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No. 2 North VMI got 79 points from the trio of Stan Okoye, D.J. Covington and Rodney Glasgow, overcoming Michael Kessens’ tournament-record 36 points and a furious second-half comeback by No. 6 North Longwood. The Keydets prevailed 90-86 in an action-packed quarterfinal VisitMyrtleBeach.com Big South Men’s Basketball Championship tilt, Thursday afternoon at The HTC Center.
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Sony’s recent conference about their eighth generation console, the PlayStation 4, has gotten us Microsoft fans wondering what Xbox has in store for us with the Xbox 720. The original Xbox’s superiority to the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox 360’s superiority to the PlayStation 3 leads me to believe that the trend will continue. In this column, I will be predicting what we can expect to see in the Xbox 720 (codename Durango).
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Today, Dancing Star Farm, a permaculture farm in Augusta County, announced that it will be accepting CSA membership to participate in their third annual Community Supported Agriculture Program.
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If Virginia is for music lovers, WVPT viewers can look forward to a new program premiering Saturday, March 23 on the PBS affiliate. Aux Send will feature up and coming independent artists and bands, most of which are Virginia-based.
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Interested in starting a business but not sure how to write a business plan? Already have a business but feeling like things are a little scattered? Learn how to write a business plan that wins.
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Two losses in overtime. Another by a single point. Two others by two points. Another by five. A basket here, a defensive stop there, and the most successful season in the four-year history of Fishburne Military School’s postgrad program gets that much more interesting.
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The short answer: no, not yet, anyway. A review of the various self-appointed bracketologists still has UVa. getting an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament anywhere between a #9 seed and a #11 seed, which is significant because that means the Cavs are not being considered one of the final four teams into the field.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Budget Committees, today met with top officials at the Pentagon, including Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno, to discuss the impact of sequestration in Virginia. The discussions covered the 90,000 civilian employees at the Department of Defense who will be furloughed, reductions to military base operations across the Commonwealth and delays in training and deployments that could decrease readiness. Kaine also spent time talking with civilian employees at the Pentagon about the effects of announced furloughs.
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The top-seeded Fishburne Military School basketball team is on its way to the 2013 National Prep Tournament in New Haven, Conn., with play beginning on Tuesday.
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Kim Joralemon, SNAP Ed Program Assistant/Family Nutrition Program with the Virginia Cooperative Extension Office, offered a very thorough discussion on “Food Safety Tips,” “Eating Smart at Home,” and “Foodborne Illness: Ten Least Wanted Foodborne Pathogens.”
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