What: 2009 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
Where: Iqaluit, NU
When: Nov. 8 - 15, 2008

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I have been posting each month a “THANK-YOU” post, like this one, to all the advertisers from the previous month listed as at month end. That’s a permanent link in this blog, under the category heading which I call .. “Sponsor Appreciation”. I know it’s hard out there trying to figure out where to spend your advertising dollars .. and well .. THANKS for considering the Curling Blog.

I have compiled a new advertising page for the HART-Empire Network of sites for your perusal.

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have been posting around the week of the 10th of each month a “THANK-YOU” post, like this one, to all the advertisers from the previous month listed as at month end. That’s a permanent link in this blog, under the category heading which I call .. “Sponsor Appreciation”. I know it’s hard out there trying to figure out where to spend your advertising dollars .. and well .. THANKS for considering the Curling Blog.

I have compiled a new advertising page for the HART-Empire Network of sites for your perusal.

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NOTICE:

Effective June 4-8th week there will be no new postings around the HART-Empire Network. You might have already seen a slowdown around my network of blogs in May 2007 - it is all related. I am in the process of moving all my accounts to a new host provider this week (MidPhase) and there may be times during this switchover that this site may not be accessible. I assure you that this will be temporary, and I will take all the efforts to make this transition go as smooth as possible. I’m giving myself the entire week for this move and the switchover basically, because I’ve got a lot of blogs to be moved! I apologize for any inconveniences in advance, and hope you please bear with me during this time.

In the meantime, I have decided to just combine my monthly “Sponsorship Appreciation” posts with this message to keep you informed.

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Last Updated: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 | 12:40 PM ET
CBC News

Jamie Korab said he was surprised when he was kicked off the Olympic gold-medal curling team, one year after the rink won gold at the 2006 Olympic games in Torino, Italy.

Korab, former lead, says he had no idea it was coming until skip Brad Gushue told him the news during a team meeting April 4.

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I posted the following on the Business Blog section over in the Ryze Networking pages .. Please contact me if this peaks any interest at all ..

I’ve always believed that “it never hurts to ask” .. so here I am doing just that.

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I have been posting around the week of the 10th of each month a “THANK-YOU” post, like this one, to all the advertisers from the previous month listed as at month end. That’s a permanent link in this blog, under the category heading which I call .. “Sponsor Appreciation”. I know it’s hard out there trying to figure out where to spend your advertising dollars .. and well .. THANKS for considering Curling Blog.

You may advertise on this site in the form of Text Link Ads. I should note that the link in the previous sentence is an affiliate link, and if you do sign up for the first time through this link, I may earn a small commission. I should also note that if you are a new client, you can receive $100.00 worth of FREE Text Link Ads by entering “starting kit” into the promotion code at their checkout. That means you can basically spend maybe $125 worth of advertising your first month - and only pay $25! (You don’t have to spend it here - don’t worry!)

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Last week there was news in the CBC ..

Last Updated: Friday, October 27, 2006 | 10:59 AM ET CBC News

Activities that boost children’s “cardio-respiratory fitness” should be the focus of a federal tax credit, an expert panel urged Thursday as it outlined the types of activities and costs that should qualify.

The panel was appointed to advise Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives on their proposed tax credit for parents with children in organized sports, proposed in May 2006 to fight obesity and encourage fitness among young Canadians.

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The Curling Show is a favorite of mine for the interviews .. If that interests you, and you aren’t listening to their show - I would recommend adding their RSS Feed to your Bloglines or feed reader of choice!

Interviews So Far In October 2006 ….

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The first curling club in Canada was formed in Montréal in 1807 by 20 merchants and they used irons exclusively. The Montreal Curling Club has been operating continuously since then and will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2007. Its history is documented in The Montreal Curling Club, 1807-1907. This club took part in the very first inter-city game in Canada against the Québec Curling Club in Trois-Rivières, about halfway between the cities of Montréal and Québec, in 1835. Québec won and Montréal had to pay for the dinner (the opposite of the present-day custom). There was no whisky available and there were complaints about having to drink wine and champagne.

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I received an interesting Email yesterday, via our Contact Form

Brian Liscum wrote:
Hi
We are trying to get royal Montreal CC on a stamp for 2007 Would you please link us ? Thanks Brian

It seems that The Royal Montreal Curling Club will be 200 years old in 2007 and BRIAN LISCUM is scouring the internet trying to get electronic signatures on his petition to commission a STAMP for this historic accomplishment.

If you believe this is a worthy cause .. SIGN THE PETITION

From the Petition Website:

July 18, 2006

Founded in 1807, The Royal Montreal Curling Club is the oldest sporting club in North America.

We the undersigned would like to have The Stamp Advisory Comittee honor the R.M.C.C. on the occasion of its 200th birthday.

SIGN THE PETITION

SEND THIS PETITION TO A FRIEND

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THE CURLING SHOW has an interview with Anette Norberg ..

Annette Norberg Interview.
April 12th, 2006

It’s another interview with a representative of the women’s game (yes, we’ll be mixing it up with our next edition) as we talked to Annette Norberg of Sweden. It’s the first trans-Atlantic interview in the show’s history – we take our milestones wherever we can find them at The Curling Show. Annette talks about her team’s remarkable season, the state of the game in Sweden and their plans for 2006-2007.

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WebPosted Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:23:47 EDT
CBC Sports

For the second year in a row, Canada and Scotland will play for world men’s curling supremacy.

FROM APRIL 7, 2006: Canada’s Menard makes curling final

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MEMO: The Battle of North America (See Schedule) will be at 7:00pm ET Thursday April 6, 2006 on CurlTV if subscribed

Canada to take on Olympic medallists at world men’s curling championship

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Stoughton’s long-time third taking at least a year off

By JIM BENDER – Winnipeg Sun

In just the past two weeks, one of Manitoba’s all-time greats has lost half his team.

Jeff Stoughton’s long-time third, Jon Mead, has decided to take at least next year off to spend more time with his wife, Eileen and three-year-old daughter, Sophia, and commit more time to his job.

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Bronze medallist grilled by Riley reporters

By Bruce Campbell
Times Editor
Wednesday March 29, 2006

While Bruce Campbell wrote the following article, the responses from Olympic bronze medallist Shannon Kleibrink were the result of hard-hitting questions from Karen Andrews’ Grade 6 class at Senator Riley middle school. Andrews has curled with Kleibrink at the Nanton Meatspiel and the Highwood Mixed Bonspiel.

Shannon Kleibrink had a hot news tips for Senator Riley school journalists — sure winning a bronze medal in curling at the XXth Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy is great, but gee, sometimes you have no idea who your neighbours are.

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By Rick Patzke // USA Curling // March 26, 2006
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(GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alberta) - Debbie McCormick’s Team USA was on the losing end of Anette Norberg’s perfect season falling 10-9 to Sweden in the gold-medal game Sunday afternoon at the 2006 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship at the Canada Games Arena in Grande Prairie, Alberta.
“It was a good game,” said McCormick, the 2003 world champion. “We really wanted to win but it was a terrific week. We had a great run at it. I’m proud of my girls. Unfortunately, this one doesn’t have the same shininess as the other one. ”

McCormick (Rio, Wis.) and teammates Allison Pottinger (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Nicole Joraanstad (Madison, Wis.), Natalie Nicholson (Bemidji, Minn.) and Caitlin Maroldo (Rochester, N.Y.) started the game a lot more aggressive than they hoped but it momentarily paid off as Sweden was held to just one point in an end that looked like it had disaster written all over it for the Americans.

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Team Canada skip Kelly Scott after losing to the USA in Grande Prairie, Alta. on Saturday. (CP/Andrew Vaughan)

March 25, 2006 - 17:42
By: BILL GRAVELAND

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Curling’s Olympic exposure paying huge dividends

By CON GRIWKOWSKY, EDMONTON SUN

GRANDE PRAIRIE — Curling’s Olympic exposure is starting to pay huge dividends.

The World Curling Federation expects a $12-million share of marketing and television ratings from Turin, much of which will be invested into world-wide television production.

That share is up from $4 million in Nagano and $8.3 million in Salt Lake City.

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Monday, March 20, 2006 | Source: Larry Wood

GRANDE PRAIRIE, March 20…Defending champion Anette Norberg and her methodical Swedes paired down the ranks of the undefeated at the Ford World Women’s Curling Championship to themselves on Monday.
And Canada’s Kelly Scott managed to finagle another split out of another hair-raising day on the Canada Games Arena freeze. Sweden defeated Debbie McCormick of the U.S. 8-5 in the morning, then knocked over Denmark’s Madeleine Dupont 8-6 in the afternoon. Dupont was pummelled 9-2 by McCormick in the evening.

The Canucks, meanwhile, wound up facing another pair of hunting parties gunning for the red maple leaf target. “It was our dream to beat Canada,” said 21-year-old Bingyu Wang of Harbin after out-hitting Scott’s Canadian champions 5-4 on the early shift. Scott came back in the afternoon to steal a 7-6 win from Kelly Wood of Scotland when she was off-line on a seven-foot runback with Canada’s winner sitting hidden in the four-foot.

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Canadian Press
3/16/2006 2:13:40 PM

REGINA (CP) - Manitoba skip Jeff Stoughton says he’ll appeal his $1,000 fine for unsportsmanlike conduct at the Canadian men’s curling championship.

The Canadian Curling Association disciplined Stoughton after he kicked rocks and slamming his broom in a game against New Brunswick on Wednesday, but Stoughton also said he was told by the CCA he had been accumulating offences, some of which he was unaware.

“I thought they would at least let me know I was accumulating some fines,” Stoughton said Thursday. “We’ll write a letter and see what they do.”

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