Andre J. Carter

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  • Important Days

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    “The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

  • Compliment Week

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    This was another uneventful week. I’m starting to get used to having open weekends during competition season and am starting to enjoy it. This week I’m going to be complimentary toward a couple people and companies. I went to my bank to make a change to an account and open a new one and spoke…

  • Assumptions

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    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” – Isaac Asimov

  • How the Internet has Made Social Change Easy to Organize, Hard to Win by Zeynep Tufekci

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    Zeynep Tufekci presented How the Internet has Made Social Change Easy to Organize, Hard to Win as a TED Talk.

  • Everyone Sees, Few Experience

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    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

  • March Madness Opening Week

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    The first week of March Madness has come to an end and it’s been a wild one. Of the 11.5 million brackets completed on ESPN, only 1 remained perfect at the start of Saturday. This tournament is all about surviving and winning by 1 on a controversial call or blowing a team out counts the…

  • Wrong Choices, Right Place

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    “Sometimes we make the wrong choices to get to the right place.”

  • Strangers & Best Friends

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    “Strangers can become best friends just as easy as best friends can become strangers.”

  • Ivan in Memphis II

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    Ivan left Memphis this morning. Here are his pictures from the week. My guess is he’d say the bread bowl for soup at McAllister’s was the most intriguing thing he took a picture of.

  • Looking Back

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    “I’d rather look back at my life and say “I can’t believe I did that”, rather than saying “I wish I did that”.”

  • Life is Good

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    Last night as I was sitting at Silky’s I looked around and really noticed life is good right now. Ivan was in from Chile and enjoying himself. He had his first Maker’s and Coke, Fireball, green beer, and late night Taco Bell. Tony and Chelsea, who got engaged around Thanksgiving, were there and Chelsea was…

  • Standing in Sunshine

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    “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • USASF 2015-16 Cheer Age Grid Posted

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    As a result of the collaboration between the USASF Board of Directors, the NACCC membership and the USASF Cheerleading Rules Committee, we are pleased to present the USASF Cheerleading Age Grid for the 2015-16 season. The changes that have been made are summarized below, as well as being indicated by blue highlighting on the document.…

  • Ivan in Memphis

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    This week Ivan from Chile will be in town. I don’t know what all we’ll do yet, but know we have to get him some Memphis BBQ. With Tuesday being St. Patty’s Day we’ll probably go to Beale Street and get a Diver from Silky’s. He wants to do some cheer stuff, but since that’s…

  • Go Ahead, Make Up New Words! by Erin McKean

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    Erin McKean presented Go Ahead, Make Up New Words! as a TED Talk.

  • Work Hard & Enjoy

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    “Work hard but make sure you enjoy life too.” – Ted Smart

  • Deep South Memphis

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    The Kentucky Cheerleading advisor, T. Lynn Williamson, was recently awarded the Sue Feamster Trailblazer Award. Other than that I was snowed in for a couple days, went out to eat with the Deep South crew while they were in Memphis for an event, and learned silk ties and washers don’t get along.

  • Going to Do

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    “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

  • Ohh Oklahoma

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    If you haven’t heard anything about what recently happen at the University of Oklahoma you watch the news less than I do and I’m proud of you for it. The rest of us saw a video of some fraternity members chanting a racist chant on a bus followed by quick action by their fraternity and…

  • Simplicity is Sophistication

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    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Pursuit of Perfection

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    The Kentucky basketball team is pursuing perfection. I’m sure every team was, but Kentucky has made it through their regular season without a loss. There were a couple scares, overtimes, and below par performances, but they’ve made it through the first 31 games. For the most part the regular season doesn’t matter. It’s just preparation…

  • Judging Merits

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    “We ought not to judge of men’s merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them.” – Pierre Charron

  • Who Gets Credit

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    “The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.” – Benjamin Jowett

  • Nominations are Open for 2015 USASF Awards

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    All USASF Professional Members are eligible to nominate other USASF Professional Members for 2015 USASF Awards! In categories including Cheer Coach of the Year, Dance Coach of the Year, Cheer Program Owner of the Year, Cheer Small Program of the Year and Dance Program of the Year, it’s the perfect opportunity for members to recognize…

  • NCA All Star 2015

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    Last weekend was NCA. Getting there was a disaster, but the event was great. When I woke up I was booked on a direct American flight landing at 1:30pm. By the time I made it to Dallas, around 10:30pm via a connecting flight on Delta, I’d been in possession of 9 boarding passes or seat…