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More than most people, James N. Martek will be thankful to turn 55 at the end of this month. He almost didn't make it.
The basketball referee from Lancaster collapsed on the court in the first quarter of last Friday's varsity game between Mount Mercy Academy and Christian Central Academy.
"To tell you the truth, I don't remember anything from maybe a half-hour before the game," he said. "The last thing I remember is walking into the locker room to get dressed, and then the next thing was waking up upstairs in ICU."
Martek's heart had stopped on the court.
Fortunately for him, Melissa M. Hudecki, an athletic trainer, was working at the game. She ran to midcourt, performed CPR and administered the automatic electronic defibrillator until firefighters arrived, saving his life.
The two embraced Thursday when they were reunited in Mercy Hospital, where Martek had an automated defibrillator implanted Tuesday.
"If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be here. This is special," he told her. "I've got tears in my eyes."
"It's so good to see you up and around," said Hudecki, who works for Catholic Health AthletiCare.
The two have seen each other at athletic contests for about 10 years.
Martek, who is a risk manager for HSBC Mortgage Co. by day, also referees football and lacrosse. He said he remembers when Hudecki, now 37, was the scorekeeper for the St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute lacrosse team.
"When I heard that was you, I said, 'She's my angel of mercy,' and my family is just so happy," Martek said.
A graduate of Canisius College, Hudecki was uncomfortable with the attention Thursday. "I was just doing my job," she said.
Others noted how important that job is.
"The timeliness when you did it is important; the responding as quickly as you did, is what I believe, saved his life," said Kelly A. Finkowski, manager of AthletiCare sports program..
"When you delay care, the outcomes aren't the same."
Both of them then repeated the CPR mantra: Every minute lost decreases the chances of success by 10 percent.
Dr. Robbie D. Wall, a cardiologist who treated Martek in Mercy Hospital's Catholic Health Heart Center, agreed that time was vital in the case of Martek, who suffered from an arrhythmia.
"It's quite remarkable to see how well Mr. Martek is doing, considering what he has been through. The early resuscitation he received from Melissa, as well as the firefighters, really saved his life," he said. "We know that the death rate associated with what Mr. Martek had is very high. Only less than 5 percent of people actually live."
Martek was put into a medically induced coma through the weekend to decrease the amount of oxygen his body needed and to stabilize his condition.
The incident has changed his life. He said he has been a referee the last 20 years and often was assigned to games four or five evenings a week. The crisis, he said, has made him reassess his life.
"I've been married 30 years. My wife has sacrificed the last 20 years," he said. "Friday could have been my last day with her. I've got 30 years in. I'd love to have another 30 years with her. More than likely, that is the last game I'm going to ref."
He does hope to return to the basketball court, however.
"What I'd really like to do," he said, "is apologize to all of the players for scaring the hell out of them."
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The young Stetson football team took some time during a week away from the rigors of Pioneer Football League play last week to take a step back and evaluate where they are at the mid-point of the season.
Those evaluations led the Stetson coaching staff to a return to work on fundamentals as the Hatters prepare to return to action on Saturday at Marist in Poughkeepsie, NY. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:05 p.m. from Tenney Stadium.
The game will be broadcast by the Hatter Sports Network with Matt Musgrove and Steve Ostermann on the call of the game. Fans can tune in to WSBB AM 1230 in New Smyrna Beach or WTJV AM 1490 in DeLand. The game will also be available via video web stream through Hatter Vision on GoHatters.com.
If the Hatters hope to leave New York with a victory that would snap a five-game losing skid, Stetson coach Roger Hughes said it will take an effort that minimizes the mistakes that have plagued his team.
"First of all, we can't beat ourselves," Hughes said. "We have to eliminate turnovers and defensively, we have to be in the right gaps and have no coverage breakdowns. What we have to do is make sure we keep the game close until the fourth quarter to give ourselves a chance to win it. We will do that by playing fundamental football – hanging on to it, catching it when it is thrown to us, blocking the guys you are supposed to and, on the defensive side, no missed tackles."
In the Hatters' last game, against Dayton, the team had breakdowns in all three phases of the game, which led to the Flyers building a big early lead. Stetson had three turnovers in the game, allowed 261 yards rushing including several big plays, had 23 missed tackles on defense and allowed 99 yards on punt returns.
The result was short fields for the Flyers, leading to quick and easy early scores.
Hughes said the extra week gave the team and coaches a chance to narrow their focus on the areas that have been the most problematic.
"We went back and looked at all of the things we are doing and tried to condense it down to the salient things we think are not only good for our team right now but, also long term," Hughes said. "We looked at a lot more situational things. We have emphasized to the players that winning on first down leads to getting manageable third downs, both offensively and defensively."
Another benefit of the week off was that the Hatters were able to play a pair of junior varsity games, which provided opportunity for some players to show that they are ready to contribute on Saturdays.
Two of the players who have made a move up the depth chart are offensive linemen Griffin Vari and Blake Manning. Both are scheduled to make their first starts this weekend. Vari will start at left tackle while Manning will go at right guard. They will join with regulars Patrick Fogarty at left guard, Fletcher Eldemire at center and Matt Wawrzyniak at right tackle.
"The fact that we had a couple of JV games sandwiched into the bye week allowed some of our less experienced players to earn their way onto the bus," Hughes said. "A couple of them did that.
"We are trying to find the right formula. The kids who moved up the depth chart have earned their way. It is not always the fact that someone is doing something wrong that gets them demoted. It may just be the fact that the guy behind him is doing everything much better."
Another player who earned his way onto the trip this week is redshirt freshman running back A.J. Washington. During the fall last year, and this past spring, Washington showed signs that he would be a top option at running back. That trend continued when camp started in August before an injury put him on the shelf for the first six games.
Washington showed in the two junior varsity games that he is back to near full strength and ready to help a running game that has struggled to gain traction this year, averaging just 112.2 yards per game, more than 40 of which has come from the quarterbacks.
Stetson's leading running backs are Darius Chapes (127 yards) and Jerami Singleton (103 yards).
"I don't know of any teams that win championships that don't run the ball effectively," Hughes said. "A.J. has played in the last two JV games and I thought he improved tremendously. How much we will work him in will depend on how the game goes. In practice, he appears to be back to the level where he was to start the year. If that is the case, then I think he will make the team become better."
While Washington returns from injury, the Hatters will be without one of their top big play threats this week with receiver and kick returner Terrance Burt out with an injury. His absence means that Chris Crawford will have more pressure on him to give Stetson a home run threat, both offensively and on special teams.
Crawford ranks second on the team in receptions with 16, and leads the team with 196 receiving yards, but has yet to find the end zone. He has also averaged 12.1 yards on eight punt returns. The problem for Crawford, which is not unique to him on the young team, is that he has had some very visible drops.
"I think drops are a combination of mental focus and trying to press too hard to make big plays," Hughes said. "We have had a lot of dropped balls, and Chris is not the only one responsible for that. Because of Chris' athletic ability, he tends to get open in big situations and therefore his drops become more magnified.
"No one understands this better than Chris, and no one is working harder to improve those pass-catching skills than he is. If practice is any indication, he has continued to work and continued to get better. Your heart goes out to him because there is no one on this team who works harder or who playing well means more to him than Chris."
Inconsistency catching the ball, as well as struggles with turnovers and in the running game, has led to some struggles from the Hatters two quarterbacks. Both starter Ryan Tentler and backup Jonathan Jerozal have looked good at times running the offense. But, like most freshmen, there have also been struggles.
Simplifying the plan going into the game, and going back to basics, are two of the things the Stetson coaches have done to give both players a chance to succeed.
"We have gone back to basics from the standpoint of working on fundamentals and footwork," Hughes said. "We have modified their footwork in order to hopefully make them less anxious throwing the ball. The other thing is that we have reduced the number of passing concepts we are utilizing. We are trying to figure out what each guy likes to throw."
As the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Hughes said he is still looking for one, or both, of his primary signal callers to make a giant leap forward. That fact has led to both players seeing significant playing time each week.
"I don't think either one has stepped forward at this point to say 'I am the guy.' Both of them are making enough mistakes that it doesn't warrant just one guy in the game," Hughes said. "I just think it will help our team if both of them continue to elevate their games and continue to improve."
As for the challenge the Hatters will face this weekend at Marist (4-3), the Red Foxes will present a much more pass-oriented attack on offense and, on defense, are one of the best teams in the FCS at putting pressure on opposing quarterbacks.
Marist has thrown for an average of 254.7 yards per game this year with 17 touchdown passes. That is not to say they don't run the ball, the average 139 yards per game on the ground, they just don't run it as much as recent Stetson opponents. On defense, Marist is averaging three sacks per game, but also surrenders a lot of yards (359).
"I don't think what they do will change what we do defensively," Hughes said. "Any time we go into a game, we want to try to make the opposing offense one dimensional. You have to stop the run and, to this point, we haven't been very good at doing that. Regardless of how much they pass the ball, our goal is to stop the run."
Winning the running game, on both sides of the ball, is determined mostly by play at the line of scrimmage. Winning there has proven to be difficult for the Hatters, who have been smaller and less experienced on both sides of the ball than virtually every team they have faced.
"The offensive lines we have faced, and I think we have faced, counting this week, the four best in the conference, has been a baptism by fire for our guys," Hughes said. "We have to utilize some movement and some blitzes because we can't go toe-to-toe and take on those double teams and not get moved out of the way."
Getting pressure on the quarterback on the line of scrimmage, and covering the Marist receivers, will be the key for Stetson to slow the Red Foxes attach. Linemen such as end Davion Belk (26 tackles) and tackle Billy Walsh (23 tackles) will have to get pressure while corners Glenn Adesoji and Chris Atkins join with safeties Donald Payne, Ryan Powers and Zach Dyer to keep the Marist receivers in check.
If the Hatters can do that, then the flight home on Saturday night will be very enjoyable for everyone.


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BUCKHANNON - West Virginia Wesleyan utilized an 11-0 run midway through the second half, spearheading a 60-52 victory over visiting Alderson-Broaddus Thursday in WVIAC women's basketball action.
The Lady Bobcats received 22 points from their bench in the winning effort.
Wesleyan led most of the first half, battling to 25-22 halftime lead. A-B held close and the game was tied at 32-32 and 34-34 before the Lady Bobcats materialized a surge that pushed the lead to 45-34 - a lead they would never relinquish.
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Brittany Williams goes in for two against Alderson-Broaddus Thursday in West Virginia Conference play at the Rockefeller Center in Buckhannon. Williams had 12 points in the Lady Bobcats' 60-52 win.
"Defense was the key to our victory," Wesleyan head coach Jackie Devane said. "We did get some points from our bench, but more than scoring, those ladies brought a lot of energy on the defensive end."
Atavia Blake led the Wesleyan starters with 12 points, while Brittany Williams produced 12 points and Kacey Johnson 10 points off the bench. Brittany Maxey posted team highs with seven assists and three steals. Danesha Richardson collected a team-high 10 rebounds.
"When we were making our run in the second half, we came with an aggressive man defense, and that seemed to get our offense going as well," Devane said.
Amanda Peoples led the Lady Battlers with 13 points, followed by Cayla Rhodes, who posted a line of 11 points, 10 rebounds and eight blocked shots. Leah Hurst just missed a double-double with eight points and nine rebounds.
Wesleyan improves to 2-3 on the season, while Alderson-Broaddus falls to 2-2. The Lady Bobcats are back in action Saturday afternoon at Glenville State. A-B will host Seton Hill on Dec. 8.
Seton Hill 67, D&E 64
Paige Alviani scored 19 points and dished out five assists as Seton Hill held off Davis & Elkins 67-64 Thursday night in West Virginia Conference play at the McDonnell Center.
The Lady Griffins (1-4, 1-1 WVC) led by as many as 13 points in the second half before the Lady Senators rallied to take a 62-59 lead on a pair of free throws from Page Turner with 3:12 left in regulation.
But Seton Hill took the lead for good on a jumper by Alviani, followed by a three-pointer from Mallory Sanner with 2:22 remaining.
D&E came no closer the remainder of the game.
Katie Gattuso added 16 points and seven assists for the Lady Griffins, who led 34-31 at the intermission. Mallory Sanner also reached double figures with 10 points.
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Butlery Brendan just used all the families resources and never said thank you in the least bit.
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When: 7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Boondocks, 2909 N. Dirksen Parkway
Tickets: $20, available at www.showclix.com. (The site was showing on Thurs...
David Nail/Sam Hunt (country)
When: 7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Boondocks, 2909 N. Dirksen Parkway
Tickets: $20, available at www.showclix.com. (The site was showing on Thursday afternoon that the show is sold out.)
Note: The show is for ages 21 and up.
Sam Hunt: The singer/songwriter has written or co-written songs recorded by Kenny Chesney (�Come Over�), Keith Urban (�Cop Car�) and Billy Currington (�We Are Tonight�).
NASHVILLE, Tenn. � Going into the recording studio for his third album, country singer-songwriter David Nail was ready to move beyond his reputation for emotionally heavy, slow ballads that painted him professionally into a box.
So when he heard the song that would eventually become the first single from �I�m a Fire,� he realized it was a turnaround for both his career and his attitude.
�When we found the song, �Whatever She�s Got,� it was kind of like the perfect storm, the perfect song to kind of set us in motion, so to speak,� Nail, 34, said of the hooky upbeat love song that hit No. 1 on Billboard�s Country Airplay chart. �I definitely got to a point personally, where I was just tired of being somewhat of a gloomy guy and I would hear people reference me as a moody.�
Nail performs Friday to a sold-out audience at Boondocks, 2909 N. Dirksen Parkway (see accompanying information for details).
Since 2009, Nail has recorded the country hits �Red Light,� �Let It Rain� and �Turning Home.� He has had three albums reach the Top 20 on the Billboard magazine country albums chart.
The Missouri-born singer�s naturally smooth voice was a perfect match for sentimental songs like �Turning Home,� which earned him a Grammy nomination for male vocal performance.
�I think that having a large part of my life being somewhat in a down spiral, you�ve got a lot of material to draw from,� he said.
Darius Rucker, who invited Nail to open for him this year on his True Believers Tour, called Nail one of the best singers in country music currently and said that those emotional performances are what draws fans to him.
�You can tell that he is trying to broaden his horizons, but he�s still great at that sad song,� Rucker said. �You believe that he is feeling what he is singing. That�s a huge thing. That�s what makes your songs viable.�
But in this new album, Nail pumped up the tempo and relied less on the piano and more on the guitar. Little Big Town and Lee Ann Womack provided backup on some of the tracks and he pushed himself vocally to expand his register.
�Sometimes I think all too often people can reference good singing by showing how technically great you are on every song,� Nail said. �A lot of these songs were in registers that quite frankly I had never really embarked on. So it was tough kind of challenging myself to really get lost in the words and sing it from a part of my voice that I wasn�t used to.�
More importantly, Nail wanted songs that would help even out the energy in his live show by giving fans a balance between the melancholy songs and the fun songs.
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5 Awful Things You Learn About Yourself Playing 'Dishonored'
#2. My Lack of Focus Is Crippling
I have trouble focusing. This is a problem larger than just stealth games, obviously -- but let's keep the focus off my failing marriage and sinking career to talk about video games (which, incidentally, is exactly what my wife and boss keep asking me to stop doing). Due to my admittedly tragic and debilitating lack of focus, any open-world game will find my character meandering from rooftop to rooftop, staring at in-game posters and jumping up and down on rocks -- only occasionally, accidentally tripping over a quest line and falling face-first into a big steaming pile of plot.
In Dishonored, distractions abound. One of the magic powers lets you take control of a rat, or a fish, or, at higher levels, even a person. Obviously that's the end of the game, if you're anything like me. You just stopped trying to unravel a world of steampunk intrigue, and now you're playing an American Tail simulator, or a particularly gritty reboot of Finding Nemo.
Dory is ... slightly less adorable in this version.
Another power is a kind of biomechanical heart-thing ... that beats at power-ups, I guess? I don't really know what Bethesda's trying to say with that, aside from that Japan doesn't have a lock on RPG weirdness. But if you press another button, the "heart" will tell you random, tangentially related stories about whatever you're pointing it at. Sometimes this adds to the story, sometimes it doesn't, but any mildly obsessive, easily distracted player will end up just like I did: stalking the dirty alleyways for hours at a time, pointing a disembodied organ at a dumpster to see if the dumpster has any compelling secrets (hint: it doesn't. It's a dumpster).
That might effectively destroy the atmosphere of a serious steampunk assassin game, but in all fairness, it does make for a very compelling crazy hobo simulator.
#1. I'm a Poor Sport
The whole point of a stealth game is to blend strategy with action, with a little more emphasis on the strategy aspect. Ideally, once the player has identified the approach and method, he executes a careful attack and takes out a room full of guards without a single one ever noticing. When it works, you feel like a complete badass: You are ninja. You are the bat. None may stand against you.
When it doesn't work, you're Jerry fucking Lewis, all sticking your biomechanical boots of silence into a bucket of fish and tripping into a wall of vaporizing light as the befuddled guards laugh and record your twitching with their steam-powered iPhones so they can upload this shit to Dunwall's Funniest Home Videographs later. As the player, you're supposed to learn lessons from these mistakes, and hone your next approach accordingly. After you've screwed up a few times and refined the perfect attack, you become that seamless blur of death again.
"Hey! It's OH SHI-"
That is not what I do.
If I miss a jump and fall down a trash chute while the sentries chuckle at my ineptitude, I'll immediately reload and charge in there to just stab them all in the neck. See, a stealth game can't just leave you helpless if stealth fails. They have to give you an out if you're discovered, so they almost always build in a combat mechanic as well. The problem is, once you learn that combat mechanic, it's way easier to run into Murderham Palace and start cutting Victorian bitches in the face than it is to orchestrate a series of perfect assassinations.
And so a typical game of mine involves a pair of guards carefully whispering to each other about the master assassin who may be stalking the very night around them, only to be interrupted by a raging psychopath sprinting right down the middle of the street, hurling explosive whale fat and frantically hopping about while firing off an electric blunderbuss. That's how every level in Dishonored ends for me: I slowly, carefully sneak around, hiding bodies and laying traps, until I accidentally hit the wrong button and fall off a building. Then I think "Fuck it, I'll just suicide next mission," only to find that, when the smoke has cleared, the high clergymen whose wine I was supposed to discreetly poison to "make it look like an accident" got drop-kicked to death in the ensuing melee and I'm too lazy to reload and do it right.
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After a ridiculously awful experience with U-Haul truck rentals, I blogged about why I hate U-Haul [3] and the response was stunning. Of the twenty or so accounts from people done horribly wrong by U-Haul, not a single one was a positive experience. No one came to the defense of U-Haul and I can't count the number of "U-Haul Sucks" websites out there. This comment by "Don," which I felt warranted a spotlight, captures the U-Haul experience perfectly.
I am a military, retiree, disabled as a result of military conflict. My doctors recommended I move to warmer weather because my disabilities worsened in my hometown (New York City). I chose a small beach town in Florida and rented a truck from U-Haul to make the move. That was 3-weeks ago and I still have nightmares and feel angry because U-Haul violated everything I believe in by subjecting me to the worst businesses practices I have ever encountered.
Any military and civilian person who has moved as often as I had to can attest to the fact that anything can and will go wrong on moving day. But what U-Haul did to me is purely un-American. They did not have a truck for me even though I had made a reservation 45-days in advance and had told them that I was disabled and had to hire help on moving day. I paid for movers I was unable to use, and when they finally gave me a truck at 2PM that day, they gave me their largest truck (with 227,000 miles on the odometer), which could go no faster than 45 mph, and consumed gas at the rate of 5-miles per gallon. I had to vacate the premises by noon that day or pay $2485 for violating my lease and be subjected to legal action from the person scheduled to move-in the same day at midnight. As such, my furniture sat in the corner of a New York City street while I tried frantically to appeal to U-Haul to please help me get a truck.
I called U-Haul several times on my way down to Florida because once I left the city, the truck developed too many problems and it was unsafe to drive. Every person I talked to was rude and they would hang-up the phone whenever I told them my name and situation. We drove as far as Virgina, where State Troopers pulled me off the road and said I was driving a hazardous piece of equioment…and to have U-Haul come tow it. I called them and explained my situation, but they hung-up the phone. The trooper called from his phone and they sent a tow truck. When the trooper left, the tow truck asked me to follow him. Two exits down the highway, he told me that his job was to escort me out of that county and to wish me a safe trip. I was left on the side of the highway at 5PM and I was too tired to continue a battle I could never win. My driver was exhausted from trying to keep the truck on the road, so we stayed at that exit and crawled to a hotel and stayed for the night. The next day they said they were not sending anyone out to check the truck and that if I left it there, they would sue me for abandoning their equipment. At 40mph I finally made it to my destination several days later.
U-Haul employees at all levels are nice when they take your reservation: they start treating you as a non-person once they procure two credit card numbers and non-refundable charges are made to your card. A reservation and confirmation number mean nothing: as the regional officer manager told me, "You are welcome to send me your confirmation number on a piece of toilet paper I can use to wipe my a$$***e. I bought their "Safe Move" insurance, but collected nothing because they say that I ultimately made it to my destination alive and there was no basis for a claim! When I returned the truck they continued to be rude. They were so abusive I had to call the police to leave one of their operating locations. There is a police report on file as the officers who responded to my call believed that the "brother" of a U-Haul employee threatened me with bodily harm within the U-Haul facility, and they were sure he intended to hurt me before I left the premises. Now I have this case pending in court as the officers asked me to please file charges and not let the individual get away with it. As I was leaving the facility, one of their empoyees yelled that I had to bring the cops because I was a scared "faggot." The cops ended their yelling, but that is hardly a way to treat anyone who has done you no harm.
If you love yourself and trust in good, hardworking principles, please do not rent from U-Haul. They did everything in their power to make my move a living hell. I am not a cry-baby, and as I said, I expected things to go wrong. I have been to wars and conflicts and I know that life is not fair. I would always expect any business to make as much money as possible to maximize their profit, but I do not see why U-Haul employees at all levels feel the need to disrespect people at will. I never once asked for anything special in return for my military service: I did what I wanted to do with my life and I must live with the consequences of a decision I made when I was 18-years old. Regardless, I would have enjoyed basic courtesy from the people who work at U-Haul. They are un-American and if you can refrain from using them, please do yourself that favor.
I am sure there are good, hardowrking people associated with this company, and I am truly sorry that I had to bad-mouth U-Haul in general. Whoever such good people are, I am sorry that I did not have the pleasure of meeting you.
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford took an important step in his political comeback Tuesday, winning nearly 37 percent of the Republican primary vote in the 16-candidate race.
While this strong showing has captured the attention of the national media and has critics scratching their heads, a closer look shows that we shouldn't be particularly surprised by the results.
First, we know from the academic literature that primary elections are "low-information contests." In other words, primary voters rely on subtle cues like name recognition, and in general-election contests partisan identification, to make voting decisions. Love him or hate him, everyone in the Lowcountry has heard of Mark Sanford.
Second, it is not surprising that an anti-Washington deficit hawk like Sanford did well in a district known for its staunch fiscal conservatism. The 1st District has elected a Republican every cycle since 1980, and in the 2012 contest tea party favorite Tim Scott won 62 percent of the vote.
While other candidates flaunted their conservative credentials during the campaign, Sanford has a demonstrated record of fiscal conservatism. As you may remember, Sanford was the nation's first governor to turn down the Obama administration's stimulus money.
The current political debates in Washington over the federal budget provide a nice backdrop for Sanford's brand of politics. With his anti-Washington bent, near-universal name recognition and the low-information nature of primaries, Sanford was a "safe choice" for Lowcountry conservatives.
And third, academic studies show that scandals don't really have the effect on candidates that you might think. The University of Houston's Scott Basinger found that sex scandals decrease an incumbent's vote share by about 5 percent in general elections. Financial scandals, by comparison, cost lawmakers about 8 percent.
Looking back to results from Sanford's last political contest, the 2006 gubernatorial race, Sanford received more than 60 percent of the vote in Berkeley, Dorchester and Beaufort counties, and 57 percent in Charleston County — plenty of cushion to withstand the negative effects of a sex scandal and still win a majority of votes.
In sum, Sanford has considerable momentum as he heads to the runoff, most likely against former Charleston County Councilman Curtis Bostic. This outcome may surprise some, but Sanford's positives — name recognition and a strong record of fiscal conservatism — carry much more weight than his big negative, the 2009 sex scandal.
Still, Sanford must clear a few more hurdles in his political comeback. His likely opponent in the runoff is popular among social conservatives, meaning that questions about Sanford's character could feature prominently over the next two weeks. And if Sanford wins the Republican nomination, he will face a well-funded female candidate, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, who will certainly work to rally women against his candidacy.
Gibbs Knotts is a professor and department chairman of political science at the College of Charleston. Jordan Ragusa is assistant professor of political science at the College of Charleston and creator of the Rule 22 blog: rule22.wordpress.com.


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by Michael Hill, 2006
Additional research provided by Peter A. Coclanis, Stephanie Hall, Will M. Heiser, Charles LeCount, and W.W. Yeargin.
Part i: Overview; Part ii: Improvements in Farming Technology and the Burgeoning of "Mega Farms"; Part iii: Changes in the Agricultural Labor Force; Part iv: Field Crops, Livestock, and Other Agricultural Products; Part v: References
Part iv: Field Crops, Livestock, and Other Agricultural Products
Although for centuries tobacco was North Carolina's premier crop, other products—including field crops, vegetables, livestock, and Christmas trees—have come to comprise much of the state's agricultural industry. However, tobacco is still important. In the early 2000s North Carolina continued to lead the nation in both flue-cured (flavorful and aromatic) and burley (dark-leaf filler) tobacco production, with about 125,000 harvested acres yielding 275 million pounds of product worth more than $600 million annually. Tobacco growing has remained a way of life for thousands of North Carolina farmers.
The importance of several other crops and products has increased over the years. Cotton was by far the state's major commercial crop before the Civil War; it was grown for household use almost from the earliest days of settlement. North Carolina's nineteenth-century ''cotton kingdom'' consisted of about a dozen eastern counties bounded by the towns of Halifax, Goldsboro, and Washington and the southern counties bordering South Carolina from Robeson to Mecklenburg. Of these counties, 12 produced more than 4,000 bales of cotton in 1860. Cotton production underwent several fluctuations and finally diminished during the Great Depression. Nevertheless, the quality of North Carolina cotton lint has generally remained above average, and the yield per acre is usually the highest in the South. By the early 2000s, cotton accounted for approximately $300 million of the state's gross farm production.
Soybeans have long been grown in North Carolina for livestock forage and as a soil-building crop. Many other modern uses—including the soy products in baby foods and cereals, candies, vegetarian meat substitutes, baked goods, pet foods, soy milk, soy sauce, and a variety of food flavorings—have led to a massive increase in soybean production approaching 50 million bushels worth $290 million annually in the early 2000s. The state's other important field crops include corn ($182 million annually), sweet potatoes ($90 million), peanuts ($77 million), wheat ($73 million), and hay ($20 million). Fruits and vegetables include blueberries ($32 million), cucumbers ($31 million), tomatoes ($18 million), apples ($18 million), strawberries ($16 million), and Irish potatoes ($15 million).
North Carolina's livestock, plant, and forest products experienced the greatest increases in the last few decades of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first. Livestock such as hogs ($2 billion), broiler chickens ($2 billion), turkeys ($449 million), cattle ($258 million), as well as byproducts such as eggs ($240 million) and milk ($171 million), have come to dwarf other commodities in total production and value. Greenhouse and nursery products, including garden and bedding plants, potted foliage and flowering plants, and perennials, account for about $830 million of the state's agricultural yield. North Carolina has also become one of the nation's leading producers of Christmas trees, with approximately 1,600 growers accounting for about $100 million worth of trees annually.
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"Tobacco Harvest," Wayne County, NC, August 1946. From Conservation and Development Department, Travel and Tourism Division Photo Files, Call no. ConDev 5779-A. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC. Online at http://www.flickr.com/photos/north-carolina-state-archives/3328601673. Accessed 2/2012.
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WASHINGTON -- Top al Qaeda leaders are saying that if they get their hands on Pakistan's nuclear weapons, they'll use them.
"God willing, the nuclear weapons won't fall into the hands of the Americans," al Qaeda leader Mustafa Abul Yazeed told the BBC in June. "And they will be seized by the fighters and used against the Americans."
Consequently, when a physicist at the CERN nuclear lab on the Swiss-French border was arrested earlier this month and charged with having ties to al Qaeda, counterterrorism officials took notice.
They believe he was in contact with a group known as AQIM: al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Much like a corporation, al Qaeda maintains regional franchises around the world. One of the terror group's most active branches is based in the Maghreb region of North Africa - and Europe and America are in its crosshairs
The Maghreb extends from Morocco to Libya on down to Mali.
AQIM has carried out deadly bombings throughout the area. A number of its members have experience fighting U.S. troops in other al Qaeda hotspots.
"Some of them go to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq," said retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rudy Atallah, who worked until recently as African Counterterrorism Director in the office of the Secretary of Defense.
Now CEO of White Mountain Research, Atallah says AQIM's pipeline reaches into neighboring Europe.
"They have the connections to where they can move people, passports, that kind of stuff, into the European areas and back into the Middle East," he observed.
AQIM is on the record threatening Europe and the United States.
The group's leader, Abdelmalek Droukdal, told the New York Times in July 2008 that his followers share the goals of al Qaeda's hierarchy in Pakistan, saying: "Everyone must know that we will not hesitate in targeting (the United States) whenever we can and wherever it is on this planet."
One weapon AQIM uses against the West is kidnapping - including Christian missionaries.
They're often held for ransom in the remote Sahara desert region of Mali, where the group has several terror training camps.
"In the last year we've had Austrians, Swiss, UK citizens kidnapped," Atallah said. "That's interesting to me, because what you see is al Qaeda trying to make money any which way it can."
An Arab government official told CBN News that AQIM has become heavily involved in the African drug trade as a way to fund its operations. The official added that the terror group Hezbollah has also established a foothold in the region - it, too, works closely with drug cartels.
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Your take: Could you live on food stamps?
Today the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, popularly known as food stamps, will take a fairly substantial hit, with the maximum benefit from a family of four falling from $668 to $632, amounting to $432 less per year in benefits. Overall, the cuts will shrink the average payout per meal from around $1.50 now down to about $1.40, according to CBS Moneywatch.


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Bring the pet indoors: Thermometers show one temp; wind chill is another.
Acclimate pets to the cold: If the pet spends a lot of time outdoors, introduce it...
What you should do
Bring the pet indoors: Thermometers show one temp; wind chill is another.
Acclimate pets to the cold: If the pet spends a lot of time outdoors, introduce it gradually to dropping temperatures.
Provide adequate shelter: The doghouse should be well-insulated and draft-free.
Beware of antifreeze and rock salt: Antifreeze often collects on driveways and roads; it smells and tastes sweet, but it is poisonous. If you've walked your pet on salted surfaces, rinse and dry its feet when you return home.
Dry off: A wet pet is a cold pet. Use a towel or blot-dry the moisture from your romp outside.
Eat & drink up: It takes more energy in the winter to regulate body temperature, so a pet needs additional calories. And water is key to preventing dehydration.
Dangers of heat: Keep space heaters and other supplemental heat sources out of your pet's reach.
Groom regularly: A pet needs a well-groomed coat to keep properly insulated. Short- or course-haired dogs may get extra cold, so consider a sweater or a coat. Long-haired dogs should have their paw hair trimmed to make it easier to remove snow.
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FREEPORT - For the next few days, Greg Miller will set his alarm to check on his sheep every three or four hours.
More than 40 head are nestled in the barn, but this is lamb season - at any hour, several could give birth, so Miller wants to get the newborns into the barn's warm nursery as quickly as possible.
With dangerously low temperatures expected for the next few days, farmers are preparing to shelter their livestock.
Miller said he knows when the weather is about to change: All he needs to do is look at his cattle. He has watched them begin to huddle in the barnyard. He has added extra bedding and shelter for his cattle.
"None of my barns are heated, but livestock can take the cold, but not the wind and moisture," he said. "I keep them fed and try to create wind breaks, but it is easier to keep them outside. If you shut them up, they can develop respiratory problems. With cattle, they get a winter coat, but they know the cold is coming. They are just not as content."
Miller propped up as much feed, hay and windbreaks as he could Saturday. He was having some heating issues to keep the water troughs free from ice. This is going to be his biggest challenge.
Bruce Johnson, Stephenson County Farm Bureau manager, doesn't get many calls from farmers when it comes to knowing what to do in the extreme cold. "Farmers just know what to do."
"It's pretty inherent to being in the business to know how to deal with the adverse conditions like this," Johnson said. "Adequate bedding, feed and water are critical; cutting down on drafts and minimizing stress is also important. Most producers, if the animals aren't already in a confined environment, will make sure to have some form of shelter and/or windbreaks. The hard part is to keep the water thawed and also the feed systems operational."
This is also the time of year when Carol Falconer, shelter manager at Friends Forever Humane Society in Freeport, begins to field calls from people worried about pets living outdoors. In extreme cases of neglect, she sends the calls to Animal Control, but she offers this tip: "Bring the pets indoors."
"Cold can be so hard on any pets and I tell people not to just let the pet outdoors and assume they will come to the door when cold. I tell people to stay with their pets outdoors. Paws can freeze in minutes."
Falconer said winter is the time of year when most pets get lost. The cold and snow cause the animal to lose a sense of smell to find its way home.
Page 2 of 2 - If the animal does live outdoors, make sure the shelter is big enough for the animal to move around but small enough to contain the body heat of the animal. Don't use blankets because they can get wet and freeze. She suggests using straw for bedding.
Falconer also recommends including your pets when assembling emergency-preparedness kits in case of severe weather or power outages. This means having at least five days of food, water and any medications.
"I also tell people to remember that the tongue of the animal can freeze to a metal dish. Use plastic. But I cannot stress enough, just bring them inside."
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Buffalo police say a man was shot in the hand and leg about 6 p.m. Monday on Tonawanda Street in the city's Black Rock section.
Police spokesman Michael J. DeGeorge told The Buffalo News that the shooting victim was shot in the 400 block of Tonawanda, hear Hertel Avenue.
Officers scoured the area between Tonawanda and Austin streets and Hertel Avenue in a search for suspects but did not find any. The case remained under investigation late Monday.
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Miss South Carolina Brooke Mosteller said she didn't come up with her controversial joke about mobile homes at the Miss America pageant Sunday, and she wishes she had paid attention to her instincts that told her it was a bad idea.
"The state organization wrote it for me, and when I first heard it, I thought of course I can't say that, because it could be taken as demeaning and insensitive," said Mosteller, who lives in Mount Pleasant. "But everybody recommended that I say it, and they took it as a joke."
The Miss South Carolina Scholarship Organization put out an apology Wednesday.
"The introductory statement for Miss South Carolina Brooke Mosteller was decided collectively with the Miss South Carolina Scholarship Organization in an attempt to be creative and humorous," the statement said. "We regret that it was perceived as insensitive and we apologize to our fellow South Carolinians who may have been offended."
Mosteller said she read the statement before it was sent out but felt she needed to say more.
Pageant organizers told the contestants to introduce themselves by saying something original and funny. Mosteller's line was, "From the state where 20 percent of our homes are mobile, because that's how we roll, I'm Brooke Mosteller, Miss South Carolina."
Not many people outside the pageant found it funny, and others said they were offended.
Mosteller said she had doubts when she arrived at the pageant in Atlantic City. So she went up to the script writers, who had all the opening statements in advance, and asked them what they thought. They had been doing this thing for years, so surely they would have a good perspective on it, she figured. They told her the line was great and she should go with it.
"In the end, unfortunately I took their advice and went with that instead of just sticking with my values and my gut that I knew that it could be taken the wrong way," she said.
Mosteller grew up in a Southern Baptist home and takes the Bible literally. A proverb says "In the multitude of counselors there is safety."
Yet another quote was gnawing at her heart, the one from Shakespeare that says, "To thine own self be true."
"That was the conflict," she said. "Humor is never worth any relinquishing of honor."
She says she learned a valuable lesson from the experience.
"When I really think about how it has affected people, it's absolutely nothing to laugh about, and it really just teaches me when it comes to your values, every second counts," she said. "This was a seven-second mistake that is nationally defining my Miss America experience, seven seconds where I compromised my values. That's what everybody is remembering about me right now, and that's what I will do the rest of my time as Miss South Carolina, to show people where my true values lie and how great our state really is."
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The sobering reality of next week's budget cut deadline hit home Wednesday as thousands of local Defense Department employees learned they face furloughs if the automatic reductions go forward.
Emails warning employees are expected to be disseminated throughout the region after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he may have to furlough the "vast majority" of the Defense Department's 800,000 civilian workers.
Up to 5,200 Charleston-area military employees could be affected if Congress fails to act by March 1.
Projections are that workers would have to stay home at least one day a week for 22 weeks, probably starting as soon as late April. Affected employees would get at least 30 days of warning time.
The loss to the local economy would be significant. Joint Base Charleston is home to more than 50 military commands, including the Air Force Base, the Naval Weapons Station in Goose Creek, and the high-tech electronics outfit known as SPAWAR, among others.
A spokesman for the Charleston Air Force Base said Wednesday that employees are being told via email. The language mirrors Panetta's announcement that went through the Department of Defense.
Air Force Capt. Frank Hartnett said he expects all the local installations to alert their civilian employees about what to expect.
The warning comes on top of various other freezes the Charleston base already has undertaken, including curtailing travel and halting spending on items not considered "mission essential."
Wednesday's announcement was the biggest movement in weeks as the Pentagon braces for "sequestration," the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts Congress put in place with a March 1 deadline.
The furloughs are just one segment of the Pentagon's response as it seeks to cut a total of $46 billion by Sept. 30, when the 2013 fiscal year ends. Even more cuts are expected in years to come.
Panetta also reiterated the weakened state the cuts will create. In anticipation of cuts, the Pentagon already has decided not to send one aircraft carrier back to the Persian Gulf, reducing the U.S. presence there to one carrier, The Associated Press reported.
President Barack Obama has used his legal authority to exempt military personnel funding from sequestration.
While Panetta's words were geared toward warning federal workers, the sequestration cuts are expected to affect local private-sector defense contractors too. Mary Graham, who is in charge of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce's military protection effort, said it will be only a matter of time before their bottom line is affected, along with staff.
"The spigot is being turned off," Graham said. "It's going to trickle down in a hurry."
Locally, some residents who depend on having a steady military budget said they were alarmed at the unknowns and the drastic cuts the Pentagon may have to make.
"I am retired military and am pursuing my degree," Navy veteran Rochelle Johnson of Goose Creek told The Post and Courier. "The first concern I have is how this might affect my financial aid for school. I am unsure how these cuts will affect the VA. I am sure that my school won't wait forever for payment from the government and will want the tuition money from me if the VA can't pay."
She also worries about pension and medical benefits.
"What I do know," she said, "is that the military community needs to get together and demand that our elected officials have some military experience so they can have a little empathy."
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Miss New York Mallory Hytes Hagan Wins Miss America
Brooklyn, N.Y., resident Mallory Hytes Hagan was crowned Miss America in Las Vegas on Saturday.
Miss New York, 23, beat out Miss South Carolina Ali Rogers, who placed second, and Miss Oklahoma Alicia Clifton, who finished third. Miss Wyoming Lexie Madden and Miss Iowa Mariah Cary rounded out the top five.
Miss Montana Alexis Wineman, who has autism, was one of 16 semifinalists.
Hagan tapped danced to James Brown's "Get Up Off That Thing" for her talent and answered a question about armed guards in schools from Good Morning America's Sam Champion, who was one of the celebrity judges for the pageant this year, in the Q&A portion of the competition.
"I don't think the proper way to fight violence is with violence," she said, donning a white evening gown.
Hagan, whose platform is child sexual abuse prevention, attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and hopes to obtain a degree in Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing, according to her online bio.
She won a $50,000 scholarship as well as a sash and a crown.
Hagan's win was a bit of a surprise, considering Las Vegas oddsmakers didn't have her among the top 15 favorites to don the crown at the conclusion of the two-hour competition at Las Vegas's Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino.


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Explaining 'Pain and Suffering' Awards: The Role of Injury Characteristics and Fault Attributions
Roselle Wissler
Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Allen J. Hart
Amherst College
David C. Evans
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Marian Morry
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Michael J. Saks
Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 21, No. 2, p. 181, 1997
The present empirical research explored factors thought to affect compensatory awards for non-economic ham ("pain and suffering") in personal injury cases. Experiment 1showed that the nature and severity of the plaintiffs' injury had a strong effect on perceptions of the extent of harm suffered and on award amounts. The parties' relatively active or passive roles in causing the injury affected assessments of their degree of fault, but perceived fault had little influence on awards. Experiment 2 replicated with more varied cases the strong impact of injury severity on harm perception and on awards for pain and suffering. In both studies, the disability and the mental suffering associated with injuries were stronger predictors of awards than were pain and disfigurement.
Keywords: Damages, Personal Injury, Juror Decision Making
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Berkeley High School American History teacher Douglas Burges placed second in the South Carolina statewide Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) American History Teacher of the Year 2014 contest.
He was rewarded by the local DAR chapter, General Marions Brigade for his outstanding teaching accomplishments.
Several of his former students wrote letters of recommendation for his nomination. They recalled how Burges uses his enthusiastic teaching style to achieve an in depth learning of American history. He encourages his students to examine all facts surrounding what they are studying.
His students are well prepared for the AP examination. He teaches excellent research skills to prepare his students for life and for college. Many of his students pursue degrees in history and law.
Because of Doug Burges, students created the BHS Liberty Club! This club cultivates good citizenship ideals.
His students understand the importance of an enlightened citizenry.
On May 19, Cathi Lee, Regent of General Marions Brigade, presented Burges with a certificate, General Francis Marion pin and monetary award on behalf of her chapter.
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NEW CUMBERLAND-Twenty-one teachers and 33 non-certified employees may not return to work next school year because of a dramatic drop in state aid to Hancock County Schools.
The Hancock County school board approved the reductions-in-force and transfers at a Monday night meeting in which one parent spoke out in defense of the teachers at her children's school.
"I don't want the school to change," said Samara Rohbeck, 27, of New Cumberland. "I know you have to make budgets and cuts, but my daughter is doing fantastic because of these teachers."
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Samara Rohbeck, the mother of two New Manchester Elementary School students, speaks to the Hancock County school board Monday night about her concerns about impending teacher layoffs. (Photo by Stephen Huba)
Rohbeck has a 6-year-old daughter in first grade and a 4-year-old son in pre-kindergarten-both at New Manchester Elementary School. The self-described "concerned mother" said she and her children "love" New Manchester Elementary, so much so that her son can't wait to start kindergarten.
Rohbeck, in sometimes emotional remarks to the board, said the quality of her children's education could suffer if the teacher layoffs approved Monday night take effect.
"If you're going to cut teachers or cut aides, it should be based on what they've done. Keep the best of the best. The best are going to get you somewhere," she said.
Rohbeck said her understanding was that every kindergarten teacher at New Manchester was "at risk"-something Superintendent Suzan Smith could not confirm.
Both Smith and board President Jerry Durante commended Rohbeck for her concern but said they were put in the unenviable position of having to approve cuts because of a drop in student enrollment.
Between the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years, the school district lost 130 students, according to the annual census taken in October. That means a loss of $644,513 in state funding for the district, Smith said.
"When you have a severe drop in enrollment, that's going to affect your state funding," she said.
"Those are dramatic numbers for a county our size," Durante said.
Citing state law, Smith said the reductions she recommended were based on seniority and had to be approved by March 1. "It goes by who is the youngest and the last one hired," she said.
Eleven teachers were approved for reduction-in-force (RIF) by the end of the school year and 10 were approved for "transfer and subsequent assignment" next school year.
Smith said the latter may be reassigned as necessity dictates. "We don't need them in that position, but we will need them," she said.
The board also approved a RIF for 14 bus drivers and supervisory aides by the end of the school year and a transfer, effective next school year, for 19 bus drivers and supervisory aides.
Smith said the cuts will affect the configuration, but not the number, of bus routes for those who received transfers. "We may have to change their runs next year," she said.
Smith and Durante said they won't know if the layoffs are permanent until enrollment figures for next year are firm.
"There's a strong possibility that we will be calling people back. I hope everybody," Smith said. "Doing this now doesn't mean we won't be able to bring them back if our enrollment jumps up."
But if enrollment stays down or gets lower, "we will pay a terrible price," Smith said.
Board member Laura Greathouse, a former teacher, tried to assuage Rohbeck's concerns by appealing to her own experience.
"We got a RIF notice every year, and every year our enrollment was adequate so that I could continue teaching," Greathouse said. "One thing we have to do is not panic because the RIF notices go out-and keep level heads."
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The recent Visual Studio Async CTP SP1 refresh includes many core improvements, bug fixes and new support for WP7 and VS Express. Architect Stephen Toub digs into some of the updates and explains how making your own awaitable types has gotten easier in this release. As usual, Stephen covers a lot of technical ground and shares his knowledge and insights very clearly. Tune in.
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nice. and Lucian Wischik is posting a serials of blog posts about this in details too
@felix9: Lucian will also show up on C9 very soon covering compiler changes and more.
I tend to think that so-called fluent APIs are sometimes abused, but it seems to me that something like
await t.ContinueOnCapturedContext();
would be more readable and a more flexible pattern for dealing with future unknowns.
I just realized the trusty DoEvents() was sort of an old school version of async. Schedule rest of me on the queue on current context.
Good work. Look forward to trying the new bits. Thank you.
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Today at the airport Ivy's thing was to find the one person NOT paying attention to her, and then she would do everything she could, all cockatiel head bouncy and flirty, until yet again she was the center of even that person's universe.
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MONCKS CORNER — Who is James Sanders, the wily and charming inmate who hung out at hospitals after escaping the Berkeley County jail last year?
That was the question a judge asked after listening to conflicting descriptions Monday.
"I don't know what you are," Circuit Judge Markley Dennis told Sanders before sentencing him to 3½ years in prison. "Part of your life conforms with what you said and part of it doesn't."
Sanders, 40, of Ridgeville, presented himself as a nice guy who has learned to get his impulses under control since being put on Prozac. He was put in jail for criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature in July 2011 after beating his former girlfriend so badly he broke her nose and other facial bones. Sanders, wearing a yellow jump suit with "Maximum Security" on the back, told the judge that's all behind him now.
"What I'm trying to tell you, sir, is I'm not a violent person," he said during an animated monologue.
He pleaded guilty to three charges — criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature, failure to stop for a blue light and common-law escape — and asked the judge to let him go free after 526 days in jail. He faced up to 13 years in prison on all the charges, considering some of the sentences would have run concurrently.
His attorney, Public Defender Chad Shelton, brought up a psychiatrist to testify that tests show that Sanders' capacity for violence is below average.
Sanders' ex-wife said he never became violent in their eight years of marriage, and all he wants to do is be a father to their 8-year-old daughter.
Sander's ex-girlfriend presented a different picture.
"I fear for my life," she said. "He's very dangerous. He needs to go to a mental hospital."
Markley didn't give Sanders any additional time for the criminal-domestic violence charge. He gave him credit for time served and put him on probation for five years with random drug and alcohol testing.
The judge also didn't give Sanders any additional time for failing to stop for a blue light after an officer tried to arrest him a few days after his girlfriend complained. Sanders led officers on a high-speed chase before being stopped with spikes in the road. Sanders also got credit for time served on that charge.
After Sanders was arrested for beating his girlfriend and running from officers, he got out of jail on bail with GPS monitoring. He was soon back in jail because he failed to keep the device charged.
About six months later, he managed to wriggle out of his handcuffs and walk out of the Hill-Finklea Detention Center. Deputies later said they thought he was being released and changed some procedures to make sure it didn't happen again.
Sanders hitched a ride to Medical University Hospital, where he took refuge in the waiting room for two days, according to video at the hospital.
Then he made his way up to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, where he posed as the brother of a comatose patient for about two weeks, enjoying free hospital meals and laundry service and hitting up other visitors for money during his ruse. That caper ended when the patient woke up and a relative alerted hospital officials about the imposter.
Myrtle Beach police tracked Sanders down several days later after a woman said somebody stole her wallet at Broadway on the Beach. Sanders was arrested and returned to the Berkeley County jail.
During Monday's hearing, Sanders' attorney said he escaped because he was afraid of going to prison and panicked at the thought of being separated from his daughter.
Sanders told the judge people he met while on the lam called him charming.
The judge didn't buy it.
"You weren't being a good guy," Markley said. "You knew everybody was looking for you."
He sentenced Sanders to five years in prison on the escape charge, minus the year and a half he's already spent in jail.
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NORTH TONAWANDA – Mark Irlbacher got started with his lifelong passion for bows and arrows by following the sounds of crashing walls in his East Buffalo neighborhood 47 years ago.
"We just heard the guy banging on the walls in there and we went there, as curious kids, to check," said Ilbacher of the now defunct Bowman's Haven on Delevan Avenue near Newburgh Street. "We started shooting at the targets and hitting all over the place and then started getting better," he said of archery. "It kind of sucks you right in, wanting to get better and better."
He was 12 then and he and a friend offered to help the owner, Bill Hamm, knock down walls.
And so began the pursuit that led Irlbacher to compete in and win so many statewide contests, he's lost track.
In 1996, he opened his own shooting gallery, Doc's Archery, on the second floor of the Wurlitzer building on Niagara Falls Boulevard.
Five years ago he added an attraction that draws people from 50 miles away: A video range, like a little movie theater, with films of animals and arrows with rounded tips that register hits on the 10-foot screen.
"People get to shoot at game that they would never be able to hunt for in their life," said Irlbacher. "You could shoot anything from a guinea fowl to an elephant, mountain lion, wildebeest. You name it."
While most of his business comes from bow hunters wanting practice, he credits two archery-infused movies for drawing a new crowd of young people this year: "The Hunger Games" and "Brave," the animated Pixar movie about the Scottish princess whose skill as an archer leads her to win the right to delay marriage until it suits her.
"Those are the two big players this year," he said. "Since those movies came out we're probably up 1,000 percent from a normal year."
Usually, he gives about 50 to 75 private archery lessons a year. This year, he's given 500. Pay-as-you-go Saturday group lessons, for $9 each, start in January for kids from 7 to 17 years old.
Do you know the local guy who won a silver medal in archery in the Olympics this summer?
Jake Kaminski. I've met him. I met him before he got into that higher level of competition. I know of him more than I know him.
I remember him shooting at our shop in one of our tournaments several years ago. When I look back at it, I kind of remember the guy being there and I kind of remember I wasn't impressed with his shooting at the time. I guess he took it to another level. When he got to the archery training center out west, it became a whole other story then.
What competitions have you won?
I've probably won the state championship 15 or 20 times. I don't even know the actual count. That included this year. I won the indoor and outdoor championship this year. I haven't won a national championship. I've been second and third and in the top five.
What do you think keeps you from winning nationally?
Probably 900 other people shooting at it keeps me from winning.
The two guys that won, they had one more X out of 60 shots than I did. X is at the center of the bull's eye. It's used for a tie breaker.
How does a person aim for the Olympics?
You do need to become affiliated with a national organization. The National Archery Association. They govern Olympic-style shooting.
You are with the National Field Archery Association? How is that different?
The NFAA isn't necessarily geared toward Olympic competition because we use different equipment. The Olympics do not allow the use of the compound bow. With the NFAA a lot of the competition is with compound bow.
What is that?
A bow that's designed with a cam-and-pulley system that reduces the weight of the bow when you pull it back. It's obviously an advantage. It gives a little more of an advantage to people that hold the heavier weight bows. Using a 50-pound bow, I only have to hold 12 pounds when I pull it back.
How does the weight of the bow affect shooting?
The higher the weight of the bow, the flatter the trajectory of the arrow, the easier it is to gain accuracy at distance.
How often do you shoot?
During the target seasons, January to August, I shoot two or three times a week. One to two hours. I used to shoot a lot more before I owned a business.
Bow-hunting season just ended. We're not really shooting a lot during bow-hunting season. It'll start to pick up now. Once the snow flies a little bit, that's when our shooting picks up.
What do you like about the sport?
It definitely teaches you discipline. The concentration level has got to be there. The self-discipline to do the same thing every time. Everyone doesn't have that in them. There's also the physicality of it. The stronger your muscles become, the better it is for competition: You can hold the bow steadier to make a better shot.
Are there many women?
Overall, women are probably somewhere between 5 and 10 percent. That number has definitely been increasing in the past few years. In young kids, it's pretty close to 50-50.
Can you tell me the story of someone who you worked with on archery and who stands out for some reason?
I've got one young fellow who is a shining example of someone who pursued the sport. He was an average shooter for a while and then started getting much worse. Really. The kid really wanted to get better. He obviously needed something more.
We found different equipment that cured the problem he was having and he's gone on to win huge things. He's won tournaments all over the country.
He started with us when he was 7 or 8 years old in our youth program.
What was wrong?
Performance anxiety is the reason why Shaquille O'Neal can't shoot a free throw. There's a similar thing in archery. It's called target panic. So with target panic, when people get target panic some people think they're actually going nuts. They find themselves not being able to aim at the middle of the bull's eye and not being able to aim on the target at all before they let go of the string. It gets worse and worse. They can't even hit the target anymore. So that's the problem.
There are several possible ways of curing it. Some of them are mechanical, actually. This young fellow was shooting with a mechanical release. Pull the trigger, it lets go of the bow string and sends the arrow flying.
Now he uses a different release that does not allow the shooter to hit the trigger to set the release off. It's shot by "back tension." They have to keep pulling harder and harder and harder, until the actual mechanics of the thing let it go by itself.
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Gary Walters, who made Lion of the Year 2012 and was installed as Vice President of the Truckee Host Lions Club in June 2012, passed suddenly at his home on September 20, 2012.
Gary was married to Esther Walters and had a son together, Morgan Walters, which was the fifth child in their blended family — Kari Walters, Gary Walters, Jr., Stephanie Rodriguez and Jessica Rodriguez. He had seven grandchildren.
The family would like to invite you to a Celebration of Life that will take place at West End Beach Pavilion, Donner Lake, on September 29, starting at 1 pm. Truckee Host Lions Club will be serving hamburgers and hot dogs. Please bring a side dish to share and drink. Casual dress.