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So What Is A Better Life...Mommy/Daddy/Buddy?
The RG Network's sites at the Guideto.info domain are the weak "sister of our publishing. Most of our traffic comes from search engines and for some reason it appears that our domain name or perhaps some other factors results in the various domains to not be indexed. Some people suggest that you need to have a .com name to truly have results with search. Others suggest that domain type has no impact at all and the content is the only factor.

A makeover of the domain and the sites is in order, to address all possible causes, and we've already begun. The Guideto.info domain will become "Your Guide To A Better Life" with various prescriptions and directions by itself and to our other resource sites we specialize in. All other sites will be reviewed, with some purging and some new ones. It's my little 30 day challenge as publisher/editor. Make this domain a fully functioning part of the network, not some weak "brother".

But now I'm stuck. What is a Better Life? So I'm off for a couple of days to see Grand Forks North Dakota at its busiest with Obama and Hilary Clinton in the city on the 4th, and the World Curling Championships and associated partying beginning on the 4th, with games starting on the 5th. And it's for business, I'll tell my accountant we do have a Political News site and a Curling Product News site. By the end of the little junket, I'll hopefully have some thoughts on the "A Better Life"...money, travel, job, homes, love, family, hobbies, beauty, education, life in balance.....

The domain does have some solid results already with our Climate Change site particularly. The Test Prep, Excellence in Public Relations, Daily Brief and Clean Water sites also do fairly well.

Have a great day
B

Smile Today...It Makes The Day Go Better imho!
.. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance
...Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!
...They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.
... He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless DEAD.
... A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory.
... Ham and eggs? A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.
...The trouble with life is there's no background music.
...The original point and click interface was a Smith & Wesson.
...I smile because I don't know what the heck is going on.
(Note: stolen without consciense from some spam email in my inbox today...no source...I stil sleep nights)
More Smiles..

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Sent in my entry for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Canadian Football League, fan Fantasy Camp, today at Winnipeg Stadium to 92CitiFm locally, a great classic rock station I get my sports and morning fix in every day. Told them I was a fan for life, since late 50's and early 60's team glory years under Bud Grant. I was just a kid and my father took me to after Grey Cup celebrations. About the same time I caught on with Hank Aaron and the then Milwaukee Braves and have been their fan and Aaron my sports hero every since.

Also said I wanted to see if this team was for real and if we had had a real change of talent and attitude, especially since Winnipeg is hosting the 2006 Grey Cup this year. How will I tell? But it sounded good in the entry. So my mid 50's body but in not too bad shape, is off in a few minutes to live a dream fantasy-practice with pro footballers who I will be watching all year.

Pictures and stories to come. Movie deal later! Watch for BlueBombersBlog coming soon

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Some good university baseball prospects here.  A professional interest of mine for the past 13 years.
The Winnipeg Free Press - Sports

Mosienko rewarded for monster season Wed Oct 26 2005



BRANDON -- Drake Mosienko of the Elmwood Giants was named Manitoba's junior player of the year on the weekend at the Manitoba Baseball Association's awards night. Mosienko went 7-0 with an 0.61 ERA and 53 strikeouts while hitting .333 and leading the Manitoba Junior Baseball League in doubles, home runs and RBI. He also led the Giants to the league championship and won the Jack Hind Trophy for pitcher of the year and the Eddie Cass Memorial Trophy as most valuable player. The MBA handed out awards in 14 categories overall and inducted three people into the association's honour society. The association also held its election of officers. Ken Sharpe of Minnedosa is president, taking over from past-president David Holt of Winnipeg. Altona's Ken Wiebe is treasurer.

Other winners included:



* Pee Wee player of the year: Paul Kraemer, Winnipeg South AAA. Opened season with no-hitter, named first team all-star pitcher at national championship. * Bantam player of the year: Chris Perron, Winnipeg South AAA. Catcher led team to silver medal at both provincial and Western Canadian championship. * Midget player of the year: Miles Johnson, Interlake AAA. Led squad to second place finish at provincials, was one of Manitoba's two catchers at Canada Summer Games. * Senior B player of the year: Bud Penner, Mitchell Mariners. Premier defensive player in Winnipeg Senior League, easily won batting title too and was named first-team all-star shortstop and MVP. * Senior A player of the year: Darrick Jones, Killarney Lakers. All-star catcher and Manitoba Senior League MVP. Led league in home runs, RBI, walks and finished third in batting with .357 average.
* Grassroots coach of the year: Rick Baldwin, Gross Isle. Team won silver medal at provincial championship. * High Performance coach of the year: Bryan Ezako, Winnipeg South Pee Wee AAA. Team finished first in regular season and won provincial title.
* Volunteer of the Year: John Matas, Winnipeg South/River Heights.
* Youth Umpire of the Year: Sid Rashid, Morden.



* Umpire Award of Merit: Bruce Potter, Pilot Mound. * Grassroots Team of the Year: Plum Coulee Pee Wee AA. Won South Central championship, went unbeaten at provincials to claim town's second provincial title. * High Performance Team of the Year: Elmwood Giants Junior AAA. Finished first in regular season, swept through playoffs to claim 10th title in franchise history. Finished 2-4 at nationals.
* Region of the Year: Brandon Minor Baseball.
* Honour Society inductees: Gilles Normandeau, Carillon; Jack Hrehirchuk, Dauphin; Brian Savage, Stonewall.

This is a post I made about two weeks that I posted to one of my website. I've decided I'd like to share the message more widely.

Last week, I gave blood, took part in the Terry Fox Run raising money for cancer research, and also the Rock for Relief fundraiser by the Canadian Red Cross/92 Citi Fm and Two Small Guys with Big Hearts Trucking raising money for Hurricane Katrina relief. A couple of quarters for a panhandler, a few more bucks here and there for other causes that approached, and lot of thinking about making a difference. Who is this masked man, others asked? The World's Rearranger (thank you Robert Plant)

A funeral for a fine young man, Dustin Hickie, 16, a close friend of my daughter, touched me deeply. Why is the answer to cancer's ravages still so elusive? There is so much more I can do in my life on earth to help others, even a bit, and I knew my effort had been weak at best so far.

So I gave myself a kick in the pants with the help of Dustin and my friend Del and my father and others who have gone before. But it still begs the questions, why does it often take someone leaving this world to get us to act? Why are we so insulated? How can we, as individuals, act against the pain and suffering, hunger and illness without turning ourselves inside out again and again with feelings of hopelessness and helplessness? How can we stop the tears for a while and see the lights of hope again?

The opportunities to to make a difference will appear, if we keep our eyes and ears open and we find out what touches us personally. What brings tears to our eyes and sobs to our chest? Or just get involved. What is the first thing we think of in the morning...the last thing at night. Your passion for these things will keep you coming back.

It took the death of a young man I didn't know well, but I liked, far too early in life, to give me better focus. Other events had hurt but did not have that effect. In this way he lives on with me and my daughter. You will find inspiration in your life to make a difference if you look.

I can do more! I hope you can to.

Pebble Beach is this week. I love that tournament. Bill Murray is usually the star of the show on Saturday. Then comes the golf test on Sunday. The golf season is well underway. Winter is coming to an end soon. More and more folks are starting to think about how they are going to get their golf game in shape this season. There are many resources available to you. The key I've always felt is to practise regularly and to adopt a system for your play and practise. I may have mentioned this previously but I just received a note from Jack Moorehouse, who has a best selling golf ebook, "How to Break 80...And Shoot Like the Pros." He says the price will go up soon, but in the meantime you can get a special bonus that seems right on target for most of us and appropriate to what I said early about a practice system: "25 Lessons To Improve Your Game Immediately' plus more. The book also has got a 90 day guarantee he says. (We are a marketing partner of Jack's just so it's clear). Click here to see the How to Break 80 book offer . As I said before, my advice is to find a system or method and/or teacher that you will trust fully to get your game to the next level. What books, teachers or teaching methods have you found useful in the past? Let us know in the comments.

This book was excerpted in the January 10th issue of Fortune. Here's the link. Got my attention. I expect it to be hot with the Boomer Generation. Good advice for all of us, however.

Here's the link to the book at Amazon through my site
Younger Next Year

Can you answer these questions about athletic scholarships and recruiting? You may know someone in or outside our family who is hoping to play university sports and receive a quality education. Pass this link on to them.

I represent the College Prospects organization (http://www.cpoa.com), have for over 13 years, and they have forwarded some questions that they find most student-athletes and parents can't really answer properly.
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What is your recruiting IQ?

Are you on the recruiting lists of college coaches? Even if you are, where do you rate? Are you the #1 choice? #10? #25?

What is an EFC; what does it mean to your family and how do coaches use that information to determine how much financial aid the student-athlete may receive?

Division III schools can't give athletic scholarships. How, then, are athletes attending these schools and playing sports at greatly reduced costs?

Do you understand the seven steps of the Recruiting Funnel and the role of the student-athlete?

What are the two main reasons why talented student-athletes are not recruited?
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Understand: If you're not receiving multiple phone calls from college coaches March or May (depending on your sport) of your Junior year, you run the risk of not being recruited.

The journey to being seriously recruited by college coaches starts here. For nearly 20 years, College Prospects of America has helped thousands of talented student-athletes from all over the world receive scholarship and financial aid monies from coaches who, in many cases, had no idea these athletes existed. Thousands of superior athletes have been and will continue to be overlooked because parents and students do not act proactively to ensure that coaches know about them.

To get answers to the questions please visit the main College Prospects website , then go to their video presentations you can view on site, or contact me directly:

Bob Rempel, Reg. Director, MB & SK
email: cpoa@rempelgroup.com

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Just go to the Coupons RSS site and get the link for the particular feed(s) of your choice.

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Your Daily Brief Live
Here's a couple of items posted today to Your Daily Brief, our compilation site for clipped and original material. It's a trend scan, a newsletter and a blog interspersed with soft marketing messages.

You are of course welcome to bookmark it and subscribe to the rss feed. We also want to highlight the editorial services we provide for companies, groups and industries in developing their own Daily Brief for their readers or the public.

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Source: Search Engine Guide - Yahoo! has long featured a variety of shortcuts meant to make finding information easier, but many don't take the time to learn what those shortcuts are. Find out what you're missing....
Originally from Search Engine News, ReBlogged by Bob on Aug 30, 2004 at 09:33 PM

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Newsweek: "He partied hard, then dried out and fou...

Newsweek: "He partied hard, then dried out and found a fierce determination. How George Bush was saved - and never looked back." For the last several years, I've always felt that my own biggest flaw when it comes to leadership was my unwillingness to p
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Why am I turning into such a baseball nut in August? Anyway, if your interest in baseball borders on the trivial, you'll love the Baseball Almanac at http://www.baseball-almanac.com . Not...
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Here's a link to view the details about Hoosier, ESPN's top rated sports movie.

Hoosier dvd link or Hoosier here

Search for other sports movies listed

Here's a link to view the details about Hoosier, ESPN's top rated sports movie.

Hoosier dvd link or Hoosier here

Search for other sports movies listed

Best Sports Movies
Should have added this link as well to the previous blog item. I'm always looking for great movies to recommend with a sports theme. Here's a list of the best 25 sports movies from ESPN. Enjoy again!. Suggest others over at http://www.strictlysports.com/bestformovies/
in the comments areas.

Everybody who has seen some of our pages know that I love lists. I could live on the heading, "Top Ten", someone once said. Well here's a list from ESPN on the Top 25 Best Ever Commercials (sports related of course). Enjoy.

Passion of the Christ is out August 31st in DVD and Video. Please rate it in the Comments section at the bottom of the posts at our new Top 5 Recommended Movies blog. Is is a Top 5?

Amazon is taking preorders. Will it be flying off the shelf. I know I'll be an owner.
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What 5 movies would you recommend for a Friday night at home when nothing else has got your motor running?

We've got a site up for Movie Recommendations at our Best For Movies site at http://www.strictlysports.com/bestformovies/

And no, it's not just just about sports related themes, even though some of them are dear to my heart.

Just a few up now. Take a look now and leave your recommendations in the comments section. Enjoy!

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Cumulative Statistics

Greens Hit 53 of 71 74.65%
Fairways Hit 40 of 55 72.73%
Sand Saves 1 of 3 33.33%
Number of Putts 116 1.63 Strokes
Driving Distance 290.38 Yards
Longest Drive Hole 8 303 Yards

Ernie Els
Cumulative Statistics

Greens Hit 45 of 72 62.50%
Fairways Hit 31 of 56 55.36%
Sand Saves 3 of 9 33.33%
Number of Putts 114 1.58 Strokes
Driving Distance 297.88 Yards
Longest Drive Hole 8 338 Yards

Fred Couples
Cumulative Statistics

Greens Hit 43 of 72 59.72%
Fairways Hit 32 of 56 57.14%
Sand Saves 1 of 3 33.33%
Number of Putts 113 1.57 Strokes
Driving Distance 301.12 Yards
Longest Drive Hole 8 350 Yards

Tiger Woods
Cumulative Statistics

Greens Hit 49 of 72 68.06%
Fairways Hit 34 of 56 60.71%
Sand Saves 0 of 3 0.00%
Number of Putts 123 1.71 Strokes
Driving Distance 283.25 Yards
Longest Drive Hole 8 322 Yards


So what does they say? Hit greens in regulation. Hit fairways
Couples, with the lowest putting strokes, hit less greens in regulation.

Play around comparing your favorites here

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