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Virginia Real Estate News: blog.BrianBlock.com passes first round in VARBuzz Blog Brawl

<h2 style="MARGIN-TOP: 2px"><img title="Thank you. I'm humbled by your support" height="286" alt="Thank you. I'm humbled by your support" hspace="8" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/5/9/6/5/5/ar120509732955695.jpg" width="419" align="right" />Thank you for your support in helping me get this far.  I hope you'll continue to help as I pursue success in the First Annual Blog Brawl hosted by the Virginia Association of REALTORS on their blog <a href="http://www.varbuzz.com/" target="_blank">VARBuzz</a>.</h2> In college basketball, the Sweet Sixteen is the elite group of 16 teams that have battled it out past two rounds of tournament play avoiding the ever-present upsets, last second three-pointers, and overtime games to survive another day and another round. <img title="VARBuzz Blog Brawl" height="186" alt="VARBuzz Blog Brawl" hspace="6" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/4/4/1/8/0/ar120509738108144.png" width="186" align="left" />   For the uninitiated, the Virginia Association of REALTORS hosts an exciting new blog at VARBuzz.  Under the blogmaster reigns of association executive Ben Martin, VARBuzz is sponsoring the <a href="http://varbuzz.com/round-two-of-the-varbuzz-real-estate-blog-brawl-is-open-for-voting/" target="_blank">1st Annual Blog Brawl </a>pitting 60 great real estate blogs from throughout Virginia and the country in head to head battle for the title of Blog Brawl Champion.Thanks to your nomination:  <a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/399080/Are-You-Ready-for" rel="bookmark">Are You Ready for March Madness?: First Annual Real Estate Blog Brawl</a><h2></h2>and to your votes: <a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/405473/Free-Drinks-You-are" rel="bookmark">Free Drinks: You are Invited to the Brian Block Blog Brawl Tailgate Party</a>I've survived the first round and my blog, <a target="_blank">blog.brianblock.com</a> has survived the first round.  The Voting for Round Two of the Blog Brawl is now open.  Once again, I'm asking for your support.  <a href="http://varbuzz.com/round-two-of-the-varbuzz-real-estate-blog-brawl-is-open-for-voting/" target="_blank">Please vote for blog.brianblock.com in Zone 1 of the voting and help me dance my way into the elite group of sixteen.</a><img title="Sweet Sixteen" height="231" alt="Sweet Sixteen" hspace="6" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/0/8/1/4/ar120509755341809.jpg" width="349" align="right" />Here's some information on the #16 for those who might be interested:<ul><li>Sixteen is the legal drinking age in France, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, and Portugal </li><li>Tarot Card #16 is "The Tower."</li></ul><ul><li>16 is one of the "<a title="Lost (TV series)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%28TV_series%29#Numbers">Lost Numbers</a>" on the television show <a title="Lost (TV series)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%28TV_series%29">Lost</a>, along with 4, 8, 15, 23, 42. </li><li>There are sixteen pawns in a chess set and each player in a chess game starts with sixteen pieces </li><li>16 = 4 X 4 or 4 squared</li></ul>    <img title="Brian & Deborah Block dancing the Argentine Tango" height="355" alt="Brian & Deborah Block dancing the Argentine Tango" hspace="8" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/1/2/8/9/ar120509770698219.jpg" width="262" align="left" />You'll no doubt recall that in the last round, I <strike>encouraged</strike> <strike>prompted</strike> <strike>inspired</strike>  <strike>forced</strike>  bribed you to vote for me by offering free drinks for you next time you are in the Northern Virginia area.  That offer is still on. To help me dance into the Sweet Sixteen, I'm sweetening the pot.  Anyone who votes for me here will also get to witness a dance performance with me and my wife (who is a professional dance teacher).  <a href="http://www.theweddingdancespecialists.com/wedding-dance-instructor.php#Deborah" target="_blank">Click here for  2 sample videos of us dancing at our wedding.</a> <a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/405473/Free-Drinks-You-are" target="_blank">Free drinks.</a>  <a href="http://www.theweddingdancespecialists.com/wedding-dance-instructor.php#Deborah" target="_blank">Dancing</a>.  Support your favorite blog.  What can be better? <a href="http://varbuzz.com/round-two-of-the-varbuzz-real-estate-blog-brawl-is-open-for-voting/" target="_blank">**Click here to vote for blog.brianblock.com in the First Anuual Real Estate Blog Brawl.**</a>Please hurry.  Voting for this round ends midnight on Wednesday March 12th.  My name is Brian Block and I've approved this message.Paid for by Friends of Brian Block for Blog Brawl Champion.  10 application/xml false blog brawl blog competition brian block northern virginia real estate blog varbuzz varbuzz blog brawl virginia real estate blog Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; IEMB3; IEMB3) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 bblock 68.50.210.160 false true false false true 205801 false false true false false false true 160154 blog blogsite/BrianBlock/web