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Sept. 10, 2010
Site: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Cliff Keen Arena)
Event: Michigan/adidas Invitational
Score: #22 Michigan 3, Youngstown State 0 (25-14, 25-10, 25-19)
Records: U-M (6-1), Youngstown State (1-7)
Next U-M Event: Saturday, Sept. 11 -- vs. Chicago State (Cliff Keen Arena), 1:30 p.m.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In its 2010 Cliff Keen Arena debut, the No. 22-ranked University of Michigan volleyball team dominated Youngstown State for a 3-0 sweep (25-14, 25-10, 25-19) on Friday night (Sept. 10).
All 15 Wolverines saw the court as each Michigan attacker registered at least one kill. Junior outside hitter Alex Hunt (Granger, Ind./South Bend St. Joseph) once again led the way with 10 terminations, while redshirt junior middle blocker Karlee Bruck (Elyria, Ohio/Elyria) contributed six of her own. Junior libero Sloane Donhoff (Louisville, Ky./Assumption) recorded 12 digs and senior setter Lexi Zimmerman (Barrington, Ill./Barrington) chipped in 28 assists, six digs and three kills.
U-M never trailed during the match, scoring at least the first four points in all three sets. In the first, Michigan jumped out to a quick 4-0 advantage before the Penguins slowly scooted back in at 11-9. The Wolverines clamped down after that, scoring 14 of the next 19 points to claim a 25-14 victory.
It was much of the same in the second, as Michigan rode the serving of senior defensive specialist Maggie Busch (Toledo, Ohio/Toledo Christian) to an 8-0 lead. YSU never got within less than six points, allowing the Maize and Blue to coast to a 25-10 win.
The third set proved to be the closest, with the Penguins hanging around at 22-19. A quick kill from Bruck out of the middle, followed by an ace from redshirt freshman Brittany Lee (Indianapolis, Ind./Cathedral/Purdue) and a subsequent ball handling error from YSU ended the set in favor of the Wolverines, 25-19.
Michigan completes its three-match home stand tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 11), first taking on Chicago State at 1:30 p.m. The Wolverines will wrap up the day's action against Miami (Ohio) at 7:30 p.m.
Tonight is the second time this season that the Wolverines used the starting lineup of Lexi Zimmerman, Sloane Donhoff, Maggie Busch, Courtney Fletcher, Jennifer Cross, Claire McElheny and Alex Hunt. The same lineup was used against Loyola (Md.).
Molly Toon recorded a career-high four kills.
Michigan held Youngstown State to a -.012 attack percentage, the first time this season that an opponent has had a negative percentage.
Maggie Busch picked up her first career kill, coming out of the back row off a YSU triple-block attempt.
Tonight is the second time that all 15 Michigan players saw the court this season.
Today's match was the first-ever match against Youngstown State.
Michigan Head Coach Mark Rosen
On tonight's match and playing a lot of people ... "Part of it is that we are still trying to figure out our lineup and develop depth within our team. It wasn't the fact that we were getting a lead or who we were playing; it was about getting some kids some experience. I thought we improved a lot tonight from last weekend and the weekend before. Our freshmen keep getting better and getting them these kinds of opportunities only helps them continue to develop."
On where the team is at this point in the season ... "I think we are improving a lot from where we started. We still have a long ways to go and the time is closing. Big Ten is right around the corner and we have a really tough tournament next weekend at Arizona State. I was really encouraged tonight because I thought that this was the cleanest we played all year. We can really only focus on where we started the year and where we are now. I think we are getting better, we are learning with each match. Will it be enough? We will find out soon enough."
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Cid Named American Men's Player of the Week
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TAMPA, FEB. 4, 2014 – Roberto Cid has been named American Athletic Conference Men's Tennis Player of the Week after helping the No. 74 Bulls stay perfect at home.
The sophomore from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic didn't drop a set on the way to posting four victories for the Bulls in a pair of 6-1 wins over FGCU and North Florida. Prior to joining the Bulls, Cid was ranked as highly as No. 900 in the ATP rankings and competed on the Dominican Republic's Davis Cup team.
"Even though it's his first year of playing college tennis he's an extremely experienced player and he's showing that right now," head coach Matt Hill said. "He's the most consistent performer on our team right now and he keeps getting better week to week. We're excited for him."
Cid got his stellar week started by teaming up with freshman Sasha Gozun and cruising past FGCU opponents, 6-3, on Feb. 1 at the USF Varsity Courts. Cid then picked up a 6-2, 6-1 singles win over Dean Tsamas.
Cid and Gozun registered a 6-1 doubles victory against North Florida foes on Feb. 2 and Cid finished strong with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Norbert Nemcsek in the No. 2 singles spot.
The Bulls finished their first home stand of the spring with a 3-0 record and will begin a five-match road trip Saturday and Sunday against No. 53 Texas Tech and No. 60 Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. The Bulls' next home match at the USF Varsity Courts is scheduled for Tuesday, March 4 against Tulane at 2 p.m.
Stay updated on the Bulls all season long by following the team on Twitter @USFBullsMTennis and Facebook HERE.

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We will be getting our new lab puppy in about two weeks. Like many others here, we used to feed our last dog what we thought was good food (science diet Light) and we have since learned otherwise. I wish vets would do a better job of educating us. They always told us the food was good.
Anyhow, we plan to eventually go with TOTW (at least that's the plan now). Until he's ready for TOTW, I'm thinking about starting with either Wellness or Orijen large breed puppy food. I definitely want to go with low calcium and Ethoxyquin free food. The biggest difference I see between these two is the protein content. Welness guarantees not less than 26%. Orijen says 40%. That sounds like a big differnce to me and I'm not really sure what role protein content has in all of this.
Wellness has 366 Kcal per cup and Orijen 450 Kcal per cup. Does this mean that in theory we would feed less Orijen per meal? If so that may make it more cost effective since the prices seem to be comparable.
I'm open to other suggestions as well, but these seem to be the front runners.
Thanks for the help!


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Featuring Charles Gardner Geyh, Stephen Gillers, A. Raymond Randolph, Ronald Rotunda, Deanell Reece Tacha
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January 06, 2012
The Federalist Society's Facutly Division hosted this panel on "Judicial Ethics" on Friday, January 6, 2012, during the 14th Annual Faculty Conference.
Panel 3: Judicial Ethics
Location: Palladian Ballroom
- Prof. Charles Geyh, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Prof. Stephen Gillers, New York University School of Law
- Hon. A. Raymond Randolph, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
- Prof. Ronald Rotunda, Chapman University School of Law
- Moderator: Hon. Deanell Tacha, Pepperdine University School of Law
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Scahill writes: "The scandal opens a window onto a different and more consequential relationship - that between the CIA and the military's Joint Special Operations Command."
US Gen. David Petraeus. (photo: Brendan Smialoski/Getty Images)
The Petraeus Legacy: A Paramilitary CIA?
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It was the CIA director's relationship with JSOC-not Paula Broadwell-that should have raised concerns.
hile much of the media focus on l'affaire Petraeus has centered on the CIA director's sexual relationship with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, the scandal opens a window onto a different and more consequential relationship-that between the CIA and the military's Joint Special Operations Command. In a behind-the-scenes turf war that has raged since 9/11, the two government bodies have fought for control of the expanding global wars waged by the United States-a turf war that JSOC has largely won. Petraeus, an instrumental player in this power struggle, leaves behind an agency that has strayed from intelligence to paramilitary-type activities. Though his legacy will be defined largely by the scandal that ended his career, to many within military and intelligence circles, Petraeus's career trajectory, from commander of US military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan to the helm of the CIA, is a symbol of this evolution.
"I would not say that CIA has been taken over by the military, but I would say that the CIA has become more militarized," Philip Giraldi, a retired career CIA case officer, told The Nation. "A considerable part of the CIA budget is now no longer spying; it's supporting paramilitaries who work closely with JSOC to kill terrorists, and to run the drone program." The CIA, he added, "is a killing machine now."
As head of US Central Command in 2009, Petraeus issued execute orders that significantly broadened the ability of US forces to operate in a variety of countries, including Yemen, where US forces began conducting missile strikes later that year. During Petraeus's short tenure at the CIA, drone strikes conducted by the agency, sometimes in conjunction with JSOC, escalated dramatically in Yemen; in his first month in office, he oversaw a series of strikes that killed three US citizens, including 16-year-old Abdulrahman Awlaki. In some cases, such as the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, commandos from the elite JSOC operated under the auspices of the CIA, so that the mission could be kept secret if it went wrong.
One current State Department liaison who has also worked extensively with JSOC describes the CIA as becoming "a mini-Special Operations Command that purports to be an intelligence agency." For all the praise Petraeus won for his counterinsurgency strategy and the "surge" in Iraq, he says, his real legacy is as a "political tool," an enabler of those within the national security apparatus who want to see a continuation of covert global mini-wars. Pointing to the "mystique that surrounds JSOC" and Adm. William McRaven, commander of the Special Operations Command, the liaison says, "Petraeus was trying to implement that kind of command climate at the CIA."
"Petraeus wanted to be McRaven, and now that window has closed," he said. "We are firmly in the age of McRaven. There is no other titular figure with the confidence of the president that is able to articulate strategies and hold their own in rooms where everyone else has the same or greater amount of intellectual heft. McRaven is everything that Petraeus is not."
Retired Army Col. W. Patrick Lang, a former senior defense intelligence official, says that Petraeus's arrogance-"smoothly concealed beneath the appearance of the warrior scholar"-made him deeply unpopular among the military's high-ranking officers. Dismissing the media's portrayal of Petraeus as a "super soldier" and great military leader as "phony bullshit," Lang describes him as the product of a military promotion system that encourages generals to think of themselves as "divinely selected." "In fact, he didn't write the COIN manual, the surge was not the main thing in improving the situation in Iraq.... They sent him to Afghanistan to apply the COIN doctrine in the same glorious way he did in Iraq, and it hasn't worked. So, if you look beneath the surface from all this stuff, it's just a lot of hot air. There are great generals, but this guy is not one of them." Arriving at the CIA, Lang says, Petraeus "wanted to drag them in the covert action direction and to be a major player."
As for Petraeus's future, the State Department liaison said, "There will be a lot of profits to be made by him and his immediate circle of advisers, as they're given a soft landing, whether it's in academia or within the nexus of the military-industrial complex."
Giraldi, the former senior CIA officer, expressed concern that in these circumstances, the "CIA is going to forget how to spy." He also noted the "long-term consequence" of the militarization of the CIA: "every bureaucracy in the world is best at protecting itself. So once the CIA becomes a paramilitary organization, there's going to be in-built pressure to keep going in that direction. Because you'll have people at the senior levels in the organization who have come up that way and are protective of what they see as their turf," he told me. "That's the big danger."
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The people that write and criticize such stuff are missing that these are things that have never been done before.
This is the United States trying a new technology, to perfect a way of extending power instead of killing masses of people and blowing up or rending useless large areas of land, killing those enemies who need killing.
I have a lot of skepticism about our military and what we are doing but there is no question that by almost all measures, ie. military measures, things work better now and do less damage.
Isn't that what we would want a military to do? Yet some people have to complain about anything, as if the world is every in any of our lifetimes going to work towards being peaceful.
These are the same people who work in industry and makes mistakes, only their product is national defense and projecting military power.
So many comments in RSN are from an point of view that simply doesn't or CAN'T make any sense because they do not understand how the world works. What we get are people complaining rabidly because the world isn't perfect - compared to their idea of perfection - and just reading a few lines of what they write shows their ideas to be in the main very shallow and superficial.
This level of mindless denial of reality is the only reason there hasn't yet been a revolution or a new civil war
We like to say our space program brought consumer innovation to the masses in America, but most of it was really in the military. The mistake we made, or at least are making now is that we give this technology away for free instead of charging and getting royalties from it for the people and our national infrastructure.
Think people, think! We need to evolve by looking at improvements we can make in what exists now, not by bitching and moaning that life is not like a fairy tale.
Because of this affair, there is no indication that Petreus has done anything wrong. It is a little fishy and needs to be followed closely, but they need someone who is independent with "balls" to go in and find out what is going on in the intelligence agencies.
That is the only sense I think the US should be a leader, and first to lead we have to start believing and living our own propaganda.
That said, you know there was a lot of benefit at the time to being a part of the Roman Empire. They did a lot of amazing things and they did them right .... 2000 years ago. If we want to compare ourselves to the Roman Empire we have to get the right stuff, right! We have to draw people in to relations with us, not threaten them or conquer them -the world does not now work like it did back then ... well, at least most countries. There are some countries that do need conquering.
Why is China building up a military, they are the ones who are thinking in old ways if you think about it. We are not going to invade China. They are afraid their hierarchy is going to break down, but over time every hierarchy that does not make people happy is going to break down, or should break down. The US is mostly helping with this.
We need to think in new ways.
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As had been reported, Hulk Hogan has gone on the record a few times now claiming that he was offered the role of Randy "The Ram" Robinson in The Wrestler, but had turned it down because he didn't want his reputation to distract from the film itself. He reiterated this claim on his recent Howard Stern appearance.
Apparently, this little tidbit is news to Darren Aronofsky who as director and producer would probably know. Aronofsky posted to Twitter:
for the record the role of the wrestler was always @mickeyrourke it was never hulk hogan's as he claims on @howardstern
Hogan is a dick. the things linda said about him are prob true he always acts like he does nothing wrong and is perfect
Fuck you haters let him do what he wants, go and worship a fat whore linda. No matter what hogan does, he'll still be my childhood hero, and will be the one who made my satuday mornings special when wwf superstars of wrestling gave. HULKAMANIA WILL LIVE ON FOREVER!
Damn dude calm down ur so far up the Hucksters ass that he can probably lick your brown nose. You just need to come into reality and know that even yours and just about every persons childhood hero's are not perfect especially this lying stupid one of the most over-rated dumbass wrestlers to step into a wrestling ring. That you for your time "brother".
Hulk stopped taking his vitamins and saying his prayers a long time ago. If you still do that, kudos to you. But the guy is a sham now…. just a shadow of his former self.
Don't get me wrong, he's great in the right capacity. But this is becoming too much. You know several people in TNA and Panda are cringing and grinding their teeth every time he goes on a media blitz.
It is perfectly ok to have a childhood hero. What is very strange is to grow up and still have hero worship. Get some help, fast.
There is nothing wrong with having heroes and someone to look up to. Inspiration is a good thing.
Hulk couldn't lie straight in bed.
In the words of Nelson Muntz: Haw Haw !
Same thing happened with Angle, re. joining UFC. Wrestlers love to embelish, its there job, someone probably mentioned to hogan his name was thrown up as the lead for the wrestler and suddenly he's being offered the part…
Hogan seems to take it a step further though. Sometimes I wonder if he really can distinguish the truth from a lie anymore. It is like he doesn't comprehend that what he is saying is false and that it will eventually come back to bite him. Whether it is other wrestlers who knew both he and Randy Savage calling B.S. on perhaps fibs he tells to put himself in a better light like his alleged makeup with Savage or saying he was offered the part in a movie. To perhaps vicious vindictive lies like denying he was actively involved in wife swapping and wanting to threaten legal action against people, only to have it come out that yes he obviously was a wife swapper and there is video proof. Or even little white lies like claiming Live TV will solve all of TNA's problems and ratings, then retracting and making statements like live TV isn't the end all be all etc when the problems are not resolved, to HUGE Obvious ego driven lies that make you question his sanity like he was going to be a member of one of the most popular Metal bands in history, Metallica. It mean it's Fing Metallica, it is not like a lie like that would go unnoticed.
How is he "calling him out"?
Let me translate the "Hogan Catch Phrase" for you. "Saying your prayers," actually means stepping on and even sabotaging the lives and careers of others, all in the name of ego and greed. "Taking your vitamins" is code for steroids, pain killers and cocaine.
When I was a kid, I hated Hogan. I hated his character, I hated his "wrestling" and most of all I hate the way that he and the WWF changed wresting into a cartoon show. I'm glad the world is now getting to see what a scumbag the guy actually is. BOO HOGAN.


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I hear you TRX. I've been preaching the evils and against technology in government and corporate hands for years. No one wants to listen. Now they don't have to, everyone else is.
I mentioned being on one of the terrorist watch lists in another thread.
What a lot of people don't realize nowadays is that "data is forever." Storage is virtually free now, so there's no reason to make the expense of cleaning datasets up. I've seen how this worked at a couple of previous employers, and there are many graphic examples in comp.risks.
Remember that fight you were in back in the first grade? In my age group you got swatted and sent back to class. Nowadays there's a permanent record, psychological counseling... and they have the surveillance video, too. And it'll come back to haunt you when you apply for a college.
Some things *should* be forgotten, but now they never will. Your library and video-store records can be obtained and used against you in court. There are companies that will scour forums, "social sites", and netnews to find any online comments you might have made. Your cellphone reports wherever it goes, wiretapping and email monitoring are used to gather evidence against you, some employers monitor every keystroke and mouse click as well as mail and internet traffic.
Radio Shack and Kroger are among the most annoying of the retail trackers, but even Wal-Mart does it. Generally, if you pay by check or credit card, your data is eventually sold to someone. You have medical insurance? Your insurer can sell that data to marketers too, though some states do have restrictions on it. Magazine and newspaper subscription lists are considered part of their normal revenue stream. Your cable TV box talks to your provider to tell them what you're watching.
God forbid you apply to a college; they get all your demographics and financials, and aggressively sell the information to anyone and everyone.
Your utility records are an open book to law enforcement. And so are the contents of your trash can. Same with infrared or radar imaging of your house.
Even "private" information like DMV records is only private to individuals. For a grand my state will sell the entire database to anyone at all, on DVD.
Exterior surveillance isn't as widespread as Britain, but most state and government buildings have cameras, stores, even office buildings. "EZ-Pass" tollbooths keep records.
Some cities used to use aerial photography to look for code violations, like unlicensed decks or garden sheds. Now they use Google Earth.
And if I think for a few minutes, I can come up with more examples.
Of course, I've watched all this come together since the early early 1980s. I'd try to tell people about it, and they'd just give me the Look. Yeah, right, whatever. These same people freaked out when the Patriot Act went through, and couldn't understand why I wasn't particularly interested. "You're late to the party, pal. All this stuff has been around for years, all the Act did was tie it together with a pretty knot."
So, what's a private individual to do?
You could go all paranoid or you could be informed and careful. I'm informed and careful, possibly verging on paranoid. I watch what I say online, I don't use employer phones or email for anything not related to my job, I'm aware of (at least some of) the situations where I leave a trail, I know (at least most of) what things might be used against me in court or by an employer.
You don't have to be paranoid. "Cynical amusement" is so much more fun...
I hear you TRX. I've been preaching the evils and against technology in government and corporate hands for years. No one wants to listen. Now they don't have to, everyone else is.
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.", Will Durant
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.", Edmund Burke
I concur.People forget,companys and governments never forget.
SOON-We already lost the war. You are the resistance.


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About 5 minutes before serving, remove the foil so the leaf can crisp up a bit.The rice should be hot all the way through. Put the leaf-wrapped rice on a large platter and serve by placing it in the center of the table and unwrapping it or cutting through the banana leaf It's very impressive and fun.The amazing fragrance of the rice will waft out, which will drive everyone wild! It's a great conversation starter for dinner parties.
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INDIANA: Directors settle on 2 mill increase
After extended debate Monday, the Indiana Area School District board of directors mustered a majority vote on the fifth attempt to approve a budget and real-estate tax rate for the 2013-14 school year.
Ultimately, the board settled on the same tax rate that was proposed when they gave the budget preliminary approval six weeks ago, on May 13.
The spending plan lists $48.8 million in expenses and carries a 2 mill increase in the real estate tax, from 103.52 to 105.59 mills.
In last-minute adjustments to the budget, the board eliminated one teaching position and reconfigured the maintenance staff to cut expenses by $182,000.
The directors also agreed to earmark $500,000 from the fund balance for future payments to the retirement system, a move designed to reduce the fund balance below a threshold that would have prevented the district from raising the property tax.
Under state law, a district with a budget in Indiana's range may not raise the tax if it keeps a fund balance equal to 8 percent or more of budgeted expenses. Business Manager Jared Cronauer said the projected balance on June 30, 2014, would be $3.5 million, or about 7.3 percent of the amount to be spent.
The tax increase will cost the owner of the average property in the district an additional $39.04.
In the course of debate, board members entrenched themselves on spending issues they have commonly argued: among them, David Ferguson advocated raising the tax within the limits allowed by the state so the schools can continue to offer superior programs, especially in music education; Robert Gongaware, the chairman of the audit and finance committee, said the district is operating at excessive cost-per-student ratios and encouraged as small an increase as possible; and Alison Billon criticized the board's failure to curb operating expenses, particularly by closing an elementary school, so that academic programs could be maintained.
The board's draft agenda for the meeting listed a tax rate of 105.59, an increase of 2.07 mills or 2 percent, the limit set for the district without being required to submit the budget to a public referendum vote.
Ferguson offered the first motion on the budget, proposing an increase of 4.07 mills, including the amount allowed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education for recovery of excess pension fund payments under an exception to the Act 1 tax law.
Before Ferguson's motion came to a vote, Walter Schroth amended the tax rate to the current level, 103.52 mills. The board rejected the amendment 6 to 3, with Schroth, Gongaware and board President Thomas Harley in favor; Billon, Hilliary Creely, Ferguson, Diana Paccapaniccia, Brian Petersen and Rob Werner were opposed.
Peterson offered an amendment to set the rate at 105.59 mills and it failed, 5 to 4. Creely, Gongaware, Harley and Petersen were in favor; Billon, Ferguson, Paccapaniccia, Schroth and Werner were opposed.
Ferguson then amended his own motion, to raise the tax 3.07 mills to 106.59. The board voted 5 to 4 to reject the amendment: Creely, Ferguson, Petersen and Werner were in favor, and Billon, Gongaware, Harley, Paccapaniccia and Schroth were opposed.
With the amendments defeated, Ferguson's original proposal for the maximum increase, 4.07 mills, fell by a 7 to 2 vote: only Ferguson and Werner voted for it.
Werner's motion to set the tax at 105.59 mills passed on a 6 to 3 vote: Creely, Ferguson, Gongaware, Harley, Petersen and Werner voted for it; Billon, Paccapaniccia and Schroth voted no.
Leading up to the budget vote, the board:
• Voted without opposition to authorize the administration to create four part-time housekeeper positions to replace three retiring custodians, saving the district $90,000.
• Extensively debated a proposal to have the administration fill no more than three of five teaching positions being vacated due to retirements, and pulled the motion from the agenda on a 5 to 4 vote with Creely, Ferguson, Paccapaniccia, Petersen and Werner in favor, and Billon, Gongaware, Harley and Schroth opposed.
• Directed the administration to post an elementary teaching position on an 8 to 1 vote with only Harley opposed.
• Authorized the administration to hire a guidance counselor to replace a retiree on a vote of 6 to 3, with Gongaware, Harley and Schroth opposed.
• Approved posting a mathematics teaching position on a vote of 8 to 1, with Harley opposed.
• Passed Ferguson's motion for the administration to budget for the equivalent of one full-time music teacher and allowing one music teaching job to remain vacant, for a savings of $92,000, on a vote of 8 to 1 with Harley opposed.
Harley said he voted against the motions because they specified the teaching jobs.
"You can't see in the dark," he explained. Because enrollment levels may change before the school year starts in late August, Harley said the board only should have authorized the administration to hire a certain number of teachers. The administrators should have the latitude to decide what qualifications the teachers need and where to assign them.


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While his early gigs didn't pay much, he struck up friendships with a number of noted musicians and began studying with his hero, Reverend Davis. Bromberg's guitar skills didn't go unnoticed, and he began accompanying a number of Village folk acts both on-stage and in the studio, including Tom Paxton, Tom Rush, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Richie Havens. Bromberg was playing guitar with singer Rosalie Sorrels when she was booked to play the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival in Great Britain; Bromberg played an impromptu solo set after Sorrels was done, and he went over well enough that he was offered a deal with Columbia Records as a solo artist. Bromberg's self-titled debut was released in 1971, and featured the song "The Holdup," a radio favorite that Bromberg co-wrote with George Harrison. Between 1971 and 1976, Bromberg recorded six albums for Columbia and toured extensively as well as maintaining a hectic schedule of session work, lending his talents on guitar, Dobro, mandolin, and fiddle to albums by Bob Dylan, Carly Simon, the Eagles, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, Gordon Lightfoot, Bonnie Raitt, Doug Sahm, and many more. (Bromberg also produced an album for Dylan that has yet to be released in full.)
In 1977, Bromberg signed a new record deal with Fantasy Records, and issued his first album for the label, Reckless Abandon; three more albums of new material followed, but in 1980 Bromberg decided he was tired of the rigors of touring and took a sabbatical from the road, occasionally playing sessions for friends and staging occasional live shows but devoting most of his time to studying at the Kenneth Warren School of Violin Making in Chicago. It wasn't until 1990 that Bromberg released a new album, Sideman Serenade, and it was 2007 when his next studio set appeared, Try Me One More Time, which earned a Grammy nomination as Best Traditional Folk Album. In the meantime, Bromberg had established a successful business building and repairing violins as well as dealing in quality instruments, and in 2002 he opened a shop in Wilmington, Delaware, simply called David Bromberg Fine Violins. In 2011, Bromberg returned with a new and ambitious solo album, Use Me, in which he performed new songs written at his request by some of his favorite tunesmiths, including John Hiatt, Guy Clark, Dr. John, Keb' Mo', and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. Riding the critical success of that release, he returned two years later with Only Slightly Mad, a diverse set of new originals and a handful of well-curated covers produced by Bob Dylan guitarist Larry Campbell. His next album, 2016's The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing But the Blues, offered tasteful renderings of tracks by Sonny Boy Williamson, Ray Charles, and many others. ~ Mark Deming
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By Chris Morris/Rocky Mountain Boxing
Air tight boxing returns to the Paladium in Denver on Saturday due to an unexpected event: sold out tickets. The venue, which holds under 1,000 fight fans, hasn't seen boxing since July 10th of '08, and the tickets are almost gone and with good reason. The main event will pit Colorado's 130 pound champ Juan Santiago (7-2-1, 5 KOs), against the Fort Morgan Mauler Stevie Marquez, (8-13-1, 6 KOs) in a bout that will see Santiago walk the 'high wire' to avoid the heavy handed Marquez. Marquez has upset prospects in the past including Tony Morales and a devastating KO over Jesus Noriega.
In the co-main event, Corey Ben Alarcon (12-14, 4 KOs), has his sights set on Colorado Springs Terry Buterbaugh (3-2-1, 2 KOs), as they clash in a six rounder. Alarcon is coming off a good effort against then undefeated Marcos Herrera. Buterbaugh comes in on the heals of his draw with Jorge Carasco. Both fighters need a win and their styles will mesh for a very fan friendly affair.
Manny 'Manos' Perez, (13-4-1, 2 KOs), will take another 'tuner' against New Mexican tough guy, Lorenzo Estrada, (3-13-1, 1 KO), after his unimpressive outing against Daniel Gonzales. Estrada upset an undefeated prospect, Willie Villanueva, (9-1, 2 KOs), in his last bout and will look to splay spoiler again.
Anthony Turner (4-1, 2 KOs), and Tyler Pogline (1-5, 1 KO), will see action in separate bouts.
The doors open at 7 pm with a start time of 8pm at the Paladium located at 64th and Pecos in Denver. Reserved seating is sold out but limited standing room only tickets are still available by calling 720-298-1954.


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Because I love answering Paleo questions and I want you to be as well educated about Paleo as possible, I host a free Paleo Q&A Google Hangout sometime in the middle of every month.
This month the Hangout will be on Thursday, December 19th, 2013 at 8:00pm Eastern Time, and you can join us from this link.
A Google Hangout is sort of like Skype in that we're all on video talking to each other as a group. You can be on the call without being on video and still type in questions, though. This will be a live broadcast hangout, so anyone can come, and a limited number of people will be on video talking with me. You just have to have a google account and install the plug-in to participate. Then once you've done that, just go to this link at 8:00pm EST on Thursday to join us.
This is a great opportunity for people to ask questions about the Paleo Plan meal plan, as well as any questions you have about Paleo in general (is X food Paleo, how many carbs should I eat, how do I lose weight, what do I snack on, etc.). All questions are welcome.
Again, if you'd like to be part of the Google Hangout, please join me at 8:00pm Eastern Time on Thursday, December 19th 2013 at this link.
Note: You can download the Google Hangouts plug-in from this page. If it doesn't automatically install onto your computer, you may have to go into your "downloads" folder on your computer and click on the file called "GoogleVoiceAndVideoSetup (1).dmg".
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Hi Neely, thanks for continuing your Google Hangouts! I joined into one a couple months back and really enjoyed it. Though I'm not able to this time since I'm overseas, I'd so like your thoughts on helminthic therapy and also coffee enemas for helping with extensive food allergies. You recommended I see a naturopathic doc since I have numerous food allergies, and I have been though I'm not improving and even Paleo is a challenge with what little able to eat/tolerate. Thanks for your time and cheers to your Happy Holidays!!!
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Hello All! Julia here, and I'm going to tell you all about my experience with the Miz Mozelle sew-along!
First of all, puff sleeves and a peter pan collar on an easy to wear dress? Yes please! Like everyone else I was excited to join the sew along for the aesthetics, but as it turns out this pattern is not only cute, it's quick and fun to make as well!
I first made a copy of the pattern onto muslin. I don't always trace my patterns, but if I think that I'm going to make the pattern again I'll take the time to do it. I used muslin because I had extra hanging around. Then I chose my fabric, a Tula Pink print from her nightshade collection, and a lace-edged bias tape for the trim. I liked the scale of the prints and a spooky motif.


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So lately, I have been toying with the idea of changing my interior color from dove grey to Black and Imola Red combination. I was trying to decide between the cinnamon and imola but with my car being TIAG, I do not think cinnamon would work out. I know this will be a long process and I have gathered information from reading other members' threads about dyeing their interiors to different colors. I spoke with Khristie from leatherique and tried to get as much information about dyeing the interior and making sure that the dye colors that they are about to send me will match the OEM BMW color since I read somewhere about this guy who was going to do an imola red dye but then decided to go with cinnamon instead since he was told that the red dye that he wanted did not have enough red pigments due to goverment EPA restriction stuff. I asked Khristie about that and she told me that what they meant was that they could not match the deep red interiors that some other cars have but luckily for us, they have the exact BMW OEM Imola red color. So long story short, I decided to go ahead and do this dreadful project. It will take time and I will try my best to be as detailed as possible updating you guys.
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Less than a decade after its inception, the International Criminal Court is now at the forefront of the response to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community, such as genocide and war crimes. Proponents argue that prosecuting such crimes is necessary to deter violence and despotism, while critics contend that criminal proceedings impede peace negotiations and result in violently desperate dictators. Foster, who worked on Muammar Gaddafi's arrest warrant, explores the complexities of international criminal justice.
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Weizenegger's Paper Chair
A forthcoming exhibition at the Appel Gallery in Berlin presents the new work of designer Hermann August Weizenegger. The Digital Couture work presents varied objects designed with rapid prototyping and traditional 'turning'.
A forthcoming exhibition at the Appel Gallery in Berlin presents the new work of designer Hermann August Weizenegger. Inspired by stratified rock, the Digital Couture work presents varied objects designed with rapid prototyping and traditional 'turning'. The Erosio chair above is made of 900 sheets of paper that are added on top of each other to form a solid shape (with the help of four metal rods). The layers calculated on the computer which form the outer shape of the chair are threaded onto the round rods in an additive process. As they're not fixed, the paper can be gently moved and the shape modified. Weizenegger's site says about the work:
Digital Couture is the name given a concept for an interdisciplinary project in which designers, craftsmen and programmer have all been artistically active – relying in the process on data-based processes. The project generates works that can be shifted from the design context into the sphere of art. The works reveal themselves to the observer through their media qualities as a hybrid that balances delicately between design object and sculpture. The individual work on show here, and its shape as a figurine references the absence of the real body, is a composite of pieces made analogously by craftsmen and parts created using digital manufacturing processes.
The illuminated tip of the figurine points beyond its function as a luminaire. The couturier's artistry and skills go into this work as does the data-based computation of strata such as is commonly associated with geological/tectonic phenomena. As in the latter, starting with the measurement of the body by digital instruments, individual adjustments are then possible along the body's outline and this can be considered a reference to the skilful hands of the couturier at work. The measurement of the figure (which in the classic method is adjusted and molded by modeling the muslin on the dress form) can now be abandoned in favor of a laser process that reads the contours of a dress onscreen and then models it.
Each dress is thus imbued with a sculptural feel. The subsequent assembly of the individual parts to form a composition is reminiscent of the arduous handiwork performed by the "petites mains" down through the centuries in Paris studios where the figurines and models were originally made.
Other exhibits include a cloud lamp, a dummy and a dress.
Appel Design Gallery, Torstrasse 114, 10119 Berlin – September 19 to 10 October 10
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Two troopers awarded medals
HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania State Police are honoring two troopers for saving the life of another who was shot and critically wounded last year while serving a drug search warrant.
The department on Tuesday gave its 2014 Medal of Honor to Cpl. Joseph Alessandro and Trooper Dustin Sosak.
Trooper Bradley Wilson was shot twice Sept. 26, 2013, by an unseen assailant inside a Jefferson County home. While other troopers provided cover fire, Sosak and Alessandro moved Wilson to an ambulance.
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In addition to coming up with new applications designed to take advantage of Hana's speed, SAP also has updated major products like BW and its Business Planning and Consolidation module to run on Hana "without disruption." By that, SAP is promising that running those products on Hana will be a simple software upgrade with no tedious changes to the underlying applications. Running on Hana, BW is said by SAP to deliver sub-second query results that would require minutes or hours with BW running on a conventional database. Similarly, Business Planning and Consolidation activities happen in near real-time without requiring data summaries--data aggregations that are usually required by conventional databases.
Oracle walks a fine line in slamming Hana, because Oracle is also pitching the benefits of in-memory in its own products. Kurian walked this line during Friday's webinar because on the one hand he was touting Oracle's in-memory database, TimesTen, and its supporting appliance, Exalytics, while also slamming Hana. Early on, for example, Kurian noted that DRAM costs have shrunk by 25 times over the past 10 years and he said in-memory response times are "50,000 times faster than going to disk." Yet at the conclusion of the webinar, Kurian asserted that "in-memory is an additional technology that helps people get more value from their databases, but it is not meant to be a replacement for their databases."
It's this is the kind of remark that has led SAP to accuse Oracle of trying to preserve the past and, with it, all the lucrative database licenses it has in place. Where SAP says a single Hana database will eventually run both BW and core transactional applications, Oracle Exalytics is an add-on product (for all but the smallest data marts with less than a terabyte of data). That means an SAP customer running Oracle will still need one database license for the transactional database, a separate license for the data warehouse database, and a third database license (either TimesTen, Essbase, or, in some cases, both) for Oracle Exalytics.
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What's more, in Oracle's old-school approach, transactional data is copied from the application environment to the warehouse and yet again to Exalytics if it's needed for hot queries. So that means three layers of servers, storage, integration, and administration of all of the above.
"Not only do you end up with three copies of the data, you have to add the latency required to move data from one copy to the other," says Gartner analyst Don Feinberg. "The real promise of Hana is that when the transaction is done, the data is instantly in the data warehouse and your analytics become real time."
The promise of Hana is compelling: Running transactions and analytics on a single database, cutting out layers of infrastructure, eliminating redundant data aggregations and materialized views, and doing it all with ultra-high performance. The reality check here is that Hana won't be able to run core transactional SAP enterprise applications until late this year at the earliest (it's already running the BusinessOne service, in beta, but that's not core ERP). Even then, the initial release will be in "ramp up" mode, meaning among a select group of customers. General availability might take another six to eight months.
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Oracle knows this as well. During a question-and-answer session at Oracle Open World, where Exalytics was announced, a group of Oracle applications executives acknowledged that they would be developing new apps specifically to exploit Exalytics. There's no sign of them as yet, so for now the party line is that all existing Oracle apps work with the new appliance, getting the benefit of faster performance (meaning query acceleration).


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I have been studying the various methods used for the past one hundred years or so and have various cartridge belts and pouches, mostly US and British.
These 8 round quickstrips will fit the US M-1 Carbine 15 round cartridge pouch. I suggest using the pouch designed to hold either the carbine magazine or the M1 rifle 8 round clip. These are usually marked under the flap. The ones I have seem slightly larger than the WW2 pouches. The multi use pouch goes for around $15 or so on Ebay. These will hold 2 of the Tuff strips.
Also the ammo wallets that hold 18 .357 rounds will fit in the 30 round M-1 Carbine pouch. You can get 2 easily into the pouch.
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Horrible. This was a horrible showing by a team that needed a win.
The Eagles, who entered this game with a 1 – 2 record, fell to 1 – 3 after the Giants manhandled Philadelphia 16 – 3. This game was all about the Giants defense, and how the Eagles didn't have an answer to protect their quarterback.
The Eagles offensive line had a poor showing, most notably, the play of second-year offensive tackle Winston Justice. Justice, who started his first professional game due to an injury to William Thomas, allowed six sacks to Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora. The Giants defense totaled 12 sacks on the evening.
With all the sacks the Eagles surrendered, Donovan McNabb wasn't able to get on track the entire game. McNabb completed 15-of-31 for 138 yards and no touchdowns, but he lost a key fumble that went for a Giants touchdown.
Correll Buckhalter was the one bright spot for the Eagles offense against New York. Buckhalter started in place of Brian Westbrook, who was a game time scratch due to an abdominal strain. Buckhalter had 17 carries for 103 yards.
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In the third quarter, the Giants scored twice. First on a Lawrence Tynes 29-yard field goal that put the Giants up 10 – 0, and then again later in the quarter, when McNabb fumbled when he tried to hand the ball off to Buckhalter. Giants linebacker Kawika Mitchell recovered the ball on the ground, untouched, and returned it for a 17-yard touchdown. After a missed Tynes extra point, the Giants had a commanding 16 – 0 advantage.
In the fourth and final frame, the Eagles got on the board when David Akers nailed a 53-yard field goal with 12:51 remaining in the game. That score cut the Giants lead to 16 – 3, but that's as close as the Eagles got in this game.
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She's already traveling a bit with her daughter North West for Kanye West's Yeezus Tour, and now Kim Kardashian reveals her little one is going to be making her way around the global very soon.
While replying to fans on the social media site Mobio INsider on Wednesday (January 15), the 33-year-old reality star dished about taking her 7-month-old on more exciting trips.
"I want her to travel a lot," Kim explained. "I think it's important to see different cultures and lifestyles."
She continued, "I didn't start traveling internationally until I was a bit older, and I learned so much. I can't wait to show her the world."
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The Jokers (original 1964; edition 2010)
by Albert Cossery, Anna Moschovakis (Translator), James Buchan (Introduction)
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While this book had an engaging writing style and an interesting premise, there were way too many sexist comments/characters for such a short book. The intro, which I read after finishing, mentioned Cossery's contempt for women which unfortunately came through in his writing. The main plot – a group of disillusioned and intelligent opponents of the current government protest by excessively praising the governor – is fun at first but I felt more time should be spent on that instead of all the random relationships. It also peters out at the end in a rather abrupt manner.
The four conspirators are a varied lot – Karim, a formerly passionate dissident who has now embraced irony and satire; Heykal, the laid-back and aristocratic leader; Omar, a cheerily vulgar criminal millionaire; and Urfy, a nervous teacher distracted by his mother's descent into dementia. Heykal annoyed me as he seemed to be almost too-perfect – not that he didn't have problems, but everyone looked up to him and acted like he was the only person worth knowing. The descriptions of their plot to anonymously hang posters with over-the-top praise of the governor, send in fatuously glowing letters to the newspaper and propose funding a statue of the governor are interesting but various side characters get in the way.
A dilettante trying to get an in with Heykal, a former associate of Karim's and obviously the governor are shown in a negative light but every female character is a sexist stereotype. Karim's attitude toward prostitutes that he uses is pretty disgusting and a girl from a good family who Heykal uses for information is shown throwing herself at him while he criticizes her for thinking only of love instead of politics. Another, frankly creepy scene has Heykal checking out an 8-year-old girl. Urfy's mother – a self-sacrificing woman in the past, it is implied – is mainly there to let Heykal muse on how madness is the ultimate freedom and the "crazy old woman" also fits with stereotypical glimpses of other old women as nagging and ugly. Unfortunately, all the sexism and the distractions from the main plot meant that I enjoyed the book less and less as it went on.
Can it be I'm getting tired of Albert Cossery? There is no reason why I should like this book less than the two I read earlier this year, Proud Beggars and The Colors of Infamy: Cossery's wit is just as satiric and ironic, his writing just as good, his portrayal of character and place just as sharp. But it's starting to seem like he's writing the same book, even though the plot is different. In this case, the group of male friends who eschew seriousness and like to find humor in everything are scheming to bring down the governor of an unnamed Egyptian city (that seems to be Alexandria, not Cairo) through a campaign to praise him excessively. As one of the characters muses about a revolutionary who does not share the protagonists' perspective, "He didn't want the police to take him for a joker -- that was all he cared about. . . . He needed those criminals to respect him. How pathetic for a rebel! Even he couldn't break out of the vicious cycle of power. . . . He was more of a prisoner than a prisoner in his cell because he shared the same myths of his adversary . . ." Had I read this novel first, I am sure I would have been as enthusiastic about it as I was about the others, and I did enjoy it, but just not with the same thrill of discovery.
By the way, the literal translation of the French title is "violence and derision," which has a much sharper tone than the one given it in English.
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Staples Student Wins Star Idol Contest
There are 36 comments on the Westport News story from May 17, 2006, titled Staples Student Wins Star Idol Contest. In it, Westport News reports that:Westport resident April Rose Krysiuk, 17, took home the top prize during STAR 99.9 FM's recent Star Idol Contest.
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#1 Oct 2, 2006
Hi I would like to hear more about AprilRose. I am a great fan of hers.
Word is she is flying out to Nashville on a recording deal with a producer from CT.
April is an angel of a person and everyone loves her here in Westport & Norwalk.
It would be great if you could inform everyone about her upcomming fame
#2 Dec 7, 2006
It's not surprising to hear of April Rose's continued success following standout performances during taping for the 2006-2007 edition of Christian Artists Talent Search ( C.A.T.S.).
April was selected as a finalist by executives from whiplash Records and Infinity Music Distribution. As in years past, selecting finalists for the season of the show was a grueling task because of the abundance of talented artists and musicians across the country.
Aprils powerful voice and tremendous love for serving the Lord propelled her to be one of our four finalists in the competition. She won the support & respect of all the producers, judges & contestants.
Aprils performances on the 2006-2007 can be viewed across the country on INSP Satelite TV, starting January 2007. Air dates & times can be found in local TV listings.
Log onto WWW.INSP.COM click onto C.A.T.S. for a video of April, who should be on the 3rd week of January.
#3 Dec 22, 2006
Hi I think April can bring on the heat.
She's a great baby-sitter too!!!!
#4 Jan 8, 2007
What an amazing rendition of Aretha Franklins chart topping classics , NATURAL WOMAN and RESPECT.
All I can say is WOW! Go April Rose! You made that song your own! And WOW to such a soulful passionate singer at age 17! And yes I had to pick up my jaw in awe at the power behind that petite & beautiful young lady!
There was a lot of great competition there but 99.9 & judges certianly picked a real diamond!
Looking forward to seeing April perform on the INSP.COM website with the TV program C.A.T.S.
(Christian Artist Talent Search)for the 2007 competition.
Looking forward to hear about Aprils work in Nashville!
#6 Feb 2, 2007
I am proud to be April,s Uncle she sings as pretty as she looks, Keep up the good work i will be listening to them all. My only wish i have is if her Annt was alive to hear her one more time. She sang for us in Florida.
GOD BLESS YOU APRIL......Uncle.Tony
#7 Feb 2, 2007
What a beautiful voice from a beautiful young woman! She has been truly blessed with a wonderful gift that she can share with the world!
We love you!!
#8 Feb 2, 2007
April what a wonderfull gift you have! Continued success.
Love You!!
#9 Feb 2, 2007
WOW! What an amazing voice. Someone in our family with some real talent. April...when you hit the big time, your cousin Bob will drive your motor coach around the country for you while you're on tour.
#10 Feb 27, 2007
I was there an i dont think she was as great as you all say she was. i think she had connections with last years winner.
#11 Feb 27, 2007
since last years winner was voting i think it might of been fixed.
#12 Feb 28, 2007
I dont just think she was Great, I know she was!
out of 5 judges and audience reaction it wasn't fixed!
#13 Feb 28, 2007
April is a fabulous singer and a wonderful person. Everyone there saw the talent of this young singer. Too bad you couldn't see what everybody saw in this very talented singer and performer.
#14 Feb 28, 2007
Anyone who would think that it is easy to "fix" a talent contest ought to try to get in one in the first place! With talent as huge as April Roses' it smells to me like sour grapes. I wish only the best for this supremely gifted, gentle, sweet soul...April Rose-ignore the bad eggs. YOU ROCK!!!
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#15 Feb 28, 2007
How anyone can think this beautiful young woman is not talented needs to have their hearing checked. Was the CATS competition also fixed that she placed fourth in the competition against 3 other singers in their forties? Come on... she is 17 and has a God-given talent. April - you keep doing what you are doing and don't worry about any "sour grapes" because those people are either jealous or just don't like to recognize another person's talent.
#16 Feb 28, 2007
April Rose will be famous very soon! To say she is an amazing singer is an understatement! Keep the faith April, and don't forget us when you're at the top!!!!!
#17 Feb 28, 2007
You are a gifted child with extraordinary talent.
Your voice is beyond description at your age.
No matter what people say and think, your God given talent is within you and cannot be robbed.
Continue to pursue it and you will reach your goal
#18 Mar 1, 2007
Unfortunately it is a fact of life... The better you get at what you do.. the more arrows will be shot at you. April, If you are reading this, keep in mind that criticism (in this fallen world of ours), is often a measure of success.... and even more-so when you are bringing glory to our Father. You are so awesome on stage and I only pray that you keep using your incredible gifts to bring glory to the Kingdom. Way to go April!!
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#19 Mar 1, 2007
I haven't seen her perform live, but a friend from Norwalk,CT sent me her CD, she is FABULOUS! What a magnificent talent this young lady has, she will surely go places. Good Luck! Your family and friends must be very proud.
#20 Mar 1, 2007
April has amazing talent, incredible vocal ability and is a great person as well.
She truly has the whole package!
#21 Mar 1, 2007
April has all the talent of a star! Keep listening to people who support you - ignore any comments that people say that will distract you from reaching your goals. Keep up the good work!
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