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    Last year we had spectacular growth but our clothing business was pretty stagnant. It has big potential.

    Rather than ignore that life is difficult and filled with struggles, we wanted to encourage people to be hopeful and maintain their faith, even through troubling times.

    We knew they'd be very physical, very aggressive. They didn't do anything that we didn't prepare for. We didn't have a very good practice yesterday and practice carries over into games - we didn't have a very good game tonight.

    It was a fun season. We had great chemistry, we showed up every game competing and we had chance to win every game we played. We had great leadership from our seniors and great experience for our juniors.

    That was one of the better games that we've played all year. He (McKinney) hit a great shot, missed the first one and got the second one.


    To me, they're just different. The Grammy's are a world-recognized, huge awards show. It gives us a lot of inroads outside of Christian music.

    I was worried about how we would come out after the loss. The kids worked hard and stuck to the game plan.

    For the most part we executed well for most of the night. But in a two-point game you have it get it done consistently.

    I think they're a blue-collar team. A hard-working team with decent size. They're very aggressive, very physical. They're not flashy. They're not going to make many mistakes, but they'll wait for you to make one, then capitalize.

    The pain will be deep, significant and long-lasting.

    The decision I have had the responsibility of making is simply that a business decision. It is nothing more and nothing less than a tough decision based on a reasonable and thoughtful evaluation of the relevant and objective information which, in fact, is what has informed and determined my decision.

    There just aren't as many artists in Christian music that put the effort and emphasis on the live part of the show. I can say with confidence that we're one of the better live acts to go to in Christian music.

    We're hoping that as disappointing as last year's game with Danvers was, it will make us a better team.

    We're essentially at the home stretch.

    It no longer makes sense for us to continue to invest our time and energy, and the ongoing commitment of our financial resources, toward sustaining and building our successful independent small business enterprise when we know what awaits us when the law goes into effect next year.

    We were sitting right behind Dave Ramsey (national best-selling author), and he said something I have never thought about, but it was like the longer you do something, the more you are able to appreciate that you are able to do it. It was cool just to see the different styles. I feel that Christian music has gotten a lot better, and it has gotten so good that people have to take it seriously. Hopefully, that will continue. I know with all of the fresh blood and new sounds, I can't wait to see when it evolves into whatever is next.

    If the right thing came along I'd be interested (in acting). But directing is what I'm enjoying now, I really love it. I haven't been this happy in an occupation in my life.

    We join with causes to help people. When we worked with Habitat for Humanity a couple of years ago, we helped build eight houses, three in the United States and five around the world. And we look at it this way, our music may be forgotten some years down the road, but the houses will still be there.

    Peabody is a talented hockey club, but our game plan was to get the puck in the zone, cycle and crash the net. And there were a heck of a lot of chances we missed.

    We got exactly what we thought we'd get from them. They over-packed the paint. We knew we'd have trouble with their penetration and we did. ... I think the biggest change was defensively. We took away their ability to penetrate.

    A year from now if things go really well, we could be out for bids, or have bids in hand.

    We're playing our best hockey right now. The team has matured in the last part of the season. It's a pleasure to see how they've improved.

    It will have a double impact on gay businesses because the percentage of adult smokers in our community is double that of the general population.

    We still want to try and improve our playoff standing. We've got two next week so we'll have to come ready to play and see if we can't get two wins.

    We're big fans of David Crowder and the band. He puts on a great show. There's something really special that happens with the audience. His fans just take it to a whole (new) level.

    That's the result that these opponents hope to achieve.

    We're a rock band to begin with and that's still the core of what we do.

    Tonight we responded and came back against the loudest crowd we've played against all year. (Weston Ranch) is a very good team.

    Even the last couple of years, if you listen to Christian radio stations, they've let their hair down. They're not afraid to rock.

    Stakeholder engagement has been floating around like the spice of good cooking from next door, and the sense has been that if we all could share some of that spice, everything would be better. But there's been no recipe for doing it and doing it well--whi

    They're just a very good team. They've got excellent shooters, they're well-coached, they're very smart and they're playing real well.

    Throughout the years the lineup has evolved but it always comes down to Mac and me. We both decided in our senior year to make music that mattered and helped people, rather than bring them down.

    We didn't go looking for 263 acres. We found out the state had 263 acres, and a decision was made to take a good, hard look at it. We'll preserve it. Fifty or 75 years from now, if we aren't going to use it, we can make that decision.

    It seems like between the last record and this record, we just all had a lot of things going on. Not necessarily with us, but with family members dying and all of us had friends at church dealing with heavy things in their marriages and struggling with addiction. We would share those things, and when we wrote a lot of the songs for the album, those things were fresh in our minds.

    But you won't see the kind of prices being paid like last time. People are not going to be so scared of missing out on a deal that they'll pay that kind of money.

    There was a lot of heart in the first album. We've tapped back into the same place (on this one).

    Both of those songs are applicable to the season, and I imagine here toward the end of the tour, we'll probably do both. It's definitely a special time for us, and we're ready to celebrate the season with the fans in Charleston, and this year, we actually have Easter off to go to church with our families.

    The council is turning its back on the city's largest private sector industry, biggest taxpayer and major employer.

    We did everything we had to in order to win the game, but the game came down to one name Vail. He stood on his head and made countless unbelievable saves.

    The most important thing is communication and getting closer. They have to break the barrier between the committee and staff. It has to be really close. I mean, we really have to close ranks now after what has happened.

    They're the Cinderella team of the whole tournament. They've played some tough competition all year. Their record doesn't indicate the type of team they are ... We certainly have a lot of respect for them. We're hoping the clock will strike 12 for them and put an end to their run.


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