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BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com Sumter County Administrator Gary Mixon gave an update on Federal Emergency Management

Agency activity and storm recovery in the county during Sumter County Council’s meeting Tuesday.

Mixon said the city and county signed a memorandum of understanding with South Carolina De-

partment of Transportation for debris pickup.

Debris trucks are staged at Sumter Airport and are being inspected

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Layna Harrell, front left, 13, Pedro Washington, 12, and Hayden Vasquez,12, seventh graders at Alice Drive Middle School, try out the new Chromebooks on Tuesday. Palmer Robbins, back left, 12, and G’nizya Woods, 12, use their computers, too.

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BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com A majority of Sumter School District’s 3,700 middle school students will be receiving a laptop by the end of the fall semester.

The first Chromebooks will be distributed to students on Oct. 26 with Alice Drive Middle School being the first school in the district to receive the devices. A Chromebook is a laptop running Google Chrome OS as its operating system.

David Laws Jr., Sumter School District’s director of secondary instructional technology, gave an update on the distribution of the laptops at the school board meeting on Monday. He said about 5,000 devices total have been through inventory and are ready for student assignment.

“We’ll start with Alice Drive Middle School because they were a bit ahead on the curve in

Central Carolina awarded $3M federal STEM grant

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com Central Carolina Technical College was recently awarded federal funding from U.S. Department of Education’s Predominantly Black Institutions program to support the college’s new Connect 3 project.

According to a news release from the college, it will receive as much as $3 million during the next five years to implement the project, which is one of 23 projects nationally to be awarded a PBI grant. The Connect 3 project targets students pursuing careers in the science, technology, engineering and math fields as well as improving educational outcomes for black males.

The college’s STEM programs include: associate in arts, associate in science, associate in general technology, associate in applied science/ engineering graphics and certificates in mechatronics technology and machining and computer numerical control technology.

The Connect 3 project focuses on connecting high school students to higher education through programs at the Sumter Career and Technology Center and local high schools; connecting current Central Carolina students to expanded academic and student support services; and connecting Central Carolina graduates to

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some of their technology training, and they are the largest middle school in the district right now,” he said. “This will give us an opportunity to work out any glitches we may have before we get to any other schools.”

Each student will also get a case to prevent their laptops from being damaged, he said. Most of the middle school students will be able to take the laptops home, Laws said.

Seven hundred high school students, at Crestwood and Lakewood, and 1,000 elementary school students at 15 different elementary schools will receive the Chromebooks as well this year, although they won’t be able to take the laptops home with them yet, he said.

In the 2016-2017 school year, the laptops will be deployed to high school students, starting with the ninth grade, he said.

Laws said more than 80 instructional leaders in the district have gone through Google Apps pro-

Peter Zhang,12, and Audrey Shuping,12, seventh graders, test out the new Chromebooks at Alice Drive Middle School. fessional development and other training on the Chromebooks. Google Apps for Education is a group of productivity applications that Google offers to schools for free.

Laws said the next step is for all middle school teachers to receive training on the Chromebooks and Google Apps.

“Instructional coaches are the professional de-

velopment facilitators for the Chromebooks at each school, and we made sure all of the instructional coaches are trained so they are able to provide ongoing support with the intervention specialists inside the schools,” he said.

Six technology employees were hired last

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Camp Bob Cooper to house flood victims until Oct. 21

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James Carter, a Summerton flood victim, sweeps a cabin at Camp Bob Cooper. The camp is temporarily hosting 82 flood victims from the area.

Residents of Meadowfield Apartments in Summerton will have to find a new place to live after recent floods caused $1.5 million in damage to the property, said Barbara Jaco, vice president of Boyd Management Inc., which oversees the property.

Jaco said the management company is waiting to hear back from its insurance company on whether the flooding would be covered under their policy.

“We’re expecting a denial,” Jaco said. “The damage is severe. Even if we had the funds to restore the property, residents would have to find an alternative place to live in the meantime.

There (was) 4 feet of water in some of the areas around the apartments.”

Jaco said the apartment complex falls under U.S. Department of Agriculture’s subsidized housing, who is the mortgagee of the property.

“We are trying to

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Sumter woman charged with child neglect Sumter County Sheriff’s Office arrested Lashanda Lowery, 38, Tuesday, pursuant to a warrant issued the same day, for allegedly placing her 14-year-old daughter at unreasonable risk on Monday.

An incident summary provided by the sherLOWERY iff’s office alleges Lowery, of 1795 N. Main St., became intoxicated and verbally abusive and struck the child multiple times on the head with a wooden handle while in the 1700 block of North Main Street.

Lowery has been transported to Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center and is charged with unlawful neglect of a child or helpless person.

All of Interstate 95 now open both directions South Carolina Department of Transportation has reopened all of I-95 in South Carolina in both directions, according to a department news release.

Exit 119 to Exit 135 in Clarendon County had been closed to traffic since last week because offlooding. Work began on Saturday morning to repair 18 bridges in that 13-mile closed section, the release states. The southbound section opened on Monday, and the northbound section opened Tuesday morning.

Rescheduled Art in the Park set for Saturday Saturday’s Art in the Park, originally scheduled for Oct. 10, will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Memorial Park, according to coordinator Laura Cardello. About 30 artists working in a variety of media will have their handmade works on sale in the park, which is bordered by Calhoun Street and Salem, Hampton and Park avenues.

There is no charge for admission, and refreshments will be available for purchase.

Home sales dislodged by floods Interest in rental market sees increase

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Interest in rental property has increased since two feet of rain pounded the Midlands last week, said Sumter Real Estate Board Executive Director Darlene Hebert, but home sales will be down for October.

“People are just not interested in looking at homes right now,” she said.

“They are more interested in getting their insurance claims settled, their FEMA claims settled — there is just too much for them to think about in the next couple of weeks for them to think about buying a home.

“We are certain there will be an impact when the October reports are final, and I think we will see a decrease in home sales” Hebert said. “We had seven days when nobody could look at homes or were even interested.”

Hebert said the number of housing units affected by the floods is still unknown.

“I talked with a couple of people who confirmed the devastation is rampant,” she said. “We don’t have a count on that yet.”

Local emergency management personnel are working with FEMA and insurance adjusters to determine how many homes are affected.

“We are working to put a number on that,” said Sumter County Emergency

CORRECTION In Tuesday’s edition of The Sumter Item, the incorrect age was reported for Joe Graham, the motorist who died Monday morning on U.S. Highway 378.

Graham was 52 years old.

Management Director Erik Hayes. He said that FEMA has people out in the field and should be able to report on the number of claims in the next few days.

Hebert said that while rentals will rise in the short term, homebuyers will return to the market at some point.

“Homeownership is the American dream,” she said. “Nobody wants to be without a home, but it is important for them to get their life together before they can even think about buying a home.”

A resident of Clarendon County, Hebert said she doesn’t think that area was

hit as bad as far as homes being flooded as Sumter County.

“Now roads, that’s a totally different story,” she said.

She said that, as of Monday, some agents haven’t been able to get to homes that are on the market.

“That’s really sad for the homeowners who are out of state,” she said. “The agents are really being worked hard because they have got to take care of their clients. If the owners don’t live there, it’s up to the agents to check everything and keep the process moving.

“If I never see this again in my lifetime, I will be thankful,” she said.

Shaw recovers quickly from flooding

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com According to a Shaw Air Force Base press release, the facility received nearly 20 inches of rain during the recent storm that deluged South Carolina, but because of the work of base personnel, including 20th Civil Engineer Squadron, operations on the flight line were restored on Monday, Oct. 5.

Like much of the Palmetto State, the base was the subject of severe flooding, the release said.

“Just like everybody else, we had some buildings to pump out,” said Lt. Jennifer Hyden of public affairs.

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A rental sign is seen nearly under water after record rainfall flooded much of the area last weekend.

To help the public know of more ways it can help flood victims, The Sumter Item will list fundraisers and places to donate money, food or clothing.

Here’s what we have so far: • The South Carolina School Boards Association and South Carolina Future Minds announced Monday that money collected by a special statewide fund will be distributed to school districts in counties designated for federal assistance by the Federal

ron weather flight reported 19.99 inches at Shaw of rain during the storms — an “unprecedented” amount, the release said.

The base was closed to non-mission essential personnel Oct. 5; however, 20th Fighter Wing emergency responders, security forces and other personnel worked throughout the storm.

Airmen from the 20th Civil Engineer Squadron pumped water out of buildings, repaired fences and cleaned the flight line to restore operations, the release said.

“Everybody made it through the flood with a great attitude,” said Col. John Thomas, 20th Mission Support Group commander. “Now it is time for

Emergency Management Agency.

Thirty-six school districts in 19 counties in South Carolina have been designated for federal assistance by FEMA, those include school districts in Clarendon, Lee and Sumter counties. Trip DuBard, executive director of SC Future Minds, said there are a couple of ways individuals, organizations and schools can contribute. One is by going to www. floodreliefforscschools.org or by texting “SCSchools” to 71777.

• All proceeds from the Sumter Clarendon Chapter of the Building Industry Association Golf Tournament will benefit the United Way of Sumter, Clarendon and Lee Counties Flood Relief Fund, to be held Nov. 2, at Beech Creek Golf Club. For sponsorship opportunities and to register, call Nelle Tomlinson (803) 775-6800.

• The BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation and

all of us to get focused so that we can get the base back to where it was before the storm.”

In addition, 20th CES Fire Department airmen aided local recovery efforts by responding to 23 calls from the Sumter community.

Public Affairs Sgt. Bryan McGee said on-base housing was not affected and said he was not aware of any injuries on base during the storm. McGee said he is not aware of any personal property insurance provided to service members by the military, but service members do have the option of purchasing insurance.

The base resumed normal operations Oct. 6, according to the release.

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina have made available $1 million to South Carolina nonprofit organizations assisting state residents affected by catastrophic flooding. Interested nonprofit organizations should contact BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation at (803) 2647860 (Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) or email FLOOD.RELIEF@ bcbssc.com for additional information and to determine eligibility.

• South State Bank has established the South State Bank Emergency Relief Fund, with an initial contribution of $100,000, to provide financial support to the communities it serves. Money will be available through local nonprofit organizations providing assistance to flood victims in these counties: Florence, Orangeburg, Richland and Sumter. The bank does not have branches in

Clarendon and Lee counties. For more information on how to make a donation or apply for assistance, visit www.SouthStateBank.com/ EmergencyRelief.

• Sumter United Ministries, 36 S. Artillery Drive, is looking to collect items that can be part of a “Flood Bucket” that will aid in the cleanup process. Requested items include: 5-gallon buckets; liquid cleaner, 12-16 ounces; dish soap; antibacterial air freshener; insect repellent spray; scrub brushes; cleaning wipes; sponges; scouring pads; heavy-duty trash bags; dust masks; kitchen dishwashing gloves; work gloves; and empty spray bottles. For more information, call (803) 775-0757.

See www.theitem.com for full details on efforts to help flooding victims.

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Planned Parenthood changes fetal-tissue reimbursement policy NEW YORK (AP) — Responding to a furor over undercover videos, Planned Parenthood says it will maintain programs at some of its clinics that make fetal tissue available for research, but will cover the costs itself rather than accepting any reimbursement.

Anti-abortion activists who recently released a series of covertly filmed videos have contended that Planned Parenthood officials sought profits from their programs providing post-abortion fetal tissue to researchers. Planned Parenthood said the videos were deceptively edited and denied seeking any payments beyond legally permitted reimbursement of costs.

The new policy — forgoing even permissible reimbursement — was outlined in a letter sent Tuesday by Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, to Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health.

“Planned Parenthood’s policies on fetal tissue donation already exceed the legal requirements,” Richards wrote. “Now we’re going even further in order to take away any basis for attacking Planned Parenthood to advance an anti-abortion political agenda.”

The videos were released, starting in mid-July, by a group of anti-abortion activists calling themselves the Center for Medical Progress. Activists posed as representatives of a biomedical firm and sought to negotiate the purchase of fetal organs from some Planned Parenthood personnel.

David Deleiden, who led the undercover video effort, depicted Planned Parenthood’s shift as “an admission of guilt.”

“If the money Planned Parenthood has been receiving for baby body parts were truly legitimate ‘reimbursement,’ why cancel it?” he asked.

Republicans in control of Congress have responded to the undercover videos by launching several investigations of Planned Parenthood, along with efforts to cut off the organization’s federal funding.

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards is sworn in before testifying at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Hearing on “Planned Parenthood’s Taxpayer Funding,” in Washington in September. bursement for Medicaid patients receiving cancer screenings, contraception and other non-abortion services.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, described Planned Parenthood’s policy change as “a good, tangible result” of the various House investigations. He said his own panel would continue its inquiry into Planned Parenthood’s use of federal funding.

Thus far, none of the congressional investigations, nor separate investigations in six states, have verified any lawbreaking by Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood says its fetal tissue programs currently take place in only two states — California and Washington — at about a half-dozen of the 700 health centers run by the organization nationwide.

Planned Parenthood’s executive vice president, Dawn Laguens, said the Washington state affiliate already had a policy of accepting no reimbursement for its costs, and the California affiliate will now follow the same policy. Staff members in California indicated earlier that reimbursement per specimen generally ranged from $30 to $100, but Laguens said she could not say how much the af-

filiate received annually in reimbursements or how much it will cost to cover the expenses of the fetal-tissue program.

“I don’t think it will have a huge impact on their budget,” Laguens said. “For Planned Parenthood, this was always about one thing — honoring the desire of women to contribute to lifesaving research. It was never about money.”

While selling fetal tissue for profit is illegal, a 1993 law passed by Congress with bipartisan support allows women who undergo abortions to donate fetal tissue for use in scientific research. The law allowed entities supplying the tissue to recover the costs of running such programs.

During the three-month controversy over the videos, some of Planned Parenthood’s critics have called a ban on research using donated fetal tissue. However, there has been strong defense of the practice from within the medical and scientific establishment.

The Department of Health and Human Services, in a letter to Congress in August, said fetal tissue “continues to be a critical resource for important efforts such as research on degenerative eye disease, human development disorders such as Down syndrome, and infectious diseases, among a host of other diseases.”

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by FEMA officials before pickup can begin, he said.

Mixon said two temporary debris holding sites have been established and a third location may be considered. He said the temporary locations will allow the debris to quickly be removed from residential areas.

The next big phase will be road reconstruction, he said.

Tetra Tech Inc., a construction management organization headquartered in Pasadena, California, has identified 107 damaged roads in the county after being in Sumter for two days, Mixon said.

He said U.S. 15 North bridge is still out, and officials from S.C. DOT were inspecting U.S. 15 South on Tuesday.

Vice-Chairwoman Vivian Fleming-McGhaney said Sumter County residents should expect a bit of good news once they receive their tax statements. She said council received information from County Auditor Lauretha McCants indicating that county residents should see a decrease on their upcoming taxes.

Fleming-McGhaney said council members were given a copy of their tax statements that showed a decrease because of a tax credit, even though council increased the county-wide millage by two mills.

If homeowners made any additions to their property, they may not see a decrease, she said.

Mixon also introduced the new county finance director, Jamie Michaelson.

He said Michaelson already has knowledge about the county from preparing documents for previous audits. He also has experience working with government, which is

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In other news, council approved: • Final reading of a request to rezone approximately 223 acres on Queen Chapel Road, between Cannery and Westbury Mill roads, from agricultural conservation to residential-15 for the development of a subdivision.

Sumter Fire Department Chief Karl Ford addressed council members concerns about proximity of a fire station to the proposed neighborhood. Ford said the Dalzell Fire Department is about 3.5 miles away from the subdivision area. He said homeowners living in neighborhoods more than 5 miles away from a fire department could experience an increase in home insurance; • Final reading of an ordinance authorizing permanent easements to the City of Sumter and Black River Electric Cooperative on North Wise Drive; • First reading to amend a chapter of the county’s code of ordinances referring to weeds, rank vegetation and debris on real property.

County Attorney Johnathan Bryan said one of the major changes would reduce the amount of warnings residents receive for yard maintenance violations before being penalized. Residents would receive a summons after two notices, he said; and • First reading of an ordinance acknowledging and supporting the issuance of qualified energy conservation bonds, not to exceed $5.2 million, from South Carolina Jobs-Economic Development Authority. Mixon said the funds would be used to upgrade lighting, plumbing and HVAC systems in county buildings. He said the county would have 13 years to pay back the loan, with 0 percent interest.

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New law aims to Playboy to stop running pictures of completely naked women in March curb growth of counterfeit parts HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — When Peter Picone sold counterfeit electronic parts from China and Hong Kong for use in U.S. Navy submarines, the U.S. Justice Department says, he knew their failure could have “catastrophic” consequences.

He was sentenced last week to more than three years in prison in one of the first convictions under a new law that aims to help curb the growing problem of counterfeit parts entering the supply stream for U.S. military contractors.

It’s a problem that occupies federal investigators, particularly in states like Connecticut with many defense contractors. In addition to the case involving integrated circuits for the submarine built at Grotonbased Electric Boat, a man is awaiting sentencing for supplying unapproved computer chips for military helicopters built by Stratford-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.

“With the amount of defense contractors in Connecticut, and the volume of integrated circuits and things like that that go into these different DOD components and systems, it’s certainly an important thing for us,” said David

Mello, agent in charge of the Homeland Security Investigations office in New Haven. “We do have a lot of leads and we look into them regularly.”

The issue gained urgency with a 2011 investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee that found 1,800 cases of suspected counterfeit parts in the defense supply chain during a twoyear period, tracing many back to China.

A number of measures aimed at cleaning up the defense supply chain were adopted that year in a law that also created stiffer penalties for people caught in cases involving counterfeit military parts. Among other efforts since then, U.S. Justice Department officials say, there has been an increased focus on seeking out people responsible for shipping the imitation parts.

The only other person convicted so far under the new law is Hao Yang, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, who was sentenced last year in federal court in Maryland to one year and nine months in prison for importing counterfeit goods, including electronics from China, and selling them as legitimate merchandise.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Playboy is about to find out how many people really do read it for the articles.

The magazine that helped usher in the sexual revolution in the 1950s and ‘60s by bringing nudity into America’s living rooms — or at least its sock drawers — announced this week that it will no longer run photos of completely naked women.

Playboy has seen its circulation plunge in recent decades as it has fallen victim to some of the very forces it helped set in motion. First it had to deal with competition from more sexually explicit magazines like Penthouse and Hustler.

Now the Internet is awash in high-definition porn. Playboy has decided that the answer is less skin, not more.

“You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passé at this juncture,” Playboy Enterprises CEO Scott Flanders told The New York Times.

Starting in March, Playboy’s print edition will still feature women in provocative poses, but they will no longer be fully nude. It will become more like Esquire and other magazines with PG-13-type pictures.

The Times said the magazine has not decided whether to continue having a centerfold.

Playboy became famous for publishing naked photos of some of the world’s most famous women. Marilyn Monroe was its first centerfold, 62 years ago.

Although the change repre-

Hugh Hefner smiles while signing copies of the Playboy calendar and Playboy Cover To Cover: The 50’s DVD box set in Los Angeles in November 2007.

Playboy will no longer publish photos of nude women.

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sents a major shift for the magazine, it is also the latest step away from full nudity, which was banned from Playboy’s website in August 2014.

That helped make the site safer for work and public places and enabled Playboy to get onto Facebook, Twitter and other platforms. The magazine has said its online audience soared with that move, averaging a fourfold increase in monthly unique visitors.

The Times said taking full nudity out of the magazine was also something the 89-year-old Hugh Hefner signed off on when Playboy editor Cory Jones ran the idea by him.

“The political and sexual climate of 1953, the year Hugh Hefner introduced Playboy to the world, bears almost no resemblance to today,” Flanders said in a statement. “We are

more free to express ourselves politically, sexually and culturally today, and that’s in large part thanks to Hef’s heroic mission to expand those freedoms.”

The shift will be accompanied by other changes in the magazine, including a slightly larger size and heavier, higherquality paper meant to give the magazine a more collectible feel.

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Iran’s parliament approves deal with western powers TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s parliament voted on Tuesday to support implementing the nuclear deal it struck with world powers, sending the measure to a council of senior clerics, who will review the accord before its final approval.

The 12-member Guardian Council could send the bill, which allows Iran to back out of the nuclear pact if sanctions are imposed or not lifted, back to parliament to reconsider. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on key policies, has said it is up to the 290-seat parliament to approve or reject the deal.

In the session carried live by state radio, 161 lawmakers on hand voted for the nuclear deal, while 59 voted against it and 13 abstained.

Another 17 did not vote at all, while 40 lawmakers did not attend the session.

It was not immediately clear Tuesday when the Guardian Council would issue its own decision.

The bill gives the right of implementing the deal to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the top security body of the country that President Hassan Rouhani heads. Khamenei himself has not publicly supported or disapproved of the deal, though he offered encouragement for the Islamic Republic’s diplomats throughout the months of negotiations over it.

Discussion of the bill in the parliament had been unusually tense, with hard-liners repeatedly trying to prevent a vote on the deal.

Hard-liners hope to stall the

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The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, center, ends his speech in an open session of parliament while discussing a bill on Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday. deal in order to weaken Rouhani’s moderate administration ahead of February’s parliamentary elections.

During Tuesday’s session, hard-liners claimed the bill had no support from Khamenei and tried to delay the vote by raising numerous proposals on its details.

Iran’s official IRNA news agency said Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif left the session after it got tense.

A preliminary parliamentary vote Sunday saw 139 lawmakers out of the 253

present supported the outline of the bill.

The deal calls for limiting Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting economic sanctions. The accord came after nearly two years of negotiations between Iran and world powers including the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany.

The West long has suspected Iran’s nuclear program has a military dimension. Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes, like power generation and medical treatments.

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The Hadassah Medical Center prides itself on checking politics at the door and treating Palestinian attackers and Jewish victims alike. But the tensions on the street are increasingly seeping through the hospital’s sterile walls, with family members clashing in the hallways and causing the wounded even more trauma.

Hadassah’s Ein Kerem campus is considered a rare model of coexistence in deeply divided Jerusalem, with a mixed Jewish-Arab medical team working together to treat the city’s wounded and infirm.

Coping with conflict is nothing new. More than 20 members of the hospital staff were either killed or lost close relatives during the last decade’s Palestinian uprising. They are accustomed to separating their own feelings from the task at hand and treating those on the other side of the region’s decades-old conflict.

Daniel Weiss, the chief resident of Surgery Ward A, said it was “irrelevant” whether he was operating on a victim or a wounded attacker.

“We have patients of all kinds coming in. It doesn’t matter who they are. We treat them all,” he said. “It’s surreal, but that is the way we are.

Jews and Arabs mingle and shop at each other’s stores

and work at each other’s businesses, and they lie at the hospital together.”

It’s a sentiment echoed by Ahmed Eid, head of surgery at Hadassah’s Mount Scopus campus. On Monday, Eid, an Israeli Arab, operated on and saved the life of a 13-year-old Jewish boy who was stabbed in the east Jerusalem area of Pisgat Zeev and arrived at the hospital with barely a pulse after losing large quantities of blood.

“This is the situation, and it has become very routine for us,” he said. “What happens in the country also affects us, but it doesn’t influence our medicine. Hadassah is a very special place.”

The hospital corridors are filled with women wearing traditional Muslim dresses and headscarves walking alongside ultra-Orthodox Jews and patients with Jewish skullcaps. But the notion of Arabs and Jews being as inseparable in the hospital as they are outside doesn’t sit well with everyone.

Odel Bennett has been hospitalized at Hadassah since a Palestinian stabbed her husband Aharon to death on Oct. 3, seriously wounded her and lightly wounded their 2-yearold son Natan. The attacker stabbed another Israeli man to death before being shot dead.

The 22-year-old Bennett recalled how her pleas for help were mocked by local Arab merchants, who laughed at her and told her to “die” while a knife was still stuck in her body.

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Cecile Baxter, a resident of Meadowfield Apartments, spends most of her time fishing at Camp Bob Cooper, where she is one of 82 flood victims from the Summerton area who is temporarily staying at the camp.

Residents of the complex said Monday they did not know when or if they would be able to return to their apartments. The apartment complex and homes across the West Summerton area were evacuated on Oct. 4 after receiving heavy flooding.

Clarendon County government and other agencies have partnered with Clemson University’s Youth Learning Institute, which owns Camp Bob Cooper, to provide temporary housing for the flood victims until Oct. 21. The county is funding the residents’ cost to stay at the camp, which Stewart said is about $25 per person per day.

“Part of the challenge is finding a place for these residents to live once the agreement with Camp Bob Cooper is up,” said Clarendon County Council Chairman Dwight Stewart.

Beau Mongold, Clemson University’s Youth Learning Institute’s director of residential programs, said the effort is a partnership between the university, county council, Federal Emergency Management Agency, the American Red Cross and other agencies to provide a short-term solution for residents affected by the flood. Many churches, organizations and individuals have donated food, drinks, clothing and other supplies to the flood victims staying at the camp.

Jake McClure, the camp’s program director, said the residents at the camp are provided three meals a day, some of which are prepared

and brought in from the community. Water and snacks are also available.

On Monday, FEMA representatives were at the camp, assisting people in filling out applications. Mike Wade, a spokesman for the agency, said renters should apply with FEMA to see if they are eligible for monetary assistance.

Federal disaster assistance could potentially include money for temporary rental assistance and essential home repairs for primary residences not covered by insurance, Wade said.

“Once a renter applies, the damage in his or her apartment will be assessed to determine if they are eligible for assistance,” Wade said.

Wade said assessments are done on a case-by-case basis.

The type of assistance they would receive depends on the damage, number of members of the family household, income and other factors, he said.

Rental assistance would be based on the median cost of rent in the county, he said.

Baxter, who has lived at Meadowfield for about 34 years, said residents were allowed to return to the apartments several times last week to grab medication and personal belongings.

Baxter said she found mold on the first floor of the apartment that had covered most of her furniture.

The mold had also started to spread up the stairs to the second floor, she said.

“The smell is terrible,” said Ron Baskin, another resident.

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Vanessa Hayes, a flood victim and resident of Meadowfield Apartments in Summerton, spends most of her time fishing at Camp Bob Cooper. Hayes is one of 82 Summerton area residents temporarily staying at the camp.

Vanessa Hayes, another resident of Meadowfield, said some of the residents’ cars were flooded in the rain, and that her friend had to drive on the sidewalk to get out of the complex’s parking lot on Oct. 4.

“I’m pleased no one got hurt,” Hayes said.

Hayes enjoys fishing at Camp Bob Cooper.

“Everything is great here; everyone has treated us really well,” she said. “I love to fish out here.”

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“I jumped in my truck and drove to the shelter.

Now my truck won’t start,” he said. “It’s a terrible thing, but you have got to make the best of the situation.”

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COMMENTARY

Lesson of tragedies: We need each other

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ake up, South Carolina. We need each other.

Black, white or Hispanic. Young or old. Republican, Democrat or independent. Rich or poor. Urban, suburban or rural. We need each other.

That’s the message that was savagely delivered June 17 with the senseless and merciless murder of nine people at Emanuel AME Church in CharlesWarren ton. And Bolton that’s the message that was delivered last weekend as historic rains and unprecedented floodwaters engulfed the Palmetto State.

In each case, South Carolinians found lines that once divided them being washed away as they came together to seek healing, comfort and restoration.

In the case of the Charleston tragedy, in which the Rev. Sen. Clementa Pinckney and eight of his church members were ruthlessly gunned down in a racially motivated attack, the people of South Carolina came together to reject the notion of hating someone based on the color of their skin and, led by Gov. Nikki Haley and the Legislature, removed the Confederate flag from the State House grounds.

We all knew that was only the beginning; the tragedy, the unity and the grace that abounded in the midst of it all demands that we do more to improve race relations as well as the quality of life for all our state’s people.

But just as we were still contemplating what our next move should be, last weekend’s historic rains delivered yet another gut punch to our system, once again forcing us to rely on one another for support, encouragement — and, most of all, survival.

At least for the time being, the drenching rain faded lines of division that might have existed. If you lived in Clarendon County, it didn’t matter what your political leanings or financial means were; for a time, the entire community was cut off from the outside world because practically every major road in the county was impassable because of flooding. In the Midlands of South Carolina, it didn’t matter what you looked like or whether you lived in a million-dollar home or an apartment complex; roads and dams were washed away and threatened rural poor communities and upscale suburban neighborhoods alike.

Even the arbitrary jurisdictional lines that we have set up for ourselves were washed away.

At a Monday press conference outlining how local authorities — from elected officials to law enforcement and fire and EMS leaders — would handle the many complications caused by floods, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said that there would be no jurisdictional lines: The county, the city of Columbia and Forest Acres would be working sideby-side and would be patrolling where they were needed, not bound by city or county lines.

Unfortunately, South Carolina’s archaic laws governing annexation and the incorporation of new municipalities have fragmented communities and created turf wars among elected officials and law en-

forcement, while leaving residents divided, confused and often underserved or overcharged because of the inefficient delivery of services.

But tragedy and grief have a way of bringing — or forcing — people together. Pride and turf concerns succumbed to the floods produced by the heavy rains; the intrusive waters showed no respect or appreciation for the imaginary lines we set up to separate cities and towns and counties.

The flood waters didn’t stop at Columbia’s or Forest Acres’ city limits. They didn’t acknowledge the boundary between Lexington and Richland counties. They indiscriminately destroyed roads and bridges and dams and homes in jurisdictions across the state.

Facing a monumental challenge that flowed from one jurisdiction to another to another, elected and public officials, law enforcement and community and church leaders did the only thing they could: came together to create as cohesive and seamless a response as possible.

To be fair, many jurisdictions and even communities and churches partner to address various issues from time to time. But they don’t do it nearly enough, particularly when it comes to some of the large-scale, common problems that plague us.

But this is different. People are uniting and working in ways they never really have before. Yes, it’s driven by a disaster. Yes, we’re compelled to do so out of concern for community and public safety. But it’s also personal, really personal. People who have just met for the first time are helping one another clean and clear houses, sift through soggy personal items and cling to cherished memories.

Many are sharing prayers and offering words of comfort and encouragement.

Even as we pick up the pieces, even as we assess, recover and talk of rebuilding, we’re actually building and renewing community.

As we work side-by-side, share one another’s pain and learn more about our neighbors, we’re learning to care for our neighbors and fellow South Carolinians, which could lead to lasting relationships and a desire to work together on an ongoing, day-today basis and not just in times of crisis.

From the Charleston tragedy to the big flood, South Carolinians are learning to lean on — and dare I say, trust — one another.

If we’re willing to truly embrace and take advantage of these opportunities born of tragedy and strife, the sky is the limit as to how much better we can make South Carolina. If we can recover from the horror of Charleston and the devastation of the flood, we can do anything. And we’ve got plenty facing South Carolina that will require a “we can do anything” attitude to overcome. The list is long and challenging, including improving race relations, education, roads, health care, ethics laws, and more. It won’t be easy, but we can address each of those challenges. Ultimately, it’s not our challenges that doom us. It’s our refusal to understand that we need each other to overcome them.

Editor’s note: Journalist Warren Bolton worked at The State newspaper for 30 years as a reporter, editor and member of the Editorial Board. See his work at www.theboltonreport.com.

COMMENTARY

Wealth, poverty and politics

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r. Thomas Sowell, my colleague and friend, told me several years ago that he wasn’t going to write any more books, but that was two books ago, and now he has just published his 45th. The Walter man writes Williams with both hands, as can be seen from his website, tsowell. com, which lists his 45 books, 19 journal articles, 71 essays in periodicals and books, 34 book reviews, and occasional columns written in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Star, Newsweek, The Times of London, et al. Plus, he writes a semiweekly column for Creators Syndicate.

“Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective” is a true gem in terms of exposing the demagoguery and sheer ignorance of politicians and intellectuals in their claims about wealth and poverty.

Sowell discusses a number of factors that help explain wealth and income differences among people and nations around the world. They include geographical, cultural, social and political factors, which Sowell explains in individual chapters. Readers will benefit immensely from the facts and explanations laid out in those chapters, but here I want to focus on what I think is his most important chapter, “Implications and Prospects.”

How many times have we been told that the rich are prospering at the expense of the poor? Sowell points out that most households in the bottom 20 percent in income have no one working. How can someone who isn’t producing anything have something taken from him?

What about the supposed

“paradox of poverty” in a rich society such as ours?

Sowell says that this is a paradox only to those who start out with a preconception of an egalitarian world in defiance of history and have a disregard for the arbitrariness of government definitions of poverty. Poverty occurs automatically and has been mankind’s standard fare throughout its entire history. It is high productivity and affluence that are rare in mankind’s history and require an explanation. Government definitions of poverty make talking about income gaps and disparities meaningless. If everyone’s income doubled or even tripled, poverty would certainly be reduced, but income gaps and disparities would widen.

One of the biggest problems in analyzing poverty is the vision that the poor are permanently poor. A University of Michigan study followed specific working Americans from 1975 to 1991.

It found that particular individuals who were in the bottom 20 percent in terms of income saw their real incomes rise at a much higher rate than those in the top 20 percent. An IRS study, covering the period from 1996 to 2005, found a similar result.

Workers whose incomes were in the bottom 20 percent saw their incomes rise by 91 percent. Over the same span, those in the top 1 percent saw their incomes fall by 26 percent. The outcomes of both studies give lie to the

claim that “the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.”

Sowell argues that another source of confusion in discussions of economic differences is the failure to distinguish between income and wealth. The use of the term “the rich” to describe people in higher income brackets is just one sign of confusion.

Being rich means having an accumulation of wealth rather than having a high income in a given year.

This distinction is not just a matter of semantics.

Calls for raising income tax rates to make “the rich” pay their undefined “fair share” are an exercise in futility because income taxes do not touch wealth.

Higher income taxes are a tax on people trying to accumulate wealth.

There are many other tidbits of information in “Wealth, Poverty and Politics,” such as the impact of age on income. For example, only 13 percent of households headed by a 25-year-old have been in the top 20 percent, whereas 73 percent of households headed by someone 60 or older have been.

Dr. Sowell’s new book tosses a monkey wrench into most of the things said about income by politicians, intellectuals and assorted hustlers, plus it’s a fun read.

‘‘‘Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective” is a true gem in terms of exposing the demagoguery and sheer ignorance of politicians and intellectuals in their claims about wealth and poverty.’

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. © 2015 creators.com.

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SUPPORT GROUPS AA, AL-ANON, ALATEEN: AA — Monday-Friday, noon and 5:30 p.m.; Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m., 1 Warren St. (803) 7751852.

AA Women’s Meeting — Wednesday, 7 p.m., 1 Warren St. (803) 775-1852.

AA Spanish Speaking — Sunday, 4:30 p.m., 1 Warren St. (803) 775-1852.

AA “How it Works” Group — Monday and Friday, 8 p.m., 1154 Ronda St. Call (803) 4945180.

441 AA Support Group — Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 8:30 p.m., Hair Force, 2090-D S.C. 441.

AA Summerton Group — Wednesday, 8 p.m., town hall.

Manning Al-Anon Family Group — Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Behavioral Health Building, 14 Church St., Manning. Call Angie Johnson at (803) 4358085.

C/A “Drop the Rock” Group — Thursday, 9:30 p.m., 1154 Ronda St. Call Elizabeth Owens at (803) 607-4543.

MONDAY MEETINGS: Sumter Vitiligo Support Group — second Monday of each month, 5:45-6:45 p.m., North HOPE Center, 904 N. Main St. Call Tiffany at (803) 316-6763.

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TUESDAY MEETINGS: Sumter Connective Tissue Support Group — 1st Tuesday of Jan., March, May, July, Sept. and Nov., 7 p.m., 180 Tiller Circle. Call (803) 773-0869.

Mothers of Angels (for mothers who have lost a child) — First and third Tuesday, 6 p.m., Wise Drive Baptist Church.

Call Betty at (803) 469-2616 or Carol at (803) 469-9426.

Sumter Combat Veterans Group Peer to Peer — Every Tuesday, 11 a.m., South HOPE Center, 1125 S. Lafayette Drive. Veterans helping veterans with PTSD, coping skills, claims and benefits.

Parkinson’s Support Group — Second Tuesday each month, 5:30 p.m., Carolinas Rehabilitation Hospital, 121 E. Cedar St., Florence. Call (843) 6613746.

Sumter Chapter Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) — Third Tuesday, 5:30-7 p.m., Birnie HOPE Center, 210 S. Purdy St. For families or friends who have lost a loved one to murder in a violent way.

Multiple Sclerosis Support Group — Third Tuesday each month, 5:30 p.m., Carolinas Rehabilitation Hospital, 121 E. Cedar St., Florence. Call (843) 661-3746.

Amputee Support Group — Fourth Tuesday each month, 5:30 p.m., Carolinas Rehabilitation Hospital, 121 E. Cedar St., Florence. Call (843) 6613746.

EFMP Parent Exchange Group — Last Tuesday each month, 11 a.m.-noon, Airman and Family Readiness Center.

Support to service members who have a dependent with a disability or illness. Call Dorcus Haney at (803) 8951252/1253 or Sue Zimmerman at (803) 847-2377.

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THURSDAY MEETINGS: TOPS S.C. No. 236 (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) — Thursdays, 9 a.m., Spectrum Senior Center,1989 Durant Lane. Call Diane at (803) 7753926 or Nancy at (803) 4694789.

Alzheimer’s Support Group through S.C. Alzheimer’s Association — Every 1st Thursday, 6-8 p.m., McElveen Manor, 2065 McCrays Mill Road. Call Cheryl Fluharty at (803) 9057720 or the Alzheimer’s Association at (800) 636-3346.

Journey of Hope (for family members of the mentally ill), Journey to Recovery (for the mentally ill) and Survivors of Suicide Support Group — Each group meets every 1st Thursday, 7 p.m., St. John United Methodist Church, 136 Poinsett Drive. Call Fred Harmon at (803) 905-5620.

Great Goodness the Grief Support Group — Third Thursday, 6-8 p.m., “AYS” Home Care, 1250 Wilson Hall Road. Call Cheryl Fluharty at (803) 9057720.

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Cool with plenty of sunshine

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Gaffney 74/45 Spartanburg 74/46

WEDNESDAY MEETINGS: Sickle Cell Support Group — last Wednesday each month, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., South Sumter Resource Center, 337 Manning Ave. Call Bertha Willis at (803) 774-6181.

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Columbia 78/50

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Sumter 77/51

Aiken 76/47

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Charleston 80/56

Today: Pleasant with abundant sunshine.

High 77 to 81.

Thursday: Pleasant with plenty of sun.

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Moonrise 8:46 a.m.

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Manning 79/52

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Thursday: Pleasant with plenty of sunshine. Winds light and variable.

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Bishopville 78/51

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Wateree AIDS Task Force Support Group — Every third Friday, 11:30 a.m. Call Kevin Johnson at (803) 778-0303.

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Spurrier steps aside

Early exit, early start on finding new coach S

regular season. But a win over Miami in the Independence Bowl re-energized him and gave him hope for better things ahead.

The Gamecocks, though, have struggled at 2-4 and are 0-4 in the Southeastern Conference for the first time in Spurrier’s 23 seasons in the

o much for an exit strategy. Steve Spurrier slammed on the brakes, got from behind the wheel and pretty much walked away from the University of South Carolina football program.

All of the rumbling of Spurrier needing to step down as the Gamecocks head coach that started after Dennis the loss to Brunson Kentucky in the second game of the season and the rising crescendo that came with a 2-4 overall start and a 0-4 Southeastern Conference record no doubt reached his ears. Spurrier said he began thinking about resigning after the win over Central Florida, but it was the loss to Louisiana State that let him know it was time.

Of course, one of the first things said by many is that Spurrier quit on his team, bailing out on it when the going got tough. I have no doubt that some of those calling for his demise are some of the ones calling him a quitter.

However, I think stepping down at this point was Spurrier making a move to try and save the program from taking a prolonged dip. I could be wrong; he may have made this move purely for selfish reasons, but I don’t think so.

The first thought that crossed my mind was he did this to put the job out on the market and allow athletic director Ray Tanner ample time to carry out a search. While an AD can’t personally approach other coaches in the middle of the season, that doesn’t “his” people can’t talk with “his” people or “his” people and go through a feeling out process.

Perhaps that wasn’t his idea though. Spurrier said he hopes interim head coach

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SEE BRUNSON, PAGE B2

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

South Carolina football head coach Steve Spurrier said during a news conference on Monday in Columbia he felt he needed to step down now because he doesn’t believe there is accountability with players if they know the coach won’t be back next year. He also said he was a recruiting liability. He had never had a losing season in 25 previous seasons as head coach at Duke (1987-89), Florida (19902001) or South Carolina, where he has been since 2005.

Head Ball Coach cites decline in program, giving AD Tanner time to conduct search for replacement and evaluate new interim coach Shawn Elliott

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press COLUMBIA — Steve Spurrier knew it was time. South Carolina was struggling and the gregarious and once innovative coach was a big reason why. Always one to do things his way, Spurrier believed he needed to step aside, and no one was going

to change his mind.

Spurrier resigned as Gamecocks coach Tuesday, resistELLIOTT ing pleas from the University of South Carolina president and athletic director to stay through the season — accepting the harsh reality

that the team’s awful first half was oh him.

“You can’t keep a head coach as long as I have (coached) when it’s heading in the wrong direction,’’ Spurrier said.

The 70-year-old Spurrier considered leaving several times during his 11 seasons at South Carolina, most recently after last year’s 6-6

Who’s next? Gamecocks could turn to rising star

BY RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press Steve Spurrier is retiring from South Carolina after doing exactly what he said he wanted to when he took the job: Accomplish things that had never been done before in Columbia.

The Gamecocks didn’t win their first Southeastern Con-

ference title, but in 11 seasons under Spurrier, he became the winningest coach in program history. South Caroli- BROHM na reached the SEC title game for the first time and had three straight 11-win seasons. They regularly beat Georgia and Ten-

nessee and occasionally Florida.

South Carolina is a far more attractive job now than it was before CAMPBELL Spurrier took it, but its history suggests Spurrier’s time was an outlier that will be difficult to replicate. Spurrier was young at heart and his unin-

hibited zingers will be impossible to replace, but injecting some youth into the programs seems like a solid idea.

Here are some possible candidates to replace the Head Ball Coach:

JEFF BROHM, WKU The former Louisville quarterback is in year 2 as Western Kentucky’s head coach. If

the goal is to hire a coach who can develop quarterbacks and put some juice into the offense, the 44-year-old Brohm could be that guy.

MATT CAMPBELL, TOLEDO Campbell turns 36 in November, but is already in his fourth full season as the

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PREP SPORTS

WH volleyball clinches region

BY EDDIE LITAKER Special To The Sumter Item It was the perfect storm for Wilson Hall’s volleyball team on Tuesday at Nash Student Center with Senior Night, a chance to clinch the SCISA Region II-3A regular-season championship and archrival Thomas Sumter Academy providing the opposition.

The Generals

would not make it easy for the Barons early, winning the first set, 25-23, but Wilson Hall would rebound to win the next three sets, by scores of 25-18, 25-23 and 2517, clinching the region’s top spot while running its record to 22-2-1 and 7-0.

First-year Barons head coach Rip Ripley knew

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Wilson Hall’s Catherine Clark, left, sets up the ball for a teammate during the Lady Barons’ 3-1 victory over Thomas Sumter Academy on Tuesday at Nash Student Center.

SCHSL pushes football playoffs back by 1 week

BY LOU BEZJAK The State COLUMBIA — The South Carolina High School League is adjusting its high school football postseason schedule because of last week’s flooding throughout the state.

SCHSL commissioner Jerome Singleton announced Tuesday the start of the football playoffs will be moved back a week, as will the state championship games. It is the first time since Hurricane Hugo in 1989 that the state football playoffs have been moved back a week.

The Class A, 2A and 3A playoffs will begin Nov. 13 and 4A playoffs Nov. 20. With the move, the Class A state championships will be Dec. 4 and 2A on Dec. 5. The Class 3A and 4A state championships are the following weekend, Dec. 12.

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Quotable Spurrier “You know what FSU stands for, don’t you? Free Shoes University.’’

On rival Florida State after several Seminoles got in trouble for accepting free sneakers.

“I know why Peyton came back for his senior year. He wanted to be a 3-time star of the Citrus Bowl.’’

On Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning and the Volunteers struggle to win the SEC title.

“Is Ray Goff still the coach there?’’

When asked if Florida could beat Georgia.

Spurrier went 6-0 against the Bulldogs coach, winning by an average score of 4117.

“I saw a story saying Jim Haslett comes in at 4:30 every morning — that’s not doing him much good.’’

At his 2002 farewell news conference at Florida, talking about the coach of the Saints, who just finished a 7-9 season. Spurrier

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SPURRIER FROM PAGE B1 league.

“I’m responsible. I’m the head coach,’’ Spurrier said. “It’s time for me to get out of the way and let somebody else have a go at it.’’

Spurrier said he felt he needed to step down now because he doesn’t believe there is accountability with players if they know the coach won’t be back next year. He also said he would be a recruiting liability.

Spurrier said it was unlikely he’d ever be a head coach in college again because of the recruiting aspect. He did hope to consult for a team one day and promised players he’d still see them in the weight room and around town.

He tried to keep things light hearted throughout the press conference.

“Why’s everyone all dressed up?’’ Spurrier said entering the room. “This isn’t a funeral.’’

Spurrier’s decision ends a 16year run for South Carolina football, which was led by two of college football’s all-time greats in Lou Holtz (1999-2004) and Spurrier.

Spurrier had never had a losing season in 25 previous seasons coach at Duke (1987-89), Florida (1990-2001) or South Carolina, where he has been since 2005 talking about achieving things that hadn’t been accomplished before with the Gamecocks.

“I was the best coach for this job 11 years ago, but I’m not today,’’ he said.

Interim head coach Shawn Elliott said his job was to help the team move forward.

“Our team is not in shambles, as some might say,’’ he said after Spurrier left the podium. “Not sure the change is what they’ve needed but the change is what they’ve got. Going to do everything we can to make the University of South Carolina proud of this football program.’’

Athletic director Ray Tanner said he would form a search committee and hire a firm to help identify candidates going forward. Tanner said Elliott would be a candidate to earn the full-time job.

Spurrier was in the middle of his 11th season at South Carolina and while the Gamecocks are struggling, university officials praised his accomplishments and impact he has had on the football program.

The winningest coach at Florida

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

After guiding South Carolina to back-to-back-to-back 11-win seasons, head coach Steve Spurrier, right, took the blame for the program’s recent decline the last two seasons. and South Carolina, Spurrier joins the late Bear Bryant as the only coaches to win the most games at two SEC schools.

Some questioned Spurrier might want to last long enough to surpass the Bear’s mark of 159 SEC wins.

“Had I wanted to break that record, I would’ve stayed at Florida,’’ Spurrier, who finishes with 131 league victories, said in 2013.

Spurrier said this summer he planned to coach two or three more years, then extended that to four or five years when several recruits who had committed to South Carolina backed away before signing day in February.

Then in July, Spurrier held a defiant news conference, telling Gamecocks fans not to listen to “enemies’’ questioning his commitment level, or implying he could no longer effectively coach at his age.

“We haven’t lost it,’’ Spurrier said in the summer. “We’ve got a

dang good team.’’

But things have quickly spiraled downward this season.

The Gamecocks lost to Kentucky at home in the season’s second week, then were blown out by SEC Eastern Division rival Georgia, 5220, a week later.

Losses at Missouri and No. 6 LSU last week guaranteed Spurrier no better than a break-even season in the SEC. South Carolina’s inconsistency on offense this season has surely frustrated Spurrier, a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback at Florida who played for San Francisco and Tampa Bay in the NFL. After beginning his coaching career in the USFL, and leading Duke, he returned to the Swamp and took the Gators to a national championship with a high-flying, Fun-n-Gun attack.

The Gamecocks are 11th in total offense in the SEC, averaging 341 yards a game.

would be hired by the Washington Redskins 10 days later, going 12-20 in two seasons.

“Kentucky has a heck of a punter.

I know that.’’

After South Carolina beat Kentucky 54-3 in 2011.

“We had a big win over that team from the Upstate recently.

It was a very close game. Went into the fourth quarter. Our defense very well — offense.

Our kicker made his kicks. And we were able to beat Wofford 24-7 at Williams-Brice. Big win ... But they didn’t give us a trophy for beating Wofford. We had to beat that other team from the Upstate.’’

Spurrier trolls Clemson while talking to the crowd at a South Carolina basketball game in December 2012.

BRUNSON FROM PAGE B1 Shawn Elliott and the staff will turn things around quickly and in a big way. While that may be a long shot in the eyes of many, if it does happen it will lead to a much smaller transition. And, if things go as expected, then Tanner will already have a lot of the leg work out of the way in finding his new coach.

No matter what you think of the exit, a true USC fan has to see Spurrier as the school’s best coach, hands down. The Gamecocks became a player in the SEC from his first season. He never got that SEC title with Carolina that he wanted, but it wasn’t a faraway dream, this season notwithstanding. It was something that was attainable, that perhaps made it that much more difficult for South Carolina fans to accept when they couldn’t grab it.

USC won the Eastern Division title in 2010, meaning it was one victory away from getting the title.

The three 11-2 seasons followed and there was one agonizing loss in each that kept the Gamecocks from playing in the SEC Championship game. They were just that close.

If Spurrier weren’t a 70-year-old man toting the resume that he has, there’s no way he would be stepping away from this. As he has so often said though, “It is what it is.”

SPURRIER CAREER MILESTONES Oct. 24, 1964: Spurrier is quarterback as Florida loses to Alabama 17-14 in Tuscaloosa.

It was the only time Spurrier and Crimson Tide coach Paul “Bear’’ Bryant -- two massive Southeastern Conference giants -- met on a football field. “I got my teeth knocked out in that game. That’s what I remember,’’ Spurrier said, recounting how a Crimson Tide defender caught him right under the chin back when players didn’t wear mouthpieces. “Spit it out and kept on playing.’’

Nov. 22, 1966: Spurrier wins the Heisman trophy after going 179 of 291 for 2,012 yards, throwing for 16 touchdowns and eight interceptions. He won overwhelmingly, getting more than twice as many points as second place finisher Bob Griese of Purdue.

Jan. 2, 1997: Florida wins Spurrier’s only national title, avenging a Florida State loss on the final game of the regular season with a 52-20 win over the Seminoles in the Sugar Bowl. Spurrier played for the national title in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl, but Florida lost to Nebraska 62-24.

Nov. 23, 2004: After taking a year off from football, Spurrier returns to the SEC to coach South Carolina. At the time, the Gamecocks had three bowl wins in 113 years of football. Spurrier won five bowl games in 10 years. Before Spurrier, the Gamecocks’ best season was 10 wins in 1984. Spurrier’s teams won 11 games from three straight seasons from 2011 to 2013.

Nov. 24, 2012: South Carolina beats Clemson 27-17, allowing Spurrier to set a record with 65 wins. Spurrier also remains the winningest coach at Florida with 122 victories, joining Bryant at Alabama (232) and at Kentucky (60) as the only coaches to hold win records at two SEC schools. Spurrier’s 134 SEC wins are second only to Bryant’s 159 league victories.

Oct. 13, 2015: Spurrier resigns (not retires, he emphasizes) as South Carolina’s coach.

He finishes with a 86-49 record with the Gamecocks, a 228-89-2 record in college football and a 275-130-2 record in the NFL, USFL and college.

And no matter how this season went, he has nothing left to prove.

Spurrier has left his mark on

NEXT FROM PAGE B1 Rockets coach. He is 31-13 with the Rockets and at 5-0 he appears headed to his best season yet. An Ohio guy who played defensive line at Division III power Mount Union, he was offensive coordinator at Toledo before being promoted in 2011.

JUSTIN FUENTE, MEMPHIS Fuente took over a dead

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program, and in Year 3 at Memphis, he is halfway to his second consecutive 10-win season. The 39-year-old from Oklahoma has already established himself as a program builder.

WELLS

DANTONIO

KIRBY SMART, ALABAMA DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR Unless Smart is just going to wait for Nick Saban to retire and hope he gets promoted, it is probably time for the 39-year-old to go be a

the game of college football — and the University of South Carolina.

head coach somewhere, prove himself, and then maybe come back when Saban does call it a career.

Power Five schools aren’t hiring many first-time head coaches and defensive coordinators aren’t very popular these days, either. But if you buy Smart, you’re hoping he comes with Saban’s process.

MATT WELLS, UTAH STATE Another Oklahoman, the 42-year-old former Utah

State quarterback is not an obvious fit moving to the Southeastern Conference. He is 22-11 in two-plus seasons with the Aggies and is headed for a big job at some point so why not in the Southeastern Conference?

MARK DANTONIO, MICHIGAN STATE Dantonio went to South Carolina so people will ask if he would be interested. Highly unlikely.

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Bell’s TD run lifts Steelers over Chargers

BY BERNIE WILSON The Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Mike Tomlin and Le’Veon Bell knew exactly what had to happen.

With five seconds left, the Pittsburgh Steelers down by three points and the ball inside the 1, Bell had to get into the end zone.

It was a wildcat way to win, which the Steelers did 24-20, stunning the San Diego Chargers and sending tens of thousands of Terrible Towel-waving Pittsburgh fans into delirium at Qualcomm Stadium.

Bell took the direct snap, ran left and was slowed in traffic before diving for the end zone and getting the ball across the line as Donald Butler dragged him down.

“It was time to go to the mattresses, if you will,’’ said Tomlin, the Steelers’ coach.

“We had to do what was required to win. Le’Veon gave us an opportunity to win, and we were trying to do everything we could to move the football.’’

Bell said it was the most meaningful touchdown of his three-year career. “The gamewinner on the last play of the game, that’s what you dream about,’’ he said.

“I got to get it in,’’ Bell said.

“We still had a timeout left. I was thinking we still have a timeout left, so I’m thinking, ‘OK, maybe if I get stopped, maybe run like 4 seconds off and get a timeout and we could kick a field goal.’ I wanted to end the game right there.’’

Bell ran 21 times for 111 yards.

San Diego rookie Josh

play before Bell’s big run. An unnecessary roughness call against San Diego’s Jahleel Addae moved the ball a halfyard closer to the end zone and stopped the clock.

“It’s not how you start. It’s how you finish,’’ Vick said.

Vick, making his second straight start in place of injured Ben Roethlisberger, couldn’t get much going until he and Markus Wheaton hooked up on a 72-yard touchdown on a stop-and-go route to tie it at 17 with 7:42 left.

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Pittsburgh running back Le’Veon Bell (26) scores the game-winning touchdown against San Diego on Monday during the Steelers’ 24-20 victory in San Diego.

Lambo kicked a go-ahead, 54yard field goal with 2:56 left.

Here are some things that stood out as the Steelers moved to 3-2 and the Chargers fell to 2-3:

HEINZ FIELD WEST It’s never been hard for fans of visiting teams to get tickets at Qualcomm Stadium, and Steelers fans practically overran the aging concrete bowl, which could be hosting its final year of the NFL because Chargers owner Dean Spanos wants to move to the Los Angeles area.

“First I’d like to thank Steeler Nation,’’ Tomlin said.

“How about the support that we had in the building tonight? We get that type of support just about all of the time we’re on the road, but it doesn’t get old. We appreciate it.’’

“Odd is one word we could use,’’ Rivers said. “We were in silent count and we had no chance. We were checking in and out of plays and it was about as tough as it gets. I’m usually hoarse after road games and I’m going to be today as well.’’

OPPOSING VIEW

BE LIKE MIKE

Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers didn’t appreciate the many fans clad in black and gold.

“It was a tough environment tonight. It was like being on the road,’’ Rivers said.

Mike Vick, having an awful game until the fourth quarter, kept the winning drive alive with a 24-yard scramble up the middle on third-and-6 from the 41 and then a 16-yard pass to Heath Miller to the 1 a

Antonio Gates returned from a four-game PED suspension and caught a 12-yard scoring pass from Philip Rivers in the first quarter and then had an 11-yard grab with 8:02 left to give the Chargers a 17-10 lead. Gates has 101 career TDs, joining Tony Gonzalez (111) as the only tight ends to reach that milestone.

Rivers has thrown 74 touchdown passes to Gates, the most from a QB to a tight end in NFL history.

Gates was suspended without pay for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug in the offseason.

PICK-SIX Antwon Blake intercepted Rivers’ pass and returned it 70 yards for a touchdown to give the Steelers a 10-7 lead late in the third quarter. Receiver Malcom Floyd broke off a crossing route that led to the pickoff.

It was Rivers’ third pick-six of the season. He has turnovers in 10 of his last 11 games.

CLEMSON FOOTBALL

Swinney was in USC interim coach Elliott’s shoes 7 years ago

BY SCOTT KEEPFER Greenville News CLEMSON — Seven years ago Tuesday, Dabo Swinney was Shawn Elliott.

Swinney was handed the reins to Clemson’s football program following the mid-season departure of Tommy Bowden in 2008; Elliott finds himself in a near-identical situation today following the resignation of University of South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier.

Welcome to the life of the interim coach.

“You go from wearing one hat to wearing about 30 hats, and it’s SWINNEY really hard to prepare for that,” Swinney said.

Swinney recalls being completely unprepared.

“I mean I had no inclination at all until Tommy Bowden walks into the staff room and says, ‘Hey, I’m stepping aside

here,’ and the AD walks in and says, ‘You’re the coach, see me in five minutes,’” Swinney said.

The toughest part, Swinney said, was the transition.

Feelings of betrayal may abound.

Loyalties are tested.

Confusion and change complicate the equation.

“First of all, you’ve got a lot of emotion involved — I mean, there’s a ton of emotion,” Swinney said. “And you’ve got a lot of factions.”

It was a challenge, Swinney said, to go suddenly from assistant coach to the man in charge.

“You go from one of them to the leader of them, and there’s a lot of dynamics involved there,” Swinney said. “You’ve got different groups, and you’ve got a whole football team who did not come there for you to be their coach.”

Given that, winning the players over was Swinney’s first order of business. He laid the groundwork for that goal by

stressing the importance of placing the program’s best interests above any individual interests.

“You’ve got to push all that aside and get everybody to understand that it’s bigger than any one person,” Swinney said. “At the end of the day, you have an opportunity to send a message that you’re not going to quit, that you’re going to stand up and compete and do what’s best for your school and your program.”

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015

Stroman faces Hamels with winner to ALCS

BY IAN HARRISON The Associated Press TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays stacked a pair of former Cy Young Award winners to prolong their stay in the AL Division Series.

For the deciding Game 5, they’ll turn to a starter who was once expected to miss the entire season.

Marcus Stroman, who tore a ligament in his left knee during a spring training fielding drill in March, will get the ball when the Blue Jays host the Texas Rangers in a winnertake-all affair this afternoon.

“He’s defied all the odds, that’s for sure,’’ manager John Gibbons said. “If anybody can rise to the occasion, it would be him.’’

Stroman went 4-0 with a 1.67 ERA after rejoining the rotation in mid-September. He’ll face Texas lefty Cole Hamels.

After losing the first two games at home, then bouncing back in Game 3 on Sunday night, the Blue Jays routed the Rangers in Texas. Toronto started knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, the 2012 NL Cy Young winner, and replaced him during the fifth inning with hardthrowing left-hander David Price, who won the AL award in 2012.

Now Stroman, who spent most of the summer rehabbing his knee at Duke University while also finishing up his degree, will try to pitch the Blue Jays into their first AL Championship Series since 1993, when Toronto won the second of back-to-back World Series titles.

“I’m just so excited for this opportunity,’’ the 24-year-old righty said Tuesday as the Blue Jays held an optional workout. “Those dog days at Duke when it’s kind of tough to get through a workout with the knee pain, that’s what you kind of have in the back of your mind to keep you going.’’

“Obviously, it’s a perfect situation that kind of played out in my head, and it’s happen-

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Cubs beat Cards 6-4 to advance to NLCS

BY ANDREW SELIGMAN The Associated Press

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ing. I get the chills just thinking about being in the position that I am now,’’ he said.

Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos sat in the back row of the press conference room Tuesday and listened as Gibbons and Stroman addressed the media. Speaking in the hallway afterward, Anthopoulos acknowledged it was quite a setback when Stroman first suffered his injury.

“I might yell a little bit, but I don’t throw stuff and bang walls,’’ Anthopoulos said. “I just got in the car and drove for a little bit.’’

By July, as he continued to receive positive updates on Stroman’s recovery, the Blue Jays GM started to believe a comeback was likely.

“We factored it in when we were looking to acquire starters,’’ Anthopoulos said, “but you had no assurances and no guarantees. Even when he got injured we knew there was a chance, you just don’t want to count on it.’’

After a series of simulated games at Toronto’s spring training facility in Dunedin, Florida, Stroman started at Class A Lansing on Sept. 2, striking out seven in 4 2-3 hitless innings. He struggled in a Triple-A game against Pawtucket on Sept. 7, but bounced back to beat the New York Yankees in his season debut five days later.

“After that we all felt, `We need this guy, let’s see what he can do,’’’ Gibbons said. “He took off with it.’’

First baseman Chris Colabello said the outgoing pitcher with the dyed-blonde hairdo has become “like a little brother to me,’’ one he has every faith in for Game 5.

CHICAGO — For the Chicago Cubs and their everhopeful fans, this bash was a long time in the making.

Kyle Schwarber, Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez homered and the young Cubs clinched a postseason series at Wrigley Field for the first time ever, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4 Tuesday to win the NL Division Series in four games.

Only once since they last brought home the World Series in 1908 had the Cubs won a playoff series and never before had they finished off the job at their century-plus-old ballpark.

But with a raucous, towelwaving crowd jamming the Friendly Confines, the North Siders gave generations of fans exactly what they wanted.

Closer Hector Rondon struck out Stephen Piscotty on a pitch in the dirt, and catcher Miguel Montero scooped the ball and made the tag to end it. That sent the Cubs streaming out of the dugout to start a wild celebration.

“They deserve it,’’ Rizzo said in the middle of the party. “Hopefully, this is just a taste of what’s to come.’’

Up-and-comers all season, first-year manager Joe Maddon’s bunch of wild-card Cubs had arrived.

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Chicago Cubs left fielder Kyle Schwarber (12) hits a home run during the Cubs’ 6-4 victory over St. Louis on Tuesday in Game 4 of a National League Division Series in Chicago. The Cubs won the series 3-1.

The Cubs are headed to the NL Championship Series for the first time since 2003. They beat Atlanta in the NLDS that year, but then lost in seven games to the Marlins.

Chicago dropped those final two at home, including the infamous Bartman defeat in Game 6.

Chicago will face the winner of the Los Angeles Dodgers-New York Mets matchup. The Mets took a 2-1 lead into Game 4 Tuesday night.

No team was hotter down the stretch than Chicago, which finished third in the

majors with 97 wins after five straight losing seasons.

The Cubs knocked out the two teams that finished ahead of them in the NL Central, beating Pittsburgh in the wild-card game and sending St. Louis home after it led the majors with 100 wins.

The banged-up Cardinals had reached the NLCS in the last four years.

Rizzo’s solo drive to right off losing pitcher Kevin Siegrist in the sixth put Chicago back on top 5-4 after St. Louis scored two in the top half.

Royals call on Cueto, Astros turn to McHugh in Game 5

BY DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Royals traded away three top prospects to acquire Johnny Cueto for the playoffs, even though his winning pedigree has been established almost entirely in the regular season.

He’ll have an opportunity to change that tonight.

The right-hander with the creative cadre of deliveries will take the mound for Kansas City in Game 5 of the AL Division Series against the Astros, who forced the decider at Kauffman Stadium by rallying from a four-run deficit in the eighth inning on Monday in Houston.

The Astros will counter with Collin McHugh, who threw a gem in winning the series opener.

“Obviously this is the deciding game,’’ Cueto said through a translator after the Royals worked out Tuesday afternoon. “We either win and stay or you go home.’’

Cueto has long been considered one of the game’s dynamic pitchers, his herkyjerky style often giving hitters fits. He was an All-Star a year ago with Cincinnati, and finished second in Cy Young voting in the National League, a big reason the Royals were so keen to get him.

But when it comes to the playoffs, things have been a struggle. Cueto is 0-2 with a 5.52 ERA in four postseason starts, including a pedestrian outing in Game 2 against Houston.

While he retired 12 of the final 14 hitters he faced, Cueto also gave up four runs on seven hits and three walks in just six innings. It took the Kansas City hitters and some solid innings from his bullpen to get no decision in a 5-4 victory that evened the series.

Cueto acknowledged his looming free agency has been on his mind, but he also said

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there are no excuses if he fails to live up to expectations on Wednesday night.

“The fact of the matter is, I have to focus on pitching here and performing for this club and this organization,’’ he said.

“Thank God, the most important thing is I feel good. I feel healthy. And that gives me an opportunity to have success.’’

The Royals have won nine of their past 10 elimination games, and now have momentum on their side. Their rousing comeback to force the series back to Kansas City drew comparisons to their comeback against Oakland in last year’s wild-card game, when they dug out of a similar fourrun hole in the eighth inning against Jon Lester and the A’s.

The young, almost naive bunch of guys in the Kansas City clubhouse kept riding that momentum all the way to Game 7 of the World Series, where they finally lost to San Francisco.

“One thing this team does very well, every game we play, we just go out and play our game,’’ Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer said. “We stick to our game, no matter the situation.’’

The situation right now?

Solving a pitcher who shut them down less than a week ago.

McHugh allowed two runs — both on homers by Kendrys Morales — and six hits over six innings against the Royals in Game 1, shrugging off a 49-minute rain delay in the process. With a vicious slider and unflappable confidence, he calmly took care of a potent Kansas City lineup.

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11 a.m. – Women’s Professional Golf: Ladies European Tour International Ladies Open Third Round from Xiamen, China (GOLF).

4 p.m. – Major League Baseball: American League Playoffs Division Series Game Five – Texas at Toronto (FOX SPORTS 1).

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8 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Chicago at Philadelphia (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

8 p.m. – Women’s College Volleyball: South Carolina at Georgia (SEC NETWORK).

9 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Devon Alexander vs. Aron Martinez in a Welterweight Bout and Lee Selby vs.

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9 p.m. – PGA Golf: Frys.com Open ProAm from Napa, Calif. (GOLF).

11 p.m. – LPGA Golf: KEB-HanaBank Championship First Round from Incheon, South Korea (GOLF).

DIVISION SERIES

(Best-of-5; x-if necessary) American League Houston 2, Kansas City 2 Oct. 8: Houston 5, Kansas City 2 Oct. 9: Kansas City 5, Houston 4 Sunday: Houston 4, Kansas City 2 Monday: Kansas City 9, Houston 6 Today: Houston (McHugh 19-7) at Kansas City (Cueto 11-13), 8:07 p.m.

(FS1) Texas 2, Toronto 2 Oct. 8: Texas 5, Toronto 3 Oct. 9: Texas 6, Toronto 4, 14 innings Oct. 11: Toronto 5, Texas 1 Monday: Toronto 8, Texas 4 Today: Texas (Hamels 7-1) at Toronto (Stroman 4-0), 4:07 p.m. (FS1) National League All games televised by TBS Chicago 2, St. Louis 1 Oct. 9: St. Louis 4, Chicago 0 Oct. 10: Chicago 6, St. Louis 3 Monday: Chicago 8, St. Louis 6 Tuesday: St. Louis at Chicago x-Thursday: Chicago at St. Louis, 4:37 p.m.

New York 2, Los Angeles 1 Oct. 9: New York 3, Los Angeles 1 Saturday: Los Angeles 5, New York 2 Monday: New York 13, Los Angeles 7 Tuesday: Los Angeles at New York (late) x-Thursday: New York (deGrom 14-8) at Los Angeles, 8:07 p.m.

NBA PRESEASON

By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION L 0 1 2 1 0

Pct 1.000 .750 .500 .500 .000

GB – – 1 1 1

L 0 0 2 1 2

Pct 1.000 1.000 .500 .500 .333

GB – 1/2 1 1/2 1 1/2 2

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GB – – 1/2 1/2 2

L 0 1 1 2 3

Pct 1.000 .750 .500 .333 .000

GB – – 1 1 1/2 2 1/2

MONDAY’S GAMES

Memphis 91, Cleveland 81 New York 94, Philadelphia 88 Toronto 112, Minnesota 105 Miami 97, San Antonio 94 New Orleans 123, Chicago 115 Portland 88, Utah 81

Miami at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Dallas vs. Oklahoma City at Tulsa, OK, 8 p.m.

Houston at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

Sacramento vs. L.A. Lakers at Las Vegas, NV, 10 p.m.

Denver at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Charlotte vs. L.A. Clippers at Shanghai, China, 8 a.m.

Toronto vs. Minnesota at Kanata, Ontario, 7 p.m.

Boston at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Indiana at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Houston at Golden State, 10 p.m.

W 5 2 2 0

L T Pct PF PA 0 0 1.000 137 81 2 0 .500 80 73 3 0 .400 86 142 5 0 .000 83 138

W Arizona 4 St. Louis 2 Seattle 2 San Francisco 1

L T Pct PF PA 1 0 .800 190 90 3 0 .400 84 113 3 0 .400 111 98 4 0 .200 75 140

Green Bay Minnesota Chicago Detroit WEST

MONDAY’S GAME

Pittsburgh 24, San Diego 20

THURSDAY’S GAME

Atlanta at New Orleans, 8:25 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Kansas City at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Miami at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Denver at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Houston at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

Baltimore at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

San Diego at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m.

New England at Indianapolis, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Dallas, Oakland, St. Louis, Tampa Bay

MONDAY, OCT. 19

N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 8:30 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 3 3 0 0 6 13 6 Montreal 3 3 0 0 6 10 4 Detroit 2 2 0 0 4 8 3 Ottawa 3 2 1 0 4 9 8 Florida 2 1 1 0 2 7 2 Buffalo 3 1 2 0 2 6 9 Toronto 3 0 2 1 1 5 12 Boston 3 0 3 0 0 7 16 METROPOLITAN DIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 3 3 0 0 6 12 6 N.Y. Isles 3 1 1 1 3 7 9 Philadelphia 3 1 1 1 3 4 10 Washington 1 1 0 0 2 5 3 Carolina 2 0 2 0 0 4 6 New Jersey 2 0 2 0 0 4 8 Pittsburgh 2 0 2 0 0 1 5 Columbus 3 0 3 0 0 6 13

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 2 2 0 0 4 4 1 Minnesota 2 2 0 0 4 8 6 Winnipeg 3 2 1 0 4 11 7 Chicago 3 2 1 0 4 9 6 Colorado 2 1 1 0 2 10 8 St. Louis 2 1 1 0 2 5 4 Dallas 2 1 1 0 2 6 6 PACIFIC DIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 3 2 0 1 5 9 5 San Jose 2 2 0 0 4 7 1 Arizona 2 2 0 0 4 6 2 Calgary 2 1 1 0 2 4 7 Anaheim 2 0 1 1 1 1 4 Edmonton 2 0 2 0 0 1 5 Los Angeles 2 0 2 0 0 2 9 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Vancouver 2, Anaheim 1, SO Tampa Bay 6, Boston 3 N.Y. Islanders 4, Winnipeg 2 Buffalo 4, Columbus 2 Philadelphia 1, Florida 0

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Nashville at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Washington, 7 p.m.

Florida at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Vancouver at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST L T Pct PF PA 0 0 1.000 149 76 1 0 .750 95 55 2 0 .600 124 105 3 0 .250 65 101 T 0 0 0 0

Pct PF PA .600 99 113 .250 102 91 .200 97 135 .200 93 145

L T Pct PF PA 0 0 1.000 148 101 2 0 .600 120 95 3 0 .400 118 132 4 0 .200 123 137 L T Pct PF PA 0 0 1.000 113 79 3 0 .400 116 134 3 0 .400 107 124 4 0 .200 117 143

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

AUGUSTA Ga. — Wilson Hall’s Olivia Hilferty and Thomas Sumter Academy’s Ed Lee each had a thirdplace finish in an event in the SCISA 3A state swim meet on Saturday at Augusta Aquatics Center.

Hilferty, a freshman, was third in the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes, 27.85 seconds and fifth in the 100 butterfly in 1.06.76.

Lee, also a freshman, finished third in the 100 fly in 1:01.31 and eighth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:11.16.

The Wilson Hall girls were eighth in the 12-team 3A meet with 37 points, while the TSA girls were 11th with 6. TSA finished ninth in the boys meet with 33 points and WH 10th with 28.

Junior Ali Hilferty was ninth in the 50 free in 28.29 for the Lady Barons and freshman Angelica Agno came in 10th in the 200 IM in 2:47.43.

The Lady Barons’ 200 medley relay team of AnnaKatherine Graves, Anna Lyles, Olivia Hilferty and Ali Hilferty was seventh in 2:14.35. The 200 free relay of Olivia Hilferty, Graves, Owings Holler and Ali Hilferty finished ninth in 2:00.37.

The 400 free relay of Stewart Holler, Lyles, Owings Holler, and Agno finished ninth in 4:44.74.

For the Lady Generals, eighth-grader Ana Hartman came in seventh in the 100 back in 1:12.55 and ninth in the 200 IM in 2:44.60.

For TSA in the boys meet, the 200 medley relay team of Tyler Singletary, Daniel Gibson, Lee and Mason Studer was seventh in 2:09.57, while the 400 free relay of Studer, Singletary, Lee and Gibson finished sixth in 4:15.38.

Wilson Hall junior Sam Hilferty broke his own school records in both of his

individual events, finishing fifth in the 100 backstroke in 1:01.77 and seventh in the 50 free in 24.54 The Barons’ 400 free relay of Gabe Rogers, Dylan Dean, Justin Kang and Grey Holler finished seventh in 4:41.75. The 200 medley relay of Ryan Wernsman, Jeff Howard, Rogers and Hilferty was ninth in 2:12.19 while the 200 free relay of Holler, Howard, Kang and Hilferty also finished ninth in 1:54.32.

VARSITY BOYS CROSS COUNTRY SUMTER WINS MEET FLORENCE — Brandon Poston and Anthony Gabriel finished first and second in the individual competition to help Sumter High School win a 7-team meet on Tuesday at Freedom Florence.

The Gamecocks won with 43 points, led by Poston in a time of 17 minutes, 59 seconds. Gabriel finished in 18:10.

Tobias Favor was 10th for SHS followed by Stacey Shaw in 12th and Davis Fuller in 18th.

VARSITY VOLLEYBALL SUMTER 3 CONWAY 1 Sumter High School defeated Conway 3-1 on Tuesday at the SHS gymnasium.

The Lady Gamecocks won by the scores of 25-18, 25-19, 20-25, 27-25.

Aubrey Rickard led SHS with 31 assists, seven kills and one ace. Hannah Bettencourt had 12 digs and five aces, Annissa Brayboy had three aces, three kills and two digs, Bri Tyler had 14 kills and four digs, McLean Achziger had six kills, Margaret McMahon had five kills, Mary Kate Shaffer had four digs, two

TRANSACTIONS

By The Associated Press

BASEBALL

American League BOSTON RED SOX _ Promoted Eddie Romero to vice president, international scouting and Harrison Slutsky to coordinator, advance scouting.

Named Adrian Lorenzo coordinator, international scouting; Brad Sloan special assignment scout and Alex Gimenez assistant, professional scouting.

National Basketball Association UTAH JAZZ _ Waived Fs Jack Cooley and J.J. O’Brien.

FOOTBALL

National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS _ Placed LB Kenny Demens on injured reserve.

Signed linebacker Dwight Freeney.

BALTIMORE RAVENS _ Signed CB Shareece Wright. Signed CB-KR Asa Jackson and CB Charles James II from the practice squad. Placed CB Will Davis on injured reserve. Terminated the contract of LB Jason Babin. Waived CB Rashaan Melvin. Signed WR Daniel Brown, RB Akeem Hunt and TE Konrad Reuland to the practice squad.

BUFFALO BILLS _ Signed QB Josh Johnson. Released K Billy Cundiff.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS _ Activated WR Martavis Bryant. Released S Ross Ventrone.

National Hockey League NEW JERSEY DEVILS _ Assigned F Reid Boucher to Albany (AHL). Recalled G Yann Danis from Albany.

ECHL ECHL Suspended Allens Mike DiPaolo three games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in an Oct. 10 preseason game at Wichita.

kills and one ace and McKenzie Michelson had eight assists and two kils.

VARSITY GIRLS TENNIS WILSON HALL 9 THOMAS SUMTER 0 Wilson Hall closed out its regular season with a 9-0 victory over Thomas Sumter Academy on Tuesday at Palmetto Tennis Center.

The Lady Barons are 9-4 on the season and will play in the SCISA 3A state playoffs which begin on Monday.

SINGLES 1 – Z. Beasley (WH) defeated Jenkins 6-2, 6-2.

2 – Spencer (WH) defeated Kistler 1-6, 6-2, 10-7.

3 – Munn (WH) defeated St. Cyr 6-1, 6-3.

4 – E. Beasley (WH) defeated Vise 6-2, 6-0.

5 – Davis (WH) defeated Mouzon 6-2, 6-1.

6 – Guldan (WH) defeated Townsend 6-0, 6-3.

DOUBLES 1 – Z. Beasley/Munn (WH) defeated Jenkins/St. Cyr 8-4.

2 – Guldan/Spencer (WH) defeated Kistler/Moseley 8-1.

3 – E. Beasley/Davis (WH) defeated Edenfield/Montjoy 8-0.

VARSITY FOOTBALL DARLINGTON 46 CRESTWOOD 14 DARLINGTON — Crestwood High School fell to 0-7 on the season with a 46-14 loss to Darlington on Monday at the Darlington field.

Crestwood was playing for the second time in three days, while the Falcons were playing for the first time in 24 days. Darlington scored 21 points in the first seven minutes of the game and was never headed.

Tiric Gadson scored both of the touchdowns for the Knights, who are 0-2 in Region VI-3A. Darlington, under the guidance of former Sumter High head coach John Jones, is 4-2 and 1-0.

Crestwood plays host to Marlboro County on Friday.

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Nashville at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.

Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Washington, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Minnesota at Arizona, 10 p.m.

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COLLEGE

EASTERN MICHIGAN _ Signed vice president and director of athletics Heather Lyke to a contract extension through the 2019-20 season.

SOUTH CAROLINA _ Announced the retirement of football coach Steve Spurrier. Named Shawn Elliott interim football coach.

UTSA _ Named Kellie Elliott as senior associate athletic director/senior woman administrator.

WNBA FINALS (Best-of-5)

Minnesota 2, Indiana 2 Oct. 4: Indiana 75, Minnesota 69 Oct. 6: Minnesota 77, Indiana 71 Oct. 9: Minnesota 80, Indiana 77 Sunday: Indiana 75, Minnesota 69 Today: Indiana at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

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Ottawa at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.

Boston at Colorado, 10 p.m.

Arizona at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m.

HOCKEY

NFL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

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L T Pct PF PA 0 0 1.000 162 112 0 0 1.000 108 71 3 0 .400 110 148 4 0 .200 103 143

BASKETBALL

TUESDAY’S GAMES

W New England 4 N.Y. Jets 3 Buffalo 3 Miami 1 SOUTH W Indianapolis 3 Tennessee 1 Houston 1 Jacksonville 1 NORTH W Cincinnati 5 Pittsburgh 3 Cleveland 2 Baltimore 1 WEST W Denver 5 San Diego 2 Oakland 2 Kansas City 1

W 5 4 2 1

Atlanta Carolina Tampa Bay New Orleans NORTH

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TODAY’S GAMES

WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST DIVISION W Memphis 2 New Orleans 2 Houston 1 Dallas 0 San Antonio 0 NORTHWEST DIVISION W Oklahoma City 1 Denver 2 Portland 2 Utah 2 Minnesota 0 PACIFIC DIVISION W Phoenix 2 Sacramento 3 Golden State 1 L.A. Clippers 1 L.A. Lakers 0

L T Pct PF PA 2 0 .600 132 109 3 0 .400 101 131 3 0 .400 97 104 3 0 .400 117 103

NHL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

MLB POSTSEASON

W New York 2 Toronto 3 Philadelphia 2 Brooklyn 1 Boston 0 SOUTHEAST DIVISION W Charlotte 3 Atlanta 2 Orlando 2 Washington 1 Miami 1 CENTRAL DIVISION W Indiana 2 Chicago 2 Detroit 1 Milwaukee 0 Cleveland 0

W 3 2 2 2

N.Y. Giants Dallas Washington Philadelphia SOUTH

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The Lady Generals scored the first three points of the third set and held an advantage until the Lady Barons pulled even at 6-6. That would be the best that Wilson Hall could do for most of the set as TSA maintained a tie or lead until the Barons finally pulled ahead 21-19 after two service points from Lauren Hill. The Lady Generals would tie the score at 23 before an ace from Caroline Clark would close out the set for the Barons.

TSA got out to a 2-0 lead in the final set before Wilson Hall began to have success attacking the middle. The Lady Barons’ lead swelled to 18-8 before the Lady Generals rallied slightly down the stretch.

The set and match point came on a kill from Courtney Clark.

Both teams had players that ended with very impressive stat lines. For TSA, Sydney Daniel contributed 25 assists, one block and one ace while Anita Cookley-Gam had 22 kills and one ace, Hawkins 13 kills and two assists, Reed 11 assists and one kill, and Bree Stoddard three kills and one block.

Wilson Hall was led by 12 assists and 12 kills from Danielle deHoll. Also coming up big for the Lady Barons were Courtney Clark with 12 kills and nine assists, Caroline Clark and Becka Noyes with eight kills apiece, Hill with 16 digs and Liza Lowder with 12 digs.

While clinching the region crown was special for Ripley, the first-year head coach was also happy to see Wilson Hall’s four seniors, including Hill, Caroline Clark, Olivia Maklary and Hannah Grace Calvert, receive their proper recognition.

“We’ve been really, really blessed to have a great group of girls this year,” Ripley said.

“These seniors did a great job welcoming me and (assistant) Coach (Liz) Affronti, two new coaches, in and they’ve done a great job. They didn’t have to welcome us in like that, but they have been a great group to coach and it makes our jobs a lot easier when they’re ready to do that.”

what to expect from the Generals after a marathon match on September 17 at Thomas Sumter. In that match, Wilson Hall won the first two sets by scores of 25-14 and 25-23 before TSA rallied to win the next two, 25-19 and 25-20. The decisive fifth set was as close as it could be, with Wilson Hall taking it, 15-13. “(TSA head) Coach (Gwen) Herod has got a great team,” Ripley said. “They can hit, they can play and they’re really scrappy. Originally this wasn’t supposed to be Senior Night and we knew it was going to be an even tougher Senior Night. We’ve been talking it up, that it was a big game, and I think we really did a good job tonight of coming ready to play and controlling our emotions and getting after it a little bit.”

While there were quite a few long rallies for individual points, with players hitting the floor on both sides diving for every return, there were not many long service rallies. It was back and forth and a struggle for every point as the teams were very evenly matched.

“I was pleased with the effort.

I was very pleased with the effort,” said Herod, whose team fell to 11-3 and 3-2. “There was a lot of hustle on the floor. You could see that there were some nerves going on. Take nothing away from Wilson Hall. They played a great game, and I feel like we played a great game. I feel like we were two good teams playing, and it was good volleyball. But I was very proud of the effort, and I tell the girls all the time that volleyball is not a game of perfection. You’re going to make mistakes, and it’s how you recover from those mistakes.”

After taking the first set, it was miscommunication late in the second set that proved costly for TSA. Trailing 23-18, the final two Wilson Hall points came on a ball that fell between Haley Hawkins and Savannah Lujann and a ball that both Hawkins and Josie Reed went for, with neither

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and 2A at Benedict and 3A and 4A at Williams-Brice Stadium — providing there are no scheduling conflicts.

The move of the postseason creates a conflict with the Touchstone Energy NorthSouth All-Star game, which will be held Dec. 13 in Myrtle Beach, the same day as the Class 3A and 4A state championships. Singleton said he will talk to SC Executive coaches’ director Shell Dula about any adjustments to be made to the rosters, which won’t be released until Oct. 26.

The SCHSL also announced the girls tennis and volleyball playoffs also will be moved back a week, with the volleyball championships set for Nov. 14 at White Knoll and the tennis championships the same day at the Cayce Tennis and Fitness center.

“We could have made a decision at the beginning, but I don’t think that would have been the answer,” Singleton said. “But at the point we are to today, we think this creates stability and a basic understanding.”

Some argued the plan should have come sooner and Singleton said he was aware of the criticism on social media last week. But complications arose with the severity of the flooding in some areas, and some schools still are not back in school or practicing.

Some teams were faced with the possibility of playing three games in nine days, and Singleton said that isn’t safe.

Singleton said the championships will be held at the original venues with Class A

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Tickets are $35 a person or $65 for a couple. Tickets can be purchased by calling (803) 481-4480 ext. 6273.

Sponsorships are also available for purchase. The $1,000 platinum sponsorship comes with 16 tickets, the $500 gold sponsorship comes with eight tickets and the $250 silver sponsorship comes with four tickets.

BOWLING BOWL-A-PAW

The third annual Bowl-aPaw will be held on Sunday at Gamecock Lanes at 2 p.m.

Money raised from the event will go to K.A.T.’s Special Kneads, an animal rescue shelter.

The cost is $15 per person for three games and shoe rental.

The cost is $10 for children 12 years of age and younger.

For more information or to reserve a lane, call Gamecock Lanes at (803) 775-1197.

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Registration is being taken for the 33rd Annual Turkey Trot to be held on Thursday, Nov. 26.

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younger.

Late registration will run through the morning of the race at the cost of $30 for those 18 or older and $25 for those 17 or younger.

There will be a Gobbler Dash that is free to children ages 4-9 as well as the Turkey Trot.

Check-in will begin at 8 a.m. with the race starting at 9 a.m.

For more information, contact the YMCA of Sumter at (803) 773-1404.

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Panthers LB Kuechly returns to practice

BY STEVE REED The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — Luke Kuechly was back in his comfort zone Tuesday, on the football field wearing a helmet and shoulder pads.

The Panthers middle linebacker returned to practice exactly one month after suffering a concussion in the Carolina’s season-opening 20-9 win against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Barring a setback, he’s expected to start Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks, although coach Ron Rivera said Kuechly may be on a “pitch count.’’

Sitting out is not Kuechly’s thing.

He said before the concussion he hadn’t missed a football pracKUECHLY tice — let alone a game — since his freshman year of high school.

“It’s weird, you can’t tape it up, you can’t suck it up,’’ Kuechly said of his first known career concussion.

“It’s just one of those things you have to wait until it goes away. That was the most difficult part — knowing that you can’t tough it out.’’

OBITUARIES JANE GEDDINGS Claudia Jane Geddings, 64, wife of Thomas J. Geddings, died on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, at her home.

Born on Aug. 18, 1951, in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Thomas J. and Claudia Scurry Holliday. She was a member of Bethel Baptist Church. Jane was a devoted and loving wife, mother, and grandmother.

Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Becky Driggers (Matt) of Sumter; two granddaughters, Rylee and Mattie Driggers; and a special caregiver, Peggy White.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Tom Holliday, Jimmie Holliday and Billy Holliday; and a sister, Janice Coleman.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday at Bethel Baptist Church with the Rev. Larry Fraser and the Rev. Steve Hendricks officiating.

Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Johnny Ward, Aaron Ward, Andrew Ward, Glenn Geddings, Ronnie Turner and John Holliday.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday at Elmore-CannonStephens Funeral Home and other times at the home.

Memorials may be made to Bethel Baptist Church, 2401 Bethel Church Road, Sumter, SC 29154 or to Tuomey Hospice, 500 Pinewood Road, Suite 2, Sumter, SC 29154.

The family would like to express their appreciation to the caregivers of Tuomey Hospice for their loving care and compassion.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

REYNOLD BUSBY SUMMERTON — Reynold “Buz” Busby, 43, husband of Sabrina Fludd-Busby, died on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital, Manning.

He was born on April 10, 1972, in Clarendon County, to Trenia Martin Busby and the late Johnny Lee Busby.

The family is receiving friends at the home of his mother, 12 Annie Tindal Road, Apartment 3G, Summerton, and his wife, 1374 Roosevelt Drive, Summerton.

Funeral services are incomplete and will be announced by

King-Fields Mortuary, Summerton.

DOROTHY M. LAWRENCE Dorothy McCants Lawrence, 85, departed this life on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, at Sumter Health & Rehab.

She was born on Jan. 28, 1930, in Sumter County, a daughter of the late George Bradley and Bertha Seals.

The family will be receiving friends at the home, 975 Jubilee Drive (Brook Hollow Apartments, Pike Road), apartment 102.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.

TIMOTHY JACKSON Timothy Jackson, 53, departed this life on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

He was born on March 11, 1962, in Alcolu, a son of the late James Henry and Ethel Davis Jackson.

The family will be receiving friends at the home, 1155 Lewis Road, Sumter, SC 29154.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.

BURRELL BAKER JR. BISHOPVILLE — Burrell Baker Jr., 73, passed on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, at Carolinas Hospital System, Florence.

Born in Lee County, he was a son of the late Burrell and Elbira Dixon Baker.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Square Deal Funeral Home of Bishopville.

FLOSSIE JOHNSON Flossie Johnson, 88, widow of Harry Johnson, died on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born on May 31, 1927, in Clarendon County, she was a daughter of the late Willie Evans and Irene McFadden.

The family will receive friends at the home, 924 Saltwood Road, Sumter.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc. of Sumter.

WILLIAM P. BASKIN III BISHOPVILLE — William “Billy” Peebles Baskin III, 80, husband of the late Betty Lowder Baskin, died on Mon-

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Born in 1934, in Bishopville, he was a son of the late William P. Jr. and Margaret Pittman Baskin. He was an attorney in Lee County for 37 years and served as the municipal judge for the town of Bishopville for 36 years. He graduated from Wofford College in 1957 and the University of South Carolina Law School in 1960.

He was the assistant director of the Lee County E-911 Communication Center for two years. He was a charter member of the Bishopville Rescue Squad in 1961 and was the major for 39 years. He served in the U.S. Army for six months active duty as a captain and the Army Reserves for 10 years. He was a longtime member of Bethlehem United Methodist Church, in which he served in various capacities.

He was member of the Lee County and South Carolina Bar; S.C. EMS Advisory Board; Bishopville Jaycees; director of the Peoples Bank for 12 years; NBSC bank advisory board; Robert E. Lee Academy board; charter member of the Bishopville Volunteer Rescue Squad; member of the Chamber of Commerce for Bishopville and South Carolina; member of the Foothills Trail Conference board; member of the S.C. Cotton Museum board; and various other organizations.

He received the following awards: Bishopville Rescue Squad Service Award; Darlington Race Way Service Award in 1983; Billy Baskin Day awarded by the City Council in 1983; Sertoma Service to Mankind Award in 1990; Business Person of the Year in 1992 by the Lee County Chamber of Commerce; the Order of the Palmetto in 2002 by the governor of South Carolina; and the Billy Baskin Foothills Trail Volunteer of the Year Award.

He enjoyed boating; Clemson football; socializing with his friends; hiking, especially the Foothills Trail; reading about and documenting history of Lee County and his ancestry.

Survivors include two children, a son, Eric Lowder Baskin (Caroline) of Irmo and a daughter, Kristan Baskin Stoneman (Dan) of Easley; a brother, Emsley Pittman Baskin (Cappie) of Little River; a sister, Sylvia Baskin White

(Don) of Durham, North Carolina; and four grandchildren, Ryan Baskin, Erica Baskin, Tyler Stoneman and Avery Stoneman.

Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday at Bethlehem United Methodist Church with Pastor Larry Watson officiating. Burial will be in Piedmont Cemetery of Bishopville.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday at Hancock-ElmoreHill Funeral Home and other times at the home, 301 Baskin Ave. Memorials may be made to Bethlehem United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 167, Bishopville, SC 29010; Piedmont Cemetery, 217 Roundup Drive, Bishopville, SC 29010; or Foothills Trail Conference, P.O. Box 3041, Greenville, SC 29602.

Hancock-Elmore-Hill Funeral Home of Bishopville is in charge of the arrangements.

MACKARTHA SCOTT Mackartha Scott entered eternal rest on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born on March 30, 1950, in Sumter County, he was a son of the late Nathaniel Mac Scott and Julia Mae Anthony.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of his son, Ricky (Cassandra) Scott, 22 Collingwood Court, Sumter.

Funeral plans will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.

ROGER BRAILSFORD Roger Brailsford entered eternal rest on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015.

Born on Aug. 2, 1949, in Clarendon County, he was the third of 16 children born to Richard and Lorena Richardson Brailsford. He attended the public schools of Sumter County.

He can be viewed from 3 to 7 p.m. today.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday at St. Phillip UME Church with the Rev. Katie Williams. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

The family will receive friends at the home of his sister and her husband, Mae and Henry Richardson, 1267 Festival Drive, Summerton.

Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com.

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DERRY CANTY JR. Derry Canty Jr. entered into eternal rest on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015.

He was born on Sept. 28, 1935, in Rimini, to the late Derry Sr. and Beatrice Nelson Canty. He attended the public schools of Clarendon County and was a life member of St. James AME Church.

He is survived by his wife, Phillis McFadden Canty; a daughter, Carrie (Gerard) Turner; a caring and loving sister, Lucretia “Marie” Brunson; two devoted nieces, Barbara (Larry) Brown and Doris (Willie Henry) Richardson; father-in-law, Phillip McFadden Sr.; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Visitation will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday at St. James AME Church with the Rev. Theodore Green, pastor.

Burial will follow in Spring Grove Cemetery.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of his sister, Marie Brunson, 220 Kirven St., Pinewood.

Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com.

Community Funeral of Sumter is in charge of these arrangements.

BILLY BRYANT MCBRIDE COLUMBIA — Billy Bryant McBride, 59, entered into eternal rest on Oct. 10, 2015.

Funeral service for Mr. McBride will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday at Canty Memorial COGIC, 873 Woodcrest Road, Sumter, with burial in Memorial Gardens of Columbia, 9301 Wilson Blvd., Columbia. Viewing will be from 10 to 11 a.m.

Visitation with the family will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. today at McCollom-Myers Mortuary & Cremation Services, 5003 Rhett St., Columbia.

He is survived by his wife of 28 years, Kathaleen B. McBride; four children, Kylie V. McBride, Susan F. Stokes, William B. McBride Jr. and Blanche K. Hampton; three brothers, Sammie McBride, Andrew McBride and Don McBride; five grandchildren; and a host other family and friends.

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‘Move from Within’

Diverse choreography highlights Sumter Civic Dance concert

BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com

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t’s the 16th year for Sumter Civic Dance Company’s annual

contemporary dance concert. Set for 7 p.m. Thursday at Patriot Hall, the concert is titled “Move from Within.”

Andrea Freed-Levenson, director of the company, said the title refers to the individual choreographers’ “getting their thoughts and processes together to choreograph” dances for themselves and their fellow company members.

She said the dancers love the challenges of contemporary dance, which combines elements of ballet, modern and lyrical dance, with new styles..

“Everything is based on ballet, of course,” she said. “Ballet is the basis for everything.

The work of dancer-choreographers Alvin Ailey and Martha Graham is a huge influence.”

Emily Ridgeway and Andrea Barras Govier both agreed that contemporary dance “is here to stay.”

Freed-Levenson noted that “It’s much more mainstream, and there’s sort of a crossover with lyrical,” citing the popularity of dance shows and competitions on TV. “It keeps changing, and it

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Taylor and Ridgeway work on a section of synchronized choreography during a rehearsal for the company’s 16th annual contemporary dance concert.

FROM LEFT: Emily Ridgeway, Ashley Taylor and Ruby Edwards rehearse “What a Beautiful Life” for Thursday’s contemporary dance concert presented by the Sumter Civic Dance Company at Patriot Hall. Company director and chief choreographer Andrea Freed-Levenson set the piece to the music of Nick Frandiani. blends into every other form of dance,” Govier said.

“You don’t have to put a label on the dance styles,” Ridgeway said, “but contemporary can be jazz and hiphop, modern, anything.”

While the two agree on the staying power of contemporary dance, their choreography process is quite different.

Ridgeway’s piece titled “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” got its genesis from her discovery of a piece of furniture.

“I found a chair that looks like a throne, and it just came to me,” she said.

The dance set to the music of Lorde tells a story, an element that both choreographers prefer.

In “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” Ridgeway said, “There’s a queen, and there’s a scepter that holds all the power. The seven people fight over it.”

Govier, on the other hand, said she is “always influenced first by the music.”

Her piece, set to Enya’s “Boadicea,” which will be danced by the Thomas Sumter Academy Intermediate Dancers, is very visually different, she said.

“I want whatever I do to be different,” she said.

Ridgeway said she’s very impressed by the diversity of the dances in Thursday’s concert.

“The choreographers in the company have traveled and lived in other places and come back with different influences and ideas,” she said, “and they bring that to the compa-

Emily Ridgeway and Ruby Edwards show the exuberance of the sentiment in “What a Beautiful Life” during a recent rehearsal. ny.”

Freed-Levenson said that applies to Ridgeway herself: “She danced with us in high school, graduated in dance at Columbia College, and now she’s back with us again.”

In addition to Freed-Levenson, who is choreographing six dances, there are several other choreographers, among them the recipients of the Young Choreographer Awards. They are Maggie Watts, Ashley Taylor and Sarah Greene.

Caroline Mack has choreographed a piece to “Sunday Morning,” sung by Mary Mary, for her dance company

based at the Caroline Mack Center for the Arts, and with Alycen Clayton, another piece to Lana Del Rey’s “Young and Beautiful.” Erin Levenson Harms, Kylie Kendrick and Kimberly Barrett have also choreographed pieces.

The Freed School Youth Theatre will dance to Echosmith’s “Bright,” choreographed by Freed-Levenson, who has also conceived and set pieces for the Thomas Sumter Academy Advanced Dance class and the senior Sumter Civic Dance Company.

Harms has choreographed “Artist,” with music by Jake

Coco, for the Sumter Civic Apprentice Company.

Freed-Levenson said the concert will begin with “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” which she choreographed before the recent flood but is very appropriate for the time, as it offers encouragement and assurance of compassion and help in difficult times.

Sumter Civic Dance Company presents its 16th annual contemporary dance concert, “Move From Within,” at 7 p.m.

Thursday at Patriot Hall, 135 Haynsworth St. Tickets are $10 general admission. Call (803) 773-2847 for more information.

Harney moves from classics to ‘Orange is the New Black’

BY NICK THOMAS Tinseltown Talks

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ichael Harney gave memorable performances over the past three decades in popular shows such as “NYPD Blue,” “Deadwood” and “Weeds.” He currently plays a prison counselor in the gritty Netflix comedydrama “Orange is the New Black,” which depicts lockdown life in a women’s prison.

Growing up in New York City, Harney says watching movie legends on the big screen inspired him.

“I studied Spencer Tracy in a big way for years, as well as James Dean and Marlon Brando,” said Harney.

“John Cassavetes and Peter Falk, too.”

While he never crossed

paths professionally with those stars, he did bump into Falk once.

“After I got out of the New York theater scene, I moved to Los Angeles and saw him coming out of an office one HARNEY day in Beverly Hills,” recalled Harney. “I was pretty green and completely star-struck. I started shaking his hand and explaining what an honor it was to meet him. After about 30 seconds he looked down at his hand, then looked at me, and said ‘Can I have my hand back now?’”

Born in the Bronx and raised in Queens, Harney’s life could have easily gone in another direction. “I was a

pretty wild kid in those days and got into a lot of trouble,” he said.

Fortunately, he discovered acting and went on to appear in over 100 plays and even ran his own New York acting school for eight years before moving to Hollywood.

As a teacher, he recommended young actors also watch modern film legends such as Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman.

“I studied those guys relentlessly,” he said.

Harney’s late father also had an interest in classic film actors.

“My dad was a great impressionist,” he said. “He could do Laurence Olivier, Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton and many others,

just as good as any professional in the business today.

He performed in the navy and had a beautiful tenor voice, but he and his four brothers had to work to help support the family, so my father never got into the entertainment business professionally.”

Currently, Harney is filming the fourth season of “Orange is the New Black,” which is shot at various locations around New York. Interior scenes are filmed at the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, where Rudolph Valentino filmed “A Sainted Devil” and “Monsieur Beaucaire” in 1924, two years before he died.

The massive 26,000-squarefoot Stage E, Kaufman Astoria’s largest, is also where the first two Marx Brothers

films “The Cocoanuts” (1929) and “Animal Crackers” (1930) were shot.

“It crosses my mind often that the KAS stages have housed so many other great artists like the Marx Brothers,” said Harney. “I used to sit with my grandfather and watch their movies when I was a kid. I’m a huge Marx Brothers fan and took my son to see ‘A Day at the Races’ and ‘Horse Feathers’ recently. It’s a real privilege and an honor for me to work on the same stages that they worked on and be a part of film history in that way.”

Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala., and has written features, columns, and interviews for more than 600 magazines and newspapers. Follow @TinseltownTalks

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This rice salad combines summer, fall

BY MELISSA D’ARABIAN The Associated Press

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ice salads are a summertime staple, perfect for picnics and al fresco dining. It just

makes delicious sense. They are versatile, unfussy and can be served warm, room temp or chilled. Rice salads also are the perfect side dish that can be turned into a main meal just by adding some rotisserie chicken, tofu or fish.

But when the weather turns a little cooler, I want a version that manages to capture the benefits of the summer staple while managing to bring in the flavors of fall. This black rice autumn salad fits the bill perfectly.

My kids call this “Halloween salad”

because of the orange and black color scheme. Cubes of butternut squash are dusted with pumpkin pie spice for a hint of cold weather coziness, while grapefruit and orange segments add brightness and freshness. Hazelnuts add crunch, and a tangy cider vinegar dressing (with just a splash of soy sauce and warming ginger) make this simple salad surprisingly complex in flavor. To turn it into a light main dish, just add some steamed shrimp.

The star of the autumn salad is the black rice. Once a rare item to find, it now can often be found at most wellstocked supermarkets, often by the name forbidden rice. And it’s a great healthy choice. Black rice is higher in protein, iron and fiber than even brown rice. The texture is heartier, too, and it has a pleasant nutty flavor.

Note that black rice takes about twice as long to cook as white rice, so plan ahead. But it keeps its texture very well, so you can make a batch in advance and keep it in the refrigerator for several days to use in salads and soups all week.

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BLACK RICE AUTUMN SALAD Start to finish: 30 minutes Servings: 6 For the salad: 1/2 pound peeled, seeded and cubed (1 inch) butternut squash 2 teaspoons olive oil 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice Kosher salt and ground black pepper 2 cups cooked black rice, cooled 2 cups orange or grapefruit segments (or mixed) 1/4 cup chopped fresh mint For the dressing: 2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger 1 teaspoon soy sauce 2 tablespoons cider vinegar 1/4 cup orange or grapefruit juice (reserved from cutting the segments) 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 large shallot, minced 1/4 cup hazelnuts, toasted and roughly chopped

Heat the oven to 400 F. Line a baking sheet with kitchen parchment.

Mound the squash on the prepared baking sheet, then drizzle with the oil, pumpkin pie spice, and a generous pinch each of salt and pepper. Mix to coat evenly, then spread in an even layer. Roast until tender, but not falling apart, about 20 minutes, turning halfway through. Set aside to cool.

In a large bowl, mix together the rice, citrus and mint. In a small bowl, make the dressing by whisking together all the ingredients except the shallot and hazelnuts. Once the vinaigrette is smooth, add in the shallots. Add the cooled butternut squash and dressing to the rice and mix to coat. Sprinkle with hazelnuts. Serve at room temperature or chilled.

Nutrition information per serving: 200 calories; 80 calories from fat (40 percent of total calories); 10 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 210 mg sodium; 28 g carbohydrate; 3 g fiber; 7 g sugar; 3 g protein.

Master the easy art of cooking dried beans

BY SARA MOULTON The Associated Press

get mushed in the can). Also, you can control what gets added to the beans (particuntil I went off to larly salt). And they cost college and became much less than canned beans.

A 16-ounce bag of dried beans a vegetarian out of yields roughly 5 or 6 cups of cooked beans, while a 15financial necessity, beans ounce can of cooked beans really weren’t a part of my yields roughly 1 1/2 cups. Finally, homemade beans freeze life. beautifully, so why not make a big batch on the weekend But once I found myself pinching pennies while shar- and use it in recipes later in the week? ing a house with three other But there are a few things women, beans became a great and affordable source of bulk to keep in mind regarding dried beans. and protein. And though the Dried beans seem to last initial motivation was saving money, we eventually grew to forever on the shelf, but beware: The older the bean, the love the unique flavors and textures of beans, and I have longer it will take to cook. So try to buy your beans from a continued to cook with them store that has plenty of turnever since. over.

And the best way to make There has been a long debeans? Starting with dried bate about whether to soak beans. Why take the time to beans before cooking them. cook dried beans when you The main reason for the precan find a wide variety of soak is to speed up the cookcanned available? There are ing time. And a pre-soak does several reasons. indeed do that, by about 30 Dried beans cooked from scratch have a more uniform minutes. But Cook’s Illustrated magazine has uncovered texture than most canned beans (some of which tend to an even better reason. If you

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soak beans in salted water overnight, they not only absorb some of the salt (which seasons them), they also come out more tender. For years we were all told that salt made beans tough, but it’s quite the contrary. So I recommend a pre-soak in salted water.

Acid of any kind, however — tomatoes, citrus, vinegar, wine, etc. — is the enemy. It will prevent the beans from cooking properly. If you want to add a touch of acid to your beans, add it only when the cooking is nearly done.

The basics for cooking almost all dried beans (except dried lentils and split peas, which cook so quickly you can make them from start to finish in about 20 minutes) are below. I won’t offer exact cooking times because the timing can vary widely depending on the variety and size of the beans, as well as how fresh they are. I have offered cooking methods using both stovetop and a slow cooker. Whichever you choose, save the cooking liquid. It is delicious added to soups and stews.

MASTER RECIPE FOR COOKING DRIED BEANS Start to finish: 13 to 15 hours (15 minutes active) Servings: 10 1 pound dried beans 3 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons kosher salt, divided 1 medium yellow onion, quartered 1 medium carrot, cut crosswise into 4 pieces 1 celery stalk, cut crosswise into 4 pieces 2 cloves garlic, crushed 2 sprigs fresh thyme Sort through the beans to pick out any random stones or sticks among them, then rinse and drain the beans.

In a large bowl or pot, dissolve 3 tablespoons of the salt in 4 quarts of water. Add the beans, stir, then cover

and soak overnight at room temperature.

The next day, drain the beans and rinse them. In a large saucepan or stockpot, combine the beans with 7 cups of cold water. Stir in the remaining 2 teaspoons salt. Bring the mixture to a boil, skimming the scum that rises to the surface with a skimmer or slotted spoon (that scum is protein solids). Reduce the heat to a simmer and simmer the beans, regularly skimming the scum, until no more scum rises to the surface.

Add the onion, carrot, celery, garlic and thyme, then simmer for 30 to 60 minutes, or until the beans are just tender. Drain the beans, reserving the cooking liquid (if desired) and discard the onion, carrot, celery and thyme stalks. Use the beans in recipes or freeze them in 1- or 2-cup portions.

SLOW COOKER METHOD Soak the beans as described above, then drain and rinse them. In a slow cooker, combine the beans with the 2 teaspoons of salt, onion, carrot, celery, garlic and thyme. Add enough water to cover the beans by 1 inch, then cover and cook on high for 4 to 6 hours, or until completely tender.

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Sear a pork chop perfectly at home

BY KATIE WORKMAN The Associated Press

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ometimes restaurant meals really stun you. You experience

a dish so amazing you find yourself saying, “Oh, I could never make that at home.” But then you pause for a moment and think, “Or could I?” This happened to me recently. I went to Stephan Pyles’ amazing Dallas restaurant Stampede 66, where even for Texas things are done seriously big and bold. Think Dallas meets Spinal Tap, and the dial goes up to 11. There was a pork chop on the menu, aptly named the “Stampede 66 pork chop,” and after I ate it I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I knew I had to try to recreate it in my kitchen.

In my home version, a super simple and immensely flavorful blend of seasonings is rubbed all over the chops, which then are seared in a skillet while you make a colorful and easy black-eyed pea salad. The finishing touch is a couple of apples sauteed with a bit of butter, brown sugar and brandy. Everything comes together on one beautiful plate and the result is pretty amazing.

Does it look complicated? I promise it’s not. In fact, this whole meal comes together in less than 30 minutes (Really!

Truly!).

for 2 minutes, or until they just start to soften. Sprinkle the brown sugar over the apples and cook, stirring often, for another minute or two, or until you can smell the sugar caramelizing. Add the brandy and bring to a simmer, using a spoon or tongs to scrape the bits off the bottom of the pan.

Serve each chop on a plate with a generous scoop of the black-eyed peas salad. Heap some of the apples on top of the chops.

Nutrition information per serving: 1,030 calories; 550 calories from fat (53 percent of total calories); 61 g fat (20 g saturated; 0.5 g trans fats); 215 mg cholesterol; 1270 mg sodium; 38 g carbohydrate; 7 g fiber; 18 g sugar; 78 g protein.

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STAMPEDE PORK CHOPS WITH BLACK-EYED PEAS AND CARAMELIZED APPLES Start to finish: 30 minutes Servings: 4 For the pork chops: 1 tablespoon chili powder 1 teaspoon paprika 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 teaspoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon kosher salt Four 1-inch-thick pork chops (about 3 pounds total) 1 tablespoon olive oil For the black-eyed pea salad: 1 cup diced tomatoes 1/2 cup minced red onion 15 1/2-ounce can black-eyed peas, drained and rinsed 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil Kosher salt and ground black pepper, to taste For the caramelized apples: 2 tablespoons butter 2 Granny Smith apples 2 tablespoons brown sugar 2 tablespoons brandy To prepare the chops, in a small bowl combine the chili powder, paprika, cayenne, brown sugar and salt. Rub the mixture on both sides of the pork chops.

Heat a grill pan or heavy castiron skillet over medium-high. Add the olive oil. Sear the pork chops on both sides until nicely browned and cooked through, about 4 to 5 minutes per side. The middles should still be very slightly pink, with an internal temperature of 145 F. Transfer the chops to a plate and cover with foil to keep warm.

Reserve the pan.

While the chops are cooking, make the black-eyed pea salad. In a medium bowl, toss together the tomatoes, onion, black-eyed peas, red wine vinegar and olive oil. Season with salt and pepper, then set aside.

To make the apples, add the butter to the pan you cooked the pork chops in and set over medium heat to melt. Add the apples and cook

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Across 1 Volkswagen Type 1, familiarly 4 Yemeni neighbor 9 Old-timey oath 131956 Gregory Peck role 15Add a lane to, say 16University of New Mexico athlete 17Irish city in a recession?

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BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Wednesday nights sport two music-themed soap operas trending in opposite directions.

“Empire” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14) and “Nashville” (10 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) share a remarkable number of storylines. Both have musical legends (Lucious/ Deacon) beset with life-threatening illnesses. In both series, music industry survivors with strong maternal instincts (Cookie/Rayna) strive against long odds to start their own record labels. In both “Empire” and “Nashville,” handsome young talents (Jamal/Will) are gay men with disapproving fathers trying to make it in music genres steeped in macho attitudes and homophobia.

The similarities stop there.

Prime-time melodramas tend to appeal to female viewers and that audience has clearly gravitated toward powerful women characters. The success of Shonda Rhimes’ series “Scandal” and “How to Get Away With Murder” is a testament to that fact. “Blindspot,” NBC’s biggest success of this season, is about a woman who may be an amnesiac, but still knows how to assert herself.

“Empire” features Cookie (Taraji P. Henson), a dominating force of nature, a protective mother hen, a survivor of the streets, of the prison system and of a marriage to the man who has become her principal adversary. She may not always prevail, but she knows what she wants and she goes for it, week after week.

On “Nashville,” the message is much murkier. Rayna James (Connie Britton) has spent her life putting others before her.

Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere), first introduced as the firecracker of the series and Rayna’s young rival, has devolved into a hot mess. And pretty songbird Scarlett (Clare Bowen) is always with the wrong guy, singing the wrong kind of music in front of the wrong audience and simply never knows what she wants or schemes to get it.

“Empire” remains the most watched show of the night, attracting more than 13 million total viewers. Meanwhile, “Nashville” has seen its audience steadily dwindle to dangerous lows.

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their dreams with ferocity. The fact that Cookie can do so with audacious style has made her TV’s favorite character.

• The six-part series “The Brain With David Eagleman” (10 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings) explores neuroscience with a side of philosophy. The best-selling author uses arresting graphics, scientific facts and personal anecdotes to explain the brain’s role in making us who we are.

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • Scant evidence points to a doctor’s guilt on “Rosewood” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

• Racial tensions simmer after an unarmed black man is shot on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

• Cam bonds with the renters on “Modern Family” (9 p.m., ABC).

• “NOVA” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings) explores cyber warfare.

• “Expedition Unknown” (9 p.m., Travel, TV-PG) searches

for the tomb of Genghis Khan.

• A long shift and an anxious mother prove taxing on “Code Black” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• The desperate father of a missing girl takes a hostage on “Chicago PD” (10 p.m., NBC, TV14).

• A fashionable crowd descends on the Cortez on “American Horror Story” (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA).

CULT CHOICE A writer (Cornel Wilde) falls for a beautiful psychopath (Gene Tierney) in the 1945 melodrama “Leave Her to Heaven” (8 p.m., TCM), a gorgeous Technicolor spectacle with the soul of a film noir thriller.

SERIES NOTES A real gut-buster on “Survivor” (8 p.m., CBS) * A killer has links to the force on “The Mysteries of Laura” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG) * Norm Macdonald guest-stars on “The Middle” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) * Jeri Ryan guest-stars on “Arrow” (8 p.m.,

CW, TV-14) * Bashful in the locker room on “The Goldbergs” (8:30 p.m., ABC) * Blood on the altar on “Criminal Minds” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * Sam’s left hanging on “Supernatural” (9 p.m., CW, TV-14) * Dre puts his own spin on a holiday on “black-ish” (9:30 p.m., ABC, TVPG).

LATE NIGHT Tom Hiddleston is booked on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” (11 p.m., Comedy Central) * Josh Hutcherson, Chris Gethard, Drennon Davis and Karen Kilgariff are on “Conan”

(11 p.m., TBS, r) * Jack Black, Nick Woodman and Michelle Dorrance are booked on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (11:35 p.m., CBS) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Vin Diesel and Selena Gomez on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Kate Winslet, Mia Wasikowska and Chris Matthews visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Colin Hanks, Juliette Lewis, Matthew Fox and Echosmith appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS).

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t’s that time of year again, when gaggles of little ghosts, goblins and ghouls expect sweet treats.

Whether you are hosting a graveyard’s worth of spooks or need to supply the treats for a classroom party, this year consider ditching candy in favor of an easy treat you can cook up yourself. I’m talking about popcorn. It’s not only tasty, filling and easy to prepare, it’s versatile, too. Make it sweet and it’ll win with the kids. Having an adult party? Make it savory!

Start from scratch by popping the corn kernels on the stove. Those microwave bags of popcorn from the supermarket? You don’t need them. Sure they’re convenient, but most of them also are filled with additives, including hydrogenated fat, artificial colors and flavors, and way too much salt.

My recipe for stovetop popcorn cooks up in a jiffy. As in just 5 minutes start to finish. In fact, the whole process is over so quickly that I urge you to stay near the stove until all the corn is popped. I’ve also minimized the danger of burning by specifying a pan that’s just the right size, one that allows you to set out the kernels in a single layer.

Makes 12 balls 1 batch popcorn 6 tablespoons unsalted butter 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 5 cups mini marshmallows 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (optional) In a 9-by-13-inch baking dish, spread out the popcorn in an even layer.

In a medium saucepan over low heat, combine the butter and salt and cook until the butter is melted. Increase the heat to medium, add the marshmallows and cinnamon, if using, and cook until melted, stirring constantly. Pour the mixture over the popcorn and quickly mix until all the popcorn is well coated. Let the mixture cool slightly. Oil your hands and form the marshmallow mixture into 12 balls.

Nutrition information per serving: 180 calories; 80 calories from fat (44 percent of total calories); 10 g fat (4 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 15 mg cholesterol; 60 mg sodium; 23 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 12 g sugar; 1 g protein.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE POPCORN BALLS

With the corn popped, you can then go sweet or savory. For adults, there are Parmesan-garlic and blue cheese-hot sauce options.

(Either version would also score big on Super Bowl Sunday). For kids, there’s marshmallow popcorn balls (with an optional dash of cinnamon) or double-chocolate popcorn balls. And neither kid option requires any special candymaking skills. You just melt and mix the ingredients with the popcorn, then shape it into balls after it has cooled, a job the kids might want to help with.

Makes 12 balls 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup light corn syrup 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter 2 tablespoons cocoa powder (not Dutch processed) 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 1 batch popcorn 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips In a 4-quart saucepan over medium-high, combine the sugar, corn syrup, butter, cocoa and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.

Remove the pan from the heat and add the popcorn. Stir to coat well. Cool to lukewarm, then stir in the chocolate chips. Oil your hands and form the marshmallow mixture into 12 balls.

HALLOWEEN POPCORN TREATS

Nutrition information per serving: 220 calories; 120 calories from fat (55 percent of total calories); 13 g fat (6 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 10 mg cholesterol; 50 mg sodium; 30 g carbohydrate; 3 g fiber; 21 g sugar; 2 g protein.

FOR THE POPCORN: Start to finish: 5 minutes Makes 11 to 12 cups 3 tablespoons vegetable or grapeseed oil 1/2 cup popcorn kernels Place the oil in a large saucepan at least 8-inches across at the bottom. Add 3 popcorn kernels, cover and cook over medium-high heat until the kernels pop. This lets you know when the pan is hot enough.

Remove the pan from the heat, add the remaining kernels and return the pan to the burner. Cook the popcorn over medium-high heat, covered, with a tiny gap to let the steam escape, shaking the pan occasionally until the popping noises slow down to once every 3 to 4 seconds. Remove from the heat.

Use the popcorn in one of the following variations:

PARMESAN-GARLIC POPCORN 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter 2 teaspoons finely minced garlic 1 batch popcorn 1 ounce grated Parmesan cheese Fine salt and ground black pepper In a small saucepan over medium-low, heat the butter and the garlic until the butter is melted. In a large bowl, toss the popcorn with the butter mixture. Add the cheese, toss, then season with salt and pepper and toss again.

Nutrition information per serving: 100 calories; 70 calories from fat (70 percent of total calories); 8 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 10 mg cholesterol; 85 mg sodium; 6 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 0 g sugar; 2 g protein.

SPICY BLUE CHEESE POPCORN 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter 2 ounces crumbled blue cheese 1 tablespoon hot sauce 1 batch popcorn In a small saucepan over medium-low heat, melt the butter. Add the cheese and hot sauce and stir until the cheese is melted. In a large bowl, toss the popcorn with the cheese mixture.

Nutrition information per serving: 110 calories; 80 calories from fat (73 percent of total calories); 9 g fat (3.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 15 mg cholesterol; 85 mg sodium; 6 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 0 g sugar; 2 g protein.