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Out of the seven candidates, frontrunners include Kirkman Finlay and attorneys Steve Benjamin and Steve Morrison.

Robert Beary Returns The junior infielder emphasizes the team over his individual statistics as he recovers from injury.

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Citizens elect city’s future Mayoral race presents Columbia residents with opportunities for new visions, direction Jonathan Battaglia

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For t he f irst t ime in over 20 years, Columbia residents will vote in a mayoral race without Bob Coble on the ballot Tuesday. Coble decided not to run for re-election after serving as the city’s mayor for two decades.

In his place are seven candidates hoping to shape Columbia’s future. Councilman K irk man Finlay, along with local attorneys Steve Benjamin and Steve Morrison have emerged as the front-runners to take Coble’s place.

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Coutts prefers making pu rchases on l i ne for b e t t e r p r i c e s . F i r s tyea r ret a i l /fash ion merchandising st udent Lauren Malstrom, said the store has been helpful Derek Legette and knowledgeable about STAFF WRITER Apple products. “ It w a s r e a l l y n ic e , so I g uess I’m k ind of The Apple Hub located sad to see them leave,” at the Russell House will Malstrom said. be transitioning from its A few st udent s were physical location to the not s u r pr i sed by t h i s Web after this semester. change.

A pple Hub m a n ager T h i rd-ye a r E ngl i s h M ichele Dames sa id st udent K at hy R ab on t he G a mecock A pple said that she is sure there Hu b d e c id e d t o s h i f t are plenty of people upset gears from a full-service that the hub is closing, retail store to an online but is not sure that she purchase and direct ever actually saw anyone delivery operation for the doing business there, let USC community. alone actually making a “The Gamecock purchase.

A pple Hub has been “If t he store doesn’t temporarily located in the make money, then it can’t Russell House, and we st ay i n bu si ne s s,” she are currently planning to said. “That’s just the way locate the new operation it works.” i n t h e S t u d e nt i C a r e Scott Fowler / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Dames said they look Center at 1244 Blossom Zach Owen helps a student at the Apple forward to being at the Street,” Dames said. c e nt e r of t e c h nolog y T he i C a r e C e nt e r ’s Hub on the first floor of Russell House s up p or t i n t he iC a r e s u p p o r t o f b o t h M a c in its last semester as a retail store. center where thousands a nd PC plat for ms w ill continue and expand as they explore new of students go for assistance.

“We will miss our neighbors and the great opportunities for students to explore and use support of the Russell House staff,” she said. the technology.

Dames thinks this is perfect balance of “Apple offers many great programs and this program is a terrific fit for us,” she said. support and customization. “Customers “It will allow faculty, staff and students to deserve everything they want, and buyers purchase the same great Apple products at can test drive systems and talk to experts at the iCare center,” she said. “Together they the educational discount price.”

Although some students were disappointed can create a product online that is the best the store will no longer be in Russell House, solution for their computing needs.”

Students can go to apple.sc.edu now and other students, such as Michael Coutts, a first-year exercise student, approve of the view the in-stock inventory that’s available in the store. change.

“They need to advertise more and get themselves out there because I never see Comments on this story? anyone over there,” he said.

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Education grant has unreasonable standards for schools.

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Dennis Lambries, Ph.D., a local government expert in USC’s Institute for Public Service and Policy Research, said Columbia residents have a unique opportunity to determine the future of their city.

“Bob [Coble] has provided some good leadership over the time, but the city is now entering a new phase in part because of this economic challenge we’re in,” said Lambries, who currently serves as chairman of the county’s water and sewer authority. “This is a real opportunity for the citizens of Columbia to make a choice of who is going to provide the vision for the future of the city.”

Joseph Azar, Sparkle Clark, Aaron Johnson and Nammu Muhammad make up the second-tier of candidates. Lambries called the four mayoral hopefuls “wel l-mea n i ng ca nd idates who represent smal l

For the first time in the USC’s h istor y, t wo second-yea r law students have been selected to serve as national student officers in the American Bar Association at the same time.

Tommy Preston Jr. was elected as the only student representative on the Board of Representatives for the American Bar Association.

Preston’s primary responsibility is to voice the concerns of all law students across the nation.

Tonnya Kennedy-Kohn applied and was elected to serve as the national student editor for the American Bar Association’s Student magazine, which ser ves as the student publication for law students across the nation.

As an undergraduate, Preston attended the University of South Carolina and earned a degree in political science. During his undergraduate career, Preston served as Student Body president, giving him the opportunity to listen to and serve his fellow students.

Before being selected for the position, Preston was nominated by the selection committee — allowing him to put even more distance between himself and his competition for the position.

A s a st udent representat ive, Preston hopes to address the cost of

After discovering interests in the socioeconomic needs of sub-Sahara Africa, Laura Ware and Denise Dunovant have taken their studies far beyond the classroom.

The current and former USC students have traveled individually to pursue their research, and they both hope to go abroad again this summer. Ware, a third-year political science student, has also started a nonprofit called Reaching out in Sudan, Africa.

“We are trying to help build a health center for women in Southern Darfur,” Ware said.

According to the ROSA Web site, by 2009 more than 2.7 million people had been displaced in Darfur because of the genocide. The nonprofit seeks to provide rehabilitation for the women who were victimized during this conflict.

Ware first discovered an interest in transitional justice when she took a class on the causes of genocide. After being awarded the Magellan Scholar grant last spring, she spent seven weeks of her summer at The Hague in the Netherlands to conduct research at the International Sudan ● 2

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In the next year, Columbia’s city government will face the question of how to operate in a depressed economy without federal stimulus funds. The city had received over $39 million from the A merican Reinvestment and Recovery Act as of March 29.

Lambries said the new mayor will need to develop strategies to attract new businesses and industry to Columbia. Regional partnerships also need to be developed between different localities in the Midlands, according to Lambries.

“I think it’s an exciting time for the city, because anytime you have a new mayor, it opens up a whole lot of new opportunities for the city to have a new look at itself and a have new look at its directions,” Lambries said.

Lambries said he has been most impressed on how congenial the debates and dialogues have been between the candidates.

“I think part of that is a ref lection that it’s nonpartisan, and for the most part they’ve all focused on issues,” Lambries said. “I think people have a very clear choice of the background, experience and priorities of the candidates.”

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 55 different locat ions across t he cit y. A ll Columbia residents will be able to vote for mayor and an at-large council representative. Residents of Districts 1, 2 and 4 may also vote for a representative from their district.

Lambries said turnout is historically not high in mayoral elections, even if weather is forecast to be good.

“Participation is always a challenge, especially in elections that are not held in conjunction with a statewide or national election,” Lambries said.

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USC alumna Denise Dunovant is planning to continue her African Studies and earn a Ph.D. in human geography at Royal Holloway College in England.

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Criminal Court. “ It w a s a r e a l l y g r e at growing experience,” Ware said. “I was more excited [to go] than nervous.”

Ware was able to sit in on trials and obtain interviews with high court officials while

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she learned about the ICC and analyzed its effectiveness.

“My research was focused on the ICC’s case against O m a r A l-Ba sh i r, t he president of Sudan, and the high court’s effectiveness in prosecuting a sitting head of state,” Ware said. “Ultimately, I was researching issues of

transitional justice while a conflict is ongoing.”

Wa r e a l s o h a d t h e opportunity to meet Darfur refugees while abroad.

This summer, she is hoping to go to northern Uganda to t alk to v ict ims of war and cont inue researching transitional justice. She is interested in how peace and reconciliation are obtained in the wake of a conflict.

Dunovant, who graduated with a bachelor of arts in g e o g r a p h y, h a s b e e n t o northern Uganda twice, as well as Ghana and Kenya. She and Ware know each other because of their similar interests and research.

“It’s a small communit y of people related to African studies,” Ware said.

Dunovant studied education until her sophomore year but changed majors after taking a world regional geography class with Ed Carr. An African h istor y cou r se w it h Ron Atkinson also helped solidify her interests.

“If it weren’t for that, I would probably be teaching in South Carolina right now,” Dunovant said. In the summer after her sophomore year, Dunovant traveled to Ghana to study the role of street vendors in the economy. She followed up with comparative research in Kenya after receiving a Magellan Scholar grant.

Shortly after, she went to Uganda to assist Atkinson with an electronic archival projec t , wh ich con sisted of locat i ng a nd sca n n i ng newspaper articles from the war in northern Uganda. This trip inspired her to study the region again, and she went a second time after receiving a Fulbright research grant.

This time she focused on an overlooked segment of the population that was displaced during the conflict.

“Most had been away from t hei r homes si nce 1986,” Dunovant said. “They were never recognized as being displaced.”

A f ter t hese research ex periences, Du nova nt is hoping to go to Uganda again this summer. She has also been accepted as a research post-graduate student at Royal Holloway College in England, where she plans to attend next year to earn a Ph.D. in human geography.

“Now it’s just waiting to hear back about the scholarships,” Dunovant said.

Both Dunovant and Ware plan to continue their African studies in the future as part of their careers.

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“My priorities are making headway in these two areas, but I am excited to for the challenges ahead,” Preston said.

Kennedy-Kohn received an undergraduate degree in biology from Vanderbilt University and then went on to receive a master’s degree in journalism from Murray State University.

She spent some time as a journalist and also as a managing editor at The State newspaper here in Columbia.

Both Preston and Kennedy-Kohn believe it is the university that deserves most of the credit for this accomplishment.

“One cannot accomplish such tremendous success without having a strong backing from the legal and professional community,” Kennedy-Kohn said. “The South Carolina community helped to put us into the forefront of the competition.”

William Hubbard, the chairman of the House of Delegates, became a voice on the board for both Preston and Kennedy-Kohn.

“It is such a big step for an individual from a small southern law school to step into the national stage and become an advocate for law students everywhere,” Preston said. “This

just speaks volumes to what the Law School is accomplishing.”

Preston, who understands the significance of being the first African-American to be elected to the highest student position in the American Bar Association, attributes this historical achievement to his mentor and South Carolina alumnus I.S. Leevy Johnson.

As a former student at the University, Johnson was the first African-American to graduate from USC’s Law School, and also the first to serve as the president of the South Carolina Bar. “Having the opportunity to be the first African American to be in this position is something to be proud of, but I don’t want individuals to dwell on this fact. Listening to the story of the trailblazers such as Leevy ( Johnson) does make us proud of the new wave of leaders coming forward.” Preston said.

Both Kennedy-Kohn and Preston believe that working together on the same campus will allow them to achieve great success in their newfound positions.

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SC high court upholds Tommy Hutto’s conviction South Carolina’s high court on Monday upheld the conviction of a man serving life in prison for raping and robbing a 91-year-old woman, ruling that the man’s trial attorneys were effective and gave him good representation.

Tommy Hutto’s appellate attorneys had argued that their client’s original defense team shouldn’t have let a probation agent testify at trial about cuts he saw on Hutto’s hands. That information, the lawyers argued, should have been considered privileged under a law that governs the relationship between probationers and their agents. The court disagreed, writing that such a strict interpretation would keep agents from being able to talk about just about anything they see in a probationer’s home.

“Preventing a probation officer from reporting what he sees during his visit to his client, as the State argues, could mean that he would be unable to report evidence of a crime he sees in his client’s home,” the court wrote. “Such a result is neither intended by the legislature nor necessary to further the goals of the statute.”

A month after the incident, probation agents noticed cuts on Hutto’s arms similar to the marks that the suspect in the 91-year-old woman’s case might have. The victim picked Hutto out of a photo lineup as her attacker, authorities matched his DNA to blood found at the crime scene, and he was charged with rape and first-degree burglary.

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Gay, lesbian couples encouraged to send census NEW YORK — With strong backing from the Census Bureau, gay-rights activists are urging maximum participation by their community in the first U.S. census that will tally same-sex couples who say they’re married — even those without a marriage license.

The move has drawn fire from conservatives, who complain that it’s another step toward redefining marriage. For the first time, the bureau has deployed a team of professional field workers to reach out to gays and lesbians. On Monday, the bureau unveiled its first publicservice videos encouraging gay Americans to mail in their census forms.

The bureau’s willingness to count gay marriages — despite a federal law that denies legal recognition to any of them — has been hailed as a historic milestone by gay-rights leaders.

“Our opponents are rightfully concerned, because it does lend an air of legitimacy to our marriages,” Grant said. “It’s another way of weaving us into the fabric instead of continuing to see us as outsiders.”

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Man wanted in El Salvador extradited to U.S. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — A man who acted as a lawyer for U.S. missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children after the devastating earthquake will face a hearing this month on a U.S. extradition request, an official said Monday.

It had been unclear whether Jorge Puello would be extradited to the U.S., where he is wanted on smuggling charges, or El Salvador, where authorities allege he led a prostitution ring.

Gisela Cueto, an assistant general prosecutor for the Dominican Republic, told The Associated Press on Monday that Puello will face extradition to the U.S. at an April 28 hearing even though the El Salvador charges are more serious. She said the Central American nation did not complete a formal extradition request.

Puello is wanted in El Salvador for alleged crimes against children; sexual exploitation of minors for pornography and prostitution; organized crime; and human trafficking. Interpol had issued an arrest warrant for Puello at El Salvador’s request.

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Lawmakers fuming QUINNTISCENTIAL over cigarette tax Race to Top criteria unrealistic Last week, the Senate approved a 50-cent increase in the cigarette tax from its current 7-cent tax. The cigarette tax will as of now be used to pay for rural water, sewer or other funding as the government sees fit While a few raised cents doesn’t taste good on anyone’s palate, the 50-cent raise doesn’t even pull us up to the ranks of other states; with a national average of $1.36 tax per pack, other states leave ours in the dust.

Yet, the plan for where the tax money will go frustrates those who want lawmakers to keep their primary focus on raising the tax in order to decrease the smoking rate and Smokers don’t those hospitals who want the money to go to Medicaid. For necessarily want to lawmakers who can understand a tax, the problem is where the pay for interstate money should go.

There are the understandable corridors with conc er n s f rom t ho se who are smokers and might feel discriminated against by what the costly habit. seems to be morality taxes — smokers don’t necessarily want to pay for interstate corridors with their costly habit.

It might be a different story if the tax money was allocated towards cancer research and programs that care for people affected by smoking. We encourage this kind of taxing to avoid discrimination while still pulling South Carolina out of the cigarette tax dark ages. Our state needs the help. But let’s not use these kinds of taxes to take care of everyone, becoming a new source for expected funds. The lesson for lawmakers: don’t depend on these “moral-based” taxes to make decisions on what people can and should do. And if you do, watch where those funds are going if you expect any kind of support.

Don’t get too bothered by a couple quarters. It’s not enough to discourage smokers the way lawmakers are hoping, but it is enough to hurt your wallet when you choose to hit the nicotine stick

Obama administration’s contest upholds arbitrary standards for education grant Since January, 40 states including South Carolina had taken part in the Obama administration’s contest for a $4 billion education grant, “Race to the Top.” When they reached the top, they realized the summit only had room for two states and there was no money up there.

According to an article in the New York Times, “States Skeptical About ‘Race to Top’ School Aid Contest” by Sam Dillon, only Delaware and Tennessee got paid.

Del. got $100 million and Tenn. received $500 million.

Also, caps were placed on the amount of money states can apply. According to an article in The State, “State fails to land schools grant” by James Rosen , South Carolina can only apply for $175 million in the future. More would be helpful, especially considering tiny Del., with an already exceptional school system, was able to land $100 million.

Since only two states were awarded, some question the scoring methods and if they should reapply for round two. The Obama administration made its grading system for “Race to the Top” as arbitrary as the high school grading system.

But in t his system, since a limited amount of money is awarded to the states that most improve, there is a finite number of A’s t hat can be handed out; we’re grading on the bell curve here. And what,

exactly, gets you an A? The New York Times article said scoring “favored states able to gain support from 100 percent of school districts and local teachers’ unions for Obama administration objectives like expanding charter schools, reworking teacher evaluation systems and turning around low-performing schools.”

The last two goals are vague — what exact ly const it utes a “rework ing” or “turning around” or “low performing” — and the first seems hardly to be desired.

I’m glad 100 percent of many states did not expand charter schools.

Charter schools do create more “passing” and “aboveRyan average” schools, but only by Quinn using a syringe and sucking Second-year the high-scoring students print journalism student (usually white, middle-class) out of failing public schools where their grades were overshadowed by failing students (usually poor minorities).

By quarantining them in “gifted and talented” schools, you haven’t helped the failing kids one bit. Charter schools simply serve to further reify class divisions.

In summation, “Race to the Top” is no more legitimate than “The Amazing Race.” A bunch of hot, sweaty, overworked school systems race up the Mt. Everest that is education reform until they reach the top, whereupon they realize that they’re on the a cable reality show that doesn’t pay good money.

Twitter gives insight to ballerina’s hard work Dancers use social network sites during performances to share difficulties of each show As a ballerina, there are a lot of things the outside world doesn’t know about us. We spend endless hours in rehearsals and several years up to a lifetime of training trying to perfect our arabesques or achieve eight pirouettes. People who don’t dance never see the hard work dancers put into their passion, but now with thousands of blogging sites and the new age of Twitter, audiences are reading how dancers really feel after a performance or how badly their feet hurt in a performance.

Let’s be honest. When you think of a ballerina you think of tutus, pointe shoes and tiaras. Their feet never hurt while pressed up against a piece of wood, they never wear “trash bag” pants with five layers of leg warmers underneath and they never even have to file their taxes. Who could be more perfect and not have to deal with the real world?

It is as if people have this fairytale vision of ballet.

In every classical ballet, such as “Sleeping Beauty” and “Swan Lake,” the prince rescues the princess

and they live happily ever after. The audience has this concrete image of ballerinas as princesses.

That is why when the performance is over, every character stays in costume, signs autographs for little girls and takes tons of pictures. For example, I never signed my real name when I was the “snow queen” in The Nutcracker because it would ruin the magic for any aspiring ballerina.

That’s what the outsiders think because the only time they see these perfect ballerinas is on stage when the curtain is open. Not closed. People don’t realize how hard ballet is. When I tell people I am a ballerina, they think I’m a weakling who has never broken a sweat.

Ballet is a lot harder than people think and finally the outside world is seeing what goes on behind the Marilynn curtain due to social media.

Joyner We’ve all heard of Twitter. I Second-year political science have a Twitter along with several student professional ballerinas from New York Cit y Ballet such as Ashley Bouder who tweets everything from her muchneeded massages to all the dance events she has to attend in one week. In The New York Times Mar. 29, ballerinas were featured as tweeters. They have

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taken on the challenge of tweeting their feelings during performances and rehearsals, so people can see how vigorous ballet is.

It’s interesting when they tweet during shows.

During Sleeping Beauty, Ashley Bouder tweeted inbetween acts about her feet cramping and whether her solo was good. What the audience sees from a dancer is so different than how a dancer feels. The audience sees perfectly pointed feet and a smile on the dancer’s face when the dancer might be feeling upset from missing a step or in extreme pain from the mounds of blisters on their feet.

There are many sites that feature dancing from behind the curtain such as The Winger. This site shows viewers pictures during rehearsals and the process choreographers go through when choreographing a piece.

It’s great that audiences are seeing what dance is really like and how hard it is to be a dancer. Not only is dancing difficult physically, but weight watching and fighting against every other dancer for the lead role can be detrimental to a dancer’s character.

Social networking opens doors to a dancer’s life.

Now audiences won’t quickly judge what’s on stage, but instead look up to the life a dancer lives. But, these truths should be kept away from the younger ones because the magic is still there for them.

A h spring, t he t ime of year to break out the cute fl ip-flops, beach towels and orange skin. That’s right, orange skin. Tanning beds are popu lar t h is t ime of year as those with ghostlike pigments don’t want to blind innocent bystanders.

However, with the passing of the health care bill, we may have to get used to the fluorescent look.

Though the majority of the heath care bill is a load of manure, the 10 percent tax placed on tanning salon use is a good idea. The tax may force individuals to cut down on the fake bakes— reducing the amount skin cancer.

Recent st ud ies have shown that using tanning beds can be more harmful to your health than smoking cigarettes. The government has ta xed A merica ns for their use of cancer sticks for years, so it makes sense that they would slap on a tax for exposure to ultraviolet light.

The ta x, ef fect ive July 1, applies to all electronic products that utilize one or more ultraviolet lights with wavelengths bet ween 200 a nd 4 0 0 na nometers . I n other words, those of you who carrot-tize yourselves by t he mea ns of a spray tan can continue to make yourself look l i ke Mal ibu Barbie for the same price you cou ld before t he bill was passed.

Many are Lauren out raged by Hadley First-year A mer ic a’s visual latest way to communications suck up their student financial funds. Tanning bed goers and owners feel that they’re being targeted. On average it costs roughly $15-$20 a visit — not including the $30 or $40 spent on specialized lotion. Numerous customers bel ieve a 10 percent t a x will only dent their wallets further.

According to t he Sk in Cancer Foundat ion, sk in cancer has become the most common form of cancer in America with more that 3.5 million cases and 2 million people diagnosed annually.

The major it y of cases can be at t ributed to U V radiations exposure. With all the scientific research that’s published today why are people angry about a 10 percent tax on something that is proven to kill them?

It’s better to be pale than tan, wrinkled and dying of cancer.

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Perseus (Sam Worthington), son of Zeus (Liam Neeson), fights the forces of the underworld in “Clash of the Titans,” which topped the box office last weekend.

‘Titans’: a clash of bad elements Mythology action film devolves into irredeemable comedy filled with horrid performances Neal Hughes

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Clash of the Titans NOW IN THEATERS ★ out of ✩✩✩✩✩

Director: Louis Letterrier Starring: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes Run Time: 118 minutes Rating: PG-13 for action-violence Imagine you are walking in a park on a beautiful day; you take a step and feel a squish under your shoe. You slowly turn your shoe over and much to your dismay, there is a big glob of dog feces on it.

That is the exact feeling you will have after seeing “Clash of the Titans,” a film that is absolutely awful in the bluntest of terms, where nothing stands out. Listening to each

character talk is slightly more painful than impaling yourself on a meat hook multiple times and then pouring moonshine on the gaping wounds.

Director Louis Letterrier (“The Incredible Hulk”) has proven that he possesses some directing competence (albeit miniscule), but somehow decides that for this movie he should do his best primate impression, and thus embody the only possible audience that wouldn’t be embarrassed to enjoy this film.

“Clash of the Titans” begins with a brief “history” lesson providing the back-story of how the Greek gods came to power. After the audience is given the Mythology 101, the film cuts to a floating coffin that has been discovered by a small fishing vessel. Inside the coffin is a dead woman and a live baby, who we later find out is Perseus.

The fisherman rescues Perseus and raises him as his own son. Fast-forward twelve years (I was wishing it was to the end of the movie): Perseus (played by Sam Worthington of “Avatar”) has grown into a man and has taken up the family trade of fishing.

However, Perseus quickly learns that his destiny does not lie with a rod and reel, but with a sword. He finds out that he is a demigod (half-man, half-horrible actor) after the death of his family. The rest of the film drags

the viewer through each perilous challenge Perseus faces on his way to facing the gods, trust me, none of them are interesting.

“Clash of the Titans” somehow finds a way to be cheesier than the original, which came out twenty-nine years ago and is famous for its cheesy special effects. The movie is an excellent case of bad movie happening to good actors, especially Liam Neeson’s Zeus , who looks like he fell out of a Duran Duran music video.

Neeson may have looked ridiculous, but Ralph Fiennes’s rendition of Hades certainly takes the award for being the most deplorable.

“Clash of Titans” did teach some very important lessons, though. The first is that Sam Worthington does not have the ability to carry a movie. He spends most of his time hunched over, looking like the bad dog that got into the trash.

The second is that screenwriters Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay should be blacklisted for their writing crimes. The lines are laughable when meant to be serious, and the comic relief is pathetic and more depressing than onscreen deaths. Futhermore, since when does “calm your storm” constitute intimate dialogue?

“Clash of the Titans” is an unexpected comedy utilizing a mixture of the painful and the humorous. Going to see this with a group would be advised, because the only way to

iPad inspires creative apps ABC, Marvel among contributors to Apple’s latest tech creation Jimmy Gilmore THE MIX EDITOR

On last week’s episode of “Modern Family,” characters rushed frantically to find dad Phil (Ty Burrell) the one thing he wanted for his birthday — an iPad. Maybe this was a moment of shameless advertising, building an entire plot around a piece of technology that hit shelves last week with an asking price of $499 (and that’s the cheapest model), but ABC has been working synergy with Apple’s latest product in more ways than one.

Though many consumers seem confused about the iPad, which offers many of the features of the iPod touch or iPhone on a larger screen, the entertainment industry has taken multiple steps to capitalize on the release of the touch pad right out of the gate.

The iPhone/iPod touch, whose App Store has done all it can to support the catch phrase, “there’s an app for just about anything,” has become a major source for developers like Electronic Arts to distribute versions of staple games like

“Madden NFL 2010.” Additionally, most major television stations already have episodes of their top shows available for purchase in the general iTunes Store.

According to an article in yesterday’s “Variet y,” the entertainment industry as a whole seems to be collectively working to make their mark on the iPad. ABC’s product tie-in on its Wednesday night comedy seems less shameless when considering that the network plans to offer most of its current programming, including “Lost” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” to stream on the iPad. Promoting the iPad then doubles as a subtle way to further promote ABC’s online media player, supported by additional ad revenue.

Other television stations joining the iPad mini-frenzy include CBS, which currently offers full episodes of “Survivor,” with the potential to include more of its shows in the future, and ESPN, which reformatted their popular “ESPN ScoreCenter” app into a full-blown “ScoreCenter XL,” featuring videos and information about all the major sports highlights.

Further, YouTube, Vimeo and Hulu have all reformatted themselves to run on iPad, offering users the ability to enjoy the Internet’s top video services on the lightweight device. For Netfl ix users, the “Watch Instantly” queue has fi nally gone mobile. The DVD service has now provided an iPad-exclusive app to let users watch TV shows and movies available as instant plays on their Web site.

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Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell) enjoys his new iPad in last week’s episode of “Modern Family.”

salvage any merit out of this film is to laugh at its shortcomings, and believe me they are endless.

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Sam Worthington (“Avatar”) stars in the remake of “Clash of the Titans.”

Additionally, Marvel comics has already provided 500 of its comics in a digitized version that can be bought individually from the App Store.

The most surprising inclusion at the launch of the iPad may come from Amazon, who will offer more than 450,000 books available for purchase and download from their Kindle app. Considering the debate surrounding whether Amazon’s E-reader would be able to compete with the iPad, this instant cooperation seems shocking.

Apple’s iPad, despite the immense buzz since Steve Jobs premiered it several months ago, has faced speculation about the mark it will make — especially as most Apple consumers already own some combination of a desktop, laptop, iPhone or iPod, and the iPad seems to hover comfortably between the size of a MacBook and the touch interface of an iPhone/iPod Touch.

Perhaps App Store and iTunes Store sales have encouraged major networks to plunge headfirst into the iPad technology.

Many App Store best-sellers, such as Scrabble, are already offered in new iPad versions. Apple is also offering many of its iWork products, such as presentation creator Keynote and word processor Pages, in iPad form.

Though the first generation selling price will ultimately deter many from springing for an iPad right away, this instant synergy seems to only build off the success of the iPhone.

The coming months should see an explosion of various media available on Apple’s new product, meaning the iPad can very easily fulfill its promise of offering a completely unique user experience that allows familiar programs to be accessed and enjoyed in new ways. That’s Entertainment.

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Apple’s iPad hit stores this past weekend and already features a multitude of apps.

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Networks retool shows’ hiatus period ‘FlashForward,’ ‘Glee’ among programs with new broadcast patterns Gail Pennington MCT Campus

So many TV shows went missing this winter, viewers were ready to call out bloodhounds.

After airing just four episodes, “V� disappeared from ABC and didn’t return until this week. The Fox hit “Glee� went on an extended semester break that will stretch until April 13.

ABC’s “FlashForward� and Fox’s “Fringe� both left mysteries hanging during lengthy hiatuses.

An unusual number of shows took long breaks this season, leaving some fans puzzled and worried. But breaks of three or four months no longer mean a series has been canceled. They are just more evidence of the broadcast networks’ continuing search for new ways to program the TV season.

We can blame ourselves for making the change necessary.

After happily watching reruns since the dawn of television, viewers stopped being so eager to see the same episode twice.

In the 1990s, an explosion of original programming on cable gave us plenty of fresh choices, while recording devices kept us from missing our favorite programs the first time around.

The networks tried slipping repeats into the broadcast season, but with more and more shows featuring serialized elements, random reruns proved confusing to audiences. So did scheduling frequent weeks off, as ABC tried disastrously in the first season of “Lost.�

Meanwhile, cable networks were getting lots of attention airing short seasons of original series and making fans wait months for new episodes. On HBO, “The Sopranos� ended its first season on April 4, 1999, and didn’t return until the next Jan. 16. The audience came back, too.

Broadcasters began talking about year-round scheduling and looking at cable (or British) ways of doing business. Fox led the way, trying and succeeding with one strategy when it delayed the Season 4 premiere of “24� to January 2005, allowing the day to unfold without interruption. With baseball in the fall, Fox tried a different strategy with “Prison Break,� starting the serialized show in late summer 2005 and then picking it up again after several months.

NBC has since experimented with airing “Heroes� in socalled chapters, each making up part of a season. And “Chuck,� renewed last May, was held back to January so its episodes could run in sequence, a la “Lost.�

But this year’s hiatuses, while they might be seen as a test for how network TV might look in the future, actually were more happenstance than strategy.

The “Glee� break was scheduled, in part, because creator Ryan Murphy was committed to directing a movie (“Eat, Pray, Love,� starring Julia Roberts). Fox also got a chance to whip up interest in the musical-dramedy, releasing the first half of the season on DVD and announcing a concert tour for the cast.

ABC had always intended to run “V� in chapters, ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson explained. “We did not intend for the first chapter to be so short,� he said. “There were production issues that took over, unfortunately.�

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The cast of “Glee� picks up honors at this year’s SAG awards. The Fox show returns from an extended hiatus April 13.

As a result, the network decided on “a kind of limited chapter� of four episodes to run in the fall, with a consecutive run after the aliens-on-Earth drama’s return. “FlashForward� was already on the air when ABC noticed that “repeats really weren’t working,� McPherson said.

Considering that the Olympics were set to air on NBC in February, the network decided to hold “FlashForward� back to March and promote it alongside “V� as an event. “It wasn’t something that we intended, but we dealt with the circumstances, I think, in the most productive way we could,� he said.

E xec ut ive producer Dav id S. G oyer defended t he “FlashForward� hiatus as the only thing that made sense, telling TV critics visiting the set in January that all involved had decided that airing the remaining episodes consecutively was the best course. However, Goyer has since left the show, and “FlashForward,� whose viewership had declined (down more than 40 percent from its premiere) even before the hiatus, returned last week to unimpressive ratings.

But as long as viewers ignore reruns, the networks will be forced to look for new ways to fill the TV year. Why not just dispense with repeats altogether and make enough episodes of a series to fill a whole year, or at least a nine-month season?

Because that’s far too expensive; networks need to air an episode at least twice to get their investment back. Cable networks air shorter seasons anyway - typically 13 episodes, compared with 22 or 24 for a broadcast network - and run each episode multiple times, making their business model inherently more profitable.

CBS, which still airs its shows on a traditional SeptemberMay schedule, does well with reruns, largely because the procedural dramas for which the network is known perform well in repeats. More ambitious, often serialized shows might not repeat well, but they draw younger audiences and do well on DVR playback. “FlashForward� could be a test case for whether a new show can survive the hiatus strategy. If the series, which ABC had hoped might be a long-running replacement for “Lost,� ultimately fails, ABC might be more inclined in the future to run shows like “Castle,� a nonserialized, character-driven drama that McPherson calls “our highest-performing repeat show.�

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With pressure off, Tiger will triumph

Beary aims to get back in groove

Refocused Woods will find way to win in Augusta

Jack of all trades junior looks to bounce back from wrist surgery, continue producing for SEC East-leading Gamecocks Dylan Foster

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After transferring to South Carolina from Pensacola Junior College last fall, utility man Robert Beary looked as if he would be putting up solid numbers for the Gamecocks, but a wrist injury that he suffered at the end of the 2009 season is still continuing to haunt him.

For much of 2010, Beary has been struggling to get back to the level of play he was at before his injury, hitting .271 on the season with 11 runs batted in. The 5-foot-9-inch, 190-pound junior’s struggles can be summed up in one word: confidence.

“I guarantee you it’s confidence,” Beary said. “Once you have confidence that you can hit someone, no matter how hard he’s throwing the ball, it’s going to come in looking like a balloon.”

While the surgery on his wrist took place more than a year ago, there is no doubt that it is still having an effect on Beary, causing him to be benched earlier in the season due to lack of production.

“I knew why I was sitting,” Beary said. “I was determined not to give up on myself, and I’m not going to do that to my team.”

Since he has missed a considerable amount of at-bats due to the wrist injury, the prescription for Beary is ultimately to hit the batting cages and work on regaining his confidence and with it his swing.

“I’m trying to fi nd my old swing, and it’s taking some time,” Beary said. “But with a little work and the coaches being patient, I’ve been able to get back into it.”

And that work seems to be paying off for Beary. The Apopka, Fla. native had by far the best game of the season last week against The Citadel, going 4-5 with a home run and two RBI, and with a little more than half of the season gone by, there is still plenty of time for Beary to get back into the groove.

Despite all of his struggles in the batter’s box, however, one thing Beary made clear is that my no means will he put his individual statistics over the performance of the team.

“I’m not too much worried about individual goals,” Beary said, “because if you help your team win, stats for the scouts and all that are going to be there. If you worry about your stats individually, that’s when you start to go downhill.”

USC coach Ray Tanner is aware of the progress that Beary has made and acknowledged that Beary has the work ethic and determination to start playing better.

“He’s a guy that doesn’t make excuses and works extremely hard,” Tanner said. “His batting practices have not been good, but now he’s starting to feel good again.”

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Robert Beary, who tranferred to USC in the fall, has been playing well for the surging Gamecocks after struggling through a wrist injury.

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USC to face off with Upstate Gamecocks look to snap losing streak, remain undefeated against in-state rival Spartans in midweek clash in Columbia Sam Davis

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South Carolina will host its fourth straight game at Beckham Field today in an attempt to recover from a three-game sweep at the hands of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers. USC-Upstate will be coming to Columbia looking to keep the Gamecocks from snapping their seven-game losing streak.

Tonight’s matchup provides an opportunity for USC coach Joyce Compton and her squad to get back on track against a team it’s capable of beating. Four of the last seven losses that have been dealt to Carolina have been from ranked opponents as it continues to face a flurry of talented ball clubs.

The Gamecocks will hope they don’t have to deal with the Spartans’ ace, Morgan Childers, who has baffled opponents this year with a 0.62 ERA on the season. Childers has struck out a mesmerizing 261 batters in her 145.2 innings thrown. She now holds the all-time Spartan record for career wins after picking up her 70th over the weekend.

Junior Laura Mendes will look to carry the USC past the Spartans (24-7, 5-3 Atlantic Sun) and wake up the rest of the Carolina lineup.

It’s a lineup that desperately needs some reviving after putting up two runs in the three games that were played over the weekend.

A gruesome SEC schedule has South Carolina (10-26, 0-16 SEC) sitting with an ugly record at the bottom of the conference, but a contest with Upstate presents the team with an opportunity to pick up a win. It’s already taken down the Spartans once, which was last year when it edged the new Division I opponents by a score of 3-2.

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Kelsey Goodwin and the Gamecocks will look to get off the schnide tonight against USC-Upstate in a clash of sister schools.

Every time a big golf tournament comes around, a simple question is posed: Tiger or the field?

T h is com i ng weekend at Aug u st a National, the latter is, for the first time, t he over whelm ing consensus choice.

Nevertheless, I’m sticking with the former.

L og ic say s t hat Tiger Woods ha s absolutely no chance in Hades of winning the Masters. Logic says there’s no way that mere months after becoming a national punchline and weeks after being in an undisclosed in-patient rehab center for an undisclosed issue, Tiger can be successful and focus with the legions of paparazzi, critics and former mistresses running amok.

I say log ic be dam ned, because I think Tiger’s going to win the Masters, more than James likely going away.

Kratch Why? Because the pressure Second-year English is off now, and he can focus student on golf for t he f irst t ime since this whole mess started.

Tiger did all that he had to do at yesterday’s press conference, his first since that fateful Thanksgiving night.

He answered the questions. He spoke genuinely and tr ut hf ully. He showed remorse. He gave enough explanation to end the speculation but protected the most salacious details.

And, when his 34 minutes of questioning were up and he walked off the dais with Masters Media Committee chairman Craig Heatley, Tiger Woods the philandering liar once again became Tiger Woods the dominant golfer.

“A lot has happened in my life over the past five months. And I’m here at the Masters to play and compete,” Woods said.

“And just really excited about doing that.”

Until yesterday, Woods couldn’t just focus on playing golf and competing, because he had yet to face his sordid and outrageous behavior head-on.

Yes, much of his talking points to the roughly 200 or so media members assembled in the interview room at Augusta was stuff we’d already heard in his stand-up statement back in Februar y and the five-minute interviews he granted to ESPN and The Golf Channel in March.

But the lack of any groundbreak ing revelations didn’t in any way diminish what happened in the room.

With the public statement, Tiger looked robotic and emotionless.

With the five-minute quick hitters on his front steps with Tom Rinaldi and Kelly Tilghman, it was just a return to Tiger’s old ways; controlled settings where despite the best efforts of the interviewers, getting Woods off his pre-scripted answers was impossible.

But yesterday’s presser was a whole d if ferent stor y. Of cou rse t here a re restrictions at Augusta National and of course Heatley only called on the guys he knew and the guys he knew wouldn’t cause a ruckus.

Nevertheless, Tiger put himself out there.

He did what he had to do in taking questions from the floor that, until he heard them, were unknown to him in terms of what they entailed. He faced the music and got back on the record.

And now, this will all begin to go away.

Some more women may come out of the woodwork with some more embarrassing stories, and those we know already will probably make an appearance or two at a gentlemen’s club or Hooters in the greater Augusta area this weekend.

The jokes will be cracked until the end of time. Home life will continue to be a private struggle.

It won’t matter though. From this day forward, Tiger can once again control the situation and focus on what got him to this point of celebrity and wealth – his amazing gift from above at the game of golf. He is a transcendent athlete, and this is what transcendent athletes do — rise above amazing odds for improbable glory.

The only modern-day case that even compares to Tiger is Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault accusation. Remember, once he tackled things head-on, he thrived on the court and has regained America’s admiration over time. Tiger will do the same, starting this weekend.

I’ve often said that I won’t consider Tiger the greatest golfer of all time until he comes from behind on Sunday and wins a major.

I don’t see him doing that this weekend. I do see my opinion on that subject changing though, because when he puts the green jacket on once again, it’ll be an even greater comeback than anyone could’ve envisioned.

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