., Emmanuel Merced, 27, and his brother were

the fi rst in line when it opened. On their list was a Sharp 42-inch TV for $199, a PlayStation 3 console with games for $199.99 and wire-less headphones for $30. Merced says he likes camping out for Black Friday and he fi gures he saved 50 percent.

“I like the experience of it,” says Merced, who plans to spend $3,000 to $4,000 on gifts this season.

To be sure, not every store was fi lled to the brim with people looking for deals on Black Fri-day. With so many major stores opening at mid-night, crowds shopped early, staying up late to snag the best deals. That meant there was an un-usual lull during the typ-ically bustling pre-dawn hours when stores used to open their doors.

At a Target on Chi-cago’s north side, for in-stance, crowds were light four hours after the store opened. And door-buster deals, including the typi-cally quick-to-sell out TVs and gaming systems, re-mained piled up in their boxes. Shoppers pushed carts through mostly emp-ty aisles while thumbing through circulars and em-ployees — some in Santa hats — roamed the store. There was no Christmas music — or any music — playing.

NEW CANEY, Texas — Dry, brown grass crunch-es underfoot as David Barfi eld walks through his 45-acre Christmas tree farm pointing at ever-greens covered with brit-tle, rust-colored needles.

“Dead tree, dead tree, dead tree,” he says, shak-ing his head at dry tim-ber he hoped would be chopped down by parents with excited children.

Instead, Mother Na-ture delivered the Grinch in the form of a historic drought that has killed thousands of trees across Texas and Oklahoma. Some died of thirst. Oth-ers were destroyed by wildfi res, whose breadth and intensity were magnifi ed when wind swept the fl ames across parched landscape.

Most farmers plan to import trees from North Carolina to supplement any they have left, said Marshall Cathey, presi-dent of the Texas Christ-mas Tree Growers As-sociation. They say they aren’t planning to raise prices because consumers

are reluctant to pay more than $40 or $50 for a Christmas tree, especially in the poor economy.

But families hoping for a homegrown tree to cut down will have a harder time fi nding one, and doz-ens of farmers are strug-gling. Possibly most pain-ful for these growers are the deaths of the youngest saplings, which guarantee the drought’s effect will be felt for years to come.

“It’s depressing, it re-ally is,” said Barfi eld, 53. “This was going to be our retirement.”

He and his wife, Kar-en, 49, bought the farm about six years ago with dreams of retiring from Texas’ oil fi elds and spending their fi -nal years peddling the Christmas spirit with fresh-cut trees, marsh-mallow roasts and hay-rides in a red-and-white sleigh. They planted 20 acres of evergreen trees.

Now, barely two years after Karen Barfi eld re-tired to work the farm, she has returned full-time to her job selling ex-plosion-proof enclosures to the oil industry. David Barfi eld has increased

his hours doing part-time electronic work. In-stead of selling some 400 homegrown trees as they do in a good year, they will be lucky to sell 100 — nearly all Frasier fi rs brought in from North Carolina.

And they’re not cer-tain that will be enough to cover their property taxes. Barfi eld says he can only charge $50 for a North Carolina fi r — just $10 more than he pays for them.

“Eight (trees) died within the last week,” Barfi eld said, continu-ing his walk through his farm in New Caney. “These were all green a week ago. The drought has been hurting us real bad.”

But at least he and his wife have other income. Others have not fared as well.

“We lost probably 90 percent of our trees,” said Jean Raisey, 79, who’s run a 10-acre Christmas tree farm in Purcell, Okla., with her husband since 1985. The other 10 percent are dy-ing now, she said.

“We’ve had to hire a

contractor and pull all the dead and all the live trees,” she said. “And we’re out of business.”

Cathey, who owns the 50-acre Elves Farm in Denison, Texas, a town about 75 miles north of Dallas, said he has spo-ken to many of Texas’ 120 Christmas tree farmers in recent months. Long stretches of triple-degree heat, he said, harmed the trees as much as the lack of rain.

And the drought has been bad. In Texas, less than 11 inches of rain fell this year compared to an annual average of almost 24 inches. In Oklahoma, there has been about 18.7 inches of rain this year compared to a long-term average of 30 inches. All trees have been hard-hit by the lack of rain.

“There’s hundreds of thousands of trees dy-ing,” said Travis Miller, a drought expert at Texas A&M University.

“We’re looking at a ... one-in-a-500-year kind of drought, and so it’s weeding out the ones that can’t survive this kind of extreme condi-tions,” he added.

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Dumb, dumber,or maybe dumbest?

Prayer for today

A verse to share

Eventually social science works its way around to confi rming eternal verities. So it is with gratitude.

An article in a psycho-logical journal a few years ago noted that “throughout history, religious, theologi-cal and philosophical trea-tises have viewed gratitude as integral to well-being.” Psychology has recently worked to quantify the wis-dom of the ages and con-fi rmed — sure enough — it was correct.

A raft of recent research has established that grate-ful people are happier peo-ple. They are less depressed and less stressed. They are less likely to envy others and more likely to want to share. They even sleep bet-ter. As the journal article put it, empirical work “has suggested gratitude is as strongly correlated with well-being as are other positive traits, and has sug-gested that this relationship is causal.”

Gratitude has long been a neglected quality. A decade or so ago, the “Encyclopedia of Human Emotions” didn’t include it. (For that matter, neither did Bill Bennett’s af-fi rmatively traditional “The Book of Virtues.”) As The New York Times reported

back in 1998, “ P s y c h o l o -gists rarely think much about what makes people happy. They focus on what makes them sad, on what makes them anx-ious.” They

were more likely to study, in other words, the miseries of a Woody Allen than the wellsprings of joy.

Gratitude constitutes what philosopher David Hume called a “calm pas-sion.” It doesn’t have the theatrical potential of an-ger and hatred, or courage and sacrifi ce. Nonetheless, there’s a reason it has been considered central to the good life and a good society by all major religions and by thinkers stretching from Cicero (”Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others”) to Oprah (”Whenever you can’t think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath”).

Gratitude acknowledges our dependence on others and the debt we owe be-cause of it. Grateful people want, somehow, to return

the favor of their unde-served windfall. It is a sen-timent that, in the jargon, is “pro-social.” A leading fi gure in its study, Michael McCullough of the Univer-sity of Miami, maintains that it binds us to others be-yond the ties of family and of commercial transactions.

Gratitude is at the root of patriotism, of the impulse to preserve and improve our patrimony. In a cul-ture that tends to celebrate self-glorifi cation, gratitude points us beyond our own demands and discontents. It inclines us to see all around us a world of gifts.

What did we do to in-herit a country that is free and prosperous? To de-serve Charlie Parker or Mark Twain? To build the Golden Gate Bridge or the Chrysler Building? To measure up to the beau-ties of the Catholic mass or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir? Or simply to prove worthy of traffi c lights and potable water?

In the classic essay “I, Pencil,” Leonard Read writes an account of the production of a pencil from the point of view of the pencil. The bottom line is that no one person could ever know enough to pro-

duce it alone: “Man can no more direct these millions of know-hows to bring me into being than he can put molecules together to cre-ate a tree.” If that’s true of the humble pencil, how much more so does it hold for our civilization?

Without gratitude, Wil-liam F. Buckley Jr. wrote, “We are left with the numb-ing, benumbing thought that we owe nothing to Pla-to and Aristotle, nothing to the prophets who wrote the Bible, nothing to the gener-ations who fought for free-doms activated in the Bill of Rights.” He called for “a re-birth of gratitude for those who have cared for us, liv-ing and, mostly, dead. The high moments of our way of life are their gifts to us.”

John Adams captured the grateful attitude when he acknowledged the hard-ships of this vale of tears while celebrating it all the same (if in anachronistic language): “Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstand-ing.”

(Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: com-ments.lowry@nationalre-view.com.)

Grateful people are happy people

Listen up, you protest people!

You have gone and alien-ated Newt Gingrich, who wants you to take a bath and get a job. Or vice-versa. And his words were greeted with applause from coast to coast. You guys should take notice.

A couple of months ago, the polls showed that many Americans sympathized with your movement. After all, who likes greed-head Wall Street folks manipulat-ing the fi nancial markets? They bathe, but so what? They’re corrupt, and you are right to demand that the government provide over-sight on them.

But that point has been largely lost because the Occupy movement is now perceived as radical and in-coherent. The loons moved in, and the sincere protest-ers ceded the spotlight. All of a sudden, the Sons of Anarchy were getting all the camera time. Most Ameri-cans are willing to listen,

but not to guys with s c o r p i o n s tattooed on their necks. And then there were the ugly dis-plays of po-lice-baiting and mindless destruction.

The result: According to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, just 28 percent of Americans now approve of the Occu-py movement, and James Carville will no longer take their calls.

But the primary reason this correspondent has turned bearish (sorry) on the Occupy Wall Street movement is hypocrisy. Re-cently, the feds announced that executives at the near bankrupt Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac agencies would receive close to $100 mil-lion in bonus money. Also, the guy who ran Solyndra into bankruptcy got a nice

departure package despite the fact that the solar-pan-el company wasted about $500 million of taxpayer money.

So where are you on those things, Occupiers? Why are you besieging a Burger King in San Diego when the real corruption is in Washing-ton, D.C.?

All the evidence says the protesters have no clue what they want or who the bad guys really are. They have some vague idea that the “1 percenters” are evil and, therefore, the “99 per-centers” don’t have enough money to buy an SUV. Or something.

A few weeks ago, I looked into taking a trip to Cuba, where there are no “1 percenters” because the Castro brothers have terrorized the wealthy into leaving the island. I’ve been to 75 countries, but never to the socialist paradise 90 miles from the Florida Keys.

My travel agent informed

me that it probably would cost me a thousand dol-lars a day to visit. I would be assigned a govern-ment minder and could not travel outside Havana. While in the capital city, I would be able to visit with some artists and eat dinner with a Cuban family while my bodyguard sat next to me. All of my movements would be monitored, and if I stepped out of line, “the man would come and take me away,” as Crosby, Stills and Nash (big Occupy fans) once sang.

As a “1 percenter,” I can afford the trip, but does that sound like fun to you? Per-haps the Occupiers might do a little reading up on so-cialism and its side effects. I’d be happy to send them my brochure from Cuba.

(Veteran TV news an-chor Bill O’Reilly is host of the Fox News show “The O’Reilly Factor” and author of the book “Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama.”)

Please send this memo to all occupiers

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Heavenly Father, help us to live each day in the light of your love. Amen.

“How great is the love the Father has lav-ished on us, that we should be called children of God!”

-- 1 John 3:1

The mayor of Chicago was having himself one whale of a time. Speaking at the Jeffer-son-Jackson dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, Rahm Emanuel began with:

“While we meet here tonight, the Repub-licans are having a debate across town. I’ve watched a number of them, and I’ve got to be honest, I never thought I’d say this — I’m beginning to miss Sarah Palin’s insights.

“Their debate was called the Thanksgiving Family Forum — which is fi tting because I have never seen such a collection of turkeys.

“Look at their top candidates: Take Mitt Romney. He said he would be in Iowa to-night — we should have known he would change his mind.

“Newt was at the debate. I heard he had to leave early to spend the holiday with his loved ones ... the salespeople at Tiffany.

“And Herman Cain? I was actually hoping Herman would stop by today and see me before the debate. But he was at his tutorial on Libya. The scary part: His tutor was Rick Perry.”

The audience bellowed with delight. Emanuel had, in the Democratic view, summed up the Republican fi eld perfectly: It was untrustworthy, mercenary and dumb.

“Don’t try to be charming, witty or intel-ligent,” Laura Bush told her husband as he began his campaign for president in 2000. “Just be yourself.”

That line always got a laugh, and the man who told it at stop after stop was George W. Bush.

The Bush campaign, i.e. Karl Rove, had decided the candidate was no genius -- and that wasn’t a bad thing. How well did smart people really do in presidential elections? Adlai Stevenson, perhaps the last nominee proud to be called an intellectual, lost twice to World War II superhero Dwight Eisen-hower.

Ronald Reagan made so many gaffes as a candidate for president his staff could barely keep track. In his 1980 campaign, he muffed statements on Vietnam, civil rights, Taiwan, creationism, the Ku Klux Klan and how trees cause “93 percent” of the air pollution in America. “The only good news for us at this time,” an aide told his biographer, Lou Can-non, “is that we were making so many blun-ders that reporters had to pick and choose which ones they would write about.”

George W. Bush didn’t know Slovakia from Slovenia or Greeks from “Grecians.” And his “Bushisms” became famous: “Will the high-ways on the Internet become more few?” he once asked. And, “I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.” And then there was the ultimate one: “Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”

Bush’s opponent in 2000 was Al Gore, who not only was smart, but a policy wonk. Gore was asked one day by The Associated Press if Bush was “too dumb” to be president.

Gore’s reaction? “Gore convulsed in laugh-ter while taking a drink of Diet Coke,” the AP reported. “He grabbed a towel to hold against his mouth then, fi nally swallowing, insisted the tape recorder be stopped for an off-the-record observation.”

Bush didn’t care. Let Gore spit up into his towel. “Just because I happen to mispro-nounce the name of a country doesn’t mean that I don’t understand how to lead,” Bush said. “What matters is: Do I know how to see clear goals? Do I know how to lead? Do I shoot straight? And that’s all I know to do.”

This year, Herman Cain would put it even more succinctly at a New Hampshire cam-paign event. “We need a leader, not a read-er,” Cain said.

Cain, recently asked a question about Lib-ya, clearly could not remember which coun-try Libya was. (Hey, there are more than 190 countries in the world, he’s supposed to re-member every one?) But he explained away his momentary blackout by saying he had too much knowledge, not too little. “I’ve got all of this stuff twirling around in my head,” Cain said.

And Rick Perry, the longest-serving gov-ernor in Texas history, could not remember the third of three federal departments he would shut down as president -- quite a feat considering they were all one-word answers: commerce, education, energy. He explained it with a simple, “Oops.”

The debates are forcing all the candidates to ramp up their games and, usually, most candidates get better with experience.

So the real question should be: Is our can-didates learning?

BY ROGER SIMONColumnist

State

Daily Corinthian • Saturday, November 26, 2011 • 5A

JACKSON — At fi rst glance, the Mississippi Highway 9 reconstruction under way in Northeast Mississippi is simply a road improvement proj-ect supporting the new Toyota automobile plant at Blue Springs.

The $90-million four-laning/improvement project was in the works before Toyota ever com-mitted to building its plant in Mississippi.

The project is expected to not only serve Toyota, but also serve other in-dustries in the area, and, just as important, en-hance public safety.

In addition, some of the fast-track pre-construc-tion components of the project represent fi rsts for the state, and could be incorporated into other road-building projects in the future.

“This project predates Toyota,” said Randy Kel-ley, who heads the Three Rivers Planning and De-velopment District and played a role in recruiting Toyota to Blue Springs. “The work has been the fo-

cus of MDOT (Mississippi Department of Transpor-tation) for years now.”

MDOT listed the 10-mile stretch of the two-lane be-tween Pontotoc and Sher-man in its Vision 21 plan back in 2002 as an imme-diate priority. The roadway between Mississippi High-ways 6 and 178 was already overburdened.

The twisting, undulat-ing highway was a traf-fi c and safety nightmare. With traffi c counts pro-jected to increase accord-ing to MDOT research, a new, four-lane highway was needed.

“It followed every hill and hollow, that’s for sure,” Kelley said. “You could leave Pontotoc, drive for 30 minutes, and still not be in Sherman, a trip of maybe 14 miles.”

Highway 9 came under renewed focus when Toy-ota announced in Febru-ary 2007 its selection of Blue Springs as the site of its newest automobile plant. With that, the state cranked up the project.

MDOT announced in 2008 that it had chosen its preferred route for the four-laning project. Ev-

erything seemed a “go.”Then the economy

tanked. Not only did this effect transportation fund-ing, it put the construction of the Toyota plant, origi-nally set to start produc-tion in late 2009 or early 2010, in limbo. Toyota announced in December 2008 that it was indefi nite-ly postponing the proposed opening of the plant.

Then, in June 2010 Toyota contacted the state and said the plant was back on, with a pro-posed opening of this fall.

Suddenly, the Highway 9 project needed to get done, and quickly.

MDOT contacted the engineering fi rm Neel-Schaffer Inc., which MDOT chose as its pre-construction agent on the project. The largest Mis-sissippi-based engineer-

ing fi rm, Neel-Schaffer, charged with managing the fi nal design (roadway and bridge) as well as right of way (maps and deeds, appraisal, acquisitions/relocations, closing attor-ney and property manage-ment) and utilities reloca-tion, said it could wrap up all of the pre-construction work in 12 months.

Robert Walker, senior vice president at Neel-Schaffer, said his fi rm put approximately 20 staff-ers on the project, but the work required a larger team effort and, impor-tantly, fast-track design-build components.

For example, the state put in “early bird” incen-tives for property owners. If owners agreed to sell early, the state would of-fer a bonus.

The state also set up

special escrow accounts for the landowners. This sped payments to the owners, allowing them to relocate more quickly.

The design process was also altered. Plans were only 60 percent com-plete when produced. This cut the time needed for the plans to be totally completed while giving contractors enough infor-mation on the proposed project to allow for bid-ding and to begin moving utilities.

Engineers said the new stretch of Highway 9 is designed to be much safer for the traveling public compared to the old road-way.

Bill Jamieson, MDOT district engineer, said to his knowledge the expe-dited right of way and partial-plan elements of the project were fi rsts in the State of Mississippi.

Northern Transporta-tion Commissioner Mike Tagert said these new fast-track components might not work for all future projects, but the Highway 9 process proves in his mind that they can not only speed up proj-

ects, but also save money.The general contractor

on the project is Eutaw Construction of Aber-deen, which won the bid last May. Work started on the highway in July.

MDOT gave the project 17 months for comple-tion. Jamieson said the project was about 50 per-cent completed and well ahead of schedule.

In a statement, Eu-taw president Thomas Elmore said the project includes “clearing and grubbing 650 acres, mov-ing seven million cubic yards of dirt, construc-tion of 11 bridges, laying 15,000 linear feet of pipe and paving 170,000 tons of asphalt.”

Highway 9 work for more than just ToyotaBY PAUL SWINDOL

Associated Press“It followed every hill and hollow, that’s for sure. You could leave Pontotoc, drive for 30 minutes,

and still not be in Sherman, a trip of maybe 14 miles.”

Randy KelleyThree Rivers Planning and Development District

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Associated PressKNOXVILLE, Tenn. —

The shooting of two black bear cubs in Blount County has led to criminal charges against two men and has raised the ire of advocates for the black bear popula-

tion in East Tennessee.The Tennessee Wildlife

Agency cited Corey Mar-tin Campbell, 19, and Jes-se Lee McClellan, 18, for hunting from a motorized craft, spotlighting a bear and two counts of hunting

in a closed season.The men are scheduled

to appear in court Dec. 30 after their arrest Nov. 10 for criminal trespassing. The records indicated the men used a spotlight on the bears before shooting them.

Arrests made in black bear cubs’ shooting

WASHINGTON — A year from Election Day, Democrats are crafting a campaign strategy for Vice President Joe Biden that targets the big three political battlegrounds: Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, states where Biden might be more of an asset to President Barack Obama’s re-elec-tion campaign than the president himself.

The Biden plan under-scores an uncomfortable reality for the Obama team. A shaky economy and sagging enthusiasm among Democrats could shrink the electoral map for Obama in 2012, forcing his campaign to depend on carrying the 67 elector-al votes up for grabs in the three swing states.

Obama won all three states in 2008. But this time he faces challenges in each, particularly in Ohio and Florida, where voters elected Republi-can governors in the 2010 midterm elections.

The president some-times struggles to connect with Ohio and Pennsylva-nia’s white working-class voters, and Jewish vot-ers who make up a core constituency for Florida Democrats and view him with skepticism.

Biden has built deep ties to both groups dur-ing his four decades in national politics, connec-tions that could make a difference.

As a long-serving mem-ber of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden cemented his repu-tation as an unyielding supporter of Israel, win-ning the respect of many in the Jewish community. And Biden’s upbringing in a working class, Catholic

family from Scranton, Pa., gives him a valuable po-litical intangible: He em-pathizes with the struggles of blue-collar Americans because his family lived those struggles.

“Talking to blue-col-lar voters is perhaps his greatest attribute,” said Dan Schnur, a Republican political analyst. “Obama provides the speeches, and Biden provides the blue-collar subtitles.”

While Biden’s cam-paign travel won’t kick into high gear until next year, he’s already been making stops in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Flor-ida this fall, speaking at events focused on edu-cation, public safety and small businesses and raising campaign cash. Behind the scenes, he’s working the phones with prominent Jewish groups and Catholic organiza-tions in those states, a Democratic offi cial said.

Biden is also targeting organized labor, speak-ing frequently with union leaders in Ohio ahead of a vote earlier this month on a state law that would have curbed collective bargaining rights for pub-lic workers. After voters struck down the measure, Biden traveled to Cleve-land to celebrate the vic-tory with union members.

The Democratic offi cial said the vice president will also be a frequent visitor to Iowa and New Hampshire in the coming weeks, seeking to steal some of the spotlight from the Republican presiden-tial candidates blanketing those states ahead of the January caucus and pri-mary.

And while Obama may have declared that he won’t be commenting on the Republican presi-

dential fi eld until there’s a nominee, Biden is fol-lowing no such rules. He’s calling out GOP candi-dates by name, and in true Biden style, he appears to be relishing in doing so.

During a speech last month to the Florida Democratic Convention, Biden singled out “Rom-ney and Rick”, criticizing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for saying the government should let the foreclosure crisis hit rock bottom, and hammering Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s assertion that he would send U.S. troops into Mexico.

And he took on the full GOP fi eld during an October fundraiser in New Hampshire, saying “There is no fundamental difference among all the Republican candidates.”

Democratic offi cials said Biden will follow in the long-standing tradi-tion of vice presidents playing the role of attack dog, allowing Obama to stay out of the fray and appear more focused on governing than cam-paigning.

The offi cials spoke on the condition of anonym-ity in order to discuss internal strategy. The Obama campaign has been reluctant to pub-licly defi ne Biden’s role in the re-election bid this early in the run, though campaign manager Jim Messina did say the vice president would deliver an economic message to appeal for support.

“You’ll see him in com-munities across the coun-try next year laying out the choice we face: restoring economic security for the middle class or returning to the same policies that led to our economic chal-lenges,” Messina said.

Associated PressST. HELENA ISLAND,

S.C. — More than three decades after translators began putting the words of the New Testament into Gullah, everyone can now hear those words in the creole language spo-ken by slaves and their descendants along the sea islands of the nation’s Southeast coast.

“Healin fa de Soul,“ — “Healing for the Soul” — a fi ve-CD set of readings from the Gullah Bible, in-cluding a dramatized ver-sion of the Gospel of John, was released this month at the Penn Center, founded in 1862 as one of the na-tion’s fi rst freedmen’s schools after Union troops captured the area during the Civil War.

The sea island culture — called Gullah in the Caroli-nas and Geechee in Florida and Georgia — remained intact with descendants of slaves because of the isola-tion of the area.

Although numbers are uncertain, there are thought to be 250,000 Gullah in the four-state coastal area and thousands are thought to speak Gullah as their main language.

The CDs are the largest collection of Gullah re-cordings ever made avail-able to the public and rival those that noted linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner made on sea islands dur-ing the 1930s, said Emory Campbell, a former direc-tor of the Penn Center who performs on the re-cordings and worked on the Bible translation.

Some of Turner’s record-ings are part of the Smith-sonian Institution travel-ing exhibit “Word, Shout, Song” on display currently at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg.

Vice president’s ’12 targets:

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Name Vol (00) Last Chg

Intel 261958 22.73 +.03

SiriusXM 247566 1.75 +.01

Microsoft 242515 24.30 -.17

Cisco 233715 17.50 +.10

PwShs QQQ 216637 52.88 -.41

American BeaconLgCpVlInv 16.49 -0.03 -11.0

American CentEqIncInv 6.78 +0.01 -4.3GrowthInv 23.98 -0.15 -7.2UltraInv 21.63 -0.15 -4.5ValueInv 5.15 -8.9

American FundsAMCAPA m 17.67 -0.06 -5.8BalA m 17.24 -0.05 -2.2BondA m 12.46 -0.04 +5.3CapIncBuA m46.96 -0.15 -3.2CapWldBdA m20.33 -0.16 +2.2CpWldGrIA m30.24 -0.12 -13.6EurPacGrA m33.90 -0.07 -18.1FnInvA m 32.93 -0.10 -9.4GrthAmA m 27.25 -0.12 -10.5HiIncA m 10.44 -0.01 -1.0IncAmerA m 15.80 -0.02 -1.7IntBdAmA m 13.58 -0.02 +3.1InvCoAmA m25.23 -0.07 -9.1MutualA m 24.02 -0.04 -3.4NewEconA m22.60 -0.10 -10.8NewPerspA m24.95 -0.07 -12.8NwWrldA m 44.88 -0.18 -17.8SmCpWldA m31.67 -0.10 -18.5TaxEBdAmA m12.34 +8.2USGovSecA m14.64 -0.03 +7.0WAMutInvA m26.11 -0.06 -2.4

AquilaChTxFKYA m10.69 +7.7

ArtisanIntl d 18.98 -12.5MdCpVal 19.90 +0.03 -0.9MidCap 31.92 -0.18 -5.1

BaronGrowth b 48.27 -0.17 -5.8

BernsteinDiversMui 14.62 +5.4IntDur 14.13 -0.04 +6.2TxMIntl 11.95 -0.07 -24.0

BlackRockEngy&ResA m31.19 -0.39 -20.6EqDivA m 16.74 -0.04 -3.2EqDivI 16.77 -0.04 -3.0GlobAlcA m 17.88 -0.08 -7.2GlobAlcC m 16.64 -0.07 -7.8GlobAlcI d 17.98 -0.08 -7.0

CalamosGrowA m 46.50 -0.41 -12.9

ColumbiaAcornIntZ 32.88 -0.14 -17.6AcornZ 26.34 -0.14 -11.6StLgCpGrZ 11.58 -0.06 -6.8ValRestrZ 41.67 -0.26 -16.8

DFA1YrFixInI 10.34 +0.62YrGlbFII 10.22 +0.85YrGlbFII 11.19 -0.03 +4.0EmMkCrEqI 16.66 -0.05 -23.9EmMktValI 25.48 -0.10 -28.6IntSmCapI 13.17 -0.08 -22.3USCorEq2I 9.71 -0.05 -10.7USLgValI 17.58 -0.04 -11.7USSmValI 21.08 -0.26 -17.3USSmallI 18.54 -0.23 -12.8

DWS-ScudderGrIncS 15.01 -0.07 -7.3

DavisNYVentA m 30.33 -0.11 -11.7NYVentY 30.72 -0.10 -11.4

Delaware InvestDiverIncA m 9.31 -0.04 +5.0

Dimensional InvestmeIntCorEqI 8.73 -0.05 -20.7IntlSCoI 13.57 -0.09 -19.7IntlValuI 13.82 -0.06 -22.8

Dodge & CoxBal 63.07 -0.23 -8.6Income 13.25 -0.03 +3.3IntlStk 27.85 -0.23 -22.0Stock 92.90 -0.38 -12.7

DreyfusApprecia 37.82 -0.15 -1.0

Eaton VanceLrgCpValA m15.74 -0.02 -12.8

FMILgCap 14.35 -0.03 -5.3

FPACres d 26.07 -0.06 -1.8NewInc m 10.74 +2.1

Fairholme FundsFairhome d 23.15 +0.01 -34.9

FederatedToRetIs 11.28 -0.03 +5.0

FidelityAstMgr50 14.48 -0.05 -4.8Bal 17.38 -0.06 -3.4BlChGrow 39.90 -0.30 -8.6Canada d 47.62 -0.49 -18.1CapApr 22.88 -0.08 -9.7CapInc d 8.54 -0.01 -4.8Contra 63.73 -0.31 -5.8DiscEq 20.04 -0.10 -11.1DivGrow 23.83 -0.11 -15.9DivrIntl d 24.59 -0.16 -18.4EqInc 37.87 -0.06 -13.2EqInc II 15.88 -0.03 -11.8FF2015 10.84 -0.03 -4.1FF2035 10.28 -0.05 -10.0FF2040 7.17 -0.03 -10.1Fidelity 29.16 -0.16 -9.1FltRtHiIn d 9.61 +0.7Free2010 13.00 -0.04 -4.0Free2020 12.97 -0.05 -5.6Free2025 10.63 -0.04 -7.4Free2030 12.60 -0.05 -8.1GNMA 11.84 -0.01 +7.0GovtInc 10.85 -0.03 +7.2GrowCo 78.96 -0.58 -5.0GrowInc 16.64 -0.05 -8.0HiInc d 8.45 -0.01 -0.1IntBond 10.82 -0.02 +5.3IntMuniInc d 10.33 +6.4IntlDisc d 26.39 -0.14 -20.1InvGrdBd 7.66 -0.02 +6.7LatinAm d 46.27 -0.57 -21.6LowPriStk d 33.51 -0.17 -6.6Magellan 58.67 -0.32 -18.0MidCap d 24.93 -0.15 -9.1MuniInc d 12.87 +8.8NewMktIn d 15.75 -0.01 +5.7OTC 51.89 -0.49 -5.5Puritan 16.88 -0.05 -4.5Series100Idx 8.22 -0.02 -5.9ShTmBond 8.48 +1.5StratInc 10.91 -0.04 +2.6Tel&Util 16.02 +0.03 +2.6TotalBd 10.88 -0.03 +6.0USBdIdxInv 11.72 -0.04 +6.7Value 58.90 -0.14 -14.3

Fidelity AdvisorNewInsA m 18.63 -0.10 -6.5NewInsI 18.85 -0.10 -6.3StratIncA m 12.20 -0.04 +2.5

Fidelity SelectGold d 45.00 -0.54 -11.9

Fidelity Spartan500IdxAdvtg 41.14 -0.11 -6.2500IdxInstl 41.14 -0.11 NA500IdxInv 41.14 -0.10 -6.2ExtMktIdI d 33.28 -0.21 -11.7IntlIdxIn d 28.73 -0.13 -18.0TotMktIdAg d33.72 -0.11 -7.2TotMktIdI d 33.71 -0.11 -7.2

First EagleGlbA m 43.96 -0.30 -5.2OverseasA m20.70 -0.26 -8.6

FrankTemp-FrankFed TF A m 12.02 +10.2

FrankTemp-FranklinCA TF A m 7.02 +9.0

Name P/E Last Chg

1,614,925,440Volume 35,385,315Volume 704,813,940Volume

10,500

11,000

11,500

12,000

12,500

13,000

NJ J A S O

11,200

1.172E+4

12,240Dow Jones industrialsClose: 11,231.78Change: -25.77 (-0.2%)

10 DAYS

HY TF A m 10.15 +10.4Income A m 1.99 -3.2Income C m 2.01 -3.7IncomeAdv 1.98 -3.1NY TF A m 11.73 +0.01 +8.6RisDv A m 32.44 -0.04 -1.2US Gov A m 6.90 +5.9

FrankTemp-MutualDiscov A m 25.74 -9.6Discov Z 26.13 +0.01 -9.3Shares A m 18.63 -8.9Shares Z 18.82 -8.7

FrankTemp-TempletonFgn A m 5.74 -0.02 -17.8GlBond A m 12.41 -0.08 -4.9GlBond C m 12.43 -0.09 -5.3GlBondAdv 12.37 -0.09 -4.8Growth A m 15.43 -0.05 -13.3World A m 13.02 -0.06 -12.3

Franklin TempletonFndAllA m 9.43 -0.01 -8.5

GMOEmgMktsVI 10.84 -0.08 -19.9IntItVlIV 17.87 -0.11 -16.5QuIII 20.51 -0.09 +3.6QuVI 20.52 -0.09 +3.7

Goldman SachsHiYieldIs d 6.73 -0.01 -1.2

HarborBond 12.03 -0.04 +1.3CapApInst 35.09 -0.20 -4.4IntlInstl d 49.93 -0.21 -17.5

HartfordCapAprA m 26.96 -0.13 -22.1CpApHLSIA 34.70 -0.17 -18.1DvGrHLSIA 17.91 -0.04 -8.1

HussmanStratGrth d 12.94 -0.03 +5.3

INVESCOCharterA m 15.24 -0.05 -5.8ComstockA m13.89 -0.02 -10.8EqIncomeA m 7.79 -0.01 -8.1GrowIncA m 16.94 -0.01 -11.1

IvyAssetStrA m 21.73 -0.11 -11.0AssetStrC m 20.98 -0.11 -11.6

JPMorganCoreBondA m11.85 -0.03 +6.4CoreBondSelect11.84 -0.03 +6.6HighYldSel 7.63 -0.6ShDurBndSel 10.98 +1.5USLCpCrPS 18.57 -0.06 -10.2

JanusGlbLfScT d 22.87 -0.17 -1.6OverseasT d 32.70 +0.03 -35.4PerkinsMCVT20.72 -0.03 -8.2

John HancockLifBa1 b 11.90 -0.04 -6.6LifGr1 b 11.53 -0.04 -10.2

LazardEmgMkEqtI d17.19 -0.03 -20.7

Legg Mason/WesternCrPlBdIns 11.00 -0.04 +5.3

Longleaf PartnersLongPart 24.53 -0.09 -11.0

Loomis SaylesBondI 13.70 -0.08 +0.8BondR b 13.65 -0.08 +0.5

Lord AbbettAffiliatA m 9.64 -0.01 -16.0BondDebA m 7.45 -0.01 +0.8ShDurIncA m 4.52 +2.3ShDurIncC m 4.55 +1.6

MFSTotRetA m 13.42 -0.02 -3.0ValueA m 20.82 -0.01 -7.7ValueI 20.92 -0.01 -7.5

Manning & NapierWrldOppA 6.83 -0.03 -20.2

Matthews AsianChina d 23.12 -0.08 -21.3India d 14.64 +0.19 -31.9

MergerMerger m 15.89 +0.01 +0.7

Metropolitan WestTotRetBdI 10.38 -0.03 +4.3TotRtBd b 10.38 -0.03 +4.0

Morgan Stanley InstlMdCpGrI 33.66 -0.15 -9.9

NatixisInvBndY 11.98 -0.06 +3.0StratIncA m 14.03 -0.08 -0.3StratIncC m 14.11 -0.08 -1.0

Neuberger BermanGenesisIs 44.94 -0.30 -2.2

NorthernHYFixInc d 6.88 +0.6

OakmarkEqIncI 26.46 -0.06 -4.6Intl I d 15.44 -0.05 -20.5Oakmark I 39.01 -0.07 -5.5

OberweisChinaOpp m 10.38 +0.01 -37.6

Old WestburyGlbSmMdCp 13.14 -0.04 -13.4

OppenheimerDevMktA m 28.84 -0.14 -20.9DevMktY 28.61 -0.14 -20.7GlobA m 51.71 -0.32 -14.3IntlBondA m 6.19 -0.05 -2.4IntlBondY 6.19 -0.05 -2.1MainStrA m 29.54 -0.13 -8.8RocMuniA m 15.78 +9.6RochNtlMu m 6.79 +9.8StrIncA m 4.01 -0.02 -1.2

PIMCOAllAssetI 11.69 -0.7AllAuthIn 10.22 -0.06 -0.5ComRlRStI 7.56 -0.06 -7.5DivIncInst 11.11 -0.04 +2.0EMktCurI 9.83 -0.07 -5.9HiYldIs 8.75 -0.02 +0.5InvGrdIns 10.48 -0.06 +4.7LowDrIs 10.25 -0.01 +0.6RERRStgC m 4.19 -0.01+10.6RealRet 12.17 -0.06+10.9RealRtnA m 12.17 -0.06+10.5ShtTermIs 9.75TotRetA m 10.73 -0.04 +1.5TotRetAdm b 10.73 -0.04 +1.6TotRetC m 10.73 -0.04 +0.8TotRetIs 10.73 -0.04 +1.9TotRetrnD b 10.73 -0.04 +1.6TotlRetnP 10.73 -0.04 +1.8

PermanentPortfolio 46.43 -0.27 +1.4

PioneerPioneerA m 36.09 -0.08 -11.2

PutnamGrowIncA m 11.64 -0.02 -13.3NewOpp 47.13 -0.22 -10.9

RoycePAMutInv d 10.26 -0.08 -11.9PremierInv d 18.89 -0.13 -7.2

Schwab1000Inv d 34.65 -0.09 -6.8S&P500Sel d18.37 -0.05 -6.1

ScoutInterntl d 26.42 -0.28 -18.0

SequoiaSequoia 136.31 +0.18 +6.0

T Rowe PriceBlChpGr 36.27 -0.24 -4.9CapApprec 19.88 -0.03 -2.1EmMktStk d 27.58 -0.15 -21.8EqIndex d 31.31 -0.08 -6.3EqtyInc 21.23 -0.02 -9.1GrowStk 29.82 -0.20 -7.2HiYield d 6.30 -0.01 -0.6IntlBnd d 9.80 -0.10 +0.8IntlGrInc d 11.02 -0.06 -17.2IntlStk d 11.85 -0.05 -16.7LatinAm d 40.23 -0.57 -29.1MidCapVa 20.95 -0.02 -11.6MidCpGr 54.21 -0.22 -7.4

NewAsia d 16.33 -0.05 -14.9

NewEra 41.78 -0.36 -19.9

NewHoriz 32.99 -0.26 -1.5

NewIncome 9.65 -0.03 +4.9

OrseaStk d 6.98 -0.05 -16.3

R2015 11.25 -0.04 -5.4

R2025 11.10 -0.05 -7.8

R2035 11.07 -0.05 -9.5

Rtmt2010 14.72 -0.06 -4.0

Rtmt2020 15.34 -0.06 -6.7

Rtmt2030 15.77 -0.07 -8.7

Rtmt2040 15.71 -0.07 -9.8

ShTmBond 4.81 +1.2

SmCpStk 31.21 -0.34 -9.4

SmCpVal d 32.37 -0.38 -10.4

SpecInc 12.05 -0.04 +1.2

Value 20.96 -0.03 -10.2Templeton

InFEqSeS 16.69 -0.08 -16.5Thornburg

IntlValA m 22.85 -0.25 -17.7

IntlValI d 23.36 -0.26 -17.4Tweedy Browne

GlobVal d 21.23 -0.06 -10.9Vanguard

500Adml 107.08 -0.27 -6.2

500Inv 107.06 -0.27 -6.3

AssetA 22.94 -0.08 -5.6

BalIdxAdm 20.77 -0.06 -1.2

BalIdxIns 20.77 -0.06 -1.2

CAITAdml 11.19 +8.1

CapOpAdml d67.12 -0.46 -12.6

DivGr 14.33 -0.03 +0.7

EmMktIAdm d30.93 -0.16 -22.4

EnergyAdm d110.41 -1.07 -8.7

EnergyInv d 58.77 -0.58 -8.8

Explr 65.52 -0.61 -10.1

ExtdIdAdm 36.47 -0.25 -11.6

ExtdIdIst 36.47 -0.25 -11.6

FAWeUSIns d75.45 -0.51 -19.6

GNMA 11.13 -0.01 +6.7

GNMAAdml 11.13 -0.01 +6.8

GrthIdAdm 29.88 -0.11 -4.6

GrthIstId 29.87 -0.12 -4.6

HYCor d 5.55 -0.01 +3.8

HYCorAdml d 5.55 -0.01 +3.9

HltCrAdml d 52.42 -0.33 +2.3

HlthCare d 124.18 -0.79 +2.2

ITBondAdm 11.80 -0.06 +9.3

ITGradeAd 10.01 -0.04 +6.0

ITIGrade 10.01 -0.04 +5.9

ITrsyAdml 12.11 -0.04 +9.1

InfPrtAdm 28.09 -0.11+13.0

InfPrtI 11.44 -0.05+13.1

InflaPro 14.30 -0.06+12.9

InstIdxI 106.37 -0.27 -6.2

InstPlus 106.37 -0.28 -6.1

InstTStPl 26.17 -0.09 -7.1

IntlGr d 15.66 -0.11 -19.0

IntlGrAdm d 49.86 -0.37 -19.0

IntlStkIdxAdm d21.14-0.14 -19.8

IntlStkIdxI d 84.58 -0.59 -19.8

IntlStkIdxIPls d84.60 -0.59 -19.7

IntlVal d 25.81 -0.15 -19.7

LTGradeAd 10.25 -0.12+15.3

LTInvGr 10.25 -0.12+15.2

LifeCon 15.82 -0.05 -1.9

LifeGro 20.09 -0.08 -8.4

LifeMod 18.51 -0.07 -4.6

MidCp 18.46 -0.03 -9.1

MidCpAdml 83.90 -0.13 -9.0

MidCpIst 18.54 -0.03 -8.9

Morg 16.56 -0.09 -8.2

MuHYAdml 10.57 +9.1

MuInt 13.81 +7.5

MuIntAdml 13.81 +7.6

MuLTAdml 11.17 +8.8

MuLtdAdml 11.10 +3.0

MuShtAdml 15.90 +1.4

PrecMtls d 21.04 -0.33 -21.2

Prmcp d 60.22 -0.42 -8.5

PrmcpAdml d62.53 -0.43 -8.4

PrmcpCorI d 12.66 -0.06 -8.1

REITIdxAd d 74.13 +0.31 -3.1

STBond 10.64 -0.01 +2.6

STBondAdm 10.64 -0.01 +2.7

STBondSgl 10.64 -0.01 +2.7

STCor 10.62 -0.01 +1.5

STGradeAd 10.62 -0.01 +1.6

STsryAdml 10.82 -0.01 +2.0

SelValu d 17.47 -0.02 -6.9

SmCapIdx 30.66 -0.29 -11.8

SmCpIdAdm 30.72 -0.29 -11.7

SmCpIdIst 30.73 -0.28 -11.6

SmGthIdx 19.69 -0.22 -10.2

SmValIdx 13.86 -0.10 -13.4

Star 18.13 -0.08 -4.1

TgtRe2010 22.18 -0.08 -0.6

TgtRe2015 12.04 -0.05 -3.1

TgtRe2020 21.07 -0.08 -4.7

TgtRe2030 20.07 -0.08 -7.4

TgtRe2035 11.93 -0.05 -8.9

TgtRe2040 19.51 -0.09 -9.3

TgtRe2045 12.26 -0.05 -9.2

TgtRetInc 11.35 -0.04 +2.4

Tgtet2025 11.85 -0.05 -6.1

TotBdAdml 10.99 -0.04 +6.8

TotBdInst 10.99 -0.04 +6.8

TotBdMkInv 10.99 -0.04 +6.7

TotBdMkSig 10.99 -0.04 +6.8

TotIntl d 12.63 -0.09 -19.9

TotStIAdm 28.92 -0.10 -7.1

TotStIIns 28.93 -0.09 -7.1

TotStISig 27.92 -0.09 -7.1

TotStIdx 28.91 -0.10 -7.2

WellsI 22.09 -0.08 +4.6

WellsIAdm 53.52 -0.19 +4.7

Welltn 29.56 -0.10 -2.9

WelltnAdm 51.07 -0.17 -2.8

WndsIIAdm 42.37 -0.08 -6.0

Wndsr 11.81 -0.04 -12.0

WndsrAdml 39.86 -0.13 -11.9

WndsrII 23.87 -0.04 -6.0Waddell & Reed Adv

AccumA m 6.91 -0.03 -7.7

SciTechA m 9.04 -0.09 -13.0Yacktman

Focused d 17.73 -0.02 +0.3

Yacktman d 16.52 -0.03 -0.1

YTDName NAV Chg %Rtn

GenMills 15 38.23 +.27GenMotors 4 20.34 +.10Genworth ... 5.39 +.04Gerdau ... 7.04 -.21GileadSci 11 39.28 -.36GlaxoSKln ... 41.50 -.53GoldFLtd 2 15.16 -.23Goldcrp g 19 47.84 -.57GoldStr g ... 1.78 -.13GoldmanS 14 88.75 +.86Goodyear 27 11.93 -.08Google 18 563.00 -7.11GreenMtC 38 49.66 -.47Groupon n ... 16.75 -.21HSBC ... 35.92 +.09Hallibrtn 11 31.80 -.40HartfdFn 6 15.46 -.20HeclaM 13 5.30 -.07Hess 10 54.33 -.68HewlettP 6 25.39 -.39HomeDp 16 36.47 -.05HonwllIntl 13 49.14 -.05HopFedBc ... 5.95HostHotls ... 12.81 +.18HudsCity ... 5.13 +.04HumGen ... 7.03 -.05HuntBnk 9 4.72 +.03Huntsmn 7 9.43 -.13Hyperdyn ... 2.85 -.19

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The first read on manufacturing

The Institute for Supply Manage-ment issues its report on the manu-facturing sector during November on Thursday. The ISM’s manufac-turing index has fallen toward 50, a scary number because it’s the divider between manufacturing growth and contraction. Econo-mists expect the index to rise to 52. A key number in the report will be new orders – if they rise, that indi-cates manufacturing will strengthen in the months ahead.

A look at consumer confidence

Economists expect the Conference Board to report a modest rise in its Consumer Confidence Index for November on Tuesday. The index fell in October to its lowest since March 2009. That reflected uneasi-ness over the stock market’s vola-tility and frustration with the slow economic recovery. Retailers hope that despite their pessimism, con-sumers will spend freely for the holidays – as they did when confi-dence fell in the summer.

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S&P 500 2011 predictionsBanks’ forecasts for Dec. 30, 2011

Francesca Levy, Jenni Sohn • APSOURCES: the banks

At the start of 2011, market strategists predicted the S&P 500 index would end the year with a substantial gain. The highest estimate forecast a 23 percent rise from its 2010 close of 1,257.

It’s been a volatile year in the market and many of those early estimates were revised. Perhaps surprisingly, not all of them were downward. With just one month left, it will be challenging for many of the banks to hit their S&P targets. Particularly since the S&P closed Friday at 1158, down 8 percent for the year.

Back on Aug. 30, when the S&P 500 was at 1,212 – down 3.6 percent for the year – JPMorgan Chase analysts forecast that the index would end 2011 at 1,475. That was up from their previous estimate of 1,425. They thought investors would start to focus more on strong

Will S&P hit forecasts?corporate earnings than the European debt crisis.

UBS and Citigroup had also raised their forecasts by the end of August. But those forecasts are looking optimistic. Worrisome news about Europe and the budget debate in Washington keeps sending stocks down. For the S&P to hit JPMorgan’s target, it would have to rise 27 percent the last four weeks of the year.

Historically, the S&P 500 averages a gain of 1.5 percent in December. Its biggest December climb was 11.2 percent in 1991. The index has risen in December 61 out of the last 84 years.

Credit Suisse’s prediction for the S&P 500 to close at 1,100 shows its pessimism. That would be a 5 percent drop. The S&P 500 hasn’t fallen that much in December since 2002.

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JPMORGAN CHASE

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DEAR ABBY: I’m 14 and I’m terrifi ed that I won’t know what to do once I’m in college and have to decide on a long-term job. I have a lot of interests, but none that would lead me toward a career. My teachers and the books I read say I should fi nd my passion and follow it for the rest of my life. My problem is, I don’t have a stand-out passion I love intensely.

I have an amazing fam-ily who would support me in any direction I choose, but I don’t know what that would be. I get good grades and work hard, and I believe I could achieve anything I choose. The problem is, I don’t know what I want to do.

I know I’m young, but I worry all the time about my future and being stuck in a job I hate. I’m involved in lots of activities — stu-dent government, piano lessons, sports, service clubs and more — and I enjoy all of them. But none of them inspire a burning passion. Do you have any suggestions on how to fi nd my passion? — NEEDS A DIRECTION, ATLANTA

DEAR NEEDS A DI-RECTION: Yes. And the fi rst one is to re-lax and quit worry-ing about not having found your “passion” at 14. This isn’t the Middle Ages, when young people would apprentice themselves to a guild in which they would spend the rest of their lives. You are intelligent and only

beginning to explore your vari-ous tal-ents.

Y o u may excel in several d i f f e r -ent areas, which is good, be-

cause workers no lon-ger necessarily stay in one kind of job for a lifetime. People are usually good at the things they enjoy, so slow down. Give your-self time to see where you excel. I am positive that if you do, you’ll fi nd your passion(s) in a fi eld you enjoy.

DEAR ABBY: Four years ago my best friend’s mother lost her husband after a battle with cancer. She joined a grief support group and met a man who had lost his wife to cancer, too. Love blossomed and they will be married soon. Everyone is thrilled they have found each other.

Along with a wedding gift, would it be appro-priate to make a dona-tion to a cancer charity in memory of their deceased spouses? I would like to honor the struggle that led the couple to each oth-er, but don’t want to of-fend. What do you think? — DEVOTED FRIEND IN KENTUCKY

DEAR DEVOTED FRIEND: I think you have come up with a beautiful idea that will be deeply appreciated, and you should do it.

Young teen fearfulof future has lots of time on her side

Abigail Van Buren

Dear Abby

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You will maintain your solid stance at the calm center of a swirl of activity. You’ll love the show. It’s like there’s a parade go-ing by just for your entertainment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Messages get mixed up, but that doesn’t have to stop you. A surge of creativity will help you do what traditional methods of communi-cation will fail to accomplish.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You are sincerely invigorated by the presence of others. Be bold enough to show just how thrilled you are to interact with people, and they’ll be charmed by your enthusiasm. You will make them feel important.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You are receptive to trying new things, though you want to know that the risk will be worthwhile. You’ll take steps to avoid feeling “ripped off,” such as investigat-ing further, reading testimonials and looking out for bad reviews.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There are family members you would love to connect with more often, but life and distance stand be-tween you. Bridging the gap is a matter of planning. Set aside some time to sort out the details of your next visit.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You want a person to possess cer-tain qualities so badly that you may see these qualities regard-

less of whether they really exist. There’s a chance the individual in question will grow into the role you’ve cast.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). In spite of Mercury’s retrograde, you have “mad-skills” in the con-versation department, and you’re determined to use them. You’ll engage in the kind of talks that will stir your soul and nourish your imagination.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Though a big project is now sat-isfactorily “in the can,” you still have a great deal ahead of you that needs tending. You’ll gather up your forces and look to the future.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Because you are so honest with yourself, you’ll see through the facade that people try to present and into the way they actually are. You’ll note the frailty all around and turn your tender attention where it’s needed most.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). When you are specific and unambiguous, you will get the results you seek. Also, make it easy for others to help you. A simple question will get a simple answer. A compound question will get no answer.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Much is going unsaid that could complicate matters. Identify and verbalize what you need to get

out of a transaction to make you consider it a success.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There will be a bit of a mystery to solve, and it will come together like a puzzle, one piece at a time. Your persistence and a willing-ness to experiment will be key to resolving this one.

Today’s birthday

What has been trying in the past will now be much easier for you to accomplish. Next month, you’ll be shown favor by those who are difficult to impress. January brings important financial transactions. You’ll shift your business strategy in February. Lifestyle upgrades come in May. Gemini and Virgo people contribute generously to your life. Your lucky numbers are: 20, 1, 4, 44 and 18.

Celebrity profiles

Sagittarian siren Katherine Heigl confessed, “People who know me well know that I have an opinion about pretty much everything.” With four natal lumi-naries in Sagittarius, perhaps all those opinions are based on the wide range of experiences Heigl has acquired by following her in-tense sense of curiosity. Jupiter in Leo, the sign of children, sug-gests that Heigl’s playful daugh-ter brings her luck.

■ 1901 — Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek conces-sions in Korea.

■ 1914 — German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans’ 35,000 in two weeks of fighting.

■ 1918 — Chile and Peru sever relations.

■ 1921 Hirohito becomes re-gent of Japan.

■ 1923 — Transatlantic broad-

casting from England to America commences for the first time.

■ 1930 — An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people.

■ 1939 — Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim.

■ 1946 — The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government.

■ 1947 — The Big Four meet to discuss the German and Euro-pean economy.

■ 1951 — A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea.

■ 1955 — The Interstate Com-merce Commission bans segre-gation in interstate travel.

■ 1963 — The body of assassi-nated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

■ 1964 — Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency.

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Tony Bennett “The Classic

Christmas Album”

When you’ve been around as long as Tony Bennett, you don’t release an album of Christmas favorites, you put out a collection of the best Christmas songs re-corded throughout your career.

This greatest hits album compiles holiday tunes from the 85-year-old crooner’s repertoire over 40 years. He re-leased his fi rst holiday album, “Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album” in 1968. Over the years, he’s recorded Christmas music with the Lon-don Symphony Orchestra and the Count Basie Band.

While these songs have all been heard before, there’s an eclectic magic to listening to them in succession. Maybe it’s the younger tone of his voice on early recordings like “My Favorite Things,” or the swag-ger on “Winter Wonderland.”

The collection includes a lush mix of jazz, orchestral, and big band backgrounds to such holiday classics as “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christ-mas,” a peppy version of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” and the beautiful choral tone of “O Little Town of Bethlehem.”

— John Carucci

Various Artists, “Glee: The Music,

The Christmas Album Vol. 2”

The second Christmas album from the “Glee” cast starts out strong with Amber Riley’s version of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You”: It’s as fun to listen to as the original. Naya Rivera also does a great job pulling off a sultry rendition of “Santa Baby.”

Darren Criss and Lea Michele, who always pair nicely in duets on the show, also sing “Extraor-dinary Merry Christmas.”

The fi nal four contestants on “The Glee Project” also lend their vocals to songs like “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town,” ‘‘Blue

Christmas” and “Do You Hear What I Hear?” That’s OK and fi ne, if the powers that be wanted to include the show’s two co-win-ners on the album, but the fi nal four? It just seems like a blatant plug for the reality competition.

Regardless, everyone on the album can carry a tune, so “Glee” fans will likely appreci-ate the album.

—Alicia Rancilio

Various artists, “This Warm December:

A Brushfire Holiday, Volume 2”

Someone liked this idea enough to put out a second volume, but this reviewer is not that someone. Featuring 13 tracks by 11 artists from the Brushfi re stable (Zach Gill, G. Love, Rogue Wave, Jack Johnson, Bahamas, Neil Halstead, Zee Avi, ALO, Money Mark, Paula Fuga and Matt Costa), the arrangements are ho-hum and there’s not a sing-along song in the bunch. The best of the baker’s dozen is an original tune by Johnson (”In the Morning”) that’s perfect if you’re planning a yuletide luau. The worst? Zee Avi making “Frosty the Snowman” even more depressing than the lyr-ics. There is some good news, though: Twenty-fi ve percent of the profi ts from record sales support musical education.

—Rob Merrill

Joey + Rory, “A Farmhouse Christmas”

If you feel the need to freshen up your holiday music collection, you could do much worse than this country duo.

Joey is the woman and Rory is the guy always wearing over-alls, even on the album cover. Yes, they’re a couple like that cute plus sign in their name implies. They harmonize better than most husbands and wives, though. Rory is a working song-writer when not recording with his wife and it shows in some of the lyrics. Sample from the album opener “It’s Christmas Time”: “We’ll eat too much and

swear again / that come New Year we’re getting in / the best shape that we’ve ever been / but we know we’re lyin’. / So pass the pie and one more roll / and pass me that remote control / oh, lookee here, I love this show! / It’s Christmas time.”

There are only two holiday standards here — “Away in a Manger” and “Blue Christmas” — plus a cover of Merle Haggard’s “If We Make It Through Decem-ber,” featuring background vocals by the man himself. The rest are non-traditional or original, with song titles like “What The Hell (It’s the Holidays),” ‘‘Come Sit on Santa Claus’ Lap” and “Let It Snow (Somewhere Else).” If you’re sick of the classics and need to have something festive in the background while you entertain or cook for family and friends this holiday season, this is a fi ne choice for any house, even without a farm.

—Rob Merrill

Michael Buble, “Christmas”

“Christmas” comes early with Michael Buble’s holiday record. It’s his second seasonal release, and it seems as if he’s got a knack for making cozy Christ-mas music. His smooth voice perfectly covers classics like “Si-lent Night,” ‘‘Have a Holly Jolly Christmas” and “Jingle Bells.” There’s even an original song called “Cold December Night.”

Buble also covers Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christ-mas Is You,” but adds his own twist by slowing it down. It sounds like a completely dif-ferent song that is noteworthy in its own right. “Christmas” is an instant classic that would go nicely in anyone’s collection.

—Alicia Rancilio

Mark O’Connor, “An Appalachian

Christmas”

The title’s misleading, with Mark O’Connor playing more like a violinist than a fi ddler, and his guests include opera star Renee Fleming and jazz singer Jane Monheit. The stylistic sprawl

results in a set about as rustic as choir carols at Lincoln Center.

O’Connor’s fi rst holiday album includes new recordings but also previously released material dating back as far as 1987. Several tunes have little to do with Christmas, includ-ing “Ol’ Blue,” sung by James Taylor, and “Now It Belongs To You,” sung by Steve Wariner.

Even so, this grab bag offers a few goodies. Fleming’s duet with O’Connor on “Amazing Grace” pairs two glorious in-struments, and when she soars for an A-fl at above high C to start the last line, it’s an unex-pected present. Alison Krauss’ angelic soprano enriches Stephen Foster’s “Slumber My Darling,” and she’s backed by the string trio of O’Connor, Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer in a heavenly performance.

O’Connor does some serious sawing on a Mannheim Steam-roller-style rendition of “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.” But much of the time he plays as if handcuffed, and a succession of mellow, undercooked tunes work best as background music.

— Steven Wine

Marcus Roberts Trio, “Celebrating Christmas”

Pianist Marcus Roberts’ trio takes the ordinary — 15 oft-heard holiday songs both sacred and secular — and turns them into something extraordinary by using them as vehicles for jazz improvisation. “Celebrating Christmas” is his second holiday record, coming 20 years after his solo piano “Prayer For Peace.”

Roberts plays solo on three tracks. He turns “We Three Kings” into a restrained waltz; makes “Joy To The World” a modifi ed piano rag, and only slightly embellishes the melody on “O Come All Ye Faithful.” He has a mastery of jazz piano styles as shown on “White Christmas” where the trio’s use of space, sudden shifts in tempo and changes in volume refl ect the infl uence of pianist Ahmad Jamal’s 1950s trios.

Drummer Jason Marsalis

(the youngest brother in the famed jazz family) also shows a wide range. He uses delicate brushwork on the ballad “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”; propels “Jingle Bells” forward with a galloping beat; and shows his New Orleans roots with his drum lines on “Little Drummer Boy,” creating tension by ini-tially playing at a faster tempo than the other trio members. Bassist Rodney Jordan plays an elegantly stated recurring motif that drives “Carol of the Bells.”

The trio’s intricate interplay is highlighted on “The Twelve Days of Christmas” as they change keys and fi nd different ways to state the melody from day to day, turning what often can be a boring, repetitive song into something exciting.

— By Charles J. Gans

David Ian, “Vintage Christmas”

Jazz pianist David Ian treats the classics with a deft hand on “Vintage Christmas,” seamless-ly melding the some traditional compositions with the perfect hint of lounge-meets-jazz phrasing.

There’s a way to botch this approach, to make it too kitschy. Ian knows better and meanders from the traditional approach just enough to keep it interesting, but without too many extra instruments muck-ing up the arrangement. His minimalist piano work delivers a clean approach here.

The best moments come when Ian is paired with vocals by Acacia, one half of the sister-duo group Tal & Acacia. Her tone is dreamy on “Have Your-self A Merry Little Christmas,” without excessive back-phras-ing which some vocalists have employed on this standard.

Ian best work is evident on his vocal-free rendition of “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” with just some soft bass notes and drum work to back him up. His explorations with the melody are mild and it’s nice that he doesn’t meander off into a jazz jungle of unrelated riffs.

—Ron Harris

Holiday music from Bennett, Buble and moreThe Associated Press

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Sports MinistryRegistration for the Jericho

Sports Ministry basketball is under way at Tate Baptist Church. Cost is $35 for each player and includes jersey. Open to ages 4-15 years old. Practices will begin Dec. 5 and season starts Jan. 7, 2012. Season is eight weeks. Manda-tory player evaluations will be Dec. 1-2 from 6-8 p.m. at Tate Baptist. For more info call the church 286-2935 or Dr. Mike Weeden 286-8860.

  RailCat CampCross City Baseball Academy

-- located in the Corinth Sportsplex -- will host its RailCat Camp on Saturday, December 10. Houston Astros coach Dave Clark, a 12-year major league veteran, and St. Louis Cardinals closer Jason Motte will be at the camp. Camp is open to three different age groups: 7-9 camp is set for 9:30-11 a.m.; 10-12 is 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.; and 13 and up will be held from 2-3 p.m. Camp is limited to 20 spots in each age group. Cost is $50 per player. For more information call 901-283-8315 or go to www.cross-citybaseball.com

  NE Basketball TicketsNortheast Mississippi Commu-

nity College athletic officials have announced that season tickets for the upcoming 2011-12 Tigers and Lady Tigers basketball season are now on sale at the business office located in Estes Hall. Cost is $35 per season ticket or $60 for a pair. For information regarding the pur-chase of Northeast basketball sea-son tickets, contact the Northeast Business Office at 662-720-7251.

  Winter Bowling Leagues

Plaza Lanes will be offering bowl-ing leagues this winter for men and women. Leagues for both will play on Monday and Thursday nights. Ladies-only leagues will bowl on Tuesday night and Thursday morn-ing. Church Leagues will play on Tuesday nights and only four more spots are available. Youth will bowl Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. For more information call Plaza Lanes at 286-8105.

SaturdayBasketballHilltopper Clash @ Houston

(B) Corinth-Ololona, Noon 

MondayBasketballWalnut Invitational(G) Riple y-Potts Camp, 4(B) Ripley-Potts Camp, 5:30(G) Walnut-Ashland, 7(B) Walnut-Ashland, 8:30 

TuesdayBasketballBiggersville @ Jumpertown, 6Corinth @ Tish (WXRZ), 6SoccerCorinth @ Saltillo, 5/7  

ThursdayBasketballWalnut Invitational(G) Ripley-Ashland, 4(B) Ashland-Potts Camp, 5:30(G) Walnut-Potts Camp, 7(B) Walnut-Ripley, 8:30North Pontotoc TourneyKossuth 

FridayBasketballCentral @ New Site, 6Adamsville @ Corinth, 6Biggersville @ Wheeler, 6Kossuth @ East Union, 6SoccerNorth Pontotoc @ Corinth, 5:30 

Saturday, Dec. 3BasketballBiggersville @ Central (WXRZ), 6Walnut Invitational(G) Ashland-Potts Camp, 3(B) Walnut-Potts Camp, 4:30(G) Walnut-Ripley, 6(B) Ripley-Ashland, 7:30North Pontotoc TourneyKossuthSoccerCenter Hill Tournament(B) Corinth-Horn Lake, 8:30 a.m.(G) Corinth-Horn Lake, 9:45 a.m.(B) Corinth-Center Hill, 12:15(G) Corinth-Center Hill, 1:30 

Tuesday, Dec. 6BasketballCentral @ West Union, 6East Union @ Walnut, 6Itawamba @ Corinth (WXRZ), 6Kossuth @ Ingomar, 6SoccerCorinth @ Tish County,

4:30/6:30 

What could draw together the likes of Dave Clark, third base coach for the Houston Astros, Jason Motte, clos-ing pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals at the 2011 World Series, and catcher for the Minnesota Twins, Phillip Chapman?

Hint: It’s no riddle.The answer? The first bi-

annual RailCat Camp, host-ed by Cross City Baseball Director Tyler Sutton at the Corinth Sportsplex on Dec. 10.

Perhaps the truer answer is Sutton himself. Upon graduating from Oklahoma Christian University, he spent two years as an in-structor at Dulin’s Sports Complex in Cordova, Tenn, after a brief stint as a pro-fessional pitcher for the Coastal Kingfish out of Houston.

Despite the notoriety of the Kingfish (CBL) as one of the losingest teams in professional baseball, Sut-ton’s career has earned him a rapport with MLB players and coaches alike, a sur-prising rolodex of contacts he intends to tap for the benefit of local student-athletes.

“We’re trying to get these RailCat camps going for both the spring and the fall,” said Sutton. “I figure it’ll be fun for the kids to meet some big-name guys and get some top-level in-struction, and it could be good for Corinth to have more people of this caliber coming in.”

Yet the scope of Sutton’s ambition is larger than this, with a focus on training lo-cal teams to compete in regional and national AAA tourneys hosted the US

RailCat CampBY JAMES MCQUAID

MURPHYjmurphy@dailycorinthian.com

OXFORD — Dundrecous Nelson scored 17 points, while Murphy Holloway add-ed 13 points and a game-high 17 rebounds Friday night as Mississippi defeated Miami 64-61 in overtime.

The Rebels (5-1) took the lead for good, 60-58, on a dunk by Holloway with 3:06 left in overtime and survived potential game-winning and game-tying shots by Mal-colm Grant at the end of reg-ulation and in overtime.

Jarvis Summers had 13 points and Terrance Henry added 12 for Ole Miss. The

Rebels played without start-ing forward Reginald Buck-ner, who sat out due to a knee injury suffered in prac-tice Thursday. He is expected to return in December.

Ole Miss raced to a 17-0 lead in the opening 8 min-utes and led 46-41 with 8 minutes left in regulation before Miami rallied to force overtime.

Grant led the Hurricanes (4-1) with 22 points, includ-ing 6 of 12 from 3-point range. Grant’s fi nal 3-point shot pulled Miami within 62-61 with 21 seconds remain-ing in overtime.

Ole Miss followed Grant’s 3 with a pair of free throws from Summers with 20 sec-onds left to build the 64-61 cushion.

Durand Scott added 13 points and Trey McKinney 12 for Miami.

Scott had his fi nal shot blocked by Nelson and Grant recovered the ball outside the 3-point line, but was forced to rush an unsuccess-ful 3 at the buzzer.

Miami, which trailed 29-25 at halftime, fi nished 22 of 60 (36.7 percent) from the fi eld. Ole Miss was 19 of 50 (38 percent) from the fi eld.

The Hurricanes were 8 of 13 (61.5 percent) from the free-throw line, while the Rebels fi nished 19 of 30 (63.3 percent) from the stripe.

In overtime, Ole Miss con-verted 8 of 10 free-throw op-portunities, including fi ve from Summers. Miami man-aged only 2 of 4 in the extra frame, both from Scott.

The win was the fi rst at home for Ole Miss over an ACC opponent and marked its fi rst win over an ACC team since a March 2008 quarterfi nal win in the Na-tional Invitational Tourna-ment at Virginia Tech.

Rebel hoopsters sink Miami in overtimeThe Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. — Tyrann Mathieu answered the call for a game-turning play when LSU needed one most, and the top-ranked Ti-gers piled on from there.

Mathieu -- nicknamed Honey Badger -- returned a punt 92 yards for a game-tying score and the Tigers punished third-ranked Ar-kansas with 286 yards rush-ing, wiping out a 14-point defi cit with a 41-17 win Fri-day that secured a spot in the SEC championship.

“I could hear my team-mates in my ear saying, ‘Man, we need you to go make a play,”’ Mathieu said. “I was able to help the mo-mentum really go in our fa-

vor.“You have no idea how

bad I just wanted to go out there and make a big play for our team. I was fortu-nate enough to be able to do that.”

Kenny Hilliard, Spencer Ware and Jordan Jefferson all scored on the ground for LSU (12-0, 8-0 SEC), which is 12-0 for the fi rst time and will play No. 13 Georgia next weekend in Atlanta.

A win over the Bulldogs would assure the Tigers their third trip to the BCS title game in nine seasons. Though at this point, LSU might be able to get there even if it loses.

The rivalry game with Ar-kansas (10-2, 6-2) was billed

as the biggest in Tiger Stadi-um since 1959, the last time two teams ranked in the top three clashed in Death Val-ley. Billy Cannon lifted No. 1 LSU to a 7-3 win over No. 3 Mississippi in that game with an 89-yard punt return for a score, so it seemed fi t-ting that the Tigers would get a similar score against the Razorbacks.

“That was a huge turning point in the game,” Arkan-sas coach Bobby Petrino said. “We were trying to get the ball punted to the side-line, but he miss-hit it a bit and punted it to the middle. ... (Mathieu) made a great cut and made us miss at the point of attack. He made a great play.”

LSU trailed 14-7 when Ma-thieu fi elded Dylan Breed-ing’s end-over-end kick at his own 8, started left, made a hard cut straight up fi eld, then angled left again to break into the clear.

“It made the statement that that lead was not go-ing to stand up,” LSU coach Les Miles said. “Our defense was going to continue to play well and our offense was coming.”

Cannon also made a game-sealing tackle on defense late in that classic game against Ole Miss. Mathieu, who was playing safety instead of cor-nerback much of the game because of Eric Reid’s injury

No. 1 LSU ‘Badgers’ No. 3 ArkansasThe Associated Press

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State’s motivation on Satur-day is clear — win a third-straight Egg Bowl against rival Ole Miss for the fi rst time in 70 years and become bowl eli-gible in the process.

As for the Rebels, it’s hard to tell if they’ve got any moti-vation remaining or are just

playing the fi nal game because the schedule says so.

Mississippi State right tack-le Addison Lawrence said he expects Ole Miss to be pumped when the teams meet on Sat-urday night at Davis Wade Stadium, but also susceptible to a mental breakdown if things don’t go their way early.

“If we jump on them I think

they’ll lay down,” Lawrence said. “I think they’re wanting to lay down in a way because of all the things that have been happening here recently. But they’re defi nitely going to come out excited, so we’ve got to match their intensity.”

It’s hard to argue with Law-rence’s assessment.

Ole Miss (2-9, 0-7 South-

eastern Conference) has been lethargic in two straight losses to Louisiana Tech and LSU, losing by a combined score of 79-10. The Rebels have zero momentum, with six straight losses overall and a 13-game SEC losing streak. They’re playing for a coach (Houston Nutt) who’s already been told he won’t return next season.

Motivated MSU clear favorite in Egg BowlThe Associated Press

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Local student-athlete Ethan Eaton gets a lesson in batting from Tyler Sutton at the Corinth Sportsplex, where the upcoming RailCat Camp will be hosted by Sutton and three MLB camp instructors.

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safety instead of cornerback much of the game because of Eric Reid’s injury the previous week, had defensive highlights of his own, forcing two fum-bles with strips, one of which he recovered.

He now has six forced fum-bles this season. His fi fth was a strip of running back Dennis Johnson in LSU territory late in the fi rst half. That set up a touchdown drive that put the Tigers ahead to stay.

It was Mathieu’s third touch-down of the season, his second on special teams, the other coming on a fumble return.

Arkansas took a surprising 14-0 lead on Tyler Wilson’s 13-yard TD pass to Jarius Wright and Alonzo Highsmith’s 47-yard fumble return, but LSU stormed back and outscored the Razorbacks 41-3 from there.

“This football team down 14 points did not fl inch,” Miles said. “There was never a ques-tion in anyone’s minds on that sideline we were going to re-spond.”

LSU’s defense sacked Wilson fi ve times (twice by Barkevi-ous Mingo) and picked him off once on Morris Claiborne’s team-leading fi fth interception of the season.

Two plays after the pick, Jefferson ran 48 yards for his score on a quarterback draw that was wide open, making it 38-17.

Wilson completed 14 of 22 passes for 207 yards, with 60 yards on a short pass that Cobi Hamilton turned into a long gain. The play put Arkansas in position to tie the game at 21 in the third quarter, but LSU’s defense forced a fi eld goal that made it 21-17, and the Razor-backs never got closer than that again.

“We played a great team and they came out on top,” said Wright, who came in lead-ing the SEC with 100.2 yards receiving per game, but was held to only one catch by LSU. “They’re the No. 1 team in the nation. Of course, we’re upset about the loss because we defi -nitely could have fi nished bet-ter.”

Jefferson was 18 of 29 for 208 yards and one touchdown, a 9-yard pass to Russell Shepa-rd that gave LSU the lead for good at with 59 seconds left in the fi rst half. His fi rst inter-ception of the season kept Ar-kansas in the game in the third quarter, but otherwise he was excellent.

Hilliard fi nished with a ca-reer-high 102 yards rushing on 19 carries, while Michael Ford rushed 11 times for 96 yards.

“At halftime our offensive line came in and told us that, man, we were wearing them down and in the second half I think we can beat them up,” Hilliard said. “We came out in the second half and pounded the football right at them. I felt it out there.”

DEFENSEFROM PAGE 1B

(USSSA, or “U-Triple S-A,” as Sutton refers to it).

“I also want to focus on high school pros-pect teams and help-ing kids get recruited as they get older,” he added.

“We want to turn the Sportsplex into a complete training and rehab center for base-ball and softball, and even outfit it with a computer lab so that kids can focus better on their homework.

“I want to encour-

age the academic as-pect first, of course. That’s why I refer to these kids as student-athletes, to encourage college not just from the athletic recruiting side of it.”

Furthermore, Sutton hopes to eventually ex-pand on the bi-annual camp program to in-clude skill, speed, and agility clinics ,along with regular hitting practices hosted by future instructors the likes of Clark, Motte, and Chapman.

“In the future it would be good to in-corporate the town more for any high pro-file attendees,” added Sutton. “I have no

idea what we could do, and of course I want to respect their pri-vacy and not overload them, but it would be a really good chance to get these guys around town for a meet-and-greet with the locals.”

With funding for the Sportsplex provided mostly by United Way, and without any ad-ditional local funding, Sutton’s vision may seem mind-boggling. Yet he speaks of it with a nonchalance most certainly born of confidence, having played for a profes-sional league, and of pow-wowing with the likes of Clark, Motte, and Chapman.

“Dave used to give me coaching when I was younger,” said Sutton, rather matter-of-fact. “I also know him through my girl-friend and her fam-ily. Motte, well he used to work out at Dulin’s, and Phillip would come catch for him. Phillip also of-fered catching lessons there.”

It’s not much as far as a dazzling explanation of the six degrees, but...

As for the upcoming camp, it will be bro-ken down into three age categories with 20 students per session, further sub-divided into groups of five that will rotate between

the four instructors, Sutton included. Each session will run for an hour and a half, with a primary focus on pitching, catching, and hitting, and a brief focus on developing defensive skills.

Presently there are only a few spots left in the high school age bracket, otherwise the camp is booked solid, a good sign for Sutton and his vision.

“I just hope people will keep a look out for this sort of thing in the future,” he concluded. “The more we do this, the more I hope it will grow in funding, since we can only take so many kids at a time.”

RAILCATFROM PAGE 1B

Daily Corinthian • Saturday, November 26, 2011 • 3B

IRVING, Texas — The Dal-las Cowboys did everything ex-pected from them in November. They played four games and won them all.

They didn’t exactly get bet-ter as they went along, and they didn’t exactly face the toughest foes in the toughest circum-stances. Yet they always found a way to win, and there’s some-thing to be said about that.

It remains to be seen whether this group led by Tony Romo, DeMarcus Ware and rookie sen-sations DeMarco Murray and Dan Bailey can consistently beat winning teams in high-stakes games. But the bottom line on this recent surge is that they’ve put themselves in position to fi nd out.

The Cowboys (7-4) will head into the fi nal fi ve weeks of the season atop the NFC East. They’ll either be tied with the Giants or a game ahead of them, depending on what happens when New York plays in New Orleans on Monday night.

“We needed to get going,”

Romo said. “We had some tough losses earlier in the year, and we were in position to win some games. At some point you’ve got to get on a roll and stack the wins together. Getting these four wins was very big.”

Dallas and New York still have two meetings left, including the fi nale on the road on New Year’s Day. The Cowboys’ other three games are all against teams with losing records, but none are gimmes. They’ll be on the road against Arizona and Tampa Bay, and both are .500 at home, and they will play host to Phila-delphia on Christmas Eve.

The Eagles were the last team to beat the Cowboys, and they spanked them 34-7 in the most lopsided loss of coach Jason Garrett’s tenure. Philadelphia also is coming off a victory over the Giants and could be back in the division race by then.

Thus, it all comes back to how Dallas plays down the stretch. Do well, and the Cowboys will make the playoffs. Struggle, and they’ll give Garrett and owner-GM Jerry Jones a better idea

of which players are and aren’t keepers in 2012 and beyond.

“We’re trying not to think of it in the overall big-picture yet,” Romo said. “It’s strictly about the week-to-week and the pro-cess. ... At the end of the year, those things will add up and that’s what will be talked about.”

Romo laughed as he said that, admitting he was parroting some of Garrett’s pet phrases. He knows that over the three-day weekend — the reward for having played three times in 12 days — everyone will be analyz-ing how far they’ve come and what they have left to return to the playoffs after a bottoming-out season last year.

The Cowboys wouldn’t be in such great shape without the emergence of Murray and Bai-ley.

Murray was a third-round pick who was expected to help complement Felix Jones. The lockout and a hamstring injury slowed him so much that when Jones went out with an injury, Dallas didn’t immediately hand him the job. Then he ran for 253

yards in a game he didn’t start and there was no doubt they had a special player.

Dallas is 5-1 since Murray be-came the featured runner. He’s gained 761 yards over those six games, which is more than NFL rushing king Emmitt Smith, fel-low Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett or any other Cowboys running back has ever had.

Against Miami on Thursday, he showed he can be a closer, the kind of guy who grinds out yards and burns the clock even when everyone knows that he’s coming. On fi ve straight car-ries, he gained between 3 and 9 yards. He nearly broke one of those into a longer gain but had the presence of mind to fall down in bounds rather than risk getting shoved out of bounds and stopping the clock.

Bailey won a preseason kick-ing competition that included a fellow rookie, the incumbent and two veterans. But he didn’t exactly win the job outright as incumbent David Buehler was kept for kickoffs and rookie Kai Forbath went on the non-foot-

ball injury list, giving Dallas a pair of options just in case.

Buehler is now on injured re-serve and Forbath isn’t likely to get a chance here.

Bailey has made 26 straight fi eld goals, one shy of match-ing the club record and 12 more than any rookie in NFL history. The last two games ended with him making a fi eld goal, and he’s won four games this season with a kick in the fi nal 2 minutes of regulation or in overtime. No kicker in NFL history had ever done that more than three times.

That’s what the Cowboys have done for the last month. They pulled away from Seattle in the second half, crushed Buf-falo and eeked out wins over Washington and Miami. The Redskins and Dolphins each have only three wins, so con-sider that a potential warning sign.

Or maybe it’s a sign of a team that simply does what it takes to win.

The answer will be revealed over the next fi ve weeks.

Cowboys have set themselves up for quite a finishThe Associated Press

Thursday, Nov. 24Green Bay at Detroit 12:30 p.m.Miami at Dallas 4:15 p.m.San Francisco at Baltimore 8:20 p.m.Sunday, Nov. 27Buffalo at N.Y. Jets 1 p.m.Cleveland at Cincinnati 1 p.m.Minnesota at Atlanta 1 p.m.Houston at Jacksonville 1 p.m.Arizona at St. Louis 1 p.m.Tampa Bay at Tennessee 1 p.m.Carolina at Indianapolis 1 p.m.Washington at Seattle 4:05 p.m.Chicago at Oakland 4:05 p.m.New England at Philadelphia 4:15 p.m.Denver at San Diego 4:15 p.m.Pittsburgh at Kansas City 8:20 p.m.Monday, Nov. 28N.Y. Giants at New Orleans 8:30 p.m.

PACKERS (10-0) AT LIONS (7-3)Green Bay is off to its first 10–0 start since1962. That year, the Packers stumbled on theroad against the Lions, suffering their first lossat Detroit in Week 11. This Thanksgiving Daygame in the Motor City also sets up as a trapfor the reigning champs, who have had back-to-back short weeks, with a Monday night tilt inWeek 10 and this week’s Thursday kickoff.

DOLPHINS (3-7) AT COWBOYS (6-4)Miami and Dallas are a combined 6–0 the lastthree weeks. The team with the fewest mentalmistakes — or Leon Lett moments — wins.

49ERS (9-1) AT RAVENS (7-3)NFL Network’s main event on Thursday nightis a family affair that pits Jim Harbaugh’s 49ersagainst his older brother John Harbaugh’sRavens. This marks the first time in the NFL’s92-year history that brothers have head-coached against each other. In fact, a San Franwin coupled with a Seattle loss to Washingtonwould crown the Niners NFC West champions.

BILLS (5-5) AT JETS (5-5)Buffalo’s current three-game losing streakstarted with a 27–11 loss at home to the Jetsin Week 9. If New York loses, they will complainabout too much time off after a Thursday loss.

BROWNS (4-6) AT BENGALS (6-4)The Buckeye State Bowl went Cincy’s way,27–17, in Week 1. The Bengals need a seasonsweep of the Browns after losing two straightto AFC North rivals Steelers and Ravens.

VIKINGS (2-8) AT FALCONS (6-4)Rookie Christian Ponder carries a 1–3 recordinto Atlanta, where Matt Ryan is 21–4 all-time.

TEXANS (7-3) AT JAGUARS (3-7)Subbing for Matt Schaub, backup Matt Leinartlooks to repeat Houston’s 24–14 victoryagainst Jacksonville in Week 8. Pressure’s on.

CARDINALS (3-7) AT RAMS (2-8)The Cardinals return to St. Louis, where thefranchise played from 1960-87. Arizona tookdown St. Louis, 19–13, in Week 9.

BUCCANEERS (4-6) AT TITANS (5-5)Albert Haynesworth returns to Nashville — hisold stomping ground, so to speak. It will behard to tell whether the 330-pound run-stufferdid his job if Chris Johnson runs like he did inthe loss at Atlanta (13 yards on 12 carries).

PANTHERS (2-8) AT COLTS (0-10)The worst team of 2010 travels to take on theworst team of 2011. Indy is coming off a bye,while Cam Newton has struggled in twostraight games. Is this the week the Colts win?

REDSKINS (3-7) AT SEAHAWKS (4-6)The Skins’ six-game losing streak is the worstsince Dan Snyder paid $800 million for theteam and Jack Kent Cooke Stadium in 1999.

BEARS (7-3) AT RAIDERS (6-4)With Jay Cutler out with a broken thumb,Chicago turns to backup Caleb Hanie, who ismaking his first career start and is 8-of-14 for66 yards and one INT in his four-year career.

PATRIOTS (7-3) AT EAGLES (4-6)This was one of the most anticipated matchupsof the year when schedules were released.Since then, Philly’s “Dream Team” has beensleepwalking through a disappointing season.

BRONCOS (5-5) AT CHARGERS (4-6)Tim Tebow has 10 total TDs and two turnovers;Philip Rivers has 16 total TDs and 21 turnovers.

STEELERS (7-3) AT CHIEFS (4-6)Tyler Palko’s first two career starts are nationaltelevision games against the Patriots (34–3)and Steelers. In his first action under the lights,Palko threw zero TDs and three INTs in defeat.

GIANTS (6-4) AT SAINTS (7-3)This Monday night party brings New Orleansnative and Isidore Newman High School alumEli Manning back home to face his daddyArchie’s old team, which also happens to bethe same squad that upset his older brotherPeyton’s Colts in the Super Bowl two years ago.

ROB GRONKOWSKI, TE, PATRIOTSTom Brady’s favorite target hauled in fourcatches for 96 yards and two memorable tripsto the end zone — a 52-yard sprint down thesideline that put the 6'6", 265-pounder’s speedon display and a 19-yard dive over the goal linethat flipped Gronkowski onto his neck beforethe second-year star staggered to his feet andspiked the ball. Gronkowski now has 20 TDs inhis first 26 games, breaking Bears Hall of FamerMike Ditka’s record (31) for fewest games by atight end to score 20 TDs.

AARON RODGERS, QB, PACKERSThis season, even when Rodgers is “frustrated”with his performance on Sunday, he’s still one ofthe best in the business. The frontrunner forMVP completed 23-of-34 passes for 299 yards,three TDs and one INT in a 35–26 victory overthe Buccaneers, as the Packers improved to10–0. Rodgers has passed for 3,168 yards, acareer-high 31 TDs and only four INTs for a128.8 passer rating, adding another two TDs onthe ground on Green Bay’s run of perfection.

MATTHEW STAFFORD, QB, LIONSIn a battle of former No. 1 overall picks, 2009’snumero uno outplayed 2011’s top selection, asDetroit rallied to beat Carolina and Cam Newton,49–35. The Lions outscored the Panthers 35–8in the second half, becoming the first teamsince 1950 to earn three come-from-behindwins of at least 17 points in the same season.Stafford threw a career-best five TDs, whileNewton tossed a career-worst four INTs.

RAY RICE, RB, RAVENSIn a battle for AFC North supremacy, Baltimoreoutlasted Cincinnati, 31–24 — despite playingwithout middle linebacker and leader Ray Lewisfor the first time in 58 games. The “other Ray”was in tip-top shape, however, as Rice ran bythe Bengals with 20 carries for 104 rush yardsand two short-yardage TDs, while adding fivecatches for 43 yards through the air. The Ravenshave now won 15 of their last 16 home games.

VON MILLER, LB, BRONCOSAlthough Tim Tebow scored the game-winningTD with 58 seconds left in the Broncos’ 17–13win over the Jets on Thursday night, Denver’sdefense deserves as much or more credit forthe dramatic come-from-behind victory. Millerled the charge with 10 tackles, 1.5 sacks andone forced fumble, wreaking havoc off the edgeand energizing the crowd, as the Broncos heldthe Jets to just 3-of-14 third-down conversions,forced six punts and created two turnovers.

■ The 49ers defense and special teams —led by four-time Pro Bowl middle linebackerand IDP superstar PATRICK WILLIS (85 tackles,four forced fumbles, two sacks, and one INT)and return man Ted Ginn Jr. (918 return yards,two TDs) — have carried Jim Harbaugh’s club.San Fran’s stop-unit is ranked No. 1 in scoring(14.5 ppg) and against the run (73.9 ypg). The

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1. Packers (10-0) Battle of Bays closer than final score indicates; Aaron Rodgers “frustrated.”2. 49ers (9-1) Vernon Davis (34) breaks Brent Jones’ team record for TDs by a tight end.3. Steelers (7-3) Ben Roethlisberger has fractured right thumb but isn’t expected to miss time.4. Patriots (7-3) Tom Brady exacts revenge on Chiefs in first meeting since knee injury at K.C.5. Saints (7-3) Following bye, Saints rested, ready to host Giants on Monday Night Football.6. Ravens (7-3) Without Ray Lewis, defense stuffs Bengals with last-minute goal-line stand.7. Lions (7-3) Carolina joins Minnesota, Dallas on Detroit’s list of big comeback victims.8. Falcons (6-4) Roddy White posts season-high 147 receiving yards in victory over Titans.9. Giants (6-4) Miracle at Meadowlands a V.Y. drive rather than D-Jax punt return this time.

10. Cowboys (6-4) Win third straight overall, sixth in last seven meetings with rival Redskins.11. Texans (7-3) Matt Leinart career stats: 7–10 record, 14 TDs, 20 INTs, 70.8 passer rating.12. Bears (7-3) Jay Cutler breaks thumb on throwing hand, could miss up to eight weeks.13. Bengals (6-4) Andy Dalton makes rookie mistakes, throws three INTs in loss at Baltimore.14. Eagles (4-6) Vince Young does what Michael Vick has been unable to, leads winning drive.15. Broncos (5-5) Tim Tebow not worried about apparent lack of support from John Elway.16. Raiders (6-4) Darrius Heyward-Bey suffers scary neck injury but expected to return soon.17. Titans (5-5) Jake Locker leads two TD drives subbing for injured Matt Hasselbeck (elbow).18. Jets (5-5) Unable to stop Tim Tebow’s Broncos late; lose for second time in four nights.19. Bills (5-5) Fred Jackson injures leg in third quarter of Buffalo’s fourth loss in five games.20. Chargers (4-6) Philip Rivers posts sixth straight multi-turnover game, Bolts 1–5 in that time.21. Buccaneers (4-6) Mental mistakes result in nine penalties for 55 lost yards in loss at Packers.22. Seahawks (4-6) Remain in Beast Mode, notch back-to-back wins for first time all season.23. Browns (4-6) Score first TD at home since Oct. 2 — ending two-hour, 38-minute drought.24. Dolphins (3-7) Dominate division-rival Bills for third consecutive win following 0–7 start.25. Jaguars (3-7) Maurice Jones-Drew does LeBron-style powder toss in defeat at Cleveland.26. Cardinals (3-7) John Skelton throws three INTs, benched for Richard Bartel in loss at 49ers.27. Vikings (2-8) Adrian Peterson carted off the field in second quarter with injured left ankle.28. Panthers (2-8) Watch 24–7 second-quarter lead turn into embarrassing 49–35 loss to Lions.29. Chiefs (4-6) Matt Cassel out for season; Tyler Palko in over head at New England on MNF.30. Rams (2-8) Sam Bradford sacked five times, loses two fumbles that both result in TDs.31. Redskins (3-7) Lose sixth straight, Washington’s worst losing streak since 0–7 start in 1998.32. Colts (0-10) Peyton Manning reportedly ‘okay’ with Indianapolis drafting Andrew Luck.

By NATHAN RUSHAthlon Sports Editor

There was a time when Tim Tebowand Vince Young could do no wrong.Undeniably great college footballplayers, Tebow and Young ran wild enroute to winning BCS national titlesat Florida and Texas, respectively.

Success in the NFL was supposedto be harder to come by for the pairwho often relied on their legs inspread option college offenses. Thespeed of pro defenses combined withunorthodox throwing motions — withTebow’s long, lefty wind up andYoung’s short side-armed flip —would surely sack the proven winnerswho in no way resemble prototypeNFL pocket passers.

But after two high-profile, come-from-behind, admittedly “ugly” wins— the Broncos’ 17–13 upset of theJets on Thursday night and the Ea-gles’ 17–10 victory over the Giants onSunday night — Tebow and Youngaren’t going down easy, and neitherare the teams they lead.

Tebow is 4–1 as a starter this yearin Denver, after taking over a 1–4club that had been quarterbacked byKyle Orton. But the wins haven’tbeen pretty. The second-year signal-caller went 9-of-20 for 104 yards anda 61.2 passer rating, with eight carriesfor 68 yards and a TD on the groundagainst the Jets.

But it was his 12-play, 95-yardgame-winning drive — capped with a20-yard trip to the end zone with 58seconds remaining in the fourth quar-ter — that defined Tebow’s perform-ance and added to the myth of the6'3", 236-pound cult hero.

“I trust him. I trust him with every-thing,” said Denver rookie linebackerVon Miller. “No matter how many in-terceptions he throws, no matter howmany touchdowns he scores, that’sTim Tebow and I’m going to ride withhim to the end. I hope he shut up awhole bunch of critics today.”

On Sunday night, Young producedsimilar results, struggling for threequarters before putting together a“dream” drive for the ironically-nick-named “Dream Team” — a monickerV.Y. inadvertently gave the team.

Subbing for an injured MichaelVick, Young threw three INTs beforeleading a game-winning drive that

took 18 plays and 8:51 off the clock.V.Y. converted six third downs, in-cluding a go-ahead scoring strike toRiley Cooper. Young is now 31–17 asa starter, a winning percentage thatranks seventh among active QBs.

“Vince, stepping in for the greatMichael Vick, that’s a tough thing todo,” said Eagles coach Andy Reid,“and he did it and the guys ralliedaround him.”

Tebow and Young are polarizingpersonalities who throw wobblypasses. But both continue to win —playing well when it matters most.

“I like winning,” said Tebow, “but Iwish it wasn’t this stressful.”

Athlon SportsVince Young’s winning percentage (64.6) is better than every QB outside of Tom Brady,Matt Ryan, Ben Roethlisberger, Philip Rivers, Peyton Manning and Joe Flacco.

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TULSA, Okla.— Facing a fourth down in a tight game, Patrick Edwards saw an op-portunity to put No. 8 Hous-ton in control.

During a timeout, Edwards asked to be sent on a deep route to convert not only the fourth-and-1 but to go for more.

“I told them, ‘If you run it, I’ll win,”’ Edwards said. “So, we called it and I scored.”

Edwards’ 38-yard touch-down catch sparked a string of 28 straight points, and Houston pulled away to beat Tulsa 48-16 on Friday and earn a spot in next week’s Conference USA champion-ship game.

Case Keenum threw for 457 yards and fi ve touchdowns and Edwards fi nished with 181 yards receiving and four scores as the Cougars (12-0, 8-0) set a school season re-cord by winning their 12th game. The 12 straight wins also match the school’s lon-gest winning streak, set over the 1990 and ’91 seasons.

“12-0 is pretty good. That’s a pretty good position to be in,” Keenum said. “I couldn’t ask for anything else.”

Houston will go for more next Saturday, when they host either Southern Missis-sippi or Marshall in the C-USA title game. With a win, the Cougars will earn their fi rst BCS bid and become from fi rst team from the con-ference to play in the Bowl Championship Series.

“Fifteen weeks ago, we set out for one goal and that goal has not changed all year,” coach Kevin Sumlin said. “I think a lot of people have tried to talk our team into all these other scenarios and stuff that’s happening out there

“Our guys understand that and they’ve put themselves in a position to achieve that goal. Along the way, there’s been a bunch of records broken and a bunch of mile-stones crossed, but the ul-timate goal for us from day one was to win the confer-ence championship.”

Keenum helped Houston pull away by hooking up with Edwards twice for touch-downs on fourth down in no man’s land. He found Ed-wards cutting across the fi eld for a 33-yard score on fourth-

and-10 in the second quarter, then threw a deep ball to him for a 38-yard TD on fourth-and-1 in the third quarter.

“I think that that’s what championship teams do is come through in those big moments — the champion-ship moments,” Keenum said. “We’ve got a chance to play for another champion-ship at our place, which we couldn’t ask for anything more.”

Edwards broke the school record by surpassing 100 yards receiving for the 16th time in his career and also broke the Conference USA career record for receiving yardage that was held by Rice’s Jarett Dillard.

It fi gured to be the tough-est test yet for Houston, fac-ing C-USA’s top defense and a team that also came in without a loss in league play. Tulsa (8-4, 7-1) was allowing only 16 points per game in league play but couldn’t keep up once its offense started sputtering in the second half.

“They have to go win a con-ference championship, but they are well deserving of a BCS bowl,” Tulsa coach Bill

Blankenship said. “We were playing pretty good com-ing in here and they shut us down pretty well.”

Tulsa got only three points out of two drives with favor-able fi eld position in the third quarter. After Curnelius Ar-nick recovered a fumbled ex-change between Keenum and running back Charles Sims, the Golden Hurricane got only 1 yard before settling for Kevin Fitzpatrick’s 51-yard fi eld goal to cut the defi cit to 20-16.

Tulsa got the ball back again at midfi eld but again failed to get a fi rst down and punted the ball back to set up an 80-yard scoring drive by the Cougars capped by Ed-wards’ 38-yard score.

Sumlin credited his de-fense with giving the offense time to “get off the mat.”

“We know as a defense that it is a matter of time before the offense can get going. And once they get rolling, it’s hard to stop them,” said linebacker Marcus McGraw, who had three tackles for loss among his 15 stops.

Michael Hayes added a 1-yard plunge that had to be

reviewed before Houston was awarded a touchdown, and Keenum tacked on an 8-yard TD pass to Justin Johnson set up by Edwards’ 51-yard reception.

Edwards’ fi nal score came on a 14-yard pass from backup Cotton Turner, who replaced Keenum following G.J. Kinne’s interception with 6:55 left in the game.

Kinne fi nished with 176 yards, one touchdown pass and two interceptions — both as he tried to mount a rally against a defense that hasn’t allowed more than seven fourth-quarter points in any game this season.

“It’s a hard pill to swallow,” Kinne said, “but we lost to a better team today.”

Fitzpatrick also matched his career-best with a 52-yard fi eld goal that cleared the up-rights easily with a steady wind gusting to around 35 mph, and he connected a 36-yarder.

All four of Tulsa’s loss-es this season have come against teams ranked in the top 10 at the time — Oklaho-ma, Oklahoma State, Boise State and Houston.

No. 8 Houston pulls away for record 12th winThe Associated Press