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A furious finish to the second period pulled the Stockton Thunder even, and a furious finish to the third did the same for the Ontario Reign.
A furious finish to the second period pulled the Stockton Thunder even, and a furious finish to the third did the same for the Ontario Reign.
Shootout goals by Stockton's Ryan Hayes and Max Boisclair ultimately gave the Thunder a dramatic 5-4 road win over Pacific Division-leading Ontario on Friday in front of 9,616 fans at Citizens Business Bank Arena despite being outshot 43-17.
Stockton (33-25-9), vying for the division's fourth seed, managed only five shots on goal in the second period but scored three times, twice in the final 38 seconds.
Ontario (42-16-7) led 3-1 late in the second period when defenseman Ryan Constant scored on an assist from Hayes at 19:22 to cut Ontario's lead in half.
Only 17 seconds later, Boisclair's eighth goal sent the game to the third tied at 3-3.
Nathan Deck gave the Thunder its first lead of the night with his seventh goal of the season at 9:20 of the third, but Ontario's David Walker forced overtime with his first goal with just 1 minute remaining in regulation.
Hayes and Boisclair, the first two Stockton shooters, both scored, while Thunder goalie Matt Cooper stopped all four Ontario attempts.
Cooper, who replaced Tyler Bunz after the starter allowed two first-period goals, stopped 26 of 28 Ontario shots.
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Authorities say a DWI suspect arrested in northern Minnesota was texting while driving.
The Cass County sheriff's office says the 25-year-old man was driving on the wrong side of Minnesota Highway 371 near Walker early Sunday morning.
A sheriff's deputy tried to pull him over, but the driver sped away. He eventually was pulled over and arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving.
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety says during the arrest, the driver said he'd drifted into the wrong lane because he was text-messaging behind the wheel.
Authorities are unsure if they will charge the man under a new law, which went into effect two days ago, that bans texting, e-mailing or accessing the Internet while behind the wheel.
Nathan Bowie with the Department of Public Safety says that's because the deputy would have to see the texting before the suspect could be charged with that offense.
"It's a primary offense, which means that a motorist can be pulled over directly for texting," said Bowie. "So an officer observes someone on a cellphone or a Blackberry, etc., they can directly pull over that motorist."
Bowie says the penalty for texting while driving is about $300.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)

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The Virginia Business Stock Index continued to gain ground in July, rising 43.30 points or 9.66 percent.
That performance was better than three standard market measurements. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 8.58 percent during the month, while the S&P 500 Index was up 7.41 percent and the Nasdaq Composite increased 7.82 percent.
Thirty-eight of the 50 stocks on the Virginia index rose while 11 were down and one, General Dynamics, was unchanged.
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LeapFrog is a "psychedelic-garage rock" band from Lakeland. The band consists of Aaron Corbitt (guitar/vocals), Bryan Soroka (bass/vocals) and Brendan McGowan (drums/vocals).
There is something comforting about the past.
The past is familiar. It's warm. It reminds us of the good times. Music and movies can be used to spark nostalgic memories, and LeapFrog uses both to accomplish that.
LeapFrog is a "psychedelic-garage rock" band from Lakeland. The band consists of Aaron Corbitt (guitar/vocals), Bryan Soroka (bass/vocals) and Brendan McGowan (drums/vocals).
The trio formed in October after two members of their previous band, The Johnsons, parted ways. They decided to stick together and take the music in a new direction, primarily to keep with their influences of 1960s-era underground rock.
Each member was into visual arts and wanted to integrate that with the band.
During live shows, LeapFrog will play videos on a projector featuring clips from classic 1960s, 1970s and 1980s films, such as "Big," "Midnight Cowboy" and "2001: A Space Odyssey."
LeapFrog's combination of visuals and music is unlike anything else found in the Polk music scene.
The band's first album was recorded with analog methods, which gives a warmer, older sound to their music.
LeapFrog is working on its second album, which will be released within the next few months. Their next show will be at Evolution Records in Lakeland on Saturday night.
Below, members of LeapFrog talk more about the band.
Question: Why did you want to combine nostalgic visuals with your music?
SOROKA: We all like the visual art aspect so we wanted to combine the two — music and art. It's something fun and it brings more life to your stage presence.
Question: How does the old technology play into the band's makeup?
CORBITT: We're just trying to do something that no matter what, the technology is honest. And we're trying to make something that sounds good to other people.
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It should be opt-in.
Yes, it should. But that doesn't matter, because:
1. It's unenforceable.
2. The Republicans would never allow it, since:
a. It's proposed by Obama's people, and
b. It might restrict some business' God-given right to make a profit.
And the worst problem is that even if the browser is "immune" to tracking features the plugins needed to view many web sites - like Flash, PDF or SilverLight also have to be "immunized".
And to make sure that the user are traceable many sites checks thoroughly that the data they write isn't easy to remove.
So if anything - go after the web sites that tracks users instead.
So if anything - go after the web sites that tracks users instead.
What if the site is being hosted in China? My guess is that if you are up to no good, or doing unethical things, you move offshore. Just like they route telemarketing calls through the Bahamas, etc. because the No Call List doesn't apply to foreign nations.
I think the real solution is to have government not get involved and individuals need to instead create methods to block being tracked, preferably open source. I don't want to depend on
Didn't read TFA, but maybe it's not a list. An HTTP header announcing the preference for not being tracked would do the trick, as long as the other party were obliged to actually listen to your setting.
Setting the evil bit, huh?
An HTTP header announcing the preference for not being tracked would do the trick, as long as the other party were obliged to actually listen to your setting.
But in the real world such a header would just become another bit to go into your 'unique fingerprint' for the advertisers. And it would mean that advertisers would be even more eager to send you crap.
As long as the real world consists only of companies that don't mind lawsuits and FTC investigations and fines.
Sure, there are plenty of such companies, mostly not in the U.S. But the only thing enforcing the Do Not Call list is the legal repercussions for ignoring it, and it's pretty effective.
But in the real world such a header would just become another bit to go into your 'unique fingerprint' for the advertisers.
In the real world, the big fish such as Google/Microsoft/Facebook etc would generally honor it, because they will get investigated, caught, and fined heavily if they don't.
The law is effective at restricting law abiding citizens and organizations. And that's precisely what we need here.
Right... So as a guy running a web server I'm supposed to "forget" about you probing my server trying to break in because you have the "Don't track me" header set.
We already have such a setting. Tools->Options->Privacy->Uncheck "Accept cookies." Some web sites work with it unchecked. Some don't. Make your choice whether you want their content.
We already have such a setting. Tools->Options->Privacy->Uncheck "Accept cookies." Some web sites work with it unchecked. Some don't. Make your choice whether you want their content.
Its pretty trivial to track you even if you have cookies unchecked.
We already have such a setting. Tools->Options->Privacy->Uncheck "Accept cookies." Some web sites work with it unchecked. Some don't. Make your choice whether you want their content.
Its pretty trivial to track you even if you have cookies unchecked.
You'd also have to disable:
-Javascript: (which can retrieve typing cadence via AJAX)
-Plugins: (like Flash, Java, et al.)
Sounds like a pretty exciting internet at that point. You might as well be browsing in a text-only browser like Lynx. And even if you follow all of the steps above, you can still be tracked pretty effectively by the specific configuration of your browser.
Now, that being said, I'm still in favor of tracking (to an extent). It's an important part of product development (amongst o
Barring plugins with cookie-like features and actual tracking software you've elected to install, it's actually pretty hard to separate out your traffic from everybody else's.
You can keep track of a linear session by passing state in the URL but you lose it as soon as the guy goes somewhere else and comes back. You can do some fuzzy matching based on behavioral patterns but it takes a lot of computing power and the confidence drops off quickly.
Worked in the biz for a little while. The core data came from fo
Would adding a drop rule in iptables count as not honoring this 24h cleaning time that you speak of? Technically that would be a permanent record of someone that "opted out" of leaving any kind of record.
Make that 30 days if you want network security folk not to laugh at you. 365 if you want any support from law enforcement. Better yet, change your focus to a "do not sell list" where passing a standardized header serves as legal notice that the receiving server is forbidden from sharing any information about the transaction with a third party, specifically or in aggregate. You won't get that either, but at least your only opposition would be from marketing folk.
In my personal experience, the FTC's Do Not Call list has actually worked pretty well.
That's because a personal phone call from a live human costs alot and anyone who uses this method must target it's customer base very well to be cost-effective. In turn, it's almost certainly a US business, operating on US soil, and care about the FTC. If they violate the DNC list, you incur a high cost, and are likely to do something about it, like report them.
No so on the Internets. Tracking is 100% automatic, and non-intrusive. Only a minority of the sites doing the tracking are from your country (this i
What's different about this is that telemarketers who call you already know who you are: they have your phone number. The only way a web site would be able to comply with a Do No Track database is for you to identify yourself unambiguously to them, information they do not have, and which would not be safe to hand over, unsecured, to any web site that asks for it.
Allow me to just "me too" on your comment.
What happens is that once a person does an "opt-out" there are some teeth in the recourse that an individual can take.
The trouble I have is that you would first have to make yourself trackable in order to opt out. We also need to stipulate what things can and cannot be used in tracking to make such a law workable. As we know, there are a LOT of sneaky ways to track users. We need to also limit how people are tracked. Also, we need to have proof positive that we
"a quick mention that this number is on the Federal Do Not Call list sends them into a near panic state, scrambling to hang up"
Really? I've telemarketed before in my dark past. When people told me they were on the do not call list I would say 'I don't care' and would go into the pitch. Then they'd hang up on me. It was just fun when people thought they could thwart me by being smarmy or clever. I hated my job and all those who I had to deal with on the phone. So anybody who tried stuff like the 'do not call
Actually, the FTC 's Do Not Call list made things much worse for me. I never got calls even before because I was on the Direct Mail Association's do not call list. Ever since the FTC Do Not Call low was passed, I've been getting calls from politicians, pollsters, charities, etc. Namely all the groups that were exempted from the law and just use it as a Please Call Me Repeatedly list.
P3P [w3.org]
The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) enables Websites to express their privacy practices in a standard format that can be retrieved automatically and interpreted easily by user agents. P3P user agents will allow users to be informed of site practices (in both machine- and human-readable formats) and to automate decision-making based on these practices when appropriate. Thus users need not read the privacy policies at every site they visit.
I'm all for this, I think it would be wonderful and beautiful to just change a setting in my browser and never have to question whether I'm being surveiled or not.
You mean like the "block third-party cookies" option that's been in every browser for almost a decade? That setting?
The do not call list works GREAT, but only if you block all calls without caller ID information. Most of the people who will spam you with valid caller ID info will make an effort not to call you back if you are on the list and you tell them so, especially if you announce to them that you are reporting them for the call, and then DO SO. There's a webform, it's not tricky.
My brain's a little slow today... how would this work?
There are two answers, work as in successfully meet objectives, and work as in good enough for govt work.
The work as in meet objectives, would be package a browser addon basically privoxy aka www.privoxy.org, or mandate the installation of something like privoxy with all browser installations. If the EU can demand winders not ship with "X" maybe the FTC can demand winders ship with a working privoxy install.
The work as in good enough for govt work, would be add a line to the browser string, "please dont tr
More to the point, how am I supposed to know when someone is violating it?
I can tell when someone fails to use the do-not-call registry or ignores a do-not-email checkbox setting, but tracking me as I browse is a passive activity. Am I supposed to search through my cookies? And how will I know the tracking cookies from the session and configuration persistence cookies?
Take the person who proposed this and send them to Pakistan to look for the tallest man there. Doesn't seem like there are enough people do
I have a land line (it comes over my cable connection) because we only have one mobile phone and use the 400 minutes as our long distance service thus it's cheaper for us to have family call us on the land line. Aside from the handful of calls we get from family the rest of the time it's from scammers "trying to lower your interest rate on your credit card," who hang up when you press them for who they are or companies who do not follow the DNC list.
These companies know they have little chance of being prosecuted under the law so I end up with numerous phone calls and fights with supervisors of these companies to not call me again. Yet they keep trying to sell newspaper subscriptions and rug cleanings to me.
So after three phone calls from one company I finally get enough information to file a complaint with the FCC. I submit that complaint and it's rejected three different times for lack of information. While the FCC agent attempts to be helpful the entire process is cumbersome and difficult. I lack any confidence the calls will stop or the company will pay and even if they do the fine will be minimal and they'll just consider it the cost of doing business.
So back to this particular new trend. Yeah, great, no more tracking online. It's a lot easier for me to block that stuff online while still enjoying a relatively easy browsing experience than it is for me to stop calls from ringing my phone which would include turning the ringer off (no, I'm not paying for call block or caller ID).
If the government wants to do this, and I'd love them to, they need to ensure that the laws, policies and enforcement are viable and actually benefit people rather than creating a whole new useless bureaucracy which spends money and doesn't accomplish a damn thing.
P.S. - the short version of this story should be:
"Politicians with little knowledge of computers are talking about the internet again."
I don't expect the FTC chairman to be tech savvy, but there isn't anyone at the FTC that can tell him what is and isn't technically feasible?
I've never had a mod point to give, but I wish I could for you.
Canada's Do Not Call list has already proven to be a treasure trove for data mining by the U.S. and others. For $50 you can get more reliable information than on a $3000 e-mail address list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Do_Not_Call_List#Criticism [wikipedia.org]
The one thing a government can do is provide a framework for people to complain when other people don't do what they're supposed to.
How's that been working out, historically? Anyone with an o
So how exactly are websites going to keep track of who has opted out of being tracked?
"To affirm that you do not consent to appearing in a list, please add your name to this list."
Yeah. I can't think of a way to make this system work, except using a database which would constitute the kind of personally-identified tracking system that it seeks to prevent. In order to get website maintainers to comply with these rules, the government would have to provide them with exactly that data which they're being forbidden to collect, and then, I don't know - put them on the honour system, make them pinky-swear not to use it for anything but the intended purpose? Is that the plan?
You have to register yourself on a big public list in order to prevent websites from tracking you.
If you have to register yourself via a website, then the joke circle will be complete.
I'm not saying that tracking you on the web isn't offensive, just that it's fundamentally diffe
So basically we can opt not to be tracked by the companies who actually decide to follow an optional opt-out list? Doesn't that mean I'm only opting out of the companies I'm least bothered about? Worse, make being a (relative) good-guy even less profitable?
Without legislative backing it's at best toothless and at worst counter-productive.
Even legislative backing may be prone to unintended consequences as companies leave for less regulated shores. However I'd expect there would be more of a positive influen
I suspect this list would also be used be used by various agencies to flag people who are engaged in "undesireable" activity. "Only those with something to hide will be using the Do Not Track" feature.
This all at the same time that they are requiring ISP's to keep 2 year records of IP logs.
So how does this new "Do Not Track" bill merge with the other bill. I presume that everyone will just sign up under the 2 year bill and say "we need to keep records" and are thus exempt from the DoNotTrack feature.
The Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth (SAFETY) Act of 2009 also known as H.R. 1076 and S.436 would require providers of "electronic communication or remote computing services" to "retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user."[22]
While it's entirely possible for something like this to happen and the FTC to use large fines to make US companies avoid some tracking, tracking provides LARGE benefits to businesses.
I'd immediately expect many ad networks to host their ads from oversees so they could claim not to be under the jurisdiction of this law. How will the FTC stop that? And what if Google Ireland decides to host all the Google ads? Are you going to go after the parent company?
This is a nice idea that seems completely unenforceab
Can we enforce it against the NSA?
Riiiiiight. Sure.
This feigned concern about online privacy is just a political chain that policitians and government bodies yank in order to appear to care about individual rights.
There is nothing that the State craves more than to track every move of every citizen.
The Feds should allow us to sign up for a few more lists:
We could all then, of course, profit!
Okay, so it probably isn't quite as accurate, but how would this play against the things that webmasters need but which can also be used for tracking - i.e. Apache log files and the like? I can do all sorts of path following and user tracking with logs if I wanted, just by analysing the log files from a normal server. It won't be quite as accurate as something tracked with a cookie, but then even cookies aren't bullet-proof.
Either they've overlooked log files, or they're going to need some really weird stan
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KERRVILLE, Texas --
The class will officially be called Mickey Thompson Tires Top Sportsman, as one of the industry leaders in tires and wheels forms a new and growing partnership with the X-DRL.
"We really like the direction the X-DRL is headed and we are excited to partner with the X-DRL and sponsor the Top Sportsman class in 2013," Mickey Thompson Motorsports Manager Tom Kundrik said. "The Top Sportsman racers are a perfect fit in the X-DRL as the class offers a lot of terrific racing, and we are pleased to show our support for the Top Sportsman teams and the X-DRL this season. "We look forward to some great car counts and exciting racing with so many talented drivers competing for the 2013 X-DRL Mickey Thompson Tires Top Sportsman World Championship."
Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Stow, Ohio, Mickey Thompson is known worldwide as a leader in high performances tires and wheels, developing a number of innovative tires that are among the best performing in drag racing, making it a natural fit to partner with the X-DRL and its Top Sportsman class.
"We are thrilled to have Mickey Thompson Tires as the official sponsor of the Top Sportsman class. It really shows that they are on board with the X-DRL for the 2013 season and beyond, and it is also a great show of support for the outstanding Top Sportsman class," X-DRL Account Executive Keith Goolsby said.
"We've already had an incredible interest from the Top Sportsman racers regarding our 2013 season, and I'm sure this exciting announcement will only add to that. There is no doubt that it is going to be an unbelievable year for the X-DRL and the Mickey Thompson Top Sportsman class in 2013."
The debut season for the X-DRL in 2013 includes stops at nine of the nation's most prestigious tracks.
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April 6-7: X-DRL Spring Nationals, Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park, Tulsa, Okla.
April 26-27: X-DRL Thunder Valley Madness, Bristol Dragway, Bristol, Tenn.
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Aug. 16-17: Hot Texas Nights, Dallas Raceway, Crandall, Texas
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New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) Tuesday will be the judgment day for the four accused standing trial in a Delhi court for the Dec 16, 2012, gang rape that sparked nationwide protests and nudged the central government into enacting a stringent anti-rape law.
Additional Session Judge Yogesh Khanna will decide the fate of four accused - Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur - after almost nine months of the brutal crime in which a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was gang-raped in a moving bus.
The four accused were charged with gang rape, murder, attempt to murder, unnatural offences, destruction of evidence and dacoity, among other offences. They may face a maximum punishment of death if found guilty.
A juvenile involved in the crime was Aug 31 sent by the Juvenile Justice Board to a reform home for three years after concluding that he was involved in rape and murder.
The board's decision, which was the first punishment related to the case, however, left the woman's family members angry as they said they wanted a harsher punishment to the youth.
The incident occurred after the woman and her male companion boarded the bus in Munirka in south Delhi, police said.
The six accused threw both of them out of the vehicle - without clothes - on the streets in the cold December night after committing ghastly crimes on them, police said.
The gang rape victim succumbed her injuries Dec 29, 2012, at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital, where she was airlifted for specialised treatment.
The gory attack sparked protests across the country with some people demanding the execution of the accused and some calling for chemical castration.
The charge sheet in the case was filed Jan 3 and trial started Feb 5. The prosecution presented 85 witnesses and the defence 17.
Police said in the charge sheet the juvenile was the most brutal of all the accused.
One accused, Ram Singh, died during trial. The case against Ram Singh was dropped after he was found dead, hanging in his cell in Tihar Jail here.


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Elementary Musicals for Spring Friday, December 13, 2013
It's never too early to start planning for spring performances! Whether you're looking for a meaningful message, familiar tunes, or a hilarious script, Stanton's has something for every one. Check out these new musicals that will motivate and excite both you and your students!
Big Beautiful Planet by Raffi, arr. Mark Brymer
It's up to me, it's up to you. Help this planet earth to stay evergreen, everblue! These words from popular children's songwriter, Raffi, celebrate our earth – our home, and the importance of working together to take care of it. Share this message and make a difference in your school and community this year! This 15-minute revue can be performed in the classroom or on stage. It features five songs by Raffi, piano/vocal arrangements with simple movement suggestions, reproducible singer parts and short connecting narrations you can easily adapt for groups of varying sizes. Suggested for grades 2-4.
Summer Camp by John Jacobson and Mac Huff
Welcome to Camp Runamok and the wackiest summer camp experience you could ever wish for! This musical has everything you love and fear about the summer camp experience, from the morning routine to corny camp skits and the ultimate talent show. Put away your technology and allow this nostalgic romp to take you on a journey of finding a place to belong, through the mighty highs and comic lows of Summer Camp! This 40-minute musical features seven original songs, with connecting script and the Teacher Edition is filled with quality performance material including piano/vocal song arrangements and choreography, script, helpful production guide and teaching objectives linked to the National Standards for each song. For added value, the ready-to-use student books include songs and script, and will enhance the musical experience for your young aspiring actors/singers!
At the Bandstand! arr. Sally K Albrecht, Jay Althouse, Andy Beck, and Greg Gilpin
When Rockin' Robin, host of the hit TV show "At the Bandstand!" announces an on-air dance-off to join the popular Bandstand Kids, Cindy and her gaggle of girlfriends jump at the chance! But in order to succeed, Cindy will need to out-shine the spoiled daughter of the show's corporate sponsor. This easy-to-stage musical is an absolute blast, with familiar '50s songs, clever characters, and hilarious punch lines to spare!
Swamped! by John Jacobson and John Higgins
The swamp is all a-buzz with party preparations galore! Naturally, the turtles are running late and Bully the Frog is being a bully. The frogs have learned a new dance they want to share. The tadpoles are growing appendages (yikes!) and the dragonfly larvae need encouragement to spread their wings and fly. Lessons of friendship, tolerance, courage to face the future, and more, abound! This 25-minute musical party features five original songs and easy-to-learn rhyming dialog with over 40 speaking parts. The enhanced Teacher Edition with Singer CD-ROM includes piano/vocal arrangements with choreography, helpful production guide with staging and costume suggestions, teaching objectives linked to the National Standards for each song, PLUS reproducible singer parts on the enclosed CD-ROM.
Prime Time Nursery Rhymes by Jill and Michael Gallina
Prime Time Nursery Rhymes gives an exciting new twist to four favorite nursery rhymes, and re-imagines them in song! Crack up with Humpty Dumpty as Old King Cole recites the story of his terrible fall and laugh along with the dog as Little Miss Muffet describes how the cow jumped over the moon, all told in an easy rhyming script. You'll be tapping your shoes and dancing along with the Little Old Woman's children as these witty and comical characters sing each other's stories like you've never heard them before! This budget-stretching Classroom Kit is perfect for use in Grades K-2. It contains a reproducible unison collection and an Enhanced StudioTrax CD that includes accompaniment and performance tracks, poster, program, composers info, as well as costuming, staging, and performance suggestions.
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Despite their tremendous popularity and solid drawing power, Morton and Gibson often found themselves on the "B" team that was sent to the territory's smaller arenas. The "A" team, which routinely featured NWA world champion Ric Flair and other top-tier talent, performed at the major buildings.
An interesting pattern, however, began to develop.
The "B" cards, highlighted by The Rock 'N' Roll Express, were outdrawing the loaded "A" shows in the big cities.
"Practically the whole territory was in Baltimore, Md. They had almost everybody you could imagine in Baltimore — Flair and all of them," says Morton.
He recalls one main-event match with The Midnight Express at the old Independence Arena in Charlotte.
"The semi-main event was The Italian Stallion against Manny Fernandez. You also had Denny Brown and George South. That was the card we had. We sold out the arena. At the big show in Baltimore they didn't even draw a thousand people."
It may have been called the "B" show, but to Gibson, there was no mistaking which show was better.
"To me it was the No. 1 show. He could put us out there with the underneath guys, and we'd still sell out the Charlotte Coliseum. We broke record after record. We broke a record in Raleigh that Blackjack Mulligan and Ric Flair held. Two weeks later we came back and broke the record again."
"I loved being on the 'B' shows," adds Morton. "Dickie Murdoch (ticked) Dusty off, and Dusty put him on the cards with us. Dusty later asked him if he had learned his lesson, and if he was ready to go with the 'A' team instead of the 'B' team."
Murdoch's response: "Hell no! I make more money with the 'B' team. We sell out, y'all don't."
Morton and Gibson also were summoned to the booker's office.
"Dusty said, 'Listen boys, there's two things you don't do around here. You don't sell out a building when I'm not on the card."
They continued, however, blowing the roof off building after building with every team they faced.
And when Stan Lane replaced Dennis Condrey in The Midnight Express, the team — and their ongoing program with Morton and Gibson — didn't miss a beat.
"They (The Midnights) were great workers. There was always something new to do," says Morton. "And when Dennis left, they picked up right where they left off. That's something hard to do. But Stan was also a great worker. He was that good body, good-looking heel that everybody wanted to be.
"Dennis was great. I don't know the reason, I never asked, why Dennis left. It was none of my business. But I know that Stan came in and took his place and got over huge. It started a whole new thing with them."
"I don't know of any bad matches between those two teams," says Cornette. "We had some matches that, grading on the curve, were not as good as others. We had a match in Charleston at Clash of the Champions with The Rock 'N' Roll Express. It just didn't jell at all, and I was depressed in the car on the way home."
Making it worse, says Cornette, was that it took place on a Clash of Champions special.
"But in hindsight, nobody noticed and nobody said it wasn't any good, and it was probably better than most of the regular tag matches. We just held ourselves to a higher standard. That's probably the only match with The Rock 'N' Roll that I was ever depressed about."
Cornette says the fact that the teams enjoyed working with one another was reflected in the quality of their matches.
"We had fun doing it. You could tell that we enjoyed what we were doing."
That "fun" didn't stop at the arena. Their road trips, says Cornette, were both educational and entertaining.
"Some of the trips we made and some of the things that we encountered were definitely not fun at the time, but overall, whether it was me and Bobby and Dennis or me and Bobby and Stan, we were just giddy silly in the car a lot of times. We would pull up to the building and laugh to where people thought there was something wrong with us. And most of the time, unless it was one of those nights where it was a bad experience at a show or whether we were being chased by angry fans, most of the time we were laughing when we got in the car. And we were still laughing when we got out of it."
It was on those long trips that the threesome came up with many of their ideas.
"We talked about a lot of things obviously, but we spent a lot of time in the car talking about what we were doing," says Cornette. "Especially on the way back when we would come up with a lot of stuff."
Leaving the Carolinas in 1988, Morton and Gibson worked briefly in the Continental Wrestling Association where they feuded with The Midnight Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty) over the AWA world tag-team title.
When they returned to the NWA in 1989, the wrestling scene had begun to change. Crockett Promotions had been sold to Ted Turner, and the tag-team scene was now dominated by power duos such as The Road Warriors and the Steiner Brothers.
Morton, however, had proven himself to be a more than capable singles performer.
A series of intense, bloody matches with NWA champion Ric Flair during the 1986 Great American Bash tour had established Morton as a credible world title contender.
The program was set up when Morton was working a rare singles bout in Rock Hill, S.C., while Gibson was recovering from an injury.
Flair was so impressed with Morton's singles work that he told booker Dusty Rhodes that he wanted to work an angle with him.
"We started it (the angle) when Flair rubbed my face in the floor. I wrestled Flair 17 nights in a row. Two matches on Sunday. Every match we had went the time limit."
Like others, Morton found that Flair was practically inexhaustible in the ring.
"The first couple of matches I started feeling it at about the 45-minute mark, and about the third night I was hanging. But it was great. We could have gone on from there, but it turned into politics and I got caught in the middle of it. That's all I can say about that."
His program with Flair remains one of his fondest memories of his days in the Mid-Atlantic area.
"Just having that great run with Ric Flair ... knowing that I wrestled the best in the world. I'm saying that from my heart. I wrestled them all. Back then you had a lot of great workers. But Ric Flair with his charisma ... and Ric Flair being Ric Flair. Ric Flair was always Ric Flair. He was never nobody else. The limousine ridin' and all that (stuff) was for real. I had a great time doing that."
By 1991, The Rock 'N' Roll Express had been moved to the middle of the card. In June of that year, Morton turned on Gibson for a brief but largely forgettable feud.
They finally left the promotion for good, but their run as tag-team favorites was far from over.
They joined forces again in Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling promotion in the early '90s, and held the Smoky Mountain tag-team belts 10 different times.
"We did the same thing over again in Smoky Mountain and sold out everywhere we went," says Morton. "It got over again the same way. We just did it with new people. Everybody today thinks they know everything but they don't. Jimmy (Cornette) got caught up in the situation with the corporate life. But Jimmy's like me. If he didn't like something, he'd let you know. He got a lot of heat for that."
With both well into their 50s, some might ask why Morton and Gibson are still out there on the road performing in front of crowds that don't come close to approximating those during their glory days.
It's for the love of the business, both say. It's in their blood.
The Rock 'N' Roll Express is still rolling.
"I'd do it all over again ... and twice on Sundays," quips Gibson.
For Morton, he couldn't imagine a life without wrestling.
After all, the two have been together as a team for three decades. And like with most partnerships, it all hasn't all been rosy. There have been disagreements over the years, some more serious than others.
But they're still together whenever a promoter calls and a booking comes open.
"The first 20 years I was with Robert more than my wife," says Morton. "We were with each other a lot, but we never let it get to the bad part. What we would do when we felt that part coming was to not travel with each other. We wouldn't have to be in the car all day with each other."
"You'd get in a different car and go a different way," echoes Gibson. "You'd go out and do your job and go your separate way."
"Then after about a month, we'd have brand new stuff to talk about. It never got to the real bad part," says Morton. "If we did (have a problem), we'd man up and respect each other," adds Gibson.
Morton says their 30-year run represents a bond and a commitment that is rare in the business today.
"I see a lot of guys in this business that did come to blows and fighting and arguing, but it never got like that with us. I wouldn't let it get to that. We were business partners. It worked out in the long run. Don't get me wrong ... we had our arguments. But it wasn't anything that extreme. We're the longest tag team ever."
Morton loves talking about and reliving some of those glory days.
It makes him feel good when performers like Tommy Dreamer send him a text and say how much they appreciate what he gave to the business.
"He had watched some old tapes and wanted to thank me for making him love our business and making him believe our business. There's no better compliment than that."
When the day does come that Morton must hang up his boots, he'd like to continue to contribute in some capacity.
"I do think about it. I'd like to be in a position to get a job somewhere with one of the big companies. I'm not asking for a big job. Wrestling is all I know."
He's been in the business all his life. He had his first pro match when he was 16.
"I grew up in the business. My daddy was a wrestler and referee. When I was a kid, I'd go with him at night to pull the wrestling ring and set it up. I'd sleep in the back seat of the car and I'd get up and go to school and do it again the next day. That's all I've ever known."
Morton still enjoys being recognized when he goes to a restaurant or, as he recently was, on a cruise when a Russian passenger immediately recognized him and told him what a big star he was in her country.
He now has seven children and three grandsons. His oldest, Jonathan, is 31 and is a country music singer in Nashville.
He's been married to his second wife Andrea "forever."
"It seems live forever anyway," he laughs. "Of course I'm just kidding."
He's got a 12-year-old son that, like he did with his father, accompanies him to his wrestling shows.
"He goes with me everywhere I go. He just turned 12 and can out-wrestle 90 percent of the guys in the business. He can outperform them, and that's a shoot. It really is. His dream is to someday be a wrestler, and I'm going to try to make it come true if I can."
It's hard not to notice how much Morton loves his profession.
"I love this business. This business cost me wives. I was on the road a lot. That's the heartaches of the business that I love so much. You're gone every night."
Attending — and being honored — at an event like Fanfest, he says, is a thrill.
"I love the fans, and I'm looking forward to being put in this (Hall of Heroes). It's a great honor to know that someone thought enough about you to do something about it. That means a lot to somebody, especially like me, after you put all your time into this business."
Is tag-team wrestling dead?
Ricky Morton doesn't necessarily think so. But he does agree that it's becoming a lost art.
"It's not dead," says Morton. "They just don't know how to do it."
What made The Rock 'N' Roll so special, he says, is that they both knew how to work.
To old schoolers like Morton and Gibson, who represented the best of their craft, tag-team wrestling was an art form.
"It was an art. I did a lot of flying, but I didn't have to. My thing was selling. I'd sell and give Robert a hot tag. That was what it was about."
Whether it be in singles of tag-team competition, there were few better than Morton when it came to "selling." With good looks and of small stature, Morton was the ideal candidate to take a beating at the hands of the heels.
"When I was selling, I was telling a story. All we got was the finish from the referee. We'd go to the ring and have the match. It wasn't like we started off with this move, this move and that move. It all happened when you got in the ring. When they'd get the heat on me, I'd have to go into the stage of telling a story, to give Robert the hot tag and make people believe I was really getting killed. It's a lost art these days. I'd love to help people learn that. But the business has changed."
There was no planning matches from A to Z.
"It's like the guys today have a playbook. I do not do that. I do not call anything in the back. I go out and I listen to the people and give them what they want."
"We were young, rock-and-roll guys at that time using music that people knew," says Morton. "We'd come out to the ring with our music. Nowadays they play the music and guys come to the ring, and really it's over. But we had great matches."
Both Morton and Gibson grew up in the business.
"Robert and I were both brought up in wrestling families," says Morton, who was trained by his father, Paul, and started wrestling in 1978. "When we got our break, we took advantage of it. The things that we did in the ring were different."
Gibson (real name Ruben Cain), now 54, turned pro in 1977 when he was only 17 years old. He was trained by his older brother, Ricky Gibson (Cain), who was a popular star in the Southeastern states.
"We didn't train in a ring," says Robert. "We trained in the front yard."
"Ricky Gibson was incredible," recalls Cornette. "When he worked with Lawler in '74, nobody did the big vertical suplexes then. He'd run and jump over the top rope outside the ring to chase the manager. He was just so athletic. Of course the big bumps and the big backdrops are what shortened his career."
"I met Robert when he first came into the territory," adds Cornette. "He had wrestled a little bit in Mobile and then came up here to team with brother Ricky. I took their first publicity picture. Before Ricky (Morton) started wrestling, he rode up to the matches a time or two with his dad, Paul Morton, who had refereed here since Hoover was in the White House."
Ricky Gibson, who passed away in 2006 at the age of 54, also was helpful to Morton, says Robert.
"That stuff me and my brother did together is basically what me and Ricky Morton did. We were the Gibson Brothers first."
In the early 1980s, an automobile accident put an end to Ricky Gibson's wrestling career.
Morton, who lives in Bristol, Tenn., remains a weekend warrior on the independent circuit.
On special occasions, he will bring The R&R Express out of mothballs and team with Gibson, who splits his time between homes in Atlanta and Pensacola.
It's a routine Morton enjoys for the most part, and it provides him a way to stay current.
And every once in a while, he says, there's a big turnout that will bring back memories of how it once was.
"We might not draw some of those huge houses anymore. We don't draw the 10,000 people we once did. But we recently wrestled Kevin Nash and X-Pac up in Waynesville, Va. The fire marshal came in and almost shut the show down because they put 600 more people in the building than they were supposed to."
And sometimes, their opponents are familiar faces from those days in Crockett Promotions.
"Last week we had a hell of house in Gastonia, N.C. We wrestled The Powers of Pain — Warlord and The Barbarian."
More importantly, Morton can still sell like nobody's business and, along with Gibson, the two can still throw a pretty mean double dropkick. And, chimes in Gibson, "I'm still doing a flying head scissors."
"I'm 56 years old, but believe it or not, I'm in better shape than I was 25 years ago," says Morton. "I'm not a bodybuilder. But I know how to sell, and that's what the people still buy."
The formula still works.
"They get the heat on me and I give Robert the hot tag, and the roof comes off the building. Then the double dropkick, and it's all over but the crying and the dying and the flying. It always worked and it still does."
As for the blond mullet, it's not going anywhere as long as Morton has any control.
"Because of my hair, I'm recognized everywhere I go," he says.
Gibson once asked him why he didn't cut his hair.
"Dang, Robert, if I cut my hair I won't be me anymore. And I never will cut it. Mullet World Order forever!"


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CLEVELAND (AP) ' Authorities say a loaded handgun and knife were found in a carry-on laptop case at a Cleveland Hopkins International Airport security checkpoint.
Police say 60-year-old Richard Buxman, of Poland in suburban Youngstown, was arrested and charged Monday with carrying a concealed weapon. He was released on $1,000 bail and faces a Friday common pleas court hearing.
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DENISON, TX -- The board voted to seek a waiver for bad weather days this winter, while also formally approving a donation of school property, and the renaming of a middle school.
Tuesday evening, the Denison ISD board approved a number of measures.
The board formally voted to donate the Golden Rule Elementary gym and school property to the Denison Boys and Girls Club.
"It will help our students as well as students in the future so I think it's a win win situation for the school district, the community, and the Boys and Girls Club," said Superintendent, Dr. Henry Scott.
Scott says the school board will donate the property after the school closes this year.
The board voted to submit a waiver to the Texas Education Agency, for the school days missed due to the bad winter weather.
"We're not gonna take a chance on having someone get injured simply to have school on that particular day, so there were seven days that we feel we could not safely get the buses over the city and rural roads," Scott said.
Scott says two make up days have already been built into the school calendar, and the waiver request will now be sent to the TEA for the other five days that were missed.
While they await a decision on the waiver... Exciting times are ahead for next year's 7th and 8th graders, who will attend the old high school building, which is being renamed Henry Scott middle school, after the superintendent himself...
"People like to work here and people like to go to school here, and Denison has a excellent reputation, and it's built around what Dr. Scott has done," said Assistant Superintendent, Dr. George Hatfield.
And Scott says he is overwhelmed and honored.
"I've always felt supported by the school board and teachers, and I appreciate that and don't take that for granted," Scott said.
Scott has been with Denison ISD for over 50 years.
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Ehh, it depends. I don't care if my roommates see me watching it per say, but I don't go around in public flaunting it either. I may mention something if someone else brings it up, but I definitely don't come across as a "typical" anime viewer (according to biases).
Nope, I'm too old to care what people think.
I talk openly about it all of the time and I often tell others in hopes that they open up to me about it. If not, then I keep it moving.
My job pretty much knows exactly what Sword Art Online is even though they've never watched a second of it.
In love with anime.
I have been faced with this EXACT SAME DILEMMA! And its good to know that I'm not the only one! I've been watching anime since I was 12 but not even my best friends know it. My little brother and I watched it together when we lived with our parents but now that we've grown we occasionally talk to each other about it so we're each others outlet for our geekiness I always felt like if anyone found out that I couldn't handle it based on how people perceived me. Just as you say, when people think of anime, they would never picture me as a person to do it.
No, I definitely don't.
You wouldn't know from just seeing me on the street. My shoe collection rivals my video game collection. Which is nothing compared to my anime collection. Which so far, I haven't personally met anyone who has beat any of them in size. Or who has any of my game/anime related tattoos.
Just because we take care of our appearances, and enjoy other activities, doesn't mean we can't indulge ourselves in things we love.
And if they think I'm lame for the things I like, then I simply don't want to be their friend.
I got out of that shell in high school. No one has said anything about it, but i do occasionally have to explain why a girls panties will occasionally show if i am watching at work or school.
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i most certainly never advertise it. but my close friends know i like it. they dont have a clue about how much time i spend watching it. i also watch a lot of korean shows and even some chinese and Taiwanese stuff too. and listen to the music too. i really do try to keep the extent to which i enjoy asian culture to myself, but i dont try to hide the fact that its one my interests. i do, however, really wish i could share that part of myself with at least a few people in my life. there are so many shows and songs that i love, and i wish i had some one around with which to enjoy then. but then again this stuff is just one fraction of who i am, not all of who i am, so i guess its less that i keep it too myself as it is that i dont make a big deal about it.
i definately consider myself a 22 year old closet nerd. becausei love to game (especially rpg and mmorpg) and because movies and books like lord of the rings are my favorite. but on the outside people think im fun and cool... tis but a rouse!
(ps. maybe is because im a chick, but isnt gaming/being a gamer really frowned upon too in the states? i feel the need to down play my love of video games all the time too. its kinda like sports and shooter games are the only socially acceptable ones. or maybe its just me..)
What a great response!! I feel like...you might be the female version of me lol ANYWAY...thanks for your comment Girls gaming is actually encouraged in the States...when guys find a girl who is open about her gaming she becomes cooler automatically lol gamer chicks are cool in the states! It doesn't matter if it's rpg or mmo or shooter. Call of duty is actualy quite popular with a lot of girls! I play with some regularly.
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My close friends know I watch but only a few know just how much t I watch (like that one day last weekend where I watched 26 episodes in 12 hours... I actually told two or three about that only because it was quite the feat and I set a personal record haha). Idt anyone knows that I watch almost every single day. I used to keep my mouth shut tight about it, but now I've mentioned it enough that my friends got used to it. Some of them will mention or bring up that I watch it and I've finally gotten used to the fact that its common knowledge that its an interest of mine.
I still don't feel inclined to tell people I just met, though. It's not that I'm ashamed of it, like the guy who started this thread pointed out it tends to be frowned on in America so I'd rather people get to know me and then find out my "weirder" interests.
Also, meeting a fellow anime fan is always so exciting for me!
I'm right there with you! There have been many days during which I've spent every waking moment watching anime..and if any of my college friends knew that..I don't know how I would feel! Thanks for the comment : )
I'm pretty much the same way...my last two roommates have been Asian though lol by chance.
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No, I definitely don't.
You wouldn't know from just seeing me on the street. My shoe collection rivals my video game collection. Which is nothing compared to my anime collection. Which so far, I haven't personally met anyone who has beat any of them in size. Or who has any of my game/anime related tattoos.
Just because we take care of our appearances, and enjoy other activities, doesn't mean we can't indulge ourselves in things we love.
And if they think I'm lame for the things I like, then I simply don't want to be their friend.
What tattoos do you have??
Yeah it's kind of a pain isn't it?! haha I'm glad I started this thread because I feel a lot better about being honest with the people around, and specifically the people I call my friends.
It depends I don't go around hiding it like if I'm bored at school I'll go onto my computer and watch some episodes but I also don't flaunt it. It's something I like to do in my spare time so I usually just enjoy it whenever
I'll never deny the fact that I absolutely love and watch Anime!! If people don't like that, their loss!
Too damn loud and proud about it to hide it.
I think I can relate to you. I keep watching anime a secret unless the person watches it to or they're friends and they ask. I don't bring up the subject of anime on my own, I wait for someone else to bring it up to make it less awkward for me hahaha. You could say that I take an approach similar to Kikusui and reserve anime for personal time and away from my social life in a way.
On to another day
Anime is like a penis. Its ok to be proud of it. But just don't be whipping it out in public and start waving it around.


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WARREN, Mich. - The U.S. Army, through the System of Systems Integration (SoSI) Directorate, announced that it is seeking interested industry and government sources with mature solutions to enhance existing network systems capabilities to participate in the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) 14.1 event, scheduled to take place in October/November 2013 at Ft. Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), N.M.
The semi-annual NIE is helping shape "agile" capability integration by assessing soldier provided and technical operational test data to influence not only how the Army procures capability, but also how integrated network capability requirements are validated and refined. NIEs also shape the ways the Army will field, train, sustain and continuously improve capability acquisition and life cycle management and provide a relevant operational test environment to meet mandatory Program of Record test requirements.
The purpose of the Sources Sought notice is to identify emerging capabilities to be evaluated against a set of entrance criteria for an opportunity to participate in NIE 14.1. This Sources Sought seeks mature solutions with a narrow focus on specific identified gaps in the current and evolving networked equipment solution set.
The identified gaps are: Brigade/Battalion Command Post (CP) Mobility and Scalability, Network Visualization on the Common Operational Picture (COP), Aerial layer Network Extension – Provide assured access for terrestrial network, Integrated Network Assurance – Network Access Control, Operational Energy – Energy sources with extended duration and power, Operational Energy – Monitor and manage system power, supply and demand, and Operational Energy – Reduce reliance on petroleum based energy.
The Army is seeking only those solutions that address the specific identified gaps, that are at the representative model or prototype system stage and that have been tested in a relevant environment.
"A highlight of NIE 14.1 will be the implementation of the common operating environment, while also looking beyond the network allowing the Army to assess non-networked Operational Energy systems," said Col. Rob Carpenter, Director SoSI. "Solutions being sought in NIE 14.1 will help inform Capability Sets and the NIE construct as it matures to a Joint environment in NIE 14.2"
In December, the Army issued the first Request for Proposal (RFP) to support the NIE events. As the Army continues to use Sources Sought notifications to target vendor solutions for broad capability gaps, utilizing the RFP method allows the service to seek solutions for targeted capability gaps. Both the RFP and the Sources Sought will supplement NIE 14.1 assessments.
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You've tried several times and told her how you feel. She's been very clear that she feels you two arent as close. I think you need to lay off contacting her. Stop chasing her. Wait for her to reach out to you - she knows you're there. Respond positively if she does, but wait for her to reach out.
Is there any possibility, even hideously remotely, that someone else has told her you said or did things you never actually said or did? Given what you've told us, it doesn't make sense that she'd think you think they're "old" , that you're not genuinely happy for them, that you didn't offer any help -- enthusiastically I might add! Something's way off here and I can't figure out what.
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Regarding The Sun's insistence on raising the gas tax ("Gas tax realities," Oct. 13), perhaps The Sun is out of touch with Maryland citizens. Many Marylanders are unemployed or their salaries have not returned to 2008 levels. A 15-cent increase will not only cause pain at the pump, but delivery prices and food prices will rise. As for increased transportation jobs, this would not happen for several years. What Marylanders need is jobs now, and these are never created by raising taxes.
Make Maryland a more attractive place for companies to invest. Retrain the unemployed with skills for the growing job areas. As for William Donald Schaefer raising the gas tax 5 cents in 1992, that was when the unemployment rate was 7.6 percent, unlike today when Baltimore's rate is 11.5 percent.
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Letter to the Editor:
I am a farmer/seed dealer who was born and resides in Palo Alto County. I started farming in 1975 after graduating from ISU. I have always hunted and fished in the area but could see that many of the wildlife areas I had enjoyed were being lost, so when I was asked to be on the Palo Alto Conservation Board, I enthusiastically accepted. Shortly after becoming a board member, I was asked to join in a long-term planning meeting of representatives from West Bend, Graettinger, Ruthven area, and Emmetsburg, including County Supervisors. We discussed how to make our county more attractive to people looking for a place to call their home. This was especially true for attracting doctors, dentists, teachers, and other professionals. We had a great meeting about all aspects of our county, but the message was loud and clear to me. I was directed to go back and ask the Conservation Board to aggressively create wildlife areas for hunting, river access, wetland creation, and picnic facilities. That was 30-35 years ago, and look where we are today! We have created one of the best areas in Iowa for public hunting, with access to nearly 2500 acres, combined with river access for canoeing, kayaking, and fishing. We have many areas for picnicking or just enjoying nature. Nearly all these areas were purchased with money from grants and donations, not with your taxes. We also have a Nature Center second to none which provides education for young and old, among other things. Where else in Iowa can you go and see so much wildlife preserved in a natural setting? It is here that Art Hampe has an office to set up his busy schedule and Miriam Patton puts together her inspiring talks for the kids.
Our County Board of Supervisors is now considering a significant cut to the operating budget of the Conservation Board. Even though the Conservation Board and its employees have proven their superior ability to protect nature, educate young and old, and enhance the quality of life of all living in and visiting this county, the Supervisors want to cut their budget. Even though this county's Conservation Board has shown the ability to be extremely effective (16th in the state) while being very cost-effective (61st in the state), the Supervisors want to curtail their efforts.
We are well on our way to achieving the vision we set out to fulfill all those years ago. However, the job is not done, and it cannot be done with less money. If you are proud of what we have developed in Palo Alto County and see the value of creating a better quality of life, please let your Supervisor know that we need to support the continued efforts of our Conservation Board and their employees, not hamper them.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. – There was a short story behind how the team came to acquire its unusual name, just as should have been expected. It's not often that a squad walks out on the field at a Perfect Game tournament wearing T-shirts that identify the players as members of a team called "Gotta Eat." In fact, it's unprecedented.
But before talking about the origin of his team's name, Gotta Eat head coach Josh Jackson was more eager to talk about the team itself, a squad he knows very well. Jackson is the second-year head coach at Dixie M. Hollins High School in St. Petersburg, Fla., and the team he has here this weekend for the 3rd annual PG WWBA 18u Labor Day Classic is the Hollins High team he will put on field in the spring of 2014.
Gotta Eat's game against Team IMPACT at the former Boston Red Sox Player Development 5-Plex Friday evening was among the first of seven games played Friday to kickoff the PG WWBA 18u Labor Day Classic. Six games were also played on opening night for the PG WWBA 16u Labor Day Classic, which runs concurrently with the 18u tournament.
It's unusual, but not unprecedented, for a high school team to compete in its entirety at a PG tournament that features some travel ball powerhouses, like the Orlando Scorpions or the South Florida Elite Squad. Those teams will often include a handful of players on their roster from the same high school but they are generally built with the top players from around a particular city or region within a state; some go out-of-state to find their players.
Gotta Eat (aka the Dixie Hollins High Rebels) is a young team – there are four seniors, four juniors, four sophomores and seven freshmen on the roster Jackson brought here this weekend. Most of the other teams at the 18u Labor Day Classic are senior and junior dominated but Jackson, a Hollins High grad himself, never considered beefing up the roster with players from other schools.
"I think we have enough talent to be just fine where we're at right now," he said Friday. "I think we have a very aggressive team – we're going to take the extra base when it's given and if the pitcher's throwing strikes we're going to hit him. Our pitchers are going to attack the zone, pitch to contact and the defenders are going to play well. In one word, I think we're an 'aggressive' team."
Jackson expects his young team to be competitive in this ultra-competitive situation. He said it was important to get his squad in the environment a PG WWBA tournament offers instead of just shipping them off to a weeklong camp someplace.
And he also believes his top two seniors – catcher/right-hander Devin Reyes (2014, Spring Hill, Fla.) and shortstop/right-hander Joey Simmons (2014, Pinellas Park, Fla.) are capable of playing college baseball at some level, as are some of the younger members of the team.
"This is the best venue for them to come to and play in front of the scouts that (Perfect Game) attracts to these types of tournaments," Jackson said. "Then they get to play against some guys on the other teams that have already committed and they see that, and our boys do well thinking that somebody is going to have an eye on them."
Reyes, a solidly built 6-foot-1, 190-pounder, and the diminutive Simmons (5-7, 130-pounds) are the most experienced of the Gotta Eat players.
Reyes is ranked as a "high follow" nationally and the No. 212 Florida prospect in his class and previously played in the PG WWBA 16u East Memorial Day Classic here in May. He hit .418 (23-for-55) with four home runs, two doubles and two triples with 14 RBI and 14 runs scored for Hollins in the spring, and was 1-2 with a 4.79 ERA with 20 strikeouts in 19 innings on the mound.
Simmons, who was wearing a distinctive Florida Burn cap on Friday, played with the SBC Elite at the PG WWBA 18u National Championship in Marietta, Ga., in July and with the Burn at the 2012 PG WWBA 16u East Memorial Day Classic.
"I have done quite a few Perfect Game tournaments but this one is more exciting," Simmons said Friday. "Usually I'm here with other teams and it's not as exciting and I don't get to bond with my teammates as much. I like being here with this team and starting to look forward to the spring."
The origin of the "Gotta Eat" team name was the subject of several off-field conversations on Friday, so PG asked Jackson to explain how it came to be.
"When I was in high school (at Dixie Hollins), one of the sayings that we had was 'You gotta eat,'" he recalled. "I carried that saying into my personal life – I have to work and I have to work hard to make a paycheck, and when I make that paycheck then I'm able to eat. It's the same concept. If they really want to do well at this game and if they want to get to the next level, they've got to work, and in order to eat, they've got to work hard. So they've got to put work into baseball and they gotta eat."
Jackson, who is in his early 20s, is enjoying working with his high school-age players. The Dixie Hollins Rebels finished a modest 10-14 last spring playing in Florida High School Association Class 6A but he feels like the team is coming together.
"Sometimes it will be one of those days when you want to pull your hair out," Jackson said, "but other days it's pretty good, especially with the different types of personalities that you have out there. I find them pretty receptive. They listen sometimes when they want to, depending on what happened during the day, but most of the time we have a team that's pretty receptive to criticism, pretty receptive to critiques on getting better."
Gotta Eat's 18u Labor Day Classic debut against Team IMPACT on Friday didn't go well – the Eaters were pummeled 15-0 in just three innings. They have two more pool-play game remaining Saturday and Sunday against the South Florida Elite Squad TPX Underclass and BPA-Baseball Pros Academy, respectively, and will be in decided underdogs in both.
Jackson only wants the Eaters to stay hungry.
"Come here, get yourself out there and make a name for yourself," he said he told his players. "I encourage them to do as much as they possibly can to get to the next level. I tell them all the time that for me to get them into college is about five percent of the work, but 95 percent of the work is on them. How hard to they work out here, how much do they really want it, how much are you willing to travel on the weekend to play in this tournament and give up spending time with a girlfriend or any of that kind of stuff."
Simmons, the team's 130-pound shortstop who will be Gotta Eat's starting pitcher against BPA on Sunday, doesn't run away from his team's underdog status.
"We're probably mostly the underdog but we're probably the team with the most bonding," he said. "I think since we're together as a high school team we'll probably have some pretty good luck. We're loose, but we mean business. We're here to play and we're here to do well."


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Matia Finn-Stevenson, PhD
Research Scientist; Associate Director Zigler Center; Director, School of the 21st Century; Director, The Mutt-i-grees Initiative
Research Interests
Psychiatry and Psychology; Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Research Organizations
Child Study Center: Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy
Research Summary
The application of research in policy and practice and the development, evaluation and dissemination of research-based programs addressing the needs of children and families.
Extensive Research Description
The School of the 21st Century, a school-based approach to providing child care and family support services, implemented in over 1300 schools in the US
The Mutt-i-grees Curriculum, builds on the research on human-animal interaction to enhance socio-emotional skills. Designed for all students from PreK-Grade 6, Middle School and High School. Also appropriate for use with students with special needs.


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MARIETTA, Okla. -- To honor this week's A+ Athlete, we head to Marietta High School and meet Julie McGill.
This week's A+ Athlete is Julie McGill from Marietta High School. Julie played both softball and basketball on the field. She has earned a spot on the All-Lake Country Conference Team since 2005 and, last year, she was the starting pitcher on the Southern Oklahoma All-Star Fast Pitch Team.
In the gym, Julie helped her team to reach the quarterfinals of state this year. This co-captain has also been on the all-tournament team at several different tourneys.
Julia excels in the classroom as well, maintaining a 3.96 grade point average. Julie is also the senior class president, a National Honor Society member, and a USAA National English Merit Award winner.
Julie is also unique in that she is highly decorated for showing live stock in stock shows. She's been a showmanship champion year after year and she knows the key to her success is a hard working mentality from someone very close to her.
Next year she'll continue her success at East Central University in Ada, where she hopes to one day be an anesthesiologist.
Congratulations to Julie McGill on being named this week's A+ Athlete.
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