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In the last post I shared some general ideas for scoring quick marketing wins in 2014. In the next series of posts I'd like to offer some specific things you can do to your marketing more effective so you can win more customers and increase your sales in the coming year.
Create a Compelling Lead Magnet
In order to get more customers, you need to attract more people to your business. Sounds simple, but how do you do that?
One of the more effective ways to attract people to your business and get them to enter your marketing hourglass is to provide the answers to the questions they are trying to answer. In order to do this effectively, you need a thorough understanding of your ideal customers buying process and the types of information they need to see and/or hear before they feel comfortable moving from one stage of their process to the next. While this is true for all businesses, it is particularly true for B2B companies.
As John Caples famously said, you need to enter the conversation going on in your prospect's mind. When was the last time you think "I hope I can find a newsletter to subscribe to today!" was a conversation going on in the mind of your ideal prospect?
Unfortunately, "subscribe to our newsletter" is the strongest call to action on many small business websites. Offering a subscription to your newsletter probably isn't going to be enough to entice someone to give you their contact information these days. Most buyers who haven't come to Know, Like, and Trust you yet aren't interested in your newsletter – they want answers to their questions and solutions to their problems.
You can create a compelling lead magnet by providing the information that answers the questions in their mind. Luckily, you already have a good idea of what your prospects want to know because you talk to prospects and strangers about your business almost every day. Think about your recent conversations (or look through the Sent folder in your email) – what are the topics or questions you answer over and over again. Use these questions to jog your memory:
- What are some common mistakes you help people avoid?
- When people work with your competitors, what frustrations do they experience?
- What are your prospects trying to learn?
Packaging Your Offer
Once you decide upon the information you will share with your prospects, you need to decide how you will package that information. One common approach to delivering this information is in the form of a white paper or eBook. A word of caution, I've seen more than one business owner get so bogged down in creating the "perfect" eBook that they never get their lead magnet in place. If you find yourself continually pushing back the due date on your white paper or eBook, consider using a different medium to deliver your information. A simple email series or a series of short videos or audio recordings can be just as effective. Get something deployed quickly – you can always improve and repackage the information in the future.
Not just for online marketing
Although lead magnets are typically thought of as an internet play, a compelling lead magnet can be used for offline lead generation as well. This has been the essence of two step or direct response marketing for decades – provide something of value in exchange for the prospects contact information so you can continue to nurture the relationship until they are ready to buy.
Even if you don't buy traditional advertising for your lead magnet, pretending you will can be a helpful exercise to determine how compelling your offer is to your target audience. Assuming you were thinking about buying your first home, would you be more likely to respond to an ad for a real estate agent's newsletter or a free report about the "3 Mistakes First Time Homeowners Make and How to Avoid Them."?
Once you have a compelling lead magnet you can use it in all of your lead generation activities. Here are a few examples:
- Advertising – change your existing advertising to offer your valuable information
- Networking – "give before you get" by offering your information to those who indicate interest
- Referrals – encourage your referral partners to share your lead magnet with their networks
Your First Step to Measuring Success
Having a lead magnet and incorporating it into your lead generation activities provides another, important benefit – it makes your marketing measurable. Now that your lead generation activities ask prospects to take a specific action, you can measure how many of them actually do. Set things up correctly and you can even measure where your prospects come from so you can start to make better decisions about where to spend your marketing budget.
Start Today
Take a look at the lead magnets you have today from your prospects' point of view. Are they compelling? Could they be better if you tweaked them a little?
If you don't have any lead magnets yet, take out your calendar and set a deadline for creating one. Don't get bogged down by making it a bigger project than it needs to be – get something in place so you can start testing and improving upon it on a regular basis.
Need a second pair of eyes to take a look at what you have? Feel free to contact me.


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Z Dnem Nezalezhnosti! Happy Independence Day!
I'm glad we're not on Besarabka today, though. Too many people there, too noisy, too dirty afterwards. Here, it'll be wise to stay away from the beach for a week or so, before it gets cleaned up, but it's so peaceful in our little garden, and I'm nowhere near as freaked out as I was yesterday, on my first night here.
Everyone seemed to be making shashlyk here today - the air is still filled with smoke and that totally delicious smell.
A neighbor yelled to an acquaintance who was walking by his house: "Valya, take a bottle of vodka!" She said she didn't need it, but he insisted, and she protested again, and then it turned out he was asking her to buy him a bottle of vodka: somehow, he knew she was on her way to the main street, where the little shop is. The way he cursed at someone at one point, I don't think he was able to make that important journey himself.
Another sign of the holiday are the fireworks, of course: Marta slept through it all, which is very nice.
And we don't even have a TV here yet, so I've nothing else to report on this subject.
Still, z dnem nezalezhnosti, everyone!
Friday, August 24, 2007
Z Dnem Nezalezhnosti! Happy Independence Day!
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Sometimes the absence of a TV makes for good holiday-making.ReplyDelete
Z Dnem Nezalezhnosti!:)
- The New European11:46 PM, August 29, 2007
Kazakhstan sets foot on EU soil, after it bought the Romanian oil company Rompetrol plus its refinery on the Black Sea coast.ReplyDelete
- megahertz2:16 AM, August 31, 2007
croaking is the right word.ReplyDelete

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The following is a statement from District 911 Superintendent Dr. Ray Queener:
On Wednesday, May 7, at approximately 12:30 p.m., the Cambridge-Isanti School District received information from law enforcement that there was a known suspicious individual present in the city of Cambridge.
As a precautionary measure, all Cambridge Schools, District Office, and Area Learning Center went into a modified or soft lock down where all exterior doors are locked and all students remain in the building. All other activities went on as normal.
At 1:45 p.m. the district received the all clear from law enforcement and resumed normal activities.
We take student safety and security very seriously and wanted you to be aware of this incident and that we took the precautionary steps to ensure student safety. All schools will dismiss at their regularly scheduled times.
If you have any questions or concerns, contact the district office at 763-689-6188.
The following is a statement from Cambridge Police Chief Tim Dwyer:
On May 7, the Cambridge Police Department received information from the Pine County Sheriff's Department that they were investigating a domestic related threat incident that occurred within their county.
The suspect in the incident had made threatening comments that he intended to do harm to specific people that were known to him and was possibly in route to Wyoming, Minn. Additionally, the suspect was believed to be armed with multiple firearms. The Pine County Sheriff's Department was able to use the suspect's cellphone to determine that the suspect was in the area of Emerson Street North and First Avenue East (Highway 95) in the city of Cambridge in his vehicle.
Upon receiving this information, units from the Cambridge Police Department and the Isanti County Sheriff's Office immediately began to canvass the area relayed to us by the Pine County Sheriff's Department; this in an attempt to locate and apprehend the suspect.
Due to the nature of the call and relative proximity of the suspect to local schools, the Cambridge Police Department made the decision to contact officials at School District 911 to put them on alert. In a cooperative effort to ensure that all necessary steps would be taken to safe guard students and staff from any chances of danger, school buildings in the immediate area were put into soft lock down. It should be noted that there was no information indicating the suspect intended to go to any of the schools, so our actions were strictly to error on the side of safety.
As law enforcement continued to check the area for the suspect, we received information from the Pine County Sheriff's Department that the suspect was no longer in Cambridge and was instead being tracked back in Pine County. Lock down information was sent out via the school alert system after the all clear was given, which generated several calls to the Sheriff's Office.
Citizens should be reassured there is no public safety threat present in our community and the matter is being resolved in Pine County.
This case is being investigated by the Pine County Sheriff's Department and all calls relating to this can be directed to them at 320-629-8380. Any questions about the response of the Cambridge Police Department or the Isanti County Sheriff's Department to this call can be directed to Chief Timothy Dwyer or Sgt. Shawn Machin at the Cambridge Police Department at 763-689-9567.


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DESCRIPTOR TERM: Title I Complaint Procedures
ADOPTION DATE: October 16, 1992
REVISION: March 20, 2012
When a complaint cannot be resolved at the LEA level, the complaint must be submitted in writing to the Mississippi Department of Education, Office of Federal Programs. Persons issuing verbal complaints will be asked to complete a written complaint form prior to any official investigation, or assisted with the completion of the complaint form.
The complaint must include the name and address of the person submitting the complaint and a description of the complaint. The complaint must also include a statement which assures that to the best of the complainant's knowledge, the agency has violated a requirement of a federal statute or regulation that applies to an applicable program. In addition, the facts on which the statement is based and the specific requirement allegedly violated must be included.
Complaints should be sent to the Bureau Director, Office of Federal Programs. The mailing address is: Mississippi Department of Education, Office of Federal Programs, Suite 111 Central High School, Post Office Box 771, Jackson, Mississippi 39205-0771. The office may also be contacted via telephone at (601) 359-3499. http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/docs/policy-manual/7801.htm?sfvrsn=2
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sep 27, 2012) - Kimber Resources Inc. (KBR.TO)(NYSE MKT:KBX)(NYSE Amex:KBX) today provided an update on work currently underway on the Carmen gold-silver deposit at its Monterde Project, Mexico. Kimber Resources has commenced detailed mapping and sampling of the rehabilitated underground workings that cut through the Carmen deposit. This is the first time these underground workings have been subject to systematic channel sampling.
The underground work program initiated at the Carmen deposit is aimed at providing more than 1,000 metres of underground access to high-grade gold-silver mineralized structures, including the Carmen and Hilos structures (see figures 2 and 3 below). The underground work will include detailed mapping and sampling within the historic mine workings that were originally developed in the 1940''s. Historic mining at Carmen occurred between 1937 and 1944. Reported high-grade gold-silver mining produced 68,000 tonnes at 19.3 grams per tonne gold and 311 grams per tonne silver. Production was halted in 1944 due to lack of supplies during World War II.
"Kimber has, over the last four months, rehabilitated a significant portion of the 1940s mine workings within the Carmen deposit," reported Gordon Cummings, President and CEO of Kimber. "Detailed sampling of the underground adits should give us valuable additional information about the nature, controls, grade and continuity of gold-silver mineralization along the Carmen and Hilos structures at various elevation levels." he said. "We expect assay results to be released over the coming months. In addition, underground access in the core of the proposed open pit, outlined in the 2011 Preliminary Economic Assessment for the Monterde Project, will provide access to sample material for future metallurgical testing."
Access along the Carmen structure includes the successful rehabilitation of levels 1 and 3 at elevations 2,250 and 2,320 metres, respectively. Level 1 provides more than 600 metres of strike length access along the Carmen structure while Level 3 provides approximately 270 metres of access along strike. Rehabilitation on Level 0 is currently underway and is expected to provide at least 150 metres of strike length access at an elevation of 2,220 metres. In addition to the accessible workings along the vein structures, cross cut drifts totaling 77 metres on the Carmen Level 1 and 57 metres on the Carmen Level 3 will be sampled to provide grade confirmation in the wall rock adjacent to the vein structures.
Further, rehabilitation of the Los Hijos levels 1 and 2 is complete, which provides access to the Hilos structure at elevations of 2,228 metres and 2,280 metres, respectively. Access for both levels provides strike length access to the Hilos structure for 225 metres and 120 metres, respectively.
Sampling within the underground workings will include diamond saw channel sampling, taken in compliance with the Company''s core drilling QA/QC protocol, and will be analyzed for gold, silver and trace elements with ALS Chemex. The vein exposures in the workings will be sampled perpendicular to the strike of the structure, with the widths of the individual samples determined by the mineralization and alteration. The cross cut drifts will be sampled along the previous hand channel samples for comparison to earlier historic data, with sample widths again determined by mineralization, but typically on 1.5 metre intervals. Rehabilitation of accessible raises and stopes will also provide vertical coverage of the sample data from the ribs and backs of the workings. The data will be compared to the drill data in the area of the sampling for validation crosschecks and to analyze trends where stronger gold-silver mineralization occurs.
The analysis of trace element geochemistry is expected to provide additional supporting information on the trends of the high grade structures and is expected to aid in future exploration programs and technical studies.
Geological mapping of the workings will be completed to provide additional data on the nature of and controls on mineralization, structure and alteration along the levels.
To view Figures 1, 2 and 3 please click on the following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/KBR0927.pdf
Updated Mineral Resource Estimate
The Updated Mineral Resource Estimate for the Carmen deposit is nearing completion. Final steps to complete the initial estimate are currently taking place and final review procedures will follow shortly thereafter.
About Kimber
Kimber owns mineral concessions covering in excess of 39,000 hectares in the prospective Sierra Madre gold-silver belt, including the Monterde property, where three gold-silver mineral resources have already been defined. The most advanced of these, the Carmen deposit, has been extensively drilled and has undergone detailed geologic modeling. The completion of the Updated Preliminary Economic Assessment for Monterde in 2011 represented a significant step forward for Kimber and supports further evaluation and more advanced economic studies at the Monterde deposits.
Forward Looking Statements
Statements in this release may be viewed as forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the anticipated completion of the Offering, and the further development, expected results and future economic assessments of the Monterde project. When used in this press release, the words "expect", "intend", "hopes", "should", "believe", "may", "will", "if", "anticipates", "potential for", "potentially", "suggests" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, uncertainty of mineral reserve and resource estimates, risks relating to fluctuations in the price of gold, the inherently hazardous nature of mining-related activities, potential effects on Kimber''s operations of environmental regulations in the countries in which it operates, risks due to legal proceedings, risks relating to political and economic instability in certain countries in which it operates, risks related to the use of inferred mineral resources in the preliminary assessment, and uncertainty of being able to raise capital on favourable terms or at all, as well as those risk factors discussed under the headings "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors" in Kimber''s latest Annual Report on Form 20-F as filed on SEDAR and EDGAR. There are no assurances the Company can fulfill such forward-looking statements and the Company undertakes no obligation to update such statements, except as required by law. Such forward-looking statements are only predictions; actual events or results may differ materially as a result of risks facing the Company, some of which are beyond the Company''s control.
Quality Assurance/Quality Control
The technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with Canadian regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43-101 and reviewed and approved by Mr. David Hembree, Professional Registered Geologist, Vice President, Exploration of the Company. The exploration activities at the Monterde project site are carried out under the supervision of Mr. David Hembree, Professional Registered Geologist who is the designated Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 for the Monterde project and is responsible for quality control at Monterde and has verified the information being disclosed herein.
Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors - The United States Securities and Exchange Commission permits U.S. mining companies, in their filings with the SEC, to disclose only those mineral deposits that a company can economically and legally extract or produce. Kimber Resources uses certain terms on its website, such as "measured", "indicated", and "inferred", "mineral resources", which the SEC guidelines strictly prohibit U.S. companies from including in their filings with the SEC. U.S. Investors are urged to consider closely the disclosure under the heading "Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors Regarding Mineral Reserve and Resource Estimates" in our latest annual report on Form 20-F which may be secured from us, or from the SEC''s website at http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.


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A single-longitudinal-mode ErYb:glass laser with a linewidth of is demonstrated by locking the laser wavelength to with a bulk glass Bragg grating. Using a piezoelectric actuator, the wavelength could be tuned over a range of in steps of , with an output power of a few milliwatts.
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COMMUNITY work carried out by Swindon Town has been praised by the minister for sport.
It was standing room only as the House of Commons committee rooms hosted a conference to discuss football clubs and International Community Development.
Swindon Town was one of five clubs highlighted for the work it does in the community, and in particular the work they have done in Zambia.
Football in the Community Trust manager Jon Holloway addressed an audience of politicians last week, including sports minister Hugh Robertson, sports administrators, club representatives and non-governmental officials at a Westminster conference, highlighting the strength of the Robins' work in the African country over the past six years.
Similar programmes conducted by Charlton Athletic, Brighton and Notts County were also talked about, with the aim of the conference to gain the support of the audience for a project designed to encourage Premiership and Football League clubs to set up international links and partnerships.
The Minister for Sport praised the work of Swindon Town for the 'great export' of these development programmes.
"We are enormously grateful for the work you do in this area and the goodwill it creates,'" said Mr Robertson.
"Football is an extremely transferable sport and a common language."
Jon said the relationship his charity had developed in Livingstone, Zambia, over the last eight years had been brilliant.
Having originally made the connection through a tournament in Sweden, Jon had been touched by the sacrifices the Zambian team had to make to get to Scandinavia, and wanted to help in whatever way he could.
Swindon Town Football in the Community have since made three visits to Livingstone, initially doing some coaching and making kit donations, eventually helping to rebuild a school and run the area's first ever organised football tournament.
"Initially the priority was equipment," he said.
"We take it for granted in this country that a coach turns up for a coaching session with a bag of balls. In Livingstone, there would be one ball for the whole school.
"Now we are past that, it is about continued commitment. There are now 35 active qualified football coaches in Livingstone, with future plans to develop girls' football, disability football and host reciprocal visits for Zambians in Swindon."
For more information on Swindon Town Football in the Community visit the website at www.stfitc.co.uk.


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Hospital information
Students can experience practical placements in a variety of settings. Our strong links to NHS Trusts across Birmingham and Solihull allow us to offer placements across the region and ensure that student learning reflects current practice.
Here are some of the hospitals you could be placed in for the practical element of your course.
Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust
The Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust provides midwifery, obstetric, neonatal and gynaecological services to women and their families in South Birmingham.
Approximately 8,000 babies are born each year within the maternity unit, with a small but increasing number being born at home.
The Trust has developed a team-based, integrated model of midwifery care, and midwives are the designated lead professionals for the care of low-risk women.
Community midwifery teams, some of which are based in children's centres, work alongside Primary Care Groups to facilitate a multi-disciplinary approach to practice. A Consultant Midwife is also in post.
Services and Facilities
The Birmingham Women's Hospital is a regional referral centre for obstetric and neonatal services and offers speciality services that include:
- Fetal medicine
- Clinical genetics
- Assisted conception
- Oncology
It also acts as a clinical site for ultrasound training and offers Day Assessment Unit facilities.
The hospital has 142 adult beds and a delivery suite comprising 12 delivery rooms (with water birth facilities), two high dependency obstetric beds and three rooms which are available for women with special needs.
The hospital has dedicated obstetric and gynaecology operating theatres and a purpose-built Birth Centre. A new, purpose-built Neonatal Unit provides a greater capacity for babies requiring specialist and intensive care.
Birth centre
The philosophy of the Birth Centre is to promote normality. There are five rooms designed as bedrooms with en-suite facilities, a birthing pool room and a retreat room. Women wishing to use the Birth Centre have to fulfil set criteria. It has an increasing number of midwives trained in the use of aromatherapy for childbirth.
Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
The maternity unit at City Hospital is situated within an inner-city area and provides services to the multicultural residents of West Birmingham and the surrounding areas.
Approximately 3,200 babies are born each year to local women and their families. At present, midwives provide holistic midwifery care within hospital and community settings. A Consultant Midwife is in post who leads the promotion of normal birth.
The delivery suite offers 14 delivery rooms and the recently built Serenity Birth Centre facilitates low-risk births, including use of pools and complementary therapies. The rooms are designed to allow partners to stay and support the women before, during and after the birth. The neonatal unit is a sub-regional referral unit offering neonatal intensive care facilities for babies from in and around the area. The state of the art Hlcyon birth centre has also now been opened to cater for more women requesting a low intervention childbirth experience.
Visit Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
Heart of England Foundation Trust and Community
(Incorporating the Princess of Wales Unit in Bordesley Green, Solihull community area and Good Hope Hospital)
Students at the Heart of England Foundation Trust will gain hospital and community midwifery experience across three sites. A well-established midwifery speciality within the Trust is early fetal screening combined with appropriate counselling support. Midwives within the Trust are also working towards achieving baby-friendly status. The Trust has a strong commitment to Midwifery supervision supporting safe standards for midwifery practice. Approximately 12,000 births are catered for over the two main sites.
Princess of Wales Women's Unit (Heartlands)
This is the larger of the two units with 64 obstetric beds based over three wards, 11 delivery rooms and a dedicated theatre complex. Supporting services consist of an Antenatal Clinic, Ultrasound Department, Day Assessment Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Administration Department. In 2010, a new suite of birth rooms opened to cater for low-risk births. This busy, inner city maternity unit provides both low- and high-risk care for a diverse population spanning wide socio-economic, racial and cultural groups. There are approximately 4,400 births annually.
Solihull Hospital
This hospital is located in the centre of Solihull. It currently provides antenatal clinic and ultrasound facilities and community based care. A midwife led low-risk birth centre is also located on this site.
Good Hope (Sutton Coldfield)
The unit is located in a largely residential area of Sutton Coldfield, in North Birmingham, and provides care for significant numbers of women from towns in South East Staffordshire. A full range of maternity services is provided.
The unit aims to maintain the balance between midwife-led care and the involvement of obstetric specialists. The midwife is the lead professional providing midwife-led care for low-risk women, and women with high-risk pregnancies experience care shared between consultant obstetricians, who are the lead professional, hospital based midwife teams and GPs.
Specialist midwives are in post for antenatal screening, smoking cessation, breastfeeding, diabetes, a post-birth listening service and aromatherapy. There is a nurse-led Pregnancy Assessment Unit.
We also have a Family Services Counsellor within the unit, who provides a confidential counselling and bereavement support service for both antenatal and postnatal women. Approximately 3,000 babies are born each year on this site, the majority within the newly refurbished delivery suite, with a small but increasing number being born at home.
Visit the Heart of England Foundation Trust
The Alexandra Hospital, Redditch (Worcestershire Acute Hospital NHS Trust)
Please note that students are no longer allocated to this site


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A new study out of Spain used a huge archive known as the Million Song Dataset, which breaks down audio and lyrical content into data that can be crunched, to study pop songs from 1955 to 2010.
The team, led by Joan Serra, ran the music through complex algorithms and found that pops songs have become louder and more bland, in terms of the chords melodies, and types of sounds used, in the last 50 years.
"We found evidence of a progressive homogenization of the musical discourse," Serra told Reuters. "In particular, we obtained numerical indicators that the diversity of transitions between note combinations – roughly speaking chords plus melodies – has consistently diminished in the last 50 years."
The research has also shown that the timbre palette of pop music has become poorer. The same note played at the same volume on different instruments, like a piano versus a guitar, has a different timbre. Because of the instruments used in modern pop, researchers found it has a more limited variety of sounds.
The volume baked into a song when it is recorded, or the Intrinsic Loudness, has been ramped up over the years.
The study, which appears in the journal Scientific Reports, has given scientific evidence that shows what everyone over the age of 40 already knows. Modern pop music is too loud and all sounds the same.


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Chapter II
When you embark on a journey you usually have a reason for going, a destination and a specific plan for reason for going, a destination and a specific plan for reaching your destination. Similarly, when planning a safety and health program, you first decide and put in writing your reason for establishing such a program. This is your policy. Next you decide where you want to end up. This is your goal. Then you map out the path toward your goal, the roads you will take and the vehicles you will use. These are your objectives. In this way you decide the direction of your program.
This chapter will help you begin your journey by explaining how to write and communicate your safety and health policy, and how to set and evaluate your goal and objectives. You will find many examples and worksheets to help you on your way.
The hallmark of every successful safety and health program is top management's active and aggressive commitment. This commitment, in turn, influences the actions of the company's managers, supervisors and employees. It ultimately decides the effectiveness of the safety and health program in reducing or eliminating workplace injuries and illnesses.
The company states its commitment through a written and clearly communicated policy for workplace safety and health. This policy stresses the top priority of employee safety and health. The policy statement should be signed by the highest ranking company official on the site.
A truly successful company places workplace safety and health ahead of such priorities as production, sales and quality control. If your policy statement makes this clear, it will be easier for employees to choose the correct action when a conflict arises between safety and health and other priorities. Here are some examples of policy statements that convey this belief:
"People are our most important resource. Our company's principal responsibility is the safety and health of our employee."
"Every employee is entitled to a safe and healthful place in which to work."
"No job is so important is can't be done in a safe and healthful manner."
"If it is not safe and healthful, we will not do it."
To be effective, it is critical that your safety and health policy be communicated to all employees. You communicate your policy by word, action and example.
Communicate by Word. A new employee starts learning about the company's attitude toward safety and health from day one. By discussing job hazards and providing training in safe work procedures, both one-on-one and in group meetings, you tell the employee that safety and health have a high priority in your company. The supervisor's continuing emphasis on safety and health reinforces this positive company attitude.
In the smallest of companies, the safety and health policy may be easily explained and understood through spoken statements. However, for all companies, a carefully written policy statement is always recommended. A written statement:
- Clarifies policy,
- Creates consistency and continuity,
- Serves as a checkpoint whenever safety and health appear to conflict with production or other priorities, and
- Supports your supervisors in their enforcement of safety and health rules and safe work practices.
You will want to include the written statement in the information you give new employees. Be sure to post a signed policy statement on employee information bulletin boards. Another eye catching way you can communicate your safety and health policy is by your company letterhead.
For a more detailed look at safety and health policy statements and guidance in writing a complete statement, Appendix 2-1, "Policy Statement Worksheet."
Keep in mind that the written statement is not the policy. It is simply one way of communicating the policy. The real policy is your attitude toward your employees' safety and health. You demonstrate this attitude by your actions.
Communicate by Action. What you do -- or fail to do -- speaks louder than what you say. Demonstrate your concern for your employees' safety and health by committing resources to the prevention and control of unsafe or unhealthy work or working conditions, to safe work practices and personal protective equipment (PPE) where needed, and to safety and health training. Whenever you demonstrate a willingness to put safety and health before short-term production goals, your actions forcefully and clearly proclaim your policy.
Communicate by Example. Top management, middle managers and supervisors express the company's attitude toward workplace safety and health by their daily example. The rules and regulations that you post on bulletin boards and discuss at meetings are useless if management does not follow and enforce them. Set an example: Use PPE properly. Operate equipment safely. Hold supervisors accountable for their safety and health responsibilities. Run your business in a safe and healthful manner.
- Use PPE properly.
- Operate equipment safely.
- Hold supervisors accountable for their safety and health responsibilities.
- Run your business in a safe and healthful manner.
By setting a safety and health policy, you have decided the reason for your journey: to establish an effective safety and health program. Now you must choose your destination, the point toward which your program strives. It is time to identify and set your program goal.
The policy statements discussed above all boil down to the same concept of desiring to provide work and working conditions that are not harmful to your employees. This is in keeping with the stated purpose of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 9170 [29 U.S.C. 651 et seq.], "to assure so far as possible...safe and healthful working conditions" and to require that each employer "furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazard..." and the Act's requirement that each employer "...furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards...."
You may want to consider at least two basic types of goals: numerical and descriptive.
Numerical Goal. Numerical Goals have the advantage of being easy to measure. However, it is difficult to set a numerical goal that is both attainable and comprehensive enough to serve as destination for your journey.
- If you set a goal, for example, of zero hazards at any time, it may be so difficult to reach that you and your employees will become disillusioned long before you have a chance to reach your destination.
- You could set a goal of a certain number of injuries. In doing so, however, you ignore both illnesses and those existing hazards that have not yet resulted in an injury.
- A goal of a certain number of injuries and illnesses may not be feasible. Illnesses often are difficult to recognize until long after employees' exposure to hazards that could have been prevented or better controlled. And as with the example above, this goal does not address hazards that have not yet resulted in injury or illness.
Descriptive Goal.
No numerical goal can be sufficiently inclusive and still attainable. Therefore, OSHA recommends that you adopt a broad, descriptive safety and health goal: A comprehensive program that assesses all existing and known potential hazards of your worksite and prevents or controls these hazards. Such a goal is neither as succinct nor as easily measurable as a numerical goal. But it is attainable. Further, this goal will be helpful in setting objectives. And it should not be difficult to evaluate objectives and program results against this goal.
You may find another way of stating this concept. But OSHA urges you to stay with this basic idea.
You have established the reason behind your journey (policy) and your desired destination (goal). Now you are ready to decide on a travel route. The specific paths you will follow in your journey are your objectives. Setting objectives will make the difference between a haphazard trip and a carefully planned journey. Careful planning is much more likely to get you where you want to be.
Where Are You Now? Before figuring out how to get from point A to point B, it helps to have a clear idea of the location of point A. This may seem absurdly obvious; but most of us, at one time or another, have jumped into a new project or taken off in a new direction without first assessing our present situation. Now is the time to gather as much information as possible about the current conditions at your workplace and about practices that are already a part of your safety and health program.
Is Your Safety and Health Program Complete? At a minimum, your program should reflect these four basic elements:
- Management Leadership and Employee Involvement,
- Worksite Analysis,
- Hazard Prevention and Control, and
- Safety and Health Training.
These four elements are discussed in detail in Chapter I and in several other sources, including;
OSHA, Department of Labor, "Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines" (54 CFR 3908, January 26, 1989); and
OSHA Publication 2209 (Revised 1990), "The OSHA Handbook for Small Businesses."
In the remaining chapters we will focus on how to implement these elements.
Which of the elements are missing from your workplace? Which need improvement? Consider developing objectives that will help you fill the gaps.
Get Everyone Involved. Here is an opportunity to get employees involved. Ask employees and supervisors to help you identify both the successful and unsuccessful parts of your program. (For more detailed suggestions on getting employees involved, see Chapter 5.) Take a look at existing safety and health activities at your workplace. Which ones work well and which do not? Study your records (accidents, injury or illness data, workers' compensation rates) to see what they tell you.
Take a Good Look at Your Physical Surroundings. What obvious physical conditions currently exist that indicate OSHA violations or other hazards? In answering this question, you are beginning to identify your workplaces' problems and look ahead to the solution. If you come up with an excessive number of physical problems, get these fixed before your attempt to set objectives. Not only are you vulnerable to an OSHA inspection, you are also putting your employees at risk. Further, those safety and health problems that are obvious to you are undoubtedly obvious to your employees. Correct the problems and you demonstrate your interest in their safety and health.
What Must be Done to Get From Here to There.
Now that you know here you stand, what do you need to get done? This is another opportunity to get employees involved in the development of your program. Allow them to participate in setting program objectives. Involvement helps create an atmosphere of acceptance and commitment to the safety and health effort.
Objectives are statements of results or performance. They are short-term, positive steps along the way to your company's goal. Workplace objectives for safety and health are similar to those you set for other business functions such as sales or production. They identify WHAT? WHEN? and HOW MUCH? They do not include a justification for why they should be done; such justification properly belongs in your policy statement. Nor do they contain a description of how they should be accomplished; those details belong in your action plan.
Identify Your Objectives. Anything can become an objective -- from creating a safety and health committee to investigating accidents to developing an orientation program for new employees. You must decide which activities are most important to your program goal and which will help you create an effective overall safety and health program. The objectives you select should be consistent with your basic safety and health policy. And they should be part of the normal business of your company, rather then special projects added on to the normal workload.
Set Your Objectives. Objectives should be based on performance measures, that is, indicators that tell you whether you did or did not perform as expected. When setting objectives, keep the following points in mind:
- Objectives should relate to some part of your overall goal. Example: "Develop and carry out a program to train and license fork lift truck drivers." This objective relates to the part of your goal to ensure that all employees understand the hazards and potential hazards of their work and how to protect themselves and others.
- Objectives should aim at specific areas of performance that can be measured or verified. Example: "Improve safety and health performance next month," is too general an objective to be useful. Better to say, "Make weekly inspections and make certain all hazards found are corrected within 24 hours."
- Objectives should be realistic and attainable, but should still present a significant challenge. Example: "Reduce recordable injuries in the upcoming year by 100 percent." This objective may be unattainable because of the extent and complexity of the measures needed to prevent all injuries. An objective well beyond reach can soon create a defeatist attitude among all those working toward its achievement. On the other hand, "Reduce recordable injuries by 5 percent in the next year," can destroy employee interest by presenting too small a challenge. To set a realistic injury reduction goal, examine your pattern of injury rates for the last 3 years, and set a goal related to improving the best point in that pattern. For example, if you had injury rates of 5.8, 5.6, and 5.7 for the past 3 years, your goal for the next year could be, "Reduce recordable injury rate to 5.0." But always remember that the Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed "to prevent the first accident," and strive to eliminate all injuries and illnesses from your workplace.
- When setting objectives, solicit input from as wide a range of employees as practical. Your ideas already may strongly influence your supervisors. Nonetheless, you will find that safety and health objectives are most effective when you discuss them beforehand with your supervisors or employees. At the least, secure their agreement or cooperation. People who feel they have helped set an objective will be most motivated to achieve that objective.
- Objectives should be understood by all those directly involved. Use terms that have a clear meaning to all concerned supervisors and employees. Leave no doubt about what is to be accomplished. Example: "Determine the cause(s) of all accidents and incidents," may be too abstract to be understood (and therefore accomplished) by those with responsibility. Be clear and specific: "Investigate all accidents and incidents at once to determine all contributing causes, and take corrective action within 24 hours of completing the investigation."
- Objectives need to be achievable with available resources. An objective that requires a large outlay of money or an increase in staff during a budget crunch probably won't be achieved. Setting such an objective is a waste of time and effort. However, you need not discard this objective. Postpone it. For the present, create an intermediate objective of working to produce the needed resources. Remember, you travel toward your goal one step at a time. The objective you achieve this year may enable you to tackle a larger objective next year.
Write Your Objectives. Put each objective in writing. That gives it more importance. It also helps you track your position at any time and thereby determine how far along you are in accomplishing the assignment.
Spell out in concrete terms what is to be achieved, to what degree, and by when. Be very specific in your wording, and focus on performance. You may also want to include a statement indicating the maximum amount of time or money available to accomplish the objective. Use the guidelines in Appendix 2-2 to help you write well-formulated, workable objectives.
Here are some examples of safety and health program objectives:
- Conduct weekly inspections with emphasis on good housekeeping, proper use of protective equipment, condition of critical parts of equipment and preventive maintenance.
- Determine the cause(s) of any accident within 24 hours.
- Create a written system for documenting all accidents and near-misses and all subsequent investigations and corrective actions.
- Eliminate any hazard(s) identified during accident investigations and weekly planned inspections within 24 hours whenever possible.
- Complete one job safety analysis each month in each department, with follow-up revision of safe work procedures and employee training by the following month.
- Hold and evaluate emergency drills for tornadoes (where appropriate) every 6 months and a joint fire drill/evacuation with local emergency organizations every year.
Keep copies of the written objectives and use them in discussions with your supervisors and employees. Be sure your people understand their assigned responsibilities. Stress that they will beheld accountable for these responsibilities.
For further guidance, see Chapter 5 and Chapter 6.
Develop an action plan. Actually, at this stage you're already well along in the process of assessing your current situation, identifying safety and health program elements that are either lacking or in need of improvement, and formulating objectives that address your program's needs. The worksheets in Appendix 2-3 and Appendix 2-4 are intended to help you develop an overall design for actions aimed at accomplishing these objectives. Your action plan should address:
- What activities will be undertaken;
- Who has responsibility;
- When the action realistically should be accomplished;
- What resources are needed, for example, people, time, dollars, equipment; and
- How the action will be tracked and evaluated.
The development of your action plan presents another opportunity for employee involvement. Managers and other employees can play an important role in mapping out the details they will be expected to accomplish.
Is It Working?
Review your objectives periodically.
- Are you getting the desired performance from supervisors and employees?
- Are objectives being achieved?
- Are the results moving you toward your goal?
Any program or activity in which you invest time and resources on a continuing basis should prove its worth. If an objective has been achieved, but there continue to be too many injuries, too many close calls, too many unsafe acts, or no improvement in conditions, then different or additional objectives are needed.
Chapter 12 will help you evaluate the effectiveness of these objectives.
Your safety and health program deserves to be carefully thought out and directed. The first step is to write and communicate your safety and health policy. The first step is to write and communicate your safety and health policy. This states your reasons for the program and your commitment to the health and safety of your employees. You express this policy by word (both spoken and written), by action and by example.
The second step is to set and communicate a goal for your program. This is like choosing the destination for a journey. It requires a determination of where you want to be. Your goal can be expressed either numerically or descriptively. There are advantages and difficulties with both, but OSHA has found that a comprehensive and yet attainable goal is most likely to be descriptive. OSHA recommends the following goal:
A comprehensive program to assess all existing hazards and known potential hazards of the workplace and to prevent or control those hazards.
The third step in determining the direction of your safety and health program is to map out your route by setting program objectives. To do this, you first need to know where you are: take a close look at the current state of your safety and health program and your workplace. What more is needed to protect your workers' safety and health?
The objectives that you formulate, and the steps that you choose to take to accomplish these objectives, should be specific, measurable actions that move you toward your goal. They must be attainable and yet challenging. Use the clearest possible wording, so that your supervisors and employees understand their responsibility and accountability. Once your program is set in motion, periodically review your objectives and the action plan designed to help you implement them. Is everyone performing as expected? Are the results being achieved worth the time and resources being expended? Are you moving closer to your goal?
The success of this effort depends on the commitment of top management and the participation of your workforce. Involve your supervisors and employees in the setting of program objectives and the development of an action plan. The greater their involvement in mapping the route to safety and health, the greater will be their acceptance of the challenges and responsibilities of the journey.


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European shares were mostly lower today. The Spanish Ibex Index fell 1.01 percent, while Italy's FTSE MIB Index tumbled 1.45 percent. Meanwhile, the German DAX climbed 0.06 percent and the French CAC 40 fell 0.08 percent while U.K. shares gained 0.12 percent.
US durable-goods orders rose 3.7 percent in September, versus economists' expectations for a 2.3 percent gain. However, core durable-goods orders fell 0.1 percent in the month.
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Friday Night: Interpol At Verizon Wireless Theater
Photos by Groovehouse
Interpol Verizon Wireless Theater October 29, 2010
Interpol should not have been at Verizon Friday night. Not by any traditional yardstick.
A decade or so after their first release, the Fukd ID #3 EP, Interpol is a genuine anomaly. In an age when image is everything in pop music - and all too often the only thing - the New York band projects an anti-image: Three not especially photogenic guys in dark suits. Nice, designer suits, but still. The closest thing Interpol had to a fashion plate, bassist Carlos D., left earlier this year to work on "personal projects."
That leaves the music, which on the surface seems as chilly and monochromatic as Interpol's photo shoots. Intimidating and predatory, even, and absolute anathema to mainstream modern-rock radio (in Houston, anyway) for its mixture of hipster jive and artsy, tortured introspection. Lyrics like "stabbing yourself in the neck" can yield some interesting Google results.
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And yet there they were, onstage at Verizon in front of a crowd that - although it did not look, feel or seem like it - was actually larger than its counterpart at Ghostland Observatory's costume-clad club-beat riot a mile or so down Texas Avenue at Warehouse Live. So what gives?
The music, that's what. Sometimes it really is that simple, and live, Interpol is simplicity itself. Those songs that seem so frozen in place at first become magnetic and hypnotic, womblike cascades of guitar propelled by ex-Slint four-stringer David Pajo's bass and contained by Sam Fogarino's metronomic drumming.
And front man Paul Banks, whose rich baritone was like a lighthouse in the seas of dark blue and red Friday, is no tortured artist - he's a closet romantic. When he sang "you are the only person who's completely certain there's nothing here to be into" on the driving "PDA," it wasn't a brush-off, it was a bond between him and the audience (the ladies especially).
Interpol's songs are growers, so the songs from fourth LP Interpol, released last month, still felt transitory, starting with gauzy opener "Success." Luckily, they scattered them among a generous helping of older material, especially - and surprisingly - 2002 debut Turn on the Bright Lights.
Second song "Say Hello to the Angels," with its staccato guitar and insistent fog-light rhythm, might have reminded those old enough in the crowd of Iggy Pop's Berlin period, but there couldn't have been many. More importantly, it set up a perimeter that alternated fast-paced, sharply defined rockers ("Rest My Chemistry," the new, clubby "Barricade" "Evil") with hazier, more atmospheric songs ("Untitled," "Hands Away," "Let Me Take You on a Cruise") for the balance of the evening.
Aftermath is not sure how much more there is to say, honestly. Banks was the furthest thing possible from the stereotypically aloof Brooklyn hipster, saying howdy to the Texans several times and graciously announcing the new songs. Kessler grew more animated throughout the evening, widening the arc he flailed around the stage as his guitar lines likewise grew bigger and brighter. Keyboardist Benjamin Curtis was so unobtrusive that we didn't even notice him until Interpol's "Try It On" in the encore.
Interpol isn't the flashiest band out there - far, far from it - but instead of stiff and impersonal Friday, they were intimate and inviting. They don't need lasers to get their point across, just some solid guitar work, impeccable rhythms and an aura of mysterious beauty that, once you're initiated, is better than any costume party.
Always bet on black.
Personal Bias: Still warming up to Interpol (the album), but all things in their own due time. Especially with this band.
The Crowd: Mid-twenties to mid-thirties, good-looking, with only the occasional wig or pair of devil horns to serve as a tipoff it was Halloween weekend. And church camp compared to what was going on at Ghostland.
Overheard in the Crowd: "Dude, go get your fucking bitches, dude." Hey, that's what we wrote down.
Random Notebook Dump: Spoon front man Britt Daniel showed up to say hello to his buddies and openers White Rabbits, who still have a ways to go before they write anything as catchy, complete and overpowering as "Percussion Gun."
Success Say Hello to the Angels C'mere Leif Erickson Summer Well Rest My Chemistry PDA Narc Untitled Barricade Hands Away Lights Evil Let Me Take You on a Cruise Not Even Jail
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The Putco bus plunged off a bridge in the small town of Meyerton, about 30 miles south of Johannesburg, paramedics said Monday.
The driver apparently lost control of the bus, which then crashed through barriers and fell 20-30 feet into a ravine, the South African Press Association reported.
The death toll is expected to rise, with 21 people hospitalized, three of them in critical condition.
ER24 spokeswoman Vanessa Jackson told SAPA the bus was carrying 71 people of "working age."
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CHELSEA CLINTON's husband Marc Mezvinsky is furious that his famous in-laws are treating him like the black sheep of the family!
And he was particularly humiliated at the recent glitzy birthday celebration thrown for former president Bill Clinton – when he was seated BEHIND his wife and his mother-in-law, Hillary!
"Marc later told pals he felt like a second-class citizen," a source told The ENQUIRER.
"Marc was embarrassed and felt like all eyes were on him, and he wasn't seated next to his wife.
"While Marc is Bill and Hillary's son-in-law, it was like he didn't even rate being seated in the same row. He's steamed – it's like the Clintons are embarrassed to have him around."
President Clinton celebrated his 65th birthday (which was actually in August) in conjunction with the anniversary of his nonprofit foundation at an all-star party held at the Hollywood Bowl in mid-October. Lady Gaga headlined the spectacle and was joined onstage by Stevie Wonder and Usher.
"After the concert, the Clintons were quickly ushered backstage to the VIP area to meet the music stars – and Marc later had to fight his way in to be with his wife!" the source continued.
"This is not the type of marriage he had envisioned when he married Chelsea."
The couple tied the knot in July 2010, but they have already gone through some rocky patches. Last January, reports surfaced that Marc had quit his cushy Wall Street job to be a ski bum in Wyoming. Insiders said Chelsea was "devastated" that she'd been left behind.
The crisis further escalated when Marc's cousin, Andrea Mezvinsky, told The ENQUIRER that family members feared Marc was "cracking up," and that he was having "trouble coping with the pressure of being in the spotlight."
Now, the Clintons have been "giving him the cold shoulder as payback for running out on their daughter," the source continued.
"While Marc eventually returned home to New York and it appeared he had straightened out his troubles with Chelsea, he's increasingly been feeling like he's left out of the loop."
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The new Samsung Galaxy Tab on T-Mobile is one of a new class of multimedia tablet devices based on Android cell phone technology.
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Dave Grohl and Friends Debut 'From Can to Can't,' Preview 'Sound City' Soundtrack
Dave Grohl teams up with Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Stone Sour, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick and Scott Reeder of Kyuss on 'From Can To Can't,' a song from the soundtrack of the Foo Fighters frontman's forthcoming 'Sound City' documentary. The slow-burning jam sounds destined for heavy rotation on FM radio, with minor-key arpeggios gradually giving rise to a soaring chorus that would sound at home on the next Foos album. Listen to 'From Can to Can't' here, or by clicking on the button below.
Meanwhile, Grohl's all-star outfit Sound City Players has added a second concert — Jan. 31 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles — to its schedule. Their first gig, which was announced last week, is scheduled for Jan. 18 in Park City, Utah, as part of the Sundance Film Festival.


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Upcoming Tournaments
WFC National Breast Cancer Swing for a Cure
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Entry Fee: 250.00
Format : Two pool play then double elimination
Date(s): October 22, 2016 - October 23, 2016
Important Notes:
During this event, we will honor the memory to those that lost their fight with breast cancer as well as the survivors. Before the first bracket games, we will have short ceremony as well as throwing of the first pitch. If you have someone that you would like to nominate to throw out the first pitch, please email firstname.lastname@example.com
Complexes used: Ned Donkle Complex (Pepper Geddings) 3205 Oak Street Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
Proceeds from the tournament will go to support the American Cancer Society for Breast Cancer Research. Teams are encouraged to come out in their pink and support!
Donations and pledges welcome. PRIZE FOR THE TEAM THAT RAISES THE MOST MONEY!!!
1st through 4th place receive team awards
1st and 2nd place receive individual awards
WFC balls are furnished
Teams must have copies of birth certificates for all players and proof of insurance in dugouts during all WFC games
Teams must pre-pay. This event is a 4 game format, 2 pool games into double elimination. There are no guarantee in the amount of games a team could play.
If entry fees not paid before October 3, 2016, fees increase to $275.00
Who's playing:
1. Beach Blast Shane
2. Coastal Strikers
3. Coastal Cyclones
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2. Beach Blast*
3. Carolina Heartbreakers*
4. BC Bigstix
5. Coastal Cyclones
6. SB Slammers
7. Coastal Elite
8. Carolina Travelers
Dayton House
2400 N Ocean Blvd
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
Booking link:
World Fastpitch Connection tournaments in 2016.
Located oceanfront in Myrtle Beach, SC, only one mile to Broadway at the Beach and tournament locations, the Dayton House offers family-friendly amenities including:
- Two-acre oceanfront picnic and tanning lawn
- Indoor and outdoor pools, hot tubs, and kiddie pool
- Lazy river tube ride
- John's Restaurant serving breakfast and lunch
- Yella Umbrella poolside bar and grill (seasonal, weather permitting)
- Complimentary Wi-fi
- 24-hour business center with coffee station
- Fitness Room
- Guest Laundry
- Central Myrtle Beach location, near all area tournament sites
- Walk to restaurants, shopping, and attractions!
Book online or call one of our reservations specialists today at 1-800-258-7963.
Need to reserve 10 or more rooms for your team?
Please call Christa at x7113 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Camelot by the Sea – October 21-23, 2016
Oceanfront Studios – 2 full beds, full kitchen, full bathroom, full sleeper sofa, 1 TV and oceanfront private balcony. This room is all open. There is no separation bedroom and living room - $85.00 plus tax & access fee per studio per night – ($105.48 inclusive per studio per night)) – 2 night minimum required
Oceanfront One Bedroom Suites – 2 queen beds in the bedroom, full kitchen, full bathroom, separate living room with a full sleeper sofa, 2 TV's and oceanfront private balcony off of the living room area - $95.00 plus tax & access fee per suite per night - ($117.23 inclusive per suite per night) ) – 2 night minimum required
Ocean Park Resort – October 21-23, 2016
Oceanfront Efficiencies - 2 Queen Size beds, full kitchen, full bathroom, 1 flat screen TV, and oceanfront private balcony. This room is all open. There is no separation between the bedroom and living room balcony - $71.00 plus tax & access fee per suite per night – ($89.03 inclusive per suite per night) – 2 night minimum required
Oceanfront One Bedroom Suites - 2 Queen size beds in the bedroom, full kitchen with glass top burners (no oven), full bathroom, living room area with a loveseat, full size murphy bed, 2 flat screen TV's, and oceanfront private balcony off of the living room balcony - $86.00 plus tax & access fee per suite per night – ($106.65 inclusive per suite per night) – 2 night minimum required
Inclusive pricing listed above includes: taxes, resort and access fee.
The following information applies to all properties
- 2 Night minimum stay
- 30 Day cut off for reservations
- Rate only – no room block being held
- Rates are good 2 Days prior and 2 Days after based upon availability
- Rates are based on single or double occupancy per bedroom.
Please add $20.00 per night plus taxes, for each additional person over the age of 18
State Taxes are 16.5%.in North Myrtle Beach & are subject to change without notice
An Access fee of $5.55 is applied to each unit, per night for unlimited use of the in-room safe, telephone and a local-area marketing fee
- A One Nights Room and Tax Deposit is required at the time of reservation and is Non-Refundable unless the Vacation Protection Plan is purchased at the time of reservation
- A $20.00 change fee will apply to each date change
- A $50.00 fee will be charged for early departures
- We offer a Vacation Protection Plan for $32.40 per room which protects against cancellation, changes or early departure and will be offered to each individual at the time of booking. If VPP is taken the deposit will be fully refundable minus the $32.40 after the cancellation cut-off date
- A Valid, Major credit card and Photo Identification are required at check-in
Check-In - Begins at 4:00 PM Checkout - By 11:00 AM
Room Reservations:
Please contact Group Reservations at 877-779-7379 and refer to WFC National Breast Cancer Tournament at preferred property to book with a reservation specialist.
2101 North Oak Street
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
email: Cyndi Mohr for reservations at email@example.com
Rates: Traditional Double $119-$139
Parking is $8 per day (subject to change) per vehicle for overnight guests in teh Hotel's attached parking garage with unlimited in and out privileges.
Courtyard by Marriott Barefoot Landing
Address: 1000 Commons Boulevard
Myrtle Beach, SC 29572
Phone: 843-361-1730
Contact: Michelle Hardy for 5 reservations or more
Book your group rate for WFC National Breast Cancer
Ask for the WFC Group rate with name of Tournament/ Dates
The NEWLY Renovated Courtyard by Marriott at Barefoot Landing IS the Official Youth Sports Hotel for the Myrtle Beach Pelicans-If your group is staying during a HOME GAME- FREE tickets to the game for the team may be available
Coral Beach
1105 South Ocean Blvd
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
Room types offered:
Oceanfront Suites: 2-double beds in the bedroom, full kitchen/bath, living area with double wall bed and private balcony facing the ocean. (These units will accommodate up to 6 people.)
Angle View Efficiencies: 2-double beds, full kitchen/bath, private balcony with partial view of the ocean. These units will accommodate up to 4 people.
2016 WFC National Brest Cancer Swing for a Cure for arrival on Friday, 10/21/16 & check out on 10/23/16. (No minimum stay required.)
- Oceanfront Suites: $66.00 per night
- Angle View Efficiencies: $57.00 per night
- 14 day cut-off prior to contracted arrival date.
Quoted rates do not include tax/fees. Additional costs will be our 12% tax, 7% resort fee and $5.54 per day admin fee.
Please note 1-vehicle per room permitted. We do not accept trailers of any kind on property. Motor coach parking is not available. Check-in is at 3:30p and check-out is at 11:00am.
1351 21st Avenue North
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
You will find the information for your online reservation link below. If you have questions or need help with the link, please do not hesitate to ask. We appreciate your business and look forward to a successful event.
WFC National Breast Cancer Swing for a Cure
Start date: 10/21/16
End date: 10/23/16
Last day to book: 9/30/16
Marriott hotel(s) offering your special group rate:
- Courtyard Myrtle Beach Broadway for 139 USD per night
Staybridge Suites, an all-suite hotel with fully equipped kitchens, Studio suites w/queen bed (sleeps 2) 79.00, One bedroom suites w/2 doubles and adjoining parlor (sleeps 4) 89.00, and Two bedroom suites w/king and queen bed or queen and 2 doubles with center parlor (sleeps 6) 109.00. All One and Two bedroom suites have pull out sleeper sofas. Meeting/Hospitality room complimentary with 20 paid sleeping rooms per night.
Included in the rate is a full deluxe hot/cold daily breakfast to include, bacon/sausage, eggs, toast, bagels, assorted cereals, juices, coffees, make your own waffles and so much more. If your stay is during the week, every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday evening we offer a complimentary 2 hour social from 5:30pm-7:30pm with food and beverages to include beer and wine.
Please visit our website www.staybridgesuites.com/myrbchsc for a hotel tour.
Sue Price | Director of Sales
Staybridge Suites - West
303 Fantasy Harbour Blvd
Myrtle Beach, SC 29579
Hotel: 843-903-4000 | Direct: 843-903-8010 | Fax: 843-903-8197
www.staybridge.com/myrbchsc | firstname.lastname@example.com
Kingston Plantation Condos & Villas
10000 Beach Club Drive
Myrtle Beach, SC 29572
WFC National Breast Cancer
**Not included in the Hilton Resort and Kingston Plantation rate is $10.00 resort fee per room per night.
**Guests can call our in-house reservation system to make reservations 1-800-876-0010
Hilton Resort
Doubles Standard Guestroom $139.00
-Sleep 4
-2 double beds
-private balcony
-mini fridge
Kingston Plantation
Doubles Oceanview Guestroom- South Hampton $109.00
-2 double beds
-Mini Fridge
1 Bedroom Plantation View Villa $109.00
-Sleeps 4
-Master Bedroom- King Bed
-Master Bathroom
-Full Kitchen
-Living Room
-Dining Room
-Sleeper Sofa
2 Bedroom Plantation View Villa $139.00
-Sleeps 6
-Master Bedroom- King Bed
-Master Bathroom
-Second Bedroom- 2 beds
-Second Full Bathroom
-Full Kitchen
-Living Room
-Dining Room
-Sleeper Sofa
Contact Information: Amanda Player
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I have a pc. am I looking at my laptop or ipod to get the version #
iTunes 18.104.22.168
it's a new ipod. when I opened iTunes with the ipod connected it showed me all my songs. I played a few on my pc and then ran sync. the only songs that got to my ipod were the ones I played.
ok I clicked on music and heres what I see
sync music - 4 songs (which by the way are the 4 I listened to before trying to sync)
entire music library (checked off)
selected playlists, artists, albums and genres (not check off)
include music videos (checked off)
on my pc I have 497 songs. the same amount in iTunes. could it be that my ipod is syncing with a different library on my pc which, right now, only has the 4 songs I played?
ok. what do I do now?
none of the songs (including the ones that got to my ipod) have exclamation points.
there is a check off next to all of them as if it was a selected list to be used for something.
is there any way to get rid of everything on the ipod and my pc and start over again with syncing with itunes
most of them but a few were cds I loaded
hey john thanks for sticking with this. are these the steps
get out of iTunes
start iTunes
attempt to sync ( how???)