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In this video, Grant Bronsdon, a High School intern at Microsoft Research, gives a quick tutorial on writing scripts in TouchDevelop. TouchDevelop is a Windows Phone 7 app that allows you to script your phone on your phone!
The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.
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Wow...I like this kinda stuff. I am a senior senior software architect but I think youngsters and kids would befnefit a lot from this. It will teach them what programming and developing is about and they will develope a mind for logic in software construction. It is a very good preparation kit. Well done to whomever coming up with this tool.
Its Awesome!!!!
Touch develop is really cool ;) !
I would really like to play with this but I've got the (known) install problem (c101b00b) - is there any cure for this ill on the way?
@CbrAInk: This is a known error, and are actively investigating its cause. We are tracking the issue on the following page where we will also post once it has been resolved: https://www.facebook.com/TouchDevelop/posts/144030055681592
Well done, this looks outstanding.
Do the scripts compile to byte code? If so will it be possible to sell the compiled versions in Microsoft's mobile store?
It'd be a great way to boost your app store - develop on the phone, test on the phone, submit to the app store direct from the phone. I'd love that, I'd be able to work anywhere - on a train, on a plane, in the park while my kids are playing...
Just make sure the runtime is included on every Windows Phone device!
Will it work for Windows eight tablets?
good one application, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software]application[/url] as mr. google says
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Financial planning for the new year
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The new year is really not too far away....
Financial planning? LOL. Obama and his old policies' speech Tuesday night showed us that the future is getting bleaker and bleaker. Majority of citizens cannot wait for Obama's END to his high taxation; high spending, unconstitutional congress-bypassing reign. Worst president EVER!
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You cannot 'plan' anything financially with Obama and democrats in control. No one knows from one second to the next what next socialistic thing they will do WITHOUT congressional approval.
When dictators run things; there is NO finances to plan for.
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Looks like they are at it again. The same school that said they would not have money trouble for the forseeable future now says different. This states they might let the old one expire. Might? With this group of proven liars there will be resistance to any money issues. They have been quoted in this paper saying they intentionally stopped any building maintainance while giving the staff "free" wifi. we all know the staff uses it for their heavy lifting on our dime.
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CLEMSON — It wasn't so long ago when Clemson was the toast of the town, the title contender, one of the most talked-about teams in college football, and it all fell apart.
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Statistics: 380 total yards, 4 total touchdowns, became Clemson's all-time leader in overall offense (9,971 yards) and has thrown 166 passes without an interception
When the Tigers opened 8-0 and rose to the No. 5 ranking with a bunch of whippersnappers in 2011, the good times didn't last; an ACC championship is in the trophy case, but four of six losses finished the year.
2:50. The longest elapsed time of any of Clemson's five first-half touchdown drives.
66-0-1. Clemson's record when amassing at least 500 yards; it tallied a season-high 573 yards Saturday, while allowing 222 to Wake Forest.
102. Tajh Boyd's career touchdown total (passing plus rushing), placing him behind only N.C. State's Philip Rivers (112 TD) in ACC history
67. Adam Humphries' receiving yardage, a career high for the junior.
29, 31. Backup quarterback Cole Stoudt's completions and attempts this season.
"It was almost like your first trip to Disney World," head coach Dabo Swinney remembered. "You walk around and go, 'Wow, this is really cool, wow.' We kind of lost our focus."
On days like Saturday, when the third-ranked Tigers are four-touchdown favorites over bottom-feeders, Swinney no longer worries about a loss of focus.
Demonstrating the ultimate spread attack with seven different touchdown owners, Clemson's offense awoke from its comparative slumber, commemorating Homecoming weekend by flooding overmatched Wake Forest 56-7 Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.
The Tigers (4-0, 2-0 ACC) led 46 seconds after kickoff, and never looked back.
"I like our experience. I like the makeup of our team," Swinney said. "We've got a really good group that's been around here for awhile that's not overwhelmed, or caught up in whatever somebody's ranking us, or people talking about you on ESPN.
"I just think they're very dialed in, and I think they get it. … It's one good thing to have good leadership; it's another thing when your leadership is very experienced. That's what I like about this team more than anything."
Of the seven Tigers who scored touchdowns in the first three quarters Saturday, three of them had never punctured the end zone in college: former walk-on tailback CJ Davidson, who scored twice, and freshmen Mike Williams and Jordan Leggett.
"I had a lot of touchdowns in my (high school) career," Williams said, "but that first Clemson touchdown was great."
Quarterback Tajh Boyd ran one in, wide receiver Sammy Watkins opened the scoring, D.J. Howard went the distance on a 75-yard swing pass and Zac Brooks added his first rushing score of the year.
"We don't want just one guy to go out there and score many touchdowns," Boyd said. "We try to make sure everybody eats a piece of the pie. It's great for those (younger) guys; they're the future of the program."
Boyd previously felt he was personally out of rhythm since he played sparingly Sept. 7 against South Carolina State and waited 12 days before his next game, a slugfest at North Carolina State.
On the third play of the game, Boyd pump-faked and lofted the deep ball to his favorite target. Watkins shrugged off Wake Forest cornerback Merrill Noel, who was called for pass interference, but the penalty was declined when Watkins hauled it in and went 64 yards to set the tone for the afternoon.
"We knew their cornerbacks like to bite on certain things, and he bit on it," Watkins said. "You've got to play through those types of plays; that's what great players do, and I just continued through the play and Tajh made a great pass."
Boyd completed 17-of-24 passes for 311 yards and three touchdowns, rushing 17 times for 69 yards and another score. He became Clemson's all-time total offense leader — he's got 9,971 yards in his career — and has thrown 166 consecutive passes without an interception, edging ahead of Cullen Harper's school record.
Even with two of its key offensive weapons severely limited, Clemson assaulted a respectable Wake Forest defense. Tailback Roderick McDowell left in the first quarter with a right ankle injury and receiver Martavis Bryant was suspended for the first half after making a throat-slashing gesture in the Tigers' previous game at North Carolina State.
The Demon Deacons (2-3, 0-2) had allowed seven touchdowns in their first four games; the Tigers scored eight in 60 minutes, including six touchdowns on all six red-zone opportunities. Wake Forest had allowed an average of 311 yards per game entering Saturday; Clemson posted 361 yards by halftime, and 573 for the day.
"Clemson just made good plays," Demon Deacons coach Jim Grobe said. "The pace of the game was very fast and … the thing is, you can play fundamentally sound football and still give up a lot of points against a team like Clemson."
Wake Forest, which used three different quarterbacks, went 2-for-14 on third downs, and only avoided the shutout with a 10-yard reception by Sherman Ragland III late in the first quarter. The Tigers reeled off the game's last 35 points.
After getting gashed by Todd Gurley and company in the Georgia opener, Clemson's run defense has stifled its past two visitors. S.C. State averaged 1.9 yards per rush three weeks ago, and so did Wake Forest on Saturday: 31 carries, 60 yards.
"They like to play as a group," defensive coordinator Brent Venables said. "We've got good chemistry, guys trust each other, they hold each other accountable, and guys aren't trying to do too much most of the time."
Demon Deacons possession receiver Michael Campanaro got loose for seven catches and 75 yards. Starting quarterback Tanner Price was 14-of-22 for 125 yards, but was sacked three times and yanked for backups Tyler Cameron and Patrick Thompson.
"This is a year that we wanted to get better," junior cornerback Bashaud Breeland said. "We're accustomed to the system now. We just want to go out there and play fast."
Leaving September unblemished, the Tigers hit the road next Saturday to face Syracuse (2-2), which was idle this weekend, in the Orange's first-ever ACC conference game.
"Hey, we ask for Solid Orange, right?" Boyd said. "We're going to get it when we go up there, for sure."


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Monteith, who was only 31 when he died July 13 from a mixture of alcohol and heroin, had already shot appearances in the season's first two episodes – those, a salute to the Beatles, were re-edited leading up to last night's memorial. They constituted one of the most melancholy salutes to the Beatles I've ever heard, with Monteith's death coloring everything.
Thursday's episode, which opened with the cast dressed in simple black and singing "Seasons of Love" from Rent, began with a kind of narrative gulp: We learned that three weeks had passed since the funeral of the now deceased Finn, the strapping, sweet-natured jock. His survivors – everyone – were congregating at McKinley High.
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For a blue-collar kid from the steel town of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, it can be stated with relative certainty that Johnny Powers did pretty well for himself.
Powers spent 20 years in the wrestling profession, and during that time achieved an amazing degree of success that would carry over to other business ventures.
A risk-taking, forward-thinking promoter at heart, Powers was a darling of the pro wrestling community during the '60s and '70s.
With good looks, a 6-4, 260-pound athletic body, and a sharp mind for the business, the wrestler nicknamed the "Golden Adonis" became a major star by his mid-20s.
A three-time National Wrestling Federation world champion and seven-time North American titleholder, the resourceful Powers founded his wrestling organization, was a pioneer in wrestling syndication and produced the first "Super Bowl of Wrestling" at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium in 1972.
Powers just might be better known in the Mid-Atlantic area, however, for his role in heading up an organization during the mid-'70s that posed a serious challenge to the established Crockett Promotions.
"We had a reasonable chance because we had a leg up on the creative side and the talent side. But I didn't anticipate those old Crockett rascals buying a losing hockey team in Winston-Salem to get a lock on a building," reflects Powers, now 70 and living back in his hometown of Hamilton.
Powers was booker for the IWA (International Wrestling Association), a direct descendant of the NWF (National Wrestling Federation), which promoted shows in upstate New York, western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio from 1970 to 1974.
When TV sports entrepreneur and money man Eddie Einhorn backed out of the fledgling group in 1975, it was Powers who kept the company running as a regional promotion, reshaping the IWA around a three-state circuit consisting of Virginia and the Carolinas.
Powers kept the territory alive for nearly three years before an antitrust case in U.S. federal court took the wind out of the company's sails.
A lawsuit that Powers filed claimed the Crocketts and area venue managers were working together to keep the IWA from scheduling events in the major arenas in the territory.
"Crockett took the Winston-Salem Coliseum — which was my main town — away from me," says Powers. "Then I went to court, and 12 nice little folks in a jury totally didn't understand what an antitrust suit and restraint of trade was. They figured that it had been that way for 30 years, so it must be OK."
Powers, who never gave up on anything without a good fight, harkened back to the words of his "spiritual papa," veteran promoter Ignacio "Pedro" Martinez, who had mentored Powers in the art of creative event marketing of pro wrestling.
"He taught me how to promote and survive. He told me that sometimes a town wants you to leave. Sometimes a territory wants you to leave. Sometimes you've got to try to read those things and make a choice."
Unable to break the lock of the territorial system, it was time to for Powers to cut his losses. His three-year run, from 1975-78, was over.
"I think the creative heart went out of me after that. I thought that maybe I had done what I should have done in the business."
Powers' creative influence, though, would be far from over.
And while the Carolinas remain just one small footnote in the vast and colorful history of Johnny Powers, he's looking forward to returning to Charlotte — the traditional heart of Crockett wrestling country — as a special guest this August during the Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Legends Fanfest.
Powers says it's not the wrestling he remembers so much as it is the beauty of the area and its people.
"My best memory of the whole thing is the people," says Powers. "I was so totally enthralled
by the good-naturedness of the people and also the beauty of the Carolinas. There's a natural, unique beauty to that area down there ... there's beautiful, nice people in a great surrounding."
Not only did Powers leave his wrestling mark on the area, he also made a financial investment locally.
Powers had a real estate broker's license from New York state when he left the wrestling business in 1978. He later activated it in three other states after having witnessed the beauty and potential along the Carolinas-Virginia coastline.
"I rented a Piper Turbo Navajo and flew up and down the coast from Richmond all the way down to Charleston," relates Powers.
During that trip, he noticed an old arcade along Folly Beach. Upon further inquiry, he learned that the popular landmark was owned by a Folly Beach church.
"I know Folly Beach well. I flew in on that Piper Turbo Navajo, and the preacher picked me up. We went straight to his church because I had to convince the congregation to allow me to go into business with them."
Powers pulled in his wrestling interview skills and sold the local parishioners on it.
"I got the thumbs up from all the congregation. I remember it very clearly," he says.
Before he knew it, Powers owned half of the seven-acre tract on the beach.
He owned the property for nearly a year until his financing was pulled due to a pending usury law at eight percent that the saving and loans association was attempting to break.
He had several million dollars worth of financing for the property, but the move killed the deal.
Powers also obtained another piece of Carolina real estate when he built a waterslide in Greensboro, N.C.
"I was going to go into the waterpark business. My only mistake was that I forgot that Myrtle Beach has about an eight- or nine-month season, and Greensboro, N.C., has about a four-month season. And it's pretty cold to go down a waterslide in October."
His trip this summer to Charlotte, he says, will be a welcomed return. It also will mark his first Fanfest experience.
"I have no idea if they'll even remember me ... 1978 is a long time ago," he says.
Powers, who will take part in a "Mid-Atlantic Memories" documentary being filmed during the event, says he's looking forward to reconnecting with a couple of his old wrestling cohorts.
"I don't have a lot of friends in the business, but one is Angelo Mosca. He's been to two three (Fanfest) events, and he has really enjoyed them. Another good buddy is Ox Baker."
Baker, whose shaved head and dark black, bushy eyebrows and mustache made the 6-5, 300-pounder one of the sport's top villains, occupies another footnote in Powers' mat history ledger.
Powers' heel turn against Ernie Ladd with Baker in 1973 sparked possibly the most dangerous riot in pro wrestling history. It's aptly known in wrestling circles as "The Cleveland Riot."
Again, it was Powers who came up with the angle, simply using a bit of wrestling logic and marketing wisdom.
"It was the most fun match I ever had," he says. "We were doing well, but I felt my houses were going to start to come down. I looked up and thought about it."
It was a case of pure demographics.
"I'm a white boy, and the audience is 90 percent black. I'm a babyface and Ernie Ladd's a heel in downtown Cleveland. This has got to stop."
When the menacing Baker interfered to save Powers and hit Ladd with a series of heart punches, irate fans stormed the ring, hurling chairs and other foreign objects.
"I had the match with Ladd, and I had Ox Baker run in, and I did a turn on Ernie," Powers relates. "They called it the worst riot of all time. Fans were so angry at me. There were 300 chairs flying. My local security left the building, and even the riot police would not come in."
Baker, notes Powers, still sports a reminder of that incident nearly 40 years ago.
"Ox has still got the 14-inch scar on top of his head from taking a chair. Ox went against Ladd through Bruiser's territory and all over the country just through that exposure."
The Natural
Just how did someone who didn't grow up a wrestling fan end up in the grunt-and-groan business?
For Johnny Powers, born Dennis Waters, it was a matter of simple economics.
At 15 years of age, he was a tall and lean youngster and, at 6-3, was better suited to basketball.
He eventually would drop out of college to pursue a wrestling career.
"I was going to be a geologist. I was smart enough to ask my teacher how much geology teachers made up north. He told me and I said forget it. I was going to become a wrestler."
Powers' mother gave him money to go to a gym run by a wrestler named Jack Wentworth in the east side of Hamilton, Ontario. Powers bulked up nearly 100 pounds in less than a year. Genetically, says Powers, it was a growth spurt that had taken hold. He went from 6-3 and 160 pounds to 6-4 and well over 260.
Wentworth, a tough, English-born light heavyweight veteran who had toured the world, was no slouch.
Powers soon became a product of "The Factory" — the YMCAs and the old, hardcore gyms in Hamilton that spawned many of the sport's great wrestlers of that period.
Powers learned the business from the ground up.
"I kind of learned to come up the hard way. I never was a strong shooter, but I had to learn to survive real fast."
One day, says Powers, he made the mistake of questioning the legitimacy of professional wrestling.
"Jack, I don't think wrestling is on the up and up," declared the naive greenhorn.
"That's interesting, kid, why don't you come in the ring with me?" Wentworth replied.
"He's 53 and I'm 16. And I'm thinking I can bench-press over 400 pounds. I'll hurt this old man," Powers thought to himself.
"He beat the living (stuffing) out of me. He hooked me left, hooked me right, he body-slammed me. He said when you get tired, you can tell me to stop. But when you're 16 and cocky and think you're infallible, you don't want to stop. So I bled from the nose, the ear, all over. I said, 'Man, you're 53, I like this business. Teach me.' And he taught me."
At the ripe age of 17, Powers found himself on the road to Detroit where he would gain experience working for promoter Bert Ruby.
By the time he was 19, Powers was a well-versed, full-time performer who was more than ready for the big time.
"I was a pretty good all-around athlete, but for some reason in the wrestling business, it became my art form. All things kind of jelled. I had a reasonably innate sense of where I should be in the ring, what I should do with my body and what I should do with somebody else's body."
Powers soon discovered that he was a natural for the wrestling business.
"Sometimes you walk through a door, and you were meant to be invited in. All the stars align so that somehow things fit for both sides."
Before he knew it, Powers was being matched up against one of the biggest stars on that era, Bruno Sammartino.
"I couldn't even rent a car. I wasn't 21 when I started against Sammartino," says Powers, who had come highly recommended by the likes of Cowboy Bill Watts and Killer Kowalski to promoters Toots Mondt and Ace Freeman.
Being somewhat of a marketing whiz at an early age, Powers knew he had to create an appealing image in order to get over with the wrestling audience.
"I had already gotten over as Lord Anthony Landsdowne. It was a Bert Ruby-Jack Britton name, but I guess because they thought Canadians were British. I was going to change my name, but I had hoped I wasn't going to have to do a job."
Powers pondered long and hard about a catchy new moniker.
"I had always liked John Wayne, so that was easy for the first name. And I always wanted to feel like I was powerful in some stages, so that became John Power. So it just kind of morphed as I was going along.
"As I walked in to the television (studio), they asked me, 'So what's your name, kid?' I told them Johnny Powers. It just flowed. It was one of those serendipitous things. It resonated and hooked in place," says Powers, who legally changed his name in 1965.
Next was picking a finishing hold.
"I liked the figure four leglock, because it actually could be a tightened-up hold that if some mark wanted to challenge it, you stood a reasonable chance of making it a shoot. When they asked me what my hold was, I told them it was a Powers Lock. To me it was unique because I had longer legs, and that morphed into a Power Lock."
The size was already there. Powers was 6-4 and fluctuated between 245 and 265.
"It was pre-anabolic steroid. It was the tough, old-fashioned keep-at-it-everyday way."
There was no doubt about it. Powers could deliver the goods inside the squared circle.
He also was intelligent, creative and always looking for a new adventure.
"I always was mentally agile. That doesn't mean I thought I was smart ... there's a difference. But I was scouting around for things to do. I actually found wrestling after I could gather the art form under what I call my umbrella. I was bored."
Powers, still a relative rookie in the wrestling profession, had bigger goals than becoming a top-tier talent in the ring.
At the age of 22, Powers was a quasi-celebrity in Toronto, traveling across Canada marketing dumbbells, barbells and other exercise equipment, along with the likes of hockey stars such as Bobby Hull and Olympic figure skating champions Otto and Maria Jelinek.
As a principal in Pro Management Inc., a sports celebrity management firm, he developed and took sports fitness equipment nationally on a major retail store promotion campaign all the while actively competing internationally as Canadian heavyweight champion.
"I got introduced to a world at a very young, impressionable age and got a sense of selling tickets to things other than a bleacher seat in a coliseum," says Powers.
A bleached-blond "bad guy" early in his career, it was hard to maintain a heel persona when he went to Toronto and sold physical training products across Canada with young, aspiring hockey stars.
Turning babyface was a marketing decision. But he always loved the concept of working heel.
"I loved being a heel more than a babyface. The heel controls the ring more. A good heel is the creative maestro. And even if you're a better worker in the ring than the heel, from a creative, storytelling standpoint, there's so much you can do as a heel. You're limited as a babyface because historically there's so many avenues in which to participate, but as a heel it's only limited by your creative mind."
Constantly expanding his vision, Powers bought a small town from promoter Frank Tunney in the Toronto territory. He even had the unbridled audacity of asking the veteran matchmaker if he could buy points in the wrestling office.
Tunney laughed at him.
"Here's a cocky, 23-year-old kid and he wants a piece of the action," laughs Powers,
Recognizing the youngster's drive and ambition, Tunney advised Powers to go across the border and talk to Buffalo-based promoter Pedro Martinez.
Powers had wrestled for Martinez and had worked his way up through the main-event hierarchy. Martinez agreed to sell points to Powers in his territory.
"Actually I bought Akron, Ohio, and I lost my (behind)," Powers laughs.
Promoting, Powers discovered, was a slightly different "art form" than he had envisioned, but he wasn't ready to give up.
"For a working-class guy out of a steel town called Hamilton, Ontario, all of a sudden my world was expanded. I then thought that maybe I could function in other milieus and different environments."
At the age of 24, Powers ended up buying part of Martinez's territory, and would help originate the global syndication of a black-and-white library of American pro wrestling films and videotapes with sales to Japan, Singapore, Philippines, Mexico and 23 other countries.
NWF world champion
Powers, one of the top wrestling names in Canada and in the Buffalo-Cleveland market, continued to look for ways to expand his sphere of influence.
"The NWA was pretty much a closed shop. At that time Vince McMahon Sr. was just regional. You kind of danced to their tune."
Being young, bold and confident, Powers asked his veteran adviser, Martinez, if they had to "put up" with playing second fiddle to the established organizations that basically ran the wrestling industry in this country.
"We were trying to build a business, and we got stymied and blocked all the time," says Powers.
Not at all fearful of the consequences, Powers took the ball and ran with it, co-founding the National Wrestling Federation along with Martinez.
In 1968 at the age of 25, Powers was in charge of his own national wrestling company.
"I was young, but nobody told me I shouldn't do it," he reasoned.
"In fact, (Detroit promoter Ed) Farhat, Tunney, McMahon all pulled my H1 permit (visa) to get across the border three times. They tried to keep me out. It was because they couldn't figure me out. That's because I don't think I could figure myself out."
Powers' group got off to an impressive start.
"We had guys like Abdullah The Butcher on the third match. In my opinion, for a period of time we had the most stacked-talent cards that existed in the U.S. and probably anywhere. We could move the talent up and down in all kinds of different directions."
It wouldn't be long before the superstar-turned-promoter would achieve a lofty status as one of the biggest American wrestling celebrities in Japan.
With the legendary Shohei "Giant" Baba affiliated with the dominant National Wrestling Alliance, the younger Antonio Inoki was looking for a comparable association with another major U.S. promotion.
Powers, with his newly created National Wrestling Federation, was more than willing to do business with the ambitious Inoki.
The two, only 30 days apart in age, instantly connected. They were both rebels willing and ready to shake up the wrestling establishment.
Three years after helping create the NWF, Powers, the group's world heavyweight champion and top star, sold it in 1973 to Inoki and New Japan Wrestling.
"I sold that to Inoki, and it just clicked. Inoki was ready to be a superstar. He was iconoclastic. He was a rebel."
Powers was defeated by Inoki for the NWF world heavyweight title on Dec. 10, 1973, at Tokyo's Sumo Hall.
Going up against Inoki, says Powers, was one of the greatest thrills he ever experienced in the wrestling business
"Even though I lost the title, there was a majesty about the match in Japan. There was an international presence about that match in Tokyo. The presentation was unreal. I never before felt the kind of enormous pressure and attention that came with it."
The perfect wrestler
Powers' three wrestling heroes were Lou Thesz, Buddy Rogers and Johnny Valentine, and he took notes along the way to develop his own hybrid style.
"I was morphing Thesz's style with Valentine's style, along with a Larry Chene-Buddy Rogers style. I mixed it up and tried to make it a Powers style. It takes you about four of five years to come into your own."
The perfect wrestler, he says, would be a composite of the three.
"I still believe that a combination of Thesz, Valentine and Rogers were innovative in my era. They broke ground. The business has changed because of the highspots. Larry Chene could do one death walk over the edge of the mat and hit the concrete floor in an arena or auditorium, and people would go quiet that he might have died. Now the guys can do so many highspots that it's diluted the effect of the highspots and it's become a gymnastics exercise."
"And I'm not being disrespectful to the box office, because the box office is great," adds Powers. "But it's changed the physical interface with the audience. Even a good story or a good book or whatever has to stay close enough to reality and yet push the boundaries so you're exploring new arenas of imagination."
Powers especially liked working with Valentine, although in one of their early encounters he admits he didn't quite comprehend Valentine's unique ring psychology.
"I had so much respect for him. One time we had a match in Toronto, I was already primed and ready to lock up. He wouldn't let me even touch him for 15 minutes. I thought this was going to die, and I was really getting frustrated. Valentine was almost 15 years my senior, and I had so much respect for his art form. I let it be, but with somebody else I wouldn't have done that."
Eventually, though, Powers "got it."
"When we finally touched, which was probably 16 or 17 minutes in, the crowd blew out. Now I understood Valentine's art form. We went for about an hour, and we probably put on eight different holds, and we were on the mat part of time. But it was an artistic success."
To go up against six-time world champion Thesz in his hometown of Hamilton was an honor for Powers. In the "uniqueness" category, Thesz ranks as Powers' second favorite opponent.
"I wrestled Lou Thesz in my hometown when I was 22 years old. It was a thrill. Outdoors in my old hometown ballpark. I revered him. Not only did he have the reputation ... he was just so classy."
Thesz, who respected workers who could really wrestle, would test Powers early in their encounter.
"About the time we went to lock up, he bitch-slapped me to sort of test my mettle. I looked at him and thought that he could probably hook me to death," relates Powers.
In total awe of the master matman but wondering how he might respond, Powers pondered his next move.
"Do I punch him back in the mouth, or do I take it and keep on going. I bet that I could punch the heck out of him ... I'll still go down, but I'll punch the heck out of this old man."
Thesz, however, was one step ahead of him.
"As I thought about it, he broke out in a smile. I knew he was watching me thinking this process through. He was literally reading this kid's mind."
The end result, says Powers, was never in question. Thesz would "allow" Powers to have some dignity while going down in defeat.
"Of course he was going to go over the entire time, but instead of beating me in the middle of the ring, he set it up so I hooked a leg over the second rope, he dropkicked me, I fell back and got counted out."
Another favorite, says Powers, albeit one with a style far different from Valentine or Thesz, was Abdullah The Butcher.
"I always had great matches with was Abdullah. I could let him go. If you're comfortable enough with you are, then you allow that other individual to get over and become comfortable with who they are. Sometimes it's limited. Sometimes it's unbelievably creative. For sheer craziness, going up in the stands, bloods, guts and thunder, it was Abby."
Much like Abdullah, The Sheik (Ed Farhat) was another ideal opponent for the babyface Powers.
"The Sheik and I sold out and turned away five or six thousand people. Twelve thousand was a sellout at Cleveland Arena. We were sold out well before. And this was when we had 48 shows a year in Cleveland. To draw a building and a half ahead of time ... there's no feeling like that in the world."
A heel turn by Powers in 1973 at the Cleveland Arena resulted in one of the biggest pro wrestling riots on record. It also was "the most fun match" Powers ever had.
"I was doing well, but I felt my houses were going to start to come down. I looked up and thought about it. I'm a white boy, and the audience is 90 percent black. I'm a babyface and Ernie Ladd's a heel in downtown Cleveland. This has got to stop."
"The best guy to turn it around was the strongest babyface," he concluded.
And that would be Johnny Powers,
He then booked a match with Ladd that would take a surprising turn.
"I had Ox Baker run in, and I did a turn on Ladd. They said it was the worst riot of all time. It was the Cleveland riot. Fans were so angry at me. They ended up rioting. There were 300 chairs flying around. My local security left the building. The riot police would not come in. Ox has still got the 14-inch scar on top of his head from taking a chair. Ox went against Ladd through Bruiser's territory and all that just through that exposure."
Back in business
Powers was a savvy booker and promoter, but he admitted making some mistakes when he went to the Carolinas.
"I had retired from the business after Cleveland in 1975. I was managing a small public company that owned the hockey arena franchise and ice skating franchise and a whole bunch of things like that. I was brought in to creatively do a turnaround on it from ticket sales and revenue streams."
In the meantime, his old partner, Martinez, had started a venture known as the IWA, the first truly national wrestling organization, along with Einhorn.
"He was a money man who was a wrestling fan," Powers says of Einhorn. " He wasn't intelligent about the business. Pedro hooked up with him. It was Einhorn's idea and his network. At that time he had a good-sized lock on all the collegiate basketball programming. He sold that to Corinthian Broadcasting for a pretty good sum of money at that time."
Martinez had worked with the Chicago businessman for only a couple of months when he called Powers asking for help.
"Pete, I'm not in the wrestling business, I'm doing fine," Powers explained to Martinez. "I'm going to be taking a reasonable share in a small public company. I'm in the sports promotion business, not the wrestling business."
But Martinez told Powers that the new group had no underlying territory. They were doing fine in most cases, he said, but were running shows across the country with what amounted to "a bunch of renegades."
In other words, says Powers, they had no basic business.
"In a territory, you can have one or two or three good towns, just like McMahon had in New York and Boston and Philadelphia. But you better have spot shows to keep the boys booked five or six or seven nights a week and keep them out of trouble and also to amortize your territory cost," says Powers.
Martinez knew that his only chance of success was convincing Powers to come out of retirement and take over the creative and booking end.
"Nobody understands what I'm talking about. You do. I trained you how to build it and do it," he told Powers.
"As a favor to Pedro, and not so much as I wanted to go back into the business, I agreed," says Powers. He told Martinez to book him as a worker.
Powers flew in from New Jersey, rented a car and drove to Winston-Salem, N.C., where he already had a television show.
"I booked myself on some radio promotions, got a map out and spotted some things, found the towns like Mount Airy around there, and booked the buildings. Within about four to six weeks, I had the beginning of an infrastructure in which there was territory in at least three states — North and South Carolina and Virginia."
Powers to the rescue
Johnny Powers was a natural promoter.
"I knew what to look for. There was nothing I didn't know about the business from a building of a territory (standpoint). I had done that with Pedro. But with Pedro it had been dormant. It was dead. I went and rebooked all the television shows in Schenectady, Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Erie, all those towns. That was my doing. That was me going in places like Rochester and paying a modest $400 a week for 13 weeks. I owned the hour. I had done all of that before."
The IWA, with its top-notch production values, was ahead of the larger promotions in a number of aspects. The company offered guaranteed money to attract top names and placed its tapings in TV markets all around the country. Slick production innovations such as freeze frames and slow-motion replays were utilized.
The territory began slowly building, with Winston-Salem as its key town.
Then, suddenly, Powers got a call from Martinez informing him that Einhorn had canceled all the television shows.
"We're off the air as of this weekend," Martinez told Powers.
According to Martinez, Vince McMahon Sr. had called the owner of Corinthian Broadcasting and asked him why he was letting his "prize guy," who he had just paid a lot of money to buy his collegiate basketball network, be involved in a not-so-legitimate business like pro wrestling.
Einhorn was smack dab in the middle of McMahon's territory with a strong television presence on WOR in New York. The IWA was viewed as an "outlaw" promotion operating outside the jurisdiction of the NWA and WWWF.
"None of the promoters ever helped one another. That's a myth. If there was ever any cooperation, it was of a self-serving nature," says Powers.
"He (McMahon Sr.) was worried because Einhorn went to the ballpark in New Jersey and drew $108,000. That's not shabby in '75. McMahon was worried. He was still a regional promoter."
Powers, in fact, had tried to by the territory from McMahon and Mondt back in the late '60s.
"I was cocky enough to want to try it," says Powers. "Pedro Martinez had once owned part of the territory from Toots Mondt. Why couldn't I go in with his understanding and buy out McMahon?"
Einhorn lost an estimated $500,000 and the promotion effectively folded in October 1975.
Unable to get into major arenas such as Madison Square Garden and the Nassau Coliseum, the sports magnate called it quits.
Powers, meanwhile, had already moved his family down to the Carolinas, and had given up a position and a stock portfolio.
But he wasn't ready to quit.
"I came here to help you out. I don't think I want to do this," he told Martinez.
Powers asked for a couple of hours. He called stations in Winston-Salem, Raleigh, Lynchburg and Charleston. He asked the station managers to keep the Saturday IWA wrestling slot open.
"I put together a television show. I had a show on that weekend. I incorporated IWA wrestling in North Carolina. I changed the name of the television show, and off we went."
Having been used to the three-state territory with the Buffalo-Cleveland operation, Powers tightened up the territory template in the Carolinas and Virginia.
"I was very familiar with the formulas and the setups. I had always believed that if I could get in a car and drive somewhere, then I could influence the television station, the media and the arena. I just continued on, but with a smaller base."
Some of the talent left. Some went to the opposition.
"They stole The Mongols and eventually ended up stealing Igor. Mascaras went off on his own way. But I kept Brower, Ladd and a bunch of those guys," says Powers.
"I already knew the (Bulldog) Brower-Powers program would work, so I used that as a main seeding for a territorial angle. I ran that for about a year, and then I found out Winston-Salem had cashed me in."
It was a crushing blow to Powers and his plans to strengthen his company's presence.
"It was our biggest town, and we had come close to selling out there. All you need is one good town and a couple medium towns, along with a bunch of fringe towns, and you've got yourself a ballpark. That's the same thing Crockett once had. Then we went to court, and I lost. I probably should have never thought that I'd win."
The battles that ensued over arenas in Crockett's territory ended up in expensive court fights.
Powers had loved a challenge, and that's why he had bought out the territory from Martinez.
"But when we lost Winston-Salem," he says, "it took the core town out."
Antitrust lawsuit
Powers had contended that two North Carolina promoters — Jim Crockett of Charlotte and Joe Murnick of Raleigh — had illegally controlled the booking of wrestling shows in several regional towns.
The lawsuit sought $1.5 million in damages as a result of business allegedly lost because of the leasing arrangements with the promoters. Cities named in the suit were Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Raleigh, Fayetteville, N.C.; Greenville, S.C.; and Richmond, Va.
The suit claimed that the IWA was being kept out of those cities by illegal lease and protection agreements that gave Crockett and Murnick monopoly over the public arenas suitable for wrestling. It contended the leases were in violation of state and federal laws.
The city of Winston-Salem was named as a defendant because of a decision by the mayor and Board of Aldermen to give Crockett a lease at its coliseum for 12 events a year.
"That didn't mean that other buildings didn't give you a lock," says Powers. "We actually had locks in our Buffalo territory. But it was like a chess move that caught me unexpectedly, and I didn't have the talent and monetary resources to survive in it. Sometimes the door is only half open. The product isn't fully the right product at the right time to get legs underneath it."
It took more than two years for the court case to be resolved. In 1978 the federal jury ruled that Crockett did not have a stranglehold on auditoriums in Charlotte and Winston-Salem for his events.
Powers had charged in the suit that Crockett's leases for wrestling venues in Charlotte and Winston-Salem violated antitrust laws, but the jury found there were no violations.
"The jury's decision vindicates Jim Crockett Promotions of illegally operating wrestling events in Charlotte. It shows that the Crockett family operated lawfully," Crockett's attorney would say after the verdict.
End of the IWA
Powers ran the territory for nearly three years. But he had seen the writing on the wall.
"Business was going OK, but I was in the survival mode after the court case. I had leased a modest Lincoln Town Car with a moon roof. I pulled up at a ballpark, and Sonny King and Mike Boyette and Big Bad John were there. Their eyes were so glassy most of the time that I was always afraid they wouldn't find the ring."
Powers says King approached him and accused him of making "lots of money." He told King that the car he was driving was leased.
"Sonny said he wanted to buy into the office. I asked him how much he was going to pay."
"Nothing" was King's reply.
"In fact," adds Powers, "he wanted to take over the office and control the office. He said he didn't think I was doing a good job with the town. That meant I didn't put Sonny King on top as the world champion. He just felt he was God's gift to humanity and the wrestling business in particular."
Powers says King then told him that he had an attorney in Chicago, and that "they were going to come in and crack me wide open."
Powers took off three weeks, closed the territory down, ran reruns on TV, and explained to the stations that it was a summer hiatus.
King and his crew were gone by the time Powers returned.
There was a time, says Powers, when he walked around with a .357 Magnum in a small purse while carrying large sums of cash to make the payday. He had another wrestler carry a gun and guard the purse while Powers went to the ring.
"It was a cash business then," he says. "We had an interesting scenario with some of those boys."
A great run
Johnny Powers retired as a pro wrestler for the final time in 1983 at age 40.
With more than 5,000 bouts in 27 countries to his credit, he eventually figured it was time to move on to other ventures.
A media and brand builder, the cerebral Powers would become heavily involved with the production and marketing of television, pay-per-view programming live events and the licensing and sale of branded consumer products.
Since retiring he's been in corporate finance, did small cap public companies, and some real estate syndication.
"I think I retired seven times, but I didn't tell anybody. I started playing around in real estate because it was a lot easier on the body than the wrestling business. I basically retired at 39 in 1982."
In recent years Powers served as a director and promoter for mixed martial arts shows. His stable of fighters included Dan Bobish, a past Division III NCAA heavyweight wrestling champion and Ultimate Fighting King of the Cage champ.
Powers was an innovative force in the MMA world dating back to his time in Japan where he helped develop the strong man style.
"I worked stiff-style with Inoki, and they liked that. They liked that strong style," says Powers, who was known as "The Iron Man" in Japan. "What was really taekwondo I introduced that style to Inoki. I think Inoki, Gotch, Thesz and Powers coming in with the title kind of kicked off the MMA world."
Powers, who did more than 30 tours of Japan, was honored in 2006 with having developed a unique fight style and given the Japanese title of soke, which means family head or originator.
As a worker, promoter and booker, Powers says he was getting tapped out.
"I think there's only so much creative juice that all of us come into this world with. I thought that maybe I didn't have enough want to, and if I didn't have enough want to, I was sure I wasn't going to be able to contribute. And I was always embarrassed if I wasn't giving at least my max most of the time as a booker, as a promoter, as a worker. I just got tired."
After all, there was very little Powers hadn't at least tried in the wrestling business.
He even presented the first "Super Bowl of Wrestling" in 1972 at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium.
"I went to a Ringling Brothers three-ring circus. It was boring in ring one and two, but ring three was terrific. Why couldn't I do that in the wrestling business?"
So Powers booked Municipal Stadium, got three rings, bought the Ten Commandments chariot from the back lot at Paramount, and booked 50 wrestlers. The mega-show was headlined by a match between Powers and Johnny Valentine.
Three rings were set up, side by side, with more than one match going on at a time.
A forerunner to the major stadium shows, the ambitious event was, by most accounts, a financial flop despite attracting major media coverage. While Municipal Stadium held in excess of 70,000 people, the "Super Bowl of Wrestling" reportedly drew less than 15,000.
"It cost me about 30 grand. But that's risk-taking. I drew probably 60 or 70 thousand dollars. You can be ahead of your time. There's a magic to box office. Anybody that tells you they know the formula ... it's not true. The public knows the formula. They either buy it or don't buy it."
His last "official" match was against old nemesis Bulldog Brower in Lagos, Nigeria, in front of an audience of 60,000, although he would return the following year for a few matches in the Caribbean.
He made the emotional decision to try another career.
There were no more wrestling mountains left for Johnny Powers to conquer.
He had enjoyed a near-seven-year-run in the Buffalo area.
"That's a long run in any kind of art form. The TV was hot. The town was hot. I didn't make too many mistakes as a booker."
Powers was successful because of a determination and drive.
"I didn't come from money. I wasn't a Trump whose dad already had a multimillion-dollar real estate business. Everything I did was a grassroots, start-up business. If you don't have a deep-pocket fallback, you can't weather the ups and downs that come with every business.
"I'm working class, so if I go and try to figure out something, I go and ask the waiter or the bartender or the doorman or the cab driver. I ask the regular folks that are in the trenches of life."
In the end, says Powers, he was basically a ticket salesman who loved to market things.
"I actually consider myself as an artist in the wrestling business, but basically I'm a ticket salesman. If it's to sell a product to a congregation in Folly Beach, S.C., or in the wrestling business. It's a similar form of persuasion."
He'd still do it again.
"But for 10 years ... not 20. I would have figured out a different way to satisfy my creative urges ... I became a large star for a few years. And then, the way things often go, you get usurped. But in the early and mid-'70s, it was a great run. All the way to '80."
The sport has taken its toll on him. He has an artificial hip, a knee replacement and has had both shoulders replaced. He also suffers from a chronic bad back.
"I was a power lifter. I bulked up, I wasn't a juice guy. When you start doing 500- or 600-pound squats and deadlifts and all that stuff. When you quit, you don't heal. Your body just tells you what you did all those years. I walk a little bent over. I can straighten up for a short while and look good."
He returned to his home area to be closer to his 95-year-old mother.
"Irish and Italians are mama's boys. I'm blessed she's still here. I was on the road for so long. I lost my dad when I was on the road. I made a pact with myself that I'd be close to her at this stage of the game."
These days, he says, he's quite content at home reading a good book. Or writing poetry.
"I probably average reading five or six hardcover books a week. I don't have another creative passion. That's kind of gone."
What does he say when he looks back at a career that has had its share of hits and misses, but one that was never anything less than exciting?
"We gave it a good try."
-- Old School Championship Wrestling returns to the Hanahan Rec Center today with its "Caged Carnage" event.
Former WWE star Gangrel will team with Dr. Creo to defend their OSCW tag title against Caleb Konley and Michael Frehley. A "decade-long feud will come to an end" in a bout pitting Malachi against Josh Magnum in Magnum's final match.
Other top bouts include a battle royal to decide the No. 1 contender for the OSCW title, and a No. 1 contender match for the Hardcore King title between Big Country and Nick Kismet.
Also on the bill: a Four Corners match with the winner getting a crack at the title of their choice (and using it when they choose); Hammer vs Asylum in a Hardcore King title match; Brady Pierce vs. Jon Malus for the IC title; and BJ Hancock vs. John Skyler for the OSCW title.
Among those also appearing will be Billy Brash, Calie Cassanova, Brandon Paradise, Ladies Man, Jesse Windham, Kevin Pheonix, Reginald Vanderhoff, Ms Harden, Brett Wolverton and Bob Keller.
The show will be dedicated to the late Reid Flair.
Bell time is 5 p.m., and doors open at 4:30.
Adult admission is $10 (cash only at door); kids 12 and under $5.
For more information, call 843-743-4800 or visit www.oscwonline.com.
-- Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at the North Charleston Coliseum for the first Monday Night Raw show here in five years on June 24.
Ticket prices are $95, $50, $35, $25, $15 (plus applicable fees) and will be available at the North Charleston Coliseum box office, online at www.ticketmaster.com, or charge by phone at 1-800-745-3000.
Reach Mike Mooneyham at 843-937-5517 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or follow him on Twitter at @ByMike Mooneyham and on Facebook at Facebook.com/MikeMooneyham.


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Steve Fehr, special counsel to the NHL Players' Association, believes the collective bargaining agreement can be wrapped up in a hurry once the sides make a breakthrough in negotiations.
"One thing (deputy commissioner) Bill Daly and I agree upon is that when the moment is right the deal could be done very quickly," Fehr said Monday during a panel discussion at the PrimeTime Sports Management Conference. "One days, three days or whatever."
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Some analysts think the electric
vehicle market is ready for primetime. Others have been less
convinced. Last October, investment firm J.D. Power and Associates, Inc.
estimated that by 2020 electric vehicles (EVs) would only gain a slim 7.3 percent market share.
I. Hybrid/EV Outlook -- Not Good?
Now the firm has returned with another report, bumping its estimates slightly,
but remains skeptical of hybrids, electric vehicles, and clean diesel.
Mike VanNieuwkuyk, executive director of global vehicle research at J.D. Power
and Associates states in a Detroit News interview,
"Alternative powertrains face an array of challenges as they attempt to
gain widespread acceptance in the market. The bottom line is that most
consumers want to be green, but not if there is a significant personal cost to
His report estimates that by 2016, market share of hybrids and electric
vehicles will remain under 10 percent. The report's basic argument boils
down to that EVs and hybrids are too expensive for customers. It cites a
recent 4,000 person U.S. survey that it conducted, which showed that a growing
number of customers were concerned about the prices of electric vehicles.
The J.D. Power report also cited concerns about function as a factor slowing
sales -- particularly for electric vehicles.
II. Too Expensive?
Other market research firms don't necessarily agree that the price of
electrified vehicles will trump the price at the pump. Rival research
firm Deloitte LLP conducted a 1,000 person U.S. study, which found that 78
percent of people would consider purchasing an electric vehicle if gas hit $5
Subcompact cars typically start at around $11,000 USD for the cheapest
non-hybrid models and around $19K USD for the cheapest hybrid models (the subcompact Honda
Insight and CRZ hybrids). Thus you're looking at a premium of around $8,000
For the mid-sized sedan market pricing starts at around $20K USD, with the
cheapest hybrid being the new Hyundai Sonata at $26,545.
In this segment you're looking at around a $6,500
USD premium.
A recent report by the U.S.
Department of Energy stated that the annual cost of gas for the
average family is $3,625 USD (based on a gas price of $3.61 USD/gallon).
Assuming an average household has two cars and that the hybrid sedan would get
at least 33 percent better gas mileage, a family would save approximately $600
USD annually by switching to a hybrid. In other words, it would take
approximately 7 years of ownership to break even with a compact or mid-sized
III. Small Vehicle Sales Up
According to industry statistics in the first three months of 2011 large car
sales have plunged 35 percent, while small car sales have jumped 25 percent.
Hybrid sales during the period accounted for 4.7 percent of sales, up
from the average 2.6 percent in 2010.
Those numbers seem more impressive when you consider that a tax credit for
hybrid vehicles expired at the end of 2010.
It seems clear that the high price of gas this spring -- with fuel regularly
hitting $4 USD/gallon -- has motivated some customers to get hybrid vehicles.
EVs from General Motors Comp. (GM)
and Nissan Motor Comp. (7201)
are still selling slowly due to limited distribution
and volume. Both companies hope to sell a modest 10,000 units by the
year's end. Mitsubishi Corp. (8058)
just released a new EV -- but only in Hawaii to
start. Ford Motor Comp. (F),
Toyota Motor Corp. (7203),
and Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)
all will release new EVs by the end of the year as well [1][2][3].
Two factors working in the favor of electrified sales is an increasing
selection and government pressure on fuel efficiency.
One of the few somewhat seemingly positive aspects of the J.D. Power report was
an estimate that by the end of 2016, 159 hybrid and electric vehicle options
would be available for purchase -- up substantially from the 31 available in
2009. (Of course the report casts this in a negative light as well, complaining
that the market will be overcrowded.)
And the Obama administration is working with the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) to deliver new fuel efficiency mandates for the 2017-2025 period.
It is thought that those mandates would demand fleetwide average fuel efficiency reach 62.5 mpg by
2025. That could force automakers to try to limit the sales of
non-electrified models.
IV. Clean Diesel, Where Art Thou?
A dirty little secret of the EV industry is that clean diesel vehicles can
currently get as good or better mileage as most hybrids.
In the first three months of the year, 24 percent of Volkswagen AG's (VOW) sales were clean diesel vehicles. Mazda Motor Corp. (7261)
and other companies are planning to offer new diesel models over the
next couple years.
Still J.D. Power is also pessimistic on clean diesel's prospects.
Mr. VanNieuwkuyk states, "Advocates of clean diesel engines
tend to be some of the most vocal among consumers who tout the benefits of
their chosen technology. Clean diesel technology continues to struggle not only
against concerns about cost and perceived fuel availability, but also against
the lingering perception that diesel is 'dirty.'"
Both with hybrid vehicles and with diesel, there seems to be a clear momentum
in the U.S. Yet J.D. Power seems convinced both movements will only see slow
growth at best. It remains unclear whether the pessimism is unfounded --
or whether it knows something other analysts don't.
quote: I am all for free market & this fake fasad that things trickle down, but from where I am standing, & many middle or lower class, seems like it's just a license to screw over the lower classes, or middle class. The smallest % seems to be getting richer yet most others seems to be sliding the other way, but like you say, what a wonderful free market system we have.
quote: Ever notice how almost no Dems or Republicans are supporting a flat tax? There's a reason why -- the interests of those corporation and the wealthy few that control them.
quote: The U.S has the highest corporate tax rate in the world
quote: So I don't know Jason, I don't feel I'm being screwed at all as a middle class citizen. At least not by them....
quote: Because going to flat tax would require about 40% of the U.S government to be restructured? Would kill about 300,000 federal jobs
quote: Who's going to get behind such a controversial decision from WITHIN the Government? Do you really think they would give up that much power? Claiming "corporate control and greed" isn't exactly being genuine imo.
quote: Now mind you, I'm not criticizing ALL corporations . I'm just saying there's a certain number that game the system, and it's those I'm referring to in this discussion.
quote: Any corporation that isn't doing this, is doing a disservice to their investors. If you look at the biggest 50 companies in north america, practically of them do this (alphabetically):
quote: You seem at least mildly intelligent. Can you honestly not see that?
quote: That's just a shell game. Some of the largest and most profitable corporations like GE shelter their profits off shore
quote: Well I would say you're underinformed.
quote: In your effort to justify of why the flat tax is impossible, you've unwittingly provided a terrific argument in its favor. Nice going!
quote: But at the end of the day the special interests are making many a buck off your back. And your "yes guy" attitude is supporting that.


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In January, Cario Middle School grade drama students performed Willy Wonka, Jr. at the Wando Performing Arts Center (Wando PAC), to over 1500 people. Cario's Willy Wonka, Jr. was a fully-staged production with 23 songs, six choreographed numbers, 65 costumes, and several major set changes. Wando Technical theatre students assisted with special effects.
Students auditioned in September and rehearsed throughout first semester. During October and November, cast members performed Willy Wonka musical selections while visiting residents at Mount Pleasant Manor, Sweetgrass Village, Sandpiper Courtyard, Sandpiper Village, Franke home and Somerby retirement communities. In addition, the Oompa Loompas performed at the Cario Holiday Concert.
Leads included Logan Teder (Willy Wonka), Victoria Nathanson (Charlie Bucket), Lizzy Brakefield (Candy Man), and, Chris Trevino (Grandpa Joe). Additional leads, in order of appearance, were Kindred Moore, Brooklyn Cantey, Melanie Streb, Evita Royer, Julia Spencer, Bela Chamberlain, Katie Cook, Grace Cutter, Lauren Pilling, Rasy Groesbeck, Martha Pickens, Tatiana Smalls, Troy Dassing, Lauren Cuppy, Kyle Ouellette, Laney Hill, Sofia Lagares, Grace Oenbrink, Ashlin Noonan, Breanna Wilson, Rowan Burns, Nick Bennis and Kate Wander.
Four ensemble groups – Oompa Loompas, Candy Man Kids, Cooks and Squirrels - performed in Willy Wonka, Jr., including Oompa Loompas: Haley Wynne, Paige Fister, Paisley Hoge, Hensley Timmerman, Adhithi Biawanathan, Shelby Rhodes, Devyn Priest, Kris Andales, Eleanor Oldford, Mary Royce, Tabitha Blevins, Ashleigh Allen, Chloe Putnam and Brianna Evangelist; Candy Man Kids: Kris Andales, Eleanor Oldford, Mary Royce, Tabitha Blevins, Ashleigh Allen, Chloe Putnam and Brianna Evangelist; Cooks: Kris Andales, Katie Cook, Brianna Evangelist and Mary Royce; Squirrels: Rasy Groesbeck, Grace Cutter, Breanna Wilson, Ashlin Noonan, Katie Cook, Lauren Pilling, Tatiana Smalls, Meaghan Mims, Lauren Cuppy, Troy Dassing, Martha Pickens and Rachel Crain.
Also assisting with Cario's Willy Wonka, Jr. production were Cario crew members: Ethan Delfino, Aiden Gomez, Chandler Hawkins, Maggie Packard, Camryn Teder, Ann Webb and Jack Wilson; and, Cario student choreographers: Lizzy Brakefield, Katie Cook, Kindred Moore, Brooklyn Cantey, Julia Spencer, Evita Royer and Melanie Streb.
Technical crew included Wando students: Mary Brown (sound), James Leggett (backstage), Mason Crawford (lights), Michael Dean (spotlight); and, Cario student, Ann Webb (music) under the direction of Mr. Joshua Hasty, Wando Technical Theatre teacher.
Willy Wonka, Jr. was produced by Cario Drama teacher, Joni McLeod, director; Cario Art teacher, Stefani Timmerman, set designer; Karen Klobukowski, stage manager; Jen Gomez, house manager. Donna Croft assisted with costumes.
Willy Wonka, Jr. business sponsors included Lowe's of Mount Pleasant; 4th Annual Charleston Marathon/YEA Grant; Wando Voice Studio; Rodan+Fields Dermatologists; and, PrimeLine IPS.
Cario Drama students will compete in the South Carolina Speech and Theatre (SCSTA) Middle School Festival and Competition in April 2014.
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Her name is Grace, this mother of mine, and she was born the last of 5 children, on a farm in north western
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I was just beginning to understand about mental illnesses and become involved in NAMI activities. Eventually I was diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses and turned more and more to consumer programs. In the fall of 2002, our affiliate was able to have an In Our Own Voice: Living With Mental Illness training. My mother, at age 90, attended this training along with me, and is now my co-presenter. Whenever I get a chance at other mental health activities, I introduce her, tell her age and how long she has been experiencing psychiatric symptoms to give others the message of HOPE. I did this at a NAMI North Carolina conference last year and recently had some one tell me that seeing my Mom gave her the hope that she too could recover.
During the six years she has now been in recovery from her most recent episode, she has traveled to
During those first months of recovery, watching the birds from her front porch and holding our cats and talking to our dogs was very healing for her. Since she loved the outside birds so much, my sister gave her two parakeets. My mother calls them Holly and Molly and they are her faithful companions, chirping cheerfully every day. She still loves watching the outside birds come to the feeders. My mother is also very much a people person and every one who meets her just loves her. She is so cute with every one, thanking those who help in any way. And despite the fact that she can no longer help others in the ways she once could, she does touch the lives of others simply through her spirit of meekness and love, that shines through her entire being.
Some days are better than others and age is taking it's toll. But despite continuing symptoms, my mother is staying active and involved in life and doesn't let the rough times get her down for long. And I thank God every day for the valiant example of this, my mother, Grace.
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The Millsaps Classical Studies Department offers students an interdisciplinary approach to studying the ancient world. The faculty is strongly committed to each student as an individual and works to provide each student with the best education possible. Our small class size and collegial setting in John Stone Hall foster an active learning environment and a camaraderie between the students and faculty that carries on well after graduation.
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Classical Studies (or Classics) is the study of Greco-Roman antiquity primarily through the languages of ancient Greek and Latin. As philologists, that is "lovers of words," we believe that to understand the Greeks and Romans, you must be able to read what they wrote to, for and about themselves. Although our approach is primarily textual, we examine the breadth of antiquity, including topics like mythology, politics, art, architecture, gender, and religion, in an attempt to make sense out of the ancient past. If you love antiquity, but don't want to learn Greek and Latin, we also offer courses in English on mythology, ancient history and Greek and Roman civilization.
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Students work on a daily basis with the very faculty who provide excellent teaching, mentoring and research opportunities at Millsaps College. We train our students to be rigorous thinkers, clear writers and fluent readers of Greek and Latin. Our carefully designed curriculum moves students beyond basic translation to sophisticated interpretation of texts and artifacts in upper-level Greek and Latin classes in which students conduct research on the social, cultural, historical and theoretical contexts of the texts they read.
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For the first time since 2008, Glenn Wilkes Court at the J. Ollie Edmunds Center has been completely redesigned.
The project – which is in its final stages, and has been going on for the past couple of weeks – could not have been completed without the funding of Al Allen, Stetson University Associate VP for Facilities Management, the service of Southeastern Surfaces and Equipment, and the design and painting of Mike Orr from Orr Signs.
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MAYVILLE – Chautauqua County Sheriff Joseph A. Gerace on Wednesday that those answering an "urgent" classified ad seeking a "personal assistant" should be wary.
The sheriff said deputies have received reports from several people who responded to the ads by calling a phone number in which they were asked to personal information by email or telephone.
"Eventually, the scam artists will send a package to the victim containing U.S. postal money orders for an amount above what they have agreed to accept for a wage or payment," Gerace said. "The prospective victim is instructed to deposit the money order or orders and send the balance via Western Union to a specified address," he added. "This is always a scam because the money orders are counterfeit and the "real" money that the victim is told to send to the scam artist via Western Union is untraceable."
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GREENFORD-As they stood on the field late Friday night, soaking in their 49-35 win over Crestview, the South Range football team hoped the victory signified not only an early advantage in the conference race, but also the return to a level of dominance the program has not seen for the past five years.
"We know what South Range football has been about," senior offensive lineman Ryan Haynes said. "We've wanted to regain the ITCL title for the past four or five years and we've worked hard to try and bring the title back to South Range where it belongs. We knew we had to come out and beat Crestview to have a chance."
Even the most rock-solid of high school football programs aren't immune from the occasional down cycle. For most of head coach Dan Yeagley's 19 seasons, the Raiders have been the picture of consistency, reeling off 11 state playoff appearances and eight conference titles from 1995-2008. They had three straight undefeated regular seasons from 2005-2007.
However, a loss to Crestview in 2008 signaled a changing of the guard in the Inter-Tri County League upper tier. South Range ceded the league title to the Rebels that season, then saw their winning ways end abruptly in 2009 when they tumbled to a 2-8 record. Though the Raiders fielded respectable squads for the next three years, they operated a rung below their accustomed level, missing the playoffs twice while watching Crestview ascend to the mantle of ITCL alpha-dog.
"When you are dealing with high school kids, things always go in cycles," Yeagley said. "We were very blessed for a long time to have great kids, but when you're at a small school anything can happen in any given year and we ran into a stretch where we went down and Crestview was up. Now we think we have a team that can compete at that level again."
The backbone of this Raider team is formed by 15 seniors, including five linemen. Yeagley could see something special brewing with the group last year when they overcame an 0-2 start to finish 7-3, their only conference loss coming at the hands of Crestview.
"Last year was a great experience for these guys," Yeagley said. "To regroup after that start and have a chance to win the league title against Crestview was huge. We knew we would have to play perfect to beat them and we didn't, but it helped set the tone for this year."
Things really kicked into high gear for the Raiders during their winter conditioning program, when the seniors took their commitment to another level.
"Ever since I was a freshman, everybody kind of bossed each other around," senior lineman Garrett Sorley said. "But this year we really have a connection to everybody on the team. Everyone knows what everybody else is doing and what their responsibilities are. We were really determined to go out strong this year."
"The senior leadership was unbelievable over the winter," Yeagley said. "They aren't a group that likes to scream and holler, but likes to lead by example. They came in every day and treated their preparation like an actual job, always making sure the little things were done right, always lifting everybody else up. That has been absolutely crucial to our season."
That cohesion was on display when the Raiders needed to travel 80 yards with the clock winding down to beat Warren JFK in the season opener, and again in their third game when they rallied from a double-digit halftime deficit to beat Garfield Heights Trinity.
"All of a sudden you saw them fully grow together as a team," Yeagley said. "All the work over the winter paid off not just physically but also mentally. It was really special to watch that change occur and for us to be a fully cohesive unit."
"It was a relief to pull those games out and then beat Crestview," Haynes said. "It showed everyone that we are capable of going 10-0 and that we can beat playoff-type teams again."
Yeagley isn't counting the Raiders as all the way back just yet, not with more than half the season left to play, but conceded that beating Crestview altered the conversation surrounding his team.
"That's the crazy thing," Yeagley said. "It's only week five, anything can happen going forward. However, when you beat a good team like Crestview it elevates you a notch, just like when they beat us in 2008. To be the best you have to beat the best, We knew that to even be talked about as a serious contender we had to beat Crestview. They've owned the league for the last


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A pair of Summerville all-star teams made a good run at the Dixie Youth Baseball state championships in Florence last week but neither was able to come home with a state title.
After claiming the District 7 Championship, the Parks Field American All-stars placed third in the South Carolina Dixie Youth Majors (age 11-12) Tournament. Parks Field won its first two games, but was eliminated by losses to the two teams that played in the championship. After defeating Parks Field, Dillon defeated Lake Marion in the title game.
Our boys really represented Summerville well at the state tournament, Parks Field Manager Brian Loving said. They were in both the games we lost right up until the final inning.
The Parks Field Minors (age 9-10) All-stars, also District 7 Champions, finished as the runner-up for their state tournament. The team won three straight games before running into trouble. Delmae won the tournament after bouncing back from a loss to Parks Field, which shared runner-up honors with Clinton.
Parks Field took its opponent into the ninth inning before suffering its second loss.
We played well at the tournament but had one bad day, Parks Field Manager Mike Hayes said. We were the only team to go undefeated in the winners bracket and the only team to beat Delmae during the tournament.
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