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In December, I wrote about a new organization that was being started by Media Matters for America. It was exciting to see this great organization move into the realm of LGBT affairs. Since the launch of Equality Matters a little more than two months ago, it seems to be an organization still looking for a purpose and trying to define itself.
The New York Times wrote about Equality Matters prior to its launch that it would be great to have a "communications war room" for the LGBT community. Others felt that since Media Matters was so successful at responding to the lies and distortions of public policy in the media that Equality Matters would play a similar role.
But over the past couple of months it appears that Equality Matters may have been launched too soon and before its organizers had a real strategy and mission for what they would do. There are some intelligent and creative people working there, including Richard Socarides, Kerry Eleveld and Trevor Thomas. They all have solid credentials and expertise in communications and LGBT affairs. What I don't think they have figured out yet is what they should be doing that will complement the efforts of the existing LGBT organizations.
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Robin McGehee of GetEqual and shared some thoughts as she told me they are strategizing the future of that organization. GetEqual is an activist group that has become something of a de facto ACT-UP of the modern LGBT movement. It has promoted protest actions, like Lt. Dan Choi chaining himself to the White House gate to push for repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and a series of marriage actions on Valentine's Day to promote marriage equality.
They are filling a void that other LGBT organizations don't cover. They have a mission and a purpose. They have already proven that they can accomplish something with their role in the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Although GetEqual is far from alone in deserving credit — HRC, SLDN and many others have worked hard on this issue for years —GetEqual helped bring it to the front pages of our newspapers and to our TV screens in a way that helped Congress and President Obama move it to passage.
While GetEqual has a purpose and mission and is looking at how to continue to fund its operations, it appears that Equality Matters has funding and no real purpose or mission. Why can't they get together?
A recent update from Equality Matters on marriage equality focused on statements by Socarides and an old interview and column by Eleveld. Yet clearly there are so many others who have spoken out on this who deserve credit for the forward movement of the administration. Thus far, Equality Matters doesn't seem like a "communications war room" but rather a self-congratulatory effort. That may not be an entirely fair characterization, but many hope there will be more from Equality Matters when it gets organized. That is why there could be a genuine symbiotic relationship possible if they would join forces with GetEqual.
If we are to move the nation toward marriage equality and full civil and human rights for LGBT people, then the focus has to be on the states. We need to find and cultivate leaders in each state and city and find recognizable and respected allies and help them to pen op-eds and make statements on our behalf and get the media to focus on those. We need to build a cadre of young people, such as elected student body presidents at universities across the nation, who support LGBT rights and are willing to speak out in their schools and states. These are actions that could be a great part of the mission of Equality Matters with the folks at GetEqual doing the legwork and the organizing.
GetEqual reportedly needs about $500,000 a year to operate. Equality Matters could help them raise those funds and then capitalize on the work they do by using the media savvy of Equality Matters.
We need to grow our presence in the states and we need to find new leaders to speak out for the next generation of the LGBT community. Both of these organizations could play a pivotal role in accomplishing this by working together.
GetEqual was formed to "embarrass, humiliate and threaten people into submission." It is a counterproductive strategy. After wasting more than $1 million doing a dozen publicity stunts, there is NO evidence that they changed any minds or votes. They have not received financial support or participation (unless paying "activists" to show up).
EqualityMatters may be headed down the same unproductive path. It isn't enough to simply run around town complaining – people know about our lack of equality and they know we have religious-based enemies. Confronting that group doesn't create ANY change.
Our success depends on educating, enlightening and enrolling people to support our full equality. That requires conversation, not confrontation. Even without GetEqual or EqualityMatters, each of us can talk to friends, neighbors, co-workers and even strangers and ASK them for their SUPPORT.
In addition, not a single one of our myriad of "non-profit" advocates has a strategy to actually win. They exist to survive and have become good at fundraising, not making verifiable progress. We don't need more paid activists or another high-spending group like EqualityMatters because they do not have a useful purpose. All efforts must be judged by their ability to enroll support, not simply high-profile complaining.
I sincerely hope that Andrew W does not include the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund in that category of a non-strategic organization. Our strategy is simple: elect/re-elect open and qualified LBGT to local, state and federal office. What they do once in office is up to the rest of us.
I agree with AndrewW that we need to support advocacy organizations that KNOW HOW TO WIN. Here in California, during the Prop8 Campaign, we actually outspent our opponents and we began the year with a lead in the polls. But our national organizations ran the campaign as if there would be no opposition. Of course the enemy emerged late in the year, and the campaign got predictably ugly. Our commercials were vacuous, symbolic, and run largely on outlets like the Bravo Channel. Theirs were direct, hard-edged, and targeted right at the swing votes. We lost 52-48 on Election Day.
@John: The Victory Fund seeks to elect LGBT persons to public office and has a strategy for that. That, alone, is not going to create our full equality, but it is certainly a supportable goal.
HRC, GLAAD, TaskForce, EqualityMatters, GE and others have absolutely NO strategy for winning. Just ask them.


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Surgeons and their nurses are supposed to be performing the highest amount of care possible for their patient. However, distractions are everywhere. According to a study in Surgery Magazine, mistakes happen to everybody. The mistakes were distributed across the physician age spectrum, with 36% of them happening among surgeons ages 40 to 49. Nearly 30% occurred with surgeons between 50 and 59, while less than a quarter happened among surgeons 39 and younger. Less than 15% were by surgeons 60 or older. Anyone can be distracted. It is important to leave the distractions outside of the operating room, to be able to perform your best work on a patent each time.
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Pre-Nuptial Agreements - Do You Need One?
Getting a pre-nuptial agreement before getting married can protect you financially if you and your spouse run into misunderstandings in the future. No one wants to think that their marriage will run into problems. Unfortunately, this happens all too often as roughly 50% of marriages end up in divorce. Only when a marriage ends do people realize what a financial nightmare a divorce can be, especially if they didn't plan for the possibility ahead of time.
Depending on your situation, it may be worth putting together a pre-nuptial agreement before your marriage. This simple document would help prevent any serious conflicts in case you do end up divorcing.
What Is A Pre-Nuptial Agreement?
A pre-nuptial agreement is a legal document that outlines how your property and debt will be divided during a divorce. It outlines who will receive what bank accounts, what property, what real estate, and will need to pay what debts. You can also use your pre-nuptial agreement to clarify your financial responsibilities during a marriage. For example, you could agree that you will be in charge of paying all your household bills during the marriage because your spouse earns less money.
If you don't discuss these matters before you get married and you do end up getting divorced, that's when things get messy. During the divorce process, you either go to court or hire an arbitrator to go over your financial situation and decide how to divide everything.
There's a good chance you and your spouse will disagree, especially since you may not be on great terms because of the divorce. In this case, couples can end paying a fortune in legal fees as they try to fight for their fair share of the married property. This whole process would be a lot easier and less expensive if there was a pre-nuptial agreement in place, because the court would just follow that.
Creating A Pre-Nuptial Agreement
For a prenuptial agreement to be legally binding, you and your future spouse must both sign it before you get married in front of a public notary. In addition, you both must have fully disclosed your financial situations before signing the document. If you or your spouse hid assets, the courts could void the agreement during your divorce because it wasn't negotiated in good faith.
There are websites online that can guide you through putting together a pre-nuptial agreement. You enter in your financial information and the website will generate your pre-nuptial agreement that you can print off and sign. You can also hire an attorney to help you put the paperwork together. If you design your pre-nuptial agreement yourself, it would still be worth hiring an attorney to review it to make sure the document is legally binding.
What Cannot Be Included In A Pre-Nuptial Agreement
While a prenuptial agreement can cover a wide range of financial matters, there are a few items that aren't allowed:
Child Support And Custody
Your pre-nuptial agreement can't limit the custody rights of either parent for your children after a divorce. In addition, your pre-nuptial agreement cannot discuss child support either. Since these choices affect another person, your young children, you and your spouse can't make these decisions by yourself. The court would need to review these decisions during your divorce to make sure they are appropriate for the children.
This depends on your state of residence. Some states allow you to waive alimony rights in a pre-nuptial agreement while others do not. Don't assume that a pre-nuptial agreement will prevent you from paying alimony without checking your state laws.
Non-Financial Matters
A pre-nuptial agreement is a financial agreement. You aren't supposed to include conditions over personal responsibilities in the document. For example, you can't say who is required to do household chores or set a limit to the number of children you want to have in the pre-nuptial agreement. If you do, the courts could void the entire document.
Who Should Consider A Pre-Nuptial Agreement?
A pre-nuptial agreement isn't for everyone. If your finances are pretty straightforward, it's your first marriage, and you don't have any children going into the marriage, you most likely don't need a pre-nuptial. It wouldn't hurt but it's not a necessity. However, there are some situations where a pre-nuptial agreement really helps:
You Have Children From Before The Marriage
If you have children, chances are you want your money to go to them when you die. If you get divorced, your ex-spouse will take a large part of your savings leaving less of an inheritance for your children. This is a common problem for second marriages where the people marrying already have children. A pre-nuptial agreement would protect their inheritance.
You've Inherited Property Before The Marriage
If your parents or anyone else left you property as an inheritance, they wanted that property to go to you and not your spouse. If you get divorced, your spouse may be entitled to a share of your inherited property. This is a problem especially if you inherited real estate because then you might be forced to sell the property as part of the divorce settlement. A pre-nuptial agreement would keep your inheritance in your family.
You Own Part Of A Business
The people who own part of a business have a say in how the business operates. Right now this is you and your current partners. If you get married and then divorce, your spouse could be entitled to part of the business. This would force you to buy them out, leaving your business in a worse financial situation.
You Or Your Spouse Has A Large Amount Of Debt
If you or your spouse has a large amount of debt, you can protect yourself from creditors with a pre-nuptial agreement. Creditors can try to seize shared marital assets. If you're struggling to pay off debt, the creditors could try to take your spouse's money after your marriage even if your spouse had nothing to do with the debt. A pre-nuptial agreement keeps your property and debt separate so you don't get in trouble with creditors.
You Don't Want Your Spouse To Inherit Your Property
When you die, your spouse has a claim to a large share of your property, even if your will says otherwise. They could go to court and demand a significant share of your property even if you wanted it to go to your children, a charity, or anyone else. By setting up a pre-nuptial agreement ahead of time, you can confirm your inheritance plans and it will be more difficult for your spouse to challenge them in court.
Hopefully, your marriage lasts and you never have to use your pre-nuptial agreement. However, this little bit of planning can avoid major headaches down the road.
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In this paper, we use a unique panel of annual data on Russian firms from 1985 to 2000 to provide information on the patterns and determinants of survival and growth of Russian industrial firms during the last phase of communism (1985-1991) and during the early (1992-95) and more mature (1996-2000) phases of the transition. Our analysis is important because it shows how the characteristics and changes in ownership of firms affect their chances for survival and growth.
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The scientific results from the Discovery expedition had begun to appear, attracting criticism from the president of the Physical Society of London among others. Having confused true and magnetic compass bearings, the expedition's wind observations were mostly worthless. "The meteorological observations," the Times Literary Supplement said, "instead of being made by people familiar with such work ... were entrusted to officers who had no previous training, and were not even properly instructed.... How much longer shall we have to wait in England for those entrusted with national affairs to appreciate a little more seriously the requirements of scientific investigation? Probably until the constant leakage and loss which we suffer in ignorance are made plainer by one or more exceptional disasters." [1]
Scott, furious, demanded a public inquiry to put an end to the criticisms -- having emphasized the scientific aims of the new expedition as well as the geographic, he could ill-afford doubts on his scientific accuracy -- but by early December was persuaded that with a public inquiry he would be doing himself more harm than good.
[1] The Times Literary Supplement, 13 August, 1908, quoted by Roland Huntford in Scott and Amundsen (New York : Putnam, 1980, c1979), p.242.
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Dr. Reece recently traveled to Houston to visit with the Houston Asian American Dental Society as the guest speaker at their monthly meeting. Attendees enjoyed a 7 course dinner while hearing Dr. Reece's lecture and demonstration on "Neuromuscular Dentistry: Myths vs Fact" that introduced the participants to the principles of Neuromuscular Dentistry, and how pairing it with cosmetic and restorative dentistry is changing the way patients are being treated today.
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We believe DNS would make a good distribution point of application keys and certificates for large scale systems. The main reason is that DNS is a unique and ubiquitous provider of bindings between commonly used names (i.e., email addresses and hostnames) to pieces of data. We have also seen that DNS is generally more efficient than LDAP.
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This project was the first package of a three package school project. The Salem-Keizer School District had plans to build a new elementary school and a new middle school on a 40 acre site. To make the phasing work, the District let out a package for the majority of the site work and a new road to get access to both building sites. Our contract started the end of May 2010. We needed to have access to the middle school site by then beginning of August 2010. In order for this to happen, we moved 145,000 CY of dirt. This was to build sub-grade for both schools and to get the new city street built to sub-grade. After sub-grade was built, we were responsible to place all the aggregate to winterize the site and provide solid winter access. This included 10,000 TON of rock for the new city street, 10,200 TON for the building pads and 10,300 TON for the parking lots/staging areas. Another portion of our project included all of the public storm sewer and detention piping and getting storm, sanitary and water connections to the contractor building the schools. The piping included was 2,700 LF of 36"-72" ADS detention piping, 10,100 LF of 6"-24" ADS and Ductile Iron storm piping, 3,000 LF of 6" perforated field drainage, 13 storm manholes, 20 curb filter units, 25 catch basins, 1,540 LF of 6"-8" PVC sanitary piping and cleanouts, 1,940 LF of 4"-6" C-900 domestic water services, 3,870 LF of 4"-6" C-900 fire services and five miscellaneous water vaults. Our contract also included 5,700 LF of curb, 30,000 SF of sidewalk, 2,800 TON of asphalt, 20 new street lights, five flashing school beacons, striping and signage for the new city street. Our contract also included the majority of all the site landscaping which included all the irrigation, seeding of all the slopes, two soccer fields and a baseball field, and all the miscellaneous trees and plants.
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An association of Hawaii Kona coffee farmers are banding together to challenge the Safeway Corporation, after one farmer discovered a pound of Safeway brand Kona coffee selling for $8.99 in a California supermarket.
According to a recent Maui News report, farmer Paul Uster came across the bag of coffee while vacationing and noticed that it didn't specify how what percentage of the Kona blend was actually grown in Hawaii, which is a legal requirement for coffee grown in the Aloha State.
"It degrades the reputation and the quality of Kona coffee. When consumers are not informed it makes it harder for me to make a living," Uster, a member of the board of directors of the Kona Farmers Association told the paper. "Kona and other Hawaiian coffees are a great treasure to the state."
With the backing of Hawaii's department of agriculture, Uster and others formed an association to question Safeway about the blend, and a company spokesperson recently said its response letter was lost in the internal Safeway mail system. Hawaii began regulating the identification of Kona coffee in the 1990s, when several companies were marketing Latin American coffee as "pure Kona."
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HAving a regional name associated with a great product leads automatically to abuse. Ask how many times the Kentucky state had to fight "Kentucky Bourbon" coming from somewhere but KY. Or "Idaho Potatoes" from anywhere but..you guessed it, Idaho. Geographic regional fame is free money in the eyes of businesses, but in Kona's case there are nearly 200 years of heritage, sweat, promotion and advertising dollars invested.


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Wonderful TED talk! Take a look...
Thomas P. Campbell speaks beautifully about tapestry and about the larger view of the museum's role in putting together exhibits:
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Kathe Todd-Hooker talk TONIGHT!
If you're in the Atlanta area you might like to go to the Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild meeting at which Kathe Todd-Hooker will be the featured speaker. She's in Atlanta to teach a workshop for CHG over the weekend but tonight's talk is open to the public. It will be at 7 p.m., North Dekalb Arts Center in Dunwoody, Georgia. Hope to see you there!
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Here's a YouTube giving an overview of the joint exhibit by member of Tapestry Weavers South and Tapestry Artists of Puget Sound. Thanks to Mary Lane (TAPS) and Linda Weghorst (TWS) for organizing the exhibit!
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Handling your cigar on the golf course
For those of you who smoke cigars while you golf, here's a question: How do you handle your cigars while you're preparing to hit?
I mostly keep mine in the cart, balanced carefully to avoid messiness, especially when I'm on the fairway. It doesn't take me that long to hit, and if I bring it with me I can't make a powerful stroke without ruining the cigar. Before long, my teeth have nearly bitten through it, and it's unfit for further smoking. Some may argue that this is because my golf swing is too tense and I need to relax as part of my ballstriking routine, which is a fair point, but that is unlikely to change in the near future given the lack of success previous attempts to improve my golf game have had.
The exceptions are on the tee and on the green, since I never know how long it will be until it is my turn to hit, and in the case of the green I don't know how long it will take me to finish (sometimes it feels like hours). In those cases, I have a divot repair tool that doubles as a de facto cigar holder, to keep it nearby without getting it in contact with the pesticides, bird droppings, and whatever else has been scattered on the grass.
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With business trying to work out where they should be spending their marketing budgets, everyone is ready to suggest a channel for them to invest their money.
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With business trying to work out where they should be spending their marketing budgets, everyone is ready to suggest a channel for them to invest their money.
Some debate whether SEO or PPC is the better option, others suggest putting it into affiliates based on a fixed CPA. What people are not necessarily discussing is what not to do.
Different digital marketing channels have their pros and cons, but as things stand, if companies are going to start tightening their belts, consider the following: what shouldn't you do in a time like this?
Across the board PPC:
If I was going to cut my PPC budget, I'd start by identifying which products are generating the highest conversion rates based on the highest margin and focus on those. I'd protect my brand by ensuring brand related terms feature high in the listings.
I'd strip out everything that is generating high traffic and low conversions. I'd test my ads and keep refining my campaign. In short, I'd invest more heavily in the parts of the business that are driving sales and adjust according to the figures in my analytics.
Online display:
This is a great channel for raising brand awareness and ever expanding options of formats allow you to use this space creatively, but as straight conversion goes, there are more efficient ways to spend your money.
Especially since a potentially large proportion of your budget could go to just generating the creative. (and the more sophisticated the more expensive it could get).
Online display does not generally generate a particularly high click through rate (2-3% is considered by most media owners as successful, again depending on creative, but in other digital channels working in isolation, this would be considered a failure), so where this sort of activity might serve to support other channels, it's not a pure click to conversion tool.
Mass Market email:
Although this channel can be a low cost option, click through rates can be low and more and more people are regarding email as spam and sending them straight to the junk mail folder.
Incentive based email campaigns with strong creative can work, but keep it targeted to your user group by getting a fix on what people are genuinely interested in and not only by what you're trying to shift at the time.
Mass mobile marketing:
This channel could easily go the way of email if we don't recognise it for the highly personal device that it is. In order to use this channel effectively, we need to ensure we're approaching it from the user's point of view.
Given the still relatively low number of handsets that are capable of handling graphics heavy adverts compared to the overall number of handsets in the UK and the very limited number of individuals who are willing to accept adverts in this extremely personal device, companies need to tread carefully.
Advertisers would first have to establish trust by being transparent with users about what they are going to receive as well as the frequency of advertising and offer an incentive for people to receive and respond to them.
Unless companies are prepared to spend the time and money to maximise returns through permission based targeting and incentives for their customers, they may find that they're spending a lot of resource in something that is going to end up deleted.
This channel has a real chance of success if real targeting to individuals through permission, questionnaires, and relevant incentives is the order of the day.
Social Media advertising:
Invitation only! This arena is where advertisers want to play, but most companies have been unsuccessful. Why? Because social media is about community, a group of people who have similar interests, look out for each other and talk about what is relevant to them.
Simply creating a social media application without advertising the user benefit and engaging with the audience on their turf is not going to work. In fact, it can hurt your brand if you throw a lot of intrusive, irrelevant applications and fan site requests at people without their permission and without finding out what the group of people you're targeting really want.
Social networks are very personal areas where people let their friends know what's going on. Charging in uninvited will just annoy people and they'll switch off, leaving you with an application that took you time, money and resource to create with little to show for it.
Social media can work and it can be a great place to engage with users, but this takes time, commitment, and it is hard to track the real correlation between usage and conversion so if you can't allocate the level of resource this area deserves, it's best to stay clear until you can.
So, I ask again, where do I put budgets?
Hold fast to your analytics
Tracking and gathering as much information as possible and really studying the results should form the basis of any marketing spend. Identify which metrics are truly meaningful to your business and apply those figures to the different channels and shift accordingly.
If data analysis is not your strong suit, get an analytics consultancy to review your analytics, ensure everything is being tracked correctly and advise you on how to pull relevant data to get you started. From there take the learnings to create highly targeted campaigns that offer long as well as short term solutions.
Create campaigns that will allow you to optimise your site around your best performing products and services.
This will give you a firm foothold in the search engines in natural results which is still the first port of call for most online users.
Invest in usability testing
Test and change various elements to make the user experience as easy as possible removing any barriers to conversion. In other words, make sure you maximise the value of what you've got.
Put your customers are the heart of everything you do
Keep content fresh, offer them incentives, ask their opinion on product developments, get them involved in discussion and take their comments seriously by engaging with them.
At the end of the day, by keeping customers happy and making them brand advocates, they'll promote the brand for you through word of mouth and will be less likely to drop you when they tighten their belts.
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Randy Houser Spotlights the Plight of the Working Stiff in 'How Country Feels' Video
In Randy Houser's video for 'How Country Feels,' a super hot, raven-haired, just-outta-college girl outfitted with nerdy glasses (which she ditches early on) is trapped in her cubicle, unable to leave her job behind and go out to the country and have fun with her pals since she has to work all weekend. What? That's cruel and unusual punishment, right? Despite her working stiff plight, her fortune changes (sort of) when a friend sends her Houser's feel-good anthem over the computer.
She cranks the song and is instantly transported to the lush, grassy and inviting countryside, where nothing else matters but soaking up the sun's copious rays. We follow her letting her hair down, wearing short shorts and a bikini top, holding hands with a cute boy, playing in the rain, kicking off her shoes and enjoying all that nature and summer have to offer.
It's a footloose and fancy-free narrative about taking back the weekend and leaving the Monday through Friday, 9 to 5 gig exactly where it belongs. Houser factors into the footage in performance clips, and he's having a good time, too.
So is the working girl's escape a real life event or just a fantasy? Watch and find out! It all depends on your perspective and a pair of cowboy boots, though.
Houser's video is certainly furthering the notion that all work and no play, and the lack of a work-life balance, is not the right way to live. Put down the Blackberry, shut down the iChat and go outside and breathe in some fresh air. You deserve it.
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I even got a morning of yard sales in - with Scott! Below are a few of my finds... real post tomorrow - I promise!
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|The girls' Gadji (Scott's Dad) got them a huge bin of plastic dinosaurs.
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By Fiona Hurrell, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Posh new club Miroir is set to become the latest nightlife destination in Rio. Situated in the breathtaking surroundings of the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas and in direct view of the statue of Christ, this recent edition to Rio's club scene has exploded onto the radar, attracting an elite and glamorous crowd.
The club, which is co-owned by popular Brazilian actor Luciano Szafir, is sumptuous in both design and setting, boasting the latest technical equipment that according to their press information, creates an 'intimate, vibrant atmosphere rich in detail and decoration.'
Having opened on January 10th, Miroir has, according to club promoter Gisele Canavezzi, by no means reached the peak of its popularity. She admits that, "After two months it is still a little secret, and many locals do not know about [it]. This gives it an air of exclusivity, a place where only the coolest local people are attending."
Amongst its many charms, Miroir benefits from regular appearances of some of Rio's hottest up-and-coming DJs. Its regular weekend line-up features Fabio Tepper, Beto Giavonnetti, not to mention a wealth of celebrity fans such as singer Juliana Barbosa, along with model Carol Germano and actor Carlos Vieira to name a few.
Miroir also boasts a rich selection of dance music which never fails to impress the crowd, and ensures the club remains hip and different. This week, club-goers can start the weekend early with a trip to Miroir to see headlining dance DJs Kevin Barnett and Fabio Tepper taking to the decks on Thursday, March 22nd.
Alternatively, on Friday 23rd, Miroir will once again pull out all the stops with performances from equally chic DJs Kadinho + Zé Pretinho.
Miroir, whose full name 'Miroir Magnifique,' means magnificent mirror in French, endeavors to create an enchanting atmosphere which sets it apart from other clubs in Rio. The low, soft lighting and plush fittings and fixtures give an air of opulence that regular visitor Vinicius Marques believes is what's responsible for drawing in the crowds.
Having been especially impressed with Lagoa's new club, he says " Miroir plays fantastic dance music and is full of beautiful people."
Although Marques admits that the club is small, and some may consider it rather pricey, on the whole, he recommends a visit if only for the location and the music. "It has a beautiful setting and is decorated well so that it feels bigger than it is. People should certainly give it a try."
With so many good reports so far, it is not hard to see why promoter Canavezzi anticipates a surge in popularity for Miroir, which, in her opinion, embodies the best of everything. She explains "the location, music, architecture, comfort and service are the best that any club has to offer. [Miroir] will definitely impress."
Miroir is located on Avenida Epitácio Pessoa, 1484, Lagoa Rio de Janeiro. Doors open at 10PM, entry fees are subject to event. For further details on upcoming DJ's and events, visit the website www.miroir.com.br or try to call (21) 2513-3898.


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VIDEO: Derek Fisher got ejected for arguing a call earlier this season. The Knicks fired him today.
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Technically, the New York Knicks "relieved" Derek Fisher of his duties as coach today, which is a fancy way of saying they fired Phil Jackson's hand-picked choice to lead the franchise.
Kurt Rambis has been elevated to the top job in Fisher's place, leaving yet another franchise with an interim (or replacement) in place of the coach they started with this season. It's the latest in a somewhat shocking run of coaching decisions around the league.
And it just goes to show that no matter if you're winning or losing, when it's open season on coaches in the NBA, anybody could be on the firing line — just ask George Karl, who is reportedly on the hot seat in Sacramento.
Kevin McHale was the first to go this season, lasting just 11 games in Houston before being shoved out and replaced by J.B. Bickerstaff. Lionel Hollins got the boot in Brooklyn after a dreadful start and was replaced by Tony Brown. David Blatt, fresh off of a trip to The Finals and his team sitting at 30-11 and first place in the Eastern Conference, was next. Tyronn Lue was tabbed as his successor and is 6-3 since making that 18-inch move over to the big chair. And just last week Jeff Hornacek was tossed out in Phoenix and replaced by Earl Watson.
And now comes the news that Fisher, a Phil Jackson disciple but a coaching novice, is out after a season and a half and just 136 games (with a woeful 40-96 record).
With the Knicks mired in a 1-9 slide, including five straight losses, and seemingly no relief in sight, Jackson apparently decided that enough was enough. We'll find out what the final straw was late today when Jackson addresses the media after practice.
But it's clear that in New York and everywhere else, if ownership and the front office believe that there is a disconnect (real or simply perceived) between the talent on the roster and the coach responsible for getting the most out of that talent, the coach is expendable.
The five coaching changes prior to All-Star Weekend is the most since the eight coaching changes prior to the break during the 2008-09 season.
The term "crazy season" is usually reserved for the rumors and drama surrounding this month's trade deadline. It seems a more appropriate title for all of the coaching changes going on this season.
Blatt's contemporaries, notably Rick Carlisle in Dallas and Stan Van Gundy in Detroit, expressed their outrage when he was fired and Cavaliers GM David Griffin did his best to explain why a coach with a sterling record was out of his league, and ultimately out of a job, trying to coach a star-studded roster.
Carlisle and Van Gundy should know better than anyone how this works, since they were both fired from previous jobs in the league where they were wildly successful.
There is no real rhyme or reason to these things. Sometimes it's a gut feeling, sometimes it's the things we can't see from the outside and sometimes it's just clash of personalities or philosophies that lead to a coaching divorce.
Fisher had no coaching experience prior to being selected to coach the Knicks. And he wasn't even Jackson's first choice, that would have been Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who in hindsight obviously made the right choice.
The most important choice for Jackson going forward is getting it right this time. He'll have his pick of out-of-work coaches, like Tom Thibodeau, or he can wait on an up and coming assistant like Luke Walton. Whatever his choice, it has to be someone that can get the most out of the Carmelo Anthony–Kristaps Porzingis combination and perhaps more importantly, someone with the toughness and resolve to survive the "crazy season" expectations that all of these franchises are caught up in.


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JayCee Gives Shannon Gift In Prank Box; Results Are Hilarious
For Christmas this year, as I was shopping, I found a faux gift box that was going to be perfect for Shannon.
It was at the check-out counter at a major retailer in Lafayette, and as soon as I set my eyes on it, I knew that I had to have it for her.
Let's back up a little. I've been knowing Shannon for a dozen years or more, and if there is anything I've learned during our time together, it's that there are a few specific things that gross her out.
Shower curtains, toenails, and ear wax. There are a few others, but these 3 top the list. Not in that particular order, mind you: I think that they are equally repulsive to her. The most repulsive, though, is the one she is having to deal with at any particular moment.
Now, back to the story. The prank gift box I saw on the shelf in the store was this:
Yes, an at-home Ear Wax Candle Kit. On the side of the box, it clearly says:
"After all, whispers sound better with clean ears".
As you can see by the picture above, the images show very grotesque-looking candles, presumably made with ear wax (are those tiny hairs sticking out the side of the candle?).
The picture of the couple having dinner, toasting with their wine glasses, with the ear wax candle burning right next to them made Shannon gag even more.
I honestly think that she thought that the gift was real. I was trying not to laugh while I was recording the video (below). I think that every picture on the box made her gag more than the previous. Check out the extraction method!
That headpiece, though. Hahahaha!! And the woman holding the bowl of ear wax!
Since I made such a fuss over that gift combined with the fact that I wanted to record her opening the gift gave her the false impression that it was her "big" gift (sneaky, no?)!
Not to worry – she was pleased with the real gifts the box contained.
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Bearhawk Aircraft reports two firsts for its Bearhawk Patrol aircraft kits: The first flight of a completed Bearhawk Patrol in South Africa; and the first shipment of a Bearhawk Patrol kit to Brazil.
The first Bearhawk Patrol to fly in South Africa has now logged more than 27 hours. Owned by South African Bearhawk distributor Wayne Giles, the Patrol is turning heads in the region, he says.
Giles is reporting a cruise of 155 mph indicated at 75% power. The Patrol has a Superior IO-360 engine that develops 180-hp while swinging a three-bladed composite propeller from MT-Propeller.
The South African Patrol was completed in two years, following delivery of the kit.
Giles' son, a film major, produced a video of the aircraft's first flight.
Meanwhile across the Atlantic, the first Bearhawk Patrol Quick-Build kit was shipped to a customer in Brazil. A rancher from Santa Catarina province in southern Brazil, Fernando Frahm took a demo flight at AirVenture Oshkosh 2014, where he decided to purchase the Patrol.
Frahm said he knew it was the airplane he needed to land at the short strip on his ranch. It would also allow him greater travel flexibility at better cruise speeds than similar aircraft he had been considering.
The Brazilian customer requested that the majority of items to complete his Quick-Build kit be packed in the shipping container. This is a common occurrence with overseas deliveries, company officials note.
Sourcing parts is more easily done is the U.S., and Bearhawk Aircraft is able to simplify shipping, customs and other considerations on behalf of its customers. For example, in late 2014, the company held a shipment while waiting for PolyFiber fabric covering supplies and Grove wheels/brakes to arrive.
Bearhawk kits have been exported to many countries around the globe, including Canada, Ecuador, Brazil, Germany, Norway, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.


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Feb. 28, 2013
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State welcomes seven schools to McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion Saturday to participate in the North Regional Championships. The Buckeyes will compete against Michigan, Lindenwood, Minnesota, Carleton College, Colorado State, Miami University and Ball State in the event. The event will begin at 2 p.m.
Ohio State has dominated this regional championship, winning the title the past 22 years since its inception. The Buckeyes look to continue their reign and collect their 23rd-consecutive title in this year's event.
Paige Ramsey, Lauren Nicholson and Chelsea Aton will represent the Buckeyes in the trio event, while Ramsey and Yuliya Maryanko will compete in the duet. Maryanko is slated to perform her solo routine for the Buckeyes. The Scarlet Squad and Gray Squad will each perform during the team routine competition.
The Buckeyes and the Ohio State Department of Athletics would like to recognize members of the 2013 senior class – Kayley Colville, Colleen Courtmanche, Caitlin Hoffman, Katie LaBounty, Jenny Mann and Paige Ramsey. During the past four seasons, this group has helped Ohio State win three consecutive U.S. Collegiate National Championship titles and two U.S. Senior Championships.
Behind a sweep in all four events, Ohio State scored 90 points en route to beating four programs at the Boston University Invitational Feb. 23-24.
Aton, Nicholson and Ramsey earned an 85.750 for the top spot in the trio competition. Teammates Katie LaBounty, Katie Spada and Khadija Zanotto were second (84.250).
Once again, the Scarlet and Gray captured the Top 2 places, this time in the duet competition when Yuliya Maryanko and Ramsey scored 87.500 points. The pair of Spada and Zanotto was rewarded 85.167 points following their performance.
LaBounty competed in the solo competition and earned an 83.333 for first place.
In the team routine event, the Scarlet Squad of Aton, LaBounty, Maryanko, Lauren Nicholson, Ramsey, Spada, Zanotto and Colleen Courtmanche dominated the field, collecting 87.833 points.
At the competitive 2012 North Regional Championships, Ohio State won its 22nd championship March 3 in St. Louis, Mo. The Buckeyes edged Lindenwood 96-95 to claim the title. Minnesota finished third with 70 points.
At the event, Ohio State captured three gold medals, four silver medals and three bronze medals.
Yuliya Maryanko posted a score of 90.250 in her solo routine to secure the gold medal. Maryanko added a silver medal alongside former Buckeye Alex Beckett in the duet competition.
The trio of Beckett, Chelsea Aton and Maryanko brought in another gold medal in the routine competition for Ohio State after scoring an 86.000. Lauren Nicholson, Lauren Robinson and Khadija Zanotto placed third in the trio competition with a score of 85.500.
Maryanko (85.126) and Colleen Courtmanche (80.785) placed first and third, respectively, in the A Figures while Julia Gaylard (68.220) picked up the silver medal in the B Figures.
The Scarlet team, comprised of Courtmanche, Robinson, Nicholson, Katie Spada, Aton, Zanotto and Beckett, scored a 90.875 on their way to claiming the silver medal. The Gray Team (Samantha Golomb, Kristine Irwin, Katie LaBounty, Jenny Mann, Caitlin Hoffman, Lara Tutton, Gaylard and Heidi Lou) finished a little more than one point behind the Scarlet Team as their third-place finish picked up an 89.750.
The Buckeyes look to defend the program's 28th U.S. Collegiate title at the 2013 U.S. Collegiate Championships March 20-23 in Palo Alto, Calif. The Buckeyes posted 93 points and three first-place finishes in routine events to earn the victory over the University of Incarnate Word (88) last season and 18 other teams.
Ohio State has captured the title for four-consecutive years (2009-2012) and is striving to secure its fifth-consecutive championship this season.
Following the U.S. Collegiate Championships, Ohio State is slated to compete in the U.S. Senior National Championships April 10 in Greensboro, N.C.


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CJTF-HOA supports Water Workshop
Kenyan government officials along with the United States Geological Survey and Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) personnel came together for an eight-day water workshop conference to discuss ways to better understand ground water exploration through data analysis.
The workshop focused on rainfall and runoff and the use of geophysics instrumentation to assist in locating fresh drinkable water for the population. Conference participants viewed Kenya, with a population of more than 33 million, in mostly arid and semi-arid lands as a significant challenge. "Water is scarce and in high demand for human consumption,' said Army Captain Kelly Lynch, CJTF-HOA Water Resource Manager.
The water workshop facilitates the exploration of a vitally important natural resource and offers a forum for information sharing among members of neighboring countries who wish to increase the accessibility of water, improve the quality of life in the region, and prevent future conflicts.
"Beyond the good science however, controversy and social conflict often center around competition for scare resources," said Army Captain Steven McKnight, CJTF-HOA Civil Affairs Liaison Officer for Kenya. "Because of exhaustive dialogue and the balance of useful inputs, we are pursuing this workshop as sound resource development and conflict prevent."
The mission of CJTF-HOA is to conduct unified action with local military forces and government representatives in the Horn of Africa to prevent conflict, promote regional stability, and protect coalition interests in order to prevail against extremist activities.


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Who had the best year '09: Vauxhall, Langley
By Bob Elliott
Which team had the best year advancing players to the next level?
Going on volume and time spend in any and all organizations, in the year they were draft eligible for the first time, the leaders in 2009 are
The Vauxhall Academy Jets and the Langley Blaze with six players drafted each.
In 2008 the Intercounty Terriers and the Blaze shared top honours.
A partial list of the Langley alumni includes: Brett Lawrie (Langley), selected in the first round by the Milwaukee Brewers; Carter Morrison (New Westminster, BC) chosen by the Cincinnati Reds; Stosh Wawrzasek (Langley), Brewers; Jordan Lennerton (Langley) of the Detroit Tigers; Scott Mathieson (Aldergrove, BC) of the Philadelphia Phillies; Tyson Gillies (Langley) of the Seattle Mariners; Kyle Lotzkar (Tsawwassen, BC), Cincinnati; Adam Parliament (Penticton BC) who signed with the Atlanta Braves.
Langley of the BC Premier League may be the most productive team, but Vauxhall is the best high school program in Canada.
Vauxhall (pop. 1,100) 240 kilometers south of Calgary, is where pro scouts go often for the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau camp and to see the Jets in action.
Before the Academy opened in September of 2006, Vauxhall was known as "The Potato Capital of the West," with Sammy and Samantha Spud as town mascots. Now, its innovative program has baseball people from coast to coast almost as envious of Alberta as they are of the tar sands.
Vauxhall plays a 50-60 game schedule in the fall and spring. Plus there are another 50 with summer teams and the Jets play more than 100 games, much like the best programs in Ontario and British Columbia.
"Our kids are treated like celebrities and are asked to sign autographs," head coach Les McTavish. "They make player appearances speaking at the senior centre or the Lions Club. It's like a junior hockey franchise."
They draw 200-to-500 fans per game, with cow bells going and music pumping under the lights.
The idea was borrowed from the town of Warner, 100 kilometers away on Highway 36. Four years ago, with Warner facing a shrinking enrolment, began a women's hockey school.
Vauxhall did the same with baseball. The school had 226 students in 2005-06, down from 246 the year before. Rather than see the student body shift downward 10 each year, city fathers took action.
McTavish, a former national team pitching coach and a Seattle Mariners scout, won the job as head coach, besting 60 candidates. How many people can earn a living coaching baseball in Canada? Maybe 15, all with provincial and national bodies. Classes run from 8:45 a.m. until 1:20 p.m. Then the team is on the field or in the weight room for roughly three hours.
"Vauxhall is one of the driest places in Canada," said Bob Miller, who helped renovate the local ball park. The team can usually practise outdoors by Jan. 10.
The province has chipped in with a $2.5-million grant for a new indoor facility. The Jets Prairie Baseball Academy, the University of Calgary, high school teams in Las Vegas and Twins Falls, Idaho, as well as American Legion teams in Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Great Falls and Bozeman, Mont.
The town had been hurt by the closure of the grain elevator and the rail line. Now lights are on at more than just the ball diamond.
They come from near and they come from far to be a Jet, for once you are a Jet, you are a Jet for life.
"The draft was extremely successful, as good of a draft as we could ever expect," McTavish said. "it's as good a draft as any high school team anywhere in North America, so it's pretty exciting."
The top pick was RHP Steven Inch (Edmonton, Alta.) selected 197th overall in the sixth round by the World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies, given a $300,000 US bonus and makes our all-time top 200 list.
"There's only a handful of guys in the history of Alberta that have went higher than Steven, so it's a pretty big thing," said McTavish.
The only Alberta players selected ahead of Inch in the first round were:
1996 1A (34th over-all) Red Sox RHP Chris Reitsma, Calgary, Alta., Calgary Rockies
1993 3rd (98th) Blue Jays RHP Joe Young, Fort McMurray, Alta.
2007 3rd (102nd) Rockies C Lars Davis, Grande Prairie, Alta., University of Illinois
2005 6th (192nd) Giants RHP Brad Cuthbertson, Edmonton, Alta., Prairie Baseball Academy
2009 6th (197th) Phillies RHP Steven Inch Edmonton, Alta., Vauxhall Academy/Canadian National Junior Team
"I think we're moving in the right direction. Pro ball is the pinnacle in a sense, but our program is developed around trying to get kids ready mentally and physically and in the classroom, to play college ball. Pro ball is a by-product of that. It proves that we're going in the right direction and we're recruiting the proper athletes, both on the coaching standpoint but also in our support staff, our sports psychologist, strength coach and athletic therapist. Everybody's pushing in the right direction. Hopefully we can continue suit, and continue to improve on things."
Inch was the highest Jet selected in the MLB draft since the Academy's inception and had committed to play at the University of Kentucky of the SEC Conference.
"Steven is a big, tall, lanky right-hander who has a really clean, loose arm and a really nice delivery. He throws a lot of strikes, he has a good curve and an 89-91 mph fastball. He's one of the best pitchers in the country and has a bright, bright future. His projects very well because there's not a lot of things he can improve besides just getting stronger," said McTavish.
3B Adam Nelubowich (Stony Plain, Alta.) was selected 413th overall in the 14th round by the Seattle Mariners. Nelubowich committed to play at Washington State University of the PAC 10 Conference.
"Adam is a tremendous student, an extremely hard worker in the weight room," said McTavish. "In Grade 11 he played third base primarily, this year he played centre for us primarily and he was drafted as a third baseman. That a testament to his athleticism, and people think he has a lot of potential power down the road," said McTavish.
RHP Brandon Petite (Glace Bay, NS) was taken by the Houston Astros 911th overall in the 30th round. Petite has committed to play for Texas Tech University in the Big 12 Conference.
"Brandon battled nagging injuries throughout the year and would have been a higher pick probably if he could have stayed healthy," McTavish said. "Brandon has great arm and is a big strong kid, with one of the best sliders in the country. If he's able to get healthy and stay healthy, he's got a real bright future, because his slider's a difference maker and definite out-pitch at the next level."
RHP Jordan Wong (Calgary, Alta.) was selected 1396th overall in the 45th round. Wong has committed to play at Hill College in Texas.
"Jordan's a tall, lanky righty with a lot of projection. He's got real wide shoulders, he's 6-foot-5 with room for strength and a real loose arm. If you're trying to predict the future, it could be as high as any of the guys. I think the sky's the limit as far as how far he's going to develop. It'll just be a matter of time."
The team-by team list:
The Langley Blaze, coached by Doug Mathieson had six: SS Wes Darvill (Langley, BC), Cubs (5th); LHP Jon Hesketh (Langley, BC) University of New Mexico, Mariners (20th); RHP Mike Monster (Kelowna, BC), Reds (25th); RHP Colin Kleven (Langley, BC), Phillies (33rd); Rory Young (Chase, BC) Astros (39th); C Brooklyn Foster (Langley, BC) Diamondbacks (43)
The Vauxhall Academy, run by coach McTavish had six: RHP Steven Inch (Edmonton, Alta.), Phillies (4th); 3B Adam Nelubowich (Stony Plain, Alta.), Mariners (14th); LHP Jay Johnson (Sussex Corner, N.B.) Orioles (25th); RHP Brandon Petite (Glace Bay, N.S.), Astros (30th); C Dale Anderson (Strathmore, Alta.) College of Southern Idaho, Rangers (45th); RHP Jordon Wong (Calgary, Alta.) Vauxhall Academy, Brewers (46th).
The Academie Baseball Canada run by Joel Landry with four: OF Jonathan Gilbert (Quebec City, Que.) Jays (40th); OF Marc Bourgeois (Granby, Que.) Chipolla Jr. College, Twins (42nd); RHP Francois Lafreniere (St. Bruno, Que.) Academie Baseball Canada, Phillies (43rd); RHP Jonathan Paquet (Ancienne Lorette, Que.) Angels (46th);
The Intercounty Terriers, coached by Danny Thompson with four: OF Josh Garton (Guelph, Ont.), Volunteer State, Reds (12th), INF Jeff Hunt (Cambridge, Ont.), Dodgers (15th); LHP Mitch Clarke (Kitchener, Ont.) Reds (19); OF Chandler McLaren (Guelph, Ont.) Brewers (29).
Douglas College Royals under coach Gerig Merritt and Josh Ridgway two: SS Bobby Wagner (Port Coquitlam, BC) Panola College, Cubs (38th); RHP Brandon Kaye (Langley, B.C.), Jays (45)
The North Delta Blue Jays under coach Ari Mellios, two: LHP James Paxton (Ladner, BC), Kentucky (1st); SS David Narodowski (Vancouver, Ont.) University of Kansas, Diamondbacks (15th),
The Ontario Blue Jays, coached by Danny Bleiwas two: C Peter Bako (Mississauga, Ont.) of Connors State (15th) and C Mike Reeves (Peterborough, Ont.) (42nd).
Team Ontario, coached by Murray Marshall had two: OF Andrew Ruck (Pickering, Ont.) Padres (48) and RHP Jeffrey Gibbs (Toronto, Ont.) Jays (48).
The Toronto Mets, run by Jason Chee-Aloy had two: LHP Jake Eliopoulos (Newmarket, Ont.) Brantford Red Sox, Jays (2nd) and INF Maxx Tissenbaum (Toronto, Ont.) Jays (43rd).
The Parksville Royals coached by Dave Wallace had a pair: RHP Paul Barton (Qualicum Beach, BC) Reds (39th); RHP Brandon Kaye (Langley, BC), Douglas College, Jays (45th)
The White Rock Tritons under coach Josh Ridgway had two: OF Chad Stang (Surrey, B.C.), Midland College, Brewers (8th); RHP Burke Seifrit (Spruce Grove, Alta.) Jays (50th).
The Windsor Selects, coached by Richard Soloman and Al Bernacchi had two: C Larry Balkwill (Chatham, Ont.) Tigers (41st) and 2B Kevin Mailloux (Tecumseh, Ont.) Canisius College, Mariners, (45th)
Brantford Red Sox, managed by Adam Clarke, one: LHP Jake Eliopoulos (Newmarket, Ont.) Brantford Red Sox.
The Coquitlam Reds, coached by legendary Bill Green had one: RHP David Kington (Coquitlam, BC), Southern Illinois Cardinals (34th)
Eastern Wayne HS in Goldsboro, NC one: SS John Gourley (London, Ont.) Pirates (13th).
Guilford Tech Community College one: SS Jonathan Fernandez (Toronto/Boca Raton, Fla.) Jays (34th).
The Fraser Valley Chiefs, coached by Dennis Springenatic had one: SS Terrence Dayleg (Surrey, B.C.) Western Kentucky University, Marlins (22)
The Ontario Prospects, coached by Rob and Rich Butler one: RHP Jerome Werniuk (Toronto, Ont.) Rangers (20th).
The Niagara Rebels, coached by Tex Montgomery one: OF Royce Consigli (Welland, Ont.) A's (30th).
Prairie Baseball Academy, under coach Blair Kubicek: LHP Jay Johnson (Sussex Corner, N.B.) Orioles (25th)
The Thompson Rivers WolfPack under coach Ray Chadwick: SS Kyle Dhanani (White Rock, BC) Brewers (43)
Yet, of course the runaway winner is Greg Hamilton's Canadian National Junior Team with 20: LHP James Paxton (Ladner, BC), Kentucky (1st); LHP Jake Eliopoulos (Newmarket, Ont.) Brantford Red Sox, Jays (2nd); RHP Steven Inch (Edmonton, Alta.) Vauxhall Academy, Phillies (4th); SS Wes Darvill (Lamgley, BC), Langley Blaze, Cubs (5th), 3B Adam Nelubowich (Stony Plain, Alta.) Vauxhall Academy, Mariners (14th); INF Jeff Hunt (Cambridge, Ont.) Intercounty Terriers, Dodgers (15th); RHP Jerome Werniuk (Toronto, Ont.) Ontario Prospects, Rangers (20th); SS Terrence Dayleg (Surrey, B.C.) Western Kentucky University, Marlins (22nd); RHP Mike Monster (Kelowna, B.C.) Langley Blaze, Reds (25th); RHP Brandon Petite (Glace Bay, N.S.) Vauxhall Academy, Astros (30th); RHP Paul Barton (Qualicum Beach, B.C.), Parksville Royals, Reds (39th); Rory Young (Chase, BC) Langley Blaze, Astros (39th); OF Jonathan Gilbert (Quebec City, Que.) Academie Baseball Canada, Jays (40th); C Larry Balkwill (Chatham, Ont.) Windsor Selects, Tigers (41st); C Brooklyn Foster (Langley, BC) Langley Blaze, Diamondbacks (43rd); INF Maxx Tissenbaum (Toronto, Ont.) Toronto Mets, Jays (43rd); RHP Francois Lafreniere (St. Bruno, Que.) Academie Baseball Canada, Phillies (43rd); RHP Jonathan Paquet (Ancienne Lorette, Que.) Angels (46th); OF Andrew Ruck (Pickering, Ont.) Team Ontario, Padres (48th) and RHP Jeffrey Gibbs (Toronto, Ont.) Team Ontario, Jays (48th).


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Add Some Harvest Decor to Your Staging
By Melissa Dittmann Tracey, REALTOR® Magazine
Fall is in the air…
Just because your home owners have their home listed for-sale, doesn't mean they have to strip their home of all fall seasonal décor. In fact, adding a little seasonal décor may help the home feel more welcoming, even complete with the warm vanilla and apple smells of the season too.
Pops of orange, butterscotch, gold, copper, and reds may be just the added richness your listing's décor needs to spice it up, and it'll be perfectly in season too.
Here are some tasteful fall décor ideas, with inspiring photos from Houzz.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner! Set the dining room table and show it off as the perfect place for a holiday feast.
Create an autumn-inspired welcoming doorstep, such as with wreaths, planters, or harvest-hued throw pillows for the furnishings.
Add some of those fall-inspired accessories and colors to the interior. But less can be more — don't go overboard!
Carve out some special touches for even the least expected places, like the mailbox.
Make the home warm and cozy, while bringing in the richness of autumn-inspired hues.
Great point! Not to mention it appeals to families, which is a big part of selling real estate.
Plants in the dining table are too big you can't see the person in front (and/or across) you, and plants on the door step is a little bit overkill. 🙂 just saying!


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For those of you who have been on my workshops and seminars, you'll already know one of my top tips for improving your writing is to read it out aloud, and then get someone else to read it back to you.
By using this technique I guarantee you will find all the gremlins that make your copy read weird. But what do you do when there is no one else around?
David Kittos, who was on my last workshop, has come up with the answer, and although I don't profess to understand any of it, he assures me it works.
Thanks for the contribution David. Computers that talk - whatever next.
Keep writing...
Computer, please check my article
OK, this is a slight exaggeration, but while completing the article about
Puerto Galera, I managed to get my PC to read it aloud for me.
"Delegating" this task allowed my mind to focus on finding and correcting
flaws such as paragraph flow, grammar mistakes and repeated use of the same
word. I went through each paragraph about 10 times, fixing mistakes and
replaying it, until it sounded good.
I am using standard software which most people have - Windows XP and MS
Office 2003. I don't know how you can do this on a Mac - sorry!
So if you are getting a friend to read your articles aloud for you consider
this: your PC will not complain that it's bored or that it needs a break
for a cuppa and/or some nicotine. It just keeps doing as it's told!!
Now for the techie bit. This shouldn't take more than 20 minutes from
start to finish.
- Windows XP SP2 with multimedia stuff installed (i.e sound card and
In the Control Panel, find the Speech icon and double click on it. There
should be a "Text to Speech" tab with at least one item (voice) in the
"Voice Selection" menu. It may be called "Microsoft Sam" but there may be
additional voices you can choose. With a voice selected, click the
"Preview voice" button and you should hear a synthetic voice that sounds
like Stephen Hawkins. If this step didn't work, don't proceed with the
rest of the process.
- MS Office 2003 (SP2) full installation
How to do this.
1. This is the technical bit, and I am not claiming credit for this.
Follow the instructions in the URL below to the letter.
If you can't find the bit about "Microsoft Speech Object Library" described
in the instructions, you may not have a full Office 2003 installation and
the rest of the steps will not work.
The only easy option here is to do a full MS Office 2003 installation.
Also if you are not familiar with the VBA editor, use the help facility
(it's very good).
2. After you have finished with the instructions in the website, you should
have a MS Word template with a new toolbar with two buttons: "Speak Text"
and "Stop Speaking".
Turn your speakers ON and make sure that the sound volume in NOT muted.
If you have attached the macros and toolbar to the Normal template
(normal.dot), then create a new document and type some text in it (or just
paste the contents of another document).
Select a paragraph using the mouse and click the "Speak Text" button - it
should start reading out your text.
The voice isn't really natural but you get used to it!!
Click the "Stop Speaking" button if you've had enough.
3. There are more natural sounding voices that can be added (from third
parties) but they are not free. Check the URL:
http://www.bytecool.com/voices.htm for more information.
Note that we are interested in SAPI5 voices (not SAPI4) . Also I haven't
tried any of these 3rd party products myself (yet).
Best of luck.


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While it is true that home staging can help you sell your home faster and for more money, it cannot increase your home's market value. Some people are going to become confused by this statement, but it is important to understand what home staging can and cannot do for you when selling a home. Ultimately, home staging is not a magic bullet that can make your house worth more than it really is.
The goal of home staging is ultimately psychological and emotional. When a home buyer walks through your home, staging will help the buyer see themselves already living there. It is that emotional buy-in that helps you sell your house. Home staging manifests a positive environment and creates a good impression. The increased buyer appeal then will help motivate faster and more favorable offers.
That said, your home's market value is often not impacted by cosmetic improvements. In fact, when a home appraiser submits their market value report, it is supported solely by data and statistics. Moreover, since the end of the Great Recession, appraisals have become so stringent as to have gotten some media attention. Essentially, what many owners believe their home is worth is often much different than their appraised value. Nevertheless, when it comes to market value, up to date maintenance has a greater impact than cosmetic improvements.
Ultimately, the benefit of home staging is avoiding slow and low offers. According to the International Association of Home Staging Professionals, 95 percent of staged homes sell in 11 days, on average, and for 17 percent more. Non-staged homes will sit on the market for 90 days on average. Consequently, the longer a home sits on the market, the more likely there is a reduced price or concessions made. So, while home staging cannot improve a home's actual market value, it does help ensure you receive a fair and favorable price.
Do you have questions? What haven't we covered yet that is important to you? If you would like to talk about what home staging can and cannot do for you, or a related topic, please contact us.
Diane Holm
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The Guru
Contributing Writer
The first place Boston Red Sox journey to Yankee Stadium tonight to begin a four-game series with the surging Yankees. While the Bronx Bombers are just 2 1/2 games out in the wild card race, there is the matter of some unfinished business between the two teams.
In the last series at Fenway Park, Ryan Dempster delivered a bean ball into the ribs of Alex Rodriquez resulting in empty benches, a lot of strong words and a 5-game suspension for the Sox pitcher. The Yankees did not retaliate. Is tonight the night?
Here is the lineup for the Red Sox tonight (first pitch – 7:10 pm EDT):
1.Ellsbury CF
2.Victorino RF
3.Pedroia 2B
4.Ortiz DH
5.Nava LF
6.Napoli 1B
7.Drew SS
8.Lavarnway C
9.Middlebrooks 3B
Pitching: RHP Jake Peavy (11-5, 3.91). Peavy is 3-1, 3.18 in six starts since joining the Sox.
AL Pitcher of the Month Ivan Nova (8-4, 2.88) will get the start for the Yankees. Nova was 4-0, 2.08 in August. Nova is facing the Sox for the first time since 2012. He is 2-2, 4.85 in six career appearances against the Sox.
Magic Number: The Sox have won five of six and nine of 11 games and are 5.5 games up in the division with 21 games to play.
Middlebrooks redemption: Will Middlebrooks has hit .343 since being called back up from Pawtucket. His grand slam against the Tigers last night broke the game open.
Fear the Beard: In his last nine games, Mike Napoli is 11 of 31 with three doubles, three homers and eight RBI.
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