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Bingham-Lowder, 23 Keith Brown, 53 Darlene Friedland, 57 Pamela Foster, 57 Johnnie Jernigan Jr., 44 Hallie Montgomery, 95 Donald Morris, 86 Charlie Myers, 80 Walter Warner, 92 Obituaries, 2-3B OBITUARIES ---- No. 345 INDEX ABBY 3B BUSINESS 5-6C CLASSIFIED 4-8D COMICS 7B CROSSWORD 2D DONOHUE 7B FUN & GAMES 2D KIDS NEWS 5B LIFE&STYLE 1D LOCAL 2A, 1B LOTTERY 2A MOVIES 8B NEIGHBORS 4B NATION 6A, 6B NOTABLES 8B OBITUARIES 2-3B OPINION 4A SPORTS 1-4C STATE 3A, 2-3B STOCKS 5C TV 8B WEATHER 6C WORLD 5A BY PAM HAYNES ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER HIGH POINT – Suspense had already built by the time the fourth finalist took a turn to crank a new car at the United Way of Greater High Point’s an- nual car giveaway on Thursday. That’s when Jeff Karpo- vich, director of security and transportation at High Point University, inserted his key into a 2009 Toyota Yaris and heard the soft hum of an engine crank- ing. “This is surreal,” Kar- povich said. “I had no ex- pectations of winning (the car) tonight.” Karpovich was one of 10 finalists drawn from the United Way’s 3,300 fair share donors – or donors who submitted a certain percentage of their annual income to the organiza- tion. Finalists and their friends and families gath- ered at the Vann York Toyota showroom on East- chester Drive Thursday night where they drew a key from a Christmas stocking. Each finalist took turns to see if their key would start the car until Karpo- vich cranked it with the winning key. Vann York Auto Group donated the car for the event, and Karpovich can choose between the Yaris, a 2009 Nissan Versa, a 2009 Honda Fit or a 2009 Chevy Colorado from the dealer. He had not yet made his decision by the time the event ended last night. Leah Price, campaign chairperson for the United Way, said the annual car giveaway gives donors an incentive to give to the or- ganization’s annual cam- paign. “Those dollars mean so much to so many lives in the community,” Price said about their dona- tions. “Those fair share donors are a big part of what keeps our services available.” Karpovich, whose wife, Lisa, and two daugh- ters, Ashley and Jordan, were present when the car cranked, said he was “completely surprised,” but thankful. “My family is healthy, Vann York just gave a me a free car for support- ing the United Way, and I work for High Point Uni- versity,” he said. “God bless America.” Other finalists included employees of Banner Phar- macaps, Old Dominion Freight Line, the city of High Point and Open Door Ministries. [email protected] | 888-3617 KEY TO VICTORY BY PAT KIMBROUGH ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER HIGH POINT – West End Minis- tries representatives said a capi- tal campaign launched on behalf of the organization this fall is halfway toward its goal. WEM set out in October to raise $250,000 in 18 months to match an anonymous challenge gift of $275,000. The neighborhood minis- try plans to use the money to add new space at its English Road cam- pus, refurbish its aging main build- ing and expand its programming. Representatives of the nonprof- it said they’re gratified the fund- raising effort is this far ahead of schedule. “We are at the halfway point, which is wonderful. We’ve been blessed,” said Judy Mendenhall, WEM’s executive director. “I think people have been very, very generous.” One of the ministry’s primary goals is to move the thrift store it operates out of its community center building into a new build- ing that will be built on the cam- pus. This will free up additional space for the ministry’s programs, which include a Boys and Girls Club, food ministry, life skills and computer classes, and Leslie’s House, a shelter for women in crisis. Upgrades to the building’s kitchen would allow the ministry to expand the free meal programs it provides for children and the community as a whole, while other plans call for a new heating and cooling system and the instal- lation of an elevator. Mendenhall said individual donors, as well as foundations, and to a lesser extent, businesses, have responded strongly, despite a tough fundraising environment. “We know we have a good cause and we feel like people understand the needs of the ministry and are responding to it, but when you go into something, particularly in today’s economy, you never know for sure,” Mendenhall said. The ministry’s growth has mir- rored the progress in West End as a whole, once one of the city’s most crime-ridden areas. In re- cent years, special focus on the area from police has led to a sus- tained drop in violent crime. The ministry is credited with helping bring about the turn- around, and Mendenhall said the capital campaign is needed to al- low it to meet increased demand from the community. She added that the campaign is ongoing and the ministry plans to contact additional potential do- nors. “So far, we have basically got- ten a positive response from ev- erybody we’ve asked,” Menden- hall said. [email protected] | 888-3531 Outpouring of support West End Ministries campaign reaches half-way mark HPU employee wins United Way car giveaway BY DARRICK IGNASIAK ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER THOMASVILLE – For the third consecutive year, Thomasville City Schools will join a consor- tium aimed at preventing mergers between city and county school systems. The Thomasville Board of Edu- cation on Thursday unanimously agreed to allocate $3,000 toward joining the consortium. The con- sortium is made up of all 15 of the state’s city school systems, including Asheboro City Schools and Lexington City Schools, that are hoping to prevent a merger or any trimming of funds by state legislators. “I don’t know of any legisla- tion that’s up in the short session now and don’t foresee any, but I think it’s important that we have someone in Raleigh just looking after our interest,” said Thomas- ville City Schools Superintendent Keith Tobin, who made the rec- ommendation that the Thomas- ville Board of Education join the consortium. In 2007, Thomasville City Schools joined the consortium to get a group together to lobby against a committee that had been set up to look at the possibil- ity of funding 100 school systems instead of 115. The committee’s findings have not been released. “I think that’s sort of been put on the backburner,” Tobin said. “Being just the 15-city school sys- tems, we just want to make sure we have someone there just look- ing after our interest.” James Carmichael, Thomasville City Schools associate superin- tendent, said the main goal of the consortium is to prevent a merg- er, while making sure funding to the city school systems is not cut. Thomasville system’s consortium allocation, which is a $1,000 less than last year’s amount, will go to Policy Group, a group of lobbyists based out of Raleigh, according to Carmichael. “I’m appreciative of their ef- forts, but there also have been some people down in the state legislature who have been very strong supporters of small school systems as well,” Carmichael said of the Policy Group. “The only fear that I have about school merger is the minor amount that the state will save in comparison to the total dollars that the indi- vidual school systems will lose from federal funding.” [email protected] | 888-3657 Thomasville school system joins anti-merger group PAM HAYNES | HPE Jeff Karpovich, with his daughter Jordan, 3, reacts as his keys start the vehicle, making him this year’s United Way car giveaway winner. ‘This is surreal. I had no expectations of winning (the car) tonight.’ Jeff Karpovich Director of security, transportation at High Point University
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WHO’S NEWS----
Certifi ed Nurse Practitioner Sharda N. Busse joined Deep River Family Medicine.
Busse is a li-censed registerednurse and certi-fi ed family nurse practitioner.
INSIDE----
LEFT HANGING: Furniture company raises ire of customers.
HIGH POINT – Suspense had already built by the time the fourth fi nalist took a turn to crank a new car at the United Way of Greater High Point’s an-nual car giveaway on Thursday.
That’s when Jeff Karpo-vich, director of security and transportation at High Point University, inserted
his key into a 2009 Toyota Yaris and heard the soft hum of an engine crank-ing.
“This is surreal,” Kar-povich said. “I had no ex-pectations of winning (the car) tonight.”
Karpovich was one of 10 fi nalists drawn from the United Way’s 3,300 fair share donors – or donors who submitted a certain percentage of their annual income to the organiza-
tion. Finalists and their friends and families gath-ered at the Vann York Toyota showroom on East-chester Drive Thursday night where they drew a key from a Christmas stocking.
Each fi nalist took turns to see if their key would start the car until Karpo-vich cranked it with the winning key.
Vann York Auto Group donated the car for the
event, and Karpovich can choose between the Yaris, a 2009 Nissan Versa, a 2009 Honda Fit or a 2009 Chevy Colorado from the dealer. He had not yet made his decision by the time the event ended last night.
Leah Price, campaign chairperson for the United Way, said the annual car giveaway gives donors an incentive to give to the or-ganization’s annual cam-paign.
“Those dollars mean so much to so many lives in the community,” Price said about their dona-tions. “Those fair share donors are a big part of what keeps our services available.”
Karpovich, whose wife, Lisa, and two daugh-ters, Ashley and Jordan, were present when the car cranked, said he was “completely surprised,” but thankful.
“My family is healthy, Vann York just gave a me a free car for support-ing the United Way, and I work for High Point Uni-versity,” he said. “God bless America.”
Other fi nalists included employees of Banner Phar-macaps, Old Dominion Freight Line, the city of High Point and Open Door Ministries.
HIGH POINT – West End Minis-tries representatives said a capi-tal campaign launched on behalf of the organization this fall is halfway toward its goal.
WEM set out in October to raise $250,000 in 18 months to match an anonymous challenge gift of $275,000. The neighborhood minis-try plans to use the money to add new space at its English Road cam-pus, refurbish its aging main build-ing and expand its programming.
Representatives of the nonprof-it said they’re gratifi ed the fund-raising effort is this far ahead of schedule.
“We are at the halfway point, which is wonderful. We’ve been blessed,” said Judy Mendenhall, WEM’s executive director. “I think people have been very, very generous.”
One of the ministry’s primary goals is to move the thrift store it operates out of its community center building into a new build-ing that will be built on the cam-pus. This will free up additional space for the ministry’s programs, which include a Boys and Girls Club, food ministry, life skills and computer classes, and Leslie’s House, a shelter for women in crisis. Upgrades to the building’s kitchen would allow the ministry to expand the free meal programs
it provides for children and the community as a whole, while other plans call for a new heating and cooling system and the instal-lation of an elevator.
Mendenhall said individual donors, as well as foundations, and to a lesser extent, businesses, have responded strongly, despite a tough fundraising environment.
“We know we have a good cause and we feel like people understand the needs of the ministry and are responding to it, but when you go into something, particularly in today’s economy, you never know for sure,” Mendenhall said.
The ministry’s growth has mir-rored the progress in West End as a whole, once one of the city’s
most crime-ridden areas. In re-cent years, special focus on the area from police has led to a sus-tained drop in violent crime.
The ministry is credited with helping bring about the turn-around, and Mendenhall said the capital campaign is needed to al-low it to meet increased demand from the community.
She added that the campaign is ongoing and the ministry plans to contact additional potential do-nors.
“So far, we have basically got-ten a positive response from ev-erybody we’ve asked,” Menden-hall said.
Outpouring of supportWest End Ministries campaign reaches half-way mark
HPU employee wins United Way
car giveaway
BY DARRICK IGNASIAKENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
THOMASVILLE – For the third consecutive year, Thomasville City Schools will join a consor-tium aimed at preventing mergers between city and county school systems.
The Thomasville Board of Edu-cation on Thursday unanimously agreed to allocate $3,000 toward joining the consortium. The con-sortium is made up of all 15 of the state’s city school systems, including Asheboro City Schools and Lexington City Schools, that are hoping to prevent a merger
or any trimming of funds by state legislators.
“I don’t know of any legisla-tion that’s up in the short session now and don’t foresee any, but I think it’s important that we have someone in Raleigh just looking after our interest,” said Thomas-ville City Schools Superintendent Keith Tobin, who made the rec-ommendation that the Thomas-ville Board of Education join the consortium.
In 2007, Thomasville City Schools joined the consortium to get a group together to lobby against a committee that had been set up to look at the possibil-
ity of funding 100 school systems instead of 115. The committee’s fi ndings have not been released.
“I think that’s sort of been put on the backburner,” Tobin said. “Being just the 15-city school sys-tems, we just want to make sure we have someone there just look-ing after our interest.”
James Carmichael, Thomasville City Schools associate superin-tendent, said the main goal of the consortium is to prevent a merg-er, while making sure funding to the city school systems is not cut. Thomasville system’s consortium allocation, which is a $1,000 less than last year’s amount, will go to
Policy Group, a group of lobbyists based out of Raleigh, according to Carmichael.
“I’m appreciative of their ef-forts, but there also have been some people down in the state legislature who have been very strong supporters of small school systems as well,” Carmichael said of the Policy Group. “The only fear that I have about school merger is the minor amount that the state will save in comparison to the total dollars that the indi-vidual school systems will lose from federal funding.”
Jeff Karpovich, with his daughter Jordan, 3, reacts as his keys start the vehicle, making him this year’s United Way car giveaway winner.
‘This is surreal. I had no expectations of winning (the car) tonight.’
Jeff KarpovichDirector of security, transportation at High Point University
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STERLING, Conn. (AP) – A holy cow in Connecti-cut, perhaps? Or maybe a divine bovine?
A calf with a white marking on its forehead in the approximate shape of a cross was born last week at a dairy farm in Sterling, a small rustic town on the Rhode Island border.
Owner Brad Davis tells WFSB-TV he thinks the marking may be a mes-sage from above, though he’s still trying to fi gure out what that message might be.
The mostly brown calf is half Jersey, half Hol-stein. Neighborhood children have named it Moses.
The chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Dairy Science tells the Norwich Bulletin news-paper it’s not unusual for a Holstein cow to have a white marking on its head. But department chairman Ric Grummer says the cross shape is unique.
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BY DAVID NIVENSENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
GUILFORD COUNTY – Don’t expect the county’s leadership team or is-sues to change in 2010.
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners elected Commis-sioner Skip Alston as their chair-man for another year on Thursday and Republican Commissioner Steve Arnold of High Point agreed to serve another year with the Greensboro Democrat as vice chairman. Both commissioners were elected on 9-1 votes with no opposition.
Alston said he will again work to squeeze the county budget with the help of a bipartisan coalition that elected him again.
“This has not been a one-man show,” Alston said. “All of the commissioners participated this year in committees that helped to pass a budget early with no tax in-crease.”
Alston, 52, has served before
as chairman. He was the board’s fi rst African-American chairman in 2003. Last year, Alston won the chairmanship on an 8-3 vote and Arnold on a 9-2 vote. Democrats hold a 7-4 board majority.
Arnold was 2006 vice chairman. The two joined to work an agenda this year of “effectiveness and effi -ciency.” Alston said he was grate-ful for the confi dence the board gave him in 2009.
Before Alston and Arnold
formed the leadership team, they had not agreed on many is-sues.
“We saved millions of dollars this year,” Alston said, “on the new jail and other projects.”
Construction has started on a new downtown Greensboro jail annex. Through 2009, commis-sioners shrank county staff and the budget, partly to deal with bond debt payments arising from a $457 million construction list for the school district, $79.5 mil-lion for Guilford Tech projects and $115 million for the new jail annex.
Alston said commissioners also will work again this year on eco-nomic development, homeless-ness, improving communications with the cities and towns, and edu-cation.
“This will be another tough bud-get year,” Alston said. “We will have to do more with less.”
Alston elected Guilford board chairman LEADERSHIP—
Democratic Commissioner Skip Alston won the Board of Com-missioners chairmanship 9-1, with only Democratic Commissioner Paul Gibson opposed
Steve Arnold of High Point won the vice chairmanship, also on the same 9-1 vote. Republican Commissioner Billy Yow was not present for the vote.
BY DAVID NIVENSENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
GUILFORD COUNTY – Commissioners approved a $13.2 million contract for transportation and mobility services Thurs-day that includes per-formance standards and possible fi nes.
Commissioners voted 11-0 for the new contract with California-based MV Trans-portation to provide trans-portation services to elderly and indigent residents, as well as to those who need rides to doctors, hospitals or their jobs.
MV Transportation has provided the rides for the last three years for the county’s Transportation
and Mobility Services. A new contract section lists customer satisfaction benchmarks.
“This is a more satis-factory and a broader contract,” said County
Attorney J. Mark Payne. “The scope of the work is broader and it is more detailed.”
Guilford County Emer-gency Services Director Alan Perdue led a new committee that recom-mended strong contract guidelines for on-time service and limited ser-vice during “inclement” weather.
“We are comfortable with what has been nego-tiated,” said Derek Allen, attorney for MV.
The new contract in-cludes:
• Pickup: From 20 min-utes before to 20 minutes after the scheduled time will be considered on-time service.
• Trips: A 90-minute limit.
• No-shows: Drivers will wait no longer than fi ve minutes and must leave a no-show notice at the rider’s door before leaving if the passenger fails to board.
• Fines: MV could face a $1,000 penalty for each failure to meet a rider on time, for verified customer com-plaints and for failing vehicle maintenance standards.
• Warnings: Passengers who do not show for a ride may receive a warn-ing letter about suspen-sion of services.
Board approves new van contractNEW CONTRACT –Term: A three-year deal not to exceed $13.2 million, starting Feb. 1.
Service Area: For rid-ers living in Guilford County without access to GTA in Greensboro or Hi-tran in High Point.
Fares: $2.50 each way.
BY PAUL B. JOHNSONENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
GREENSBORO – The N.C. Attorney General’s Offi ce is investigating an increas-ing number of complaints from customers of N.C. Furniture Unlimited, a re-tail home furnishings busi-ness that closed in Greens-boro earlier this year.
Complaints also have come into the Better Busi-ness Bureau of Central North Carolina, which is referring N.C. Furniture Unlimited customers to the Attorney General’s Offi ce in Raleigh.
“The company is closed, and we are encouraging those who haven’t fi led a complaint to contact us and fi le a written complaint so that we might be able to help them get their money back,” said Jennifer Cana-da, assistant public infor-mation offi cer with the At-torney General’s Offi ce.
The state agency has received complaints from N.C. Furniture Unlim-ited customers during the past two weeks, and the complaints are “steadily coming in,” she said. The Attorney General’s Offi ce had received 22 written complaints from custom-ers of N.C. Furniture Un-limited as of Thursday.
Details on what hap-pened to the business aren’t clear. The High Point Enterprise wasn’t able to reach a princi-pal with N.C. Furniture Unlimited. The phone number of a contact for the business, once listed with the Better Business Bureau of Central North Carolina, isn’t in service.
City of Greensboro busi-ness license records show N.C. Furniture Unlimited didn’t renew licenses for either of its two locations
e a r l i e r t h i s y e a r .A woman from the Mid-
west who ordered fur-nishings from N.C. Furni-ture Unlimited fears she’sbeen left in the lurch.
Deborah Sievert of PineRiver, Wis., placed an or-der in August and was toldher merchandise wouldbe shipped between ear-ly September and earlyDecember. She placedan order by phone afterchecking the company’sofferings online throughits Web site.
“So last week it wasclose to the end of the (de-livery) period. So I startedcalling because I wanted astatus. When I called, theysaid all their phone lineswere busy. I became veryconcerned,” Sievert said.
After she checked withthe Better Business Bu-reau, she found out N.C.Furniture Unlimited hadclosed. Sievert said she paidup-front for her order, as re-quired by N.C. FurnitureUnlimited, meaning thatshe may have lost severalhundred dollars.
“I think at this point I prob-ably will never, ever see thatmoney,” Sievert said.
AT A GLANCE–Customers of N.C. Furniture Unlimited in Greensboro, which went out of business earlier this year, can contact the N.C. Attor-ney General’s Offi ce to fi le a complaint about not receiving mer-chandise or a refund on an order. The state agency’s Web site is www.ncdoj.gov, and the toll-free phone number is 1-877-5-NO-SCAM.
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UndercoverWith the large red cap on, this female Pileated Woodpecker blends into the leaves of the vines that she sits on as she eats the berries found on the vines in Wilkes County.
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bonfi re will be held 6-8 p.m. today at St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church, 303 Eastchester Drive. Refreshments will be served inside. Anyone may participate.
Angela Shackelford, dis-trict aide for Congressman
Mel Watt, will meet with any constituent in the 12th District during the following times: 9-11 a.m. Tuesday at Lexington City Hall, Council Chamber, 28 W. Center St.; 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday at Thomas-ville City Offi ce, 10 Salem St.; and 2-4 p.m. Tuesday at High Point City Hall, 211 S. Hamilton St.
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RALEIGH (AP) — Repub-lican Sen. Richard Burr said Thursday he will hold up a White House attempt to replace the federal pros-ecutor overseeing a probe of two-time presidential candidate John Edwards.
The North Carolina law-maker said in a statement he will support the nomi-nation of Charlotte lawyer Thomas Walker only af-ter current U.S. Attorney George Holding completes investigations into Ed-wards and former Demo-cratic Gov. Mike Easley. Burr said Walker’s political contributions to Edwards and Easley “represent a confl ict of interest.”
“Given the importance of these investigations to the people of North Carolina, and in the interest of good governance and transpar-ency, I believe the investi-
gations must be directed by and have the full attention of the U.S. attorney, and the U.S. attorney himself must have the full faith of the people of North Carolina,” Burr said.
Campaign fi nance re-cords show Walker gave $750 to Edwards’ presiden-tial campaign in 2003. He donated $2,000 to Easley in 2004 and $250 in 2002.
The announcement was a shift for Burr, whose offi ce said last week he planned to sign the so-called “blue slip” that home-state sena-tors give to the Senate Ju-diciary Committee to move the nomination process along. Burr’s Democratic counterpart, Sen. Kay Hagan, also has pressed the White House not to replace Holding but has not decided whether to block Walker’s nomination.
Little is known about the status of the Edwards and Easley probes. Edwards, a former North Carolina senator who competed with President Barack Obama in the 2008 Demo-cratic primaries and later went into seclusion after acknowledging an extra-marital affair, has denied any improper use of cam-paign funds.
Easley also has denied wrongdoing. A federal grand jury has been hear-ing testimony about Eas-ley’s travel, a coastal sub-division where he owns property, and his wife’s hir-ing at North Carolina State University.
Walker, 45, is a partner at Alston & Bird, LLP. He was an assistant U.S. attorney in the western district of North Carolina from 1994 to 2001.
Burr vows to hold up attorney nominee
RALEIGH (AP) – North Carolina’s laid-off tech workers are drawing the interest of corporate tal-ent hunters.
The News & Observ-er of Raleigh reported Thursday that invest-ment banking giant Credit Suisse plans to hire about 300 more workers next year for its information technology business in Research Triangle Park.
The newspaper also has reported that the maker of the BlackBerry mobile phone is considering a move into the area. Of-
fi cials from Research In Motion Ltd. told jobseek-ers last week the company is investigating opening a Research Triangle facil-ity.
Last month, mobile phone maker Sony Erics-son said it was shutting down its operations near-by, putting 425 people out of work.
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Two weeks ago we celebrated Thanksgiving day, which is a national holiday. Did any of your readers greet someone with “Hap-py holiday” instead of “Happy Thanksgiving?”
A week after Christmas, we will be staying up till midnight, and when that old clock strikes midnight, shouts of “Happy New Year” will be heard across America. Folks would think you had lost it if you said happy holi-day instead. So what is this big deal about all the TV shows and store clerks being instructed to say “Happy Holidays” to everyone instead of “Merry Christmas”?
So why exactly are we celebrat-ing Christmas? I must really be out of the loop because I always thought it was because Jesus Christ was born. So this offends atheists and the ACLU? Well, let me make it clear that where their rights end is where mine begin. They say that other religions do not believe in God, therefore we must not push our beliefs on any-one else. I wouldn’t think of it!
People have the right to believe in a dead god – but the one in whom I believe holds every breath you breathe in His hand, and is very much alive sitting on the right hand of the Father. He is not a religion; he is a person and the only one who can save your soul and give you life.
We will never know peace until the Prince of Peace comes! Oh yes, He is coming again to receive those who have trusted in the shed blood of Jesus Christ on Cal-vary. I have walked with Him for 61 years, so please don’t offend me by wishing me happy holidays.
But let me joyfully wish you a blessed “Merry Christmas!
BETTY K. LINTHICUMSophia
Expanding Medicare to all
would fi x problem
My husband and I both support Medicare for all! Public insur-ance with a private option. He is a Republican and I am a Demo-crat! This is not a left or right issue. This is corporations verses constituents.
Medicare for all just makes sense. It would save Medicare by expanding the pool of people cov-ered to include not only the older and sicker Americans. Currently, the private insurance companies take all the premiums when peo-ple are young and healthy, leaving Medicare to cover the difference
when people are older and in need of more health care. Of course, it is going broke ... it was designed to fail! Also, Medicare payment rates must be adjusted. Small hospitals are getting crushed while large corporate hospitals are reaping the gains. The entire system is broken! Stop bickering and fi x the problem. It is time to start working for the people in the state and stop working for the private corporations making huge profi ts at the expense of your constituents.
ANGIE COCKMANHigh Point
Community makes Salvation
Army program successful
On behalf of all those who signed up for Christmas assis-tance this year, the employees of
The Salvation Army would like to say a big “Thank you” to mem-bers of the High Point community for their participation in this year’s “Hammin’ It Up.”
This year’s goal was to raise 750 hams for the families who signed up for the Angel Tree program to ensure that all families could have food on the table and toys under the tree.
The monetary and canned ham donations started rolling in at 6 a.m. and by 6 p.m. the goal had been met. When everything was said and done, the grand total was 794 hams.
Without the help from High Point locals and the Triad as well as partnerships with Bicycle Toy and Hobby Sales store on Main Street, FOX 8 WGHP, 98.3 Coun-try Legends, 99.5 WMAG and McDonald’s, this event would not be possible.
Again, thank you High Point for your help!
TONY PEREZHigh Point
The writer is captain of the High Point unit of The Salvation Army.
The EPA says greenhouse gases “threaten the public health and welfare of the American people” and that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels should be reduced. What impact will this have on the U.S.? In 30 words or less (no name, address required) e-mail your opinion to [email protected].
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J ust like in the Wizard of Oz, the curtain was torn back and leading proponents of anthropogenic (people-caused) global
warming have been caught lying.Called Climategate, the scandal exposes
the global warming shysters who are con-ning the public into a massive restructuring of the global economy, while attempting to silence any dissent. But don’t expect to see this in our mainstream media, because they are the spinsters who promote this manipu-lation of data and propaganda.
It all began when an anonymous person hacked into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit in England, releasing 61 megabytes of confi -dential fi les, including 1,079 e-mails and 72 documents onto the Internet. These fi les are a wealth of information.
The most damning indictment of propo-nents of global warming hysteria is a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. The e-mails even included fantasies of violence against those who question anthropogenic global warm-ing. These e-mails show disturbing patterns of “conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organized re-sistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of fl aws in their public claims and much more,” says Australian Sun’s Andrew Bolt.
Man-made global warming hysteria long has been fueled by people using junk science, fear and hyperbole to support an agenda that they personally profi t from. As they attempt to lead the world into a green revolution, these propagandists are hiding the truth that the average global tempera-ture has fallen since 1998.
The leading profi teering propagandist is Al Gore. After losing the presidential election in 2000, Gore became the leader of the hysteria movement. However, this “Eco-Prophet” has hidden a few inconve-nient truths of his own. He just happens to be involved with a venture capital fi rm that has invested approximately a billion dollars in green companies that stand to make a bundle if cap-and-trade becomes law.
Reports state that Gore’s net worth now stands at $100 million, when it was $2 mil-lion when he left politics. He’s laughing all the way to the bank.
Gore has a history of playing loose with the facts.
Recently on TV, while discussing geothermal energy, Gore made the outrageous claim that “the interior of the Earth is extremely hot, several million degrees.” How-ever, the actual tem-perature here on Earth is between 5,000 and 9,000 degrees. This is a gaffe
that if Sarah Palin had made, the media would ridicule as her stupid.
Speaking of hypocrisy, Gore is a living embodiment of it. As he lectures the world on energy use, and lobbies Congress to regu-late productive American companies out of business, Gore consumes more than 20 times more energy than the average Ameri-can, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. This doesn’t count the energy consumption of his jet.
Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” is full of instances where he plays loose with the facts. A 2007 British court ruled that Gore’s fi lm has nine signifi cant refutable errors. These are examples of Gore’s scare tactics to induce the public to take radical action (to his fi nancial benefi t).
Not only is Gore prone to hyperbole, hypocrisy and blatant distortions, he is also a bully. Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT wrote about scientists being “in the cross hairs” of Gore, who “tried to bully” them into changing “their views and supporting his climate alarmism.”
When one side tries to shut another side out of the debate, it is typically because they feel their arguments won’t stand up to scrutiny. These propagandists use various tactics. A favorite is to make people feel guilty if they don’t jump on the “green” bandwagon, and those who do are praised for helping the environment.
At the Copenhagen meetings, expect to see “green” propaganda exponentially increas-ing. Open your eyes to these manipulators of data and people, who while acting like do-gooders, see great (green as in money) gain.
FLOYD AND MARY BETH BROWN write a national column distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons news-paper syndicate. E-mail [email protected].
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Global warming spinsters, shysters dress as do-gooders
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Videotape is public property
A n investigation by Randolph County District Attorney Garland Yates into the tragic death of a University of North
Carolina student last August came to a conclu-sion last week. Yates determined that the fatal shooting of Courtland Smith by Archdale Po-lice Offi cer Jeremy Paul Flinchum was justifi ed under N.C. law and that the district attorney’s investigation would be closed.
Yates’ decision last week, however, does not conclude the court case surrounding release of videotape of the incident that was captured by cameras mounted in Archdale police cruisers on the scene when the shooting occurred in the early morning hours after police stopped Smith on Interstate 85.
A Randolph County judge sealed the video-tape from the public and the media during in-vestigations by Yates and the State Bureau of Investigation and said it should be released at the conclusion of investigations. But that vid-eotape remains sealed today.
Smith’s parents, Pharr and Susan D. Smith of Houston, Texas, have fi led legal action request-ing that the videotape be sealed permanently. The judge has ordered the videotape remain sealed until a hearing on the Smith’s request can be held, on a date no later than Dec. 18.
We understand the Smith’s request. This was a terrible incident, a tragedy that all concerned wish could have been avoided. We understand the family’s pain, and we hope that it somehow will subside soon. But this is videotape of public offi cials performing their duties as recorded on equipment provided by the public for the very purpose that it has served in this case ... to pro-vide an accurate record of what transpired that August morning in the confrontation between Smith and Archdale police offi cers.
The videotape is public property, and it is the public record. Because of that, it should be opened to the public, not sealed and locked away or destroyed.
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OSLO (AP) – President Barack Obama’s decision to break with tradition and not follow the lead of past Nobel Peace Prize win-ners bewildered some Nor-wegians. Others thought
he was being impolite.Obama had quite a
whirlwind day Thursday – he signed the Nobel guest book, huddled with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, met with King Harald V
and Queen Sonja, and deliv-ered an acceptance speechafter he was formally pre-sented with the prize. Buthe skipped several otheractivities, including lunchwith the king.
Obama’s short stay miffs Norwegians
SARGODHA, Pakistan (AP) – Five young Ameri-can Muslims arrested in Pakistan met with repre-sentatives of an al-Qaida-linked group and asked for training but were turned down because they lacked references from trusted militants, a Pakistani law enforcement offi cial said Thursday.
Another senior offi cer said the men wanted to fi ght jihad, or holy war, in northwestern Pakistan and against American troops in Afghanistan.
The young men appar-ently fi rst tried to contact jihadist groups through Facebook and YouTube, then traveled to Pakistan to attempt personal meet-ings, a Pakistani diplomat in Washington said.
The case is another wor-risome sign that Ameri-cans may be susceptible
to recruitment to terrorist networks from within the United States. It comes on the heels of charges against a Chicago man ac-
cused of plotting interna-tional terrorism.
Yet in contrast to the Chicago case, police say the fi ve captured in Paki-stan failed to catch on with any terror network, and succeeded only in raising suspicions among locals, who reported them
to Pakistani police.U.S. officials in Paki-
stan have now visited the men in custody. Their disappearance from the Washington, D.C, area late last month – with one of them leaving be-hind a militaristic fare-well video saying Mus-lims must be defended – prompted a frantic search by friends and family and an investiga-tion by worried counter-terrorism officials.
Javed Islam, a regional police chief in Pakistan, said the men wanted to join Islamist militants in the country’s tribal area before crossing into Af-ghanistan and said they met with a banned orga-nization, Jaish-e-Moham-med in Hyderabad, and with representatives of a related group, Jamat-ud-Dawa, in Lahore.
Pakistani police: 5 detained U.S. men sought jihad
AP
Nihad Awad, national executive director for the Council on American-Islamic Rela-tions, speaks at a news conference in Washington, Wednesday, regarding the arrest in Pakistan of fi ve missing American young men.
It comes on the heels of charges against a Chicago man accused of plotting international terrorism.
BRIEFS---World powers could hold Iran meeting next week
BRUSSELS – World powers trying to end a standoff over Iran’s nuclear program are weighing whether to meet next week to discuss tougher measures, a Euro-pean Union offi cial said Thursday as Russia reiter-ated its reluctance to agree to new sanctions.
The foreign minister of Sweden, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency, expressed concern that Iran’s internal strife was preventing it from focusing on international negotiations. Political directors of the fi ve permanent members of the Security Council – Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States – plus Ger-many may meet next week, according to the EU offi cial.
EU seeks to preserve united front on climateBRUSSELS – The EU’s self-proclaimed position as
global leader in the fi ght against climate change was rocked Thursday by the bloc’s failure to agree on how much they are willing to pay as a continent to help poor countries cope with and fi ght global warming.
“You will always fi nd between 27 sovereign nation states that there are differences,” Swedish Prime Minis-ter Fredrik Reinfeldt told reporters after pledges fell well short of $9.72 billion leaders were aiming for.
Offi cials seek release of 57 Philippine hostagesMANILA, Philippines – Offi cials negotiated for a
second day Friday with government-armed former militiamen who took 57 villagers hostage in the south-ern Philippines to press their demands that murder and banditry charges against them be dropped.
The abductions Thursday by 15 gunmen raised fresh questions over the government’s long-standing policy of arming civilian volunteers to protect against insurgencies.
North Korea: There’s a need for nuclear talksSEOUL, South Korea – North Korea said Friday
that it understands the need to resume the stalled international talks on ending its nuclear programs, and that it agrees to work with the United States to narrow unspecifi ed “remaining differences.”
The statement from North Korea’s Foreign Minis-try was the fi rst reaction from the communist na-tion to three days of high-level talks with President Barack Obama’s special envoy.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A court-appointed fo-rensic psychologist tes-tifi ed Thursday that the man charged with kid-napping Elizabeth Smart isn’t faking mental illness to avoid prosecution.
Dr. Richart DeMier was questioned by defense at-torneys on the ninth day of a U.S. District Court hearing to determine if Brian David Mitchell is competent to stand trial
for the 2002 abduction.DeMier said his con-
clusion was based in part on Mitchell’s belief “that he is divinely ordained to fulfi ll a special role at the end of the world, put-ting himself on par with Jesus or God.”
DeMier believes Mitch-ell isn’t faking – or malin-gering as a prosecution expert said – because his symptoms are consistent with his illness.
Witness: Suspect in Smart case not faking illness
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – A deadly, windy storm that has paralyzed a wide swath of the nation for days left bitter cold be-hind as it fi nally made its exit Thursday, with tem-peratures below freezing in several states and gusts that made it feel as cold as minus 25.
Power failures in the Midwest, dozens of lost hunters in the West and howling winds that helped blow over a bus in New York provided just a few lingering miseries from the fi rst major storm of the season.
Emergency rooms took in people who had slipped and fallen, overdone shov-eling or reached their hands into clogged snow-blowers, while tow trucks freed drivers from the sides of icy roads and ev-eryday residents simply struggled to get around in the frigid winds.
“Like I stuck my face in the freezer,” was how Bincy Mathew described the feeling in Chicago on Thursday, complaining about his watering eyes: “I think they are going to freeze up.”
Aileen Azares, 42, of Dallas, spent part of the day taking photos in Chi-cago’s Millennium Park, where sculptures sport-ed snow hats and icicle beards.
Stubborn storm leaves
nation shivering
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Nick Szerbowski, 12, (fore-ground) reacts as Alex Pick-ering, 12, jumps over him on sled in West Bend, Wis.
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Richard Parker, chairman of the Department of Marketing, Home Furnish-ings and Design at High Point University, re-cently published an article in the “Academy of Educational Leadership Jour-nal.”
The article, titled “Interna-tionalizing the Business Curricu-lum: Introduc-ing the Study of Canada into In-ternational Busi-ness Programs,” was co-written with Kirk Heriot of Columbus State University in Georgia.
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HIGH POINT — The 2009 Christmas Cheer Fund has received $1,500 today. That brings the total in donations to $9,599. This year’s goal is $35,000.
The fund, operated by the Kiwanis Club of High Point, provides Christmas gifts for nearly 1,500 children identi-fi ed by the Guilford County Department of Social Ser-vices.
The campaign was started in 1924 by The High Point Enterprise as a campaign to raise money for needy fami-lies. “Local organizations, such as the Rotary, Kiwanis and Civitan clubs, are to aid in taking care of these families,” the Enterprise
said in a front page article published Dec. 12, 1924. The initial campaign collected
$848. The campaign has changed over the years. It was operated as an Empty Stocking Fund by the High Point Jaycees for about 30 years, after it was passed around between different private local residents and groups.
When the last local non-profi t charitable orga-nization owner, the late Benny Braica, retired in the late 1990s, the High Point Kiwanis Club took over what’s now called the Christmas Cheer Fund.
This year’s distribu-tion of gifts will be from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Dec. 19 at Mount Vernon Baptist Church, 716 Leonard Ave.
Parents of eligible chil-dren will be mailed vouch-
ers that they can redeem for gifts.
Donations should be made out to Christmas Cheer Fund and mailed to P.O. Box 5467, High Point, NC 27261.
In memory of Nick Maheras and in honor of Raymond Payne by Becky Smothers .......................................$150Anonymous.....................................$20Anonymous.....................................$50Steve & Sharon Drescher...............$50High Point Jewish Women...........$50Employees of Carolina Trailer Leas-ing, Inc...........................................$200Geo. W. Lowe, Jr...........................$100From Hamilton in memory of Junior, Otis & Lucy.......................................$25In honor of Kay Dickinson by Nelda Hylton...............................................$25In memory of Margaret Pearce and Wilson F. Jones by John & Jeanette
Kiem..................................................$25In memory of Grover Blaylock by Loretta Blaylock, Connie Davis, and April Farlow.....................................$25In memory of Beowolf our dog, Prin-cess our cat, and Lil’Bit our kitten by Dennis and Virginia Parisi.............$30In memory of Jim Hayworth by Mar-tha Hayworth.................................$50In loving memory of Dan & Minnie Snipes by Gary & Paula Snipes.....$50In memory of Arthur M. Utley, Jr. from a friend.................................$100In memory of Brian Yaudes, father and uncle, by Sarah Brian, Macken-zie, Reese, Kaylee, Kamryn and Scot-tie Yaudes......................................$100In honor of Nana Ragsdale from Em-ily, Thomas and Katharine..........$100In loving memory of Carleene Brown Kearns by “Friends Forever”......$100In memory of Alice and Bill Hinson and Mop and Jim Horney by Claire and Jeff Horney.............................$100In honor of employees of Harriss & Covington Hosiery........................$150
Total for today............................$1,500
New Grand Total........................$9,599
Cheer Fund brings in $1,500
BY DARRICK IGNASIAKENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
THOMASVILLE – With hopes of giving local busi-nesses and nonprofi ts a boost just weeks before Christmas, a Thomasville civic group has planned a business expo and festival Saturday.
For the fi rst time, the Thomasville Civitan Club will hold Thomasville’s Community Festival and Business Expo in down-town Thomasvillle from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
“We were going to plan something like this for May, but with the econ-omy being so difficult and this time of the year really adding to the diffi-culty, we just felt it was important for us to stop what we were doing and try to squeeze this in, so we could assist people who might be in need,” said Eddie Brinkley, a member of the Thomas-ville Civitan Club and a Chair City business owner.
Brinkley said the event
is being held to assist all businesses in the commu-nity by encouraging them to look at doing business in their own community fi rst.
“It’s there whether you’re a company that’s producing an actual prod-uct or whether you’re a company that performs a service for corporate or performs a service for local public markets,” he said. “It’s also designed to assist the not-for-prof-it organizations to have a means to which they can
show the not-for-profit work that they offer, plus to solicit volunteers and also to solicit through whatever thing they may want to do to raise funds for their activities.”
According to Brinkley, the Thomasville Civitan Club is offering 12-by-12-foot spaces to local businesses at no cost. He also said par-ticipating businesses need to be from the Thomasville community, including the Pilot, Ledford, Hasty, East Davidson and Fair Grove communities.
“Hopefully, a lot of the cottage industry in the community will have the opportunity as well to bring the products that they make in their backyards or their base-ments to the public and sell them and get some notoriety and exposure,” Brinkley said.
Those wanting more information on the event or to register for a space should call 475-2222.
HIGH POINT – Supporters of Habitat for Humanity of High Point, Archdale and Trinity have shown that it takes a vil-lage to replace a stolen delivery truck.
This past fall, thieves drove off with the nonprofi t agency’s truck, which Habitat for Human-ity uses to pick up donations for its thrift store on English Road. Law enforcement, despite best ef-forts, haven’t been able to locate the stolen truck or apprehend the culprits who took it, said Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Susan Wood.
In a twist of fate, an act that refl ected some of the worst in-tentions of people has inspired a host of others to show the best of humanity. The local Habitat for Humanity chapter now has a re-placement 16-foot-long box truck, thanks to the efforts of businesses and individuals in the commu-nity.
Following the theft, Wood said, “so many people called and said, ‘What can we do?’”
On Thursday morning, broth-ers Mike and Matt Hague with the business Sign Mine volun-teered to brave the cold and lin-gering bitter winds to apply logos to the sides of the truck outside the sign store along Eastchester
Drive. The logos themselves were supplied through a donation by Motorsports Designs.
Bank of America provided a grant to help replace the truck, while Bruce Essick Truck Sales helped secure the vehicle and negotiated a discounted price so that Habitat for Humanity could afford it, Wood said.
Randolph County small busi-nessman Mayberry Strickland helped out in the fall by allow-ing Habitat for Humanity to tem-porarily use one of his trucks to pick up donations during the High Point Market.
Wood said she hopes the logos on the new vehicle – the previous truck didn’t have any – will deter thieves by making the truck more conspicuous. The new truck also
has anti-theft devices.The community response to
Habitat for Humanity in its time of need speaks well for the people
of the area, Wood said.“It’s been amazing,” she said.
Mike Hague applies graphics to the new Habitat for Humanity truck at the Sign Mine on Eastchester Drive.
AT A GLANCE–Habitat for Humanity of High Point, Archdale and Trinity is an ecumenical, Christian hous-ing ministry.
The local affi liate was founded in 1986. Through the end of 2008, the Habitat affi liate had completed 68 houses that are home to more than 250 people, 170 of them children. For more information, check its Web site, http://habitathp.org/
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Amanda Bingham-LowderTHOMASVILLE – Ms.
Amanda Nicole Bingham-Lowder, 23, a lifelong resi-dent of Davidson County, was lifted up by the an-gels and taken home to be with Jesus on December 6, 2009. “Manda” as she liked to be called, was born in Thomasville on January 27, 1986, to Sher-ry M. Bingham and Tren-ton A. Lowder. She at-tended Davidson County Schools and graduated in 2005 from Davidson Coun-ty Community College. Amanda had a natural talent for art. She loved reading, writing, poetry, antiques, music, and the theatre, but most of all, she loved her friends and family.
Surviving are her two sons, Troy M. Craine, age 4, and Logan E. Taylor, 11½ months old. She was proud of her boys. Also surviving are her par-ents, Sherry M. Bingham and Trenton A. Lowder, both of Thomasville. She left behind two loving sis-ters, Cori Kamille (Kami) Johansen, and Kerianne Allisa (Keri) Johansen, both of Thomasville, and a 5 year old brother, T. J. Lowder. She is also sur-vived by her grandpar-ents, Jerry L. & Elizabeth L. Bingham (Mammaw and Papaw) who were the two most important peo-ple throughout her life. They loved her like their own daughter. She called her mammaw her “Rock”, the person she admired and looked up to the most. In her own words, she said “Mammaw, you are my Rock, I couldn’t live without you.” Also sur-viving are her paternal grandparents, Odis Tru-man Lowder, and Carol and Dennis Moore. (She was their lil’ Nikki). She loved and touched so many people’s lives, we could never mention them all. Forever, she will live on in all of our hearts.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, De-cember 12, at 11:00 a.m. in the J. C. Green and Sons Chapel in Thomasville by the Rev. Hillis Burton. Burial will be in Holly Hill Memorial Park Cem-etery. The family will be at the funeral home Fri-day from 6 to 8 p.m. and at other times at the home of the grandparents, Jerry and Elizabeth Bingham, 21 Johnia Court, Thomas-ville. Memorials may be directed to Brenner’s Chil-dren’s Hospital, Medical Center Boulevard, Win-ston-Salem, NC, 27157-1021. Online condolences may be made at www.jc-greenandsons.com.
Pamela FosterHIGH POINT – Pamela
Le’Verl Foster, Age 57, passed away at the Hos-pice Home of High Point N.C. On December 5, 2009. She was born January 29, 1952, in High Point N.C. to Isaiah Moore and Ruth Mae Foster. Funeral Ser-vice will be conducted on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. from the Living Waters Bap-tist Church where Bishop John Latta will offi ciate and Internment will fol-low at the Greenhill Cem-etery. The family Visita-tion from 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the church, the family will leave from the residence 710 Kroll Ln. High Point N.C. Arrange-ments are Entrusted to and services will be con-ducted by Gilmore Funer-al Services (Gilmore).
Johnnie C. Jernigan Jr.
DENTON – Johnnie Clay-ton Jernigan, Jr., 44, of Ernest Smith Road died December 9, 2009.
Memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at High Rock Community Church. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 tonight at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington.
Donald William Morris
DENTON – Former May-or of Denton, Donald William Morris, age 86, of Bingham Street, died Wednesday, December 9 at Thomasville Medical Center.
Funeral service for Mr. Morris will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, December 12 at First Baptist Church with Rev. Vern Peterson offi ci-ating. Burial will follow in the Denton Town Cem-etery.
Mr. Morris was born November 28, 1923, in Da-vidson County to Moody A. and Eunice Snider Morris. He was a World War II veteran of the U. S. Army. He had worked as parts manager at Hill Motor Company in Den-ton for many years and later in the parts depart-ment of Thomasville Ford. Mr. Morris was an active member of First Baptist Church where he had served as treasurer and deacon. Mr. Mor-ris served as Mayor of Denton from 1971 to 1975 and on the Denton Town Council from 1962 to 1971 and 1983 to 2003. He was a former Fire Chief with the Denton Volunteer Fire Department, served as a board member of Mountain Vista Health Park, was a member of Woodmen of the World and a former member of the Jaycees.
Mr. Morris is survived by his wife, Winnifred Pence Morris of the home, one son, D. William Mor-ris, Jr. of Denton, one daughter Donna Barrin-ger and husband Bobby of Thomasville, one grand-daughter, Amber Bar-ringer, one brother Neal Morris of Denton, and two sisters, Evelyn Younts of Trinity and Dean Chan-dler of Denton.
The family will see friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Briggs Funeral Home in Denton and oth-er times at the residence on Bingham Street
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Keith BrownTRINITY – Mr. Lemuel
Keith Brown, 53, resident of 5776 Welborn Rd. died December 10th, 2009, at Hospice Home of High Point.
Mr. Brown was born September 17th, 1956, in Guilford County, a son to Farlow and Dorothy Grif-fi n Brown. He was a resi-dent of this area all his life and graduated from Trin-ity High School. He was a longtime employee of Food Lion and a member of Hopewell United Meth-odist Church. His wife, the former Penny Smith preceded him in death on April 12th, 2003. He was also preceded in death by his mother.
Surviving is his father of Trinity; a daughter, Megan Brown; a step son, James “Charlie” Ray; a step daughter, Tanya Gunter; three brothers, Mike Brown and wife Sha-ron, Sammy Brown and wife Teresa and Tommy Brown and wife Julia; two sisters, Margaret Ray and husband Pat and Evelyn Mosley; and four grand-children, Makayla Mclen-dol, Labrissa Mclendol, Broderick Ray and Athe-na Gunter.
Funeral service will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Hopewell Methodist Church with Rev. Toni Ruth Smith offi ciating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will follow the committal service in the church.
Memorials may be di-rected to Hospice of the Piedmont, 1801 West-chester Dr. High Point NC 27262 or to Hopewell United Methodist Church, 4512 Hopewell Church Rd. Trinity NC 27370 or to Serving God’s Servants, P.O. Box 6233 High Point NC 27262.
On-line condolences may be made through www.cumbyfuneral.com. Arrangements by Cumby Family Funeral Service in Archdale.
Jackie BaityTHOMASVILLE – Miss Do-
ris Jacquelyn Baity, 82, died Thursday, Decem-ber 10, 2009, at the Hos-pice Home at High Point. She was born in David-son County, October 20, 1927, a daughter of Robert Glenn Baity, Sr., and Viv-ian Hall Baity.
She was a graduate of Appalachian State Teach-ers College (now Appala-chian State University) and was of the Methodist faith.
She was preceded in death by her parents and brother, Tony Webster Baity, and brother-in-law, Nelson R. Crotts.
She is survived by one sister, Joan Baity Crotts, and three brothers, Don-ald Gray Baity and wife Nancy, George Thomas Baity and wife Sylvia, Robert Glenn Baity, Jr., and wife Jane, and sister-in-law, Sandra Pierce Ba-ity and several nieces and nephews.
Honoring her wishes, her body will be cremated and there will be no for-mal services or visitation. J. C. Green and Sons Fu-neral Home will be assist-ing the family.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Thursday he still wants to reconcile with the fi rst lady even though Jenny Sanford has made clear she won’t be standing by his side in the wake of his affair.
Sanford spoke with reporters a day after a legislative panel rejected an impeachment resolu-tion and instead decided to recommend a formal rebuke for his trysts with an Argentine mistress and his misuse of state planes. The panel said his actions had brought the state “rid-icule, dishonor, disgrace and shame.”
Just hours after the pan-el’s decision, ABC aired a previously recorded inter-view with Jenny Sanford. The fi rst lady said her husband’s actions hurt her, but have not robbed her of her self-esteem. Sanford said he didn’t watch the interview but understands why his wife is speaking out.
“The obvious is the ob-vious, which is I hurt her greatly as I did many other people across the state, but I hurt her most greatly and so I don’t begrudge her in
any way for speaking outas she has,” Sanford said.
Jenny Sanford, a for-mer Wall Street invest-ment fi rm vice presidentwho helped direct herhusband’s political cam-paigns, surprised manyin June when she said shedidn’t know where herhusband was over Father’sDay weekend. The gover-nor’s spokesman said hehad gone hiking along theAppalachian Trail, but thefi rst lady’s remark height-ened the mystery overSanford’s whereabouts.
He emerged after afi ve-day absence to tear-fully confess he’d been inArgentina and had beenhaving a yearlong affairwith Maria Belen Chapur,a woman he described ashis soul mate.
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Fiance’s kids rule the roost during their weekend visitsD ear Abby: I
have been living with my fi ance,
“Trevor,” for three years. When his children – ages 7 and 8 – are here for their visits, he treats me like a third wheel. Trevor shows me absolutely no affection, nor will he have as much as a two-sentence conversation with me.
His children dictate what we will be hav-ing for dinner and what we’ll do for the weekend they are here. They hang on him as if they are growths on his skin. I can’t even get a hug from him. We don’t have fi ve minutes alone. Trevor allows them to stay up as late as they want, and once they go to bed, he goes, too. Most times he doesn’t even say good night.
Many times he has left me and my 5-year-old son sleeping and has taken his kids for breakfast without even giving me the courtesy of asking if we’d like to join them. Abby, as soon as his children return to their mother, he becomes him-self again – attentive, lov-ing and always including me in what he’s doing.
I have told Trevor many times how I feel about this. I understand he loves his children and wants to spend as much time as possible with them when they’re here. But must I be put on hold while they visit? I’m ready to pick up and leave. – Low Priority in
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Dear Low Prior-ity: Feeling as you do, that might be best for all con-cerned. For whatever reason, you perceive
your fi ance’s visitations with his children as competition. From my perspective, however, Trevor loves his children, may carry some guilt that the family is no longer intact, and tries the best he can to concentrate all his energy on them dur-ing the short periods they are with him. This is not about you and him; it is about THEM.
Forgive me for not being more sympathetic, but please recognize that your present is a glimpse of what your future will be if you marry Trevor. Once you accept that, you’ll have a better idea of what you want to do.
Dear Abby: I’m a 56-
year-old woman. When I was growing up, I missed out on a lot in school be-cause of a hearing prob-lem. I was able to gradu-ate from high school – but just barely. I can read and write, but there are things I should know how to do but can’t.
I am very embarrassed that I’m not able to do things most people take for granted – for example,
make change. I could never work as a cashier because I know I’d be fi red on the spot. I have owned a housecleaning business for 17 years, which has worked out OK, but I’d like to have a job where I’m around people.
How can I learn about money without embar-rassing myself or my family? – Challenged in Tennessee
Dear Challenged: Because you want to supplement your math skills, start checking opportunities that are available in your area for adult education. Some high schools and community colleges offer night classes for adults.
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THOMASVILLE – Mr. Walter Vance Warner, be-loved husband and father, 92, of Piedmont Crossing, formerly of Long Street, died on Wednesday, De-cember 9, 2009, at the Hin-kle Hospice Home in Da-vidson County. He was born on June 29, 1917, in Davidson County, the son of Robert Vance Warner and Delilah Lindsay Mill-er Warner. On Septem-ber 29, 1941, he married Virginia Ruth Beck War-ner who preceded him in death on September 11, 2005. He was also preced-ed in death by a son, Gary Britain Warner, and twin daughters.
Mr. Warner was a mem-ber of West End United Methodist Church where he was a member of the Methodist Men, a Sunday School teacher, and Sun-day School Superinten-dent. He was also a mem-ber of the choir, Boy Scout Master, and an honorary lifetime member of the Girl Scouts. He attend-ed Thomasville Golden Lunchbox, was a former member of Thomasville Civitan Club, Chair City Classics (Senior Choir), participated in Davidson County Senior Games (Gold Medalist), and a Meals on Wheels volun-teer. He secured grants for numerous causes through Exxon Annui-tants Volunteer program. He was a member of the Tom A. Finch YMCA for 30 years and was a recipi-ent of the YMCA “Spark Plug” award and service to Youth award (2007) and a former board mem-
ber (1990-1992). He was a former member of Thom-asville Human Relations Commission. He and his wife enjoyed many sea-sons at their winter home in Frostproof, Florida. He retired from Exxon Cor-poration after 28 years of service.
He is survived by sev-en daughters, Julia Ann Stump of Sturgis, MI, Ly-nis Spivey and husband Bron Walter of Moore, SC, Cynthia Greene and husband Dale of Thom-asville, Malinda Spencer and husband Chuck of Southmont, Laura Ken-nedy and husband Jeff of Trinity, Karen Reel and husband Gerald of Thom-asville, and Heidi Celeste Warner of Moorisville, NC, and one son, Walter Alan Warner and wife Judy of Lexington. He is also survived by fourteen grandchildren and thir-teen great grandchildren.
The funeral for Mr. Warner will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, Decem-ber 12, 2009, at West End United Methodist Church with the Rev. Myra Ward and Rev. John Stein offi -ciating. Burial will be in Holly Hill Memorial Park following the service. The family will receive friends on Friday, Decem-ber 11, from 6 to 8 at the J. C. Green and Sons Funer-al Home in Thomasville. Memorials may be sent to the Thomasville YMCA or a charity of donor’s choice. Online condo-lences may be sent to the Warner family at www.jcgreenandsons.com.
Walter Warner
HIGH POINT – Mrs. Dar-lene Trexler Friedland, 57, of High Point, died Wednesday, December 9th at the High Point Re-gional Hospital.
Mrs. Friedland was born June 20, 1952, in High Point, a daughter of the late John Edward and Anne Culler Trexler. Dar-lene was a self-employed massage therapist and was a member of Summit Church. On February 14, 2008, she was married to Mark Murphy who sur-vives of the home.
Surviving in addition to her husband are fi ve chil-dren; Jeannie Williams and husband, Lewis, James Craven and wife, Leah, Tamera Leonard and husband, Chad, Tim-othy Friedland and Tracy Miller and husband, Ste-ven. Grandchildren; Trey and Lacie Williams, An-drew and Kaleigh Craven, Jacob and Emma Leon-ard, Karah, Kendra and Michael Miller. Sister; Betty Allen and husband, Jimmy. Brothers; John Trexler and wife, Anna and Robert Trexler and wife, Rachel.
Memorial services will be conducted Sun-day afternoon at Summit Church at First Baptist Church of Jamestown at 2:00 p.m. with the Rev. Eric Waldrop offi ciating. Visitation will follow the service at the Church. In-urnment will be at a later date at Guilford Memorial Park Cemetery,
Memorials may be di-rected to the American Cancer Society, High Point Unit, 4-A Oak Branch Dr., Greensboro, NC 27407.
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HIGH POINT – Hallie Ha-zel Huffman Montgomery, 95, a resident of High Point for many years, died Sun-day, December 6, 2009, at her daughter’s residence in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
She was born in Lexing-ton, NC on May 21, 1914. She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph (Joe) Raymond Montgom-ery. Survivors include her daughter Martha Jo Ann O’Connor; her son, Joseph Raymond Mont-gomery, Jr.; 8 grandchil-dren and 17 great-grand-children.
While in High Point, she and her husband were members of First United Methodist Church. Edu-cation was always impor-tant to her. At age 48 she enrolled in Arizona State University where she re-ceived both a bachelor and master’s degree. She taught elementary school in Arizona and Floyd, Vir-ginia until retirement
A graveside service will be held in Hight Point at a later date.
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DURHAM – Even by starving-grad-student standards, Duke student Ken Ilgunas’ campus housing is humble. It is, however, mobile. Ilgu-nas, 26, is shacking up in a 1994 Ford Econoline as a means of getting through his liberal stud-ies graduate program without debt. Parked in a lot on the edge of cam-pus, he cooks with camp-ing equipment and sub-sists largely on peanut butter.
Ilgunas, who grew up in Niagara Falls, N.Y., doesn’t think he’s really roughing it. He show-ers and exercises in the campus gym and knows all the 24-hour buildings where he can keep warm, dry and connected to the Internet.
“I’m rarely in the van. Just to eat and sleep,” he said this week. “Gen-erally it’s not the most convenient place. The closest bathroom is a quarter-mile away and
there’s no source of wa-ter nearby. But with thatsaid, I live pretty com-fortably. I bring a waterjug to campus and fi ll itup.”
Ilgunas isn’t doingthis out of necessity.Rather, it’s a self-testof sorts prompted bythe $32,000 in debt hewas left with after get-ting his undergraduatedegree from the Uni-versity at Buffalo, astate university in NewYork. He paid that debtoff working full timefor 2-1/2 years, and heswore never to be simi-larly saddled again.
His Duke courses are$3,000 each, but grantscut that to $1,000 percourse. Between moneyhe makes working part-time and the summers hespends as a park ranger,he gets by.
Ilgunas fi gures it’s onlya matter of time beforethe campus cops comeknocking.
Until then, though,he’s not saying exactlywhere he parks andlives.
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LEXINGTON – Charles Lewis Myers, 80, died De-cember 9, 2009.
Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Cha-
pel of Piedmont Funeral Home, Lexington. Visi-tation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.
Charlie Myers
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DURHAM – The two boys who died Wednesday when their Ford Explorer was hit by an Amtrak train have been identifi ed.
The impact threw Cal-vin Brandon, 9, and Hasan Bingham, 6, both of Dur-ham, from the vehicle. They were pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the vehicle, Deb-orah Peaks Bingham, was taken to Duke Hospital for treatment.
State offi cials have been trying to secure funding to build a railroad over-pass or an underpass at the intersection where the accident happened.
A westbound Amtrak passenger train struck the SUV at 5:19 p.m. near the intersection of Ellis Road and Angier Ave-nue, a rail crossing with a history of accidents. Durham police said the vehicle was sitting on the train tracks, appar-ently blocked by traffi c, when the train warning arms came down.
No charges have been fi led at this time and the accident remains under investigation, police said Thursday.
State transportation of-fi cials have applied for a $13.5million federal grant to build a bridge to re-place that crossing so that cars will either go above or below the trains.
Boys who died at
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Following is recent news about students at Penn-Griffi n School for the Arts:
Sophomore Elizabeth Underwood and junior Megan Raisner were se-lected in state-wide audi-tions to attend the Mars Hill Honor Choir Feb. 5-6.
Sara Raisner and Ash-lyn Rhodes will repre-sent PGSA at North Caro-lina High School All-State Chorus Jan. 29-30. Sara, a sophomore, will partici-pate in the SATB Choir composed of ninth- and 10th-graders, and Ash-lyn, a freshman, will sing with the SSA Choir.
Ninth-graders Jalen Fair and Adam Howell will attend the All-Caroli-na Male Invitational Cho-ral Festival sponsored by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jan. 15-16.
Penn-Griffin students celebrated American Education Week with a gallery walk to view artwork and class proj-ects and a lunch with parents . Seventh- and eighth- grade chorus, guitar and orchestra students provided enter-tainment.
Three students partici-pated in the North Caroli-na A&T State University art show: senior Brandi Wayman and juniors Monica Briggs and Amy Baldwin.
Lyndsey Corley was named Kia’s Student of the Month for November.
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Hasty’s 60th anniversaryMembers of Hasty High School’s Class for 1949 and their spouses celebrated their 60th anniversary in Thomasville Oct. 31. Fourteen of the original 21 members of the class are still living. Those who attended are (front row, from left) Harold Edwards, Jo Bundy Parrish, Dollie Hedrick Linthicum, Elsie McGee Nall, Darrell Meredith, Richard Hiatt; (back row, from left) Owen Moore, Jack Burton, Donald Hilton, Jesse Ken-nedy. George Saintsing attended but did not arrive in time for the photo. Helen Leonard Pierce, Joanne Stone Hege and Foy Cecil were unable to attend. Next year’s reunion will be held Oct. 23.
Yesterday’s Bible question: True or false? One of Daniel’s dreams is recorded in his book.
Answer to yesterday’s question: True. “In the fi rst year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.” (Daniel 7:1)
Today’s Bible ques-tion: In Daniel 7, is it stat-ed that all kingdoms shall pass away?
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Melissa Mitchell, a member of the Ledford Future Farmers of Amer-ica Chapter and a junior at North Carolina State University, received the American FFA Degree at the 82nd National FFA Convention, Oct. 24. She is the daughter of Da-vid Mitchell and Karol Murks.
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Members of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at HighPoint University recently raised $2,000 for the JimmyV Foundation for cancer research during the Nov. 7 Garnet and Gold Golf Classic held in Archdale.
They also raised nearly $1,000 for Open Door Minis-tries at a fl ag football competition, the “Turkey Bowl.”
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As a result of the “Donate a Dollar” campaign, Ar-by’s donated $4,863 to the agency. Nationally, Arby’s customers donated $2.2 million to Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies.
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OSLO (AP) – Newly enshrined among the world’s great peace-makers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war.
Eleven months into his presi-dency, a fresh Obama doctrine.
Evil must be vigorously opposed, he declared as he accepted the No-bel Peace Prize on Thursday. At the same time, he made an impas-sioned case for building a “just and lasting peace.”
“I face the world as it is, and can-not stand idle in the face of threats to the American people,” Obama told his audience in Oslo’s soaring City Hall. “For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world.”
Pronouncing himself humbled by such an honor so early in “my labors on the world stage,” Obama nevertheless turned his Nobel mo-ment into an unapologetic defense of armed intervention in times of
self defense or moral necessity. The hawkish message was an in-evitable nod to the controversy de-fi ning his selection: an American president, lauded for peace just as he escalates the long, costly war in Afghanistan.
It was a jarring moment when Obama, in the midst of the ceremo-ny, said of his troops in Afghani-stan: “Some will kill. Some will be killed.”
Obama defends war, urges peace as Nobel winner
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats are muscling through a defi cit-swell-ing spending bill, giving domestic programs their third major boost this year and awarding law-makers with more than 5,000 home-state proj-ects.
The House voted 221-202 Thursday to pass the 1,088-page, $1.1 trillion measure – combining $447 billion in operating budgets with about $650 billion in pay-ments for federal benefi t programs such as Medi-care and Medicaid.
The Senate immediate-ly voted to begin debate, with a fi nal vote likely this weekend.
No House Republicans
voted for the bill. Some 28Democrats, chiefl y mod-erates and abortion oppo-nents, opposed it.
The measure providesspending increases aver-aging about 10 percent toprograms under immedi-ate control of Congress.It comes on top of an infu-sion of cash to domesticagencies in February’seconomic stimulus billand a $410 billion mea-sure in March that alsobestowed budget increas-es well above infl ation.
Also Thursday, SpeakerNancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,confi rmed that the Housewill vote to raise the capon government borrow-ing, currently set at $12.1trillion.
House approves $1.1 trillion
spending measure
ATLANTA (AP) – Swine fl u has sickened about 50 million Americans, and killed about 10,000, ac-cording to new estimates released by federal health offi cials on Thursday.
That means about 1 in 6 Americans have had the
illness, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention.
The estimates are for the first seven months of the pandemic, from April through mid-No-vember.
CDC: 1 in 6 in U.S. have had swine fl u
AP
First lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama attend banquet in Obama’s honor in Norway Thursday.
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Rotator-cuff tears make for a painful shoulder
D ear Dr. Donohue: About six months ago, I got a terrible
pain in my left shoulder and arm. I saw a special-ist, who had me take a CT scan. I have a torn rotator cuff and need a new shoulder. He said he would not advise me to have that done. I asked if it was because of my age (78), and he said no. He said the operation has a long and painful recovery, and it might not make me any better. I am still in a lot of pain. I don’t know what to do. I talked to someone who had a new shoulder, and he said he is no better after the operation than he was before it. Do you have any suggestions? – B.R.
The rotator cuff is a band composed of tendons from four back muscles. The band wraps around the top of the up-per arm bone. The top is shaped like a ball. It fi ts into the shoulder socket. The rotator cuff holds the ball in the socket. Tears of the rotator cuff are common in athletes and in people older than 55. The cuff frays with age, as does just about every-thing. A torn cuff causes pain in the shoulder and upper arm especially when reaching overhead or out to the side or be-hind the neck.
Small tears heal with-out any intervention. Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) and naproxen (Aleve)
ease the pain and infl amma-tion of both small and large tears. A cortisone injection also might help.
Large tears usu-ally call for surgical re-
pair. Quite frequently the repair can be made with a scope and instruments passing through small incisions. Recuperation from this kind of surgery isn’t prolonged.
Shoulder replacements are not usually done for rotator-cuff tears. Perhaps you also have arthritis in the shoul-der joint. Replacing an arthritic shoulder joint produces results as gratifying as hip and knee replacements do. It takes about a two-day hospital stay. By one week after the surgery, people can perform most of the activities of daily life without pain.
See a different ortho-pedic doctor. You’ve been cut adrift without any help. You should be getting something for pain and some kind of intervention to help your shoulder, like physical therapy.
Dear Dr. Donohue: My cholesterol is 102 mg/dl (2.6 mmol/L). My doctor put me on Lipitor. Ever since, I have gas all
the time, both burping and passing it through the rectum. I read an article that said gas pass-ing into the throat causes throat cancer. I think there is more risk to my taking Lipitor than there is in not taking it. What do you think? – P.H.
I think something is wrong here. A cholesterolof 102 mg/dl is excel-lent. Anything less than 200 (5.18) is great. Are you talking about LDL cholesterol – the bad kindof cholesterol? Even an LDL cholesterol of 102 is a good reading unless youhave had a heart attack. A discussion with your doctor for the need of Lipitor is high on your list of things to do.
Gas rising into the throat doesn’t cause throat cancer.
As to fl atulence, the in-crease of gas in the diges-tive tract, it can be a side effect of the medicine, butit’s not a common one. However, if you can trace the onset of fl atulence to the Lipitor taking, then you have a valid beef. First fi nd out if you need it. If you do need choles-terol-lowering medicine, ask for a different kind of medicine.
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NOTABLES
FAMOUS, FABULOUS, FRIVOLOUS---LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lawyers for
Roman Polanski and his victim in a 32-year-old case joined forces Thursday to ask an appeals court to dismiss a sexual misconduct charge against the director in the interest of justice.
It was a surprise move in a lively hearing where appellate justices pep-pered lawyers and a prosecutor with pointed questions, often interrupting
their arguments to raise new issues.Associate Justice Laurie Zelon asked
the prosecutor why the district attor-ney’s offi ce had not investigated recentallegations of misconduct by a judgeand prosecutor during Polanski’s 1977court proceedings.
“Doesn’t the district attorney’s offi cehave an interest in fi nding out whathappened here?” Zelon asked.
Attorneys ask court to dismiss Polanski sex case
NEW YORK (AP) – ABC’s George Stepha-nopoulos is offi cially mov-ing to the morning.
The network announced that Stephanopoulos will replace Diane Sawyer as co-host of “Good Morning America” starting Mon-day. He’ll be paired with Robin Roberts.
The show’s executive producer, Jim Murphy, says the arrival of Stepha-nopoulos signals the show
plans to toughen up by adding more news content. Stephanopoulos has been host of “This Week” on Sundays and will continue as the network’s chief po-litical correspondent.
ABC will be replacing him as host of “This Week.”
ABC appoints Stephanopoulos to be ‘GMA’ host
AP
George Stephanopoulos was an adviser to Presi-dent Bill Clinton before joining ABC.
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FridayDecember 11, 2009
WHO’S NEWS---
Brian Kelly will be Notre Dame’s next football coach, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
The two people confi rmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that a deal has been reached with the Cincinnati coach. They requested anonymity be-cause an offi cial announcement had not been made.
The South Bend Tribune fi rst re-ported the hiring.
The 47-year-old Kelly is 34-6 in three seasons at Cincinnati, lead-ing the Bearcats to back-to-back Big East titles and two straight Bowl Champion-ship Series berths. The Bearcats set a school record last season for victories with an 11-3 record, then topped that with a 12-0 mark this season.
Notre Dame has been search-ing for a coach for about a week and a half since fi ring Charlie Weis after fi ve seasons. Kelly was at a Cincinnati team banquet Thursday night, where he was ex-pected to inform his players of the decision.
9:30 a.m., The Golf Channel – Golf, PGA Europe, Alfred Dunhill Championship
3 p.m., The Golf Channel – Golf, The Shark Shootout
5 p.m., ESPN2 – Soccer, NCAA Men’s Div. I College Cup semifi nal, Virginia vs. Wake Forest
7 p.m., FSN – Hock-ey, Hurricanes at Capitals
8 p.m., ESPN – Bas-ketball, Trail Blazers at Cavaliers
8 p.m., ESPN2 – College football, FCS semifi nal, William & Mary at Villanova
8:30 p.m., Sport-South – Basketball, Bobcats at Spurs
10 p.m., ESPN Classic – Rodeo, PRCA National Finals, ninth round from Las Vegas
10:30 p.m., ESPN – Basketball, Magic at Suns
TOPS ON TV---
WELL-ARMED: Falcons aim to slow high-powered Saints. 4C
ACC’S CUP RUNNETH OVER: Three league teams fi ll men’s soccer Final Four. 3C
MORE DEALS ON ICE? Baseball’s winter meetings end with much undecided. 3C
P rior to the season, most observers expected a classic three-quarterback race for the Heisman Trophy featuring
Florida’s Tim Tebow, Texas’ Colt McCoy and Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford.
But Bradford missed virtually the entire season due to injury and Tebow and McCoy have enjoyed solid, but not always spectacu-lar, senior seasons.
So, on the eve of the presentation of the most famous individual honor in all of col-lege sports, a different three-man race may reach the fi nish line.
Alabama tailback Mark Ingram, Stanford tailback Toby Gerhart and Nebraska defen-sive lineman Ndamukong Suh could wind up the top three vote-getters when the trophy is awarded Saturday night in New York.
My hunch is Ingram, who’s rushed for 1,542 yards and scored 15 touchdowns for the No. 1 Crimson Tide, will prevail in a squeaker over Gerhart, the national leader in rushing yards (1,736) and rushing touchdowns (26).
Ingram would become the fi rst Alabama player to win the Heisman Trophy.
He’s a worthy candidate. Being the best
player on the highest-ranked team is certain-ly a strong recipe for Heisman success.
But I still think Gerhart deserves the nod. From start to fi nish, he was the most con-sistently excellent player in the nation this season. He runs hard and his bruising style reminds me of former Heisman winners Ron Dayne, Earl Campbell and Alan Ameche.
In an era dominated by passing and fi nesse running, it would be nice to see a power back take home the hardware for a change.
– MARK MCKINNEYENTERPRISE SPORTS EDITOR
HIT AND RUN---
A s Tonisha Baker trotted over for some pregame advice from her coach, the fans in the last row behind the Camp-
bell bench rose as one to offer a greeting that included waving arms and loud voices.
Yes, Baker admitted later, she heard them. How could she not?
But the former T. Wingate Andrews High School star also did a nice job of ignoring them during her homecoming against High Point University.
“I have to stay focused,” Baker said, smiling broadly. “As much as I want to go over there and say hello to every-body, I’ve got to stay focused on the game plan. That’s what I was trying to do.”
In the minutes leading up to Wednesday’s game at the Millis Center, Baker was her normal, happy-go-lucky self: moving to the blaring music and sharing laughs with her teammates in warmups.
Things looked pretty normal on the basket-ball court, too: There was Baker in the start-ing lineup; picking off a pass on High Point’s second possession; racing the other way for a layup before getting fouled and settling for a free throw.
“I went for that steal and I just felt like, ‘OK, I’m right where I belong,’ ” Baker re-called of the moment.
There’s little doubt Baker belongs on the court, even as a true freshman – even wear-ing black and orange instead of the Red Raiders’ gear in which she starred for four seasons.
Campbell entered this year with a couple of post players ready for action in the Atlantic Sun Conference. A question mark came at the guard spot, but coach Wanda Watkins just knew her freshman would be ready to step in and play well.
“I thought she would be an impact player when we recruited her, I really did,” Watkins said. “She’s lived up to every bit of it.
“Tonisha’s a joy,” Watkins added. “We love having her in Buies Creek. She adds a wealth of athleticism to our team and I look forward to watching her in the future. She’s going to be a great one for us.”
Baker started her fi rst fi ve games this win-ter, scoring 13 points in her collegiate debut against Wofford and adding 17 three days later against Coastal Carolina. The Camels owned a 4-1 record entering Wednesday’s contest at High Point.
“Seeing this game here on the schedule, it got me really excited, kind of nervous,” Baker said. “I tried to shake those nerves off and do what we could as a team.”
After her early steal and free throw, Baker saw a layup rim out before she missed a 3-pointer two possessions later. Following a turnover, Baker responded with a nice lefty layup in the lane to end a Campbell scoring drought of more than fi ve minutes. Her put-back, followed by a steal and coast-to-coast layup with two Panthers chasing her, helped spark a run that led to High Point leading just 30-25 at halftime.
Baker was forced to sit out three minutes of the second half after she suffered from leg cramps, and the Panthers got hot and roared away to a 78-57 victory. Baker fi n-
ished with 11 points on 4-for-10 shooting with fi ve rebounds, three steals, a block and four turnovers.
The block and one miscue came in rapid succession: With two minutes remaining in the fi rst half, Baker got stripped by Erin Reynolds at midcourt. Reynolds raced the other way for a layup – and Baker caught up in time to get an emphatic rejection into the stands.
“I had created a turnover, so you’ve got to make that up with a hustle play,” Baker offered. “I had to get back and try to play defense, and luckily I got the block.”
That’s the athleticism Watkins loves so much about Baker. As for the turnovers?
“She will be a freshman this year, and we
realize that,” Watkins said of the steep learn-ing curve surrounding college basketball. “Freshmen will be freshmen, but she will be an asset. She’s just soaking it all up.”
Baker’s athleticism will help greatly in this transition year.
“The intensity levels are way different and the pace is so much faster than high school,” Baker explained. “The players are just as athletic as you – or more – and they’re just as smart as you. I feel like I’ve adjusted pretty well. I’m a quick-enough player, but it’s still kind of overwhelming at times. I try my best to maintain my composure.”
She handled herself just fi ne in Wednes-day’s homecoming.
Former T.W. Andrews’ star Tonisha Baker, shown here in action against HPU on Wednesday night, is off to a fast start in her freshman season with Campbell. She has started all six games for the 4-2 Camels.
CHAPEL HILL (AP) – North Carolina matched last year’s vic-tory total with another eight-win regular season. It makes sense then that the Tar Heels are head-ed back to a familiar setting in the postseason.
The trick now is to actually win that home-state bowl game.
The Tar Heels (8-4) earned a re-turn trip to the Meineke Bowl in Charlotte to face No. 17 Pittsburgh
on Dec. 26. It wasn’t the destina-tion some of the Tar Heels had in mind when they were entering the fi nale against North Carolina State with a chance at nine wins, which would have been the high-est total for the program in a doz-en years.
Then again, maybe that’s a sign of the progress made in three sea-sons under Butch Davis.
As senior left tackle Kyle Jolly
put it, “I know the older guys didn’t have a problem with it be-cause this is only the second bowl I’ve been to.”
North Carolina had a shot at a bigger bowl game in the Atlantic Coast Conference pecking order. But the Tar Heels lost to N.C. State 28-27, then Bobby Bowden’s impending retirement at Florida State threw the bowl bids in the league out of whack by sending
the Seminoles (6-6) to the Gator Bowl. But Davis said his team won’t lack motivation after slid-ing down the league’s bowl list and that his Tar Heels had a great experience at the bowl last year.
“The competitors look at it as a challenge,” Davis said Thursday at a news conference.
UNC gets a shot at some mea-sure of redemption after losing to West Virginia 31-30 last season.
Tar Heels target home-state bowl victory
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SCOREBOARD
TRIVIA ANSWER---A. Jim O’Brien.
TRIVIA QUESTION---Q. Who kicked the game-winning fi eld goal for the Baltimore Colts against Dallas
in Super Bowl V?
FOOTBALL---National Football League
AMERICAN CONFERENCEEast
W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC DivNew England 7 5 0 .583 328 224 6-0-0 1-5-0 5-4-0 2-1-0 3-2-0Miami 6 6 0 .500 278 296 4-2-0 2-4-0 4-4-0 2-2-0 4-2-0N.Y. Jets 6 6 0 .500 249 208 3-3-0 3-3-0 5-5-0 1-1-0 2-4-0Buffalo 4 8 0 .333 199 261 2-4-0 2-4-0 2-7-0 2-1-0 2-3-0
South W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC Divx-Indianapolis 12 0 0 1.000 331 201 6-0-0 6-0-0 8-0-0 4-0-0 5-0-0Jacksonville 7 5 0 .583 225 273 5-1-0 2-4-0 6-2-0 1-3-0 3-2-0Tennessee 5 7 0 .417 246 316 3-2-0 2-5-0 3-7-0 2-0-0 2-4-0Houston 5 7 0 .417 277 266 2-4-0 3-3-0 4-6-0 1-1-0 1-5-0
North W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC DivCincinnati 9 3 0 .750 254 187 5-2-0 4-1-0 6-3-0 3-0-0 6-0-0Baltimore 6 6 0 .500 271 215 4-2-0 2-4-0 6-4-0 0-2-0 3-2-0Pittsburgh 6 6 0 .500 272 231 4-2-0 2-4-0 4-5-0 2-1-0 1-3-0Cleveland 1 11 0 .083 145 309 0-5-0 1-6-0 1-7-0 0-4-0 0-5-0
West W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC DivSan Diego 9 3 0 .750 342 242 4-2-0 5-1-0 7-3-0 2-0-0 5-1-0Denver 8 4 0 .667 240 202 4-2-0 4-2-0 6-3-0 2-1-0 3-1-0Oakland 4 8 0 .333 142 282 2-4-0 2-4-0 3-6-0 1-2-0 1-4-0Kansas City 3 9 0 .250 196 326 1-5-0 2-4-0 2-6-0 1-3-0 1-4-0
NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast
W L T Pct PF PA Home Away NFC AFC DivDallas 8 4 0 .667 279 213 5-1-0 3-3-0 6-3-0 2-1-0 2-2-0Philadelphia 8 4 0 .667 327 235 4-2-0 4-2-0 7-2-0 1-2-0 3-1-0N.Y. Giants 7 5 0 .583 303 285 4-2-0 3-3-0 5-3-0 2-2-0 3-1-0Washington 3 9 0 .250 200 238 3-3-0 0-6-0 2-8-0 1-1-0 0-4-0
South W L T Pct PF PA Home Away NFC AFC Divx-New Orleans 12 0 0 1.000 440 251 6-0-0 6-0-0 8-0-0 4-0-0 3-0-0Atlanta 6 6 0 .500 279 279 5-1-0 1-5-0 5-5-0 1-1-0 2-2-0Carolina 5 7 0 .417 215 262 3-3-0 2-4-0 5-4-0 0-3-0 3-2-0Tampa Bay 1 11 0 .083 187 330 1-5-0 0-6-0 1-8-0 0-3-0 0-4-0
North W L T Pct PF PA Home Away NFC AFC DivMinnesota 10 2 0 .833 359 233 6-0-0 4-2-0 8-1-0 2-1-0 5-0-0Green Bay 8 4 0 .667 323 229 5-2-0 3-2-0 6-3-0 2-1-0 3-2-0Chicago 5 7 0 .417 233 270 4-2-0 1-5-0 3-6-0 2-1-0 1-2-0Detroit 2 10 0 .167 206 358 2-4-0 0-6-0 1-8-0 1-2-0 0-5-0
West W L T Pct PF PA Home Away NFC AFC DivArizona 8 4 0 .667 297 234 3-3-0 5-1-0 6-2-0 2-2-0 3-1-0San Francisco 5 7 0 .417 245 233 4-2-0 1-5-0 4-4-0 1-3-0 3-1-0Seattle 5 7 0 .417 243 267 4-2-0 1-5-0 4-6-0 1-1-0 3-3-0St. Louis 1 11 0 .083 139 314 0-6-0 1-5-0 1-9-0 0-2-0 0-4-0x-clinched division
Thursday’s resultN.Y. Jets 19, Buffalo 13
Sunday’s resultsChicago 17, St. Louis 9Oakland 27, Pittsburgh 24Denver 44, Kansas City 13Philadelphia 34, Atlanta 7Cincinnati 23, Detroit 13Miami 22, New England 21New Orleans 33, Washington 30, OTIndianapolis 27, Tennessee 17Carolina 16, Tampa Bay 6Jacksonville 23, Houston 18San Diego 30, Cleveland 23N.Y. Giants 31, Dallas 24Seattle 20, San Francisco 17Arizona 30, Minnesota 17
Monday’s resultGreen Bay 27, Baltimore 14
Thursday’s resultPittsburgh at Cleveland, late
Sunday’s gamesSeattle at Houston, 1 p.m.Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m.Detroit at Baltimore, 1 p.m.New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m.Buffalo at Kansas City, 1 p.m.Denver at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.Carolina at New England, 1 p.m.
N.Y. Jets at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Miami at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Minnesota, 1 p.m.St. Louis at Tennessee, 4:05 p.m.Washington at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.San Diego at Dallas, 4:15 p.m.Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 8:20 p.m.
Monday’s gameArizona at San Francisco, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 17Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 8:20 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 19Dallas at New Orleans, 8:20 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 20New England at Buffalo, 1 p.m.Chicago at Baltimore, 1 p.m.Miami at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Houston at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Arizona at Detroit, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Kansas City, 1 p.m.Atlanta at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.San Francisco at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.Green Bay at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.Oakland at Denver, 4:05 p.m.Cincinnati at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.Tampa Bay at Seattle, 4:15 p.m.Minnesota at Carolina, 8:20 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 21N.Y. Giants at Washington, 8:30 p.m.
FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS----Championship schedule for the N.C. High School Ath-letic Association football playoffs. All games set for Saturday except 2A.
BB&T Field,Winston-Salem
Class 1A: Wallace-Rose Hill (13-2) vs. Mount Airy (15-0), 12 p.m.
Class 1AA: Southwest On-slow (15-0) vs. Albemarle (15-0), 4 p.m.
Kenan Stadium,Chapel Hill
Class 2A: Tarboro (14-1) vs. Mountain Heritage (13-2), Today, 7:30 p.m.
Class 2AA: Reidsville (15-0) vs. Newton-Conover (14-1), 11 a.m.
Class 3AA: South Johnston (14-1) vs. Belmont South Point (13-2), 2:30 p.m.
Carter-Finley Stadium,Raleigh
Class 3A: Eastern Alamance (14-1) vs. West Rowan (15-0), 11:30 a.m.
Class 4A: Harnett Central (15-0) vs. A.C. Reynolds (13-2), 3:30 p.m.
Class 4AA: Fayetteville Britt (15-0) vs. Matthews Butler (14-0), 7:30 p.m.
NCAA FCS playoffsFirst Round
Saturday, Nov. 28Appalachian State 20, S.C. State 13Villaonova 38, Holy Cross 28Richmond 16, Elon 13William & Mary 38, Weber State 0Southern Illinois 48, Eastern Illinois 7Montana 61, South Dakota State 48New Hampshire 49, McNeese State 13Stephen F. Austin 44, E. Washington 33
Quarterfi nalsSaturday, Dec. 5
William & Mary 24, Southern Illinois 3Montana 51, Stephen F. Austin 0Villanova 46, New Hampshire 7Appalachian State 35, Richmond 31
Semifi nalsFriday, Dec. 11
William & Mary (11-2) at Villanova (12-1), 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12
App. State (11-2) at Montana (13-0), 4 p.m.ChampionshipFriday, Dec. 18
At Finley Stadium/Davenport FieldChattanooga, Tenn.
Semifi nal winners, 8 p.m.
NCAA D-II playoffsQuarterfi nals
Saturday, Nov. 28California, Pa. 57, West Liberty 35Grand Valley St. 24, Minnesota-Duluth 10Carson-Newman 24, North Alabama 21NW Missouri St. 21, C. Washington 20
Semifi nalsSaturday, Dec. 5
Grand Valley St. 41, Carson-Newman 27NW Missouri State 56, California, Pa. 31
ChampionshipSaturday, Dec. 12
Braly Municipal Stadium, Florence, Ala.Grand Valley State (13-1) vs. Northwest
Missouri State (13-1), 1 p.m.
NCAA D-III playoffsQuarterfi nals
Saturday, Dec. 5Mount Union 55, Albright 3Wesley 12, Johns Hopkins 0Wisconsin-Whitewater 31, Wittenberg 13Linfi eld 31, St. Thomas, Minn. 20
Semifi nalsSaturday, Dec. 12
Wesley (13-0) at Mt Union (13-0), NoonLinfi eld (13-0) at Wisc-Whitewater (13-0), 1 p.m.
ChampionshipSaturday, Dec. 19
At Salem Stadium, Salem, Va.Seminfi nal winners, 11 a.m.
Bowl glanceSaturday, Dec. 19
New Mexico Bowl, At AlbuquerqueWyoming (6-6) vs. Fresno State (8-4), 2:30
p.m. (ESPN)St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl
Rutgers (8-4) vs. UCF (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN)Sunday, Dec. 20
New Orleans BowlSouthern Miss. (7-5) vs. Middle Tennessee
mouth advanced on penalty kicks 4-3Sacramento St. 2, Loyola Marymount 1, OTBrown 1, Stony Brook 0, 2OTIndiana 2, Louisville 0Boston College 2, Dartmouth 1UNC Wilmington 1, Charlotte 1, UNC Wilm-
ington advanced on penalty kicks 4-1Duke 3, Winthrop 2Maryland 2, Loyola, Md. 1Bucknell 1, Princeton 0South Florida 2, Stetson 1Notre Dame 2, Wisconsin-Green Bay 1St. Louis 2, Missouri State 1Drake 2, Western Illinois 1Portland 2, New Mexico 1, OTUC Santa Barbara 1, Wofford 0Stanford 3, St. Mary’s, Calif. 0
Second RoundSunday, Nov. 22
Drake 1, Ohio State 0, OTDuke 2, Michigan State 1Maryland 2, Penn State 1Portland 2, North Carolina State 1Virginia 5, Bucknell 0Indiana 1, Butler 0Harvard 3, Monmouth 0North Carolina 2, Brown 0Northwestern 3, Notre Dame 1Tulsa 4, St. Louis 3, OTAkron 2, South Florida 0Wake Forest 2, UNC Wilmington 1Boston College 1, St. John’s, N.Y. 0UC Santa Barbara 1, San Diego 0UCLA 2, Sacramento State 1Stanford 1, UC Irvine 0
Third RoundSunday, Nov. 29
Maryland 2, Harvard 0Virginia 1, Portland 0Drake 6, Boston College 4North Carolina 1, Indiana 0Tulsa 1, Northwestern 0Akron 2, Stanford 0Wake Forest 4, Duke 2UCLA 2, UC Santa Barbara 1
Pacifi c Division GP W L OT Pts GF GASan Jose 32 19 7 6 44 108 87Los Angeles 32 19 10 3 41 100 97Phoenix 30 18 11 1 37 75 68Dallas 30 13 8 9 35 88 89Anaheim 30 11 13 6 28 86 99NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for over-time loss.
Wednesday’s GamesColumbus 3, Florida 0Toronto 3, N.Y. Islanders 2New Jersey 4, Carolina 2Buffalo 3, Washington 0St. Louis 1, Detroit 0Edmonton 3, Tampa Bay 2Chicago 2, N.Y. Rangers 1, OTMinnesota 1, Colorado 0Calgary 3, Atlanta 1Los Angeles 5, San Jose 4, OT
Today’s GamesToronto at Boston, lateOttawa at Philadelphia, latePittsburgh at Montreal, lateColumbus at Nashville, lateAtlanta at Vancouver, latePhoenix at Los Angeles, late
Friday’s GamesFlorida at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Carolina at Washington, 7 p.m.Chicago at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.Anaheim at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Edmonton at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Tampa Bay at Colorado, 9 p.m.Minnesota at Calgary, 9 p.m.Dallas at San Jose, 10 p.m.
BASKETBALL---NBA
EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division
W L Pct GBBoston 17 4 .810 —Toronto 10 14 .417 8 1⁄2New York 7 15 .318 10 1⁄2Philadelphia 5 17 .227 12 1⁄2New Jersey 2 20 .091 15 1⁄2
Wednesday’s GamesDetroit 90, Philadelphia 86Portland 102, Indiana 91Atlanta 118, Chicago 83Golden State 105, New Jersey 89Milwaukee 117, Toronto 95New Orleans 97, Minnesota 96San Antonio 118, Sacramento 106Houston 95, Cleveland 85L.A. Lakers 101, Utah 77
Thursday’s GamesDenver at Detroit, lateBoston at Washington, lateOrlando at Utah, late
Today’s GamesNew Jersey at Indiana, 7 p.m.Atlanta at Toronto, 7 p.m.Houston at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Dallas at Miami, 7:30 p.m.Golden State at Chicago, 8 p.m.New York at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Portland at Cleveland, 8 p.m.Oklahoma City at Memphis, 8 p.m.Charlotte at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.Orlando at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Texas QB McCoy repeats as Walter Camp winner
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Texas quar-terback Colt McCoy has won the Walter Camp Football Foundation’s player of the year award for the second consecutive season.
McCoy becomes the third player to win the award in back-to-back years, joining Ohio State star Archie Griffi n (1974-75) and South-ern California standout O.J. Simpson (1967-68). The honor is voted on by coaches and sports information directors.
McCoy led the Longhorns to a 13-0 record this season and a spot in the Jan. 7 BCS na-tional championship game against Alabama. He threw for 3,512 yards and 27 touchdowns.
The other nominees were quarterbacks Tim Tebow of Florida and Case Keenum of Houston, running back Mark Ingram of Ala-bama and defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh of Nebraska.
MOTORSPORTS---Plan proposed to give F1 race winners 25 points
MONACO (AP) — Formula One drivers would earn 25 points instead of 10 for winning a race next season under a new rule proposed by the F1 Commission.
The group of stakeholders from the teams, promoters, suppliers and sponsors, and chaired by president Bernie Ecclestone out-lined the change after meeting Thursday in Monaco.
Because there will be three more teams on the grid next year, up to 13 from 10, the com-
mission also proposed awarding points to the top 10 fi nishers, instead of the top eight. Under the plan, drivers would receive 20 points for second and 15, 10, 8, 6, 5, 3, 2 and 1 thereaf-ter. This year it went 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1.
To be adopted the rules need to be rati-fi ed by the FIA World Motor Sport Council on Friday.
GOLF---At Dubai, U.A.E.Omega Dubai Ladies Masters
ThursdayAt Emirates Golf Club (Majlis Course)
Purse: $500,000; Par: 7Second Round
In Kyung Kim, South Korea 70-65 — 135Michelle Wie, United States 69-68 — 137Amy Yang, South Korea 68-70 — 138Tania Elosegui, Spain 72-66 — 138Titiya Plucksataporn, Thail 68-71 — 139Julieta Granada, Paraguay 68-71 — 139Catriona Matthew, Scotland 71-68 — 139Maria Hjorth, Sweden 66-73 — 139Sophie Giquel, France 72-68 — 140Laura Davies, England 71-69 — 140
Alfred Dunhill Championship
ThursdayAt Leopard Creek Country Club course
Malelane, South AfricaPurse: $1 million; par 72
First RoundUlrich van den Berg, S. Afr. 30-34 — 64Pelle Edberg, Sweden 33-32 — 65Titch Moore, South Africa 30-36 — 66Edoardo Molinari, Italy 33-33 — 66Charl Schwartzel, S. Africa 33-34 — 67Gregory Bourdy, France 34-33 — 67Darren Fichardt, S. Africa 30-37 — 67Damien McGrane, Ireland 31-36 — 67Tjaart van der Walt, S. Afr. 34-33 — 67Eirik Tage Johansen, Norwy 33-34 — 67Shane Lowry, Ireland 35-32 — 67Sion Bebb, Wales 34-33 — 67Alan McLean, Scotland 31-36 — 67
Australian PGAThursday
At Hyatt Regency resort courseCoolum, Australia
Purse: $1.36 million; Par: 71First Round
Han Min-kyu, South Korea 31-31 — 62Ryan Haller, Australia 34-32 — 66Matthew Griffi n, Australia 31-36 — 67Scott Strange, Australia 33-34 — 67Andrew Dodt, Australia 33-34 — 67Henry Epstein, Australia 32-35 — 67Stuart Appleby, Australia 32-35 — 67
Davey O’Brien winnersWinners of the Davey O’Brien Award for
the nation’s best quarterback, presented by the College Football Writers Association of America:
BC’s Herzlich wins Disney Spirit AwardLAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Boston
College linebacker Mark Herzlich has won the Disney Spirit Award given to college football’s most inspirational fi gure.
Herzlich accepted the honor at the annual college football awards at Disney World on Thursday night.
Herzlich overcame a rare form of bone cancer. He was the Atlantic Coast Conference defensive player of the year last season and also helped bring about $120,000 in donations for cancer-related causes.
Herzlich sat out this season but expects to play next year. Herzlich’s fi nal treatment came in November. He’s already announced that he’s cancer free.
Herzlich will have a rod put his leg to sup-port and strengthen the bone with an eye to-ward a 2010 return.
Ray Guy winnersWinners of the Ray Guy Award presented
to the best punter:2009—Drew Butler, Georgia2008—Matt Fodge, Oklahoma State2007—Durant Brooks, Georgia Tech2006—Daniel Sepulveda, Baylor2005—Ryan Plackemeier, Wake Forest2004—Daniel Sepulveda, Baylor2003—BJ Sander, Ohio State2002—Mark Mariscal, Colorado2001—Travis Dorsch, Purdue2000—Kevin Stemke, Wisconsin
Cincinnati’s Kelly awarded Coach of the Year
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Cincin-nati’s Brian Kelly has won the Home Depot Coach of the Year award on the same day he told his team he was leaving for Notre Dame.
The 47-year-old Kelly went 34-6 in three seasons at Cincinnati, leading the Bearcats to back-to-back Big East titles and two straight Bowl Championship Series berths. The Bearcats set a school record last season for victories with an 11-3 record, then topped that with a 12-0 mark this season heading into its Sugar Bowl matchup with Florida.
2009 College Football Award Winners
Maxwell Award (Best all-around player)Colt McCoy, Texas, QB
Eric Berry, Tennessee Lou Groza Collegiate(Place-kicker award)
Kai Forbath, UCLA Ray Guy Award
(Best punter)Drew Butler, GeorgiaHome Depot Coach of the Year AwardBrian Kelly, Cincinnati Disney’s Wide World of Sports Spirit AwardMark Herzlich, Boston College
Cent. Con. St. 60, New Hampshire 48Connecticut 80, Hartford 45Hofstra 70, Niagara 48Michigan 76, Boston College 70Rutgers 50, Prairie View 45St. John’s 78, Long Island U. 64Temple 65, Ohio 43Towson 67, Maryland 55Vanderbilt 75, Quinnipiac 74
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Skip Holtz and his East Carolina Pirates will battle Ar-kansas in the Liberty Bowl on Jan. 2 in Memphis.
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East Carolina coach Skip Holtz is ready to face his father’s old team.
Holtz and the Pirates will take on Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl on Jan. 2 in Memphis, Tenn., and the matchup is bringing back quite a few memo-ries. Lou Holtz was Ar-kansas’ coach from 1977-83, and Skip went to high school in Fayetteville, where the Razorbacks play.
“I remember sitting in these press conferences admiring my father as he sat in that chair, kind of talking in front of that Arkansas helmet,” Skip Holtz said Thursday. “We’re really excited not only to have the opportu-nity to be here represent-ing Conference USA, but to have the opportunity to play a great program like Arkansas.”
Lou Holtz coached some of Arkansas’ most successful teams, tak-ing the Razorbacks to the Orange Bowl, Fiesta Bowl and Sugar Bowl his fi rst three years on the job. In his fi rst sea-son at the helm, Arkan-sas routed Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl 31-6 in what is considered one of the program’s great-est wins.
“From seventh grade all the way through high school, I grew up in Fay-etteville,” Skip Holtz said. “I can remember going back to the Orange
Bowl when they had thebig win over Oklahoma31-6 – and playing Ala-bama in the Sugar Bowl.Some great childhoodmemories from grow-ing up in Fayettevillearound that program.”
Holtz’s team will haveits work cut out for itagainst these Razor-backs. Arkansas hadwon four straight gamesbefore an overtime lossto LSU to end the regu-lar season. QuarterbackRyan Mallett leads theSoutheastern Confer-ence in passing.
“Ryan has a great arm,he can certainly makeall the throws that youneed to make,” Arkan-sas coach Bobby Petrinosaid. “He has a greatlove for the game, andhe’s a very good studentof the game. He spendsa lot of time in the fi lmroom. He really wants tounderstand what we’recoaching.”
ECU can throw the ballas well. Patrick Pinkneypassed for 262 yards withno turnovers in a winover Houston last week-end for the ConferenceUSA championship. ThePirates won that game38-32.
They also receivedplenty of practice de-fending the pass. Hous-ton’s Case Keenum com-pleted 56 of 75 passes for527 yards and fi ve touch-downs, but he also threwthree interceptions. “Weheld them to 550 yardspassing, so I feel prettygood,” Holtz joked.
Holtz faces father’s old team when ECU
meets Arkansas
CARY (AP) – The site of this weekend’s NCAA College Cup is the same spot the ACC used for its conference tournament, and with three of the league’s teams back in town, it almost looks the same.
“We appreciate the ACC inviting us to their conference tournament this weekend,” joked Caleb Porter, the coach of top-seeded Akron, the only non-ACC team among the fi nal four. “No, we’re aware that even though we’ve been ranked No. 1 in the country all year long and we have the record that we have, peo-ple are probably putting us as an underdog.”
The Zips (23-0-0) are trying to become the fi rst team in 35 years to win the NCAA Division I men’s
soccer title with a perfect record – but they’re outsiders this week-end. They have traveled more than 500 miles to play fi fth-seeded North Carolina (16-2-3), which had just a 23-mile commute, in today’s semi-fi nals.
No. 2 seed Virginia (17-3-3) and No. 3 seed Wake Forest (17-3-3) square off in today’s fi rst game. The semi-fi nal winners will play in Sunday’s championship game.
The ACC has put three teams in the national semifi nals for the second year in a row. Wake Forest and North Carolina joined Mary-land, the eventual champion, in last season’s fi nal four in Frisco, Texas. The year before, the last time the College Cup was here,
the Demon Deacons took the title.In the fi rst semifi nal, Wake For-
est will be trying to fi nally break through against Virginia.
The Demon Deacons are winless against the Cavaliers in two meet-ings this season, losing 1-0 in the regular season and falling in pen-alty kicks after a scoreless game in the ACC semifi nals.
Wake Forest is just the eighth school to advance to the College Cup in four consecutive seasons. The team’s leading scorer, senior Zack Schilawski, gets to end his col-lege career in his hometown.
Akron, right behind Virginia in goals against average (0.30), also leads the nation in goals (2.5 per game).
Akron, 3 ACC teams make College Cup
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WRESTLING
SW GUILFORD 37, NE GUILFORD 33HIGH POINT – Southwest Guilford
edged Northeast Guilford 37-33 on Thursday night.
Winners for the Cowboys (3-4) were Patrick Coble (103, forfeit), Holden Hill (135, pin), Jak Keck (145, dec.), Tim Ingram (152, for-feit), Barry Hedgebeth (171, pin), Ryan Wilfoung (189, major dec.) and heavyweight Patrick Jones (pin).
Southwest returns to action today and Saturday at the Eden Morehead Invitational.
WHEATMORE 42, W. MONTGOMERY 36TRINITY – Wheatmore slipped past
West Montgomery for a 42-36 vic-tory on Thursday night.
Winners for the Warriors (5-4) were Jason Hamby (103, forfeit), Chris Brock (112, pin), Ryan Hardin (119, pin), Adam Welborn (125, pin), Chase Saunders (130, pin), Curtis Seay (135, DQ) and Jesse Doyle (189, pin).
Wheatmore competes in the Trin-ity Invitational on Saturday.
SW RANDOLPH 72, E. DAVIDSON 3THOMASVILLE – Southwestern
Randolph downed East Davidson
72-3 on Thursday night.The Golden Eagles’ Matthew
Niblock won by decision at 285 pounds.
East competes in the Piedmont Tournament this weekend.
BASKETBALL
FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY,WESTCHESTER
HIGH POINT – Deuce Bello scored 28 points to spark Westchester Coun-try Day to a 77-74 overtime boys vic-tory over Fayetteville Academy on Thursday night.
Fayetteville’s girls posted a 46-31 win.
Bello made 11-of-11 free throws, including 4-of-4 in the extra ses-sion, for the Wildcats (6-0). He also collected 10 rebounds, seven assists and four steals. Davis Tucker and Cole Morganstern added 16 points each for WCD, while Ike Nwamu had 13.
Amber Hayes led the Wildcat girls (2-5) with 19 points. Carson Thorn added fi ve rebounds and four points.
Westchester plays host to Metro-lina Christian today.
NORTH DAVIDSON, GLENNWELCOME – Harry Robinson
pumped in 17 points and Michael
Pegg scored 15 as Glenn netted a 65-62 victory over North Davidson on Thursday night. The Bobcats are 3-1 and host Carver today.
SWIMMING
AT ASHEBORO YWCAASHEBORO – Asheboro’s girls and
boys captured victories in a four-school meet that ended late Tues-day night at the Asheboro YWCA.
The Blue Comet girls won with 461 points, followed by Ledford at 336, Providence Grove at 237 and Eastern Randolph at 18. Asheboro’s boys won with 428, followed by Led-ford at 293, Providence Grove at 237 and Eastern Randolph at 214.
For Ledford’s girls, Sara Kather-ine Kirkpatrick captured the 100 free in 1:15.29 and the 100 breast in 1:29.60, while Patty Szypra claimed the 200 free in 2:30.72 and the 400 free in 5:17.75. Maria Gomez won the 100 fl y in 1:30.28, while Han-nah Hayworth took the 100 back in 1:28.88.
Two Ledford girls relays also posted wins. Hayworth, Kirkpat-rick, Krause and Szypra won the 200 IM in 2:28.18 and Hayworth, Gomez, Kirkpatrick and Szypra se-cured the 400 free in 5:03.50.
The Panthers’ Tim Kassakatis took the boys 100 free in 1:11.88.
Cowboys, Warriors notch victories
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – As gen-eral managers headed out the hotel doors and into the bone-chilling air, most had much work to do. Only the New York Yankees, Houston, Texas and Milwaukee accomplished a lot this week during the winter meet-ings.
The top three free agents – John Lackey, Matt Holliday and Jason Bay – remained unsigned. Toronto ace Roy Halladay was still being shopped.
With two weeks left until the holi-day break, agents and teams fi gure to try to wear each other down. Some premier players may not know their spring training destina-tion until January.
Essentially, teams are acting as if they were shoppers waiting for price drops. Why pay full price when markdowns might be coming
soon, especially for position play-ers?
“You can turn left, you can right, you can look up and down and you’ve got a DH sitting right there begging for a job,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said.
Some players seem to be waiting to fi nd out where the Yankees will bid for them. The big-market teams are holding back, and the small-market clubs are hunting for bar-gains.
“I’ve kind of been programmed since Day 1 here not to use those words: ’small market.’ But the facts of it are that’s what we are,” Kansas City manager Trey Hillman said. “We have to get a spur-plus devel-oped within our own system to be able to fund it ourselves.”
The Los Angeles Dodgers were a major story at the meetings – for
what they didn’t do. Seemingly paralyzed by owners tangled up in a divorce, the Dodgers don’t appear to be involved in any big-money moves, removing one of the tradi-tional market makers.
The World Series champion Yankees obtained All-Star center fi elder Curtis Granderson in the only major trade of the meetings, a three-team, seven-player swap that also included Detroit and Arizona. New York also kept pitcher Andy Pettitte with an $11.75 million, one-year deal.
Houston bolstered its bullpen by acquiring Matt Lindstrom in a trade with Florida, reached a pre-liminary agreement with reliever Brandon Lyon on a $15 million, three-year contract and agreed to a $4.5 million, one-year deal with third baseman Pedro Feliz.
Meetings over, teams & players wait each other out
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Dray-mond Green scored a career-high 19 points and matched his best effort with 12 rebounds to lead No. 12 Michigan State to an 88-57 victory over beat Oak-land, Mich. on Thursday night.
Green hit his fi rst nine shots from the fi eld and fi nished 9 of 11. He had 16 points
and seven rebounds as the Spartans (8-2) took a 44-21 halftime lead.
Kalin Lucas had 19 points and Delvon Roe added 11 for the Spartans, who blew the game open with a 25-3 run early in the fi rst half. Keith Benson had 21 points on 7-of-15 shooting and 11 rebounds for the Golden Grizzlies (4-5).
Green leads Michigan State over Oakland
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Talk of expanding the NCAA Tournament is almost always done in public, most notably by Syracuse coach Jim Boe-heim in 2006.
Now, the NCAA is look-ing into it behind closed doors – at least prelimi-narily.
Rekindling discussion of a popular topic out-side the organization, the NCAA has held early stage talks about expand-ing its men’s basketball tournament and possibly moving it from broadcast to cable.
NCAA discusses expanding tournament
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FOOTBALL, GOLF
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) – Cor-nerback Brent Grimes knows the At-lanta defense must play a nearly perfect game to have a chance against New Or-leans’ explosive offense.
“The odds are against us, obviously,” Grimes said. “They’re the No. 1 offense, but we’ve got a chance to make a state-ment.”
Unfortunately for Grimes and his teammates, the Falcons (6-6) lead the NFL with 49 plays allowed of at least 20 yards. Opponents are converting 46 per-cent of third downs, second-most in the league.
Facing quarterback Drew Brees and the Saints (12-0) on Sunday seems to of-fer a worst-case scenario for a defense that’s managed just two interceptions over a seven-week stretch – during which Atlanta has lost fi ve games.
It’s possible that Grimes, who had his only interception of the season six weeks ago at the Louisiana Superdome, could start at right cornerback if Chris Houston isn’t recovered from a strained hamstring.
The Falcons also don’t know the status of rookie cornerback Chris Owens, who started the last two games on the left
side but was limited in practice Wednes-day because of a tender shoulder.
Brees completed 25 of 33 passes for 308 yards, two touchdowns and one inter-ception as the Saints beat Atlanta 35-27 in their fi rst meeting. The nine-year vet-eran, now in his fourth season with New Orleans, leads the league with a 111.3 passer rating and 29 TDs.
“We turned it over four times the fi rst time we played them,” Brees said. “We can’t do that again. There’s no doubt. I know we need to be prepared and ready to handle their pressure packages. They’ve been able to get after some teams and they’ve got some pretty good pressures that obviously we’re going to need to be ready for and have a plan for.”
The Falcons, however, have allowed 15 touchdowns in 22 red-zone drives over the last fi ve weeks, not encourag-ing numbers for coach Mike Smith.
Equally troubling is Atlanta’s diffi cul-ty in not letting offenses get outside of its defensive containment.
John Abraham, a three-time Pro Bowl selection, has just 1.5 sacks since Week 1, and the Falcons have only 23 this sea-son to tie Carolina for third-fewest in the NFC.
Falcon defenders brace for stiff Brees
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The Atlanta Falcons face a daunting task on Sunday as they try to slow Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints, who sport the NFL’s top-ranked offense to go along with their 12-0 record.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – In-Kyung Kim shot a bo-gey-free 7-under 65 Thursday to build a two-shot lead over Mi-chelle Wie at the half-way point of the Dubai Ladies Masters.
The South Korean, who won the Longs Drugs Challenge this year, believes she could have done better.
“I feel very happy with my round, but I had some more chances for birdies,” said Kim, who leads at 135. “I could have gotten a little bit lower. The little putts were hard to read.”
Wie shot 68 in a round that included six bird-ies and two bogeys. Ta-nia Elosegui (66), who made a hole-in-one on No. 7, and Amy Yang are a shot behind Wie.
Wie started with three straight birdies, but missed chances on the fi nal three holes.
“I feel like I’m having a lot of fun on the golf course. But I also feel like I’m playing pretty consistent,” Wie said. “I want to make a lot more birdies and keep play-ing better every day.”
By the time Wie teed off, Kim had already posted her 65.
Overnight leader Ma-ria Hjorth (73) made a triple-bogey 8 on the fi nal hole and dropped into a tie for fi fth at 139.
British Open cham-pion Catriona Matthew (68) kept up her effort to overtake Sophie Gustafson at the top of the money list, joining Hjorth at 5-under. Gus-tafson (69) is at 3-under.
Wie trails by two
at Dubai
MALELANE, South Africa (AP) – Ulrich van den Berg of South Af-rica shot an 8-under 64 Thursday to lead by one stroke after the open-ing round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship.
Pelle Edberg of Swe-den was a shot back in the opening event on the European Tour’s 2010 Race to Dubai. Titch Moore of South Africa and Edoardo Molinari of Italy each shot a 66 on the Leopard Creek Country Club course.
Nine players shot 67, including Gregory Bourdy of France and Irish pair Shane Lowry and Damien McGrane.
Ernie Els shot a 68, while Thomas Aiken of South Africa had a hole-in-one on the 12th.
Van den Berg leads Dunhill Championship
COOLUM, Australia (AP) – South Korean Han Min-kyu upstaged the big-name locals at the Australian PGA on Thursday, shooting a 9-under-par 62 to take a four-stroke lead after the fi rst round.
Ryan Haller was sec-ond after a 66, followed by fi ve other Austra-lians at 67: Stuart Ap-pleby, Matthew Griffi n, Scott Strange, Andrew Dodt and Henry Ep-stein. Adam Scott, last week’s Australian Open winner, was in a group at 68.
Defending champion Geoff Ogilvy and Robert Allenby each shot 70. John Daly had a 71.
Han birdied his fi rst four holes.
Han sets pace with 62
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Tennessee footballcoach Lane Kiffi n says he was not “aware” of anyrecruiting violations committed by himself, his as-sistants or support staff regarding the university’sstudent ambassador program.
He said during a news conference Thursday heand his staff take the rules of the NCAA and SEC“extremely serious.” He says he doesn’t know ofany wrongdoing by any of his staff or “of the kidsthat are being questioned in this.”
Tennessee confi rmed Wednesday the NCAA islooking into the activities of members of the uni-versity’s Orange Pride group.
Several of the group’s “ambassadors” travelednearly 200 miles to a high school football gamewhere three players are being actively recruited bythe Vols.
Tennessee’s Kiffi n: Not aware of any recruiting violations
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Connecticut coach Randy Edsall isn’t say-ing whether he’s talked to Notre Dame about re-placing Charlie Weis.
Edsall and South Caro-lina’s Steve Spurrier met with reporters Thursday at a news conference for the Papajohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, Ala.
Asked whether he’d in-terviewed for the coach-ing job at Notre Dame as some media reports indicate, Edsall said
he won’t comment onrumors or speculationabout any other job.
Spurrier wasn’t as hes-itant, though. He calledEdsall a “quality guy”who would do a goodjob if hired by the Irish.South Carolina and Con-necticut play in the Pa-pajohns.com Bowl at Le-gion Field on Jan. 2.
Published reports lateThursday indicated thatthe Irish planned to hireCincinnati’s Brian Kellyfor the job.
UConn’s Edsall not talking about Notre Dame job
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – South Carolina coachSteve Spurrier says he’s learned his lesson andwon’t reveal who he voted for to win the HeismanTrophy.
Speaking with reporters in Birmingham onThursday, Spurrier said his Heisman ballot was se-cret, and he’s keeping it that way.
Spurrier said he’s learned to keep his mouth shutafter the fl ap earlier this year when he revealed hehadn’t voted for Florida quarterback Tim Tebow tobe on the preseason All-Southeastern Conferencefi rst team squad. He admitted a staffer had fi lled outthe ballot. Spurrier won the Heisman as Florida’squarterback in 1966. He was in Birmingham withConnecticut coach Randy Edsall to promote the Pa-pajohns.com Bowl at Legion Field on Jan. 2.
Spurrier stays mum on Heisman vote
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) – Tom Brady has missed practice for the second straight day.
The New England Pa-triots listed Brady with right fi nger, right shoul-der and rib problems al-though none seemed se-rious. Before practice on Thursday, Brady walked through the locker room, holding a plate of food
and smiling. The quar-terback’s wife, super-model Gisele Bundchen,gave birth Tuesday totheir son. Brady saidWednesday he didn’t getmuch sleep.
The fi nger didn’t stophim from throwing a 58-yard touchdown pass toRandy Moss on the fi rstseries of Sunday’s 22-21loss at Miami.
Brady misses second straight practice
HOUSTON (AP) – When Gary Kubiak returned to his hometown in 2006 for his fi rst head coaching job, the Houston Texans believed he was the one to turn the franchise around.
Now that the Texans are virtually out of playoff contention in Kubiak’s fourth season, he is left to answer ques-tions about how much longer he’ll be in charge of this underachieving team.
Houston (5-7) lost its fourth straight
game last weekend to turn up the heat on the former Denver offensive coordi-nator who took over after a franchise-worst 2-14 fi nish in 2005 got Dom Capers fi red. He isn’t surprised that he’s had to talk about his job security as Houston’s losses mount. He insists coaching in the place where he grew up doesn’t make it any harder.
“It would be tough no matter where I was,” he said. “It’s just part of it.”
Texans need to fi nish strong for Kubiak
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) – Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan sat out another practice because of a toe injury, making it increasingly unlikely he’ll be able to play against the unbeaten New Orleans Saints.
While Ryan went through a walkthrough, he wasn’t even at the in-door practice facility for the 2 1⁄2-hour workout. Still, coach Mike Smith said the team isn’t ready to say for sure that Ryan won’t play Sunday.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told a skeptical watchdog panel Thursday that the Obama administration’s decision to keep the government’s unpopular US bank bail-out program going until October was a necessary “limited, qualifi ed exten-sion.”
“It would be irrespon-sible to do otherwise,” Geithner said.
The Troubled Asset Re-lief Program (TARP) was due to go out of business at the end of this month. But
Geithner said Wednesday it would run through Oc-tober, as the original leg-islation allowed.
Elizabeth Warren, who heads the independent oversight panel that Con-gress set up to monitor the bailout program, said the aid was “an important part of the government’s rescue strategy” and saved the fi nancial sys-tem from “imminent col-lapse.”
But the Harvard Uni-versity law professor told Geithner that it “has been far from an unmitigated
success.” She said con-sumers and small busi-nesses still are having trouble obtaining loans even if big banks are get-ting back on their feet be-cause of the program.
Panel member Paul S. Atkins, once on the Secu-rities and Exchange Com-mission, said extending the program “borders on irresponsibility” and is a “a free option at taxpayer expense.”
When the program was enacted in October 2008, fi nancial markets were in free fall. The rescue pack-
age had an original price tag of $700 billion.
But the government said this week that banks are paying back the emer-gency loans faster than expected. That, plus inter-est and other returns, will mean the program will cost $200 billion less than expected.
President Barack Obama also said this week that this lower-than-expected spending would help free up federal dol-lars for a new stimulus package designed to pro-mote job creation.
Geithner defends bailout extension
WASHINGTON (AP) – The economic recovery is likely to draw strength from exports such as farm products, autos, aircraft and industrial machinery – all of which helped lower the nation’s trade defi cit in October.
Exports of U.S. goods rose for a sixth straight month. Further gains in exports should bolster manufactur-ers, who struggled during the recession. Heavy equip-
ment maker Caterpillar Inc., for instance, has pre-dicted that its sales will rise next year, refl ecting in part greater demand from China and other Asian markets.
Economists noted that much of the improvement in the trade gap refl ected a fall in oil imports. But David Resler, chief econo-mist at Nomura Securities, said U.S. exporters are ben-efi ting from growing econo-mies overseas and a weaker
dollar. A weak dollar makes their goods cheaper in other countries.
Resler boosted his fore-cast for growth in the cur-rent quarter to 3.2 percent, from 2.9 percent. The U.S. economy grew at a 2.8 per-cent pace in the July-Sep-tember period after a re-cord four straight quarterly declines.
The trade defi cit fell to $32.9 billion in October, 7.6 percent below a revised
September defi cit of $35.7 billion, the Commerce De-partment said Thursday. The improvement refl ected a 2.5 percent jump in ex-ports. Imports rose a small-er 0.4 percent, a gain that was held back by a big drop in oil imports.
Through the fi rst 10 months of this year, the def-icit is running at an annual rate of $364.8 billion. That’s about half the gap for all of 2008.
Rising exports boost U.S. recovery
BRIEFS---Americans’ net worth continues to rise
WASHINGTON – Americans got wealthier for a second straight quarter in the fall, as the economic recovery again boosted home values and invest-ments.
The Federal Reserve says net worth – the value of assets such as homes, bank accounts and invest-ments, minus debts like mortgages and credit cards – rose 5 percent from the second quarter to $53.4 trillion.
Goldman Sachs execs won’t get cash bonus
NEW YORK – Goldman Sachs says its top execu-tives will not be receiving cash bonuses in 2009 as the Wall Street giant bows to sharp criticism over its pay practices.
The executives will instead receive stock that can-not be sold for at least fi ve years.
AOL shares dip after spinoff NEW YORK – Shares of AOL Inc. declined
Thursday as the Internet company made its offi cial split from its failed marriage to media giant Time Warner Inc..
AOL shares, issued at $23.67, fell 36 cents, or 1.5 percent, to $23.21, in morning trading, while shares of Time Warner climbed $1.35, or 4.6 percent, to $30.57.
With its dial-up Internet business in a long de-cline, AOL is looking to boost the amount of adver-tising money it makes with its Web sites. It has yet to convince investors that its turnaround strategy will pay off.
New York-based AOL Inc. has a long climb before ad revenue can make up for the loss of subscribers, which have dwindled to 5.4 million from a peak of 26.7 million in 2002.
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The safe-haven dollar was nearly flat. It was caught in cross-currents of anxiety about European governments’ finances anda pickup in a taste for risky trading as U.S. exports grew.
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NEW YORK (AP) – A jump in exports lifted stocks Thursday, offset-ting concerns about an in-crease in unemployment claims.
The market came away with moderate gains for the day after the Com-merce Department said rising exports helped narrow the nation’s trade gap to $32.9 billion in October. Economists had been expecting an increase.
A weaker dollar is rais-ing demand for U.S. goods by making them less ex-pensive for overseas buy-ers. That trend helped to lift U.S. exports by 2.5 percent, the sixth straight monthly increase.
The trade fi gures helped offset mixed jobs numbers. The Labor De-partment said the num-ber of laid-off workers seeking jobless benefi ts rose more than expected
last week to 474,000 after falling for fi ve straight weeks. That was higher than analysts were ex-pecting but a less-vola-tile four-week average fell to the lowest level since September 2008.
The gains in stocks came as the dollar stabilized. The Dow Jones industrial aver-age rose 68.78, or 0.7 per-cent, to 10,405.83, pushing it back into the winning column for the month. The Dow is up 120 points in two days after falling 104 on Tuesday on worries about rising debt loads in a num-ber of countries.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 6.40, or 0.6 percent, to 1,102.35, while the Nasdaq composite in-dex rose 7.13, or 0.3 per-cent, to 2,190.86.
The S&P 500 index is up 22 percent for the year after a nine-month rally but hasn’t gained much ground in the past month.
Stocks rise as trade defi cit narrows
in October
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MILWAUKEE (AP) – Coca-Cola Co. products will soon be available again in Costco stores now that a pricing dis-pute with the wholesale club operator has been settled.
Spokesman Scott Wil-liamson said Thursday that new Coke products should be sent to Costco stores soon, though he declined to be more spe-cifi c.
Coke will be back on shelves around Monday, Costco CFO Richard Galanti told investors during the company’s earnings conference call Thursday. He did not want to comment further on the matter.
Last month, Costco decided not to order any more products made by the Atlanta-based com-pany until the squabble was resolved. The re-tailer made the dispute unusually public, post-ing messages in stores nationwide and online telling shoppers its rea-sons. But now it has been resolved, Galanti said.
Costco to resume carrying
Coke
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DETROIT (AP) – Gener-al Motors has replaced its Chevrolet brand manager after just fi ve months and its Buick brand chief is leaving after only a few days on the job, as the company continues to shake up its top manage-ment ranks.
GM said Wednesday that James Campbell will now lead Chevro-let, the company’s larg-est and most important
brand. Campbell replac-es Brent Dewar, who will retire April 1 to spend more time with family and pursue personal in-terests.
In addition, GM said Michael Richards, who was named Buick and GMC general manager on Dec. 1, is leaving to pursue other career op-portunities. That’s the same day that the GM board forced the resig-
nation of former CEO Fritz Henderson.
The announcement comes after GM abrupt-ly canceled a Web chat scheduled for Wednesday with Richards.
Dewar, Chevrolet’s global vice president, was named to the post in July by Henderson, who him-self was replaced on an interim basis by CEO and Chairman Ed Whitacre Jr.
GM shakeup continues
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca-lif. (AP) – Internet search leader Google Inc. is team-ing up with The New York Times and The Washington Post in its latest attempt to help out the ailing newspa-per industry.
The new project, called “Living Stories,” debuted Tuesday in the experimental “labs” sec-
tion on Google’s Web site.
The service is supposed to make it easier for readers to follow evolving news sto-ries. It will package stories from both the Times and the Post so the coverage can be more easily updated to include new developments.
Some of the initial top-ics featured on the service
Tuesday included health care reform, executive pay and the Washington Red-skins.
Google isn’t paying the newspapers to feature the content, and there aren’t any immediate plans to sell advertising alongside the material, said Josh Cohen, a Google product manager overseeing the project.
Google bundles newspaper coverage
Airline group sees dip in holiday travel WASHINGTON – Air travel over the holidays will
fall 2.5 percent from last year, a trade group for the nation’s major carriers predicted Thursday.
The Air Transport Association of America said it expects 41 million passengers to fl y on U.S. airlines over a 21-day period from Dec. 17 through Jan. 6.
Natural gas surges on supply dropNEW YORK – Natural gas prices surged nearly
8 percent Thursday after the government reported that stockpiles dropped for the fi rst time in nine months.
Winter storms spread across the Midwest as well, meaning some homeowners are turning up the heat for the fi rst time in what has been a very mild win-ter to date.
Court puts Mattel’s Bratz takeover on holdPASADENA, Calif. – The pouty-lipped Bratz dolls
can strut their stuff a little longer.A federal appeals court panel in Pasadena on
Wednesday suspended an order that MGA Entertain-ment stop selling Bratz products this year, recall remaining toys and give ownership of the brand to rival Mattel Inc
Mattel won $100 million last year in a lawsuit that claimed copyright infringement and breach of con-tract because the dolls’ designer was under contract to Mattel when he developed the Bratz concept.
CIT shares jump on heels of bankruptcyNEW YORK – CIT Group Inc. shares jumped
Thursday in the lender’s fi rst day of trading after emerging from bankruptcy protection.
Shares rose $2.39, or 9.4 percent, to $27.89 in morn-ing trading. The shares opened at $25.50.
One of the nation’s largest lenders to small and mid-sized businesses, CIT swiftly navigated throughbankruptcy in just six weeks.
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A t Faith Baptist Church in Arch-dale, it’s beginning to look a lot like Mayberry.
And it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Andy, Barney, Opie, Aunt Bee and all of the Mayberry gang are gear-ing up for the church’s 14th annual “Christmas in Mayberry” play, in which church members use down-home humor, Mayberry-style, to present the message of the Gospel.
“We make no bones about it,” explains church member Jeff Foster, who plays Ernest T. Bass. “We’re trying to use this as an opportunity to share Christ with the community, and the way we do that this year is the most powerful presentation that we’ve ever done. I think it’ll totally blow people away when they come.”
The play will be presented Sunday through Wednesday in the church sanctuary.
Admission is free, but playgoers are asked to bring a can of food to donate to Community Outreach of Archdale-Trinity (COAT).
This year’s play, titled “Little Boy Blue,” focuses on the father-son rela-tionship between Andy and Opie.
“Their relationship temporarily breaks down, and that is traumatic to Andy, and it leads to complica-tions,” says the Rev. Steve Welborn, the church’s pastor, who has written
all 14 of the “Christmas in Mayber-ry” productions. “And then Briscoe Darling and the Darling boys and Ernest T. Bass show up at exactly the wrong time.”
The play, which has been very well-received by audiences, has become a family affair in the Foster household. In addition to dad Jeff playing Ernest T. Bass, 10-year-old Garrett plays Opie – his hair has to be spray-painted orange to make him look more like the character – and 7-year-old Evan plays
Leon, a little boy who frequently offers folks around Mayberry a bite of his peanut-butter sandwich.
“This year’s production may come as close as you’ll get to a real episode of ‘The Andy Griffi th Show,’ ” Foster says.
“There’s usually some serious mo-ments in the show that kinda make you think, and this play does that. But that’s not to say it’s not funny, because it is. In the 12 years I’ve been doing this, I would put this one in my top two or three all time in terms of how good I think it is. It really has some crazy scenes in it, but I also think it’s gonna resonate with a lot of people.”
Welborn says the comedy in the play will appeal to audiences, but the real mission is presenting the Gospel.
“I really think people love the old ‘Andy Griffi th Show’ because it was a simpler time, and we all really long for that in a complicated world,” he says.
“And then if we can present the Gospel and how to know Christ and forgiveness of sins, and help people have some peace and sense of pur-pose, then that just goes right along with that theme.”
Archdale church to put on play that brings back Andy, Barney, Opie, Aunt Bee for Christmas season
WANT TO GO?–The 14th annual “Christmas in May-berry” play at Faith Baptist Church will be presented Sunday through Wednesday in the church sanctuary.All performances
will be at 7 p.m., with doors opening at 6 p.m.
This year’s play is titled “Little Boy Blue.”
Admission is free, but playgoers are asked to bring a can of food to donate to Community Out-reach of Archdale-Trinity (COAT).
A nursery will be available. The church is located at 5744 Mendenhall Road, Archdale.
For more informa-tion, call 431-5575 or visit www.faith-trinity.com.
‘I really think people love the old “Andy Griffi th Show” because it was a simpler time, and we all really long for that in a complicated world.’Rev. Steve WelbornFaith Baptist Church
Back to Mayberry
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Above, Jeff Foster, who plays Ernest T. Bass, hugs his two sons, Garrett (left, who plays Opie) and Evan (right, who plays Leon). Faith Baptist Church in Archdale is putting on the play “Little Boy Blue.” At the right is a scene from last year’s Christ-mas in Mayberry produc-tion. Donna Hughes (left), played Clara Edwards while Leslie Ward (right), played Aunt Bee.
Pam Vetter’s 15-year-old son balked when she told him she was opting for a healthier holiday season this year: fi sh rather than turkey, fewer carbs and sweets.
He threatened to purchase a turkey, stuffi ng, potatoes and pies and put together his own traditional meal.
“It’s a moral challenge,” said Vetter, 44, a nonreligious celebrant in West Hills, Calif., who conducts funerals. She also has a 14-year-old son. “Do you make part of your family angry for the holiday season by cutting out the carbs and sweets?”
Many parents are trying to fi g-ure out how to have a healthier holiday without depriving their kids of Christmas cookies, potato latkes and other treats. About a third of Ameri-can kids are overweight or obese, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
Jill Houk, 41, a chef in Chi-cago, said she is worried her 10-year-old will regain some of the 10 pounds he recently lost. She said her son loves food and tends to over-eat unless she’s watching him.
He has four sets of grand-parents (she and her ex-husband are both remar-ried) sending him chocolate Santas, cousins with no weight issues whom he’ll be hanging out with and a wedding to attend the day after Christmas with an elabo-rate buffet.
“Of course, we’re going to be dining out all the time,” she said.
Studies show Americans gain about a pound between Thanksgiving and New Year’s; people who are overweight or obese are at risk of gaining fi ve pounds, said Dr. Susan Z. Yanovs-ki, an obesity expert at the Na-tional Institutes of Health.
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Yesterday’s Puzzle SolvedFriday, Dec. 11, 2009
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Rider Strong, 30; Jermaine Jackson, 55; Teri Garr, 60; John Kerry, 66
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: A lot will be riding on how hard you work and what you are willing to offer. Now is the time to face challenges with confi dence and a give-it-your-all attitude. Forward motion will bring greater success and a better fi nancial future. Test the waters and show your talents. Your num-bers are 5, 11, 19, 21, 34, 36, 45
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Forget about try-ing to get things done and take the day to relax, travel about or pick up gifts or supplies for the so-cial events you will be attending later this month. A physical change will boost your confi dence. Love is in the stars. ★★★
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t jump to conclusions or you may get blamed for spreading rumors. Concentrate on fi nding solutions for some-one you see struggling with too many burdens and responsibilities. A new friendship will turn out to be priceless. ★★★
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Getting together to celebrate the festive season with some of your peers will help you get an understanding of how you can make your relationships work better. A creative look at some of the plans being implemented at work will give you greater control. ★★★★★
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Look for any out that enables you to take off and enjoy the day. Don’t let demands lead to overspending. You will come up with alternative ways to please the ones you love without going over budget if you shop wisely. ★★
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will face problems at work if you let someone with a negative attitude put a nix on a project you want to pursue. Home improvement projects or a space that can be used for entertainment will enhance your life and please the people you live with. ★★★★
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Getting together with friends or collaborating with someone with similar interests will help you reach a destination you’ve been working toward. Take a practical ap-proach to the expenses that can be incurred at this time of the year. ★★★
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t push or pres-sure someone you care about or you will face re-sistance. Listen to the complaints being made and you will fi nd a way to take care of the problems that exist. You can do things on a shoestring if you shop for bargains. ★★★
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Get the go-ahead from neighbors before you make outside changes. A diplomatic discussion with someone with experi-ence will help you make whatever adjustments are necessary. Reducing your overhead will help elimi-nate stress. ★★★
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You might want to do a little research regarding the location you are currently living in and a destination that interests you both professionally and personally. Don’t let someone’s change of plans disrupt yours. ★★★★
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Make the fi rst move to reunite with someone you have been miss-ing. Taking the opportunity to make a change will surprise someone who cares for you. A private deal will be profi table if you move quickly. ★★
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Something good is heading your way. Extra cash or a token of ap-preciation will help you resolve a problem regard-ing your current fi nancial status. A budget will be necessary if you want to make the most of what you receive. ★★★★★
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Work with others will be a learning experience you won’t want to miss. Your talents will be used wisely and will en-able you to show what you have to offer. Don’t let a romantic encounter cause you to lose sight of your professional goals. ★★★
ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid confl icts; work behind the scenes or read a good book. Two stars: You can accomplish but don’t rely on others for help. Three stars: If you focus, you will reach your goals. Four stars: You can pretty much do as you please, a good time to start new projects. Five stars: Nothing can stop you now. Go for the gold.
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If you think little things don’t matter, try sleeping in a room with a mos-quito. You can also note what happened to today’s declarer.
Against fi ve clubs, West led the ace of diamonds and shifted to a spade. South took his ace, ruffed a diamond, threw a heart (questionably) on the king of spades and led a third spade. East ruffed in with the six of trumps, and South overruffed with the nine.
South next ruffed a dia-mond with the king of trumps and led dummy’s last spade. This time East ruffed with the seven, and South overruffed with the ten. (To pitch the king of hearts would have been better.) South ruffed his last diamond in dummy and led a heart.
BITTENEast took his ace and
led another diamond, and South was bitten by West’s tiny fi ve of trumps. West had the 5-2, and South had Q-J-4-3. Whatever South did, West would score the setting trick.
A trump opening lead would always beat the con-tract, but the defense did just as well with an upper-cut/trump promotion.
DAILY QUESTIONYou hold: S J 3 H A Q
5 D K Q 9 8 6 4 C 7 6. You open one diamond, your partner bids one spade, you rebid two diamonds and he tries two hearts. What do you say?
ANSWER: Your posi-tion is awkward. Part-ner’s new-suit bid is forcing, but you mustn’t raise his second suit with only three-card support. Your two dia-monds already promised a six-card suit, and you can’t bid notrump with worthless clubs. Take a “false preference” to two spades.
East dealerBoth sides vulnerable
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – A book has been mailed back to an Ohio library after six decades, accom-panied by an anonymous letter of remorse.
The biography “Napo-leon” by Emil Ludwig re-cently arrived at Toledo’s main library, with a brief note that read: “I removed
this book from your stacks in 1949 and did not check it out. I apologize. It’s an excellent book and in good condition.”
The person who signed it “An ex-Toledoan” also wrote, “Carrying guilt for 60 years is a terrible thing.”
Library spokeswoman
Rhonda Sewell says the package, with its Beverly Hills, Calif., postmark, came as a shock. She says the holiday season may have moved the sender to right a longtime wrong.
Circulation clerk Harry Johnston speculates the book was taken by a high school student in a hurry.
Book returned to Ohio library after 60 years
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W hile walking with a friend the day after Thanksgiving, we shared our respective holiday
experiences and noted that we were both now the senior dads – the main paternal fi gure in our respective fami-lies. We laughed together, but it was a moment of melancholy and refl ection, both of which were feelings I had this Thanksgiving.
My father died four years ago and my mother died just a year ago, so this was our fi rst Thanksgiving in which neither of my parents was with us. Yes, the aging of my parents effectively made me the “man in charge” for many of their later years, but I still viewed them as the senior generation and offered them the respect and deference that they continued to deserve during those diffi cult years. But now, other than an older third cousin that I adore, it’s now me representing that older fi gure in our small family.
What does that mean? How do I view my role differently now? What are my obligations in this role? What defer-ence, if any, should I expect now that I’m the senior male adult in our family? These are the questions that I was thinking about at our wonderful turkey meal this year.
My wife is an extraordinary cook so we had a terrifi c feast, but a quiet one with just the four of us because of last- minute canceled travel plans. That boosted my awareness of the changes that have taken place in the hierarchy of my family.
As we’re all adjusting to our newly blended family, it’s natural that my
wife and I are struggling to fi gure out our respec-tive functions in the family.
We both believe there is inherent value and I might even add sanctity in the mother and father roles. We also believe they are different and we like to celebrate those differences. Conse-quently, she does look to me to be the man while I absolutely look to her to be the woman of the family.
The difference, however, is her par-ents are still very much alive, healthy, and an active, though a geographically distant presence in her life.
For me, the realization that I’m now “the old guy” is sort of daunting. I feel it is my responsibility to make sure that certain rituals are observed and that my sons are taught to treat their elders respectfully. That now means me. I thought no yuppie ever became an elder? Didn’t our generation say to “never trust anyone over 30?” Is Mick Jagger really over 60? Am I now over a decade older than JFK when he died, two decades older than when George Gershwin died, and three decades older than when James Dean crashed his Porsche? Tell me I’m wrong, please?
It’s a sobering reality as, of course, we all age but my generation was convinced we’d do it better than our predecessors.
No, we’re just getting more plastic
surgery and realizing the same changes that happen to everyone who gets older. We are more forgetful, absent-minded, our bodies aren’t as responsive as they once were, and like in Bruce Springsteen’s song, “Glory Days,” we tend to tell stories from our past and relive those memories repeatedly. I’m no exception as my family and wife are tired of many of those stories.
Still, becoming the patriarch of my
family carries weight with me. It forc-es me to think more deeply about my choices and how they affect my family. Dr. Bruce Powell, a brilliant educator, said that our children see, watch, and remember almost everything we do.
So, we model for them and our good and bad behavior is completely ab-sorbed by them. I remind myself of this every time I drink more than two glasses of wine in their presence, when I swear, and especially if my wife and I quarrel in front of them.
I never said I was perfect, though I strive for an ideal that now seems even
more important, so I hope to be the best model I can be.
At this year’s Thanksgiving dinner, I didn’t say much and I now realize I missed an opportunity. We have a wonderful ritual that we do every Fri-day, when we celebrate Shabbat – the Jewish Sabbath – that I believe is a great fully established tradition in our family.
We go around the table and each person present, whether it’s just our family and/or guests, takes turns tell-ing the best and worst things that hap-pened to them in the previous week. The only rule is that only one worst is allowed.
The result is we each get to refl ect on our lives with extra emphasis on the things that are good, the things to be grateful for, and it allows us to learn what each person feels is most impor-tant to him or her.
My boys have no memory of not performing this ritual. Now that I am the senior dad in the family, I will look to reinforce this tradition, establish others, try and be the best patriarchal fi gure I can be, and also work to better model a loving marriage for my sons with my lovely bride of just one year (we married December 27, 2008).
READERS MAY VISIT www.brucesallan.com. Bruce Sallan was an award-winning television ex-ecutive and producer for 25 years. The goal of his column is to focus on parenting and other issues from the male perspective. His column is availablein more than 75 newspapers and Web sites around the world. Bruce lives in Agoura, Calif., with his wife and two boys, who are 16 and 12.
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When did I become the senior dad?LIFESTYLE
CHICAGO (AP) – Mc-Donald’s Corp. will begin selling a variety of break-fast items for $1 early next month, a spokeswoman for the world’s largest hamburger chain said Thursday.
The move to add to its already popular dollar menu comes as McDon-ald’s tries to fi ght a decline in U.S. sales, which have slipped following months of success when its cheap eats were a big draw for recession-strapped din-ers.
On tap to be added to the menu, which already includes eight items for lunch and dinner time, are the company’s Sau-sage McMuffi n, a sausage burrito, a sausage biscuit, a small coffee and a hash brown.
Some of the items are already sold for a dollar or less at some locations, although prices vary.
Spokeswoman Danya Proud said some restau-rants selling the items for less than $1 will likely make substitutions. That allows a restaurant al-ready selling a small cof-fee for 89 cents to substi-tute a larger beverage for its Dollar Menu, she said.
Most fast-food restau-rants, which spent re-cent years expand their early morning business, have seen a decline in breakfast diners as un-employment climbs and fewer workers stop in for coffee and a breakfast sandwich on their way to the offi ce.
According to market re-search fi rm NPD Group, breakfast traffi c fell 2 per-cent this summer at the nation’s fast food restau-rants.
But at McDonald’s breakfast business is con-tinuing to increase, al-though growth has slowed this year, Proud said.
“We have continued to grow, just not at the growth we’ve experienced in the past,” she said.
The company has not publicly provided specifi c fi gures on its breakfast sales.
R.J. Hottovy, a restau-rant analyst at Morn-ingstar, said Thursday’s move should McDonald’s strengthen its breakfast business, in which it is still dominant among fast-food chains.
“Most fi rms realize breakfast represents a way to add incremental revenue,” he said. “I don’t think that’s changed, but you have to make that a little more affordable in the current environ-
ment.” A dollar breakfast menu also puts pressure on McDonald’s competi-tors, many of whom are also rushing to slash menu prices to keep cus-tomers – and their wallets – happy.
Dunkin Donuts is try-
ing out a 99-cent breakfast menu in Chicago.
And Burger King’s na-tionwide breakfast val-ue menu that includes hash browns, a ham om-elet sandwich and three french toast sticks for $1 each.
McDonald’s to roll out breakfast dollar menu
I never said I was perfect, though I strive for an ideal that now seems even more important, so I hope to be the best model I can be.
