The first year there were about 4,000 people and it's grown about 4,000 every year. We had about 16,000 last year, so we're hoping to keep up our tradition of 4,000 a year.

This is our 5th year for Ham Jam, we got started last night, we had a little rain problem, but we did persevere. We had our bands play inside, but today is a gorgeous day. And we hope that we have a wonderful day, wonderful weather. It's cool and there's no rain in sight.

You can't replace a player like (Hill) with that kind of experience. It benefits the whole team to have that sort of high-profile player in your program.

I never know what to expect from these things. My houseboat rode it out great. I was surprised.

You don't take it seriously. We just have a good time, back and forth, talking, chatting, teasing, hollering if we get a bad score.

They put together the benefits of a large school and still put in place some procedures that make it like a small school. There are communities within the communities.

This is a big hit with us. Sometimes clients schedule an edit session around lunch time just for this reason.

We are watching it; it may be something that's slow to transmit. The pieces in it are working, so it is capable of working and doing what it's trying to do.

We should be thankful we don't live in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama.

We really value the type of business that Pacific Sales is today. At this time, we're pretty interested in preserving and learning that model....Our goal would be to eventually expand that format as a free-standing format.