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In order to be born, you needed:
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth...
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You're going to absolutely LOVE this!
In these terrible days of COVID-19, so many are doing their best to stay connected through video. We all know of businesses who are no longer able to operate...
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The speech Citizenship in a Republic was given at the Sorbonne in Paris, France on April 23, 1910. The excerpt reads:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the stro...
Someone was wondering about valME's voting buttons... Through our moderation features, you not only can select up to five karma types, but you even get to specify the names. From your Moderate dropd...
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Volunteer!
Another wonderful way to show your love of Misty River Music Makers is to sign up for some occasional volunteer time at one of our events. People who sign up often feel like it's much...
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Your Contributions Help!
We love sharing the gift of great music with people of our community. And though we sell tickets at our bi-annual show, we also have a lot expenses.
If you love Misty...
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Please Visit our Sponsors!
Montessori Academy of Batavia
We are grateful to the Montessori Academy of Batavia for providing the chorus with a beautiful space to practice. Parents have bee...
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Piece o' Chord
Linda Berg- Tenor
Maria Kolano- Lead
Beth Pasek- Bass
Fran Bell- Baritone
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About Our Performances
We have a diverse repertoire fitting many occasions, and we're ready to entertain audiences big and small. Our chorus can tailor a performance to meet your needs.
Perform...
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The Next Step
So you're interested in joining!
Visit a Rehearsal
Guests are always welcome at our rehearsals. Rehearsals are Monday nights from 7:00-9:30 pm.
Location:
Montessori A...
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What they're saying
Listen to what a few chorus members from around the country have to say about being in an organization like ours:
“I enjoy the fun and fellowship of the ladies, and the...
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Our 1st Place Finish!
Area 4 Contest and Convention
June 14, 2014
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MISTY RIVER'S NEW DIRECTOR, MARIA KOLANO
Maria Kolano has had a life-long love of music. She grew up singing on the piano bench beside her mom. She has taken voice lessons, sung with choirs in sc...
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What is Barbershop?
Standard choral music uses the Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass (SATB) designations. SATB arrangements attempt to balance sound equally across all four of the parts. On the other...
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Hire Us
We love performing for just about every occasion
We can provide quality entertainment for your company sponsored event, church social, family reunion, downtown festivals, public or priv...
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Join Us
Misty River Music Makers is more than just an a cappella ensemble, it is a family. We love getting together each week, and sharing friendships as well as great music.
If you like to sin...
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Misty River Music Makers - it's all about the people...
First and foremost, Misty River is a place where friendship and song blend together. Our members are women from all over the Fox Valley...
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I'm very excited to announce valME just rolled out some major enhancements. If you run a blog or forum elsewhere and pay $60 annually, check out what we can now offer:
Custom domains, including...
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valME had a major upgrade yesterday. There are a few important changes regarding .css/style sheets.
In the past, we've allowed users to add <style> tags to their posts and comments even thou...
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"Yo."
"Yo."
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Based on this excellent idea, some of us have been including style sheets (.css) in posts to make content look a whole lot nicer. However, I noticed that videos weren't showing properly on posts when...
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Easy killer.
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(Sigh)
We understand that sometimes our users are going to put up something that was created by someone else. Candidly, we’d prefer you contact the user directly and work it out but, because the...
We don’t mean to be rude, but what are you even doing on this site if you don’t know the definition of project?
Oh, sorry. You’re trying to understand what the project checkbox is for when s...
Well most unfortunate one, there aren’t just spammers on our “most unfavorite” page. Anyone who had more than two posts or comments flagged and subsequently rejected by moderators within the la...
If we have led you astray, we apologize and we’ll come clean.
Yes, the front page algorithm that is labeled reddit is a slight modification of the algorithm we understand reddit uses. The algo...
For the communities, pretty much however the community owners and moderators decide. We provide you capabilities to adjust which posts appear on the front page, as well as in what order. We’re...
We’re certainly glad you asked.
We recognize there are companies who use blogs for marketing, individuals who run a side gig with a website, etc. Frankly Scarlet, we don’t care if you’re mar...
Thanks for letting us know in advance. (rolls eyes)
If we catch you breaking any part of our user agreement, or doing anything that suggests deceit, fraud, or harm to anyone, we’ll remove yo...
Harrumph.
Well, OK. We’d certainly like to know with what you were dissatisfied and what we can do to keep you (which you can tell us at support@valme.io). However, we must respect your decisi...
Short answer – yes.
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To paraphrase our grandmothers, "Such a question you should ask!"
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Uhm, is there a question here?
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As we indicated in the user agreement, we're leveraging what reddit put together as it seems reasonable (not to mention it served as a guide for the way we built valME). Your privacy is genuinely...
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We didn’t have enough money to hire a lawyer to write our user agreement. Besides, we’re not fond of lawyers as the majority of them seem to cause more problems than they’re worth...
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