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Insulting your consumers: What’s best for business, WWE?
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Paul Levesque, known to wrestling fans as Triple H, the 13-time WWE world champion and now executive vice president of the company, doesn’t like WWE fans. At least that’s the impression that he gave in cutting a promo, using the parlance of wrestling, on WWE’s flagship weekly TV show, Monday Night Raw, this week.
Tourism to Blue Ridge Parkway creates $782 million in economic benefit
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A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 12,877,369 visitors to the Blue Ridge Parkway in 2013 spent $782,926,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 11,283 jobs in adjacent communities.
VCU receives grant to study molecular marks left by childhood experiences
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Virginia Commonwealth University has received a five-year, $3 million grant to study how adverse experiences such as severe illnesses, neglect and maltreatment during childhood leave molecular marks in DNA that predict health risks later in life.
President Obama: Let’s go out there and work
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President Obama at a private event in Los Angeles: “I’ve got two years left in this presidency. I want to get a whole bunch of stuff done. I need your help. So let’s go out there and work.”
Support for McAuliffe on SWAM executive order
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Governor McAuliffe on Tuesday signed Executive Order 20: Advancing Equity for Small, Women, and Minority Owned Businesses (SWaM), which expands contracting opportunities for small businesses in the Commonwealth.
Rockingham County Fairgrounds poultry facilities to be dedicated Aug. 5
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The Rockingham County Fair Association will dedicate two new fairgrounds buildings on Tuesday, August 5th. The focus of the facilities will be on poultry.
Study: Continued honey bee colony loss in the Commonwealth
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The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) announced today the results of the 8th annual national survey of honey bee colony losses conducted by the Bee Informed Partnership (BIP).
McAuliffe announces Virginia oyster harvests continue to climb
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Harvest from public oyster grounds grew from 150,534 bushels in 2012 to 213,152 bushels last year, and the harvest from privately leased growing areas continued six years of sustained growth, rising from 258,496 bushels in 2012 to 408,912 bushels last year.
Press Conference: Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher
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Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher talks with reporters at the 2014 ACC Football Kickoff in Greensboro, N.C.
