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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014

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A snow day in the life

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Snow begins to fall, accumulating at the airport for the first time since January 2011.

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Away from the Horseshoe, not everyone was enjoying the snow.

On Blossom Street, a group lined the back of a sedan, pushing the car as its wheels spun out on the hill between Bull and Sumter streets as SUVs and trucks passed by. No luck.

The driver gave up, backing up, hopping the median and driving downhill. At the bottom, the car spun 180 degrees, and the driver revved his engine before making another try at the hill.

The tires squealed, and the hill won again.

—Thad Moore, Editor-in-Chief

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The snow stops falling.

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Snowmen popped up all over campus Tuesday and Wednesday, even on the Maxcy Monument.

2:35 p.m.

By the afternoon, Columbia’s snowplows were on their way back into storage, having cleared the city’s main roadways.

The city had eight plows running during the storm, starting at around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, along with four sand spreaders and two salt trucks.

Jeff Glenn, Columbia’s assistant street superintendent, drove the last plow back Wednesday afternoon. He worked the day shifts Tuesday and Wednesday, spreading salt and plowing roads from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.

“We’ll have a few guys out with trucks tonight, and of course, we’ll respond to any calls from the police department if we get any,” he said.

—Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor

Hundreds of students flocked to the Horseshoe Tuesday night to get up close and personal with the winter weather. Snowballs flew through the air, and students ran all over, either for cover or into the battle.

First-year sport and entertainment management student Abby Hunt walked all the way from Bates West to see what all the fuss was about.

“I’ve been out here for about two hours, so my hair is like a congealed mess,” she said as snowballs whizzed overhead.

Student Body President Chase Mizzell ventured out into the storm wearing moccasins, though he would have worn flip flops had he not misplaced them, he said.

Then Mizzell paused.

“Okay, he put snow in my ear,” Mizzell said, gesturing to a friend, “so I’m gonna go tackle him.”

He did, running down the Horseshoe, picking up his friend and taking him to the ground.

—Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor

Ramona Angus had planned to stay inside and read a book during the snowfall.

After all, the third-year anthropology student is from Pennsylvania, so a few inches of snow didn’t seem like much.

“Then you start hearing people outside from your dorm room, and you just want to go out there and have fun with everyone,” she said after pushing piles of snow together to build a snowman.

Across the Horseshoe, groups of students shouted as snowball fights broke out.

Angus built her snowman beside Ashley Thoerner, a first-year biochemistry and molecular biology student, who said she understood the late-night glee.

She remembered that as a kid, she piled together all the snow she could beside her family’s barn in Aiken and built a snowman so big it spooked the horses.

“I definitely think the snow brings out the child in everyone,” Angus said.

—Thad Moore, Editor-in-Chief

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5 p.m.

Many students decided to stay on campus because of the weather and the hazardous roads, and Jeffrey Murphy, a first-year business and economics student, said that the Blossom Street Garage seemed more full than usual when he tried to find a parking spot after returning from visiting a friend off campus.

“I had to park on the third floor, which is weird,” Murphy said.

“Today it’s really full.”

He was right: Almost all of the parking spaces in the garage were occupied. The Bull Street Garage had closed during the storm, so USC let drivers with spots there park in the Blossom garage.

One car had to drive backwards the length of the garage so it could turn around to hunt for an empty spot on another level. And while parking was messy Tuesday and Wednesday, Murphy said he thought the roads “weren’t that bad.”

—Ginny Ryerson, The Daily Gamecock

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5:54 p.m.

USC delays its Thursday schedule, canceling classes that start before 10 a.m.

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Visit dailygamecock.com to read more stories of this week’s snowstorm and see a gallery of more photographs of Columbia’s winter wonderland.

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Big names coming to Columbia this year Darius Rucker will come home to Columbia on Feb. 21 to play a show, and he won’t be the only star in town this year, The State reported.

Bruno Mars will headline a show at the Colonial Life Arena in June, a few months after he takes the halftime stage at this year’s Super Bowl. Tickets go on sale Feb. 3.

Queens of the Stone Age, who played during the Grammy Awards, will play the Township Auditorium on Friday at 7 p.m.

Joh n Legend w il l a lso play t he Tow nsh ip Auditorium, on April 16, and tickets are now available.

Grammy Award-winner Lahal Hathaway will perform at the Koger Center for the Arts as one of the headliners for the Auntie Karen Foundation Legends of Concert on Feb. 21.

Students arrested after setting off stink bombs

Tire plant opens in Sumter, crediting state support

Two female students at Battery Creek High School in Beaufort were arrested last week after allegedly setting off stink bombs at school, The Beaufort Gazette reported.

Both students were charged with disturbing a school, which carries a fine of up to $1,000, 90 days in jail or both, said Daniel Brownstein, spokesman for the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.

The stink bombs were set off in two separate classrooms and the cafeteria, but it has not been determined who set off which stink bomb.

“Both incidents caused a major disruption in the classroom and in the school,” Superintendent Jeffrey Moss told the newspaper.

Continental Tire officially began production at its new plant in Sumter on Wednesday, producing its first batch of tires three months ahead of schedule, The State reported.

The 500-acre facility cost $500 million to build and is projected to open up 1,600 jobs. At full capacity, it will produce 8 million tires each year.

More than 200 people, including Gov. Nikki Haley, attended the plant’s opening, despite the snow and sleet.

Jo c he n E t z e l , C o nt i ne nt a l T i r e’s c h ie f executive, credited the support of Haley, the state Ports Authority, the state Commerce Department and county leaders with bringing the plant to Sumter.

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Employment numbers good news for students ISSUE South Carolina’s jobless rate has fallen below 7 percent.

OUR STANCE No matter their cause, the figures show improvement.

First, the good news: South Carolina’s unemployment rate d ropped to 6.6 percent last month, the lowest in five years and a hair — 0.1 percentage points — below t he nat ional rate.

To put t h is i nto contex t , t h e l a s t t i m e t h e s t a t e ’s unemployment rate fell below the national rate was in early 2001.

A d d i t i o n a l l y, a c c o r d i n g to t he st ate Depa r t ment of Employment and Workforce, 2 6 , 8 24 p e o p l e f o u n d j o b s bet ween December 2012 and the end of 2013 — no mean feat.

I t ’s s a f e t o s a y t h a t a d e v e l o p m e nt l i k e t h i s h a s b e e n a l o n g t i m e c o m i n g.

South Carolina needed some encouraging news after years of wa l low i ng at t he bot tom of employment lists alongside

st ates l i ke M ich iga n a nd Nevada.

But , as you m ight ex pect , these grand figures don’t reveal the whole picture.

One of t he reasons t he unemployment rate is so low is that 16,669 people have simply stopped searching for jobs since December 2012. These people are not counted when tallying up overall unemployment statistics, which makes the 6.6 percent figure slightly misleading.

Gov. Nikki Haley has wasted

“Today’s economic environment is much improved from the dire straits it was in a few years ago.

USC students entering the workforce after graduation should feel more secure in their position.”

no time to make sure this news is att ributed to her policies, which may well be justified.

Her other shortcomings aside, t he st ring of new businesses rol l i ng i nto Sout h Carol i na is ha rd to see as a neg at ive development.

But ultimately, giving her full credit isn’t exactly kosher either: The state’s development could simply reflect a larger economic trend.

The U.S. joblessness rate, too, has fallen dramat ically, dropping under 7 percent last December. Like South Carolina, the entire nation is also seeing a sharp decline in those looking for work, too. In fact, it hasn’t been this bad nationally in 35 years.

In any case, today’s economic environment is much improved from the dire straits it was in a few years ago.

USC students entering the work force a f ter g r adu at ion should feel more secure in their position.

As long as they keep looking for jobs, that is.

Hussein’s tyranny warranted US action War morally justified, but poorly executed Some t i me ago, Cong ress passed a resolution declaring that “it should be the policy of the United States to remove the Saddam Hussein regime from power in Iraq and to replace it with a democratic government.”

S u p p o r t f o r t he b i l l w a s unanimous in both chambers of Congress, and it was signed by t he t hen-pre sident , who said, “The United States favors an Iraq that offers its people f reedom at home. ... I r aqis deserve and desire freedom like everyone else.”

T he y e a r w a s 19 9 8 . T he president at that time was Bill Clinton.

The shock you might be registering here is u nderst a ndable. W it h t hose long, difficult years of confl ict in Iraq now behind us, it is hard to remember that support for t he removal of Hussei n was once unanimous.

It is even ha rder, now, to assert that there were justifiable reasons for going into Iraq. I’ll try my best.

The first reason was humanitarian. I’m not religious in the least, but I’m having a hard time avoiding the use of the word “evil” here. What else could you call a regime t hat killed hundreds of thousands of Kurdish civilians with chemical weapons?

Rememb er when Hu s sei n suddenly declared that Kuwait, a U.N. member state, was now

t he personal propert y of his personal crime family? (A nd who, exactly, are the imperialists in this situation?) Also, by the time an international coalition forced him out of t hat poor nation, he set the Kuwaiti oil fields on fi re for no reason at all, creating a miasma of death that could be seen from space.

A s wit h all complete totalitarian states, t he atmosphere of general terror i nside t hat cou nt r y-t u r nedprison is impossible to relay accurately. Ever yone was an infor mant. Those who were caught were either tortured or killed.

Remember, the Iraq war was not a war with the Iraqi people.

It was a war against one of t he worst dictators since the death of Stalin.

The second reason was political. There are four violations that automatically void Ben a country’s national Crawford sovereignty: First-year i n v a d i n g English and neighboring Russian student n a t i o n s , conducting genocide, harboring a nd suppor t i ng ter ror ism a n d f l a u nt i n g t h e nu c l e a r nonproliferation treaty.

A s you might expect, Iraq broke all of these.

For those unsure about the last two charges, Iraq harbored Abdul Rahman Yasin after he helped bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. He managed to escape the countr y before

coalition troops arrived. As for nuclear weapons, Iraq received nuclea r cent r if uges f rom Pak istan weapons peddler A. Q. Khan and altogether refused to work with the International Atomic Energy Agency in 1998.

With these violations in mind, one idea become s blat a nt ly obv ious: It was t he U.S. and its allies that were enforcing international law in 2003, not the U.N. At t h is poi nt , I t h i n k it ’s time for a few concessions: Of course, t he war was horribly run. Everyone now knows about the indifference to looting, the hor ror s at A bu Gh ra ib, t he disbanding of the Iraq military, the gutting of the Iraq National Museum and all the rest.

But there were great successes, too. The creat ion of a democ r at ic a l ly elec ted gover n ment a nd some longoverdue autonomy for the IraqiKurdish populat ion can’t be dismissed out of hand.

Ne ver t hele s s , t here is no de ny i n g now t h at t he I r aq venture was a failure in almost e v e r y w a y, n o m at t e r h o w sound the arguments were for intervention.

I can’t help but think about how much suffering we could have avoided, how many people we cou ld have saved, how much sha me we cou ld have spared ourselves had we simply removed Hussein from power at the end of the Gulf War. But we didn’t. And everyone has paid the price.

New Year’s resolutions should focus on community Service worthwhile method of spending time, energy Students should think beyond themselves when making New Year’s resolutions.

It’s that wonderful time of the year again — that time of the year when people vow to make lasting changes in their lives, to stop bad habits and to start good ones; it’s that time of year that usually lasts a glorious two weeks or, for the strong willed, a month.

It’s New Year’s resolution time.

Ever y year when New Year’s Day rolls around, people brainstorm all sorts of ways to improve their lives. While self-improvement is a ver y wort hy endeavor and somet hing that everyone should continue to work at, it still seems a little selfi sh to focus entirely on yourself, especially after a season dedicated to helping and appreciating others.

My challenge to you this year: Keep your gym resolution. Stick to your goal to be more money-conscious. Keep improving yourself, but please keep others in mind.

USC offers its students, staff and facult y seem i ngly endless ser v ice oppor t u n it ies.

Service Saturdays, Cocky’s Reading Express, Carolina Service Council, Dance Marathon and Relay for Life are just the beginning of an extensive list of opportunities.

For an easy and fun way to make a difference, consider signing up for Relay for Life by joining an ex ist ing team or start ing your own with friends. USC Relay for Life is the university’s largest student-run philanthropy and the nation’s fastest growing collegiate relay.

It c a n b e a s big or a s l it t le of a t i me commitment as you make it and all money raised goes straight to the American Cancer Society to fund cancer research and patient services.

We all know someone who has been touched by cancer, and this year, Gamecocks will be coming together to fight the battle.

Service isn’t a chore. Find a cause that you are passionate about, and you will not only be helping others, but you will also be helping yourself.

You will meet new people, develop new skills, discover new passions and feel great while doing it.

Community service will give you the same productive feeling as going to the gym, without the sweaty T-shirt smell.

—Monica Munoz, fourth-year public relations student

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2013’s worst: The bottom 5 of film 2013 was a good year for movies, but every drink has its dregs.

Here are some of the biggest offenders in cinema, guilty of mean-spirited grossness, stilted acting, incoherent direction and many more crimes against viewers.

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car is in relation to its surrounding or how fast it is traveling. There are probably fewer than 10 shots in the entire film that last for more than five seconds. Car chases mean nothing and become boring if nothing Offer “Vince” Shlomi, the salesman in the ShamWow! infomercials, makes visual sense. On top of that, the dialogue is ridiculous, the plot co-wrote and directed this “comedy” that will make viewers feel dirty has holes and Gomez is far from believable as a gun-toting criminal. on the outside and hollow on the inside. He plays a pervert who sits in Go into high gear, and flee this wreck. the sewer and looks up Lindsay Lohan’s white dress from an air vent as she reenacts (or defaces) the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe. Just as “St. Elsewhere” occurred within an autistic boy’s snowglobe, “InAPPropriate Comedy” emanates from her glowing nether region. The seemingly endless 83-minute film consists of Shlomi pushing different apps on his iPad and bringing up sketches. After each painfully, soul-crushingly unfunny sketch, one is glad it is over even after three or four minutes, but then the film goes back to the same four or five sketches over and over.

They include “Blackass,” a black version of “Jackass” that just perpetuates horribly racist stereotypes without any political subtext or wit. Another has Oscar-winner Adrien Brody playing “Flirty Harry,” a feminized spoof of “Dirty Harry,” where the entire joke is that everything he says is a gay double entendre. Another sketch that repeats ad nauseam is “The Amazing Racist” where a man insults all different races and ethnicities in a faux “Candid Camera” format. Staging the ugly performance only makes it that much cheaper and empty. The film is just mean-spirited, lazy and, worst of all, totally without laughs or intelligence. Now Courtesy of “Getaway” Shlomi’s being arrested for beating a prostitute is only the second worst Future billionaire Red Stevens (James Garner) revels in his oil victory thing he has done to humanity. in this dishonestly whitewashed prequel to “The Ultimate Gift.”

1. “InAPPropriate Comedy”

4. “The Ultimate Life” Following up on the 2006 film “The Ultimate Gift,” the story begins in the present and quickly goes into an extended flashback that lasts most of the film, telling the early life of billionaire Red Stevens (James Garner) as he made his fi rst millions in the Texas oil fields.

Remembering the specifics of the plot is difficult, because the fi lm is forgettable, cloying Hallmark Channel-level claptrap. I do recall being the only person in the theater when I saw it and rolling my eyes on numerous occasions and squirming in my seat wanting it to be over. What did stick with me was the film’s confused messages. The faith-based drama is all about kindness and sharing what you have with the world, but the main character gets his fortune with some morally questionable business deals. From what the original film shows, his children turn out to be horrible, greedy people, and this prequel never explains how they became that way. For a film projecting positive messages, there is a darkness underneath that is never explored.

Courtesy of “Insidious”

Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne star as a spiritually harangued couple in the cheaply constructed, not-scary horror film “Insidious: Chapter 2.”

2. “Insidious: Chapter 2” Quiet ... Quiet ... Quiet ... BOO! Did that scare you? Of course not, but that’s a basic summary of “Insidious: Chapter 2,” the mind-numbingly dull sequel to the decent 2010 original. Gore and explicit violence do not a horror film make, but it is true that there are very few PG-13 horror films worth anyone’s time. This sequel lacks any real scares or tension because it merely consists of long stretches of characters walking around in a creaky, haunted house with a quiet soundtrack until suddenly the music or a sound effect blares, causing, at most, a momentary startle. A small child can come up behind someone and scream out, causing the other person to flinch, but as soon as the source of the noise is revealed, there is no fright or dread left. There is no momentum or meaning to the boo moments. The film is nothing more than cheap scares strung together in a completely convoluted plot. The director, James Wan, made the much more effective horror film “The Conjuring” earlier in the year. How could the same person make two films in the same year of such wildly different quality?

3. “Getaway” Ethan Hawke stars in this frenzied action thriller as a man who has to drive like a madman through Bulgaria to save his wife from being killed by a psychotic foreigner voiced by Oscar-winner Jon Voight. Early on, Hawke pulls Selena Gomez into his car to help him after she holds him at gunpoint. If a competent director and editor had been steering this vehicle, it could have been a fun B-movie, and the ludicrous premise could be forgiven. The problem is that the action is edited so fast and the camera work so inconsistent and incoherent — cutting between extreme close-ups of parts of the car and random shots of the car barreling through the bustling city — that one can rarely tell where the

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Roy Pulsipher (Jeff Bridges) and Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds) take aim at one of their many uninspired adversaries in the derivative “R.I.P.D.”

5. “R.I.P.D.” Ryan Reynolds plays a generally good cop who makes a fatal error one day in an attempt to make some money for himself on the job. In death, he is transferred to the R.I.P.D., the Rest in Peace Department.

As one could surmise, he fights crime in the afterlife and stops an assortment of ghoulish creatures. He is teamed up with an Old West sheriff, played by Jeff Bridges, who does a cloying variation on his Rooster Cogburn character in “True Grit.” Who ever thought Bridges, of “Big Lebowski” fame, could play such an annoying character? The special effects-laden mess is a mix of “Men in Black” and “Ghostbusters” but without an ounce of those films’ wit or charm. The plot makes little sense, and many of the major story developments are never explained.

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Jam Room Music Festival to return in fall Young festival to host 3rd installment Oct. 11 Belvin Olasov

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The Jam Room Music Festival, a signature event for Columbia’s music scene, has announced that its third installment will take hold of Main Street on Oct. 11 this year.

The festival will feature 12 bands performing on two stages on Main Street from noon to 10 p.m., and as with last year, the show will be free. This year’s lineup will be announced over the summer.

Despite weather difficulties last year, the festival continued its winning streak

for Columbia.

“We learned that people are going to come out even if it rains if you have a good band lineup,” said Linda Toro, festival coordinator. “We’re very pleased with the turnout last year.”

That being said, the festival wasn’t without technical hiccups, which the coordinators will work to prevent this time.

“One of the unfortunate things that happened was the smaller stage didn’t have lights on it,” Toro said. “So by the time ‘The Great Book of John’ played, it was already dark ... and they were kind of playing in the dark.”

The Jam Room Music Festival has been striving to fill a needed role in JAM • 7

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The Woggles rock out at the 2013 Jam Room Music Festival, which managed to bring out an impressive crowd of happy music fans despite inclement weather.

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JAM • Continued from 6 Columbia’s artistic affairs: a genuine musical event.

“We’re trying to fill a hole in the music scene here in Columbia; we want to start bringing bands through that won’t normally stop here. ... We’re just trying to reignite the music scene,” Toro said. “That’s the biggest thing. We want to get people excited about the music scene again. We want to let bands know that there’s an audience here and that Columbia’s a cool place to stop and do a show.”

In addition to making Jam Room

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Music Festival a signature musical event, its coordinators have a specific vision of what kind of music the festival will feature.

“We’re trying to bring in bands that would go under the indie-alternative umbrella,” Toro said. “We’re not trying to cater to every demographic. ... We have a certain demographic in mind, like a younger, socially-conscious, environmentally-aware music fan.”

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WIN • Continued from 10 a high-f lying dunk from the right ba sel i ne, wh ich had t he f a n s at Colonial Life Arena on their feet.

Martin said he was happy with how aggresive his players — particularly the trio of guards, Williams, Notice and Thornwell — stayed on offensive.

“All three are starting to feel more comfortable with everything,” Martin said. “The simplicity of our offense allowed them to just be on attack mode and pass the ball.”

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in SEC play. Texas A&M fell to 12-8 with the loss and 3-4 in conference play.

Martin and Williams thanked the fans for coming out to support the Gamecocks in less-than-ideal weather conditions, and they said it was a relief to get their first SEC victory.

“It does feel good; we knew one was coming sooner or later,” Williams said.

“We were really appreciative of seeing the student section the way it was. It means a lot to us, and it inspired us to play even better.”

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HOROSCOPES

Aries

Leo

Sagittarius

You have the power to go beyond the limits you’ve set for yourself. Structures get ch a l lenged. You r friends will back you up, however. It’s possible to be objective; is it needed?

L o v e a nd f r ie nd s h ip triumph.

Lean on a gentle partner today and tomorrow. Ask for more, and get it. Then pay back a favor. Today and tomorrow are good for compromise. End the old method, and begin new communication style or channel.

Welcome a good idea from family. Offer it as inspiration to others. In an intense conversation, stay respectful. Things are starting to make sense.

Take a spiritual approach.

Communicate from your heart.

Career matters come to the forefront now. Dive i nt o work ! A r i s e i n status is possible. Team success su r pr ises a nd provides free time to play with friends later. New opportunities open up.

Give thanks.

Continue basking in the love, as you’re about to enter a busy phase today a nd tomor row. M a ke a p ac t t h at s upp or t s ever yone involved.

Technology and a lucky turn of events help you achieve perfection.

It’s excellent for travel through tomorrow. It can be quite profitable, too.

Creativit y is required.

Focus on the things you enjoy, and let someone else do the other stuff.

Wrap it up with a bang.

Taurus

Gemini

Virgo

Libra

Aquarius

Cancer

Bring the fun home. It’s get t ing ext ra creat ive today and tomorrow. You can do something you t hought you couldn’t.

Hidden resources come through. And you have lots of emotional support.

Order pizza for the team.

A lack of f u nds could t h re at e n you r pl a n s .

Postpone travel for now.

Use the challenges that arise for learning and transformation. Follow your heart, and do more than you thought possible.

Con nect t he dot s for everyone.

You’ve got the energ y, but fo c u s i ng m ay b e a challenge. A llow for others to contribute. Use your energy to create new opport unit ies. Family matters take center stage later today and for the next couple of days.

For the next two days, clean up old messes. Let a vision be your inspiration.

Dance with surprises. Try something new or even revolutionary. Consider you r move s. C i nch a romant ic deal. You’re gaining wisdom.

S M

Scorpio

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Capricorn

Don’t sweat t he small s t u f f. You’re g et t i ng stronger but also more impatient. Concentrate, plan well and t hen make the magic happen.

Schedule your priorities to take advantage of this surge of power. Then relax.

The news and what you learn affect your decisions today a nd tomor row.

Travel’s appealing, but trickier. Obligations call.

You’re apt to think of everything that could go wrong.

TOMORROW

Pisces

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1/30/14 ACROSS 1 Cause of a run, perhaps 10 Benjamin 15 Two-time Best Situation Comedy Emmy winner 16 Still in contention 17 Scorned 18 Oysterquartz maker 19 Agitates, with “at” 20 Physicist Ampère 22 New York Giants ownership family name 23 Drink suffix 24 Obstructs 26 Dilutes 30 Locking blocks 32 Work with a shuttle 33 Order of the British Empire, e.g.

35 Butter up, perhaps 37 Film feline 38 Key color 40 Region 41 Antifreeze compound 43 Some runners 45 Result preceder 46 Like some waste 48 Center 49 Something to use on leftovers 51 Old dance 53 Fixed stake 54 Emphasize to excess 56 Composed 60 Fluffy 62 It “isn’t what it used to be”: Peter De Vries 64 In reserve 65 Horror movie staples 66 Get Mad again 67 “I need a hand!”

DOWN 1 Sweeping 2 Pelvic parts 3 Drama that began with a plane crash 4 TCM merchandise 5 Shell game need

6 Epic featuring Agamemnon 7 Dig 8 Kept in the loop, briefly 9 It’s always number one 10 Ride 11 NFL review technique 12 Featuring built-in columns 13 Jenny Craig targets 14 Southern side 21 Karl Benz or Henry Ford 23 Grand Canyon State sch.

25 Chi follower 26 2005 Brosnan/Kinnear film with a bullfight scene 27 Aces 28 Lottery draw 29 Genesis builder 31 Town in Salerno 34 “The Bathers” artist 36 Avianca airlines destination 39 Construction site sight 42 Words on some initial volumes

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44 Rapscallion 47 Cheat 50 One handling hot things?

52 Ready 55 Yawn inducer 56 Footprint, e.g.

57 Field: Pref.

58 Stead 59 Clipper part 61 Fine-grained wood 63 Short-term funding source

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Men’s basketball earns 1st SEC victory Gamecocks blow out Texas A&M to avenge loss earlier in season Tanner Abel

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The Gamecocks won their first SEC game of the year in an 80-52 blowout of Texas A&M, avenging a loss to the Aggies earlier in the season.

Freshman guard Duane Notice scored 12 secondhalf points, which helped him earn a career-high of 19 points on the night.

Freshman guard Sindarius Thornwell also chipped in with 19 points of his own to go along with four rebounds and three assists.

Both players were efficient shooting the ball; Notice went 6-of-8 shooting, and Thornwell went 5-of-8 from the field.

Coach Frank Martin was pleased with Notice’s performance, his best since taking over as the Gamecocks’ point guard.

“Duane was as vocal and as enthused about the last two days of practice consistently as he’s been all year,” Martin said. “It’s no surprise that he played with tremendous confidence today. He played like a point guard today, mentally and physically.”

Notice said injured point guard Tyrone Johnson and former football and basketball star Bruce Ellington had given him advice on how to play the position better.

“This week, I went to (assistant) coach (Matt) Figger’s house,” Notice said, “and it gave me the motivation to figure out who I am as a player and figure coach Frank out.”

South Carolina’s defense was stingy as well, with not one Aggie scoring double figures on the night.

Freshman guard Shawn Smith and junior guard

Jamal Jones led Texas A&M with nine points apiece, but combined, they shot just 3-of-15 for the game.

Turnovers plagued the Aggies in the early goings, as the Gamecocks started off on an 8-0 run with 16:30 remaining in the first half.

Texas A&M began to creep back, but with about 8:30 left in the first half, South Carolina went on a 20-6 run that lasted the remainder of the half. Fast break opportunities were plentiful in the opening period for the Gamecocks.

M issed f ree t hrows prolonged t he A gg ies’ suffering. They were sub-par from the line all game, going 16-of-29 on the night.

Senior guard Brenton Williams had 11 points for South Carolina in the first half and finished with 18 for the game.

The Gamecocks’ lead crept up to 21 points at one point in the half, which was the biggest lead the Gamecocks have had in the first half of an SEC game all year.

The Aggies cut the lead to 43-30 with 17:40 left in the game. Then, Shawn Smith missed a point-blank layup, and Notice capitalized on the other end of the court with an and-one layup. Texas A&M coach Billy Kennedy said that missed layup may have kept the Aggies from turning things around and winning the game.

With 13:12 remaining, Notice had another tough and-one layup to put the Gamecocks up 53-37.

Williams put the icing on the cake with a threepointer with 10:22 left to give the Gamecocks a 59-37 lead. The lead got up to 32 at one point before settling at a final margin of victory of 28 points.

Sophomore forward Laimonas Chatkevicius capped off the night late in the second half with WIN • 8

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Freshman guard Duane Notice turned in a career-high 19 points in the win over Texas A&M. Notice has taken over at point guard in junior Tyrone Johnson’s absence.

Women’s basketball team holds ‘Tweet Week’ Gamecocks look to lure Wilson to Columbia with increased social media presence Danny Garrison

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S o u t h C a r o l i n a w o m e n’s basketball fans may have noticed the team’s increased presence on social media over the past week.

The events spanning across the Twitter world and the real world have been a part of the program’s “ Tw e e t We e k ,” a n i n it i at i v e designed to help lure the nation’s No. 1 h igh sc ho ol rec r u it to South Carolina when she attends Sunday’s game against Missouri on her official visit.

A’ja Wilson, a South Carolina native who attends Heathwood Hall Episcopal School in C olu mbia , is con sider i ng t he Gamecocks along with traditional college basketball powerhouses Con nec t ic ut , Nor t h Ca rol i na and Tennessee. On Wednesday, Wilson was named a McDonald’s All-American.

O n M o n d a y, Tu e s d a y a n d Wednesday, the team held a daily question-and-answer session on Twitter with one player from the women’s team, and it hosted daily giveaways for fans who correctly answered trivia questions posted on the team’s official account.

Upcoming events include “indept h socia l med ia a nd photo c o v e r a g e” le a d i n g u p t o t h e Gamecocks’ game tonight against Ole Miss, a Twitter scavenger hunt complete with prizes on Friday and behind-the-scenes coverage of Saturday’s practice.

The week will culminate during Sunday’s game when 12 fans will w i n t icket s to catch t he game in a Colonial Life A rena suite including complimentary snacks and drinks.

A l l st udent s a nd fa ns i n at tenda nce w il l receive a f ree T-shirt that will be revealed over social media on Saturday.

DG

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Junior catcher Grayson Greiner was named the No. 24 overall college prospect for the 2014 MLB draft and second in his position group in Baseball America’s annual rankings. He was also named to the all-America second team.

Baseball earns preseason recognition Gamecocks ranked 7th in Baseball America poll, No. 14 in 2 others Danny Garrison

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With baseball season just around the corner, the Gamecocks have received a number of preseason honors — both as a team and individually.

South Carolina landed in the top 15 in all three major NCAA baseball rankings, coming in at No. 13 in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll, No. 14 in the Collegiate Baseball poll and No. 7 in the Baseball America poll.

A testament to the uncertainty of college baseball, none of the three polls has the same No. 1 team in the nation.

How the Gamecocks stack up in the conference varies between the polls, too.

Collegiate Baseball and the writers association place them at No. 4 in the SEC and Baseball America at No. 1. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, LSU, Mississippi State,

Texas A&M and Vanderbilt were the other SEC teams to receive top-25 rankings.

The most highly touted member of South Carolina’s roster entering the season is junior catcher Grayson Greiner. He spent his summer playing for Team USA and received several nods in Baseball America’s preseason player rankings. The publication named Greiner the No. 24 college prospect in the 2014 MLB draft and the second-best prospect at the catcher position.

Greiner and junior third baseman Joey Pankake both garnered preseason all-American honors from various publicat ions. Bot h players were named Louisv ille Slugger second team all-Americans, and Pankake earned second-team recognition from the writers association.

South Carolina’s roster of 18 returning letterwinners f rom last year’s campaig n w ill be bolstered by a recruiting class ranked seventh in the nation by Baseball America.

After beginning spring practice over the weekend, the Gamecocks will get their season underway on Feb. 14 in a three-game home set against Bucknell.

DG